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I wanted to build something using AI. And it uses AI. I was thinking, what is the best thing to make? And it came to my mind: a game that everyone knows and plays and is easy to play. Tic-tac-toe. But training an AI to play tic-tac-toe will take time.
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There is a database that every AI team should be forced to read before their next sprint planning. It is maintained by researcher Damien Charlotin, and it tracks court cases worldwide in which AI-generated content — fabricated citations, invented precedents, fake quotes from real judgments — was submitted to actual courts. By
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The next useful jump in AI coding may not come from a model benchmark. It may come from the agent finally being able to see the browser. WebKit's Safari MCP server, introduced in Safari Technology Preview 247, is a good example of that shift. It lets MCP-compatible agents
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I was in the middle of writing a Cypress test when the Slack message from our Compliance Officer popped up. "Why am I seeing real customer email addresses in the staging environment user table?" It was 2:14 PM on a Thursday. I dropped what I was doing,
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Bitcoin was born in 2009, but it was just the first cryptocurrency around. According to CoinMarketCap (CMC), we have around 51.56 million different tokens by 2026 —and that’s not counting the smaller, custom, unlisted tokens. It can be really disorienting for any beginner who wants to explore beyond
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Every major cybersecurity vendor now claims their product is “AI-powered.” The term has become so overused that it has lost almost all meaning. When everything from a firewall to a password manager is described as artificial intelligence, the word stops being informative and starts being noise. But behind the marketing,
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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. OnePlus and its parent company, Oppo, plan to announce in the coming days that OnePlus brand will be leaving the US and European markets, according to a
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The latest version of Apple’s smartphone software, iOS 27, is available for iPhone owners as a public beta. It’s the first time Apple’s long-promised revamped version of Siri is available to the general public. Showcased at the company’s WWDC event in June as “Siri AI,” Apple
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We’ve already seen plenty of smart glasses that combine stylish design with music playback and hands-free video recording. For folks who appreciate having those features but don’t like wearing glasses, Auriview has just launched a new product on Kickstarter. The X1 takes a similar approach but packs the
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Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. Facepalm: Popular collaboration platform Zimbra was recently updated to patch a potentially dangerous vulnerability in its Classic Web Client component. In theory, malicious actors could abuse the flaw to run script-based malware directly on
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ByNick Wakeman, Editor-in-Chief, Washington Technology July 13, 2026 04:55 PM ET Citing prohibitive costs for small and mid-size contractors, the Defense Department will keep Phase I self-assessments in place while a new task force studies the cyber and supply chain security program's future. * Contracts * CMMC * Defense The
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Bit by bit, Windows 11 is healing. Microsoft announced that a bunch of new adjustments are coming to the Windows Search Box in Windows 11. Each individual item is a minor improvement, but hopefully in aggregate, the changes will add up to a better experience for search. Members of the
