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 S62Ancient black hole challenges our understanding of the early Universe   At the center of nearly every galaxy in the cosmos sits a monster: a black hole with a mass millions or even billions of times heavier than our Sun. When and how these enormous objects formed is an open question in the astrophysics community.Recently, in a paper published in Nature Astronomy, scientists reported the discovery of an ancient supermassive black hole, one that existed very early in life of the Universe. While some enthusiasts have claimed that the observation of these gigantic black holes has disproved the theory of the Big Bang, this is a hasty conclusion. However, it is certainly true that the existence of very early supermassive black holes will require astronomers to rethink some things.
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S50How to Answer "What Are Your Strengths and Weaknesses?"  Don’t take common interview questions lightly just because they’re predictable. Underpreparing for them can make the difference between moving ahead and moving on. One question that often comes up: What are your strengths and weaknesses? In this article, the author outlines clear steps for how to describe your strengths and weaknesses along with sample language to use as a guide.
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S63Why R is the weirdest letter  In November 2021, linguists from around the world met in Lausanne, Switzerland, for the seventh edition of a conference focusing specifically on the “R” sound. The conference, called ‘R-Atics, included a presentation on the intrusive R used in the Falkland Islands, a reconstruction of what R sounded like in historical Armenian, and a discussion of the R sounds in Shiwiar, an indigenous Ecuadorian language spoken by well under 10,000 people, among other events and talks. Don’t be too surprised if, at a future ‘R-Atics conference, the “crispy R” joins the ranks of esoteric presentations from linguists obsessed with the weirdness and variation of this particular sound.The crispy R is a phenomenon that some linguists had noticed, but which had gone largely unstudied—until the phrase “crispy R” was bestowed on it by Brian Michael Firkus, better known as Trixie Mattel, the winner of the third season of RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars, and later popularized via TikTok. The sound is easier to point out than it is to either describe or reproduce. Some of the most frequent users of this unusual-sounding R include Kourtney Kardashian, Max Greenfield of New Girl fame, Stassi from Vanderpump Rules, and Ezra Koenig of Vampire Weekend. It sounds, to me at least, like a sort of elongated, curled sound, a laconic way of saying R.
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S37Amazon Just Quietly Released the Weirdest Fight-Club Thriller of the Decade  In a time where literally thousands of movies and TV shows are at viewers’ fingertips, it’s hard for a movie to be truly surprising. Marketing has to lay out a movie’s entire premise and tone from the get-go in order to set it apart and show what’s special. Because of this, some great twists have been spoiled. Prey, the Predator prequel that caused a splash on Hulu last year, was initially supposed to not mention the creature at all in marketing, making it a shocking twist for viewers. Unfortunately, the allure of a new Predator movie won out and the twist was spoiled. But one 2023 movie proved to be truly surprising. Instead of being a frothy high school R-rated comedy, it proved it could be a solid action thriller with a brutal ending, more Heathers than Superbad — and now you can see it for yourself on Amazon Prime Video.
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S68S61ChatGPT Spit Out Sensitive Data When Told to Repeat 'Poem' Forever  Brinkmanship escalated in the US Congress this week over strategies to reauthorize the government surveillance powers known as "Section 702," as civil rights groups sounded the alarm about the consequences of the program and its potential renewal. A WIRED investigation of more than 100 restricted Telegram channels indicated that the communication app's bans on extremist discourse aren't effective or adequate bans. And the identity management platform Okta admitted this week that a security breach previously thought to impact 1 percent of its customers actually affected 100 percent.Analysis indicates that OpenAI's custom chatbots, known as GPTs, can be manipulated to leak their training data and other private information. Funding for the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention gun violence research is at risk as Republicans quietly work to strip support. Palmer Luckey's autonomous drone company Anduril is exploring innovations in jet power and artificial intelligence to enhance these combat-shifting devicesâfor better or worse. And the Indian government's longtime control of radio news is giving Prime Minister Narendra Modi a critical advantage with elections looming in the country.
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S39'Deadpool 3' Is Marvel's Most Important Upcoming Movie -- And It's Been Set Up to Fail  In the four years since Disney finished its acquisition of Fox, Marvel Studios has slowly grown more comfortable with exercising its rights to Fox’s X-Men characters. Patrick Stewart’s Professor X had a cameo in last year’s Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, while Kelsey Grammer recently returned as Beast in the mid-credits scene of The Marvels. Now the studio seems primed to finally bridge the remaining gaps between the Marvel Cinematic Universe and Fox’s X-Men Universe with Deadpool 3.The highly anticipated superhero film is set to feature both Ryan Reynolds’ Wade Wilson and Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine. If certain reports are to be believed, Deadpool 3 won’t just bring the Merc with a Mouth and his fourth-wall-breaking antics to the MCU, either. The film is rumored to play an important role in setting up the multiversal conflict of Avengers: Secret Wars.
