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Amazon Luna axes third-party game purchases
Amazon Luna announced a big change on Friday that will prevent players from purchasing third-party g...
The Iranian Lego AI video creators credit their vi...
Donald Trump has spun the recent rescue of a downed airman whose fighter jet was destroyed behind Ir...
Little Snitch’s software counter surveillance jump...
The popular macOS app Little Snitch brought its network-monitoring tools over to Linux this week. In...
LG G6 vs. C6 OLED TVs: What’s actually different, ...
LG’s G6 and C6 OLED TVs look similar on paper, but differences in brightness, performance, and prici...
Congress can finally close a mass surveillance loo...
A warrantless wiretapping authority that has facilitated surveillance for decades is up for renewal ...
The Rise of Secure Hardened Container Images
The software development life cycle relies heavily on the integrity of containerized environments. A...
Trump Mobile isn’t giving up just yet
Where's the Trump phone? We're going to keep talking about it every week. We've reached out, as usua...
AI is moving beyond chat — and into creativity and...
AI hasn’t just arrived — it has quietly become part of the default experience online. What started ...
Meow Technologies launches the first agentic banki...
In short: Meow Technologies has launched what it describes as the world’s first agentic banking plat...
Gmail mobile gets end-to-end encryption to shield ...
Google's Gmail app on Android and iOS now supports end-to-end encryption for Workspace Enterprise Pl...
Amazon’s AI tool matches shelter dogs and cats wit...
In short: Amazon’s Brand Innovation Lab, PetIQ’s PetArmor brand, and Best Friends Animal Society hav...
Why your Whoop might tell you to up your testoster...
This is Optimizer, a weekly newsletter sent every Friday from Verge senior reviewer Victoria Song th...
You don’t want to trust Meta’s new Muse Spark AI w...
Meta’s new Muse Spark AI encourages users to upload health data but still produces unreliable and po...
Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 8 appears thinner in new CAD...
Galaxy Z Flip 8 leak shows a thinner Flip, same old look
CoreWeave signs multi-year Anthropic deal as nine ...
In short: CoreWeave announced a multi-year agreement with Anthropic on April 10, 2026, giving the Cl...
Cloudflare made a WordPress for AI agents
Cloudflare, the cloud provider that connects millions of sites to the internet, wants to "fix" anoth...
3 underrated Netflix movies you should watch this ...
Looking for something different this weekend? These three underrated Netflix movies skip the usual r...
SiFive raises $400m Series G at $3.65bn valuation ...
In short: SiFive, the RISC-V chip IP firm founded by the Berkeley engineers who created the open-sou...
Interior design at 25,000 mph
As the Artemis II astronauts prepare for the most dramatic and potentially dangerous part of their m...
Amazon Leo targets mid-2026 commercial launch as e...
In short: Amazon’s satellite internet service, rebranded from Project Kuiper to Amazon Leo in Novemb...
Gmail’s end-to-end encryption comes to mobile, a y...
In short: Google has brought end-to-end encryption in Gmail to Android and iOS, closing the mobile g...
10 Best SOC 2 Compliance Software for 2026
You’ve just closed a massive deal with a dream enterprise client. Then, the email lands: “Please sen...
Fear and loathing at OpenAI
Sam Altman's tenure at OpenAI has been… messy. Messy to the point where Altman was briefly fired fro...
YouTube Premium just got more expensive, and nobod...
YouTube Premium prices are going up across all plans. The individual plan jumps from $13.99 to $15.9...
Snap is sticking with Qualcomm for its next AR gla...
Snap's upcoming consumer AR glasses are still set to launch sometime this year, and they'll be power...
The influencer economy’s invisible workers are fir...
AI is starting to replace the hidden global workforce of clippers, editors, and virtual assistants t...
Gen Z’s love-hate relationship with AI
Gen Z is increasingly disillusioned with AI - just not enough to stop using it. A new Gallup report ...
YouTube Premium is getting pricier
YouTube Premium is getting more expensive in the US, with prices rising by $2 on standard individual...
Your old Kindle is getting left behind in May. Her...
Amazon will end support for Kindle e-readers released in 2012 or earlier starting May 20, 2026. Here...
Microsoft starts removing Copilot buttons from Win...
Microsoft is starting to remove "unnecessary" Copilot buttons from its Windows 11 apps. In the lates...
Hate boring email apps? Avec turns your inbox into...
Avec is a new iOS email app that turns inbox cleanup into a card-swiping routine, with support for v...
Microsoft wants you to know Copilot AI is not just...
Microsoft appears to be trying to clear up an awkward contradiction around its Copilot AI. After one...
A new free Borderlands game just quietly dropped o...
Borderlands Mobile has quietly appeared on the App Store as a free-to-play iPhone game from Zynga, b...
Anthropic is exploring building its own AI chips a...
The plans are early-stage and Anthropic may still decide to only buy chips rather than design them. ...
The FBI just cracked open Signal texts on an iPhon...
A recent case shows how iPhone notification settings can expose parts of your Signal conversations, ...
Microsoft begins pulling Copilot out of Windows 11...
Copilot remains on duty, just without the neon sign.
Revolut launches its new AI assistant AIR to UK cu...
Revolut, the British virtual bank platform, has just launched its new AI financial assistant named A...
Eight, the Portuguese dating app,is raising a €3M ...
The app goes live each night between 8 and 9pm, connecting verified users through 30-second video in...
Maeconomy raises €1.5M to give building materials ...
The Dutch startup is tackling one of construction’s most stubborn problems: the fact that most build...
Samsung’s next-gen foldable phones will inherit an...
You don't have to pick up that unknown call anymore.
Volkswagen abandons ID.4 EV plans for shoppers in ...
The Volkswagen ID.4 is being discontinued in the US after years of volatile sales and the removal of...
Serve First secures €5.7M to scale its AI-driven c...
The Milton Keynes startup, which tripled annual recurring revenue in the 12 months to July 2025, is ...
Adobe Project Indigo adds iPad support and a bunch...
Adobe's Project Indigo camera app now works on iPads with 6GB of RAM and the iPhone 17e, and brings ...
Databricks co-founder Matei Zaharia wins ACM Prize...
In short: Matei Zaharia, the Berkeley computer science professor and Databricks co-founder who creat...
Those 90-second YouTube ads you saw? YouTube says ...
YouTube denies running 90-second unskippable ads on TVs, but multiple users are reporting the same e...
ChatGPT has a new $100 per month Pro subscription
OpenAI has announced a new version of its ChatGPT Pro subscription that costs $100 per month. The ne...
Marvel just released first Punisher: One Last Kill...
Marvel drops the Punisher One Last Kill trailer, bringing Jon Bernthal back as Frank Castle. The foo...
Florida launches investigation into OpenAI
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier is launching an investigation into OpenAI over public safety...
