On October 20, a hacker who calls themselves Dark X said they logged in to a server and stole the personal data of 350 million Hot Topic customers. The following day, Dark X listed the data, including alleged emails, addresses, phone numbers, and partial credit card numbers, for sale... Read more

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More OpenAI transformed its popular ChatGPT service into a powerful search engine today, marking the company’s boldest move yet to compete with Google. The upgrade lets users ask questions in plain... Read more

Looking for the most recent Wordle answer? Click here for today’s Wordle hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Connections and Strands puzzles. There are plenty of other online word games now, but I still play the New York Times Wordle game every day. These... Read more

Jewelry that doubles as a vibrator is nothing new. If we go way back—I’m talking ancient Rome—there’s a good chance someone, somewhere along the line, used a piece of jewelry to rub one out just for the heck of it. After all, the Romans were known to be quite... Read more

Levellr has raised $1.75 million for its community management and insights tools used by companies to manage Discord communities. The money comes from from a group of video games and media industry investors including Mitch Lasky, Fuel Ventures, Colopl Next and LFG Holdings (headed by SuperAwesome founder Dylan Collins)... Read more

Two trends combine in this cool Advent calendar. Funko Pop figurines are popular collectibles, and Marvel and Spider-Man are still going strong. Twenty-four mini Marvel figures are included here, creating quite the menagerie. Kids will love discovering Captain Marvel, Spider-Man, Black Panther, Hulk, Iron Man — and many more... Read more

If you have a family and you like to be outside, you should have walkie-talkies. In a lot of places where cell coverage is spotty, you need a better way of keeping track of each other than running back and forth and yelling. Kids love walkie-talkies. There’s nothing that... Read more

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More A common criticism of big tech is that their platforms treat users as little more than glassy eyeballs to be monetized with targeted ads. This will soon change, but not... Read more

This is not only super cute, but it’s also functional, and any Secret Santa recipient will love it. A friend of mine always has a DIY mini waffle station at her parties, complete with toppings, from chocolate chips to whipped cream to berries. And if you order directly from... Read more

“Our subcontractors never should have driven their canvassers in a U-Haul van and those involved were immediately reprimanded,” Tim Pollard of Blitz Canvassing tells WIRED. On Wednesday, October 30, Muldrow and her fellow door knockers were fired hours after the publication of the WIRED story. At first, some people... Read more