Microsoft is bringing its Copilot Vision feature to Windows and mobile, moving it beyond the web. Copilot Vision was a big part of Microsoft’s Copilot redesign last year, but so far, it has been limited to Edge webpages to help guide you through what you’re seeing. Copilot Vision will now be able to analyze real-time […]

At least 16 people, including six children, have been killed in a Russian missile strike on Volodymyr Zelenskyy's home city, according to Ukrainian officials.

Intelligence chief booted after less than two years on the job

President Trump today fired the head of the NSA and US Cyber Command and his deputy.…

Search teams are looking for a 16-year-old boy who went missing after "getting into difficulty" in a lake in southeast London.

Four Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) staffers have access to the government’s data on an untold number of immigrants, FedScoop reports.  US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), the agency that handles legal immigration, recently granted access to Kyle Shutt, Aram Moghaddassi, Payton Rehling, and Edward Coristine — the 19-year-old DOGE employee who also goes by […]

Meta’s US fact-checking program will come to an end by Monday afternoon. In a post on X, Meta’s global policy head Joel Kaplan said there will be “no new fact checks and no fact checkers” across Facebook, Instagram, and Threads by that time as the company replaces it with Community Notes. Meta first announced its […]

The next cup of coffee, Shein shopping haul and more may soon cost more as tariffs take effect

Beekeepers often experience some seasonal losses, but this past winter, more than half of all US honeybee colonies died off, potentially the largest loss in US history

In the second major disruption of today’s 50th anniversary event at Microsoft’s headquarters, another employee stood up and began yelling at Satya Nadella, Steve Ballmer, and Bill Gates — the company’s current and past CEOs — in protest of Microsoft’s dealings with the government of Israel. “Shame on you all. You’re all hypocrites,” said Microsoft […]

AI companies can’t figure out if the Trump tariffs are about to decimate them – and the fact that no one has a clear answer is sending them, and the tech industry overall, into a confusion spiral.  The markets are in disarray. Nvidia is down 7.59%, TSMC is down 7.22%. In San Francisco, sources tell […]

A court has released documents relating to the royal, which shed new light on links to Yang Tengbo.

French satellite network company Eutelsat has been providing Ukraine with much-needed internet access for almost a year with the help of the German government, Reuters reports. Eutelsat’s OneWeb division operates low-orbiting satellites that communicate with terrestrial terminals for internet connectivity — similarly to rival SpaceX’s Starlink network, which has been the primary supplier of satellite […]

Donald Trump’s initial 75-day delay against enforcement of the TikTok ban law would’ve expired this weekend, but on Friday, he announced on Truth Social that “I am signing an Executive Order to keep TikTok up and running for an additional 75 days.” This week, Trump announced new taxes on products coming into the US, including […]

The AlphaStation 500 is a workstation from Digital, circa 1996. Mine is a 500 MHz model and has an Alpha 21164A processor (aka EV56). And the way it boots is weird. On your common-or-garden PC, there has always been some kind of ROM chip.

Panel finds plaintiffs should get a chance to prove docs not submitted too late

IBM may have seen off a lawsuit accusing it of using outdated mortality data to underfund retiree pensions, but an appeals court has now reopened the matter to further litigation.…

Wakes from offshore wind farms can reduce the power generated by neighbouring farms – an issue that is growing more prevalent as turbines get bigger and more numerous

The marshmallow treats were reportedly put on a no-fly list after erupting in a cockpit in 1965.

Global financial markets gave a clear vote of no-confidence in President Trump's economic policy.

On April 2nd, President Donald Trump announced staggering new tariffs on imports from dozens of countries that could raise the price of almost everything you buy. It hasn’t taken long for the impact on tech to start to take shape, with Nintendo delaying preorders of the Nintendo Switch 2 and experts telling The Verge that […]

The British overseas territory is facing a 42% tax on the goods it exports to the US.

A Microsoft employee disrupted the company’s 50th anniversary event to protest its use of AI. “Shame on you,” said Microsoft employee Ibtihal Aboussad, speaking directly to Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman. “You are a war profiteer. Stop using AI for genocide. Stop using AI for genocide in our region. You have blood on your hands. […]

Two members of Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) were spotted at the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) this week, sources tell The Verge. Gavin Kliger and Emily Bryant were seen in the building and are now listed in the FTC’s internal directory under the Office of the Chairman with their own agency emails, according […]

Ronin, a giant African pouched rat, is the first rodent to uncover more than 100 mines in Cambodia.

