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What the nostalgic throwback lacks in complexity it makes up for in repetitive charm.

In the 2024-2025 school year, only 78.5% of kindergartners had measles vaccination.

This past Saturday at the Coachella music festival, Justin Bieber played the first of two headlining sets in a deal reportedly worth $10 million. It was his most significant solo performance in years. But Bieber spent some of his time on stage the way many of us do on Saturday nights: on YouTube. For some of the set, Bieber played parts of his older songs right off YouTube from a Mac laptop. Behind him, on the stage's screen, you could see YouTube's website as he searched for songs in real time and then put the videos on full-screen while he sang along on stage. "I'm sorry to cut it, but these are little snippets. I just want to see how fa … Read the full story at The Verge.

Cellular modems are complex black boxes of legacy code, but Google is making them safer with Rust.

Our latest MLB power rankings and how injuries have already affected every team so far.

NZXT will forgive up to $5,000 in debt for customers of the Flex program.

NFL legend Tom Brady has playfully mocked Hollywood actors Ryan Reynolds and Rob Mac following Birmingham City's impressive two-goal victory over Wrexham in the Championship.

Microsoft just raised the prices across its line of Surface devices amid the global RAM shortage. Now, the 13-inch Surface Pro 11 and the 13.8-inch Surface Laptop 7 cost $500 more than their original starting price, going from $999 to $1,499, as reported earlier by Windows Central. Last year, Microsoft stopped selling the $999 versions of the Surface Pro 11 and the 13.8-inch Surface Laptop 7 in favor of the $1,199 models with more storage. At the time, it seemed like Microsoft was trying to make room for the cheaper 12-inch Surface Pro and 13-inch Surface Laptop that launched last May. However, these newer devices aren't safe from the pric … Read the full story at The Verge.

The internet’s most jacked leftist shares the tech and daily rituals that fuel his marathon streams.

RAVE’s sudden surge into crypto’s top ranks has drawn intense attention, with a mix of unusual trading patterns, tight supply and market dynamics fueling debate over what’s really behind the move.

As ships return to the Strait of Hormuz, mines, sonar, and congestion continue to reshape the Gulf beneath the surface.

The Flex PC rental service didn’t make it clear to customers that it wasn’t a “rent-to-own” program. | Image: NZXT NZXT and its business partner Fragile have agreed to pay $3.45 million to settle a class-action lawsuit that accused the companies of attempting to "scam" consumers through their Flex PC rental service. The preliminary settlement was filed in a California District Court on April 7th to close a civil RICO case against the Flex program over allegations that it defrauded 19,322 customers through deceptive marketing practices and aggressive debt collection. The settlement was shared on YouTube by Gamers Nexus, with host Steve Burke noting that NZXT and Fragile are still offering PC rental programs under the new agreement. This follows Gamers Ne … Read the full story at The Verge.

Risk assets shrugged off the failed weekend negotiations between the U.S. and Iran, and the U.S. blockade of the Strait of Hormuz.

Fake it till you make it.

Coachella kicked off on Friday, and as usual, it's the place to be for online influencers looking to show off their memorable experiences at the festival. A quick scroll through my social media feeds has already shown me many uncannily attractive figures in glitzy outfits, posing for perfectly staged photographs with celebrities. Only some of these content creators aren't really there. They don't even exist at all outside of our screens. They're generated using AI tools. Faking Coachella attendance is nothing new - even real influencers have been doing so in recent years - but generative AI has now progressed to the point where it's become … Read the full story at The Verge.

FOX Sports' Eric Williams breaks down his biggest takeaways from Week 3 of the 2026 UFL season.

FOX Sports' RJ Young reveals his UFL Power Rankings after Week 3, with the Defenders climbing and the Gamblers falling.

Tom Duff Gordon exited to join OpenAI as head of EMEA Policy, a spokesperson for Coinbase said.

Where will the top prospects in the 2026 NFL Draft land? Here's a look at where some of them have visited, which could be a hint as to where they'll land.

A lawsuit in the Delaware Court of Chancery seeks to compel Howat to comply with obligations under the November 24, 2025 Stock Purchase Agreement.

You can buy the Apple Watch Series 11 for $100 off in multiple sizes and colors. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge If you’re still holding onto an older Apple Watch, now might be a good time to upgrade. Right now, the 42mm Apple Watch Series 11 with GPS is on sale for around $299 ($100 off) at Amazon, Best Buy, and Target, which is its best price to date. If you prefer a larger size, the 46mm is also $100 off for a limited time, with the base GPS configuration selling for about $329 at Amazon, Best Buy, and Target. Apple Watch Series 11 Where to Buy: $399 $299 at Amazon (42mm) $429 $329 at Amazon (46mm) $399 $299 at Best Buy (42mm) While it’s not a significant upgrade over the Apple Watch Series 10, we still recommend it if you’re using a Series 5 or Series 6. It’s Apple’s fastest and most durable flagship wearable yet, with a bright, wide-angle OLED display that’s easy to read at a glance. It offers the longest battery life of any Series model to date, allowing you to eke out up to 24 hours (or 38 hours in low-power mode) on a single charge with the base configuration. The LTE version doesn’t drain as quickly either thanks to Apple’s power-efficient 5G modem, and you can charge a dead watch to 80 percent capacity in just 30 minutes. On the health and wellness side, it offers a diverse range of features, from FDA-cleared hypertension notifications and sleep scores to ovulation tracking, sleep apnea detection, and fall detection. Beyond that, you get access to watchOS 26 features like Workout Buddy, which offers real-time coaching, as well as wrist flick and double tap gestures so you can control the watch without touching the screen. Rounding things out, you also get Apple’s usual set of smart features, including Apple Pay, Siri, and access to music directly from your wrist. Read our Apple Watch Series 11 review.

Patrick Witt told CoinDesk that a recent compromise on stablecoin yield should hold as the Senate tries to advance its crypto bill, even as bankers continue warnings.

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"You have no idea what's in store for you. Twice the number of tributes, twice the glory."

Kyle Larson is the defending Cup Series champion, but he hasn't won in 32 races. Kansas might just be the place to remedy that.

IBM is first firm to pay penalty under Trump's "Civil Rights Fraud Initiative."

Asha Sharma. | Image: The Verge, Microsoft Microsoft's new Xbox chief, Asha Sharma, has signaled that Xbox Game Pass pricing is about to change. In an internal memo to Xbox employees, obtained by The Verge, Sharma admits that "Game Pass has become too expensive for players" and that Microsoft needs "a better value equation." "Game Pass is central to gaming value on Xbox. It's also clear that the current model isn't the final one," says Sharma. "Short term, Game Pass has become too expensive for players, so we need a better value equation. Long term, we will evolve Game Pass into a more flexible system which will take time to test and learn around." Microsoft hiked the price of Xbox … Read the full story at The Verge.

The latest crypto view from the securities agency concludes software that clears the way for securities transactions with individual wallets won't trip regulations.

Banks and financial institutions in Latin American countries like Brazil and Mexico have continued to be the target of a malware family called JanelaRAT. A modified version of BX RAT, JanelaRAT is known to steal financial and cryptocurrency data associated with specific financial entities, as well as track mouse inputs, log keystrokes, take screenshots, and collect system metadata. "One of the

If you're having trouble deciding on a color for a new MacBook Neo, you might not have to choose just one. The folks over at MacWorld found that Apple doesn't appear to limit the colors of spare parts you can buy for your Neo, potentially allowing you to deck out your indigo laptop with pink-tinted keyboard caps or a citrus green bottom cover. You'll have to pay for these spare parts on top of the Neo's $599 starting price, though. While the bottom case costs $34.32, the keyboard caps are $39, and the top case is $175.12. A replacement for the entire keyboard is priced at $139.92 (with a $29.40 return credit). The MacBook Neo and its spare … Read the full story at The Verge.

Today, iRestore is offering up to $900 off select devices and up to $1,550 off bundles.

OpenAI released a report breaking down how people use ChatGPT and who they are. | Image: The Verge OpenAI's chief revenue officer, Denise Dresser, sent a four-page memo to employees on Sunday about the company's strategic direction, emphasizing the need to lock in users and grow its enterprise business. The memo, which was viewed by The Verge, repeatedly underlines the importance of building a moat around its AI products, to combat how easy it is for users to switch between whichever model is topping the charts on any given day or week. Dresser, who recently took over much of former COO Brad Lightcap's duties as he transitions to a new role focused on special projects, also emphasizes the importance of focusing on enterprise clients. It … Read the full story at The Verge.

More than 70 organizations, including the ACLU, EPIC, and Fight for the Future, say the AI smart glasses feature would endanger abuse victims, immigrants, and LGBTQ+ people.

The Astros are spiraling, the Yankees and Mets were swept, as were the Brewers and Rockies. Sweeps, sweeps and more sweeps, as well as more from the weekend's MLB action.

The firm said a criminal group is attempting to extort it over limited insider-related data access incidents affecting about 2,000 accounts. Kraken says it will not pay and is working with law enforcement.

Slate Auto, the EV startup backed by Jeff Bezos, raised $650 million to fund its effort to build an affordable electric pickup truck expected to start in the mid-$20,000s. The company plans on delivering its first EV later this year. The Series C round was led by TWG Global, headed by Guggenheim Partners founder and LA Dodgers owner Mark Walter and financier Thomas Tull. Slate didn't disclose its latest investors, but both Walter and Tull were investors in Re:Build Manufacturing, a Bezos-owned company from which Slate spun off last year. The company also didn't disclose its latest valuation, but was at $1.2 billion as of January 2025, acco … Read the full story at The Verge.

Microsoft is looking into ways it can integrate OpenClaw-style features into its Copilot AI assistant, according to a report from The Information. The test reportedly comes as part of efforts to make Microsoft 365 Copilot "run autonomously around the clock" while completing tasks on behalf of users. Omar Shahine, Microsoft's corporate vice president, confirmed to The Information that the company is "exploring the potential of technologies like OpenClaw in an enterprise context." OpenClaw is an open-source platform that allows users to create AI-powered agents that run locally on a user's device. The platform rose in popularity earlier this … Read the full story at The Verge.

Circle defends its hands-off approach to freezing funds as critics point to hundreds of millions in losses tied to delayed action.

With almost ten years of hands-on testing, WIRED knows what separates the best fitness trackers from the rest.

A new study from the American Bankers Association says the White House economists went after the wrong premise in their recent look at the issue.

Harper 5.0 makes its core fully open source under Apache 2.0, adds RocksDB alongside LMDB, and doubles down on its unified runtime for agentic engineering. By combining database, cache, messaging, and logic into a single process, it reduces latency and simplifies deployment. Built for AI-driven development, it enables faster, cheaper, and more scalable applications.

As the U.S. blockade of the Strait of Hormuz goes into effect, reports say Iran is considering the abandonment of uranium enrichment as a way to end the war.

