The amount recouped remains a small percentage of the overall cost of asylum accommodation.

Robot vacuums that can both mop and sweep your floors have improved significantly in recent years. While they are still not as effective as good ol’ manual labor, if you run them regularly, they will help keep your floors cleaner with much less effort on your part. The difference is that newer “combo” robot vacuum […]

Tesla shareholders voted Thursday to approve Elon Musk’s staggering new pay package, in a move aimed at retaining the controversial CEO’s leadership during a time of great upheaval for the automaker. Over 75 percent of shares voted in favor of the proposal. The vote gives Musk enormous sway over his electric vehicle company, as well […]

The government has repeatedly refused to rule out increasing income tax in this month's Budget.

Grand Theft Auto VI is being delayed again: it will now launch on November 19th, 2026. “We are sorry for adding additional time to what we realize has been a long wait, but these extra months will allow us to finish the game with the level of polish you have come to expect and deserve,” […]

Chocolate Factory's homegrown silicon boasts Blackwell-level perf at massive scale

opinion  Look out, Jensen! With its TPUs, Google has shown time and time again that it's not the size of your accelerators that matters but how efficiently you can scale them in production.…

The German Jewish boy who saw his school closed by the Nazis dedicated his life to educating young people.

Amazon is making it easier for self-published authors to release their ebooks in multiple languages with Kindle Translate, a new AI translation tool that launched in beta on Thursday to a limited number of Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) authors. In its early form, it can translate between English and Spanish and from German to English, […]

Sir Keir Starmer has said David Lammy "set out the facts" on mistaken prisoner releases "to the best of his knowledge" amid questions over what the justice secretary knew and when.

Lando Norris says he owes his return to the lead of the world championship to improved consistency in the past couple of months.

More details emerge about release in error of sex offender Brahim Kaddour-Cherif as manhunt continues.

BBC Sport football expert Chris Sutton takes on Bath and England rugby star Ollie Lawrence with his predictions for this weekend's Premier League fixtures.

Some of us take a kind of “I eat to live” rather than an “I live to eat” approach to gadgets. They’re tools that help you get things done, not something you want to invest a lot of time or money in. If that’s you — and there’s no judgment here from a certifiable gadget […]

A group of senators is urging President Donald Trump to preserve the US’s edge in AI development by denying China access to its most advanced chips and models. The bipartisan resolution, submitted by Sens. Chris Coons (D-DE) and Tom Cotton (R-AR), comes just days after Trump walked back a statement that suggested he would consider […]

Pelosi made history as the first female Speaker and left an indelible mark on US politics.

James Watson, co-discoverer of the double-helix shape of DNA, has died at the age of 97.

Last August, Kuxiu debuted a MagSafe battery that can do more than just wirelessly charge your phone. The company’s K1 wireless power bank featured a unique design that split and swiveled 90-degrees to reveal a second wireless charger for the Apple Watch or AirPods. Kuxiu’s new K1 Ultra does the exact same thing, but now […]

Money-losing biz says it does not need government help to meet massive infrastructure commitments

OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar says that her company is not seeking federal loan guarantees after suggesting the opposite in an on-stage interview at a Wall Street Journal event.…

World leaders address COP30 climate summit in Belém and take aim at Trump record on climate change.

Her family said she died peacefully in her London care home having had Parkinson's for several years.

Nintendo has released a new store app on Android and iOS giving users the ability to purchase hardware, accessories, and games for the Switch and Switch 2. When I open my phone and scroll down to the N's, I get a neat, full row dedicated entirely to Nintendo. That's four apps: the Switch app, the […]

The families of the victims of the Southport knife attacks say the tragedy was "not inevitable".

Derek Martin, 67, has been jailed for life for killing Chloe and Josh Bashford in Newhaven.

Republicans suffered losses in key elections on Tuesday night.

The stars of the Netflix fantasy drama say they were told not to panic and later heard a loud bang.

Police have arrested six ahead of the Maccabi Tel Aviv football match against Aston Villa.

Plus 2 new critical vulns - patch now

Cisco warned customers about another wave of attacks against its firewalls, which have been battered by intruders for at least six months. It also patched two critical bugs in its Unified Contact Center Express (UCCX) software that aren't under active exploitation - yet.…

Aryna Sabalenka roars past Coco Gauff to avenge her French Open final loss and secure her place in the WTA Finals last four alongside Jessica Pegula.

