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What Cities From Chicago to Washington, DC, Look Like Under a Blanket of Wildfire Smoke

The US is home to some of the most polluted air on the planet as smoke from 120 out-of-control Canadian wildfires drifts across the border.

Polymarket’s Corporate Structure Is a Mystery—Even to Some of Its Former Employees

Business

The prediction market’s Panamanian operation seems odd, even for a company whose CEO had his apartment raided by FBI agents.

Lyft’s CEO Says, ‘We’re the Good Uber’

Business

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.”

Interview: Dan Cherowbrier, CTO, Formula E

Computing

For the tech chief at the electric vehicle racing organisation, innovation extends from everything digital to all the technology elements that make the growing motorsport operation a success

San Francisco Demands Apple and Google Delete AI ‘Nudify’ Apps From App Stores

Security

The City Attorney’s Office sent the tech giants cease-and-desist letters this week telling them to stop profiting from 13 “face-swap” apps that are overwhelmingly used to target women and girls.

The CDC Has a Cyclospora Lab. DOGE Downsized It Last Year

Science

“Based on simple math, these outbreak responses—which require rapid, timely responses—are going to be greatly diminished,” the former CDC lab director tells WIRED.

A Humanoid Company Backed by Eric Trump Is Preparing Its Robots for War

Business

The CEO of Foundation Future Industries, which counts the president’s son as its chief strategy adviser, tells WIRED it’s exploring some “kinetic things.”

Frustration as Post Office Horizon replacement contract signing delayed again

Computing

If signed off, cloud-based EPOS system will replace controversial Horizon software from Fujitsu

Datacentre dive: Through the looking glass at Telehouse South

Computing

We visit London’s Docklands datacentre cluster, where former docks now house windowless, aluminium-clad monoliths and Telehouse South is Thames-side fortress of edge connectivity

NatWest signs up to quantum trial for fraud detection

Computing

The retail bank is one of 11 organisations testing quantum technologies as part of Digital Catapult’s quantum technology access programme

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