Google Pixel 8A leak reveals seven years of security updates ( www.theverge.com )
They turned cattle ranches into tropical forest — then climate change hit ( www.theverge.com )
Meta’s “set it and forget it” AI ad tools are misfiring and blowing through cash ( www.theverge.com )
In the first Autonomous Racing League race, the struggle was real ( www.theverge.com )
The walls of Apple’s garden are tumbling down ( www.theverge.com )
Tesla’s Autopilot and Full Self-Driving linked to hundreds of crashes, dozens of deaths ( www.theverge.com )
FCC votes to restore net neutrality ( www.theverge.com )
Drake threatened with lawsuit over diss track featuring AI Tupac ( www.theverge.com )
Net neutrality is about to make a comeback ( www.theverge.com )
Airlines will soon have to pay you back if they cancel or delay your flight ( www.theverge.com )
Biden signs TikTok “ban” bill into law, starting the clock for ByteDance to divest it ( www.theverge.com )
The FTC has banned noncompete agreements ( www.theverge.com )
Windows 11 Start menu ads are now rolling out to everyone ( www.theverge.com )
Microsoft is starting to enable ads inside the Start menu on Windows 11 for all users. After testing these briefly with Windows Insiders earlier this month, Microsoft has started to distribute update KB5036980 to Windows 11 users this week, which includes “recommendations” for apps from the Microsoft Store in the Start menu....
Framework won’t be just a laptop company anymore ( www.theverge.com )
It started with notebooks, but that wasn’t the master plan.
Senate passes TikTok ban bill, sending it to Biden, who has already committed to signing it ( www.theverge.com )
Senate passes TikTok ban bill, sending it to Biden, who has already committed to signing it ( www.theverge.com )
Senate passes TikTok ban bill, sending it to Biden, who has already committed to signing it ( www.theverge.com )
Tesla’s in its flop era ( www.theverge.com )
When Tesla releases its first quarter earnings this afternoon, the company’s CEO Elon Musk will field the usual questions about new products, new factories, and progress toward its futuristic vision of self-driving cars and robot workers. But Musk will also face increasingly urgent questions about its current state of affairs...
Tesla’s profits sink as the company struggles with cooling demand ( www.theverge.com )
Steam will stop issuing refunds if you play two hours of a game before launch day ( www.theverge.com )
Closing the early access loophole.
Newsletter platform Ghost adopts ActivityPub to ‘bring back the open web’ ( www.theverge.com )
They’re not done yet. Just announcing (and the verge reporting on it)....
Meta wants to be the Microsoft of headsets ( www.theverge.com )
Twitter alternative Post News is shutting down ( www.theverge.com )
Post News, a Twitter alternative that emerged in the wake of Elon Musk’s takeover, is shutting down. Noam Bardin, the platform’s founder and former CEO of Waze, writes that Post News “is not growing fast enough to become a real business or a significant platform.”...
The little smart home platform that could ( www.theverge.com )
Home Assistant is now part of the Open Home Foundation, a non-profit aiming to fight against surveillance capitalism and offer privacy, choice, and sustainability....
The little smart home platform that could How Home Assistant plans to transition from an enthusiast platform to a mainstream consumer product. ( www.theverge.com )