Sell Chrome to end search monopoly, Google told
The tech giant is resisting fiercely, calling the proposal "wildly overbroad" and claiming it will hurt consumers.
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DOJ says Google must sell Chrome to crack open its search monopoly
Image: Laura Normand / The Verge The Department of Justice says that Google must divest the Chrome web browser to restore competition to the online search market, and it left the door open to requiring the company to spin out Android, too. Filed late Wednesday in DC District
Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy have spelled out their plans for DOGE
Illustration by Laura Normand / The Verge Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy were officially appointed the co-leads of President-elect Donald Trump’s “Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE) last week, and on Wednesday, the two men spelled out their plans for the advisory
Apple fights to keep DOJ antitrust suit from reaching trial
Illustration by Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photo by Bloomberg, Getty Images Apple urged a federal judge to dismiss the Department of Justice’s antitrust case against it, saying the government’s complaint includes speculative arguments and the government doesn’t plausibly
AI landlord screening tool will stop scoring low-income tenants after discrimination suit
Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images SafeRent, an AI screening tool used by landlords, will no longer use AI-powered “scores” to evaluate whether someone using housing vouchers would make a good tenant. On Wednesday, US District Judge Angel Kelley issued final
Google stops letting sites like Forbes rule search for “Best CBD Gummies“
If you've noticed strange sites on "Best" product searches, so has Google.
Oppose The Patent-Troll-Friendly PREVAIL Act
Good news: the Senate Judiciary Committee has dropped one of the two terrible patent bills it was considering, the patent-troll-enabling Patent Eligibility Restoration Act (PERA) . Bad news: the committee is still pushing the PREVAIL Act, a bill that would hamstring the U.S.’s
'God's influencer' to be made first millennial saint in April
London-born Carlo Acutis, who died of leukaemia aged 15, will be canonised by the Catholic church in 2025.
The Sidemen: We've hit YouTube limit so are moving to Netflix
The YouTube stars explain why they're moving reality show Inside to Netflix for its second series.
Google fixes Chrome issue that broke text highlighting on some sites
Image: The Verge The latest version of Chrome (Version 131.0.6778.86) has addressed an issue in the browser that broke the ability to highlight text on some websites over the weekend, Google’s Scott Westover confirmed to The Verge in an email. We tested the change, and found
Google workers to DOJ: we need protections to make your breakup effective
Illustration: The Verge Google employees met with the Department of Justice Antitrust Division last month to share workers’ perspectives ahead of the government’s expected proposal to break up the company . Their message? That as the DOJ attempts to end Google’s search
New data shows the number of new mobile internet users is stalling
What happened to the “next billion” internet users? They’re already online.
Social media ban for under-16s 'on the table' in UK
The tech secretary Peter Kyle also said he wanted an "assertive" approach from the regulator, Ofcom.
