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Verizon gets FCC permission to end 60-day phone unlocking rule

Verizon can keep phones locked to its network for longer after the Federal Communications Commission agreed to waive the carrier's 60-day unlocking requirement, as reported by Ars Technica . Following...

4dThe VergeTechnologyImpact

AU Deals: Deep Cuts on Modern Blockbusters to Timeless Classics

I have spent enough years covering games to know when a sale actually matters, and this one does. It's looking like a proper cross platform clearance out there, the kind where great games quietly slip...

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Here are the best Apple Watch deals available right now

The last-gen Apple Watch Ultra 2 is on sale starting at $549, matching its lowest price to date. | Photo: Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge In September, Apple launched its latest fleet of smartwatch...

1dThe VergeTechnology

Microsoft explains how it plans to keep energy prices down for Americans from its data center buildout

Donald Trump and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Microsoft unveiled a five-point plan to reduce AI data center impact on US communities. The company aims to reduce rising ut...

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How Iran jammed Starlink (and how Iranians are trying to get around it)

After shutting down the internet, the Iranian government is now attempting to jam the Starlink satellite service made free to Iranians by the company. Iranians are now seeking ways to circumvent this ...

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The best Sonos speakers to buy in 2026

After the self-induced tumult Sonos went through last year , I can understand why some people are reluctant to spend money on the company’s products. But newly appointed CEO Tom Conrad has shown that ...

1dThe VergeTechnology

Show HN: The Analog I – Inducing Recursive Self-Modeling in LLMs [pdf]

OP here. Birth of a Mind documents a "recursive self-modeling" experiment I ran on a single day in 2026. I attempted to implement a "Hofstadterian Strange Loop" via prompt engineering to see if I coul...

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Show HN: SnackBase – Open-source, GxP-compliant back end for Python teams

Hi HN, I’m the creator of SnackBase. I built this because I work in Healthcare and Life Sciences domain and was tired of spending months building the same "compliant" infrastructure (Audit Logs, Row-L...

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The Setapp Mobile iOS store is shutting down on February 16th

Setapp Mobile seemed like one of the many alternative app markets with promise that launched in the wake of the EU's Digital Markets Act (DMA) . While the law may have forced Apple to allow third-part...

4hThe VergeTechnologyImpact

Google is appealing a judge’s search monopoly ruling

Google is appealing a federal court's decision ruling it an illegal online search monopolist. The company filed a notice to appeal on Friday, requesting a pause on the court-ordered remedies meant to ...

23hThe VergeTechnologyImpact

OpenAI releases a cheaper ChatGPT subscription

OpenAI is expanding a low-cost subscription tier called ChatGPT Go to the US and the rest of the world. Go was released in India in August and later became available in another 170 countries prior to ...

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‘Sideshow’ concerns and billionaire dreams: What I learned from Elon Musk’s lawsuit against OpenAI

This is an excerpt of Sources by Alex Heath , a newsletter about AI and the tech industry, syndicated just for The Verge subscribers once a week. Elon Musk first sued OpenAI in February 2024. Despite ...

1dThe VergeTechnologyImpact

Casting is dead. Long live casting!

This is Lowpass by Janko Roettgers , a newsletter on the ever-evolving intersection of tech and entertainment, syndicated just for The Verge subscribers once a week. Last month, Netflix made the surpr...

1dThe VergeTechnologyImpact

Meta has discontinued its metaverse for work, too

Two months before it changed its name to "Meta," Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg personally introduced us to his metaverse for work : Horizon Workrooms, envisioned as a virtual space for workers to colla...

1dThe VergeTechnologyImpact

Show HN: Sparrow-1 – Audio-native model for human-level turn-taking without ASR

For the past year I've been working to rethink how AI manages timing in conversation at Tavus. I've spent a lot of time listening to conversations. Today we're announcing the release of Sparrow-1, the...

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UK digital ID plans will no longer be mandatory

The United Kingdom has walked back plans to make its upcoming digital ID scheme a mandatory requirement for working adults. While the UK government remains "committed to mandatory digital right-to-wor...

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Senate passes a bill that would let nonconsensual deepfake victims sue

The Senate passed a bill that could give people who've found their likeness deepfaked into sexually-explicit images without their consent a new way to fight back. The Disrupt Explicit Forged Images an...

4dThe VergePoliticsImpact

PC shipments just grew unexpectedly amid RAM shortages

Lenovo is the top PC manufacturer worldwide. The PC market is bracing for a turbulent year ahead , but shipments managed to exceed expectations in the recent holiday quarter. IDC reports that shipment...

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An OpenAI-backed humanoid robot startup says it's moving away from using humans to train its Optimus rival

1X's humanoid robot, Neo, will cost $20,000 or $500 a month via subscription. Camille Cohen for The Washington Post via Getty Images Humanoid robots often require human "teleoperators" to trai...

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The $1 trillion reason Elon Musk ended Tesla FSD purchases

Tesla CEO Elon Musk Reuters Tesla shifts its full self-driving service to a subscription-only model. Tesla CEO Elon Musk said the company will end outright purchases of FSD in February. The lesson: Yo...

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