Running a Philips CD-i Off USB-C
The Philips CD-i is a console with many shortcomings, and those include the power supply. For whatever reason, the engineering team decided it should use an...
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Revival Rugs Birthday Sale: 20 Percent Off Sitewide Through Sunday
The brand’s lovely selection of hand-knotted and handwoven wool rugs at reasonable prices make it a WIRED-staff favorite.
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Origin Range Requests: Serving large files without range-request tuning
Naive byte-range caching can waste gigabytes of origin bandwidth on small requests. We rebuilt our cache architecture in Pingora to coordinate partial fetches automatically, cutting R2...
Read moreTwo States Can Now Restrict Social Media Access—Here’s What To Do Next
Last week, two federal appeals courts issued opinions that will allow Florida and Georgia to start enforcing laws that will age-gate and block young people from...
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Saudi Arabia Joins the Search for Alien Civilizations
Saudi Arabia is joining the search for alien signals coming from the cosmos. They're collaborating with SETI in the endeavour. SETI has announced that two LaserSETI...
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As devastating Xbox “reset” continues, Dishonored studio Arkane Lyon reportedly only has until November to find a new buyer before it’s closed
After getting caught up in Xbox CEO Asha Sharma's devastating layoffs and cuts earlier this year, Arkane Lyon - the beloved immersive sim studio behind the...
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Bringing post-quantum cryptography to geographically fenced key management
Cloudflare's new post-quantum GeoKey Manager protects geographically fenced decryption keys from harvest now, decrypt later attacks. Learn how we redesigned our cryptography stack to support strict...
Read moreOPM Barely Bothered Defending DOGE’s Access To Federal Employee Data. Court Rules It Was Illegal.
Remember back when Elon Musk was handed the keys of our federal government with basically zero accountability or oversight? All sorts of bad stuff happened, but...
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Daily Deal: MOGICS Power Bagel Travel Power Strip
The MOGICS Bagel has 5 international AC sockets, dual USB ports, 3ft integrated length-adjustable power cord, and an ergonomic AC plug. Unlike ordinary power strips, the...
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From Chip Lab to Center Stage
Many engineers are more comfortable working behind the scenes developing technology than speaking to consumers about products. But Preethi Ashwath has learned to take center stage,...
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‘I’m forever grateful to BioWare’: 16 game developers share the moment a BioWare game inspired them to join the industry
BioWare was the catalyst for a generation of game development careers.
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Fi’s GPS-equipped dog trackers are on sale for 30 percent off
If your dog or cat is prone to getting lost, or you frequently go on adventures together, you can save 30 percent on Fi pet trackers...
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