"We learn who is furloughed when we send an email to someone and get the out-of-office message," one employee tells WIRED. Workers at the Environmental Protection Agency tell WIRED that they have faced increasing chaos over the past five weeks. In recent weeks, varied phases of furloughs have forced staff to go home in seemingly random waves. Some employees remaining at the agency are working on policies friendly to fossil fuel and industrial interests that are a priority of the administration, even as the rest of the government shuts down. Others have had to sit on their hands, as the shutdown takes out colleagues with no notice--and remaining employees have little to no information as to what is coming next.

An observatory detected the first radio signal from the interstellar object 3I/Atlas. An image of the interstellar comet 3I/Atlas, captured by the Hubble telescope on July 21, 2025. More evidence has emerged to support the natural origin of comet 3I/Atlas . After several weeks of conspiracy theories, social media debates, and speculation on popular podcasts such as Joe Rogan's, this interstellar object is still a comet . The most recent confirmation came from an observatory in South Africa that detected the first radio signal from 3I/Atlas.

AI may blunt our thinking skills - here's what you can do about it There is growing evidence that our reliance on generative AI tools is reducing our ability to think clearly and critically, but it doesn't have to be that way Socrates wasn't the greatest fan of the written word. Famous for leaving no texts to posterity, the great philosopher is said to have believed that a reliance on writing destroys the memory and weakens the mind . Some 2400 years later, Socrates's fears seem misplaced - particularly in light of evidence that writing things down improves memory formation . A growing number of psychologists, neuroscientists and philosophers worry that ChatGPT and similar generative AI tools will chip away at our powers of information recall and blunt our capacity for clear reasoning. What's more, while Socrates relied on clever rhetoric to make his argument, these researchers are grounding theirs in empirical data.

Altman believes the revenue will come from paid-for versions of ChatGPT, other companies using its data centres and people buying the hardware devices it is building. Altman believes the revenue will come from paid-for versions of ChatGPT, other companies using its data centres and people buying the hardware devices it is building. Sam Altman's bet: Can OpenAI's ambitions keep pace with industry's soaring costs? As investor jitters grow, the loss-making ChatGPT firm's vast spending commitments test the limits of Silicon Valley optimism Mon 10 Nov 2025 09.21 ESTFirst published on Mon 10 Nov 2025 09.00 EST It is the $1.4tn (£1.1tn) question. How can a loss-making startup such as OpenAI afford such a staggering spending commitment?

The threat landscape is being shaped by two seismic forces. To future-proof their organizations, security leaders must take a proactive stance with a zero trust approach. AI and quantum technologies are dramatically reconfiguring how cybersecurity functions, redefining the speed and scale with which digital defenders and their adversaries can operate. The weaponization of AI tools for cyberattacks is already proving a worthy opponent to current defenses. This includes using generative AI to create social engineering attacks at scale, churning out tens of thousands of tailored phishing emails in seconds, or accessing widely available voice cloning software capable of bypassing security defenses for as little as a few dollars. And now, agentic AI raises the stakes by introducing autonomous systems that can reason, act, and adapt like human adversaries.

Gabriel lost control of his phone after calling a fake bank number found through Google search, leading to remote access scam and explicit messages sent to his daughter.

It was October 2024, and Hurricane Helene had just devastated the US Southeast. Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia found an abstract target on which to pin the blame: "Yes they can control the weather," she posted on X. "It's ridiculous for anyone to lie and say it can't be done." She was repeating what's by now a pretty familiar and popular conspiracy theory: that shadowy forces are out there, wielding technology to control the weather and wreak havoc on their enemies. This preposterous claim has grown louder and more common in recent years, especially after extreme weather strikes. But here's the thing: While Greene and other believers are not correct, this conspiracy theory--like so many others--holds a kernel of much more modest truth. This story is part of's series "The New Conspiracy Age," on how the present boom in conspiracy theories is reshaping science and technology.

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'OK, so ChatGPT helps you write your grocery list. Does your individual convenience outweigh the societal harm it can cause?' 'OK, so ChatGPT helps you write your grocery list. Does your individual convenience outweigh the societal harm it can cause?' 'It shows such a laziness': why I refuse to date someone who uses ChatGPT It's the ultimate ick: trying to form a deep, lasting connection with a person who outsources original thought The Guardian's journalism is independent. We will earn a commission if you buy something through an affiliate link. I t was a setting fit for a Nancy Meyers film.

For years, plastic surgeons thought the proportions of a beautiful buttocks should follow the Fibonacci sequence. Now, people are looking for a more Kardashian shape. In the history of gluteal enhancement, Mexico City stands out. It was here, in 1979, that a plastic surgeon, Mario González-Ulloa, first installed a pair of silicone implants designed specifically for the buttocks. The textbook calls González-Ulloa the "grandfather of buttock augmentation." The early 2000s saw a new generation of Mexico City buttock transformation luminaries, notably Ramón Cuenca-Guerra. Cuenca-Guerra laid out four characteristics that "determine attractive buttocks" as well as the five types of "defects," with strategies for correcting each one. I, for instance, have defect type 5, the "senile buttock." While I understand the value of standardizing procedures and setting guidelines for surgical practice, I tripped over Cuenca-Guerra's methodology. How and by whom had the determinants been determined?