9 – Breaking News & Latest Updates 2026
Skip to main content

Jay Peters

Jay Peters

Senior Reporter

Senior Reporter

    More From Jay Peters

    Jay Peters
    Jay Peters
    Unrolling LG’s rollable phone.

    JerryRigEverything tore down LG’s unreleased rollable smartphone, and seeing the insides of this phone and how it works is just awesome. The teardown proper starts at about 4 minutes and 20 seconds.

    Jay Peters
    Jay Peters
    A company that makes AI training data has been hit by a security breach.

    Meta has paused work with the company, Mercor (which The Verge has profiled), while OpenAI is investigating the security incident, Wired reports.

    Jay Peters
    Jay Peters
    Take-Two’s head of AI and his team are no longer at the company.

    Luke Dicken posted about the changes on LinkedIn, as reported by Game Developer, saying that the team’s time “has come to an end.” Before becoming Take-Two’s head of AI, he held the role of senior director of applied AI at Zynga, which is owned by Take-Two, for two years.

    Jay Peters
    Jay Peters
    Windows 11 might give haptic feedback for things like closing a window.

    Microsoft is testing a Windows 11 feature that would let users “feel haptic feedback effects on compatible input devices while performing certain actions, such as aligning objects in PowerPoint, window snapping, resizing, or hovering over the Close button,” according to the Windows Insider Blog. This could be really cool on a good trackpad.

    Jay Peters
    Jay Peters
    Signs of life for State of Decay 3.

    Xbox’s Undead Labs will be hosting alpha playtests for the zombie apocalypse game starting next month, according to a video. You can sign up for the waitlist now.

    State of Decay 3 was first announced in 2020 and got a trailer in 2024.

    Jay Peters
    Jay Peters
    That’s one way to juice Grok’s numbers.

    The New York Times reports that Elon Musk is demanding that “banks, law firms, auditors and other advisers” working on the SpaceX IPO buy subscriptions to Grok, which is technically now under the SpaceX umbrella.

    Jay Peters
    Jay Peters
    Somebody got an M.2 SSD connected to their Switch 2 through the microSD Express slot.

    This looks completely impractical, but is also awesome?

    An image of somebody connecting an M.2 SSD to their Switch 2 through the microSD Express slot.
    Check out the modder’s full thread on X for a translation of the details.
    Image: @AT12806379 on X
    Jay Peters
    Jay Peters
    The Apple archives.

    The Wall Street Journal got to see a bunch of prototypes of Apple products and talk with CEO Tim Cook about them. The prototypes are so dang cool. I wish I could go see them for myself!