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Sources tell WIRED that OPM’s top layers of management now include individuals linked to xAI, Neuralink, the Boring Company, and Palantir. One expert found the takeover reminiscent of Stalin. Read more ›
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Yes, Google Maps is renaming the "Gulf of Mexico" to the "Gulf of America," but you won't see it when you open the app just yet. In a series of tweets, the News from Google account has revealed that the Maps app will roll out an update with the name change after the US government updates the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS), which serves as the "federal and national standard... Read more ›
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A federal judge has temporarily blocked President Donald Trump's order to freeze federal grants, preventing the order from taking effect. Read more ›
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One of US President Donald Trump’s first actions upon returning to power was ordering the Gulf of Mexico to be renamed. But mapmakers are still largely waiting for the green light. Read more ›
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A White House memo ordered a temporary federal funding freeze, exempting Social Security and Medicare. Here are some programs that seem to be at risk. Read more ›
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The federal government, including the military, is changing the name on maps to "Gulf of America." Even Google suggested it would make the change. Read more ›
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The AI disruption by DeepSeek caused significant US tech stock declines. Affordable, high-performing AI model challenges American multi-billion-dollar investments. Chinese startup’s free AI assistant dethrones ChatGPT on the US App Store.. The landscape of artificial intelligence witnessed a seismic shift in January 2025 as Chinese startup DeepSeek sent Silicon Valley into a tailspin, wiping billions... Read more » Read more ›
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From personal information to hardware specifications to even how you type, DeepSeek says it’s collecting swathes of data from its online users. Read more ›
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Walmart customer snags RTX 4070 Super for just $350, over 50% off its original MSRP during a Walmart clearance sale. Read more ›
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The Trump administration is offering buyouts to federal workers. Read the memo the Office of Personnel Management posted for employees. Read more ›
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Alas, it won't really propel you through time and space, but what an outrageous home decor piece it'd be. Read more ›
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Less than two days after President Donald Trump’s inauguration, Evangeline Warren, a sociology PhD student at the Ohio State University, logged into a professional development workshop alongside a hundred other young researchers. Just about everyone online was either employed by, or receiving grants from, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the largest single funder of […] Read more ›
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The business website's AI writers are scraping information from other AI writers, enabling a loop of generated garbage. Read more ›
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A new shot of David Corenswet zipping around in the DC film has kicked off much debate. Read more ›
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The fossil fuel giant is building natural gas power plants specifically for data centers. Read more ›
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The Chinese AI company didn't surpass OpenAI by going bigger or inventing new techniques. Read more ›
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"We will update Google Maps in the US quickly to show Mount McKinley and Gulf of America." Read more ›
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The company will also change the name of Alaska's Denali mountain back to Mount McKinley. Read more ›
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Cruz: Hotspot lending could "censor kids' exposure to conservative viewpoints." Read more ›
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The Trump administration's freeze on federal loans and grants is being challenged in court on multiple fronts. Read more ›
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Illustration: The Verge Google said today that it plans to update Google Maps to reflect President Trump’s January 20th executive order to change the names of the Gulf of Mexico and Denali to the Gulf of America and Mount McKinley, respectively. The company noted on X the updated nomenclature will appear once the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) is updated. “We have a longstanding practice of applying name changes when... Read more ›
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Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images Ever since Elon Musk closed his deal to buy Twitter he’s claimed the company, now called X, is in “a very dire situation from a revenue standpoint.” Now, the Wall Street Journal reports that banks are preparing a coordinated move to sell off some of the $13 billion in debt they loaned Musk to finance the deal. It mentions an email sent... Read more ›
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Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images Oracle and a group of investors that includes Microsoft are in talks to take over TikTok’s global operations, reports NPR. The deal, which the White House is reportedly negotiating, would see ByteDance keeping a minority stake in TikTok while “the app’s algorithm, data collection and software updates will be overseen by Oracle.” Oracle’s server network already provides the bulk of TikTok’s backbone,... Read more ›
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Photo by Karl-Josef Hildenbrand/picture alliance via Getty Images Sony is officially ending production of recordable Blu-rays. In an announcement from Japan spotted by Tom’s Hardware, Sony Storage Media Solutions said it will stop manufacturing the discs in February, alongside recordable MiniDiscs, MD-Data, and MiniDV cassettes, adding, “there will be no successor models.” This discontinuation doesn’t impact the Blu-rays you can buy with films or TV shows on them; it just... Read more ›
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The New Tesla Model Y | Image: Tesla Just a couple weeks after launching the refreshed “Juniper” Model Y in China and other Asia-Pacific markets, Tesla has started taking orders in the Americas (US, Canada, Mexico, and Chile) and Europe. The Launch Series is the only trim level currently available to order in the US, offering a “fully loaded” setup with special badging, the Full Self-Driving (Supervised) driver assist, and... Read more ›
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The battery icon in Windows 11 is getting a colorful update. | Image: Microsoft Microsoft is releasing a new Windows 11 Insider Preview Build today with some welcome improvements to the operating system’s battery icon – possibly sparing you the realization that you’ve chosen a dead outlet, or improperly plugged in your power adapter, or let your battery drain too much, before it’s far too late. Windows’ battery icon, which... Read more ›
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Illustration: The Verge Google worked with the Israeli military in the immediate aftermath of its ground invasion of the Gaza Strip, racing to beat out Amazon to provide AI services, according to company documents obtained by the Washington Post. In the weeks after Hamas’s October 7th attack on Israel, employees at Google’s cloud division worked directly with the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) — even as the company told both the... Read more ›
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Illustration by Nick Barclay / The Verge Whenever Netflix raises its prices — which seems to happen roughly as often as Ben Affleck falls in love with an A-list celebrity — the company always gives the same reason. It needs the extra money, you see, in order to keep investing in the kind of programming and product its 302 million subscribers demand. That’s how the standard monthly price of ad-free... Read more ›
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Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge After surging to the top of Apple’s App Store charts in the US, DeepSeek’s AI Assistant is now restricting new user sign-ups. According to an incident report page, registrations are being temporarily limited “due to large-scale malicious attacks on DeepSeek’s services,” though it’s unclear how these limitations are being applied. “Existing users can log in as usual,” DeepSeek said in its update.... Read more ›
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A screenshot from a video of TerraPower’s groundbreaking ceremony for its demonstration project in Wyoming. TerraPower, a nuclear energy startup founded by Bill Gates, struck a deal this week with one of the largest data center developers in the US to deploy advanced nuclear reactors. TerraPower and Sabey Data Centers (SDC) are working together on a plan to run existing and future facilities on nuclear energy from small reactors. Tech... Read more ›
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