This week, WIRED broke the news of a Russian military intelligence hacking campaign that dates all the way back to December 2018. The targets included government organizations and energy utilities, as Russia’s Fancy Bear hackers used a variety of techniques to break into targeted email accounts. While the intrusions don’t appear to be election-related, they’re…
Staples is running an incredible sale on Apple’s AirPods Pro earbuds, bringing the retail price down to $200, or $50 off its usual $250 price tag. This the best deal we have seen yet for Apple’s flagship true wireless earbuds. Unlike its sibling, the AirPods, which has a hard plastic “one size fits most” design,…
A day after prototypes and source code for SNES games were spilled online, leakers have reportedly moved onto N64 titles. Perhaps the highlight is a supposed early build of Super Mario 64 – titled, “Ultra 64 Mario Brothers”. It has files referencing Luigi and there’s been no time wasted getting them up and running in-game.…
A Doritos bag may have leaked the logo and name for the next Call of Duty, revealing that this new entry will be called Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War.As reported by ModernWarzone.com, TheGamingRevolution received a DM that showcases the new Double XP promotion for what could be 2020’s Call of Duty game that…
This story originally appeared on Undark and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.Every evening after archaeologist Shanti Pappu and her colleagues head home for the night, two watchmen patrol the team’s excavation site—a plot of dry scrubland near Sendrayanpalayam village, a two-hour drive from Chennai in southern India.Without such vigilance, the site could easily…
Making backups is boring, but the alternative—losing your data—is a kind of exciting no one wants. I once lost 80 pages of a novel to a bad hard drive. I had no backups. While most of the world is thankful to have been spared those 80 pages, who knows, if that hard drive had lived…
Everybody likes to say your home is your castle, but who wants to be stuck in a castle for months? Computers and tablets can sometimes feel like our last connection to the outside world. Here are the best deals this weekend on some gear that could help bring your castle into the 21st century and…
There’s nothing like a global pandemic to make you reckon with the way you spend your time. You can only tolerate so much Netflix streaming and doomscrolling before you’re forced to look into other ways to distract yourself.Here at WIRED, our interests are varied, and thanks to the current state of the universe, our hobbies…
Think about what staying at a home-sharing property really entails for long enough and the whole proposition looks a bit spooky. Pay a stranger from the internet to stay in their home? Eek! Since Airbnb launched 12 years ago, the practice has been completely normalized, despite unnerving tales of illegal units, camera-hiding hosts, and surprisingly…
The German science fiction series Dark recently concluded its third and final season. Journalist Ruairi Carroll is a big fan of the show, though he was often flummoxed by its complex time travel plot. “I would love to be in the writers room,” Carroll says in Episode 424 of the Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy…
