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Wordle today: The answer and hints for July 1, 2025

Oh hey there! If you’re here, it must be time for Wordle. As always, we’re serving up our daily hints and tips to help you figure out today’s answer. If you just want to be told today’s word, you can jump to the bottom of this article for today’s Wordle solution revealed. But if you’d

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Senator Blackburn Pulls Support for AI Moratorium in Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ Amid Backlash

As Congress races to pass President Donald Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill,” it’s also sprinting to placate the many haters of the bill’s “AI moratorium” provision which originally required a 10-year pause on state AI regulations. The provision, which was championed by White House AI czar and venture capitalist David Sacks, has proved remarkably unpopular with

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Next-gen procurement platform Levelpath nabs $55M

Levelpath, a procurement software startup founded by the duo behind Scout RFP, has raised $55 million in Series B funding led by Battery Ventures as the company looks to quadruple its revenue this year. The funding round also saw participation from existing investors, including Benchmark, which led Levelpath’s $14.5 million seed round, and Redpoint, the

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Siri’s revamp may come via OpenAI or Anthropic, not Apple

Apple might abandon plans to develop its own in-house AI model to power Siri and could partner with OpenAI or Anthropic instead. According to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, the iPhone maker has talked to both companies about using either ChatGPT or Claude to power Siri. Apple “has asked them to train versions of their models that

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The 36 Best Deals From REI’s July 4 Outdoor Gear Sale (2025)

The REI Fourth of July sale is a great time to get a deal on hiking, camping, and backpacking essentials. This year, there are also great competing July Fourth sale deals from Backcountry and Public Lands. We test camping and hiking gear all year round here at WIRED, and these REI deals are on gear

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Tesla sends driverless Model Y from factory to customer to promote its robotaxi tech

Just a few days after launching a limited robotaxi service in Austin, Texas, Tesla pulled off an additional stunt meant to show off the progress of its self-driving car software. The company let a Model Y SUV drive roughly 15 miles from Tesla’s factory to the apartment complex where the car’s new owner lives, completing

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AI-made Diddy trial videos are exploding on YouTube

The landscape of YouTube drama channels has evolved over the platform’s 20 years, but they still rely on one tried and true marketing gambit: clickbait. And generative AI tools are bringing it back in big, and alarming, ways. Dozens of channels, for example, have been tallying up views and profit using AI-generated thumbnails and fake

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Unpacking Our Conversation With a Former DOGE Staffer

Vittoria Elliott: And you mentioned that everything’s over Signal. Obviously, there’s rules around maintaining records around government work if you’re a government worker. Did anyone ever talk to you about, “Hey, you have to archive these messages. Hey, you have to save these emails. Hey, you can’t delete that.” Did anyone discuss your… any legal

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US government takes down major North Korean ‘remote IT workers’ operation 

The U.S. Department of Justice announced on Monday that it had taken several enforcement actions against North Korea’s operations, which rely on undercover remote IT workers inside American tech companies to raise funds for the regime’s nuclear weapons program, as well as to steal data and cryptocurrency.   As part of the DOJ’s multi-state effort, the

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Airlines are directly in hackers’ crosshairs, FBI warns

As summer holidays kick into gear, airlines are facing a new threat. A teen hacking group known as Scattered Spider is targeting the airline industry, the FBI and cybersecurity firms have warned. Last Friday, the FBI issued an alert saying that the cybercriminal group is “expanding its targeting to include the airline sector.” At least

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