Between keeping up with TikTok trends and whatever new gadget just dropped, it’s tough to know exactly what teens are into these days. Luckily, we can help. We may be older than teenagers, but many of us here at The Verge are kids at heart. Plus, we’ve also got a few staffers with older kids. To make your life a little easier this holiday season, we rounded up what we think are the best gifts for teens, based on our tech expertise as well as what our staff’s teens are into right now.
Below, you’ll find gift ideas for many types of teens. Some are more obvious choices, like the latest iPhone and Nintendo Switch 2, but we sought to include a …
The discount brings the price down to $299 ($100 off). | Image: The Verge
We thought Black Friday and Cyber Monday would bring the lowest prices of the year, but apparently not. Right now, you can snag Apple’s Watch Series 11 in the 42mm configuration with GPS for a new all-time low of $299 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy. That beats the $70 discount we saw at the beginning of the month, which means if you didn’t take advantage then, you can save even more now. The 46mm model with GPS is also down to its lowest price yet of $329 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy.
The Series 11 offers some nice improvements to the already-excellent Apple Watch Series 10. While this year’s model has the same dimensions as its predecessor, battery life has increased up to 24 hours per charge on the GPS / Wi-Fi model. At the same time, Apple managed to improve the Series 11’s durability and scratch-resistance, making it a better option for more intense workouts. Additionally, Apple added a more power-efficient 5G modem to the cellular model, so the battery won’t drain as quickly when you’re not on Wi-Fi.
Otherwise, the Series 11 carries over everything we loved about the Series 10. The wide-angle OLED display looks fantastic and is easy to read at a glance, while performance is excellent thanks to Apple’s S10 SiP chip. You also get a variety of health and wellness features, including FDA-cleared hypertension notifications, sleep apnea detection, and sleep score, which can summarize how well you slept. Meanwhile, you get access to the watchOS 26 update, which introduces a workout buddy and offers wrist-flick and double-tap gestures, along with the Liquid Glass redesign.
If you already own a Series 10, there aren’t many reasons to upgrade outside of the slightly improved battery life. However, if you have something older or you’re checking off a gift list, the Series 11 at $100 off is a great deal right before the holidays.
Slack users can now access Anthropic’s Claude Code directly in Slack by tagging Claude on coding-related messages and threads. The new feature is launching today in beta as a research preview.
When Claude is tagged, it will now automatically scan the message to see if it’s a coding task and, if so, route it to Claude Code using the context from the related Slack thread and the code repositories you’ve authenticated in Claude Code. Slack users can also directly tell Claude that a request is a coding task. For instance, you could ask Claude to investigate a bug report you’re discussing in Slack without needing to manually copy all the conte …
Lenovo has already demonstrated its ability to put rollable OLEDs into laptops by graduating last year from demo concept models to shipping the ThinkBook Plus Gen 6, an actual device you can buy. It has a built-in mechanism that expands the screen vertically to give you more screen real estate for typing and scrolling. However, the company might soon debut its first laptop that uses a rollable OLED to effectively transform its screen into an ultrawide 21:9 aspect ratio screen, with left and right edges that extend far outside the bottom chassis.
The Lenovo Legion Pro Rollable will be its first gaming laptop to feature a rollable horizontal …
At their biggest and most expensive, video games all sort of look the same. The reason often comes down to simple economics: More resources means more costs that need to be recouped, and historically the way publishers have done that is by being comically risk-averse. Hence the glut of semi-realistic rocky wastelands that look like death metal album covers where everyone is some kind of Wild West fetishist, or the hero shooters that all look like Pixar but shredded as hell and ready for fan artists to go places I shall not.
On occasion, however, new visual ground is staked. Octopath Traveler 0 is an example of this. The third game in the O …
Joshua Aaron, the developer of the ICEBlock app, is suing Attorney General Pam Bondi, US Homeland Security Secretary Kirsti Noem, acting director of ICE Todd Lyons, White House « Border Czar » Tom Homan, and other federal officials over the Trump administration’s « unlawful threats » made against Aaron and its actions to pressure Apple to pull the app from the App Store, which it did.
« We promised you we would fight back. Well, today’s the day we make good on the promise, » according to a post from ICEBlock’s official account on Bluesky. Aaron, Apple, and the Department of Homeland Security, didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment fr …
There’s an argument to be made that « the real monster is trauma » has become an overused trope in modern horror. Hereditary, The Babadook, and, much less effectively, Smile, are just a few higher-profile examples. But, if you ask me, few films have deployed this trope quite as effectively as the 2020 film His House.
The film follows Bol and Rial, refugees from South Sudan, played by Sope Dirisu and Wunmi Mosaku. Both deliver the kind of incredible performances that you rarely see in a genre film like this. It’s part of what elevates His House above the standard « haunted by trauma » fare. Mosaku, in particular, shows the sort of nuance and scr …
In November, Ted Sarandos, Netflix’s co-CEO made a trip to the White House for a lengthy meeting with Donald Trump. According to Bloomberg, the two discussed a number of topics, but chief among them was Netflix’s plan to bid on Warner Bros. At the end of their conversation, Sardonos felt that “Netflix wouldn’t face immediate opposition from the White House.”
This week, Netflix successfully won the bidding war for Warner, offering $82.7 billion. It’s well known that Paramount and its CEO David Ellison were eager to acquire the storied studio and its streaming assets. Ellison and his father, Larry Ellison, have close ties to the White House, and as part of their pitch to Warner, suggested that only they were in a position to overcome the regulatory hurdles of further media consolidation.
Sarandos seems to have rightly believed that the Ellisons overestimated their political clout. And despite some public efforts to turn the White House against the deal, Netflix won out, for now. There is of course, still a chance that Paramount could launch a hostile takeover effort, or that the Justice Department could try and scuttle the deal — nothing is guaranteed yet.
Sarandos tried to acquire Paramount before David Ellison swooped in, so snatching Warner Bros. out from under his nose is likely something of a personal victory.
Friday, the EU slapped X with a €120 million fine (about $140 million) for violating the Digital Services Act (DSA). It was the first time that a company had been hit with a penalty for running afoul of the law. Elon Musk responded with his trademark tact and professionalism by posting “Bullshit” on X in response to the announcement from the European Commission. But that wasn’t the end, because just a day later Nikita Bier, X’s head of product, accused the Commission of abusing an exploit to boost the reach of the announcement and responded by shutting down its ad account.
According to Bier, the Commission had not used its ad account since 2021, but used a post format explicitly reserved for ads in its announcement of the fine against X. He claims that the Commission posted “a link that deceives users into thinking it’s a video and to artificially increase its reach.” (For the record, the post itself includes a video.)
The seemingly retaliatory revocation of the European Commission’s ad account is unlikely to materially change things for either X or the EU. If, as Bier claims, the Commission has not used its ad account since 2021, holding it hostage is unlikely to give X any leverage. And, while it can appeal the decision, X is currently still on the hook for the sizable fine. Plus, it must provide details for how it plans to address the “deceptive” use of verified checkmarks in the next 60 days, or face additional penalties.
We’ve reached out to the Commission for comment and will update if we hear back.
Il semble que nous ne pouvons pas trouver le contenu demandé. Peut-être qu’une recherche peut vous aider.
It’s easy to think about AI as a sort of existential battle between human and machine. Maybe it will be, someday, in a Skynet sort of way. But there are also lots of people trying to figure out how to use AI not as a replacement for human creativity and thinking but as a tool meant to augment those things.
Sari Azout is one of those people. She’s the founder of Sublime, a platform dedicated to curation, creativity, and ideas. Sublime is all about taste, which makes it slightly surprising that there’s a huge amount of AI powering the way it works. But to Azout, it all makes sense.
Between keeping up with TikTok trends and whatever new gadget just dropped, it’s tough to know exactly what teens are into these days. Luckily, we can help. We may be older than teenagers, but many of us here at The Verge are kids at heart. Plus, we’ve also got a few staffers with older kids. To make your life a little easier this holiday season, we rounded up what we think are the best gifts for teens, based on our tech expertise as well as what our staff’s teens are into right now.
Below, you’ll find gift ideas for many types of teens. Some are more obvious choices, like the latest iPhone and Nintendo Switch 2, but we sought to include a …
The discount brings the price down to $299 ($100 off). | Image: The Verge
We thought Black Friday and Cyber Monday would bring the lowest prices of the year, but apparently not. Right now, you can snag Apple’s Watch Series 11 in the 42mm configuration with GPS for a new all-time low of $299 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy. That beats the $70 discount we saw at the beginning of the month, which means if you didn’t take advantage then, you can save even more now. The 46mm model with GPS is also down to its lowest price yet of $329 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy.
The Series 11 offers some nice improvements to the already-excellent Apple Watch Series 10. While this year’s model has the same dimensions as its predecessor, battery life has increased up to 24 hours per charge on the GPS / Wi-Fi model. At the same time, Apple managed to improve the Series 11’s durability and scratch-resistance, making it a better option for more intense workouts. Additionally, Apple added a more power-efficient 5G modem to the cellular model, so the battery won’t drain as quickly when you’re not on Wi-Fi.
Otherwise, the Series 11 carries over everything we loved about the Series 10. The wide-angle OLED display looks fantastic and is easy to read at a glance, while performance is excellent thanks to Apple’s S10 SiP chip. You also get a variety of health and wellness features, including FDA-cleared hypertension notifications, sleep apnea detection, and sleep score, which can summarize how well you slept. Meanwhile, you get access to the watchOS 26 update, which introduces a workout buddy and offers wrist-flick and double-tap gestures, along with the Liquid Glass redesign.
If you already own a Series 10, there aren’t many reasons to upgrade outside of the slightly improved battery life. However, if you have something older or you’re checking off a gift list, the Series 11 at $100 off is a great deal right before the holidays.
Slack users can now access Anthropic’s Claude Code directly in Slack by tagging Claude on coding-related messages and threads. The new feature is launching today in beta as a research preview.
When Claude is tagged, it will now automatically scan the message to see if it’s a coding task and, if so, route it to Claude Code using the context from the related Slack thread and the code repositories you’ve authenticated in Claude Code. Slack users can also directly tell Claude that a request is a coding task. For instance, you could ask Claude to investigate a bug report you’re discussing in Slack without needing to manually copy all the conte …
Lenovo has already demonstrated its ability to put rollable OLEDs into laptops by graduating last year from demo concept models to shipping the ThinkBook Plus Gen 6, an actual device you can buy. It has a built-in mechanism that expands the screen vertically to give you more screen real estate for typing and scrolling. However, the company might soon debut its first laptop that uses a rollable OLED to effectively transform its screen into an ultrawide 21:9 aspect ratio screen, with left and right edges that extend far outside the bottom chassis.
The Lenovo Legion Pro Rollable will be its first gaming laptop to feature a rollable horizontal …
At their biggest and most expensive, video games all sort of look the same. The reason often comes down to simple economics: More resources means more costs that need to be recouped, and historically the way publishers have done that is by being comically risk-averse. Hence the glut of semi-realistic rocky wastelands that look like death metal album covers where everyone is some kind of Wild West fetishist, or the hero shooters that all look like Pixar but shredded as hell and ready for fan artists to go places I shall not.
On occasion, however, new visual ground is staked. Octopath Traveler 0 is an example of this. The third game in the O …
Joshua Aaron, the developer of the ICEBlock app, is suing Attorney General Pam Bondi, US Homeland Security Secretary Kirsti Noem, acting director of ICE Todd Lyons, White House « Border Czar » Tom Homan, and other federal officials over the Trump administration’s « unlawful threats » made against Aaron and its actions to pressure Apple to pull the app from the App Store, which it did.
« We promised you we would fight back. Well, today’s the day we make good on the promise, » according to a post from ICEBlock’s official account on Bluesky. Aaron, Apple, and the Department of Homeland Security, didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment fr …
There’s an argument to be made that « the real monster is trauma » has become an overused trope in modern horror. Hereditary, The Babadook, and, much less effectively, Smile, are just a few higher-profile examples. But, if you ask me, few films have deployed this trope quite as effectively as the 2020 film His House.
The film follows Bol and Rial, refugees from South Sudan, played by Sope Dirisu and Wunmi Mosaku. Both deliver the kind of incredible performances that you rarely see in a genre film like this. It’s part of what elevates His House above the standard « haunted by trauma » fare. Mosaku, in particular, shows the sort of nuance and scr …
In November, Ted Sarandos, Netflix’s co-CEO made a trip to the White House for a lengthy meeting with Donald Trump. According to Bloomberg, the two discussed a number of topics, but chief among them was Netflix’s plan to bid on Warner Bros. At the end of their conversation, Sardonos felt that “Netflix wouldn’t face immediate opposition from the White House.”
This week, Netflix successfully won the bidding war for Warner, offering $82.7 billion. It’s well known that Paramount and its CEO David Ellison were eager to acquire the storied studio and its streaming assets. Ellison and his father, Larry Ellison, have close ties to the White House, and as part of their pitch to Warner, suggested that only they were in a position to overcome the regulatory hurdles of further media consolidation.
Sarandos seems to have rightly believed that the Ellisons overestimated their political clout. And despite some public efforts to turn the White House against the deal, Netflix won out, for now. There is of course, still a chance that Paramount could launch a hostile takeover effort, or that the Justice Department could try and scuttle the deal — nothing is guaranteed yet.
Sarandos tried to acquire Paramount before David Ellison swooped in, so snatching Warner Bros. out from under his nose is likely something of a personal victory.
Friday, the EU slapped X with a €120 million fine (about $140 million) for violating the Digital Services Act (DSA). It was the first time that a company had been hit with a penalty for running afoul of the law. Elon Musk responded with his trademark tact and professionalism by posting “Bullshit” on X in response to the announcement from the European Commission. But that wasn’t the end, because just a day later Nikita Bier, X’s head of product, accused the Commission of abusing an exploit to boost the reach of the announcement and responded by shutting down its ad account.
According to Bier, the Commission had not used its ad account since 2021, but used a post format explicitly reserved for ads in its announcement of the fine against X. He claims that the Commission posted “a link that deceives users into thinking it’s a video and to artificially increase its reach.” (For the record, the post itself includes a video.)
The seemingly retaliatory revocation of the European Commission’s ad account is unlikely to materially change things for either X or the EU. If, as Bier claims, the Commission has not used its ad account since 2021, holding it hostage is unlikely to give X any leverage. And, while it can appeal the decision, X is currently still on the hook for the sizable fine. Plus, it must provide details for how it plans to address the “deceptive” use of verified checkmarks in the next 60 days, or face additional penalties.
We’ve reached out to the Commission for comment and will update if we hear back.
Il semble que nous ne pouvons pas trouver le contenu demandé. Peut-être qu’une recherche peut vous aider.
It’s easy to think about AI as a sort of existential battle between human and machine. Maybe it will be, someday, in a Skynet sort of way. But there are also lots of people trying to figure out how to use AI not as a replacement for human creativity and thinking but as a tool meant to augment those things.
Sari Azout is one of those people. She’s the founder of Sublime, a platform dedicated to curation, creativity, and ideas. Sublime is all about taste, which makes it slightly surprising that there’s a huge amount of AI powering the way it works. But to Azout, it all makes sense.
Between keeping up with TikTok trends and whatever new gadget just dropped, it’s tough to know exactly what teens are into these days. Luckily, we can help. We may be older than teenagers, but many of us here at The Verge are kids at heart. Plus, we’ve also got a few staffers with older kids. To make your life a little easier this holiday season, we rounded up what we think are the best gifts for teens, based on our tech expertise as well as what our staff’s teens are into right now.
Below, you’ll find gift ideas for many types of teens. Some are more obvious choices, like the latest iPhone and Nintendo Switch 2, but we sought to include a …
The discount brings the price down to $299 ($100 off). | Image: The Verge
We thought Black Friday and Cyber Monday would bring the lowest prices of the year, but apparently not. Right now, you can snag Apple’s Watch Series 11 in the 42mm configuration with GPS for a new all-time low of $299 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy. That beats the $70 discount we saw at the beginning of the month, which means if you didn’t take advantage then, you can save even more now. The 46mm model with GPS is also down to its lowest price yet of $329 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy.
The Series 11 offers some nice improvements to the already-excellent Apple Watch Series 10. While this year’s model has the same dimensions as its predecessor, battery life has increased up to 24 hours per charge on the GPS / Wi-Fi model. At the same time, Apple managed to improve the Series 11’s durability and scratch-resistance, making it a better option for more intense workouts. Additionally, Apple added a more power-efficient 5G modem to the cellular model, so the battery won’t drain as quickly when you’re not on Wi-Fi.
Otherwise, the Series 11 carries over everything we loved about the Series 10. The wide-angle OLED display looks fantastic and is easy to read at a glance, while performance is excellent thanks to Apple’s S10 SiP chip. You also get a variety of health and wellness features, including FDA-cleared hypertension notifications, sleep apnea detection, and sleep score, which can summarize how well you slept. Meanwhile, you get access to the watchOS 26 update, which introduces a workout buddy and offers wrist-flick and double-tap gestures, along with the Liquid Glass redesign.
If you already own a Series 10, there aren’t many reasons to upgrade outside of the slightly improved battery life. However, if you have something older or you’re checking off a gift list, the Series 11 at $100 off is a great deal right before the holidays.
Slack users can now access Anthropic’s Claude Code directly in Slack by tagging Claude on coding-related messages and threads. The new feature is launching today in beta as a research preview.
When Claude is tagged, it will now automatically scan the message to see if it’s a coding task and, if so, route it to Claude Code using the context from the related Slack thread and the code repositories you’ve authenticated in Claude Code. Slack users can also directly tell Claude that a request is a coding task. For instance, you could ask Claude to investigate a bug report you’re discussing in Slack without needing to manually copy all the conte …
Lenovo has already demonstrated its ability to put rollable OLEDs into laptops by graduating last year from demo concept models to shipping the ThinkBook Plus Gen 6, an actual device you can buy. It has a built-in mechanism that expands the screen vertically to give you more screen real estate for typing and scrolling. However, the company might soon debut its first laptop that uses a rollable OLED to effectively transform its screen into an ultrawide 21:9 aspect ratio screen, with left and right edges that extend far outside the bottom chassis.
The Lenovo Legion Pro Rollable will be its first gaming laptop to feature a rollable horizontal …
At their biggest and most expensive, video games all sort of look the same. The reason often comes down to simple economics: More resources means more costs that need to be recouped, and historically the way publishers have done that is by being comically risk-averse. Hence the glut of semi-realistic rocky wastelands that look like death metal album covers where everyone is some kind of Wild West fetishist, or the hero shooters that all look like Pixar but shredded as hell and ready for fan artists to go places I shall not.
On occasion, however, new visual ground is staked. Octopath Traveler 0 is an example of this. The third game in the O …
Joshua Aaron, the developer of the ICEBlock app, is suing Attorney General Pam Bondi, US Homeland Security Secretary Kirsti Noem, acting director of ICE Todd Lyons, White House « Border Czar » Tom Homan, and other federal officials over the Trump administration’s « unlawful threats » made against Aaron and its actions to pressure Apple to pull the app from the App Store, which it did.
« We promised you we would fight back. Well, today’s the day we make good on the promise, » according to a post from ICEBlock’s official account on Bluesky. Aaron, Apple, and the Department of Homeland Security, didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment fr …
There’s an argument to be made that « the real monster is trauma » has become an overused trope in modern horror. Hereditary, The Babadook, and, much less effectively, Smile, are just a few higher-profile examples. But, if you ask me, few films have deployed this trope quite as effectively as the 2020 film His House.
The film follows Bol and Rial, refugees from South Sudan, played by Sope Dirisu and Wunmi Mosaku. Both deliver the kind of incredible performances that you rarely see in a genre film like this. It’s part of what elevates His House above the standard « haunted by trauma » fare. Mosaku, in particular, shows the sort of nuance and scr …
In November, Ted Sarandos, Netflix’s co-CEO made a trip to the White House for a lengthy meeting with Donald Trump. According to Bloomberg, the two discussed a number of topics, but chief among them was Netflix’s plan to bid on Warner Bros. At the end of their conversation, Sardonos felt that “Netflix wouldn’t face immediate opposition from the White House.”
This week, Netflix successfully won the bidding war for Warner, offering $82.7 billion. It’s well known that Paramount and its CEO David Ellison were eager to acquire the storied studio and its streaming assets. Ellison and his father, Larry Ellison, have close ties to the White House, and as part of their pitch to Warner, suggested that only they were in a position to overcome the regulatory hurdles of further media consolidation.
Sarandos seems to have rightly believed that the Ellisons overestimated their political clout. And despite some public efforts to turn the White House against the deal, Netflix won out, for now. There is of course, still a chance that Paramount could launch a hostile takeover effort, or that the Justice Department could try and scuttle the deal — nothing is guaranteed yet.
Sarandos tried to acquire Paramount before David Ellison swooped in, so snatching Warner Bros. out from under his nose is likely something of a personal victory.
Friday, the EU slapped X with a €120 million fine (about $140 million) for violating the Digital Services Act (DSA). It was the first time that a company had been hit with a penalty for running afoul of the law. Elon Musk responded with his trademark tact and professionalism by posting “Bullshit” on X in response to the announcement from the European Commission. But that wasn’t the end, because just a day later Nikita Bier, X’s head of product, accused the Commission of abusing an exploit to boost the reach of the announcement and responded by shutting down its ad account.
According to Bier, the Commission had not used its ad account since 2021, but used a post format explicitly reserved for ads in its announcement of the fine against X. He claims that the Commission posted “a link that deceives users into thinking it’s a video and to artificially increase its reach.” (For the record, the post itself includes a video.)
The seemingly retaliatory revocation of the European Commission’s ad account is unlikely to materially change things for either X or the EU. If, as Bier claims, the Commission has not used its ad account since 2021, holding it hostage is unlikely to give X any leverage. And, while it can appeal the decision, X is currently still on the hook for the sizable fine. Plus, it must provide details for how it plans to address the “deceptive” use of verified checkmarks in the next 60 days, or face additional penalties.
We’ve reached out to the Commission for comment and will update if we hear back.
Il semble que nous ne pouvons pas trouver le contenu demandé. Peut-être qu’une recherche peut vous aider.
It’s easy to think about AI as a sort of existential battle between human and machine. Maybe it will be, someday, in a Skynet sort of way. But there are also lots of people trying to figure out how to use AI not as a replacement for human creativity and thinking but as a tool meant to augment those things.
Sari Azout is one of those people. She’s the founder of Sublime, a platform dedicated to curation, creativity, and ideas. Sublime is all about taste, which makes it slightly surprising that there’s a huge amount of AI powering the way it works. But to Azout, it all makes sense.
Between keeping up with TikTok trends and whatever new gadget just dropped, it’s tough to know exactly what teens are into these days. Luckily, we can help. We may be older than teenagers, but many of us here at The Verge are kids at heart. Plus, we’ve also got a few staffers with older kids. To make your life a little easier this holiday season, we rounded up what we think are the best gifts for teens, based on our tech expertise as well as what our staff’s teens are into right now.
Below, you’ll find gift ideas for many types of teens. Some are more obvious choices, like the latest iPhone and Nintendo Switch 2, but we sought to include a …
The discount brings the price down to $299 ($100 off). | Image: The Verge
We thought Black Friday and Cyber Monday would bring the lowest prices of the year, but apparently not. Right now, you can snag Apple’s Watch Series 11 in the 42mm configuration with GPS for a new all-time low of $299 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy. That beats the $70 discount we saw at the beginning of the month, which means if you didn’t take advantage then, you can save even more now. The 46mm model with GPS is also down to its lowest price yet of $329 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy.
The Series 11 offers some nice improvements to the already-excellent Apple Watch Series 10. While this year’s model has the same dimensions as its predecessor, battery life has increased up to 24 hours per charge on the GPS / Wi-Fi model. At the same time, Apple managed to improve the Series 11’s durability and scratch-resistance, making it a better option for more intense workouts. Additionally, Apple added a more power-efficient 5G modem to the cellular model, so the battery won’t drain as quickly when you’re not on Wi-Fi.
Otherwise, the Series 11 carries over everything we loved about the Series 10. The wide-angle OLED display looks fantastic and is easy to read at a glance, while performance is excellent thanks to Apple’s S10 SiP chip. You also get a variety of health and wellness features, including FDA-cleared hypertension notifications, sleep apnea detection, and sleep score, which can summarize how well you slept. Meanwhile, you get access to the watchOS 26 update, which introduces a workout buddy and offers wrist-flick and double-tap gestures, along with the Liquid Glass redesign.
If you already own a Series 10, there aren’t many reasons to upgrade outside of the slightly improved battery life. However, if you have something older or you’re checking off a gift list, the Series 11 at $100 off is a great deal right before the holidays.
Slack users can now access Anthropic’s Claude Code directly in Slack by tagging Claude on coding-related messages and threads. The new feature is launching today in beta as a research preview.
When Claude is tagged, it will now automatically scan the message to see if it’s a coding task and, if so, route it to Claude Code using the context from the related Slack thread and the code repositories you’ve authenticated in Claude Code. Slack users can also directly tell Claude that a request is a coding task. For instance, you could ask Claude to investigate a bug report you’re discussing in Slack without needing to manually copy all the conte …
Lenovo has already demonstrated its ability to put rollable OLEDs into laptops by graduating last year from demo concept models to shipping the ThinkBook Plus Gen 6, an actual device you can buy. It has a built-in mechanism that expands the screen vertically to give you more screen real estate for typing and scrolling. However, the company might soon debut its first laptop that uses a rollable OLED to effectively transform its screen into an ultrawide 21:9 aspect ratio screen, with left and right edges that extend far outside the bottom chassis.
The Lenovo Legion Pro Rollable will be its first gaming laptop to feature a rollable horizontal …
At their biggest and most expensive, video games all sort of look the same. The reason often comes down to simple economics: More resources means more costs that need to be recouped, and historically the way publishers have done that is by being comically risk-averse. Hence the glut of semi-realistic rocky wastelands that look like death metal album covers where everyone is some kind of Wild West fetishist, or the hero shooters that all look like Pixar but shredded as hell and ready for fan artists to go places I shall not.
On occasion, however, new visual ground is staked. Octopath Traveler 0 is an example of this. The third game in the O …
Joshua Aaron, the developer of the ICEBlock app, is suing Attorney General Pam Bondi, US Homeland Security Secretary Kirsti Noem, acting director of ICE Todd Lyons, White House « Border Czar » Tom Homan, and other federal officials over the Trump administration’s « unlawful threats » made against Aaron and its actions to pressure Apple to pull the app from the App Store, which it did.
« We promised you we would fight back. Well, today’s the day we make good on the promise, » according to a post from ICEBlock’s official account on Bluesky. Aaron, Apple, and the Department of Homeland Security, didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment fr …
There’s an argument to be made that « the real monster is trauma » has become an overused trope in modern horror. Hereditary, The Babadook, and, much less effectively, Smile, are just a few higher-profile examples. But, if you ask me, few films have deployed this trope quite as effectively as the 2020 film His House.
The film follows Bol and Rial, refugees from South Sudan, played by Sope Dirisu and Wunmi Mosaku. Both deliver the kind of incredible performances that you rarely see in a genre film like this. It’s part of what elevates His House above the standard « haunted by trauma » fare. Mosaku, in particular, shows the sort of nuance and scr …
In November, Ted Sarandos, Netflix’s co-CEO made a trip to the White House for a lengthy meeting with Donald Trump. According to Bloomberg, the two discussed a number of topics, but chief among them was Netflix’s plan to bid on Warner Bros. At the end of their conversation, Sardonos felt that “Netflix wouldn’t face immediate opposition from the White House.”
This week, Netflix successfully won the bidding war for Warner, offering $82.7 billion. It’s well known that Paramount and its CEO David Ellison were eager to acquire the storied studio and its streaming assets. Ellison and his father, Larry Ellison, have close ties to the White House, and as part of their pitch to Warner, suggested that only they were in a position to overcome the regulatory hurdles of further media consolidation.
Sarandos seems to have rightly believed that the Ellisons overestimated their political clout. And despite some public efforts to turn the White House against the deal, Netflix won out, for now. There is of course, still a chance that Paramount could launch a hostile takeover effort, or that the Justice Department could try and scuttle the deal — nothing is guaranteed yet.
Sarandos tried to acquire Paramount before David Ellison swooped in, so snatching Warner Bros. out from under his nose is likely something of a personal victory.
Friday, the EU slapped X with a €120 million fine (about $140 million) for violating the Digital Services Act (DSA). It was the first time that a company had been hit with a penalty for running afoul of the law. Elon Musk responded with his trademark tact and professionalism by posting “Bullshit” on X in response to the announcement from the European Commission. But that wasn’t the end, because just a day later Nikita Bier, X’s head of product, accused the Commission of abusing an exploit to boost the reach of the announcement and responded by shutting down its ad account.
According to Bier, the Commission had not used its ad account since 2021, but used a post format explicitly reserved for ads in its announcement of the fine against X. He claims that the Commission posted “a link that deceives users into thinking it’s a video and to artificially increase its reach.” (For the record, the post itself includes a video.)
The seemingly retaliatory revocation of the European Commission’s ad account is unlikely to materially change things for either X or the EU. If, as Bier claims, the Commission has not used its ad account since 2021, holding it hostage is unlikely to give X any leverage. And, while it can appeal the decision, X is currently still on the hook for the sizable fine. Plus, it must provide details for how it plans to address the “deceptive” use of verified checkmarks in the next 60 days, or face additional penalties.
We’ve reached out to the Commission for comment and will update if we hear back.
Il semble que nous ne pouvons pas trouver le contenu demandé. Peut-être qu’une recherche peut vous aider.
It’s easy to think about AI as a sort of existential battle between human and machine. Maybe it will be, someday, in a Skynet sort of way. But there are also lots of people trying to figure out how to use AI not as a replacement for human creativity and thinking but as a tool meant to augment those things.
Sari Azout is one of those people. She’s the founder of Sublime, a platform dedicated to curation, creativity, and ideas. Sublime is all about taste, which makes it slightly surprising that there’s a huge amount of AI powering the way it works. But to Azout, it all makes sense.
Between keeping up with TikTok trends and whatever new gadget just dropped, it’s tough to know exactly what teens are into these days. Luckily, we can help. We may be older than teenagers, but many of us here at The Verge are kids at heart. Plus, we’ve also got a few staffers with older kids. To make your life a little easier this holiday season, we rounded up what we think are the best gifts for teens, based on our tech expertise as well as what our staff’s teens are into right now.
Below, you’ll find gift ideas for many types of teens. Some are more obvious choices, like the latest iPhone and Nintendo Switch 2, but we sought to include a …
The discount brings the price down to $299 ($100 off). | Image: The Verge
We thought Black Friday and Cyber Monday would bring the lowest prices of the year, but apparently not. Right now, you can snag Apple’s Watch Series 11 in the 42mm configuration with GPS for a new all-time low of $299 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy. That beats the $70 discount we saw at the beginning of the month, which means if you didn’t take advantage then, you can save even more now. The 46mm model with GPS is also down to its lowest price yet of $329 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy.
The Series 11 offers some nice improvements to the already-excellent Apple Watch Series 10. While this year’s model has the same dimensions as its predecessor, battery life has increased up to 24 hours per charge on the GPS / Wi-Fi model. At the same time, Apple managed to improve the Series 11’s durability and scratch-resistance, making it a better option for more intense workouts. Additionally, Apple added a more power-efficient 5G modem to the cellular model, so the battery won’t drain as quickly when you’re not on Wi-Fi.
Otherwise, the Series 11 carries over everything we loved about the Series 10. The wide-angle OLED display looks fantastic and is easy to read at a glance, while performance is excellent thanks to Apple’s S10 SiP chip. You also get a variety of health and wellness features, including FDA-cleared hypertension notifications, sleep apnea detection, and sleep score, which can summarize how well you slept. Meanwhile, you get access to the watchOS 26 update, which introduces a workout buddy and offers wrist-flick and double-tap gestures, along with the Liquid Glass redesign.
If you already own a Series 10, there aren’t many reasons to upgrade outside of the slightly improved battery life. However, if you have something older or you’re checking off a gift list, the Series 11 at $100 off is a great deal right before the holidays.
Slack users can now access Anthropic’s Claude Code directly in Slack by tagging Claude on coding-related messages and threads. The new feature is launching today in beta as a research preview.
When Claude is tagged, it will now automatically scan the message to see if it’s a coding task and, if so, route it to Claude Code using the context from the related Slack thread and the code repositories you’ve authenticated in Claude Code. Slack users can also directly tell Claude that a request is a coding task. For instance, you could ask Claude to investigate a bug report you’re discussing in Slack without needing to manually copy all the conte …
Lenovo has already demonstrated its ability to put rollable OLEDs into laptops by graduating last year from demo concept models to shipping the ThinkBook Plus Gen 6, an actual device you can buy. It has a built-in mechanism that expands the screen vertically to give you more screen real estate for typing and scrolling. However, the company might soon debut its first laptop that uses a rollable OLED to effectively transform its screen into an ultrawide 21:9 aspect ratio screen, with left and right edges that extend far outside the bottom chassis.
The Lenovo Legion Pro Rollable will be its first gaming laptop to feature a rollable horizontal …
At their biggest and most expensive, video games all sort of look the same. The reason often comes down to simple economics: More resources means more costs that need to be recouped, and historically the way publishers have done that is by being comically risk-averse. Hence the glut of semi-realistic rocky wastelands that look like death metal album covers where everyone is some kind of Wild West fetishist, or the hero shooters that all look like Pixar but shredded as hell and ready for fan artists to go places I shall not.
On occasion, however, new visual ground is staked. Octopath Traveler 0 is an example of this. The third game in the O …
Joshua Aaron, the developer of the ICEBlock app, is suing Attorney General Pam Bondi, US Homeland Security Secretary Kirsti Noem, acting director of ICE Todd Lyons, White House « Border Czar » Tom Homan, and other federal officials over the Trump administration’s « unlawful threats » made against Aaron and its actions to pressure Apple to pull the app from the App Store, which it did.
« We promised you we would fight back. Well, today’s the day we make good on the promise, » according to a post from ICEBlock’s official account on Bluesky. Aaron, Apple, and the Department of Homeland Security, didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment fr …
There’s an argument to be made that « the real monster is trauma » has become an overused trope in modern horror. Hereditary, The Babadook, and, much less effectively, Smile, are just a few higher-profile examples. But, if you ask me, few films have deployed this trope quite as effectively as the 2020 film His House.
The film follows Bol and Rial, refugees from South Sudan, played by Sope Dirisu and Wunmi Mosaku. Both deliver the kind of incredible performances that you rarely see in a genre film like this. It’s part of what elevates His House above the standard « haunted by trauma » fare. Mosaku, in particular, shows the sort of nuance and scr …
In November, Ted Sarandos, Netflix’s co-CEO made a trip to the White House for a lengthy meeting with Donald Trump. According to Bloomberg, the two discussed a number of topics, but chief among them was Netflix’s plan to bid on Warner Bros. At the end of their conversation, Sardonos felt that “Netflix wouldn’t face immediate opposition from the White House.”
This week, Netflix successfully won the bidding war for Warner, offering $82.7 billion. It’s well known that Paramount and its CEO David Ellison were eager to acquire the storied studio and its streaming assets. Ellison and his father, Larry Ellison, have close ties to the White House, and as part of their pitch to Warner, suggested that only they were in a position to overcome the regulatory hurdles of further media consolidation.
Sarandos seems to have rightly believed that the Ellisons overestimated their political clout. And despite some public efforts to turn the White House against the deal, Netflix won out, for now. There is of course, still a chance that Paramount could launch a hostile takeover effort, or that the Justice Department could try and scuttle the deal — nothing is guaranteed yet.
Sarandos tried to acquire Paramount before David Ellison swooped in, so snatching Warner Bros. out from under his nose is likely something of a personal victory.
Friday, the EU slapped X with a €120 million fine (about $140 million) for violating the Digital Services Act (DSA). It was the first time that a company had been hit with a penalty for running afoul of the law. Elon Musk responded with his trademark tact and professionalism by posting “Bullshit” on X in response to the announcement from the European Commission. But that wasn’t the end, because just a day later Nikita Bier, X’s head of product, accused the Commission of abusing an exploit to boost the reach of the announcement and responded by shutting down its ad account.
According to Bier, the Commission had not used its ad account since 2021, but used a post format explicitly reserved for ads in its announcement of the fine against X. He claims that the Commission posted “a link that deceives users into thinking it’s a video and to artificially increase its reach.” (For the record, the post itself includes a video.)
The seemingly retaliatory revocation of the European Commission’s ad account is unlikely to materially change things for either X or the EU. If, as Bier claims, the Commission has not used its ad account since 2021, holding it hostage is unlikely to give X any leverage. And, while it can appeal the decision, X is currently still on the hook for the sizable fine. Plus, it must provide details for how it plans to address the “deceptive” use of verified checkmarks in the next 60 days, or face additional penalties.
We’ve reached out to the Commission for comment and will update if we hear back.
Il semble que nous ne pouvons pas trouver le contenu demandé. Peut-être qu’une recherche peut vous aider.
It’s easy to think about AI as a sort of existential battle between human and machine. Maybe it will be, someday, in a Skynet sort of way. But there are also lots of people trying to figure out how to use AI not as a replacement for human creativity and thinking but as a tool meant to augment those things.
Sari Azout is one of those people. She’s the founder of Sublime, a platform dedicated to curation, creativity, and ideas. Sublime is all about taste, which makes it slightly surprising that there’s a huge amount of AI powering the way it works. But to Azout, it all makes sense.
Between keeping up with TikTok trends and whatever new gadget just dropped, it’s tough to know exactly what teens are into these days. Luckily, we can help. We may be older than teenagers, but many of us here at The Verge are kids at heart. Plus, we’ve also got a few staffers with older kids. To make your life a little easier this holiday season, we rounded up what we think are the best gifts for teens, based on our tech expertise as well as what our staff’s teens are into right now.
Below, you’ll find gift ideas for many types of teens. Some are more obvious choices, like the latest iPhone and Nintendo Switch 2, but we sought to include a …
The discount brings the price down to $299 ($100 off). | Image: The Verge
We thought Black Friday and Cyber Monday would bring the lowest prices of the year, but apparently not. Right now, you can snag Apple’s Watch Series 11 in the 42mm configuration with GPS for a new all-time low of $299 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy. That beats the $70 discount we saw at the beginning of the month, which means if you didn’t take advantage then, you can save even more now. The 46mm model with GPS is also down to its lowest price yet of $329 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy.
The Series 11 offers some nice improvements to the already-excellent Apple Watch Series 10. While this year’s model has the same dimensions as its predecessor, battery life has increased up to 24 hours per charge on the GPS / Wi-Fi model. At the same time, Apple managed to improve the Series 11’s durability and scratch-resistance, making it a better option for more intense workouts. Additionally, Apple added a more power-efficient 5G modem to the cellular model, so the battery won’t drain as quickly when you’re not on Wi-Fi.
Otherwise, the Series 11 carries over everything we loved about the Series 10. The wide-angle OLED display looks fantastic and is easy to read at a glance, while performance is excellent thanks to Apple’s S10 SiP chip. You also get a variety of health and wellness features, including FDA-cleared hypertension notifications, sleep apnea detection, and sleep score, which can summarize how well you slept. Meanwhile, you get access to the watchOS 26 update, which introduces a workout buddy and offers wrist-flick and double-tap gestures, along with the Liquid Glass redesign.
If you already own a Series 10, there aren’t many reasons to upgrade outside of the slightly improved battery life. However, if you have something older or you’re checking off a gift list, the Series 11 at $100 off is a great deal right before the holidays.
Slack users can now access Anthropic’s Claude Code directly in Slack by tagging Claude on coding-related messages and threads. The new feature is launching today in beta as a research preview.
When Claude is tagged, it will now automatically scan the message to see if it’s a coding task and, if so, route it to Claude Code using the context from the related Slack thread and the code repositories you’ve authenticated in Claude Code. Slack users can also directly tell Claude that a request is a coding task. For instance, you could ask Claude to investigate a bug report you’re discussing in Slack without needing to manually copy all the conte …
Lenovo has already demonstrated its ability to put rollable OLEDs into laptops by graduating last year from demo concept models to shipping the ThinkBook Plus Gen 6, an actual device you can buy. It has a built-in mechanism that expands the screen vertically to give you more screen real estate for typing and scrolling. However, the company might soon debut its first laptop that uses a rollable OLED to effectively transform its screen into an ultrawide 21:9 aspect ratio screen, with left and right edges that extend far outside the bottom chassis.
The Lenovo Legion Pro Rollable will be its first gaming laptop to feature a rollable horizontal …
At their biggest and most expensive, video games all sort of look the same. The reason often comes down to simple economics: More resources means more costs that need to be recouped, and historically the way publishers have done that is by being comically risk-averse. Hence the glut of semi-realistic rocky wastelands that look like death metal album covers where everyone is some kind of Wild West fetishist, or the hero shooters that all look like Pixar but shredded as hell and ready for fan artists to go places I shall not.
On occasion, however, new visual ground is staked. Octopath Traveler 0 is an example of this. The third game in the O …
Joshua Aaron, the developer of the ICEBlock app, is suing Attorney General Pam Bondi, US Homeland Security Secretary Kirsti Noem, acting director of ICE Todd Lyons, White House « Border Czar » Tom Homan, and other federal officials over the Trump administration’s « unlawful threats » made against Aaron and its actions to pressure Apple to pull the app from the App Store, which it did.
« We promised you we would fight back. Well, today’s the day we make good on the promise, » according to a post from ICEBlock’s official account on Bluesky. Aaron, Apple, and the Department of Homeland Security, didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment fr …
There’s an argument to be made that « the real monster is trauma » has become an overused trope in modern horror. Hereditary, The Babadook, and, much less effectively, Smile, are just a few higher-profile examples. But, if you ask me, few films have deployed this trope quite as effectively as the 2020 film His House.
The film follows Bol and Rial, refugees from South Sudan, played by Sope Dirisu and Wunmi Mosaku. Both deliver the kind of incredible performances that you rarely see in a genre film like this. It’s part of what elevates His House above the standard « haunted by trauma » fare. Mosaku, in particular, shows the sort of nuance and scr …
In November, Ted Sarandos, Netflix’s co-CEO made a trip to the White House for a lengthy meeting with Donald Trump. According to Bloomberg, the two discussed a number of topics, but chief among them was Netflix’s plan to bid on Warner Bros. At the end of their conversation, Sardonos felt that “Netflix wouldn’t face immediate opposition from the White House.”
This week, Netflix successfully won the bidding war for Warner, offering $82.7 billion. It’s well known that Paramount and its CEO David Ellison were eager to acquire the storied studio and its streaming assets. Ellison and his father, Larry Ellison, have close ties to the White House, and as part of their pitch to Warner, suggested that only they were in a position to overcome the regulatory hurdles of further media consolidation.
Sarandos seems to have rightly believed that the Ellisons overestimated their political clout. And despite some public efforts to turn the White House against the deal, Netflix won out, for now. There is of course, still a chance that Paramount could launch a hostile takeover effort, or that the Justice Department could try and scuttle the deal — nothing is guaranteed yet.
Sarandos tried to acquire Paramount before David Ellison swooped in, so snatching Warner Bros. out from under his nose is likely something of a personal victory.
Friday, the EU slapped X with a €120 million fine (about $140 million) for violating the Digital Services Act (DSA). It was the first time that a company had been hit with a penalty for running afoul of the law. Elon Musk responded with his trademark tact and professionalism by posting “Bullshit” on X in response to the announcement from the European Commission. But that wasn’t the end, because just a day later Nikita Bier, X’s head of product, accused the Commission of abusing an exploit to boost the reach of the announcement and responded by shutting down its ad account.
According to Bier, the Commission had not used its ad account since 2021, but used a post format explicitly reserved for ads in its announcement of the fine against X. He claims that the Commission posted “a link that deceives users into thinking it’s a video and to artificially increase its reach.” (For the record, the post itself includes a video.)
The seemingly retaliatory revocation of the European Commission’s ad account is unlikely to materially change things for either X or the EU. If, as Bier claims, the Commission has not used its ad account since 2021, holding it hostage is unlikely to give X any leverage. And, while it can appeal the decision, X is currently still on the hook for the sizable fine. Plus, it must provide details for how it plans to address the “deceptive” use of verified checkmarks in the next 60 days, or face additional penalties.
We’ve reached out to the Commission for comment and will update if we hear back.
Il semble que nous ne pouvons pas trouver le contenu demandé. Peut-être qu’une recherche peut vous aider.
It’s easy to think about AI as a sort of existential battle between human and machine. Maybe it will be, someday, in a Skynet sort of way. But there are also lots of people trying to figure out how to use AI not as a replacement for human creativity and thinking but as a tool meant to augment those things.
Sari Azout is one of those people. She’s the founder of Sublime, a platform dedicated to curation, creativity, and ideas. Sublime is all about taste, which makes it slightly surprising that there’s a huge amount of AI powering the way it works. But to Azout, it all makes sense.
Between keeping up with TikTok trends and whatever new gadget just dropped, it’s tough to know exactly what teens are into these days. Luckily, we can help. We may be older than teenagers, but many of us here at The Verge are kids at heart. Plus, we’ve also got a few staffers with older kids. To make your life a little easier this holiday season, we rounded up what we think are the best gifts for teens, based on our tech expertise as well as what our staff’s teens are into right now.
Below, you’ll find gift ideas for many types of teens. Some are more obvious choices, like the latest iPhone and Nintendo Switch 2, but we sought to include a …
The discount brings the price down to $299 ($100 off). | Image: The Verge
We thought Black Friday and Cyber Monday would bring the lowest prices of the year, but apparently not. Right now, you can snag Apple’s Watch Series 11 in the 42mm configuration with GPS for a new all-time low of $299 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy. That beats the $70 discount we saw at the beginning of the month, which means if you didn’t take advantage then, you can save even more now. The 46mm model with GPS is also down to its lowest price yet of $329 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy.
The Series 11 offers some nice improvements to the already-excellent Apple Watch Series 10. While this year’s model has the same dimensions as its predecessor, battery life has increased up to 24 hours per charge on the GPS / Wi-Fi model. At the same time, Apple managed to improve the Series 11’s durability and scratch-resistance, making it a better option for more intense workouts. Additionally, Apple added a more power-efficient 5G modem to the cellular model, so the battery won’t drain as quickly when you’re not on Wi-Fi.
Otherwise, the Series 11 carries over everything we loved about the Series 10. The wide-angle OLED display looks fantastic and is easy to read at a glance, while performance is excellent thanks to Apple’s S10 SiP chip. You also get a variety of health and wellness features, including FDA-cleared hypertension notifications, sleep apnea detection, and sleep score, which can summarize how well you slept. Meanwhile, you get access to the watchOS 26 update, which introduces a workout buddy and offers wrist-flick and double-tap gestures, along with the Liquid Glass redesign.
If you already own a Series 10, there aren’t many reasons to upgrade outside of the slightly improved battery life. However, if you have something older or you’re checking off a gift list, the Series 11 at $100 off is a great deal right before the holidays.
Slack users can now access Anthropic’s Claude Code directly in Slack by tagging Claude on coding-related messages and threads. The new feature is launching today in beta as a research preview.
When Claude is tagged, it will now automatically scan the message to see if it’s a coding task and, if so, route it to Claude Code using the context from the related Slack thread and the code repositories you’ve authenticated in Claude Code. Slack users can also directly tell Claude that a request is a coding task. For instance, you could ask Claude to investigate a bug report you’re discussing in Slack without needing to manually copy all the conte …
Lenovo has already demonstrated its ability to put rollable OLEDs into laptops by graduating last year from demo concept models to shipping the ThinkBook Plus Gen 6, an actual device you can buy. It has a built-in mechanism that expands the screen vertically to give you more screen real estate for typing and scrolling. However, the company might soon debut its first laptop that uses a rollable OLED to effectively transform its screen into an ultrawide 21:9 aspect ratio screen, with left and right edges that extend far outside the bottom chassis.
The Lenovo Legion Pro Rollable will be its first gaming laptop to feature a rollable horizontal …
At their biggest and most expensive, video games all sort of look the same. The reason often comes down to simple economics: More resources means more costs that need to be recouped, and historically the way publishers have done that is by being comically risk-averse. Hence the glut of semi-realistic rocky wastelands that look like death metal album covers where everyone is some kind of Wild West fetishist, or the hero shooters that all look like Pixar but shredded as hell and ready for fan artists to go places I shall not.
