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Kenya’s biggest protest in recent history played out on a walkie-talkie app
More than 40,000 Kenyans have downloaded Zello since protests began against the government’s plan to raise taxes.
Russia antivirus firm Kaspersky quits US after ban
The move comes after sales and distribution of its products were banned by the Biden administration.
Detroit Takes Important Step in Curbing the Harms of Face Recognition Technology
In a first-of-its-kind agreement, the Detroit Police Department recently agreed to adopt strict limits on its officers’ use of face recognition technology as part of a settlement in a lawsuit brought by a victim of this faulty technology. Robert Williams , a Black resident of
Music labels sue Verizon for more than $2.6 billion
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Powerful record labels, including UMG Recordings, Warner Music, and Sony Music, filed a lawsuit Friday accusing Verizon of intentionally ignoring its customers’ copyright violations for profit, reports Music Business Worldwide . The
It’s never been easier for the cops to break into your phone
Image: Kristen Radtke / The Verge The FBI said it ‘gained access’ to the Trump rally shooter’s phone just two days after the attempted assassination. Continue reading…
How AI is fuelling uncertainty for game developers
In a struggling games industry AI has been hailed as a possible saviour. But not everyone's convinced.
The Trump rally shooting is a cash cow for the dropshippers
Image: The Verge News moves fast following shocking events. But the hustlers trying to make a quick buck might move even faster. Within hours of a shooter attempting to assassinate Donald Trump at a rally on Saturday, countless products emblazoned with an image of Trump,
Here’s how carefully concealed backdoor in fake AWS files escaped mainstream notice
Files available on the open source NPM repository underscore a growing sophistication.
EFF to FCC: SS7 is Vulnerable, and Telecoms Must Acknowledge That
It’s unlikely you’ve heard of Signaling System 7 (SS7), but every phone network in the world is connected to it, and if you have ever roamed networks internationally or sent an SMS message overseas you have used it. SS7 is a set of telecommunication protocols that cellular
The FBI says it has ‘gained access’ to the Trump rally shooter’s phone
Image: Kristen Radtke / The Verge The FBI has successfully broken into the phone of the man who shot at former President Donald Trump at Saturday’s rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. “FBI technical specialists successfully gained access to Thomas Matthew Crooks’ phone, and they
Appeals court halts return of net neutrality
Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photos from Getty Images A federal appeals court has agreed to halt the reinstatement of net neutrality rules until August 5th, while the court considers whether more permanent action is justified. It’s the latest setback in a long back and forth
Google tests out Gemini AI-created video presentations
Image: Google Google is launching its new Vids productivity app in Workspace Labs with the idea that “if you can make a slide, you can make a video in Vids.” Announced in April , Vids allows users to drop docs, slides, voiceovers, and video recordings into a timeline to
Trump chooses J.D. Vance as VP running mate
Image: The Verge; Getty Images Former President Donald Trump has announced Ohio Senator J.D. Vance as his running mate. Trump is expected to accept the Republican nomination on Thursday. Vance would serve as vice president if elected to office in November. Vance is
The Trump shooting: what happened and what’s next
Image: Kristen Radtke / The Verge; Getty Images After the assassination attempt on the former president, tech platforms scrambled to curb false information in what will be one of the largest content moderation problems in years. Continue reading…
Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott thinks LLM “scaling laws” will hold despite criticism
Will LLMs keep improving if we throw more compute at them? OpenAI dealmaker thinks so.
The Trump rally shooter had a Discord account, company says
Image: The Verge The person who attempted to assassinate former President Donald Trump during a rally on Saturday had a Discord account — though it was rarely used — according to the company. “Discord removed the account according to our off-platform behavior policy and we
FBI is working to break into the phone of the Trump rally shooter
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Investigators are working to break into the phone of the man who shot at former President Donald Trump at a Pennsylvania rally on Saturday. The shooting is being probed as an assassination attempt. The FBI said in a statement that it
Biden’s top tech adviser says AI is a ‘today problem’
Photo illustration by The Verge / Photo by OSTP Arati Prabhakar, a former DARPA chief and now director of the White House’s OSTP, says the time to regulate AI is now. Continue reading…
The DOJ Antitrust Division isn’t afraid to go to court
Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images When the Department of Justice released its more than 70-page lawsuit against Apple , its narrative read more like a docudrama than a stodgy legal document . It dropped the reader right into a 2010 exchange between an Apple