These edibles made from functional fungi are not your childhood Flintstone vitamins. Source: https://www.wired.com/gallery/best-mushroom-gummies/

Inside Dewar’s cavernous whisky warehouses, man’s best mechanical friend—a Boston Dynamics robot dog with an ethanol sensor for a nose—is on the hunt for leaky barrels. Source: https://www.wired.com/story/meet-scotlands-whisky-sniffing-robot-dog/

Whether you’re hiking, climbing, or backpacking, here’s how to use base layers, mid layers, and a shell to be comfortable no matter what nature throws at you. Source: https://www.wired.com/story/outdoor-layering-basics/

Massive data centers for generative AI are bad for the Earth. How about launching them into orbit? Source: https://www.wired.com/story/could-we-put-ai-data-centers-in-space/

The Boldr Kelvin heater looks cool and promises energy savings and far-infrared heat. Too bad it also heats backward. Source: https://www.wired.com/review/boldr-kelvin-space-heater/

Epilogue’s adorable GB Operator plug-in gizmo is a must-have for collectors of retro Nintendo Game Boy games. Source: https://www.wired.com/review/epilogue-gb-operator/

We used particle size analysis and real-world testing to find the best conical burr, flat burr, and blade grinders for every budget and style of coffee drinker. Source: https://www.wired.com/gallery/best-coffee-grinders/

In a 6-3 ruling, justices upended the Trump administration’s signature economic policy, potentially putting the US government on the hook for at least $175 billion in tariff refunds. Source: https://www.wired.com/story/supreme-court-trump-tariffs-ruling/

Anthropic doesn’t want its AI used in autonomous weapons or government surveillance. Those carve-outs could cost it a major military contract. Source: https://www.wired.com/story/backchannel-anthropic-dispute-with-the-pentagon/

Branch makes excellent office essentials, and our top picks are discounted. Source: https://www.wired.com/story/branch-deals-february-2026/

Comments and other data left on a PDF detailing Homeland Security’s proposal to build “mega” detention and processing centers reveal the personnel involved in its creation. Source: https://www.wired.com/story/metadata-exposes-authors-of-ices-mega-detention-center-plans/

A 2023 law championed by Republicans requires the CDC have a director confirmed by the Senate. For months, though, it’s had only acting directors—and the White House won’t say when that will change. Source: https://www.wired.com/story/the-cdc-has-a-leadership-crisis/

Homeland Security aims to combine its face and fingerprint systems into one big biometric platform—after dismantling centralized privacy reviews and key limits on face recognition. Source: https://www.wired.com/story/dhs-wants-a-single-search-engine-to-flag-faces-and-fingerprints-across-agencies/

This Samsung OLED comes loaded with features specifically for gamers. Source: https://www.wired.com/story/samsung-s90f-deal-226/

After the US Supreme Court struck down President Donald Trump’s tariff regime, investment firms are in line for a whopping return on a niche trade. Source: https://www.wired.com/story/they-bet-against-trumps-tariffs-now-they-stand-to-make-millions/

Self-driving-vehicle companies are revealing new details about their safety-critical “remote assistance” programs—but questions remain. Source: https://www.wired.com/story/government-docs-reveal-new-details-about-tesla-and-waymo-robotaxi-programs/

What scientists thought were four separate star clusters are actually part of one nearly invisible system. Source: https://www.wired.com/story/a-galaxy-composed-almost-entirely-of-dark-matter-has-been-confirmed/

Despite Friday’s SCOTUS ruling, many tariffs affecting the auto industry will remain. So will the other dynamics that have led to today’s historically high car prices. Source: https://www.wired.com/story/the-supreme-courts-tariff-ruling-wont-bring-car-prices-back-to-earth/

The president signed an executive order implementing 10 percent global tariffs after calling the justices who struck down his signature trade policy a “disgrace.” Source: https://www.wired.com/story/trump-imposes-new-tariffs-following-supreme-court-ruling/

Following increased surveillance and patrols of routes used by transnational drug-trafficking networks, Mexican authorities have seized approximately 10 tons of cocaine in the past week alone. Source: https://www.wired.com/story/narco-submarine-carrying-4-tons-of-cocaine-captured-by-mexicos-navy/