On occasion, however, new visual ground is staked. Octopath Traveler 0 is an example of this. The third game in the O …
Joshua Aaron, the developer of the ICEBlock app, is suing Attorney General Pam Bondi, US Homeland Security Secretary Kirsti Noem, acting director of ICE Todd Lyons, White House « Border Czar » Tom Homan, and other federal officials over the Trump administration’s « unlawful threats » made against Aaron and its actions to pressure Apple to pull the app from the App Store, which it did.
« We promised you we would fight back. Well, today’s the day we make good on the promise, » according to a post from ICEBlock’s official account on Bluesky. Aaron, Apple, and the Department of Homeland Security, didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment fr …
There’s an argument to be made that « the real monster is trauma » has become an overused trope in modern horror. Hereditary, The Babadook, and, much less effectively, Smile, are just a few higher-profile examples. But, if you ask me, few films have deployed this trope quite as effectively as the 2020 film His House.
The film follows Bol and Rial, refugees from South Sudan, played by Sope Dirisu and Wunmi Mosaku. Both deliver the kind of incredible performances that you rarely see in a genre film like this. It’s part of what elevates His House above the standard « haunted by trauma » fare. Mosaku, in particular, shows the sort of nuance and scr …
In November, Ted Sarandos, Netflix’s co-CEO made a trip to the White House for a lengthy meeting with Donald Trump. According to Bloomberg, the two discussed a number of topics, but chief among them was Netflix’s plan to bid on Warner Bros. At the end of their conversation, Sardonos felt that “Netflix wouldn’t face immediate opposition from the White House.”
This week, Netflix successfully won the bidding war for Warner, offering $82.7 billion. It’s well known that Paramount and its CEO David Ellison were eager to acquire the storied studio and its streaming assets. Ellison and his father, Larry Ellison, have close ties to the White House, and as part of their pitch to Warner, suggested that only they were in a position to overcome the regulatory hurdles of further media consolidation.
Sarandos seems to have rightly believed that the Ellisons overestimated their political clout. And despite some public efforts to turn the White House against the deal, Netflix won out, for now. There is of course, still a chance that Paramount could launch a hostile takeover effort, or that the Justice Department could try and scuttle the deal — nothing is guaranteed yet.
Sarandos tried to acquire Paramount before David Ellison swooped in, so snatching Warner Bros. out from under his nose is likely something of a personal victory.
Friday, the EU slapped X with a €120 million fine (about $140 million) for violating the Digital Services Act (DSA). It was the first time that a company had been hit with a penalty for running afoul of the law. Elon Musk responded with his trademark tact and professionalism by posting “Bullshit” on X in response to the announcement from the European Commission. But that wasn’t the end, because just a day later Nikita Bier, X’s head of product, accused the Commission of abusing an exploit to boost the reach of the announcement and responded by shutting down its ad account.
According to Bier, the Commission had not used its ad account since 2021, but used a post format explicitly reserved for ads in its announcement of the fine against X. He claims that the Commission posted “a link that deceives users into thinking it’s a video and to artificially increase its reach.” (For the record, the post itself includes a video.)
The seemingly retaliatory revocation of the European Commission’s ad account is unlikely to materially change things for either X or the EU. If, as Bier claims, the Commission has not used its ad account since 2021, holding it hostage is unlikely to give X any leverage. And, while it can appeal the decision, X is currently still on the hook for the sizable fine. Plus, it must provide details for how it plans to address the “deceptive” use of verified checkmarks in the next 60 days, or face additional penalties.
We’ve reached out to the Commission for comment and will update if we hear back.
Il semble que nous ne pouvons pas trouver le contenu demandé. Peut-être qu’une recherche peut vous aider.
It’s easy to think about AI as a sort of existential battle between human and machine. Maybe it will be, someday, in a Skynet sort of way. But there are also lots of people trying to figure out how to use AI not as a replacement for human creativity and thinking but as a tool meant to augment those things.
Sari Azout is one of those people. She’s the founder of Sublime, a platform dedicated to curation, creativity, and ideas. Sublime is all about taste, which makes it slightly surprising that there’s a huge amount of AI powering the way it works. But to Azout, it all makes sense.
Between keeping up with TikTok trends and whatever new gadget just dropped, it’s tough to know exactly what teens are into these days. Luckily, we can help. We may be older than teenagers, but many of us here at The Verge are kids at heart. Plus, we’ve also got a few staffers with older kids. To make your life a little easier this holiday season, we rounded up what we think are the best gifts for teens, based on our tech expertise as well as what our staff’s teens are into right now.
Below, you’ll find gift ideas for many types of teens. Some are more obvious choices, like the latest iPhone and Nintendo Switch 2, but we sought to include a …
The discount brings the price down to $299 ($100 off). | Image: The Verge
We thought Black Friday and Cyber Monday would bring the lowest prices of the year, but apparently not. Right now, you can snag Apple’s Watch Series 11 in the 42mm configuration with GPS for a new all-time low of $299 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy. That beats the $70 discount we saw at the beginning of the month, which means if you didn’t take advantage then, you can save even more now. The 46mm model with GPS is also down to its lowest price yet of $329 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy.
The Series 11 offers some nice improvements to the already-excellent Apple Watch Series 10. While this year’s model has the same dimensions as its predecessor, battery life has increased up to 24 hours per charge on the GPS / Wi-Fi model. At the same time, Apple managed to improve the Series 11’s durability and scratch-resistance, making it a better option for more intense workouts. Additionally, Apple added a more power-efficient 5G modem to the cellular model, so the battery won’t drain as quickly when you’re not on Wi-Fi.
Otherwise, the Series 11 carries over everything we loved about the Series 10. The wide-angle OLED display looks fantastic and is easy to read at a glance, while performance is excellent thanks to Apple’s S10 SiP chip. You also get a variety of health and wellness features, including FDA-cleared hypertension notifications, sleep apnea detection, and sleep score, which can summarize how well you slept. Meanwhile, you get access to the watchOS 26 update, which introduces a workout buddy and offers wrist-flick and double-tap gestures, along with the Liquid Glass redesign.
If you already own a Series 10, there aren’t many reasons to upgrade outside of the slightly improved battery life. However, if you have something older or you’re checking off a gift list, the Series 11 at $100 off is a great deal right before the holidays.
Slack users can now access Anthropic’s Claude Code directly in Slack by tagging Claude on coding-related messages and threads. The new feature is launching today in beta as a research preview.
When Claude is tagged, it will now automatically scan the message to see if it’s a coding task and, if so, route it to Claude Code using the context from the related Slack thread and the code repositories you’ve authenticated in Claude Code. Slack users can also directly tell Claude that a request is a coding task. For instance, you could ask Claude to investigate a bug report you’re discussing in Slack without needing to manually copy all the conte …
Lenovo has already demonstrated its ability to put rollable OLEDs into laptops by graduating last year from demo concept models to shipping the ThinkBook Plus Gen 6, an actual device you can buy. It has a built-in mechanism that expands the screen vertically to give you more screen real estate for typing and scrolling. However, the company might soon debut its first laptop that uses a rollable OLED to effectively transform its screen into an ultrawide 21:9 aspect ratio screen, with left and right edges that extend far outside the bottom chassis.
The Lenovo Legion Pro Rollable will be its first gaming laptop to feature a rollable horizontal …
At their biggest and most expensive, video games all sort of look the same. The reason often comes down to simple economics: More resources means more costs that need to be recouped, and historically the way publishers have done that is by being comically risk-averse. Hence the glut of semi-realistic rocky wastelands that look like death metal album covers where everyone is some kind of Wild West fetishist, or the hero shooters that all look like Pixar but shredded as hell and ready for fan artists to go places I shall not.
On occasion, however, new visual ground is staked. Octopath Traveler 0 is an example of this. The third game in the O …
Joshua Aaron, the developer of the ICEBlock app, is suing Attorney General Pam Bondi, US Homeland Security Secretary Kirsti Noem, acting director of ICE Todd Lyons, White House « Border Czar » Tom Homan, and other federal officials over the Trump administration’s « unlawful threats » made against Aaron and its actions to pressure Apple to pull the app from the App Store, which it did.
« We promised you we would fight back. Well, today’s the day we make good on the promise, » according to a post from ICEBlock’s official account on Bluesky. Aaron, Apple, and the Department of Homeland Security, didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment fr …
There’s an argument to be made that « the real monster is trauma » has become an overused trope in modern horror. Hereditary, The Babadook, and, much less effectively, Smile, are just a few higher-profile examples. But, if you ask me, few films have deployed this trope quite as effectively as the 2020 film His House.
The film follows Bol and Rial, refugees from South Sudan, played by Sope Dirisu and Wunmi Mosaku. Both deliver the kind of incredible performances that you rarely see in a genre film like this. It’s part of what elevates His House above the standard « haunted by trauma » fare. Mosaku, in particular, shows the sort of nuance and scr …
In November, Ted Sarandos, Netflix’s co-CEO made a trip to the White House for a lengthy meeting with Donald Trump. According to Bloomberg, the two discussed a number of topics, but chief among them was Netflix’s plan to bid on Warner Bros. At the end of their conversation, Sardonos felt that “Netflix wouldn’t face immediate opposition from the White House.”
This week, Netflix successfully won the bidding war for Warner, offering $82.7 billion. It’s well known that Paramount and its CEO David Ellison were eager to acquire the storied studio and its streaming assets. Ellison and his father, Larry Ellison, have close ties to the White House, and as part of their pitch to Warner, suggested that only they were in a position to overcome the regulatory hurdles of further media consolidation.
Sarandos seems to have rightly believed that the Ellisons overestimated their political clout. And despite some public efforts to turn the White House against the deal, Netflix won out, for now. There is of course, still a chance that Paramount could launch a hostile takeover effort, or that the Justice Department could try and scuttle the deal — nothing is guaranteed yet.
Sarandos tried to acquire Paramount before David Ellison swooped in, so snatching Warner Bros. out from under his nose is likely something of a personal victory.
Friday, the EU slapped X with a €120 million fine (about $140 million) for violating the Digital Services Act (DSA). It was the first time that a company had been hit with a penalty for running afoul of the law. Elon Musk responded with his trademark tact and professionalism by posting “Bullshit” on X in response to the announcement from the European Commission. But that wasn’t the end, because just a day later Nikita Bier, X’s head of product, accused the Commission of abusing an exploit to boost the reach of the announcement and responded by shutting down its ad account.
According to Bier, the Commission had not used its ad account since 2021, but used a post format explicitly reserved for ads in its announcement of the fine against X. He claims that the Commission posted “a link that deceives users into thinking it’s a video and to artificially increase its reach.” (For the record, the post itself includes a video.)
The seemingly retaliatory revocation of the European Commission’s ad account is unlikely to materially change things for either X or the EU. If, as Bier claims, the Commission has not used its ad account since 2021, holding it hostage is unlikely to give X any leverage. And, while it can appeal the decision, X is currently still on the hook for the sizable fine. Plus, it must provide details for how it plans to address the “deceptive” use of verified checkmarks in the next 60 days, or face additional penalties.
We’ve reached out to the Commission for comment and will update if we hear back.
Il semble que nous ne pouvons pas trouver le contenu demandé. Peut-être qu’une recherche peut vous aider.
It’s easy to think about AI as a sort of existential battle between human and machine. Maybe it will be, someday, in a Skynet sort of way. But there are also lots of people trying to figure out how to use AI not as a replacement for human creativity and thinking but as a tool meant to augment those things.
Sari Azout is one of those people. She’s the founder of Sublime, a platform dedicated to curation, creativity, and ideas. Sublime is all about taste, which makes it slightly surprising that there’s a huge amount of AI powering the way it works. But to Azout, it all makes sense.
Between keeping up with TikTok trends and whatever new gadget just dropped, it’s tough to know exactly what teens are into these days. Luckily, we can help. We may be older than teenagers, but many of us here at The Verge are kids at heart. Plus, we’ve also got a few staffers with older kids. To make your life a little easier this holiday season, we rounded up what we think are the best gifts for teens, based on our tech expertise as well as what our staff’s teens are into right now.
Below, you’ll find gift ideas for many types of teens. Some are more obvious choices, like the latest iPhone and Nintendo Switch 2, but we sought to include a …
The discount brings the price down to $299 ($100 off). | Image: The Verge
We thought Black Friday and Cyber Monday would bring the lowest prices of the year, but apparently not. Right now, you can snag Apple’s Watch Series 11 in the 42mm configuration with GPS for a new all-time low of $299 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy. That beats the $70 discount we saw at the beginning of the month, which means if you didn’t take advantage then, you can save even more now. The 46mm model with GPS is also down to its lowest price yet of $329 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy.
The Series 11 offers some nice improvements to the already-excellent Apple Watch Series 10. While this year’s model has the same dimensions as its predecessor, battery life has increased up to 24 hours per charge on the GPS / Wi-Fi model. At the same time, Apple managed to improve the Series 11’s durability and scratch-resistance, making it a better option for more intense workouts. Additionally, Apple added a more power-efficient 5G modem to the cellular model, so the battery won’t drain as quickly when you’re not on Wi-Fi.
Otherwise, the Series 11 carries over everything we loved about the Series 10. The wide-angle OLED display looks fantastic and is easy to read at a glance, while performance is excellent thanks to Apple’s S10 SiP chip. You also get a variety of health and wellness features, including FDA-cleared hypertension notifications, sleep apnea detection, and sleep score, which can summarize how well you slept. Meanwhile, you get access to the watchOS 26 update, which introduces a workout buddy and offers wrist-flick and double-tap gestures, along with the Liquid Glass redesign.
If you already own a Series 10, there aren’t many reasons to upgrade outside of the slightly improved battery life. However, if you have something older or you’re checking off a gift list, the Series 11 at $100 off is a great deal right before the holidays.
Slack users can now access Anthropic’s Claude Code directly in Slack by tagging Claude on coding-related messages and threads. The new feature is launching today in beta as a research preview.
When Claude is tagged, it will now automatically scan the message to see if it’s a coding task and, if so, route it to Claude Code using the context from the related Slack thread and the code repositories you’ve authenticated in Claude Code. Slack users can also directly tell Claude that a request is a coding task. For instance, you could ask Claude to investigate a bug report you’re discussing in Slack without needing to manually copy all the conte …
Lenovo has already demonstrated its ability to put rollable OLEDs into laptops by graduating last year from demo concept models to shipping the ThinkBook Plus Gen 6, an actual device you can buy. It has a built-in mechanism that expands the screen vertically to give you more screen real estate for typing and scrolling. However, the company might soon debut its first laptop that uses a rollable OLED to effectively transform its screen into an ultrawide 21:9 aspect ratio screen, with left and right edges that extend far outside the bottom chassis.
The Lenovo Legion Pro Rollable will be its first gaming laptop to feature a rollable horizontal …
At their biggest and most expensive, video games all sort of look the same. The reason often comes down to simple economics: More resources means more costs that need to be recouped, and historically the way publishers have done that is by being comically risk-averse. Hence the glut of semi-realistic rocky wastelands that look like death metal album covers where everyone is some kind of Wild West fetishist, or the hero shooters that all look like Pixar but shredded as hell and ready for fan artists to go places I shall not.
On occasion, however, new visual ground is staked. Octopath Traveler 0 is an example of this. The third game in the O …
Joshua Aaron, the developer of the ICEBlock app, is suing Attorney General Pam Bondi, US Homeland Security Secretary Kirsti Noem, acting director of ICE Todd Lyons, White House « Border Czar » Tom Homan, and other federal officials over the Trump administration’s « unlawful threats » made against Aaron and its actions to pressure Apple to pull the app from the App Store, which it did.
« We promised you we would fight back. Well, today’s the day we make good on the promise, » according to a post from ICEBlock’s official account on Bluesky. Aaron, Apple, and the Department of Homeland Security, didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment fr …
There’s an argument to be made that « the real monster is trauma » has become an overused trope in modern horror. Hereditary, The Babadook, and, much less effectively, Smile, are just a few higher-profile examples. But, if you ask me, few films have deployed this trope quite as effectively as the 2020 film His House.
The film follows Bol and Rial, refugees from South Sudan, played by Sope Dirisu and Wunmi Mosaku. Both deliver the kind of incredible performances that you rarely see in a genre film like this. It’s part of what elevates His House above the standard « haunted by trauma » fare. Mosaku, in particular, shows the sort of nuance and scr …
In November, Ted Sarandos, Netflix’s co-CEO made a trip to the White House for a lengthy meeting with Donald Trump. According to Bloomberg, the two discussed a number of topics, but chief among them was Netflix’s plan to bid on Warner Bros. At the end of their conversation, Sardonos felt that “Netflix wouldn’t face immediate opposition from the White House.”
This week, Netflix successfully won the bidding war for Warner, offering $82.7 billion. It’s well known that Paramount and its CEO David Ellison were eager to acquire the storied studio and its streaming assets. Ellison and his father, Larry Ellison, have close ties to the White House, and as part of their pitch to Warner, suggested that only they were in a position to overcome the regulatory hurdles of further media consolidation.
Sarandos seems to have rightly believed that the Ellisons overestimated their political clout. And despite some public efforts to turn the White House against the deal, Netflix won out, for now. There is of course, still a chance that Paramount could launch a hostile takeover effort, or that the Justice Department could try and scuttle the deal — nothing is guaranteed yet.
Sarandos tried to acquire Paramount before David Ellison swooped in, so snatching Warner Bros. out from under his nose is likely something of a personal victory.
Friday, the EU slapped X with a €120 million fine (about $140 million) for violating the Digital Services Act (DSA). It was the first time that a company had been hit with a penalty for running afoul of the law. Elon Musk responded with his trademark tact and professionalism by posting “Bullshit” on X in response to the announcement from the European Commission. But that wasn’t the end, because just a day later Nikita Bier, X’s head of product, accused the Commission of abusing an exploit to boost the reach of the announcement and responded by shutting down its ad account.
According to Bier, the Commission had not used its ad account since 2021, but used a post format explicitly reserved for ads in its announcement of the fine against X. He claims that the Commission posted “a link that deceives users into thinking it’s a video and to artificially increase its reach.” (For the record, the post itself includes a video.)
The seemingly retaliatory revocation of the European Commission’s ad account is unlikely to materially change things for either X or the EU. If, as Bier claims, the Commission has not used its ad account since 2021, holding it hostage is unlikely to give X any leverage. And, while it can appeal the decision, X is currently still on the hook for the sizable fine. Plus, it must provide details for how it plans to address the “deceptive” use of verified checkmarks in the next 60 days, or face additional penalties.
We’ve reached out to the Commission for comment and will update if we hear back.
Il semble que nous ne pouvons pas trouver le contenu demandé. Peut-être qu’une recherche peut vous aider.
It’s easy to think about AI as a sort of existential battle between human and machine. Maybe it will be, someday, in a Skynet sort of way. But there are also lots of people trying to figure out how to use AI not as a replacement for human creativity and thinking but as a tool meant to augment those things.
Sari Azout is one of those people. She’s the founder of Sublime, a platform dedicated to curation, creativity, and ideas. Sublime is all about taste, which makes it slightly surprising that there’s a huge amount of AI powering the way it works. But to Azout, it all makes sense.
Between keeping up with TikTok trends and whatever new gadget just dropped, it’s tough to know exactly what teens are into these days. Luckily, we can help. We may be older than teenagers, but many of us here at The Verge are kids at heart. Plus, we’ve also got a few staffers with older kids. To make your life a little easier this holiday season, we rounded up what we think are the best gifts for teens, based on our tech expertise as well as what our staff’s teens are into right now.
Below, you’ll find gift ideas for many types of teens. Some are more obvious choices, like the latest iPhone and Nintendo Switch 2, but we sought to include a …
The discount brings the price down to $299 ($100 off). | Image: The Verge
We thought Black Friday and Cyber Monday would bring the lowest prices of the year, but apparently not. Right now, you can snag Apple’s Watch Series 11 in the 42mm configuration with GPS for a new all-time low of $299 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy. That beats the $70 discount we saw at the beginning of the month, which means if you didn’t take advantage then, you can save even more now. The 46mm model with GPS is also down to its lowest price yet of $329 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy.
The Series 11 offers some nice improvements to the already-excellent Apple Watch Series 10. While this year’s model has the same dimensions as its predecessor, battery life has increased up to 24 hours per charge on the GPS / Wi-Fi model. At the same time, Apple managed to improve the Series 11’s durability and scratch-resistance, making it a better option for more intense workouts. Additionally, Apple added a more power-efficient 5G modem to the cellular model, so the battery won’t drain as quickly when you’re not on Wi-Fi.
Otherwise, the Series 11 carries over everything we loved about the Series 10. The wide-angle OLED display looks fantastic and is easy to read at a glance, while performance is excellent thanks to Apple’s S10 SiP chip. You also get a variety of health and wellness features, including FDA-cleared hypertension notifications, sleep apnea detection, and sleep score, which can summarize how well you slept. Meanwhile, you get access to the watchOS 26 update, which introduces a workout buddy and offers wrist-flick and double-tap gestures, along with the Liquid Glass redesign.
If you already own a Series 10, there aren’t many reasons to upgrade outside of the slightly improved battery life. However, if you have something older or you’re checking off a gift list, the Series 11 at $100 off is a great deal right before the holidays.
Slack users can now access Anthropic’s Claude Code directly in Slack by tagging Claude on coding-related messages and threads. The new feature is launching today in beta as a research preview.
When Claude is tagged, it will now automatically scan the message to see if it’s a coding task and, if so, route it to Claude Code using the context from the related Slack thread and the code repositories you’ve authenticated in Claude Code. Slack users can also directly tell Claude that a request is a coding task. For instance, you could ask Claude to investigate a bug report you’re discussing in Slack without needing to manually copy all the conte …
Lenovo has already demonstrated its ability to put rollable OLEDs into laptops by graduating last year from demo concept models to shipping the ThinkBook Plus Gen 6, an actual device you can buy. It has a built-in mechanism that expands the screen vertically to give you more screen real estate for typing and scrolling. However, the company might soon debut its first laptop that uses a rollable OLED to effectively transform its screen into an ultrawide 21:9 aspect ratio screen, with left and right edges that extend far outside the bottom chassis.
The Lenovo Legion Pro Rollable will be its first gaming laptop to feature a rollable horizontal …
At their biggest and most expensive, video games all sort of look the same. The reason often comes down to simple economics: More resources means more costs that need to be recouped, and historically the way publishers have done that is by being comically risk-averse. Hence the glut of semi-realistic rocky wastelands that look like death metal album covers where everyone is some kind of Wild West fetishist, or the hero shooters that all look like Pixar but shredded as hell and ready for fan artists to go places I shall not.
On occasion, however, new visual ground is staked. Octopath Traveler 0 is an example of this. The third game in the O …
Joshua Aaron, the developer of the ICEBlock app, is suing Attorney General Pam Bondi, US Homeland Security Secretary Kirsti Noem, acting director of ICE Todd Lyons, White House « Border Czar » Tom Homan, and other federal officials over the Trump administration’s « unlawful threats » made against Aaron and its actions to pressure Apple to pull the app from the App Store, which it did.
« We promised you we would fight back. Well, today’s the day we make good on the promise, » according to a post from ICEBlock’s official account on Bluesky. Aaron, Apple, and the Department of Homeland Security, didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment fr …
There’s an argument to be made that « the real monster is trauma » has become an overused trope in modern horror. Hereditary, The Babadook, and, much less effectively, Smile, are just a few higher-profile examples. But, if you ask me, few films have deployed this trope quite as effectively as the 2020 film His House.
The film follows Bol and Rial, refugees from South Sudan, played by Sope Dirisu and Wunmi Mosaku. Both deliver the kind of incredible performances that you rarely see in a genre film like this. It’s part of what elevates His House above the standard « haunted by trauma » fare. Mosaku, in particular, shows the sort of nuance and scr …
In November, Ted Sarandos, Netflix’s co-CEO made a trip to the White House for a lengthy meeting with Donald Trump. According to Bloomberg, the two discussed a number of topics, but chief among them was Netflix’s plan to bid on Warner Bros. At the end of their conversation, Sardonos felt that “Netflix wouldn’t face immediate opposition from the White House.”
This week, Netflix successfully won the bidding war for Warner, offering $82.7 billion. It’s well known that Paramount and its CEO David Ellison were eager to acquire the storied studio and its streaming assets. Ellison and his father, Larry Ellison, have close ties to the White House, and as part of their pitch to Warner, suggested that only they were in a position to overcome the regulatory hurdles of further media consolidation.
Sarandos seems to have rightly believed that the Ellisons overestimated their political clout. And despite some public efforts to turn the White House against the deal, Netflix won out, for now. There is of course, still a chance that Paramount could launch a hostile takeover effort, or that the Justice Department could try and scuttle the deal — nothing is guaranteed yet.
Sarandos tried to acquire Paramount before David Ellison swooped in, so snatching Warner Bros. out from under his nose is likely something of a personal victory.
Friday, the EU slapped X with a €120 million fine (about $140 million) for violating the Digital Services Act (DSA). It was the first time that a company had been hit with a penalty for running afoul of the law. Elon Musk responded with his trademark tact and professionalism by posting “Bullshit” on X in response to the announcement from the European Commission. But that wasn’t the end, because just a day later Nikita Bier, X’s head of product, accused the Commission of abusing an exploit to boost the reach of the announcement and responded by shutting down its ad account.
According to Bier, the Commission had not used its ad account since 2021, but used a post format explicitly reserved for ads in its announcement of the fine against X. He claims that the Commission posted “a link that deceives users into thinking it’s a video and to artificially increase its reach.” (For the record, the post itself includes a video.)
The seemingly retaliatory revocation of the European Commission’s ad account is unlikely to materially change things for either X or the EU. If, as Bier claims, the Commission has not used its ad account since 2021, holding it hostage is unlikely to give X any leverage. And, while it can appeal the decision, X is currently still on the hook for the sizable fine. Plus, it must provide details for how it plans to address the “deceptive” use of verified checkmarks in the next 60 days, or face additional penalties.
We’ve reached out to the Commission for comment and will update if we hear back.
Il semble que nous ne pouvons pas trouver le contenu demandé. Peut-être qu’une recherche peut vous aider.
It’s easy to think about AI as a sort of existential battle between human and machine. Maybe it will be, someday, in a Skynet sort of way. But there are also lots of people trying to figure out how to use AI not as a replacement for human creativity and thinking but as a tool meant to augment those things.
Sari Azout is one of those people. She’s the founder of Sublime, a platform dedicated to curation, creativity, and ideas. Sublime is all about taste, which makes it slightly surprising that there’s a huge amount of AI powering the way it works. But to Azout, it all makes sense.
Between keeping up with TikTok trends and whatever new gadget just dropped, it’s tough to know exactly what teens are into these days. Luckily, we can help. We may be older than teenagers, but many of us here at The Verge are kids at heart. Plus, we’ve also got a few staffers with older kids. To make your life a little easier this holiday season, we rounded up what we think are the best gifts for teens, based on our tech expertise as well as what our staff’s teens are into right now.
Below, you’ll find gift ideas for many types of teens. Some are more obvious choices, like the latest iPhone and Nintendo Switch 2, but we sought to include a …
The discount brings the price down to $299 ($100 off). | Image: The Verge
We thought Black Friday and Cyber Monday would bring the lowest prices of the year, but apparently not. Right now, you can snag Apple’s Watch Series 11 in the 42mm configuration with GPS for a new all-time low of $299 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy. That beats the $70 discount we saw at the beginning of the month, which means if you didn’t take advantage then, you can save even more now. The 46mm model with GPS is also down to its lowest price yet of $329 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy.
The Series 11 offers some nice improvements to the already-excellent Apple Watch Series 10. While this year’s model has the same dimensions as its predecessor, battery life has increased up to 24 hours per charge on the GPS / Wi-Fi model. At the same time, Apple managed to improve the Series 11’s durability and scratch-resistance, making it a better option for more intense workouts. Additionally, Apple added a more power-efficient 5G modem to the cellular model, so the battery won’t drain as quickly when you’re not on Wi-Fi.
Otherwise, the Series 11 carries over everything we loved about the Series 10. The wide-angle OLED display looks fantastic and is easy to read at a glance, while performance is excellent thanks to Apple’s S10 SiP chip. You also get a variety of health and wellness features, including FDA-cleared hypertension notifications, sleep apnea detection, and sleep score, which can summarize how well you slept. Meanwhile, you get access to the watchOS 26 update, which introduces a workout buddy and offers wrist-flick and double-tap gestures, along with the Liquid Glass redesign.
If you already own a Series 10, there aren’t many reasons to upgrade outside of the slightly improved battery life. However, if you have something older or you’re checking off a gift list, the Series 11 at $100 off is a great deal right before the holidays.
Slack users can now access Anthropic’s Claude Code directly in Slack by tagging Claude on coding-related messages and threads. The new feature is launching today in beta as a research preview.
When Claude is tagged, it will now automatically scan the message to see if it’s a coding task and, if so, route it to Claude Code using the context from the related Slack thread and the code repositories you’ve authenticated in Claude Code. Slack users can also directly tell Claude that a request is a coding task. For instance, you could ask Claude to investigate a bug report you’re discussing in Slack without needing to manually copy all the conte …
Lenovo has already demonstrated its ability to put rollable OLEDs into laptops by graduating last year from demo concept models to shipping the ThinkBook Plus Gen 6, an actual device you can buy. It has a built-in mechanism that expands the screen vertically to give you more screen real estate for typing and scrolling. However, the company might soon debut its first laptop that uses a rollable OLED to effectively transform its screen into an ultrawide 21:9 aspect ratio screen, with left and right edges that extend far outside the bottom chassis.
The Lenovo Legion Pro Rollable will be its first gaming laptop to feature a rollable horizontal …
At their biggest and most expensive, video games all sort of look the same. The reason often comes down to simple economics: More resources means more costs that need to be recouped, and historically the way publishers have done that is by being comically risk-averse. Hence the glut of semi-realistic rocky wastelands that look like death metal album covers where everyone is some kind of Wild West fetishist, or the hero shooters that all look like Pixar but shredded as hell and ready for fan artists to go places I shall not.
On occasion, however, new visual ground is staked. Octopath Traveler 0 is an example of this. The third game in the O …
Joshua Aaron, the developer of the ICEBlock app, is suing Attorney General Pam Bondi, US Homeland Security Secretary Kirsti Noem, acting director of ICE Todd Lyons, White House « Border Czar » Tom Homan, and other federal officials over the Trump administration’s « unlawful threats » made against Aaron and its actions to pressure Apple to pull the app from the App Store, which it did.
« We promised you we would fight back. Well, today’s the day we make good on the promise, » according to a post from ICEBlock’s official account on Bluesky. Aaron, Apple, and the Department of Homeland Security, didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment fr …
There’s an argument to be made that « the real monster is trauma » has become an overused trope in modern horror. Hereditary, The Babadook, and, much less effectively, Smile, are just a few higher-profile examples. But, if you ask me, few films have deployed this trope quite as effectively as the 2020 film His House.
The film follows Bol and Rial, refugees from South Sudan, played by Sope Dirisu and Wunmi Mosaku. Both deliver the kind of incredible performances that you rarely see in a genre film like this. It’s part of what elevates His House above the standard « haunted by trauma » fare. Mosaku, in particular, shows the sort of nuance and scr …
In November, Ted Sarandos, Netflix’s co-CEO made a trip to the White House for a lengthy meeting with Donald Trump. According to Bloomberg, the two discussed a number of topics, but chief among them was Netflix’s plan to bid on Warner Bros. At the end of their conversation, Sardonos felt that “Netflix wouldn’t face immediate opposition from the White House.”
This week, Netflix successfully won the bidding war for Warner, offering $82.7 billion. It’s well known that Paramount and its CEO David Ellison were eager to acquire the storied studio and its streaming assets. Ellison and his father, Larry Ellison, have close ties to the White House, and as part of their pitch to Warner, suggested that only they were in a position to overcome the regulatory hurdles of further media consolidation.
Sarandos seems to have rightly believed that the Ellisons overestimated their political clout. And despite some public efforts to turn the White House against the deal, Netflix won out, for now. There is of course, still a chance that Paramount could launch a hostile takeover effort, or that the Justice Department could try and scuttle the deal — nothing is guaranteed yet.
Sarandos tried to acquire Paramount before David Ellison swooped in, so snatching Warner Bros. out from under his nose is likely something of a personal victory.
Friday, the EU slapped X with a €120 million fine (about $140 million) for violating the Digital Services Act (DSA). It was the first time that a company had been hit with a penalty for running afoul of the law. Elon Musk responded with his trademark tact and professionalism by posting “Bullshit” on X in response to the announcement from the European Commission. But that wasn’t the end, because just a day later Nikita Bier, X’s head of product, accused the Commission of abusing an exploit to boost the reach of the announcement and responded by shutting down its ad account.
According to Bier, the Commission had not used its ad account since 2021, but used a post format explicitly reserved for ads in its announcement of the fine against X. He claims that the Commission posted “a link that deceives users into thinking it’s a video and to artificially increase its reach.” (For the record, the post itself includes a video.)
The seemingly retaliatory revocation of the European Commission’s ad account is unlikely to materially change things for either X or the EU. If, as Bier claims, the Commission has not used its ad account since 2021, holding it hostage is unlikely to give X any leverage. And, while it can appeal the decision, X is currently still on the hook for the sizable fine. Plus, it must provide details for how it plans to address the “deceptive” use of verified checkmarks in the next 60 days, or face additional penalties.
We’ve reached out to the Commission for comment and will update if we hear back.
Il semble que nous ne pouvons pas trouver le contenu demandé. Peut-être qu’une recherche peut vous aider.
It’s easy to think about AI as a sort of existential battle between human and machine. Maybe it will be, someday, in a Skynet sort of way. But there are also lots of people trying to figure out how to use AI not as a replacement for human creativity and thinking but as a tool meant to augment those things.
Sari Azout is one of those people. She’s the founder of Sublime, a platform dedicated to curation, creativity, and ideas. Sublime is all about taste, which makes it slightly surprising that there’s a huge amount of AI powering the way it works. But to Azout, it all makes sense.
Between keeping up with TikTok trends and whatever new gadget just dropped, it’s tough to know exactly what teens are into these days. Luckily, we can help. We may be older than teenagers, but many of us here at The Verge are kids at heart. Plus, we’ve also got a few staffers with older kids. To make your life a little easier this holiday season, we rounded up what we think are the best gifts for teens, based on our tech expertise as well as what our staff’s teens are into right now.
Below, you’ll find gift ideas for many types of teens. Some are more obvious choices, like the latest iPhone and Nintendo Switch 2, but we sought to include a …
The discount brings the price down to $299 ($100 off). | Image: The Verge
We thought Black Friday and Cyber Monday would bring the lowest prices of the year, but apparently not. Right now, you can snag Apple’s Watch Series 11 in the 42mm configuration with GPS for a new all-time low of $299 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy. That beats the $70 discount we saw at the beginning of the month, which means if you didn’t take advantage then, you can save even more now. The 46mm model with GPS is also down to its lowest price yet of $329 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy.
The Series 11 offers some nice improvements to the already-excellent Apple Watch Series 10. While this year’s model has the same dimensions as its predecessor, battery life has increased up to 24 hours per charge on the GPS / Wi-Fi model. At the same time, Apple managed to improve the Series 11’s durability and scratch-resistance, making it a better option for more intense workouts. Additionally, Apple added a more power-efficient 5G modem to the cellular model, so the battery won’t drain as quickly when you’re not on Wi-Fi.
Otherwise, the Series 11 carries over everything we loved about the Series 10. The wide-angle OLED display looks fantastic and is easy to read at a glance, while performance is excellent thanks to Apple’s S10 SiP chip. You also get a variety of health and wellness features, including FDA-cleared hypertension notifications, sleep apnea detection, and sleep score, which can summarize how well you slept. Meanwhile, you get access to the watchOS 26 update, which introduces a workout buddy and offers wrist-flick and double-tap gestures, along with the Liquid Glass redesign.
If you already own a Series 10, there aren’t many reasons to upgrade outside of the slightly improved battery life. However, if you have something older or you’re checking off a gift list, the Series 11 at $100 off is a great deal right before the holidays.
Slack users can now access Anthropic’s Claude Code directly in Slack by tagging Claude on coding-related messages and threads. The new feature is launching today in beta as a research preview.
When Claude is tagged, it will now automatically scan the message to see if it’s a coding task and, if so, route it to Claude Code using the context from the related Slack thread and the code repositories you’ve authenticated in Claude Code. Slack users can also directly tell Claude that a request is a coding task. For instance, you could ask Claude to investigate a bug report you’re discussing in Slack without needing to manually copy all the conte …
Lenovo has already demonstrated its ability to put rollable OLEDs into laptops by graduating last year from demo concept models to shipping the ThinkBook Plus Gen 6, an actual device you can buy. It has a built-in mechanism that expands the screen vertically to give you more screen real estate for typing and scrolling. However, the company might soon debut its first laptop that uses a rollable OLED to effectively transform its screen into an ultrawide 21:9 aspect ratio screen, with left and right edges that extend far outside the bottom chassis.
The Lenovo Legion Pro Rollable will be its first gaming laptop to feature a rollable horizontal …
At their biggest and most expensive, video games all sort of look the same. The reason often comes down to simple economics: More resources means more costs that need to be recouped, and historically the way publishers have done that is by being comically risk-averse. Hence the glut of semi-realistic rocky wastelands that look like death metal album covers where everyone is some kind of Wild West fetishist, or the hero shooters that all look like Pixar but shredded as hell and ready for fan artists to go places I shall not.
On occasion, however, new visual ground is staked. Octopath Traveler 0 is an example of this. The third game in the O …
Joshua Aaron, the developer of the ICEBlock app, is suing Attorney General Pam Bondi, US Homeland Security Secretary Kirsti Noem, acting director of ICE Todd Lyons, White House « Border Czar » Tom Homan, and other federal officials over the Trump administration’s « unlawful threats » made against Aaron and its actions to pressure Apple to pull the app from the App Store, which it did.
« We promised you we would fight back. Well, today’s the day we make good on the promise, » according to a post from ICEBlock’s official account on Bluesky. Aaron, Apple, and the Department of Homeland Security, didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment fr …
There’s an argument to be made that « the real monster is trauma » has become an overused trope in modern horror. Hereditary, The Babadook, and, much less effectively, Smile, are just a few higher-profile examples. But, if you ask me, few films have deployed this trope quite as effectively as the 2020 film His House.
The film follows Bol and Rial, refugees from South Sudan, played by Sope Dirisu and Wunmi Mosaku. Both deliver the kind of incredible performances that you rarely see in a genre film like this. It’s part of what elevates His House above the standard « haunted by trauma » fare. Mosaku, in particular, shows the sort of nuance and scr …
In November, Ted Sarandos, Netflix’s co-CEO made a trip to the White House for a lengthy meeting with Donald Trump. According to Bloomberg, the two discussed a number of topics, but chief among them was Netflix’s plan to bid on Warner Bros. At the end of their conversation, Sardonos felt that “Netflix wouldn’t face immediate opposition from the White House.”
This week, Netflix successfully won the bidding war for Warner, offering $82.7 billion. It’s well known that Paramount and its CEO David Ellison were eager to acquire the storied studio and its streaming assets. Ellison and his father, Larry Ellison, have close ties to the White House, and as part of their pitch to Warner, suggested that only they were in a position to overcome the regulatory hurdles of further media consolidation.
Sarandos seems to have rightly believed that the Ellisons overestimated their political clout. And despite some public efforts to turn the White House against the deal, Netflix won out, for now. There is of course, still a chance that Paramount could launch a hostile takeover effort, or that the Justice Department could try and scuttle the deal — nothing is guaranteed yet.
Sarandos tried to acquire Paramount before David Ellison swooped in, so snatching Warner Bros. out from under his nose is likely something of a personal victory.
Friday, the EU slapped X with a €120 million fine (about $140 million) for violating the Digital Services Act (DSA). It was the first time that a company had been hit with a penalty for running afoul of the law. Elon Musk responded with his trademark tact and professionalism by posting “Bullshit” on X in response to the announcement from the European Commission. But that wasn’t the end, because just a day later Nikita Bier, X’s head of product, accused the Commission of abusing an exploit to boost the reach of the announcement and responded by shutting down its ad account.
According to Bier, the Commission had not used its ad account since 2021, but used a post format explicitly reserved for ads in its announcement of the fine against X. He claims that the Commission posted “a link that deceives users into thinking it’s a video and to artificially increase its reach.” (For the record, the post itself includes a video.)
The seemingly retaliatory revocation of the European Commission’s ad account is unlikely to materially change things for either X or the EU. If, as Bier claims, the Commission has not used its ad account since 2021, holding it hostage is unlikely to give X any leverage. And, while it can appeal the decision, X is currently still on the hook for the sizable fine. Plus, it must provide details for how it plans to address the “deceptive” use of verified checkmarks in the next 60 days, or face additional penalties.
We’ve reached out to the Commission for comment and will update if we hear back.
Il semble que nous ne pouvons pas trouver le contenu demandé. Peut-être qu’une recherche peut vous aider.
It’s easy to think about AI as a sort of existential battle between human and machine. Maybe it will be, someday, in a Skynet sort of way. But there are also lots of people trying to figure out how to use AI not as a replacement for human creativity and thinking but as a tool meant to augment those things.
Sari Azout is one of those people. She’s the founder of Sublime, a platform dedicated to curation, creativity, and ideas. Sublime is all about taste, which makes it slightly surprising that there’s a huge amount of AI powering the way it works. But to Azout, it all makes sense.
Between keeping up with TikTok trends and whatever new gadget just dropped, it’s tough to know exactly what teens are into these days. Luckily, we can help. We may be older than teenagers, but many of us here at The Verge are kids at heart. Plus, we’ve also got a few staffers with older kids. To make your life a little easier this holiday season, we rounded up what we think are the best gifts for teens, based on our tech expertise as well as what our staff’s teens are into right now.
Below, you’ll find gift ideas for many types of teens. Some are more obvious choices, like the latest iPhone and Nintendo Switch 2, but we sought to include a …
The discount brings the price down to $299 ($100 off). | Image: The Verge
We thought Black Friday and Cyber Monday would bring the lowest prices of the year, but apparently not. Right now, you can snag Apple’s Watch Series 11 in the 42mm configuration with GPS for a new all-time low of $299 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy. That beats the $70 discount we saw at the beginning of the month, which means if you didn’t take advantage then, you can save even more now. The 46mm model with GPS is also down to its lowest price yet of $329 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy.
The Series 11 offers some nice improvements to the already-excellent Apple Watch Series 10. While this year’s model has the same dimensions as its predecessor, battery life has increased up to 24 hours per charge on the GPS / Wi-Fi model. At the same time, Apple managed to improve the Series 11’s durability and scratch-resistance, making it a better option for more intense workouts. Additionally, Apple added a more power-efficient 5G modem to the cellular model, so the battery won’t drain as quickly when you’re not on Wi-Fi.
Otherwise, the Series 11 carries over everything we loved about the Series 10. The wide-angle OLED display looks fantastic and is easy to read at a glance, while performance is excellent thanks to Apple’s S10 SiP chip. You also get a variety of health and wellness features, including FDA-cleared hypertension notifications, sleep apnea detection, and sleep score, which can summarize how well you slept. Meanwhile, you get access to the watchOS 26 update, which introduces a workout buddy and offers wrist-flick and double-tap gestures, along with the Liquid Glass redesign.
If you already own a Series 10, there aren’t many reasons to upgrade outside of the slightly improved battery life. However, if you have something older or you’re checking off a gift list, the Series 11 at $100 off is a great deal right before the holidays.
Slack users can now access Anthropic’s Claude Code directly in Slack by tagging Claude on coding-related messages and threads. The new feature is launching today in beta as a research preview.
When Claude is tagged, it will now automatically scan the message to see if it’s a coding task and, if so, route it to Claude Code using the context from the related Slack thread and the code repositories you’ve authenticated in Claude Code. Slack users can also directly tell Claude that a request is a coding task. For instance, you could ask Claude to investigate a bug report you’re discussing in Slack without needing to manually copy all the conte …
Lenovo has already demonstrated its ability to put rollable OLEDs into laptops by graduating last year from demo concept models to shipping the ThinkBook Plus Gen 6, an actual device you can buy. It has a built-in mechanism that expands the screen vertically to give you more screen real estate for typing and scrolling. However, the company might soon debut its first laptop that uses a rollable OLED to effectively transform its screen into an ultrawide 21:9 aspect ratio screen, with left and right edges that extend far outside the bottom chassis.
The Lenovo Legion Pro Rollable will be its first gaming laptop to feature a rollable horizontal …
At their biggest and most expensive, video games all sort of look the same. The reason often comes down to simple economics: More resources means more costs that need to be recouped, and historically the way publishers have done that is by being comically risk-averse. Hence the glut of semi-realistic rocky wastelands that look like death metal album covers where everyone is some kind of Wild West fetishist, or the hero shooters that all look like Pixar but shredded as hell and ready for fan artists to go places I shall not.
On occasion, however, new visual ground is staked. Octopath Traveler 0 is an example of this. The third game in the O …
Joshua Aaron, the developer of the ICEBlock app, is suing Attorney General Pam Bondi, US Homeland Security Secretary Kirsti Noem, acting director of ICE Todd Lyons, White House « Border Czar » Tom Homan, and other federal officials over the Trump administration’s « unlawful threats » made against Aaron and its actions to pressure Apple to pull the app from the App Store, which it did.
« We promised you we would fight back. Well, today’s the day we make good on the promise, » according to a post from ICEBlock’s official account on Bluesky. Aaron, Apple, and the Department of Homeland Security, didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment fr …
There’s an argument to be made that « the real monster is trauma » has become an overused trope in modern horror. Hereditary, The Babadook, and, much less effectively, Smile, are just a few higher-profile examples. But, if you ask me, few films have deployed this trope quite as effectively as the 2020 film His House.
The film follows Bol and Rial, refugees from South Sudan, played by Sope Dirisu and Wunmi Mosaku. Both deliver the kind of incredible performances that you rarely see in a genre film like this. It’s part of what elevates His House above the standard « haunted by trauma » fare. Mosaku, in particular, shows the sort of nuance and scr …
In November, Ted Sarandos, Netflix’s co-CEO made a trip to the White House for a lengthy meeting with Donald Trump. According to Bloomberg, the two discussed a number of topics, but chief among them was Netflix’s plan to bid on Warner Bros. At the end of their conversation, Sardonos felt that “Netflix wouldn’t face immediate opposition from the White House.”
This week, Netflix successfully won the bidding war for Warner, offering $82.7 billion. It’s well known that Paramount and its CEO David Ellison were eager to acquire the storied studio and its streaming assets. Ellison and his father, Larry Ellison, have close ties to the White House, and as part of their pitch to Warner, suggested that only they were in a position to overcome the regulatory hurdles of further media consolidation.
Sarandos seems to have rightly believed that the Ellisons overestimated their political clout. And despite some public efforts to turn the White House against the deal, Netflix won out, for now. There is of course, still a chance that Paramount could launch a hostile takeover effort, or that the Justice Department could try and scuttle the deal — nothing is guaranteed yet.
Sarandos tried to acquire Paramount before David Ellison swooped in, so snatching Warner Bros. out from under his nose is likely something of a personal victory.
Friday, the EU slapped X with a €120 million fine (about $140 million) for violating the Digital Services Act (DSA). It was the first time that a company had been hit with a penalty for running afoul of the law. Elon Musk responded with his trademark tact and professionalism by posting “Bullshit” on X in response to the announcement from the European Commission. But that wasn’t the end, because just a day later Nikita Bier, X’s head of product, accused the Commission of abusing an exploit to boost the reach of the announcement and responded by shutting down its ad account.
According to Bier, the Commission had not used its ad account since 2021, but used a post format explicitly reserved for ads in its announcement of the fine against X. He claims that the Commission posted “a link that deceives users into thinking it’s a video and to artificially increase its reach.” (For the record, the post itself includes a video.)
The seemingly retaliatory revocation of the European Commission’s ad account is unlikely to materially change things for either X or the EU. If, as Bier claims, the Commission has not used its ad account since 2021, holding it hostage is unlikely to give X any leverage. And, while it can appeal the decision, X is currently still on the hook for the sizable fine. Plus, it must provide details for how it plans to address the “deceptive” use of verified checkmarks in the next 60 days, or face additional penalties.
We’ve reached out to the Commission for comment and will update if we hear back.
