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We braved the cold to answer the modern dilemma: Can you keep your hands warm and use a smartphone at the same time?

To upstage Amazon’s (second) shopping holiday, the competitor has released tons of deals on big-screen TVs, wireless earbuds, and more.

The Prime Early Access Sale runs on October 11 and 12, but the discounts have already started—including on the Apple Watch Series 8.

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Trendsi, which helps sellers and manufacturers predict demand, raised a $25M Series A led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, bringing its total funding to $30M  —  In the traditional business-to-business world, sellers often don’t know how much of a product they should order.

Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: Fortinet confirms a critical remote authentication bypass vulnerability in FortiOS, FortiProxy, and FortiSwitchManager is being exploited; a patch is available  —  Fortinet has confirmed today that a critical authentication bypass security vulnerability patched last week is being exploited in the wild.

Hitting big targets starts with getting the details right.

Amy Gallo offers advice on how to turn things around with a difficult colleague.

This form of ownership may be new in the U.S., but it’s relatively common in Europe.

A great gamepad instantly levels up your play. These are our top picks for Switch, Xbox, PlayStation, and PC.

These pollinators can help urban gardens grow. That will be critical for cooling cities as the planet warms.

Between litter boxes, beds, scratchers, and trees, felines need a lot of stuff. Here’s what the cats of WIRED have tested and loved.

Birgit Mitwollen / Reuters: German media reports the government plans to dismiss cybersecurity chief Arne Schoenbohm over possible contacts with Russian security services  —  German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser wants to dismiss the country’s cybersecurity chief due to possible contacts with people involved …

April Rubin / New York Times: An interview with YouTuber Christopher Slayton, aka ChrisDaCow, on building the entire observable universe in Minecraft over nearly two months  —  Christopher Slayton, 18, spent two months intricately designing the planets.  He even went skydiving to get a better appreciation for Earth.

Paul Sawers / TechCrunch: Samsung announces the first third-party TV makers to ship with its Linux-based Tizen OS in Europe and Australasia in 2022  —  Samsung has confirmed the first third-party smart TV makers to ship with its Tizen operating system (OS), with several manufacturers preparing to launch Tizen-powered TVs this year across Europe and […]

Ben S. Bernanke PhD ’79, an economist who applied his scholarly experience to his work as chair of the U.S. Federal Reserve during the economic and financial-sector crisis of 2008-2009, has been awarded a share of the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2022, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences […]

NL Times: A Dutch court calls webcam tracking of a remote worker an unreasonable intrusion, awarding him €75K after his US employer fired him for not turning on a webcam  —  A remote employee of a U.S. business who was fired for refusing to leave his webcam on while he was working …

Whether you’re in elementary school or college, these apps and services offer study guides, mindfulness exercises, and more.

Only a few titles for Sony’s new PlayStation console really take advantage of the powerful hardware. Here are our favorites.

These WIRED-tested, battery-powered headphones will serve you well whether you’re chatting with teammates in Fortnite or coworkers in Zoom.

Ernesto Van der Sar / TorrentFreak: An analysis of Pornhub’s transparency reports shows the site removed 8,547 pieces of content in 2021, down 98% YoY, after adding an uploader verification tool  —  Pornhub is without a doubt one of the most visited adult entertainment outlets on the Internet.

Joanna Stern / Wall Street Journal: Some iPhone 14 users say the crash detection feature has triggered false alarms and called 911 during rollercoaster rides or after a phone drop while driving  —  Apple’s crash detection for the iPhone 14 and new Apple Watch models can alert 911 and emergency contacts in the event of […]

Financial Times: Experts paint a dire picture for China’s semiconductor industry and AI development after the US announced new export controls on chips and chipmaking tech  —  Experts predict ‘tsunami of change’ for semiconductor industry as Washington wields tools tested on Huawei

From V6 and Class 10 to UHS-II, we breakdown the terms to know when shopping for a memory card.

WIRED spoke with Skype cofounder Niklas Zennström about why the burgeoning European startup scene is poised to lead the technological revolution.

Plural’s Taavet Hinrikus says early-stage VC funds need to set a founder to catch a founder.

Kaitlyn Tiffany / The Atlantic: GIF, once called “the file format of the internet generation”, is declining in use as young users say GIFs are “cringe” and MP4 videos make the format outdated  —  The internet’s file format has been diagnosed as “cringe,” but there are other threats to its existence.

