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NASA scientist Robert Wagner spotted a fresh lunar crater by comparing images from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter's wide-angle camera taken in October 2025, tracing the impact to sometime between April 11 and May 22, 2024. The crater, since named McGetchin after scientist Tom McGetchin, measures 728 feet wide and 141 feet deep, and scientists estimate an impact of this size occurs roughly once every 132 years.
Newly unredacted court documents from The New York Times' copyright lawsuit reveal Microsoft's Dr. Brent Hecht warned that OpenAI's training practices resembled the 'largest theft of labor in human history,' while OpenAI's Nick Turley called it an 'existential threat to publishers.' The filings also detail how OpenAI's training pipeline bypassed paywalls and stripped copyright notices from scraped articles used to build its datasets.
LastPass and Delphos Labs identified a malware campaign that uses SEO-optimized GitHub repositories impersonating LastPass and at least 39 other companies to distribute a previously unseen infostealer called Rapuncel. Victims searching for tools like LastPass Authenticator are led to fake repos where oversized ZIP files hide a renamed Microsoft debugger that sideloads the malicious payload and a Microsoft-signed kernel driver capable of killing 145 different antivirus and EDR products.
A group of U.S. senators has asked the Federal Trade Commission to investigate whether shopping bots and AI systems used by Walmart and Amazon are misrepresenting products as 'Made in America.' The request comes alongside other regulatory shifts, including a U.S. regulator giving tokenized stocks initial approval and credit card firms building AI agents to handle consumer purchases on shoppers' behalf.
Some Android Auto beta users report that the cellular signal strength indicator, which vanished from the dashboard earlier this year, is reappearing after updating to version 17.8.1638. Users say the icon now shows up again beside the battery status indicator, though clearing the app cache may be required for it to reappear.
The FCC has waived its 25 percent cap on foreign equity ownership to approve a deal allowing sovereign wealth funds from Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Abu Dhabi to collectively hold up to 49.5 percent of the combined Paramount-Warner Bros. entity. The agency argued the stakes carry no voting rights and therefore no control, but critics including Free Press and Commissioner Anna Gomez dispute that reasoning.
Several major fast-food chains and restaurants are offering discounts, freebies, and promotions to mark National Cheeseburger Day, including McDonald's, Burger King, and Five Guys. The deals span a range of formats, from free add-ons to discounted combo meals, giving customers multiple ways to save on the popular sandwich.
Early reviews of Control Resonant, a spin-off from Remedy Entertainment's Control franchise, are highlighting its striking game world and departure from the original title's formula. Critics have responded positively to the studio's willingness to experiment rather than simply repeat past success.
Italian launch provider Avio says it is fielding a wave of new customer inquiries after SpaceX told several prospective clients it would not accept new commercial Falcon 9 orders. Avio CEO Giulio Ranzo said some of these spurned customers lobbied European institutions at the International Space Summit in Paris for subsidies to offset the higher cost of flying on Europe's Vega C, which reportedly runs about $60 million per launch.
At Salesforce's Dreamforce conference, executives from Anthropic, OpenAI and Nvidia debated AI safety and the pace of model development on stage, while many attendees said they were still struggling to fully adopt the AI tools already available. Nvidia's Jensen Huang urged labs to keep advancing quickly, even as an Anthropic researcher's resignation and warnings about safety from Amodei and Sam Altman fueled calls for a slower pace. Salesforce's Marc Benioff continued positioning his company as a beneficiary of AI rather than a casualty of it.
According to a JPMorgan note cited by Semi Doped, ASML has no plans to adopt free-electron laser (FEL) technology for extreme ultraviolet lithography, despite backing from Elon Musk for that approach. Instead, ASML is continuing to refine its existing laser-produced plasma (LPP) method, aiming to boost source power from around 500W to 1,000W and nearly double the rate of tin droplet generation to 100,000 per second.
WIRED is hosting a subscriber-only livestream on September 24 examining the state of women in Silicon Valley amid a broader backlash against DEI initiatives. The panel, featuring Sandra Upson, Lauren Goode, and Ej Dickson, will address reader-submitted questions about gender dynamics in tech workplaces. WIRED is soliciting questions via its comment section ahead of the event.