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Meta could bring ads to Threads as soon as next year, according to a report from The Information. As part of its plan, Threads will reportedly allow a small number of advertisers to make and publish ads in January.
That tracks with what my colleague Alex Heath reported about the rollout of ads in July. Instagram head Adam Mosseri has also confirmed that Meta is âdefinitelyâ planning to bring ads to Threads. âI get why people have concerns, but at the end of the day weâre a business.
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Kristen Radtke / The Verge Bluesky feels like the big winner right now. Iâve been covering Bluesky ever since I got my invite in April 2023. Iâve felt the platform has always had promise, especially with features like feeds with custom algorithms and the ability to let users pick their own moderation filters. But for a long while, it didnât have the critical mass of users that I could follow... Read more âș
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Cher discusses how growing up impoverished shaped her habits, her struggles with overspending, and the risks of not understanding finances in her book. Read more âș
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Save on a new bed this Black Friday from CNET-approved brands like Purple, Casper, Nectar and more. Read more âș
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The Rust community has "recognized the unsafety of Rust (if used incorrectly)," according to a blog post by Amazon Web Services. So now AWS and the Rust Foundation are "crowdsourcing an effort to verify the Rust standard library," according to an article at DevClass.com, "by setting out a series of challenges for devs and offering financial rewards for solutions..." Rust includes ways to bypass its safety guarantees though, with the... Read more âș
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The Realme GT 7 Pro will enter its first foreign market, India, on Tuesday and it will be a make-or-break moment for the phone. The price in its homeland is great, but last weekâs poll shows that people are concerned about the international pricing, which will be higher than the âč42,000/$505/âŹ465 value we get with a simple currency conversion. The pricing issue was easily the most voted option in the... Read more âș
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7-Eleven stores are at the center of a three-way bidding war between the company's management, its founders, and a Canadian convenience store company. Read more âș
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After a series of cybersecurity challenges this year, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says the company needs a culture change. Read more âș
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Action, Henry Cavill, and romance await in Lionsgate's eventual reboot of the beloved Highlander series. Read more âș
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Trump ally Elon Musk publicly threw his weight behind Howard Lutnick for Treasury secretary. Trump went with Scott Bessent instead. Read more âș
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The Times sued OpenAI in December, arguing that the company used its articles without permission to train ChatGPT. Read more âș
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A peace deal could be fragile unless Ukraine gets security guanrantees. Read more âș
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Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Microsoft has stopped offering updates to Windows 11 version 24H2 on PCs that have certain Ubisoft games installed, Bleeping Computer reports. The company made the move after complaints that Star Wars Outlaws and games in the Assassinâs Creed series were crashing after installing the new Windows update. Microsoft confirmed the âcompatibility holdâ in a status update yesterday evening, and says itâs working with... Read more âș
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Illustration by Lille Allen / The Verge Elon Musk is, in addition to many other things, now the co-lead of the currently nonexistent Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) advisory group. Now, before it even gets rolling, he has begun singling out individual government employees he says are emblematic of the governmentâs bloat and posting about them to his hundreds of millions of followers on X. Earlier this week, as first... Read more âș
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Photo by Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge Sony is bringing a big new feature to the PlayStation Portal: cloud streaming. When it first launched, the device was only able to stream games from your PS5 over Wi-Fi. But as part of a new system update thatâs rolling out starting later today, youâll be able to stream select PS5 games from the PlayStation Plus Game Catalog to your PlayStation... Read more âș
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Image: Hugo Herrera / The Verge HarperCollins has agreed with an unnamed AI tech company to let the company use some nonfiction titles to train its models, 404 Media reports, but only if authors opt-in to having their books be used for training. Some authors are currently suing companies like OpenAI, accusing them of copyright infringement for training AI models on their works without permission. According to a statement HarperCollins... Read more âș
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Control. | Image: Remedy Entertainment We already knew that the supernatural thriller Control was getting a sequel, but now Remedy has provided some more details on the game. Well, one major detail: Control 2 will be an action RPG, seemingly deviating from the action-adventure template set by the original. The news came during an investors presentation, in which the studio revealed a few other tidbits about the franchise: the original... Read more âș
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Image: Universal Jon M. Chuâs Wicked adaptation gets at the heart of what makes musicals such a spectacular form of storytelling. Continue reading⊠Read more âș
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The US Department of Energy headquarters building on February 9th, 2024, in Washington, DC. | Photo by J. David Ake / Getty Images President-elect Donald Trumpâs pick to lead the Department of Energy is fossil fuel executive Chris Wright â who has misleadingly claimed on LinkedIn that âthere is no climate crisis, and weâre not in the midst of an energy transition either.â Hurricanes, wildfires, droughts, and other disasters exacerbated... Read more âș
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Image: The Verge A New York judge has determined that SiriusXMâs âlong and burdensomeâ cancellation process is illegal. In a ruling on Thursday, Judge Lyle Frank found SiriusXM violates a federal law that requires companies to make it easy to cancel a subscription. The decision comes nearly one year after New York Attorney General Leticia James sued SiriusXM over claims the company makes subscriptions difficult to cancel. Following an investigation,... Read more âș
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Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Microsoft has been trying to convince Windows 10 users to upgrade to Windows 11 for months now, ahead of the end of support date for Windows 10 in October, 2025. Earlier this year, Microsoft started using fullscreen prompts to warn Windows 10 users about the support cutoff, and now itâs using similar prompts to try and tempt people to buy a new Windows... Read more âș
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New V4 cabinet and Supercharger stalls. | Image: Tesla Tesla will launch fully realized V4 Supercharger stations that support up to 500kW charging for EVs and 1.2MW for Teslaâs commercial Semi trucks next year. Sites with new V4 cabinets are going into permitting now. When they open next year, theyâll connect the charging stalls EVs plug into with upgraded electronics that support faster charging on Cybertruck and other manufacturersâ EVs.... Read more âș
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Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge After its foray into headphones, the next major new product category from Sonos is rumored to be a video streaming box similar to a Roku, Amazon Fire TV, or Apple TV. Such a device has been rumored for ages now, with Bloomberg previously reporting that its price is expected to fall between $150 and $200. And today we got confirmation (or at least something... Read more âș
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