The latest PlayStation firmware may have already been cracked ahead of GTA 6
Hackers aren't giving up at cracking the Playstation 5's latest firmware as evidenced by a new video showing an apparent kernel exploit.
Tesla and SpaceX are discussing a possible merger, Musk says
Tesla and SpaceX have formed special committees to discuss a possible merger, Elon Musk said during the latter's third quarter earnings call Tuesday. Musk, who serves as CEO of bo…
At least 42 VR games carry Valve's Next Fest banner, and five clash with their own demo
Steam Next Fest is running until October 26, and 42 VR games carried Valve's own fest banner with an installable demo when their store pages were read on October 19 between 19:15 a…
ChatGPT now lets you lock sensitive chats behind a PIN
OpenAI has introduced a new "locked chats" feature to protect users' more sensitive conversations with ChatGPT.
SpaceX will try catching Starship and its booster for first time, Musk says
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said the company would attempt to catch Starship and its booster next month, with the goal of recovering the entire orbital launch system for the first time. I…
Judge tosses sexual abuse lawsuit from Sam Altman's sister
A lawsuit brought by the OpenAI CEO's sister was dismissed after Anne Altman refused a medical exam.
Netflix is telling investors not to worry, even though you’re watching less and less
Netflix is making monetization a top priority amid reports of falling viewing time. As part of its third-quarter earnings report on Tuesday, Netflix lists improvements to monetizat…
Snap is paying Robert Downey Jr. to do the Iron Man thing
Snap has a new brand ambassador for its Specs AR glasses: Iron Man actor Robert Downey Jr. The company has brought on Downey as Specs' "Chief Customer Experience Officer" and has p…
SpaceX says big AI growth fueled revenue jump
SpaceX announced revenues of $14.6 billion in its Q3 earnings on Tuesday, which it says was a growth of 161 percent year-over-year "fueled by our Super Intelligence (SI) segment an…
Oura adds two new cardiovascular health tracking features to its smart rings
Oura is introducing two new cardiovascular-focused health tracking features to its smart rings designed to help users better understand the effect regular workouts and exercise are…
TikTok has started censoring searches for popular peptides
Trying to pull up information for certain peptides on TikTok is now returning a "no results found" page when searching for terms like semaglutide, BPC-157, retratutide, and others.…
Meta suspends Muse chats sharing feature after it left private details exposed
Researchers accessed 6,800 shared conversations with the AI agent, including internal company documents.
Google brings Gemini Personal Intelligence to Android Auto
In the coming months, the feature will also roll out to cars with Google built-in.
Logitech’s refurbished G Pro X2 Superstrike is 35 percent off
The Superstrike looks similar to Logitech’s previous high-end gaming mice, but it has haptics-based sensors instead of switches. | Image: Cameron Faulkner / The Verge Looking for…
Three owners say a Steam Machine kills HDMI-CEC on the TV, and one of them blames Samsung
Turn a Steam Machine on and it stops HDMI-CEC working for every other device plugged into the television, three owners say in a report open on Valve's SteamOS tracker since Septemb…
Employees warned TikTok about child exploitation, court documents show
The company is facing hundreds of lawsuits over its record on safety.
DJI’s Osmo Pocket 3 vlogging camera is a good deal at under $400
DJI’s Osmo Pocket 3 is a big upgrade from your phone’s video quality. | Image: The Verge If you’re the kind of person who likes to document everything, either for professional a…
Xbox CEO is reportedly planning three more rounds of layoffs
Xbox CEO Asha Sharma is planning new rounds of layoffs for sometime this month, November, and January, according to Fortune. In July, as part of an organizational "reset," Sharma a…
Pickleball's full game now runs with no VR headset, then its VR multiplayer got a fix
Pickleball is a VR racket-sports game, and since October 17 you can play the whole of it on a monitor with no headset involved. Viniot Studios says the desktop mode runs "the full …
How long can you expect your original Steam Deck to last?
The original Steam Deck has been around for a while, but unless you only play the heaviest games, it should be great for some time more.
AMD is bringing its next-gen FSR 4.1 upscaling tech to Xbox
Coming soon to the X/S and Ally devices.
How often should you restart your Apple Watch?
Your Apple Watch doesn't need frequent restarts like a computer, but you might still want to shut down when something's off.
Steam's beta client cannot see your games under /var because it now runs in a container
A Steam library kept under /var disappears from the Linux beta client, with its installed games showing an Install button instead of Play and the client's own log calling each moun…
Spotify is dancing around its AI 'slop and spam' problem
The company said it removed 50 million such tracks from recommendations, but hasn't necessarily wiped them entirely.
An unofficial RayNeo iO emulator runs the stock firmware on a Mac, but its core stays private
An unofficial project published on October 19 boots the unmodified stock firmware of RayNeo’s iO glasses inside an emulator on a Mac and puts the glasses’ real display output in a …
Don't put your phone in the TSA bin — do this instead
Let's be honest, TSA bins are just gross.
