No stew on the stove, but plenty of heat as devs compete to flag suspect Medicare data
Seeking to rein in healthcare fraud, the US Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is seeking explainable AI models that can identify patterns suggestive of malfeasance.…
The wrongly-deported man who has become a flashpoint for Donald Trump's aggressive anti-immigration efforts wants to seek asylum in the US, his lawyers have said.
Last year, Google proved it could make a phone that looks and feels like a true flagship, despite the software feeling like an AI jumble. This year, the Pixel 10 Pro starts to put AI features together in a way that actually makes sense - and it manages to upgrade the hardware a bit, too. […]
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Storm-0501, a financially motivated cybercrime crew, recently broke into a large enterprise's on-premises and cloud environments, ultimately exfiltrating and destroying data within the org's Azure environment. The criminals then contacted the victim via a Microsoft Teams account that they'd also compromised in the attack, demanding a ransom payment for the stolen files.…
President Trump has suggested this week that wind power is the reason for rising energy bills in the UK. BBC Verify's Ben Chu takes a look at the data.
More than 100,000 homes are without power after the latest Russian strikes on energy sites, President Zelensky says.
The area was used for tank training and sunken shells have exploded, a senior firefighter says.
Royal Mail says the revamped design will help it compete in small parcel deliveries.
Morgan Lake becomes the first British woman in history to clear two metres in the high jump at the Diamond League final in Zurich.
Disney is suing Sling TV over its new streaming passes that give you access to live cable networks for as little as one day. The lawsuit, filed under seal, claims Sling violated the terms of its licensing agreement with Disney and included its networks in the short-term packages without permission, according to a report from […]
With Dish Network owner EchoStar selling $23 billion in valuable spectrum to AT&T, any pretense that the TV provider will become a serious wireless competitor is dead. But the project was always doomed to fail, and despite plenty of assurances by the Trump administration and other companies involved, the very obvious writing was always on […]
After a 16-year-old took his own life following months of confiding in ChatGPT, OpenAI will be introducing parental controls and is considering additional safeguards, the company said in a Tuesday blog post. OpenAI said it’s exploring features like setting an emergency contact who can be reached with “one-click messages or calls” within ChatGPT, as well as an opt-in […]
An asylum seeker has denied trying to kiss a 14-year-old girl and told a court: "I'm not a wild animal."
Nigel Farage has now ruled out the suggestion, after the party's former chair said it could happen.
The rapper denies attacking the guard, who is suing for assault, but admits she did swear at her.
Georgina Rodríguez, Dua Lipa and Zendaya are just some of the recently-engaged stars with standout rings.
The brightest and most colourful glowing plants yet have been created by injecting phosphorescent chemicals directly into the leaves, but it is little more than a cheap gimmick
A 165-million-year-old ankylosaur from the Atlas Mountains of Morocco was covered in an array of extreme armour including body spikes fused to its skeleton, a feature never seen in any dinosaur before
The claims from pharmaceutical giant Novartis comes amid a row over drug pricing deals.
A system that generates images by inducing random fluctuations in a laser beam could slash energy use compared with standard AI tools
The aurora borealis has been remarkably bright recently. Space weather physicist Tamitha Skov reveals what's going on and how worried we should be about a major solar storm
Kwikset is doubling down on open standards and new technologies as it expands its smart lock offerings. In an exclusive interview with The Verge, the company revealed that it will launch its first NFC-powered tap-to-unlock smart lock, as well as a less expensive Matter-over-Thread deadbolt, and a smart garage door opener this fall. Kwikset also […]
Chipmaker keen to protect assets as race for 2nm process heats up
Taiwanese prosecutors have charged three people over the alleged theft of TSMC's trade secrets.…
Simpson announced his move as he appeared at a press conference in Scotland with Reform leader Nigel Farage.
Thousands of people reported problems during what was the latest in a long line of banking IT failures.
Captain Keegan Bradley decides against including himself as a playing member of the United States Ryder Cup team to face Europe next month.
The drug's US manufacturer has asked UK distributors to stop taking orders from pharmacies until next month's price increase.
Vintage computing boffinry to please palmtop enthusiasts
Vintage computing enthusiast Colin Hoad has released a gift to anyone who fondly remembers Psion's classic EPOC-based palmtops and their Open Programming Language (OPL): a language server which brings modern quality-of-life features to the OPL programmer, regardless of their development environment.…
Ryanair staff are to get more money for spotting and charging for oversized baggage, the company's chief executive has said.
Microsoft is expanding its Xbox Cloud Gaming technology to Xbox Game Pass Core or Standard subscribers, dropping the requirement for the highest tier Xbox Game Pass Ultimate for access to cloud games. As part of an Xbox Insider test, Microsoft is also providing access to some PC games for Game Pass Core and Standard subscribers. […]
The fertility rate in England and Wales fell to its lowest level on record in 2024. It is the third consecutive year that record has been broken.
The animal has come as a surprise to experts, who now have to rethink how these armoured dinosaurs evolved
Tommy Robinson will not be charged over an alleged assault at St Pancras station last month after the Crown Prosecution Service decided "there was not a realistic prospect of conviction".
