Netflix profits soar after password crackdown
The streaming giant said it added 9.3 million subscribers in the first three months of the year.
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Can TikTok's owner afford to lose its killer app?
Sell or be banned - TikTok's US operations, by some estimates, could fetch up to $100bn.
Almost a quarter of kids aged 5-7 have smartphones
The regulator calls the data a "wake up call", and says parents and industry need to do more.
Why a deluge of Chinese-made drugs is hard to curb
Thousands of Chinese companies are making synthetic opioids and shipping them around the world.
Two Years Post-Roe: A Better Understanding of Digital Threats
It’s been a long two years since the Dobbs decision to overturn Roe v. Wade . Between May 2022 when the Supreme Court accidentally leaked the draft memo and the following June when the case was decided, there was a mad scramble to figure out what the impacts would be. Besides
LLMs keep leaping with Llama 3, Meta’s newest open-weights AI model
Zuckerberg says new AI model "was still learning" when Meta stopped training.
Senate advances vote on reauthorizing warrantless surveillance program
Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photos from Getty Images The Senate is moving forward on a vote to reauthorize a controversial program that allows warrantless surveillance of foreign “targets.” Before voting on the reauthorization bill, senators had to vote on a cloture motion to
LastPass users targeted in phishing attacks good enough to trick even the savvy
Campaign used email, SMS, and voice calls to trick targets into divulging master passwords.
Fourth Amendment is Not For Sale Act Passed the House, Now it Should Pass the Senate
The Fourth Amendment is Not For Sale Act , H.R.4639 , originally introduced in the Senate by Senator Ron Wyden in 2021, has now made the important and historic step of passing the U.S. House of Representatives . In an era when it often seems like Congress cannot pass
TikTok divest-or-ban legislation could suddenly be fast-tracked in the Senate
Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photo by Brendan Hoffman, Getty Images A bill that could oust TikTok from the US looked like it could linger for months in the Senate, even after the House overwhelmingly voted to approve it. But a move by House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) could
US Air Force confirms first successful AI dogfight
Image: DARPA The US Air Force is putting AI in the pilot’s seat. In an update on Thursday , the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) revealed that an AI-controlled jet successfully faced a human pilot during an in-air dogfight test carried out last year. DARPA
OpenAI winds down AI image generator that blew minds and forged friendships in 2022
How a group of friends found themselves at the center of a fierce debate about the future of art.
The regional flavors of labor-on-demand
A new report digs into the social dynamics of gig work.
Bangladesh built a tech park for 100,000 workers. Now it’s a ghost town
The facility was partly funded by the World Bank and touted to become the country’s “cyber capital.”
Senate Democrats urge crackdown on autonomous vehicles and driver assist
Image: Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images Two prominent Senate Democrats are calling for increased scrutiny of autonomous vehicles and advanced driver-assist systems (ADAS) like Tesla’s Autopilot, arguing that the unimpeded flow of highly automated vehicles