The UN’s annual climate conference kicks off in Brazil.

The FBI is attempting to track down the identity of the owner of Archive.today and its numerous mirrors, like Archive.is and Archive.ph. As reported by 404 Media, the FBI subpoena, which was posted on the official Archive.today X account, was sent to web domain registrar Tucows on October 30th demanding the “customer or subscriber name, […]

US President Donald Trump announces agreements with drug makers Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk.

Government agencies would also have to report losses due to automation.

ai-pocalypse  A bipartisan pair of US Senators has introduced a bill that would require companies and government agencies to report AI-related layoffs, and it couldn't come at a better time. October jobs data suggests AI is driving the largest wave of layoffs headed into the end of the year that we've seen since 2003. …

If you’ve ever wanted to make your own Wordle puzzle to challenge (or annoy) your family and friends, The New York Times has announced an official tool that lets you do that. If you have an All Access or Games subscription, you can make a 4-7 letter puzzle with the NYT’s Wordle creation tool. (You’ll […]

Jacob, an 11-year-old lion, has defied expectations by surviving for years after losing a leg – now we know his success is down to an innovative hunting strategy

How much attention did you pay to what happened in the world over the past seven days?

Rockstar says it fired staff for leaks, but the IWGB accuses the GTA maker of union-busting

Rockstar Games denies claims that it fired several employees over their union activity, insisting that it sacked the team members for leaking confidential information.…

Wolves make an initial approach to Championship side Middlesbrough about appointing Rob Edwards as their head coach.

Vice Adm Tryfon Kontizas is one of four senior coastguard figures to face manslaughter charges over the 2023 disaster.

Andrew Mountbatten Windsor has been summoned by Congress to answer questions about his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein.

Police have revealed to Sky News they banned Maccabi Tel Aviv fans from Aston Villa due to "significant levels of hooliganism" in the fan base jeopardising safety around the match - rather than threats to visiting Israelis.

Shirley Valentine actress Pauline Collins has died "peacefully", aged 85, surrounded by her family.

With Black Friday and the holiday season approaching, packages will start piling up, making now a good time to take steps to protect your doorstep from porch pirates. Thankfully, multiple retailers are already offering early Black Friday discounts on smart security devices to help you keep tabs on deliveries, with Amazon’s and Best Buy’s deal […]

The group issued the statement after an 18-month siege of the city of el-Fasher in the western Darfur region.

Counterfeiter failed to conjure a credible claim, appeals court rules

A convicted identity thief has lost his appeal against Uncle Sam after claiming federal agents destroyed a seized hard drive containing cryptocurrency worth more than $345 million.…

While Stranger Things's upcoming fifth season will bring the Hawkins gang's story to a close, Netflix's new Stranger Things animated spinoff series is about to send the crew on a side quest set in the recent past. Today, Netflix dropped a teaser video for Stranger Things: Tales From '85, a new spinoff that takes place […]

ChatGPT wrote a woman a suicide note and another AI chatbot role-played sexual acts with children, BBC finds.

Google’s well-honed strategy of adding AI to absolutely everything continues: the company announced on Thursday that Google Finance is getting a Deep Search feature to turbocharge its AI chatbot, as well as other upgrades to support traders like prediction market support. The new Deep Search feature will let you get more detailed responses and ask […]

Microsoft AI wants you to know that its work toward superintelligence involves keeping humans “at the top of the food chain.” In a lengthy blog post on Thursday, Microsoft AI head Mustafa Suleyman highlighted the formation of a new team dedicated to developing a “humanist superintelligence” that’s “designed only to serve humanity.” This kind of […]

Rates are left unchanged after a tight vote ahead of the Budget later this month.

Amazon's spat with Perplexity shows that technology is not the only blocker for the agentic era

Opinion  The agentic era remains a fantasy world. Software agents, the notional next frontier for generative AI services, cannot escape the gravity of their contradictions, legal ambiguities, and competitive pressures. Not everyone, especially not competing businesses, wants a bot representing the customer.…

This is Lowpass by Janko Roettgers, a newsletter on the ever-evolving intersection of tech and entertainment, syndicated just for The Verge subscribers once a week. This week, JJ Watt finally had enough. The former NFL star, who played for the Houston Texans for close to a decade, took to X to declare that he was […]

The Victorian-era facility is one of the largest in the UK with its interior just as intimidating as its entrance.

