Etsy is cracking down on AI slop listings
Etsy is announcing stricter rules about how AI can be used in listings to reduce the volume of AI slop on the platform.…
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Spotify says yes, it is busting people for using Family Plan sharing too widely
Spotify co-CEO Alex Norström confirmed on this week's earnings call that the company is trying to catch Spotify Family…
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The next-gen Xbox won’t cost you $1,800. It can’t. Can it?
An Xbox Elite controller. | Photo by Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge Fortune dropped a bombshell report on the…
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Canva’s first AI image model plans designs before generating them
Canva is diving even deeper into AI with the launch of an image generation model that competes directly with those from…
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PC shipments dropped over 20 percent in Q3 due to RAM price hikes
Demand for new PCs took a hit after months of price hikes, with Counterpoint Research reporting global PC shipments…
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Fall 2026 earnings watch
Every company is suddenly an AI company. Compute is an asset. Cars are flying. We’ve been promised robots — again. It’s…
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Meta’s AI could still scrape news sites, legal experts say
Meta has tweaked its business terms to remove language suggesting that it could freely train its AI models on news…
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Meta turns Muse sharing back on
Meta has re-enabled Muse sharing after security researchers had reported that public conversation links could be easy…
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The FCC is beginning to block gadgets with ‘foreign surveillance chips’
On October 13th, Brendan Carr's FCC gave itself a new power - it can block gadgets for containing any computer chip…
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Sure, let’s smoosh SpaceX and Tesla together, who cares
Mars not depicted. | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images Oh sure, SpaceX's credit risk is pretty high…
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Teenage Engineering launched an instrument amp with a ton of built-in effects
It looks exactly like what you’d expect a Teenage Engineering guitar amp to look like. | Image: Teenage Engineering…
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Republican politicians have embraced anti-Indian racism — and it’s costing them votes
Two years ago, University of Houston student Vasant Bhatt was doing everything he could to help Republicans regain…
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Google tells Android users to update as parts of Canada adopt permanent daylight saving time
As the US gets closer to permanently adopting daylight saving time following the House advancing the Sunshine…
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Discord now formats Markdown previews right
Discord's latest update released today has a big improvement for Markdown previews: they should now render correctly…
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The new Fire TV Stick 4K is already half off
Despite being announced just a few weeks ago, both Amazon and Best Buy are now offering the latest Amazon Fire TV Stick…
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Refurbished PS5 consoles include second controller for an extra $18
A lot of people are snagging a PlayStation 5 ahead of Grand Theft Auto VI’s November 19th launch. You could pay full…
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Delta can turn the iPhone Duo into your favorite folding handheld
The Duo has a Nintendo DS-like shape anyway, so Delta 2.0 is running with it. | Image: Riley Testut The Delta gaming…
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In Meta’s version of the future, I’ll have my Muse call your Muse
Mark Zuckerberg is barrelling toward a future in which an autonomous network of AI agents will run our lives - shopping…
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Mass Effect 5 trailer leaks following BioWare shutdown
Yesterday, EA shut down BioWare and canceled the studio's new Mass Effect game in development, but a trailer apparently…
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Tesla driver using Full Self-Driving struck and killed a man crossing I-80
A 71-year-old man was fatally hit by a Tesla operating in Full Self-Driving (FSD) mode while crossing I-80 in Vallejo,…
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Microsoft says its AI tool is better than doctors at diagnosing conditions
Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman. | Getty Images For years, AI leaders have touted healthcare as one of the clearest…
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Amazon renames Kindle Unlimited to Kindle Plus and expands access to audiobooks
The plus-ification of subscription services continues unabated with Amazon becoming the latest company to follow suit…
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Elon Musk says Tesla will sell 5 million cars by 2030 — math says otherwise
On Tesla's earnings call Wednesday, Elon Musk made one of his patented pie-in-the-sky predictions that typically sends…
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Someone hacked the Switch 2 by using an old game and AI
The Nintendo Switch 2 has apparently been jailbroken, and a modder has already shown the console running a custom…
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Arc browser is shutting down
Arc’s website today. | Screenshot: The Verge The Browser Company plans to "sunset" its Arc browser on December 22nd,…
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The disastrous PHP vulnerabilities were exploited days before the patch
Hackers attempted to exploit the PHP flaws impacting sites across the web days before they were patched, according to a…
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Wildwood’s director says AI is ‘antithetical to everything that we are at this studio’
Wildwood is the most ambitious film yet from Laika, the stop-motion studio best known for the likes of Coraline and…
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Trump says Sundar Pichai talked him out of renaming the Atlantic Ocean
After renaming Lake Ontario and the Gulf of Mexico on Google Maps following Trump's executive orders, Google CEO Sundar…
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Microsoft shuts down its beloved maker space
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella at a hackathon event in 2016. | Image: Microsoft Microsoft is closing down The Garage, a…
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OpenAI, Anthropic, and Nvidia had record lobbying quarters
It was a busy summer for AI lobbyists. Anthropic, OpenAI, and Nvidia each had their highest-spending lobbying quarter…
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Apple’s Magic Keyboards for iPad are about half off, with a small catch
You can outfit your iPad Air or iPad Pro with one of Apple’s slick Magic Keyboards for considerably less than the…
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PHP: The three little letters wreaking havoc across the web
Two vulnerabilities found in the programming language PHP put enormous swaths of the internet in danger. By some…
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You could just get a refurbished Samsung phone on Amazon
I recently bought a used Galaxy phone, and now Samsung is leaning into that market on Amazon after raising prices on…
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Coolfly’s solar-powered Aura Smart Bird Feeder is nearly 50 percent off
I’m not sure when bird-watching became so popular, but it seems everybody’s getting into it these days. If you want to…
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Coolpad’s new $150 Android phone has a wider screen like the iPhone Duo, but doesn’t fold
The design of widescreen folding phones like the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8, Huawei Pura X View, and now the iPhone Duo,…
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Bill Gates says to prepare for 20 years of ‘tumultuous’ AI disruption
Today, I’m talking to Bill Gates, cofounder and former CEO of Microsoft and chairman of the Gates Foundation. You may…
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