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), in partnership with the Indonesian National Police, has dismantled the infrastructure associated with a global phishing operation that leveraged an off-the-shelf toolkit called W3LL to steal thousands of victims' account credentials and attempt more than $20 million in fraud. In tandem, authorities detained the alleged developer, who has&

The Slate Truck will start in the "mid-$20,000s" when it goes on sale in late 2026.

App Switch architecture on iOS allows one app to hand off execution to another and resume the flow through callbacks, but reliable implementation requires treating the interaction as a distributed transaction rather than simple navigation. Strong state management, secure deep linking using Universal Links, strict callback validation, and backend verification are critical to prevent failures and security issues. Observability and transaction-level tracking further enable performance optimization and production reliability.

The U.K.- and EU-regulated credit institution gains crypto-asset service provider status and said it will connect clients to regulated stablecoin rails over Circle Mint

The viral infection leaves millions with chronic pain, increased stroke risk, and lifelong nerve damage—yet vaccination rates remain dangerously low.

WIRED witnessed the game-changing Denza Z9 GT charge its battery in just 9 minutes. But the pricing for BYD's premium brand looks like a huge mistake.

The Meta chief is personally involved in training and testing his animated AI.

Key insights on the latest NFL news, with an eye on the Raiders' presumptive No. 1 pick and who'll be their QB1 to start the season.

XRP is flat over the past 24 hours, but down more than 60% from its summer 2025 peak.

The company now holds 4.04% of all ether in existence and currently earns $212 million in annualized revenue from staking.

Polkadot (DOT) declined 11.5% and Cardano (ADA) dropped 6.8%, leading the index lower over the weekend.

Monday is back, and the weekend’s backlog of chaos is officially hitting the fan. We are tracking a critical zero-day that has been quietly living in your PDFs for months, plus some aggressive state-sponsored meddling in infrastructure that is finally coming to light. It is one of those mornings where the gap between a quiet shift and a full-blown incident response is basically

The mining pool comes alongside the unveiling of Zcashinfo.com, a block explorer with real-time network and mining data.

The mint and a simultaneous $3 million burn come days after the venture said it had repaid $25 million of the borrowing position that left depositors unable to withdraw from a DeFi lending pool.

Last week's purchases were completely funded by sales of Stretch, the companies perpetual preferred stock.

Forget "best player available." In this mock, each NFL team fills its greatest need with its first pick.

Anthropic restricted its Mythos Preview model last week after it autonomously found and exploited zero-day vulnerabilities in every major operating system and browser. Palo Alto Networks' Wendi Whitmore warned that similar capabilities are weeks or months from proliferation. CrowdStrike's 2026 Global Threat Report puts average eCrime breakout time at 29 minutes. Mandiant's M-Trends

Water filters promise the moon—but only some back up their claims. Here are the best filtered-water pitchers for those who prefer their water free of heavy metals and forever chemicals.

Researchers say a largely invisible layer of AI infrastructure can intercept sensitive data and has already been linked to stolen credentials and a $500,000 wallet drain

Bitcoin and major cryptocurrencies remain relatively resilient. Surges in some smaller tokens showed there's still froth left in the market.

LLM use is the most demoralizing problem I’ve faced as a college instructor.

As major news outlets cut off the Wayback Machine, journalists and advocacy groups are rallying to protect the Internet Archive’s vast collection of web pages.

Bitcoin and ether retreated Monday as tensions in the Middle East triggered a spike in crude oil, forcing traders into defensive derivatives positioning.

Crypto's 24/7 global trading across hundreds of venues makes it difficult for any single country to halt the market.

Last April, a hacker hijacked crosswalk announcements to mimic Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk. Records obtained by WIRED reveal how unprepared local authorities were.

Increased preferred-equity issuance and surging STRC trading volumes are reshaping how Strategy's common stock trades.

A new system automates the migration of legacy SAS scripts to PySpark for enterprise clients. The system was built with deterministic parsing to understand the source code. Structured pattern extraction to capture business-critical data. Validation pipelines to catch what the LLM gets wrong.

This short documentary asks what it means to be Sámi today, following decades-long state-mandated assimilation attempts- by Aeon VideoWatch on Aeon

The developers of Pixel Societies are using AI agents to simulate social interactions. It's an attempt optimize the process of choosing new colleagues, friends, and even romantic partners.

In the story of eugenics, disabled people are often depicted as passive victims. But for some it seemed an opportunity- by Coreen McGuire & Alex AylwardRead on Aeon

The term "cloud-native" has been diluted by marketing. Here's what it actually means and the honest checklist to find out where your stack stands.

Days after unveiling a quantum-safe bitcoin method, a StarkWare researcher was tapped to lead a new applications unit as Layer-2 revenue dries up.

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This article argues that large context windows are not a substitute for proper memory in AI agents. Instead, effective systems rely on layered memory architectures—working, session, condensed, durable, and retrieval memory—to manage context growth, reduce cost, and improve accuracy. By focusing on memory lifecycle design rather than raw context size, developers can build more reliable, scalable agents that avoid common failures like repetition, context drift, and missed recall.

The North Korean hacking group tracked as APT37 (aka ScarCruft) has been attributed to a fresh multi-stage, social engineering campaign in which threat actors approached targets on Facebook and added them as friends on the social media platform, turning the trust-building exercise into a delivery channel for a remote access trojan called RokRAT. "The threat actor used two Facebook

You know code coverage helps you see what code is running. But with mutation tests, you get to see what your tests are actually capable of catching. An AI-written code will pass any code coverage tool with ease, but 15-25% more code will pass a mutation test, indicating your tests are not as good as they look on a code coverage report.

Cayuse integrates PlayerZero across its 20+ apps to proactively identify and fix issues before they reach customers. The AI platform connects code, logs, and user sessions, reducing ticket resolution times by 80% and freeing engineers to focus on long-term improvements. By unifying support, product, and engineering teams, Cayuse boosts productivity, accountability, and customer satisfaction.

The shift from traditional search to AI-powered discovery is no longer future talk — it’s reshaping marketing right now.

Your look at what's coming in the week starting April 13.

Bitcoin has once again seen heavy profit-taking above $70,000, according to Glassnode.

A brilliant entomologist, Hapley, locked in a lifelong rivalry with Pawkins, becomes psychologically destabilized while studying moths. After Pawkins dies, Hapley's obsessive conflict finds a new target in an unknown moth that appears to only he can see. The insect becomes a projection of rivalry and obsession, driving him into violence and hallucination, ending in confinement.

OpenAI revealed a GitHub Actions workflow used to sign its macOS apps led to the download of the malicious Axios library on March 31, but noted that no user data or internal system was compromised. "Out of an abundance of caution, we are taking steps to protect the process that certifies our macOS applications are legitimate OpenAI apps," OpenAI said in a post last week. "We found no

In a Camberwell dynamo shed, Holroyd, a violent electrician, and Azuma-zi, an immigrant stoker, work amid roaring machines. Azuma-zi worships the largest dynamo as a living god, reading its noises as divine will. After abuse by Holroyd, he believes sacrifice is demanded. The machine kills Holroyd in an accident. Azuma-zi attacks a manager and dies by electrocution, ending the cult of machine worship in London.

After a lightning strike in a laboratory, Sidney Davidson loses normal sight and instead sees a remote island thousands of miles away in real time. Blind to his surroundings, he experiences another world overlapping reality. Weeks later he recovers—but evidence proves his visions were real, hinting at a terrifying possibility: sight can exist independent of the body across space.

Market timing receives 10% weight in Proof of Usefulness scoring — the second-lowest weighting in the framework. This is a deliberate choice that reflects a specific analytical judgment: timing is real, consequential, and mostly outside founder control. Penalizing teams heavily for factors they cannot meaningfully influence would make the framework less honest, not more rigorous. The 10% weight acknowledges timing without allowing it to dominate an evaluation that should primarily measure what teams actually built and whether it actually works.

Albania’s high yields may hide legal opacity, title disputes, and capital repatriation risk. Here’s what UHNI investors need to watch.

Israeli real estate investors face a brutal math problem: borrowing at 6% to earn just 3%, turning property into a speculative bet.

Introducing drosopyla, an open source Python Package for analyzing biological sequences.

While the US treats AI payments as a retail novelty, China is building a state-backed, e-CNY-powered autonomous financial ecosystem to bypass Western systems and dominate global trade.

The AI identity crisis isn't about losing your job. It's about the job becoming hollow while you're still in it.

A solo founder with ADHD explains how seven half-built apps happened, why only two survived, and what systems actually made them work.

Bike shop mechanics have lost fingers and their shirts while repairing ebikes of dubious origins. Make sure yours is repairable and third-party certified.

AMC’s new black comedy about a manchild tech titan spinning out of control is a skewering Silicon Valley’s billionaire class deserves.

Whether you want a detachable tablet or a laptop screen that spins, these 2-in-1 devices manage to balance being both a tablet and a laptop.

Record domestic oil and gas production hasn't saved US drivers from price spikes.

Nice ice is big business, but you can get perfectly clear cubes at home without freezing your assets.

As debates over social media addiction rage, people with extreme screen times tell WIRED they have no plans to cut back.

This compact pool robot keeps its price down, but its performance doesn’t match that of more capable cleaners.

The first rule of coffee is that it must stay hot. After weeks or even years of testing, these are the three coffee warmers that will best keep it that way.

Unknown threat actors compromised CPUID ("cpuid[.]com"), a website that hosts popular hardware monitoring tools like CPU-Z, HWMonitor, HWMonitor Pro, and PerfMonitor, for less than 24 hours to serve malicious executables for the software and deploy a remote access trojan called STX RAT. The incident lasted from approximately April 9, 15:00 UTC, to about April 10, 10:00 UTC, with

Adobe has released emergency updates to fix a critical security flaw in Acrobat Reader that has come under active exploitation in the wild. The vulnerability, assigned the CVE identifier CVE-2026-34621, carries a CVSS score of 8.6 out of 10.0. Successful exploitation of the flaw could allow an attacker to run malicious code on affected installations. It has been described as

we wish everyone, including the haters and losers, a happy artemis splashdown day

Step into the shoes of the strongest, goodest boy in a game that is beautiful, baffling, and impossible to put down.

This hair dye printer promises hundreds of shades. It couldn't even manage two.

After conducting long-term testing on both the MacBook Neo and MacBook Air, I have a good idea who should buy which laptop.

Systems from Google, OpenAI, Anthropic, and xAI struggle with the Premier League.

You don't need a car to tote around kids and cup holders. I rode cargo ebikes for miles to find the best one for your buck.

Plus: Iran’s internet blackout hits the 1,000-hour mark, cryptocurrency scams result in a record amount of money stolen from Americans, and more.

Scientists have quantified what draws mosquitoes to people—which could help make better, life-saving bug traps.

