2025-08-05

How Supercomputing Will Evolve, According to Jack Dongarra

WIRED talked with one of the most influential voices in computer science about the potential for AI and quantum to supercharge supercomputers. [...]

2025-08-05

OpenAI's first new open-weight LLMs in six years are here

For the first time since GPT-2 in 2019, OpenAI is releasing new open-weight large language models. It's a major milestone for a company that has increasingly been accused of forgoing its original [...]

2025-08-05

Earth Is Spinning Weirdly Faster, Making Today One of the Shortest Days Ever

Earth will complete its daily rotation between 1.25 and 1.51 milliseconds faster than usual, and scientists aren't quite sure why. [...]

2025-08-05

The Next Planet Parade Is Coming Soon: Here's How to See Six Planets Line Up

Mark your calendar -- you can catch Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune and Uranus in the sky at the same time. [...]

2025-08-05

Analysis: The Trump administration’s assault on climate action

Official actions don't challenge science, while unofficial docs muddy the waters. [...]

2025-08-05

US Coast Guard Report on Titan Submersible Implosion Singles Out OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush

A report on the death of five people in the Titan submersible blames design, maintenance, and inspection flaws for its failure. “It all came back to Mr. Rush,” the head of the investigation told W [...]

2025-08-05

The Morning After: Could the next PlayStation have triple the power of the PS5?

Five years since the launch of PlayStation 5 and, naturally, it’s time to ruminate on what’s next. In a YouTube video from Moore’s Law is Dead, the leaker shares what they believe is extensive i [...]

2025-08-04

Will the UN finally broker a treaty to end plastic pollution?

To tackle what's been called the plastic "epidemic," the UN spun up a committee in 2022 tasked with brokering a legally binding global agreement. This ambitious treaty between UN member [...]

2025-08-04

NASA's Lunar Trailblazer mission ends in disappointment

The Lunar Trailblazer mission to the moon officially ended on July 31, but it wasn't a complete journey. NASA said today that its teams lost contact with the satellite shortly after its launch se [...]