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Brazil’s fast and free homegrown digital payment system, PIX, has become wildly popular. The Trump administration says it unfairly undercuts U.S. companies.

A Trump appointee emailed Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy employees last week with a long list of banned words.

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The new safety features come after numerous incidents of ChatGPT validating users' delusional thinking instead of redirecting harmful conversations -- including the death of a teenage boy by suicide.

The social media giant announced that free access to the feature will be limited to 5GB.

Users in Ohio will have to verify their age to use Bluesky's social network as of Monday.

Baiju Bhatt, co-founder of Robinhood and founder of Aetherflux, shares insights on building transformative companies in fintech and aerospace at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025.

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The startup uses an LLM tailored to helping people arrive at a consensus. Is it enough to help bridge our differences?

The Indian-owned carmaking giant will be bailed out after a cyberattack stalled car production and its downstream supply chain. Critics argue that the bailout sends the wrong message to hackers and crime groups.

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USB-C was supposed to make everything simple. Instead, it’s more complicated than ever. So let's clear up the confusion.

You can camp in the backcountry with under 10 pounds of gear and be warm, comfortable, and fed. Here's WIRED's guide to shedding weight.

Former Yahoo CEO Marissa Meyer is closing the doors on her consumer software startup Sunshine, and is selling the company's assets to her new AI startup, Dazzle, Wired reported, citing an email sent to Sunshine's shareholders.

Polars, the Amsterdam-based company behind the popular open source project by the same name, has raised an €18 million Series A led by Accel.

We ran some early benchmarks on reference units to see how Qualcomm's new Snapdragon X2 Elite chip stacks up to the competition.

Honda is partnering with Astrobotic to study whether their tech could provide continuous power on the moon.

Netflix has dropped its trailer for "Jay Keller", Noah Baumbach's new movie about a famous Hollywood actor on a journey of self discovery.

Instagram is testing a new Reels-first UI in India and South Korea to give short videos more prominence in the app.

X said last week's Indian court ruling allows millions of police officers to issue "arbitrary" content takedown orders.

As of Sept. 29, the Kindle Essentials Bundle (which comes with a Kindle, fabric cover, and power adapter) is discounted to $117.97 at Amazon for Prime members. This is 27% off its list price of $161.97.

As of Sept. 29, the Garmin vívoactive 6 has dropped to $249.99 at Amazon, 17% off its list price of $299.99 and its best price yet.

National Coffee Day is September 29. See how to get half off WIRED's favorite 3 coffee subscriptions.

Maximor has come out of stealth with a human-in-the-loop agentic platform that does the finance team's grunt work.

Your logins will live on after you pass on. Make sure they end up in the right hands.

Amelia Dimoldenberg celebrated 10 years of "Chicken Shop Date" with creator-led panels and you can stream them all for free.

Freezing coffee beans not only helps preserve coffee flavor longer, it might even help some beans taste better.

After seven rocky years, the company’s assets will be sold to Dazzle, a new AI firm that Mayer founded.

OpenAI’s review process for teenage ChatGPT users who are flagged for suicidal ideation includes human moderators. Parents can expect an alert about alarming prompts within hours.

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A team of researchers found that, by not encrypting the data broadcast by Tile tags, users could be vulnerable to having their location information exposed to malicious actors.

Dwayne Johnson appeared on BBC Radio One and played "Sit Down, Stand Up" with host Greg James.

We tested Pure for four weeks to rate its features, safety, and performance. Read our full 2025 review.

NASA canceled the VIPER rover mission to the moon last year, citing cost overruns. But the space agency has announced a plan to revive it.

Idris Elba leads an all-star ensemble nuclear-war thriller in Kathryn Bigelow's "A House of Dynamite." Review.

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Answers to each clue for the September 26, 2025 edition of NYT's The Mini crossword puzzle.

"Fortnite" has disabled its Peaceful Hips dance emote after a new "Peacemaker" episode revealed it may allude to Nazi symbols.

Paid offers an interesting contribution to the AI agentic world: a platform for so-called "results-based" billing.

See the moon phase expected for September 29, 2025 as well as when the next full moon is expected.

The best water flossers from top brands like Waterpik and Philips.

The best soundbars from top brands like Bose and Samsung.

The review of more than 60 scientific articles showed that microplastics, among other effects, can stimulate the formation of osteoclasts, cells specialized in degrading bone tissue.

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

The New York Times' latest game, Pips, brings domino fun to your desktop. How to play Pips as well as hints in case you get stuck.

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

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

Here's the answer for "Wordle" #1562 on September 29 as well as a few hints, tips, and clues to help you solve it yourself.

Early warning signs suggest this whole services-industry metamorphosis may be more complicated than VCs anticipate.

In a recent interview with The New York Times, Oura Health CEO Tom Hale didn’t discuss reports that the company is raising new funding that would value the health-tracking ring maker at nearly $11 billion, but he did talk about whether he has ambitions to take Oura public.

A federal judge has rejected drone maker DJI’s efforts to get off a Department of Defense list of Chinese military companies.

Here's everything we know about the biggest AI infrastructure projects, including major spending from Meta, Oracle, Microsoft, Google, and OpenAI.

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