From AI-generated images to restricted satellite data, the systems used to verify what’s real online are struggling to keep up.

All-Clad cookware is some of the best you can buy, and it lasts a lifetime—unlike this sale. Or your warped frying pan.

The concept of “leapfrogging” is popular in development. It suggests that, as they develop, lower-income countries can skip intermediate technologies or systems and go straight to the modern equivalent.One example of this is the use of landlines and mobile phones.The landline telephone was invented in 1876 and became a dominant form of communication across Europe and North America. As you can see in the chart, it was increasingly adopted in the United States and the United Kingdom throughout the 20th century.However, mobile phone adoption increased rapidly in the 1990s, and landlines have declined since the millennium. Mobile phones have become a substitute.But many countries have almost skipped landline adoption entirely. Ghana and Nigeria are good examples: landline subscriptions have remained extremely low, and instead, mobile phone adoption has exploded.Explore landline and mobile subscriptions in more countries.

Hungarian domestic intelligence, the national police in El Salvador, and several U.S. law enforcement and police departments have been attributed to the use of an advertising-based global geolocation surveillance system called Webloc. The tool was developed by Israeli company Cobwebs Technologies and is now sold by its successor Penlink after the two firms merged in July 2023

"The work ahead is greater than the work behind us."

"I can't imagine a better crew that just completed a perfect mission right now."

After traveling a greater distance from Earth than any humans before them, the astronauts of Artemis II have safely returned home.

The NCAA men's college basketball transfer portal is officially open. Here are the top 20 players who have entered.

Plaintiffs say transcription tool processed confidential chats offsite.

A now-vanished plate under North America may open the crust below Yellowstone.

Home Depot's spring sale offers deals on some of WIRED's favorite grills, plus "buy one get one free" deals on tools from Ryobi, DeWalt, and Milwaukee.

the pentagon has wanted war ai since vietnam. this is how palantir built it.

Algorithms, not drivers, are deciding how hard to accelerate, and that's no good.

Trump admin reportedly gets grand jury involved in attempt to identify Redditor.

Amazon has the Razr Ultra marked down by $600 for a limited time.

The new AI model is being heralded—and feared—as a hacker’s superweapon. Experts say its arrival is a wake-up call for developers who have long made security an afterthought.

Entire space programs have been canceled after a failure in the reentry phase. In the final test for Artemis II, astronauts will travel at 32 times the speed of sound as they return from the moon.

Windows Insider builds remain confusing, but they should be more predictable.

Dense drops of oobleck with high shear rates spread out like a liquid before stiffening into a solid.

An attacker allegedly threw a molotov cocktail at the OpenAI CEO’s residence before making threats outside of the startup’s headquarters.

Škoda's DuoBell is designed to avoid collisions between cyclists and pedestrians preoccupied by their podcasts.

Onix is launching a “Substack of bots,” where digital twins of health and wellness influencers dispense advice 24/7. And maybe hawk their products.

Cybersecurity researchers have flagged yet another evolution of the ongoing GlassWorm campaign, which employs a new Zig dropper that's designed to stealthily infect all integrated development environments (IDEs) on a developer's machine. The technique has been discovered in an Open VSX extension named "specstudio.code-wakatime-activity-tracker," which masquerades as WakaTime, a

Aventon’s latest electric mountain bike lets you bomb hills while avoiding the part where you get sweaty by pedaling back to the top.

From made-to-measure smart shades to retrofit curtain bots, these are our favorite WIRED-tested drapes for your windows.

WIRED sat down with Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman to talk politics, AI, and the future of media. A documentary about her rise hits theaters today.

While much of the discussion on AI security centers around protecting ‘shadow’ AI and GenAI consumption, there's a wide-open window nobody's guarding: AI browser extensions. A new report from LayerX exposes just how deep this blind spot goes, and why AI extensions may be the most dangerous AI threat surface in your network that isn't on anyone's

Videos of fake relationship guru podcasters are reinforcing gender tropes and racking up millions of views, all the while driving sales to AI influencer schools.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s sweeping changes to federal vaccine guidance are paused for now. But even if they’re reversed, lasting damage has already been done.

The art expert is the fulcrum of all value and significance in the museum and auction world. Does AI threaten them?- by Noah CharneyRead on Aeon

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Meta’s Muse Spark model offers to analyze users’ health data, including lab results. Beyond the obvious privacy risks, it’s not a capable stand-in for a real doctor.

Splashdown for the Artemis II crew is scheduled for Friday evening, and NASA will livestream the historic homecoming.

Google has made Device Bound Session Credentials (DBSC) generally available to all Windows users of its Chrome web browser, months after it began testing the security feature in open beta. The public availability is currently limited to Windows users on Chrome 146, with macOS expansion planned in an upcoming Chrome release. "This project represents a significant

A critical security vulnerability in Marimo, an open-source Python notebook for data science and analysis, has been exploited within 10 hours of public disclosure, according to findings from Sysdig. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-39987 (CVSS score: 9.3), a pre-authenticated remote code execution vulnerability impacting all versions of Marimo prior to and including

Unknown threat actors have hijacked the update system for the Smart Slider 3 Pro plugin for WordPress and Joomla to push a poisoned version containing a backdoor. The incident impacts Smart Slider 3 Pro version 3.5.1.35 for WordPress, per WordPress security company Patchstack. Smart Slider 3 is a popular WordPress slider plugin with more than 800,000 active installations across its free and Pro

Details have emerged about a now-patched security vulnerability in a widely used third-party Android software development kit (SDK) called EngageLab SDK that could have put millions of cryptocurrency wallet users at risk. "This flaw allows apps on the same device to bypass Android security sandbox and gain unauthorized access to private data," the Microsoft Defender

A previously undocumented threat cluster dubbed UAT-10362 has been attributed to spear-phishing campaigns targeting Taiwanese non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and suspected universities to deploy a new Lua-based malware called LucidRook. "LucidRook is a sophisticated stager that embeds a Lua interpreter and Rust-compiled libraries within a dynamic-link library (DLL) to download and

Thursday. Another week, another batch of things that probably should've been caught sooner but weren't. This one's got some range — old vulnerabilities getting new life, a few "why was that even possible" moments, attackers leaning on platforms and tools you'd normally trust without thinking twice. Quiet escalations more than loud zero-days, but the kind that matter more in

As AI tools become more accessible, employees are adopting them without formal approval from IT and security teams. While these tools may boost productivity, automate tasks, or fill gaps in existing workflows, they also operate outside the visibility of security teams, bypassing controls and creating new blind spots in what is known as shadow AI. While similar to the phenomenon of

Threat actors have been exploiting a previously unknown zero-day vulnerability in Adobe Reader using maliciously crafted PDF documents since at least December 2025. The finding, detailed by EXPMON's Haifei Li, has been described as a highly-sophisticated PDF exploit. The artifact ("Invoice540.pdf") first appeared on the VirusTotal platform on November 28, 2025. A second

An apparent hack-for-hire campaign likely orchestrated by a threat actor with suspected ties to the Indian government targeted journalists, activists, and government officials across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), according to findings from Access Now, Lookout, and SMEX. Two of the targets included prominent Egyptian journalists and government critics, Mostafa

Brandon Riegg tells WIRED he empathizes with the struggle to find “quality men” and that Love Is Blind has no MAGA agenda.

A mind-bending trip into the cosmos aboard a speculative (yet theoretically possible) spacecraft near the speed of light- by Aeon VideoWatch on Aeon

Political candidates are purchasing more home alarms, bulletproof vests, and other protections amid rising fears of political violence.

How did law firms and other professional workplaces become places of such crushing and soulless work?- by Dylan GottliebRead on Aeon

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The moon gets hit by space debris all the time, but some of it is so large that the impact generates light that can be seen thousands of kilometers away.

Even after years of working with global health data, one statistic that I’m always struck by is the number of people who die by suicide every year. In 2023, it was estimated to be around three-quarters of a million.That means suicides account for more than 1 in every 100 deaths in the world.But a world where so many die from suicide is not inevitable. We know this because global suicide rates have fallen by an estimated 40% since the 1990s.You can see this in the chart: rates have fallen from 15 to 9 deaths per 100,000 people over the last thirty years.The large differences between countries also suggest that there are things that can be done to reduce this number even further.Banning particularly toxic pesticides is one effective way to reduce suicide deaths in low- to middle-income countries; I looked at this in detail in a recent article.

SFUSD removed algebra from middle schools in the name of "equity." kids fell behind while achievement gaps persisted. algebra's returning in september... but has anyone learned their lesson?

In Lebanon, nearly 1 in 5 people has been displaced by Israeli attacks, leaving the government to manage a modern crisis without modern digital infrastructure.

Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a new variant ofmalware called Chaosthat'scapable of hitting misconfigured cloud deployments, marking an expansion of the botnet's targeting infrastructure. "Chaos malware is increasingly targeting misconfigured cloud deployments, expanding beyond its traditional focus on routers and edge devices," Darktrace said in a new report.

Cybersecurity researchers have lifted the curtain on a stealthy botnet that's designed for distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. Called Masjesu, the botnet has been advertised via Telegram as a DDoS-for-hire service since it first surfaced in 2023. It's capable of targeting a wide range of IoT devices, such as routers and gateways, spanning multiple architectures. "Built for

The Russian threat actor known as APT28 (aka Forest Blizzard and Pawn Storm) has been linked to a fresh spear-phishing campaign targeting Ukraine and its allies to deploy a previously undocumented malware suite codenamed PRISMEX. "PRISMEX combines advanced steganography, component object model (COM) hijacking, and legitimate cloud service abuse for command-and-control," Trend Micro

The Fragmented State of Modern Enterprise Identity Enterprise IAM is approaching a breaking point. As organizations scale, identity becomes increasingly fragmented across thousands of applications, decentralized teams, machine identities, and autonomous systems. The result is Identity Dark Matter: identity activity that sits outside the visibility of centralized IAM and

From poetry to politics, this radio show asked listeners to speak their minds. Decades later, their words still resonate- by Aeon VideoWatch on Aeon

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Artificial Intelligence (AI) company Anthropic announced a new cybersecurity initiative called Project Glasswing that will use a preview version of its new frontier model, Claude Mythos, to find and address security vulnerabilities. The model will be used by a small set of organizations, including Amazon Web Services, Apple, Broadcom, Cisco, CrowdStrike,&

The North Korea-linked persistent campaign known as Contagious Interview has spread its tentacles by publishing malicious packages targeting the Go, Rust, and PHP ecosystems. "The threat actor's packages were designed to impersonate legitimate developer tooling [...], while quietly functioning as malware loaders, extending Contagious Interview’s established playbook into a coordinated

In Telegram groups, men are sharing thousands of nonconsensual images of women and girls, buying spyware, and engaging in doxing and sexual abuse.

