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Hot dogs, beach days, and iced tea on the porch are some of the rites of summer. But in an era of global warming, a new rite has emerged: choking down smoke from wildfires burning hundreds of miles or more away.The Midwest, Northeast, and parts of Canada have been blitzed with thick smoke that turned skies an eerie shade of orange and triggered widespread air quality alerts. The source? Fires burning in Minnesota as well as western Ontario.Canada is where the bulk of the fires are burning, with 119 out of control blazes across the country as of Friday afternoon.…
The World Cup final may not have been played, but NBCUniversal’s Telemundo is already hoisting its trophy over how it covered the month-long tournament.On Wednesday, the broadcast network held a FIFA World Cup Playmakers Summit at the famous Studio 8H, home to Saturday Night Live at 30 Rockefeller Plaza in New York. At the summit, which explored the intersection of sports, media, and culture, Cesar Conde, chairman, NBCUniversal News Group, praised the Spanish-language network’s multiplatform coverage, saying, they’ve been able to bring “a unique authenticity to the coverage of this World Cup.”Speaking to NBC Nightly News anchor Tom Llamas, who…
The city of San Francisco has ordered Apple and Google to remove dozens of “nudify” apps — — software programs that can digitally alter pictures to unclothe the people in them — from their app stores. California law criminalizes any activity that “knowingly facilitates” or “recklessly aids or abets” the creation of non-consensual deepfake pornography. In 2025, California also passed a law that allows victims to pursue civil actions against third-party facilitators of such material. The city says that, despite these well-known regulations, both tech companies have continued to host and make money from such programs. “Apple and Google are…
A glitch with Amazon Web Services’ billing operation led some customers to believe they owed the world’s fifth most valuable company billions of dollars. Oops!Bill Radjewski, who runs CollegeFootballData.com, was one of the affected customers. This morning, he woke up to a jarring email alert from AWS: He had racked up more than $1.5 billion in usage fees, and his August 1 bill was on track to be upwards of $3 billion.“I’ve had this account for 6+ years and in that time my monthly spend has never exceeded $0.02,” Radjewski tells WIRED. He shared screenshots of his three most recent…
Viewers returned to the evening newscasts after the long holiday, with all three finishing in the plus column for total viewers for the week of July 6. ABC World News Tonight with David Muir remained the most-watched newscast in total viewers and the Adults 25-54 demo. It continued to stretch its demo lead over NBC Nightly News with Tom Llamas, crossing the million-viewer mark and finishing with over 120,000 viewers more than NBC News’ program.Meanwhile, the news was not all good for CBS Evening News with Tony Dokoupil. Even though it saw gains in total viewers, it was the only…
Apple filed a trade secrets lawsuit against OpenAI last Friday, and it’s not messing around. The complaint alleges a pattern of misconduct reaching all the way up to OpenAI’s chief hardware officer and claims more than 400 former Apple employees now work at the company. OpenAI’s response so far has been carefully hedged, and the timing couldn’t be worse with the company reportedly eyeing an IPO as early as later this year. On this episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, hosts Kirsten Korosec, Anthony Ha, and Sean O’Kane dig into what the lawsuit could mean for OpenAI’s own hardware ambitions and IPO timeline, plus a bigger theme running through the week’s news: how much should…
There’s no shortage of bonkers details about Polymarket. The government alleges that both a special forces soldier and a longtime Google employee used the prediction market to amass small fortunes by insider trading; CEO Shayne Coplan had his apartment raided by FBI agents, who entered via battering ram; and one of its executives reportedly paid influencers through his personal PayPal account to hype up the company.But one of the biggest oddities about Polymarket has remained somewhat overlooked: What’s going on with the Panama-based company it set up to comply with a settlement it made with the federal government? And why,…
The Dyson Hot+Cool HF1 is a sleek 2-in-1 smart appliance that provides heating in the winter and cooling in the summer. Designed for year-round comfort, the $499 unit combines quiet operation and smart controls with Dyson’s signature bladeless design. I typically use a ceiling fan for the summer and a space heater for the winter. After three months of testing, the HF1 was a game changer for me, and not just because it replaced two appliances. It was HF1’s smart features that made this appliance particularly handy. Dyson provided the HF1 unit, which will be returned to the manufacturer. Although…