Archaeologists have compiled the most detailed map yet of roads throughout the Roman Empire in AD 150, totalling almost 300,000 kilometres in length

Pebblebee has announced new versions of its AirTag-like Clip tracker and wallet-sized Card tracker. The new Clip 5 features a similar design to the previous version with a built-in loop for attaching it to a keychain but includes improvements focused on its personal safety features, plus more color options. The new Card 5 is 30 […]

The action was previously announced, and the official record now shows it has taken place.

Sustainable vision? Who knows

Lenovo says that traditional datacenters are not fit for purpose, and must evolve to future-proof businesses across EMEA. This is based on research, but the PC and server biz has come up with some wacky possible designs, including one that is almost literally in the clouds.…

Documents seen by Sky News suggest the Post Office knew about faults in Capture computer software before it was rolled out in 1992.

They're a weapon synonymous with Russia's war in Ukraine, and here the sky is full of them: Drones.

Spotify has introduced a new “listening stats” feature that gives you a weekly overview of your recent music streaming habits. It essentially acts like a mini version of Spotify’s annual Wrapped review, showing you which artists and songs you’ve listened to the most each week, and making curated playlists inspired by those results. Listening stats […]

The number of referrals to the scheme increased 27% in the year to March 2025, according to new data.

The ex-footballer is accused of making offensive posts on X about a presenter and two commentators.

Dallas Cowboys defensive lineman Marshawn Kneeland dies aged 24, the NFL franchise confirms.

It's not a bug, it's a feeling

Vibe coding has broken free of tech circles to claim Collins Dictionary's Word of the Year 2025 — a choice that may prompt developers to ask: what could possibly go wrong?…

The parents of the three girls murdered by Axel Rudakubana have condemned his mother and father for their failures to prevent the Southport attack - saying they should be held to account.

Here on Decoder, we’ve talked a lot about generative AI, which is a very big idea that is causing quite a few problems. One thing we keep hearing about over and over again is that generative AI is causing a lot of problems in schools. A lot of people out there, including many of the […]

David Lammy has said he did not know all the details of a prisoner's mistaken release when repeatedly asked.

Manchester United boss Ruben Amorim admits the club "made a lot of mistakes in the past" when addressing criticism from ex-player Cristiano Ronaldo.

The interest rate decision was made by the narrowest of margins, meaning all eyes are now on the Bank's December meeting.

Hassan Jhangur is jailed for a minimum of 26 years for killing Chris Marriott in Sheffield in 2023.

Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) has agreed to a US proposal for a ceasefire, it announced in a statement.

"What did Ilya see?" Two years ago, it was the meme seen 'round the world (or at least 'round the tech industry). OpenAI CEO Sam Altman had been briefly ousted in November 2023 by members of the company's board of directors, including his longtime collaborator and fellow cofounder Ilya Sutskever. The board claimed Altman "was […]

ESPN Bet is winding down in favor of a new integration with DraftKings. In an announcement on Thursday, ESPN revealed that it will shutter the standalone betting app in December, while also cutting ties with Penn Entertainment, the company it worked with to develop ESPN Bet. In its place, ESPN will introduce DraftKings’ betting features […]

This follows confirmation by a global hunger monitor that famine conditions are spreading in conflict zones.

At the end of November, we’ll gather friends and family to dine on our favorite foods. And once our stomachs settle, the real feast will begin. This year, the 24-hour deal blitz that is Black Friday will commence on November 28th, followed by a weeklong Cyber Monday sale that kicks off on December 1st. Many […]

Last year I did the thing I'd been dreaming about for a decade: I bought a van. After twenty years of tech journalism, creating a mobile test platform for remote work was just as exciting as having an adventure vehicle to pursue my outdoor hobbies. For that I'd need lots of battery capacity to power […]

Though my 100-plus-hour completed save file would beg to differ, The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom is an unfinished game. Think of it like Korean barbecue. Without the kimchi, rice, sprouts, or sauce, it's just meat - tasty meat to be sure, but not a complete (or healthy) dinner. Hyrule Warriors: Age of […]

Typically, the long-running MAGA influencer feud between white supremacist streamer Nick Fuentes and Jewish conservative podcaster Ben Shapiro - who despise each other for obvious reasons - would have been contained within the internet. Last week, it ratcheted up when Fuentes, an unrepentant antisemite who has said that "Hitler was really fucking cool", suddenly achieved […]

Ring is introducing a new AI-powered feature that consolidates multiple alerts from a camera about a single event into one notification. Single Event Alert is launching on November 6th and is designed to reduce the barrage of notifications from a video doorbell or camera. Building on Ring’s AI Video Descriptions that send a summary of […]

Andrew Mountbatten Windsor's prince title and HRH style have been formally removed by the King.

