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Love WIRED? Add us as a preferred source on Google to see more of us.Best Apple Watch BandWhen you buy your Apple Watch, you get to choose a band at checkout. I find textile and metal (stainless steel or titanium) bands to be more comfortable and fashionable than fluoroelastomer bands, which tend to be rigid and can irritate your skin. I love the Nike Sport Loop so much that it’s been my everyday band for six years, and I ended up buying it in two colors: navy blue and black. Made from recycled polyester, Spandex, and nylon, it’s soft, breathable,…

In brief SharpLink will stake $200 million of Ether through Lido’s liquid-staking protocol. The move is about 106,000 ETH, roughly 12% of the ~889,000 ETH SharpLink held as of early August. wstETH sits across more than 100 protocols with about $10 billion in active-use collateral, so SharpLink keeps earning yield while staying liquid. Miami-based digital asset treasury company SharpLink said Thursday it will stake $200 million of Ethereum through Lido, the largest liquid-staking protocol on Ethereum.The tokens arrive as wrapped staked ETH (wstETH)—a receipt token representing staked ETH plus its rewards—and Anchorage Digital will hold them in custody.Myriad: Ethereum next…

PÁRAMO EL ALMORZADERO, Colombia — Doris Torres is a sheepherder who grew up seeing Andean condors as enemies. In this remote village high in the Colombian Andes, the birds were blamed for livestock losses and often killed through poisoning or shooting — persecution that helped push their population to the brink. But as Torres learned more about the condor and its importance to the Andean ecosystem, her relationship with the species began to change. She became an unlikely conservationist and is now at the heart of a grassroots effort helping bring condors back to these mountains. Working with Fernando…

South Korea’s president has proposed talks with its northern neighbour on officially ending the war between the two that is technically still active.Lee Jae Myung suggested a “multi-layered security system” to avoid flare-ups along the countries’ de-facto border, known as the demilitarised zone (DMZ), and offered to discuss practical ways of halting Pyongyang’s nuclear ambitions.North Korea has continually tested ballistic missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads, which has been perceived in Seoul and nearby Japan as an attempt to intimidate and project power.The conflict between the two occupants of the Korean peninsula has been effectively frozen since an armistice was…

Back in October 2020, the UK immigration minister stood up in parliament to reassure campaigners concerned about EU citizens who weren’t aware they had to ask the Home Office to stay in the country after Brexit.Using an example of a child in foster care who might not know they were an EU citizen until they applied for their first job, the Conservative Kevin Foster said the UK would take “a generous approach as to what reasonable grounds [for failing to apply] were”.In other words, the UK/EU Brexit agreement was designed to protect those who had exercised lawful freedom of movement,…

The U.S. attorney’s office in Chicago has spent the past year investigating a Democratic fund-raising firm once co-owned by the daughter of the judge in President Trump’s hush-money trial in New York, according to court filings and people familiar with the inquiry.Last August, the U.S. attorney, Andrew S. Boutros of the Northern District of Illinois, directed Authentic Campaigns Inc. to turn over a broad range of internal communications with clients. They included former Vice President Kamala Harris, former President Joseph R. Biden Jr., Gov. Kathy Hochul of New York, Representative Hakeem Jeffries of New York, and the Democratic National Committee,…

Lance Whitney/ZDNETFollow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google.ZDNET’s key takeawaysChatGPT’s Computer History creates a timeline from your app and website activities.From the timeline, you can incorporate your work into your conversations.The option is only in the Mac app and only for certain types of accounts.ChatGPT now has a new feature that sounds like a productivity boost but may trigger concerns among privacy-minded users.On Thursday, OpenAI introduced its new Computer History feature. Now hitting the ChatGPT Mac app, but only for Pro, Business, and Enterprise accounts, Computer History is an opt-in skill that can capture your activities across…

In July 2025, House Republicans staged a coordinated three-bill blitz they called ‘Crypto Week;, advancing the GENIUS, CLARITY, and the Anti-CBDC Surveillance State Act in the same five day stretch. The GENIUS Act was signed into law within 24 hours, creating a regulatory framework for dollar-backed stablecoins. However, the other two bills weren’t so lucky. The Anti-CBDC Surveillance State passed the House by an extremely narrow margin, and got stuck in Senate purgatory without a floor vote in place for over a year. Following the House’s bipartisan passage of the CLARITY Act, the bill landed in the Senate Banking Committee…

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey V has taken a major step toward mapping the sky on a truly global scale with Data Release 20. Known as DR20, the release includes the first optical (BOSS) SDSS-V spectra collected from the Southern Hemisphere, greatly expanding the survey beyond the groundwork established in earlier releases. By combining these new southern observations with data gathered in the north, SDSS-V is bringing panoptic spectroscopy across both hemispheres. The result gives astronomers a broader view of stars, interstellar gas, and distant galaxies throughout the cosmos. DR20 contains part of the much larger panoptic spectroscopic map that…

SANTA FE, N.M.—Is climate change enough justification to stop the expansion of a reservoir that will take more water from the dwindling Colorado River? That’s the central question in a lawsuit pitting the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and Colorado’s largest water utility against a consortium of environmental nonprofits. The environmentalists say the Colorado River has no more water to give, while Denver Water, the utility whose Gross Reservoir would nearly triple in capacity, argues it is ensuring its customers can withstand droughts. The Corps contends it is not required to consider climate change or the downstream effects of its…