Iran-affiliated cyber actors are targeting internet-facing operational technology (OT) devices across critical infrastructures in the U.S., including programmable logic controllers (PLCs), cybersecurity and intelligence agencies warned Tuesday. "These attacks have led to diminished PLC functionality, manipulation of display data and, in some cases, operational disruption and financial

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As Trump threatens Iranian infrastructure, the US government warns that Iran has carried out its own digital attacks against US critical infrastructure.

The AI lab's Project Glasswing will bring together Apple, Google, and more than 45 other organizations. They'll use the new Claude Mythos Preview model to test advancing AI cybersecurity capabilities.

The first images from Artemis II reveal what the moon looks like just 7,000 km from the surface—and confirm that NASA is ready to return to Earth’s satellite.

The Russia-linked threat actor known as APT28 (aka Forest Blizzard) has been linked to a new campaign that has compromised insecure MikroTik and TP-Link routers and modified their settings to turn them into malicious infrastructure under their control as part of a cyber espionage campaign since at least May 2025. The large-scale exploitation campaign has been codenamed

In the rapid evolution of the 2026 threat landscape, a frustrating paradox has emerged for CISOs and security leaders: Identity programs are maturing, yet the risk is actually increasing. According to new research from the Ponemon Institute, hundreds of applications within the typical enterprise remain disconnected from centralized identity systems. These "dark

A high-severity security vulnerability has been disclosed in Docker Engine that could permit an attacker to bypass authorization plugins (AuthZ) under specific circumstances. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-34040 (CVSS score: 8.8), stems from an incomplete fix for CVE-2024-41110, a maximum-severity vulnerability in the same component that came to light in July 2024. "

An active campaign has been observed targeting internet-exposed instances running ComfyUI, a popular stable diffusion platform, to enlist them into a cryptocurrency mining and proxy botnet. "A purpose-built Python scanner continuously sweeps major cloud IP ranges for vulnerable targets, automatically installing malicious nodes via ComfyUI-Manager if no exploitable node is already

When talking about credential security, the focus usually lands on breach prevention. This makes sense when IBM’s 2025 Cost of a Data Breach Report puts the average cost of a breach at $4.4 million. Avoiding even one major incident is enough to justify most security investments, but that headline figure obscures the more persistent problems caused by recurring credential

Even before the headset’s release, the workforce at Apple Stores was under duress. Trying to get customers interested in the Vision Pro made it worse.

Our culture valorises the big, coherent self: reading Robert Musil helps me embrace the beauty of my no-self existence- by Mette Leonard HøegRead on Aeon

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New academic research has identified multiple RowHammer attacks against high-performance graphics processing units (GPUs) that could be exploited to escalate privileges and, in some cases, even take full control of a host. The efforts have been codenamed GPUBreach, GDDRHammer, and GeForge. GPUBreach goes a step further than GPUHammer, demonstrating for the first time that

A China-based threat actor known for deploying Medusa ransomware has been linked to the weaponization of a combination of zero-day and N-day vulnerabilities to orchestrate "high-velocity" attacks and break into susceptible internet-facing systems. "The threat actor's high operational tempo and proficiency in identifying exposed perimeter assets have proven successful, with recent

Threat actors are exploiting a maximum-severity security flaw in Flowise, an open-source artificial intelligence (AI) platform, according to new findings from VulnCheck. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2025-59528 (CVSS score: 10.0), a code injection vulnerability that could result in remote code execution. "The CustomMCP node allows users to input configuration settings for connecting

Some technologies central to the clean energy transition depend on rare earth elements. The permanent magnets found in many electric vehicle motors and wind turbine generators rely on them. They are also used in some military hardware.China dominates global production of rare earths; in 2024, it accounted for nearly 70% of the global total.But the picture is not as concentrated when you examine which countries have rare-earth reserves. That is what the chart shows, plotting production and reserve shares side by side. China still holds the most known reserves, but at 49%, this is substantially lower than its production share.Brazil holds 23% of reserves and is barely mining them. India, Vietnam, and Russia also hold significant reserves, but only a small fraction of current output.The large gap between where reserves are located and where mining occurs partly reflects China's early investment in mining infrastructure and processing capacity, which other producers have not yet matched. Other countries hold the geological potential but have not yet developed the infrastructure to convert it into production at scale.Read more about which countries have the critical minerals needed for the energy transition

the white house just greenlit the first new aircraft type since 1947. archer aviation's ceo, adam goldstein, tells us what's next for electric 'air taxis' (and why helicopter guys hate him)

The Gulf’s water system is built with layers of backup, but it relies on continuous operation to hold.

An Iran-nexus threat actor is suspected to be behind a password-spraying campaign targeting Microsoft 365 environments in Israel and the U.A.E. amid ongoing conflict in the Middle East. The activity, assessed to be ongoing, was carried out in three distinct attack waves that took place on March 3, March 13, and March 23, 2026, per Check Point. "The campaign is primarily

Nonprofits run out of US Border Patrol stations are also selling other “operation”-themed coins that include a phrase popularized by the Proud Boys, potentially in violation of government rules.

Threat actors likely associated with the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) have been observed using GitHub as command-and-control (C2) infrastructure in multi-stage attacks targeting organizations in South Korea. The attack chain, per Fortinet FortiGuard Labs, involves obfuscated Windows shortcut (LNK) files acting as the starting point to drop a decoy PDF

Artemis II remains on course for its lunar flyby as the crew shares historic photos of Earth, tests key systems for future lunar missions, and attempts to fix the toilet.

Your attack surface no longer lives on one operating system, and neither do the campaigns targeting it. In enterprise environments, attackers move across Windows endpoints, executive MacBooks, Linux infrastructure, and mobile devices, taking advantage of the fact that many SOC workflows are still fragmented by platform. For security leaders, this creates a

This week had real hits. The key software got tampered with. Active bugs showed up in the tools people use every day. Some attacks didn’t even need much effort because the path was already there. One weak spot now spreads wider than before. What starts small can reach a lot of systems fast. New bugs, faster use, less time to react. That’s this week. Read&

The most active piece of enterprise infrastructure in the company is the developer workstation. That laptop is where credentials are created, tested, cached, copied, and reused across services, bots, build tools, and now local AI agents. In March 2026, the TeamPCP threat actor proved just how valuable developer machines are. Their supply chain attack on

Threat actors associated with Qilin and Warlock ransomware operations have been observed using the bring your own vulnerable driver (BYOVD) technique to silence security tools running on compromised hosts, according to findings from Cisco Talos and Trend Micro. Qilin attacks analyzed by Talos have been found to deploy a malicious DLL named "msimg32.dll,"

Why it’s difficult and perhaps even morally perilous to rule out the possibility of AI consciousness- by Aeon VideoWatch on Aeon

Your venomous serpent bites you, and the clock is ticking. America’s zookeepers—and a cooler full of rare antivenom—are your best chance of survival.

Easy access to desperately needed drugs has made India the global accelerant of our antimicrobial resistance crisis- by Assa Doron & Alex BroomRead on Aeon

The moon is not just a barren rock orbiting the Earth. The Artemis missions could answer the great unknowns that the satellite holds.

Germany's Federal Criminal Police Office (aka BKA or the Bundeskriminalamt) has unmasked the real identities of two of the key figures associated with the now-defunct REvil (aka Sodinokibi) ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) operation. One of the threat actors, who went by the alias UNKN, functioned as a representative of the group, advertising the ransomware in June 2019 on the XSS cybercrime forum

Drift has revealed that the April 1, 2026, attack that led to the theft of $285 million was the culmination of a months-long targeted and meticulously planned social engineering operation undertaken by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) that began in the fall of 2025. The Solana-based decentralized exchange described it as "an attack six months in the

When Syrian government accounts were hijacked in March, the breach looked chaotic. But it revealed something more troubling: a state struggling with the most basic layer of cybersecurity.

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered 36 malicious packages in the npm registry that are disguised as Strapi CMS plugins but come with different payloads to facilitate Redis and PostgreSQL exploitation, deploy reverse shells, harvest credentials, and drop a persistent implant. "Every package contains three files (package.json, index.js, postinstall.js), has no description, repository,

Fortinet has released out-of-band patches for a critical security flaw impacting FortiClient EMS that it said has been exploited in the wild. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-35616 (CVSS score: 9.1), has been described as a pre-authentication API access bypass leading to privilege escalation. "An improper access control vulnerability [CWE-284] in FortiClient EMS may allow an

Plus: The FBI says a recent hack of its wiretap tools poses a national security risk, attackers stole Cisco source code as part of an ongoing supply chain hacking spree, and more.

The astronauts will arrive about 10,300 kilometers beyond our satellite, breaking all previous records for distance from Earth. But how was their route chosen?

Child mortality rates in China have fallen from more than 20% in 1950 to less than 1% today.But this steady progress was interrupted in the late 1950s during the “Great Leap Forward”. This was China’s national plan to industrialize rapidly, but it resulted in widespread famine and economic turmoil.As the chart shows, child mortality rates spiked in China over this period, with up to one in three children dying before reaching the age of five. This change was so dramatic that it is also clearly visible in the global trend.This data comes from the UN’s World Population Prospects.Explore child mortality for all countries in our interactive chart.

Major AI labs are investigating a security incident that impacted Mercor, a leading data vendor. The incident could have exposed key data about how they train AI models.

Researchers have developed a method of making french fries that results in a healthier bite without sacrificing crispiness.

A China-aligned threat actor has set its sights on European government and diplomatic organizations since mid-2025, following a two-year period of minimal targeting in the region. The campaign has been attributed to TA416, a cluster of activity that overlaps with DarkPeony, RedDelta, Red Lich, SmugX, UNC6384, and Vertigo Panda. "This TA416 activity included multiple

Threat actors are increasingly using HTTP cookies as a control channel for PHP-based web shells on Linux servers and to achieve remote code execution, according to findings from the Microsoft Defender Security Research Team. "Instead of exposing command execution through URL parameters or request bodies, these web shells rely on threat actor-supplied cookie values to gate execution,

The maintainer of the Axios npm package has confirmed that the supply chain compromise was the result of a highly-targeted social engineering campaign orchestrated by North Korean threat actors tracked as UNC1069. Maintainer Jason Saayman said the attackers tailored their social engineering efforts "specifically to me" by first approaching him under the guise of the founder of a

The next major breach hitting your clients probably won't come from inside their walls. It'll come through a vendor they trust, a SaaS tool their finance team signed up for, or a subcontractor nobody in IT knows about. That's the new attack surface, and most organizations are underprepared for it. Cynomi's new guide, Securing the Modern Perimeter: The Rise of Third-Party

Amid the latest economic downturn, sugar babies are asking their daddies for stock market advice and taking on vanilla jobs to recession-proof their incomes.

Samsung leans into its artistic side with its newest TVs.

