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Verizon outage: Voice and data services down for many customers
Verizon’s network appears to be having technical issues that are impacting calls and wireless data. Verizon customers on X have reported seeing “SOS” rather than the traditional network bars on...
Verizon’s wireless network is down for many people nationwide
The first big outage of 2026 is here, as Verizon customers across the US, including several of our phones, complain that service has been spotty or nonexistent starting at around noon ET, with...
Gang leader sentenced to 9 years after running illegal gambling and extortion schemes
A gang leader has been sentenced to 9 years in federal prison for orchestrating a 2023 gambling operation and heading up a list of extortion schemes. The man identified as Luis Ramirez, head of the...
Gemini is winning
If you want to win in AI - and I mean win in the biggest, most lucrative, most shape-the-world-in-your-image kind of way - you have to do a bunch of hard things simultaneously. You need to have a...
PS Plus Game Catalog additions for January include Resident Evil Village and Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth
Sony just announced January's Game Catalog additions for PS Plus subscribers and it's a fantastic lineup. All of these titles will be ready to play on January 20. First up, there's...
The Trump administration can’t stop winking at white nationalists
An onlooker holds a sign that reads "shame" as members of law enforcement work the scene following a suspected shooting by an ICE agent during federal law enforcement operations on January 7, 2026,...
He could just turn it off
Generative AI, we are repeatedly told, is a transformative and complicated technology. So complicated that its own creators are unable to explain why it acts the way it does, and so transformative...
How to turn off a VPN on iPhone
Look, virtual private networks are great — I wouldn't have made a list of the best VPNs if I didn't recommend using them. But being able to control your own technology is also important. A...
The Atlantic, Penske, and Vox Media have all sued Google for antitrust violations
Lawsuits seeking damages from Google's illegal ad tech monopoly are piling up following the Justice Department's successful antitrust case. Vox Media, The Verge's parent company, is the latest in a...
X hasn’t really stopped Grok AI from undressing women in the UK
Elon Musk's X is trying to stop people using its AI chatbot Grok to undress women amid intensifying outrage and legal scrutiny over the deluge of nonconsensual sexual deepfakes flooding the site....