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Slumber Cloud’s Sale Is One Not to Miss Before Prime Day Ends

I sleep on a lot of sheets. I've tested nearly 100 sets over the past two years of testing bedding for WIRED, and there are some easy favorites I always come back to. One of my favorites as a hot sleeper are Slumber Cloud's Performance Tencel Sheets ($187, down from $249) that perfectly blend cooling technology with Tencel lyocell fabric to make for a fantastic sheet that actually keeps you cool. If you're sweating at night and struggling to find a solution beyond blasting the AC all night, the

Hot deal: Blink Outdoor 4 smart cams down from $130 to just $52 today

Ready to upgrade your home security system with a budget-friendly option? The Blink Outdoor 4 is worth considering, especially when it’s better than half price. With Prime Day powering into the final stretch, you can snag the two-camera pack for just $51.99 — a 60% reduction from its usual price of $129.99. Blink Outdoor 4 for $51.99 (60% off) The Blink Outdoor 4 is an ideal smart home addition with its 1080p HD live view and infrared night vision features, providing clear footage no matter the

Exploits for pre-auth Fortinet FortiWeb RCE flaw released, patch now

Proof-of-concept exploits have been released for a critical SQLi vulnerability in Fortinet FortiWeb that can be used to achieve pre-authenticated remote code execution on vulnerable servers. FortiWeb is a web application firewall (WAF), which is used to protect web applications from malicious HTTP traffic and threats. The FortiWeb vulnerability has a 9.8/10 severity score and is tracked as CVE-2025-25257. Fortinet fixed it last week in FortiWeb 7.6.4, 7.4.8, 7.2.11, and 7.0.11 and later versio

Your Wemo smart devices are about to get dumb as Belkin pulls the plug

Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images If you have any Wemo smart devices in your home, you should start planning an upgrade -- because you only have about six months left to use them. In an email to users today, Wemo announced that it was ending support for nearly all of its smart devices sold over the last 10 years on Jan. 31, 2026, including light switches, plugs, and more. Also: The $13 Amazon Smart Plug deal is the best Prime Day deal available right now "After careful consideration," the

Mystery Man Shines a Spotlight on the Shadiness of Trump’s Crypto Venture

Last month, the Aqua 1 Foundation, founded by Dave Lee, purchased $100 million worth of tokens from the Trump family’s cryptocurrency venture World Liberty Financial (WLF. Someone putting cash directly into the President’s coffers is a normal thing in the Trump era, but there’s something odd about this particular purchase. According to Reuters, Aqua 1 is now the largest publicly known holder of World Liberty Financial tokens, but no one seems to know what the business is or who runs it. Aqua 1

Here’s What We Know About DOGE 2.0

After Elon Musk’s departure from DC, the future of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency seemed uncertain. But DOGE’s work continues unabated—its influence spreading farther and deeper into federal government agencies. WIRED’s Makena Kelly and Vittoria Elliott share with Leah Feiger what they found through their reporting. Mentioned in this episode: This Is DOGE 2.0, by Makena Kelly and Vittoria Elliott WIRED Talked to a Fired DOGE Staffer About Who Was Really in Charge, by Vittor

Slumber Cloud's Sale Is One Not to Miss Before Prime Day Ends

I sleep on a lot of sheets. I've tested nearly 100 different sets over the past two years of testing bedding for WIRED, and there are some easy favorites I always come back to. One of my favorites as a hot sleeper are Slumber Cloud's Performance Tencel Sheets ($187, down from $249) that perfectly blend cooling technology with Tencel lyocell fabric to make for a fantastic sheet that actually keeps you cool. If you're sweating at night and struggling to find a solution beyond blasting the AC all

Startups Weekly: Still running

Welcome to Startups Weekly — your weekly recap of everything you can’t miss from the world of startups. Want it in your inbox every Friday? Sign up here. This newsletter took a break for the Fourth of July, and maybe you did, too, but the news didn’t. Even the biggest startups are still running after more funding. To help you catch up, we’ve got the top startup stories from the week, plus some from the previous one. Most interesting startup stories from the week Image Credits:Haje Kamps / Tec

Revolutionizing Compliance: The Promise of Graph RAG-Based Large Language Models

Ensuring regulatory compliance is a high-stakes challenge across industries. Banks, payroll processors, and legal firms alike grapple with complex rules and massive data — and the consequences of failure are severe. In 2024, U.S. regulators fined Citigroup $136 million for falling short in fixing data management issues flagged years prior [1]. In another case, nine Wall Street companies paid $549 million in penalties after employees used unauthorized messaging apps that breached recordkeeping ru

Apple TV+ docuseries scores 6 Daytime Emmy Awards nominations

Apple has picked up six Daytime Emmy nominations for one of its most interesting nature docuseries, produced in partnership with the BBC Studios Natural History Unit. See the categories and watch the trailer below. Winners will be announced this October Today, the Television Academy announced the nominees for the 52nd Daytime Emmy Awards. The winners will be revealed on October 17, a little more than a month after the 77th Primetime Emmy Awards, which will take place on September 14. Among th

