In all my years of recommending products for work, I’ve received enough gear in the mail for three lifetimes. And sometimes I’ll try something great, but I don’t have a good place to tell people about it. Last year, I started receiving beauty boxes for our buying guide, and there were a few standout items from the dozens that I tested for that guide (and others) that needed an outlet. So here we are! These are the products that have stood out for being innovative, versatile, or just plain good.

Be sure to check out our related buying guides, including the Best Dry Shampoos, the Best Hair Masks, and the

Storytelling. That’s what Fiat CEO Olivier Francois says separates Fiat from the wave of affordable new (mostly) Chinese EVs. He’s quite the raconteur himself, has an Instagram teeming with A-list contacts, and cheerfully admits that the new Grande Panda needs to be a blockbuster.

“Heritage is key,” he explains. “Our design is rooted in our heritage, and that’s not by chance. It’s a good way of reassuring our customers. There are new brands but, hey, they come and they go. We’ve been here for 125 years—and we’re here to stay.”

As with Renault’s rapturously received new 5, the Grande Panda pulses with a palpable confidence. With its

Deadly bioweapons, automated cybersecurity attacks, powerful AI models escaping human control. Those are just some of the potential threats posed by artificial intelligence, according to a new UK government report. It was released to help set the agenda for an international summit on AI safety to be hosted by the UK next week. The report was compiled with input from leading AI companies such as Google’s DeepMind unit and multiple UK government departments, including intelligence agencies.

Joe White, the UK’s technology envoy to the US, says the summit provides an opportunity to bring countries and leading AI companies together to better understand the risks

Sam Bankman-Fried will take the stand at his own trial, his legal counsel has confirmed. The founder of stricken crypto exchange FTX has endured three weeks of bruising testimony in federal court from ex-colleagues, peers, and other witnesses. But Bankman-Fried will now take the opportunity to relay his own version of events to the jury.

The US government has accused Bankman-Fried of masterminding a multibillion-dollar fraud, whereby funds belonging to FTX customers were swept into a sibling company, Alameda Research, and either used to back up risky crypto bets or spent on debt repayments, personal loans, political donations, and luxuries of various sorts. At trial, he is facing seven charges

On Friday, October 20, the identity management platform Okta said it suffered an intrusion in its customer support system. As an access and authentication service, a breach of Okta always comes with risks to other organizations, and the company confirmed that “certain Okta customers” were affected. Okta tells WIRED that it notified “around 1 percent” of its 18,400 customers that they were impacted.

The password manager 1Password, an Okta customer, said this week that it had notified the company on September 29 of suspicious activity that ultimately was tied to the support system incident. BeyondTrust, another identity and access management firm and also an

The spread of misinformation is a massive problem online, and generative AI is only helping boost the creation of inauthentic or real-but-repurposed media. Even in the pre-generative-AI era, an image surfaced through a quick Google search might have been used out of context or attached to a less-than-reliable website.

Google believes it has at least one solution for this problem. In Google image search results, users will start seeing an information box called “About this image.” It rolls out today in the US (and initially only in English). This follows the launch of “About this result” in 2021, which provides additional information around the

There are an insane amount of cases on the market. These are the others we like, just not as much as the ones above.

Casetify Impact Case for $72: Casetify cases are fun because the designs are innumerable. (Look at this one with a cat!) I’m not a huge fan of the Casetify branding that’s on the camera module, but maybe I’m just not trendy enough. I found the S Pen a little tough to access (I have a bad habit of biting my nails, so this might not be an issue for you). Otherwise, these are some

Since Elon Musk spent $44 billion on Twitter (now X) last year, the billionaire has been determined to wipe out bots and spammy accounts. Things haven’t gone smoothly. Amid the chaos, in recent weeks Russian trolls have jumped on one of Musk’s own posts and used it to push pro-Kremlin messaging, a new analysis shows.

At the start of October, Musk used his platform to mock Ukrainian president Vlodymr Zelensky with a nine-year-old meme. “When it’s been five minutes and you haven’t asked for a billion dollars in aid,” says the text above the “Trying to Hold a Fart Next to a Cute Girl

The bombs had rained down on Gaza for 19 hours straight. Wajeeh Abu Zarifeh, a journalist and manager of White Media, a reporting syndicate, had spent the first night of the war sheltering in his house, monitoring the news and trying to plot out the week’s coverage for his team of 15 journalists. On Sunday morning, as he arrived at White Media’s office on Al Wehda Street, he found the entire building had been bombed out. Steel ridges jutted from its side, warped by the shock of the blast. Rubble spilled across the road, giving up plumes of dust. Reams of office papers were strewn over the ground.

“We lost

Almost everyone uses computers, but we never really get into the guts of how they work. Sometimes it’s nice to make something with your own hands that you’ll use every day. That’s what this guide is about: how to build a PC from parts.

This can be daunting for a lot of reasons—it’s expensive, it’s complex, it can get messy. But I want to be clear: If you can build an Ikea table, bookshelf, bed, or anything that comes in more than one of those deceivingly heavy flat packs, you can build a PC. The tricky part? I can’t tell you how to build your PC. Not really. Not unless