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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.

Scattered Spider hackers sentenced over TfL attack

Computing

Owen Flowers and Thalha Jubair, the hackers behind the 2024 TfL cyber attack, have been sentenced to five-year prison terms at Woolwich Crown Court

Astronomers Have Found a Sugar Molecule in Deep Space for the First Time Ever

Science

Researchers identified traces of erythrulose, a monosaccharide, thousands of light-years away.

A fifth of PC devices still on Windows 10

Computing

While support ended in October 2025, community-driven insights from Lansweeper has found that smaller businesses are still using Windows 10

Has Microsoft overstretched its cloud elasticity?

Computing

Microsoft promised "infinite" cloud scalability, but signs of capacity strain and regional rollbacks suggest it may be overstretched, forcing customers to rethink vendor lock-in

Denmark debates ‘emergency’ energy plan to curb datacentres

Computing

To fix grid crisis caused by mismanagement under her previous administrations, Danish prime minister opens third term in office with laws against datacentres

How to Protect Your Health as Skies Fill With Smoke From Canada’s Wildfires

Science

Roughly 100 fires are raging out of control in Ontario, sending smoke streaming 1,000 miles to the south and east.

Here’s the Truth About Whether Meta’s NameTag Face Recognition Tech ‘Exists’

Security

Since WIRED reported on Meta’s NameTag face recognition system, company executives have made confusing and conflicting remarks about its very existence.

AI Isn’t Smarter Than a Baby—Yet

Business

Babies are tremendous learning machines, and key advances for AI may soon be found in the architecture of their little brains.

Thinking Machines Lab Drops Its First Model

Business

Inkling, a 975-billion-parameter open source model, was trained to understand video and audio. It could help Thinking Machines establish itself among competitors like Anthropic and OpenAI.

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