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SpaceXAI’s Grok programming tool was uploading its users’ ...

2026-07-14T19:30:07Z

SpaceXAI’s Grok programming tool was uploading its users’ entire codebase to cloud storage https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/965600/spacexai-grok-build-repository-upload

Elon Musk is encouraging race riots on the eve of SpaceX’s IPO ...

2026-06-11T15:59:01Z

Elon Musk is encouraging race riots on the eve of SpaceX’s IPO https://www.theverge.com/policy/948426/elon-musk-belfast-riots-anti-immigration

Japanese man sentenced to prison for posting spoilers ...

2026-04-20T20:10:01Z

Japanese man sentenced to prison for posting spoilers https://www.theverge.com/entertainment/914984/godzilla-minus-one-overlord-coda-spoilers-lawsuit-toho-kadokawa-shoten

The future of local TV news has taken a Trumpian turn ...

2026-04-19T12:20:01Z

The future of local TV news has taken a Trumpian turn https://www.theverge.com/column/914674/nexstar-tegna-merger-trump-local-news

Gucci-branded Google smart glasses are coming next year ...

2026-04-16T21:00:06Z

Gucci-branded Google smart glasses are coming next year https://www.theverge.com/gadgets/913523/google-gucci-ai-smart-glasses-2027

Snap is laying off 16 percent of its staff as it leans into AI ...

2026-04-15T11:30:05Z

Snap is laying off 16 percent of its staff as it leans into AI https://www.theverge.com/tech/912314/snap-layoffs-1000-staffers-ai-profitability

The FCC just saved Netgear from its router ban for no obvious ...

2026-04-14T21:00:04Z

The FCC just saved Netgear from its router ban for no obvious reason https://www.theverge.com/tech/911888/netgear-router-ban-conditional-approval

Microsoft starts removing Copilot buttons from Windows 11 apps ...

2026-04-10T09:40:01Z

Microsoft starts removing Copilot buttons from Windows 11 apps https://www.theverge.com/news/909640/microsoft-removing-copilot-windows-11-buttons

The EFF is quitting X ...

2026-04-09T22:00:04Z

The EFF is quitting X https://www.theverge.com/tech/909550/eff-electronic-frontier-foundation-leaving-x-twitter

Mastodon is about to launch its take on Bluesky’s starter packs ...

2026-04-09T16:30:08Z

Mastodon is about to launch its take on Bluesky’s starter packs https://www.theverge.com/tech/909308/mastodon-collections-bluesky-starter-packs

Why Microsoft’s war on Windows’ Control Panel is taking so ...

2026-04-08T09:40:01Z

Why Microsoft’s war on Windows’ Control Panel is taking so long https://www.theverge.com/news/908624/microsoft-windows-control-panel-removal-explanation

Wisconsin governor says ‘no’ to age checks for porn ...

2026-04-06T22:00:05Z

Wisconsin governor says ‘no’ to age checks for porn https://www.theverge.com/policy/907761/wisconsin-governor-porn-age-verification-vetoed

Flipboard just launched Surf, its new social app and feed reader ...

2026-04-02T16:20:01Z

Flipboard just launched Surf, its new social app and feed reader https://www.theverge.com/tech/905929/flipboard-surf-fediverse-launch

Despite EV headwinds, Rivian’s sales are up ...

2026-04-02T15:50:01Z

Despite EV headwinds, Rivian’s sales are up https://www.theverge.com/transportation/905903/despite-ev-headwinds-rivians-sales-are-up

NASA launches four astronauts toward the Moon on the Artemis II ...

2026-04-01T22:50:01Z

NASA launches four astronauts toward the Moon on the Artemis II mission https://www.theverge.com/science/904458/nasa-artemis-ii-mission-moon-astronauts

Another Starlink satellite has inexplicably exploded ...

2026-03-31T08:40:01Z

Another Starlink satellite has inexplicably exploded https://www.theverge.com/science/903906/another-starlink-satellite-has-inexplicably-exploded

There is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter series ...

2026-03-29T14:10:01Z

There is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter series https://www.theverge.com/report/901818/hbo-harry-potter-jk-rowling-transphobia

Sony is raising PS5 prices by $100 in April ...

