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This is today’s edition ofThe Download,our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Video: AI and our energy future In May, MIT Technology Review published an unprecedented and comprehensive look at how much energy the AI industry uses—down to a single query. Our reporters and editors…
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How to Save the Internet by Nick Clegg review – spinning Silicon Valley
Instead of recognising that social media harms mental health and democracy, the former deputy PM and Meta executive repeats company talking pointsNick Clegg chooses difficult jobs. He was the UK’s deputy prime minister from 2010 to 2015, a position from which he was surely pulled in multiple directions as he attempted to bridge the divide between David Cameron’s Conservatives and his own Liberal Democrats. A few years...
Watch WIRED’s ‘Uncanny Valley’ Live
Missed Uncanny Valley’s first live show? We spoke with special guest Jack Conte, CEO of Patreon, in San Francisco.
7 JavaScript Side Projects That Can Pay Off Big in 2025
When I first picked up JavaScript, I thought it was only for making buttons click and dropdown menus work. But fast-forward to 2025, and…Continue reading on JavaScript in Plain English »
How I Made $15,000 Building Small Apps With JavaScript
When I first started freelancing, I thought I had to build the next Facebook or Airbnb to make money. But in reality, my biggest…Continue reading on JavaScript in Plain English »
How I Built My First REST API With Node.js and JavaScript
From a messy Express setup to a clean, scalable backend that powered real appsContinue reading on JavaScript in Plain English »
How I Learn Any Technology in 3 Days Using AI Tools
Here’s The Proven Workflow to Learn Any Technology 10x Faster: AI + YouContinue reading on Towards AI »
Discover how attackers abuse clipboard paste handling to trigger Blind XSS from setup to…
Discover how attackers abuse clipboard paste handling to trigger Blind XSS from setup to exploitationContinue reading on Medium »
The Future of Learning: How AI is Reshaping Creativity and Knowledge
For centuries, education has been a one-way street. Teachers taught, students listened, and information was passed down in a linear…Continue reading on Medium »
Turn Your SOL into BTC — Meet btcSOL
Ever wondered how to earn Bitcoin by staking SOL? That’s exactly what btcSOL does. It’s a restaking token on Solana that turns your SOL…Continue reading on Medium »
“Inside the Chamber: My First Encounter with Guy Obelinsky’s Hidden Invention”
What began as an interview for a film turned into a direct initiation into a technology few have ever experienced.Continue reading on Medium »
From Fire to AI: How Human Curiosity Shapes Every New Technology
Discover how humanity’s journey from fire and the printing press to computers and artificial intelligence shapes the way we live.Continue reading on Medium »
Digital Minimalism: Why Owning Less Tech Gives You More Freedom
In today’s hyper-connected world, it feels almost impossible to disconnect.Continue reading on Medium »
I Had ChatGPT Analyze One of My Characters to See How Well I Wrote Her
I am pleased with the resultsContinue reading on ILLUMINATION »
The Complete Guide to the iPhone 17 Pro and Pro Max: Everything You Need to Know
he tech world is currently buzzing with the official reveal of Apple’s latest flagship devices: the iPhone 17 Pro and the iPhone 17 Pro…Continue reading on Medium »
Apple debuts thinner, $999 iPhone Air at ‘awe-dropping’ annual product event
Company also augments AirPods earbuds with live translation and reveals upgrades to Apple WatchApple debuted its latest iPhone on Tuesday, trumpeting the smartphone’s slimmest design yet. The device, named the iPhone Air, is one of several upgrades the company unveiled at its annual product showcase, promoted with the title “awe-dropping”. The event kicked off at 10am PT with the company’s CEO, Tim Cook, speaking in...
Inside the Man vs. Machine Hackathon
At a weekend hackathon in San Francisco, more than 100 coders gathered to test whether they could beat AI—and win a $12,500 cash prize.
Adapting to new threats with proactive risk management
In July 2024, a botched update to the software defenses managed by cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike caused more than 8 million Windows systems to fail. From hospitals to manufacturers, stock markets to retail stores, the outage caused parts of the global economy to grind to a halt. Payment systems were disrupted, broadcasters went off the air,…
How Google dodged a major breakup – and why OpenAI is to thank for it
An antitrust apocalypse has been averted, and it’s all down to its biggest competitor, according to the judge who could’ve forced Google to sell ChromeHello, and welcome to TechScape. I’m your host, Blake Montgomery, writing to you as I finish the audiobook version of Don DeLillo’s White Noise, which I can’t say I found compelling.In tech – artificial intelligence is having its day in court with an 11th-hour appearance...
