Silicon Roundabout
DistroKid has been quietly taking down songs in response to UMG lawsuit
Artists are taking to social media to complain that DistroKid has unceremoniously removed their work without notice. Now DistroKid has confirmed to The Verge that the takedowns are a direct response to claims made by UMG. The label filed a laws...
Ledger wallet tampering suspected after reports of crypto thefts
Reports have been mounting that users of the Ledger crypto wallet have seen their accounts drained, and it appears to be related to tampered hardware sold by CryptoBillis. Ledger has asked CryptoBillis to pause all sales of its wallets while it...
Two characters open up a world of typosquatting opportunities in Chromium browsers
Researchers say two characters available to typosquatters and phisherfolk can trick Chromium browsers into displaying lookalike URLs as genuine web addresses. Wangling a domain name to look an awful lot like that of a popular website is nothing new....
EC users should be afraid of a US kill switch - not some new software
You'd swear from the over-the-top reactions that someone is threatening to take European Commission workers' dogs out back and shoot them. Why the freakout? Because the EC is deploying a self-hosted alternative to Microsoft Teams to keep staff commu...
K-pop star Sunmi loves Notion and ear cleaning videos
Sunmi is an undeniable force in K-pop. She first made her debut as a member of the Wonder Girls back in 2007, one of the first K-pop acts to really break through in the West. The English version of their single "Nobody" was the first K-pop song...
Anthropic is cutting off its internal evaluations from the internet
After a recent spate of high-profile incidents in which AI agents escaped containment, Anthropic is cutting off internet access for all internal evaluations. In a report Friday, the company detailed "unintended model actions," including submitt...
Stack Overflow survey finds devs hooked on AI, but not totally sold on its judgment
Nearly a third of developers who use AI daily spend four hours or more of their working day with it, according to Stack Overflow's latest survey. The survey received 30,903 responses from developers and technologists across 169 countries. Among the...
Will Warner Bros. kill Skydance — or will David Ellison kill Warner Bros?
Today, I’m talking with Peter Kafka, chief correspondent at Business Insider and host of the Channels podcast, about the gigantic Warner Bros.-Paramount merger and the future of the company now simply called Skydance.Skydance is owned by David...
Microsoft leans on open weight model from Chinese AI lab to challenge Jev
Microsoft has joined the Jev fan club, an accidental group of companies that share a common desire to be recognized for their own decision models. Jev, announced by TypeSafe AI three weeks ago, is a large language model (LLM) tuned to respond to cer...
AI agent makers are promising privacy — will they deliver?
At this year's OpenAI DevDay, CEO Sam Altman unveiled the company's new AI agent Dots - and told the crowd that the company wants to "set a new standard for privacy in frontier AI." OpenAI would spend the day taking veiled shots at Meta's Muse,...
LG’s RGB LED TV is good for certain situations, but an OLED is better
The LG’s picture is bright and punchy, but its panel is very reflective. When it comes to TVs, the LG name has long been synonymous with OLEDs, continually leading Samsung and Sony as the top OLED manufacturer. But 2026 is all about RGB LED TV...
The techlash has gone Hollywood
Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 147, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you're new here, welcome, I missed you all, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) I'm back from parental l...
The Telo MT1 is a big truck trapped in a tiny truck’s body
I'm bouncing down the road in San Carlos, California, zipping past behemoth tech companies like EA and Oracle, in America's smallest electric truck.The Telo MT1 (which stands for "mini truck") unquestionably turns heads because it looks so rema...
The director of Fjord takes the ‘risky position’ of moderator
Renata Reinsve (top center) and Sebastian Stan (top right) play religious Romanians living in Norway. | FLC Press Cristian Mungiu's sixth feature, Fjord, concerns a family on trial. They seem like good people, God-fearing. They've just moved f...
My brief romance with an AI bird feeder
I miss my sweet tits. It started off promising enough. Dozens of tiny, colorful birds were drawn to my garden just a few weeks after I mounted a $350$269 Kiwibit Bird Feeder 2 Pro. "Looks like Great Tit!" read the first AI-driven alert sent to...
AWS AgentCore security undone by prompt requesting credentials
Bob, possibly the same Bob whose conversations with Alice draw so much interest from eavesdropping Eve, was browsing a site we'll call TechHub. The site hosts an AI agent served by Amazon Bedrock AgentCore. Bob asked the agent for help understanding...
Microsoft 365 subscribers set to lose up to 4TB of OneDrive storage
Microsoft 365 subscribers on Family, Premium, or Pro tiers who make full use of their OneDrive storage allotments consider this a warning: It’s fixin’ to shrink. Redmond published a support page this week detailing changes to Microsoft 365 shared st...
Microsoft 365 subscribers set to lose up to 4 TB of OneDrive storage
Microsoft 365 subscribers on Family, Premium, or Pro tiers who make full use of their OneDrive storage allotments consider this a warning: It’s fixin’ to shrink. Redmond published a support page this week detailing changes to Microsoft 365 shared st...
SpaceX to buy key spectrum that could help Starlink Mobile become major US cell carrier
SpaceX is looking to take on the incumbent mobile networks in the US with a combination of low-band spectrum that can penetrate indoors together with the 2 GHz spectrum supported by its Starlink Gen2 satellites for bandwidth. The rocket-flinging ope...
Decade-old RAM is making a comeback
CPU makers have noticed that the seemingly unending RAM price hikes are making it tough for a lot of us to upgrade our PCs. Their solution? A return to last-gen DDR4 RAM. Intel and AMD are making new CPUs that'll support the older, more afforda...