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domenica 20 settembre 2026

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How to Avoid Scams and Sketchy Products on Amazon (2026)

You can find anything on Amazon—plus hundreds or thousands of versions of that thing. If its virtual shelves were translated into a brick-and-mortar storefront, it would probably be the most overstimulating space in the world. Take power banks, for example. Search “power bank” on Amazon and you’ll get more than 50,000 results, ranging from well-known brands like Anker and Jackery to obscure brand names with zero product reviews. There are hundreds and hundreds of companies and sellers to sift through, with varying capacities, port options, and charging speeds on offer. So how do you know which brands are high-quality? Which listings are legitimate? What’s a good price to pay? Are any of…

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What ChatGPT Thinks It Knows About You Is Affecting Its Answers. Here’s How to Change That

A memory of some kind is now a standard feature for an AI chatbot. The chatbot stores all of your interactions in its memory, enabling you to refer back to previous conversations, and giving the tool some useful context to frame its answers with. For example, if you tell it you're vegetarian, it won't recommend recipes with meat in them. This comes with privacy considerations as more of us share more of our lives with these apps. But it also has the potential to affect the responses you get from the AI in ways that you don't necessarily want. Perhaps you've spent a week researching how to replace a light switch and ChatGPT thinks you're a DIY enthusiast. Or you've been looking up places…

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Tiny Hairs That Help Corals Breathe May Malfunction in Warming Oceans

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. At first glance, corals present as little more than colorful rocks—piles of lobes, stalagmites, and branches poking out from the seafloor. They are anything but. Corals are complex creatures that form enduring colonies, and just like other animals they need oxygen to live. Across the living surface of coral, a frantic dance of survival takes place, invisible to our eyes and unknown to science before 2014. The tiny dancers are hairlike cilia, and new research into these microscopic structures is revealing just how active corals are in determining their own fate. Corals aren’t fortunate enough to have a consistent supply of…

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Forget the AI Slowdown—the Vulnerability Explosion Is Already Happening

Welcome to the inaugural edition of Kernel Panic! A weekly newsletter by Lily Hay Newman and Matt Burgess from inside the new world of privacy and digital security. To receive this newsletter in your inbox each week, sign up here. AI doomers have recently traded one worst-case scenario for another, putting aside a potential software vulnerability apocalypse to focus on the possibility of rogue AI causing mass human death in the next decade. As AI leaders consider a cooperative slowdown on frontier model development, though, one aspect of the cybersecurity sea change has already arrived thanks to existing, broadly available capabilities in mainstream AI products, including open weight…

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Tired of Cluttered Productivity Apps? This One’s Just a Text Document

I've spent decades testing, reviewing, and (most importantly) using different to-do list applications. It's a career, yes, but it's also a bit of an obsession. And I think we can all admit that most of these apps are way too complicated. A to-do list is just a list. Humans have been making lists for thousands of years, long before computers existed. Paper works well, but so does a stone slate if that's what you've got handy. It's possible that you, a modern human, absolutely need a to-do list application with bells and whistles—due dates, recurring tasks, sharing features, and maybe even an AI integration. But there's a good chance all you need is the digital equivalent of a piece of paper…

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Samsung Galaxy Watch9 Review: I Don’t Need Another Health Score

This past summer, Samsung launched the Galaxy Watch9 alongside the Galaxy Watch Ultra2, its more rugged, shock-resistant smartwatch for outdoor adventures. The Watch9 is the everyday option, and it’s a solid smartwatch and fitness tracker with a plethora of health features. It’s available in a 40-mm size in cream and graphite, and a 44-mm size in graphite and silver, starting at $80. Compared with last year’s Galaxy Watch8, it’s a modest update, though. There’s a faster processor, a slightly larger battery capacity, and an expanded suite of wellness metrics. After two weeks of testing the 40-mm model, I wouldn’t necessarily upgrade to the Watch9 from the Watch8. But if you have an older…

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An Editor’s Picks: The Best Gifts for Bird Lovers

You may be familiar with the various memes detailing the fact that once you reach middle age, you're automatically sorted, Harry Potter hat-style, into one of a handful of hobbies, such as sourdough bread making, gardening, or bird-watching. I can't contradict this, since I'm a middle-aged person who got sorted into bird-watching. But I do know that enjoying birds and their various activities is fun for all ages. Birds are beautiful, interesting, and unpredictable, and it's fascinating to keep a running life list of all the birds you've seen and hope to see in your lifetime. Whether someone you know is in their bird-watching phase, preparing for this phase, or has been in it for decades…

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Mathematicians Hate AI. They Can’t Quit It

Mathematician Tristan Buckmaster believes OpenAI used his work to rush ahead and beat him to solving a legendary math problem with a $1 million bounty. But that’s not been enough for him to stop using the company’s models—and he’s not the only mathematician that feels that way. “Even if you don't agree with any of this, you're kind of stuck. With AI being so useful, it's hard to completely prevent oneself from using it,” Buckmaster tells WIRED. “These companies have a monopoly, and there is not much choice,” he adds. In the week and half since the New York University professor accused OpenAI of copying his approach, Buckmaster has been using the company’s coding agent Codex to tidy up his…

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The Best Early Prime Day Deals Ahead of Amazon’s Second Sale (2026)

Amazon Prime Day deals are back, baby. The second sale of the year is officially dubbed Prime Big Deal Days and will arrive on October 6 and 7. However, early deals have already started, and I've been using my 13 years of deal-hunting experience to find true discounts on the gadgets and gear the WIRED Reviews team has hand-tested and would recommend to our friends. Below, you'll find the best early deals we've sleuthed so far. We'll be covering deals throughout the event and beyond. all the way through Black Friday and Cyber Monday. Don't miss our list of Prime Day tips put together by yours truly, plus our guide to Amazon Prime benefits you might be forgetting to use. - The best phone…

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Residents Harmed by Oil Drilling May Soon Receive Reparations Under New California Law

This story originally appeared on Capital B and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. As a child in the 1950s and ’60s, Regina Martin became so used to the oil pumpjacks near her home that she assumed every child lived beside them. Everyone was made “sick to [their] tummy” by the sulfurous, rotten-egg smell that never seemed to leave, she thought. Only until she was grown did she begin to see a possible connection between growing up on top of the nation’s largest urban oil drilling field and her own sickness and the asthma that affected her sister. For over a century in Los Angeles and across the nation, Black people have been disproportionately likely to live near oil wells, the…

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