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Cameron Faulkner is an editor covering deals and gaming hardware. He joined in 2018, and after a two-year stint at Polygon, he rejoined The Verge in May 2025. The most graphically-impressive first-person shooter made for the Nintendo Switch is $20 off at Best Buy. Right now, you can buy the
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Rep. August Pfluger, R-Texas, leaves the House Republican Conference caucus meeting at the Capitol Hill Club in Washington on Wednesday, May 13, 2026. His bill seeking to seeks to clarify I&A’s role under the Homeland Security Act passed the House Homeland Security Committee on Thursday. Bill Clark/
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2:30 PM PDT · May 14, 2026 Elon Musk’s newly rebranded SpaceXAI is reportedly losing top talent, with more than 50 researchers and engineers departing since February, according to The Information. The exits include key leaders across coding, world models, and Grok voice. Rivals like Meta and Thinking Machine
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Razer's latest Blade 18 laptop may look the same, but its updated internals make it about as powerful as you can get in 2026. This year's model adds the Intel Core Ultra 9 290HX Plus (24 cores, 5.5GHz boost) as a top-tier processor option. However,
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* Utah will be the home of a new 40,000 acre datacenter * The datacenter will consume more power than the entire state * The power will be provided with natural gas burning turbine generators Box Elder county commission in Utah has approved an enormous new data center that, upon completion, will
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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. The Private AI That Remembers — Anuma is the all-in-one AI platform with private, portable memory.
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And what did the pair discuss? Fortunately, this obscure document gives us a much fuller picture. If you’ve ever wondered what it sounds like to be in the room while cybercriminals do their thing, it sounds something like this: SOHAIB: “Still connected? Still on the VPN?” SOHAIB: “Delete all
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Anthony Grieco, Cisco’s SVP and chief security and trust officer, did not hesitate when VentureBeat asked whether rogue agent incidents are reaching Cisco’s customer base. "A hundred percent. We see them regularly," Grieco told VentureBeat in an exclusive interview at RSAC 2026. "I've
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Jay Peters is a senior reporter covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. Meta is rolling out new features to its Meta Ray-Ban Display smart glasses, including bringing the ability to write messages just with hand gestures to all users.
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May 14, 2026 5:00 PM There are no confirmed cases in the US, but 41 people who were potentially exposed to the Andes virus are in quarantine or being monitored for symptoms. Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is monitoring a total of 41
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Elizabeth Lopatto is a reporter who writes about tech, money, and human behavior. She joined The Verge in 2014 as science editor. Previously, she was a reporter at Bloomberg. Yesterday, in Musk v. Altman, before the jurors came in, Sam Altman’s team passed up what looked — from a distance
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TL;DR Carta acquired Avantia, a UK-based AI-powered law firm for asset managers, launching Carta Law as an integrated legal and compliance layer inside its private capital ERP platform. The deal is Carta’s fourth acquisition since October 2025, following Accelex, Sirvatus, and ListAlpha. Avantia was founded in 2019 by
