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Terrence O'Brien is the Verge’s weekend editor. He’s covered the tech industry for over 18 years and knows a thing or two about synths. We were pretty sure that Fenix Flexin’s “Rubberz” was made using AI, but musician Medasin was confident that it was made
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Brad Bourque Brad Bourque is a tech journalist and commerce writer based out of Portland, Oregon. He’s contributed to sites like Digital Trends, Business Insider, and WIRED. Apple’s most affordable laptop, the MacBook Neo, is available once again at its pre-price hike price. All four colors are currently
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* The Samsung Galaxy Fit 4 just leaked in FCC regulatory filings * The documents suggest it will have a screen, unlike the Fitbit Air * But the leak reveals previous few other details The Fitbit Air has proved that you don’t need to pay a high price tag to get a
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The applications are in. The TechCrunch Startup Battlefield team made their decisions. Eight Australian startups have earned their spot on the Startup Battlefield stage at Stripe Tour Sydney on August 19 — and they’re ready to pitch for $15,000 in Stripe fee credits, investor attention, and a spot in
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Traditional detection and response platforms were built to monitor endpoints, networks, identities, cloud infrastructure, and applications. They were never designed to understand AI agents, Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers, tool invocation chains, autonomous workflows, or the behavior of non-human identities operating across enterprise environments. As organizations move AI into production,
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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. Google is making some significant AI leadership changes, including a major shift for Google DeepMind leader Demis Hassabis. Hassabis will become the chair of Google DeepMind and
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Sponsor Posts Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens. Most carriers track everything. Cape doesn't. — Unlimited talk, text &
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9:52 AM PDT · August 5, 2026 Apple’s Private Relay, an opt-in feature designed to hide a user’s IP address when they browse the internet with Safari, can be circumvented to reveal the supposedly hidden IP address due to a series of flaws. Researchers revealed the issues in
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If you’re into tokenmaxxing, OpenAI's Codex Micro looks like a pretty good way to manage the many AI agents you've often got running in the background. But at $230, it is a pretty pricey macropad. Even if the cost doesn’t bother you, it has
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3D printing materials specialist eSun has launched a new filament that aims to improve sustainability — and scent: the PLA-Coffee. "PLA-Coffee is a 3D printing material made with natural coffee grounds — a renewable, sustainable choice," eSun says of its latest material, targeting fused filament fabrication (FFF, also known as
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Apple has been making some of the best tablets on the market for years. We don’t just mean the fanciest and most powerful ones. Even Apple’s budget iPads are a solid choice. The entry-level iPad A16 is still our expert’s top pick for most people. It’s
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SpaceX hosted its first-ever public earnings call since its record-breaking IPO on Tuesday. And while billionaire CEO Elon Musk spun a web of lofty promises (as he is wont to do) about a future moon catapult and a space-based economy, it seems the company’s more practical businesses are the
