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Kids may have a harder time sneaking out with Tesla's rumored update that sends notifications when the car is driven past curfew. Read more ›
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Microsoft employees without an Apple device will be issued a free iPhone 15, Bloomberg reported. Read more ›
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Apple is preparing to release a minor iOS 17.5.2 update for the iPhone, according to a post shared today by an anonymous leaker on X, formerly known as Twitter. The leaker has a private account, so we are not identifying it or linking to it, but they have proven to be a consistently accurate source for upcoming iOS updates. Nothing is known about iOS 17.5.2, beyond the leaker claiming that... Read more ›
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Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer confirms she won't join the 2024 race if Biden steps down. Read more ›
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Illustration: The Verge A widespread Xbox outage is preventing players from connecting to Xbox Live and playing online games, downloading games, or using other services, with many seeing the message “Error 0x87DD0033.” In a post at around 3PM ET, Xbox says it’s “aware that some users have been disconnected from Xbox Live” and that the company is “investigating.” Bethesda, which is now owned by Microsoft, published a similar message, saying... Read more ›
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Photo by Sheena Vasani / The Verge An ongoing outage is preventing Amazon Kindle users from downloading both new and previously purchased books to their e-readers. According to moderators responding to users reporting the issue on Amazon’s support forums, the company is aware of the issue and is “currently working to resolve it.” Attempting other troubleshooting steps, like resetting the device, has not fixed the problems, so users may need... Read more ›
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Illustration by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge In March, Microsoft notified the US Department of Veterans Affairs that it was impacted by the security breach that enabled the Russian hacking group known as “Midnight Blizzard” to steal some of the company’s source code, reports Bloomberg. Already assigned blame for the earlier SolarWinds attack, the group has been accused of spying on email accounts of Microsoft’s senior leadership team and... Read more ›
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Image: The Verge Until Friday, OpenAI’s recently launched ChatGPT macOS app had a potentially worrying security issue: it wasn’t hard to find your chats stored on your computer and read them in plain text. That meant that if a bad actor or malicious app had access to your machine, they could easily read your conversations with ChatGPT and the data contained within them. As demonstrated by Pedro José Pereira Vieito... Read more ›
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Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Twilio says someone has obtained phone numbers associated with its two-factor authentication service (2FA), Authy, as reported earlier by TechCrunch. In a security alert on Monday, Twilio warns that the “threat actors” may try to use the stolen phone numbers to carry out phishing attacks and other scams. The incident follows a 2022 data breach that occurred after a phishing campaign tricked... Read more ›
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Image: Marvel Studios The premise of Disney Plus’ What If…? made it seem like the animated Marvel series might run indefinitely as the studio keeps putting out live-action projects, but it looks like this chapter of the big multiverse story is just about over. Though What If…? season 3 doesn’t have a premiere date, Entertainment Weekly reports that it will be the final installment in the series that gave us... Read more ›
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The Astro for Business robot is no more. | Image: Amazon For a moment there, it seemed like Amazon might pivot its Astro home robot to enterprise after giving it a better job as a camera-equipped patrol dog. But today, it’s discontinuing the Astro for Business robot for good. On September 25th, every one of the 20-pound wheeled robots will stop working, and Amazon will automatically issue full refunds for... Read more ›
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Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge Figma’s new tool Make Designs lets users quickly mock up apps using generative AI. Now, it’s getting delayed after the tool drafted designs that looked strikingly similar to Apple’s iOS weather app. Figma CEO Dylan Field posted a thread on X early Tuesday morning detailing the delay, putting the blame on himself for pushing the team to meet a deadline, and defending the company’s... Read more ›
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Illustration by Kristen Radtke / The Verge Apple has chosen App Store chief and former marketing head Phil Schiller to represent the company on OpenAI’s nonprofit board, according to a report from Bloomberg. Schiller will reportedly get an observer role, meaning he can attend board meetings but can’t vote or act as a director. Joining the board will allow Schiller to learn more about the inner workings of OpenAI as... Read more ›
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Image: Evan Blass We’re only one week away from Samsung’s next Unpacked event on July 10th, where we’re expecting the company’s Galaxy Z Fold 6 and Z Flip 6 folding phones — but leaker Evan Blass has just revealed the entire spec sheets and marketing materials with practically everything you’d want to know. For example, did you know both phones will be lighter, with longer battery life, despite being slightly... Read more ›
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