We Bought a $500 Counterfeit Rolex So Good, Even Rolex Didn’t Spot It 19. August 2026 (12:45) The replica watch industry is in its “super clone” era. Following tips from murky internet forums, we bought three budget fakes that were good enough to pass as real—but ultimately disposable.(Wired)
Dell XPS 13 vs. MacBook Neo: A Surprising Upset 19. August 2026 (12:30) The Dell XPS 13 and MacBook Neo are both premium-feeling laptops with only 8 GB of RAM. Which $700 laptop is the better buy?(Wired)
There’s a Very Simple Reason Why You Love the Slate Truck 19. August 2026 (12:30) The car world is filled with designers still obsessed with shoehorning sex into their rides. Slate went a different route, and it’s why people are smitten with the charming electric pickup.(Wired)
Reverse-Lookup Service Exposed Millions of Photos of People’s Faces 19. August 2026 (12:00) The people-search tool ClarityCheck says its reverse image search service is “private and secure”—but it left a database containing more than 9 million image files exposed.(Wired)
Hot or Not Built the Internet We’re Still Swiping Through 19. August 2026 (11:45) The early website Hot or Not taught its users to rank people at scale. Twenty-six years later, dating apps are trying to escape the culture the site helped create.(Wired)
Flock Has a Powerful New AI Tool for Police. We Got Its Code 19. August 2026 (11:00) Flock’s surveillance cameras have already sparked outrage. WIRED reconstructed its next-generation AI system, already in use by some police, to confirm it goes much further than tracking license plates.(Wired)
OpenAI Overhauls Safety Protocols After Its AI Agents Went Rogue 18. August 2026 (20:33) The ChatGPT maker says its upcoming Astra model may have reached “critical” cyber capabilities, prompting it to halt a significant number of training runs while it tightens internal safeguards.(Wired)
