By many measures, millennials are doing considerably well financially. Still, fewer younger adults are thinking about retiring in the traditional sense one day. “Retirement is becoming more deprioritized,” said Michael Liersch, head of advice and planning at Wells Fargo. “Ten or 15 years ago that was always the number one goal,” he said. Now, “actually […]
Bitcoin trims losses after Mexico says tariffs will be paused
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump and Bitcoin. Cheney Orr | Dado Ruvic | Reuters Bitcoin trimmed earlier losses, climbing back toward $100,000 after the U.S. agreed to pause tariffs on goods from Mexico for one month. The price of bitcoin was last higher by less than 1% at $98,461.83, according to Coin Metrics. Earlier, it fell […]
Jacqueline Bisset explains why she’s ‘unsympathetic’ to #MeToo stories
Jacqueline Bisset isn’t mincing her words regarding the #MeToo movement. The actress admitted she feels “unsympathetic” toward women who previously spoke out against sexual harassment in Hollywood. “I understand as an idea, it’s important that men behave, but I do really think it’s important that women behave, too,” the 80-year-old told Page Six. ‘BULLITT’ STAR […]
DeepSeek’s Safety Guardrails Failed Every Test Researchers Threw at Its AI Chatbot
“Jailbreaks persist simply because eliminating them entirely is nearly impossible—just like buffer overflow vulnerabilities in software (which have existed for over 40 years) or SQL injection flaws in web applications (which have plagued security teams for more than two decades),” Alex Polyakov, the CEO of security firm Adversa AI, told WIRED in an email. Cisco’s […]
VC Roundup: Bitcoin RWA, BNB incubator, Web3 gaming secure funding
Hamilton Treasury, Gate Ventures, Keplr, EarnOS, Starpower and Hyve Labs highlight the latest edition of VC Roundup.
L.A. wildfire victims face financial anxiety amid recovery
Homes burn above Pacific Coast Highway during the Palisades Fire on Jan. 8, 2025, in Pacific Palisades, Calif. Photo by Jeff Gritchen/MediaNews Group/Orange County Register via Getty Images Alicia Kalvin awoke the morning of Jan. 7 to an urgent text from a friend: “There’s a fire on your street.” She hurried outside, alarmed to see […]
DeepSeek was downloaded by millions. Deleting it might come next
This week’s news that the DeepSeek Chatbot app, developed by China, was downloaded from the Apple app store significantly more times than the US-developed ChatGPT from Open AI, wiped billions off the global tech market. Leon Neal | Getty Images News | Getty Images Plenty of Americans are discovering the AI search powers of DeepSeek, […]
Martha Stewart wows fans in racy, ‘unhinged’ new video
Martha Stewart drove fans wild on social media with what they are calling a “saucy” and “unhinged” new video, featuring a succulent strawberry and a spool of fresh honey. In the video, Stewart shows off a variety of products from Mac Cosmetics, though most of her followers were focused more on her delivery than the […]
OpenAI’s o3-Mini Is a Leaner AI Model That Keeps Pace With DeepSeek
OpenAI is making a smaller, more efficient version of its cleverest artificial intelligence model available for free as it seeks to answer the hype and enthusiasm swirling around a new open source offering from Chinese AI startup DeepSeek. WIRED previously reported that OpenAI was prepping the new model, called o3-mini, for release on January 31. […]
Social Security numbers are a privacy liability
Hundreds of millions of SSNs have been leaked online already, but a privacy-focused identity solution could help fix the problem.