2026-03-27T12:30:04Z

Sony is raising PS5 prices by $100 in April https://www.theverge.com/games/902224/sony-ps5-playstation-price-hike

Wikipedia bans AI-generated articles ...

2026-03-26T15:20:01Z

Wikipedia bans AI-generated articles https://www.theverge.com/tech/901461/wikipedia-ai-generated-article-ban

The United States router ban, explained ...

2026-03-25T18:30:06Z

The United States router ban, explained https://www.theverge.com/tech/899906/fcc-router-ban-march-2026-explainer

The man who coined Metaverse now says Meta’s glasses are creepy ...

2026-03-24T20:20:01Z

The man who coined Metaverse now says Meta’s glasses are creepy https://www.theverge.com/tech/899797/metaverse-neal-stephenson-headsets-goggles-glasses-creepy-no-business-case

Nintendo cuts Switch 2 production amid weakening console sales ...

2026-03-24T11:50:01Z

Nintendo cuts Switch 2 production amid weakening console sales https://www.theverge.com/games/899291/nintendo-switch-2-production-cut-weak-us-sales

The US government just banned consumer routers made outside the ...

2026-03-23T23:00:03Z

The US government just banned consumer routers made outside the US https://www.theverge.com/news/899172/fcc-foreign-router-ban

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says ‘I think we’ve achieved AGI’ ...

2026-03-23T19:50:01Z

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says ‘I think we’ve achieved AGI’ https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/899086/jensen-huang-nvidia-agi

Marc Andreessen is a philosophical zombie ...

2026-03-19T20:20:01Z

Marc Andreessen is a philosophical zombie https://www.theverge.com/tldr/897566/marc-andreessen-is-a-philosophical-zombie

Fitbit’s AI health coach will soon be able to read your medical ...

2026-03-19T12:30:03Z

Fitbit’s AI health coach will soon be able to read your medical records https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/897250/fitbits-ai-health-coach-reads-medical-records

A new video from the White House mixes Call of Duty footage with ...

2026-03-05T01:20:00Z

A new video from the White House mixes Call of Duty footage with actual video of Iran strikes https://www.theverge.com/games/889701/trump-white-house-call-of-duty-footage-iran

Downdetector and Speedtest sold to Accenture for $1.2 billion ...

2026-03-04T17:50:02Z

Downdetector and Speedtest sold to Accenture for $1.2 billion https://www.theverge.com/tech/889234/downdetector-ookla-speedtest-sold-accenture

Another Oracle outage is messing up US TikTok ...

2026-03-03T20:40:02Z

Another Oracle outage is messing up US TikTok https://www.theverge.com/tech/888647/tiktok-us-oracle-outage-march-2026

Mastodon now has a button for sharing content from other websites ...

2026-03-02T20:30:06Z

Mastodon now has a button for sharing content from other websites https://www.theverge.com/tech/887791/mastodon-official-share-button-widget

Jeffrey Epstein saw promise in Bitcoin — and its far-right ...

2026-02-27T13:10:01Z

Jeffrey Epstein saw promise in Bitcoin — and its far-right supporters https://www.theverge.com/tech/885252/jeffrey-epstein-bitcoin-cryptocurrency-connections

Georgia says Elon Musk’s America PAC violated election law ...

2026-02-21T17:10:00Z

Georgia says Elon Musk’s America PAC violated election law https://www.theverge.com/tech/882838/georgia-elon-musk-america-pac-voter-fraud

Texas is suing TP-Link over its ties to China ...

2026-02-19T18:30:08Z

Texas is suing TP-Link over its ties to China https://www.theverge.com/tech/881500/texas-tp-link-china-lawsuit-anzu-robotics

Mastodon is testing easier ways to get you started in the ...

2026-02-19T16:10:04Z

Mastodon is testing easier ways to get you started in the fediverse https://www.theverge.com/tech/881352/mastodon-default-server-recommendations-experiment

New Mexico goes to trial to accuse Meta of facilitating child ...

