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Alex Heath @ The Verge · 04/29/2025 11:00 EDT

Meta’s ChatGPT competitor shows how your friends use AI

Meta's standalone ChatGPT competitor is mostly what you'd expect from an AI assistant. You can type or talk with it, generate images, and get real-time web results. The biggest new idea in the Meta AI app is its Discover feed, which adds an AI twist to social media. Here, you'll see a feed of interactions […] Read more

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Charles Pulliam-Moore @ The Verge · 04/29/2025 10:50 EDT

Weapons’ new trailer makes PTA meetings look like a nightmare

The first teaser for New Line Cinema’s upcoming horror Weapons was already unsettling enough, but the movie’s latest trailer makes it seem like writer / director Zach Cregger is about to leave us all terrified once again. Though Weapons’ new trailer doesn’t explain why an entire classroom of young children suddenly go missing one night, […] Read more

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Wes Davis @ The Verge · 04/29/2025 10:36 EDT

Former Disney employee sentenced to three years for menu hacking

A former Disney employee will serve three years in federal prison for logging into the company’s servers to make changes to its restaurant menus’ allergen information, as well as carrying out “denial-of-service attacks” aimed at locking other employees out of their accounts. The court also ordered the man, Michael Scheuer, to pay nearly $690,000 in […] Read more

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David Pierce @ The Verge · 04/29/2025 10:12 EDT

The Slate Truck is a whole new kind of car

The generally accepted way to launch your new car company is by building something fancy and expensive. Call it Founder's Edition or name it after a precious metal, hope people pay for the privilege of exclusivity, and go from there. Slate Auto is doing… the opposite. The three-year-old company just announced its first vehicle, and […] Read more

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Tina Nguyen @ The Verge · 04/29/2025 10:01 EDT

MAGA’s next wave of influencers saved TikTok

The death knell for American TikTok should have been on March 13th, 2024, when Congress voted on an overwhelmingly bipartisan basis to force its parent company to sell the app or face an outright ban. Rarely do you ever see Republicans and Democrats in agreement over anything, but both sides saw the app as a […] Read more

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Emma Roth @ The Verge · 04/29/2025 09:57 EDT

White House calls Amazon ‘hostile’ after report says it will label tariff price hikes

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt called Amazon “hostile” based on a rumor that its site will adjust to show how tariffs affect the total cost of a product The statement comes just hours after a report from Punchbowl News suggested that the ecommerce giant will display the added fees right next to a product’s […] Read more

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Lauren Feiner @ The Verge · 04/29/2025 09:00 EDT

Whatever happened to the Kids Online Safety Act?

2024 was shaping up to be the year Congress regulated how kids engage with social media, particularly through one bill, the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA). A debate about its risks to free expression still raged, but the voices of the bill's advocates seemed to ring loudest in senators' ears. The momentum was there. The […] Read more

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Andrew Liszewski @ The Verge · 04/29/2025 09:00 EDT

Bird Buddy’s new nature camera attracts and records more than just birds

Bird Buddy’s camera-equipped smart feeders helped make bird-watching more accessible and easier by autonomously documenting all the wildlife that stopped by to eat. The company’s new Petal camera is designed to do the same for plants and insects, while its reconfigurable Wonder Blocks will help attract more nature to your yard. They were first announced […] Read more

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Jess Weatherbed @ The Verge · 04/29/2025 08:27 EDT

Bluesky is having an up and down Tuesday morning

On Tuesday morning, the social media platform Bluesky experienced back-to-back outages that prevented feeds from loading for many users around the world. An initial outage started at about 6AM ET, as tracked by Downdetector, lasting about 40 minutes, and then things crashed again at about 8AM. Bluesky experienced another major outage on April 24th that […] Read more

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Jess Weatherbed @ The Verge · 04/29/2025 08:18 EDT

You have two months left to update your old LG phone

Time is running out for people who are still using LG phones to download any remaining Android updates before their devices are fully retired. After closing its Android phone business back in 2021, Android Authority has spotted that LG is now preparing to shut down its update servers for good on June 30th, 2025, advising […] Read more

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Georgina Torbet @ The Verge · 04/29/2025 08:14 EDT

