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A Super Scooper drops ocean water on the Palisades fire. | Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images
An aircraft helping to fight wildfires that are raging across Los Angeles was struck by a civilian drone on Thursday. The collision damaged the wing of the aircraft — a CL-415 “Super Scooper” capable of scooping up 1,600 gallons of ocean water to drop onto nearby blazes — according to a statement by the LA County Fire Department posted on X, putting it out of service until it can be rep
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Fine-tuning large language models is a decisive step in adapting them for specific tasks. With the growing demand for tailored AI solutions, choosing the right model type has become more important. Open-source and proprietary models offer distinct options, each with its advantages and challenges. This article explores how these models differ and provides practical guidance... Read more » Read more ›
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Apple's first foldable iPhone is set to enter mass production in the second half of 2025, according to Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo. In a new post on Medium, Kuo said that the foldable iPhone remains in "the planning stage." The device will reportedly be eSIM-only, just like Apple's upcoming ultra-slim iPhone 17 model. Kuo said that the two devices will likely face hurdles in the Chinese market unless Apple modifies... Read more ›
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Blue checkmarks addressed this issue just fine before Elon Musk took a sledgehammer to them. Read more ›
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This week on the Eurogamer Newscast, we round up the current deluge of leaks surrounding Nintendo's under-wraps Switch 2. Read more Read more ›
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Some fire hydrants in Los Angeles had no water to douse the fires. Here's what happened, and why the endangered smelt fish wrongly got blamed. Read more ›
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The International Fact-Checking Network proposed crowdsourcing in conjunction with professionals, a "new model." Read more ›
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Manor Lords today receives its fourth major update as early access continues, bringing a new bridge-building mechanic, bug fixes, and some experimental changes. Read more Read more ›
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The volume and share of negative social-media posts around the stars has risen since Lively filed her complaint against Baldoni, an analysis found. Read more ›
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There's good news for those wanting to try The First Berserker: Khazan before they buy - a free demo is on the way. Read more Read more ›
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House of the Dead 2: Remake will rise from the grave in spring/Q2 2025. Read more Read more ›
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The circumgalactic medium, a vast gaseous halo surrounding galaxies, could be crucial to the evolution of star-forming galaxies like our own. Read more ›
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Insurers hire companies like Wildfire Defense Systems to protect structures. It's an attempt to blunt the economic impact of blazes like LA's. Read more ›
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Square Enix has shared a new Group Customer Harassment Policy to protect its workers from toxic fan behaviour. Read more Read more ›
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Illustration by Laura Normand / The Verge When Elon Musk launched his own AI startup, xAI, he touted a key advantage over his competitors: access to the vast trove of data from his newly acquired social media platform Twitter. By implementing new API fees on the network he quickly renamed X, Musk locked out other AI companies, maintaining exclusive access for his own models. And he began using X’s millions... Read more ›
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It was while walking past the RadioShack booth at CES 2025 that I spied the Kodak stand not far ahead. And it was while musing about the fate of those two storied — okay maybe not storied — names that I spied another Kodak booth two rows over. For a company that’s been dead more than a few times over, it’s certainly enjoying something of a renaissance. Look, it’s not... Read more ›
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The woman reportedly screamed out in pain as she was being taken out of the machine. Read more ›
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Apple is widely rumored to be planning a new iPhone SE, and multiple sources lately have commented on the device's launch timing. The latest word comes from Apple supply chain analyst Ming-Chi Kuo. In a blog post today, he said the device will be released around the middle of the first half of 2025. In other words, around the quarter mark of 2025. That means the next iPhone SE will... Read more ›
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As he prepares to leave the White House, Ali Zaidi is sober about what’s coming—but says too much has already been built and invested for Donald Trump to undo it. Read more ›
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Russian nationals have been charged with crimes for allegedly running the crypto mixing services Blender.io and Sinbad.io used by North Korean hackers. Read more ›
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The so-called "iPhone 17 Air" model expected to launch later this year will have an ultra-thin design that is 5.5mm at its thinnest point, according to the latest information shared by reputable Apple supply chain analyst Ming-Chi Kuo. In a blog post today, Kuo added that the device will lack a physical SIM card slot, and instead rely entirely on digital eSIM technology. This story will be updated with more... Read more ›
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Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge; Getty Images As part of Meta’s 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 “help remove the concern that biased employees are overly censoring content,” he wrote on Threads. “We’re going to move our trust and safety and content moderation teams out of California, and... Read more ›
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Meta says it’s seen the shift to Community Notes ‘work on X.’ | 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 Meta’s new Trump-friendly policy chief Joe Kaplan. Meta is also moving its trust and safety teams from California to Texas. “We’ve seen this approach work on X – where they... Read more ›
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Image: VideoLAN The popular open-source VLC video player was demonstrated on the floor of CES 2025 with automatic AI subtitling and translation, generated locally and offline in real-time. Parent organization VideoLAN shared a video on Tuesday in which president Jean-Baptiste Kempf shows off the new feature, which uses open-source AI models to generate subtitles for videos in several languages. “At the same time we have automatic translation working to translate... Read more ›
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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang holding the Project Digits computer on stage at Nvidia’s 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 it’s 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 ›
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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, Meta’s announcement that it was... Read more ›
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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, Microsoft’s VP of “Next Generation,” 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 “The Future of Gaming Handhelds,” which... Read more ›
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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, you’ll get a page that looks an awful lot like... Google. It’s 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 ›
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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 that’s 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 ›
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Image: Ubisoft Ubisoft announced a “strategic update” today, and the changes include a delay for Assassin’s Creed Shadows, the upcoming entry in the franchise that takes place in feudal Japan, from February 14th to March 20th. “As part of the renewed focus on gameplay quality and engaging Day-1 experiences, it has been decided to provide an additional month of development to Assassin’s Creed Shadows,” Ubisoft writes in a press release.... Read more ›
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Image: HDMI Forum The HDMI Forum is using CES — the annual showcase of all things home theater — 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 “Ultra96” HDMI cable that “enables all the HDMI 2.2 specification features.”... Read more ›
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