09-15-25 -

Facebook gave our data to Cambridge Analytica and all I got was this $38.36
Remember back in 2023, when we told you how to get your cut of a $725 million class action settlement? A couple of years later, that money is going out. I received an email earlier this week saying my claim had been approved in In re: Fac...

09-15-25 -

The Supreme Court is Googles last hope to avoid an Epic reckoning in October
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals is done with Google, and Google won’t be happy with the result. On Friday, the court completely denied its petition to have its Epic v. Google case re-heard — and pressed play on a permanent injuncti...

09-15-25 -

Meta leaks its new smart glasses with a display
An unlisted and now-removed video from Meta showed off a new pair of Ray-Ban branded smart glasses with a display and a wristband to help control them, as reported by UploadVR. The video also features a new pair of wraparound “Sphaera�...

09-15-25 -

Trump says foreign workers are ‘welcome’ after ICE raid in Georgi...
Protesters gathered in South Korea’s Incheon International Airport while hundreds of deported workers arrived. | Image: SeongJoon Cho/Bloomberg via Getty Images President Donald Trump is trying to smooth things over with South Korea afte...

09-15-25 -

Google thinks it can have AI summaries and a healthy web, too
One of Google’s top executives defended its use of AI summaries in search results during an AI summit in New York on Monday.  When asked about a new lawsuit by Rolling Stone’s parent company, Penske Media Corporation, over G...

09-15-25 -

Microsofts Office apps now have free Copilot Chat features
Microsoft is adding the free Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat and agents to Office apps for all Microsoft 365 business users today. Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and OneNote are all being updated with a Copilot Chat sidebar that will help d...

09-15-25 -

I’ve been using macOS Tahoe 26 since June and here are the eight best t...
Liquid Glass may polarize, but it’s here. Apple's new version of macOS, Tahoe 26, launches today for all compatible Macs. I've already shared many feelings about Liquid Glass in my look at the developer and public betas, and my opinion o...

09-15-25 -

The unbearable sameness of Liquid Glass
The Vision Pro is where Liquid Glass truly shines. Liquid Glass is a neat party trick. The new design system, which was built for nearly all of Apple's products and is rolling out this week, is built on the idea that interfaces should be t...

09-15-25 -

Apple releases macOS Tahoe 26 with more powerful Spotlight search and its own...
macOS Tahoe 26 adds new ways to theme and personalize your Mac. | Image: Apple macOS Tahoe 26 is now available to everyone using compatible MacBooks and Mac desktops. It was first announced last June at WWDC 25 and made available for testi...

09-15-25 -

watchOS 26 is now available with a new wrist flick gesture and Notes on your ...
watchOS 26 brings a glossier user interface to the Apple Watch. | Image: Apple The latest iteration of Apple’s wearable OS will look a bit different. For those who have been holding off on testing the developer and public betas, Apple ha...

09-15-25 -

iOS 26 with Apple’s Liquid Glass redesign is out now
Apple is rolling out iOS 26 with a bunch of new features for the iPhone. The biggest change you’ll see upon installing the update is Apple’s Liquid Glass redesign, introducing translucent buttons, sliders, tabs, and other navigational...

09-15-25 -

NY could force TikTok, YouTube, and Instagram to roll out age verification
A New York law could require social media platforms to implement age verification. On Monday, New York Attorney General Letitia James released the proposed rules for the Stop Addictive Feeds Exploitation (SAFE) For Kids Act, which would f...

09-15-25 -

Spotify’s free users can finally play the songs they want
Spotify has removed restrictions that prevented free users from listening to specific tracks. With Lossless audio now finally rolling out to paying subscribers, the music streaming service has announced that it’s also allowing non-payin...

09-15-25 -

Samsungs 2TB 990 Evo Plus SSD is $100 for a limited time
If you’ve been running out of storage on your PC or PS5, or you just want an SSD that’s faster than what you have, here’s a great deal: the PCIe Gen 5-compatible 990 Evo Plus M.2 SSD from Samsung is selling at a bargain today, with ...

09-15-25 -

Elon Musk responds to Tesla pay proposal by buying $1 billion worth of stock
Elon Musk is responding to the unprecedented pay package proposal from Tesla’s board of directors by increasing his stake in the company. Musk bought $1 billion in Tesla stock through an irrevocable trust on September 12th, according to...

09-15-25 -

Here’s why usage of Gemini’s Nano Banana image editor is growing
Google Gemini is breaking out of ChatGPT’s shadow, likely on the wings of its Nano Banana image editor and the viral trend of AI-generated, lifelike figurines.  Google launched Nano Banana in late August. It hyped the model as...

09-15-25 -

The US and China might finally have a TikTok deal
The US and China have reached a “framework” deal to divest TikTok from its Chinese parent company, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told reporters during trade talks in Madrid on Monday. As noted by Reuters, Bessent confirmed that &am...

