Thursday, February 5, 2026

Technology

ChatGPT’s Study Mode Is Here. It Won’t Fix Education’s AI Problems

The school year starts soon for many students, and ChatGPT has announced a new “study mode” that aims to prevent—or at least, encourage against—students taking homework shortcuts.The mode is designed around the Socratic method, so when activated, OpenAI’s generative...

The Pandemic Appears to Have Accelerated Brain Aging, Even in People Who Never Got Covid

More than five years after the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, we are still discovering the after-effects of not only the virus but also the prolonged period of stress, isolation, loss, and uncertainty that the pandemic caused. A new...

Big Tech Asked for Looser Clean Water Act Permitting. Trump Wants to Give It to Them

Last week, the Trump administration announced a set of sweeping AI policy recommendations to “usher in a new golden age of human flourishing.” Among the suggested environmental rollbacks laid out in both an executive order and a corresponding AI...

Meta’s AI Recruiting Campaign Finds a New Target

Mark Zuckerberg is on a warpath to recruit top talent in the AI field for his newly formed Meta Superintelligence Labs. After trying to gut OpenAI (and successfully poaching several top researchers), he appears to have set his sights...

A Secretive US Space Plane Will Soon Test Quantum Navigation Technology

The X-37B, the US Space Force’s secretive space plane, will soon take flight again.On Monday, the Space Force announced that it will fly the small, Space Shuttle–shaped vehicle on the program’s eighth mission next month. The launch of the...

Nvidia Geforce RTX 5060 Review: Not Quite There

For the RTX 5060, Nvidia only offered to send out the card if we agreed to stipulations around which games we would benchmark, which features we would enable, and which other GPUs we'd compare it to. That would've looked...

7 Best Reading Lights (2025): Clip-On, Rechargeable, Portable

Other Reading Lights We Tested and LikedPhotograph: Simon HillPhilips Hue Go Smart Portable Table Lamp for $101: My previous bedside lamp offers many of the same features as our pick above, but it can also be picked up and...

Apple MacOS Tahoe 26: Top New Features to Try

I haven’t been excited about a macOS update in a long time, but with macOS Tahoe 26, we're finally getting a significant overhaul. Between the visual redesign and some exciting pro features, there's something for everyone to try out...

Meta Is Going to Let Job Candidates Use AI During Coding Tests

Meta told employees that it is going to allow some coding job candidates to use an AI assistant during the interview process, according to internal Meta communications seen by 404 Media. The company has also asked existing employees to...

Wolf Memory Foam Hybrid Premium Firm Mattress Review: A New Alpha

For context, I usually sleep on the Nolah Evolution Hybrid (9/10, WIRED Recommends), which happens to be one of the best mattresses I’ve tested to date. The first thing I noticed with this bed was that the pressure relief...
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Sydney’s huge Gaza protest shows there’s now no stopping the tide of public opinion | Sarah Malik

The rain couldn’t stop us. At least 100,000 people took over the CBD and marched across Sydney’s Harbour Bridge...
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