The 15 best Mac apps to make your life easier

PLUS: A nearly invisible fish, leaked hacking videos, and yesterday's Twitter meltdown. View this email in your browser  |  Manage newsletter subscriptions 07.16.20   NONE MORE BLACK Vantablack? Meh. Meet the Ultra-Black Vantafish BY MATT SIMON Scientists have found that some fishes absorb up to 99.956 percent of the light that hits them. The weird deep-sea menagerie just got a whole lot weirder.   BOMBS AWAY Nuclear Tests Have Changed, but They Never Really Stopped BY DANIEL OBERHAUS 75 years after the first explosive nuclear tests, now outlawed, sophisticated virtual testing allows American physicists to understand these weapons better than ever.   CHARMING KITTEN Iranian Spies Accidentally Leaked Videos of Themselves Hacking BY ANDY GREENBERG IBM's X-Force security team obtained five hours of APT35 hacking operations, showing exactly how the group steals data from email accounts—and who it's targeting.   MAC ATTACK The 15 Best Mac Apps to Make Everyday Life Easier BY MATT JANCER Apple's macOS is a good desktop operating system, but it's missing some key ingredients. Try these programs to get the most out of your Mac.   FIRST LISTEN Announcing the Get WIRED Podcast BY LAUREN GOODE Hear the trailer for our new weekly show, which goes deep into the weirdest and most compelling stories in tech and science.   PRIVACY A New Gadget Stops Voice Assistants From Snooping on You BY DAN GOODIN, ARS TECHNICA Meet LeakyPick, the low-cost audio spy detector for your Amazon Alexa, Google Home, and other network-connected devices.   A DAY WITHOUT CHECKS Twitter Is at Its Best When Verified Accounts Can't Tweet BY ANGELA WATERCUTTER On Wednesday, a hack involving high-profile Twitter accounts led the service to suspend the activity of verified users. It was great.   OPINION Andrew Yang Wants You to Get Paid for Your Data. It Doesn't Add Up BY WILL RINEHART He says social media companies should pay you for the data you produce. But loopholes abound, it's too expensive, and other plans like it have failed.   OPINION Tech Firms Hire 'Red Teams.' Scientists Should, Too BY ADAM MARCUS AND IVAN ORANSKY Another botched peer review—this one involving a controversial study of police killings—shows how devil's advocates could improve the scientific process.     This e-mail was sent to you by WIRED. To ensure delivery to your inbox (not bulk or junk folders), please add our e-mail address, wired@newsletters.wired.com, to your address book.   View our Privacy Policy Unsubscribe or Manage your newsletter subscriptions