09-15-25 -

How brands and creators are fighting for your attention and your money
Hello, and welcome to Decoder! This is Hank Green, the cofounder of Complexly, where we make SciShow, Crash Course, and a bunch of other educational YouTube channels. I’m back in the Decoder guest host chair for another couple of episod...

09-15-25 -

Amazon announces its fall hardware event
Amazon sent out invites to a fall hardware event for its Devices & Services division today. Amazon has sent out invitations to its annual fall hardware event, where it traditionally launches a slew of new products, including Echo s...

09-15-25 -

Battling for the lead at an IRL version of Mario Kart
When it comes to mainstream gaming appeal, it's hard to beat Mario Kart. Break out some controllers at a party and you'll likely get a grid full of eager racers. The game's seamless way of balancing disparate levels of skill and aggressio...

09-15-25 -

Your iPhone is about to look way different
Apple’s latest major iPhone update, iOS 26, releases today, and it has a new design language that gives just about everything on your iPhone a new look. Apple calls the design “Liquid Glass,” and it means that a lot of things on yo...

09-15-25 -

Snap OS 2.0 is a small step towards AR glasses you might actually wear
Snap’s 2024 Spectacles are still only available to developers. Last September, Snap revealed its fifth-generation Spectacles, upgraded AR glasses with a twist: they were only ever released to developers. One year later, we still haven't ...

09-15-25 -

AirPods Pro 3 review: tripling down on a good thing
The AirPods Pro 3 are the slam dunk win of this product cycle. The AirPods Pro are about as ubiquitous as earbuds can get. Step outside your door, and you're almost certain to see people wearing them. For good reason, too. Their active no...

09-15-25 -

Android’s next flagship processor will be the ‘Snapdragon 8 Elite...
Qualcomm has explained why this isn’t the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 2. Qualcomm has announced that its upcoming flagship mobile chipset is the “Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5,” a confusingly named successor to the Snapdragon 8 Elite. While th...

09-15-25 -

Microsoftis changing howXboxcontrollers work on Windows 11
Microsoft has started testing a change to how Xbox controllers operate on Windows 11. The change will allow Xbox controllers to easily access the Task View on Windows 11 to tab between apps and games, using the Xbox button. “A new chan...

09-15-25 -

The SSD version of LaCies iconic Rugged drive gets a speed boost
The new LaCie Rugged SSD4 is compatible with computers, tablets, and smartphones. | Image: Seagate Neil Poulton succeeded in elevating the design of external drives two decades ago with the introduction of LaCie’s Rugged line, which feat...

09-15-25 -

Apples new iPhone charger is a (second) of its kind
Apple’s 40W Dynamic Power Adapter with 60W Max. | Image: Apple Alongside its new iPhone 17 lineup, Apple casually launched a world’s first last week inside the very dull sounding “Apple 40W Dynamic Power Adapter with 60W Max.” It�...

09-14-25 -

Whats next for Apple after the iPhone 17?
We only just put Apple's iPhone 17 launch event behind us, but Bloomberg's Mark Gurman is already glancing into his crystal ball to see what's next for the company. In today's Power On newsletter Gurman says that there are at least 10 mor...

09-14-25 -

Rolling Stones parent company sues Google over AI Overviews
Disclosure: Penske Media Corporation is an investor in Vox Media, The Verge’s parent company. Penske Media Corporation, the publisher of Rolling Stone and The Hollywood Reporter, has become the first major American media company to sue...

09-14-25 -

The Helldivers community is coping with a spotlight it doesnt want
"Yesterday was an interesting day for the Helldivers community." That's the very obvious understatement that announced the reopening of the Helldivers gaming subreddit in the small hours of Saturday morning. On Friday it was dis...

09-14-25 -

Scarlet turns Shakespeare into an animated fantasy epic
Scarlet. Well, I was wrong, and I did manage to make it to one last day at the Toronto International Film Festival. One of the movies I wanted to see the most this year was Scarlet, the latest from Mamoru Hosoda, whose most recent film was...

09-14-25 -

In Silksong, spite is my motivation to keep playing
I would not call the time I'm having with Hollow Knight: Silksong "fun," and yet I'm still playing. In the depths of The Marrow, the second major area of Silksong, there's a particularly nasty midboss. I eventually beat him, but...

09-14-25 -

Phone batteries are getting more compact, but the US is missing out
This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on phones and other tech outside the US, follow Dominic Preston. The Stepback arrives in our subscribers' inboxes at 8AM ET. Opt in ...

09-14-25 -

The iPhone to get this year
Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 97, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you're new here, welcome, hope you're having a good iPhone / back to school / it's-finally-not-hot-anymore week, and also you can read...

