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This is the alert that inadvertently went out to everyone in LA County, | Screenshot: Sheena Visani
After two days of dealing with wildfires that have burned thousands of acres, residents across Los Angeles County received a wildfire evacuation alert on Thursday afternoon that was a mistake. Shortly after, officials sent a follow-up alert saying that the notice was intended only for people near the Kenneth Fire in Woodland Hills.
Los Angeles County shared a message on X explaining what happened. âA
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LA wildfires, including massive Palisades and Eaton fires, continue to devastate the region with zero containment, as officials warn of looting risks. Read more âș
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We attended a small roundtable session with AMD executives at CES 2025 in Las Vegas and asked the company for details about its continuing shortages of its flagship gaming-optimized CPU, the Ryzen 9 9800X3D, currently the uncontested best CPU for gaming, and when we can expect demand to improve. Read more âș
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Huge recent fundraising deals for Databricks, SpaceX and OpenAI further delay need for stock market debuts Read more âș
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By a 5-4 vote, the Supreme Court handed a largely symbolic, but still politically significant, loss to President-elect Donald Trump on Thursday evening. Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Amy Coney Barrett, both Republicans, voted with all three of the Courtâs Democrats. The case, known as Trump v. New York, involves Trumpâs felony convictions for [âŠ] Read more âș
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Six minutes of developer Splash Damage's unreleased Transformers: Reactivate have leaked online following the studio's announcement earlier this week it was ending development. Read more Read more âș
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If you thought 2025 might finally be the year you get through that pesky games backlog, signs aren't looking good. You can now chuck more onto the pile, with Amazon having announced it's bringing 16 more titles to Prime Gaming in January. Read more Read more âș
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Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge; Getty Images As part of Metaâs sweeping changes to content moderation announced today, CEO Mark Zuckerberg says that the company will also be moving its content moderation teams from California to Texas to âhelp remove the concern that biased employees are overly censoring content,â he wrote on Threads. âWeâre going to move our trust and safety and content moderation teams out of California, and... Read more âș
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Meta says itâs seen the shift to Community Notes âwork on X.â | Image: The Verge Facebook, Instagram, and Threads are ditching third-party fact-checkers in favor of a Community Notes program inspired by X, according to an announcement penned by Metaâs new Trump-friendly policy chief Joe Kaplan. Meta is also moving its trust and safety teams from California to Texas. âWeâve seen this approach work on X â where they... Read more âș
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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang holding the Project Digits computer on stage at Nvidiaâs CES 2025 press conference. | Image: Nvidia If you were looking for your own personal AI supercomputer, Nvidia has you covered. The chipmaker announced at CES itâs launching a personal AI supercomputer called Project Digits in May. The heart of Project Digits is the new GB10 Grace Blackwell Superchip, which packs enough processing power to run sophisticated... Read more âș
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Image: Alex Parkin / The Verge As I write this, there are a lot of social network users who are wondering if they should look for a new home. Over at X, Elon Musk has essentially become part of the incoming Trump administration, while various changes have made the formerly popular social network a dark and forbidding forest for many of its former inhabitants. Meanwhile, Metaâs announcement that it was... Read more âș
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Image: The Verge Xbox chief Phil Spencer has been dropping hints about an Xbox handheld for months, but what about Windows handheld gaming PCs? Jason Ronald, Microsoftâs VP of âNext Generation,â tells The Verge that we should expect to see the Windows handheld gaming experience change within this calendar year. Ronald was a roundtable panelist this evening at an AMD and Lenovo event titled âThe Future of Gaming Handhelds,â which... Read more âș
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The Verge / Photo by Bloomberg, Getty Images A few months before the first Cybertrucks were delivered to customers, Tesla CEO Elon Musk got on a call with investors and said he wanted to âtemper expectationsâ about the polarizing vehicle. âItâs a great product, but financially, it will take, I donât know, a year to 18 months before it is a significant positive cash flow contributor,â Musk said in the... Read more âș
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Image: The Verge Microsoft is pulling yet another trick to get people to use its Bing search engine. If you use Bing right now without signing into a Microsoft account and search for Google, youâll get a page that looks an awful lot like... Google. Itâs a clear attempt from Microsoft to make Bing look like Google for this specific search query, and other searches just list the usual Bing... Read more âș
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Image: Chris Welch / The Verge Afeela is starting to become a little bit more than just a feeling. The electric vehicle thatâs a joint venture between Sony and Honda is finally available for preorder. And it only took five years to get here. At its press conference at CES today, Sony Honda Mobility announced pricing and preorder details for Afeela. The vehicle will come in two trims: the $89,900... Read more âș
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Image: HDMI Forum The HDMI Forum is using CES â the annual showcase of all things home theater â to announce the new HDMI 2.2 specification. In a press release this morning, the trade association confirmed that the new spec will up total bandwidth significantly to a new high of 96Gbps. And yes, that means the introduction of an âUltra96â HDMI cable that âenables all the HDMI 2.2 specification features.â... Read more âș
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Image: Laura Normand / The Verge Apple CEO Tim Cook is the next tech exec to donate $1 million to President-elect Donald Trumpâs inauguration committee, according to Axios. Cookâs donation follows similar commitments from OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos through Amazon, and Meta as Big Tech companies and executives work to curry favor with the incoming administration. Cook famously built a personal relationship with Trump during his... Read more âș
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