Nancy Mace, the South Carolina Republican congresswoman, unleashed a tirade against law enforcement at the Charleston International Airport on Thursday, WIRED has learned. According to an incident report obtained by WIRED under South Carolina’s Freedom of Information Act, Mace cursed at police officers, making repeated derogatory comments toward them. The report says that a Transportation
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OpenAI confirms GPT-5 is now better at handling mental and
OpenAI confirmed that it shipped an update on October 5, which allows GPT-5 to better handle sensitive conversations. After the update, GPT will automatically recognize when the user is not doing well, including situations like emotional or mental distress. However, OpenAI says only GPT-5 Instant has been updated to handle such use cases. GPT-5 Instant
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Labour fleshes out R&D funding
Reddogs - stock.adobe.com Over the next five years, £85bn has been set aside by the government to fund research and development By Cliff Saran, Managing Editor Published: 30 Oct 2025 0:01 The government has fleshed out details of how it plans to spend £55bn on research and development (R&D) out of the £86bn committed as
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The Financial Times’ AI paywall drove conversions up 290%. Now
By Seb Joseph • October 29, 2025 • Ivy Liu This article is part of Digiday’s coverage of its Digiday Publishing Summit. More from the series → The Financial Times is building an AI that doesn’t just know who will pay — it’s learning who will stay. After nearly a year of running its AI
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AMD is rebadging 2022 Ryzen processors as ‘new’ chips
Image: AMD If you’re in the market for a new Ryzen PC, beware: AMD is updating some of its old Ryzen processors with fresh branding and updated model numbers and passing them off as new processors. AMD has carved out a number of “new” Ryzen 100-series chips alongside a pair of new Ryzen 10-series model
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I turned my mini PC into a powerhouse with 2
Skip to content Image: Christoph Hoffmann So there it is–my new mini PC, the A9 Max from Geekom. A smart little powerhouse, barely bigger than a sandwich tin, whisper-quiet and amazingly powerful. I unpacked it, plugged it in, and completed the initial setup. Everything works perfectly, as my test shows. And yet I realize after
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Whale and dolphin migrations are being disrupted by climate change
Marine mammals are being forced into new and more dangerous waters, scientists warn. Credit: Martin van Aswegen/NOAA For millennia, some of the world’s largest filter-feeding whales, including humpbacks, fin whales, and blue whales, have undertaken some of the longest migrations on earth to travel between their warm breeding grounds in the tropics to nutrient-rich feeding
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Today’s NYT Mini Crossword Answers for Saturday, Oct. 25
Looking for the most recent Mini Crossword answer? Click here for today's Mini Crossword hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Wordle, Strands, Connections and Connections: Sports Edition puzzles. Need some help with today's Mini Crossword? It's the longest one of the week, and some of the answers are tricky. Read
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Get this 15-inch HP Ryzen laptop with 16GB of RAM
Image: HP Eight hundred bucks for a laptop with an older processor isn’t a great deal, but chop that price almost in half and it gets a lot more appealing. Today, Best Buy is offering a 15-inch HP laptop with 16GB of memory for just $449.99—a nice $350 off its retail price. The HP 15-FC0307DX
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These smart beds began roasting their owners during AWS outage
Image: Eight Sleep Owners of Eight Sleep smart beds got anything but a good night’s sleep Monday, as the beds began heating up uncontrollably while also getting frozen in position due to Amazon’s worldwide server outage. Eight Sleep CEO Matteo Franceschetti took to X to apologize for the malfunctioning “Pod” smart beds, which cost $2,600