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6 Best Travel Mugs of 2025, Tested and Reviewed by WIRED Staffers
Day: February 21, 2025
DOGE Sparks Surveillance Fear Across the US Government
The US government has increased the use of monitoring tools over the past decade. But President Donald Trump’s employee purges are making workers worry about how their data could be abused.
I cannot describe how strange Elon Musk’s CPAC appearance was
Elon Musk spoke at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) on Thursday, giving a strange and often inarticulate on-stage interview to Newsmax presenter Rob Schmitt. Schmitt was all smiles and enthusiasm, and managed to steer Musk through the half hour, never pausing to look back […]
Fortnite’s new season has heists, pickles, and Cowboy Bebop
Fortnite continues to be extremely weird in its new season. The battle royale game is returning to a heist theme for Chapter 6: Season 2, which has been dubbed “Lawless.” Players will be able to break into bank vaults, rob armored cars, and even perform […]
Together AI’s $305M bet: Reasoning models like DeepSeek-R1 are increasing, not decreasing, GPU demand
The demands of DeepSeek’s advanced reasoning capabilities are pushing enterprises toward Together AI’s optimized infrastructure platform.
How test-time scaling unlocks hidden reasoning abilities in small language models (and allows them to outperform LLMs)
A 1B small language model can beat a 405B large language model in reasoning tasks if provided with the right test-time scaling strategy.
OpenAI rolls out its AI agent, Operator, in several countries
OpenAI said on Friday that it is rolling out Operator, its so-called AI agent that can perform tasks on behalf of users, for ChatGPT Pro subscribers in Australia, Brazil, Canada, India, Japan, Singapore, South Korea, the U.K., and more countries. OpenAI said Operator will be […]
Netflix hops aboard Sifu movie adaptation, assigns a screenwriter
We learned in December 2022 that a production company had signed on to turn Sloclap’s excellent martial arts game Sifu into a film. Today, the news dropped that Netflix is involved with the project, which seems to have caused some personnel shuffling behind the scenes. […]
Trump’s FTC is looking into censorship on tech platforms
The Federal Trade Commission announced on Thursday that it will launch a public inquiry into “censorship by tech platforms,” soliciting comments from people who feel they have been demonetized, banned, or otherwise censored due to their speech or affiliations. “Tech firms should not be bullying […]
Netflix hops aboard Sifu movie adaptation, assigns a screenwriter
We learned in December 2022 that a production company had signed on to turn Sloclap’s excellent martial arts game Sifu into a film. Today, the news dropped that Netflix is involved with the project, which seems to have caused some personnel shuffling behind the scenes. […]