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S22My Ancestors Ride Wit Me  My ancestors ride wit me. They twerk on the roof of the Uber as I’m pulling up late to the party. They gas me full tank and yas me in the mirror as I summon them out of me with my mascara wands and glitter and every time I draw my eyes on Nana you encourage me to keep my chin lifted upwards, my eyes filling up with stars.I know I walk on salt blood water tears. I know the earth has been beaten down and made gangsta but sometimes, e hoas, I just want to party.
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S35African countries lost control to foreign mining companies - the 3 steps that allowed this to happen  Within a few years of independence, African governments asserted sovereignty over their metal and mineral resources. Prior to this, the resources were exploited by European mining corporations. Since the 1990s, transnational corporations have once again become the dominant force as owners and managers of major mining projects. In the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), president Joseph-Désiré Mobutu took steps early to place resources under state control. The Bakajika Law of June 1966 required all foreign-based companies to establish their headquarters in the DRC, then known as Zaire, by the end of the year. In addition, the largest Belgian-owned colonial mining subsidiary, Union minière de Haut Katanga, was nationalised the same year. It became Société générale Congolaise des minerais (Gécamines). By 1970, the Congolese public sector controlled 40% of national value added.
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S47'Rick and Morty' Is Finally Bringing Back Its Weirdest Character Ever  Everything you need to know about Water-T’s return in “Rise of the Numbericons: The Movie.”Last week’s episode of Rick and Morty, “Wet Kuat Amortican Summer,” went all in on the mutant-based body horror to parody Total Recall. But all the Kuato fun is over now with the Season 7 finale fast approaching. Before that, however, Morty’s going to get a visit from an old comrade. Here’s everything you need to know about Rick and Morty Season 7 Episode 8, including the release date and time, episode title, teaser trailer, and more.
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S59The Withings ScanWatch 2 Checks Your Temperature and Ups the Price  If you buy something using links in our stories, we may earn a commission. This helps support our journalism. Learn more. Please also consider subscribing to WIREDI loved the original Withings ScanWatch (8/10, WIRED recommends). It was a refined, elegant, health- and fitness-focused hybrid smartwatch with impressive stamina. The ScanWatch 2 retains everything that made the original so compelling and adds some subtle improvements, most notably temperature tracking, but this comes with an unpalatable price hike.
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S66Porsche summons old-school cool with the 2024 911 Sport Classic  Sports cars have always been emotionally driven purchases, and perhaps no automaker understands this better than Porsche. There are more than two dozen iterations of the 911 on sale today, and while it can sometimes feel like sussing out the differences in character between one variant and another is an exercise in splitting hairs, the new Sport Classic tugs at enthusiasts' heartstrings in a way that no other modern 911 can.
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S57Zapping Plastic Waste Can Produce Clean Fuel  Hydrogen gas is a carbon-free energy source that can be burned in place of fossil fuels. But its most common production method relies on methane, a potent greenhouse gas. Other known methods are costly and resource-intensive. Now researchers have found a cleaner—and, in theory, profitable—way to make hydrogen gas from waste plastic. The process also generates graphene, an extremely valuable, ultrathin carbon material used in products such as electronics, concrete and car parts.This method could help keep heat- trapping carbon out of the atmosphere, says James Tour, a Rice University chemistry professor and senior author of a recent study on the topic, published in Advanced Materials.
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S67New algorithm finds lots of gene-editing enzymes in environmental DNA  CRISPR—Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats—is the microbial world’s answer to adaptive immunity. Bacteria don’t generate antibodies when they are invaded by a pathogen and then hold those antibodies in abeyance in case they encounter that same pathogen again, the way we do. Instead, they incorporate some of the pathogen’s DNA into their own genome and link it to an enzyme that can use it to recognize that pathogenic DNA sequence and cut it to pieces if the pathogen ever turns up again.
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S43'House of the Dragon' Season 2 Trailer Finally Gets to the Main Event  House of the Dragon Season 2 is finally delivering great action on par with its predecessor, high fantasy behemoth Game of Thrones. While Season 1 set up the Targaryen empire and those operating within it, it was all a precursor to what we know is upcoming: The Dance of the Dragons, a massive civil war between the Greens and the Blacks. (The Greens being those who side with Queen Alicent and her son Aegon; the Blacks being those loyal to Rhaenyra, Viserys’ eldest child.)Now, in a first-look trailer revealed at CCXP, it’s clear that war has finally descended onto Westeros and nobody is safe.