Sphere Entertainment has announced two new immersive experiences coming to its 516-foot wide spherical venue in Las Vegas. An enhanced version of The Wizard of Oz will premiere on the Sphere’s 160,000 square foot screen on August 28th, 2025, while a new film by Academy Award-winning directors Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin (Free Solo) […]

Kevin de Bruyne's announcement that he will leave Manchester City when his contract expires at the end of the season raises several questions.

Temperatures go above 23C in parts of the south of England, which is hotter than Ibiza, Rhodes and Cyprus.

Sarah Wynn-Williams, the ex-Meta employee who authored Careless People, will testify before a Senate Judiciary subcommittee next week. On Wednesday, Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) said Wynn-Williams will address Facebook’s “cooperation with the Communist regime in China, including FB’s plan to build censorship tools.” Despite Meta’s attempts to silence Wynn-Williams with a gag order preventing her […]

The 49-year-old denied he was ever "a rapist", adding: "I've never engaged in non-consensual activity."

BBC Verify explains what we know about the incident after reviewing videos that were posted online.

More than 3,000 people have been confirmed dead after last week's earthquake and the toll is expected to rise.

Experts in IT services held up while other sectors fell over the last 5 years, says report

Ukraine's technology industry has held up during Russia's invasion, with activity falling markedly less than other industries and increasing as a proportion of national exports since 2019.…

As it marks its 50th anniversary, Microsoft is updating Copilot with a host of new features all at once that bring it more in line with alternatives like ChatGPT or Claude. The AI assistant, which uses many OpenAI models, now supports memory, personalization, web-based actions, podcast creation, camera and screen analysis, deep research, and even […]

Microsoft is making changes to Copilot that will allow the artificial intelligence assistant to complete online tasks for you. Using “simple chat prompts,” these “Actions” can be performed in the background while you work on other tasks, according to Microsoft, and can do things like book restaurant reservations, event tickets, and purchase items to ship […]

In a multi-part interview with Nintendo about newly-announced Switch 2 exclusive The Duskbloods, director Hidetaka Miyazaki tried to dispel worries that developer FromSoftware is shifting focus away from single-player games. The studio known for single-player dark fantasy epics like Elden Ring and the Dark Souls series is now working on two multiplayer games. As a […]

Ladies Day is one of the main events in the Merseyside social calendar when people dress to impress

Microsoft is holding a 50th Anniversary Copilot livestream today at 12:30PM ET / 9:30AM PT on April 4th, the same day Microsoft founders Bill Gates and Paul Allen started the company in 1975. Dubbed “Introducing your AI companion,” it’s set up for Microsoft to show off some significant updates to its Windows AI assistant. You […]

It unveiled the console on Wednesday just hours before the president announced a wave of global tariffs.

The US anti-vaccine movement is now firmly embedded in the highest levels of government, where those overseeing public health agencies are making drastic cuts both wide and deep

Yasin Akrul says his arrest was a warning to stop others taking pictures of the demonstrations in Turkey.

Prince Andrew's reputation was "irrecoverable" following his Newsnight interview, according to his senior aide.

Trump’s overtures to Vladimir Putin are not just morally wrong but damaging to the US’s long-term interests.

China's new 34% tax on US imports shows it is ready to tussle with Trump.

Prosecutors said individuals were scammed repeatedly until they had nothing left

Five romance scammers-turned-money launderers were convicted in the UK today after police shuttered a multimillion-pound fraud operation.…

Odds-on favourite Jonbon wins the Melling Chase on day two of the Grand National meeting at Aintree, after his disappointment at the Cheltenham Festival.

The council has set up mobile bin collections for residents to unload their waste amid the strike.

After an agonizing wait, Nintendo finally revealed more details on the Switch 2 during a Direct presentation on the morning of April 2nd. While Nintendo told us very little in the official reveal of the console in January, the company announced during the Direct that the Switch 2 would launch on June 5th and cost […]

Four Real Madrid players, including Kylian Mbappe and Vinicius Jr, are cleared to face Arsenal in their Champions League quarter-final despite three being punished by Uefa.

Trying to follow each twist between the US president and Moscow can leave you giddy, says the BBC's Steve Rosenberg.