Il semble que nous ne pouvons pas trouver le contenu demandé. Peut-être qu’une recherche peut vous aider.
It’s easy to think about AI as a sort of existential battle between human and machine. Maybe it will be, someday, in a Skynet sort of way. But there are also lots of people trying to figure out how to use AI not as a replacement for human creativity and thinking but as a tool meant to augment those things.
Sari Azout is one of those people. She’s the founder of Sublime, a platform dedicated to curation, creativity, and ideas. Sublime is all about taste, which makes it slightly surprising that there’s a huge amount of AI powering the way it works. But to Azout, it all makes sense.
Between keeping up with TikTok trends and whatever new gadget just dropped, it’s tough to know exactly what teens are into these days. Luckily, we can help. We may be older than teenagers, but many of us here at The Verge are kids at heart. Plus, we’ve also got a few staffers with older kids. To make your life a little easier this holiday season, we rounded up what we think are the best gifts for teens, based on our tech expertise as well as what our staff’s teens are into right now.
Below, you’ll find gift ideas for many types of teens. Some are more obvious choices, like the latest iPhone and Nintendo Switch 2, but we sought to include a …
The discount brings the price down to $299 ($100 off). | Image: The Verge
We thought Black Friday and Cyber Monday would bring the lowest prices of the year, but apparently not. Right now, you can snag Apple’s Watch Series 11 in the 42mm configuration with GPS for a new all-time low of $299 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy. That beats the $70 discount we saw at the beginning of the month, which means if you didn’t take advantage then, you can save even more now. The 46mm model with GPS is also down to its lowest price yet of $329 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy.
The Series 11 offers some nice improvements to the already-excellent Apple Watch Series 10. While this year’s model has the same dimensions as its predecessor, battery life has increased up to 24 hours per charge on the GPS / Wi-Fi model. At the same time, Apple managed to improve the Series 11’s durability and scratch-resistance, making it a better option for more intense workouts. Additionally, Apple added a more power-efficient 5G modem to the cellular model, so the battery won’t drain as quickly when you’re not on Wi-Fi.
Otherwise, the Series 11 carries over everything we loved about the Series 10. The wide-angle OLED display looks fantastic and is easy to read at a glance, while performance is excellent thanks to Apple’s S10 SiP chip. You also get a variety of health and wellness features, including FDA-cleared hypertension notifications, sleep apnea detection, and sleep score, which can summarize how well you slept. Meanwhile, you get access to the watchOS 26 update, which introduces a workout buddy and offers wrist-flick and double-tap gestures, along with the Liquid Glass redesign.
If you already own a Series 10, there aren’t many reasons to upgrade outside of the slightly improved battery life. However, if you have something older or you’re checking off a gift list, the Series 11 at $100 off is a great deal right before the holidays.
Slack users can now access Anthropic’s Claude Code directly in Slack by tagging Claude on coding-related messages and threads. The new feature is launching today in beta as a research preview.
When Claude is tagged, it will now automatically scan the message to see if it’s a coding task and, if so, route it to Claude Code using the context from the related Slack thread and the code repositories you’ve authenticated in Claude Code. Slack users can also directly tell Claude that a request is a coding task. For instance, you could ask Claude to investigate a bug report you’re discussing in Slack without needing to manually copy all the conte …
Lenovo has already demonstrated its ability to put rollable OLEDs into laptops by graduating last year from demo concept models to shipping the ThinkBook Plus Gen 6, an actual device you can buy. It has a built-in mechanism that expands the screen vertically to give you more screen real estate for typing and scrolling. However, the company might soon debut its first laptop that uses a rollable OLED to effectively transform its screen into an ultrawide 21:9 aspect ratio screen, with left and right edges that extend far outside the bottom chassis.
The Lenovo Legion Pro Rollable will be its first gaming laptop to feature a rollable horizontal …
At their biggest and most expensive, video games all sort of look the same. The reason often comes down to simple economics: More resources means more costs that need to be recouped, and historically the way publishers have done that is by being comically risk-averse. Hence the glut of semi-realistic rocky wastelands that look like death metal album covers where everyone is some kind of Wild West fetishist, or the hero shooters that all look like Pixar but shredded as hell and ready for fan artists to go places I shall not.
On occasion, however, new visual ground is staked. Octopath Traveler 0 is an example of this. The third game in the O …
Joshua Aaron, the developer of the ICEBlock app, is suing Attorney General Pam Bondi, US Homeland Security Secretary Kirsti Noem, acting director of ICE Todd Lyons, White House « Border Czar » Tom Homan, and other federal officials over the Trump administration’s « unlawful threats » made against Aaron and its actions to pressure Apple to pull the app from the App Store, which it did.
« We promised you we would fight back. Well, today’s the day we make good on the promise, » according to a post from ICEBlock’s official account on Bluesky. Aaron, Apple, and the Department of Homeland Security, didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment fr …
There’s an argument to be made that « the real monster is trauma » has become an overused trope in modern horror. Hereditary, The Babadook, and, much less effectively, Smile, are just a few higher-profile examples. But, if you ask me, few films have deployed this trope quite as effectively as the 2020 film His House.
The film follows Bol and Rial, refugees from South Sudan, played by Sope Dirisu and Wunmi Mosaku. Both deliver the kind of incredible performances that you rarely see in a genre film like this. It’s part of what elevates His House above the standard « haunted by trauma » fare. Mosaku, in particular, shows the sort of nuance and scr …
In November, Ted Sarandos, Netflix’s co-CEO made a trip to the White House for a lengthy meeting with Donald Trump. According to Bloomberg, the two discussed a number of topics, but chief among them was Netflix’s plan to bid on Warner Bros. At the end of their conversation, Sardonos felt that “Netflix wouldn’t face immediate opposition from the White House.”
This week, Netflix successfully won the bidding war for Warner, offering $82.7 billion. It’s well known that Paramount and its CEO David Ellison were eager to acquire the storied studio and its streaming assets. Ellison and his father, Larry Ellison, have close ties to the White House, and as part of their pitch to Warner, suggested that only they were in a position to overcome the regulatory hurdles of further media consolidation.
Sarandos seems to have rightly believed that the Ellisons overestimated their political clout. And despite some public efforts to turn the White House against the deal, Netflix won out, for now. There is of course, still a chance that Paramount could launch a hostile takeover effort, or that the Justice Department could try and scuttle the deal — nothing is guaranteed yet.
Sarandos tried to acquire Paramount before David Ellison swooped in, so snatching Warner Bros. out from under his nose is likely something of a personal victory.
Friday, the EU slapped X with a €120 million fine (about $140 million) for violating the Digital Services Act (DSA). It was the first time that a company had been hit with a penalty for running afoul of the law. Elon Musk responded with his trademark tact and professionalism by posting “Bullshit” on X in response to the announcement from the European Commission. But that wasn’t the end, because just a day later Nikita Bier, X’s head of product, accused the Commission of abusing an exploit to boost the reach of the announcement and responded by shutting down its ad account.
According to Bier, the Commission had not used its ad account since 2021, but used a post format explicitly reserved for ads in its announcement of the fine against X. He claims that the Commission posted “a link that deceives users into thinking it’s a video and to artificially increase its reach.” (For the record, the post itself includes a video.)
The seemingly retaliatory revocation of the European Commission’s ad account is unlikely to materially change things for either X or the EU. If, as Bier claims, the Commission has not used its ad account since 2021, holding it hostage is unlikely to give X any leverage. And, while it can appeal the decision, X is currently still on the hook for the sizable fine. Plus, it must provide details for how it plans to address the “deceptive” use of verified checkmarks in the next 60 days, or face additional penalties.
We’ve reached out to the Commission for comment and will update if we hear back.
Il semble que nous ne pouvons pas trouver le contenu demandé. Peut-être qu’une recherche peut vous aider.
It’s easy to think about AI as a sort of existential battle between human and machine. Maybe it will be, someday, in a Skynet sort of way. But there are also lots of people trying to figure out how to use AI not as a replacement for human creativity and thinking but as a tool meant to augment those things.
Sari Azout is one of those people. She’s the founder of Sublime, a platform dedicated to curation, creativity, and ideas. Sublime is all about taste, which makes it slightly surprising that there’s a huge amount of AI powering the way it works. But to Azout, it all makes sense.
Between keeping up with TikTok trends and whatever new gadget just dropped, it’s tough to know exactly what teens are into these days. Luckily, we can help. We may be older than teenagers, but many of us here at The Verge are kids at heart. Plus, we’ve also got a few staffers with older kids. To make your life a little easier this holiday season, we rounded up what we think are the best gifts for teens, based on our tech expertise as well as what our staff’s teens are into right now.
Below, you’ll find gift ideas for many types of teens. Some are more obvious choices, like the latest iPhone and Nintendo Switch 2, but we sought to include a …
The discount brings the price down to $299 ($100 off). | Image: The Verge
We thought Black Friday and Cyber Monday would bring the lowest prices of the year, but apparently not. Right now, you can snag Apple’s Watch Series 11 in the 42mm configuration with GPS for a new all-time low of $299 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy. That beats the $70 discount we saw at the beginning of the month, which means if you didn’t take advantage then, you can save even more now. The 46mm model with GPS is also down to its lowest price yet of $329 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy.
The Series 11 offers some nice improvements to the already-excellent Apple Watch Series 10. While this year’s model has the same dimensions as its predecessor, battery life has increased up to 24 hours per charge on the GPS / Wi-Fi model. At the same time, Apple managed to improve the Series 11’s durability and scratch-resistance, making it a better option for more intense workouts. Additionally, Apple added a more power-efficient 5G modem to the cellular model, so the battery won’t drain as quickly when you’re not on Wi-Fi.
Otherwise, the Series 11 carries over everything we loved about the Series 10. The wide-angle OLED display looks fantastic and is easy to read at a glance, while performance is excellent thanks to Apple’s S10 SiP chip. You also get a variety of health and wellness features, including FDA-cleared hypertension notifications, sleep apnea detection, and sleep score, which can summarize how well you slept. Meanwhile, you get access to the watchOS 26 update, which introduces a workout buddy and offers wrist-flick and double-tap gestures, along with the Liquid Glass redesign.
If you already own a Series 10, there aren’t many reasons to upgrade outside of the slightly improved battery life. However, if you have something older or you’re checking off a gift list, the Series 11 at $100 off is a great deal right before the holidays.
Slack users can now access Anthropic’s Claude Code directly in Slack by tagging Claude on coding-related messages and threads. The new feature is launching today in beta as a research preview.
When Claude is tagged, it will now automatically scan the message to see if it’s a coding task and, if so, route it to Claude Code using the context from the related Slack thread and the code repositories you’ve authenticated in Claude Code. Slack users can also directly tell Claude that a request is a coding task. For instance, you could ask Claude to investigate a bug report you’re discussing in Slack without needing to manually copy all the conte …
Lenovo has already demonstrated its ability to put rollable OLEDs into laptops by graduating last year from demo concept models to shipping the ThinkBook Plus Gen 6, an actual device you can buy. It has a built-in mechanism that expands the screen vertically to give you more screen real estate for typing and scrolling. However, the company might soon debut its first laptop that uses a rollable OLED to effectively transform its screen into an ultrawide 21:9 aspect ratio screen, with left and right edges that extend far outside the bottom chassis.
The Lenovo Legion Pro Rollable will be its first gaming laptop to feature a rollable horizontal …
At their biggest and most expensive, video games all sort of look the same. The reason often comes down to simple economics: More resources means more costs that need to be recouped, and historically the way publishers have done that is by being comically risk-averse. Hence the glut of semi-realistic rocky wastelands that look like death metal album covers where everyone is some kind of Wild West fetishist, or the hero shooters that all look like Pixar but shredded as hell and ready for fan artists to go places I shall not.
On occasion, however, new visual ground is staked. Octopath Traveler 0 is an example of this. The third game in the O …
Joshua Aaron, the developer of the ICEBlock app, is suing Attorney General Pam Bondi, US Homeland Security Secretary Kirsti Noem, acting director of ICE Todd Lyons, White House « Border Czar » Tom Homan, and other federal officials over the Trump administration’s « unlawful threats » made against Aaron and its actions to pressure Apple to pull the app from the App Store, which it did.
« We promised you we would fight back. Well, today’s the day we make good on the promise, » according to a post from ICEBlock’s official account on Bluesky. Aaron, Apple, and the Department of Homeland Security, didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment fr …
There’s an argument to be made that « the real monster is trauma » has become an overused trope in modern horror. Hereditary, The Babadook, and, much less effectively, Smile, are just a few higher-profile examples. But, if you ask me, few films have deployed this trope quite as effectively as the 2020 film His House.
The film follows Bol and Rial, refugees from South Sudan, played by Sope Dirisu and Wunmi Mosaku. Both deliver the kind of incredible performances that you rarely see in a genre film like this. It’s part of what elevates His House above the standard « haunted by trauma » fare. Mosaku, in particular, shows the sort of nuance and scr …
In November, Ted Sarandos, Netflix’s co-CEO made a trip to the White House for a lengthy meeting with Donald Trump. According to Bloomberg, the two discussed a number of topics, but chief among them was Netflix’s plan to bid on Warner Bros. At the end of their conversation, Sardonos felt that “Netflix wouldn’t face immediate opposition from the White House.”
This week, Netflix successfully won the bidding war for Warner, offering $82.7 billion. It’s well known that Paramount and its CEO David Ellison were eager to acquire the storied studio and its streaming assets. Ellison and his father, Larry Ellison, have close ties to the White House, and as part of their pitch to Warner, suggested that only they were in a position to overcome the regulatory hurdles of further media consolidation.
Sarandos seems to have rightly believed that the Ellisons overestimated their political clout. And despite some public efforts to turn the White House against the deal, Netflix won out, for now. There is of course, still a chance that Paramount could launch a hostile takeover effort, or that the Justice Department could try and scuttle the deal — nothing is guaranteed yet.
Sarandos tried to acquire Paramount before David Ellison swooped in, so snatching Warner Bros. out from under his nose is likely something of a personal victory.
Friday, the EU slapped X with a €120 million fine (about $140 million) for violating the Digital Services Act (DSA). It was the first time that a company had been hit with a penalty for running afoul of the law. Elon Musk responded with his trademark tact and professionalism by posting “Bullshit” on X in response to the announcement from the European Commission. But that wasn’t the end, because just a day later Nikita Bier, X’s head of product, accused the Commission of abusing an exploit to boost the reach of the announcement and responded by shutting down its ad account.
According to Bier, the Commission had not used its ad account since 2021, but used a post format explicitly reserved for ads in its announcement of the fine against X. He claims that the Commission posted “a link that deceives users into thinking it’s a video and to artificially increase its reach.” (For the record, the post itself includes a video.)
The seemingly retaliatory revocation of the European Commission’s ad account is unlikely to materially change things for either X or the EU. If, as Bier claims, the Commission has not used its ad account since 2021, holding it hostage is unlikely to give X any leverage. And, while it can appeal the decision, X is currently still on the hook for the sizable fine. Plus, it must provide details for how it plans to address the “deceptive” use of verified checkmarks in the next 60 days, or face additional penalties.
We’ve reached out to the Commission for comment and will update if we hear back.
Il semble que nous ne pouvons pas trouver le contenu demandé. Peut-être qu’une recherche peut vous aider.
It’s easy to think about AI as a sort of existential battle between human and machine. Maybe it will be, someday, in a Skynet sort of way. But there are also lots of people trying to figure out how to use AI not as a replacement for human creativity and thinking but as a tool meant to augment those things.
Sari Azout is one of those people. She’s the founder of Sublime, a platform dedicated to curation, creativity, and ideas. Sublime is all about taste, which makes it slightly surprising that there’s a huge amount of AI powering the way it works. But to Azout, it all makes sense.
Between keeping up with TikTok trends and whatever new gadget just dropped, it’s tough to know exactly what teens are into these days. Luckily, we can help. We may be older than teenagers, but many of us here at The Verge are kids at heart. Plus, we’ve also got a few staffers with older kids. To make your life a little easier this holiday season, we rounded up what we think are the best gifts for teens, based on our tech expertise as well as what our staff’s teens are into right now.
Below, you’ll find gift ideas for many types of teens. Some are more obvious choices, like the latest iPhone and Nintendo Switch 2, but we sought to include a …
The discount brings the price down to $299 ($100 off). | Image: The Verge
We thought Black Friday and Cyber Monday would bring the lowest prices of the year, but apparently not. Right now, you can snag Apple’s Watch Series 11 in the 42mm configuration with GPS for a new all-time low of $299 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy. That beats the $70 discount we saw at the beginning of the month, which means if you didn’t take advantage then, you can save even more now. The 46mm model with GPS is also down to its lowest price yet of $329 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy.
The Series 11 offers some nice improvements to the already-excellent Apple Watch Series 10. While this year’s model has the same dimensions as its predecessor, battery life has increased up to 24 hours per charge on the GPS / Wi-Fi model. At the same time, Apple managed to improve the Series 11’s durability and scratch-resistance, making it a better option for more intense workouts. Additionally, Apple added a more power-efficient 5G modem to the cellular model, so the battery won’t drain as quickly when you’re not on Wi-Fi.
Otherwise, the Series 11 carries over everything we loved about the Series 10. The wide-angle OLED display looks fantastic and is easy to read at a glance, while performance is excellent thanks to Apple’s S10 SiP chip. You also get a variety of health and wellness features, including FDA-cleared hypertension notifications, sleep apnea detection, and sleep score, which can summarize how well you slept. Meanwhile, you get access to the watchOS 26 update, which introduces a workout buddy and offers wrist-flick and double-tap gestures, along with the Liquid Glass redesign.
If you already own a Series 10, there aren’t many reasons to upgrade outside of the slightly improved battery life. However, if you have something older or you’re checking off a gift list, the Series 11 at $100 off is a great deal right before the holidays.
Slack users can now access Anthropic’s Claude Code directly in Slack by tagging Claude on coding-related messages and threads. The new feature is launching today in beta as a research preview.
When Claude is tagged, it will now automatically scan the message to see if it’s a coding task and, if so, route it to Claude Code using the context from the related Slack thread and the code repositories you’ve authenticated in Claude Code. Slack users can also directly tell Claude that a request is a coding task. For instance, you could ask Claude to investigate a bug report you’re discussing in Slack without needing to manually copy all the conte …
Lenovo has already demonstrated its ability to put rollable OLEDs into laptops by graduating last year from demo concept models to shipping the ThinkBook Plus Gen 6, an actual device you can buy. It has a built-in mechanism that expands the screen vertically to give you more screen real estate for typing and scrolling. However, the company might soon debut its first laptop that uses a rollable OLED to effectively transform its screen into an ultrawide 21:9 aspect ratio screen, with left and right edges that extend far outside the bottom chassis.
The Lenovo Legion Pro Rollable will be its first gaming laptop to feature a rollable horizontal …
At their biggest and most expensive, video games all sort of look the same. The reason often comes down to simple economics: More resources means more costs that need to be recouped, and historically the way publishers have done that is by being comically risk-averse. Hence the glut of semi-realistic rocky wastelands that look like death metal album covers where everyone is some kind of Wild West fetishist, or the hero shooters that all look like Pixar but shredded as hell and ready for fan artists to go places I shall not.
On occasion, however, new visual ground is staked. Octopath Traveler 0 is an example of this. The third game in the O …
Joshua Aaron, the developer of the ICEBlock app, is suing Attorney General Pam Bondi, US Homeland Security Secretary Kirsti Noem, acting director of ICE Todd Lyons, White House « Border Czar » Tom Homan, and other federal officials over the Trump administration’s « unlawful threats » made against Aaron and its actions to pressure Apple to pull the app from the App Store, which it did.
« We promised you we would fight back. Well, today’s the day we make good on the promise, » according to a post from ICEBlock’s official account on Bluesky. Aaron, Apple, and the Department of Homeland Security, didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment fr …
There’s an argument to be made that « the real monster is trauma » has become an overused trope in modern horror. Hereditary, The Babadook, and, much less effectively, Smile, are just a few higher-profile examples. But, if you ask me, few films have deployed this trope quite as effectively as the 2020 film His House.
The film follows Bol and Rial, refugees from South Sudan, played by Sope Dirisu and Wunmi Mosaku. Both deliver the kind of incredible performances that you rarely see in a genre film like this. It’s part of what elevates His House above the standard « haunted by trauma » fare. Mosaku, in particular, shows the sort of nuance and scr …
In November, Ted Sarandos, Netflix’s co-CEO made a trip to the White House for a lengthy meeting with Donald Trump. According to Bloomberg, the two discussed a number of topics, but chief among them was Netflix’s plan to bid on Warner Bros. At the end of their conversation, Sardonos felt that “Netflix wouldn’t face immediate opposition from the White House.”
This week, Netflix successfully won the bidding war for Warner, offering $82.7 billion. It’s well known that Paramount and its CEO David Ellison were eager to acquire the storied studio and its streaming assets. Ellison and his father, Larry Ellison, have close ties to the White House, and as part of their pitch to Warner, suggested that only they were in a position to overcome the regulatory hurdles of further media consolidation.
Sarandos seems to have rightly believed that the Ellisons overestimated their political clout. And despite some public efforts to turn the White House against the deal, Netflix won out, for now. There is of course, still a chance that Paramount could launch a hostile takeover effort, or that the Justice Department could try and scuttle the deal — nothing is guaranteed yet.
Sarandos tried to acquire Paramount before David Ellison swooped in, so snatching Warner Bros. out from under his nose is likely something of a personal victory.
Friday, the EU slapped X with a €120 million fine (about $140 million) for violating the Digital Services Act (DSA). It was the first time that a company had been hit with a penalty for running afoul of the law. Elon Musk responded with his trademark tact and professionalism by posting “Bullshit” on X in response to the announcement from the European Commission. But that wasn’t the end, because just a day later Nikita Bier, X’s head of product, accused the Commission of abusing an exploit to boost the reach of the announcement and responded by shutting down its ad account.
According to Bier, the Commission had not used its ad account since 2021, but used a post format explicitly reserved for ads in its announcement of the fine against X. He claims that the Commission posted “a link that deceives users into thinking it’s a video and to artificially increase its reach.” (For the record, the post itself includes a video.)
The seemingly retaliatory revocation of the European Commission’s ad account is unlikely to materially change things for either X or the EU. If, as Bier claims, the Commission has not used its ad account since 2021, holding it hostage is unlikely to give X any leverage. And, while it can appeal the decision, X is currently still on the hook for the sizable fine. Plus, it must provide details for how it plans to address the “deceptive” use of verified checkmarks in the next 60 days, or face additional penalties.
We’ve reached out to the Commission for comment and will update if we hear back.
Il semble que nous ne pouvons pas trouver le contenu demandé. Peut-être qu’une recherche peut vous aider.
It’s easy to think about AI as a sort of existential battle between human and machine. Maybe it will be, someday, in a Skynet sort of way. But there are also lots of people trying to figure out how to use AI not as a replacement for human creativity and thinking but as a tool meant to augment those things.
Sari Azout is one of those people. She’s the founder of Sublime, a platform dedicated to curation, creativity, and ideas. Sublime is all about taste, which makes it slightly surprising that there’s a huge amount of AI powering the way it works. But to Azout, it all makes sense.
Between keeping up with TikTok trends and whatever new gadget just dropped, it’s tough to know exactly what teens are into these days. Luckily, we can help. We may be older than teenagers, but many of us here at The Verge are kids at heart. Plus, we’ve also got a few staffers with older kids. To make your life a little easier this holiday season, we rounded up what we think are the best gifts for teens, based on our tech expertise as well as what our staff’s teens are into right now.
Below, you’ll find gift ideas for many types of teens. Some are more obvious choices, like the latest iPhone and Nintendo Switch 2, but we sought to include a …
The discount brings the price down to $299 ($100 off). | Image: The Verge
We thought Black Friday and Cyber Monday would bring the lowest prices of the year, but apparently not. Right now, you can snag Apple’s Watch Series 11 in the 42mm configuration with GPS for a new all-time low of $299 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy. That beats the $70 discount we saw at the beginning of the month, which means if you didn’t take advantage then, you can save even more now. The 46mm model with GPS is also down to its lowest price yet of $329 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy.
The Series 11 offers some nice improvements to the already-excellent Apple Watch Series 10. While this year’s model has the same dimensions as its predecessor, battery life has increased up to 24 hours per charge on the GPS / Wi-Fi model. At the same time, Apple managed to improve the Series 11’s durability and scratch-resistance, making it a better option for more intense workouts. Additionally, Apple added a more power-efficient 5G modem to the cellular model, so the battery won’t drain as quickly when you’re not on Wi-Fi.
Otherwise, the Series 11 carries over everything we loved about the Series 10. The wide-angle OLED display looks fantastic and is easy to read at a glance, while performance is excellent thanks to Apple’s S10 SiP chip. You also get a variety of health and wellness features, including FDA-cleared hypertension notifications, sleep apnea detection, and sleep score, which can summarize how well you slept. Meanwhile, you get access to the watchOS 26 update, which introduces a workout buddy and offers wrist-flick and double-tap gestures, along with the Liquid Glass redesign.
If you already own a Series 10, there aren’t many reasons to upgrade outside of the slightly improved battery life. However, if you have something older or you’re checking off a gift list, the Series 11 at $100 off is a great deal right before the holidays.
Slack users can now access Anthropic’s Claude Code directly in Slack by tagging Claude on coding-related messages and threads. The new feature is launching today in beta as a research preview.
When Claude is tagged, it will now automatically scan the message to see if it’s a coding task and, if so, route it to Claude Code using the context from the related Slack thread and the code repositories you’ve authenticated in Claude Code. Slack users can also directly tell Claude that a request is a coding task. For instance, you could ask Claude to investigate a bug report you’re discussing in Slack without needing to manually copy all the conte …
Lenovo has already demonstrated its ability to put rollable OLEDs into laptops by graduating last year from demo concept models to shipping the ThinkBook Plus Gen 6, an actual device you can buy. It has a built-in mechanism that expands the screen vertically to give you more screen real estate for typing and scrolling. However, the company might soon debut its first laptop that uses a rollable OLED to effectively transform its screen into an ultrawide 21:9 aspect ratio screen, with left and right edges that extend far outside the bottom chassis.
The Lenovo Legion Pro Rollable will be its first gaming laptop to feature a rollable horizontal …
At their biggest and most expensive, video games all sort of look the same. The reason often comes down to simple economics: More resources means more costs that need to be recouped, and historically the way publishers have done that is by being comically risk-averse. Hence the glut of semi-realistic rocky wastelands that look like death metal album covers where everyone is some kind of Wild West fetishist, or the hero shooters that all look like Pixar but shredded as hell and ready for fan artists to go places I shall not.
On occasion, however, new visual ground is staked. Octopath Traveler 0 is an example of this. The third game in the O …
Joshua Aaron, the developer of the ICEBlock app, is suing Attorney General Pam Bondi, US Homeland Security Secretary Kirsti Noem, acting director of ICE Todd Lyons, White House « Border Czar » Tom Homan, and other federal officials over the Trump administration’s « unlawful threats » made against Aaron and its actions to pressure Apple to pull the app from the App Store, which it did.
« We promised you we would fight back. Well, today’s the day we make good on the promise, » according to a post from ICEBlock’s official account on Bluesky. Aaron, Apple, and the Department of Homeland Security, didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment fr …
There’s an argument to be made that « the real monster is trauma » has become an overused trope in modern horror. Hereditary, The Babadook, and, much less effectively, Smile, are just a few higher-profile examples. But, if you ask me, few films have deployed this trope quite as effectively as the 2020 film His House.
The film follows Bol and Rial, refugees from South Sudan, played by Sope Dirisu and Wunmi Mosaku. Both deliver the kind of incredible performances that you rarely see in a genre film like this. It’s part of what elevates His House above the standard « haunted by trauma » fare. Mosaku, in particular, shows the sort of nuance and scr …
In November, Ted Sarandos, Netflix’s co-CEO made a trip to the White House for a lengthy meeting with Donald Trump. According to Bloomberg, the two discussed a number of topics, but chief among them was Netflix’s plan to bid on Warner Bros. At the end of their conversation, Sardonos felt that “Netflix wouldn’t face immediate opposition from the White House.”
This week, Netflix successfully won the bidding war for Warner, offering $82.7 billion. It’s well known that Paramount and its CEO David Ellison were eager to acquire the storied studio and its streaming assets. Ellison and his father, Larry Ellison, have close ties to the White House, and as part of their pitch to Warner, suggested that only they were in a position to overcome the regulatory hurdles of further media consolidation.
Sarandos seems to have rightly believed that the Ellisons overestimated their political clout. And despite some public efforts to turn the White House against the deal, Netflix won out, for now. There is of course, still a chance that Paramount could launch a hostile takeover effort, or that the Justice Department could try and scuttle the deal — nothing is guaranteed yet.
Sarandos tried to acquire Paramount before David Ellison swooped in, so snatching Warner Bros. out from under his nose is likely something of a personal victory.
Friday, the EU slapped X with a €120 million fine (about $140 million) for violating the Digital Services Act (DSA). It was the first time that a company had been hit with a penalty for running afoul of the law. Elon Musk responded with his trademark tact and professionalism by posting “Bullshit” on X in response to the announcement from the European Commission. But that wasn’t the end, because just a day later Nikita Bier, X’s head of product, accused the Commission of abusing an exploit to boost the reach of the announcement and responded by shutting down its ad account.
According to Bier, the Commission had not used its ad account since 2021, but used a post format explicitly reserved for ads in its announcement of the fine against X. He claims that the Commission posted “a link that deceives users into thinking it’s a video and to artificially increase its reach.” (For the record, the post itself includes a video.)
The seemingly retaliatory revocation of the European Commission’s ad account is unlikely to materially change things for either X or the EU. If, as Bier claims, the Commission has not used its ad account since 2021, holding it hostage is unlikely to give X any leverage. And, while it can appeal the decision, X is currently still on the hook for the sizable fine. Plus, it must provide details for how it plans to address the “deceptive” use of verified checkmarks in the next 60 days, or face additional penalties.
We’ve reached out to the Commission for comment and will update if we hear back.
Il semble que nous ne pouvons pas trouver le contenu demandé. Peut-être qu’une recherche peut vous aider.
It’s easy to think about AI as a sort of existential battle between human and machine. Maybe it will be, someday, in a Skynet sort of way. But there are also lots of people trying to figure out how to use AI not as a replacement for human creativity and thinking but as a tool meant to augment those things.
Sari Azout is one of those people. She’s the founder of Sublime, a platform dedicated to curation, creativity, and ideas. Sublime is all about taste, which makes it slightly surprising that there’s a huge amount of AI powering the way it works. But to Azout, it all makes sense.
Between keeping up with TikTok trends and whatever new gadget just dropped, it’s tough to know exactly what teens are into these days. Luckily, we can help. We may be older than teenagers, but many of us here at The Verge are kids at heart. Plus, we’ve also got a few staffers with older kids. To make your life a little easier this holiday season, we rounded up what we think are the best gifts for teens, based on our tech expertise as well as what our staff’s teens are into right now.
Below, you’ll find gift ideas for many types of teens. Some are more obvious choices, like the latest iPhone and Nintendo Switch 2, but we sought to include a …
The discount brings the price down to $299 ($100 off). | Image: The Verge
We thought Black Friday and Cyber Monday would bring the lowest prices of the year, but apparently not. Right now, you can snag Apple’s Watch Series 11 in the 42mm configuration with GPS for a new all-time low of $299 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy. That beats the $70 discount we saw at the beginning of the month, which means if you didn’t take advantage then, you can save even more now. The 46mm model with GPS is also down to its lowest price yet of $329 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy.
The Series 11 offers some nice improvements to the already-excellent Apple Watch Series 10. While this year’s model has the same dimensions as its predecessor, battery life has increased up to 24 hours per charge on the GPS / Wi-Fi model. At the same time, Apple managed to improve the Series 11’s durability and scratch-resistance, making it a better option for more intense workouts. Additionally, Apple added a more power-efficient 5G modem to the cellular model, so the battery won’t drain as quickly when you’re not on Wi-Fi.
Otherwise, the Series 11 carries over everything we loved about the Series 10. The wide-angle OLED display looks fantastic and is easy to read at a glance, while performance is excellent thanks to Apple’s S10 SiP chip. You also get a variety of health and wellness features, including FDA-cleared hypertension notifications, sleep apnea detection, and sleep score, which can summarize how well you slept. Meanwhile, you get access to the watchOS 26 update, which introduces a workout buddy and offers wrist-flick and double-tap gestures, along with the Liquid Glass redesign.
If you already own a Series 10, there aren’t many reasons to upgrade outside of the slightly improved battery life. However, if you have something older or you’re checking off a gift list, the Series 11 at $100 off is a great deal right before the holidays.
Slack users can now access Anthropic’s Claude Code directly in Slack by tagging Claude on coding-related messages and threads. The new feature is launching today in beta as a research preview.
When Claude is tagged, it will now automatically scan the message to see if it’s a coding task and, if so, route it to Claude Code using the context from the related Slack thread and the code repositories you’ve authenticated in Claude Code. Slack users can also directly tell Claude that a request is a coding task. For instance, you could ask Claude to investigate a bug report you’re discussing in Slack without needing to manually copy all the conte …
Lenovo has already demonstrated its ability to put rollable OLEDs into laptops by graduating last year from demo concept models to shipping the ThinkBook Plus Gen 6, an actual device you can buy. It has a built-in mechanism that expands the screen vertically to give you more screen real estate for typing and scrolling. However, the company might soon debut its first laptop that uses a rollable OLED to effectively transform its screen into an ultrawide 21:9 aspect ratio screen, with left and right edges that extend far outside the bottom chassis.
The Lenovo Legion Pro Rollable will be its first gaming laptop to feature a rollable horizontal …
At their biggest and most expensive, video games all sort of look the same. The reason often comes down to simple economics: More resources means more costs that need to be recouped, and historically the way publishers have done that is by being comically risk-averse. Hence the glut of semi-realistic rocky wastelands that look like death metal album covers where everyone is some kind of Wild West fetishist, or the hero shooters that all look like Pixar but shredded as hell and ready for fan artists to go places I shall not.
On occasion, however, new visual ground is staked. Octopath Traveler 0 is an example of this. The third game in the O …
Joshua Aaron, the developer of the ICEBlock app, is suing Attorney General Pam Bondi, US Homeland Security Secretary Kirsti Noem, acting director of ICE Todd Lyons, White House « Border Czar » Tom Homan, and other federal officials over the Trump administration’s « unlawful threats » made against Aaron and its actions to pressure Apple to pull the app from the App Store, which it did.
« We promised you we would fight back. Well, today’s the day we make good on the promise, » according to a post from ICEBlock’s official account on Bluesky. Aaron, Apple, and the Department of Homeland Security, didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment fr …
There’s an argument to be made that « the real monster is trauma » has become an overused trope in modern horror. Hereditary, The Babadook, and, much less effectively, Smile, are just a few higher-profile examples. But, if you ask me, few films have deployed this trope quite as effectively as the 2020 film His House.
The film follows Bol and Rial, refugees from South Sudan, played by Sope Dirisu and Wunmi Mosaku. Both deliver the kind of incredible performances that you rarely see in a genre film like this. It’s part of what elevates His House above the standard « haunted by trauma » fare. Mosaku, in particular, shows the sort of nuance and scr …
In November, Ted Sarandos, Netflix’s co-CEO made a trip to the White House for a lengthy meeting with Donald Trump. According to Bloomberg, the two discussed a number of topics, but chief among them was Netflix’s plan to bid on Warner Bros. At the end of their conversation, Sardonos felt that “Netflix wouldn’t face immediate opposition from the White House.”
This week, Netflix successfully won the bidding war for Warner, offering $82.7 billion. It’s well known that Paramount and its CEO David Ellison were eager to acquire the storied studio and its streaming assets. Ellison and his father, Larry Ellison, have close ties to the White House, and as part of their pitch to Warner, suggested that only they were in a position to overcome the regulatory hurdles of further media consolidation.
Sarandos seems to have rightly believed that the Ellisons overestimated their political clout. And despite some public efforts to turn the White House against the deal, Netflix won out, for now. There is of course, still a chance that Paramount could launch a hostile takeover effort, or that the Justice Department could try and scuttle the deal — nothing is guaranteed yet.
Sarandos tried to acquire Paramount before David Ellison swooped in, so snatching Warner Bros. out from under his nose is likely something of a personal victory.
Friday, the EU slapped X with a €120 million fine (about $140 million) for violating the Digital Services Act (DSA). It was the first time that a company had been hit with a penalty for running afoul of the law. Elon Musk responded with his trademark tact and professionalism by posting “Bullshit” on X in response to the announcement from the European Commission. But that wasn’t the end, because just a day later Nikita Bier, X’s head of product, accused the Commission of abusing an exploit to boost the reach of the announcement and responded by shutting down its ad account.
According to Bier, the Commission had not used its ad account since 2021, but used a post format explicitly reserved for ads in its announcement of the fine against X. He claims that the Commission posted “a link that deceives users into thinking it’s a video and to artificially increase its reach.” (For the record, the post itself includes a video.)
The seemingly retaliatory revocation of the European Commission’s ad account is unlikely to materially change things for either X or the EU. If, as Bier claims, the Commission has not used its ad account since 2021, holding it hostage is unlikely to give X any leverage. And, while it can appeal the decision, X is currently still on the hook for the sizable fine. Plus, it must provide details for how it plans to address the “deceptive” use of verified checkmarks in the next 60 days, or face additional penalties.
We’ve reached out to the Commission for comment and will update if we hear back.
Il semble que nous ne pouvons pas trouver le contenu demandé. Peut-être qu’une recherche peut vous aider.
It’s easy to think about AI as a sort of existential battle between human and machine. Maybe it will be, someday, in a Skynet sort of way. But there are also lots of people trying to figure out how to use AI not as a replacement for human creativity and thinking but as a tool meant to augment those things.
Sari Azout is one of those people. She’s the founder of Sublime, a platform dedicated to curation, creativity, and ideas. Sublime is all about taste, which makes it slightly surprising that there’s a huge amount of AI powering the way it works. But to Azout, it all makes sense.
Between keeping up with TikTok trends and whatever new gadget just dropped, it’s tough to know exactly what teens are into these days. Luckily, we can help. We may be older than teenagers, but many of us here at The Verge are kids at heart. Plus, we’ve also got a few staffers with older kids. To make your life a little easier this holiday season, we rounded up what we think are the best gifts for teens, based on our tech expertise as well as what our staff’s teens are into right now.
Below, you’ll find gift ideas for many types of teens. Some are more obvious choices, like the latest iPhone and Nintendo Switch 2, but we sought to include a …
The discount brings the price down to $299 ($100 off). | Image: The Verge
We thought Black Friday and Cyber Monday would bring the lowest prices of the year, but apparently not. Right now, you can snag Apple’s Watch Series 11 in the 42mm configuration with GPS for a new all-time low of $299 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy. That beats the $70 discount we saw at the beginning of the month, which means if you didn’t take advantage then, you can save even more now. The 46mm model with GPS is also down to its lowest price yet of $329 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy.
The Series 11 offers some nice improvements to the already-excellent Apple Watch Series 10. While this year’s model has the same dimensions as its predecessor, battery life has increased up to 24 hours per charge on the GPS / Wi-Fi model. At the same time, Apple managed to improve the Series 11’s durability and scratch-resistance, making it a better option for more intense workouts. Additionally, Apple added a more power-efficient 5G modem to the cellular model, so the battery won’t drain as quickly when you’re not on Wi-Fi.
Otherwise, the Series 11 carries over everything we loved about the Series 10. The wide-angle OLED display looks fantastic and is easy to read at a glance, while performance is excellent thanks to Apple’s S10 SiP chip. You also get a variety of health and wellness features, including FDA-cleared hypertension notifications, sleep apnea detection, and sleep score, which can summarize how well you slept. Meanwhile, you get access to the watchOS 26 update, which introduces a workout buddy and offers wrist-flick and double-tap gestures, along with the Liquid Glass redesign.
If you already own a Series 10, there aren’t many reasons to upgrade outside of the slightly improved battery life. However, if you have something older or you’re checking off a gift list, the Series 11 at $100 off is a great deal right before the holidays.
Slack users can now access Anthropic’s Claude Code directly in Slack by tagging Claude on coding-related messages and threads. The new feature is launching today in beta as a research preview.
When Claude is tagged, it will now automatically scan the message to see if it’s a coding task and, if so, route it to Claude Code using the context from the related Slack thread and the code repositories you’ve authenticated in Claude Code. Slack users can also directly tell Claude that a request is a coding task. For instance, you could ask Claude to investigate a bug report you’re discussing in Slack without needing to manually copy all the conte …
Lenovo has already demonstrated its ability to put rollable OLEDs into laptops by graduating last year from demo concept models to shipping the ThinkBook Plus Gen 6, an actual device you can buy. It has a built-in mechanism that expands the screen vertically to give you more screen real estate for typing and scrolling. However, the company might soon debut its first laptop that uses a rollable OLED to effectively transform its screen into an ultrawide 21:9 aspect ratio screen, with left and right edges that extend far outside the bottom chassis.
The Lenovo Legion Pro Rollable will be its first gaming laptop to feature a rollable horizontal …
At their biggest and most expensive, video games all sort of look the same. The reason often comes down to simple economics: More resources means more costs that need to be recouped, and historically the way publishers have done that is by being comically risk-averse. Hence the glut of semi-realistic rocky wastelands that look like death metal album covers where everyone is some kind of Wild West fetishist, or the hero shooters that all look like Pixar but shredded as hell and ready for fan artists to go places I shall not.
On occasion, however, new visual ground is staked. Octopath Traveler 0 is an example of this. The third game in the O …
Joshua Aaron, the developer of the ICEBlock app, is suing Attorney General Pam Bondi, US Homeland Security Secretary Kirsti Noem, acting director of ICE Todd Lyons, White House « Border Czar » Tom Homan, and other federal officials over the Trump administration’s « unlawful threats » made against Aaron and its actions to pressure Apple to pull the app from the App Store, which it did.
« We promised you we would fight back. Well, today’s the day we make good on the promise, » according to a post from ICEBlock’s official account on Bluesky. Aaron, Apple, and the Department of Homeland Security, didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment fr …
There’s an argument to be made that « the real monster is trauma » has become an overused trope in modern horror. Hereditary, The Babadook, and, much less effectively, Smile, are just a few higher-profile examples. But, if you ask me, few films have deployed this trope quite as effectively as the 2020 film His House.
The film follows Bol and Rial, refugees from South Sudan, played by Sope Dirisu and Wunmi Mosaku. Both deliver the kind of incredible performances that you rarely see in a genre film like this. It’s part of what elevates His House above the standard « haunted by trauma » fare. Mosaku, in particular, shows the sort of nuance and scr …
In November, Ted Sarandos, Netflix’s co-CEO made a trip to the White House for a lengthy meeting with Donald Trump. According to Bloomberg, the two discussed a number of topics, but chief among them was Netflix’s plan to bid on Warner Bros. At the end of their conversation, Sardonos felt that “Netflix wouldn’t face immediate opposition from the White House.”
This week, Netflix successfully won the bidding war for Warner, offering $82.7 billion. It’s well known that Paramount and its CEO David Ellison were eager to acquire the storied studio and its streaming assets. Ellison and his father, Larry Ellison, have close ties to the White House, and as part of their pitch to Warner, suggested that only they were in a position to overcome the regulatory hurdles of further media consolidation.
Sarandos seems to have rightly believed that the Ellisons overestimated their political clout. And despite some public efforts to turn the White House against the deal, Netflix won out, for now. There is of course, still a chance that Paramount could launch a hostile takeover effort, or that the Justice Department could try and scuttle the deal — nothing is guaranteed yet.
Sarandos tried to acquire Paramount before David Ellison swooped in, so snatching Warner Bros. out from under his nose is likely something of a personal victory.
Friday, the EU slapped X with a €120 million fine (about $140 million) for violating the Digital Services Act (DSA). It was the first time that a company had been hit with a penalty for running afoul of the law. Elon Musk responded with his trademark tact and professionalism by posting “Bullshit” on X in response to the announcement from the European Commission. But that wasn’t the end, because just a day later Nikita Bier, X’s head of product, accused the Commission of abusing an exploit to boost the reach of the announcement and responded by shutting down its ad account.
According to Bier, the Commission had not used its ad account since 2021, but used a post format explicitly reserved for ads in its announcement of the fine against X. He claims that the Commission posted “a link that deceives users into thinking it’s a video and to artificially increase its reach.” (For the record, the post itself includes a video.)
The seemingly retaliatory revocation of the European Commission’s ad account is unlikely to materially change things for either X or the EU. If, as Bier claims, the Commission has not used its ad account since 2021, holding it hostage is unlikely to give X any leverage. And, while it can appeal the decision, X is currently still on the hook for the sizable fine. Plus, it must provide details for how it plans to address the “deceptive” use of verified checkmarks in the next 60 days, or face additional penalties.
We’ve reached out to the Commission for comment and will update if we hear back.
Il semble que nous ne pouvons pas trouver le contenu demandé. Peut-être qu’une recherche peut vous aider.
It’s easy to think about AI as a sort of existential battle between human and machine. Maybe it will be, someday, in a Skynet sort of way. But there are also lots of people trying to figure out how to use AI not as a replacement for human creativity and thinking but as a tool meant to augment those things.
Sari Azout is one of those people. She’s the founder of Sublime, a platform dedicated to curation, creativity, and ideas. Sublime is all about taste, which makes it slightly surprising that there’s a huge amount of AI powering the way it works. But to Azout, it all makes sense.
Between keeping up with TikTok trends and whatever new gadget just dropped, it’s tough to know exactly what teens are into these days. Luckily, we can help. We may be older than teenagers, but many of us here at The Verge are kids at heart. Plus, we’ve also got a few staffers with older kids. To make your life a little easier this holiday season, we rounded up what we think are the best gifts for teens, based on our tech expertise as well as what our staff’s teens are into right now.
Below, you’ll find gift ideas for many types of teens. Some are more obvious choices, like the latest iPhone and Nintendo Switch 2, but we sought to include a …
The discount brings the price down to $299 ($100 off). | Image: The Verge
We thought Black Friday and Cyber Monday would bring the lowest prices of the year, but apparently not. Right now, you can snag Apple’s Watch Series 11 in the 42mm configuration with GPS for a new all-time low of $299 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy. That beats the $70 discount we saw at the beginning of the month, which means if you didn’t take advantage then, you can save even more now. The 46mm model with GPS is also down to its lowest price yet of $329 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy.
The Series 11 offers some nice improvements to the already-excellent Apple Watch Series 10. While this year’s model has the same dimensions as its predecessor, battery life has increased up to 24 hours per charge on the GPS / Wi-Fi model. At the same time, Apple managed to improve the Series 11’s durability and scratch-resistance, making it a better option for more intense workouts. Additionally, Apple added a more power-efficient 5G modem to the cellular model, so the battery won’t drain as quickly when you’re not on Wi-Fi.
Otherwise, the Series 11 carries over everything we loved about the Series 10. The wide-angle OLED display looks fantastic and is easy to read at a glance, while performance is excellent thanks to Apple’s S10 SiP chip. You also get a variety of health and wellness features, including FDA-cleared hypertension notifications, sleep apnea detection, and sleep score, which can summarize how well you slept. Meanwhile, you get access to the watchOS 26 update, which introduces a workout buddy and offers wrist-flick and double-tap gestures, along with the Liquid Glass redesign.
If you already own a Series 10, there aren’t many reasons to upgrade outside of the slightly improved battery life. However, if you have something older or you’re checking off a gift list, the Series 11 at $100 off is a great deal right before the holidays.
Slack users can now access Anthropic’s Claude Code directly in Slack by tagging Claude on coding-related messages and threads. The new feature is launching today in beta as a research preview.
When Claude is tagged, it will now automatically scan the message to see if it’s a coding task and, if so, route it to Claude Code using the context from the related Slack thread and the code repositories you’ve authenticated in Claude Code. Slack users can also directly tell Claude that a request is a coding task. For instance, you could ask Claude to investigate a bug report you’re discussing in Slack without needing to manually copy all the conte …
Lenovo has already demonstrated its ability to put rollable OLEDs into laptops by graduating last year from demo concept models to shipping the ThinkBook Plus Gen 6, an actual device you can buy. It has a built-in mechanism that expands the screen vertically to give you more screen real estate for typing and scrolling. However, the company might soon debut its first laptop that uses a rollable OLED to effectively transform its screen into an ultrawide 21:9 aspect ratio screen, with left and right edges that extend far outside the bottom chassis.
