Two Stanford students launch $2M startup accelerator for students nationwide

Two Stanford students announced Monday that they have raised $2 million for an accelerator program called Breakthrough Ventures, which aims to fund businesses founded by college students and recent graduates nationwide.…

Firefox will soon offer a way to block all of its generative AI features

Like practically every other tech company under the sun, Mozilla has been jamming generative AI features into its products. The organization has now acknowledged that not everyone wants things like…

Ikea’s next cheap Bluetooth speaker is a playful purple mouse

Following the debut of its $10 Kallsup Bluetooth speakers at CES 2026, Ikea is introducing another wireless speaker with a playful design and an affordable price tag. The Grejsimojs Portable…

DOJ released Epstein files with dozens of nudes and victims’ names, reports say

DOJ said it made “all reasonable efforts” Brad Edwards, an attorney for Epstein victims, told ABC News that “we are getting constant calls for victims because their names, despite them…

Dyson Deals: WIRED’s Top Pick Pet Vacuum and Purifier Heater

For a vacuum company, Dyson can sometimes feel like nerd church. Its devices are a hive of invention: often cool, always expensive, and sometimes the best (or only) device of…

What Snowflake’s deal with OpenAI tells us about the enterprise AI race

Cloud data company Snowflake has entered into a $200 million multi-year AI deal with OpenAI on Monday, the latest signal that enterprise AI competition continues to heat up. Under the…

A respectable and affordable Android option

Buying a good budget phone can be a challenge. High-end handsets continue to get more features, but on the other end of the spectrum, there are only so many things…

What we’ve been getting wrong about AI’s truth crisis

On Thursday, I reported the first confirmation that the US Department of Homeland Security, which houses immigration agencies, is using AI video generators from Google and Adobe to make content…

8K TVs Explained: Not Worth the Money

Nearly all modern TVs are 4K resolution: 3,840×2,160 pixels. Older and smaller TVs might be HD, aka 1,920×1,080 or less. But there are a handful of TVs you can buy…

Former Windows 8 boss recruited Epstein to help negotiate his messy Microsoft exit

Emails between former Windows boss Steven Sinofsky and Jeffrey Epstein, published by the Justice department on Friday, appear to show that Sinofsky constantly sought Epstein’s advice as he negotiated his…