2026-02-10T01:20:01Z

New Mexico goes to trial to accuse Meta of facilitating child predators https://www.theverge.com/policy/876168/new-mexico-attorney-general-meta-child-predator-social-media-addiction-trial

Linux 6.19 arrives with a teaser for Linux 7.0 ...

2026-02-09T16:10:02Z

Linux 6.19 arrives with a teaser for Linux 7.0 https://www.theverge.com/tech/875784/linux-kernel-7-0-announced

Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month ...

2026-02-09T14:10:01Z

Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month https://www.theverge.com/tech/875309/discord-age-verification-global-roll-out

PlayStation’s next big games showcase is on February 12th ...

2026-02-09T14:00:04Z

PlayStation’s next big games showcase is on February 12th https://www.theverge.com/games/875692/playstation-state-of-play-showcase-ps5-february-2026

GOG is already working on native Linux support ...

2026-02-07T20:30:02Z

GOG is already working on native Linux support https://www.theverge.com/tech/875425/gog-native-linux-support

Claude Code was down, forcing developers to take a long coffee ...

2026-02-03T16:20:02Z

Claude Code was down, forcing developers to take a long coffee break https://www.theverge.com/news/873093/claude-code-down-outage-anthropic

Notepad++ updates got hijacked for months and could have spied ...

2026-02-02T20:50:00Z

Notepad++ updates got hijacked for months and could have spied for China https://www.theverge.com/tech/872462/notepad-plus-plus-server-hijacking

Bill Gates says accusations contained in Epstein files are ...

2026-02-01T19:40:00Z

Bill Gates says accusations contained in Epstein files are ‘absolutely absurd’ https://www.theverge.com/tech/871879/bill-gates-epstein-files-absolutely-absurd

Peloton lays off 11 percent of its staff just a few months after ...

2026-01-31T00:00:04Z

Peloton lays off 11 percent of its staff just a few months after launching its AI hardware https://www.theverge.com/gadgets/871422/peloton-layoffs-cost-cutting-2026

One of the biggest manga piracy networks has been shut down ...

2026-01-30T10:40:00Z

One of the biggest manga piracy networks has been shut down https://www.theverge.com/tech/870643/bato-manga-piracy-site-shut-down

Apple says Patreon creators must switch to subscription billing ...

2026-01-29T14:10:02Z

Apple says Patreon creators must switch to subscription billing by November https://www.theverge.com/tech/870022/patreon-creator-apple-ios-subscription-billing-november-2026

Tesla hits a grim milestone: its second straight year of losses ...

2026-01-28T21:20:01Z

Tesla hits a grim milestone: its second straight year of losses https://www.theverge.com/transportation/869603/tesla-q4-2025-earnings-revenue-profit-musk-robotaxis

The winter storm tested power grids straining to accommodate AI ...

2026-01-27T22:40:01Z

The winter storm tested power grids straining to accommodate AI data centers https://www.theverge.com/report/868859/electricity-rates-power-grid-ai-data-center-winter-storm

Payment processors were against CSAM until Grok started making it ...

2026-01-26T16:40:01Z

Payment processors were against CSAM until Grok started making it https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/867874/stripe-visa-mastercard-amex-csam-grok

Creators and communities everywhere take a stand against ICE ...

2026-01-25T17:30:09Z

Creators and communities everywhere take a stand against ICE https://www.theverge.com/policy/867451/creators-and-communities-take-a-stand-against-ice

Microsoft handed the government ecryption keys for customer data ...

2026-01-24T22:50:00Z

Microsoft handed the government ecryption keys for customer data https://www.theverge.com/news/867244/microsoft-bitlocker-privacy-fbi

Ring claims it’s not giving ICE access to its cameras ...

2026-01-22T20:40:01Z

Ring claims it’s not giving ICE access to its cameras https://www.theverge.com/news/866003/ring-ice-camera-access-flock

Former Nintendo of America boss Doug Bowser is joining Hasbro ...

2026-01-20T16:40:02Z

Former Nintendo of America boss Doug Bowser is joining Hasbro https://www.theverge.com/news/864412/nintendo-doug-bowser-joins-hasbro-build

Microsoft’s first Windows 11 update of 2026 stopped some ...