The invention of Matter was a grand kumbaya moment for the smart home. Built on the foundations of almost every concept smart home companies had dreamed up — from Apple’s HomeKit to Google’s Thread — the idea was to create a new technology on top of existing ones. One common standard to make it easier […]

But Bernstein analysts say tariffs could disrupt equipment supply chains

The US Department of Energy (DoE) is looking to co-locate datacenters with energy generation facilities to further America's AI ambitions, and is putting up its own land for this purpose.…

A man who gouged a pensioner's eye before beating him to death with his own walking stick has been detained indefinitely.

Nintendo is pushing back preorders for the Switch 2 due to concerns about Donald Trump’s newly announced tariffs. According to a statement sent to The Verge by Eddie Garcia on behalf of Nintendo, it says preorders will no longer begin on April 9th: Pre-orders for Nintendo Switch 2 in the U.S. will not start April […]

Nintendo is pushing back preorders for the Switch 2 due to concerns about Donald Trump’s newly announced tariffs. According to a statement sent to The Verge by Eddie Garcia on behalf of Nintendo, it says preorders will no longer begin on April 9th: Pre-orders for Nintendo Switch 2 in the U.S. will not start April […]

Stephen Hartley was announced as a Reform UK candidate in the Banbury Hardwick ward, but has since been suspended.

Israeli air strikes on bases in Syria are a warning to Turkey to keep its military assets away.

I’m always on the lookout for deals on Philips Hue gear, in part because that stuff’s expensive and I’m not keen on paying full price. Still, it’s worth the money to get the lighting exactly how I want it in each room — down to the precise color temperature that fits the mood or time […]

I’ve always been fascinated by Microsoft, and it’s led me on a somewhat surreal path to covering the company for most of my life. It all started in my teenage years, when my curiosity over the inner workings of Windows led to brief moments of fame and lots of moments of trouble with Microsoft’s lawyers. […]

Far-right activist Laura Loomer, who met with Trump on Wednesday, said Gen Timothy Haugh was fired because he was "disloyal".

Bill Gates celebrated Microsoft’s 50th Anniversary by sharing the source code that created the company’s foundation. The 157-page PDF available to download on Gates’ blog contains the origins of Altair Basic — a programming language interpreter for the MITS Altair 8800 microcomputer — and “remains the coolest code I’ve ever written to this day,” according […]

General Timothy Haugh, the director of the National Security Agency and US Cyber Command, was fired on Thursday, according to a report from The Washington Post. His removal reportedly occurred just one day after right-wing activist Laura Loomer pushed for his firing during a meeting with President Donald Trump. Wendy Noble, the Deputy Director and […]

The family of a schoolgirl who died in a fire in a house near Liverpool on Wednesday have paid tribute.

Joanne Sharkey waited a quarter of a century for "a knock on the door" from the police.

In 2005, Microsoft’s leaders were starting to get worried. Windows and Office were doing well, but the company’s lead software architect, Ray Ozzie, warned them that an emerging trend threatened Microsoft’s very existence. “A new business model has emerged in the form of advertising-supported services and software,” warned Ozzie in his famous memo. “This model […]

Market share increase accelerating, but Microsoft's flagship OS not yet at the 50% mark

The gap between Windows 10 and Windows 11 continues to narrow, and Microsoft's flagship operating system is on track to finally surpass its predecessor by summer.…

Fifty years ago today, Micro-Soft was founded by friends Bill Gates and Paul Allen. As the name implies, Microsoft was originally focused on microprocessors and software, and Gates and Allen created the company to develop software for the Altair 8800, an early personal computer. Founded on April 4th, 1975, Microsoft went on to strike a […]

Microsoft was originally founded on April 4th, 1975, and the tech giant is now celebrating its 50-year anniversary. Microsoft started with a focus on personal computers, building the very software that helped it achieve an early goal of a PC on every desk and in every home. The success of Windows and Office has allowed […]

Gusty conditions have seen the number of small boat crossings in the Channel plummet over the past week.

Russell Brand has been charged with rape and two counts of sexual assault between 1999 and 2005.

ChatGPT's new image-generation tool led to a record number of users in April, forcing OpenAI's boss to beg people to "chill out a bit".