French provider seizes on Redmond's admission that US law could override local protections
Interview European cloud provider OVHcloud has long warned about the risks of relying on foreign tech giants for critical infrastructure – especially when it comes to data sovereignty.…
President Donald Trump has made no secret of his disdain for electric vehicles. On the first day of his presidency, he signed an executive order to eliminate EV incentives that he has often falsely portrayed as an “electric vehicle mandate.” And last month, Republicans in Congress voted to kill the $7,500 tax credit, among other […]
South Korea has passed a bill to ban the use of mobile phones and other digital devices in school classrooms nationwide, amid growing concerns about the effect of social media on young people.
Two people have died and two remain in hospital after attending Emerge dance festival.
England fast bowler Mark Wood says he hopes to play for Durham next month as he returns from injury in time for this winter's Ashes series in Australia.
After three consecutive and dramatic failed missions, SpaceX has successfully launched Starship to space in a key step for NASA's lunar programme
Google is rolling out a basic version of Vids to everyone. Until now, the AI-powered video editor has only been available to Google Workspace or AI plan subscribers, but now users can broadly access the app with templates, stock media, and a “subset of AI capabilities,” product director Vishnu Sivaji tells The Verge. Launched last […]
Hybrid of GNUstep and Xfce channels classic NeXT vibes
The latest release of GhostBSD, an easy graphical FreeBSD distribution, includes a brand new macOS-like desktop environment, "Gershwin."…
A Banksy artwork, where a glass police box looks like a tank of piranhas, has been moved into protective storage ahead of its display at the London Museum's new location.
Denmark’s foreign minister has summoned the top US diplomat in the country over a report alleging that people connected to Donald Trump have been carrying out covert influence operations in Greenland.
The teenager, who was interested in war and Hitler, had been considered "quirky" prior to the attack.
As we approach the end of August, early Labor Day deals have begun to appear, offering you a chance to save on speakers, noise-canceling headphones, TVs, and outdoor gear. Now we can add Google’s 128GB Pixel Tablet to the list, which is down to $249 ($150 off) at Amazon, Best Buy, and the Google Store, […]
The £35 a year increase for a typical household is twice what analysts had predicted.
The parents of a teenage boy who killed himself after speaking to ChatGPT are suing OpenAI over his death.
Household energy bills are due to rise again in October but there are ways to keep a lid on your expenditure.
Attackers steal OAuth tokens to access third-party sales platform, then CRM data in 'widespread campaign'
Google says a recent spate of Salesforce-related breaches was caused by attackers stealing OAuth tokens from the third-party Salesloft Drift app.…
Every once in a while, Slack conversations among The Verge’s staff are interrupted by photos of incredibly cute dogs, cats, and other pets. (We even have an occasional discussion about smart home editor Jennifer Pattison Tuohy’s chickens.) Naturally, anyone who has a pet wants the best for them — and that includes carriers, feeders, and automatic […]
Plaud, the company behind an AI wearable that actually works, is launching an upgraded version of its credit card-sized note-taking device. Just like its Plaud Note predecessor, the Plaud Note Pro uses AI to record, transcribe, and summarize your conversations, but it now comes with two additional microphones that allow it to pick up audio […]
Device tracker brand Chipolo announced the Loop and Card, two new Bluetooth-powered item trackers that can be recharged instead of requiring users to replace their batteries. The Loop and Card both support Apple’s Find My and Google’s Find My Device networks, and will sit in Chipolo’s tracker lineup alongside the colorful Pop pucks that the […]
BBC Sport analyses the issues behind West Ham's poor start to the season.
Microsoft is addressing muffled audio quality on Bluetooth headsets by introducing a new LE Audio feature for Windows 11. Built on top of the Bluetooth Low Energy radio spec, LE Audio uses a new compression algorithm that results in higher quality audio that Microsoft says will “drastically” improve the audio experience in games and calls […]
Because the DBaaS has lately become AI-tastic, among other things
It's less than two years since MariaDB spun out SkySQL, but it's already unspinning the database-as-a-service outfit, which has since been marinated in AI sauce.…
Tomatoes not fit for consumption are thrown at each other during the festival.
She's known as pop's most confessional songwriter, so how will domestic bliss change Taylor Swift?
A Reform government could see the UK leaving the European Convention on Human Rights to deliver its plan.
$23B deal with AT&T shows where the money is
US telco EchoStar, valued around $14.5 billion on Wednesday morning, has sold its American spectrum allocation to AT&T for $23 billion.…
A pocket-sized colour TV and a Kylie Minogue album were among the items Diana, Princess of Wales, placed in a time capsule more than 30 years ago, which has now been opened.
A "weird", heavily armoured dinosaur just became stranger than palaeontologists even realised, following the discovery of new fossils.
Tech brand Nothing has been caught passing off stock images from professional photographers as samples taken by the Phone 3. Five sample images that Nothing claimed were captured by the device were actually licensed photos taken with other cameras. The photographer behind one of the images has anonymously confirmed to The Verge that it wasn't […]
Israeli tanks have reportedly destroyed houses and caused people to flee after pushing into a new area of Gaza City overnight - as Donald Trump is expected to chair a meeting on the war later today.
