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Nomad Goods Promo Codes: Get 25% Off in October 2026
10/6/2026
At WIRED, we recommend a range of Nomad accessories for your smartphone, tablet, earbuds, and smartwatch. But it can get expensive—it’s the price you pay for luxury. If you’ve been waiting for a sale, you’re in luck. The company is currentl…
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AI & Platforms
MCP for agent-to-agent comms may be the riskiest protocol you've never heard of
10/6/2026
Skip to content LOST IN TRANSLATION Trust gaps in the new protocol spread malicious prompts from one agent to another. Credit: Getty Images The adoption of AI agents in millions of organizations is creating new opportunities for attackers t…
AI · Design
AI & Platforms
Lucid Motors’ EV output falls to lowest level in almost 2 years
10/6/2026
Lucid Motors built 2,954 electric vehicles (EVs) in the third quarter of this year, a 54% drop from a year ago, as the company purposely limits production to better meet demand for its EVs. This was the third straight quarter in which the n…
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Web Development
Google froze its open source bug bounty program due to a ‘significant rise’ in AI submissions
10/5/2026
Blaming a “significant rise” in AI submissions, Google has paused its open source bug bounty program until next year. Last year, TechCrunch reported that cybersecurity experts were warning of that AI slop posed a serious risk to bug bounty …
AI · Open Source
Mobile
The new Fitbit Edge leaks
10/5/2026
Terrence O'Brien is the Verge’s weekend editor. He’s covered the tech industry for over 18 years and knows a thing or two about synths.We don’t know a ton about the Fitbit Edge, but it appears to be a successor to the midrange Charge line. …
AI · Android
AI & Platforms
15 Best Office Chairs of 2026—We Tested 70 to Pick Them
10/5/2026
How to Sit Properly at a DeskThe right chair can only go so far. Your sitting habits and posture matter too. We've rounded up several tips on how to set up your desk properly here, and how to avoid tech neck, but here are a few highlights.S…
AI · Design
Mobile
The Nvidia Shield TV Is 7 Years Old. It Just Got a $100 Price Hike
10/4/2026
The era of generative AI has upended technology supply chains, and there is one ironclad rule in 2026: If it has memory or storage, it’s getting more expensive. Even devices with years-old tech inside are still apparently subject to that un…
AI · Android
Mobile
The Agent Said It Was Done. The Database Disagreed.
10/4/2026
Microsoft ThinkingBox grades AI agents on the records they leave behind, not the sentences they generate, and then asks whether they can do it twenty times in a row. It is now available through Hugging Face. Figure 1: ThinkingBox runs an ag…
AI · Cloud · Design · iOS
Web Development
Milt Windler, NASA flight director who helped save Apollo 13, dies at 94
10/4/2026
“We had to come up with a system that would allow us to plan in real time and accommodate the science people. If something interesting happened on the sun, which it did several times, then we needed to be able to schedule the ATM [Apollo Te…
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