8 Best Laptops (2026), WIRED-Tested and Approved
Our expert team of laptop testers stand behind these Windows laptops, MacBooks, Chromebooks, and Linux portables.
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New Intel Linux Code For DG2 Graphics Can Improve Performance As Much As “A Whopping 260%”
A set of 18 patches were merged overnight to Mesa 26.1 for working around graphics corruption on Meteor Lake and DG2/Alchemist class graphics hardware. Not only...
Read moreThinkPads On Linux Appear Nearly Ready For Improved Trackpoint Doubletap Handling
Being worked on for a while by Lenovo engineer Vishnu Sankar is nicely handling support for double-tap functionality with TrackPoints on ThinkPads under Linux. The sixth...
Read moreIntel Earnings, The Agentic Opportunity, Intel’s Mistaken Pessimism
Intel’s earnings were disappointing because the company is missing a huge opportunity by virtue of selling off its capacity.
Read moreHe Leaked the Secrets of a Southeast Asian Scam Compound. Then He Had to Get Out Alive
A source trapped inside an industrial-scale scamming operation contacted me, determined to expose his captors’ crimes—and then escape. This is his story.
Read moreRevealed: Leaked Chats Expose the Daily Life of a Scam Compound’s Enslaved Workforce
A whistleblower trapped inside a “pig butchering” scam compound gave WIRED a vast trove of its internal materials—including 4,200 pages of messages that lay out its...
Read moreUpdated Linux Patches For Managing Out-Of-Memory Behavior Via BPF
Being worked on since last year by Google engineer Roman Gushchin was the latest attempt for the Linux kernel to support managing the out-of-memory “OOM” behavior...
Read morePicolibc Picks Up RISC-V Improvements, Hexagon Support & Better POSIX Compliance
Keith Packard published Picolibc 1.8.11 on Monday as the newest release for his C library designed for embedded 32-bit and 64-bit platforms. Picolibc continues tacking on...
Read moreWhere Tech Leaders and Students Really Think AI Is Going
We asked tech CEOs, journalists, entertainers, students, and more about the promise and peril of artificial intelligence. Here’s what they said.
Read moreOpenAI and Anthropic Introduce Healthcare-Focused AI Platforms
OpenAI and Anthropic have announced new healthcare-oriented AI offerings that extend their models beyond general conversational use and into regulated clinical and life sciences environments. Both...
Read moreSouthwest Airlines Says Bye to Open Seating—and Hello to Boarding Complexity
An airline’s boarding policy shake-up shows the limits of efficiency. (Spoiler: It’s money.)
Read moreHow to Install Java on Ubuntu 24.04
Learn how to install OpenJDK and Oracle JDK on Ubuntu 24.04. Covers Java 21, 25, and other LTS versions.
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