Adding Wi-Fi doesn’t always turn out to be as smart as it sounds. A smart smoke detector turns out to be dumber than I thought, even with Wi-Fi added. Smart smoke detectors will let you know if a fire breaks out when you aren’t home, but other than that... Read more

A derivatives exchange operator is now in federal court in Montana, pushing back against state regulators and widening a national dispute over prediction markets. Kalshi filed its complaint Sunday (April 12) in the U.S. District Court, naming Attorney General Austin Knudsen and other officials. The company wants a judge... Read more

According to my iPhone, I spend about 3 hours a day looking at it. I’m sure I hold my iPhone close to my face at times, especially at night, and that might be why my eyes hurt sometimes. Luckily, there’s a hidden iPhone feature called Screen Distance that could help all... Read more

Few things are as iconic to camping as the green Coleman stove. Every summer you’ll find them, along with Coleman lanterns and coolers, on picnic tables across America. At WIRED, we’re big fans of the Coleman Cascade stove, but all Coleman stoves are capable of cooking up delicious camp... Read more

Data teams building AI agents keep running into the same failure mode. Questions that require joining structured data with unstructured content, sales figures alongside customer reviews or citation counts alongside academic papers, break single-turn RAG systems.  New research from Databricks puts a number on that failure gap. The company’s... Read more

Oakland police moved in on what they say was an illegal gambling setup in East Oakland on April 9, shutting it down after building a case tied to repeated complaints and a pattern of violence. According to an official Facebook post, officers served a search warrant in the 1400... Read more

Like any foolishly hopeful gamer, I sat in the darkness of my home, booting up a game I prayed would shine bright enough to live up to its promise. A black-and-white shooter set in a city full of mice? A classic cartoon animation style? A gumshoe noir plot? The... Read more

A viral post on X from veteran programmer and former Google engineer Steve Yegge set off a rhetorical firestorm this week, drawing sharp public rebuttals from some of Google’s most prominent AI leaders and reopening a sensitive question for the company: how deeply are its own engineers really using... Read more

A policy adviser is calling on the UK government to slow down its rollout of financial risk checks for gamblers, arguing ministers are acting before the full results are available. Dr James Noyes, a senior fellow at the Social Market Foundation, has written to Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy asking... Read more

Looking for the most recent regular Connections answers? Click here for today’s Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle and Strands puzzles. Today’s Connections: Sports Edition includes some fun categories. There’s a certain Olympic sport that pops up in the purple... Read more