UK targets “despicable individuals” who create AI sex deepfakes with new law
Under new law, those who create the "horrific images" would face a fine and possible jail time.
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The invisible seafaring industry that keeps the internet afloat
Photo by Go Takayama for The Verge On the afternoon of March 11th, 2011, Mitsuyoshi Hirai, the chief engineer of the cable maintenance ship Ocean Link, was sitting in his cabin 20 miles off Japan’s eastern coast, completing the paperwork that comes at the end of every
Ticketmaster’s Taylor Swift ticketing fiasco might have just led to a lawsuit from the DOJ
Photo by Ashok Kumar / TAS24 / Getty Images for TAS Rights Management The Department of Justice is preparing to file an antitrust lawsuit against Ticketmaster parent company Live Nation, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal . The lawsuit could reportedly come as
Why the US government’s overreliance on Microsoft is a big problem
Microsoft continues to get a free pass after series of cybersecurity failures.
'Bad at almost everything': AI wearable panned by reviewers
A new AI-fuelled gadget has fallen foul of the tech world's expectations.
How we’re tracking AI incidents around global elections
Rest of World is collecting examples of AI being used for campaigning, misinformation, and memes in a regularly updated tracker.
The co-founder driving India’s two-wheeler EV revolution for over a decade
Tarun Mehta is the co-founder and CEO of Indian electric two-wheeler company Ather Energy.
2024 AI Elections Tracker
As dozens of countries head to the polls, we’re monitoring the way AI is being used to inform, misinform, and entertain voters.
My battle with Tesla: I want to clear my name before I die
A former Tesla engineer is in a decade-long battle with the car company, owned by Elon Musk.
The challenge of upgrading iconic steel windows
Critall windows date back to the 1880s but their steel construction makes them vulnerable to damp.
UK mulling potential AI regulation
Illustration by Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photos from Getty Images Officials at the UK’s Department of Science, Innovation and Technology have started drafting legislation to regulate AI models, Bloomberg reports . It’s unclear how any future regulation will intersect with
The CFPB wants to rein in data brokers
Illustration by Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photo from Getty Images The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau wants to propose new regulations that would require data brokers to comply with the Fair Credit Reporting Act. In a speech at the White House earlier this month, CFPB
YouTube’s ad blocker crackdown now includes third-party apps
Illustration: Alex Castro / The Verge YouTube is bringing its ad blocker fight to mobile. In an update on Monday , YouTube writes that users accessing videos through a third-party ad blocking app may encounter buffering issues or see an error message that reads, “The
Alleged cryptojacking scheme consumed $3.5M of stolen computing to make just $1M
Indictment says man tricked cloud providers into giving him services he never paid for.