Timef 06/01/2025

In “The Optimist: Sam Altman, OpenAI, and the Race to Invent the Future,” Wall Street Journal reporter Keach Hagey examines our AI-obsessed moment through one of its key figures — Sam Altman, co-founder and CEO of OpenAI. Hagey begins with Altman’s Midwest childhood, then takes readers through his career at startup Loopt, accelerator Y Combinator, […]

TechCrunch Sessions: AI hits UC Berkeley’s Zellerbach Hall on June 5 — and today’s your shot at AI trivia glory and two tickets for the price of one. Answer a few brain-busting questions on artificial intelligence, and if you ace it, you might just find a special promo code waiting in your inbox. Every day […]

Unionized quality assurance testers at video game holding company ZeniMax announced Friday that they have reached a tentative contract agreement with Microsoft, which acquired ZeniMax in 2021. This represents Microsoft’s first union contract in the United States. It’s been a little over two years since approximately 300 QA testers announced that they were unionizing through […]

Get your pictures off your phone and in front of your loved ones with these WIRED-tested digital picture frames.

Microsoft's takedown of Lumma Stealer marks a significant victory against infostealer malware, safeguarding millions of devices from data theft and breaches.

Artificial intelligence has no shortage of visionaries—but the ones who matter are executing. In 4 days, TechCrunch Sessions: AI brings those builders, researchers, funders, and enthusiasts under one roof at UC Berkeley’s Zellerbach Hall. This isn’t a parade of AI hype or a string of over-edited keynotes. It’s a single day designed for clarity, candor, […]

Eero mesh systems are popular and easy to use, but the product lineup is confusing. Here’s how to choose the right one for your home.

If you’re in pursuit of your next PR, the durable Nice Rocc palm-cooling device can lower your core body temperature fast.

If conversations are slow to load and Gmail's search seems sluggish, you can speed things up by tweaking some settings and doing some routine maintenance.

Rose Yu has drawn on the principles of fluid dynamics to improve deep learning systems that predict traffic, model the climate, and stabilize drones during flight.

Discover the Volonaut Airbike, a jet-powered marvel by Tomasz Patan, designed to transform urban travel with its speed, agility and innovative technology.

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Answers to each clue for the June 1, 2025 edition of NYT's The Mini crossword puzzle.

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Connections: Sports Edition is a New York Times word game about finding common sports threads between words. How to solve the puzzle.

Here's the answer for "Wordle" #1443 on June 1 as well as a few hints, tips, and clues to help you solve it yourself.

The NYT Strands hints and answers you need to make the most of your puzzling experience.

Connections is a New York Times word game that's all about finding the "common threads between words." How to solve the puzzle.

Hints and answers to today's Hurdle all in one place.

It’s no surprise that many big, left-leaning social media accounts have recently joined Bluesky — but a new analysis from the Pew Research Center attempts to quantify that shift. This comes as an update to Pew’s news influencer report released in November 2024, which did not include Bluesky in its numbers. The report focused on […]

The NAACP is calling on local officials to halt operations at Colossus, the “supercomputer” facility operated by Elon Musk’s xAI in South Memphis. As reported in NBC News, leaders from the civil rights group sent a letter Thursday to the Shelby County Health Department and Memphis Light Gas and Water criticizing the organizations’ “lackadaisical approach […]

Connections: Sports Edition is a New York Times word game about finding common sports threads between words. How to solve the puzzle.

Google's AI Gemini will summarize long email threads for users who have smart features turned on.

An AI-powered system could soon take responsibility for evaluating the potential harms and privacy risks of up to 90% of updates made to Meta apps like Instagram and WhatsApp, according to internal documents reportedly viewed by NPR. NPR says a 2012 agreement between Facebook (now Meta) and the Federal Trade Commission requires the company to […]

We've got a ton of stories for you this week, including a new AI-powered browser from Arc; not one but TWO hacks; Gemini email summaries; and much more.

Space Forge, a U.K. startup headquartered in Cardiff, Wales, recently raised a £22.6 million (approximately $30 million) Series A to make wafer materials in space, where unique conditions unlock new possibilities. 

Twitch just announced new features at its European conference, TwitchCon Rotterdam.

ZeniMax QA workers won a union contract with Microsoft after two years of negotiations.