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) intends to renew its contract with a subsidiary of data broker giant Thomson Reuters at a rate of up to $25 million per year for up to five years in order to accommodate an urgent, “multiplied” demand for data that can identify “unaccompanied minors” as well as anyone involved with “any type of fraud of government funds,” according to a document published in a federal contract register on Tuesday.“Due to ICE’s re-prioritized mission,” the document reads, “there is a need for the data to be readily accessible to support the presidential mandate of the identification…
In this episode of Adspeak by ADWEEK, host Brittaney Kiefer sits down with Roy Fleeman to explore how Vacation transformed sunscreen from a functional necessity into an immersive lifestyle brand. Roy shares how the team uses nostalgia, sensory design, and meticulous attention to detail to create products that feel joyful and collectible. They discuss why brands should be informed by trends without being defined by them, how packaging can become a powerful storytelling tool, and why designing every customer touchpoint matters.From fragrances and campaign concepts to shipping experiences and social content, Roy reveals how Vacation builds cultural relevance by creating moments…
U.S. prosecutors have accused a Florida man of uploading fake video games that contained malware to Steam, the popular PC games platform. Once victims downloaded and installed the games, the malware was designed to infect their computers, steal their passwords and other data, and drain their crypto wallets, according to a criminal complaint. On Tuesday, the FBI arrested Zyaire Wilkins, a 21-year-old Florida resident and student. On Wednesday, prosecutors accused him and a number of unnamed co-conspirators of hacking crimes. Over the past two years, Wilkins and his partners allegedly published several malware-laden video games on Steam, including BlockBlasters, Dashverse,…
Ask most people what they love about camping, and they probably won’t tell you about how easy it is to set up their tent or how long the ice lasts in their Yeti. Yes, your tent should go up quickly, and your cooler should keep things cold, but then thoughts of gear should fade away as you focus on enjoying paddleboarding, hiking, or reading in a hammock.The secret to success is gear you can set and forget. REI’s latest camping gear promises to do just that—and does so without costing a fortune. The co-op’s 2026 line of camping and hiking…
The FIFA World Cup 2026 is not even over, yet its ripple effects within the marketing space are beginning to be felt.Just as it takes years of preparation by both teams and host cities to be ready for the biannual tournament, marketers have to get certain campaign elements in place as well as anticipate what may happen to be ready for the unexpected.At the ADWEEK House Sports Summit in New York City, the World Cup and the many lessons learned from the successful tournament was the hot topic at the Marketing at Match Speed session, moderated by ADWEEK editor in…
Some Amazon cloud customers woke up on Friday to a surprise bill estimate that said they owed billions of dollars for cloud services they had never used. Amazon confirmed on Friday that it’s trying to resolve a bug in its Amazon Web Services (AWS) billing portal that showed some customers “owed” millions or billions in cloud computing costs. In an update on its status page, Amazon said it began seeing inaccurate billing data as of late Thursday. But by Friday morning, the company conceded that the “rollback of a recent change did not resolve the issue.” Amazon said the change…
Three Years AGO, Lyft was floundering. The perpetual also-ran to Uber was in danger of being run off the road entirely. The founders were in charge, and in March 2023, they hired former Microsoft and Amazon executive David Risher to turn things around. The new CEO has expanded its service in other countries, made deals with Waymo and Nvidia, lowered ride cancellations, and paid drivers more. Just this week, Lyft announced that customers in New York would also see taxis among their options. The company now reports a profit—but it’s still deep in second place in ride-sharing, and its stock…
For years, the central ethos of reMarkable has been to get you away from screens and create an experience that emulates the feeling of writing with pen and paper. With its new device, the reMarkable Paper Pure, the company continues the trend of creating a device counter-positioned against phones, iPads, and laptops. As it lacks notifications and multitasking apps, the Paper Pure aims to attract writers, designers, and researchers looking for reading and writing without any distractions. When reviewing devices, I typically write down or record notes in different forms, across different apps, and, at times, on different devices. But…