First things first, some exciting news: The Vergecast has been nominated for a Webby Award! This one means a lot to us, especially because it’s an award you get to vote on. We’d be so grateful if you’d go vote for us once, or 40 times, or however many times the site will allow. (Also, […]

'Pudgy' might be more apt given the download size

The beta version of Ubuntu 25.04, the next interim release of this Linux OS, has arrived.…

Honda is looking to the stars for its next hydrogen breakthrough. The automaker is teaming up with space tech companies Sierra Space and Tec-Masters to test its high-differential pressure water electrolysis system on the International Space Station. The test is part of Honda’s vision to support life on the Moon and elsewhere in space using […]

There are growing calls for the UK to withdraw from the treaty banning the use of landmines.

Some UK exporters to the US see a chance to grow their firms, even as others fear a drop in sales.

The court papers focus on the relationship between the royal and a businessman accused of being a Chinese agent of influence.

The industry’s approach to keeping quality backups may be masking the importance of other recovery mainstays

Maintaining good-quality backups is often seen as the spine of any organization's ability to recover from cyberattacks quickly. Naturally, given the emphasis placed on them by experts of all stripes, you'd be forgiven for thinking that prioritizing them over anything else would be the way to go.…

Alpine's Jack Doohan suffers a high-speed crash as Friday practice at the Japanese Grand Prix is punctuated by four red-flag stoppages.

China has responded to Donald Trump’s new trade tariffs with its own charges on US goods. After Trump announced the imposition of an additional 34 percent charge on Chinese imports into the US, China has announced a levy at the same rate for US goods shipped to China. It has also barred 11 US companies […]

Kevin de Bruyne accounces he will leave Manchester City when his contract expires at the end of the season.

Between October and December of 1969, Keith Laumer’s novella The Seeds of Gonyl were published as a serial in the magazine Worlds of If. The story was published the following year in a hardcover by G.P.

When you set up a new camera, or even go to take a picture on some smartphones, you’re presented with a key choice: JPG or RAW? JPGs are ready to post just about anywhere, while RAWs yield an unfinished file filled with extra data that allows for much richer post-processing. That option for a RAW […]

Joanne Sharkey was only identified as the mother of Baby Callum in July 2023.

Last year's winner I Am Maximus heads the runners for the Grand National at Aintree on Saturday.

The need to scale still battling security worries ... on both sides

Governments continue to adopt cloud services, for better or worse, hoping to modernize their IT services, leading big cloud operators to aggressively court public sector bodies for lucrative contracts.…

A 64-year-old woman has been found guilty of breaching a "buffer zone" outside a Bournemouth abortion clinic.

The star incorporates Persian instruments on Azizam, the first single from his eighth studio album.

A mother has been given a two-year prison sentence, suspended for two years, over the death of her baby 27 years ago.

A few scattered opinions as the world falls down around us...

Tottenham head coach Ange Postecoglou says he is not affected by the abuse he receives from some supporters and "will continue fighting".

The Hillsborough Law will not be implemented before the next anniversary of the disaster as promised, the government has confirmed.

Everton condemn death threats made towards James Tarkowski and his family following the defender's tackle in Wednesday's Merseyside derby at Anfield.

'Full benefit' of replacement will not be realized until old one is shut down, projects watchdog warns

The effectiveness of new IT systems designed to speed up asylum claim processing in the UK continues to be held back by the Home Office's failure to decommission its 25-year-old case management database, five years after it promised to retire it.…

US President Donald Trump has described an embezzlement case against Marine Le Pen as a "witch hunt".

The remote Heard and McDonald Islands haven't been visited by humans in almost a decade.

The constitutional court unanimously upheld the impeachment of Yoon Suk Yeol.

The UK could see its warmest day of the year so far on Friday - as a "severe" rating for wildfires remaining in place across the country.

BBC Sport football expert Chris Sutton takes on singer-songwriter Mychelle with his predictions for this weekend's Premier League fixtures.

Law enforcement facing huge gap in 'AI adoption'

The National Crime Agency (NCA) will "closely examine" the recommendations made by the Alan Turing Institute after it claimed the UK was ill-equipped to tackle AI-enabled crime.…

Techie demoed the effect in about 3 seconds, as On Call again tries to break tech-support world records

On Call  The working week sometimes speeds by, sometimes crawls, and often ends with a crash. Each Friday, we try to avert the latter by delivering a new edition of On Call, The Register's reader-contributed tales of handling ridiculous, ribald, and remarkable tech support requests.…

Israeli troops have moved into an area of northern Gaza to expand what they refer to as a "security zone" around the enclave, the military said today.