The Lenovo Legion Pro Rollable will be its first gaming laptop to feature a rollable horizontal …
At their biggest and most expensive, video games all sort of look the same. The reason often comes down to simple economics: More resources means more costs that need to be recouped, and historically the way publishers have done that is by being comically risk-averse. Hence the glut of semi-realistic rocky wastelands that look like death metal album covers where everyone is some kind of Wild West fetishist, or the hero shooters that all look like Pixar but shredded as hell and ready for fan artists to go places I shall not.
On occasion, however, new visual ground is staked. Octopath Traveler 0 is an example of this. The third game in the O …
Joshua Aaron, the developer of the ICEBlock app, is suing Attorney General Pam Bondi, US Homeland Security Secretary Kirsti Noem, acting director of ICE Todd Lyons, White House « Border Czar » Tom Homan, and other federal officials over the Trump administration’s « unlawful threats » made against Aaron and its actions to pressure Apple to pull the app from the App Store, which it did.
« We promised you we would fight back. Well, today’s the day we make good on the promise, » according to a post from ICEBlock’s official account on Bluesky. Aaron, Apple, and the Department of Homeland Security, didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment fr …
There’s an argument to be made that « the real monster is trauma » has become an overused trope in modern horror. Hereditary, The Babadook, and, much less effectively, Smile, are just a few higher-profile examples. But, if you ask me, few films have deployed this trope quite as effectively as the 2020 film His House.
The film follows Bol and Rial, refugees from South Sudan, played by Sope Dirisu and Wunmi Mosaku. Both deliver the kind of incredible performances that you rarely see in a genre film like this. It’s part of what elevates His House above the standard « haunted by trauma » fare. Mosaku, in particular, shows the sort of nuance and scr …
In November, Ted Sarandos, Netflix’s co-CEO made a trip to the White House for a lengthy meeting with Donald Trump. According to Bloomberg, the two discussed a number of topics, but chief among them was Netflix’s plan to bid on Warner Bros. At the end of their conversation, Sardonos felt that “Netflix wouldn’t face immediate opposition from the White House.”
This week, Netflix successfully won the bidding war for Warner, offering $82.7 billion. It’s well known that Paramount and its CEO David Ellison were eager to acquire the storied studio and its streaming assets. Ellison and his father, Larry Ellison, have close ties to the White House, and as part of their pitch to Warner, suggested that only they were in a position to overcome the regulatory hurdles of further media consolidation.
Sarandos seems to have rightly believed that the Ellisons overestimated their political clout. And despite some public efforts to turn the White House against the deal, Netflix won out, for now. There is of course, still a chance that Paramount could launch a hostile takeover effort, or that the Justice Department could try and scuttle the deal — nothing is guaranteed yet.
Sarandos tried to acquire Paramount before David Ellison swooped in, so snatching Warner Bros. out from under his nose is likely something of a personal victory.
Friday, the EU slapped X with a €120 million fine (about $140 million) for violating the Digital Services Act (DSA). It was the first time that a company had been hit with a penalty for running afoul of the law. Elon Musk responded with his trademark tact and professionalism by posting “Bullshit” on X in response to the announcement from the European Commission. But that wasn’t the end, because just a day later Nikita Bier, X’s head of product, accused the Commission of abusing an exploit to boost the reach of the announcement and responded by shutting down its ad account.
According to Bier, the Commission had not used its ad account since 2021, but used a post format explicitly reserved for ads in its announcement of the fine against X. He claims that the Commission posted “a link that deceives users into thinking it’s a video and to artificially increase its reach.” (For the record, the post itself includes a video.)
The seemingly retaliatory revocation of the European Commission’s ad account is unlikely to materially change things for either X or the EU. If, as Bier claims, the Commission has not used its ad account since 2021, holding it hostage is unlikely to give X any leverage. And, while it can appeal the decision, X is currently still on the hook for the sizable fine. Plus, it must provide details for how it plans to address the “deceptive” use of verified checkmarks in the next 60 days, or face additional penalties.
We’ve reached out to the Commission for comment and will update if we hear back.
Il semble que nous ne pouvons pas trouver le contenu demandé. Peut-être qu’une recherche peut vous aider.
It’s easy to think about AI as a sort of existential battle between human and machine. Maybe it will be, someday, in a Skynet sort of way. But there are also lots of people trying to figure out how to use AI not as a replacement for human creativity and thinking but as a tool meant to augment those things.
Sari Azout is one of those people. She’s the founder of Sublime, a platform dedicated to curation, creativity, and ideas. Sublime is all about taste, which makes it slightly surprising that there’s a huge amount of AI powering the way it works. But to Azout, it all makes sense.
Between keeping up with TikTok trends and whatever new gadget just dropped, it’s tough to know exactly what teens are into these days. Luckily, we can help. We may be older than teenagers, but many of us here at The Verge are kids at heart. Plus, we’ve also got a few staffers with older kids. To make your life a little easier this holiday season, we rounded up what we think are the best gifts for teens, based on our tech expertise as well as what our staff’s teens are into right now.
Below, you’ll find gift ideas for many types of teens. Some are more obvious choices, like the latest iPhone and Nintendo Switch 2, but we sought to include a …
The discount brings the price down to $299 ($100 off). | Image: The Verge
We thought Black Friday and Cyber Monday would bring the lowest prices of the year, but apparently not. Right now, you can snag Apple’s Watch Series 11 in the 42mm configuration with GPS for a new all-time low of $299 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy. That beats the $70 discount we saw at the beginning of the month, which means if you didn’t take advantage then, you can save even more now. The 46mm model with GPS is also down to its lowest price yet of $329 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy.
The Series 11 offers some nice improvements to the already-excellent Apple Watch Series 10. While this year’s model has the same dimensions as its predecessor, battery life has increased up to 24 hours per charge on the GPS / Wi-Fi model. At the same time, Apple managed to improve the Series 11’s durability and scratch-resistance, making it a better option for more intense workouts. Additionally, Apple added a more power-efficient 5G modem to the cellular model, so the battery won’t drain as quickly when you’re not on Wi-Fi.
Otherwise, the Series 11 carries over everything we loved about the Series 10. The wide-angle OLED display looks fantastic and is easy to read at a glance, while performance is excellent thanks to Apple’s S10 SiP chip. You also get a variety of health and wellness features, including FDA-cleared hypertension notifications, sleep apnea detection, and sleep score, which can summarize how well you slept. Meanwhile, you get access to the watchOS 26 update, which introduces a workout buddy and offers wrist-flick and double-tap gestures, along with the Liquid Glass redesign.
If you already own a Series 10, there aren’t many reasons to upgrade outside of the slightly improved battery life. However, if you have something older or you’re checking off a gift list, the Series 11 at $100 off is a great deal right before the holidays.
Slack users can now access Anthropic’s Claude Code directly in Slack by tagging Claude on coding-related messages and threads. The new feature is launching today in beta as a research preview.
When Claude is tagged, it will now automatically scan the message to see if it’s a coding task and, if so, route it to Claude Code using the context from the related Slack thread and the code repositories you’ve authenticated in Claude Code. Slack users can also directly tell Claude that a request is a coding task. For instance, you could ask Claude to investigate a bug report you’re discussing in Slack without needing to manually copy all the conte …
Lenovo has already demonstrated its ability to put rollable OLEDs into laptops by graduating last year from demo concept models to shipping the ThinkBook Plus Gen 6, an actual device you can buy. It has a built-in mechanism that expands the screen vertically to give you more screen real estate for typing and scrolling. However, the company might soon debut its first laptop that uses a rollable OLED to effectively transform its screen into an ultrawide 21:9 aspect ratio screen, with left and right edges that extend far outside the bottom chassis.
The Lenovo Legion Pro Rollable will be its first gaming laptop to feature a rollable horizontal …
At their biggest and most expensive, video games all sort of look the same. The reason often comes down to simple economics: More resources means more costs that need to be recouped, and historically the way publishers have done that is by being comically risk-averse. Hence the glut of semi-realistic rocky wastelands that look like death metal album covers where everyone is some kind of Wild West fetishist, or the hero shooters that all look like Pixar but shredded as hell and ready for fan artists to go places I shall not.
On occasion, however, new visual ground is staked. Octopath Traveler 0 is an example of this. The third game in the O …
Joshua Aaron, the developer of the ICEBlock app, is suing Attorney General Pam Bondi, US Homeland Security Secretary Kirsti Noem, acting director of ICE Todd Lyons, White House « Border Czar » Tom Homan, and other federal officials over the Trump administration’s « unlawful threats » made against Aaron and its actions to pressure Apple to pull the app from the App Store, which it did.
« We promised you we would fight back. Well, today’s the day we make good on the promise, » according to a post from ICEBlock’s official account on Bluesky. Aaron, Apple, and the Department of Homeland Security, didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment fr …
There’s an argument to be made that « the real monster is trauma » has become an overused trope in modern horror. Hereditary, The Babadook, and, much less effectively, Smile, are just a few higher-profile examples. But, if you ask me, few films have deployed this trope quite as effectively as the 2020 film His House.
The film follows Bol and Rial, refugees from South Sudan, played by Sope Dirisu and Wunmi Mosaku. Both deliver the kind of incredible performances that you rarely see in a genre film like this. It’s part of what elevates His House above the standard « haunted by trauma » fare. Mosaku, in particular, shows the sort of nuance and scr …
In November, Ted Sarandos, Netflix’s co-CEO made a trip to the White House for a lengthy meeting with Donald Trump. According to Bloomberg, the two discussed a number of topics, but chief among them was Netflix’s plan to bid on Warner Bros. At the end of their conversation, Sardonos felt that “Netflix wouldn’t face immediate opposition from the White House.”
This week, Netflix successfully won the bidding war for Warner, offering $82.7 billion. It’s well known that Paramount and its CEO David Ellison were eager to acquire the storied studio and its streaming assets. Ellison and his father, Larry Ellison, have close ties to the White House, and as part of their pitch to Warner, suggested that only they were in a position to overcome the regulatory hurdles of further media consolidation.
Sarandos seems to have rightly believed that the Ellisons overestimated their political clout. And despite some public efforts to turn the White House against the deal, Netflix won out, for now. There is of course, still a chance that Paramount could launch a hostile takeover effort, or that the Justice Department could try and scuttle the deal — nothing is guaranteed yet.
Sarandos tried to acquire Paramount before David Ellison swooped in, so snatching Warner Bros. out from under his nose is likely something of a personal victory.
Friday, the EU slapped X with a €120 million fine (about $140 million) for violating the Digital Services Act (DSA). It was the first time that a company had been hit with a penalty for running afoul of the law. Elon Musk responded with his trademark tact and professionalism by posting “Bullshit” on X in response to the announcement from the European Commission. But that wasn’t the end, because just a day later Nikita Bier, X’s head of product, accused the Commission of abusing an exploit to boost the reach of the announcement and responded by shutting down its ad account.
According to Bier, the Commission had not used its ad account since 2021, but used a post format explicitly reserved for ads in its announcement of the fine against X. He claims that the Commission posted “a link that deceives users into thinking it’s a video and to artificially increase its reach.” (For the record, the post itself includes a video.)
The seemingly retaliatory revocation of the European Commission’s ad account is unlikely to materially change things for either X or the EU. If, as Bier claims, the Commission has not used its ad account since 2021, holding it hostage is unlikely to give X any leverage. And, while it can appeal the decision, X is currently still on the hook for the sizable fine. Plus, it must provide details for how it plans to address the “deceptive” use of verified checkmarks in the next 60 days, or face additional penalties.
We’ve reached out to the Commission for comment and will update if we hear back.
Il semble que nous ne pouvons pas trouver le contenu demandé. Peut-être qu’une recherche peut vous aider.
It’s easy to think about AI as a sort of existential battle between human and machine. Maybe it will be, someday, in a Skynet sort of way. But there are also lots of people trying to figure out how to use AI not as a replacement for human creativity and thinking but as a tool meant to augment those things.
Sari Azout is one of those people. She’s the founder of Sublime, a platform dedicated to curation, creativity, and ideas. Sublime is all about taste, which makes it slightly surprising that there’s a huge amount of AI powering the way it works. But to Azout, it all makes sense.
Between keeping up with TikTok trends and whatever new gadget just dropped, it’s tough to know exactly what teens are into these days. Luckily, we can help. We may be older than teenagers, but many of us here at The Verge are kids at heart. Plus, we’ve also got a few staffers with older kids. To make your life a little easier this holiday season, we rounded up what we think are the best gifts for teens, based on our tech expertise as well as what our staff’s teens are into right now.
Below, you’ll find gift ideas for many types of teens. Some are more obvious choices, like the latest iPhone and Nintendo Switch 2, but we sought to include a …
The discount brings the price down to $299 ($100 off). | Image: The Verge
We thought Black Friday and Cyber Monday would bring the lowest prices of the year, but apparently not. Right now, you can snag Apple’s Watch Series 11 in the 42mm configuration with GPS for a new all-time low of $299 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy. That beats the $70 discount we saw at the beginning of the month, which means if you didn’t take advantage then, you can save even more now. The 46mm model with GPS is also down to its lowest price yet of $329 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy.
The Series 11 offers some nice improvements to the already-excellent Apple Watch Series 10. While this year’s model has the same dimensions as its predecessor, battery life has increased up to 24 hours per charge on the GPS / Wi-Fi model. At the same time, Apple managed to improve the Series 11’s durability and scratch-resistance, making it a better option for more intense workouts. Additionally, Apple added a more power-efficient 5G modem to the cellular model, so the battery won’t drain as quickly when you’re not on Wi-Fi.
Otherwise, the Series 11 carries over everything we loved about the Series 10. The wide-angle OLED display looks fantastic and is easy to read at a glance, while performance is excellent thanks to Apple’s S10 SiP chip. You also get a variety of health and wellness features, including FDA-cleared hypertension notifications, sleep apnea detection, and sleep score, which can summarize how well you slept. Meanwhile, you get access to the watchOS 26 update, which introduces a workout buddy and offers wrist-flick and double-tap gestures, along with the Liquid Glass redesign.
If you already own a Series 10, there aren’t many reasons to upgrade outside of the slightly improved battery life. However, if you have something older or you’re checking off a gift list, the Series 11 at $100 off is a great deal right before the holidays.
Slack users can now access Anthropic’s Claude Code directly in Slack by tagging Claude on coding-related messages and threads. The new feature is launching today in beta as a research preview.
When Claude is tagged, it will now automatically scan the message to see if it’s a coding task and, if so, route it to Claude Code using the context from the related Slack thread and the code repositories you’ve authenticated in Claude Code. Slack users can also directly tell Claude that a request is a coding task. For instance, you could ask Claude to investigate a bug report you’re discussing in Slack without needing to manually copy all the conte …
Lenovo has already demonstrated its ability to put rollable OLEDs into laptops by graduating last year from demo concept models to shipping the ThinkBook Plus Gen 6, an actual device you can buy. It has a built-in mechanism that expands the screen vertically to give you more screen real estate for typing and scrolling. However, the company might soon debut its first laptop that uses a rollable OLED to effectively transform its screen into an ultrawide 21:9 aspect ratio screen, with left and right edges that extend far outside the bottom chassis.
The Lenovo Legion Pro Rollable will be its first gaming laptop to feature a rollable horizontal …
At their biggest and most expensive, video games all sort of look the same. The reason often comes down to simple economics: More resources means more costs that need to be recouped, and historically the way publishers have done that is by being comically risk-averse. Hence the glut of semi-realistic rocky wastelands that look like death metal album covers where everyone is some kind of Wild West fetishist, or the hero shooters that all look like Pixar but shredded as hell and ready for fan artists to go places I shall not.
On occasion, however, new visual ground is staked. Octopath Traveler 0 is an example of this. The third game in the O …
Joshua Aaron, the developer of the ICEBlock app, is suing Attorney General Pam Bondi, US Homeland Security Secretary Kirsti Noem, acting director of ICE Todd Lyons, White House « Border Czar » Tom Homan, and other federal officials over the Trump administration’s « unlawful threats » made against Aaron and its actions to pressure Apple to pull the app from the App Store, which it did.
« We promised you we would fight back. Well, today’s the day we make good on the promise, » according to a post from ICEBlock’s official account on Bluesky. Aaron, Apple, and the Department of Homeland Security, didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment fr …
There’s an argument to be made that « the real monster is trauma » has become an overused trope in modern horror. Hereditary, The Babadook, and, much less effectively, Smile, are just a few higher-profile examples. But, if you ask me, few films have deployed this trope quite as effectively as the 2020 film His House.
The film follows Bol and Rial, refugees from South Sudan, played by Sope Dirisu and Wunmi Mosaku. Both deliver the kind of incredible performances that you rarely see in a genre film like this. It’s part of what elevates His House above the standard « haunted by trauma » fare. Mosaku, in particular, shows the sort of nuance and scr …
In November, Ted Sarandos, Netflix’s co-CEO made a trip to the White House for a lengthy meeting with Donald Trump. According to Bloomberg, the two discussed a number of topics, but chief among them was Netflix’s plan to bid on Warner Bros. At the end of their conversation, Sardonos felt that “Netflix wouldn’t face immediate opposition from the White House.”
This week, Netflix successfully won the bidding war for Warner, offering $82.7 billion. It’s well known that Paramount and its CEO David Ellison were eager to acquire the storied studio and its streaming assets. Ellison and his father, Larry Ellison, have close ties to the White House, and as part of their pitch to Warner, suggested that only they were in a position to overcome the regulatory hurdles of further media consolidation.
Sarandos seems to have rightly believed that the Ellisons overestimated their political clout. And despite some public efforts to turn the White House against the deal, Netflix won out, for now. There is of course, still a chance that Paramount could launch a hostile takeover effort, or that the Justice Department could try and scuttle the deal — nothing is guaranteed yet.
Sarandos tried to acquire Paramount before David Ellison swooped in, so snatching Warner Bros. out from under his nose is likely something of a personal victory.
Friday, the EU slapped X with a €120 million fine (about $140 million) for violating the Digital Services Act (DSA). It was the first time that a company had been hit with a penalty for running afoul of the law. Elon Musk responded with his trademark tact and professionalism by posting “Bullshit” on X in response to the announcement from the European Commission. But that wasn’t the end, because just a day later Nikita Bier, X’s head of product, accused the Commission of abusing an exploit to boost the reach of the announcement and responded by shutting down its ad account.
According to Bier, the Commission had not used its ad account since 2021, but used a post format explicitly reserved for ads in its announcement of the fine against X. He claims that the Commission posted “a link that deceives users into thinking it’s a video and to artificially increase its reach.” (For the record, the post itself includes a video.)
The seemingly retaliatory revocation of the European Commission’s ad account is unlikely to materially change things for either X or the EU. If, as Bier claims, the Commission has not used its ad account since 2021, holding it hostage is unlikely to give X any leverage. And, while it can appeal the decision, X is currently still on the hook for the sizable fine. Plus, it must provide details for how it plans to address the “deceptive” use of verified checkmarks in the next 60 days, or face additional penalties.
We’ve reached out to the Commission for comment and will update if we hear back.
Il semble que nous ne pouvons pas trouver le contenu demandé. Peut-être qu’une recherche peut vous aider.
It’s easy to think about AI as a sort of existential battle between human and machine. Maybe it will be, someday, in a Skynet sort of way. But there are also lots of people trying to figure out how to use AI not as a replacement for human creativity and thinking but as a tool meant to augment those things.
Sari Azout is one of those people. She’s the founder of Sublime, a platform dedicated to curation, creativity, and ideas. Sublime is all about taste, which makes it slightly surprising that there’s a huge amount of AI powering the way it works. But to Azout, it all makes sense.
Between keeping up with TikTok trends and whatever new gadget just dropped, it’s tough to know exactly what teens are into these days. Luckily, we can help. We may be older than teenagers, but many of us here at The Verge are kids at heart. Plus, we’ve also got a few staffers with older kids. To make your life a little easier this holiday season, we rounded up what we think are the best gifts for teens, based on our tech expertise as well as what our staff’s teens are into right now.
Below, you’ll find gift ideas for many types of teens. Some are more obvious choices, like the latest iPhone and Nintendo Switch 2, but we sought to include a …
The discount brings the price down to $299 ($100 off). | Image: The Verge
We thought Black Friday and Cyber Monday would bring the lowest prices of the year, but apparently not. Right now, you can snag Apple’s Watch Series 11 in the 42mm configuration with GPS for a new all-time low of $299 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy. That beats the $70 discount we saw at the beginning of the month, which means if you didn’t take advantage then, you can save even more now. The 46mm model with GPS is also down to its lowest price yet of $329 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy.
The Series 11 offers some nice improvements to the already-excellent Apple Watch Series 10. While this year’s model has the same dimensions as its predecessor, battery life has increased up to 24 hours per charge on the GPS / Wi-Fi model. At the same time, Apple managed to improve the Series 11’s durability and scratch-resistance, making it a better option for more intense workouts. Additionally, Apple added a more power-efficient 5G modem to the cellular model, so the battery won’t drain as quickly when you’re not on Wi-Fi.
Otherwise, the Series 11 carries over everything we loved about the Series 10. The wide-angle OLED display looks fantastic and is easy to read at a glance, while performance is excellent thanks to Apple’s S10 SiP chip. You also get a variety of health and wellness features, including FDA-cleared hypertension notifications, sleep apnea detection, and sleep score, which can summarize how well you slept. Meanwhile, you get access to the watchOS 26 update, which introduces a workout buddy and offers wrist-flick and double-tap gestures, along with the Liquid Glass redesign.
If you already own a Series 10, there aren’t many reasons to upgrade outside of the slightly improved battery life. However, if you have something older or you’re checking off a gift list, the Series 11 at $100 off is a great deal right before the holidays.
Slack users can now access Anthropic’s Claude Code directly in Slack by tagging Claude on coding-related messages and threads. The new feature is launching today in beta as a research preview.
When Claude is tagged, it will now automatically scan the message to see if it’s a coding task and, if so, route it to Claude Code using the context from the related Slack thread and the code repositories you’ve authenticated in Claude Code. Slack users can also directly tell Claude that a request is a coding task. For instance, you could ask Claude to investigate a bug report you’re discussing in Slack without needing to manually copy all the conte …
Lenovo has already demonstrated its ability to put rollable OLEDs into laptops by graduating last year from demo concept models to shipping the ThinkBook Plus Gen 6, an actual device you can buy. It has a built-in mechanism that expands the screen vertically to give you more screen real estate for typing and scrolling. However, the company might soon debut its first laptop that uses a rollable OLED to effectively transform its screen into an ultrawide 21:9 aspect ratio screen, with left and right edges that extend far outside the bottom chassis.
The Lenovo Legion Pro Rollable will be its first gaming laptop to feature a rollable horizontal …
At their biggest and most expensive, video games all sort of look the same. The reason often comes down to simple economics: More resources means more costs that need to be recouped, and historically the way publishers have done that is by being comically risk-averse. Hence the glut of semi-realistic rocky wastelands that look like death metal album covers where everyone is some kind of Wild West fetishist, or the hero shooters that all look like Pixar but shredded as hell and ready for fan artists to go places I shall not.
On occasion, however, new visual ground is staked. Octopath Traveler 0 is an example of this. The third game in the O …
Joshua Aaron, the developer of the ICEBlock app, is suing Attorney General Pam Bondi, US Homeland Security Secretary Kirsti Noem, acting director of ICE Todd Lyons, White House « Border Czar » Tom Homan, and other federal officials over the Trump administration’s « unlawful threats » made against Aaron and its actions to pressure Apple to pull the app from the App Store, which it did.
« We promised you we would fight back. Well, today’s the day we make good on the promise, » according to a post from ICEBlock’s official account on Bluesky. Aaron, Apple, and the Department of Homeland Security, didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment fr …
There’s an argument to be made that « the real monster is trauma » has become an overused trope in modern horror. Hereditary, The Babadook, and, much less effectively, Smile, are just a few higher-profile examples. But, if you ask me, few films have deployed this trope quite as effectively as the 2020 film His House.
The film follows Bol and Rial, refugees from South Sudan, played by Sope Dirisu and Wunmi Mosaku. Both deliver the kind of incredible performances that you rarely see in a genre film like this. It’s part of what elevates His House above the standard « haunted by trauma » fare. Mosaku, in particular, shows the sort of nuance and scr …
In November, Ted Sarandos, Netflix’s co-CEO made a trip to the White House for a lengthy meeting with Donald Trump. According to Bloomberg, the two discussed a number of topics, but chief among them was Netflix’s plan to bid on Warner Bros. At the end of their conversation, Sardonos felt that “Netflix wouldn’t face immediate opposition from the White House.”
This week, Netflix successfully won the bidding war for Warner, offering $82.7 billion. It’s well known that Paramount and its CEO David Ellison were eager to acquire the storied studio and its streaming assets. Ellison and his father, Larry Ellison, have close ties to the White House, and as part of their pitch to Warner, suggested that only they were in a position to overcome the regulatory hurdles of further media consolidation.
Sarandos seems to have rightly believed that the Ellisons overestimated their political clout. And despite some public efforts to turn the White House against the deal, Netflix won out, for now. There is of course, still a chance that Paramount could launch a hostile takeover effort, or that the Justice Department could try and scuttle the deal — nothing is guaranteed yet.
Sarandos tried to acquire Paramount before David Ellison swooped in, so snatching Warner Bros. out from under his nose is likely something of a personal victory.
Friday, the EU slapped X with a €120 million fine (about $140 million) for violating the Digital Services Act (DSA). It was the first time that a company had been hit with a penalty for running afoul of the law. Elon Musk responded with his trademark tact and professionalism by posting “Bullshit” on X in response to the announcement from the European Commission. But that wasn’t the end, because just a day later Nikita Bier, X’s head of product, accused the Commission of abusing an exploit to boost the reach of the announcement and responded by shutting down its ad account.
According to Bier, the Commission had not used its ad account since 2021, but used a post format explicitly reserved for ads in its announcement of the fine against X. He claims that the Commission posted “a link that deceives users into thinking it’s a video and to artificially increase its reach.” (For the record, the post itself includes a video.)
The seemingly retaliatory revocation of the European Commission’s ad account is unlikely to materially change things for either X or the EU. If, as Bier claims, the Commission has not used its ad account since 2021, holding it hostage is unlikely to give X any leverage. And, while it can appeal the decision, X is currently still on the hook for the sizable fine. Plus, it must provide details for how it plans to address the “deceptive” use of verified checkmarks in the next 60 days, or face additional penalties.
We’ve reached out to the Commission for comment and will update if we hear back.
Il semble que nous ne pouvons pas trouver le contenu demandé. Peut-être qu’une recherche peut vous aider.
It’s easy to think about AI as a sort of existential battle between human and machine. Maybe it will be, someday, in a Skynet sort of way. But there are also lots of people trying to figure out how to use AI not as a replacement for human creativity and thinking but as a tool meant to augment those things.
Sari Azout is one of those people. She’s the founder of Sublime, a platform dedicated to curation, creativity, and ideas. Sublime is all about taste, which makes it slightly surprising that there’s a huge amount of AI powering the way it works. But to Azout, it all makes sense.
Between keeping up with TikTok trends and whatever new gadget just dropped, it’s tough to know exactly what teens are into these days. Luckily, we can help. We may be older than teenagers, but many of us here at The Verge are kids at heart. Plus, we’ve also got a few staffers with older kids. To make your life a little easier this holiday season, we rounded up what we think are the best gifts for teens, based on our tech expertise as well as what our staff’s teens are into right now.
Below, you’ll find gift ideas for many types of teens. Some are more obvious choices, like the latest iPhone and Nintendo Switch 2, but we sought to include a …
The discount brings the price down to $299 ($100 off). | Image: The Verge
We thought Black Friday and Cyber Monday would bring the lowest prices of the year, but apparently not. Right now, you can snag Apple’s Watch Series 11 in the 42mm configuration with GPS for a new all-time low of $299 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy. That beats the $70 discount we saw at the beginning of the month, which means if you didn’t take advantage then, you can save even more now. The 46mm model with GPS is also down to its lowest price yet of $329 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy.
The Series 11 offers some nice improvements to the already-excellent Apple Watch Series 10. While this year’s model has the same dimensions as its predecessor, battery life has increased up to 24 hours per charge on the GPS / Wi-Fi model. At the same time, Apple managed to improve the Series 11’s durability and scratch-resistance, making it a better option for more intense workouts. Additionally, Apple added a more power-efficient 5G modem to the cellular model, so the battery won’t drain as quickly when you’re not on Wi-Fi.
Otherwise, the Series 11 carries over everything we loved about the Series 10. The wide-angle OLED display looks fantastic and is easy to read at a glance, while performance is excellent thanks to Apple’s S10 SiP chip. You also get a variety of health and wellness features, including FDA-cleared hypertension notifications, sleep apnea detection, and sleep score, which can summarize how well you slept. Meanwhile, you get access to the watchOS 26 update, which introduces a workout buddy and offers wrist-flick and double-tap gestures, along with the Liquid Glass redesign.
If you already own a Series 10, there aren’t many reasons to upgrade outside of the slightly improved battery life. However, if you have something older or you’re checking off a gift list, the Series 11 at $100 off is a great deal right before the holidays.
Slack users can now access Anthropic’s Claude Code directly in Slack by tagging Claude on coding-related messages and threads. The new feature is launching today in beta as a research preview.
When Claude is tagged, it will now automatically scan the message to see if it’s a coding task and, if so, route it to Claude Code using the context from the related Slack thread and the code repositories you’ve authenticated in Claude Code. Slack users can also directly tell Claude that a request is a coding task. For instance, you could ask Claude to investigate a bug report you’re discussing in Slack without needing to manually copy all the conte …
Lenovo has already demonstrated its ability to put rollable OLEDs into laptops by graduating last year from demo concept models to shipping the ThinkBook Plus Gen 6, an actual device you can buy. It has a built-in mechanism that expands the screen vertically to give you more screen real estate for typing and scrolling. However, the company might soon debut its first laptop that uses a rollable OLED to effectively transform its screen into an ultrawide 21:9 aspect ratio screen, with left and right edges that extend far outside the bottom chassis.
The Lenovo Legion Pro Rollable will be its first gaming laptop to feature a rollable horizontal …
At their biggest and most expensive, video games all sort of look the same. The reason often comes down to simple economics: More resources means more costs that need to be recouped, and historically the way publishers have done that is by being comically risk-averse. Hence the glut of semi-realistic rocky wastelands that look like death metal album covers where everyone is some kind of Wild West fetishist, or the hero shooters that all look like Pixar but shredded as hell and ready for fan artists to go places I shall not.
On occasion, however, new visual ground is staked. Octopath Traveler 0 is an example of this. The third game in the O …
Joshua Aaron, the developer of the ICEBlock app, is suing Attorney General Pam Bondi, US Homeland Security Secretary Kirsti Noem, acting director of ICE Todd Lyons, White House « Border Czar » Tom Homan, and other federal officials over the Trump administration’s « unlawful threats » made against Aaron and its actions to pressure Apple to pull the app from the App Store, which it did.
« We promised you we would fight back. Well, today’s the day we make good on the promise, » according to a post from ICEBlock’s official account on Bluesky. Aaron, Apple, and the Department of Homeland Security, didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment fr …
There’s an argument to be made that « the real monster is trauma » has become an overused trope in modern horror. Hereditary, The Babadook, and, much less effectively, Smile, are just a few higher-profile examples. But, if you ask me, few films have deployed this trope quite as effectively as the 2020 film His House.
The film follows Bol and Rial, refugees from South Sudan, played by Sope Dirisu and Wunmi Mosaku. Both deliver the kind of incredible performances that you rarely see in a genre film like this. It’s part of what elevates His House above the standard « haunted by trauma » fare. Mosaku, in particular, shows the sort of nuance and scr …
In November, Ted Sarandos, Netflix’s co-CEO made a trip to the White House for a lengthy meeting with Donald Trump. According to Bloomberg, the two discussed a number of topics, but chief among them was Netflix’s plan to bid on Warner Bros. At the end of their conversation, Sardonos felt that “Netflix wouldn’t face immediate opposition from the White House.”
This week, Netflix successfully won the bidding war for Warner, offering $82.7 billion. It’s well known that Paramount and its CEO David Ellison were eager to acquire the storied studio and its streaming assets. Ellison and his father, Larry Ellison, have close ties to the White House, and as part of their pitch to Warner, suggested that only they were in a position to overcome the regulatory hurdles of further media consolidation.
Sarandos seems to have rightly believed that the Ellisons overestimated their political clout. And despite some public efforts to turn the White House against the deal, Netflix won out, for now. There is of course, still a chance that Paramount could launch a hostile takeover effort, or that the Justice Department could try and scuttle the deal — nothing is guaranteed yet.
Sarandos tried to acquire Paramount before David Ellison swooped in, so snatching Warner Bros. out from under his nose is likely something of a personal victory.
Friday, the EU slapped X with a €120 million fine (about $140 million) for violating the Digital Services Act (DSA). It was the first time that a company had been hit with a penalty for running afoul of the law. Elon Musk responded with his trademark tact and professionalism by posting “Bullshit” on X in response to the announcement from the European Commission. But that wasn’t the end, because just a day later Nikita Bier, X’s head of product, accused the Commission of abusing an exploit to boost the reach of the announcement and responded by shutting down its ad account.
According to Bier, the Commission had not used its ad account since 2021, but used a post format explicitly reserved for ads in its announcement of the fine against X. He claims that the Commission posted “a link that deceives users into thinking it’s a video and to artificially increase its reach.” (For the record, the post itself includes a video.)
The seemingly retaliatory revocation of the European Commission’s ad account is unlikely to materially change things for either X or the EU. If, as Bier claims, the Commission has not used its ad account since 2021, holding it hostage is unlikely to give X any leverage. And, while it can appeal the decision, X is currently still on the hook for the sizable fine. Plus, it must provide details for how it plans to address the “deceptive” use of verified checkmarks in the next 60 days, or face additional penalties.
We’ve reached out to the Commission for comment and will update if we hear back.
Il semble que nous ne pouvons pas trouver le contenu demandé. Peut-être qu’une recherche peut vous aider.
It’s easy to think about AI as a sort of existential battle between human and machine. Maybe it will be, someday, in a Skynet sort of way. But there are also lots of people trying to figure out how to use AI not as a replacement for human creativity and thinking but as a tool meant to augment those things.
Sari Azout is one of those people. She’s the founder of Sublime, a platform dedicated to curation, creativity, and ideas. Sublime is all about taste, which makes it slightly surprising that there’s a huge amount of AI powering the way it works. But to Azout, it all makes sense.
Between keeping up with TikTok trends and whatever new gadget just dropped, it’s tough to know exactly what teens are into these days. Luckily, we can help. We may be older than teenagers, but many of us here at The Verge are kids at heart. Plus, we’ve also got a few staffers with older kids. To make your life a little easier this holiday season, we rounded up what we think are the best gifts for teens, based on our tech expertise as well as what our staff’s teens are into right now.
Below, you’ll find gift ideas for many types of teens. Some are more obvious choices, like the latest iPhone and Nintendo Switch 2, but we sought to include a …
The discount brings the price down to $299 ($100 off). | Image: The Verge
We thought Black Friday and Cyber Monday would bring the lowest prices of the year, but apparently not. Right now, you can snag Apple’s Watch Series 11 in the 42mm configuration with GPS for a new all-time low of $299 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy. That beats the $70 discount we saw at the beginning of the month, which means if you didn’t take advantage then, you can save even more now. The 46mm model with GPS is also down to its lowest price yet of $329 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy.
The Series 11 offers some nice improvements to the already-excellent Apple Watch Series 10. While this year’s model has the same dimensions as its predecessor, battery life has increased up to 24 hours per charge on the GPS / Wi-Fi model. At the same time, Apple managed to improve the Series 11’s durability and scratch-resistance, making it a better option for more intense workouts. Additionally, Apple added a more power-efficient 5G modem to the cellular model, so the battery won’t drain as quickly when you’re not on Wi-Fi.
Otherwise, the Series 11 carries over everything we loved about the Series 10. The wide-angle OLED display looks fantastic and is easy to read at a glance, while performance is excellent thanks to Apple’s S10 SiP chip. You also get a variety of health and wellness features, including FDA-cleared hypertension notifications, sleep apnea detection, and sleep score, which can summarize how well you slept. Meanwhile, you get access to the watchOS 26 update, which introduces a workout buddy and offers wrist-flick and double-tap gestures, along with the Liquid Glass redesign.
If you already own a Series 10, there aren’t many reasons to upgrade outside of the slightly improved battery life. However, if you have something older or you’re checking off a gift list, the Series 11 at $100 off is a great deal right before the holidays.
Slack users can now access Anthropic’s Claude Code directly in Slack by tagging Claude on coding-related messages and threads. The new feature is launching today in beta as a research preview.
When Claude is tagged, it will now automatically scan the message to see if it’s a coding task and, if so, route it to Claude Code using the context from the related Slack thread and the code repositories you’ve authenticated in Claude Code. Slack users can also directly tell Claude that a request is a coding task. For instance, you could ask Claude to investigate a bug report you’re discussing in Slack without needing to manually copy all the conte …
Lenovo has already demonstrated its ability to put rollable OLEDs into laptops by graduating last year from demo concept models to shipping the ThinkBook Plus Gen 6, an actual device you can buy. It has a built-in mechanism that expands the screen vertically to give you more screen real estate for typing and scrolling. However, the company might soon debut its first laptop that uses a rollable OLED to effectively transform its screen into an ultrawide 21:9 aspect ratio screen, with left and right edges that extend far outside the bottom chassis.
The Lenovo Legion Pro Rollable will be its first gaming laptop to feature a rollable horizontal …
At their biggest and most expensive, video games all sort of look the same. The reason often comes down to simple economics: More resources means more costs that need to be recouped, and historically the way publishers have done that is by being comically risk-averse. Hence the glut of semi-realistic rocky wastelands that look like death metal album covers where everyone is some kind of Wild West fetishist, or the hero shooters that all look like Pixar but shredded as hell and ready for fan artists to go places I shall not.
On occasion, however, new visual ground is staked. Octopath Traveler 0 is an example of this. The third game in the O …
Joshua Aaron, the developer of the ICEBlock app, is suing Attorney General Pam Bondi, US Homeland Security Secretary Kirsti Noem, acting director of ICE Todd Lyons, White House « Border Czar » Tom Homan, and other federal officials over the Trump administration’s « unlawful threats » made against Aaron and its actions to pressure Apple to pull the app from the App Store, which it did.
« We promised you we would fight back. Well, today’s the day we make good on the promise, » according to a post from ICEBlock’s official account on Bluesky. Aaron, Apple, and the Department of Homeland Security, didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment fr …
There’s an argument to be made that « the real monster is trauma » has become an overused trope in modern horror. Hereditary, The Babadook, and, much less effectively, Smile, are just a few higher-profile examples. But, if you ask me, few films have deployed this trope quite as effectively as the 2020 film His House.
The film follows Bol and Rial, refugees from South Sudan, played by Sope Dirisu and Wunmi Mosaku. Both deliver the kind of incredible performances that you rarely see in a genre film like this. It’s part of what elevates His House above the standard « haunted by trauma » fare. Mosaku, in particular, shows the sort of nuance and scr …
In November, Ted Sarandos, Netflix’s co-CEO made a trip to the White House for a lengthy meeting with Donald Trump. According to Bloomberg, the two discussed a number of topics, but chief among them was Netflix’s plan to bid on Warner Bros. At the end of their conversation, Sardonos felt that “Netflix wouldn’t face immediate opposition from the White House.”
This week, Netflix successfully won the bidding war for Warner, offering $82.7 billion. It’s well known that Paramount and its CEO David Ellison were eager to acquire the storied studio and its streaming assets. Ellison and his father, Larry Ellison, have close ties to the White House, and as part of their pitch to Warner, suggested that only they were in a position to overcome the regulatory hurdles of further media consolidation.
Sarandos seems to have rightly believed that the Ellisons overestimated their political clout. And despite some public efforts to turn the White House against the deal, Netflix won out, for now. There is of course, still a chance that Paramount could launch a hostile takeover effort, or that the Justice Department could try and scuttle the deal — nothing is guaranteed yet.
Sarandos tried to acquire Paramount before David Ellison swooped in, so snatching Warner Bros. out from under his nose is likely something of a personal victory.
Friday, the EU slapped X with a €120 million fine (about $140 million) for violating the Digital Services Act (DSA). It was the first time that a company had been hit with a penalty for running afoul of the law. Elon Musk responded with his trademark tact and professionalism by posting “Bullshit” on X in response to the announcement from the European Commission. But that wasn’t the end, because just a day later Nikita Bier, X’s head of product, accused the Commission of abusing an exploit to boost the reach of the announcement and responded by shutting down its ad account.
According to Bier, the Commission had not used its ad account since 2021, but used a post format explicitly reserved for ads in its announcement of the fine against X. He claims that the Commission posted “a link that deceives users into thinking it’s a video and to artificially increase its reach.” (For the record, the post itself includes a video.)
The seemingly retaliatory revocation of the European Commission’s ad account is unlikely to materially change things for either X or the EU. If, as Bier claims, the Commission has not used its ad account since 2021, holding it hostage is unlikely to give X any leverage. And, while it can appeal the decision, X is currently still on the hook for the sizable fine. Plus, it must provide details for how it plans to address the “deceptive” use of verified checkmarks in the next 60 days, or face additional penalties.
We’ve reached out to the Commission for comment and will update if we hear back.
Il semble que nous ne pouvons pas trouver le contenu demandé. Peut-être qu’une recherche peut vous aider.
It’s easy to think about AI as a sort of existential battle between human and machine. Maybe it will be, someday, in a Skynet sort of way. But there are also lots of people trying to figure out how to use AI not as a replacement for human creativity and thinking but as a tool meant to augment those things.
Sari Azout is one of those people. She’s the founder of Sublime, a platform dedicated to curation, creativity, and ideas. Sublime is all about taste, which makes it slightly surprising that there’s a huge amount of AI powering the way it works. But to Azout, it all makes sense.
Between keeping up with TikTok trends and whatever new gadget just dropped, it’s tough to know exactly what teens are into these days. Luckily, we can help. We may be older than teenagers, but many of us here at The Verge are kids at heart. Plus, we’ve also got a few staffers with older kids. To make your life a little easier this holiday season, we rounded up what we think are the best gifts for teens, based on our tech expertise as well as what our staff’s teens are into right now.
Below, you’ll find gift ideas for many types of teens. Some are more obvious choices, like the latest iPhone and Nintendo Switch 2, but we sought to include a …
The discount brings the price down to $299 ($100 off). | Image: The Verge
We thought Black Friday and Cyber Monday would bring the lowest prices of the year, but apparently not. Right now, you can snag Apple’s Watch Series 11 in the 42mm configuration with GPS for a new all-time low of $299 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy. That beats the $70 discount we saw at the beginning of the month, which means if you didn’t take advantage then, you can save even more now. The 46mm model with GPS is also down to its lowest price yet of $329 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy.
The Series 11 offers some nice improvements to the already-excellent Apple Watch Series 10. While this year’s model has the same dimensions as its predecessor, battery life has increased up to 24 hours per charge on the GPS / Wi-Fi model. At the same time, Apple managed to improve the Series 11’s durability and scratch-resistance, making it a better option for more intense workouts. Additionally, Apple added a more power-efficient 5G modem to the cellular model, so the battery won’t drain as quickly when you’re not on Wi-Fi.
Otherwise, the Series 11 carries over everything we loved about the Series 10. The wide-angle OLED display looks fantastic and is easy to read at a glance, while performance is excellent thanks to Apple’s S10 SiP chip. You also get a variety of health and wellness features, including FDA-cleared hypertension notifications, sleep apnea detection, and sleep score, which can summarize how well you slept. Meanwhile, you get access to the watchOS 26 update, which introduces a workout buddy and offers wrist-flick and double-tap gestures, along with the Liquid Glass redesign.
If you already own a Series 10, there aren’t many reasons to upgrade outside of the slightly improved battery life. However, if you have something older or you’re checking off a gift list, the Series 11 at $100 off is a great deal right before the holidays.
Slack users can now access Anthropic’s Claude Code directly in Slack by tagging Claude on coding-related messages and threads. The new feature is launching today in beta as a research preview.
When Claude is tagged, it will now automatically scan the message to see if it’s a coding task and, if so, route it to Claude Code using the context from the related Slack thread and the code repositories you’ve authenticated in Claude Code. Slack users can also directly tell Claude that a request is a coding task. For instance, you could ask Claude to investigate a bug report you’re discussing in Slack without needing to manually copy all the conte …
Lenovo has already demonstrated its ability to put rollable OLEDs into laptops by graduating last year from demo concept models to shipping the ThinkBook Plus Gen 6, an actual device you can buy. It has a built-in mechanism that expands the screen vertically to give you more screen real estate for typing and scrolling. However, the company might soon debut its first laptop that uses a rollable OLED to effectively transform its screen into an ultrawide 21:9 aspect ratio screen, with left and right edges that extend far outside the bottom chassis.
The Lenovo Legion Pro Rollable will be its first gaming laptop to feature a rollable horizontal …
At their biggest and most expensive, video games all sort of look the same. The reason often comes down to simple economics: More resources means more costs that need to be recouped, and historically the way publishers have done that is by being comically risk-averse. Hence the glut of semi-realistic rocky wastelands that look like death metal album covers where everyone is some kind of Wild West fetishist, or the hero shooters that all look like Pixar but shredded as hell and ready for fan artists to go places I shall not.
On occasion, however, new visual ground is staked. Octopath Traveler 0 is an example of this. The third game in the O …
Joshua Aaron, the developer of the ICEBlock app, is suing Attorney General Pam Bondi, US Homeland Security Secretary Kirsti Noem, acting director of ICE Todd Lyons, White House « Border Czar » Tom Homan, and other federal officials over the Trump administration’s « unlawful threats » made against Aaron and its actions to pressure Apple to pull the app from the App Store, which it did.
« We promised you we would fight back. Well, today’s the day we make good on the promise, » according to a post from ICEBlock’s official account on Bluesky. Aaron, Apple, and the Department of Homeland Security, didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment fr …
There’s an argument to be made that « the real monster is trauma » has become an overused trope in modern horror. Hereditary, The Babadook, and, much less effectively, Smile, are just a few higher-profile examples. But, if you ask me, few films have deployed this trope quite as effectively as the 2020 film His House.
The film follows Bol and Rial, refugees from South Sudan, played by Sope Dirisu and Wunmi Mosaku. Both deliver the kind of incredible performances that you rarely see in a genre film like this. It’s part of what elevates His House above the standard « haunted by trauma » fare. Mosaku, in particular, shows the sort of nuance and scr …
In November, Ted Sarandos, Netflix’s co-CEO made a trip to the White House for a lengthy meeting with Donald Trump. According to Bloomberg, the two discussed a number of topics, but chief among them was Netflix’s plan to bid on Warner Bros. At the end of their conversation, Sardonos felt that “Netflix wouldn’t face immediate opposition from the White House.”
This week, Netflix successfully won the bidding war for Warner, offering $82.7 billion. It’s well known that Paramount and its CEO David Ellison were eager to acquire the storied studio and its streaming assets. Ellison and his father, Larry Ellison, have close ties to the White House, and as part of their pitch to Warner, suggested that only they were in a position to overcome the regulatory hurdles of further media consolidation.
Sarandos seems to have rightly believed that the Ellisons overestimated their political clout. And despite some public efforts to turn the White House against the deal, Netflix won out, for now. There is of course, still a chance that Paramount could launch a hostile takeover effort, or that the Justice Department could try and scuttle the deal — nothing is guaranteed yet.
Sarandos tried to acquire Paramount before David Ellison swooped in, so snatching Warner Bros. out from under his nose is likely something of a personal victory.
Friday, the EU slapped X with a €120 million fine (about $140 million) for violating the Digital Services Act (DSA). It was the first time that a company had been hit with a penalty for running afoul of the law. Elon Musk responded with his trademark tact and professionalism by posting “Bullshit” on X in response to the announcement from the European Commission. But that wasn’t the end, because just a day later Nikita Bier, X’s head of product, accused the Commission of abusing an exploit to boost the reach of the announcement and responded by shutting down its ad account.
According to Bier, the Commission had not used its ad account since 2021, but used a post format explicitly reserved for ads in its announcement of the fine against X. He claims that the Commission posted “a link that deceives users into thinking it’s a video and to artificially increase its reach.” (For the record, the post itself includes a video.)
