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Between the latest news of inconvenient network outages and rising smartphone costs due to a RAM shortage caused by the AI boom, mobile carriers are vying for your money and business. So which one do your fellow readers recommend?  CNET’s People’s Picks is a community awards program that surveys our readers to get their opinions on the tech gadgets and services they use and love the most, like internet service providers, headphones and TVs. The latest People’s Picks awards zoom in on what readers think about their mobile carriers — that includes everything from price to signal reliability and even…

Varonis Threat Labs has disclosed three vulnerabilities in Microsoft Copilot Personal that it said could allow a single click on a crafted link to silently pull data from connected apps and other information available to the victim’s Copilot session. The flaws, which the researchers collectively named CoSnitch, turn in part on an undocumented URL parameter that the assistant itself surfaced during testing. The company said it reported the issue to Microsoft in December 2025 and that patches shipped on August 18, 2026. CoSnitch is tracked as CVE-2026-24301 in Microsoft’s Security Update Guide. The research names Copilot Personal, the consumer assistant hosted at…

Whoop’s bracelet-style trackers deliver exhaustive activity tracking and biometric data compared to standard fitness trackers. The Whoop band is also an excellent tool for monitoring sleep and overall health. Our WIRED testers have been reviewing Whoop trackers since the Whoop 3.0, and have watched as the product has evolved into an AI-enabled personalized service.But for most people, the Whoop may feel like an overinvestment, which is why Whoop is particularly popular among elite athletes. The company’s tiered subscription model can also be quite expensive for devices that are not medical instruments. Nonetheless, in the realm of biohacking, the gamification of…

Live commerce is taking off almost everywhere in Asia but in Singapore On paper, Singapore’s live commerce scene appears to be growing. TikTok Shop Singapore’s livestream GMV grew 85% by Apr 2025 compared to a year earlier, while social commerce is expected to account for roughly a third of Singapore’s e-commerce market. Yet if you’ve ever stumbled into a local TikTok livestream, the reality often looks very different. Instead of thousands of viewers piling into a show, many sellers find themselves talking to a few dozen people waiting for the next voucher code before scrolling away. That gap matters because…

Apple’s mercenary spyware warnings are getting harder to miss. The alerts now appear directly on the iPhone Lock Screen and in Settings, putting them in front of targeted users before they even reach their inbox. On Aug. 13, 2026, Apple confirmed that it sent a new round of threat notifications to targeted users in 110 countries. The alerts do not indicate a mass compromise: Apple describes them as high-confidence warnings that specific individuals were targeted, not proof that spyware was successfully installed. BleepingComputer confirmed the 110-country figure with Apple. Apple’s threat notification guidance says the company has issued warnings multiple…

The healthcare technology platform provider Weave Communications Inc. said today it’s going to exit the public markets after agreeing to be acquired for $650 million by the private equity firm Francisco Partners in an all-cash deal. The terms mean that shareholders will receive $7.40 per share they own, amounting to a premium of 34% on Weave’s Monday closing stock price. Weave said it will delist from the New York Stock Exchange, where it has traded under the ticker symbol WEAV since going public in 2021, when the deal closes. Founded in 2008, Weave is the creator of a patient communication platform…

When an artificial intelligence image generator produces a portrait, whose work went into it? The question sits at the center of lawsuits, licensing deals, and proposed regulations worldwide. Artists want credit. Companies want clarity. Policymakers want a way to assign responsibility.New work from a team of researchers at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) suggests that for models trained on large datasets, the question may often have no answer. It’s not that the tools for finding it are inadequate. The connection itself has disappeared.The scientists identified a phenomenon they call attribution decay, where the more data a generative…

Reroot founder Genevieve Priebe, a fourth-generation member of a Montana farm family. (Photos courtesy of Genevieve Priebe) Genevieve Priebe took a business meeting this summer while bottle-feeding baby goats. A couple of years ago, she was advising executives at some of Seattle’s largest tech companies. “Best decision I’ve ever made,” she said of her career change. Priebe is the solo entrepreneur behind Reroot, a bootstrapped Seattle startup trying to make local food as easy to find and buy as anything else online. Genevieve Priebe, founder of Reroot. The company operates a marketplace where independent farmers, ranchers, bakers and makers sell…

The article is complete. The subject-matter experts have approved it, the designer has created the graphics, and marketing has finally pressed publish. The link is posted on the company’s LinkedIn page. It is added to the newsletter. And then the team waits. A few people visit the page. The social post receives a modest response. Sales does not use the article, the target accounts do not engage with it, and after a month, someone asks why the content did not generate results. The team begins questioning the topic, writing, and format. But the buyer never had a chance to reject…

The screenless fitness wearable brand is facing a more crowded market this year. Whoop Fitness wearable Whoop announced that its Advanced Labs feature will no longer require a subscription. Any Whoop users can now opt to take advantage of Advanced Labs’ blood testing health screenings. That’s not to say the lab work is free — these tests run by Quest Diagnostics start around $150 a pop — but access to it is no longer gated behind an additional membership cost. Screenings can offer data about a Whoop wearer’s cardiovascular, metabolic, hormonal and inflammatory health. Whoop also…