An airline's boarding policy shake-up shows the limits of efficiency. Boarding a Southwest flight is no longer first come, first served. What is the best way to cram people into a tin can in the sky? For five decades, Dallas-based budget airline Southwest made its reputation on its unique open seating policy. Savvy passengers who checked in early got to board early, too, lining up at distinctive silver stanchions to claim first dibs on whichever seat they preferred.

Save on Petlibro essentials, including automatic feeders, water fountains, and accessories to keep cats and dogs fed, hydrated, and comfortable every day. As the pet tech writer here on the WIRED Reviews team, I've tested over 100 pet-related products, including automatic pet feeders, pet water fountains, and pet cameras . The one brand I keep buying for myself--and recommending to friends and family with pets--is Petlibro. Petlibro dominates the game when it comes to high-tech, seamlessly designed automatic feeders and pet fountains . Most of their products have a connected app to make pet parenting easier, whether you're near or far.

One of WIRED's Favorite Chef Knives Is Free With a HelloFresh Membership The 8-inch Zwilling Four Star chef's knife is an excellent carbon steel blade that retails around $100. It's free with some food. I don't know if a good knife is hard to find. But they usually cost at least a hundred dollars, so it's worth noting when HelloFresh is offering one of WIRED's favorite chef's knives for the low, low price of free. This is the time of year when a lot of the best meal kit deals start to happen. And so if you hang around for three weeks of meal delivery service from HelloFresh, your third box will include delivery of a Zwilling Four Star 8-inch chef knife, a $100-plus carbon steel blade that WIRED reviewer Molly Higgins lists as her runner-up favorite blade overall--and her favorite carbon-steel for most people.

From dead crabs to shredded bed sheets, fraudsters are using fake photos and videos to get their money back from ecommerce sites. I don't want to admit it, but I did spend a lot of money online this holiday shopping season. And unsurprisingly, some of those purchases didn't meet my expectations. A photobook I bought was damaged in transit, so I snapped a few pictures, emailed them to the merchant, and got a refund. Online shopping platforms have long depended on photos submitted by customers to confirm that refund requests are legitimate.

Boeing's Next Starliner Flight Will Only Be Allowed to Carry Cargo After a high-profile malfunction left two astronauts stranded on the International Space Station, NASA is requiring rigorous testing before humans get back on board. The US space agency ended months of speculation about the next flight of Boeing's Starliner spacecraft, confirming that the vehicle will carry only cargo to the International Space Station. NASA and Boeing are now targeting no earlier than April 2026 to fly the uncrewed Starliner-1 mission, the space agency said. Launching by next April will require completion of rigorous test, certification, and mission readiness activities, NASA added in a statement . "NASA and Boeing are continuing to rigorously test the Starliner propulsion system in preparation for two potential flights next year," said Steve Stich, manager of NASA's Commercial Crew Program, in a statement.

Fixtures giant Kohler has a holiday promo code for 10 percent off big orders for Black Friday 2025. There are Black Friday deals, and then there are Black Friday deals. Most deals are the kind that show up later on your porch from Amazon (see WIRED's guide to the best early Black Friday deals). But fixture and plumbing mainstay Kohler is doing something a little different, and a lot bigger, for the holidays. After all, Kohler is big--one of the biggest family-owned manufacturing empires in the country.

In his newly translated memoir, Hu Anyan captures the brutal labor and quiet grace of life at the edge of China's booming ecommerce industry. "Often, sweat was dripping down my back within the first two hours of a shift and would not stop dripping until the next morning," writes Hu Anyan in the new English translation of his bestselling book . "I sweated so much I never once needed to pee." This passage was on my mind as I read his book in Tianjin during one hot, Labubu brainrot summer, during which yet another unprecedented annual heat wave had forced almost everyone inside--except for the tireless couriers and delivery workers, whose services are in higher demand when temperatures soar. Hu's writing first went viral in China five years ago, and he's now a prolific, established author in the country.

No, SNAP Benefits Aren't Mostly Used by Immigrants SNAP benefits are set to run out on Saturday. Far-right influencers and extremists are incorrectly claiming that immigrants are the main recipients of food stamps. A shopper carries a basket inside a grocery store in the Bronx borough of New York City on Oct. 24, 2025. As roughly 42 million Americans face the loss of food stamps this weekend, far-right influencers, extremists, and conspiracy theorists are using the crisis to push racist disinformation about who receives these benefits. As a result of the government shutdown, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) will not be funded as of November 1, according to a message on the website of the US Department of Agriculture (USDA), which administers the program.

At a time when nuclear threats feel more alarming than ever, Netflix's doomsday film falls frustratingly flat. A 1964 masterpiece tells a much better cautionary tale. Somewhere over the Arctic reaches of North America, a nuclear bomber flies in a squadron, awaiting its orders. When a secret code appears on a machine in the cockpit, the crew looks at each other, stunned. The code is instructing them to attack.

NBA stars, mobsters, and marks with fat wallets are all part of an alleged ring of rigged poker games. Here's how these games are assembled, who attends, and how the purported cheating happens. Former NBA player and Portland Trail Blazers head coach Chauncey Billups (center) exits the Mark O. Hatfield United States Courthouse after his arraignment on October 23, 2025, in Portland, Oregon. To the uninitiated, the arrests of Chauncey Billups and Damon Jones last week for allegations of involvement in rigged illegal poker games may have appeared like an unusual collision of worlds. How could prosecutors claim that former NBA players (one a current coach), professional gamblers, and even mafia members all ended up rubbing elbows as part of the same high-tech cheating scheme that allegedly began in 2019 and ran for several years?