News Archive

Richard LawlerOct 13

Here’s Joanna Stern’s look at a HomeView.

Check out this in-person look at Apple’s new hub device, complete with a hand for scale. “It’s tiny and cute!”

DLSS 5 gets toned down for its Hogwarts Legacy debut next month

Tom WarrenOct 13

Discovery Plus is getting more expensive

Emma RothOct 13

Watch Apple’s reveal video for the HomeView

Jay Peters and Stevie BonifieldOct 13

Everything Apple launched at its ‘Welcome Home’ event

Jess WeatherbedOct 13

Elgato takes on DJI with a tiny wireless mic for creators on the go

Tom WarrenOct 13

All the news from Apple’s ‘Welcome Home’ event

Verge StaffOct 30

Character.AI files for bankruptcy

Robert HartOct 13

Dominic PrestonOct 13

Firefox has a business browser now.

Firefox Enterprise combines the browser with a management console for IT admins with advanced security controls. The pitch is that it’s one of the few browsers that doesn’t run on an engine developed by Google or Apple. It’s rolling out in Europe first, and a Thunderbird Enterprise email client is also in the works.

Introducing Firefox Enterprise

[The Mozilla Blog]

Dominic PrestonOct 13

Get a look at every single pair of Samsung smart glasses.

We’ve seen the Google-powered glasses twice before, designed in collaboration with Warby Parker and Gentle Monster. But now SammyGuru has published what it claims are leaked images of every design and color, plus core specs. The glasses are rumored to launch next month. Here are a few frames, head to SammyGuru for the rest.

1/5Image: SammyGuru / Samsung

Dominic PrestonOct 13

The everything app gets an everything plan.

Elon Musk’s SpaceXSI (yes, really) is launching new plans that combine X Premium, Grok, and Cursor. “The X Subscription” plans start from $8 monthly, climbing to $200 for an Ultra tier with more features and usage. Current subscribers have the option of sticking with their current plan or switching over.

Pricing

[SpaceXSI]

Dominic PrestonOct 13

GoPro got sued for tariff refunds it never passed on to consumers.

So far, so Sony, Nintendo, or Logitech. The twist? Technically GoPro never claimed the refunds either. In February this year, just ahead of the Supreme Court ruling that Trump’s tariffs were illegal, it sold its tariff refund claim for an immediate cash payout. The company had raised prices on many of its products in summer 2025.

Lawsuit Filed Against GoPro Over Tariff Refunds Which the Company Has Not Returned to Customers

[Cotchett Pitre & McCarthy]

Richard LawlerOct 12

Anthropic’s Frontier Red Team suggests some AI models “may be months away from being capable enough to self-replicate.”

The latest fear-drop from an AI lab is this report from an Anthropic team, working through scenarios where small AI models could form autonomous, self-propagating worm botnets that are “challenging” to shut down, and what to do to try and stop it from happening:

It’s uncertain exactly what form autonomous AI replication will take. It could be a slow, distributed “digital slime mold,” living on relatively insecure compute. It could also be a powerful cyber model that breaches datacenters at a high pace, or a model that scams people for compute credits.