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S23The George Santos Number That Brought 'SNL' to Life  The now-former Republican representative George Santos was a perfect fit for the show’s satire.Saturday Night Live loves to put a politician in front of a piano. Most famously, Kate McKinnon, playing Hillary Clinton, sat down in front of the keys and earnestly belted Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” following Clinton’s loss to Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election. It felt like a moment of contrition for the program that had invited Trump on as host during his campaign, to much criticism.
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S51S28How to Stop Overthinking and Start Trusting Your Gut  Intuition is frequently dismissed as mystical or unreliable — but there’s a deep neurological basis for it. When you approach a decision intuitively, your brain works in tandem with your gut to quickly assess all your memories, past learnings, personal needs, and preferences and then makes the wisest decision given the context. The author offers strategies to learn how to leverage your intuition as a helpful decision-making tool in your career: 1) discern gut feeling from fear, 2) start by making minor decisions, 3) test drive your choices, 4) try the snap judgment test, and 5) fall back on your values.
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S48The Most Brutal Multiplayer Melee On Xbox Game Pass Just Got A Huge Update  Fighting evolves alongside us. In just the last century battlefields have gone from bloody, trench-filled meat grinders to sky-high drones dropping smartbombs. Our tastes skew to the modern too, especially in our video games. You can relive D-Day time and again across a bunch of titles. But what if you want to get medieval on some asses?Enter Chivalry II. The melee multiplayer from Torn Banner Studios is everything you could want in a siege combat simulator. There’s tons of weapons and maps all buoyed by mechanics and objectives that feel both immersive and absurd. Its latest update, Reclamation, dropped on Game Pass Nov. 7 and provides the perfect excuse to go once more unto the breach, even if it's your first time.
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S3865 Cool Things That Seem Expensive but Are Cheap AF on Amazon  One of the many tricks to saving money is to buy stuff that looks expensive but isn’t expensive. With a little persistence and some shopping savviness, you can easily find everything from plush bed sheets to stylish hammock chairs at shockingly low prices. But if you don’t have time to scour the internet for deals? Not a problem, as I’ve put together this list of cool things that seem expensive, but are really cheap AF — and you can find them all right on Amazon. So what are you waiting for? Keep scrolling to see more.Not only is this bidet a cost-effective alternative to toilet paper, but it’s also so easy to install that you shouldn’t have any trouble doing it on your own — no need to call a plumber. Its water pressure is adjustable up to six levels, and you can easily tweak the spraying angle by pressing a button on the side control panel. Plus, all pieces are either rustproof or rust-resistant.
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S33S49How to Measure Inclusion in the Workplace  In an era where companies are paying more and more attention to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), inclusion remains the most difficult metric to track. From new research, Gartner developed the Gartner Inclusion Index to measure what true inclusion looks like across an organization. The authors outline how to use the Gartner Inclusion Index to measure employee perceptions of inclusion, what effective action looks like from leaders, and common pitfalls to avoid.
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S64Experimental drug cuts heart disease risk factor by 96%  The first-in-human trial of an experimental drug, lepodisiran, found that a single shot could dramatically and durably reduce blood levels of lipoprotein(a), a currently untreatable risk factor for heart disease.The challenge: Your levels of LDL cholesterol — the bad kind that clogs arteries and leads to heart disease — are based on a combination of factors, including genetics, diet, and lifestyle.
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S42'Fallout' Trailer Subverts a Huge Adaptation Trend  Gone are the days of “the video game curse.” In a post-The-Last-of-Us world, video game adaptations are almost expected to counter the expectations of their source material and take things super seriously, with grey, muddy color grading and heart-wrenching death scenes (Twisted Metal notwithstanding).Fallout, Prime Video’s stab at adapting Bethesda’s hit franchise, may have found the balance between “Peak TV”-style drama and goofy video-game high jinks to deliver what may just be the next great apocalyptic TV saga.
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S20The Seven Stories to Read Today  This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. Sign up for it here.The holiday season is upon us—but before you power through your to-do list, decompress with these seven stories, selected by our editors.
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S29The Elements of Good Judgment  Judgment—the ability to combine personal qualities with relevant knowledge and experience to form opinions and make decisions—is “the core of exemplary leadership,” according to Noel Tichy and Warren Bennis (the authors of Judgment: How Winning Leaders Make Great Calls). It is what enables a sound choice in the absence of clear-cut, relevant data or an obvious path. Likierman believes that a more precise understanding of what exactly gives someone good judgment may make it possible for people to learn and improve on it. He approached CEOs at a range of companies, from some of the world’s largest right down to start-ups, along with leaders in the professions: senior partners at law and accountancy firms, generals, doctors, scientists, priests, and diplomats. He asked them to share their observations of their own and other people’s exercise of judgment so that he could identify the skills and behaviors that collectively create the conditions for fresh insights and enable decision makers to discern patterns that others miss. As a result, he has identified six key elements that collectively constitute good judgment: learning, trust, experience, detachment, options, and delivery. He describes these elements and offers suggestions for improvement in each one.
