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Two undersea communications cables in the Baltic Sea have been knocked offline, and at least one appears to have been physically cut. CNN received confirmation from a local telecom company that a cable between Lithuania and Sweden was cut on Sunday morning. A second cable, about 60 to 65 miles from the first, routes communications between Finland and Germany. The cause of that outage has yet to be determined, but officials suspect âintentional damage.â
The outages follow a September warning from the US abou
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BeyoncĂ© will perform songs off "Cowboy Carter" during Netflix's Christmas NFL gameday. Read more âș
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Victoria KjĂŠr Theilvig is the first Miss Denmark to win Miss Universe in the pageant's history. She's also the first blond to win since 2004. 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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Illustration by Cath Virginia / The Verge The Department of Justice is planning to ask for Googleâs antitrust trial judge to force the company to sell off its Chrome browser after the judge ruled the company has maintained an illegal search monopoly, reports Bloomberg. Chrome is the worldâs most widely used browser, and the governmentâs lawyers have argued that its use in cross-promoting Googleâs products is one of the things... Read more âș
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You can already save more than $200 on an M4 MacBook Pro. | Photo by Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge Apple currently sells MacBooks equipped with its own M-series chips in a wide range of sizes and price points. It discontinued the M1 MacBook Air to make room for the latest models, but some retailers are still selling the last-gen laptop starting at $649 â a far cry... Read more âș
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Looking for NYT Connections answers and hints? Here's all you need to know to solve today's game, plus my commentary on the puzzles. Read more âș
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Reports suggest that Google has plans to unify its ChromeOS and Android operating systems to compete with Apple in the tablet market. 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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Apple's next-generation A19 chip for the iPhone 17 and iPhone 17 Air and A19 Pro chip for the iPhone 17 Pro and iPhone 17 Pro Max will be manufactured with TSMC's latest, third-generation 3nm process called "N3P," analyst Jeff Pu said today, in a broader tech-related research note with Hong Kong-based investment bank Haitong. The current A18 and A18 Pro chips for the iPhone 16 lineup are manufactured with TSMC's... Read more âș
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The United States Department of Justice wants Google to sell off its Chrome browser as part of an ongoing antitrust lawsuit, reports Bloomberg. Earlier this year, Google was found to have a search monopoly, and antitrust regulators have since been deciding on the actions that should be taken to address Google's anticompetitive practices. The DoJ plans to ask the court to force Google to sell Chrome, which is the most... Read more âș
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Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge A group of state attorneys general are pushing Congress to pass the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA), which has stalled in the House of Representatives thanks to concerns over online censorship. An open letter published today is signed by 32 attorneys general, including those of 31 states and the District of Columbia. It urges leaders of both parties in the House and Senate to... Read more âș
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AnyChat unifies ChatGPT, Google Gemini, Claude, and more under one platform, offering developers and enterprises unprecedented flexibility to switch between leading AI models seamlessly. Read more âș
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Starting next month, making a device backup over iCloud will require iOS 9 or later, Apple has informed some customers via email. New backups for iPhones and iPads running iOS 8 or earlier will no longer be supported, and Apple will delete all existing âiCloudâ backups of those devices as well. Apps and data stored on an iPhone or iPad running iOS 8 or earlier will not be affected, and... Read more âș
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HarperCollins has partnered with an AI technology company to allow limited use of select nonfiction backlist titles for training AI models, offering authors the choice to opt in for a $2,500 non-negotiable fee. 404 Media reports: On Friday, author Daniel Kibblesmith, who wrote the children's book Santa's Husband and published it with HarperCollins, posted screenshots on Bluesky of an email he received, seemingly from his agent, informing him that the... Read more âș
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Like other decentralized AI networks, Morpheus seeks to curtail the negative side effects of AI, such as centralization, censorship, and data monopolies. Read more âș
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The Guardian announced it will no longer be active on X (formerly Twitter) â all its editorial accounts will stop posting on the platform. Users can, of course, still share the outlet's articles on X, and journalists working for The Guardian may link to or embed X posts in their articles or continue using the platform to gather news. According to the statement, X has become rife with âfar-right conspiracy... Read more âș
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Bluesky may still be the underdog in the race for alternatives to X, but the once Twitter-affiliated service is gaining momentum. The app just passed the 15 million user mark after adding more than a million new users over the last week, the company said in an update. While Bluesky is still considerably smaller than Threads, which with 275 million users is its biggest rival, there are signs that Threads... Read more âș
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After a judge on Thursday ordered an evidentiary hearing into The Onion's winning bid to purchase Infowars, Alex Jonesâ site resumed operations and claimed the sale has been blocked. But Onion CEO Ben Collins countered this in an update posted on Bluesky and X on Saturday, writing, âWe left the hearing with clear next steps to complete the sale.â According to Collins, a court date has been set for a... Read more âș
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President-elect Donald Trump has named Elon Musk as the leader of a new âDepartment of Government Efficiency," that will âdismantle Government Bureaucracy, slash excess regulations, cut wasteful expenditures, and restructure Federal Agencies.â The Tesla CEO and owner of X will spearhead the effort along with former presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, Trump announced in a statement on Truth Social. The scope of the role isnât exactly clear. Trumpâs press release said... Read more âș
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This year's action RPG Stellar Blade has been a solid win for Sony as a PlayStation 5 exclusive. Developer Shift Up revealed in a recent quarterly earnings report that sales "have remained steady even as the initial surge has calmed" following its spring launch. But there may be a second boost coming for the game, because the studio is planning a PC port of Stellar Blade some time next year.... Read more âș
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Nintendo just announced its various Black Friday promotions and they go live on November 24 and last until November 30. These include discounts on first-party Switch titles, which is pretty darned rare. The deals will be available at popular retailers like Best Buy, Target and Walmart. These discounts are for physical copies of games, so the Nintendo eShop won't be involved. Perhaps the jewel in Black Fridayâs crown is a... Read more âș
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Nintendo just dropped details on its various Black Friday promotions, all of which go live on November 24 and end on November 30. These include fairly steep discounts on first-party Switch titles, which rarely happens. The deals will be available at retailers like Best Buy, GameSpot, Target and Walmart, though it doesnât look like the Nintendo eShop will host these sales. Perhaps the jewel in Black Fridayâs crown is a... Read more âș
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We initially heard about a team modding an RTX remaster of Half-Life 2 last August. Today, NVIDIA released a trailer giving fans a behind-the-scenes look at Orbifold Studios' efforts to apply more modern graphics tools to the iconic title. The video highlights the RTX Remix engine and how the team is using it to make visual upgrades to a game with an engine two decades old. They have examples of... Read more âș
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Amazon Haul will be the ecommerce titan's new discount storefront designed to compete against Temu and Shein, CNBCÂ reports. This new corner of Bezos's empire is mobile-only and promises items at âcrazy low prices.â Unlike Amazon Primeâs fast speeds, Amazon promises its Haul orders orders will arrive in less than two weeks. Previously, CNBC mentioned in a previous report that Amazon was exploring a storefront where goods would be sold... Read more âș
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AMD has confirmed itâs laying off roughly four percent of its global workforce, according to reports by TechCrunch and others. Itâs not entirely clear how many people will be impacted by this move, or which divisions the laid off employees will be pulled from. We can, however, do some math. The company had around 26,000 employees last year, according to an annual filing by AMD. Four percent of 26,000 comes... Read more âș
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