The 51 Best Shows on Hulu, WIRED’s Picks (January 2026)
A Thousand Blows, Tell Me Lies, and Paradise are just a few of the shows you should be watching on Hulu this month.
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JPEG-XL Image Support Returns To Latest Chrome / Chromium Code
To the frustration of many developers and end-users, back in 2022 Google deprecated JPEG-XL support in Chrome/Chromium and proceeded to remove the support. That decision was...
Read morePlaying Factorio on a Floppy Disk Cluster
While a revolutionary storage system for their time, floppy disks are not terribly useful these days. Though high failure rates and slow speeds are an issue,...
Read moreGoogle’s updated Veo model can make vertical videos from reference images with 4K upscaling
Google’s Veo video AI made stunning leaps in fidelity in 2025, and Google isn’t stopping in 2026. The company has announced an update for Veo 3.1...
Read moreStarlink tries to stay online in Iran as regime jams signals during protests
President Trump asked Elon Musk to get Starlink working more reliably in Iran to thwart the Iranian government’s Internet shutdown. Starlink operator SpaceX was apparently already...
Read moreReactOS Receives Fix For A Very Annoying Usability Issue
ReactOS began 2026 with another “major step” towards Windows NT 6 compatibility with updating its MSVCRT implementation from Wine for the Microsoft C Runtime DLL library....
Read more[$] A high-level quality-of-service interface
Quality-of-service (QoS) mechanisms attempt to prioritize some processes (or network traffic, disk I/O, etc.) over others in order to meet a system’s performance goals. This is...
Read moreWhy 40% of AI Agents Might Fail (and How To Save Yours)
In 2023, a Chevrolet dealership in California woke up to a viral nightmare: Its new AI chatbot had just agreed to sell a new, $76,000 Chevy...
Read moreMeet the Two Members Petitioning to Be President-Elect Candidates
The IEEE Board of Directors has received petition intentions from IEEE Senior Member Gerardo Barbosa and IEEE Life Senior Member Timothy T. Lee as candidates for...
Read moreEverything Is Content for the ‘Clicktatorship’
In the second Trump administration, online conspiracy theories are shaping real-world policies like never before.
Read moreEPA moves to stop considering economic benefits of cleaner air
If you were to do a cost-benefit analysis of your lunch, it would be pretty difficult to do the calculation without the sandwich. But it appears...
Read moreRoblox’s AI-Powered Age Verification Is a Complete Mess
Kids are being identified as adults—and vice versa—on Roblox, while age-verified accounts are already being sold online.
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