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Some sports gamblers are trying to predict WNBA players’ performance—and the outcomes of games—based on the athletes’ periods. One betting content creator has dubbed it “blood money.”

Latex mattresses are an appealing option for their natural materials and bouncy support. These are the best brands and models we’ve tested in our own homes.

The latest film in the Tron franchise seems to have not learned any lessons from sci-fi movies past—or from current reality.

GitHub has introduced a new embedding model for Copilot, now integrated into Visual Studio Code. The model is designed to improve how Copilot understands programming context, retrieves relevant code, and suggests completions. By Daniel Dominguez

The Trump administration has built its own content mill to justify its law-and-order immigration agenda.

Microsoft is updating its Copilot app on Windows to allow it to create documents from a chat session and connect to Gmail and Outlook accounts. The updated Copilot app is rolling out initially to all Windows Insiders, ahead of a…

Google has open-sourced a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that exposes read-only access to the Google Ads API for agentic and LLM applications. The repository googleads/google-ads-mcp implements an MCP server in Python that surfaces two tools today: search (GAQL queries…

With the mercenary spyware industry booming, Apple VP Ivan Krstić tells WIRED that the company is also offering bonuses that could bring the max total reward for iPhone exploits to $5 million.

New research shows that North Koreans appear to be trying to trick US companies into hiring them to develop architectural designs using fake profiles, résumés, and Social Security numbers.

TL;DR: Computer-use agents are VLM-driven UI agents that act like users on unmodified software. Baselines on OSWorld started at 12.24% (human 72.36%); Claude Sonnet 4.5 now reports 61.4%. Gemini 2.5 Computer Use leads several web benchmarks (Online-Mind2Web 69.0%, WebVoyager 88.9%)…