The seemingly retaliatory revocation of the European Commission’s ad account is unlikely to materially change things for either X or the EU. If, as Bier claims, the Commission has not used its ad account since 2021, holding it hostage is unlikely to give X any leverage. And, while it can appeal the decision, X is currently still on the hook for the sizable fine. Plus, it must provide details for how it plans to address the “deceptive” use of verified checkmarks in the next 60 days, or face additional penalties.
We’ve reached out to the Commission for comment and will update if we hear back.
Il semble que nous ne pouvons pas trouver le contenu demandé. Peut-être qu’une recherche peut vous aider.
It’s easy to think about AI as a sort of existential battle between human and machine. Maybe it will be, someday, in a Skynet sort of way. But there are also lots of people trying to figure out how to use AI not as a replacement for human creativity and thinking but as a tool meant to augment those things.
Sari Azout is one of those people. She’s the founder of Sublime, a platform dedicated to curation, creativity, and ideas. Sublime is all about taste, which makes it slightly surprising that there’s a huge amount of AI powering the way it works. But to Azout, it all makes sense.
Between keeping up with TikTok trends and whatever new gadget just dropped, it’s tough to know exactly what teens are into these days. Luckily, we can help. We may be older than teenagers, but many of us here at The Verge are kids at heart. Plus, we’ve also got a few staffers with older kids. To make your life a little easier this holiday season, we rounded up what we think are the best gifts for teens, based on our tech expertise as well as what our staff’s teens are into right now.
Below, you’ll find gift ideas for many types of teens. Some are more obvious choices, like the latest iPhone and Nintendo Switch 2, but we sought to include a …
The discount brings the price down to $299 ($100 off). | Image: The Verge
We thought Black Friday and Cyber Monday would bring the lowest prices of the year, but apparently not. Right now, you can snag Apple’s Watch Series 11 in the 42mm configuration with GPS for a new all-time low of $299 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy. That beats the $70 discount we saw at the beginning of the month, which means if you didn’t take advantage then, you can save even more now. The 46mm model with GPS is also down to its lowest price yet of $329 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy.
The Series 11 offers some nice improvements to the already-excellent Apple Watch Series 10. While this year’s model has the same dimensions as its predecessor, battery life has increased up to 24 hours per charge on the GPS / Wi-Fi model. At the same time, Apple managed to improve the Series 11’s durability and scratch-resistance, making it a better option for more intense workouts. Additionally, Apple added a more power-efficient 5G modem to the cellular model, so the battery won’t drain as quickly when you’re not on Wi-Fi.
Otherwise, the Series 11 carries over everything we loved about the Series 10. The wide-angle OLED display looks fantastic and is easy to read at a glance, while performance is excellent thanks to Apple’s S10 SiP chip. You also get a variety of health and wellness features, including FDA-cleared hypertension notifications, sleep apnea detection, and sleep score, which can summarize how well you slept. Meanwhile, you get access to the watchOS 26 update, which introduces a workout buddy and offers wrist-flick and double-tap gestures, along with the Liquid Glass redesign.
If you already own a Series 10, there aren’t many reasons to upgrade outside of the slightly improved battery life. However, if you have something older or you’re checking off a gift list, the Series 11 at $100 off is a great deal right before the holidays.
Slack users can now access Anthropic’s Claude Code directly in Slack by tagging Claude on coding-related messages and threads. The new feature is launching today in beta as a research preview.
When Claude is tagged, it will now automatically scan the message to see if it’s a coding task and, if so, route it to Claude Code using the context from the related Slack thread and the code repositories you’ve authenticated in Claude Code. Slack users can also directly tell Claude that a request is a coding task. For instance, you could ask Claude to investigate a bug report you’re discussing in Slack without needing to manually copy all the conte …
Lenovo has already demonstrated its ability to put rollable OLEDs into laptops by graduating last year from demo concept models to shipping the ThinkBook Plus Gen 6, an actual device you can buy. It has a built-in mechanism that expands the screen vertically to give you more screen real estate for typing and scrolling. However, the company might soon debut its first laptop that uses a rollable OLED to effectively transform its screen into an ultrawide 21:9 aspect ratio screen, with left and right edges that extend far outside the bottom chassis.
The Lenovo Legion Pro Rollable will be its first gaming laptop to feature a rollable horizontal …
At their biggest and most expensive, video games all sort of look the same. The reason often comes down to simple economics: More resources means more costs that need to be recouped, and historically the way publishers have done that is by being comically risk-averse. Hence the glut of semi-realistic rocky wastelands that look like death metal album covers where everyone is some kind of Wild West fetishist, or the hero shooters that all look like Pixar but shredded as hell and ready for fan artists to go places I shall not.
On occasion, however, new visual ground is staked. Octopath Traveler 0 is an example of this. The third game in the O …
Joshua Aaron, the developer of the ICEBlock app, is suing Attorney General Pam Bondi, US Homeland Security Secretary Kirsti Noem, acting director of ICE Todd Lyons, White House « Border Czar » Tom Homan, and other federal officials over the Trump administration’s « unlawful threats » made against Aaron and its actions to pressure Apple to pull the app from the App Store, which it did.
« We promised you we would fight back. Well, today’s the day we make good on the promise, » according to a post from ICEBlock’s official account on Bluesky. Aaron, Apple, and the Department of Homeland Security, didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment fr …
There’s an argument to be made that « the real monster is trauma » has become an overused trope in modern horror. Hereditary, The Babadook, and, much less effectively, Smile, are just a few higher-profile examples. But, if you ask me, few films have deployed this trope quite as effectively as the 2020 film His House.
The film follows Bol and Rial, refugees from South Sudan, played by Sope Dirisu and Wunmi Mosaku. Both deliver the kind of incredible performances that you rarely see in a genre film like this. It’s part of what elevates His House above the standard « haunted by trauma » fare. Mosaku, in particular, shows the sort of nuance and scr …
In November, Ted Sarandos, Netflix’s co-CEO made a trip to the White House for a lengthy meeting with Donald Trump. According to Bloomberg, the two discussed a number of topics, but chief among them was Netflix’s plan to bid on Warner Bros. At the end of their conversation, Sardonos felt that “Netflix wouldn’t face immediate opposition from the White House.”
This week, Netflix successfully won the bidding war for Warner, offering $82.7 billion. It’s well known that Paramount and its CEO David Ellison were eager to acquire the storied studio and its streaming assets. Ellison and his father, Larry Ellison, have close ties to the White House, and as part of their pitch to Warner, suggested that only they were in a position to overcome the regulatory hurdles of further media consolidation.
Sarandos seems to have rightly believed that the Ellisons overestimated their political clout. And despite some public efforts to turn the White House against the deal, Netflix won out, for now. There is of course, still a chance that Paramount could launch a hostile takeover effort, or that the Justice Department could try and scuttle the deal — nothing is guaranteed yet.
Sarandos tried to acquire Paramount before David Ellison swooped in, so snatching Warner Bros. out from under his nose is likely something of a personal victory.
Friday, the EU slapped X with a €120 million fine (about $140 million) for violating the Digital Services Act (DSA). It was the first time that a company had been hit with a penalty for running afoul of the law. Elon Musk responded with his trademark tact and professionalism by posting “Bullshit” on X in response to the announcement from the European Commission. But that wasn’t the end, because just a day later Nikita Bier, X’s head of product, accused the Commission of abusing an exploit to boost the reach of the announcement and responded by shutting down its ad account.
According to Bier, the Commission had not used its ad account since 2021, but used a post format explicitly reserved for ads in its announcement of the fine against X. He claims that the Commission posted “a link that deceives users into thinking it’s a video and to artificially increase its reach.” (For the record, the post itself includes a video.)
The seemingly retaliatory revocation of the European Commission’s ad account is unlikely to materially change things for either X or the EU. If, as Bier claims, the Commission has not used its ad account since 2021, holding it hostage is unlikely to give X any leverage. And, while it can appeal the decision, X is currently still on the hook for the sizable fine. Plus, it must provide details for how it plans to address the “deceptive” use of verified checkmarks in the next 60 days, or face additional penalties.
We’ve reached out to the Commission for comment and will update if we hear back.
Il semble que nous ne pouvons pas trouver le contenu demandé. Peut-être qu’une recherche peut vous aider.
It’s easy to think about AI as a sort of existential battle between human and machine. Maybe it will be, someday, in a Skynet sort of way. But there are also lots of people trying to figure out how to use AI not as a replacement for human creativity and thinking but as a tool meant to augment those things.
Sari Azout is one of those people. She’s the founder of Sublime, a platform dedicated to curation, creativity, and ideas. Sublime is all about taste, which makes it slightly surprising that there’s a huge amount of AI powering the way it works. But to Azout, it all makes sense.
Between keeping up with TikTok trends and whatever new gadget just dropped, it’s tough to know exactly what teens are into these days. Luckily, we can help. We may be older than teenagers, but many of us here at The Verge are kids at heart. Plus, we’ve also got a few staffers with older kids. To make your life a little easier this holiday season, we rounded up what we think are the best gifts for teens, based on our tech expertise as well as what our staff’s teens are into right now.
Below, you’ll find gift ideas for many types of teens. Some are more obvious choices, like the latest iPhone and Nintendo Switch 2, but we sought to include a …
The discount brings the price down to $299 ($100 off). | Image: The Verge
We thought Black Friday and Cyber Monday would bring the lowest prices of the year, but apparently not. Right now, you can snag Apple’s Watch Series 11 in the 42mm configuration with GPS for a new all-time low of $299 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy. That beats the $70 discount we saw at the beginning of the month, which means if you didn’t take advantage then, you can save even more now. The 46mm model with GPS is also down to its lowest price yet of $329 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy.
The Series 11 offers some nice improvements to the already-excellent Apple Watch Series 10. While this year’s model has the same dimensions as its predecessor, battery life has increased up to 24 hours per charge on the GPS / Wi-Fi model. At the same time, Apple managed to improve the Series 11’s durability and scratch-resistance, making it a better option for more intense workouts. Additionally, Apple added a more power-efficient 5G modem to the cellular model, so the battery won’t drain as quickly when you’re not on Wi-Fi.
Otherwise, the Series 11 carries over everything we loved about the Series 10. The wide-angle OLED display looks fantastic and is easy to read at a glance, while performance is excellent thanks to Apple’s S10 SiP chip. You also get a variety of health and wellness features, including FDA-cleared hypertension notifications, sleep apnea detection, and sleep score, which can summarize how well you slept. Meanwhile, you get access to the watchOS 26 update, which introduces a workout buddy and offers wrist-flick and double-tap gestures, along with the Liquid Glass redesign.
If you already own a Series 10, there aren’t many reasons to upgrade outside of the slightly improved battery life. However, if you have something older or you’re checking off a gift list, the Series 11 at $100 off is a great deal right before the holidays.
Slack users can now access Anthropic’s Claude Code directly in Slack by tagging Claude on coding-related messages and threads. The new feature is launching today in beta as a research preview.
When Claude is tagged, it will now automatically scan the message to see if it’s a coding task and, if so, route it to Claude Code using the context from the related Slack thread and the code repositories you’ve authenticated in Claude Code. Slack users can also directly tell Claude that a request is a coding task. For instance, you could ask Claude to investigate a bug report you’re discussing in Slack without needing to manually copy all the conte …
Lenovo has already demonstrated its ability to put rollable OLEDs into laptops by graduating last year from demo concept models to shipping the ThinkBook Plus Gen 6, an actual device you can buy. It has a built-in mechanism that expands the screen vertically to give you more screen real estate for typing and scrolling. However, the company might soon debut its first laptop that uses a rollable OLED to effectively transform its screen into an ultrawide 21:9 aspect ratio screen, with left and right edges that extend far outside the bottom chassis.
The Lenovo Legion Pro Rollable will be its first gaming laptop to feature a rollable horizontal …
At their biggest and most expensive, video games all sort of look the same. The reason often comes down to simple economics: More resources means more costs that need to be recouped, and historically the way publishers have done that is by being comically risk-averse. Hence the glut of semi-realistic rocky wastelands that look like death metal album covers where everyone is some kind of Wild West fetishist, or the hero shooters that all look like Pixar but shredded as hell and ready for fan artists to go places I shall not.
On occasion, however, new visual ground is staked. Octopath Traveler 0 is an example of this. The third game in the O …
Joshua Aaron, the developer of the ICEBlock app, is suing Attorney General Pam Bondi, US Homeland Security Secretary Kirsti Noem, acting director of ICE Todd Lyons, White House « Border Czar » Tom Homan, and other federal officials over the Trump administration’s « unlawful threats » made against Aaron and its actions to pressure Apple to pull the app from the App Store, which it did.
« We promised you we would fight back. Well, today’s the day we make good on the promise, » according to a post from ICEBlock’s official account on Bluesky. Aaron, Apple, and the Department of Homeland Security, didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment fr …
There’s an argument to be made that « the real monster is trauma » has become an overused trope in modern horror. Hereditary, The Babadook, and, much less effectively, Smile, are just a few higher-profile examples. But, if you ask me, few films have deployed this trope quite as effectively as the 2020 film His House.
The film follows Bol and Rial, refugees from South Sudan, played by Sope Dirisu and Wunmi Mosaku. Both deliver the kind of incredible performances that you rarely see in a genre film like this. It’s part of what elevates His House above the standard « haunted by trauma » fare. Mosaku, in particular, shows the sort of nuance and scr …
In November, Ted Sarandos, Netflix’s co-CEO made a trip to the White House for a lengthy meeting with Donald Trump. According to Bloomberg, the two discussed a number of topics, but chief among them was Netflix’s plan to bid on Warner Bros. At the end of their conversation, Sardonos felt that “Netflix wouldn’t face immediate opposition from the White House.”
This week, Netflix successfully won the bidding war for Warner, offering $82.7 billion. It’s well known that Paramount and its CEO David Ellison were eager to acquire the storied studio and its streaming assets. Ellison and his father, Larry Ellison, have close ties to the White House, and as part of their pitch to Warner, suggested that only they were in a position to overcome the regulatory hurdles of further media consolidation.
Sarandos seems to have rightly believed that the Ellisons overestimated their political clout. And despite some public efforts to turn the White House against the deal, Netflix won out, for now. There is of course, still a chance that Paramount could launch a hostile takeover effort, or that the Justice Department could try and scuttle the deal — nothing is guaranteed yet.
Sarandos tried to acquire Paramount before David Ellison swooped in, so snatching Warner Bros. out from under his nose is likely something of a personal victory.
Friday, the EU slapped X with a €120 million fine (about $140 million) for violating the Digital Services Act (DSA). It was the first time that a company had been hit with a penalty for running afoul of the law. Elon Musk responded with his trademark tact and professionalism by posting “Bullshit” on X in response to the announcement from the European Commission. But that wasn’t the end, because just a day later Nikita Bier, X’s head of product, accused the Commission of abusing an exploit to boost the reach of the announcement and responded by shutting down its ad account.
According to Bier, the Commission had not used its ad account since 2021, but used a post format explicitly reserved for ads in its announcement of the fine against X. He claims that the Commission posted “a link that deceives users into thinking it’s a video and to artificially increase its reach.” (For the record, the post itself includes a video.)
The seemingly retaliatory revocation of the European Commission’s ad account is unlikely to materially change things for either X or the EU. If, as Bier claims, the Commission has not used its ad account since 2021, holding it hostage is unlikely to give X any leverage. And, while it can appeal the decision, X is currently still on the hook for the sizable fine. Plus, it must provide details for how it plans to address the “deceptive” use of verified checkmarks in the next 60 days, or face additional penalties.
We’ve reached out to the Commission for comment and will update if we hear back.
Il semble que nous ne pouvons pas trouver le contenu demandé. Peut-être qu’une recherche peut vous aider.
It’s easy to think about AI as a sort of existential battle between human and machine. Maybe it will be, someday, in a Skynet sort of way. But there are also lots of people trying to figure out how to use AI not as a replacement for human creativity and thinking but as a tool meant to augment those things.
Sari Azout is one of those people. She’s the founder of Sublime, a platform dedicated to curation, creativity, and ideas. Sublime is all about taste, which makes it slightly surprising that there’s a huge amount of AI powering the way it works. But to Azout, it all makes sense.
Between keeping up with TikTok trends and whatever new gadget just dropped, it’s tough to know exactly what teens are into these days. Luckily, we can help. We may be older than teenagers, but many of us here at The Verge are kids at heart. Plus, we’ve also got a few staffers with older kids. To make your life a little easier this holiday season, we rounded up what we think are the best gifts for teens, based on our tech expertise as well as what our staff’s teens are into right now.
Below, you’ll find gift ideas for many types of teens. Some are more obvious choices, like the latest iPhone and Nintendo Switch 2, but we sought to include a …
The discount brings the price down to $299 ($100 off). | Image: The Verge
We thought Black Friday and Cyber Monday would bring the lowest prices of the year, but apparently not. Right now, you can snag Apple’s Watch Series 11 in the 42mm configuration with GPS for a new all-time low of $299 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy. That beats the $70 discount we saw at the beginning of the month, which means if you didn’t take advantage then, you can save even more now. The 46mm model with GPS is also down to its lowest price yet of $329 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy.
The Series 11 offers some nice improvements to the already-excellent Apple Watch Series 10. While this year’s model has the same dimensions as its predecessor, battery life has increased up to 24 hours per charge on the GPS / Wi-Fi model. At the same time, Apple managed to improve the Series 11’s durability and scratch-resistance, making it a better option for more intense workouts. Additionally, Apple added a more power-efficient 5G modem to the cellular model, so the battery won’t drain as quickly when you’re not on Wi-Fi.
Otherwise, the Series 11 carries over everything we loved about the Series 10. The wide-angle OLED display looks fantastic and is easy to read at a glance, while performance is excellent thanks to Apple’s S10 SiP chip. You also get a variety of health and wellness features, including FDA-cleared hypertension notifications, sleep apnea detection, and sleep score, which can summarize how well you slept. Meanwhile, you get access to the watchOS 26 update, which introduces a workout buddy and offers wrist-flick and double-tap gestures, along with the Liquid Glass redesign.
If you already own a Series 10, there aren’t many reasons to upgrade outside of the slightly improved battery life. However, if you have something older or you’re checking off a gift list, the Series 11 at $100 off is a great deal right before the holidays.
Slack users can now access Anthropic’s Claude Code directly in Slack by tagging Claude on coding-related messages and threads. The new feature is launching today in beta as a research preview.
When Claude is tagged, it will now automatically scan the message to see if it’s a coding task and, if so, route it to Claude Code using the context from the related Slack thread and the code repositories you’ve authenticated in Claude Code. Slack users can also directly tell Claude that a request is a coding task. For instance, you could ask Claude to investigate a bug report you’re discussing in Slack without needing to manually copy all the conte …
Lenovo has already demonstrated its ability to put rollable OLEDs into laptops by graduating last year from demo concept models to shipping the ThinkBook Plus Gen 6, an actual device you can buy. It has a built-in mechanism that expands the screen vertically to give you more screen real estate for typing and scrolling. However, the company might soon debut its first laptop that uses a rollable OLED to effectively transform its screen into an ultrawide 21:9 aspect ratio screen, with left and right edges that extend far outside the bottom chassis.
The Lenovo Legion Pro Rollable will be its first gaming laptop to feature a rollable horizontal …
At their biggest and most expensive, video games all sort of look the same. The reason often comes down to simple economics: More resources means more costs that need to be recouped, and historically the way publishers have done that is by being comically risk-averse. Hence the glut of semi-realistic rocky wastelands that look like death metal album covers where everyone is some kind of Wild West fetishist, or the hero shooters that all look like Pixar but shredded as hell and ready for fan artists to go places I shall not.
On occasion, however, new visual ground is staked. Octopath Traveler 0 is an example of this. The third game in the O …
Joshua Aaron, the developer of the ICEBlock app, is suing Attorney General Pam Bondi, US Homeland Security Secretary Kirsti Noem, acting director of ICE Todd Lyons, White House « Border Czar » Tom Homan, and other federal officials over the Trump administration’s « unlawful threats » made against Aaron and its actions to pressure Apple to pull the app from the App Store, which it did.
« We promised you we would fight back. Well, today’s the day we make good on the promise, » according to a post from ICEBlock’s official account on Bluesky. Aaron, Apple, and the Department of Homeland Security, didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment fr …
There’s an argument to be made that « the real monster is trauma » has become an overused trope in modern horror. Hereditary, The Babadook, and, much less effectively, Smile, are just a few higher-profile examples. But, if you ask me, few films have deployed this trope quite as effectively as the 2020 film His House.
The film follows Bol and Rial, refugees from South Sudan, played by Sope Dirisu and Wunmi Mosaku. Both deliver the kind of incredible performances that you rarely see in a genre film like this. It’s part of what elevates His House above the standard « haunted by trauma » fare. Mosaku, in particular, shows the sort of nuance and scr …
In November, Ted Sarandos, Netflix’s co-CEO made a trip to the White House for a lengthy meeting with Donald Trump. According to Bloomberg, the two discussed a number of topics, but chief among them was Netflix’s plan to bid on Warner Bros. At the end of their conversation, Sardonos felt that “Netflix wouldn’t face immediate opposition from the White House.”
This week, Netflix successfully won the bidding war for Warner, offering $82.7 billion. It’s well known that Paramount and its CEO David Ellison were eager to acquire the storied studio and its streaming assets. Ellison and his father, Larry Ellison, have close ties to the White House, and as part of their pitch to Warner, suggested that only they were in a position to overcome the regulatory hurdles of further media consolidation.
Sarandos seems to have rightly believed that the Ellisons overestimated their political clout. And despite some public efforts to turn the White House against the deal, Netflix won out, for now. There is of course, still a chance that Paramount could launch a hostile takeover effort, or that the Justice Department could try and scuttle the deal — nothing is guaranteed yet.
Sarandos tried to acquire Paramount before David Ellison swooped in, so snatching Warner Bros. out from under his nose is likely something of a personal victory.
Friday, the EU slapped X with a €120 million fine (about $140 million) for violating the Digital Services Act (DSA). It was the first time that a company had been hit with a penalty for running afoul of the law. Elon Musk responded with his trademark tact and professionalism by posting “Bullshit” on X in response to the announcement from the European Commission. But that wasn’t the end, because just a day later Nikita Bier, X’s head of product, accused the Commission of abusing an exploit to boost the reach of the announcement and responded by shutting down its ad account.
According to Bier, the Commission had not used its ad account since 2021, but used a post format explicitly reserved for ads in its announcement of the fine against X. He claims that the Commission posted “a link that deceives users into thinking it’s a video and to artificially increase its reach.” (For the record, the post itself includes a video.)
The seemingly retaliatory revocation of the European Commission’s ad account is unlikely to materially change things for either X or the EU. If, as Bier claims, the Commission has not used its ad account since 2021, holding it hostage is unlikely to give X any leverage. And, while it can appeal the decision, X is currently still on the hook for the sizable fine. Plus, it must provide details for how it plans to address the “deceptive” use of verified checkmarks in the next 60 days, or face additional penalties.
We’ve reached out to the Commission for comment and will update if we hear back.
Il semble que nous ne pouvons pas trouver le contenu demandé. Peut-être qu’une recherche peut vous aider.
It’s easy to think about AI as a sort of existential battle between human and machine. Maybe it will be, someday, in a Skynet sort of way. But there are also lots of people trying to figure out how to use AI not as a replacement for human creativity and thinking but as a tool meant to augment those things.
Sari Azout is one of those people. She’s the founder of Sublime, a platform dedicated to curation, creativity, and ideas. Sublime is all about taste, which makes it slightly surprising that there’s a huge amount of AI powering the way it works. But to Azout, it all makes sense.
Between keeping up with TikTok trends and whatever new gadget just dropped, it’s tough to know exactly what teens are into these days. Luckily, we can help. We may be older than teenagers, but many of us here at The Verge are kids at heart. Plus, we’ve also got a few staffers with older kids. To make your life a little easier this holiday season, we rounded up what we think are the best gifts for teens, based on our tech expertise as well as what our staff’s teens are into right now.
Below, you’ll find gift ideas for many types of teens. Some are more obvious choices, like the latest iPhone and Nintendo Switch 2, but we sought to include a …
The discount brings the price down to $299 ($100 off). | Image: The Verge
We thought Black Friday and Cyber Monday would bring the lowest prices of the year, but apparently not. Right now, you can snag Apple’s Watch Series 11 in the 42mm configuration with GPS for a new all-time low of $299 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy. That beats the $70 discount we saw at the beginning of the month, which means if you didn’t take advantage then, you can save even more now. The 46mm model with GPS is also down to its lowest price yet of $329 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy.
The Series 11 offers some nice improvements to the already-excellent Apple Watch Series 10. While this year’s model has the same dimensions as its predecessor, battery life has increased up to 24 hours per charge on the GPS / Wi-Fi model. At the same time, Apple managed to improve the Series 11’s durability and scratch-resistance, making it a better option for more intense workouts. Additionally, Apple added a more power-efficient 5G modem to the cellular model, so the battery won’t drain as quickly when you’re not on Wi-Fi.
Otherwise, the Series 11 carries over everything we loved about the Series 10. The wide-angle OLED display looks fantastic and is easy to read at a glance, while performance is excellent thanks to Apple’s S10 SiP chip. You also get a variety of health and wellness features, including FDA-cleared hypertension notifications, sleep apnea detection, and sleep score, which can summarize how well you slept. Meanwhile, you get access to the watchOS 26 update, which introduces a workout buddy and offers wrist-flick and double-tap gestures, along with the Liquid Glass redesign.
If you already own a Series 10, there aren’t many reasons to upgrade outside of the slightly improved battery life. However, if you have something older or you’re checking off a gift list, the Series 11 at $100 off is a great deal right before the holidays.
Slack users can now access Anthropic’s Claude Code directly in Slack by tagging Claude on coding-related messages and threads. The new feature is launching today in beta as a research preview.
When Claude is tagged, it will now automatically scan the message to see if it’s a coding task and, if so, route it to Claude Code using the context from the related Slack thread and the code repositories you’ve authenticated in Claude Code. Slack users can also directly tell Claude that a request is a coding task. For instance, you could ask Claude to investigate a bug report you’re discussing in Slack without needing to manually copy all the conte …
Lenovo has already demonstrated its ability to put rollable OLEDs into laptops by graduating last year from demo concept models to shipping the ThinkBook Plus Gen 6, an actual device you can buy. It has a built-in mechanism that expands the screen vertically to give you more screen real estate for typing and scrolling. However, the company might soon debut its first laptop that uses a rollable OLED to effectively transform its screen into an ultrawide 21:9 aspect ratio screen, with left and right edges that extend far outside the bottom chassis.
The Lenovo Legion Pro Rollable will be its first gaming laptop to feature a rollable horizontal …
At their biggest and most expensive, video games all sort of look the same. The reason often comes down to simple economics: More resources means more costs that need to be recouped, and historically the way publishers have done that is by being comically risk-averse. Hence the glut of semi-realistic rocky wastelands that look like death metal album covers where everyone is some kind of Wild West fetishist, or the hero shooters that all look like Pixar but shredded as hell and ready for fan artists to go places I shall not.
On occasion, however, new visual ground is staked. Octopath Traveler 0 is an example of this. The third game in the O …
Joshua Aaron, the developer of the ICEBlock app, is suing Attorney General Pam Bondi, US Homeland Security Secretary Kirsti Noem, acting director of ICE Todd Lyons, White House « Border Czar » Tom Homan, and other federal officials over the Trump administration’s « unlawful threats » made against Aaron and its actions to pressure Apple to pull the app from the App Store, which it did.
« We promised you we would fight back. Well, today’s the day we make good on the promise, » according to a post from ICEBlock’s official account on Bluesky. Aaron, Apple, and the Department of Homeland Security, didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment fr …
There’s an argument to be made that « the real monster is trauma » has become an overused trope in modern horror. Hereditary, The Babadook, and, much less effectively, Smile, are just a few higher-profile examples. But, if you ask me, few films have deployed this trope quite as effectively as the 2020 film His House.
The film follows Bol and Rial, refugees from South Sudan, played by Sope Dirisu and Wunmi Mosaku. Both deliver the kind of incredible performances that you rarely see in a genre film like this. It’s part of what elevates His House above the standard « haunted by trauma » fare. Mosaku, in particular, shows the sort of nuance and scr …
In November, Ted Sarandos, Netflix’s co-CEO made a trip to the White House for a lengthy meeting with Donald Trump. According to Bloomberg, the two discussed a number of topics, but chief among them was Netflix’s plan to bid on Warner Bros. At the end of their conversation, Sardonos felt that “Netflix wouldn’t face immediate opposition from the White House.”
This week, Netflix successfully won the bidding war for Warner, offering $82.7 billion. It’s well known that Paramount and its CEO David Ellison were eager to acquire the storied studio and its streaming assets. Ellison and his father, Larry Ellison, have close ties to the White House, and as part of their pitch to Warner, suggested that only they were in a position to overcome the regulatory hurdles of further media consolidation.
Sarandos seems to have rightly believed that the Ellisons overestimated their political clout. And despite some public efforts to turn the White House against the deal, Netflix won out, for now. There is of course, still a chance that Paramount could launch a hostile takeover effort, or that the Justice Department could try and scuttle the deal — nothing is guaranteed yet.
Sarandos tried to acquire Paramount before David Ellison swooped in, so snatching Warner Bros. out from under his nose is likely something of a personal victory.
Friday, the EU slapped X with a €120 million fine (about $140 million) for violating the Digital Services Act (DSA). It was the first time that a company had been hit with a penalty for running afoul of the law. Elon Musk responded with his trademark tact and professionalism by posting “Bullshit” on X in response to the announcement from the European Commission. But that wasn’t the end, because just a day later Nikita Bier, X’s head of product, accused the Commission of abusing an exploit to boost the reach of the announcement and responded by shutting down its ad account.
According to Bier, the Commission had not used its ad account since 2021, but used a post format explicitly reserved for ads in its announcement of the fine against X. He claims that the Commission posted “a link that deceives users into thinking it’s a video and to artificially increase its reach.” (For the record, the post itself includes a video.)
The seemingly retaliatory revocation of the European Commission’s ad account is unlikely to materially change things for either X or the EU. If, as Bier claims, the Commission has not used its ad account since 2021, holding it hostage is unlikely to give X any leverage. And, while it can appeal the decision, X is currently still on the hook for the sizable fine. Plus, it must provide details for how it plans to address the “deceptive” use of verified checkmarks in the next 60 days, or face additional penalties.
We’ve reached out to the Commission for comment and will update if we hear back.
Il semble que nous ne pouvons pas trouver le contenu demandé. Peut-être qu’une recherche peut vous aider.
It’s easy to think about AI as a sort of existential battle between human and machine. Maybe it will be, someday, in a Skynet sort of way. But there are also lots of people trying to figure out how to use AI not as a replacement for human creativity and thinking but as a tool meant to augment those things.
Sari Azout is one of those people. She’s the founder of Sublime, a platform dedicated to curation, creativity, and ideas. Sublime is all about taste, which makes it slightly surprising that there’s a huge amount of AI powering the way it works. But to Azout, it all makes sense.
Between keeping up with TikTok trends and whatever new gadget just dropped, it’s tough to know exactly what teens are into these days. Luckily, we can help. We may be older than teenagers, but many of us here at The Verge are kids at heart. Plus, we’ve also got a few staffers with older kids. To make your life a little easier this holiday season, we rounded up what we think are the best gifts for teens, based on our tech expertise as well as what our staff’s teens are into right now.
Below, you’ll find gift ideas for many types of teens. Some are more obvious choices, like the latest iPhone and Nintendo Switch 2, but we sought to include a …
The discount brings the price down to $299 ($100 off). | Image: The Verge
We thought Black Friday and Cyber Monday would bring the lowest prices of the year, but apparently not. Right now, you can snag Apple’s Watch Series 11 in the 42mm configuration with GPS for a new all-time low of $299 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy. That beats the $70 discount we saw at the beginning of the month, which means if you didn’t take advantage then, you can save even more now. The 46mm model with GPS is also down to its lowest price yet of $329 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy.
The Series 11 offers some nice improvements to the already-excellent Apple Watch Series 10. While this year’s model has the same dimensions as its predecessor, battery life has increased up to 24 hours per charge on the GPS / Wi-Fi model. At the same time, Apple managed to improve the Series 11’s durability and scratch-resistance, making it a better option for more intense workouts. Additionally, Apple added a more power-efficient 5G modem to the cellular model, so the battery won’t drain as quickly when you’re not on Wi-Fi.
Otherwise, the Series 11 carries over everything we loved about the Series 10. The wide-angle OLED display looks fantastic and is easy to read at a glance, while performance is excellent thanks to Apple’s S10 SiP chip. You also get a variety of health and wellness features, including FDA-cleared hypertension notifications, sleep apnea detection, and sleep score, which can summarize how well you slept. Meanwhile, you get access to the watchOS 26 update, which introduces a workout buddy and offers wrist-flick and double-tap gestures, along with the Liquid Glass redesign.
If you already own a Series 10, there aren’t many reasons to upgrade outside of the slightly improved battery life. However, if you have something older or you’re checking off a gift list, the Series 11 at $100 off is a great deal right before the holidays.
Slack users can now access Anthropic’s Claude Code directly in Slack by tagging Claude on coding-related messages and threads. The new feature is launching today in beta as a research preview.
When Claude is tagged, it will now automatically scan the message to see if it’s a coding task and, if so, route it to Claude Code using the context from the related Slack thread and the code repositories you’ve authenticated in Claude Code. Slack users can also directly tell Claude that a request is a coding task. For instance, you could ask Claude to investigate a bug report you’re discussing in Slack without needing to manually copy all the conte …
Lenovo has already demonstrated its ability to put rollable OLEDs into laptops by graduating last year from demo concept models to shipping the ThinkBook Plus Gen 6, an actual device you can buy. It has a built-in mechanism that expands the screen vertically to give you more screen real estate for typing and scrolling. However, the company might soon debut its first laptop that uses a rollable OLED to effectively transform its screen into an ultrawide 21:9 aspect ratio screen, with left and right edges that extend far outside the bottom chassis.
The Lenovo Legion Pro Rollable will be its first gaming laptop to feature a rollable horizontal …
At their biggest and most expensive, video games all sort of look the same. The reason often comes down to simple economics: More resources means more costs that need to be recouped, and historically the way publishers have done that is by being comically risk-averse. Hence the glut of semi-realistic rocky wastelands that look like death metal album covers where everyone is some kind of Wild West fetishist, or the hero shooters that all look like Pixar but shredded as hell and ready for fan artists to go places I shall not.
On occasion, however, new visual ground is staked. Octopath Traveler 0 is an example of this. The third game in the O …
Joshua Aaron, the developer of the ICEBlock app, is suing Attorney General Pam Bondi, US Homeland Security Secretary Kirsti Noem, acting director of ICE Todd Lyons, White House « Border Czar » Tom Homan, and other federal officials over the Trump administration’s « unlawful threats » made against Aaron and its actions to pressure Apple to pull the app from the App Store, which it did.
« We promised you we would fight back. Well, today’s the day we make good on the promise, » according to a post from ICEBlock’s official account on Bluesky. Aaron, Apple, and the Department of Homeland Security, didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment fr …
There’s an argument to be made that « the real monster is trauma » has become an overused trope in modern horror. Hereditary, The Babadook, and, much less effectively, Smile, are just a few higher-profile examples. But, if you ask me, few films have deployed this trope quite as effectively as the 2020 film His House.
The film follows Bol and Rial, refugees from South Sudan, played by Sope Dirisu and Wunmi Mosaku. Both deliver the kind of incredible performances that you rarely see in a genre film like this. It’s part of what elevates His House above the standard « haunted by trauma » fare. Mosaku, in particular, shows the sort of nuance and scr …
In November, Ted Sarandos, Netflix’s co-CEO made a trip to the White House for a lengthy meeting with Donald Trump. According to Bloomberg, the two discussed a number of topics, but chief among them was Netflix’s plan to bid on Warner Bros. At the end of their conversation, Sardonos felt that “Netflix wouldn’t face immediate opposition from the White House.”
This week, Netflix successfully won the bidding war for Warner, offering $82.7 billion. It’s well known that Paramount and its CEO David Ellison were eager to acquire the storied studio and its streaming assets. Ellison and his father, Larry Ellison, have close ties to the White House, and as part of their pitch to Warner, suggested that only they were in a position to overcome the regulatory hurdles of further media consolidation.
Sarandos seems to have rightly believed that the Ellisons overestimated their political clout. And despite some public efforts to turn the White House against the deal, Netflix won out, for now. There is of course, still a chance that Paramount could launch a hostile takeover effort, or that the Justice Department could try and scuttle the deal — nothing is guaranteed yet.
Sarandos tried to acquire Paramount before David Ellison swooped in, so snatching Warner Bros. out from under his nose is likely something of a personal victory.
Friday, the EU slapped X with a €120 million fine (about $140 million) for violating the Digital Services Act (DSA). It was the first time that a company had been hit with a penalty for running afoul of the law. Elon Musk responded with his trademark tact and professionalism by posting “Bullshit” on X in response to the announcement from the European Commission. But that wasn’t the end, because just a day later Nikita Bier, X’s head of product, accused the Commission of abusing an exploit to boost the reach of the announcement and responded by shutting down its ad account.
According to Bier, the Commission had not used its ad account since 2021, but used a post format explicitly reserved for ads in its announcement of the fine against X. He claims that the Commission posted “a link that deceives users into thinking it’s a video and to artificially increase its reach.” (For the record, the post itself includes a video.)
The seemingly retaliatory revocation of the European Commission’s ad account is unlikely to materially change things for either X or the EU. If, as Bier claims, the Commission has not used its ad account since 2021, holding it hostage is unlikely to give X any leverage. And, while it can appeal the decision, X is currently still on the hook for the sizable fine. Plus, it must provide details for how it plans to address the “deceptive” use of verified checkmarks in the next 60 days, or face additional penalties.
We’ve reached out to the Commission for comment and will update if we hear back.
Il semble que nous ne pouvons pas trouver le contenu demandé. Peut-être qu’une recherche peut vous aider.
It’s easy to think about AI as a sort of existential battle between human and machine. Maybe it will be, someday, in a Skynet sort of way. But there are also lots of people trying to figure out how to use AI not as a replacement for human creativity and thinking but as a tool meant to augment those things.
Sari Azout is one of those people. She’s the founder of Sublime, a platform dedicated to curation, creativity, and ideas. Sublime is all about taste, which makes it slightly surprising that there’s a huge amount of AI powering the way it works. But to Azout, it all makes sense.
Between keeping up with TikTok trends and whatever new gadget just dropped, it’s tough to know exactly what teens are into these days. Luckily, we can help. We may be older than teenagers, but many of us here at The Verge are kids at heart. Plus, we’ve also got a few staffers with older kids. To make your life a little easier this holiday season, we rounded up what we think are the best gifts for teens, based on our tech expertise as well as what our staff’s teens are into right now.
Below, you’ll find gift ideas for many types of teens. Some are more obvious choices, like the latest iPhone and Nintendo Switch 2, but we sought to include a …
The discount brings the price down to $299 ($100 off). | Image: The Verge
We thought Black Friday and Cyber Monday would bring the lowest prices of the year, but apparently not. Right now, you can snag Apple’s Watch Series 11 in the 42mm configuration with GPS for a new all-time low of $299 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy. That beats the $70 discount we saw at the beginning of the month, which means if you didn’t take advantage then, you can save even more now. The 46mm model with GPS is also down to its lowest price yet of $329 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy.
The Series 11 offers some nice improvements to the already-excellent Apple Watch Series 10. While this year’s model has the same dimensions as its predecessor, battery life has increased up to 24 hours per charge on the GPS / Wi-Fi model. At the same time, Apple managed to improve the Series 11’s durability and scratch-resistance, making it a better option for more intense workouts. Additionally, Apple added a more power-efficient 5G modem to the cellular model, so the battery won’t drain as quickly when you’re not on Wi-Fi.
Otherwise, the Series 11 carries over everything we loved about the Series 10. The wide-angle OLED display looks fantastic and is easy to read at a glance, while performance is excellent thanks to Apple’s S10 SiP chip. You also get a variety of health and wellness features, including FDA-cleared hypertension notifications, sleep apnea detection, and sleep score, which can summarize how well you slept. Meanwhile, you get access to the watchOS 26 update, which introduces a workout buddy and offers wrist-flick and double-tap gestures, along with the Liquid Glass redesign.
If you already own a Series 10, there aren’t many reasons to upgrade outside of the slightly improved battery life. However, if you have something older or you’re checking off a gift list, the Series 11 at $100 off is a great deal right before the holidays.
Slack users can now access Anthropic’s Claude Code directly in Slack by tagging Claude on coding-related messages and threads. The new feature is launching today in beta as a research preview.
When Claude is tagged, it will now automatically scan the message to see if it’s a coding task and, if so, route it to Claude Code using the context from the related Slack thread and the code repositories you’ve authenticated in Claude Code. Slack users can also directly tell Claude that a request is a coding task. For instance, you could ask Claude to investigate a bug report you’re discussing in Slack without needing to manually copy all the conte …
Lenovo has already demonstrated its ability to put rollable OLEDs into laptops by graduating last year from demo concept models to shipping the ThinkBook Plus Gen 6, an actual device you can buy. It has a built-in mechanism that expands the screen vertically to give you more screen real estate for typing and scrolling. However, the company might soon debut its first laptop that uses a rollable OLED to effectively transform its screen into an ultrawide 21:9 aspect ratio screen, with left and right edges that extend far outside the bottom chassis.
The Lenovo Legion Pro Rollable will be its first gaming laptop to feature a rollable horizontal …
At their biggest and most expensive, video games all sort of look the same. The reason often comes down to simple economics: More resources means more costs that need to be recouped, and historically the way publishers have done that is by being comically risk-averse. Hence the glut of semi-realistic rocky wastelands that look like death metal album covers where everyone is some kind of Wild West fetishist, or the hero shooters that all look like Pixar but shredded as hell and ready for fan artists to go places I shall not.
On occasion, however, new visual ground is staked. Octopath Traveler 0 is an example of this. The third game in the O …
Joshua Aaron, the developer of the ICEBlock app, is suing Attorney General Pam Bondi, US Homeland Security Secretary Kirsti Noem, acting director of ICE Todd Lyons, White House « Border Czar » Tom Homan, and other federal officials over the Trump administration’s « unlawful threats » made against Aaron and its actions to pressure Apple to pull the app from the App Store, which it did.
« We promised you we would fight back. Well, today’s the day we make good on the promise, » according to a post from ICEBlock’s official account on Bluesky. Aaron, Apple, and the Department of Homeland Security, didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment fr …
There’s an argument to be made that « the real monster is trauma » has become an overused trope in modern horror. Hereditary, The Babadook, and, much less effectively, Smile, are just a few higher-profile examples. But, if you ask me, few films have deployed this trope quite as effectively as the 2020 film His House.
The film follows Bol and Rial, refugees from South Sudan, played by Sope Dirisu and Wunmi Mosaku. Both deliver the kind of incredible performances that you rarely see in a genre film like this. It’s part of what elevates His House above the standard « haunted by trauma » fare. Mosaku, in particular, shows the sort of nuance and scr …
In November, Ted Sarandos, Netflix’s co-CEO made a trip to the White House for a lengthy meeting with Donald Trump. According to Bloomberg, the two discussed a number of topics, but chief among them was Netflix’s plan to bid on Warner Bros. At the end of their conversation, Sardonos felt that “Netflix wouldn’t face immediate opposition from the White House.”
This week, Netflix successfully won the bidding war for Warner, offering $82.7 billion. It’s well known that Paramount and its CEO David Ellison were eager to acquire the storied studio and its streaming assets. Ellison and his father, Larry Ellison, have close ties to the White House, and as part of their pitch to Warner, suggested that only they were in a position to overcome the regulatory hurdles of further media consolidation.
Sarandos seems to have rightly believed that the Ellisons overestimated their political clout. And despite some public efforts to turn the White House against the deal, Netflix won out, for now. There is of course, still a chance that Paramount could launch a hostile takeover effort, or that the Justice Department could try and scuttle the deal — nothing is guaranteed yet.
Sarandos tried to acquire Paramount before David Ellison swooped in, so snatching Warner Bros. out from under his nose is likely something of a personal victory.
Friday, the EU slapped X with a €120 million fine (about $140 million) for violating the Digital Services Act (DSA). It was the first time that a company had been hit with a penalty for running afoul of the law. Elon Musk responded with his trademark tact and professionalism by posting “Bullshit” on X in response to the announcement from the European Commission. But that wasn’t the end, because just a day later Nikita Bier, X’s head of product, accused the Commission of abusing an exploit to boost the reach of the announcement and responded by shutting down its ad account.
According to Bier, the Commission had not used its ad account since 2021, but used a post format explicitly reserved for ads in its announcement of the fine against X. He claims that the Commission posted “a link that deceives users into thinking it’s a video and to artificially increase its reach.” (For the record, the post itself includes a video.)
The seemingly retaliatory revocation of the European Commission’s ad account is unlikely to materially change things for either X or the EU. If, as Bier claims, the Commission has not used its ad account since 2021, holding it hostage is unlikely to give X any leverage. And, while it can appeal the decision, X is currently still on the hook for the sizable fine. Plus, it must provide details for how it plans to address the “deceptive” use of verified checkmarks in the next 60 days, or face additional penalties.
We’ve reached out to the Commission for comment and will update if we hear back.
Il semble que nous ne pouvons pas trouver le contenu demandé. Peut-être qu’une recherche peut vous aider.
It’s easy to think about AI as a sort of existential battle between human and machine. Maybe it will be, someday, in a Skynet sort of way. But there are also lots of people trying to figure out how to use AI not as a replacement for human creativity and thinking but as a tool meant to augment those things.
Sari Azout is one of those people. She’s the founder of Sublime, a platform dedicated to curation, creativity, and ideas. Sublime is all about taste, which makes it slightly surprising that there’s a huge amount of AI powering the way it works. But to Azout, it all makes sense.
Between keeping up with TikTok trends and whatever new gadget just dropped, it’s tough to know exactly what teens are into these days. Luckily, we can help. We may be older than teenagers, but many of us here at The Verge are kids at heart. Plus, we’ve also got a few staffers with older kids. To make your life a little easier this holiday season, we rounded up what we think are the best gifts for teens, based on our tech expertise as well as what our staff’s teens are into right now.
Below, you’ll find gift ideas for many types of teens. Some are more obvious choices, like the latest iPhone and Nintendo Switch 2, but we sought to include a …
The discount brings the price down to $299 ($100 off). | Image: The Verge
We thought Black Friday and Cyber Monday would bring the lowest prices of the year, but apparently not. Right now, you can snag Apple’s Watch Series 11 in the 42mm configuration with GPS for a new all-time low of $299 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy. That beats the $70 discount we saw at the beginning of the month, which means if you didn’t take advantage then, you can save even more now. The 46mm model with GPS is also down to its lowest price yet of $329 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy.
The Series 11 offers some nice improvements to the already-excellent Apple Watch Series 10. While this year’s model has the same dimensions as its predecessor, battery life has increased up to 24 hours per charge on the GPS / Wi-Fi model. At the same time, Apple managed to improve the Series 11’s durability and scratch-resistance, making it a better option for more intense workouts. Additionally, Apple added a more power-efficient 5G modem to the cellular model, so the battery won’t drain as quickly when you’re not on Wi-Fi.
Otherwise, the Series 11 carries over everything we loved about the Series 10. The wide-angle OLED display looks fantastic and is easy to read at a glance, while performance is excellent thanks to Apple’s S10 SiP chip. You also get a variety of health and wellness features, including FDA-cleared hypertension notifications, sleep apnea detection, and sleep score, which can summarize how well you slept. Meanwhile, you get access to the watchOS 26 update, which introduces a workout buddy and offers wrist-flick and double-tap gestures, along with the Liquid Glass redesign.
If you already own a Series 10, there aren’t many reasons to upgrade outside of the slightly improved battery life. However, if you have something older or you’re checking off a gift list, the Series 11 at $100 off is a great deal right before the holidays.
Slack users can now access Anthropic’s Claude Code directly in Slack by tagging Claude on coding-related messages and threads. The new feature is launching today in beta as a research preview.
