Timef 12/05/2025

Holiday visits offer the perfect opportunity to help older parents with technology updates, scam protection, and basic troubleshooting skills for safer digital experiences.

Meta is partnering with CNN, Fox News, Fox Sports, Le Monde Group, the People Inc. portfolio of media brands, The Daily Caller, The Washington Examiner, and USA Today.

The battery storage industry in the U.S. has grown in leaps and bounds in recent years, surpassing its most aggressive targets to become one of the largest new sources of power on the grid.

The EC is taking issue with the fact that X, the social network formerly known as Twitter, has been allowing anyone to buy a "blue checkmark," the platform's long-standing symbol that a user has been verified to be who they are claiming to be.

The pet company has published almost no details about what happened, who was affected, and what personal data was exposed.

It's official: Netflix is buying Warner Bros. in a sale worth a towering $82.7 billion.

In one of the most groundbreaking deals the streaming world has ever seen, Netflix acquires Warner Bros. for $82.7 billion. 

This nimble, compact ebike packs plenty of punch, but doesn’t offer a wide range of sizes.

Elon Musk's X was fined $140M for lack of transparency in a landmark EU decision.

Tesla has launched a stripped-down, cheaper variant of its Model 3 in Europe.

The animated family sitcom "Bob's Burgers" sparked love in season one. Interview with show creator Loren Bouchard.

"You could really, in a very fundamental sense, talk about redrawing the border around a brain," Hodak says, "possibly to include four hemispheres, or a device, or a whole group of people."

“For OpenAI to realize its ambitions, it is not going to be enough for them to make a model that is as good as Gemini 3. They need to be able to leapfrog it again.”

Reddit is considered one of the most human spaces left on the internet, but mods and users are overwhelmed with slop posts in the most popular subreddits.

The case over online transparency has become a flashpoint between the European Union and the Trump administration.

Optimize your sauna session by listening to the experts and, more importantly, your body.

PhonePe has shut down its Pincode app over two years after its debut.

After launching Gemini 3 in late November, Google is rolling out its latest Deep Think mode to AI Ultra subscribers.

An AI image generator startup’s database was left accessible to the open internet, revealing more than 1 million images and videos, including photos of real people who had been “nudified.”

I'm always testing new vacuums from brands like Roborock, Shark, and iRobot to find the best robot vacuum mop combo, budget steals, and more.

Jimmy Kimmel has slammed Donald Trump for his lack of healthcare plan as the deadline to extend Obamacare subsidies approaches.

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.

We compare the AirPods Pro 3 and the Beats Powerbeats Pro 2 to see which comes out on top as the best wireless earbuds you can buy.

NASA's rover Perseverance has recorded evidence that lightning indeed occurs on Mars, providing evidence for a longtime theory.

The popular video game adaptation "'Five Nights at Freddy's 2" takes a "Terminator 2" twist. Review.

How to watch NBA for free. Watch Oklahoma City Thunder vs. Dallas Mavericks in the NBA for free from anywhere in the world.

How to watch NBA for free. Watch Boston Celtics vs. Los Angeles Lakers in the NBA for free from anywhere in the world.

Get lifetime access to 100TB of ultra-secure Internxt Cloud Storage for just $974.97 during Cyber Week — a massive 90% off offer through Dec. 14.

How to watch college football for free. Live stream North Texas vs. Tulane in 2025 without cable.

How to watch college football for free. Live stream Troy vs. James Madison in 2025 without cable.

Current age-verification laws raise alarm bells, but experts say there's a better solution.

Grab the credit-card-sized NanoPhone for just $84.97 with free shipping — a fun, fully functional mini smartphone on sale through Dec. 7.

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

Answers to each clue for the December 5, 2025 edition of NYT's The Mini crossword puzzle.

See the best e-readers we've tested, with options from Kindle, Kobo, and the tablet world. Grab an e-reader and hit your reading goals.

Cloudflare is having another outage on Friday.

Discord's first personalised end-of-year wrap up offers stats on your chatting and gaming habits. Here's how to view yours.

Episode 6 of "Pluribus" reveals the horrifying secret that Carol uncovered in the Agri-Jet warehouse. It's certainly not pretty.

For its sixth episode, "Pluribus" enlists the help of an unexpected celebrity to explain why the Others are cannibals.