My First Day With the Galaxy Z Fold 7: This Foldable Finally Feels Just Right to Me

There's something slightly ironic about the superslim Galaxy Z Fold 7. Because the generous 6.5-inch cover screen feels much more normal than those found on previous versions of Samsung's foldable, I've hardly bothered opening the phone to use the sprawling inside display -- despite that kind of being the whole point. That's not a bad thing. Rather, it's a testament to how Samsung has managed to make both displays practical and useful. The cover screen no longer feels like an awkward compromise

Join Our Livestream: Inside the AI Copyright Battles

What's going on right now with the copyright battles over artificial intelligence? Many lawsuits regarding generative AI’s training materials were initially filed back in 2023, with decisions just now starting to trickle out. Whether it’s Midjourney generating videos of Disney characters, like Wall-E brandishing a gun, or an exit interview with a top AI lawyer as he left Meta, WIRED senior writer Kate Knibbs has been following this fight for years—and she’s ready to answer your questions. Bring

The Skylight Calendar is perfect for a busy family - especially with this deal

ZDNET's key takeaways The 15-inch Skylight Calendar is a smart display for $320, with a 10-inch version available for $160. It's a touchscreen calendar designed with busy lifestyles in mind that allows for shared use within a household or team. Though it's proven indispensable for my family, I wish the chores, not just the events, were visible in the calendar view, and the 15-inch version is expensive at $320. $319.99 at Amazon The Skylight Calendar is a wall-mounted or tabletop digital calen

DOJ Supports RFK Jr.’s Anti-Vax Group in Lawsuit Against News Outlets

The U.S. Department of Justice filed a statement of interest in federal court on Friday that supports Children’s Health Defense, an anti-vaccine group founded by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., according to a press release. Children’s Health Defense is suing a group of news outlets for not publishing ridiculous conspiracy theories about covid-19 during the pandemic, alleging they colluded with tech companies to suppress the speech of anti-vax activists. DOJ filed the statement of interest in United Stat

Your Weekend Streaming Watch List: 'Dexter: Resurrection,' 'Foundation,' 'Mad Max: Fury Road' and more

This weekend on streaming, we see the return of some of our favorite anti-heroes (cue the Taylor Swift). On Paramount Plus, Michael C. Hall returns as the titular vigilante serial killer in Dexter: Resurrection -- turns out, he wasn't dead after all. And on Hulu, some of the worst-behaved people on TV are back when the gang from It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia returns for the show's 17th season. On Netflix, you can tune in to tons of great movies: This week marks the arrival of originals like

Galaxy Z Flip 7 Hands-On: I'm Excited About the Bigger Screens, Battery and FE Variant

Are two Samsung Galaxy Z Flip phones better than one? That's the question I kept pondering as I held the new Galaxy Z Flip 7 in one hand and the Galaxy Z Flip 7 FE in the other at a Samsung press preview. It's a strategy that's worked well for one of the company's foldable phone competitors, Motorola, which has Razr models starting as low as $700 and as much as $1,300. The new Galaxy Z Flip 7, which starts at $1,100, has been completely redesigned with a 4.1-inch cover screen, a 6.9-inch main

Here's What We Know About DOGE 2.0

After Elon Musk’s departure from D.C, the future of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency seemed uncertain. But DOGE’s work continues unabated—its influence spreading farther and deeper into federal government agencies. WIRED’s Makena Kelly and Vittoria Elliott share with Leah Feiger what they found through their reporting. Mentioned in this episode: This Is DOGE 2.0 by Makena Kelly and Vittoria Elliott WIRED Talked to a Fired DOGE Staffer About Who Was Really in Charge by Vittori

This 19-year-old’s space company just raised millions to keep satellites connected 24/7

Apolink, a Y Combinator-backed space-tech startup founded by a 19-year-old Indian-origin entrepreneur, has raised $4.3 million in an “oversubscribed” seed round at a $45 million post-money valuation to build a real-time connectivity network for satellites in low Earth orbit (LEO). The startup is tackling a persistent problem in space communications. Satellites frequently go offline during parts of their orbit due to dead zones — periods when they are not in the line of sight of a ground station

Bitcoin surpasses $118K, its second all-time high in less than 24 hours

Bitcoin achieved a new all-time high of $118,900 on Friday after exceeding its previous record, $113,822, on Thursday. At the time of this writing, Bitcoin’s price stands at around $117,400. This is a significant milestone for Bitcoin, as it highlights its resurgence, now higher than its low of around $76,000 in early April. It dropped to nearly $49,000 last August. Some analysts think that if it reaches $150,000, it’ll set off a buying frenzy. It’s important to note that Bitcoin, just like m

Feature Request: Three advanced features I’d like to see added to HomeKit

HomeKit dramatically improved the user-friendliness of both configuring and controlling smart homes, by allowing everything to be done though a single app. But while the Home app was a fantastic breakthrough for its time, technology has moved on, and I think Apple needs to respond. Here are three advanced features I’d like to see in the AI age … Natural-language programming Even with HomeKit, setting up scenes and automations is still a relatively techy activity. You need to have the kind of

