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Richard Lawler @ The Verge · 09/28/2024 21:46 EDT

YouTube pulls songs from Adele, Nirvana, and others due to SESAC dispute

Illustration: Alex Castro / The Verge Some of the most watched and listened to music on YouTube and YouTube Music disappeared on Saturday, replaced by a short message: Video unavailable This video contains content from SESAC. It is not available in your country. That is probably not what people expected when they tried to stream Adele’s “Rolling in the Deep” or other songs from artists as varied as Kendrick Lamar,... Read more

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Wes Davis @ The Verge · 09/28/2024 15:34 EDT

Amazon may tap Brian Williams to host an election night special

Brian Williams during a Meet the Press taping in 2008. | Photo: Alex Wong / Getty Images for Meet the Press Former news anchor Brian Williams is in talks to host an Amazon Prime election night special, reports Variety. The show would apparently be a “non-partisan discussion” as election night news comes in and could include multiple guests. Williams has been out of the news game for a while. He... Read more

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Wes Davis @ The Verge · 09/28/2024 14:24 EDT

Meta blocks links to the hacked JD Vance dossier on Threads, Instagram, and Facebook

Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge; Getty Images Meta is restricting links on Threads, Instagram, and Facebook that lead to Ken Klippenstein’s newsletter containing a JD Vance dossier that was allegedly nabbed in an Iranian hack of the Trump campaign. The company has apparently removed posts containing the link and is seemingly blocking links to PDFs of the dossier being hosted elsewhere. Meta spokesperson Dave Arnold emailed Meta’s statement to... Read more

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Wes Davis @ The Verge · 09/28/2024 12:19 EDT

Trailers of the week: Thunderbolts, Rumors, and Disclaimer

“So full. So filled.” | Image: Disney This week, I’ve been slowly catching up on Dark Matter; I’m about 20 hours into Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door on the Switch; and I’m still trying to work a trip to the movie theater into my schedule to see Beetlejuice Beetlejuice. I’m behind, in other words! And this week’s trailers shoveled so much more onto my need-to-watch pile, from the next Marvel... Read more

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Wes Davis @ The Verge · 09/28/2024 11:47 EDT

Apple’s homework is due Monday no matter what, says judge

Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge Apple, the most valuable company in the world, will have to work this weekend to meet a legal deadline on Monday. That’s after Magistrate Judge Thomas S. Hixson on Friday denied the company’s request for more time to produce 1.3 million documents related to App Store changes it made in January to comply with a 2021 court order. Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers, who presided... Read more

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Sheena Vasani @ The Verge · 09/28/2024 10:16 EDT

Samsung’s gorgeous Galaxy Book4 Edge has fallen to its lowest price to date

Samsung’s Galaxy Book4 Edge offer a vibrant OLED display with a 120Hz refresh rate. | Photo: Joanna Nelius / The Verge The portability of a laptop is nice and all, but oftentimes, the tradeoff is a smaller screen that can feel cramped if you’ve got a lot of tabs open. Thankfully, there are laptops like Samsung’s Galaxy Book4 Edge, which offers a 16-inch display in a thin and lightweight package.... Read more

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Ash Parrish @ The Verge · 09/28/2024 10:00 EDT

Now that Balatro’s on mobile, here are some tips to get started

Playstack Now that Balatro is out on mobile, I wanted to see what all the fuss was about. And while it’s a great game, its tutorial doesn’t do the best job of setting you up for the kind of success necessary to hook you. In my first few hours, though I was completing the objectives laid out, it felt like I was stumbling my way to success instead of achieving... Read more

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Jay Peters @ The Verge · 09/28/2024 08:00 EDT

Welcome to Meta’s future, where everyone wears cameras

See that little circle? That’s a camera. | Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge All around Meta’s Menlo Park campus, cameras stared at me. I’m not talking about security cameras or my fellow reporters’ DSLRs. I’m not even talking about smartphones. I mean Ray-Ban and Meta’s smart glasses, which Meta hopes we’ll all — one day, in some form — wear. I visited Meta for this year’s Connect conference,... Read more

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Emma Roth @ The Verge · 09/27/2024 19:04 EDT

The messy WordPress drama, explained

Matt Mullenweg at WordCamp 2024 in Europe. | Screenshot: WordCamp WordPress is essentially internet infrastructure. It’s widely used, generally stable, and doesn’t tend to generate many splashy headlines as a result. But over the last week, the WordPress community has swept up into a battle over the ethos of the platform. Last week, WordPress cofounder Matt Mullenweg came out with a harsh attack on WP Engine, a major WordPress hosting... Read more

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Umar Shakir @ The Verge · 09/27/2024 17:37 EDT