2026-01-18T16:59:00Z

Microsoft’s first Windows 11 update of 2026 stopped some computers from shuting down https://www.theverge.com/news/864032/microsofts-out-of-band-windows-11-update-bug

Disney deleted a Thread because people kept quoting its movies at ...

2026-01-17T18:50:01Z

Disney deleted a Thread because people kept quoting its movies at it https://www.theverge.com/news/863980/disney-deleted-anti-fascist-thread

Grok undressed the mother of one of Elon Musk’s kids — and ...

2026-01-15T23:50:00Z

Grok undressed the mother of one of Elon Musk’s kids — and now she’s suing https://www.theverge.com/news/863097/ashley-st-clair-elon-musk-grok-undressing-lawsuit

Over 100 episodes of classic Sesame Street have arrived on ...

2026-01-15T16:20:03Z

Over 100 episodes of classic Sesame Street have arrived on YouTube https://www.theverge.com/news/862648/sesame-street-classics-youtube-streaming

Verizon will pay you $20 following its nationwide outage — ...

2026-01-15T15:40:02Z

Verizon will pay you $20 following its nationwide outage — here’s how to get it https://www.theverge.com/news/862607/verizon-will-pay-you-20-following-its-nationwide-outage-heres-how-to-get-it

Verizon’s wireless network is down for many people nationwide ...

2026-01-14T18:50:01Z

Verizon’s wireless network is down for many people nationwide https://www.theverge.com/news/861956/verizon-is-down-outage-cell-wireless-service-sos-mode

Former NYC Mayor Eric Adams accused of $2.5 million crypto ‘rug ...

2026-01-13T16:20:01Z

Former NYC Mayor Eric Adams accused of $2.5 million crypto ‘rug pull’ as his NYC Token crashes https://www.theverge.com/news/861269/former-nyc-mayor-eric-adams-accused-of-2-5-million-crypto-rug-pull-as-his-nyc-token-crashes

UK pushes up a law criminalizing deepfake nudes in response to ...

2026-01-12T20:20:01Z

UK pushes up a law criminalizing deepfake nudes in response to Grok https://www.theverge.com/news/860881/uk-ai-x-grok-law-criminalizing-deepfake-nudes-ai

Apple picks Google’s Gemini AI for its big Siri upgrade ...

2026-01-12T15:50:06Z

Apple picks Google’s Gemini AI for its big Siri upgrade https://www.theverge.com/news/860521/apple-siri-google-gemini-ai-personalization

Google pulls AI overviews for some medical searches ...

2026-01-11T19:30:03Z

Google pulls AI overviews for some medical searches https://www.theverge.com/news/860356/google-pulls-alarming-dangerous-medical-ai-overviews

Instagram says it fixed the issue that let someone send all those ...

2026-01-11T17:30:05Z

Instagram says it fixed the issue that let someone send all those password reset emails https://www.theverge.com/news/860337/instagram-fixed-password-reset-emails

The FCC is letting SpaceX launch 7,500 more Starlink satellites ...

2026-01-10T21:10:00Z

The FCC is letting SpaceX launch 7,500 more Starlink satellites https://www.theverge.com/news/860210/fcc-spacex-7500-more-starlink-satellites

Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai are cowards ...

2026-01-09T21:30:05Z

Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai are cowards https://www.theverge.com/policy/859902/apple-google-run-by-cowards

No, Grok hasn’t paywalled its deepfake image feature ...

2026-01-09T13:20:01Z

No, Grok hasn’t paywalled its deepfake image feature https://www.theverge.com/news/859309/grok-undressing-limit-access-gaslighting

Is it even worth mentioning that Elon Musk blew past his own Full ...

2026-01-08T19:30:04Z

Is it even worth mentioning that Elon Musk blew past his own Full Self-Driving goals again? https://www.theverge.com/news/858782/elon-musk-tesla-fsd-unsupervised-missed-goals

Bose is open-sourcing its old smart speakers instead of bricking ...

2026-01-08T15:00:06Z

Bose is open-sourcing its old smart speakers instead of bricking them https://www.theverge.com/news/858501/bose-soundtouch-smart-speakers-open-source

Motorola’s first smartwatch promises 13-day battery life and ...