Humanitarian journalism is a moral calling to document human suffering. But in practice, it’s an ethically murky undertaking- by Cathy OttenRead on Aeon

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new version of the SparkCat malware on the Apple App Store and Google Play Store, more than a year after the trojan was discovered targeting both the mobile operating systems. The malware has been found to conceal itself within seemingly benign apps, such as enterprise messengers and food delivery services, while

The Quizlet flashcards, which WIRED found through basic Google searches, seem to include sensitive information about gate security at Customs and Border Protection locations.

In this episode, we discuss Iran’s threats to target US tech firms, gear up for the midterm elections, and get a scene report from the Polymarket pop-up bar in DC.

girlboss feminism or lean-in feminism (whatever you want to call it) failed because it ignored biology. women don't always want to be treated like men, and this is totally fine.

A trio of tech pranksters have launched a website where you can submit artwork and vote on which pieces belong in the final design. Of course, AI will scan for dick pics.

Documents show that one of Google’s new data centers would be powered by a natural gas plant that emits millions of tons of emissions each year—an increasingly common trend in the industry.

As strikes continue on Iran’s nuclear facilities, the real danger isn’t the explosion, but what happens if critical safety systems fail—and how that risk could spread across the Gulf.

Epia Neuro’s brain-computer interface will include a motorized glove to help stroke patients recover movement in their hand.

From forcing down chewy, bacon-flavored Man Cereal to vomiting at the office, buying into the MAHA protein craze was a challenging endeavor.

Plant roots don’t have a nervous system, yet can produce sophisticated responses. What does that say about intelligence?- by Aeon VideoWatch on Aeon

A WIRED analysis of DHS records identified dozens of specialized federal agents who used force against US civilians during the largest known deployment of its kind in US history.

Frank Lloyd Wright exalted the individual and made ordinary life beautiful. But his life was marked by scandal and grief- by Andrew DemingRead on Aeon

The crew of Artemis II will not descend to the moon, but their capsule will fly over the far side of its surface.

Around 4 in 10 women worldwide live in countries where abortion is illegal or highly restricted. But these bans do not stop abortions completely; many women still get them, but in unsafe and unsanitary conditions.A study published in The Lancet estimated that 45% of abortions globally are unsafe. In some regions, the share is estimated to be around three-quarters. You can see this in the chart.This data is around ten years old, but represents the latest estimates available (suggesting that this topic gets very little attention).Unsafe abortions dramatically increase the health risks for women. Safe abortions have very low mortality rates, typically below 1 death per 100,000 abortions.In regions where the majority of abortions are unsafe, mortality rates can be several hundred times higher; in Western and Middle Africa, around 1 in 200 abortions result in the woman dying.It’s estimated that approximately 8% of maternal deaths in the world are caused by unsafe abortions. That’s 23,000 women every year.Read more about the human cost of unsafe abortions in my recent article.

technologists are replaying the debates of the nuclear age, confusing technical brilliance for political judgement and gambling with our country’s future

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Eli Lilly’s once-daily Foundayo is the second obesity pill to receive FDA approval. It will compete with Novo Nordisk’s pill version of Wegovy.

Star Wars producer Kathleen Kennedy was one of the few skeptics at the Runway AI Summit, where AI was compared to fire and the printing press just a week after Sora’s death.

Which World Cup fanbase will be the loudest? The most fun? The most passionate? Vote in our 2026 FIFA World Cup Ultimate Fanbase.

we do these things not because they are easy, but because they are hard. here’s how america is reviving kennedy's moonshot days, and why the trump era might do it even better

Sátántango is considered a holy rite for hardcore cinephiles. In a packed screening with no cellphones in sight, it also offered a salve for brain rot.

The rise and fall of the Medici’s ingeniously engineered ‘Garden of Wonders’: the Pratolino ‘proto-theme park’ in Tuscany- by Aeon VideoWatch on Aeon

The Artemis II mission crew includes the first woman, the first Black person, and the first non-American astronaut to travel to the lunar environment.

The extremely online journalist and content creator doesn’t believe in tech hygiene and yearns for a world where “inbox infinity” is celebrated.

As DarkSword spreads, Apple tells WIRED it will enable iOS 18-specific fixes for millions of iPhone owners who remain on that iOS version rather than force them to update to iOS 26.

Tech giants like Apple, Google, and Microsoft are among those on a target list released by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.

Progressives are dreaming about “Woke 2”—a new political order that rights the wrongs of the Trump administration. Does it have a shot?

For months, lone vibe coder Rafael Concepcion has obsessively built tools to counter the federal immigration crackdown—pivoting as he’s been outmatched. He’s also lost his job and become a target.

A centuries-old network of secret codes and shadowy brokers continues to outpace financial systems controlled by the state- by Miles KellermanRead on Aeon

Depression, anxiety, and other mental health problems are common everywhere. They are not confined to any particular income level.But access to care is rare. In much of the world, people who struggle with their mental health have almost no psychologists or psychiatrists to turn to.Mental health care is scarce in all places, but it is much scarcer in poor countries. Governments in high-income countries spend about $66 per person per year on mental health care, as the chart shows. In low-income countries, that figure is $0.04.This gap in spending reflects a gap in people. As the WHO’s latest Mental Health Atlas highlights, there is roughly one psychiatrist per million people in low-income countries. High-income countries have 70 times more.A recent study in the Lancet Psychiatry estimated that globally, only 9% of people with major depressive disorder receive a “minimally adequate treatment”. In high-income countries, it is 27%; in Sub-Saharan Africa, just 2%.Hundreds of millions of people in poorer countries live with treatable conditions and have no access to a psychologist or psychiatrist. It is one of the largest gaps in global health — and one that receives remarkably little attention or funding.There are efforts to close this gap without waiting for the workforce to catch up. One approach is to train lay counsellors — people without formal clinical qualifications who learn to provide psychological support. Randomized trials in India and Zimbabwe have shown this can be effective for depression.Another approach is to use technology: apps and, increasingly, AI-based tools that can extend the reach of limited clinical expertise. These are not substitutes for a functioning mental health system, but in places where that system barely exists, they offer a starting point.Read more on our page on mental health.

When Princeton University asked two directors to produce a marketing video, it became a work of art – and a time capsule- by Aeon VideoWatch on Aeon

Every winter, 80,000 people gather in the California desert for King of the Hammers, a popular racing series featuring high-speed relays and rock crawling with dirt bikes, stock VW Bugs, and million-dollar trophy trucks.

ADHD isn’t merely a dysfunction. It’s best understood as an impulsive motivational drive for novel information- by Anne-Laure Le CunffRead on Aeon

There are two ways to produce seafood: catch fish in the wild or farm your own. Seafood farming is often called “aquaculture”. Aquaculture is dominated by the farming of fish, but also includes other organisms, such as crustaceans and aquatic plants.Aquaculture has grown rapidly over the last few decades. In fact, as the chart shows, it has overtaken wild catch since 2013.This has relieved some pressure on wild fish stocks: if this increased demand for fish had been satisfied by wild catch, then many more would be severely overexploited.Read more in our article on the rise of aquaculture.

The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist seeks the middle ground on a polarizing technology—and ends up letting tech execs like Sam Altman off the hook.

Months into a supposed ceasefire in Gaza, doctors still have to smuggle in basic medical supplies—and treat new casualties of war.

Americans love to gamble. But placing bets on wildfires, floods and storms comes with serious moral and social costs- by Jamie L PietruskaRead on Aeon

AI companion platforms like OhChat and SinfulX are offering adult creators digital twins, who are always at their peak and stay monetizing.

Broadcast at Times Square, this kaleidoscopic reimagining of a powwow dance celebrates the strength of Indigenous women- by Aeon VideoWatch on Aeon

From drones to missiles to submarines, the $30.5 billion defense startup wants to transform how the tools of war are made. It’s not all going as planned.

China’s regime insists on national unity and international harmony. Is this anything more than an imperial posture?- by Peter C PerdueRead on Aeon

Last year, three-quarters of the world’s countries had unemployment rates below 10%, according to data from the International Labour Organization. Colombia, where I come from, is in that group.I initially found Colombia’s relatively low unemployment rate surprising, because it didn’t match what I could see around me: many people doing extremely precarious work.This chart offers an explanation. It shows, for a selection of countries of different income levels, what share of workers hold informal jobs, meaning work that lacks social protection and basic employment rights (no guaranteed benefits, no formal safety net).As the chart shows, in Colombia, that share is almost 57%. In many lower-income countries, the share is far higher.The reality is that low unemployment and widespread informal work can, and often do, happen at the same time. The reason this isn't paradoxical comes down to how these statistics are defined.To count as employed in labor statistics, a person only needs to have worked for at least one hour during the survey’s reference period, often the past week. The definition is broad and includes self-employment, selling things on the street, and unpaid work in a family farm or family business. Both formal and informal jobs are included.This means the unemployment rate can remain relatively low in poor countries, not because most workers have found stable, protected jobs, but because many have been absorbed into informal employment.Read more about informal work and unemployment in our new Work & Employment topic page.

With female AI fruit being fart-shamed and even sexually assaulted, there’s a misogynistic undercurrent to the fruit slop microdramas, even as they appear to be cultivating genuine fans.

As war reshapes the Gulf, the satellite infrastructure the world relies on to see conflict clearly is being delayed, spoofed, and privately controlled—and nobody is sure who is responsible.

If technology threatens to flatten our humanity, artists can deepen it. Hear how, from a flamenco musician and a juggler- by Aeon VideoWatch on Aeon

Arm just confirmed the rumors: It’s producing its own chip for the first time. CEO Rene Haas explains why this won’t alienate the many chipmakers who license the company’s designs.

The world-famous MultiCam pattern was designed for the military by two Brooklyn hipsters. Now everyone—from babies to ICE agents—is suited up for battle.

