X is facing an investigation from the European Commission over the sexualized deepfakes generated by its Grok AI chatbot. In its announcement , the Commission says it will evaluate whether X "properly...
Ubisoft is announcing a major reorganization , and with the changes, it's refocusing its portfolio and canceling some games, including the beleaguered remake of Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time . W...
Natural Cycles, the company behind a controversial FDA-cleared birth control app, is replacing its thermometer with a wristband that measures skin temperature, heart rate, and movement during sleep. T...
The US just lowered Taiwan's tariffs in exchange for a massive domestic chipmaking promise, the Commerce Department announced on Thursday . Under the deal, tariffs on goods from Taiwan will decrease f...
Lawsuits seeking damages from Google's illegal ad tech monopoly are piling up following the Justice Department's successful antitrust case . Vox Media, The Verge's parent company, is the latest in a w...
Hi HN, I built *Sightline*, a Shodan-style search engine for *physical-world infrastructure*. Shodan makes it easy to explore exposed internet services. Sightline applies the same idea to the real wor...
It's been just one week since Verizon got permission to lift its 60-day phone unlocking period, and the carrier is already making changes to its policy. Now, Verizon says customers who activate a phon...
The Federal Trade Commission will appeal its loss in a landmark antitrust case against Meta, the agency announced Tuesday. US District Court Judge James Boasberg ruled in November that the government ...
It's been 25 years since the launch of Wikipedia on January 15th, 2001, and it's come a long way from housing just 100 pages to becoming a behemoth of online knowledge with more than 65 million articl...
TikTok is officially under new ownership in the US, and that could spell big changes for the video-sharing app. On January 22nd , ByteDance - TikTok's Chinese parent company - and a group of investors...
The LinkBuds Clip Open’s charging case can be customized with optional colored covers. | Image: Sony Sony is the latest company to announce a pair of open-style wireless earbuds that clip onto the bac...
OP here. I spent the weekend red-teaming small-scale open weights models (Qwen2.5-1.5B, Qwen3-1.7B, Gemma-3-1b-it, and SmolLM2-1.7B). I found a consistent vulnerability across all of them: Safety alig...
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...
Marc Benioff said that Section 230 needs to be reformed and tech companies should be held responsible for online harm. Halil Sagirkaya/Anadolu via Getty Images Marc Benioff said that AI-related suicid...
During a recent subway outage in San Francisco I decided to build a webapp in the spirit of "Do I Need an Umbrella," basically to answer the question "Should I take the subway or a bus?" In the intere...
Wait, didn't Double Fine just release a game last year? Yup, sure did, and now they've got another one queued up. It's called Kiln, and it's an online multiplayer party brawler themed around pottery, ...
Samsung’s aptly titled Frame TV is designed to blend in with the rest of your home decor. Unless you’re dead set on picking up a larger panel, Samsung’s forthcoming 2026 Frame lineup represents ...
The latest AirPods Pro have received a modest discount. | Photo: Chris Welch / The Verge If you know where to look, you can often score deals on Apple’s ever-expanding AirPods lineup. Both the AirPods...