Silicon Roundabout
Get in the spirit with these horrors from YouTube
Rather than recommend a single horror film or an unsettling album for our final installment of spooky season recs, I present you with a small selection of creepy, disturbing, and just plain weird videos from YouTube. There's a little something...
Google's AI satellite sends a very expensive haiku to Earth
Google on Friday celebrated receiving a poem from its first experimental orbital AI datacenter satellite.The company's Suncatcher satellite, launched at the start of the month and put into low Earth orbit, has responded to a ground station prompt to...
Keyboards of The Verge
What is a keyboard if not the original brain-computer interface? You can tap on a touchscreen or talk to the computer, but if your work involves getting information out of your head and into the computer, you're probably spending a lot of time...
Binance CEO says 90 percent of stolen assets have been ‘replenished’
After hackers stole a shocking $6.3 billion from Binance customers in a record-breaking crypto heist, the company's CEO says that 90 percent of the funds have been replaced, and the company plans to cover the remaining 10 percent as well. Binan...
Happy Pikmin Day Eve
This morning, Nintendo announced that tomorrow, November 1st, would be the first annual Pikmin Day. As part of the short Pikmin Day Direct, Shigeru Miyamoto shared new info about Pikmin 4 for the Switch 2, as well as an update for the mobile ap...
I built an AI Tamagotchi before Meta could
Mark Zuckerberg's Meta made AI look so stinking cute by giving it a squishy little face - and this holiday season, he wants to sell you a Muse Charm so you can carry your jolly AI helper around like a Tamagotchi.But I won't be buying one, becau...
Goth aesthetic gone wild: a user's self-inflicted black screen of non-death in Windows 3.1’s
Microsoft senior software engineer Raymond Chen has explained what Windows is doing when you hold down the power button, and shared a story about the time a customer accidentally created a Goth Mode for Windows 3.1.There's a section in The Hitchhike...
Windows 11 tries new shortcuts for Xbox gaming mode and search
The latest Windows 11 Insider build adds some powerful new search features and quick settings while in Xbox mode. The Xbox shortcuts let you control things like Bluetooth, WiFi, and power settings without having to exit gaming mode. The search...
Vic Mensa can’t live without the Voice Memos app
No lies detected. | Photo: Onda Vic Mensa is one of those people who has done so many things that it's hard to remember where you were first introduced to him. Was it his debut mixtape Innanetape, which finally hit the major streaming services...
Best Buy is bundling a $100 gift card with touchscreen MacBook Pro preorders
We got a chance to touch Apple’s latest MacBook at the “Pro and Tell” event. | Photo: Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge While the new touch-enabled MacBook Pro with the PROLED XDR screen is available for preorder across a few major retailers...
Amazon sends chills through its workforce with mixed message memo about AI use
There's a ridiculously simple test you can use to figure out whether AI mandates at a given company are well-considered, or are being shoved out the door by out-of-touch buffoons: What happens when an engineer documents that AI made a task worse? Ar...
Chocolate Caterpillar or Chocolate Teapot? Top up the disk space for Windows 10 to find out
Today's bit of signage silage is either Windows 10 protesting that it is not part of London's Oxford Street pedestrianization, or someone failing to heed an alert before the public is made all too aware that things aren't going well…Eagle-eyed Regis...
Backbone of a beast – charting Nvidia's rise to networking titan
Nvidia is more than just a leader in graphics and AI hardware. It has also become a titan of the networking industry with bigger datacenter Ethernet sales than any other vendor.In Q2, Nvidia's networking revenues topped $17.5 billion. To put that i...
Touchscreens everywhere!
Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 150, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you're new here, welcome, happy Halloween, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.)This week, I was in the Sm...
Here’s why you can’t shake those unhinged political texts
"Its James Talarico. Can you please please please please pretty pretty please rush in even just $1?""Who's working to elect James Talarico? Marxists.""Wow! Wow! Wow! Mark Kelly just made a HUGE announcement!""We asked Ben Verlander, MLB analyst...
Darkbloom, which allowed Mac users to rent out their GPUs for AI inference, warns of low payouts
Declining token prices have prompted Darkbloom, a distributed inference network, to reassess its business plans.Darkbloom, a project from Seattle-based tech biz Eigen Labs, has developed software that allows anyone with a sufficiently capable macOS...
HTTP/3 is faster with some work and help from Cloudflare
When you're ordering food from your phone, even time spent navigating the app is time wasted. At the P99 2026 virtual conference, Elvis Chidera, a staff engineer at Germany-based global delivery service Delivery Hero, explained how the company moved...
Crim spent $7K+ on AI services in extortion attacks, then left evidence for all to see
A n0n ransomware operator tried to break into 23 organizations across 14 countries, but couldn't secure its own front door, leaving its server exposed with all of its methods on view.The criminals used a mix of new (AI) and old (stolen credentials)...
Apple Intelligence is finally coming to China with iOS 27.3
Apple will launch Apple Intelligence in China with iOS 27.3, the company announced on its Chinese newsroom website, as reported by MacRumors. The Apple Intelligence features will be available first in an iOS 27.3 beta that's set to launch on No...
Exclusive details about Akai’s MPC Sample Key
Akai teased its new MPC Sample Key on Instagram earlier this week, and said it plans to open-source its software so the modding community can hack it to their hearts' delight. While there's no word yet on when the device will launch or how much...