Andrew Mountbatten Windsor's prince title and HRH style have been formally removed by the King.

The BBC newsreader was reading out a news bulletin about research on groups most at risk in UK heatwaves.

Fin Smith will start at fly-half against Fiji on Saturday, with Marcus Smith at full-back and usual captain Maro Itoje on the bench.

Pokémon Legends: Z-A‘s upcoming expansion finally has a release date and a new trailer revealing what we’ll find as we step into the Mega Dimension. Today, Nintendo and The Pokémon Company announced that the Pokémon Legends: Z-A‘s Mega Dimension DLC will debut on December 10th for the Switch and Switch 2. A trailer for the […]

A review of anti-black racism within the Metropolitan Police has found that discrimination is "baked" into its HR systems.

Joe Burgess will make his first international appearance for a decade after being named in the 19-man England squad for the final Ashes Test against Australia.

Shopping bots pick first option and 'vulnerable to manipulation', Magentic Marketplace trial finds

Ready to have your agent talk to my agent and arrange a sale? Microsoft has published a simulated marketplace to put AI agents through their paces and answer a question for the new age: Would you trust AI with your credit card?…

Peloton is recalling roughly 833,000 of its original Bike Plus machines, according to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission. The reason being that the seat post can break and detach during use, with Peloton receiving three reports of breakages and two reports of injuries resulting from falls. The affected Bike Plus units were sold between […]

Nancy Pelosi, the first woman in the Speaker's office, has announced her retirement from American politics after a nearly 40-year career.

Passenger Astrid, 19, tells the BBC how Stephen Crean stood between her and the alleged attacker.

Most of you still can't do better than 123456?

123456. admin. password. For years, the IT world has been reminding users not to rely on such predictable passwords. And yet here we are with another study finding that those sorts of quickly-guessable, universally-held-to-be-bad passwords are still the most popular ones.…

Hi everyone! I'm John Higgins, the new senior reviewer of TVs and audio here at The Verge. I joined the team just over a month ago, and am raring to go. I've been in tech publishing in some capacity for a little over 20 years, starting at Home Theater Magazine back in 2003 as I […]

Lego’s Star Wars partnership helped the company endure financial uncertainty in the late ‘90s, but for the first time it’s announcing a collaboration with that other iconic space franchise. Lego’s first Star Trek set is a 3,600 piece replica of the USS Enterprise NCC-1701-D from Star Trek: The Next Generation measuring nearly two-feet long. It […]

Three weeks after the spectacular jewel theft at the Louvre, the museum is heavily criticised for neglecting security.

A union representing people in the gaming sector said 31 people were fired at Rockstar's UK studios.

The government shutdown-spurred airport chaos is about to get a whole lot worse. The Federal Aviation Administration said Wednesday it will reduce flight volumes by 10 percent across 40 major airports in response, a move that could threaten 3,000 to 4,500 flights daily. The cuts will affect “high volume” markets, including in Atlanta, Dallas, New […]

The Trump administration has sought to justify the strikes by saying it is in an armed conflict with drugs gangs.

Kyle Steyn starts in place of Duhan van der Merwe and Zander Fagerson is not included as Scotland aim for a first win against New Zealand on Saturday.

After teasing its development last year, Foursquare co-founder Dennis Crowley has now launched BeeBot: an AI-powered social app for iPhones that talks to you about what’s happening nearby. In his blog announcement, Crowley says BeeBot behaves like a “personalized radio DJ” that provides location-based audio updates through your headphones, telling you about what friends are […]

A prisoner released by mistake earlier this week has handed himself in, while the hunt continues for a foreign sex offender also freed in error.

Intune is where the party's at, even if admins might prefer the Configuration Manager kitchen

Microsoft has officially confirmed that Configuration Manager will transition to an annual release cadence, with Intune as the primary focus for innovation.…