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December 17, 2025 5:40 PM ET A woman who survived the Hanukkah terrorist attack at Bondi Beach in Australia said on Monday that police officers seemed less concerned about stopping the attack than they were about keeping her from fighting back. A father and son of Pakistani descent opened fire on a Hanukkah celebration Sunday

You don’t have to be a fan of musicals to know about the Wicked film franchise—it’s been everywhere since the first film launched last year, and that’s exactly how director Jon. M Chu wanted it. At WIRED’s Big Interview event last week, senior culture editor Manisha Krishnan sat down with Chu to discuss what it

US Customs and Border Protection is quietly doubling down on a surveillance strategy built around human-portable drones, according to federal contracting records reviewed by WIRED. The shift is pushing border enforcement toward a distributed system that can track activity in real time and, critics warn, may extend well beyond the border. New market research conducted

Donald Trump’s appearances on the podcasts of Joe Rogan and Theo Von, among others, were seen by many as a key part of securing his second term in office. But while Trump was speculating about alien life on Mars with Rogan, he had a team of acolytes appearing on dozens, if not hundreds, of much

Petter Rudwall knows the idea of AIs becoming sentient and seeking to get high with code-based “drugs” seems “stupid.” But the Swedish creative director couldn’t get it out of his head. So he scraped trip reports and psychological research on the effects of various psychoactive substances, wrote a batch of codes modules to hijack chatbot

If you want to get into stargazing in 2025, you still have the chance: there’s one final meteor shower to catch this year. Also known as shooting stars, meteors happen when Earth’s orbital path crosses a path of debris left by a comet and that material burns up in the Earth’s atmosphere. Watching a meteor

About 10 Apple employees spent some of their valuable hours over recent months on a project that might seem unusual for the tech giant: customizing an open source AI tool for ImageTek, a small manufacturer in Springfield, Vermont, whose lines of business include printing millions of labels for food packaging. The Apple engineers developed a

Science Corporation, the brain-computer interface startup founded in 2021 by former Neuralink president Max Hodak, is launching a new division of the company with the goal of extending the life of human organs. And no, not brains. Alameda, California-based Science is aiming to improve on current perfusion systems that continuously circulate blood through vital organs

Was I a DEI hire? It’s a question that I sometimes toss out in the company of friends who—like me, and maybe like you—have a complicated relationship to their job. I’ve worked at WIRED as a writer for eight years, and with much success. Eight years is also an eternity in news media, and especially

This just in: Your great-aunt Matilda will be joining you for Christmas this year, and she needs to stay in your guest room. Problem is, the guest room overhaul you’ve put off for months is now an emergency. Here’s one deal that may help: Tuft & Needle is giving away a foam pillow set with