Starlink’s got company — and orbital overcrowding is a disaster waiting to happen 

On the evening of April 28th, Amazon embarked on its latest venture to rival SpaceX Starlink: the first launch of its Project Kuiper satellites. With 27 satellites now in orbit around the Earth, Amazon joins a growing number of companies working to put more than 1,000 satellites each into space to create a mega constellation. […] Read more

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Jess Weatherbed @ The Verge · 04/29/2025 06:11 EDT

Amazon launches its first satellites to rival Starlink

Amazon’s Kuiper broadband internet constellation is starting to take shape, with its first batch of satellites shipped and deployed into space on Monday. The launch is just the first of 80 that Amazon has lined up to take all 3,236 Project Kuiper satellites into low-Earth orbit as part of the retail giant’s effort to compete […] Read more

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Tom Warren @ The Verge · 04/29/2025 06:03 EDT

Nvidia issues yet another GPU hotfix driver to address crashes and bugs

Nvidia has released another hotfix driver that primarily addresses bugs and crashes with its RTX 50-series GPUs. The 576.26 hotfix driver is based on the 576.02 driver release earlier this month, which itself included a large amount of fixes for bugs and crashes. This latest hotfix driver includes all the fixes in the 576.15 hotfix […] Read more

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Thomas Ricker @ The Verge · 04/29/2025 02:56 EDT

New Starlink subscription drops hardware price to $0

SpaceX is now offering 12-month residential service plans that bring the price of the dish and router — normally $349 in the US — down to $0 in select markets, without increasing the monthly fee. You have 30 days to test or return the kit for a full refund, but after that there’s some fine […] Read more

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Lauren Feiner @ The Verge · 04/28/2025 21:03 EDT

Take It Down Act heads to Trump’s desk

The Take It Down Act is heading to President Donald Trump’s desk after the House voted 409-2 to pass the bill, which will require social media companies to take down content flagged as nonconsensual (including AI-generated) sexual images. Trump has pledged to sign it. The bill is among the only pieces of online safety legislation […] Read more

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Jay Peters @ The Verge · 04/28/2025 19:47 EDT

Duolingo will replace contract workers with AI

Duolingo will “gradually stop using contractors to do work that Al can handle,” according to an all-hands email sent by co-founder and CEO Luis von Ahn announcing that the company will be “AI-first.” The email was posted on Duolingo’s LinkedIn account. According to van Ahn, being “Al-first” means the company will “need to rethink much […] Read more

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Jay Peters @ The Verge · 04/28/2025 18:05 EDT

‘Video games are not manufactured in China,’ Playasia reassures tariff-wary customers

Playasia, a popular retailer for buying video games, toys, and more from Asia, says that it “does not expect” the Trump administration’s planned import rule changes on Chinese-made goods to apply to “game-related orders” because “those orders will not include Chinese-manufactured goods.” On May 2nd, the Trump administration is planning to end the de minimis […] Read more

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Emma Roth @ The Verge · 04/28/2025 17:42 EDT

GOG is adding some classic Star Wars games to its preservation program

The PC gaming platform GOG is adding a bunch of classic Star Wars games to its preservation program, which aims to keep older games playable on modern systems. The games joining the program include:  First announced last November, GOG’s game preservation program includes 162 DRM-free games, such as Breath of Fire IV, Diablo, System Shock […] Read more

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Umar Shakir @ The Verge · 04/28/2025 16:50 EDT

DHL restarts deliveries of international packages worth more than $800

DHL Express is resuming shipments of packages valued over $800 that are bound for consumers in the US, Reuters reports. The international shipping company had suspended the shipments last week due to “a surge in formal customs clearances” amidst the Trump administration’s sweeping tariffs on international goods. Effective today, business-to-consumer shipments valued between $800 and […] Read more

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Sean Hollister @ The Verge · 04/28/2025 16:39 EDT

The DJI Phantom is no more

In 2019, DJI insisted to me that it wasn’t killing off the Phantom, its iconic line of oft-imitated drones that turned the Chinese company into the powerhouse it is today. And yet, DJI has just announced the end of life for its final two Phantom drones — the Phantom 4 Pro and Phantom 4 Advanced […] Read more

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