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Uh oh, it sounds like the iPhone Duo keeps cracking and users aren’t happy about it

LUCAS ROPEK

A small number of early adopters of the much hyped new foldable phone from Apple have complained of screens cracking.

Apple AirTags (2nd Gen) Are on Sale for 20% Off Right Now

LOURYN STRAMPE

Track down your suitcase, car keys, and other essentials with this $23 Bluetooth tracker.

Anker’s Halloween Sale Takes 20% Off Our Favorite Chargers and Power Banks

KAT MERCK

Anker is serving up 20 percent off all charging gear for Halloween, plus … Labubus?

Best Dyson Vacuum Deals for Dyson Week 2026

NENA FARRELL

The powerful Dyson V16 Piston Animal and other Dyson vacuums and tools are discounted until Halloween.

Watch out, YouTube; Instagram goes from short-form to 90-minute videos

AMANDA SILBERLING

As Instagram rolls out long form videos of up to 90 minutes, the platform has an opportunity to challenge YouTube if it plays its cards right.

Why Anthropic’s IPO Prospectus Is Missing So Many Key Figures

KATE TAYLOR, LAUREN GOODE, CAROLINE HASKINS

Anthropic’s S-1 filing is hundreds of pages long—and it leaves out quite a few financial details. “Anthropic owes investors more information,” one analyst tells WIRED.

Meet the real-life Scottish surgeon who inspired Sherlock Holmes

JENNIFER OUELLETTE

Lindsey Fitzharris chats with Ars about her new book, Sleuth-Hound: The Case of the Real Sherlock Holmes.

Apple releases iOS and macOS 27.2 with new Siri AI features, new Music logo

SAMUEL AXON

Included is the ability to limit which applications Siri can directly access.

Apple reveals updated iPad mini with a bigger OLED screen for $700

RYAN WHITWAM

Apple claims this is the most significant update ever for the iPad mini line.

Worms mate in man's eyes, get plucked out right before larvae burst out

BETH MOLE

Case study gives a whole new meaning to "bedroom eyes."

Databricks co-founder shares his secrets for winning big enterprises customers

JULIE BORT

Turns out selling to big companies isn’t about having the shiniest tech: it’s about hitching a ride on a giant’s sales team.

Grok Says Its AI-Generated Version of ‘The Odyssey’ Is ‘Not Historically Accurate’

MILES KLEE

Months after Elon Musk declared that the xAI model would outclass Christopher Nolan’s mythological epic, the bot itself admitted defeat.

Microsoft offers to buy out a quarter of its workforce

NICK INDGE

Employees in the US, Canada, India, and the UK may receive offers to leave MS today.

Cohere says Alibaba’s Qwen model tried to send a file to Beijing

ADITYA MEHTA

An AI model said it wouldn’t use any tools, then tried to send something to a server in Beijing anyway, and while researchers say it’s probably a training quirk and not espionage, the whole thing has people asking how much to trust free Chinese AI.

How OpenAI turned its coding tools into dots, an always-on personal assistant

TIM FERNHOLZ

Alexander Embiricos, the OpenAI executive responsible for dots, never wants to have a meeting with someone else's AI agent.