Meir Orbach / CTech: Cybersecurity startup Snyk lays off 198 employees, or 14% of its staff, after laying off 30 people in July 2022; Snyk was valued at $8.5B in September 2021  —  The Israeli-founded company raised $530 million at an $8.5 billion valuation last year  —  Israeli cybersecurity unicorn Snyk …

Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica: macOS Ventura review: Stage Manager has some good ideas and runs much better on the Mac than on the iPad, the new System Settings app is inconsistent, and more  —  A pleasantly surprising new multitasking UI and app redesigns define macOS 13.  —  If you asked me to tell you […]

An increasing number of large shipping companies are trying out technologies that blow bubbles underneath a ship’s hull, in an attempt to save fuel and reduce emissions

It may have a history of over-optimistic predictions, but research into generating power using a fusion reactor is finally making notable advances

The School of Engineering has announced that MIT has granted tenure to 14 members of its faculty in the departments of Biological Engineering, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (which reports jointly to the School of Engineering and MIT Schwarzman College of Computing), Materials Science and Engineering, and Mechanical Engineering. “I am […]

A good math problem is like a walled, secret garden, according to Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) head and MIT Professor Asu Ozdaglar, who was addressing an audience of middle and high school female-identifying mathematics contestants at the 14th annual Math Prize for Girls (MP4G) event. “Many people walking around the outside […]

From its new headquarters in Cambridge’s Kendall Square, The Engine is investing in a number of “tough tech” startups seeking to transform the world’s energy systems. A few blocks away, the startup Inari is using gene editing to improve seeds’ resilience to climate change. On the MIT campus nearby, researchers are working on groundbreaking innovations […]

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Bias affects whose ideas are heard — and whose are given short shrift.

Sitting at a desk for hours? Upgrade your WFH setup and work in style with these WIRED-tested comfy seats.

For months, an anonymous caller has terrorized communities around the US by reporting false shooting threats. We know how they did it. The question is, why?

At the end of its 39th season, it’s become clear the Time Lord’s world, despite always regenerating, has become static and small.

Henry Ren / Bloomberg: As President Xi Jinping consolidates his grip on China’s ruling party, Alibaba, JD.com, Naspers, and other tech stocks drop by 10%+  —  US-listed Chinese stocks tumbled in premarket trading, with investors spooked by President Xi Jinping’s tightening grip on China’s ruling party …

Josh Horwitz / Reuters: Chinese government data shows chip imports fell 12.4% YoY to 47.6B units in September; in January to September, domestic chip production fell 10.8% YoY to 245B  —  China’s chip imports fell 12.4 percent in September, according to official customs data published on Monday …

Thomas Ricker / The Verge: Ikea Dirigera review: the Matter-ready smart home hub is easy to use and works well, but is expensive, lacks a migration tool from Trådfri, and is simplistic  —  Easier to use and stable.  But let’s check in again after a few months. … Ikea’s new Matter-ready Dirigera smart home hub […]

A comprehensive mathematical framework treats these crinkles as elegant solutions to geometric problems.

Gaming PC? That’s so 2020. Save some cash on a good, travel-friendly rig with these WIRED-tested picks.

It’s the indispensable multi-tool of the kitchen. We sliced and diced our way through meats and veggies to find today’s best blades.

Michael Mignano / Lightspeed Venture Partners: Whereas Creator Economy companies have mostly built infrastructure for the top 1% of creators, new AI tools will fuel businesses that democratize creativity  —  Creativity has become the focal point of our modern Internet economy.  What was once just a means of artistic expression now powers …

Dave Lee / Financial Times: An interview with eBay CEO Jamie Iannone on eBay’s strategy to focus on the second-hand luxury market, as its market value has fallen from $53B in 2021 to $21B  —  “One of a kind!” said Jamie Iannone, the chief executive of eBay, pointing down to the pair of pristine, custom-made […]

Associated Press: Iran’s atomic energy agency says its email system was breached; a hacking group says it leaked 50GB of emails, construction plans related to Bushehr power plant  —  Iran’s atomic energy agency alleged on Sunday that hackers acting on behalf of an unidentified foreign country broke …

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A former congressman who helped the House select committee investigate the Capitol attack says the US is losing sight of the big picture.

