While Microsoft didn’t offer a specific forecast for its AI capital expenditures for the next quarter or coming year, the company’s chief financial officer, Amy Hood, said that the company’s total spend will “increase sequentially, and we now expect the fiscal year 2026 growth rate to be higher than fiscal year 2025.” Tech companies are… Continue reading Meta, Google, and Microsoft Triple Down on AI Spending
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The Microsoft Azure Outage Shows the Harsh Reality of Cloud Failures
Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform, its widely used 365 services, Xbox, and Minecraft started suffering outages at roughly noon Eastern time on Wednesday, the result of what Microsoft said was “an inadvertent configuration change.” The incident—which marks the second major cloud provider outage in less than two weeks—highlights the instability of an internet built largely on… Continue reading The Microsoft Azure Outage Shows the Harsh Reality of Cloud Failures
Save $30 on This All-Clad Nonstick Frying Pan Set
It can be hard to build an Adulting Arsenal. And expensive! Mattresses, couches, vacuums, cookware … all of these necessary things around us that require a hefty initial investment, lest you be met with back problems, sagging cushions, subpar suction, or flaking nonstick pans that leave a little bit of mystery plastic behind with every… Continue reading Save $30 on This All-Clad Nonstick Frying Pan Set
The Pixel Watch 3 Is $100 Off
Are you an Android user who is constantly looking at Apple Watch owners with envy? You’re in luck, as the Pixel Watch 3 is marked down to just $200 at Amazon in several colors. I spotted three discounted colors of the 45mm aluminum version in matte black, champagne gold, and polished silver. Photograph: Julian Chokkattu… Continue reading The Pixel Watch 3 Is $100 Off
AI Agents Are Terrible Freelance Workers
Even the best artificial intelligence agents are fairly hopeless at online freelance work, according to an experiment that challenges the idea of AI replacing office workers en masse. The Remote Labor Index, a new benchmark developed by researchers at data annotation company Scale AI and the Center for AI Safety (CAIS), a nonprofit, measures the… Continue reading AI Agents Are Terrible Freelance Workers
Donald Trump’s Truth Social Is Launching a Polymarket Competitor
“If you had to point to one reason [crypto prediction markets] are able to come back to the US, you have to point to the Trump administration,” says Zach Hamilton, founder of crypto startup Sarcophagus, in an interview with WIRED. “Donald Trump. I mean, that’s it.” Even before the arrival of Truth Predict, the Trump… Continue reading Donald Trump’s Truth Social Is Launching a Polymarket Competitor
One of Our Favorite Pairs of Binoculars Is $80 Off
Hunting for a great pair of binoculars that you can slip into your pocket for a hike? One of our favorite lightweight and compact binocular picks, the Celestron TrailSeeker ED 8×32, is marked down to just $280 on Amazon, a healthy $80 discount off the usual price. Photograph: Scott Gilbertson Celestron TrailSeeker ED 8×32 Binoculars… Continue reading One of Our Favorite Pairs of Binoculars Is $80 Off
The Oppo Find X9 Pro Has a Crazy-Long Detachable Zoom Lens
For several years, the top Chinese smartphone brands have been duking it out for photography dominance. Even though year-over-year changes are often minuscule, these companies try to one-up one another. Take Oppo’s latest flagship, the Find X9 Pro, as an example. It boasts a 200-megapixel telephoto lens developed with camera manufacturer Hasselblad, so you can… Continue reading The Oppo Find X9 Pro Has a Crazy-Long Detachable Zoom Lens
Hurricane Melissa Has Meteorologists Terrified
Meteorologists who have spent the past few days monitoring the rapid development of Hurricane Melissa in the Atlantic Ocean are sounding the alarm about the storm, which is set to make landfall in Jamaica today as a Category 5 hurricane. The sustained—and growing—intensity of the storm is remarkable, experts say, and has the makings of… Continue reading Hurricane Melissa Has Meteorologists Terrified
CBP Searched a Record Number of Phones at the US Border Over the Past Year
The recent spike in searches at the border has mostly been driven by an increase in the past six months. Between April and June, CBP searched 14,899 devices—which at the time marked a record high for any quarter of the year. However, the most recent figures show this increase has continued: Between July and September,… Continue reading CBP Searched a Record Number of Phones at the US Border Over the Past Year