Arc Browser adds security bulletins and bug bounties

Illustration: Cath Virginia / The Verge Arc creator The Browser Company has officially started a bug bounty program to keep its growing Chromium-based browser’s security in check. The company is also launching a new security bulletin to maintain “transparent and proactive communication” with users and researchers on bug fixes and reports. These security revisions followed a devastating bug a researcher found and reported to the company that would’ve allowed bad... Read more

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Kylie Robison @ The Verge · 09/27/2024 16:58 EDT

OpenAI was a research lab — now it’s just another tech company

Photo by Jack Guez / AFP via Getty Images Here’s the thing about asking investors for money: they want to see returns. OpenAI launched with a famously altruistic mission: to help humanity by developing artificial general intelligence. But along the way, it became one of the best-funded companies in Silicon Valley. Now, the tension between those two facts is coming to a head. Weeks after releasing a new model it... Read more

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Emma Roth @ The Verge · 09/27/2024 16:51 EDT

DOJ indicts Iranians for alleged Trump campaign ‘hack-and-leak’ scheme

Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photos from Scott Olson, Getty Images The US Department of Justice has charged three Iranian nationals linked with a cyberattack against Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, according to an indictment on Friday. The three hackers, all of whom have ties to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, allegedly gained access to the accounts of campaign officials using social engineering and spearphishing, a tactic that attempts to... Read more

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Sean Hollister @ The Verge · 09/27/2024 16:04 EDT

A truck full of batteries has been burning for almost a full day, shutting down ports in LA

A container truck burns outside the Port of Los Angeles. | Image: Pepe’s Towing A truck full of lithium-ion batteries is burning in Los Angeles, shutting down ports and a bridge. It’s not clear what the batteries were for — but LA’s Vincent Thomas Bridge, leading to the Port of Los Angeles and next-door Port of Long Beach, has been shut down for at least 15 hours now while local... Read more

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Jennifer Pattison Tuohy @ The Verge · 09/27/2024 16:03 EDT

The best robot vacuums

Image: The Verge Floor-sweeping robots are only getting better, with new mopping skills, better navigation chops, and more automation, meaning less work for you. We picked the best bots you can buy right now. Continue reading… Read more

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Jennifer Pattison Tuohy @ The Verge · 09/27/2024 15:44 EDT

The best doorbell cameras

Illustration by Kristen Radtke / The Verge, Shutterstock We pick the best video doorbell cameras for keeping an eye on people, packages, and anything else that comes across your front porch. Continue reading… Read more

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Jay Peters @ The Verge · 09/27/2024 15:36 EDT

Threads now lets you tag your location

Illustration: The Verge Meta is rolling out the ability to tag your location on your Threads posts. If you have the feature, you’ll see a pin in the post composer that you can tap so you can include where you are. Note that adding your location to a Threads post doesn’t share an exact pin on a map. Instead, the feature lets you give your users an approximate idea of... Read more

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Andrew Liszewski @ The Verge · 09/27/2024 14:41 EDT

This robot arm can detach its hand to grab things out of reach

This robotic arm’s articulated hand can detach and crawl around on its own. | Screenshot: YouTube Researchers from the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland have developed an articulated hand that can extend the reach of a robotic arm by detaching and crawling away on its own to grab things. The research was recently presented at the International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), and spotted by IEEE... Read more

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Umar Shakir @ The Verge · 09/27/2024 14:35 EDT

Europe’s space agency will destroy a brand-new satellite in 2027 just to see what happens

An illustration of DRACO getting destroyed in Earth’s atmosphere. | Image: ESA The European Space Agency (ESA) plans to launch a satellite into Earth’s orbit in 2027 to watch it get wrecked as it re-enters the atmosphere. The project is intended to help understand how exactly satellites break apart so that they can learn how to prevent the creation of more space debris. Space junk is becoming a bigger problem... Read more

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Andrew Webster @ The Verge · 09/27/2024 14:30 EDT

Nintendo’s shiny new museum needs more dirt

Image: Nintendo The Nintendo Museum in Kyoto is a slick and playful trek through the company’s century-long history. But it’s lacking much in the way of revelations. Continue reading… Read more

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Tom Warren @ The Verge · 09/27/2024 13:00 EDT

Microsoft’s more secure Windows Recall feature can also be uninstalled by users

Image: Microsoft In response to security concerns, Microsoft is detailing how it has overhauled its controversial AI-powered Recall feature that creates screenshots of mostly everything you see or do on a computer. Recall was originally supposed to debut with Copilot Plus PCs in June, but Microsoft has spent the past few months reworking the security behind it to make it an opt-in experience that you can now fully remove from... Read more

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