Headquarters: Athens, Greece URL: https://aktor.ai We are hiring a (Senior) AI Solutions Engineer to join our AI engineering team remotely and help us build, harden, and scale AI agents. The Role This is a hands-on engineering role at the frontier of AI-augmented software development. You will design, build, and ship production AI agents, but the way you build them may look different from what you’re used to. Our engineers work heavily with AI coding assistants and autonomous agent tooling. The craft has shifted: writing every line yourself matters less than knowing what good looks like. Making sound architectural decisions, maintaining quality standards, and steering AI-generated output toward well-structured, maintainable systems. You will spend more time thinking, reviewing, and deciding than typing. That said, you still need strong engineering fundamentals. You can’t evaluate what you don’t understand. The best engineers in this new paradigm are the ones who know when the AI is wrong and can articulate why. What You’ll Do • Build and ship AI agents end-to-end: from scoping and prototyping through optimisation and production rollout. • Architect for reliability: design observability, logging, guardrails, evaluation pipelines, cost controls, and human-in-the-loop flows. • Integrate with enterprise systems: build connectors and retrieval pipelines to data stores, APIs, and line-of-business applications. • Review and elevate: review AI-generated code and designs with a critical eye. Challenge what doesn’t meet the bar, accept what does. • Own quality: write and maintain evaluation datasets, define accuracy targets, and treat failure modes as first-class engineering concerns. • Document clearly: produce designs, runbooks, and technical documentation that others can follow. What We’re Looking For Engineering Judgment Over Stack Knowledge We care far less about which specific frameworks you’ve used and far more about whether you make good decisions. Technologies change fast; judgment compounds. • Strong software engineering fundamentals. You understand how systems are built, how they break, and how to keep them simple. • Experience with LLM-based systems in production or near-production settings (agents, RAG, automation, orchestration). • A product-minded approach. You think about what you’re building and why, not just how. You understand that the goal is a working solution that serves a business need. • Architectural taste. You can look at a system design, whether you wrote it or an AI generated it, and tell whether it’s sound, over-engineered, or cutting corners that will cost you later. • Comfort with ambiguity. AI systems don’t behave like deterministic code. You’re comfortable with probabilistic outputs, evaluation-driven development, and iterative refinement. Levels Engineer (typically 2–5 years total; 1+ with AI systems) • Ships features and integrations independently. • Implements evaluation datasets, prompt engineering, and observability. • Contributes to design discussions and follows established guidelines. Senior Engineer (typically 6–10+ years; 2+ leading AI deliveries) • Leads end-to-end implementations and makes architecture choices. • Designs data/retrieval schemas, instrumentation, and cost/latency budgets. • Sets quality bars and mentors teammates. Nice to Have: Experience with agent orchestration frameworks, vector/graph databases, Postgres/Redis, tracing/observability platforms, Azure, or ERP integrations. Specific tools are flexible; equivalent experience is welcome. Professional Qualities • High ownership and follow-through. You don’t wait to be told what to do next. You see what needs doing and you do it. • Pragmatic and quality-conscious. You use the simplest approach that solves the problem well. You don’t gold-plate, but you also don’t take shortcuts that create future pain, especially when the cost of doing it right is marginal. • Reliability-first mindset. You treat guardrails, evaluation, and failure handling as core engineering work, not afterthoughts. • Clear communicator. You write crisp messages, document decisions, and can explain technical trade-offs plainly. • Dedicated and self-driven. You’re comfortable with autonomy and manage your own time effectively. You’re the kind of person who, when something is running, keeps an eye on it, not because someone asked, but because you care about the outcome. What We Offer • Competitive compensation and benefits. • The opportunity to build production AI agents used by real businesses, measured by tangible KPIs. • A modern, AI-native engineering environment where you’ll work with cutting-edge tooling daily. • Autonomy to shape engineering standards and best practices. • Career growth with executive visibility in a large, impact-oriented group. Hiring Process 1. Initial interview: a structured conversation to understand your experience, thinking, and motivations. 2. Paid collaborative project: instead of a contrived take-home test, you’ll work on a real-scope assignment alongside other candidates over a ~2-week window, so you can fit it around your schedule. Top contributions will be awarded cash prizes. This is the core of our evaluation. We want to see how you work, not just how you talk about working. 3. Final interview: a conversation with the CEO of Aktor AI and the Head of Solution Delivery. Our hiring process uses AI-assisted tools for application screening and includes an AI-powered interview stage. All decisions are made by people. Details • Location: 100% Remote, in Europe or Asia. • Reports to: Head of Solution Delivery • Collaboration: You’ll work closely with the Athens-based engineering and solution delivery teams asynchronously, with regular video check-ins. To apply: https://weworkremotely.com/remote-jobs/aktor-ai-senior-ai-solutions-engineer

Headquarters: United States URL: http://www.leadupgym.com The Role You build the majority of the user-facing application. You work from a detailed specification and follow patterns set by the senior developer. AI coding tools are a core part of your workflow. This is a fast-moving environment. You’ll have clear specs, but priorities will shift as the product meets real users. We need someone who treats that as normal. Why this is different from most junior roles: You're not joining a 50-person engineering team where you'll spend six months on a button. You work directly with the senior developer and the CTO - both hands-on builders. You'll get real code reviews, real architectural conversations, and real mentorship. The product is being built now, with pilot clients coming within months. Your code ships to actual users, fast. What You’ll Do Build the full user-facing web application: dashboards, reports, settings, onboarding Build admin views: user management, configuration, aggregate data Implement supporting systems: notifications, emails, exports Write tests against defined error scenarios Contribute to database schema design alongside the senior developer and the CTO Daily sync with senior developer; PR review on every merge Required 1–3 years of professional development experience (internships and freelance count) React (or Next.js) for frontend, Python for backend (FastAPI experience is a strong plus) Basic PostgreSQL: can write queries, understands joins, can contribute to schema design Active AI coding tool user (Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot) — part of your daily workflow Can read a spec and ship features without hand-holding Comfortable with changing priorities Asks questions when unclear rather than guessing Solid written and spoken English Preferred FastAPI experience Tailwind CSS, responsive design Authentication flows (OAuth, JWT) Dashboard or report-style interfaces Portfolio or GitHub showing end-to-end projects Why Join You won’t guess what to build. Detailed spec. Your creativity goes into quality and speed. You’ll learn from strong people. Senior developer sets patterns. CTO works hands-on with the team. Your work ships fast. Pilot clients within months. Real users, real feedback. Ground floor. The product is being built now. If it succeeds, you were there from the beginning. Process 1. Application review 2. Technical conversation with the CTO 3. Offer. If the interview goes well, we move fast To apply: https://weworkremotely.com/remote-jobs/leadup-ai-full-stack-developer-junior

Headquarters: US URL: https://knack.com About Knack Knack is an AI-powered no-code software development platform enabling organizations to manage, analyze, and share business data. The no-code market is growing at over 30% annually and projected to be almost $200B by 2030. Founded in 2012, Knack has grown into a leading player in the no-code movement, enabling businesses, teams, and individuals to build custom applications without writing a single line of code. Serving a wide range of industries, from healthcare and education to finance and nonprofits, and organizations from small businesses to Fortune 500s, Knack enables users to boost data visibility and streamline operations. To date, the platform has powered 400,000 apps and stored more than 5 billion data records for over 15,000 customers. Its enterprise-grade functionality includes an AI-powered visual builder, robust data structures, user access controls, and automation capabilities, all delivered by a fully remote team committed to trust, continuous improvement, and measurable impact. The role: We’re hiring a brilliant Senior Front-end Engineer to help us meet the enormous challenges of building a world-class UI/UX for our new platform, built with React and Asterisk, our custom design system. We’re looking for someone who is not just a fast Typescript coder, but also cares deeply about our customers' experiences, code quality, and architecture, can switch contexts easily, and enjoys diving into the deep end of challenging work. We seek applicants who are passionate about what matters to them and want to join a fun, close-knit team of high-quality individuals who, above all, enjoy working together! In this role, you will: Leverage React and Typescript to craft clean, beautiful, maintainable, extensible, and secure code. Refactor and modernize our codebases to increase maintainability, performance, and rapid iteration. Drive innovative problem-solving on challenging engineering problems, including reusable and responsive UI components, app global state management, validations and error handling, theme management, rendering performance, and JS bundle optimizations. Collaborate with a broad set of stakeholders from Production Management to Customer Success to enable well-informed business decision-making by bringing appropriate information to discussions, clarifying scope, accurately presenting tradeoffs, and communicating potential scope changes and alternatives with associated pros/cons. Be an inspiring and supportive teammate by following the engineering processes, communicating often and quickly, participating in PR reviews, pair programming, active feedback, idea generation, coaching, learning, and being a delightful human being. We're looking for someone who is: A problem solver. You aren't afraid to go deep, experiment, learn on the fly, and do the work. Passionate about turning complex business requirements into elegant software that delights users. Flexible. When given a UI/UX spec and requirements, you can achieve the resulting behavior, look, and feel, and help create the associated APIs to drive the backend data. Experienced as a meaningful contributor to a data-driven architecture at scale. Humble but opinionated. You have lots of ideas, yet you are happy to shift directions when a better path emerges. You take your work much more seriously than you take yourself. An active collaborator. You want feedback on your work early and often, and you enjoy a collaborative process because it challenges you to do better work. Hungry for meaningful work and space to do it. Knack is a complex product in a complex space, and the work is extremely challenging - but also deeply rewarding. Knack has a significant impact on the operations of thousands of companies and organizations. Comfortable in dynamic environments, making measurable progress amid competing priorities. Comfortable working both independently and as part of a collaborative team environment. Qualifications: 4+ years of experience shipping enterprise-grade products. 4+ years of extensive experience and proficiency in JavaScript, TypeScript, React, and CSS. Experience building highly reusable components and writing unit/integration tests. Experience with API design and development. Experience with modern software engineering development and automation tools like Git and CI/CD pipelines. Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, both written and verbal. Bonus points: Experience with AI technologies (CoPilot/Cursor, MCP server, agentic platform, etc.) Experience with Node.js, Tailwind, Tanstack, Zod, and Vue Experience with custom design systems and accessibility Experience in the no-code/low-code platforms A degree in computer science or software engineering To apply: https://weworkremotely.com/remote-jobs/knack-senior-frontend-engineer-react-next-js-full-time-contract

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The United Kingdom was the birthplace of coal. It has now, effectively, died there.As shown in the chart, in the late 1980s, around two-thirds of the UK’s electricity came from coal. By the time I was born in the 1990s, this had dropped to just over half.The use of coal has plummeted in my lifetime. It now makes up around 0.1% of the UK’s electricity.Coal was first replaced by gas, but is now being pushed out by wind, solar, and biomass.Explore more charts on the death of British coal.

