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Facebook tests going Reels-first in India
Meta is testing a new Facebook UX in India that sends some users directly into full-screen video when they open the app, putting Reels front and center.
The easiest Apple Watch to recommend is $50 off
The Apple Watch SE 3 is the smartwatch that we recommend for most people because it’s affordable, yet packed with most of the features found in pricier versions. We spotted Amazon…
OpenAI agents tried to hack Wikipedia tools and flooded it with traffic
The reports of OpenAI agents harming 3rd party sites keep coming.
What does the shield icon mean on your Samsung Galaxy?
Your Samsung phone has features to help keep the battery healthy, so you'll see an icon when they're kicking in.
Licensing costs driving 90 percent of VMware users to explore options: Survey
Users want to "reduce risk and avoid unnecessary disruption" while making changes.
Type One Energy raised $200M to build a fusion power plant by 2034
Type One Energy is betting that its lean approach to fusion power will get a power plant on the grid faster, and investors have rewarded it with $200 million.
The planetary wave headed for California isn’t what you think it is
A rather strong "planetary wave" recently slammed into South America and is making its way toward California. In case you're worried about headlines warning of the supposedly "fre…
LibreOffice and OpenOffice Flaws Let Malicious Spreadsheets Run Code Without Macro Warnings
A malicious spreadsheet can make LibreOffice and Apache OpenOffice run an attacker's code as soon as the file is opened, security researchers have shown. There is no warning first…
Wikimedia: Rogue OpenAI agents behind unauthorized Wikipedia edits
The Wikimedia Foundation says rogue OpenAI agents made unauthorized Wikipedia edits and may have been partially responsible for a May outage. [...]
The Pixel 11 Pro and Pro XL phones are $250 off
During Amazon’s October sale, the Pixel 11 Pro and Pixel 11 Pro XL are discounted by $250 or more. The base model Pixel 11 Pro with 256GB of storage is only $849 (originally $1,09…
Wikimedia Says OpenAI Agents Tried to Compromise Etherpad and Use Wiki Tools as Proxies
The Wikimedia Foundation, which hosts Wikipedia, has confirmed that it has discovered activity by rogue OpenAI agents on its platforms, including unsuccessful efforts to compromis…
Italian PM files to trademark her voice against AI threats
Giorgia Meloni submitted a four-second audio to a EU agency in a bid to protect her voice from deepfakes.
Google removes free access to Gemini Flash and Pro on October 9
Free Gemini users are losing access to Google's Flash and Pro AI models.
10 best third-party risk management software platforms for 2026
Most companies hand sensitive data to dozens of outside vendors, from payroll providers to cloud hosts. When one of those vendors gets breached, the company that hired it still an…
Welcome to the Jungle: What We Found Inside 15,465 Public MCP Servers
In 2024, MCP (Model Context Protocol) set out to become the USB-C of AI: one standard for connecting models, agents, and IDEs to tools and data. The protocol delivered. Thousands …
The Verge’s guide to the best October Prime Day deals
Amazon’s Prime Big Deal Days (also known as October Prime Day) is here, serving as a precursor to Black Friday and Cyber Monday. There are a ton of good deals, and bundling them a…
Anthropic IPO filing shows CEO Dario Amodei earned $18M last year
Dario Amodei earned $18M last year as chief executive of Anthropic, the maker of the Claude AI models, according to the company’s IPO prospectus. Reuters reported the figure on Tu…
The best October Prime Day tech deals we found
Amazon’s Prime Big Deal Days event has begun, and it lasts through 3AM ET on Thursday, October 8th. We’ve spun through the company’s huge list of deals to find products that Verge…
Amazon Alexa Plus keeps creepily singing ‘lalala’ for minutes on end
An unsettling Alexa Plus bug has seen some Amazon Echo smart home speakers reduced to saying - and sometimes singing - nothing but "lalala" on repeat for minutes at a time, often …
Sam Altman says OpenAI will disclose more incidents of rogue AI models
OpenAI is preparing to disclose more incidents in which its AI models acted without permission, chief executive Sam Altman said. None of them is as serious as the cases already ma…
Italy opens investigation into AI music company Suno over its terms
Italy’s competition authority, the AGCM, has opened an investigation into Suno, the US company whose AI service turns text prompts into songs.The authority said today that parts o…
Zoom CTO XD Huang on bringing Steve Jobs to every meeting
Zoom has opened the speech recognition behind its My Notes tool to other companies, and is in conversation with some AI note-taking firms that are considering switching to it, chi…
Ofcom opens investigation into Meta over Instagram Instants risk checks
Ofcom has opened a formal investigation into Meta over Instagram’s Instants feature, the UK regulator said on Tuesday. It will check whether Meta broke the Online Safety Act by fa…
Xbox Elite Controller 3 specs leak via Xbox's own Design Lab
Xbox's long awaited Elite Controller 3 may finally offer drift-free joysticks.