In "Pluribus" episode 6, we get a new revelation about how the virus is transmitted. So what do we learn, and what does it mean for Carol?

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

See the moon phase expected for December 5, 2025 as well as when the next full moon is expected.

Drone maker DJI pleads with the U.S. government to respond to them.

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" #1629 on December 5 as well as a few hints, tips, and clues to help you solve it yourself.

On December 4, WIRED sat down with some of the biggest names in tech, culture, business, and science for a day full of in-depth interviews.

George Foote, who served as the outside general counsel to the US Institute of Peace, said at WIRED’s Big Interview event that DOGE operatives arrived like a “strike team.”

At WIRED’s Big Interview event, the activist and organizer said he doesn’t “think the Chuck Schumers of the world understand” what’s coming for the party.

The newspaper is alleging copyright infringement and calling out Perplexity's Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) as a culprit.

Amazon Web Services' giant tech conference re:Invent 2025 is happening this week with news ranging from chips to AI services.

Big Tech has lost its way. At WIRED’s Big Interview event, Techdirt editor Mike Masnick and Common Tools CEO Alex Komoroske announced a manifesto designed to help the industry get back on track.

Meta wants to make its AI hardware slicker and more fashion-forward. It also needs to make its software more usable. The way to do all that appears to be hiring design maestros away from Apple.

The cofounder and CEO of Circle says “money as an app platform” is the next step in a digital-based global economic system that’s right around the corner.

Sahil Lavingia, previously a DOGE operative at the Department of Veterans Affairs, is now a career employee at the IRS. He said at WIRED's Big Interview event that he expects to work there 10 years.

The United States Inspector General report reviewing Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth's text messaging mess recommends a single change to keep classified material secure.

As of Dec. 4, get the DJI Mic Mini for its lowest price yet.

People like to rag on the Bay Area, but mayor Daniel Lurie believes there’s no better place in the world than San Francisco.

By rolling back auto industry fuel efficiency goals, US president Donald Trump hopes to make new cars cheaper. But prices won't drop for years, and consumers will spend more on gas in the meantime.

The author of Super Agers believes AI could bring big changes to the world of medicine.

Grab a Grade A refurbished 2019 MacBook Pro with Touch Bar for just $359.97 during Cyber Week — dependable Apple performance for everyday life.

Block ads, protect privacy, and smooth out your family’s digital life with AdGuard Family Plan for a one-time $15.97 payment through Dec. 14.

Safeguard your data forever with this lifetime subscription to a FolderFort 1TB Cloud Storage Pro Plan, now just $49.97 (reg. $399) through Dec. 14.

The agency already opened an investigation in October over Waymo's performance around school buses.

Micro1 started the year with roughly $7 million ARR. Now, it claims to have surpassed $100 million in ARR, double what it reported in September.

Apple loses two more top senior executives with exits of longtime general counsel Kate Adams and environmental VP Lisa Jackson. Meta’s Jennifer Newstead is set to join as new general counsel in 2026.

Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince claims the internet infrastructure company’s efforts to block AI crawlers are already seeing big results.

"Percy Jackson and the Olympians" Season 1 gets a quick recap courtesy of Phineas and Ferb.

The Trump administration might think regulation is killing the AI industry, but Anthropic president Daniela Amodei disagrees.

"A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms," based on George R.R. Martin's "The Hedge Knight," premieres Jan. 18 on HBO and HBO Max.

In this episode of Uncanny Valley, we talk to writer Evan Ratliff about how he created a small startup made entirely of AI employees—and what his findings reveal about the reality of an agentic future.

Meta plans to direct its investments to focus on wearables like its augmented reality glasses but does not plan to abandon building the metaverse.

Meta plans to direct its investments to focus on wearables like its augmented reality glasses but does not plan to abandon building the metaverse.

Anthropic's CEO shared his thoughts on the economics of AI and the risk-taking of competitors, saying some were "YOLO-ing" with regard to spending.

Fleeing an abusive home life, she went on to win a national Space Invaders tournament, taught herself to program and left a trail of popular games in her wake.

The Wicked: For Good director says being able to improvise on set allows for the kind of moments that are hard for machines to make.

Texting while driving is banned in nearly every state, even with the use of advanced driver assistance systems like Tesla's Full Self-Driving (Supervised) software.

A new Cornell study finds that video glitches can exacerbate inequality and lead to unfavorable outcomes for things like interviews, doctor interviews, and court hearings.

