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Digital car keys are getting more sophisticated
Last month, over a dozen automobile and smartphone manufacturers gathered in Palo Alto, California, for the 16th annual "Plugfest," hosted by the Car Connectivity Consortium (CCC) to test out the...
Netflix’s Warner Bros. merger puts rival streamers in survival mode
This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more news about the streaming wars, follow Emma Roth. The Stepback arrives in our subscribers'...
The “boys club” that protected Epstein
The DOJ’s rollout of more than 3 million files tied to Jeffrey Epstein has been chaotic. | Stephanie Keith/Getty Images The Department of Justice has released more than 3 million files tied to the...
Former Tumblr head Jeff D’Onofrio steps in as acting CEO at the Washington Post
Jeff D’Onofrio in 2015, before ruining Tumblr. | Photo: Getty Images After what can generously be called a contentious tenure as the CEO of The Washington Post, Will Lewis is stepping down following...
New York lawmakers introduce bill that aims to halt data center development for three years
On Friday, New York State Senators Liz Krueger and Kristen Gonzales introduced a bill that would stop the issuance of permits for new data centers for at least three years and ninety days to give...
DOJ is investigating if Netflix used anticompetitive tactics as part of its merger probe
Netflix's acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery isn't quite a done deal yet. As first reported by The Wall Street Journal, the US Department of Justice has started its probe of...
The State Department is scrubbing its X accounts of all posts from before Trump's second term
The State Department is wiping the post history of its X accounts and making it so you'll have to file a Freedom of Information Act request if you want to access any of the content it removed,...
GOG is already working on native Linux support
GOG recently posted a job listing for a senior software engineer focused on porting its Galaxy desktop client to Linux. Now, in reply to a Reddit AMA, the GOG team has revealed that work on native...
I went back to Linux and it was a mistake
Even when it wasn’t failing quietly, Ubuntu was throwing truly useless errors. | Image: Terrence O’Brien / The Verge It's a complete coincidence that I installed Linux around the same time as my...
Trump Mobile’s T1 Phone is apparently still coming, but it’ll be uglier and more expensive
Trump Mobile is already failing to deliver on some early promises, according to the latest report from The Verge. The report revealed the near-final design of the T1 smartphone and uncovered some...