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Playcall

The open-source AI alternative to Gong Discussion

MCP-Builder.ai

The fastest way to connect your data with your AI Tools. Discussion

ChatCut Desktop

Video editor built for humans & AI. Edit with GPT & Claude. Discussion

x1

Lovable for iPhone apps. From idea to App Store Discussion

Warren

Infrastructure for coding-agent workloads Discussion

Mac mini

Now with M6 and M5 Pro chips Discussion

Ring introduces a new encryption standard, makes it the default for cloud features

Ring says users can still opt for end-to-end encryption.

BaudBuddy

A native macOS serial terminal with a file server built in Discussion

Ring says its new encryption limits what it can give police

All Ring cameras will soon use TAKE encryption by default. Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge Ring has a new way to protect your videos. It's developed an encryption method called TAKE , short for Throw Away…

Bill Gates wants to see a robot tax and ‘Human Reserved’ jobs to mitigate harms from AI

Gates is mostly in the Responsible AI camp, but there are a few ideas in here we hadn't heard before.

Xbox announces disc-to-digital feature that digitizes your physical games

Microsoft is officially announcing a new Xbox feature that will allow Xbox owners to digitize their existing physical game collections. The disc-to-digital feature, which The Verge exclusively revealed last month, is…

CISA confirms hackers targeted over 100 US water systems during July

The federal cyber agency's warning comes amid a wave of suspected Iran-backed cyberattacks targeting critical water systems across the United States.

Microsoft’s 25th anniversary Xbox will cost $899

The special-edition translucent green Xbox finally has an official price. Preorders for the console start August 27th at 10AM ET / 7AM PT, although Microsoft says "some of XBOX's most dedicated fans" will receive early…

The second-generation Bose QuietComfort Headphones are good, but don’t stand out

The Bose QuietComfort Headphones Gen 2 look a lot like all other Bose headphones from the past few years. Bose QuietComfort headphones used to be innovative. Bose's noise-canceling research is the reason the technology…

Surprise: Z.ai is the AI lab behind the mysterious Ox Alpha model

Z.ai confirms it is behind Ox Alpha, the mysterious open AI model topping benchmarks and leaderboards, and its weights are set to be released soon.

Meta agrees to heavy restrictions on teen users in major lawsuit settlement

Mark Zuckerberg. Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images Meta settled its latest kids online safety trial with a group of 29 state attorneys general, sparing it from the remainder of a trial that could have cost…

15,000 years of solar wind in four hours? A Seattle company gives it a go.

As part of its nuclear fusion processes, the Sun produces a particularly interesting isotope of helium, known as helium-3. Some of this helium-3 escapes the Sun's gravitational pull as part of the solar wind, a stream…

Twitter Viewer – View Twitter Without Account

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You can now buy music on SoundCloud

SoundCloud has launched a new beta feature that allows artists on the audio streaming platform to sell music directly from their profiles, instead of diverting fans to purchase from third-party services like Bandcamp…

GLM-5.3-Flash

160 points · 46 comments

HEVN U.S.

Hold USD and pay globally through U.S. sponsor banks Discussion

Rockstar finally responds to ‘heartbreaking’ GTA 6 leaks

Rockstar Games has released its first official statement following days of sustained leaks of footage from Grand Theft Auto VI , calling the period "heartbreaking for our team." Not long after Rockstar posted , another…

Psychiatry’s diagnostic bible is finally getting a biological upgrade

The “ bible” of clinical psychiatry —the DSM, short for the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders—is one of the most popular psychiatry reference books around the world. Clinicians use it to diagnose…

macadress

MAC address intelligence for apps, networks and AI agents Discussion

AI Is a Harsh Mistress

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Meta settles for $18 billion in lawsuit brought by 29 states over social media harms to children

The lawsuit alleged that Meta knowingly designed platforms like Instagram and Facebook to addict children, despite knowing about the harms the platforms could pose to young users.

Your Oura Ring can’t measure what’s going on in your skull

Sleep trackers detect sleep via a combination of motion, heart rate, and temperature sensors. This is Optimizer , a weekly newsletter sent from Verge senior reviewer Victoria Song that dissects and discusses the latest…

Robot brain builders are pushing out of their GPT-2 era

Robot bodies are waiting for their AI brains to catch up.

Meta reaches $16.68B settlement over social media harms to children

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Wiped out: US faces surging toilet paper prices amid trade war with Canada

37 points · 17 comments

Bluesky now lets you upload 10-minute long videos

Bluesky's new 10-minute video support includes faster upload speeds, too.

QueryStory wants you to believe what AI is telling you

The startup came out of stealth with $6 million in seed funding and a plan to use LLMs and cybersecurity know-how to make AI queries coherent.

AWS Acquires DuckDB

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Arga Labs is building a better way to train enterprise AI agents

Arga has raised $10 million in a seed funding round that was led by General Catalyst, with participation from Box Group, Emergence, Gradient and SV Angel.