When Claude is tagged, it will now automatically scan the message to see if it’s a coding task and, if so, route it to Claude Code using the context from the related Slack thread and the code repositories you’ve authenticated in Claude Code. Slack users can also directly tell Claude that a request is a coding task. For instance, you could ask Claude to investigate a bug report you’re discussing in Slack without needing to manually copy all the conte …
Lenovo has already demonstrated its ability to put rollable OLEDs into laptops by graduating last year from demo concept models to shipping the ThinkBook Plus Gen 6, an actual device you can buy. It has a built-in mechanism that expands the screen vertically to give you more screen real estate for typing and scrolling. However, the company might soon debut its first laptop that uses a rollable OLED to effectively transform its screen into an ultrawide 21:9 aspect ratio screen, with left and right edges that extend far outside the bottom chassis.
The Lenovo Legion Pro Rollable will be its first gaming laptop to feature a rollable horizontal …
At their biggest and most expensive, video games all sort of look the same. The reason often comes down to simple economics: More resources means more costs that need to be recouped, and historically the way publishers have done that is by being comically risk-averse. Hence the glut of semi-realistic rocky wastelands that look like death metal album covers where everyone is some kind of Wild West fetishist, or the hero shooters that all look like Pixar but shredded as hell and ready for fan artists to go places I shall not.
On occasion, however, new visual ground is staked. Octopath Traveler 0 is an example of this. The third game in the O …
Joshua Aaron, the developer of the ICEBlock app, is suing Attorney General Pam Bondi, US Homeland Security Secretary Kirsti Noem, acting director of ICE Todd Lyons, White House « Border Czar » Tom Homan, and other federal officials over the Trump administration’s « unlawful threats » made against Aaron and its actions to pressure Apple to pull the app from the App Store, which it did.
« We promised you we would fight back. Well, today’s the day we make good on the promise, » according to a post from ICEBlock’s official account on Bluesky. Aaron, Apple, and the Department of Homeland Security, didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment fr …
There’s an argument to be made that « the real monster is trauma » has become an overused trope in modern horror. Hereditary, The Babadook, and, much less effectively, Smile, are just a few higher-profile examples. But, if you ask me, few films have deployed this trope quite as effectively as the 2020 film His House.
The film follows Bol and Rial, refugees from South Sudan, played by Sope Dirisu and Wunmi Mosaku. Both deliver the kind of incredible performances that you rarely see in a genre film like this. It’s part of what elevates His House above the standard « haunted by trauma » fare. Mosaku, in particular, shows the sort of nuance and scr …
In November, Ted Sarandos, Netflix’s co-CEO made a trip to the White House for a lengthy meeting with Donald Trump. According to Bloomberg, the two discussed a number of topics, but chief among them was Netflix’s plan to bid on Warner Bros. At the end of their conversation, Sardonos felt that “Netflix wouldn’t face immediate opposition from the White House.”
This week, Netflix successfully won the bidding war for Warner, offering $82.7 billion. It’s well known that Paramount and its CEO David Ellison were eager to acquire the storied studio and its streaming assets. Ellison and his father, Larry Ellison, have close ties to the White House, and as part of their pitch to Warner, suggested that only they were in a position to overcome the regulatory hurdles of further media consolidation.
Sarandos seems to have rightly believed that the Ellisons overestimated their political clout. And despite some public efforts to turn the White House against the deal, Netflix won out, for now. There is of course, still a chance that Paramount could launch a hostile takeover effort, or that the Justice Department could try and scuttle the deal — nothing is guaranteed yet.
Sarandos tried to acquire Paramount before David Ellison swooped in, so snatching Warner Bros. out from under his nose is likely something of a personal victory.
Friday, the EU slapped X with a €120 million fine (about $140 million) for violating the Digital Services Act (DSA). It was the first time that a company had been hit with a penalty for running afoul of the law. Elon Musk responded with his trademark tact and professionalism by posting “Bullshit” on X in response to the announcement from the European Commission. But that wasn’t the end, because just a day later Nikita Bier, X’s head of product, accused the Commission of abusing an exploit to boost the reach of the announcement and responded by shutting down its ad account.
According to Bier, the Commission had not used its ad account since 2021, but used a post format explicitly reserved for ads in its announcement of the fine against X. He claims that the Commission posted “a link that deceives users into thinking it’s a video and to artificially increase its reach.” (For the record, the post itself includes a video.)
The seemingly retaliatory revocation of the European Commission’s ad account is unlikely to materially change things for either X or the EU. If, as Bier claims, the Commission has not used its ad account since 2021, holding it hostage is unlikely to give X any leverage. And, while it can appeal the decision, X is currently still on the hook for the sizable fine. Plus, it must provide details for how it plans to address the “deceptive” use of verified checkmarks in the next 60 days, or face additional penalties.
We’ve reached out to the Commission for comment and will update if we hear back.
Il semble que nous ne pouvons pas trouver le contenu demandé. Peut-être qu’une recherche peut vous aider.
It’s easy to think about AI as a sort of existential battle between human and machine. Maybe it will be, someday, in a Skynet sort of way. But there are also lots of people trying to figure out how to use AI not as a replacement for human creativity and thinking but as a tool meant to augment those things.
Sari Azout is one of those people. She’s the founder of Sublime, a platform dedicated to curation, creativity, and ideas. Sublime is all about taste, which makes it slightly surprising that there’s a huge amount of AI powering the way it works. But to Azout, it all makes sense.
Between keeping up with TikTok trends and whatever new gadget just dropped, it’s tough to know exactly what teens are into these days. Luckily, we can help. We may be older than teenagers, but many of us here at The Verge are kids at heart. Plus, we’ve also got a few staffers with older kids. To make your life a little easier this holiday season, we rounded up what we think are the best gifts for teens, based on our tech expertise as well as what our staff’s teens are into right now.
Below, you’ll find gift ideas for many types of teens. Some are more obvious choices, like the latest iPhone and Nintendo Switch 2, but we sought to include a …
The discount brings the price down to $299 ($100 off). | Image: The Verge
We thought Black Friday and Cyber Monday would bring the lowest prices of the year, but apparently not. Right now, you can snag Apple’s Watch Series 11 in the 42mm configuration with GPS for a new all-time low of $299 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy. That beats the $70 discount we saw at the beginning of the month, which means if you didn’t take advantage then, you can save even more now. The 46mm model with GPS is also down to its lowest price yet of $329 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy.
The Series 11 offers some nice improvements to the already-excellent Apple Watch Series 10. While this year’s model has the same dimensions as its predecessor, battery life has increased up to 24 hours per charge on the GPS / Wi-Fi model. At the same time, Apple managed to improve the Series 11’s durability and scratch-resistance, making it a better option for more intense workouts. Additionally, Apple added a more power-efficient 5G modem to the cellular model, so the battery won’t drain as quickly when you’re not on Wi-Fi.
Otherwise, the Series 11 carries over everything we loved about the Series 10. The wide-angle OLED display looks fantastic and is easy to read at a glance, while performance is excellent thanks to Apple’s S10 SiP chip. You also get a variety of health and wellness features, including FDA-cleared hypertension notifications, sleep apnea detection, and sleep score, which can summarize how well you slept. Meanwhile, you get access to the watchOS 26 update, which introduces a workout buddy and offers wrist-flick and double-tap gestures, along with the Liquid Glass redesign.
If you already own a Series 10, there aren’t many reasons to upgrade outside of the slightly improved battery life. However, if you have something older or you’re checking off a gift list, the Series 11 at $100 off is a great deal right before the holidays.
Slack users can now access Anthropic’s Claude Code directly in Slack by tagging Claude on coding-related messages and threads. The new feature is launching today in beta as a research preview.
When Claude is tagged, it will now automatically scan the message to see if it’s a coding task and, if so, route it to Claude Code using the context from the related Slack thread and the code repositories you’ve authenticated in Claude Code. Slack users can also directly tell Claude that a request is a coding task. For instance, you could ask Claude to investigate a bug report you’re discussing in Slack without needing to manually copy all the conte …
Lenovo has already demonstrated its ability to put rollable OLEDs into laptops by graduating last year from demo concept models to shipping the ThinkBook Plus Gen 6, an actual device you can buy. It has a built-in mechanism that expands the screen vertically to give you more screen real estate for typing and scrolling. However, the company might soon debut its first laptop that uses a rollable OLED to effectively transform its screen into an ultrawide 21:9 aspect ratio screen, with left and right edges that extend far outside the bottom chassis.
The Lenovo Legion Pro Rollable will be its first gaming laptop to feature a rollable horizontal …
At their biggest and most expensive, video games all sort of look the same. The reason often comes down to simple economics: More resources means more costs that need to be recouped, and historically the way publishers have done that is by being comically risk-averse. Hence the glut of semi-realistic rocky wastelands that look like death metal album covers where everyone is some kind of Wild West fetishist, or the hero shooters that all look like Pixar but shredded as hell and ready for fan artists to go places I shall not.
On occasion, however, new visual ground is staked. Octopath Traveler 0 is an example of this. The third game in the O …
Joshua Aaron, the developer of the ICEBlock app, is suing Attorney General Pam Bondi, US Homeland Security Secretary Kirsti Noem, acting director of ICE Todd Lyons, White House « Border Czar » Tom Homan, and other federal officials over the Trump administration’s « unlawful threats » made against Aaron and its actions to pressure Apple to pull the app from the App Store, which it did.
« We promised you we would fight back. Well, today’s the day we make good on the promise, » according to a post from ICEBlock’s official account on Bluesky. Aaron, Apple, and the Department of Homeland Security, didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment fr …
There’s an argument to be made that « the real monster is trauma » has become an overused trope in modern horror. Hereditary, The Babadook, and, much less effectively, Smile, are just a few higher-profile examples. But, if you ask me, few films have deployed this trope quite as effectively as the 2020 film His House.
The film follows Bol and Rial, refugees from South Sudan, played by Sope Dirisu and Wunmi Mosaku. Both deliver the kind of incredible performances that you rarely see in a genre film like this. It’s part of what elevates His House above the standard « haunted by trauma » fare. Mosaku, in particular, shows the sort of nuance and scr …
In November, Ted Sarandos, Netflix’s co-CEO made a trip to the White House for a lengthy meeting with Donald Trump. According to Bloomberg, the two discussed a number of topics, but chief among them was Netflix’s plan to bid on Warner Bros. At the end of their conversation, Sardonos felt that “Netflix wouldn’t face immediate opposition from the White House.”
This week, Netflix successfully won the bidding war for Warner, offering $82.7 billion. It’s well known that Paramount and its CEO David Ellison were eager to acquire the storied studio and its streaming assets. Ellison and his father, Larry Ellison, have close ties to the White House, and as part of their pitch to Warner, suggested that only they were in a position to overcome the regulatory hurdles of further media consolidation.
Sarandos seems to have rightly believed that the Ellisons overestimated their political clout. And despite some public efforts to turn the White House against the deal, Netflix won out, for now. There is of course, still a chance that Paramount could launch a hostile takeover effort, or that the Justice Department could try and scuttle the deal — nothing is guaranteed yet.
Sarandos tried to acquire Paramount before David Ellison swooped in, so snatching Warner Bros. out from under his nose is likely something of a personal victory.
Friday, the EU slapped X with a €120 million fine (about $140 million) for violating the Digital Services Act (DSA). It was the first time that a company had been hit with a penalty for running afoul of the law. Elon Musk responded with his trademark tact and professionalism by posting “Bullshit” on X in response to the announcement from the European Commission. But that wasn’t the end, because just a day later Nikita Bier, X’s head of product, accused the Commission of abusing an exploit to boost the reach of the announcement and responded by shutting down its ad account.
According to Bier, the Commission had not used its ad account since 2021, but used a post format explicitly reserved for ads in its announcement of the fine against X. He claims that the Commission posted “a link that deceives users into thinking it’s a video and to artificially increase its reach.” (For the record, the post itself includes a video.)
The seemingly retaliatory revocation of the European Commission’s ad account is unlikely to materially change things for either X or the EU. If, as Bier claims, the Commission has not used its ad account since 2021, holding it hostage is unlikely to give X any leverage. And, while it can appeal the decision, X is currently still on the hook for the sizable fine. Plus, it must provide details for how it plans to address the “deceptive” use of verified checkmarks in the next 60 days, or face additional penalties.
We’ve reached out to the Commission for comment and will update if we hear back.
Il semble que nous ne pouvons pas trouver le contenu demandé. Peut-être qu’une recherche peut vous aider.
It’s easy to think about AI as a sort of existential battle between human and machine. Maybe it will be, someday, in a Skynet sort of way. But there are also lots of people trying to figure out how to use AI not as a replacement for human creativity and thinking but as a tool meant to augment those things.
Sari Azout is one of those people. She’s the founder of Sublime, a platform dedicated to curation, creativity, and ideas. Sublime is all about taste, which makes it slightly surprising that there’s a huge amount of AI powering the way it works. But to Azout, it all makes sense.
Between keeping up with TikTok trends and whatever new gadget just dropped, it’s tough to know exactly what teens are into these days. Luckily, we can help. We may be older than teenagers, but many of us here at The Verge are kids at heart. Plus, we’ve also got a few staffers with older kids. To make your life a little easier this holiday season, we rounded up what we think are the best gifts for teens, based on our tech expertise as well as what our staff’s teens are into right now.
Below, you’ll find gift ideas for many types of teens. Some are more obvious choices, like the latest iPhone and Nintendo Switch 2, but we sought to include a …
The discount brings the price down to $299 ($100 off). | Image: The Verge
We thought Black Friday and Cyber Monday would bring the lowest prices of the year, but apparently not. Right now, you can snag Apple’s Watch Series 11 in the 42mm configuration with GPS for a new all-time low of $299 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy. That beats the $70 discount we saw at the beginning of the month, which means if you didn’t take advantage then, you can save even more now. The 46mm model with GPS is also down to its lowest price yet of $329 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy.
The Series 11 offers some nice improvements to the already-excellent Apple Watch Series 10. While this year’s model has the same dimensions as its predecessor, battery life has increased up to 24 hours per charge on the GPS / Wi-Fi model. At the same time, Apple managed to improve the Series 11’s durability and scratch-resistance, making it a better option for more intense workouts. Additionally, Apple added a more power-efficient 5G modem to the cellular model, so the battery won’t drain as quickly when you’re not on Wi-Fi.
Otherwise, the Series 11 carries over everything we loved about the Series 10. The wide-angle OLED display looks fantastic and is easy to read at a glance, while performance is excellent thanks to Apple’s S10 SiP chip. You also get a variety of health and wellness features, including FDA-cleared hypertension notifications, sleep apnea detection, and sleep score, which can summarize how well you slept. Meanwhile, you get access to the watchOS 26 update, which introduces a workout buddy and offers wrist-flick and double-tap gestures, along with the Liquid Glass redesign.
If you already own a Series 10, there aren’t many reasons to upgrade outside of the slightly improved battery life. However, if you have something older or you’re checking off a gift list, the Series 11 at $100 off is a great deal right before the holidays.
Slack users can now access Anthropic’s Claude Code directly in Slack by tagging Claude on coding-related messages and threads. The new feature is launching today in beta as a research preview.
When Claude is tagged, it will now automatically scan the message to see if it’s a coding task and, if so, route it to Claude Code using the context from the related Slack thread and the code repositories you’ve authenticated in Claude Code. Slack users can also directly tell Claude that a request is a coding task. For instance, you could ask Claude to investigate a bug report you’re discussing in Slack without needing to manually copy all the conte …
Lenovo has already demonstrated its ability to put rollable OLEDs into laptops by graduating last year from demo concept models to shipping the ThinkBook Plus Gen 6, an actual device you can buy. It has a built-in mechanism that expands the screen vertically to give you more screen real estate for typing and scrolling. However, the company might soon debut its first laptop that uses a rollable OLED to effectively transform its screen into an ultrawide 21:9 aspect ratio screen, with left and right edges that extend far outside the bottom chassis.
The Lenovo Legion Pro Rollable will be its first gaming laptop to feature a rollable horizontal …
At their biggest and most expensive, video games all sort of look the same. The reason often comes down to simple economics: More resources means more costs that need to be recouped, and historically the way publishers have done that is by being comically risk-averse. Hence the glut of semi-realistic rocky wastelands that look like death metal album covers where everyone is some kind of Wild West fetishist, or the hero shooters that all look like Pixar but shredded as hell and ready for fan artists to go places I shall not.
On occasion, however, new visual ground is staked. Octopath Traveler 0 is an example of this. The third game in the O …
Joshua Aaron, the developer of the ICEBlock app, is suing Attorney General Pam Bondi, US Homeland Security Secretary Kirsti Noem, acting director of ICE Todd Lyons, White House « Border Czar » Tom Homan, and other federal officials over the Trump administration’s « unlawful threats » made against Aaron and its actions to pressure Apple to pull the app from the App Store, which it did.
« We promised you we would fight back. Well, today’s the day we make good on the promise, » according to a post from ICEBlock’s official account on Bluesky. Aaron, Apple, and the Department of Homeland Security, didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment fr …
There’s an argument to be made that « the real monster is trauma » has become an overused trope in modern horror. Hereditary, The Babadook, and, much less effectively, Smile, are just a few higher-profile examples. But, if you ask me, few films have deployed this trope quite as effectively as the 2020 film His House.
The film follows Bol and Rial, refugees from South Sudan, played by Sope Dirisu and Wunmi Mosaku. Both deliver the kind of incredible performances that you rarely see in a genre film like this. It’s part of what elevates His House above the standard « haunted by trauma » fare. Mosaku, in particular, shows the sort of nuance and scr …
In November, Ted Sarandos, Netflix’s co-CEO made a trip to the White House for a lengthy meeting with Donald Trump. According to Bloomberg, the two discussed a number of topics, but chief among them was Netflix’s plan to bid on Warner Bros. At the end of their conversation, Sardonos felt that “Netflix wouldn’t face immediate opposition from the White House.”
This week, Netflix successfully won the bidding war for Warner, offering $82.7 billion. It’s well known that Paramount and its CEO David Ellison were eager to acquire the storied studio and its streaming assets. Ellison and his father, Larry Ellison, have close ties to the White House, and as part of their pitch to Warner, suggested that only they were in a position to overcome the regulatory hurdles of further media consolidation.
Sarandos seems to have rightly believed that the Ellisons overestimated their political clout. And despite some public efforts to turn the White House against the deal, Netflix won out, for now. There is of course, still a chance that Paramount could launch a hostile takeover effort, or that the Justice Department could try and scuttle the deal — nothing is guaranteed yet.
Sarandos tried to acquire Paramount before David Ellison swooped in, so snatching Warner Bros. out from under his nose is likely something of a personal victory.
Friday, the EU slapped X with a €120 million fine (about $140 million) for violating the Digital Services Act (DSA). It was the first time that a company had been hit with a penalty for running afoul of the law. Elon Musk responded with his trademark tact and professionalism by posting “Bullshit” on X in response to the announcement from the European Commission. But that wasn’t the end, because just a day later Nikita Bier, X’s head of product, accused the Commission of abusing an exploit to boost the reach of the announcement and responded by shutting down its ad account.
According to Bier, the Commission had not used its ad account since 2021, but used a post format explicitly reserved for ads in its announcement of the fine against X. He claims that the Commission posted “a link that deceives users into thinking it’s a video and to artificially increase its reach.” (For the record, the post itself includes a video.)
The seemingly retaliatory revocation of the European Commission’s ad account is unlikely to materially change things for either X or the EU. If, as Bier claims, the Commission has not used its ad account since 2021, holding it hostage is unlikely to give X any leverage. And, while it can appeal the decision, X is currently still on the hook for the sizable fine. Plus, it must provide details for how it plans to address the “deceptive” use of verified checkmarks in the next 60 days, or face additional penalties.
We’ve reached out to the Commission for comment and will update if we hear back.
Il semble que nous ne pouvons pas trouver le contenu demandé. Peut-être qu’une recherche peut vous aider.
It’s easy to think about AI as a sort of existential battle between human and machine. Maybe it will be, someday, in a Skynet sort of way. But there are also lots of people trying to figure out how to use AI not as a replacement for human creativity and thinking but as a tool meant to augment those things.
Sari Azout is one of those people. She’s the founder of Sublime, a platform dedicated to curation, creativity, and ideas. Sublime is all about taste, which makes it slightly surprising that there’s a huge amount of AI powering the way it works. But to Azout, it all makes sense.
Between keeping up with TikTok trends and whatever new gadget just dropped, it’s tough to know exactly what teens are into these days. Luckily, we can help. We may be older than teenagers, but many of us here at The Verge are kids at heart. Plus, we’ve also got a few staffers with older kids. To make your life a little easier this holiday season, we rounded up what we think are the best gifts for teens, based on our tech expertise as well as what our staff’s teens are into right now.
Below, you’ll find gift ideas for many types of teens. Some are more obvious choices, like the latest iPhone and Nintendo Switch 2, but we sought to include a …
The discount brings the price down to $299 ($100 off). | Image: The Verge
We thought Black Friday and Cyber Monday would bring the lowest prices of the year, but apparently not. Right now, you can snag Apple’s Watch Series 11 in the 42mm configuration with GPS for a new all-time low of $299 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy. That beats the $70 discount we saw at the beginning of the month, which means if you didn’t take advantage then, you can save even more now. The 46mm model with GPS is also down to its lowest price yet of $329 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy.
The Series 11 offers some nice improvements to the already-excellent Apple Watch Series 10. While this year’s model has the same dimensions as its predecessor, battery life has increased up to 24 hours per charge on the GPS / Wi-Fi model. At the same time, Apple managed to improve the Series 11’s durability and scratch-resistance, making it a better option for more intense workouts. Additionally, Apple added a more power-efficient 5G modem to the cellular model, so the battery won’t drain as quickly when you’re not on Wi-Fi.
Otherwise, the Series 11 carries over everything we loved about the Series 10. The wide-angle OLED display looks fantastic and is easy to read at a glance, while performance is excellent thanks to Apple’s S10 SiP chip. You also get a variety of health and wellness features, including FDA-cleared hypertension notifications, sleep apnea detection, and sleep score, which can summarize how well you slept. Meanwhile, you get access to the watchOS 26 update, which introduces a workout buddy and offers wrist-flick and double-tap gestures, along with the Liquid Glass redesign.
If you already own a Series 10, there aren’t many reasons to upgrade outside of the slightly improved battery life. However, if you have something older or you’re checking off a gift list, the Series 11 at $100 off is a great deal right before the holidays.
Slack users can now access Anthropic’s Claude Code directly in Slack by tagging Claude on coding-related messages and threads. The new feature is launching today in beta as a research preview.
When Claude is tagged, it will now automatically scan the message to see if it’s a coding task and, if so, route it to Claude Code using the context from the related Slack thread and the code repositories you’ve authenticated in Claude Code. Slack users can also directly tell Claude that a request is a coding task. For instance, you could ask Claude to investigate a bug report you’re discussing in Slack without needing to manually copy all the conte …
Lenovo has already demonstrated its ability to put rollable OLEDs into laptops by graduating last year from demo concept models to shipping the ThinkBook Plus Gen 6, an actual device you can buy. It has a built-in mechanism that expands the screen vertically to give you more screen real estate for typing and scrolling. However, the company might soon debut its first laptop that uses a rollable OLED to effectively transform its screen into an ultrawide 21:9 aspect ratio screen, with left and right edges that extend far outside the bottom chassis.
The Lenovo Legion Pro Rollable will be its first gaming laptop to feature a rollable horizontal …
At their biggest and most expensive, video games all sort of look the same. The reason often comes down to simple economics: More resources means more costs that need to be recouped, and historically the way publishers have done that is by being comically risk-averse. Hence the glut of semi-realistic rocky wastelands that look like death metal album covers where everyone is some kind of Wild West fetishist, or the hero shooters that all look like Pixar but shredded as hell and ready for fan artists to go places I shall not.
On occasion, however, new visual ground is staked. Octopath Traveler 0 is an example of this. The third game in the O …
Joshua Aaron, the developer of the ICEBlock app, is suing Attorney General Pam Bondi, US Homeland Security Secretary Kirsti Noem, acting director of ICE Todd Lyons, White House « Border Czar » Tom Homan, and other federal officials over the Trump administration’s « unlawful threats » made against Aaron and its actions to pressure Apple to pull the app from the App Store, which it did.
« We promised you we would fight back. Well, today’s the day we make good on the promise, » according to a post from ICEBlock’s official account on Bluesky. Aaron, Apple, and the Department of Homeland Security, didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment fr …
There’s an argument to be made that « the real monster is trauma » has become an overused trope in modern horror. Hereditary, The Babadook, and, much less effectively, Smile, are just a few higher-profile examples. But, if you ask me, few films have deployed this trope quite as effectively as the 2020 film His House.
The film follows Bol and Rial, refugees from South Sudan, played by Sope Dirisu and Wunmi Mosaku. Both deliver the kind of incredible performances that you rarely see in a genre film like this. It’s part of what elevates His House above the standard « haunted by trauma » fare. Mosaku, in particular, shows the sort of nuance and scr …
In November, Ted Sarandos, Netflix’s co-CEO made a trip to the White House for a lengthy meeting with Donald Trump. According to Bloomberg, the two discussed a number of topics, but chief among them was Netflix’s plan to bid on Warner Bros. At the end of their conversation, Sardonos felt that “Netflix wouldn’t face immediate opposition from the White House.”
This week, Netflix successfully won the bidding war for Warner, offering $82.7 billion. It’s well known that Paramount and its CEO David Ellison were eager to acquire the storied studio and its streaming assets. Ellison and his father, Larry Ellison, have close ties to the White House, and as part of their pitch to Warner, suggested that only they were in a position to overcome the regulatory hurdles of further media consolidation.
Sarandos seems to have rightly believed that the Ellisons overestimated their political clout. And despite some public efforts to turn the White House against the deal, Netflix won out, for now. There is of course, still a chance that Paramount could launch a hostile takeover effort, or that the Justice Department could try and scuttle the deal — nothing is guaranteed yet.
Sarandos tried to acquire Paramount before David Ellison swooped in, so snatching Warner Bros. out from under his nose is likely something of a personal victory.
Friday, the EU slapped X with a €120 million fine (about $140 million) for violating the Digital Services Act (DSA). It was the first time that a company had been hit with a penalty for running afoul of the law. Elon Musk responded with his trademark tact and professionalism by posting “Bullshit” on X in response to the announcement from the European Commission. But that wasn’t the end, because just a day later Nikita Bier, X’s head of product, accused the Commission of abusing an exploit to boost the reach of the announcement and responded by shutting down its ad account.
According to Bier, the Commission had not used its ad account since 2021, but used a post format explicitly reserved for ads in its announcement of the fine against X. He claims that the Commission posted “a link that deceives users into thinking it’s a video and to artificially increase its reach.” (For the record, the post itself includes a video.)
The seemingly retaliatory revocation of the European Commission’s ad account is unlikely to materially change things for either X or the EU. If, as Bier claims, the Commission has not used its ad account since 2021, holding it hostage is unlikely to give X any leverage. And, while it can appeal the decision, X is currently still on the hook for the sizable fine. Plus, it must provide details for how it plans to address the “deceptive” use of verified checkmarks in the next 60 days, or face additional penalties.
We’ve reached out to the Commission for comment and will update if we hear back.
Il semble que nous ne pouvons pas trouver le contenu demandé. Peut-être qu’une recherche peut vous aider.
It’s easy to think about AI as a sort of existential battle between human and machine. Maybe it will be, someday, in a Skynet sort of way. But there are also lots of people trying to figure out how to use AI not as a replacement for human creativity and thinking but as a tool meant to augment those things.
Sari Azout is one of those people. She’s the founder of Sublime, a platform dedicated to curation, creativity, and ideas. Sublime is all about taste, which makes it slightly surprising that there’s a huge amount of AI powering the way it works. But to Azout, it all makes sense.
Between keeping up with TikTok trends and whatever new gadget just dropped, it’s tough to know exactly what teens are into these days. Luckily, we can help. We may be older than teenagers, but many of us here at The Verge are kids at heart. Plus, we’ve also got a few staffers with older kids. To make your life a little easier this holiday season, we rounded up what we think are the best gifts for teens, based on our tech expertise as well as what our staff’s teens are into right now.
Below, you’ll find gift ideas for many types of teens. Some are more obvious choices, like the latest iPhone and Nintendo Switch 2, but we sought to include a …
The discount brings the price down to $299 ($100 off). | Image: The Verge
We thought Black Friday and Cyber Monday would bring the lowest prices of the year, but apparently not. Right now, you can snag Apple’s Watch Series 11 in the 42mm configuration with GPS for a new all-time low of $299 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy. That beats the $70 discount we saw at the beginning of the month, which means if you didn’t take advantage then, you can save even more now. The 46mm model with GPS is also down to its lowest price yet of $329 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy.
The Series 11 offers some nice improvements to the already-excellent Apple Watch Series 10. While this year’s model has the same dimensions as its predecessor, battery life has increased up to 24 hours per charge on the GPS / Wi-Fi model. At the same time, Apple managed to improve the Series 11’s durability and scratch-resistance, making it a better option for more intense workouts. Additionally, Apple added a more power-efficient 5G modem to the cellular model, so the battery won’t drain as quickly when you’re not on Wi-Fi.
Otherwise, the Series 11 carries over everything we loved about the Series 10. The wide-angle OLED display looks fantastic and is easy to read at a glance, while performance is excellent thanks to Apple’s S10 SiP chip. You also get a variety of health and wellness features, including FDA-cleared hypertension notifications, sleep apnea detection, and sleep score, which can summarize how well you slept. Meanwhile, you get access to the watchOS 26 update, which introduces a workout buddy and offers wrist-flick and double-tap gestures, along with the Liquid Glass redesign.
If you already own a Series 10, there aren’t many reasons to upgrade outside of the slightly improved battery life. However, if you have something older or you’re checking off a gift list, the Series 11 at $100 off is a great deal right before the holidays.
Slack users can now access Anthropic’s Claude Code directly in Slack by tagging Claude on coding-related messages and threads. The new feature is launching today in beta as a research preview.
When Claude is tagged, it will now automatically scan the message to see if it’s a coding task and, if so, route it to Claude Code using the context from the related Slack thread and the code repositories you’ve authenticated in Claude Code. Slack users can also directly tell Claude that a request is a coding task. For instance, you could ask Claude to investigate a bug report you’re discussing in Slack without needing to manually copy all the conte …
Lenovo has already demonstrated its ability to put rollable OLEDs into laptops by graduating last year from demo concept models to shipping the ThinkBook Plus Gen 6, an actual device you can buy. It has a built-in mechanism that expands the screen vertically to give you more screen real estate for typing and scrolling. However, the company might soon debut its first laptop that uses a rollable OLED to effectively transform its screen into an ultrawide 21:9 aspect ratio screen, with left and right edges that extend far outside the bottom chassis.
The Lenovo Legion Pro Rollable will be its first gaming laptop to feature a rollable horizontal …
At their biggest and most expensive, video games all sort of look the same. The reason often comes down to simple economics: More resources means more costs that need to be recouped, and historically the way publishers have done that is by being comically risk-averse. Hence the glut of semi-realistic rocky wastelands that look like death metal album covers where everyone is some kind of Wild West fetishist, or the hero shooters that all look like Pixar but shredded as hell and ready for fan artists to go places I shall not.
On occasion, however, new visual ground is staked. Octopath Traveler 0 is an example of this. The third game in the O …
Joshua Aaron, the developer of the ICEBlock app, is suing Attorney General Pam Bondi, US Homeland Security Secretary Kirsti Noem, acting director of ICE Todd Lyons, White House « Border Czar » Tom Homan, and other federal officials over the Trump administration’s « unlawful threats » made against Aaron and its actions to pressure Apple to pull the app from the App Store, which it did.
« We promised you we would fight back. Well, today’s the day we make good on the promise, » according to a post from ICEBlock’s official account on Bluesky. Aaron, Apple, and the Department of Homeland Security, didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment fr …
There’s an argument to be made that « the real monster is trauma » has become an overused trope in modern horror. Hereditary, The Babadook, and, much less effectively, Smile, are just a few higher-profile examples. But, if you ask me, few films have deployed this trope quite as effectively as the 2020 film His House.
The film follows Bol and Rial, refugees from South Sudan, played by Sope Dirisu and Wunmi Mosaku. Both deliver the kind of incredible performances that you rarely see in a genre film like this. It’s part of what elevates His House above the standard « haunted by trauma » fare. Mosaku, in particular, shows the sort of nuance and scr …
In November, Ted Sarandos, Netflix’s co-CEO made a trip to the White House for a lengthy meeting with Donald Trump. According to Bloomberg, the two discussed a number of topics, but chief among them was Netflix’s plan to bid on Warner Bros. At the end of their conversation, Sardonos felt that “Netflix wouldn’t face immediate opposition from the White House.”
This week, Netflix successfully won the bidding war for Warner, offering $82.7 billion. It’s well known that Paramount and its CEO David Ellison were eager to acquire the storied studio and its streaming assets. Ellison and his father, Larry Ellison, have close ties to the White House, and as part of their pitch to Warner, suggested that only they were in a position to overcome the regulatory hurdles of further media consolidation.
Sarandos seems to have rightly believed that the Ellisons overestimated their political clout. And despite some public efforts to turn the White House against the deal, Netflix won out, for now. There is of course, still a chance that Paramount could launch a hostile takeover effort, or that the Justice Department could try and scuttle the deal — nothing is guaranteed yet.
Sarandos tried to acquire Paramount before David Ellison swooped in, so snatching Warner Bros. out from under his nose is likely something of a personal victory.
Friday, the EU slapped X with a €120 million fine (about $140 million) for violating the Digital Services Act (DSA). It was the first time that a company had been hit with a penalty for running afoul of the law. Elon Musk responded with his trademark tact and professionalism by posting “Bullshit” on X in response to the announcement from the European Commission. But that wasn’t the end, because just a day later Nikita Bier, X’s head of product, accused the Commission of abusing an exploit to boost the reach of the announcement and responded by shutting down its ad account.
According to Bier, the Commission had not used its ad account since 2021, but used a post format explicitly reserved for ads in its announcement of the fine against X. He claims that the Commission posted “a link that deceives users into thinking it’s a video and to artificially increase its reach.” (For the record, the post itself includes a video.)
The seemingly retaliatory revocation of the European Commission’s ad account is unlikely to materially change things for either X or the EU. If, as Bier claims, the Commission has not used its ad account since 2021, holding it hostage is unlikely to give X any leverage. And, while it can appeal the decision, X is currently still on the hook for the sizable fine. Plus, it must provide details for how it plans to address the “deceptive” use of verified checkmarks in the next 60 days, or face additional penalties.
We’ve reached out to the Commission for comment and will update if we hear back.
Il semble que nous ne pouvons pas trouver le contenu demandé. Peut-être qu’une recherche peut vous aider.
It’s easy to think about AI as a sort of existential battle between human and machine. Maybe it will be, someday, in a Skynet sort of way. But there are also lots of people trying to figure out how to use AI not as a replacement for human creativity and thinking but as a tool meant to augment those things.
Sari Azout is one of those people. She’s the founder of Sublime, a platform dedicated to curation, creativity, and ideas. Sublime is all about taste, which makes it slightly surprising that there’s a huge amount of AI powering the way it works. But to Azout, it all makes sense.
Between keeping up with TikTok trends and whatever new gadget just dropped, it’s tough to know exactly what teens are into these days. Luckily, we can help. We may be older than teenagers, but many of us here at The Verge are kids at heart. Plus, we’ve also got a few staffers with older kids. To make your life a little easier this holiday season, we rounded up what we think are the best gifts for teens, based on our tech expertise as well as what our staff’s teens are into right now.
Below, you’ll find gift ideas for many types of teens. Some are more obvious choices, like the latest iPhone and Nintendo Switch 2, but we sought to include a …
The discount brings the price down to $299 ($100 off). | Image: The Verge
We thought Black Friday and Cyber Monday would bring the lowest prices of the year, but apparently not. Right now, you can snag Apple’s Watch Series 11 in the 42mm configuration with GPS for a new all-time low of $299 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy. That beats the $70 discount we saw at the beginning of the month, which means if you didn’t take advantage then, you can save even more now. The 46mm model with GPS is also down to its lowest price yet of $329 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy.
The Series 11 offers some nice improvements to the already-excellent Apple Watch Series 10. While this year’s model has the same dimensions as its predecessor, battery life has increased up to 24 hours per charge on the GPS / Wi-Fi model. At the same time, Apple managed to improve the Series 11’s durability and scratch-resistance, making it a better option for more intense workouts. Additionally, Apple added a more power-efficient 5G modem to the cellular model, so the battery won’t drain as quickly when you’re not on Wi-Fi.
Otherwise, the Series 11 carries over everything we loved about the Series 10. The wide-angle OLED display looks fantastic and is easy to read at a glance, while performance is excellent thanks to Apple’s S10 SiP chip. You also get a variety of health and wellness features, including FDA-cleared hypertension notifications, sleep apnea detection, and sleep score, which can summarize how well you slept. Meanwhile, you get access to the watchOS 26 update, which introduces a workout buddy and offers wrist-flick and double-tap gestures, along with the Liquid Glass redesign.
If you already own a Series 10, there aren’t many reasons to upgrade outside of the slightly improved battery life. However, if you have something older or you’re checking off a gift list, the Series 11 at $100 off is a great deal right before the holidays.
Slack users can now access Anthropic’s Claude Code directly in Slack by tagging Claude on coding-related messages and threads. The new feature is launching today in beta as a research preview.
When Claude is tagged, it will now automatically scan the message to see if it’s a coding task and, if so, route it to Claude Code using the context from the related Slack thread and the code repositories you’ve authenticated in Claude Code. Slack users can also directly tell Claude that a request is a coding task. For instance, you could ask Claude to investigate a bug report you’re discussing in Slack without needing to manually copy all the conte …
Lenovo has already demonstrated its ability to put rollable OLEDs into laptops by graduating last year from demo concept models to shipping the ThinkBook Plus Gen 6, an actual device you can buy. It has a built-in mechanism that expands the screen vertically to give you more screen real estate for typing and scrolling. However, the company might soon debut its first laptop that uses a rollable OLED to effectively transform its screen into an ultrawide 21:9 aspect ratio screen, with left and right edges that extend far outside the bottom chassis.
The Lenovo Legion Pro Rollable will be its first gaming laptop to feature a rollable horizontal …
At their biggest and most expensive, video games all sort of look the same. The reason often comes down to simple economics: More resources means more costs that need to be recouped, and historically the way publishers have done that is by being comically risk-averse. Hence the glut of semi-realistic rocky wastelands that look like death metal album covers where everyone is some kind of Wild West fetishist, or the hero shooters that all look like Pixar but shredded as hell and ready for fan artists to go places I shall not.
On occasion, however, new visual ground is staked. Octopath Traveler 0 is an example of this. The third game in the O …
Joshua Aaron, the developer of the ICEBlock app, is suing Attorney General Pam Bondi, US Homeland Security Secretary Kirsti Noem, acting director of ICE Todd Lyons, White House « Border Czar » Tom Homan, and other federal officials over the Trump administration’s « unlawful threats » made against Aaron and its actions to pressure Apple to pull the app from the App Store, which it did.
« We promised you we would fight back. Well, today’s the day we make good on the promise, » according to a post from ICEBlock’s official account on Bluesky. Aaron, Apple, and the Department of Homeland Security, didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment fr …
There’s an argument to be made that « the real monster is trauma » has become an overused trope in modern horror. Hereditary, The Babadook, and, much less effectively, Smile, are just a few higher-profile examples. But, if you ask me, few films have deployed this trope quite as effectively as the 2020 film His House.
The film follows Bol and Rial, refugees from South Sudan, played by Sope Dirisu and Wunmi Mosaku. Both deliver the kind of incredible performances that you rarely see in a genre film like this. It’s part of what elevates His House above the standard « haunted by trauma » fare. Mosaku, in particular, shows the sort of nuance and scr …
In November, Ted Sarandos, Netflix’s co-CEO made a trip to the White House for a lengthy meeting with Donald Trump. According to Bloomberg, the two discussed a number of topics, but chief among them was Netflix’s plan to bid on Warner Bros. At the end of their conversation, Sardonos felt that “Netflix wouldn’t face immediate opposition from the White House.”
This week, Netflix successfully won the bidding war for Warner, offering $82.7 billion. It’s well known that Paramount and its CEO David Ellison were eager to acquire the storied studio and its streaming assets. Ellison and his father, Larry Ellison, have close ties to the White House, and as part of their pitch to Warner, suggested that only they were in a position to overcome the regulatory hurdles of further media consolidation.
Sarandos seems to have rightly believed that the Ellisons overestimated their political clout. And despite some public efforts to turn the White House against the deal, Netflix won out, for now. There is of course, still a chance that Paramount could launch a hostile takeover effort, or that the Justice Department could try and scuttle the deal — nothing is guaranteed yet.
Sarandos tried to acquire Paramount before David Ellison swooped in, so snatching Warner Bros. out from under his nose is likely something of a personal victory.
Friday, the EU slapped X with a €120 million fine (about $140 million) for violating the Digital Services Act (DSA). It was the first time that a company had been hit with a penalty for running afoul of the law. Elon Musk responded with his trademark tact and professionalism by posting “Bullshit” on X in response to the announcement from the European Commission. But that wasn’t the end, because just a day later Nikita Bier, X’s head of product, accused the Commission of abusing an exploit to boost the reach of the announcement and responded by shutting down its ad account.
According to Bier, the Commission had not used its ad account since 2021, but used a post format explicitly reserved for ads in its announcement of the fine against X. He claims that the Commission posted “a link that deceives users into thinking it’s a video and to artificially increase its reach.” (For the record, the post itself includes a video.)
The seemingly retaliatory revocation of the European Commission’s ad account is unlikely to materially change things for either X or the EU. If, as Bier claims, the Commission has not used its ad account since 2021, holding it hostage is unlikely to give X any leverage. And, while it can appeal the decision, X is currently still on the hook for the sizable fine. Plus, it must provide details for how it plans to address the “deceptive” use of verified checkmarks in the next 60 days, or face additional penalties.
We’ve reached out to the Commission for comment and will update if we hear back.
Il semble que nous ne pouvons pas trouver le contenu demandé. Peut-être qu’une recherche peut vous aider.
It’s easy to think about AI as a sort of existential battle between human and machine. Maybe it will be, someday, in a Skynet sort of way. But there are also lots of people trying to figure out how to use AI not as a replacement for human creativity and thinking but as a tool meant to augment those things.
Sari Azout is one of those people. She’s the founder of Sublime, a platform dedicated to curation, creativity, and ideas. Sublime is all about taste, which makes it slightly surprising that there’s a huge amount of AI powering the way it works. But to Azout, it all makes sense.
Between keeping up with TikTok trends and whatever new gadget just dropped, it’s tough to know exactly what teens are into these days. Luckily, we can help. We may be older than teenagers, but many of us here at The Verge are kids at heart. Plus, we’ve also got a few staffers with older kids. To make your life a little easier this holiday season, we rounded up what we think are the best gifts for teens, based on our tech expertise as well as what our staff’s teens are into right now.
Below, you’ll find gift ideas for many types of teens. Some are more obvious choices, like the latest iPhone and Nintendo Switch 2, but we sought to include a …
The discount brings the price down to $299 ($100 off). | Image: The Verge
We thought Black Friday and Cyber Monday would bring the lowest prices of the year, but apparently not. Right now, you can snag Apple’s Watch Series 11 in the 42mm configuration with GPS for a new all-time low of $299 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy. That beats the $70 discount we saw at the beginning of the month, which means if you didn’t take advantage then, you can save even more now. The 46mm model with GPS is also down to its lowest price yet of $329 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy.
The Series 11 offers some nice improvements to the already-excellent Apple Watch Series 10. While this year’s model has the same dimensions as its predecessor, battery life has increased up to 24 hours per charge on the GPS / Wi-Fi model. At the same time, Apple managed to improve the Series 11’s durability and scratch-resistance, making it a better option for more intense workouts. Additionally, Apple added a more power-efficient 5G modem to the cellular model, so the battery won’t drain as quickly when you’re not on Wi-Fi.
Otherwise, the Series 11 carries over everything we loved about the Series 10. The wide-angle OLED display looks fantastic and is easy to read at a glance, while performance is excellent thanks to Apple’s S10 SiP chip. You also get a variety of health and wellness features, including FDA-cleared hypertension notifications, sleep apnea detection, and sleep score, which can summarize how well you slept. Meanwhile, you get access to the watchOS 26 update, which introduces a workout buddy and offers wrist-flick and double-tap gestures, along with the Liquid Glass redesign.
If you already own a Series 10, there aren’t many reasons to upgrade outside of the slightly improved battery life. However, if you have something older or you’re checking off a gift list, the Series 11 at $100 off is a great deal right before the holidays.
Slack users can now access Anthropic’s Claude Code directly in Slack by tagging Claude on coding-related messages and threads. The new feature is launching today in beta as a research preview.
When Claude is tagged, it will now automatically scan the message to see if it’s a coding task and, if so, route it to Claude Code using the context from the related Slack thread and the code repositories you’ve authenticated in Claude Code. Slack users can also directly tell Claude that a request is a coding task. For instance, you could ask Claude to investigate a bug report you’re discussing in Slack without needing to manually copy all the conte …
Lenovo has already demonstrated its ability to put rollable OLEDs into laptops by graduating last year from demo concept models to shipping the ThinkBook Plus Gen 6, an actual device you can buy. It has a built-in mechanism that expands the screen vertically to give you more screen real estate for typing and scrolling. However, the company might soon debut its first laptop that uses a rollable OLED to effectively transform its screen into an ultrawide 21:9 aspect ratio screen, with left and right edges that extend far outside the bottom chassis.
The Lenovo Legion Pro Rollable will be its first gaming laptop to feature a rollable horizontal …
At their biggest and most expensive, video games all sort of look the same. The reason often comes down to simple economics: More resources means more costs that need to be recouped, and historically the way publishers have done that is by being comically risk-averse. Hence the glut of semi-realistic rocky wastelands that look like death metal album covers where everyone is some kind of Wild West fetishist, or the hero shooters that all look like Pixar but shredded as hell and ready for fan artists to go places I shall not.
On occasion, however, new visual ground is staked. Octopath Traveler 0 is an example of this. The third game in the O …
Joshua Aaron, the developer of the ICEBlock app, is suing Attorney General Pam Bondi, US Homeland Security Secretary Kirsti Noem, acting director of ICE Todd Lyons, White House « Border Czar » Tom Homan, and other federal officials over the Trump administration’s « unlawful threats » made against Aaron and its actions to pressure Apple to pull the app from the App Store, which it did.
« We promised you we would fight back. Well, today’s the day we make good on the promise, » according to a post from ICEBlock’s official account on Bluesky. Aaron, Apple, and the Department of Homeland Security, didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment fr …
There’s an argument to be made that « the real monster is trauma » has become an overused trope in modern horror. Hereditary, The Babadook, and, much less effectively, Smile, are just a few higher-profile examples. But, if you ask me, few films have deployed this trope quite as effectively as the 2020 film His House.
The film follows Bol and Rial, refugees from South Sudan, played by Sope Dirisu and Wunmi Mosaku. Both deliver the kind of incredible performances that you rarely see in a genre film like this. It’s part of what elevates His House above the standard « haunted by trauma » fare. Mosaku, in particular, shows the sort of nuance and scr …
In November, Ted Sarandos, Netflix’s co-CEO made a trip to the White House for a lengthy meeting with Donald Trump. According to Bloomberg, the two discussed a number of topics, but chief among them was Netflix’s plan to bid on Warner Bros. At the end of their conversation, Sardonos felt that “Netflix wouldn’t face immediate opposition from the White House.”
This week, Netflix successfully won the bidding war for Warner, offering $82.7 billion. It’s well known that Paramount and its CEO David Ellison were eager to acquire the storied studio and its streaming assets. Ellison and his father, Larry Ellison, have close ties to the White House, and as part of their pitch to Warner, suggested that only they were in a position to overcome the regulatory hurdles of further media consolidation.
Sarandos seems to have rightly believed that the Ellisons overestimated their political clout. And despite some public efforts to turn the White House against the deal, Netflix won out, for now. There is of course, still a chance that Paramount could launch a hostile takeover effort, or that the Justice Department could try and scuttle the deal — nothing is guaranteed yet.
Sarandos tried to acquire Paramount before David Ellison swooped in, so snatching Warner Bros. out from under his nose is likely something of a personal victory.
