Quick Posts | The Verge The Verge is about technology and how it makes us feel. Founded in 2011, we offer our audience everything from breaking news to reviews to award-winning features and investigations, on our site, in video, and in podcasts. 2026-10-24T12:44:39+00:00 https://www.theverge.com/rss/quickposts https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/verge-rss-large_80b47e.png?w=150&h=150&crop=1 Terrence O’Brien <![CDATA[JerryRigEverything wrecks an iPhone Duo with a handful of dust.]]> https://www.theverge.com/?post_type=vm_quickpost&p=1018156 2026-10-24T08:44:39-04:00 2026-10-24T08:44:39-04:00 Foldables are fragile beasts. And it turns out the iPhone Duo is no different. The matte internal screen scratches just like all the rest. But the real death knell for Apple’s device is a handful of dirt that works its way into the hinge and keeps the phone from closing ever again.

]]> Jay Peters <![CDATA[Meta is acquiring an AI analytics company.]]> https://www.theverge.com/?post_type=vm_quickpost&p=1018103 2026-10-23T19:16:58-04:00 2026-10-23T19:16:58-04:00 Axios has the story. The company, Sundial, was founded by two former Meta employees, and they and others from Sundial will join Meta. One of the co-founders, Chandra Narayanan, will lead Meta’s “data analytics tooling and agents work,” according to Alex Shultz, Meta’s chief data officer.

[Link: Exclusive: Meta acquires AI data platform Sundial | https://www.axios.com/2026/10/23/meta-ai-data-platform-sundial | Axios] ]]> Jay Peters <![CDATA[Steam’s Personal Calendar feature is exiting beta.]]> https://www.theverge.com/?post_type=vm_quickpost&p=1017994 2026-10-23T16:44:14-04:00 2026-10-23T16:44:14-04:00 About a year after Valve introduced the feature, which recommends new and upcoming games you might be interested in and even shows some on an actual calendar, it’s now considered a “full feature” of the Steam Store, Valve says.

My personal calendar page has me pretty dead to rights; among other games, it recommends Final Fantasy Resonance, Star Wars: Galactic Racer, both of which I reviewed and really liked, and some indie games I already had my eye on.

[Link: Steam’s Personal Calendar Full Release | https://steamcommunity.com/games/593110/announcements/detail/710037059469839719?utm_source=SteamDB | Steam News] ]]> Jay Peters <![CDATA[Netflix reportedly offered Microsoft $500 million to license Xbox games for adaptations.]]> https://www.theverge.com/?post_type=vm_quickpost&p=1017947 2026-10-23T16:09:19-04:00 2026-10-23T16:09:19-04:00 Xbox CEO Asha Sharma and team countered by asking for $800 million, and Netflix has pulled its offer, Puck reports in an article discussing the new leadership at Netflix.

Xbox launched an “XP” division this month that will work on adaptations of its games, and Xbox is already working with Netflix on a Diablo animated series.

[Link: The Peter Rice Playbook & Elon’s Skydance Motive | https://puck.news/newsletter_content/what-im-hearing-the-peter-rice-playbook-elons-skydance-motive/ | Puck] ]]> Emma Roth <![CDATA[Sen. Marsha Blackburn isn’t happy about Meta’s revised business terms, either.]]> https://www.theverge.com/?post_type=vm_quickpost&p=1017941 2026-10-23T16:07:09-04:00 2026-10-23T16:07:09-04:00 Blackburn (R-TN) said the updated terms “indicate Meta is attempting to exploit American creators and businesses by granting itself sweeping authority to scrape content from any website associated with Facebook ​and Instagram business accounts,” according to Reuters.

Following publisher pushback, Meta delayed the enforcement of these new policies until November 20th.

[Link: Senator says planned Meta commercial terms update could harm US businesses | https://www.reuters.com/world/senator-says-planned-meta-commercial-terms-update-could-harm-us-businesses-2026-10-23/ | Reuters] ]]> Emma Roth <![CDATA[Texas becomes the latest state to sue OpenAI.]]> https://www.theverge.com/?post_type=vm_quickpost&p=1017900 2026-10-23T15:30:49-04:00 2026-10-23T15:30:49-04:00 Similar to the lawsuits filed by Arizona, West Virginia, Iowa, and several others, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton accuses OpenAI of misleading users about the safety of ChatGPT, allegedly exposing children and other users to a “litany of harms” that’s “driven by the company’s insatiable quest to win the AI arms race and amass
large fortunes.”

[Link: Texas AG Sues OpenAI, Altman for Negative Effects on Consumers | https://news.bloomberglaw.com/privacy-and-data-security/texas-ag-sues-openai-altman-for-negative-effects-on-consumers | Bloomberg Law] ]]> Emma Roth <![CDATA[Windows will soon let you perform an internet speed test without opening your browser.]]> https://www.theverge.com/?post_type=vm_quickpost&p=1017855 2026-10-23T15:17:34-04:00 2026-10-23T15:17:34-04:00 A Windows 11 Insider Preview build rolling out to the Beta and Experimental channels will allow you to right-click the network icon in your system tray and hit “Perform speed test” to run it right in your Quick Settings menu. The feature previously opened a speed test in your browser.

[Link: Announcing new builds for 23 October 2026 | https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2026/10/23/announcing-new-builds-for-23-october-2026/ | Windows Insider Blog] ]]> Emma Roth <![CDATA[Gotta scroll fast.]]> https://www.theverge.com/?post_type=vm_quickpost&p=1017818 2026-10-23T14:52:04-04:00 2026-10-23T14:52:04-04:00 A new accelerated scrolling feature coming to Windows PCs with touchpads will allow you to scroll through long documents and webpages faster, Windows design head Marcus Ash announced on X. Microsoft is also adding the ability to continuously scroll through a page by swiping the edge of your touchpad, along with support for single-finger scrolling.

]]> Jay Peters <![CDATA[Amazon is planning more day-and-date Luna game releases for Prime subscribers.]]> https://www.theverge.com/?post_type=vm_quickpost&p=1017741 2026-10-23T14:01:42-04:00 2026-10-23T13:56:23-04:00 Star Wars: Galactic Racer was available to stream on Luna at no extra cost to Prime subscribers the same day it launched on other platforms, and in a post celebrating the one-year anniversary of Luna’s relaunch, Amazon says it plans to bring more “major” day-and-date releases to Prime members.

Luna’s user base has also grown “fivefold” since the relaunch, Amazon’s gaming GM, Jeff Gattis, says in the post. I spoke to Gattis earlier this year about Amazon’s plan for games.

[Link: One Year of Amazon Luna | https://www.amazongamestudios.com/en-us/news/articles/one-year-of-amazon-luna | Amazon Game Studios] ]]> Elizabeth Lopatto <![CDATA[An insightful breakdown of the CoreWeave situation.]]> https://www.theverge.com/?post_type=vm_quickpost&p=1017715 2026-10-23T13:30:56-04:00 2026-10-23T13:30:56-04:00 This one is for the real finance sickos — what the increased cost of capital for CoreWeave means. Marc Rubenstein, a former hedgie, is fairly granular about CoreWeave’s loans, which is helpful for trying to understand this situation. I came away wondering if Nvidia, which I think is is functionally the central bank for the neoclouds, will decide to bail CoreWeave out, and if so, what that will look like.

[Link: Capital Wars | https://www.netinterest.co/p/capital-wars | Net Interest] ]]>