Headquarters: Remote URL: http://onthegosystems.com OnTheGoSystems is a profitable $12M fully remote company behind WPML, one of the most popular WordPress plugins in the world, powering over 1,5 million production websites and serving over 250,000 customers globally. We’re looking for a Senior Full-Stack Developer with strong technical judgment, the ability to dive deep into complex problems and domains, and the ownership mindset to drive solutions from definition to production impact, using AI as a practical tool to support effective engineering work. You’ll design and build solutions used by customers worldwide, engage directly with real users, and continuously improve both functionality and user experience. What You’ll Do Own features end-to-end: from problem definition to production impact Use AI to understand, generate, review, and refine code efficiently Make architectural decisions and consider system-wide impact Identify gaps in requirements and define the right behavior Handle selected support cases that require a developer’s perspective, working directly with clients. Turn real user problems into product and UX/UI improvements Continuously improve what you build based on real usage Build a deep understanding of complex product and technical domains, identify root causes behind difficult problems, and work with the team to deliver clear, practical solutions. Indicators You’re a Good Fit You take responsibility for outcomes, not just task completion You work well with evolving requirements and take the initiative to define solutions You balance system-level thinking with a strong sense of how product and technical decisions affect the user experience. You can guide and validate AI-generated code effectively You’re comfortable engaging with users to resolve issues, digging into technical problems, and fixing root causes You proactively identify problems and improve both product and UX Technical Requirements Strong experience with PHP and JavaScript Solid experience with React (Redux is good to have) Experience with databases and system design Automated testing (PHPUnit or similar) End-to-end testing experience Git and version control WordPress experience (good-to-have) The role is about owning problems, shaping solutions, and making the product better in real-world usage. If you’re looking for a role where you own real outcomes and operate at a higher level than traditional development, we’d love to hear from you. Apply today to join OnTheGoSystems! To apply: https://weworkremotely.com/remote-jobs/onthegosystems-full-stack-php-developer-1

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In a recent Data Insight, I wrote about how Argentina was one of the richest countries in the world at the beginning of the 20th century. Today, I want to follow up with a striking comparison between Spain and Argentina.The chart shows GDP per capita for Argentina and Spain over the last two centuries. These are historical estimates from the Maddison Project, and the data is adjusted for inflation and differences in the cost of living.When Argentina declared independence from Spain in 1816, the two countries had very similar GDP per capita. By the late 19th century, Argentina had become richer than its former colonial power, and it stayed ahead for many decades. Spain then started growing faster in the 1960s, and by the mid-1970s it had caught up.Continued economic growth in Spain after the 1980s drove the large gap we see today. It kept GDP per capita on a steep upward path into the 21st century. Argentina, by contrast, grew more slowly and went through several economic crises, visible on the chart.Today, Argentina’s GDP per capita is closer to my home country of Colombia than to Western European countries like Spain. This helps us see how much of a difference economic growth can make within just a few generations.Explore long-run GDP data for all countries in our interactive chart.

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Forty years ago, young people had higher literacy rates in Sub-Saharan Africa than in South Asia. You can see on the chart that the region had a 10-percentage-point lead in 1985.But things have changed a lot since then. Sub-Saharan Africa now lags by more than 14 percentage points.While literacy has improved in both regions, it has done so much faster in South Asia. There, almost all young people have basic reading and writing skills. In Sub-Saharan Africa, most of them do, but there is still a significant lag behind other world regions.In South Asia, the increase in literacy rates among young women has been particularly dramatic. In the mid-1980s, only around 40% had basic reading skills. That has more than doubled to over 90%, and the gap between young men and women has essentially closed.Explore how other educational and literacy measures compare across countries, age groups, and gender in our work on global education.

Headquarters: Los Angeles, California URL: https://www.mangomint.com/ About Mangomint Mangomint is a fast-growing SaaS company on a mission to make every salon and spa more profitable. We are already the highest-rated salon and spa software in the US and Canada with thousands of customers and seek to become the #1 market leader in the coming years. We’re a primarily remote company, ambitious, and collaborative team that gathers together every few months. As we grow, we’re looking to attract high-potential individuals who want to be part of a winning team. If that’s you, come join us! About the Role As a Senior Software Engineer at Mangomint, you’ll play a critical role on our Connect Engineering team, building and scaling the core communication systems our customers rely on every day: emails, texting, and phone calls. This role is focused on strengthening a mission-critical part of the product as we scale usage, integrations, and operational complexity. You’ll work across the full stack to design, build, and operate reliable communication features that integrate with external providers while delivering a seamless experience for customers and internal teams. In the Senior Software Engineer role at Mangomint you will: Develop new features across the whole stack, including data design, backend APIs, frontend React UI, mobile, and HTML/CSS Work deeply with external integrations and third-party services, ensuring reliability and observability Support the scaling of our systems as we grow and acquire new customers, and improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes to enable rapid development and iteration Troubleshoot and debug production issues across various services and layers of the stack, ensuring a stable, efficient, and resilient system for our customers Technologies You Will Work With Backend/Rest API: Kotlin/JVM, PostgreSQL, AWS (RDS, SQS, Lambda, EC2/EB) Frontend: Typescript, React, Sass/CSS While experience or familiarity with our technology stack is a plus, it’s not a requirement. We care more about your general engineering skill set, and your ability to pick up new languages and technologies quickly. What We’re Looking For 5+ years of experience in a software engineering role Experience as a Senior Software Engineer at a SaaS Company and with programming languages such as Kotlin, C#, Java, Ruby, etc. Someone who enjoys being a generalist, working on the frontend, backend, and anything it takes to solve problems Experience building software and systems that balance simplicity, flexibility, and maintainability Ability to thrive in a collaborative and iterative environment, working and empathizing with teammates, internal stakeholders, and customers Someone skilled in completing projects from start to finish, using various technologies and systems, while balancing technical, business, and customer priorities. Ability to stitch together many different services and processes even if you have not worked with them before What You'll Love About Us Health, dental, vision, life & LTD insurance Generous monthly wellness budget for gym memberships, yoga, etc. Premium subscription to the Calm app One Medical membership Flexible PTO 401k plan available (no matching) Employee stock option program Mangomint is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate against any employee or job applicant on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, and gender identity), national origin, age, disability and genetic information (including family medical history). To apply: https://weworkremotely.com/remote-jobs/mangomint-senior-software-engineer

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Headquarters: McLean, VA URL: https://www.yokoco.com/ We’re seeking a WordPress Support Engineer who wants to make the world a better place through thoughtful troubleshooting, clear communication, and excellent technical support. This isn’t just about closing tickets – it’s about building relationships, understanding problems, and showing our clients that we’ve got their back. This role is perfect for someone who enjoys digging into problems, figuring out why things broke, and helping clients feel confident that their website is in good hands. Why work at Yoko Co? Do good, better: We exclusively serve clients who make a positive impact on the world. This is your chance to build things that help create a better place for all of us. 4-day work week and lots of holidays. Mondays are flex days, meaning you’re free to take them off if you’re caught up on your work. Plus, we’re closed for nearly a full week at Thanksgiving (November), and two weeks at the end of the year, plus a bunch of other days, too. High performance, no jerks. You’ll collaborate with good people who believe in doing great work. Best Place to Work (and that’s not just our opinion). We’ve been named a Best Place to Work by the Inc. 5000 and Washington Business Journal. We value team members who are motivated by our mission and driven to make a positive impact. If you have a passion for excellence, a growth mindset, and a commitment to collaboration, we’d love to hear from you. What you’ll do: As part of our technical support team, you’ll troubleshoot client requests, implement fixes, and help ensure our clients’ websites continue running smoothly long after launch. The best candidates tend to be naturally curious problem-solvers who enjoy figuring out how systems work and helping people along the way. As such, you’ll: Provide hands-on technical support for client websites, troubleshooting requests and helping ensure sites run smoothly long after launch Diagnose technical issues, implement fixes, and coordinate with teammates when deeper investigation is needed Communicate clearly with clients throughout the support process, helping them understand issues and feel confident in the solutions provided Respond to incoming support requests with clear, friendly, and thoughtful communication Troubleshoot and resolve a wide range of WordPress issues, including plugin conflicts, functionality bugs, layout problems, integrations, and unexpected site behavior Read, debug, and occasionally modify HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and PHP within WordPress to diagnose problems and implement fixes Apply WordPress core, plugin, and theme updates while ensuring compatibility and site stability Monitor website health, performance, and security, proactively identifying potential risks or issues Investigate and resolve issues related to hosting environments, DNS configuration, email delivery, analytics tracking, and third-party integrations Conduct QA testing to confirm that updates and fixes function properly across browsers and devices Provide CMS guidance or quick tutorials to help clients manage their websites effectively Document support work clearly in the ticketing system to maintain visibility and accurate billing Collaborate with developers, project managers, and strategists when requests require deeper technical investigation Help maintain an organized support workflow so requests move forward smoothly Contribute to improving internal support processes, documentation, and knowledge sharing What we’re looking for: We’re less concerned with rigid checklists and more interested in capable, thoughtful problem solvers who communicate well and enjoy helping people. Strong candidates typically have: 3–5+ years of experience working with WordPress in a technical capacity Strong understanding of WordPress themes, plugins, and site configuration Comfort reading and modifying HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and PHP within WordPress Experience debugging issues such as plugin conflicts, integrations, or unexpected site behavior Familiarity with WordPress hosting environments, migrations, and DNS basics Experience working within a support workflow or ticketing system Excellent written and verbal communication skills Fluent English for written and spoken communication Bonus points for: Experience with Git workflows Experience supporting websites in a multi-client or agency environment Examples of support work: To give you a better idea of the types of things you might encounter, here are a few examples of issues recently handled by our support team: Help a client understand why protected content isn’t accessible to the correct users Investigate the connection between WordPress and SendGrid to figure out why transactional emails aren’t being delivered Give a client tips on how to better optimize and format banner images they upload to their website Diagnose why Google Analytics tracking code appears to be capturing only a fraction of site visitors Migrate an outdated WordPress site from another hosting provider to our servers, update plugins, and help the client adjust DNS records Troubleshoot an SSO login issue that keeps kicking users out of the dashboard Triage a malware notification, clean malicious code, and harden the WordPress installation Send a short screencast showing a client how to create columns in their page builder Fix a layout bug caused by a plugin update that unexpectedly broke styling on a landing page However, maybe don’t apply if: Client communication isn’t something you enjoy You prefer highly predictable work instead of solving a variety of technical problems You find it frustrating when the solution to a problem isn’t immediately obvious Support work often requires patience, curiosity, and a willingness to dig into problems until the root cause becomes clear. What you get: You’ll get a flexible schedule, unlimited time off, a competitive salary, a profit share bonus (starting in your second year), the ability to work wherever you want, a personal development budget, and all US federal holidays and multiple weeks off at the end of the year to recharge. We’ll also offset your entire carbon footprint. If you’re in the US, we also offer health insurance, disability and life insurance, and 401(k) matching. More about us: We’re a group of people who are passionate about the work we do, the clients we serve, and improving our craft. We also care about each other — we don’t think of one another as coworkers or employees, but as fellow humans. From developers to designers, project managers to strategists, we bring out the best in each other. We’ve been in business for over a decade, our whole team is remote, we’ve been named a Best Place to Work by the Inc. 5000 and the Washington Business Journal. To apply: If you’re interested, fill out our application form. (An actual human from our team looks at every submission. P.S. – We encourage you to include a video message!) To apply: https://weworkremotely.com/remote-jobs/yoko-co-wordpress-support-engineer

In 2019, two Canadian brothers blew into Detroit with an irresistible pitch: For $50, almost anyone could become a property owner. When houses decayed and the city intervened, the blame games began.