The DevOps dance has new steps, but Virtzilla thinks it can teach ops folks to tango
Private clouds are all about keeping developers happy and productive, according to Krish Prasad, senior veep and general manager of Broadcom's VMware Cloud Foundation division.…
He pleaded not guilty to injuring a police officer and resisting arrest after being found naked in LA.
The centre run by the billionaire Ambanis faces allegations it unlawfully acquired and mistreated animals.
Guinness World Records are celebrating 70 years of record-breaking achievements.
Flags have started appearing on lampposts, across motorway bridges and along streets in the UK in recent weeks.
Explosions all expected and on schedule this time
SpaceX has finally managed a test flight of Starship without anything creating an impromptu firework display.…
Crystal Palace agree a deal in principle worth up to £26m with Villarreal for Spain winger Yeremy Pino.
"Agentic AI systems are being weaponized." That's one of the first lines of Anthropic's new Threat Intelligence report, out today, which details the wide range of cases in which Claude - and likely many other leading AI agents and chatbots - are being abused. First up: "Vibe-hacking." One sophisticated cybercrime ring that Anthropic says it […]
Former Sky News presenter Dermot Murnaghan has called on men to "demand" a prostate cancer test and for the government to actively offer screenings, after his own stage-four diagnosis.
Vendor insists passkeys are the future, but getting workers on board is proving difficult
Infosec pros are losing confidence in their identity providers' ability to keep attackers out, with Cisco-owned Duo warning that the industry is facing what it calls "an identity crisis."…
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After bringing 4G and 5G connectivity to the Underground, London’s public transport authority has started scolding noisy passengers who subject everyone to music and calls blasting out of their phones. A new poster campaign launched by Transport for London (TfL) this week encourages customers to wear headphones when watching or listening to content on their […]
The Raine family alleges ChatGPT "actively helped" their 16-year-old son take his own life.
Wolves reject Newcastle's second bid for striker Jorgen Strand Larsen, who scored twice in the win over West Ham on Tuesday night.
As the news broke, many Swifties joke on social media they are happy for their "close friend" Swift.
Analysts warn cooling demands could outstrip supplies as heatwaves intensify
Water scarcity is rising up the agenda as one of the major concerns for datacenters in Europe following an unusually hot and dry summer, marked by intense heatwaves in southern parts of the continent.…
A portrait by an Italian master that was looted by the Nazis during the Second World War may have resurfaced for the first time in 80 years - after it was apparently spotted in a property listing.
Dezi Freeman allegedly opened fire on officers who were at his rural property to execute a warrant.
A suspect who shot and killed two police officers and seriously injured a third in Australia's rural south-east has been identified, police said.
The small increase in domestic energy bills announced today confirms that prices have stabilised since the ruinous spikes that followed Russia's invasion of Ukraine, but remain 40% higher than before the war - around 20% in real terms - with little chance of falling in the medium-term.
Mitch Brown hopes his decision to speak on his sexuality will create a safer space for others.
Quick, get some investment money before the bubble bursts
The number of companies developing AI processor chips now numbers well over a hundred, according to new research.…
Paul Gallagher, the older brother of Oasis stars Noel and Liam, has appeared in court charged with rape, sexual assault and other offences.
Chipzilla's first datacenter part to use 18A process tech is another core-packed monster
Hot Chips The first datacenter silicon to use Intel's two-nanometer-class 18A process tech won't arrive for a while yet, but that's not stopping the struggling x86 giant from making its sales pitch early.…
Performing CPR on a space station in microgravity involves doing a handstand on a person's chest and pushing against the walls with your legs – but now researchers say there is a better way
BBC Scotland chief sportswriter Tom English analyses the causes of - and the likely fallout from - Celtic's Champions League exit.
Securing internet infrastructure remains a challenging endeavour
Systems Approach I’ve been working on a chapter about infrastructure security for our network security book.…
Labour has sunk to its lowest approval rating for this parliament, according to a fresh YouGov poll for Sky News.
Military says Russian advance "is the first attack of such a large scale" in industrial province.
Grimsby Town chief executive Polly Bancroft talks to BBC Sport as the League Two side prepare to welcome her old club, Manchester United, in the second round of the Carabao Cup.
Lewis Hamilton and Ferrari have struggled for competitiveness so far in 2025. Andrew Benson analyses why it has not worked so far.
The family of a British man held in India without trial for seven years for alleged corruption has demanded the government intervene to secure his release.
Britain's Jacob Fearnley secures the first US Open main-draw win of his career after coming through a testing first-round match.
Keegan Bradley faces an unenviable task as he makes the final call on whether to include himself as a playing-captain in the US Ryder Cup team, writes Iain Carter.
A shooting has been reported at a Minneapolis Catholic school, the Minnesota governor and authorities have said.
Two children, aged eight and 10, have been killed in a shooting during mass at a school in Minneapolis.
Holly New created a custom outfit for singer NØELLE to wear during an immersive show.