Friday, the EU slapped X with a €120 million fine (about $140 million) for violating the Digital Services Act (DSA). It was the first time that a company had been hit with a penalty for running afoul of the law. Elon Musk responded with his trademark tact and professionalism by posting “Bullshit” on X in response to the announcement from the European Commission. But that wasn’t the end, because just a day later Nikita Bier, X’s head of product, accused the Commission of abusing an exploit to boost the reach of the announcement and responded by shutting down its ad account.
According to Bier, the Commission had not used its ad account since 2021, but used a post format explicitly reserved for ads in its announcement of the fine against X. He claims that the Commission posted “a link that deceives users into thinking it’s a video and to artificially increase its reach.” (For the record, the post itself includes a video.)
The seemingly retaliatory revocation of the European Commission’s ad account is unlikely to materially change things for either X or the EU. If, as Bier claims, the Commission has not used its ad account since 2021, holding it hostage is unlikely to give X any leverage. And, while it can appeal the decision, X is currently still on the hook for the sizable fine. Plus, it must provide details for how it plans to address the “deceptive” use of verified checkmarks in the next 60 days, or face additional penalties.
We’ve reached out to the Commission for comment and will update if we hear back.
Il semble que nous ne pouvons pas trouver le contenu demandé. Peut-être qu’une recherche peut vous aider.
It’s easy to think about AI as a sort of existential battle between human and machine. Maybe it will be, someday, in a Skynet sort of way. But there are also lots of people trying to figure out how to use AI not as a replacement for human creativity and thinking but as a tool meant to augment those things.
Sari Azout is one of those people. She’s the founder of Sublime, a platform dedicated to curation, creativity, and ideas. Sublime is all about taste, which makes it slightly surprising that there’s a huge amount of AI powering the way it works. But to Azout, it all makes sense.
Between keeping up with TikTok trends and whatever new gadget just dropped, it’s tough to know exactly what teens are into these days. Luckily, we can help. We may be older than teenagers, but many of us here at The Verge are kids at heart. Plus, we’ve also got a few staffers with older kids. To make your life a little easier this holiday season, we rounded up what we think are the best gifts for teens, based on our tech expertise as well as what our staff’s teens are into right now.
Below, you’ll find gift ideas for many types of teens. Some are more obvious choices, like the latest iPhone and Nintendo Switch 2, but we sought to include a …
The discount brings the price down to $299 ($100 off). | Image: The Verge
We thought Black Friday and Cyber Monday would bring the lowest prices of the year, but apparently not. Right now, you can snag Apple’s Watch Series 11 in the 42mm configuration with GPS for a new all-time low of $299 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy. That beats the $70 discount we saw at the beginning of the month, which means if you didn’t take advantage then, you can save even more now. The 46mm model with GPS is also down to its lowest price yet of $329 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy.
The Series 11 offers some nice improvements to the already-excellent Apple Watch Series 10. While this year’s model has the same dimensions as its predecessor, battery life has increased up to 24 hours per charge on the GPS / Wi-Fi model. At the same time, Apple managed to improve the Series 11’s durability and scratch-resistance, making it a better option for more intense workouts. Additionally, Apple added a more power-efficient 5G modem to the cellular model, so the battery won’t drain as quickly when you’re not on Wi-Fi.
Otherwise, the Series 11 carries over everything we loved about the Series 10. The wide-angle OLED display looks fantastic and is easy to read at a glance, while performance is excellent thanks to Apple’s S10 SiP chip. You also get a variety of health and wellness features, including FDA-cleared hypertension notifications, sleep apnea detection, and sleep score, which can summarize how well you slept. Meanwhile, you get access to the watchOS 26 update, which introduces a workout buddy and offers wrist-flick and double-tap gestures, along with the Liquid Glass redesign.
If you already own a Series 10, there aren’t many reasons to upgrade outside of the slightly improved battery life. However, if you have something older or you’re checking off a gift list, the Series 11 at $100 off is a great deal right before the holidays.
Slack users can now access Anthropic’s Claude Code directly in Slack by tagging Claude on coding-related messages and threads. The new feature is launching today in beta as a research preview.
When Claude is tagged, it will now automatically scan the message to see if it’s a coding task and, if so, route it to Claude Code using the context from the related Slack thread and the code repositories you’ve authenticated in Claude Code. Slack users can also directly tell Claude that a request is a coding task. For instance, you could ask Claude to investigate a bug report you’re discussing in Slack without needing to manually copy all the conte …
Lenovo has already demonstrated its ability to put rollable OLEDs into laptops by graduating last year from demo concept models to shipping the ThinkBook Plus Gen 6, an actual device you can buy. It has a built-in mechanism that expands the screen vertically to give you more screen real estate for typing and scrolling. However, the company might soon debut its first laptop that uses a rollable OLED to effectively transform its screen into an ultrawide 21:9 aspect ratio screen, with left and right edges that extend far outside the bottom chassis.
The Lenovo Legion Pro Rollable will be its first gaming laptop to feature a rollable horizontal …
At their biggest and most expensive, video games all sort of look the same. The reason often comes down to simple economics: More resources means more costs that need to be recouped, and historically the way publishers have done that is by being comically risk-averse. Hence the glut of semi-realistic rocky wastelands that look like death metal album covers where everyone is some kind of Wild West fetishist, or the hero shooters that all look like Pixar but shredded as hell and ready for fan artists to go places I shall not.
On occasion, however, new visual ground is staked. Octopath Traveler 0 is an example of this. The third game in the O …
Joshua Aaron, the developer of the ICEBlock app, is suing Attorney General Pam Bondi, US Homeland Security Secretary Kirsti Noem, acting director of ICE Todd Lyons, White House « Border Czar » Tom Homan, and other federal officials over the Trump administration’s « unlawful threats » made against Aaron and its actions to pressure Apple to pull the app from the App Store, which it did.
« We promised you we would fight back. Well, today’s the day we make good on the promise, » according to a post from ICEBlock’s official account on Bluesky. Aaron, Apple, and the Department of Homeland Security, didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment fr …
There’s an argument to be made that « the real monster is trauma » has become an overused trope in modern horror. Hereditary, The Babadook, and, much less effectively, Smile, are just a few higher-profile examples. But, if you ask me, few films have deployed this trope quite as effectively as the 2020 film His House.
The film follows Bol and Rial, refugees from South Sudan, played by Sope Dirisu and Wunmi Mosaku. Both deliver the kind of incredible performances that you rarely see in a genre film like this. It’s part of what elevates His House above the standard « haunted by trauma » fare. Mosaku, in particular, shows the sort of nuance and scr …
In November, Ted Sarandos, Netflix’s co-CEO made a trip to the White House for a lengthy meeting with Donald Trump. According to Bloomberg, the two discussed a number of topics, but chief among them was Netflix’s plan to bid on Warner Bros. At the end of their conversation, Sardonos felt that “Netflix wouldn’t face immediate opposition from the White House.”
This week, Netflix successfully won the bidding war for Warner, offering $82.7 billion. It’s well known that Paramount and its CEO David Ellison were eager to acquire the storied studio and its streaming assets. Ellison and his father, Larry Ellison, have close ties to the White House, and as part of their pitch to Warner, suggested that only they were in a position to overcome the regulatory hurdles of further media consolidation.
Sarandos seems to have rightly believed that the Ellisons overestimated their political clout. And despite some public efforts to turn the White House against the deal, Netflix won out, for now. There is of course, still a chance that Paramount could launch a hostile takeover effort, or that the Justice Department could try and scuttle the deal — nothing is guaranteed yet.
Sarandos tried to acquire Paramount before David Ellison swooped in, so snatching Warner Bros. out from under his nose is likely something of a personal victory.
Friday, the EU slapped X with a €120 million fine (about $140 million) for violating the Digital Services Act (DSA). It was the first time that a company had been hit with a penalty for running afoul of the law. Elon Musk responded with his trademark tact and professionalism by posting “Bullshit” on X in response to the announcement from the European Commission. But that wasn’t the end, because just a day later Nikita Bier, X’s head of product, accused the Commission of abusing an exploit to boost the reach of the announcement and responded by shutting down its ad account.
According to Bier, the Commission had not used its ad account since 2021, but used a post format explicitly reserved for ads in its announcement of the fine against X. He claims that the Commission posted “a link that deceives users into thinking it’s a video and to artificially increase its reach.” (For the record, the post itself includes a video.)
The seemingly retaliatory revocation of the European Commission’s ad account is unlikely to materially change things for either X or the EU. If, as Bier claims, the Commission has not used its ad account since 2021, holding it hostage is unlikely to give X any leverage. And, while it can appeal the decision, X is currently still on the hook for the sizable fine. Plus, it must provide details for how it plans to address the “deceptive” use of verified checkmarks in the next 60 days, or face additional penalties.
We’ve reached out to the Commission for comment and will update if we hear back.
Il semble que nous ne pouvons pas trouver le contenu demandé. Peut-être qu’une recherche peut vous aider.
It’s easy to think about AI as a sort of existential battle between human and machine. Maybe it will be, someday, in a Skynet sort of way. But there are also lots of people trying to figure out how to use AI not as a replacement for human creativity and thinking but as a tool meant to augment those things.
Sari Azout is one of those people. She’s the founder of Sublime, a platform dedicated to curation, creativity, and ideas. Sublime is all about taste, which makes it slightly surprising that there’s a huge amount of AI powering the way it works. But to Azout, it all makes sense.
Between keeping up with TikTok trends and whatever new gadget just dropped, it’s tough to know exactly what teens are into these days. Luckily, we can help. We may be older than teenagers, but many of us here at The Verge are kids at heart. Plus, we’ve also got a few staffers with older kids. To make your life a little easier this holiday season, we rounded up what we think are the best gifts for teens, based on our tech expertise as well as what our staff’s teens are into right now.
Below, you’ll find gift ideas for many types of teens. Some are more obvious choices, like the latest iPhone and Nintendo Switch 2, but we sought to include a …
The discount brings the price down to $299 ($100 off). | Image: The Verge
We thought Black Friday and Cyber Monday would bring the lowest prices of the year, but apparently not. Right now, you can snag Apple’s Watch Series 11 in the 42mm configuration with GPS for a new all-time low of $299 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy. That beats the $70 discount we saw at the beginning of the month, which means if you didn’t take advantage then, you can save even more now. The 46mm model with GPS is also down to its lowest price yet of $329 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy.
The Series 11 offers some nice improvements to the already-excellent Apple Watch Series 10. While this year’s model has the same dimensions as its predecessor, battery life has increased up to 24 hours per charge on the GPS / Wi-Fi model. At the same time, Apple managed to improve the Series 11’s durability and scratch-resistance, making it a better option for more intense workouts. Additionally, Apple added a more power-efficient 5G modem to the cellular model, so the battery won’t drain as quickly when you’re not on Wi-Fi.
Otherwise, the Series 11 carries over everything we loved about the Series 10. The wide-angle OLED display looks fantastic and is easy to read at a glance, while performance is excellent thanks to Apple’s S10 SiP chip. You also get a variety of health and wellness features, including FDA-cleared hypertension notifications, sleep apnea detection, and sleep score, which can summarize how well you slept. Meanwhile, you get access to the watchOS 26 update, which introduces a workout buddy and offers wrist-flick and double-tap gestures, along with the Liquid Glass redesign.
If you already own a Series 10, there aren’t many reasons to upgrade outside of the slightly improved battery life. However, if you have something older or you’re checking off a gift list, the Series 11 at $100 off is a great deal right before the holidays.
Slack users can now access Anthropic’s Claude Code directly in Slack by tagging Claude on coding-related messages and threads. The new feature is launching today in beta as a research preview.
When Claude is tagged, it will now automatically scan the message to see if it’s a coding task and, if so, route it to Claude Code using the context from the related Slack thread and the code repositories you’ve authenticated in Claude Code. Slack users can also directly tell Claude that a request is a coding task. For instance, you could ask Claude to investigate a bug report you’re discussing in Slack without needing to manually copy all the conte …
Lenovo has already demonstrated its ability to put rollable OLEDs into laptops by graduating last year from demo concept models to shipping the ThinkBook Plus Gen 6, an actual device you can buy. It has a built-in mechanism that expands the screen vertically to give you more screen real estate for typing and scrolling. However, the company might soon debut its first laptop that uses a rollable OLED to effectively transform its screen into an ultrawide 21:9 aspect ratio screen, with left and right edges that extend far outside the bottom chassis.
The Lenovo Legion Pro Rollable will be its first gaming laptop to feature a rollable horizontal …
At their biggest and most expensive, video games all sort of look the same. The reason often comes down to simple economics: More resources means more costs that need to be recouped, and historically the way publishers have done that is by being comically risk-averse. Hence the glut of semi-realistic rocky wastelands that look like death metal album covers where everyone is some kind of Wild West fetishist, or the hero shooters that all look like Pixar but shredded as hell and ready for fan artists to go places I shall not.
On occasion, however, new visual ground is staked. Octopath Traveler 0 is an example of this. The third game in the O …
Joshua Aaron, the developer of the ICEBlock app, is suing Attorney General Pam Bondi, US Homeland Security Secretary Kirsti Noem, acting director of ICE Todd Lyons, White House « Border Czar » Tom Homan, and other federal officials over the Trump administration’s « unlawful threats » made against Aaron and its actions to pressure Apple to pull the app from the App Store, which it did.
« We promised you we would fight back. Well, today’s the day we make good on the promise, » according to a post from ICEBlock’s official account on Bluesky. Aaron, Apple, and the Department of Homeland Security, didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment fr …
There’s an argument to be made that « the real monster is trauma » has become an overused trope in modern horror. Hereditary, The Babadook, and, much less effectively, Smile, are just a few higher-profile examples. But, if you ask me, few films have deployed this trope quite as effectively as the 2020 film His House.
The film follows Bol and Rial, refugees from South Sudan, played by Sope Dirisu and Wunmi Mosaku. Both deliver the kind of incredible performances that you rarely see in a genre film like this. It’s part of what elevates His House above the standard « haunted by trauma » fare. Mosaku, in particular, shows the sort of nuance and scr …
In November, Ted Sarandos, Netflix’s co-CEO made a trip to the White House for a lengthy meeting with Donald Trump. According to Bloomberg, the two discussed a number of topics, but chief among them was Netflix’s plan to bid on Warner Bros. At the end of their conversation, Sardonos felt that “Netflix wouldn’t face immediate opposition from the White House.”
This week, Netflix successfully won the bidding war for Warner, offering $82.7 billion. It’s well known that Paramount and its CEO David Ellison were eager to acquire the storied studio and its streaming assets. Ellison and his father, Larry Ellison, have close ties to the White House, and as part of their pitch to Warner, suggested that only they were in a position to overcome the regulatory hurdles of further media consolidation.
Sarandos seems to have rightly believed that the Ellisons overestimated their political clout. And despite some public efforts to turn the White House against the deal, Netflix won out, for now. There is of course, still a chance that Paramount could launch a hostile takeover effort, or that the Justice Department could try and scuttle the deal — nothing is guaranteed yet.
Sarandos tried to acquire Paramount before David Ellison swooped in, so snatching Warner Bros. out from under his nose is likely something of a personal victory.
Friday, the EU slapped X with a €120 million fine (about $140 million) for violating the Digital Services Act (DSA). It was the first time that a company had been hit with a penalty for running afoul of the law. Elon Musk responded with his trademark tact and professionalism by posting “Bullshit” on X in response to the announcement from the European Commission. But that wasn’t the end, because just a day later Nikita Bier, X’s head of product, accused the Commission of abusing an exploit to boost the reach of the announcement and responded by shutting down its ad account.
According to Bier, the Commission had not used its ad account since 2021, but used a post format explicitly reserved for ads in its announcement of the fine against X. He claims that the Commission posted “a link that deceives users into thinking it’s a video and to artificially increase its reach.” (For the record, the post itself includes a video.)
The seemingly retaliatory revocation of the European Commission’s ad account is unlikely to materially change things for either X or the EU. If, as Bier claims, the Commission has not used its ad account since 2021, holding it hostage is unlikely to give X any leverage. And, while it can appeal the decision, X is currently still on the hook for the sizable fine. Plus, it must provide details for how it plans to address the “deceptive” use of verified checkmarks in the next 60 days, or face additional penalties.
We’ve reached out to the Commission for comment and will update if we hear back.
Il semble que nous ne pouvons pas trouver le contenu demandé. Peut-être qu’une recherche peut vous aider.
It’s easy to think about AI as a sort of existential battle between human and machine. Maybe it will be, someday, in a Skynet sort of way. But there are also lots of people trying to figure out how to use AI not as a replacement for human creativity and thinking but as a tool meant to augment those things.
Sari Azout is one of those people. She’s the founder of Sublime, a platform dedicated to curation, creativity, and ideas. Sublime is all about taste, which makes it slightly surprising that there’s a huge amount of AI powering the way it works. But to Azout, it all makes sense.
Between keeping up with TikTok trends and whatever new gadget just dropped, it’s tough to know exactly what teens are into these days. Luckily, we can help. We may be older than teenagers, but many of us here at The Verge are kids at heart. Plus, we’ve also got a few staffers with older kids. To make your life a little easier this holiday season, we rounded up what we think are the best gifts for teens, based on our tech expertise as well as what our staff’s teens are into right now.
Below, you’ll find gift ideas for many types of teens. Some are more obvious choices, like the latest iPhone and Nintendo Switch 2, but we sought to include a …
The discount brings the price down to $299 ($100 off). | Image: The Verge
We thought Black Friday and Cyber Monday would bring the lowest prices of the year, but apparently not. Right now, you can snag Apple’s Watch Series 11 in the 42mm configuration with GPS for a new all-time low of $299 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy. That beats the $70 discount we saw at the beginning of the month, which means if you didn’t take advantage then, you can save even more now. The 46mm model with GPS is also down to its lowest price yet of $329 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy.
The Series 11 offers some nice improvements to the already-excellent Apple Watch Series 10. While this year’s model has the same dimensions as its predecessor, battery life has increased up to 24 hours per charge on the GPS / Wi-Fi model. At the same time, Apple managed to improve the Series 11’s durability and scratch-resistance, making it a better option for more intense workouts. Additionally, Apple added a more power-efficient 5G modem to the cellular model, so the battery won’t drain as quickly when you’re not on Wi-Fi.
Otherwise, the Series 11 carries over everything we loved about the Series 10. The wide-angle OLED display looks fantastic and is easy to read at a glance, while performance is excellent thanks to Apple’s S10 SiP chip. You also get a variety of health and wellness features, including FDA-cleared hypertension notifications, sleep apnea detection, and sleep score, which can summarize how well you slept. Meanwhile, you get access to the watchOS 26 update, which introduces a workout buddy and offers wrist-flick and double-tap gestures, along with the Liquid Glass redesign.
If you already own a Series 10, there aren’t many reasons to upgrade outside of the slightly improved battery life. However, if you have something older or you’re checking off a gift list, the Series 11 at $100 off is a great deal right before the holidays.
Slack users can now access Anthropic’s Claude Code directly in Slack by tagging Claude on coding-related messages and threads. The new feature is launching today in beta as a research preview.
When Claude is tagged, it will now automatically scan the message to see if it’s a coding task and, if so, route it to Claude Code using the context from the related Slack thread and the code repositories you’ve authenticated in Claude Code. Slack users can also directly tell Claude that a request is a coding task. For instance, you could ask Claude to investigate a bug report you’re discussing in Slack without needing to manually copy all the conte …
Lenovo has already demonstrated its ability to put rollable OLEDs into laptops by graduating last year from demo concept models to shipping the ThinkBook Plus Gen 6, an actual device you can buy. It has a built-in mechanism that expands the screen vertically to give you more screen real estate for typing and scrolling. However, the company might soon debut its first laptop that uses a rollable OLED to effectively transform its screen into an ultrawide 21:9 aspect ratio screen, with left and right edges that extend far outside the bottom chassis.
The Lenovo Legion Pro Rollable will be its first gaming laptop to feature a rollable horizontal …
At their biggest and most expensive, video games all sort of look the same. The reason often comes down to simple economics: More resources means more costs that need to be recouped, and historically the way publishers have done that is by being comically risk-averse. Hence the glut of semi-realistic rocky wastelands that look like death metal album covers where everyone is some kind of Wild West fetishist, or the hero shooters that all look like Pixar but shredded as hell and ready for fan artists to go places I shall not.
On occasion, however, new visual ground is staked. Octopath Traveler 0 is an example of this. The third game in the O …
Joshua Aaron, the developer of the ICEBlock app, is suing Attorney General Pam Bondi, US Homeland Security Secretary Kirsti Noem, acting director of ICE Todd Lyons, White House « Border Czar » Tom Homan, and other federal officials over the Trump administration’s « unlawful threats » made against Aaron and its actions to pressure Apple to pull the app from the App Store, which it did.
« We promised you we would fight back. Well, today’s the day we make good on the promise, » according to a post from ICEBlock’s official account on Bluesky. Aaron, Apple, and the Department of Homeland Security, didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment fr …
There’s an argument to be made that « the real monster is trauma » has become an overused trope in modern horror. Hereditary, The Babadook, and, much less effectively, Smile, are just a few higher-profile examples. But, if you ask me, few films have deployed this trope quite as effectively as the 2020 film His House.
The film follows Bol and Rial, refugees from South Sudan, played by Sope Dirisu and Wunmi Mosaku. Both deliver the kind of incredible performances that you rarely see in a genre film like this. It’s part of what elevates His House above the standard « haunted by trauma » fare. Mosaku, in particular, shows the sort of nuance and scr …
In November, Ted Sarandos, Netflix’s co-CEO made a trip to the White House for a lengthy meeting with Donald Trump. According to Bloomberg, the two discussed a number of topics, but chief among them was Netflix’s plan to bid on Warner Bros. At the end of their conversation, Sardonos felt that “Netflix wouldn’t face immediate opposition from the White House.”
This week, Netflix successfully won the bidding war for Warner, offering $82.7 billion. It’s well known that Paramount and its CEO David Ellison were eager to acquire the storied studio and its streaming assets. Ellison and his father, Larry Ellison, have close ties to the White House, and as part of their pitch to Warner, suggested that only they were in a position to overcome the regulatory hurdles of further media consolidation.
Sarandos seems to have rightly believed that the Ellisons overestimated their political clout. And despite some public efforts to turn the White House against the deal, Netflix won out, for now. There is of course, still a chance that Paramount could launch a hostile takeover effort, or that the Justice Department could try and scuttle the deal — nothing is guaranteed yet.
Sarandos tried to acquire Paramount before David Ellison swooped in, so snatching Warner Bros. out from under his nose is likely something of a personal victory.
Friday, the EU slapped X with a €120 million fine (about $140 million) for violating the Digital Services Act (DSA). It was the first time that a company had been hit with a penalty for running afoul of the law. Elon Musk responded with his trademark tact and professionalism by posting “Bullshit” on X in response to the announcement from the European Commission. But that wasn’t the end, because just a day later Nikita Bier, X’s head of product, accused the Commission of abusing an exploit to boost the reach of the announcement and responded by shutting down its ad account.
According to Bier, the Commission had not used its ad account since 2021, but used a post format explicitly reserved for ads in its announcement of the fine against X. He claims that the Commission posted “a link that deceives users into thinking it’s a video and to artificially increase its reach.” (For the record, the post itself includes a video.)
The seemingly retaliatory revocation of the European Commission’s ad account is unlikely to materially change things for either X or the EU. If, as Bier claims, the Commission has not used its ad account since 2021, holding it hostage is unlikely to give X any leverage. And, while it can appeal the decision, X is currently still on the hook for the sizable fine. Plus, it must provide details for how it plans to address the “deceptive” use of verified checkmarks in the next 60 days, or face additional penalties.
We’ve reached out to the Commission for comment and will update if we hear back.
Il semble que nous ne pouvons pas trouver le contenu demandé. Peut-être qu’une recherche peut vous aider.
It’s easy to think about AI as a sort of existential battle between human and machine. Maybe it will be, someday, in a Skynet sort of way. But there are also lots of people trying to figure out how to use AI not as a replacement for human creativity and thinking but as a tool meant to augment those things.
Sari Azout is one of those people. She’s the founder of Sublime, a platform dedicated to curation, creativity, and ideas. Sublime is all about taste, which makes it slightly surprising that there’s a huge amount of AI powering the way it works. But to Azout, it all makes sense.
Between keeping up with TikTok trends and whatever new gadget just dropped, it’s tough to know exactly what teens are into these days. Luckily, we can help. We may be older than teenagers, but many of us here at The Verge are kids at heart. Plus, we’ve also got a few staffers with older kids. To make your life a little easier this holiday season, we rounded up what we think are the best gifts for teens, based on our tech expertise as well as what our staff’s teens are into right now.
Below, you’ll find gift ideas for many types of teens. Some are more obvious choices, like the latest iPhone and Nintendo Switch 2, but we sought to include a …
The discount brings the price down to $299 ($100 off). | Image: The Verge
We thought Black Friday and Cyber Monday would bring the lowest prices of the year, but apparently not. Right now, you can snag Apple’s Watch Series 11 in the 42mm configuration with GPS for a new all-time low of $299 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy. That beats the $70 discount we saw at the beginning of the month, which means if you didn’t take advantage then, you can save even more now. The 46mm model with GPS is also down to its lowest price yet of $329 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy.
The Series 11 offers some nice improvements to the already-excellent Apple Watch Series 10. While this year’s model has the same dimensions as its predecessor, battery life has increased up to 24 hours per charge on the GPS / Wi-Fi model. At the same time, Apple managed to improve the Series 11’s durability and scratch-resistance, making it a better option for more intense workouts. Additionally, Apple added a more power-efficient 5G modem to the cellular model, so the battery won’t drain as quickly when you’re not on Wi-Fi.
Otherwise, the Series 11 carries over everything we loved about the Series 10. The wide-angle OLED display looks fantastic and is easy to read at a glance, while performance is excellent thanks to Apple’s S10 SiP chip. You also get a variety of health and wellness features, including FDA-cleared hypertension notifications, sleep apnea detection, and sleep score, which can summarize how well you slept. Meanwhile, you get access to the watchOS 26 update, which introduces a workout buddy and offers wrist-flick and double-tap gestures, along with the Liquid Glass redesign.
If you already own a Series 10, there aren’t many reasons to upgrade outside of the slightly improved battery life. However, if you have something older or you’re checking off a gift list, the Series 11 at $100 off is a great deal right before the holidays.
Slack users can now access Anthropic’s Claude Code directly in Slack by tagging Claude on coding-related messages and threads. The new feature is launching today in beta as a research preview.
When Claude is tagged, it will now automatically scan the message to see if it’s a coding task and, if so, route it to Claude Code using the context from the related Slack thread and the code repositories you’ve authenticated in Claude Code. Slack users can also directly tell Claude that a request is a coding task. For instance, you could ask Claude to investigate a bug report you’re discussing in Slack without needing to manually copy all the conte …
Lenovo has already demonstrated its ability to put rollable OLEDs into laptops by graduating last year from demo concept models to shipping the ThinkBook Plus Gen 6, an actual device you can buy. It has a built-in mechanism that expands the screen vertically to give you more screen real estate for typing and scrolling. However, the company might soon debut its first laptop that uses a rollable OLED to effectively transform its screen into an ultrawide 21:9 aspect ratio screen, with left and right edges that extend far outside the bottom chassis.
The Lenovo Legion Pro Rollable will be its first gaming laptop to feature a rollable horizontal …
At their biggest and most expensive, video games all sort of look the same. The reason often comes down to simple economics: More resources means more costs that need to be recouped, and historically the way publishers have done that is by being comically risk-averse. Hence the glut of semi-realistic rocky wastelands that look like death metal album covers where everyone is some kind of Wild West fetishist, or the hero shooters that all look like Pixar but shredded as hell and ready for fan artists to go places I shall not.
On occasion, however, new visual ground is staked. Octopath Traveler 0 is an example of this. The third game in the O …
Joshua Aaron, the developer of the ICEBlock app, is suing Attorney General Pam Bondi, US Homeland Security Secretary Kirsti Noem, acting director of ICE Todd Lyons, White House « Border Czar » Tom Homan, and other federal officials over the Trump administration’s « unlawful threats » made against Aaron and its actions to pressure Apple to pull the app from the App Store, which it did.
« We promised you we would fight back. Well, today’s the day we make good on the promise, » according to a post from ICEBlock’s official account on Bluesky. Aaron, Apple, and the Department of Homeland Security, didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment fr …
There’s an argument to be made that « the real monster is trauma » has become an overused trope in modern horror. Hereditary, The Babadook, and, much less effectively, Smile, are just a few higher-profile examples. But, if you ask me, few films have deployed this trope quite as effectively as the 2020 film His House.
The film follows Bol and Rial, refugees from South Sudan, played by Sope Dirisu and Wunmi Mosaku. Both deliver the kind of incredible performances that you rarely see in a genre film like this. It’s part of what elevates His House above the standard « haunted by trauma » fare. Mosaku, in particular, shows the sort of nuance and scr …
In November, Ted Sarandos, Netflix’s co-CEO made a trip to the White House for a lengthy meeting with Donald Trump. According to Bloomberg, the two discussed a number of topics, but chief among them was Netflix’s plan to bid on Warner Bros. At the end of their conversation, Sardonos felt that “Netflix wouldn’t face immediate opposition from the White House.”
This week, Netflix successfully won the bidding war for Warner, offering $82.7 billion. It’s well known that Paramount and its CEO David Ellison were eager to acquire the storied studio and its streaming assets. Ellison and his father, Larry Ellison, have close ties to the White House, and as part of their pitch to Warner, suggested that only they were in a position to overcome the regulatory hurdles of further media consolidation.
Sarandos seems to have rightly believed that the Ellisons overestimated their political clout. And despite some public efforts to turn the White House against the deal, Netflix won out, for now. There is of course, still a chance that Paramount could launch a hostile takeover effort, or that the Justice Department could try and scuttle the deal — nothing is guaranteed yet.
Sarandos tried to acquire Paramount before David Ellison swooped in, so snatching Warner Bros. out from under his nose is likely something of a personal victory.
Friday, the EU slapped X with a €120 million fine (about $140 million) for violating the Digital Services Act (DSA). It was the first time that a company had been hit with a penalty for running afoul of the law. Elon Musk responded with his trademark tact and professionalism by posting “Bullshit” on X in response to the announcement from the European Commission. But that wasn’t the end, because just a day later Nikita Bier, X’s head of product, accused the Commission of abusing an exploit to boost the reach of the announcement and responded by shutting down its ad account.
According to Bier, the Commission had not used its ad account since 2021, but used a post format explicitly reserved for ads in its announcement of the fine against X. He claims that the Commission posted “a link that deceives users into thinking it’s a video and to artificially increase its reach.” (For the record, the post itself includes a video.)
The seemingly retaliatory revocation of the European Commission’s ad account is unlikely to materially change things for either X or the EU. If, as Bier claims, the Commission has not used its ad account since 2021, holding it hostage is unlikely to give X any leverage. And, while it can appeal the decision, X is currently still on the hook for the sizable fine. Plus, it must provide details for how it plans to address the “deceptive” use of verified checkmarks in the next 60 days, or face additional penalties.
We’ve reached out to the Commission for comment and will update if we hear back.
Il semble que nous ne pouvons pas trouver le contenu demandé. Peut-être qu’une recherche peut vous aider.
It’s easy to think about AI as a sort of existential battle between human and machine. Maybe it will be, someday, in a Skynet sort of way. But there are also lots of people trying to figure out how to use AI not as a replacement for human creativity and thinking but as a tool meant to augment those things.
Sari Azout is one of those people. She’s the founder of Sublime, a platform dedicated to curation, creativity, and ideas. Sublime is all about taste, which makes it slightly surprising that there’s a huge amount of AI powering the way it works. But to Azout, it all makes sense.
Between keeping up with TikTok trends and whatever new gadget just dropped, it’s tough to know exactly what teens are into these days. Luckily, we can help. We may be older than teenagers, but many of us here at The Verge are kids at heart. Plus, we’ve also got a few staffers with older kids. To make your life a little easier this holiday season, we rounded up what we think are the best gifts for teens, based on our tech expertise as well as what our staff’s teens are into right now.
Below, you’ll find gift ideas for many types of teens. Some are more obvious choices, like the latest iPhone and Nintendo Switch 2, but we sought to include a …
The discount brings the price down to $299 ($100 off). | Image: The Verge
We thought Black Friday and Cyber Monday would bring the lowest prices of the year, but apparently not. Right now, you can snag Apple’s Watch Series 11 in the 42mm configuration with GPS for a new all-time low of $299 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy. That beats the $70 discount we saw at the beginning of the month, which means if you didn’t take advantage then, you can save even more now. The 46mm model with GPS is also down to its lowest price yet of $329 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy.
The Series 11 offers some nice improvements to the already-excellent Apple Watch Series 10. While this year’s model has the same dimensions as its predecessor, battery life has increased up to 24 hours per charge on the GPS / Wi-Fi model. At the same time, Apple managed to improve the Series 11’s durability and scratch-resistance, making it a better option for more intense workouts. Additionally, Apple added a more power-efficient 5G modem to the cellular model, so the battery won’t drain as quickly when you’re not on Wi-Fi.
Otherwise, the Series 11 carries over everything we loved about the Series 10. The wide-angle OLED display looks fantastic and is easy to read at a glance, while performance is excellent thanks to Apple’s S10 SiP chip. You also get a variety of health and wellness features, including FDA-cleared hypertension notifications, sleep apnea detection, and sleep score, which can summarize how well you slept. Meanwhile, you get access to the watchOS 26 update, which introduces a workout buddy and offers wrist-flick and double-tap gestures, along with the Liquid Glass redesign.
If you already own a Series 10, there aren’t many reasons to upgrade outside of the slightly improved battery life. However, if you have something older or you’re checking off a gift list, the Series 11 at $100 off is a great deal right before the holidays.
Slack users can now access Anthropic’s Claude Code directly in Slack by tagging Claude on coding-related messages and threads. The new feature is launching today in beta as a research preview.
When Claude is tagged, it will now automatically scan the message to see if it’s a coding task and, if so, route it to Claude Code using the context from the related Slack thread and the code repositories you’ve authenticated in Claude Code. Slack users can also directly tell Claude that a request is a coding task. For instance, you could ask Claude to investigate a bug report you’re discussing in Slack without needing to manually copy all the conte …
Lenovo has already demonstrated its ability to put rollable OLEDs into laptops by graduating last year from demo concept models to shipping the ThinkBook Plus Gen 6, an actual device you can buy. It has a built-in mechanism that expands the screen vertically to give you more screen real estate for typing and scrolling. However, the company might soon debut its first laptop that uses a rollable OLED to effectively transform its screen into an ultrawide 21:9 aspect ratio screen, with left and right edges that extend far outside the bottom chassis.
The Lenovo Legion Pro Rollable will be its first gaming laptop to feature a rollable horizontal …
At their biggest and most expensive, video games all sort of look the same. The reason often comes down to simple economics: More resources means more costs that need to be recouped, and historically the way publishers have done that is by being comically risk-averse. Hence the glut of semi-realistic rocky wastelands that look like death metal album covers where everyone is some kind of Wild West fetishist, or the hero shooters that all look like Pixar but shredded as hell and ready for fan artists to go places I shall not.
On occasion, however, new visual ground is staked. Octopath Traveler 0 is an example of this. The third game in the O …
Joshua Aaron, the developer of the ICEBlock app, is suing Attorney General Pam Bondi, US Homeland Security Secretary Kirsti Noem, acting director of ICE Todd Lyons, White House « Border Czar » Tom Homan, and other federal officials over the Trump administration’s « unlawful threats » made against Aaron and its actions to pressure Apple to pull the app from the App Store, which it did.
« We promised you we would fight back. Well, today’s the day we make good on the promise, » according to a post from ICEBlock’s official account on Bluesky. Aaron, Apple, and the Department of Homeland Security, didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment fr …
There’s an argument to be made that « the real monster is trauma » has become an overused trope in modern horror. Hereditary, The Babadook, and, much less effectively, Smile, are just a few higher-profile examples. But, if you ask me, few films have deployed this trope quite as effectively as the 2020 film His House.
The film follows Bol and Rial, refugees from South Sudan, played by Sope Dirisu and Wunmi Mosaku. Both deliver the kind of incredible performances that you rarely see in a genre film like this. It’s part of what elevates His House above the standard « haunted by trauma » fare. Mosaku, in particular, shows the sort of nuance and scr …
In November, Ted Sarandos, Netflix’s co-CEO made a trip to the White House for a lengthy meeting with Donald Trump. According to Bloomberg, the two discussed a number of topics, but chief among them was Netflix’s plan to bid on Warner Bros. At the end of their conversation, Sardonos felt that “Netflix wouldn’t face immediate opposition from the White House.”
This week, Netflix successfully won the bidding war for Warner, offering $82.7 billion. It’s well known that Paramount and its CEO David Ellison were eager to acquire the storied studio and its streaming assets. Ellison and his father, Larry Ellison, have close ties to the White House, and as part of their pitch to Warner, suggested that only they were in a position to overcome the regulatory hurdles of further media consolidation.
Sarandos seems to have rightly believed that the Ellisons overestimated their political clout. And despite some public efforts to turn the White House against the deal, Netflix won out, for now. There is of course, still a chance that Paramount could launch a hostile takeover effort, or that the Justice Department could try and scuttle the deal — nothing is guaranteed yet.
Sarandos tried to acquire Paramount before David Ellison swooped in, so snatching Warner Bros. out from under his nose is likely something of a personal victory.
Friday, the EU slapped X with a €120 million fine (about $140 million) for violating the Digital Services Act (DSA). It was the first time that a company had been hit with a penalty for running afoul of the law. Elon Musk responded with his trademark tact and professionalism by posting “Bullshit” on X in response to the announcement from the European Commission. But that wasn’t the end, because just a day later Nikita Bier, X’s head of product, accused the Commission of abusing an exploit to boost the reach of the announcement and responded by shutting down its ad account.
According to Bier, the Commission had not used its ad account since 2021, but used a post format explicitly reserved for ads in its announcement of the fine against X. He claims that the Commission posted “a link that deceives users into thinking it’s a video and to artificially increase its reach.” (For the record, the post itself includes a video.)
The seemingly retaliatory revocation of the European Commission’s ad account is unlikely to materially change things for either X or the EU. If, as Bier claims, the Commission has not used its ad account since 2021, holding it hostage is unlikely to give X any leverage. And, while it can appeal the decision, X is currently still on the hook for the sizable fine. Plus, it must provide details for how it plans to address the “deceptive” use of verified checkmarks in the next 60 days, or face additional penalties.
We’ve reached out to the Commission for comment and will update if we hear back.
Il semble que nous ne pouvons pas trouver le contenu demandé. Peut-être qu’une recherche peut vous aider.
It’s easy to think about AI as a sort of existential battle between human and machine. Maybe it will be, someday, in a Skynet sort of way. But there are also lots of people trying to figure out how to use AI not as a replacement for human creativity and thinking but as a tool meant to augment those things.
Sari Azout is one of those people. She’s the founder of Sublime, a platform dedicated to curation, creativity, and ideas. Sublime is all about taste, which makes it slightly surprising that there’s a huge amount of AI powering the way it works. But to Azout, it all makes sense.
Between keeping up with TikTok trends and whatever new gadget just dropped, it’s tough to know exactly what teens are into these days. Luckily, we can help. We may be older than teenagers, but many of us here at The Verge are kids at heart. Plus, we’ve also got a few staffers with older kids. To make your life a little easier this holiday season, we rounded up what we think are the best gifts for teens, based on our tech expertise as well as what our staff’s teens are into right now.
Below, you’ll find gift ideas for many types of teens. Some are more obvious choices, like the latest iPhone and Nintendo Switch 2, but we sought to include a …
The discount brings the price down to $299 ($100 off). | Image: The Verge
We thought Black Friday and Cyber Monday would bring the lowest prices of the year, but apparently not. Right now, you can snag Apple’s Watch Series 11 in the 42mm configuration with GPS for a new all-time low of $299 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy. That beats the $70 discount we saw at the beginning of the month, which means if you didn’t take advantage then, you can save even more now. The 46mm model with GPS is also down to its lowest price yet of $329 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy.
The Series 11 offers some nice improvements to the already-excellent Apple Watch Series 10. While this year’s model has the same dimensions as its predecessor, battery life has increased up to 24 hours per charge on the GPS / Wi-Fi model. At the same time, Apple managed to improve the Series 11’s durability and scratch-resistance, making it a better option for more intense workouts. Additionally, Apple added a more power-efficient 5G modem to the cellular model, so the battery won’t drain as quickly when you’re not on Wi-Fi.
Otherwise, the Series 11 carries over everything we loved about the Series 10. The wide-angle OLED display looks fantastic and is easy to read at a glance, while performance is excellent thanks to Apple’s S10 SiP chip. You also get a variety of health and wellness features, including FDA-cleared hypertension notifications, sleep apnea detection, and sleep score, which can summarize how well you slept. Meanwhile, you get access to the watchOS 26 update, which introduces a workout buddy and offers wrist-flick and double-tap gestures, along with the Liquid Glass redesign.
If you already own a Series 10, there aren’t many reasons to upgrade outside of the slightly improved battery life. However, if you have something older or you’re checking off a gift list, the Series 11 at $100 off is a great deal right before the holidays.
Slack users can now access Anthropic’s Claude Code directly in Slack by tagging Claude on coding-related messages and threads. The new feature is launching today in beta as a research preview.
When Claude is tagged, it will now automatically scan the message to see if it’s a coding task and, if so, route it to Claude Code using the context from the related Slack thread and the code repositories you’ve authenticated in Claude Code. Slack users can also directly tell Claude that a request is a coding task. For instance, you could ask Claude to investigate a bug report you’re discussing in Slack without needing to manually copy all the conte …
Lenovo has already demonstrated its ability to put rollable OLEDs into laptops by graduating last year from demo concept models to shipping the ThinkBook Plus Gen 6, an actual device you can buy. It has a built-in mechanism that expands the screen vertically to give you more screen real estate for typing and scrolling. However, the company might soon debut its first laptop that uses a rollable OLED to effectively transform its screen into an ultrawide 21:9 aspect ratio screen, with left and right edges that extend far outside the bottom chassis.
The Lenovo Legion Pro Rollable will be its first gaming laptop to feature a rollable horizontal …
At their biggest and most expensive, video games all sort of look the same. The reason often comes down to simple economics: More resources means more costs that need to be recouped, and historically the way publishers have done that is by being comically risk-averse. Hence the glut of semi-realistic rocky wastelands that look like death metal album covers where everyone is some kind of Wild West fetishist, or the hero shooters that all look like Pixar but shredded as hell and ready for fan artists to go places I shall not.
On occasion, however, new visual ground is staked. Octopath Traveler 0 is an example of this. The third game in the O …
Joshua Aaron, the developer of the ICEBlock app, is suing Attorney General Pam Bondi, US Homeland Security Secretary Kirsti Noem, acting director of ICE Todd Lyons, White House « Border Czar » Tom Homan, and other federal officials over the Trump administration’s « unlawful threats » made against Aaron and its actions to pressure Apple to pull the app from the App Store, which it did.
« We promised you we would fight back. Well, today’s the day we make good on the promise, » according to a post from ICEBlock’s official account on Bluesky. Aaron, Apple, and the Department of Homeland Security, didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment fr …
There’s an argument to be made that « the real monster is trauma » has become an overused trope in modern horror. Hereditary, The Babadook, and, much less effectively, Smile, are just a few higher-profile examples. But, if you ask me, few films have deployed this trope quite as effectively as the 2020 film His House.
The film follows Bol and Rial, refugees from South Sudan, played by Sope Dirisu and Wunmi Mosaku. Both deliver the kind of incredible performances that you rarely see in a genre film like this. It’s part of what elevates His House above the standard « haunted by trauma » fare. Mosaku, in particular, shows the sort of nuance and scr …
In November, Ted Sarandos, Netflix’s co-CEO made a trip to the White House for a lengthy meeting with Donald Trump. According to Bloomberg, the two discussed a number of topics, but chief among them was Netflix’s plan to bid on Warner Bros. At the end of their conversation, Sardonos felt that “Netflix wouldn’t face immediate opposition from the White House.”
This week, Netflix successfully won the bidding war for Warner, offering $82.7 billion. It’s well known that Paramount and its CEO David Ellison were eager to acquire the storied studio and its streaming assets. Ellison and his father, Larry Ellison, have close ties to the White House, and as part of their pitch to Warner, suggested that only they were in a position to overcome the regulatory hurdles of further media consolidation.
Sarandos seems to have rightly believed that the Ellisons overestimated their political clout. And despite some public efforts to turn the White House against the deal, Netflix won out, for now. There is of course, still a chance that Paramount could launch a hostile takeover effort, or that the Justice Department could try and scuttle the deal — nothing is guaranteed yet.
Sarandos tried to acquire Paramount before David Ellison swooped in, so snatching Warner Bros. out from under his nose is likely something of a personal victory.
Friday, the EU slapped X with a €120 million fine (about $140 million) for violating the Digital Services Act (DSA). It was the first time that a company had been hit with a penalty for running afoul of the law. Elon Musk responded with his trademark tact and professionalism by posting “Bullshit” on X in response to the announcement from the European Commission. But that wasn’t the end, because just a day later Nikita Bier, X’s head of product, accused the Commission of abusing an exploit to boost the reach of the announcement and responded by shutting down its ad account.
According to Bier, the Commission had not used its ad account since 2021, but used a post format explicitly reserved for ads in its announcement of the fine against X. He claims that the Commission posted “a link that deceives users into thinking it’s a video and to artificially increase its reach.” (For the record, the post itself includes a video.)
The seemingly retaliatory revocation of the European Commission’s ad account is unlikely to materially change things for either X or the EU. If, as Bier claims, the Commission has not used its ad account since 2021, holding it hostage is unlikely to give X any leverage. And, while it can appeal the decision, X is currently still on the hook for the sizable fine. Plus, it must provide details for how it plans to address the “deceptive” use of verified checkmarks in the next 60 days, or face additional penalties.
We’ve reached out to the Commission for comment and will update if we hear back.
Il semble que nous ne pouvons pas trouver le contenu demandé. Peut-être qu’une recherche peut vous aider.
It’s easy to think about AI as a sort of existential battle between human and machine. Maybe it will be, someday, in a Skynet sort of way. But there are also lots of people trying to figure out how to use AI not as a replacement for human creativity and thinking but as a tool meant to augment those things.
Sari Azout is one of those people. She’s the founder of Sublime, a platform dedicated to curation, creativity, and ideas. Sublime is all about taste, which makes it slightly surprising that there’s a huge amount of AI powering the way it works. But to Azout, it all makes sense.
Between keeping up with TikTok trends and whatever new gadget just dropped, it’s tough to know exactly what teens are into these days. Luckily, we can help. We may be older than teenagers, but many of us here at The Verge are kids at heart. Plus, we’ve also got a few staffers with older kids. To make your life a little easier this holiday season, we rounded up what we think are the best gifts for teens, based on our tech expertise as well as what our staff’s teens are into right now.
Below, you’ll find gift ideas for many types of teens. Some are more obvious choices, like the latest iPhone and Nintendo Switch 2, but we sought to include a …
The discount brings the price down to $299 ($100 off). | Image: The Verge
We thought Black Friday and Cyber Monday would bring the lowest prices of the year, but apparently not. Right now, you can snag Apple’s Watch Series 11 in the 42mm configuration with GPS for a new all-time low of $299 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy. That beats the $70 discount we saw at the beginning of the month, which means if you didn’t take advantage then, you can save even more now. The 46mm model with GPS is also down to its lowest price yet of $329 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy.
The Series 11 offers some nice improvements to the already-excellent Apple Watch Series 10. While this year’s model has the same dimensions as its predecessor, battery life has increased up to 24 hours per charge on the GPS / Wi-Fi model. At the same time, Apple managed to improve the Series 11’s durability and scratch-resistance, making it a better option for more intense workouts. Additionally, Apple added a more power-efficient 5G modem to the cellular model, so the battery won’t drain as quickly when you’re not on Wi-Fi.
Otherwise, the Series 11 carries over everything we loved about the Series 10. The wide-angle OLED display looks fantastic and is easy to read at a glance, while performance is excellent thanks to Apple’s S10 SiP chip. You also get a variety of health and wellness features, including FDA-cleared hypertension notifications, sleep apnea detection, and sleep score, which can summarize how well you slept. Meanwhile, you get access to the watchOS 26 update, which introduces a workout buddy and offers wrist-flick and double-tap gestures, along with the Liquid Glass redesign.
