ICE Is Using Data Broker Tools to ‘Identify Unaccompanied Minors’ and ‘Fraud’ A newly renewed, $25 million-per-year contract with a subsidiary of Thompson Reuters further expands the power of ICE under the Trump a…

New NadMesh Botnet Hunts Exposed AI Services for Cloud Keys and Kubernetes Tokens A Go botnet called NadMesh turned up in early July hunting exposed AI services, and the operator’s own dashboard claims 3,811 unique…

‘The Odyssey’ Backlash Failed Tremendously For all the hysteria over “woke” casting and ahistorical choices, Christopher Nolan’s epic is on track to make $200 million globally during its opening weekend.

GoldenEyeDog Subgroup Linked to DigiCert Breach and Code-Signing Certificate Theft Cybersecurity researchers have attributed the April 2026 DigiCert security incident to a threat activity cluster dubbed…

Lyft’s CEO Says, ‘We’re the Good Uber’ David Risher insists that Lyft has lowered its prices and that customers who only check his competitor’s app are “leaving money on the table.”

The Best New Camping Gear at REI (2026): Tents, Coolers, Bikes, More I tested REI’s best new and revamped outdoor gear of 2026. Here’s what’s worth buying, from tents and sleeping bags to coolers and bikes.

Fake Coding Tests Deliver OtterCookie-Aligned Malware Hidden in SVG Flag Images North Korean threat actors linked to the Contagious Interview campaign have been observed employing steganography in SVG image files…

Conspiracy Theorists Think Trump’s Speech Paves the Path to the Insurrection Act Election deniers have spent years promoting the idea that the 2020 election was stolen. They believe Donald Trump’s speech fin…

Essential Gear for an Emergency Kit—for Cars or Go-Bags We consulted preparedness experts and WIRED’s team of testers for the essential gear to keep on hand in case of wildfires, earthquakes, and lord knows what else.

5 Best Smart Speakers (2026): Alexa, Google, Apple Looking to add a smart speaker to your house? Here’s which to choose, whether you’re an Alexa, Siri, or Gemini fan.

E.U. Orders Google to Open Android Mic, Camera and Screen to Rival AI Assistants The European Commission on Thursday ordered Google to give rival AI assistants the same reach into Android that Gemini already has:…

The Race to Field Military Autonomy Is On, Can Trusted Information Infrastructure Keep Pace? Military forces are under increasing pressure to field autonomous capabilities faster than ever before. Across the U.S.,…

Valve Steam Machine Review: A Compromised Console Great for indie darlings, but Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo remain kings of TV gaming.

Armenia Detains Russian Tourist on U.S. Warrant for REvil Hacker, Lawyers Say Wrong Man Armenia has held a Russian tourist named Aleksandr Ermakov in a detention center since June 28, on a U.S. extradition request…

23 Best Gifts for Cooks (2026): Vitamix, Frying Pans, Air Fryers From the best air fryer to frying pans to knife sharpeners anyone can use, these ideas will keep the curious home chef in your life tinkering away.

Panasonic Japanese Microwave Review (2026): True 1-Button Cooking The Japanese Microwave measures food temperature directly, and stops cooking when food’s hot. It’s kinda terrific.

ACR Stealer Uses ClickFix Lures to Steal Browser Tokens and Microsoft 365 Files ACR Stealer, an infostealer in circulation since 2024, is walking out of enterprise networks with saved browser passwords, live…

New GoSerpent Malware Targets Southeast Asian Governments and Diplomats for Espionage Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a previously undocumented malware called GoSerpent that has been put to use in cyber…

CISA Adds Exploited SharePoint RCE Zero-Day CVE-2026-58644 to KEV The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Thursday added a newly patched security flaw impacting Microsoft SharePoint…

Two Scattered Spider Hackers Get 5.5 Years Each for £29 Million TfL Hack Owen Flowers, 18, and Thalha Jubair, 20, were each sentenced to five and a half years at Woolwich Crown Court on Thursday, 16 July 2026, for…

ThreatsDay: Game Cheat Spyware, 24-Hour Ransomware, Chrome Sync Stalking + 12 More Stories A lot of this week’s trouble starts with something that looks close enough.

A familiar repo. A useful installer. A h…

Swatch’s New Gold MoonSwatch Solves the Problem of the Nightmare Royal Pop Launch Swatch’s latest MoonSwatch is the Mission to the Moon 1969, a limited-edition model with components crafted from Omega’s 18K Moons…

n8n Token Exchange Flaw Could Let Attackers Log In as Users From Another Issuer n8n, the workflow automation platform, handed out the wrong accounts at login. On Enterprise instances configured to trust more than…

New TELEPUZ Malware Spreads via ClickFix to Steal Data and Run Commands Cybersecurity researchers have called attention to a new modular malware called TELEPUZ that’s been spreading via websites infected with…

New ClickLock macOS Stealer Kills Apps Every 210ms Until Victims Type Their Password ClickLock Stealer, a new macOS infostealer, answers a victim’s refusal by killing their apps on a loop until they hand over the…

XPeng’s New ‘Budget’ EV Looks Like the Ferrari Luce The electric L03 is looking to punch above its weight in style and tech as it launches in 60 countries worldwide.