ChatGPT users are complaining about seeing things that seem like ads in their chats.

The 30-year-old Virginia resident evaded capture for years after authorities discovered pipe bombs planted near buildings in Washington, DC, the day before the January 6, 2021 Capitol attack.

Amazon has officially provided a launch date for the Kindle Scribe Colorsoft. First announced on Sept. 30, the new Kindle Scribe and Kindle Scribe Colorsoft will finally be available for purchase on Dec. 10.

Lisa Su leads Nvidia’s biggest rival in the AI chip market. When asked at WIRED’s Big Interview event if AI is a bubble, company said “Emphatically, from my perspective, no.”

On season one of Build Mode: Product, Meet Market, we explore what it really takes to get your product into the hands of customers. We’ve talked a lot about product-market fit, but this week we take a step back to something just as essential and far less discussed: founder-market fit.  Investors love to ask, “What’s your competitive advantage?” Usually they’re talking about moats, […]

Alltroo co-founders Kyle Rudolph and Jon Walburg share how they transformed their pro-athlete star power into a fundraising platform that allows their community the ability to donate to a variety of organization and win high-value prizes. In this episode of Build Mode, they reveal how they leveraged their networks to disrupt the charitable giving industry, […]

Harvey confirms a third enormous round of funding in 2025 that has skyrocketed its valuation. Again.

Based on a leaked video, security researchers alleged that Intellexa staffers have remote live access to their customers' surveillance systems, allowing them to see hacking targets’ personal data.

Keke Palmer and Jack Whitehall star in Peacock's new mystery comedy, inspired by the 1989 Tom Hanks film "The 'Burbs."

The Ray-Ban Meta Wayfarer smart AI sunglasses are on sale at Amazon for $246.75, down from the normal price of $329. That's a 25% discount.

Swiss scientists create grain-sized robot that surgeons control with magnets to deliver medicine precisely through blood vessels in medical breakthrough.

Samsung's new OLED TV models appear to have leaked online as the company prepares for next year's CES.

The new Kindle Scribe has a larger 11-inch glare-free display, is just 5.4 mm thick, and weighs only 400 g. It’s also 40% faster when writing or turning pages.

Revised rules in California would allow self-driving trucks to test on public highways. The rules also close a loophole allowing police to issue tickets for driverless vehicles.

Threads is testing a public “Dear Algo” feature that lets users temporarily steer what their feed shows by posting requests directly to the algorithm.

Day One Ventures' Masha Bucher doesn't just invest in startups—she tells their stories. Her integrated model aligns incentives and proves conviction matters more than contracts.

The new support hub will connect users to security tools, account recovery options, and an AI assistant.

Privacy stalwart Nicholas Merrill spent a decade fighting an FBI surveillance order. Now he wants to sell you phone service—without knowing almost anything about you.

The diverging path of China’s two leading AI players shows where the country’s artificial intelligence industry is headed.

National Cookie Day is Dec. 4 and you can score free cookies from Crumbl, Pepperidge Farms, Nestle, and more.

Investors are deciding within 15 minutes whether to shovel millions into A.I. start-ups and taking entrepreneurs weight lifting and rock climbing to get deals done.

Android 16's latest update adds some useful tools to your device.

As of Dec. 4, get over $100 off the Ninja Luxe Café at Amazon.

Amazon is the USPS' biggest customer, and the e-commerce giant's potential break from the postal agency comes as the two sides are negotiating a new deal.

Apple adds new customization settings to its Vehicle Motion Cues feature in iOS 26.

While TikTok is already known for its recommendation algorithm, which is able to target users with highly personalized content, the addition of a Nearby feed gives it the ability to display even more relevant content to its users.

The proposal reflects the overall lack of interest in products like Meta's social virtual reality platform Horizon Worlds.

The Magic: The Gathering Avatar The Last Airbender Play Booster Box is on sale for $142.57 on Amazon. That's the lowest-ever price.

The Magic: The Gathering Marvel's Spider-Man Play Booster Box is on sale for $123.99 on Amazon. That's the lowest-ever price.

As of Dec. 4, get the Bose QuietComfort Ultra headphones for their lowest price yet.

The 27-inch Samsung Odyssey G8 gaming monitor is on sale at Amazon for $834.99, down from the standard price of $1,299.99. That's a 36% discount.