September 6, 2025

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Wordle today: The answer and hints for July 12, 2025

Oh hey there! If you’re here, it must be time for Wordle. As always, we’re serving up our daily hints and tips to help you figure out today’s answer. If you just want to be told today’s word, you can jump to the bottom of this article for today’s Wordle solution revealed. But if you’d

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14 Best Prime Day TV Deals for All Budgets (2025)

Summer heat is upon us, but there’s nothing cooler than great Prime Day TV deals on the best TVs we’ve tested. We don’t recommend just any TV discounts; here at WIRED, you’ll find only the top models we’ve thoroughly tested in a wide variety of styles and budget tiers at their lowest (or close to

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Can an ‘ethical’ spyware maker justify providing its tech to ICE?

Paragon, an Israeli spyware company that claims to operate as an “ethical” surveillance vendor, faced scrutiny when earlier this year Italy was caught using Paragon’s tools to spy on the phones of two journalists. Paragon responded by cutting Italy off from its surveillance products, becoming the first spyware company to ever publicly name one of

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3 new Android 16 features to try thanks to Android Canary

Android 16 is here and there are already a bunch of fun new features to try out, but more are on the way. You can actually try some of them right now thanks to Android Canary, Google’s brand new delivery mechanism for upcoming feature testing for Android. Per 9to5Google, the first Android Canary update is

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Metadata Shows the FBI’s ‘Raw’ Jeffrey Epstein Prison Video Was Likely Modified

The United States Department of Justice this week released nearly 11 hours of what it described as “full raw” surveillance footage from a camera positioned near Jeffrey Epstein’s prison cell the night before he was found dead. The release was intended to address conspiracy theories about Epstein’s apparent suicide in federal custody. But instead of

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AI chatbot’s simple ‘123456’ password risked exposing personal data of millions of McDonald’s job applicants

Security researchers found that they could access the personal information of 64 million people who had applied for a job at McDonald’s, in large part by logging into the company’s AI job hiring chatbot with the username and password “123456.” Ian Carroll and Sam Curry wrote in a blog post that “during a cursory security

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The 23 best Prime Day tech deals, chosen by a tech editor

Prime Day 2025 ends tonight, but there’s still time to shop. As Mashable’s tech editor, I’ve been covering Prime Day and Black Friday events since 2019. So, instead of wading through hundreds thousands of the best Prime Day tech deals to find the diamonds in the rough, let me do the deal hunting for you.

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Tornado Cash Made Crypto Anonymous. Now One of Its Creators Faces Trial

A large portion of the trial, legal experts say, will focus on whether Storm intended for Tornado Cash to be used for illicit means, whether he knew that it was used to launder stolen funds, and whether he knew that inaction meant breaking the law, as prosecutors allege. The defense will claim that the developers

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Tesla is already trying to expand its robotaxi service to Arizona 

Tesla has applied to test and operate autonomous vehicles in Arizona in a bid to bring its fledgling robotaxi service to the Metro Phoenix area, the state’s Department of Transportation confirmed to TechCrunch.  Tesla contacted the Motor Vehicle Division (MVD) under the Arizona Department of Transportation on June 26 to begin the certification process, a

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Today’s Hurdle hints and answers for July 11, 2025

If you like playing daily word games like Wordle, then Hurdle is a great game to add to your routine. There are five rounds to the game. The first round sees you trying to guess the word, with correct, misplaced, and incorrect letters shown in each guess. If you guess the correct answer, it’ll take

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