OpenAI GPT-5.4 launches, AI gets its own jobs report, Claude surges after U.S. ban
I’m Matt Burns, Director of Editorial at Insight Media Group. Each week, I round up the most important AI developments. And not just the headlines, but...
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The WIRED Guide to Wires: How to Manage the Mess of Cables Around Your Desk
You need to sort out that rat’s nest of cables under your desk. These cable management tips and products can help you do it.
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AWS recently announced support for nested virtual machines within virtualized EC2 instances running KVM or Hyper-V. A long-awaited feature by the community, the new option enables...
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A new maintenance release 0.4.26 of RProtoBuf arrived on CRAN today. RProtoBuf provides R with bindings for the Google Protocol Buffers (“ProtoBuf”) data encoding and serialization...
Read moreFreeBSD 15.1 On Track With Better Realtek WiFi & KDE Desktop Install Option
The effort around improving FreeBSD on laptops continues full speed ahead in 2026. The upcoming FreeBSD 15.1 remains on track with not only having a KDE...
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Depending who you ask, 3D pens are silly toys or handy tools. Those who use them as tools find them handy to fill gaps in printed...
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When Elon Musk burst onto the scene in his little Tesla Roadster, it seemed a matter of time before electricity rendered gas-powered sports cars obsolete. It...
Read moreThe Best MIDI Controllers for Synths, Guitars, and More (2026)
Want to digitally control your favorite instruments? These tools will help.
Read moreNew Maui.Gtk Project Provides A GTK4 Backend For Microsoft’s .NET MAUI
Maui.Gtk is a new open-source project providing a GTK4 Linux back-end for Microsoft’s .NET MAUI…
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