When you purchase through links in our articles, we may earn a small commission. Windows 10's death sure doesn't feel like a PC apocalypse When Windows 7 died, it was a disaster. Is Windows 10's death this week important? But I might be a minority. For many folks, the hullabaloo this week about Windows 10's demise feels overblown--after all, as Brad pointed out a couple of weeks ago, Microsoft is offering different ways to extend security updates .

It is one of the world's most popular messaging apps, used by more than two billion people around the globe. But within days, WhatsApp will stop working on three popular phones that are used by millions. From May 5, anyone still using a trio of Apple devices will no longer be able to send or receive messages on the app. After this date, only devices running the iOS 15.1 operating system or newer will be supported. The affected devices are the iPhone 5s, the iPhone 6, and the iPhone 6 Plus.

They are some of the world's most popular smartphones. But if you have an iPhone, make sure to update your device as soon as possible. Apple has released iOS 18.3, with urgent security updates to protect your phone from hackers. This includes a patch for one vulnerability that criminals have already been using to hijack iPhones. Sylvain Cortes, VP of Strategy at Hackuity, says: 'To safeguard against these threats, we'd strongly recommend users to promptly update their devices to iOS 18.3.'

The European Union isn't entirely happy with Apple's approach to its Digital Markets Act and there could be financial consequences. In preliminary findings of its investigation, the European Commission says the company breached Digital Markets Act (DMA) rules by failing to let App Store developers freely tell users about alternate payment options outside of Apple's ecosystem, what it calls anti-steering rules. It has been investigating Apple's behavior since March. Regulators added that although Apple is entitled to receive a payment for helping developers find new customers through the App Store, "the fees charged by Apple go beyond what is strictly necessary for such remuneration." Apple told Engadget in a statement, "We are confident our plan complies with the law and estimate more than 99 percent of developers would pay the same or less in fees to Apple under the new business terms we created."

Based on Pre-trained Language Models (PLMs), event coreference resolution (ECR) systems have demonstrated outstanding performance in clustering coreferential events across documents. However, the state-of-the-art system exhibits an excessive reliance on the'triggers lexical matching' spurious pattern in the input mention pair text. We formalize the decision-making process of the baseline ECR system using a Structural Causal Model (SCM), aiming to identify spurious and causal associations (i.e., rationales) within the ECR task. Leveraging the debiasing capability of counterfactual data augmentation, we develop a rationale-centric counterfactual data augmentation method with LLM-in-the-loop. This method is specialized for pairwise input in the Figure 1: The distribution of'triggers lexical matching' ECR system, where we conduct direct interventions in mention pairs from ECB+ training set, along with a on triggers and context to mitigate the false negative example from Held et al.'s system which spurious association while emphasizing the causation.

Peloton had a great pandemic. It's a weird thing to say, but the company's premium exercise equipment (expanding from bikes to treadmills and even weight-training tech) were the hot workout-from-home products. That boom made some people (not normal, sensible people) suggest we were never going back to bricks-and-mortar gyms once the world reopened. Now, Peloton's latest financial numbers and statements are not great, and further cuts, nips and tucks are now on the cards. Its shares have gone from 156 in 2021 to less than 3 today.

After 48 full hours, Amazon Prime Day 2022 is officially over. We hope you were able to find useful discounts among the Kindles, Echo Dots, Stasher bags, LifeStraws, and other great deals we found sifting through Amazon. If you missed out, fear not, a few great deals remain--at least for now. Below are the best remaining deals from all of our Prime Day 2022 coverage. Special offer for Gear readers: Get a 1-Year Subscription to WIRED for $5 ($25 off). This includes unlimited access to WIRED.com and our print magazine (if you'd like). Subscriptions help fund the work we do every day. If you buy something using links in our stories, we may earn a commission. This helps support our journalism. We like Google's Pixel 6 Pro (9/10, WIRED Recommends) because it has a spectacular camera system, with a great 4X optical zoom, a sharp 120-Hz screen refresh rate with an AMOLED panel, and plenty of useful smart software features powered by Google's Tensor processor. Oh, and a battery that generally lasts a full day.

Smart home devices from companies such as Amazon and Google can be hacked and used to crash websites, steal data and snoop on users, an investigation reveals. Consumer group Which? has found poor security on eight smart devices, some of which are no longer supported with vital security updates due to their age. Examples include the first generation Amazon Echo smart speaker, released in 2014, and a Virgin Media internet router from 2017. All of the products had vulnerabilities that could leave users exposed to cybercriminals, Which? Domestic abuse survivors can also be tracked and controlled by ex-partners who exploit weak security on devices including Wi-Fi routers and security cameras.

Microsoft wrapped up its second Ignite conference of the year with announcements of a plethora of new updates, products, and services at the big virtual event last week. Microsoft holds three different types of tech conferences/events every year: one focused on developers (Build), one for channel partners (Inspire), and another for end customers (Ignite). While there weren't a lot of consumer-centric announcements made at this event, the tech giant did pack in a bunch of major announcements on its cloud platform, tools, and services, along with the focus levied on collaboration, artificial intelligence, security, Metaverse, and more. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella addressed Microsoft's take on the Metaverse, which is shaping up as one of the biggest buzzwords of 2022. "As the'digital and physical worlds come together, we are creating an entirely new platform layer, which is the'Metaverse,'" Nadella said.

Labor Day is the informal beginning of fall, and for many of us, it starts with a nice long weekend. What could be better than sleeping in, enjoying a cool breeze, or treating yourself to one of the innumerable pumpkin spice confections at your favorite coffee shop? We found the best Labor Day deals on gear that WIRED reviewers love, from rain jackets to video games. For more discounts, we've rounded up the best Labor Day Mattress deals here, as well as Labor Day deals on camping and hiking gear. Most of these deals end on Monday night, and we'll be updating this roundup over the weekend as we find more. Updated September 6, 2021: We double-checked pricing, removed expired deals, and added a few new discounts. Special offer for Gear readers: Get a 1-year subscription to WIRED for $5 ($25 off).