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Retailers are running early Black Friday discounts on headphones and earbuds, including markdowns of up to 50 percent on older Sony headphone models and a 20 percent discount on Apple's AirPods Pro 3. WIRED compiled a list of ten tested headphone and earbud deals it recommends, covering both new and older generation products.
A QR code hides its destination until you have already opened it. susQR is a free web tool that checks the link first, and it is worth keeping one tap away.
EA producer Jim Vessella discovered a physical vault at the company's Redwood Shores campus in 2022 containing nearly 20,000 archival media assets on formats like Betacam, VHS, D1, film reels and CD-ROMs. He spent six months organizing the room, later joined by Greg Roensch of EA's preservation project, and by 2024 the team had digitized 6,000 assets and 2,500 hours of footage, including master tapes for Wing Commander and Road Rash.
An agent is a language model given tools and a loop. That single design choice explains both why agents can finish real work and why they fail in ways a chatbot never could.
Purge is a free Mac utility that scans a computer for recoverable storage, including caches, Apple's Aerial screensaver videos, Homebrew dev files, large forgotten media files, and leftover data from already-deleted apps. It also offers a full app-uninstaller that removes associated settings and caches, plus a tool to disable Apple Intelligence's offline AI models, which macOS 27 no longer lets users toggle off through normal settings.
Quishing works because a QR code gives you nothing to judge before you commit. Here is what the scams look like in practice and the habits that defuse them.
A British Army appeals court document reveals that Corporal Daniel Barton-Kennedy disobeyed orders to remove his phone's SIM card and enable security protections before deploying to Tapa, Estonia, near the Russian border, during Exercise Eastern Warrior in January 2026. His phone was subsequently hacked and nude photos were stolen and used to blackmail him; he pled guilty to disobeying a lawful command, was demoted, and sentenced to 10 months in detention.
A new router upgrades the link between your devices and the router. Almost nothing people complain about lives on that link, which is why the box rarely delivers the numbers on it.
The FAA announced on November 5 a plan to deploy a new Enterprise Information Display System (E-IDS) across 435-453 facilities by the end of 2028, replacing four 1980s-era information systems that still rely on floppy disks. The platform will give controllers a single, centralized view of weather reports, flight alerts, equipment issues and airspace restrictions. Initial rollout sites include Atlantic City, Nashville and Rochester airports plus FAA data hubs in Atlanta and Salt Lake City.
A new UN-backed scientific report warns that even a temporary breach of the 1.5C Paris warming threshold could cause irreversible loss of glaciers, snow and polar ice sheets. It finds Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets are already melting roughly six times faster than in the 1990s, and that returning warming to 1.5C after an overshoot would not stop continued ice loss. The report's authors argue long-term global temperatures need to fall closer to 1C, or lower, to protect the cryosphere.
A personal-finance report highlights recurring errors consumers make during open enrollment, the annual window—typically starting mid-October or early November—when people select health coverage for the following year. The guidance applies broadly across employer-based plans, Medicare and ACA marketplace plans, which together cover the vast majority of Americans with health insurance.
A guide circulating on AI usage identifies five practical adjustments users can make to improve their results with tools like ChatGPT and Claude, including writing better prompts and making smarter use of memory features. It frames the gap between users who find AI tools highly useful and those who don't as largely a matter of technique rather than the tools themselves.