This 34-inch ultrawide OLED blew me away - and its Prime Day deal makes it even better

ZDNET's key takeaways The Alienware 34 240Hz QD-OLED Gaming Monitor retails for $800. It is a large, 34-inch curved gaming monitor with impressive visual output and an immersive design. Be aware that this display does not come with internal speakers. View now at Dell View now at Amazon more buying choices During Amazon Prime Day, the Alienware 34 QD-OLED is on sale for $680, a $120 discount. For the longest time, I considered curved monitors to be nothing more than a gimmick like 3D TVs (rem

I'm done with social media – Or: why I have a blog now

I started last year with one clear goal: 2024 was going to be the year that I finally did social media. Regular posting, a content calendar, a strategy, a plan for growth — all of that. And yet I ended the year pretty certain that I never wanted to open those apps again, let alone post my photos and words to them. How? My main motivation for wanting to conquer my long-held ambivalence about posting was because I had a book coming out in April 2024. I was very anxious about this, in part because

Bill Atkinson's psychedelic user interface

Steve Jobs and Bill Atkinson with the first Apple Macintosh – 1984 The Double Life of Bill Atkinson Bill Atkinson, the visionary Apple engineer behind much of the original Macintosh, passed away on June 5, 2025, at age 74, from pancreatic cancer—the same illness that claimed his friend Steve Jobs. Obituaries across the tech world honoured his pioneering role in personal computing. At Apple, he developed QuickDraw, the graphics engine behind the Mac’s interface; invented MacPaint, the first wid

Julie Wainwright is building what comes next — join her fireside chat at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025

TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 returns to Moscone West in San Francisco from October 27–29, uniting over 10,000+ startup founders, VCs, and tech leaders for the ultimate look at what’s next. One of this year’s must-see conversations on the premier Going Public Stage features iconic entrepreneur and e-commerce trailblazer Julie Wainwright, in a candid fireside chat on reinvention, resilience, and how to spot — and build — the next big thing. What to expect on the Going Public Stage In this intimate fi

Conspiracy theorists unaware their beliefs are on the fringe

Overconfidence is a hallmark trait of people who believe in conspiracies, and they also significantly overestimate how much others agree with them, Cornell psychology researchers have found. The study indicates that belief in conspiracies may be less about a person’s needs and motivations and more about their failure to recognize that they might be wrong. Conspiracy believers not only consistently overestimated their performance on numeracy and perception tests, revealing they tend to be less a

I'm Done with Social Media

I started last year with one clear goal: 2024 was going to be the year that I finally did social media. Regular posting, a content calendar, a strategy, a plan for growth — all of that. And yet I ended the year pretty certain that I never wanted to open those apps again, let alone post my photos and words to them. How? My main motivation for wanting to conquer my long-held ambivalence about posting was because I had a book coming out in April 2024. I was very anxious about this, in part because

RFK Jr. may be about to demolish preventive health panel, health groups fear

“Worrying” With the latest cancellation, experts fear the USPSTF is next. "This is very worrying, because if past is prologue, it may suggest that they are preparing to eliminate or emasculate the committee,” Peter Lurie, executive director of the Center for Science in the Public Interest, told The New York Times. Such concerns were first raised after a June 27 US Supreme Court ruling that upheld the provision in the Affordable Care Act that requires health plans to cover USPSTF A- and B-grade

Julie Wainwright is building what comes next— Join her fireside chat at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025

TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 returns to Moscone West in San Francisco from October 27–29, uniting over 10,000+ startup founders, VCs, and tech leaders for the ultimate look at what’s next. One of this year’s must-see conversations on the premier Going Public Stage features iconic entrepreneur and e-commerce trailblazer Julie Wainwright, in a candid fireside chat on reinvention, resilience, and how to spot — and build — the next big thing. What to expect on the Going Public Stage In this intimate fi

Bitcoin surpasses $118K, its second all-time high, in less than 24 hours

Bitcoin achieved a new all-time high of $118,900 on Friday after exceeding its previous record, $113,822, on Thursday. At the time of this writing, Bitcoin’s price stands at around $117,400. This is a significant milestone for Bitcoin, as it highlights its resurgence, now higher than its low of around $76,000 in early April. It dropped to nearly $49,000 last August. Some analysts think that if it reaches $150,000, it’ll set off a buying frenzy. It’s important to note that Bitcoin, just like m

Nvidia's Jensen Huang sells more than $36 million in stock, catches Warren Buffett in net worth

Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia, holds a motherboard as he speaks during the Viva Technology conference dedicated to innovation and startups at Porte de Versailles exhibition center in Paris, France, on June 11, 2025. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang unloaded roughly $36.4 million worth of stock in the leading artificial intelligence chipmaker, according to a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filing. The sale, which totals 225,000 shares, comes as part of Huang's previously adopted plan in March to u