2026-01-07T01:10:00Z

Motorola’s first smartwatch promises 13-day battery life and Polar-powered health tracking https://www.theverge.com/gadgets/851643/moto-watch-android-smarwatch-ces-2026

Someone made a ton of money betting on Maduro’s capture ...

2026-01-03T20:50:00Z

Someone made a ton of money betting on Maduro’s capture https://www.theverge.com/news/853765/someone-made-a-ton-of-money-betting-on-maduros-capture

I went to the Stranger Things finale in theaters and the ...

2026-01-03T15:10:01Z

I went to the Stranger Things finale in theaters and the strangest thing happened https://www.theverge.com/streaming/853133/stranger-things-finale-theater-scene-report

Net neutrality was back, until it wasn’t ...

2025-12-31T15:10:01Z

Net neutrality was back, until it wasn’t https://www.theverge.com/report/851629/net-neutrality-fcc-retrospective-2025

GOG’s Steam-alternative PC game store is leaving CD Projekt, ...

2025-12-29T18:50:00Z

GOG’s Steam-alternative PC game store is leaving CD Projekt, staying DRM-free https://www.theverge.com/news/850832/gog-cd-projekt-acquisition-steam

Micron says memory shortage will ‘persist’ beyond 2026 ...

2025-12-18T15:30:05Z

Micron says memory shortage will ‘persist’ beyond 2026 https://www.theverge.com/news/847344/micron-ram-memory-shortage-2026-earnings

Democratic lawmakers are investigating data centers’ impact on ...

2025-12-17T21:20:01Z

Democratic lawmakers are investigating data centers’ impact on electricity costs https://www.theverge.com/news/846696/electricity-cost-ai-data-center-democrat-investigation

Grok is spreading misinformation about the Bondi Beach shooting ...

2025-12-14T21:30:03Z

Grok is spreading misinformation about the Bondi Beach shooting https://www.theverge.com/news/844443/grok-misinformation-bondi-beach-shooting

Trump signs AI executive order pushing to ban state laws ...

2025-12-12T01:30:03Z

Trump signs AI executive order pushing to ban state laws https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/841817/trump-signs-ai-executive-order-pushing-to-ban-state-laws

Amazon Prime Video pulls AI-powered recaps after Fallout flub ...

2025-12-11T23:10:00Z

Amazon Prime Video pulls AI-powered recaps after Fallout flub https://www.theverge.com/news/842978/amazon-prime-video-ai-fallout-recap

Donald Trump reminds the entire world he has no idea what 6G ...

2025-12-10T23:50:00Z

Donald Trump reminds the entire world he has no idea what 6G means https://www.theverge.com/policy/842087/trump-does-not-understand-6g-5g

Operation Bluebird wants to reclaim Twitter’s ‘abandoned’ ...

2025-12-10T21:50:01Z

Operation Bluebird wants to reclaim Twitter’s ‘abandoned’ trademarks for a new social network https://www.theverge.com/report/841994/operation-bluebird-twitter-trademarks-petition

Calibri is too woke for the State Department ...

2025-12-10T16:59:01Z

Calibri is too woke for the State Department https://www.theverge.com/news/841664/calibri-is-too-woke-for-the-state-department

Pentagon’s Signalgate report finds Pete Hegseth violated ...

2025-12-04T22:00:04Z

Pentagon’s Signalgate report finds Pete Hegseth violated military policies https://www.theverge.com/news/838582/signalgate-pentagon-oig-report-pete-hegseth

Spotify wants to be the next big video service ...

2025-12-04T16:40:01Z

Spotify wants to be the next big video service https://www.theverge.com/column/837829/spotify-video-service

Russia bans Roblox over ‘LGBT propaganda’ and ‘extremist’ ...

2025-12-04T14:50:01Z

Russia bans Roblox over ‘LGBT propaganda’ and ‘extremist’ content https://www.theverge.com/news/838101/russia-roblox-ban-extremist-content-lgbt-propaganda

Crucial is shutting down –because Micron wants to sell its RAM ...

