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Meta turns off the Instagram feature that let users make AI deepfakes of public accounts
Following significant backlash, Meta is turning off the feature it announced this week that let users generate AI images based on content from public Instagram accounts just by tagging them. The...
The FCC is cracking down on DJI tech that dodged the foreign drone ban
The Xtra Muse and the DJI Osmo Pocket 3. | Photo by Sean Hollister / The Verge Last year, we told you about Xtra, the company that lets DJI sneak its popular cameras into the US, and Skyrover, a...
Apple calls OpenAI’s hardware business ‘rotten to its core’ in trade secret theft lawsuit
The lawsuit also names io Products, the hardware company led by Jony Ive.
Apple sues OpenAI for allegedly stealing hardware secrets
Apple has sued OpenAI, alleging that former employees that now work for the AI company have stolen Apple's trade secrets "for the benefit of OpenAI." In its complaint, Apple alleges that it has...
Trump purges an election agency
Donald Trump speaks with the media aboard Air Force One on July 8, 2026. | Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images This story appeared in The Logoff, a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed...
Trump purges an election agency
Donald Trump speaks with the media aboard Air Force One on July 8, 2026. | Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images This story appeared in The Logoff, a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed...
OpenAI’s browser isn’t dead, it just moved to the ChatGPT app
Let's be real, OpenAI isn't giving up on the browser market, it is just changing its strategy.
A decade later, Pokémon Go finally made good on its original promise
When Niantic dropped the first Pokémon Go trailer in 2015, it was hard to grasp how a bunch of players could work together to catch a pokémon like Mewtwo. But this week at the game's...
ICE is threatening to deport witnesses of its latest shooting
Department of Homeland Security. | Image: The Verge Advocates are demanding that the Department of Homeland Security release bodycam footage of the fatal shooting of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a...
How to protect yourself from the diarrhea-causing parasite wreaking havoc across the US
A parasite called cyclosporiasis, which can cause explosive and watery bowel movements, has infected nearly 2,000 people in the United States this year. | Paige Vickers/Vox; Getty Images As if we...