09-13-25 -

Liam Hemsworth is Geralt in the first Witcher season 4 trailer
It’s been a few years since Netflix confirmed that Liam Hemsworth would be taking over as Geralt of Rivia in the live-action Witcher series. And while we caught a brief glimpse of him in action last year, the first proper clip from seas...

09-13-25 -

Time is running out to get half off a year of Paramount Plus
It’s September, and many among us are dealing with back to school, and anticipating the colder weather that’s on its way (at least, if you live in the northern climes). This, plus a somewhat fraught political atmosphere, means that yo...

09-13-25 -

Spotify Lossless is an inconvenient improvement
If you listen to music the way a lot of people do these days - with a pair of wireless earbuds, from a Bluetooth speaker, or just blaring directly out of your phone - you will never notice a difference between Spotify's high-quality 320Kb...

09-13-25 -

Adult Swim’s new stop-motion series is a celebration of Latin American ...
Imagine if George Cukor's The Women was a modern, Spanish-language telenovela set in Ecuador rather than a 1939 dramedy about the lives of wealthy Manhattanites. Now imagine if the series was directed by Pedro Almodóvar and its...

09-13-25 -

Exit 8s director was inspired by watching people play the game
Few video game adaptations understand their source material quite like the Exit 8 film. It takes the rules and structure of the game - which strands players inside of a looping hallway in a Tokyo subway station - and then builds on them w...

09-12-25 -

Tucker Carlson asks Sam Altman if an OpenAI employee was murdered ‘on y...
While interviewing OpenAI CEO Sam Altman this week, former Fox News host Tucker Carlson brought up his belief in a conspiracy theory that former OpenAI researcher Suchir Balaji was “definitely murdered.” The researcher’s death in No...

09-12-25 -

Elon Musk is trying to silence Microsoft employees who criticize Charlie Kirk
Elon Musk is pressing Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella to look into Blizzard employees who criticized Charlie Kirk after his death. Musk’s post quotes an X thread listing names and screenshots of the developers. “What’s going on here, @...

09-12-25 -

The WSJ carelessly spread anti-trans misinformation
Rupert Murdoch’s fortress While I generally respect The Wall Street Journal, every once in a while it sees fit to remind me that it is, in fact, owned by Rupert Murdoch. This time, it printed something dangerously close to anti-trans blo...

09-12-25 -

Congress Republicans want to target liberal donors after Charlie Kirk’s...
In wake of right-wing activist Charlie Kirk’s public killing, around two dozen Republican lawmakers are pushing for House leadership to create a new select committee that would investigate “The money, influence, and power behind the r...

09-12-25 -

Discord is distancing itself from the Charlie Kirk shooting suspect
Discord denies that the suspect accused of killing Charlie Kirk used the messaging platform to discuss his crime, following the service getting mentioned by law enforcement in a press conference — and after accusations that it ...

09-12-25 -

Stellantis cancels Ram 1500 REV as electric truck demand dims
Stellantis announced that it was discontinuing its Ram 1500 REV electric truck, citing slowing sales of heavy-duty electric trucks. The name plate, however, will live on. Stellantis said that it was renaming its Range-Extended Electric ...

09-12-25 -

GameHub fixed its Silksong save game uploads and now I’m playing across...
The circle is now complete: you can install your Steam copy of Hollow Knight Silksong on an Android phone, play it with your automatically downloaded Steam save games — and today, as of the new GameHub 5.0.4 update, you can easily uploa...

09-12-25 -

Encyclopedia Britannica and Merriam-Webster sue Perplexity for copying their ...
The AI web search company Perplexity is being hit by another lawsuit alleging copyright and trademark infringement, this time from Encyclopedia Britannica and Merriam-Webster. Britannica, the centuries-old publisher that owns Merriam-Webs...

09-12-25 -

Charlie Kirk’s alleged killer scratched bullets with a Helldivers combo...
Tyler Robinson, apprehended last night in connection to the fatal shooting of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, allegedly left engraved bullets at the crime scene that were covered in a furry meme, references from the video game Helldiv...

09-12-25 -

The Galaxy Watch 8 Classic is $140 off, nearly the same price as the standard...
Apple’s new smartwatches have the spotlight this week, but Android users have a reason to celebrate, too. That’s because Samsung’s gorgeous, Bluetooth-enabled Galaxy Watch 8 Classic is cheaper than ever at Woot through September 19t...

09-12-25 -

The Powerbeats Pro 2 are getting heart rate monitoring updates with iOS 26
The Powerbeats Pro 2 are getting many of the heart monitoring features announced for the AirPods Pro 3. Apple will release iOS 26 on September 15th and along with new iPhone features like the company’s new Liquid Glass design language an...