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Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg offered employees $30,000 or six months of salary to leave the company if they didn’t agree with his battle against WP Engine. In an update on Thursday night, Mullenweg said 159 people, making up 8.4 percent of the company, took the offer.
Automattic, which is in charge of WordPress.com and its commercial services, has been involved in a public dispute with WP Engine after Mullenweg called the third-party hosting service a “cancer” to th
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A leading expert in AI is urging lawmakers to rapidly pass new legislation to regulate Agentic AI, a ground-breaking new form of AI capable of completing complex goal-oriented tasks without the need of a human prompt. President of the European Responsible AI Office (EURAIO) Nell Watson made the call today during her keynote speech at […] Read more ›
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Tencent and Assassin's Creed maker Ubisoft are considering a buyout. Read more Read more ›
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Academy Award-nominated director Todd Phillips and his new sequel Joker: Folie à Deux bravely ask the daring question: What if the most annoying man you know got an equally annoying girlfriend? And what if they sang show tunes to each other? And what if you had to watch? The man in question is one Arthur […] Read more ›
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Taiwanese company Novatek has announced plans to begin mass production of OLED displays with TDDI (touch and display driver integration) technology as early as the second quarter of 2025, supply chain publication DigiTimes reported today. The report states that Apple is "expected" to be one of Novatek's first customers, although this claim appears to be speculative. "While industry insiders remain tight-lipped about potential end customers, speculation suggests that Novatek's proposed... Read more ›
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TSMC's 2nm wafers will cost two times more than 4nm and 5nm wafers, according to report. Read more ›
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Attacking Iran's sprawling and well-defended nuclear program would be a formidable challenge for Israel. Read more ›
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Hurricane Helene's heavy rains devastated western North Carolina, and few properties had flood insurance. Read more ›
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Some top Nvidia executives have sold millions of shares worth over $1.8 billion, and more are to come. Read more ›
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Illustration by Nick Barclay / The Verge Facebook is announcing a host of updates to its platform today, many of which focus on pushing users outside of their social bubble of friends and family. Among the updates are new tabs being added to Facebook that are meant to surface more content for users, including recommendations based on a person’s location. A new “Local” tab will collect content from other Facebook... Read more ›
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Mike Lynch, his 18-year-old daughter Hannah, and five others died after the Bayesian superyacht was caught in a sudden storm in August near Sicily. Read more ›
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If this was a typical company, the departure of its COO and allegations of a whistleblower complaint would be a big deal. Read more ›
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Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway has cut its Bank of America stake by 23% since July, and it's now worth less than its American Express bet. Read more ›
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The booming jobs market in September could give former President Donald Trump one less thing to attack VP Kamala Harris on as the election nears. Read more ›
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Seven actors have played Joker in a live-action movie or series since 1966. We ranked them from best to worst. Read more ›
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Ten years ago, the Reaper of Souls expansion completely reimagined and revived Diablo III. It overhauled huge swaths of the game, strengthening its foundation enough that D3 remained a fun time even as it stretched far past what should have been its expiration date. Diablo IV has moved at a different pace. It managed to get through launch without the technical mishaps that plagued its predecessor, but it was still... Read more ›
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Dragon Quest creator Yuji Horii has asked people not to "arbitrarily extract parts of comments for the purpose of reinforcing the legitimacy of your own opinion" after he was accused of blaming Western ratings board for having to put more modest clothing on characters in Dragon Quest 3 HD-2D Remake. Read more Read more ›
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A Chapter 11 bankruptcy has the potential to let Spirit Airlines restructure its debt following a failed merger with JetBlue. Read more ›
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You will have to contact Samsung Support to recover your phone without a data wipe, or wipe the data yourself. Read more ›
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Google CEO Sundar Pichai told Nikkei Asia that the company is "evaluating technologies like small modular nuclear reactors" to meet its energy needs. Read more ›
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Meta’s glasses include a privacy light, but it’s not always easily visible. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Two Harvard students have created an eerie demo of how smart glasses can use facial recognition tech to instantly doxx people’s identities, phone numbers, and addresses. The most unsettling part is the demo uses current, widely available technology like the Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses and public databases. AnhPhu Nguyen,... Read more ›
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Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Gamers hoping to spend an evening in front of their PlayStation 5 or PlayStation 4 may be out of luck, as Sony’s gaming network is suffering a massive outage on Monday night. The official PSN Service Status page confirms problems affecting everything “Other, PS Vita, PS3, PS4, PS5, Web.” If it’s PlayStation — it’s not working. On my end, attempting to launch a... Read more ›
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Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge Verizon is experiencing a huge outage affecting its mobile services across the country. “During the incident we received reports from Clermont, Naples, Ocala, St. Petersburg, Decatur, Carmel, Cloverdale, Indianapolis, Caldwell, Ottawa, Shawnee, Lexington, Louisville, Wentzville, Elizabeth, Dallas, Houston, McGaheysville, Keyser, Chillicothe and 53 other cities,” according to a website tracking the outage. There are also more than 90,000 user reports of problems on D Read more ›
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Flooding in Boone, NC, about an hour northeast of Spruce Pine. | Photo by Melissa Sue Gerrits/Getty Images Hurricane Helene brought historic rainfall and flooding to western North Carolina last week, leaving dozens dead and catastrophic damage stretching across the state’s mountain towns. The devastation also reached the small town of Spruce Pine, which is home to the purest quartz on Earth. Spruce Pine’s high-quality quartz is an essential ingredient... Read more ›
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Image: Microsoft Microsoft is releasing a new version of Office this week, designed for people that don’t want to subscribe to Microsoft 365. The standalone Microsoft Office 2024 release is now available for both consumers and small businesses, and includes locked-in-time versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, and Outlook across both Mac and PC. Office 2024 includes a lot of the updates that Microsoft has been delivering to Microsoft 365... Read more ›
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Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Nintendo may have just won its battle to put the most popular Nintendo Switch emulators out of business. In March, it sued Yuzu out of existence — and now it may have convinced Yuzu’s primary competitor, Ryujinx, to go away too. Ryujinx’s download page is now empty. Its GitHub is gone. And the emulator’s X social media page and official Discord now contains... Read more ›
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Fasetto’s Audio Cu sends audio signals to surround sound speakers over a home’s existing power lines. | Image: Fasetto Fasetto has announced that its Audio Cu system, which connects TVs and other audio devices to speakers and subwoofers using the existing power line wiring in a home, has received Dolby Atmos Product Certification from Dolby Laboratories. Similar to powerline networking solutions that can leverage existing electrical wiring to share internet... Read more ›
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The ring will come in six colors. | Image: Oura Oura is giving its popular smart ring and app a substantial makeover. The company just announced the $349 Oura Ring 4, which will feature a slimmer design, improved accuracy, and more sizes. Starting today, the Oura app will also be getting a complete redesign to better organize the swath of new features introduced over the past few months. At a... Read more ›
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Photo by Jack Guez / AFP via Getty Images Here’s the thing about asking investors for money: they want to see returns. OpenAI launched with a famously altruistic mission: to help humanity by developing artificial general intelligence. But along the way, it became one of the best-funded companies in Silicon Valley. Now, the tension between those two facts is coming to a head. Weeks after releasing a new model it... Read more ›
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Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge The Sonos app debacle will go down as an all-time tech industry blunder, but now the company is taking steps to turn the page. Continue reading… Read more ›
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