Month: August 2025
41 Best Labor Day Sales on WIRED-Tested Gear (2025)
You labored hard for your cash—save some of it with these Labor Day deals on WIRED-approved fire pits, laptops, pizza ovens, and more. Source
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Surfshark hit by a lawsuit in the US over alleged “illegal” auto-renewal fees – here’s what we know
Surfshark has been hit by a class action lawsuit over alleged “illegal” auto-renewal fees A Californian customer accused Surfshark of automatically enrolling him in renewal without his consent Most popular VPN providers employ similar auto-renewal systems – a practice lawyers allege to go against California’s consumer law A Californian customer…
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Apple iOS 26: Everything you need to know about the new features in the upcoming iPhone update
In just over a week, the Apple iPhone 17 event will be here — it’s Tuesday, September 9 — and we’ll finally get to see the new iPhone 17 lineup. Assuming Apple sticks to tradition, we should be able to install iOS 26 roughly one week after the event. But…
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Framework actually did it: I upgraded a laptop’s entire GPU in just three minutes
Today, I can confirm the system actually works. I traveled to Framework’s San Francisco offices to be the first journalist to upgrade an entire laptop graphics card, with my own hands, in just three minutes — including the time it took to reboot. I yanked an AMD Radeon RX 7700S…
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Harlan Coben’s next thriller series switches from Netflix to Prime Video, and that shouldn’t be surprising
It’s official – Harlan Coben’s Lazarus is coming to Prime Video on October 22, with all six episodes set to drop on the streaming service at once. Starring Bill Nighy and Sam Claflin, the new crime thriller will follow a forensic pathologist (Claflin) who investigates cold-case murders after returning to…
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Tesla asks court to toss wrongful death verdict that cost it $243 million
Earlier this month, a jury found Tesla partially responsible for the death of 22-year-old Naibel Benavides, who was killed by a Model S driver who plowed into her and her boyfriend Dillon Angulo. Tesla was ordered to pay the families of the victims $243 million in compensatory and punitive damages,…
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