Meteorologists Say the National Weather Service Did Its Job in Texas
DOGE cut hundreds of jobs at the NWS, but experts who spoke to WIRED say the agency accurately predicted the state’s weekend flood risk.
July 5, 2025
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Ask not for whom the Louvre of Bluesky tolls, it tolls for thee
It’s a sad weekend over at Bluesky, where one of the best accounts has disappeared — though we can still hope for its resurrection.
Drive Capital’s second act – how the Columbus venture firm found success after a split
The venture capital world has always had a hot-and-cold relationship with the Midwest. Investors rush in during boom times, then retreat to the coasts when markets turn sour. For Columbus, Ohio-based Drive Capital, this cycle of attention and disinterest played out against the backdrop of its own internal upheaval several years ago — a co-founder…
Here’s How the iPhone 17 Pro Max Will Compare to the iPhone 17 Pro
Apple should unveil the iPhone 17 series in September, and there might be one bigger difference between the Pro and Pro Max models this year. As always, the Pro Max model will be larger than the Pro model: iPhone 17 Pro: 6.3-inch display iPhone 17 Pro Max: 6.9-inch display Given the Pro Max is physically…
XO, Kitty season 3: everything we know so far about the hit show’s return to Netflix
XO, Kitty season 3: key information – Officially renewed in February– Filming rumored to have begun– Main cast expected to return– No official trailer released yet– Plot details remain under wraps– No news on future seasons XO, Kitty season 3 is officially on the way. Over two seasons of Kitty Song Covey’s adventures at the…
Xbox’s sci-fi looter-shooter Blackbird was scrapped even after leaving execs ‘blown away’
Xbox was well on its way to delivering a sci-fi stylized game with plenty of exciting movement mechanics before an abrupt change of heart. The upcoming third-person shooter RPG codenamed Blackbird from ZeniMax Online Studios, which developed The Elder Scrolls Online, has been “shelved indefinitely,” according to an exclusive report from Bloomberg. The report added…
Apple’s F1 movie expected to hit $300M at the box office this weekend
Less than two weeks after its release, Apple’s F1 The Movie is about to cross the $300 million mark at the global box office. That puts it more than halfway to topping the combined worldwide grosses of all its previous theatrical runs, and validates its ambitions for big screen releases. more…
Indie App Spotlight: ‘Sequel’ helps you keep track of your favorite movies and shows
Welcome to Indie App Spotlight. This is a weekly 9to5Mac series where we showcase the latest apps in the indie app world. If you’re a developer and would like your app featured, get in contact. Sequel is an all in one app that makes it easy to keep track of all of the movies, TV shows, books,…
You can buy a 30TB hard disk drive, the world’s largest HDD right now, for only $618 – Seagate Exos M breaks cover online, and it is a monster
Seagate’s 30TB Exos M is helium-filled and built for data centers, not home PCs 2.5 million hours MTBF sounds great until you realize how specific this use case is The IronWolf Pro HDD targets NAS users, not hyperscale cloud infrastructure like Exos M A new listing for Seagate’s 30TB Exos M hard disk drive has…
A Tesla robotaxi inexplicably drove into a parked car
One of Tesla’s fully autonomous robotaxis grazed a parked car after completing a ride recently in Austin, Texas. In a video recorded by YouTuber DirtyTesla, a self-driving Model Y is seen turning and accelerating into a Toyota, making light contact with its tire. As seen in the video, the Model Y already dropped off its…