2025-12-03T19:10:01Z

Crucial is shutting down –because Micron wants to sell its RAM and SSDs to AI companies instead https://www.theverge.com/news/837594/crucial-ram-ssd-micron-ai

Microsoft’s latest Windows 11 update improves and breaks dark ...

2025-12-02T11:40:00Z

Microsoft’s latest Windows 11 update improves and breaks dark mode https://www.theverge.com/news/836199/microsoft-windows-11-file-explorer-white-screen-flash-bug

Pentagon contractors want to blow up military right to repair ...

2025-11-26T20:20:01Z

Pentagon contractors want to blow up military right to repair https://www.theverge.com/news/830715/military-contractors-right-to-repair-ndaa-data-as-a-service

About This Account reveals the scale of X’s foreign troll ...

2025-11-23T21:40:00Z

About This Account reveals the scale of X’s foreign troll problem https://www.theverge.com/news/827298/about-this-account-reveals-the-scale-of-xs-foreign-troll-problem

‘Jmail’ is like any other inbox, except this one has Jeffrey ...

2025-11-22T01:10:00Z

‘Jmail’ is like any other inbox, except this one has Jeffrey Epstein’s emails https://www.theverge.com/news/826901/jeffrey-epstein-files-emails-gmail-jmail

You can get up to 30 percent off Sonos speakers and soundbars ...

2025-11-20T20:40:01Z

You can get up to 30 percent off Sonos speakers and soundbars right now https://www.theverge.com/tech/823523/sonos-black-friday-deals-soundbar-speaker-sale-2025

Screw it, I’m installing Linux ...

2025-11-19T13:10:01Z

Screw it, I’m installing Linux https://www.theverge.com/tech/823337/switching-linux-gaming-desktop-cachyos

EA will skip next year’s F1 game and release update DLC instead ...

2025-11-19T00:20:00Z

EA will skip next year’s F1 game and release update DLC instead https://www.theverge.com/news/823675/ea-f1-25-2026-2027-dlc-expansion-update-game

A massive Cloudflare outage is affecting X, ChatGPT, and even ...

2025-11-18T13:40:01Z

A massive Cloudflare outage is affecting X, ChatGPT, and even Downdetector https://www.theverge.com/news/822869/cloudflare-is-down-outage-x-twitter-downdetector

Google is collecting troves of data from downgraded Nest ...

2025-11-17T12:10:01Z

Google is collecting troves of data from downgraded Nest thermostats https://www.theverge.com/news/820600/google-nest-learning-thermostat-downgraded-data-collection

Disney and ESPN are back on YouTube TV ...

2025-11-15T01:20:00Z

Disney and ESPN are back on YouTube TV https://www.theverge.com/news/821581/disney-youtube-tv-deal-agreement-espn

Superman, Sinners, and other 4K Blu-rays are just $12.99 ahead of ...

2025-11-14T18:10:01Z

Superman, Sinners, and other 4K Blu-rays are just $12.99 ahead of Black Friday https://www.theverge.com/tech/821035/superman-sinners-4k-blu-ray-black-friday-deal-sale

Dbrand is turning the Steam Machine into a Companion Cube ...

2025-11-13T15:30:07Z

Dbrand is turning the Steam Machine into a Companion Cube https://www.theverge.com/news/819863/dbrand-companion-cube-valve-steam-machine-skin

Grand Theft Auto VI launch delayed until November 2026 ...

2025-11-06T21:40:01Z

Grand Theft Auto VI launch delayed until November 2026 https://www.theverge.com/news/816005/grand-theft-auto-vi-gta-g-delayed-november-2026

Google Maps taps Gemini AI to transform into an ‘all-knowing ...

2025-11-05T14:10:01Z

Google Maps taps Gemini AI to transform into an ‘all-knowing copilot’ https://www.theverge.com/news/813588/google-maps-gemini-ai-chatbot-navigation-directions

GTA VI developer accused of union busting in mass firings ...

2025-10-31T22:40:01Z

GTA VI developer accused of union busting in mass firings https://www.theverge.com/news/811999/gta-vi-rockstar-games-union-busting