Headquarters: New York URL: https://www.strangelooplabs.ai/ We’re building an AI agent platform that processes unstructured data and reasons how to solve hard customer problems. We work alongside teams at F500s to build a deep understanding of their workflows, knowledge, tools, goals, and bottlenecks, and then automate their processes end-to-end using our AI platform. Strange Loop engineers also work across the entire AI stack and own customer relationships end-to-end, from understanding their business need to designing solutions to delivering outcomes. As a Strange Loop AI Engineer, you will: Work closely with customer, from executives to end users, to deeply understand their problems and needs. Train, test, deploy, and operate propietary and public multimodal models that power our core AI platform. Build and deploy efficient, scalable systems that deliver a fantastic AI experience to our customers. Design novel AI UX patterns that integrate into our customers workflows and to To apply: https://weworkremotely.com/remote-jobs/strange-loop-labs-senior-software-engineer

When I first visited Buenos Aires some years ago, I was struck by how grand the city's historic architecture was. This is something that strikes many tourists: parts of the city feel closer to Paris than you’d expect from a country whose income level today is more similar to my home country of Colombia than to France.This chart helps put that observation in perspective. It shows the ten richest countries in the world in 1910, according to GDP per capita estimates from economic historians.By this measure, Argentina was among the world’s richest countries in 1910, ahead of several Western European countries, including Germany and France. It also stood clearly ahead of its peers in Latin America at the time.But over the course of the 20th century, Western European economies grew far faster, especially after the Second World War, and Argentina fell behind.A long-run perspective like this shows how much of a difference economic growth can make within just a few generations.Explore long-run data on GDP per capita for all countries.

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In 1965, the median age in the United Kingdom was almost twice that of China. Half of the people in the UK were younger than 34 years, and half were older. In China, this midpoint was just 18 years.Within just a few generations, that age gap has closed.As you can see in the chart, the median age in both countries is now 40 years. Both populations have aged, but the increase was far faster in China.In the 1950s and early 1960s, China’s median age fell partly because of a fall in child mortality: birth rates remained high, and more children survived.After that, the rapid increase is largely explained by a steep fall in fertility, and therefore in births. Before then, high birth rates meant that large cohorts of children were continually entering the population, keeping it young. When births fell, fewer children were added each year, and the large, earlier generations grew older.China’s median age is expected to continue rising quickly: under the UN’s medium projections, it will be 10 years older than the UK's by 2050.Explore more data on how the age structure of populations is changing across the world.

Throughout the entire 20th century, about 100 million people died earlier than they would have because of smoking. That’s a lot, but it pales in comparison to the expected numbers for this century.Between 2000 and 2023 alone, smoking-related deaths are estimated at 163 million. You can see this comparison in the chart.Some epidemiologists project that unless there is a substantial change in smoking uptake and rates across the world, there could be as many as one billion smoking-related deaths in the 21st century.In the 20th century, most of these occurred in today’s high-income countries. In the 21st century, most will come from low- and middle-income countries.Many of the people who are expected to die are smoking today, but even more are expected to be future smokers. Finding ways to help people stop smoking and prevent them from starting matters for keeping this huge figure in the millions, not billions.People often ask whether vaping is safer than smoking. I tackled this question in a recent article — the short answer is “yes”.

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At the turn of the millennium, 2.2 billion people in the world lived in extreme poverty. In international statistics, this means they survived on less than $3 per day (in today’s money).In the two decades that followed, this number more than halved. You can see this decline in the chart.This huge reduction was driven by rising incomes and poverty alleviation across East and South Asia. In Sub-Saharan Africa, the opposite happened: while the share living in extreme poverty declined, the total number increased.Looking ahead, based on the latest available projections from researchers at the World Bank, this reduction in global extreme poverty is expected to end. In fact, numbers in 2040 might be higher than they are today.This is because most of the extremely poor today live in countries with stagnant economies. If these do not see much stronger economic growth, the world will have nearly one billion living in dire poverty for decades to come.Note that these projections are based on the latest growth projections from the World Bank and the IMF. From 2031 onward, poverty projections are based on the average growth rates observed from 2015 to 2024.Read my colleague Max Roser’s article, “The end of progress against extreme poverty?”, which goes into this question in much more detail.

Just a decade ago, almost three times as much electricity in the European Union was coming from fossil fuels as from solar and wind.But last year, for the first time, solar and wind produced more than coal, gas, and oil combined. They accounted for just over 30% of total electricity production.You can see this rise of solar and wind — and fossil fuels’ decline — in the chart.This record happened despite a poor year for wind output due to low wind speeds and a slight increase in gas to compensate for lower hydropower output from dry conditions.Explore more data for specific European countries based on the latest update from Ember.

Marriage is closely linked to decisions about having children in many societies. It also matters for legal rights, family finances, and many other aspects of life.The age at which people marry has rapidly changed in many countries. The chart shows this by tracking the average age at first marriage among women, using records from national statistics.In Portugal, Italy, and Spain, the average age at first marriage has risen rapidly and consistently. Portugal saw the largest increase: from around 26 years in 2002 to over 32 years by 2020. This is more than six years in less than a generation. It’s also the largest increase among the countries in the OECD Family Database with data available from the early 2000s up to 2020 (the most recent year with available data in the series).Changes in the timing of marriage have come together with other related shifts. For instance, a growing share of people are not marrying at all.Read more about marriages and explore the data for other countries.

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4,510 objects were launched into space in 2025, surpassing the previous peak of 2,903 objects in 2023 by a large margin.The data shows that US agencies and companies were responsible for launching 3,708 of these objects — 82% of the global total.The vast majority of these American launches consist of small satellites deployed as part of large commercial “constellations”. These interconnected networks of satellites now account for the bulk of all objects sent into orbit.The rapid growth of satellite constellations makes it possible to expand Internet connectivity, but it also increases concerns regarding space debris and the congestion of Earth’s orbital environment.Explore our interactive chart of objects launched into space.

In the 1970s, oil spills from tankers — container ships transporting oil — were common. Between 70 and 100 spills occurred per year. That’s one or two spills every week.This number has fallen by more than 90% since then. In the last decade, no year has had more than ten oil spills, as shown in the chart.The quantity of oil spilled from tankers has also fallen dramatically. Over the last decade, the average is less than 10,000 tonnes per year, compared to over 300,000 tonnes in the 1970s.Explore more charts on oil spills on our dedicated topic page.

In the past, forests around the world were cut down on a massive scale. We lost some of the world’s richest ecosystems.In recent decades, the picture has become more complex. Deforestation has not ended, but it is no longer happening everywhere. Since 1990, some regions have continued to lose large areas of forest, while others have slowed this long-run trend — and even reversed it.The map shows regional changes in forest area based on the latest data from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.Deforestation has been particularly large in South America and Africa. At the same time, the forested area has expanded in Europe, North and Central America, and large parts of Asia.These gains show that deforestation is not inevitable. When pressure on land falls, forests can return.I previously wrote about why deforestation is happening, and what we can do to bring the long history of deforestation to an end.

Headquarters: New York, NY URL: https://www.stickermule.com About Sticker Mule Sticker Mule, the Internet's favorite custom printer, is building the Internet's best commerce platform. We are privately-owned, which means no meddlesome investors, with 9-figures in annual revenue and great profitability. Our commerce platform (Stores) helped people earn $200k while in beta and now we are hiring to accelerate development. We offer Remote work with flexible schedules A privately owned, low-stress culture A fun "no bullshit" work environment Great compensation with rising wages. Compensation and benefits Salary: $145K $20,000 signing bonus 4 weeks vacation + holidays based on your country of residence Requirements Go GraphQL Postgres Redis Docker Kubernetes Google Cloud Platform Excellent communication skills (English) Degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience Familiarity with Typescript Availability to travel to our factory in Italy a few times a year What you will work on You'll help us develop our new Stores platform that already helped sellers earn nearly $200,000 while in beta. Stores is supported by a suite of tools that help anyone succeed online including Give (our giveaway platform), Ship (our shipping platform, Notify (our forthcoming email/sms marketing platform), and more coming soon. We have an incredible roadmap and need your help to execute it quickly. To apply: https://weworkremotely.com/remote-jobs/sticker-mule-software-engineer-2

I’ve now been through three approaches to load testing for the site, and I think I’ve settled on a solution for the medium term at least. This post explains what I’m trying to achieve, along with the pros and cons of what I’ve tried. Requirements For this particular site, I have four requirements: If the … Continue reading Election 2029: Load Testing →

On January 15th 2026, Robert Jenrick broke my election site. Okay, that’s slightly hyperbolic. The site continued to operate, and it would be fairer to say that the actions of Kemi Badenoch and Robert Jenrick exposed a flaw in the data modelling in my site. For those readers who don’t follow UK politics, two events … Continue reading Election 2029: Models and Reality →

As I’ve written before, I’m leaning heavily into immutability in the election site code. Until September 2025 (it’s taken a long time to get round to writing this blog post) that meant a combination of records, ImmutableList<T> and ImmutableDictionary<TKey, TValue>. In an ECMA C# standards meeting, however, Joseph Musser passed on some really valuable feedback … Continue reading Changing Immutable Collections →

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In my previous blog post I described some behaviour of C# record types which was unexpected to me, though entirely correct according to the documentation. This is a follow-up post to that one, so if you haven’t read that one yet, please do so – I won’t go over all the same ground. Is this … Continue reading Records and the ‘with’ operator, redux →

Unexpected inconsistency in records The other day, I was trying to figure out a bug in my code, and it turned out to be a misunderstanding on my part as to how C# records work. It’s entirely possible that I’m the only one who expected them to work in the way that I did, but … Continue reading Unexpected inconsistency in records →

Postcodes After a pretty practical previous post about records and collections, this post is less likely to give anyone ideas about how they might tackle a problem in their own project, and doesn’t have any feature requests for Microsoft either. It’s an area I’ve found really fun though. An introduction to postcodes in the UK … Continue reading Election 2029: Postcodes →

Records and Collections This post is to some extent a grab-bag of points of friction I’ve encountered when using records and collections within the election site. Records recap This may end up being the most generally useful blog post in this series. Although records have been in C# since version 10, I haven’t used them … Continue reading Records and Collections →

Storage Since my last post about the data models, I’ve simplified things very slightly – basically the improvements that I thought about while writing the post have now been implemented. I won’t go into the details of the changes, as they’re not really important, but that’s just to explain why some examples might look like … Continue reading Election 2029: Storage →

Data models (and view-models) and how they’re used I was considering using the term “architecture” somewhere in the title of this post, but it feels too pompous for the scale of site. I could probably justify it, but it would give me the ick every time I used the term. But this post will basically … Continue reading Election 2029: Data Models →

Technical overview This post is mostly for scene-setting purposes. There’s nothing particularly remarkable here, but it’s useful to get the plain facts out of the way before we get into genuinely interesting design aspects. Just as a reminder, go to https://election2029.uk if you want to see what any of this looks like at the moment. … Continue reading Election 2029: Technical overview →

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