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Richard Lawler is a senior editor following news across tech, culture, policy, and entertainment. He joined The Verge in 2021 after several years covering news at Engadget. Apple’s annual update about accessibility features on its platforms has new additions for the iPhone, Mac, and especially Vision Pro, with a
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A law requiring social networks to quickly remove sexual deepfakes and other nonconsensual imagery is now fully in force. But experts warn the policy could do little to help victims — and at worst could facilitate censorship online. Last May, President Donald Trump signed the Take It Down Act, a law
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TL;DR Cropin, an India-based SaaS AgTech company deployed in over 100 countries, is scaling its global agricultural analytics by integrating Sisense-powered embedded BI into its Cropin Cloud platform. The partnership gives stakeholders near-real-time dashboards and threshold-based alerts across 30 million digitised acres. When it comes to feeding the planet,
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TL;DR ICE, the owner of the New York Stock Exchange, is partnering with index provider Ornn to launch cash-settled futures contracts tied to GPU computing costs. The move comes days after rival CME Group announced its own compute futures, signalling that Wall Street is racing to turn AI computing
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Is it that time of year again? Google I/O 2026 kicks off today, with the two-day software showcase set to run from May 19 to May 20. Google tends to reveal its biggest announcements at an introductory keynote, which takes place today at 10am PT / 1pm ET / 6pm BST
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* A public GitHub repository called “Private‑CISA” exposed highly sensitive internal credentials and systems used by the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency * Security researchers confirmed the authenticity of the leak, describing it as one of the worst government data exposures they had ever seen * The repository, maintained by contractor
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Sponsor Posts Niantic Spatial: World models need real-world data — Scaniverse is the gateway to spatial services — self-serve and built for AI and robotics. Large-area 3D reconstruction from 360° cameras and precise localization, anywhere machines operate. Protecting your Cloud Applications Data — Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Salesforce data
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The platform recently did something similar for music. Spotify is launching verification badges for podcasts to help "authenticate creator identity and likeness." The most obvious use case for this is to help listeners find real podcasts amidst a sea of AI slop. To that end, the platform says
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Programmatic tool calling (PTC) is a paradigm shift in how large language models (LLMs) interact with external tools. In a traditional tool-calling workflow, each tool invocation requires a full round trip back to the model. The model calls a tool, receives the result, reasons about it, calls the next tool,
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Two former OpenAI employees and a group of AI safety nonprofits are warning that Elon Musk’s AI lab, xAI, could become a liability for prospective investors in SpaceX, which is preparing to file what’s expected to be the largest initial public offering in Wall Street History. In a
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Sponsor Posts Niantic Spatial: World models need real-world data — Scaniverse is the gateway to spatial services — self-serve and built for AI and robotics. Large-area 3D reconstruction from 360° cameras and precise localization, anywhere machines operate. Protecting your Cloud Applications Data — Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Salesforce data
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U.S. cybersecurity agency CISA may have escaped a sizable security breach, thanks to a good-faith security researcher who identified publicly exposed credentials that allowed access to government cloud and internal agency systems. As first reported by independent security reporter Brian Krebs, GitGuardian security researcher Guillaume Valadon found reams of
