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It was a strange year in cyberspace, as US president Donald Trump and his administration launched foreign policy initiatives and massive changes to the federal government that have had significant geopolitical ramifications. Through it all, the steady drumbeat kept pounding of data breaches, leaks, ransomware attacks, digital extortion cases, and state-sponsored attacks that have unfortunately become a backdrop of daily life.Here’s WIRED’s look back on this year’s most significant breaches, hacking sprees, and digital attacks. Stay alert, and stay safe out there.Salesforce IntegrationsAttackers grabbed data from the sales management giant Salesforce in at least two breaches this year—but they didn’t…

Brett OkamotoDec 29, 2025, 12:06 PM ETCloseBrett Okamoto has reported on mixed martial arts and boxing at ESPN since 2010. He has covered all of the biggest events in combat sports during that time, including in-depth interviews and features with names such as Dana White, Khabib Nurmagomedov, Conor McGregor, Nate Diaz, Floyd Mayweather, Manny Pacquiao and Georges St-Pierre. He was also a producer on the 30 for 30 film: “Chuck and Tito,” which looked back at the careers and rivalry of Chuck Liddell and Tito Ortiz. He lives in Las Vegas, and is an avid, below-average golfer in his spare…

Michał Kiciński, co-founder of CD Projekt, total ownership of the DRM-free video game storefront GOG. The digital video game platform was started by CD Projekt in 2008 with a stated mission to “Good Old Games” (hence the GOG acronym). CD Projekt is known for its game studio CD Projekt Red, the developers The Witcher series and Cyberpunk 2077.GOG said Kiciński bought 100 percent of its shares for PLN 90.7 million ($25 million). The acquisition was fully financed through committed funding secured at the sale’s closing and did not involve the sale of any of Kiciński’s CD Projekt shares.The storefront will…

A selection of one kilogram silver bars at Conclude Zrt bullion dealer arranged in Budapest, Hungary, on Monday, Feb. 17, 2025. Akos Stiller | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesOne of the best trades of the year just staged a massive reversal overnight.Silver futures slid 7% on Monday, after topping $80 an ounce for the first time ever in overnight trading. The precious metal was last trading at $71.79 an ounce. The move is even more dramatic on an intraday basis. Peak to trough, silver plunged 15%, a parabolic move that is the biggest high-to-low change going back to August 2020 when…

Love them or hate them, more than half of the world’s population interacts with algorithmic recommendations in some way every day. Algorithmic recommendations play an integral role in how users discover new content across platforms like Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube. It can be nice to be fed a stream of fresh posts, pictures, and videos that are already tailored to our interests instead of manually hunting for content to engage with, but algorithms don’t always show you what you actually want to see.Many online platforms provide features that aim to help you fix this. The algorithms they deploy are,…

If 2026 is the soccer feast that U.S. soccer fans can’t wait to devour, the past year was an appetizer of savory treats and sour bites.A summer before the World Cup is served across North America — at exorbitant market prices, mind you — the head chef in Zurich overcooked the Club World Cup and cozied up to political clientele.AdvertisementThe finest table was in South Florida, where an ageless artist continued wowing audiences with unforgettable dishes. The vanilla chain that employs him spiced things up with German and Korean flavors while also voting to embrace European sensibilities by changing its…

After announcing and teasing its design well over a year ago, Epilogue’s new SN Operator will finally be available for preorder starting tomorrow. Like the company’s GB Operator that debuted in early 2021, the SN Operator is a standalone USB cartridge slot that lets you play and archive old Nintendo console games on PCs, Macs, or handhelds like the Steam Deck using their original carts. But where the GB Operator was built for Game Boy, Game Boy Color, and GBA games, the SN Operator instead supports any Super Nintendo and Super Famicom game.Preorders for the SN Operator will open at…

Green Chef ship all of its sauces, stocks, and herb blends premixed, with some of its veggies precut to reduce prep time. The service also offers “Quick & Easy Lunches” with precooked proteins, and it sells add-ons to meals, like meat and seafood sampler packs, ready-to-blend smoothie kits, frozen desserts, canned coffees, protein shakes, additional side dishes, packaged ramen, and dumplings. Green Chef even emailed me an offer to include fresh dog food in my order (in partnership with The Pets Table).The meals were very easy to cook: Simply grab the labeled bag of the meal you’d like to make…

In recent years, the grape tradition has become popular on TikTok, where people sometimes combine it with other components, like wearing red underwear or eating the grapes while crouched under a table. (Be careful if you try this one—it can be a choking hazard.)Black-Eyed Peas and Collard GreensIf you’re spending time in the southern region of the U.S., you might find yourself eating plates of black-eyed peas and collard greens on New Year’s Day. This tradition, which is popular among Black American families, promises good luck and prosperity: the veggies’ color conjures the green of dollar bills, and the peas…

One of the nicest comments people have made about the electrical grid was … nothing. The grid works best when it fades into the background.  That low-profile status has changed in recent years as fires in California and freezes in Texas raised awareness of the electrical grid. But it was in 2025, when the electrical grid — and concerns about demand, supply, pricing, and the strain on natural resources — moved into the spotlight. And a new batch of startups have emerged with a software-as-a-solution pitch. Electricity rates are up 13% in this U.S. this year driven by an AI…