Qwen3.8-Flash-Next: A New Architecture, Towards Ultimate Cost-Efficiency

237 points · 76 comments

A curmudgeon tries a language server

38 points · 15 comments

LibreOffice 26.8 Released with Many Nice Improvements

20 points · 1 comment

Bill Gates is deeply worried about AI, and he’s no longer staying quiet

Bill Gates, chair of the Gates Foundation, speaks during a 2024 conference. Bloomberg via Getty Images Bill Gates has been reflecting a lot on AI lately, and the process has triggered a stark awakening. Once a staunch…

The Download: the Kids issue arrives, and Bill Gates reveals his AI fears

This is today’s edition of The Download , our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Introducing: the Kids issue If the desire to limit kids’ use of technology was…

Proliferate (YC S25) Is Hiring

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Hearing tech startup Legato emerges from stealth with $12M and a peek at its AI hearing glasses

The glasses, called Legato Frames, integrate the company’s patented hearing-assistance technology into the arms of eyewear frames.

IBM's new Granite 4.2 models ride the wave of interest in local LLMs

IBM has rolled out the newest models in its family of open-weight large language models designed to be downloaded and self-hosted. The newly launched Granite 4.2 comes in 3B, 8B, and 30B parameter variants. Like…

Xtracycle's Swoop ASM e-bike brings an automatic transmission to cargo bikes

The Velotric Discover M e-bike we reviewed earlier this year had a feature I found somewhat annoying: It would sporadically block much of the display with an alert telling me I should be in a different gear. While the…

OpenAI's first AI chip brings the heat

OpenAI named its first in-house AI chip Jalapeño, and the first benchmarks just came out appropriately spicy. The company's internal tests have the chip beating Nvidia's flagship GPUs on both speed and power efficiency,…

Apple Updates Mini and Studio, AI Computers, OpenAI Jalapeño

Apple and OpenAI have two completely different hardware announcements; both represent pressure on Nvidia.

Raised on AI

When my oldest child was born, I immediately set up Gmail and Twitter accounts in her name. I broadly announced her birth online and proceeded to plaster her photo across all sorts of platforms. In short, I began…

AI models flub these intelligence tests. Can you fare any better?

Puzzles and games have been central to AI development since the very beginning. Just as we humans like to test our smarts with crosswords or logic puzzles, developers can test how far models have advanced with a gaming…

Quoting Paul Dix

The fact that AI wrote 1M LOC and then refined it over the course of the next couple of months to produce a reliable piece of software that is currently running on millions of developer machines is absolutely mind…

Bill Gates says we’ve passed AI’s danger thresholds. Now what?

It’s a glorious day in Kirkland, Washington, an affluent Seattle suburb on the eastern shore of Lake Washington. The temperature is in the mid-80s, and the sky is incapable of being any more blue. The view from the…

OpenAI Jalapeño 🌶️, Perplexity Portable Computer  💻, Claude combines memory 🧠

EVE Online: The Move to Python 3 Begins!

EVE Online: The Move to Python 3 Begins! EVE Online has been one of the most interesting case studies in Python at scale for over twenty years now. They've been running on Stackless Python since their launch in 2003,…

The SpaceX-Nvidia partnership heads for orbit

Sam Altman called data centers in space "ridiculous." Elon Musk just answered with a launch timeline and a big-time hardware partner. SpaceX and Nvidia are officially teaming up on Musk's orbital data centers, aiming…

The world's busiest spaceport is about to get a lot quieter, at least for now

SpaceX made Florida's Space Coast home to the world's busiest spaceport for a decade, but that will change this year. The company is significantly cutting the number of launches from Florida until Starship arrives, a…

Addressing a sticking point in sustainable adhesives

Petroleum-based adhesives are everywhere: bonding the wood and drywall in a construction project, holding together the joints of furniture, and even sticking labels to otherwise recyclable containers. “The labels on a…

YouTuber finds niche as college admissions mentor

As a first-generation student from a small town, Gohar Khan ’21 had to navigate the college admissions process largely on his own. He founded his YouTube channel, Gohar’s Guide, to make things easier for other young…

Launching youth entrepreneurship

Even as a teenager, Laurie Stach ’06 says, she had a “crazy ambition to take on the world and solve problems.” At MIT, she realized she wasn’t the only one. “Adults always see these youth who are good at math and…

A new stamp on cyberfraud prevention

For Rupert Young ’95, SM ’95, his career in data science and cybersecurity began when his grandfather gifted him thousands of stamps: He built intricate databases to catalogue them, displaying the “precise eye” for…

AgeLab research inspires an A I startup

When Don Yansen ’63 arrived at the MIT AgeLab for a study on technology in care­giving for older adults, he didn’t plan to launch another company. But when he heard participants talk about how hard modern devices can be…

Amping up T cells to target cancer

Vaccines that turn the body’s immune system against tumors have shown promise in clinical trials, and a handful have been FDA approved for certain cancers. In many patients, however, these vaccines don’t stimulate…