Antonia Timmerman / Rest of World: Indonesia’s patchwork data security approach has resulted in several large-scale data leaks; experts say the personal data protection bill is a temporary fix  —  Breaches are so common that citizens joke about being an “open-source country.”  —  • JAKARTA, INDONESIA

Andy Chalk / PC Gamer: Blizzard will require Overwatch 2 and Modern Warfare 2 players to use SMS Protect, a 2FA system, to combat toxicity, but won’t accept prepaid and VOIP numbers  —  Just like Overwatch 2, you’ll need to attach a phone number to your Battle.net account to play Modern Warfare 2—and prepaid phones […]

The Magnus Carlsen–Hans Niemann cheating scandal points to abuses and suspicion at the highest levels.

From Hyrule to Hallownest, these are our absolute favorite video game escapes for the OLED Switch, Switch, and Switch Lite.

Shopping for a new phone can be an ordeal. Let us take some of the pain out of it with these WIRED-tested picks and tips.

Kyle Alspach / Protocol: Q&A with CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz as the company surpasses $2B in annual revenue and looks to become a bigger player in data observability and IT operations  —  CrowdStrike is finding massive traction in areas outside its core endpoint security products, setting up the company to become …

Natalie Wong / Bloomberg: A look at business email compromise scams in the US involving real estate, and the Secret Service team that helped recover $244M in stolen BEC funds since 2019  —  For weeks, the Secret Service agent had been trying to identify the scammers moving millions of stolen dollars through banks around the […]

Bollinger is data mining its meticulous records to predict vintage years and weather the challenges of climate change.

Amsterdam continues to punch well above its weight, combining tech powerhouse status with being one of the most livable cities on the continent.

Home to Silicon Wadi and a long-running streak of mega-money exits, the Tel Aviv tech scene leads with innovative applications of robotics, AI and medtech.

Steve Haske / Ars Technica: A history of consumer VR since 2012, from the first Oculus developer kit and the 2016 hype cycle to Quest 2, and what mainstream success for VR could look like  —  VR hasn’t taken over the world, but that doesn’t mean it has failed.  —  Six years ago, consumer virtual […]

Wataru Suzuki / Nikkei Asia: SoftBank’s Vision Fund 2 made just one investment in August 2022 and one in September 2022, according to CB Insights, as Masayoshi Son rethinks his strategy  —  The Vision Fund revolutionized startup investing.  So why is Masayoshi Son rethinking his strategy?

Financial Times: An overview of Parag Agrawal’s tenure as Twitter’s CEO so far, as he battles declining business performance and plunging morale amid Elon Musk’s takeover bid  —  The tech prodigy’s battles with a mercurial opponent are coming to a head  —  It’s hard to know which part of Parag Agrawal’s job …

Wall Street Journal: How HBO Max, Prime Video, and other streamers are trying to grow in a crowded market, including, sources say, via discounted bundles and deals with rivals  —  In a crowded marketplace, Amazon, HBO Max and other streamers explore discounted packages and partnerships with rivals

Hoping for an Apple iPad Mini or Dyson for the holidays? Both Target and Amazon are hosting a second yearly sales event.

A new executive order tries to reassure Europeans that their data is safe on US soil, despite government surveillance.

Former Uber security chief Joe Sullivan’s conviction is a rare criminal consequence for an executive’s handling of a hack.

Tim Keary / VentureBeat: NYC-based Elpha Secure, which offers SMBs cybersecurity software alongside cyber insurance policies, raised a $20M Series A led by Canapi Ventures  —  Data breaches aren’t cheap.  If an organization fails to protect its critical data assets, then it can cost millions to repair the damage done.

Kate Rooney / CNBC: FTX partners with Visa to offer debit cards linked to a user’s FTX account in 40 countries, focusing on Latin America, Europe, and Asia, after their US rollout  —  – Visa is teaming up with global crypto exchange FTX to offer debit cards in 40 countries with a focus on Latin […]

A collaboration between Neon Dance and Bristol Robotics Laboratory is due to open at The Place in London on 14 October

Meta’s AudioGen text-to-audio artificial intelligence model could create sound for video games, film soundtracks or music production

Eighteen questions to help managers spark a healthy dialogue with their teams.

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology Investment Management Company (MITIMCo) announced today that MIT’s unitized pool of endowment and other MIT funds generated an investment loss of 5.3 percent during the fiscal year ending June 30, 2022, as measured using valuations received within one month of fiscal year end. At the end of the fiscal year, […]

A survey of workers at Fortune 500 companies reveals that men and women have different perceptions of how men are — and aren’t — showing up.