Are rainy days ahead for cloud computing?
Outsourcing computing to the cloud is a huge business, but some firms have said it's not for them.
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Electric car battery charges in under five minutes in track test
The charging time is much quicker than even the fastest-charging batteries currently on the market.
Sunday Ticket jury orders NFL to pay fans $4.7 billion in damages
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The NFL has been hit with a $4.7 billion verdict in a class action antitrust lawsuit filed on behalf of residential and commercial customers who paid for its Sunday Ticket package on DirecTV from 2011 through 2022. Originally filed in
Victory! Grand Jury Finds Sacramento Cops Illegally Shared Driver Data
For the past year, EFF has been sounding the alarm about police in California illegally sharing drivers' location data with anti-abortion states, putting abortion seekers and providers at risk of prosecution. We thus applaud the Sacramento County Grand Jury for hearing this
A meeting to consider a bipartisan privacy bill just crumbled
House Energy Subcommittee Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers. | Photo: Getty Images The House Energy and Commerce Committee suddenly canceled a markup to discuss and vote on 11 bills, including the American Privacy Rights Act (APRA) and the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) . The
The FCC wants to make it easier to unlock cellphones
Image: Samar Haddad / The Verge The chair of the Federal Communications Commission proposed a new rule that could make it easier for consumers to unlock their cellphones. The proposed regulation, which the agency announced on Thursday , would require mobile providers to
Perplexity’s grand theft AI
What, exactly, is Perplexity’s innovation? | Image: The Verge In every hype cycle, certain patterns of deceit emerge. In the last crypto boom, it was “ponzinomics” and “rug pulls.” In self-driving cars, it was “just five years away!” In AI, it’s seeing just how much unethical
ACLU challenges Section 702 surveillance in neo-Nazi’s prosecution
Illustration by Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photos from Getty Images The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has joined the defense team for a neo-Nazi accused of plotting to sabotage Baltimore’s electrical grid, The Baltimore Banner reports . Attorneys from the ACLU’s
All the tech news from the 2024 election
Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photos from Getty Images Joe Biden and Donald Trump are expected to face off on Tuesday, November 5th. Continue reading…
OpenAI’s new “CriticGPT” model is trained to criticize GPT-4 outputs
Research model catches bugs in AI-generated code, improving human oversight of AI.
Mac users served info-stealer malware through Google ads
Full-service Poseidon info stealer pushed by "advertiser identity verified by Google."
Drone As First Responder Programs Are Swarming Across the United States
Law enforcement wants more drones, and we’ll probably see many more of them overhead as police departments seek to implement a popular project justifying the deployment of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs): the “drone as first responder” (DFR). Police DFR programs involve a
AI-generated Al Michaels to provide daily recaps during 2024 Summer Olympics
AI voice clone will narrate daily Olympics video recaps; critics call it a "code-generated ghoul."
SCOTUS pauses EPA plan to keep smog from drifting across state lines
An exterior view of the Supreme Court on June 20th, 2024, in Washington, DC. | Photo by Andrew Harnik / Getty Images The Supreme Court decided to press pause on the Environmental Protection Agency’s plan to prevent smog-forming pollutants from drifting across state borders.
Government Has Extremely Heavy Burden to Justify TikTok Ban, EFF Tells Appeals Court
New Law Subject to Strictest Scrutiny Because It Imposes Prior Restraint, Directly Restricts Free Speech, and Singles Out One Platform for Prohibition, Brief Argues SAN FRANCISCO — The federal ban on TikTok must be put under the finest judicial microscope to determine its
The rise of shadow lobbying and its influence on decades of US policy
Illustration: Kristen Radtke / The Verge On today’s episode of Decoder , we’re talking about money and politics — always a good time — and how they come together in the form of lobbying in America. It’s hard to imagine a time when the influence of big corporations and mouthy
How to watch Biden vs. Trump in the first 2024 presidential debate
Trump and Biden debating in 2020. | Image: Getty The first debate of the 2024 presidential race will see sitting President Joe Biden and his challenger, former President Donald Trump, face off in CNN’s Atlanta studio . They come into the debate with Trump tracking slightly
The Global Suppression of Online LGBTQ+ Speech Continues
A global increase in anti-LGBTQ+ intolerance is having a significant impact on digital rights. As we wrote last year , censorship of LGBTQ+ websites and online content is on the rise. For many LGBTQ+ individuals the world over, the internet can be a safer space for exploring
OpenAI cuts its last and most important link to China
A milestone in the militarization of AI.
Exclusive: Microsoft Bing’s censorship in China is even “more extreme” than Chinese companies’
New Citizen Lab study comes as U.S. lawmakers scrutinize Microsoft’s willingness to comply with demands from Beijing.
India reviews iPhone factory for 'not hiring married women'
The firm has come under the scanner for allegedly not employing married women at its factory in Tamil Nadu state.
Korean web comic giant set for $2.7bn market debut
Webtoon Entertainment says it has 170m monthly active users in over 150 countries around the world.
