Antimatter is not known for being easy to get ahold of . That's part of why these particles remain so cryptic. But recently, a team of physicists at Northwestern University managed to trap a single antimatter particle for months. Cooling it to temperatures near absolute zero, they could control its quantum states with great precision without even touching it. The experiment, published in Physical Review Letters represents a breakthrough in our understanding of one of the great mysteries of physics.

Security researchers used AI tools to help uncover years-old vulnerabilities in the PHP web scripting language. Then the AI-assisted attacks began. As security teams and web admins scrambled this week to patch newly public PHP bugs, criminal hackers quickly attempted to exploit the flaws in the wild. Millions of exploitation attempts hit within hours of the vulnerabilities being published, according to analysis from Cloudflare--unsurprising given broad access to AI tools that can make it easier for attackers to quickly exploit flaws. So far, the nightmare scenario of mass victim takeovers and breaches hasn't come to pass.

The vaccine is personalized to a patient's tumor, and results from the Phase 3 trial are yet another example of the promise of mRNA vaccines in treating cancer. The new mRNA vaccine is waiting on FDA approval but has shown great promise in Phase 3 clinical trials. An experimental vaccine offers new hope to patients with melanoma, one of the most aggressive forms of skin cancer . The pharmaceutical companies Merck and Moderna released the results of a Phase 3 clinical trial that evaluated the efficacy of a personalized mRNA-based vaccine that, when combined with immunotherapy, reduced the risk of disease recurrence or death by 42 percent compared to treatment with the immunotherapy drug alone. Georgina Long, medical director of the Australian Melanoma Institute and the study's principal investigator, said in a statement that these results are "transformative" and "have the potential to make a foundational shift in how we treat patients with earlier-stage melanoma."

Ditching the surveillance baggage makes Meta's audio-only frames surprisingly easy to live with. Audio and call quality are excellent. Transition lenses adjust effectively and quickly. Meta AI is getting better, but isn't top-notch. I am very lost in Los Angeles.

How Many Billions Would It Take to Hold Meta Accountable? Meta got hit this week with its biggest fine yet, the latest in a mounting pile of court-ordered payments. Earlier this week, a New Mexico judge ordered Meta to pay a $25 billion fine for violating consumer protection laws dating back to the Cambridge Analytica scandal. A quick recap of the case: Filed in 2021, the suit alleged that the company violated the state's Unfair Practices Act by lying to Meta users about the way it handled their data. In September, a jury ruled in favor of the state.

A Dating App Is Offering'Chivalry Mode' and'Marriage Timeline' to Get Gen Z Married Upward, a newly relaunched Christian app, is pitching trad values to a generation that barely even dates. When Adreanna Pulliam signed up for the Christian dating app Upward over the summer, she was prepared to come across men who identified as hyperconservative. So when she swiped on a guy's profile that listed "a progressive donkey or a ' Trump is King' elephant" as his relationship deal-breaker, she was shocked. "I hadn't expected to see a moderate libertarian" on the app, she says. It only got more bizarre from there.

Warhound came out of stealth on Wednesday with $200 million in funding and a mission to create elite working dogs equipped with advanced body armor. A new startup launched today with the definitely not terrifying mission of creating genetically enhanced dogs for the United States military, law enforcement, and emergency first responders. The startup has raised $200 million to "rebuild America's domestic supply of elite working dogs" and reduce dependency on European dog breeders for military canines. Lamm tells WIRED that Warhound is in the process of gene-editing its first batch of dogs. The startup has already collected blood samples from specific top-performing" military, police, and first responder dogs in the United States, and its goal is to clone them.

WIRED spoke with the founders of the Aged Intelligence Society, a fast-growing events startup that brings women together to "solve midlife problems using frontier tools." I'm not even going to try to pretend I don't have a bit of a girl-crush on Shoshana Berger. She's a former WIRED editor turned editorial leader for companies like Notion and Ideo. And she's the cofounder, with Nina Willdorf, of the Aged Intelligence Society, a buzzy events startup that hosts invite-only dinner parties where women "solve midlife problems using frontier tools ." Berger and Willdorf having a refreshingly practical take on AI. "This is the most formative technology of our generation, and it's here," Willdorf says.

This week on “Uncanny Valley,” we go behind the scenes of our Nathan Fielder cover story, unpack tech billionaires’ generous promises, and discuss the suspicious letters sent to US election offices.

Meet Mori, a Cute Robot Mushroom That Doesn't Really Say (or Do) Anything Step one in convincing people to live with robots with cameras on their faces? You've had a long day. You finally get home, fling the door open, plonk on the couch, and let out a big sigh. In the corner of your eye, you notice your mushroom lamp perk up. Its microphone must have heard you come in.