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S4S65Roar of cicadas was so loud, it was picked up by fiber-optic cables  One of the world’s most peculiar test beds stretches above Princeton, New Jersey. It’s a fiber optic cable strung between three utility poles that then runs underground before feeding into an “interrogator.” This device fires a laser through the cable and analyzes the light that bounces back. It can pick up tiny perturbations in that light caused by seismic activity or even loud sounds, like from a passing ambulance. It’s a newfangled technique known as distributed acoustic sensing, or DAS.
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S55Denmark: The major pork producer trying to wean itself off eating meat  Trine Krebs adores vegetables. "When I get a plant in my hands that I can feel is healthy, I can smell it, feel it, almost taste it in my mouth," the 47-year-old, cardigan-clad farmer enthuses over Zoom. Described affectionately by some as "Miss Dry-Legume of Denmark", Krebs has won awards for her advocacy of plant-rich – or "plant-rig" in Danish – diets. To this end she has run food festivals, trained cooks and invented songs. She even appeared on a Danish dating show, Farmer Looking for Love, and taught her prospective romantic interests to cook legumes: the first refused, the second was luke-warm, but the third was totally won over. "He thought it tasted amazing and wanted me to teach all his friends."
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S6S10Message sticks: Australia's ancient unwritten language  The continent of Australia is home to more than 250 spoken Indigenous languages and 800 dialects. Yet, one of its linguistic cornerstones wasn't spoken, but carved.Known as message sticks, these flat, rounded and oblong pieces of wood were etched with ornate images on both sides that conveyed important messages and held the stories of the continent's Aboriginal people – considered the world's oldest continuous living culture. Message sticks are believed to be thousands of years old and were typically carried by messengers over long distances to reinforce oral histories or deliver news between Aboriginal nations or language groups.
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S17A polyglot explains the tips (and myths) of learning new languages  When I visited Buenos Aires last year, I thought the six semesters of Spanish I took in school would pay dividends. The fast flow of Spanish from Argentinians quickly killed that delusion. I realized I had forgotten most conjugation rules and vocabulary, and I was able to formulate only simple, stilted sentences: “I can have a beer?” So it was admittedly encouraging to hear that Arieh Smith, a New York City-based polyglot who runs the popular language-learning YouTube channel Xiaomanyc, didn’t leave his first foreign language classes with much proficiency either.
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S40Yes, Even Your Indoor Cat Should Wear a Collar. A Vet Tells Us Why.  Modern collars are much more than a loop of fabric with an engraved tag. They boast wi-fi connection and AI capability and might be nicer than your fanciest pair of shoes. But strip back the superfluous parts, collars serve a basic, important function of identifying your fur baby if they ever get out of your sight.While collars are arguably important for humans, our smooth-brained friends don’t know what they’re wearing or why. Are there potential drawbacks to making our pets wear collars? And do indoor cats need them as much as the most trail-blazing dog? The health effects of collars, unsurprisingly, are far more beneficial than they are detrimental.
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S4445 genius solutions to your stupid problems around the house  I'm a science fiction fan, and I thought that, by now, there would be robots available to handle all the annoying household problems. But here we are, still struggling with issues like drafty doors, rotting produce, and sock drawers in chaos. It's all good, though. After boldly going where no AI can, I found 45 solutions to various household issues — and they're all on Amazon.Nothing on this list is too expensive, but all of it is necessary if you want to prepare meals with ease, organize your closet, or create a comfier WFH environment.
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S58Primordial Helium May Be Leaking from Earth's Core  Helium gas may be seeping from Earth’s core, say scientists who found extremely high helium isotope ratios in lavas on Baffin IslandA new analysis of ancient lava flows in the Canadian Arctic suggests helium trapped in Earth’s core could be slowly “leaking” into the mantle and then reaching the surface—an idea that challenges the scientific understanding of our planet’s inner workings.
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S53S60Climate Cookbooks Are Here to Change How You Eat  Kitchen Arts & Letters, a legendary cookbook store on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, is tiny—just 750 square feet—but not an inch of space is wasted. With roughly 12,000 different cookbooks and a staff of former chefs and food academics, it’s the land of plenty for those seeking guidance beyond the typical weekday recipe.One table is piled high with new cookbooks about ramen, eggs, and the many uses of whey, the overflow stacked in leaning towers above the shelves along the walls. One bookcase is packed with nothing but titles about fish. And next to a robust vegetarian section at the back of the store, tucked in a corner, is a minuscule collection of cookbooks about sustainability and climate change.
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