Newley Purnell / Wall Street Journal: A profile of e-commerce company Meesho, which accounts for ~7% of India’s online sales; Apptopia: Meesho was the world’s most downloaded shopping app in H1 2022  —  Startup makes gains in world’s biggest developing digital market, with users drawn to its prices on clothing, household goods

Bono / The Guardian: In his memoir, Bono details making a deal with Steve Jobs for the U2 iPod in October 2004 and convincing Tim Cook to give away an iTunes album in September 2014  —  In an exclusive extract from his memoir, the singer looks back  —  nything strange or startling?  ” That’s how […]

The Wire: The Wire retracts its recent stories on Meta and says it is using “independent external experts” to conduct an investigation into its Meta coverage  —  Earlier this week, The Wire announced its decision to conduct an internal review of its recent coverage of Meta …

Directors Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead wanted to make a movie that didn’t romanticize the past.

Make life hard for bike thieves and shackle your precious with these U-locks and bike chains, plus tips on how best to secure it.

Plus: A Microsoft cloud leak exposed potential customers, new IoT security labels come to the US, and details emerge about Trump’s document stash.

Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: McAfee researchers found 16 clicker apps with adware in Google Play with 20M+ downloads in total; Google removed the apps after McAfee reported them  —  Security researchers at McAfee have discovered a set of 16 malicious clicker apps that managed to sneak into Google Play, the official app store for Android.

Rachel Metz / CNN: Several artists whose work was included in the dataset used to train Stable Diffusion say they are angry that they weren’t informed, asked for consent, or paid  —  Erin Hanson has spent years developing the vibrant color palette and chunky brushstrokes that define the vivid oil paintings for which she is […]

Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: Apple will expand ads to the App Store’s main Today tab and “You Might Also Like” section of individual app listings, starting October 25 globally except China  —  In an email to developers this week, Apple announced that app-related ads will begin appearing in the App Store’s main Today tab …

The climate crisis may explain fights as disappearing ice fuels interspecies competition—with goats nearly always winning.

With your work in one place and your friends in another, here are some ways to familiarize the office app a bit.

Think Dungeons & Dragons, if it was designed by mental health pros. TTRPGs have carved out a safe space for gamers to grow and work through various issues.

Adnan Bhat / Rest of World: Experts: India’s TikTok clones like Moj and Josh have failed to replicate TikTok’s success, and Instagram and YouTube will take over India’s short-video segment  —  Creators are instead gravitating toward Instagram and YouTube, which may eventually be the winners in the Indian short-video segment.

Charlotte Jee / MIT Technology Review: A look at the companies using AI to build tech that lets users talk to digital versions of deceased loved ones by video chat, text, phone, or voice assistants  —  Digital clones of the people we love could forever change how we grieve.  —  My parents don’t know that […]

FinSMEs: Swift Navigation, which makes high-accuracy GNSS hardware for advanced driver-assistance systems, raised a $100M Series D, bringing its total funding to $200M+  —  Swift Navigation, a San Francisco, CA-based tech company redefining GNSS, ADAS and autonomy, industrial machine control …

“Divergent” author Veronica Roth’s new novel is about a young women coming to terms with the authoritarian regime that manipulated her.

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A kerfuffle over Bayonetta voice actor Hellena Taylor’s pay reveals the often hollow structure of social media activism.

Wall Street Journal: The US government often waives its own stock trading rules, letting federal officials invest in Amazon, Apple, Meta, and others affected by their agencies’ work  —  The U.S. has rules limiting federal officials’ stock-market investing.  They can be waived.  —  1x

Bloomberg: Snap, which this week reported its slowest quarterly revenue growth ever, plans to close its San Francisco office, which “was lightly used” due to flexible work  —  Snap Inc., which is cutting costs and relying more on remote work, is closing its office in San Francisco …

Wall Street Journal: Sources: Google is in talks to invest $200M+ into Toronto-based Cohere, which has raised $170M+ to let companies add NLP to chatbots and other tools  —  Cohere, which creates natural language processing software, also had talks with Nvidia about potential strategic investment  —  Which Photo Is Real?

Skylar Dannhoff knew one thing: She did not want to be working alone. As an undergraduate at Case Western Reserve University, she had committed to a senior project that often felt like solitary lab work, a feeling heightened by the pandemic. Though it was an enriching experience, she was determined to find a graduate school […]

Members of the MIT engineering faculty receive many awards in recognition of their scholarship, service, and overall excellence. The School of Engineering periodically recognizes their achievements by highlighting the honors, prizes, and medals won by faculty working in our academic departments, labs, and centers. The following faculty received awards in the 3rd quarter of 2022: […]

A milestone in the evolution of education in the supply chain field was reached at the end of September, with the one-millionth enrollment in the MITx MicroMasters Program in Supply Chain Management (SCM). The landmark number reflects both the success of the program and the changes transforming professional education as more learners turn to online […]

The ways in which companies can create and capture value have changed profoundly. Most aren’t keeping up.

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