11 Best Sleeping Bags (2026): Ultralight, Warm Weather, for Kids Whether you’re climbing peaks or taking the family to the local park, we’ve found the best sleeping bags for every temperature, budget, and camping expedition.

20+ Hijacked Government Websites Became
an Attack Channel More than 20 Brazilian government websites were hijacked and turned into malware delivery channels in an active PhantomEnigma campaign uncovered by A…

The Best Backpacking Water Filters of 2026 We’ve tested filters from Sawyer, Katadyn, LifeStraw, MSR and more to find the best option for every adventure.

New Agent Data Injection Attack Can Make AI Agents Misclick or Run Attacker Commands Ask an AI agent to summarize the reviews on a product page, and a single planted review can make it click “Buy Now” instead. Ask…

Daxin Resurfaces in Taiwan Alongside Stupig Pre-Login SYSTEM Backdoor An advanced malware previously attributed to a China-linked threat actor has resurfaced after more than four years within a Taiwan manufacturing…

Gay Men Flocked to Goose for Friendship. Some Still Feel Excluded Despite positioning itself as an anti-hookup app, users tell WIRED that Goose has fake profiles, harsh acceptance standards, and problems with inclusivity.

Hisense XR10 Smart Projector Review: RGB-Powered Wonder Projectors are adopting RGB backlighting, the hottest tech from the world of TVs. This large but vivid projector is a great option for summer movie nights.

AI Can Find Bugs, But Human Knowledge Still Proves Them Artificial intelligence (AI) is changing offensive security, but it has not changed the standard that matters most: a finding has to be proven before it…

Best Air Purifiers (2026): Coway, AirDoctor, IQAir, and More Protect your home against dust, pets, allergens, and more with the best air purifiers, tested firsthand.

Please Stop Making Me Opt Out of AI I’m sick of “opt-out” toggles for automatically enabled generative AI features. It’s past time to make “opt in” the default setting for sensitive features.

Astronomers Have Found a Sugar Molecule in Deep Space for the First Time Ever Researchers identified traces of erythrulose, a monosaccharide, thousands of light-years away.

Unpatched Shark Vacuum Flaw Could Let Attackers Control Other Vacuums Region-Wide Pull the certificate off the flash of a Shark RV2320EDUS robot vacuum, and you can run root commands on other people’s Shark vacuums…

OnePlus, the ‘Flagship-Killer’ Smartphone Brand, Is All but Dead The original OnePlus phone disrupted the mobile market 13 years ago with its affordable price and top-end specs. Now, the company is exiting Nor…

OpenAI’s GPT-Red Automates Prompt Injection Testing to Harden GPT-5.6 Sol OpenAI has disclosed details of GPT-Red, an internal automated red-teaming model that scales prompt injection vulnerability discovery with a…

Lionel Messi’s Final World Cup—and the Death of Early Retirement Argentina’s Lionel Messi was supposed to be done years ago. Now, sports science is helping soccer’s biggest stars rewrite the rules of aging.

OkoBot Malware Framework Injects Seed Phrase Phishing Into Ledger and Trezor Apps A malware framework called OkoBot has been running on Windows machines since April 2025, and one of its modules is built to con…

Firefox, Chrome, Adobe, and VMware Updates Fix Multiple Critical Security Flaws Mozilla has released updates to address two critical flaws in Firefox for which it warned that exploit code has been published.

The…

An Inventor of Apple’s FaceID Wants to Analyze Your Brain’s Health With AI Gidi Littwin’s new AI startup, Hemispheric, makes diagnostic brain scans for conditions like depression, PTSD, and Parkinson’s. He wants t…

SASE Has An AI Blind Spot. Inspecting Packets Is No Longer Enough. For years, routing traffic through cloud proxies was good enough. Then work moved to the browser, AI entered the workflow, and the inspection model…

Researcher Drops New Windows Zero-Day PoC Hours After Microsoft Patch Tuesday Security researcher Chaotic Eclipse (aka Nightmare-Eclipse) has released a new proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit called LegacyHive.

It has…

New Webinar: Closing the Approval Gap in AI-Era Ad Tech A single approved marketing tag can quietly load fourth-party code your security team has never seen, granting full access to your forms, customer data, and…

The Best iPad to Buy (and Some to Avoid) in 2026: Air, Pro, Mini Apple just raised its prices. Here’s an updated breakdown of the brand’s tablets to find the best one for your needs.

MSI Claw 8 EX AI+ Review: Great Power, Shocking Price But with great power comes a great price.

Cursor Flaw Lets Malicious Cloned Repositories Trigger Windows Code Execution Open a repository in Cursor on Windows and, if a file named git.exe is sitting in the project root, Cursor runs it. No click, no ap…