Thieves snatched his phone in London - it was in China a month later
Akara tells the BBC about the journey his phone took after it was snatched from his hands by thieves.
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School Monitoring Software Sacrifices Student Privacy for Unproven Promises of Safety
Imagine your search terms, key-strokes, private chats and photographs are being monitored every time they are sent. Millions of students across the country don’t have to imagine this deep surveillance of their most private communications: it’s a reality that comes with their
Found: 280 Android apps that use OCR to steal cryptocurrency credentials
Optical Character Recognition converts passwords shown in images to machine-readable text.
WhatsApp will send messages to other apps soon — here’s how it will look
Illustration: The Verge Meta has finally pulled the curtain back on what its plans for third-party chats in WhatsApp and Messenger will look like. The change, which is coming for users in the European Union, introduces new options to put Messenger and WhatsApp messages in the
The DOJ wants info on Google’s AI strategy to bust up its search monopoly
Illustration: The Verge The Justice Department wants to learn more about Google’s AI strategy in order to determine what kinds of changes it will ask for to resolve Google’s monopoly in search . The request came during a hearing on Friday in a federal court in Washington,
Coinbase’s no-good, very bad summer
Look out below! | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge It’s been a minute since I checked in on our friends at Coinbase, and so when I saw Reuters noting that a class action suit would be going ahead , I thought perhaps we should all reflect together on Coinbase’s cruel
Nvidia’s AI chips are cheaper to rent in China than US
Supply of processors helps Chinese startups advance AI technology despite US restrictions.
Telegram disables ‘misused’ features as CEO faces criminal charges
Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images In a post on Telegram Friday, founder and CEO Pavel Durov set out a new approach for the app and announced it’s disabled some “outdated” features. The first changes to the app following his arrest in France last month affect its
You Really Do Have Some Expectation of Privacy in Public
Being out in the world advocating for privacy often means having to face a chorus of naysayers and nihilists. When we spend time fighting the expansion of Automated License Plate Readers capable of tracking cars as they move, or the growing ubiquity of both public and private
WaveCore runs right through a concrete wall with gigabit-speed network signal
Core drilling is tricky. Getting a 6 GHz signal through concrete is now easier.
Donald Trump says he’ll task Elon Musk with auditing the entire federal government
Image: Laura Normand / The Verge Former President Donald Trump says that if reelected, he’ll create a government efficiency task force — and that Elon Musk has already agreed to lead it. During a speech in New York on Thursday, Trump said the new efficiency commission would
Google and DOJ return for round two of their antitrust fight — this time about ads
Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images Google and the Justice Department are set for a rematch of sorts on Monday when they return to court to argue about Google’s alleged monopolistic behavior over how ads are bought and sold on the internet. The DOJ is fresh off a
Astro Bot: Could the old-school hit reshape PS5's future?
In a world of endless online games and open-world slogs, could a little robot show what gamers really want?
Google abusing ad tech dominance, UK competition watchdog finds
The regulator says anti-competitive practices could be harming online publishers and advertisers.
Man accused of using bots and AI to earn streaming revenue
Prosecutors in the US say he fraudulently earned millions of dollars through billions of streams.