You can build your own mechanical keyboard, but is it worth the price?
If you have both the time and money, building a keyboard can be a fun hobby.
Modern Warfare 4 DMZ early access release time & countdown clock
Activision has put a date on Modern Warfare 4’s DMZ early access and no hour. The company’s own support page says that anyone who has pre-ordered or pre-purchased a digital edition…
Proton 11 broke Resonite's Linux launcher, and a runtime developer says it was never a target
Resonite's Linux launcher stopped working on Proton 11, and the answer an owner got on Valve's tracker is that the way it launches was never a support target. Simon McVittie, a Ste…
5 ways to make your old iPhone feel faster
Your iPhone will slow down over time, but some changes can help it run at its best for longer.
Perplexity makes it easier to run AI workflows entirely on your own Mac
A Mac with at least 36GB of RAM can now run Perplexity AI workflows locally.
5 CarPlay navigation apps you should be using instead of Apple Maps
Alternative GPS apps for CarPlay can provide better routing, real-time alerts, weather condition info and much more.
Even Realities' support page gives the G2 640x350, and its own glossary says 576x288
Even Realities gives the G2 a resolution of 640x350 on its own support site and dual 576x288 displays in its own developer documentation, for the same glasses. The support page lis…
RAM prices are crazy high, but do not settle for an 8GB laptop
An 8GB laptop can seem like the solution to rising computer prices, but that's a mistake that will cost you for years.
One Steam Frame adapter came back on a new beta, and two owners say theirs did not
The Steam Frame owner who reported that the bundled wireless adapter had stopped connecting says a Steam beta has fixed it, and two other owners say theirs still fail, one of them …
Amazon Prime comes with an Alexa upgrade you should know about
Amazon's Echo Show and Dot devices, tablets and website all have new capabilities that you might want to take for a spin.
Steam Next Fest Hosts 40+ PC VR Game Demos Until October 26th
Steam Next Fest is live, going from now until October 26th and serving up gads of PC VR demos to play. We’ve counted 42 VR game demos currently available for download, and am…
How to stop fake virus pop-ups on your Windows PC
Blaring security alerts that urge you to call a number or download a scanner are bogus, and you can shut them up easily.
Antigravity's Follow Me bundle adds accurate tracking and gesture controls to its A1 drone
Antigravity's watch and ring remote are available as an accessory bundle or as a full kit with the A1 drone.
How to know it's time to replace your router
One of the issues with internet routers is that it's not always obvious when it's not working as it should. Here's how to check if it could be on its way out.
Reading all of Claude's output would take half an Anthropic worker's week
Reading everything their Claude agents write would take Anthropic's non-technical employees more than half their working week, and the company has published the arithmetic behind t…
Valve switched SteamOS's Wi-Fi backend for new installs, and your upgrade keeps the old one
SteamOS 3.9 hands a freshly installed machine a different Wi-Fi backend, and it does not touch a machine that got there by updating. Valve's SteamOS 3.9.3 beta note prints the cons…
OpenAI took 112 days to publish a misalignment case it found in June
OpenAI had discovered that one of its internal models was routing blocked web requests through an external browser by June 25, and it published the case on October 15, 112 days lat…
The Apple Store will only let you check out two iPhone Duos
Apple is limiting iPhone Duo purchases to two per customers around the world.
Valve said no to ROCm in the SteamOS base image, and pointed at its own 2023 answer
Valve has turned down a request to put AMD's ROCm and HIP compute libraries into SteamOS, in one sentence and six minutes. "This request is too large for the base image", Valve wro…
OpenXR Takes a Page From Apple With New Cross-Platform Spatial Multitasking API
OpenXR is an open, royalty-free standard which provides a single, unified interface for developing VR and AR applications. Most XR platforms support it—excluding Apple, which uses …
Two years in, DRIFTERS: Blackout Crew has a free VR demo and no release date
Salmi Games has put a free demo for DRIFTERS: Blackout Crew on Steam, and the game it comes from still has no release date. The studio's own DevLog says players can jump in and "ex…
Steam's voice chat gain sliders sat broken for 719 days, and the October 16 beta fixed them
Steam's in-game voice chat gain sliders were reported broken on October 30, 2024 and were closed as fixed on October 19, 719 days later. The October 16 beta client carries the fix,…
Backing TapBand's maker will cost $1,000 from October 23, and some perks are going
Tap Systems has told the SEC that the minimum investment in its equity crowdfunding round rises to $1,000 on October 23 and that certain perks are being removed, and the wristband …
Intel's XeSS could use Arc's matrix units under Proton, but all four requests sit open
Four open requests filed on October 19 would let XeSS use the XMX matrix units on an Intel Arc card when a game runs under Proton, instead of the slower fallback path it takes ther…