The United Arab Emirates Releases a Tiny But Powerful AI Model
K2 Think compares well with reasoning models from OpenAI and DeepSeek but is smaller and more efficient, say researchers based in Abu Dhabi.
The Download: meet our AI innovators, and what happens when therapists use AI covertly
This is today’s edition ofThe Download,our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Meet the AI honorees on our 35 Innovators Under 35 list for 2025 Each year, we select 35 outstanding individuals under the age of 35 who are using technology to tackle tough problems…
The women in love with AI companions: ‘I vowed to my chatbot that I wouldn’t leave him’
Experts are concerned about people emotionally depending on AI, but these women say their digital companions are misunderstoodA young tattoo artist on a hiking trip in the Rocky Mountains cozies up by the campfire, as her boyfriend Solin describes the constellations twinkling above them: the spidery limbs of Hercules, the blue-white sheen of Vega.Somewhere in New England, a middle-aged woman introduces her therapist to...
Powering change: UK battery firms aim to unlock the way to net zero
Companies using different technologies for long-duration storage seek funding as country shifts to renewables and requires greater energy securityThink of battery manufacturing and it may evoke images of Elon Musk and Tesla’s sprawling “gigafactories” around the globe, or China’s vast, hi-tech clean rooms churning out cells to go in anything from electric toothbrushes to mobile phones and cars. But at Invinity Energy...
Help! My therapist is secretly using ChatGPT
In Silicon Valley’s imagined future, AI models are so empathetic that we’ll use them as therapists. They’ll provide mental-health care for millions, unimpeded by the pesky requirements for human counselors, like the need for graduate degrees, malpractice insurance, and sleep. Down here on Earth, something very different has been happening. Last week, we published a…
AI is changing the grid. Could it help more than it harms?
The rising popularity of AI is driving an increase in electricity demand so significant it has the potential to reshape our grid. Energy consumption by data centers has gone up by 80% from 2020 to 2025 and is likely to keep growing. Electricity prices are already rising, especially in places where data centers are most…
Three big things we still don’t know about AI’s energy burden
Earlier this year, when my colleague Casey Crownhart and I spent six months researching the climate and energy burden of AI, we came to see one number in particular as our white whale: how much energy the leading AI models, like ChatGPT or Gemini, use up when generating a single response. This fundamental number remained…
‘I broke completely’: how jobseekers from Africa are being tricked into slavery in Asia’s cyberscam compounds
A growing number of Kenyans, Ugandans and Ethiopians are being trafficked to Myanmar, where missing online scam targets leads to beatings and torture• Revealed: the huge growth of Myanmar scam centres that may hold 100,000 trafficked peopleWithin hours of landing in Bangkok from Nairobi last December to start a job as a customer service agent, Duncan Okindo knew something was wrong. The 26-year-old had sold his cattle,...
How to Create a VS Code Extension: Step-by-Step Guide (Part 1)
VS Code is more than just a code editor—it’s a platform.Continue reading on JavaScript in Plain English »
How I Turned 200 Lines of JavaScript Into a $5,000 Side Hustle
The best way to sharpen your JavaScript skills isn’t by memorizing syntax or watching endless tutorials—it’s by building real projects…Continue reading on JavaScript in Plain English »
7 JavaScript Side Projects That Can Earn You $100+ Per Day
The fastest way I’ve grown my JavaScript skills hasn’t been by reading documentation cover-to-cover—it’s been by building small projects…Continue reading on JavaScript in Plain English »
The Night I Debugged a JavaScript Memory Leak That Was Eating 2GB Every Hour
How a stubborn bug turned into a crash course on event listeners, closures, and profiling tools I never thought I’d needContinue reading on JavaScript in Plain English »
JavaScript Power Hacks That Changed the Way I Build and Automate
From browser tricks to full CLI tools how I made JavaScript my daily productivity engineContinue reading on JavaScript in Plain English »
JavaScript Modules: The Key to Cleaner, Scalable Code
From require to import/export, why modules are the backbone of modern JS apps.Continue reading on JavaScript in Plain English »
Meta hid harms to children from VR products, whistleblowers allege
Company accused of manipulating virtual reality research as senator attacks Meta’s ‘disgusting web of lies’A group of six whistleblowers have come forward with allegations of a cover-up of harm to children on Meta’s virtual reality devices and apps. They say the social media company, which owns Facebook and Instagram, and offers a line of VR headsets and games, deleted or doctored internal safety research that showed...
Facebook fiasco: why is Mark Zuckerberg suing Meta?
His account kept being deactivated, even though he had spent thousands of dollars to use the social media site for advertising. Just one of the perils of sharing a name with the world-famous tech billionaire ...Name: Mark Zuckerberg.Age: Unknown. Continue reading...