If you already own a Series 10, there aren’t many reasons to upgrade outside of the slightly improved battery life. However, if you have something older or you’re checking off a gift list, the Series 11 at $100 off is a great deal right before the holidays.
Slack users can now access Anthropic’s Claude Code directly in Slack by tagging Claude on coding-related messages and threads. The new feature is launching today in beta as a research preview.
When Claude is tagged, it will now automatically scan the message to see if it’s a coding task and, if so, route it to Claude Code using the context from the related Slack thread and the code repositories you’ve authenticated in Claude Code. Slack users can also directly tell Claude that a request is a coding task. For instance, you could ask Claude to investigate a bug report you’re discussing in Slack without needing to manually copy all the conte …
Lenovo has already demonstrated its ability to put rollable OLEDs into laptops by graduating last year from demo concept models to shipping the ThinkBook Plus Gen 6, an actual device you can buy. It has a built-in mechanism that expands the screen vertically to give you more screen real estate for typing and scrolling. However, the company might soon debut its first laptop that uses a rollable OLED to effectively transform its screen into an ultrawide 21:9 aspect ratio screen, with left and right edges that extend far outside the bottom chassis.
The Lenovo Legion Pro Rollable will be its first gaming laptop to feature a rollable horizontal …
At their biggest and most expensive, video games all sort of look the same. The reason often comes down to simple economics: More resources means more costs that need to be recouped, and historically the way publishers have done that is by being comically risk-averse. Hence the glut of semi-realistic rocky wastelands that look like death metal album covers where everyone is some kind of Wild West fetishist, or the hero shooters that all look like Pixar but shredded as hell and ready for fan artists to go places I shall not.
On occasion, however, new visual ground is staked. Octopath Traveler 0 is an example of this. The third game in the O …
Joshua Aaron, the developer of the ICEBlock app, is suing Attorney General Pam Bondi, US Homeland Security Secretary Kirsti Noem, acting director of ICE Todd Lyons, White House « Border Czar » Tom Homan, and other federal officials over the Trump administration’s « unlawful threats » made against Aaron and its actions to pressure Apple to pull the app from the App Store, which it did.
« We promised you we would fight back. Well, today’s the day we make good on the promise, » according to a post from ICEBlock’s official account on Bluesky. Aaron, Apple, and the Department of Homeland Security, didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment fr …
There’s an argument to be made that « the real monster is trauma » has become an overused trope in modern horror. Hereditary, The Babadook, and, much less effectively, Smile, are just a few higher-profile examples. But, if you ask me, few films have deployed this trope quite as effectively as the 2020 film His House.
The film follows Bol and Rial, refugees from South Sudan, played by Sope Dirisu and Wunmi Mosaku. Both deliver the kind of incredible performances that you rarely see in a genre film like this. It’s part of what elevates His House above the standard « haunted by trauma » fare. Mosaku, in particular, shows the sort of nuance and scr …
In November, Ted Sarandos, Netflix’s co-CEO made a trip to the White House for a lengthy meeting with Donald Trump. According to Bloomberg, the two discussed a number of topics, but chief among them was Netflix’s plan to bid on Warner Bros. At the end of their conversation, Sardonos felt that “Netflix wouldn’t face immediate opposition from the White House.”
This week, Netflix successfully won the bidding war for Warner, offering $82.7 billion. It’s well known that Paramount and its CEO David Ellison were eager to acquire the storied studio and its streaming assets. Ellison and his father, Larry Ellison, have close ties to the White House, and as part of their pitch to Warner, suggested that only they were in a position to overcome the regulatory hurdles of further media consolidation.
Sarandos seems to have rightly believed that the Ellisons overestimated their political clout. And despite some public efforts to turn the White House against the deal, Netflix won out, for now. There is of course, still a chance that Paramount could launch a hostile takeover effort, or that the Justice Department could try and scuttle the deal — nothing is guaranteed yet.
Sarandos tried to acquire Paramount before David Ellison swooped in, so snatching Warner Bros. out from under his nose is likely something of a personal victory.
Friday, the EU slapped X with a €120 million fine (about $140 million) for violating the Digital Services Act (DSA). It was the first time that a company had been hit with a penalty for running afoul of the law. Elon Musk responded with his trademark tact and professionalism by posting “Bullshit” on X in response to the announcement from the European Commission. But that wasn’t the end, because just a day later Nikita Bier, X’s head of product, accused the Commission of abusing an exploit to boost the reach of the announcement and responded by shutting down its ad account.
According to Bier, the Commission had not used its ad account since 2021, but used a post format explicitly reserved for ads in its announcement of the fine against X. He claims that the Commission posted “a link that deceives users into thinking it’s a video and to artificially increase its reach.” (For the record, the post itself includes a video.)
The seemingly retaliatory revocation of the European Commission’s ad account is unlikely to materially change things for either X or the EU. If, as Bier claims, the Commission has not used its ad account since 2021, holding it hostage is unlikely to give X any leverage. And, while it can appeal the decision, X is currently still on the hook for the sizable fine. Plus, it must provide details for how it plans to address the “deceptive” use of verified checkmarks in the next 60 days, or face additional penalties.
We’ve reached out to the Commission for comment and will update if we hear back.
Il semble que nous ne pouvons pas trouver le contenu demandé. Peut-être qu’une recherche peut vous aider.
It’s easy to think about AI as a sort of existential battle between human and machine. Maybe it will be, someday, in a Skynet sort of way. But there are also lots of people trying to figure out how to use AI not as a replacement for human creativity and thinking but as a tool meant to augment those things.
Sari Azout is one of those people. She’s the founder of Sublime, a platform dedicated to curation, creativity, and ideas. Sublime is all about taste, which makes it slightly surprising that there’s a huge amount of AI powering the way it works. But to Azout, it all makes sense.
Between keeping up with TikTok trends and whatever new gadget just dropped, it’s tough to know exactly what teens are into these days. Luckily, we can help. We may be older than teenagers, but many of us here at The Verge are kids at heart. Plus, we’ve also got a few staffers with older kids. To make your life a little easier this holiday season, we rounded up what we think are the best gifts for teens, based on our tech expertise as well as what our staff’s teens are into right now.
Below, you’ll find gift ideas for many types of teens. Some are more obvious choices, like the latest iPhone and Nintendo Switch 2, but we sought to include a …
The discount brings the price down to $299 ($100 off). | Image: The Verge
We thought Black Friday and Cyber Monday would bring the lowest prices of the year, but apparently not. Right now, you can snag Apple’s Watch Series 11 in the 42mm configuration with GPS for a new all-time low of $299 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy. That beats the $70 discount we saw at the beginning of the month, which means if you didn’t take advantage then, you can save even more now. The 46mm model with GPS is also down to its lowest price yet of $329 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy.
The Series 11 offers some nice improvements to the already-excellent Apple Watch Series 10. While this year’s model has the same dimensions as its predecessor, battery life has increased up to 24 hours per charge on the GPS / Wi-Fi model. At the same time, Apple managed to improve the Series 11’s durability and scratch-resistance, making it a better option for more intense workouts. Additionally, Apple added a more power-efficient 5G modem to the cellular model, so the battery won’t drain as quickly when you’re not on Wi-Fi.
Otherwise, the Series 11 carries over everything we loved about the Series 10. The wide-angle OLED display looks fantastic and is easy to read at a glance, while performance is excellent thanks to Apple’s S10 SiP chip. You also get a variety of health and wellness features, including FDA-cleared hypertension notifications, sleep apnea detection, and sleep score, which can summarize how well you slept. Meanwhile, you get access to the watchOS 26 update, which introduces a workout buddy and offers wrist-flick and double-tap gestures, along with the Liquid Glass redesign.
If you already own a Series 10, there aren’t many reasons to upgrade outside of the slightly improved battery life. However, if you have something older or you’re checking off a gift list, the Series 11 at $100 off is a great deal right before the holidays.
Slack users can now access Anthropic’s Claude Code directly in Slack by tagging Claude on coding-related messages and threads. The new feature is launching today in beta as a research preview.
When Claude is tagged, it will now automatically scan the message to see if it’s a coding task and, if so, route it to Claude Code using the context from the related Slack thread and the code repositories you’ve authenticated in Claude Code. Slack users can also directly tell Claude that a request is a coding task. For instance, you could ask Claude to investigate a bug report you’re discussing in Slack without needing to manually copy all the conte …
Lenovo has already demonstrated its ability to put rollable OLEDs into laptops by graduating last year from demo concept models to shipping the ThinkBook Plus Gen 6, an actual device you can buy. It has a built-in mechanism that expands the screen vertically to give you more screen real estate for typing and scrolling. However, the company might soon debut its first laptop that uses a rollable OLED to effectively transform its screen into an ultrawide 21:9 aspect ratio screen, with left and right edges that extend far outside the bottom chassis.
The Lenovo Legion Pro Rollable will be its first gaming laptop to feature a rollable horizontal …
At their biggest and most expensive, video games all sort of look the same. The reason often comes down to simple economics: More resources means more costs that need to be recouped, and historically the way publishers have done that is by being comically risk-averse. Hence the glut of semi-realistic rocky wastelands that look like death metal album covers where everyone is some kind of Wild West fetishist, or the hero shooters that all look like Pixar but shredded as hell and ready for fan artists to go places I shall not.
On occasion, however, new visual ground is staked. Octopath Traveler 0 is an example of this. The third game in the O …
Joshua Aaron, the developer of the ICEBlock app, is suing Attorney General Pam Bondi, US Homeland Security Secretary Kirsti Noem, acting director of ICE Todd Lyons, White House « Border Czar » Tom Homan, and other federal officials over the Trump administration’s « unlawful threats » made against Aaron and its actions to pressure Apple to pull the app from the App Store, which it did.
« We promised you we would fight back. Well, today’s the day we make good on the promise, » according to a post from ICEBlock’s official account on Bluesky. Aaron, Apple, and the Department of Homeland Security, didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment fr …
There’s an argument to be made that « the real monster is trauma » has become an overused trope in modern horror. Hereditary, The Babadook, and, much less effectively, Smile, are just a few higher-profile examples. But, if you ask me, few films have deployed this trope quite as effectively as the 2020 film His House.
The film follows Bol and Rial, refugees from South Sudan, played by Sope Dirisu and Wunmi Mosaku. Both deliver the kind of incredible performances that you rarely see in a genre film like this. It’s part of what elevates His House above the standard « haunted by trauma » fare. Mosaku, in particular, shows the sort of nuance and scr …
In November, Ted Sarandos, Netflix’s co-CEO made a trip to the White House for a lengthy meeting with Donald Trump. According to Bloomberg, the two discussed a number of topics, but chief among them was Netflix’s plan to bid on Warner Bros. At the end of their conversation, Sardonos felt that “Netflix wouldn’t face immediate opposition from the White House.”
This week, Netflix successfully won the bidding war for Warner, offering $82.7 billion. It’s well known that Paramount and its CEO David Ellison were eager to acquire the storied studio and its streaming assets. Ellison and his father, Larry Ellison, have close ties to the White House, and as part of their pitch to Warner, suggested that only they were in a position to overcome the regulatory hurdles of further media consolidation.
Sarandos seems to have rightly believed that the Ellisons overestimated their political clout. And despite some public efforts to turn the White House against the deal, Netflix won out, for now. There is of course, still a chance that Paramount could launch a hostile takeover effort, or that the Justice Department could try and scuttle the deal — nothing is guaranteed yet.
Sarandos tried to acquire Paramount before David Ellison swooped in, so snatching Warner Bros. out from under his nose is likely something of a personal victory.
Friday, the EU slapped X with a €120 million fine (about $140 million) for violating the Digital Services Act (DSA). It was the first time that a company had been hit with a penalty for running afoul of the law. Elon Musk responded with his trademark tact and professionalism by posting “Bullshit” on X in response to the announcement from the European Commission. But that wasn’t the end, because just a day later Nikita Bier, X’s head of product, accused the Commission of abusing an exploit to boost the reach of the announcement and responded by shutting down its ad account.
According to Bier, the Commission had not used its ad account since 2021, but used a post format explicitly reserved for ads in its announcement of the fine against X. He claims that the Commission posted “a link that deceives users into thinking it’s a video and to artificially increase its reach.” (For the record, the post itself includes a video.)
The seemingly retaliatory revocation of the European Commission’s ad account is unlikely to materially change things for either X or the EU. If, as Bier claims, the Commission has not used its ad account since 2021, holding it hostage is unlikely to give X any leverage. And, while it can appeal the decision, X is currently still on the hook for the sizable fine. Plus, it must provide details for how it plans to address the “deceptive” use of verified checkmarks in the next 60 days, or face additional penalties.
We’ve reached out to the Commission for comment and will update if we hear back.
Il semble que nous ne pouvons pas trouver le contenu demandé. Peut-être qu’une recherche peut vous aider.
It’s easy to think about AI as a sort of existential battle between human and machine. Maybe it will be, someday, in a Skynet sort of way. But there are also lots of people trying to figure out how to use AI not as a replacement for human creativity and thinking but as a tool meant to augment those things.
Sari Azout is one of those people. She’s the founder of Sublime, a platform dedicated to curation, creativity, and ideas. Sublime is all about taste, which makes it slightly surprising that there’s a huge amount of AI powering the way it works. But to Azout, it all makes sense.
Between keeping up with TikTok trends and whatever new gadget just dropped, it’s tough to know exactly what teens are into these days. Luckily, we can help. We may be older than teenagers, but many of us here at The Verge are kids at heart. Plus, we’ve also got a few staffers with older kids. To make your life a little easier this holiday season, we rounded up what we think are the best gifts for teens, based on our tech expertise as well as what our staff’s teens are into right now.
Below, you’ll find gift ideas for many types of teens. Some are more obvious choices, like the latest iPhone and Nintendo Switch 2, but we sought to include a …
The discount brings the price down to $299 ($100 off). | Image: The Verge
We thought Black Friday and Cyber Monday would bring the lowest prices of the year, but apparently not. Right now, you can snag Apple’s Watch Series 11 in the 42mm configuration with GPS for a new all-time low of $299 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy. That beats the $70 discount we saw at the beginning of the month, which means if you didn’t take advantage then, you can save even more now. The 46mm model with GPS is also down to its lowest price yet of $329 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy.
The Series 11 offers some nice improvements to the already-excellent Apple Watch Series 10. While this year’s model has the same dimensions as its predecessor, battery life has increased up to 24 hours per charge on the GPS / Wi-Fi model. At the same time, Apple managed to improve the Series 11’s durability and scratch-resistance, making it a better option for more intense workouts. Additionally, Apple added a more power-efficient 5G modem to the cellular model, so the battery won’t drain as quickly when you’re not on Wi-Fi.
Otherwise, the Series 11 carries over everything we loved about the Series 10. The wide-angle OLED display looks fantastic and is easy to read at a glance, while performance is excellent thanks to Apple’s S10 SiP chip. You also get a variety of health and wellness features, including FDA-cleared hypertension notifications, sleep apnea detection, and sleep score, which can summarize how well you slept. Meanwhile, you get access to the watchOS 26 update, which introduces a workout buddy and offers wrist-flick and double-tap gestures, along with the Liquid Glass redesign.
If you already own a Series 10, there aren’t many reasons to upgrade outside of the slightly improved battery life. However, if you have something older or you’re checking off a gift list, the Series 11 at $100 off is a great deal right before the holidays.
Slack users can now access Anthropic’s Claude Code directly in Slack by tagging Claude on coding-related messages and threads. The new feature is launching today in beta as a research preview.
When Claude is tagged, it will now automatically scan the message to see if it’s a coding task and, if so, route it to Claude Code using the context from the related Slack thread and the code repositories you’ve authenticated in Claude Code. Slack users can also directly tell Claude that a request is a coding task. For instance, you could ask Claude to investigate a bug report you’re discussing in Slack without needing to manually copy all the conte …
Lenovo has already demonstrated its ability to put rollable OLEDs into laptops by graduating last year from demo concept models to shipping the ThinkBook Plus Gen 6, an actual device you can buy. It has a built-in mechanism that expands the screen vertically to give you more screen real estate for typing and scrolling. However, the company might soon debut its first laptop that uses a rollable OLED to effectively transform its screen into an ultrawide 21:9 aspect ratio screen, with left and right edges that extend far outside the bottom chassis.
The Lenovo Legion Pro Rollable will be its first gaming laptop to feature a rollable horizontal …
At their biggest and most expensive, video games all sort of look the same. The reason often comes down to simple economics: More resources means more costs that need to be recouped, and historically the way publishers have done that is by being comically risk-averse. Hence the glut of semi-realistic rocky wastelands that look like death metal album covers where everyone is some kind of Wild West fetishist, or the hero shooters that all look like Pixar but shredded as hell and ready for fan artists to go places I shall not.
On occasion, however, new visual ground is staked. Octopath Traveler 0 is an example of this. The third game in the O …
Joshua Aaron, the developer of the ICEBlock app, is suing Attorney General Pam Bondi, US Homeland Security Secretary Kirsti Noem, acting director of ICE Todd Lyons, White House « Border Czar » Tom Homan, and other federal officials over the Trump administration’s « unlawful threats » made against Aaron and its actions to pressure Apple to pull the app from the App Store, which it did.
« We promised you we would fight back. Well, today’s the day we make good on the promise, » according to a post from ICEBlock’s official account on Bluesky. Aaron, Apple, and the Department of Homeland Security, didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment fr …
There’s an argument to be made that « the real monster is trauma » has become an overused trope in modern horror. Hereditary, The Babadook, and, much less effectively, Smile, are just a few higher-profile examples. But, if you ask me, few films have deployed this trope quite as effectively as the 2020 film His House.
The film follows Bol and Rial, refugees from South Sudan, played by Sope Dirisu and Wunmi Mosaku. Both deliver the kind of incredible performances that you rarely see in a genre film like this. It’s part of what elevates His House above the standard « haunted by trauma » fare. Mosaku, in particular, shows the sort of nuance and scr …
In November, Ted Sarandos, Netflix’s co-CEO made a trip to the White House for a lengthy meeting with Donald Trump. According to Bloomberg, the two discussed a number of topics, but chief among them was Netflix’s plan to bid on Warner Bros. At the end of their conversation, Sardonos felt that “Netflix wouldn’t face immediate opposition from the White House.”
This week, Netflix successfully won the bidding war for Warner, offering $82.7 billion. It’s well known that Paramount and its CEO David Ellison were eager to acquire the storied studio and its streaming assets. Ellison and his father, Larry Ellison, have close ties to the White House, and as part of their pitch to Warner, suggested that only they were in a position to overcome the regulatory hurdles of further media consolidation.
Sarandos seems to have rightly believed that the Ellisons overestimated their political clout. And despite some public efforts to turn the White House against the deal, Netflix won out, for now. There is of course, still a chance that Paramount could launch a hostile takeover effort, or that the Justice Department could try and scuttle the deal — nothing is guaranteed yet.
Sarandos tried to acquire Paramount before David Ellison swooped in, so snatching Warner Bros. out from under his nose is likely something of a personal victory.
Friday, the EU slapped X with a €120 million fine (about $140 million) for violating the Digital Services Act (DSA). It was the first time that a company had been hit with a penalty for running afoul of the law. Elon Musk responded with his trademark tact and professionalism by posting “Bullshit” on X in response to the announcement from the European Commission. But that wasn’t the end, because just a day later Nikita Bier, X’s head of product, accused the Commission of abusing an exploit to boost the reach of the announcement and responded by shutting down its ad account.
According to Bier, the Commission had not used its ad account since 2021, but used a post format explicitly reserved for ads in its announcement of the fine against X. He claims that the Commission posted “a link that deceives users into thinking it’s a video and to artificially increase its reach.” (For the record, the post itself includes a video.)
The seemingly retaliatory revocation of the European Commission’s ad account is unlikely to materially change things for either X or the EU. If, as Bier claims, the Commission has not used its ad account since 2021, holding it hostage is unlikely to give X any leverage. And, while it can appeal the decision, X is currently still on the hook for the sizable fine. Plus, it must provide details for how it plans to address the “deceptive” use of verified checkmarks in the next 60 days, or face additional penalties.
We’ve reached out to the Commission for comment and will update if we hear back.
Il semble que nous ne pouvons pas trouver le contenu demandé. Peut-être qu’une recherche peut vous aider.
It’s easy to think about AI as a sort of existential battle between human and machine. Maybe it will be, someday, in a Skynet sort of way. But there are also lots of people trying to figure out how to use AI not as a replacement for human creativity and thinking but as a tool meant to augment those things.
Sari Azout is one of those people. She’s the founder of Sublime, a platform dedicated to curation, creativity, and ideas. Sublime is all about taste, which makes it slightly surprising that there’s a huge amount of AI powering the way it works. But to Azout, it all makes sense.
Between keeping up with TikTok trends and whatever new gadget just dropped, it’s tough to know exactly what teens are into these days. Luckily, we can help. We may be older than teenagers, but many of us here at The Verge are kids at heart. Plus, we’ve also got a few staffers with older kids. To make your life a little easier this holiday season, we rounded up what we think are the best gifts for teens, based on our tech expertise as well as what our staff’s teens are into right now.
Below, you’ll find gift ideas for many types of teens. Some are more obvious choices, like the latest iPhone and Nintendo Switch 2, but we sought to include a …
The discount brings the price down to $299 ($100 off). | Image: The Verge
We thought Black Friday and Cyber Monday would bring the lowest prices of the year, but apparently not. Right now, you can snag Apple’s Watch Series 11 in the 42mm configuration with GPS for a new all-time low of $299 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy. That beats the $70 discount we saw at the beginning of the month, which means if you didn’t take advantage then, you can save even more now. The 46mm model with GPS is also down to its lowest price yet of $329 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy.
The Series 11 offers some nice improvements to the already-excellent Apple Watch Series 10. While this year’s model has the same dimensions as its predecessor, battery life has increased up to 24 hours per charge on the GPS / Wi-Fi model. At the same time, Apple managed to improve the Series 11’s durability and scratch-resistance, making it a better option for more intense workouts. Additionally, Apple added a more power-efficient 5G modem to the cellular model, so the battery won’t drain as quickly when you’re not on Wi-Fi.
Otherwise, the Series 11 carries over everything we loved about the Series 10. The wide-angle OLED display looks fantastic and is easy to read at a glance, while performance is excellent thanks to Apple’s S10 SiP chip. You also get a variety of health and wellness features, including FDA-cleared hypertension notifications, sleep apnea detection, and sleep score, which can summarize how well you slept. Meanwhile, you get access to the watchOS 26 update, which introduces a workout buddy and offers wrist-flick and double-tap gestures, along with the Liquid Glass redesign.
If you already own a Series 10, there aren’t many reasons to upgrade outside of the slightly improved battery life. However, if you have something older or you’re checking off a gift list, the Series 11 at $100 off is a great deal right before the holidays.
Slack users can now access Anthropic’s Claude Code directly in Slack by tagging Claude on coding-related messages and threads. The new feature is launching today in beta as a research preview.
When Claude is tagged, it will now automatically scan the message to see if it’s a coding task and, if so, route it to Claude Code using the context from the related Slack thread and the code repositories you’ve authenticated in Claude Code. Slack users can also directly tell Claude that a request is a coding task. For instance, you could ask Claude to investigate a bug report you’re discussing in Slack without needing to manually copy all the conte …
Lenovo has already demonstrated its ability to put rollable OLEDs into laptops by graduating last year from demo concept models to shipping the ThinkBook Plus Gen 6, an actual device you can buy. It has a built-in mechanism that expands the screen vertically to give you more screen real estate for typing and scrolling. However, the company might soon debut its first laptop that uses a rollable OLED to effectively transform its screen into an ultrawide 21:9 aspect ratio screen, with left and right edges that extend far outside the bottom chassis.
The Lenovo Legion Pro Rollable will be its first gaming laptop to feature a rollable horizontal …
At their biggest and most expensive, video games all sort of look the same. The reason often comes down to simple economics: More resources means more costs that need to be recouped, and historically the way publishers have done that is by being comically risk-averse. Hence the glut of semi-realistic rocky wastelands that look like death metal album covers where everyone is some kind of Wild West fetishist, or the hero shooters that all look like Pixar but shredded as hell and ready for fan artists to go places I shall not.
On occasion, however, new visual ground is staked. Octopath Traveler 0 is an example of this. The third game in the O …
Joshua Aaron, the developer of the ICEBlock app, is suing Attorney General Pam Bondi, US Homeland Security Secretary Kirsti Noem, acting director of ICE Todd Lyons, White House « Border Czar » Tom Homan, and other federal officials over the Trump administration’s « unlawful threats » made against Aaron and its actions to pressure Apple to pull the app from the App Store, which it did.
« We promised you we would fight back. Well, today’s the day we make good on the promise, » according to a post from ICEBlock’s official account on Bluesky. Aaron, Apple, and the Department of Homeland Security, didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment fr …
There’s an argument to be made that « the real monster is trauma » has become an overused trope in modern horror. Hereditary, The Babadook, and, much less effectively, Smile, are just a few higher-profile examples. But, if you ask me, few films have deployed this trope quite as effectively as the 2020 film His House.
The film follows Bol and Rial, refugees from South Sudan, played by Sope Dirisu and Wunmi Mosaku. Both deliver the kind of incredible performances that you rarely see in a genre film like this. It’s part of what elevates His House above the standard « haunted by trauma » fare. Mosaku, in particular, shows the sort of nuance and scr …
In November, Ted Sarandos, Netflix’s co-CEO made a trip to the White House for a lengthy meeting with Donald Trump. According to Bloomberg, the two discussed a number of topics, but chief among them was Netflix’s plan to bid on Warner Bros. At the end of their conversation, Sardonos felt that “Netflix wouldn’t face immediate opposition from the White House.”
This week, Netflix successfully won the bidding war for Warner, offering $82.7 billion. It’s well known that Paramount and its CEO David Ellison were eager to acquire the storied studio and its streaming assets. Ellison and his father, Larry Ellison, have close ties to the White House, and as part of their pitch to Warner, suggested that only they were in a position to overcome the regulatory hurdles of further media consolidation.
Sarandos seems to have rightly believed that the Ellisons overestimated their political clout. And despite some public efforts to turn the White House against the deal, Netflix won out, for now. There is of course, still a chance that Paramount could launch a hostile takeover effort, or that the Justice Department could try and scuttle the deal — nothing is guaranteed yet.
Sarandos tried to acquire Paramount before David Ellison swooped in, so snatching Warner Bros. out from under his nose is likely something of a personal victory.
Friday, the EU slapped X with a €120 million fine (about $140 million) for violating the Digital Services Act (DSA). It was the first time that a company had been hit with a penalty for running afoul of the law. Elon Musk responded with his trademark tact and professionalism by posting “Bullshit” on X in response to the announcement from the European Commission. But that wasn’t the end, because just a day later Nikita Bier, X’s head of product, accused the Commission of abusing an exploit to boost the reach of the announcement and responded by shutting down its ad account.
According to Bier, the Commission had not used its ad account since 2021, but used a post format explicitly reserved for ads in its announcement of the fine against X. He claims that the Commission posted “a link that deceives users into thinking it’s a video and to artificially increase its reach.” (For the record, the post itself includes a video.)
The seemingly retaliatory revocation of the European Commission’s ad account is unlikely to materially change things for either X or the EU. If, as Bier claims, the Commission has not used its ad account since 2021, holding it hostage is unlikely to give X any leverage. And, while it can appeal the decision, X is currently still on the hook for the sizable fine. Plus, it must provide details for how it plans to address the “deceptive” use of verified checkmarks in the next 60 days, or face additional penalties.
We’ve reached out to the Commission for comment and will update if we hear back.
Il semble que nous ne pouvons pas trouver le contenu demandé. Peut-être qu’une recherche peut vous aider.
It’s easy to think about AI as a sort of existential battle between human and machine. Maybe it will be, someday, in a Skynet sort of way. But there are also lots of people trying to figure out how to use AI not as a replacement for human creativity and thinking but as a tool meant to augment those things.
Sari Azout is one of those people. She’s the founder of Sublime, a platform dedicated to curation, creativity, and ideas. Sublime is all about taste, which makes it slightly surprising that there’s a huge amount of AI powering the way it works. But to Azout, it all makes sense.
Between keeping up with TikTok trends and whatever new gadget just dropped, it’s tough to know exactly what teens are into these days. Luckily, we can help. We may be older than teenagers, but many of us here at The Verge are kids at heart. Plus, we’ve also got a few staffers with older kids. To make your life a little easier this holiday season, we rounded up what we think are the best gifts for teens, based on our tech expertise as well as what our staff’s teens are into right now.
Below, you’ll find gift ideas for many types of teens. Some are more obvious choices, like the latest iPhone and Nintendo Switch 2, but we sought to include a …
The discount brings the price down to $299 ($100 off). | Image: The Verge
We thought Black Friday and Cyber Monday would bring the lowest prices of the year, but apparently not. Right now, you can snag Apple’s Watch Series 11 in the 42mm configuration with GPS for a new all-time low of $299 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy. That beats the $70 discount we saw at the beginning of the month, which means if you didn’t take advantage then, you can save even more now. The 46mm model with GPS is also down to its lowest price yet of $329 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy.
The Series 11 offers some nice improvements to the already-excellent Apple Watch Series 10. While this year’s model has the same dimensions as its predecessor, battery life has increased up to 24 hours per charge on the GPS / Wi-Fi model. At the same time, Apple managed to improve the Series 11’s durability and scratch-resistance, making it a better option for more intense workouts. Additionally, Apple added a more power-efficient 5G modem to the cellular model, so the battery won’t drain as quickly when you’re not on Wi-Fi.
Otherwise, the Series 11 carries over everything we loved about the Series 10. The wide-angle OLED display looks fantastic and is easy to read at a glance, while performance is excellent thanks to Apple’s S10 SiP chip. You also get a variety of health and wellness features, including FDA-cleared hypertension notifications, sleep apnea detection, and sleep score, which can summarize how well you slept. Meanwhile, you get access to the watchOS 26 update, which introduces a workout buddy and offers wrist-flick and double-tap gestures, along with the Liquid Glass redesign.
If you already own a Series 10, there aren’t many reasons to upgrade outside of the slightly improved battery life. However, if you have something older or you’re checking off a gift list, the Series 11 at $100 off is a great deal right before the holidays.
Slack users can now access Anthropic’s Claude Code directly in Slack by tagging Claude on coding-related messages and threads. The new feature is launching today in beta as a research preview.
When Claude is tagged, it will now automatically scan the message to see if it’s a coding task and, if so, route it to Claude Code using the context from the related Slack thread and the code repositories you’ve authenticated in Claude Code. Slack users can also directly tell Claude that a request is a coding task. For instance, you could ask Claude to investigate a bug report you’re discussing in Slack without needing to manually copy all the conte …
Lenovo has already demonstrated its ability to put rollable OLEDs into laptops by graduating last year from demo concept models to shipping the ThinkBook Plus Gen 6, an actual device you can buy. It has a built-in mechanism that expands the screen vertically to give you more screen real estate for typing and scrolling. However, the company might soon debut its first laptop that uses a rollable OLED to effectively transform its screen into an ultrawide 21:9 aspect ratio screen, with left and right edges that extend far outside the bottom chassis.
The Lenovo Legion Pro Rollable will be its first gaming laptop to feature a rollable horizontal …
At their biggest and most expensive, video games all sort of look the same. The reason often comes down to simple economics: More resources means more costs that need to be recouped, and historically the way publishers have done that is by being comically risk-averse. Hence the glut of semi-realistic rocky wastelands that look like death metal album covers where everyone is some kind of Wild West fetishist, or the hero shooters that all look like Pixar but shredded as hell and ready for fan artists to go places I shall not.
On occasion, however, new visual ground is staked. Octopath Traveler 0 is an example of this. The third game in the O …
Joshua Aaron, the developer of the ICEBlock app, is suing Attorney General Pam Bondi, US Homeland Security Secretary Kirsti Noem, acting director of ICE Todd Lyons, White House « Border Czar » Tom Homan, and other federal officials over the Trump administration’s « unlawful threats » made against Aaron and its actions to pressure Apple to pull the app from the App Store, which it did.
« We promised you we would fight back. Well, today’s the day we make good on the promise, » according to a post from ICEBlock’s official account on Bluesky. Aaron, Apple, and the Department of Homeland Security, didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment fr …
There’s an argument to be made that « the real monster is trauma » has become an overused trope in modern horror. Hereditary, The Babadook, and, much less effectively, Smile, are just a few higher-profile examples. But, if you ask me, few films have deployed this trope quite as effectively as the 2020 film His House.
The film follows Bol and Rial, refugees from South Sudan, played by Sope Dirisu and Wunmi Mosaku. Both deliver the kind of incredible performances that you rarely see in a genre film like this. It’s part of what elevates His House above the standard « haunted by trauma » fare. Mosaku, in particular, shows the sort of nuance and scr …
In November, Ted Sarandos, Netflix’s co-CEO made a trip to the White House for a lengthy meeting with Donald Trump. According to Bloomberg, the two discussed a number of topics, but chief among them was Netflix’s plan to bid on Warner Bros. At the end of their conversation, Sardonos felt that “Netflix wouldn’t face immediate opposition from the White House.”
This week, Netflix successfully won the bidding war for Warner, offering $82.7 billion. It’s well known that Paramount and its CEO David Ellison were eager to acquire the storied studio and its streaming assets. Ellison and his father, Larry Ellison, have close ties to the White House, and as part of their pitch to Warner, suggested that only they were in a position to overcome the regulatory hurdles of further media consolidation.
Sarandos seems to have rightly believed that the Ellisons overestimated their political clout. And despite some public efforts to turn the White House against the deal, Netflix won out, for now. There is of course, still a chance that Paramount could launch a hostile takeover effort, or that the Justice Department could try and scuttle the deal — nothing is guaranteed yet.
Sarandos tried to acquire Paramount before David Ellison swooped in, so snatching Warner Bros. out from under his nose is likely something of a personal victory.
Friday, the EU slapped X with a €120 million fine (about $140 million) for violating the Digital Services Act (DSA). It was the first time that a company had been hit with a penalty for running afoul of the law. Elon Musk responded with his trademark tact and professionalism by posting “Bullshit” on X in response to the announcement from the European Commission. But that wasn’t the end, because just a day later Nikita Bier, X’s head of product, accused the Commission of abusing an exploit to boost the reach of the announcement and responded by shutting down its ad account.
According to Bier, the Commission had not used its ad account since 2021, but used a post format explicitly reserved for ads in its announcement of the fine against X. He claims that the Commission posted “a link that deceives users into thinking it’s a video and to artificially increase its reach.” (For the record, the post itself includes a video.)
The seemingly retaliatory revocation of the European Commission’s ad account is unlikely to materially change things for either X or the EU. If, as Bier claims, the Commission has not used its ad account since 2021, holding it hostage is unlikely to give X any leverage. And, while it can appeal the decision, X is currently still on the hook for the sizable fine. Plus, it must provide details for how it plans to address the “deceptive” use of verified checkmarks in the next 60 days, or face additional penalties.
We’ve reached out to the Commission for comment and will update if we hear back.
Il semble que nous ne pouvons pas trouver le contenu demandé. Peut-être qu’une recherche peut vous aider.
It’s easy to think about AI as a sort of existential battle between human and machine. Maybe it will be, someday, in a Skynet sort of way. But there are also lots of people trying to figure out how to use AI not as a replacement for human creativity and thinking but as a tool meant to augment those things.
Sari Azout is one of those people. She’s the founder of Sublime, a platform dedicated to curation, creativity, and ideas. Sublime is all about taste, which makes it slightly surprising that there’s a huge amount of AI powering the way it works. But to Azout, it all makes sense.
Between keeping up with TikTok trends and whatever new gadget just dropped, it’s tough to know exactly what teens are into these days. Luckily, we can help. We may be older than teenagers, but many of us here at The Verge are kids at heart. Plus, we’ve also got a few staffers with older kids. To make your life a little easier this holiday season, we rounded up what we think are the best gifts for teens, based on our tech expertise as well as what our staff’s teens are into right now.
Below, you’ll find gift ideas for many types of teens. Some are more obvious choices, like the latest iPhone and Nintendo Switch 2, but we sought to include a …
The discount brings the price down to $299 ($100 off). | Image: The Verge
We thought Black Friday and Cyber Monday would bring the lowest prices of the year, but apparently not. Right now, you can snag Apple’s Watch Series 11 in the 42mm configuration with GPS for a new all-time low of $299 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy. That beats the $70 discount we saw at the beginning of the month, which means if you didn’t take advantage then, you can save even more now. The 46mm model with GPS is also down to its lowest price yet of $329 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy.
The Series 11 offers some nice improvements to the already-excellent Apple Watch Series 10. While this year’s model has the same dimensions as its predecessor, battery life has increased up to 24 hours per charge on the GPS / Wi-Fi model. At the same time, Apple managed to improve the Series 11’s durability and scratch-resistance, making it a better option for more intense workouts. Additionally, Apple added a more power-efficient 5G modem to the cellular model, so the battery won’t drain as quickly when you’re not on Wi-Fi.
Otherwise, the Series 11 carries over everything we loved about the Series 10. The wide-angle OLED display looks fantastic and is easy to read at a glance, while performance is excellent thanks to Apple’s S10 SiP chip. You also get a variety of health and wellness features, including FDA-cleared hypertension notifications, sleep apnea detection, and sleep score, which can summarize how well you slept. Meanwhile, you get access to the watchOS 26 update, which introduces a workout buddy and offers wrist-flick and double-tap gestures, along with the Liquid Glass redesign.
If you already own a Series 10, there aren’t many reasons to upgrade outside of the slightly improved battery life. However, if you have something older or you’re checking off a gift list, the Series 11 at $100 off is a great deal right before the holidays.
Slack users can now access Anthropic’s Claude Code directly in Slack by tagging Claude on coding-related messages and threads. The new feature is launching today in beta as a research preview.
When Claude is tagged, it will now automatically scan the message to see if it’s a coding task and, if so, route it to Claude Code using the context from the related Slack thread and the code repositories you’ve authenticated in Claude Code. Slack users can also directly tell Claude that a request is a coding task. For instance, you could ask Claude to investigate a bug report you’re discussing in Slack without needing to manually copy all the conte …
Lenovo has already demonstrated its ability to put rollable OLEDs into laptops by graduating last year from demo concept models to shipping the ThinkBook Plus Gen 6, an actual device you can buy. It has a built-in mechanism that expands the screen vertically to give you more screen real estate for typing and scrolling. However, the company might soon debut its first laptop that uses a rollable OLED to effectively transform its screen into an ultrawide 21:9 aspect ratio screen, with left and right edges that extend far outside the bottom chassis.
The Lenovo Legion Pro Rollable will be its first gaming laptop to feature a rollable horizontal …
At their biggest and most expensive, video games all sort of look the same. The reason often comes down to simple economics: More resources means more costs that need to be recouped, and historically the way publishers have done that is by being comically risk-averse. Hence the glut of semi-realistic rocky wastelands that look like death metal album covers where everyone is some kind of Wild West fetishist, or the hero shooters that all look like Pixar but shredded as hell and ready for fan artists to go places I shall not.
On occasion, however, new visual ground is staked. Octopath Traveler 0 is an example of this. The third game in the O …
Joshua Aaron, the developer of the ICEBlock app, is suing Attorney General Pam Bondi, US Homeland Security Secretary Kirsti Noem, acting director of ICE Todd Lyons, White House « Border Czar » Tom Homan, and other federal officials over the Trump administration’s « unlawful threats » made against Aaron and its actions to pressure Apple to pull the app from the App Store, which it did.
« We promised you we would fight back. Well, today’s the day we make good on the promise, » according to a post from ICEBlock’s official account on Bluesky. Aaron, Apple, and the Department of Homeland Security, didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment fr …
There’s an argument to be made that « the real monster is trauma » has become an overused trope in modern horror. Hereditary, The Babadook, and, much less effectively, Smile, are just a few higher-profile examples. But, if you ask me, few films have deployed this trope quite as effectively as the 2020 film His House.
The film follows Bol and Rial, refugees from South Sudan, played by Sope Dirisu and Wunmi Mosaku. Both deliver the kind of incredible performances that you rarely see in a genre film like this. It’s part of what elevates His House above the standard « haunted by trauma » fare. Mosaku, in particular, shows the sort of nuance and scr …
In November, Ted Sarandos, Netflix’s co-CEO made a trip to the White House for a lengthy meeting with Donald Trump. According to Bloomberg, the two discussed a number of topics, but chief among them was Netflix’s plan to bid on Warner Bros. At the end of their conversation, Sardonos felt that “Netflix wouldn’t face immediate opposition from the White House.”
This week, Netflix successfully won the bidding war for Warner, offering $82.7 billion. It’s well known that Paramount and its CEO David Ellison were eager to acquire the storied studio and its streaming assets. Ellison and his father, Larry Ellison, have close ties to the White House, and as part of their pitch to Warner, suggested that only they were in a position to overcome the regulatory hurdles of further media consolidation.
Sarandos seems to have rightly believed that the Ellisons overestimated their political clout. And despite some public efforts to turn the White House against the deal, Netflix won out, for now. There is of course, still a chance that Paramount could launch a hostile takeover effort, or that the Justice Department could try and scuttle the deal — nothing is guaranteed yet.
Sarandos tried to acquire Paramount before David Ellison swooped in, so snatching Warner Bros. out from under his nose is likely something of a personal victory.
Friday, the EU slapped X with a €120 million fine (about $140 million) for violating the Digital Services Act (DSA). It was the first time that a company had been hit with a penalty for running afoul of the law. Elon Musk responded with his trademark tact and professionalism by posting “Bullshit” on X in response to the announcement from the European Commission. But that wasn’t the end, because just a day later Nikita Bier, X’s head of product, accused the Commission of abusing an exploit to boost the reach of the announcement and responded by shutting down its ad account.
According to Bier, the Commission had not used its ad account since 2021, but used a post format explicitly reserved for ads in its announcement of the fine against X. He claims that the Commission posted “a link that deceives users into thinking it’s a video and to artificially increase its reach.” (For the record, the post itself includes a video.)
The seemingly retaliatory revocation of the European Commission’s ad account is unlikely to materially change things for either X or the EU. If, as Bier claims, the Commission has not used its ad account since 2021, holding it hostage is unlikely to give X any leverage. And, while it can appeal the decision, X is currently still on the hook for the sizable fine. Plus, it must provide details for how it plans to address the “deceptive” use of verified checkmarks in the next 60 days, or face additional penalties.
We’ve reached out to the Commission for comment and will update if we hear back.
Il semble que nous ne pouvons pas trouver le contenu demandé. Peut-être qu’une recherche peut vous aider.
It’s easy to think about AI as a sort of existential battle between human and machine. Maybe it will be, someday, in a Skynet sort of way. But there are also lots of people trying to figure out how to use AI not as a replacement for human creativity and thinking but as a tool meant to augment those things.
Sari Azout is one of those people. She’s the founder of Sublime, a platform dedicated to curation, creativity, and ideas. Sublime is all about taste, which makes it slightly surprising that there’s a huge amount of AI powering the way it works. But to Azout, it all makes sense.
Between keeping up with TikTok trends and whatever new gadget just dropped, it’s tough to know exactly what teens are into these days. Luckily, we can help. We may be older than teenagers, but many of us here at The Verge are kids at heart. Plus, we’ve also got a few staffers with older kids. To make your life a little easier this holiday season, we rounded up what we think are the best gifts for teens, based on our tech expertise as well as what our staff’s teens are into right now.
Below, you’ll find gift ideas for many types of teens. Some are more obvious choices, like the latest iPhone and Nintendo Switch 2, but we sought to include a …
The discount brings the price down to $299 ($100 off). | Image: The Verge
We thought Black Friday and Cyber Monday would bring the lowest prices of the year, but apparently not. Right now, you can snag Apple’s Watch Series 11 in the 42mm configuration with GPS for a new all-time low of $299 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy. That beats the $70 discount we saw at the beginning of the month, which means if you didn’t take advantage then, you can save even more now. The 46mm model with GPS is also down to its lowest price yet of $329 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy.
The Series 11 offers some nice improvements to the already-excellent Apple Watch Series 10. While this year’s model has the same dimensions as its predecessor, battery life has increased up to 24 hours per charge on the GPS / Wi-Fi model. At the same time, Apple managed to improve the Series 11’s durability and scratch-resistance, making it a better option for more intense workouts. Additionally, Apple added a more power-efficient 5G modem to the cellular model, so the battery won’t drain as quickly when you’re not on Wi-Fi.
Otherwise, the Series 11 carries over everything we loved about the Series 10. The wide-angle OLED display looks fantastic and is easy to read at a glance, while performance is excellent thanks to Apple’s S10 SiP chip. You also get a variety of health and wellness features, including FDA-cleared hypertension notifications, sleep apnea detection, and sleep score, which can summarize how well you slept. Meanwhile, you get access to the watchOS 26 update, which introduces a workout buddy and offers wrist-flick and double-tap gestures, along with the Liquid Glass redesign.
If you already own a Series 10, there aren’t many reasons to upgrade outside of the slightly improved battery life. However, if you have something older or you’re checking off a gift list, the Series 11 at $100 off is a great deal right before the holidays.
Slack users can now access Anthropic’s Claude Code directly in Slack by tagging Claude on coding-related messages and threads. The new feature is launching today in beta as a research preview.
When Claude is tagged, it will now automatically scan the message to see if it’s a coding task and, if so, route it to Claude Code using the context from the related Slack thread and the code repositories you’ve authenticated in Claude Code. Slack users can also directly tell Claude that a request is a coding task. For instance, you could ask Claude to investigate a bug report you’re discussing in Slack without needing to manually copy all the conte …
Lenovo has already demonstrated its ability to put rollable OLEDs into laptops by graduating last year from demo concept models to shipping the ThinkBook Plus Gen 6, an actual device you can buy. It has a built-in mechanism that expands the screen vertically to give you more screen real estate for typing and scrolling. However, the company might soon debut its first laptop that uses a rollable OLED to effectively transform its screen into an ultrawide 21:9 aspect ratio screen, with left and right edges that extend far outside the bottom chassis.
The Lenovo Legion Pro Rollable will be its first gaming laptop to feature a rollable horizontal …
At their biggest and most expensive, video games all sort of look the same. The reason often comes down to simple economics: More resources means more costs that need to be recouped, and historically the way publishers have done that is by being comically risk-averse. Hence the glut of semi-realistic rocky wastelands that look like death metal album covers where everyone is some kind of Wild West fetishist, or the hero shooters that all look like Pixar but shredded as hell and ready for fan artists to go places I shall not.
On occasion, however, new visual ground is staked. Octopath Traveler 0 is an example of this. The third game in the O …
Joshua Aaron, the developer of the ICEBlock app, is suing Attorney General Pam Bondi, US Homeland Security Secretary Kirsti Noem, acting director of ICE Todd Lyons, White House « Border Czar » Tom Homan, and other federal officials over the Trump administration’s « unlawful threats » made against Aaron and its actions to pressure Apple to pull the app from the App Store, which it did.
« We promised you we would fight back. Well, today’s the day we make good on the promise, » according to a post from ICEBlock’s official account on Bluesky. Aaron, Apple, and the Department of Homeland Security, didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment fr …
There’s an argument to be made that « the real monster is trauma » has become an overused trope in modern horror. Hereditary, The Babadook, and, much less effectively, Smile, are just a few higher-profile examples. But, if you ask me, few films have deployed this trope quite as effectively as the 2020 film His House.
The film follows Bol and Rial, refugees from South Sudan, played by Sope Dirisu and Wunmi Mosaku. Both deliver the kind of incredible performances that you rarely see in a genre film like this. It’s part of what elevates His House above the standard « haunted by trauma » fare. Mosaku, in particular, shows the sort of nuance and scr …
In November, Ted Sarandos, Netflix’s co-CEO made a trip to the White House for a lengthy meeting with Donald Trump. According to Bloomberg, the two discussed a number of topics, but chief among them was Netflix’s plan to bid on Warner Bros. At the end of their conversation, Sardonos felt that “Netflix wouldn’t face immediate opposition from the White House.”
This week, Netflix successfully won the bidding war for Warner, offering $82.7 billion. It’s well known that Paramount and its CEO David Ellison were eager to acquire the storied studio and its streaming assets. Ellison and his father, Larry Ellison, have close ties to the White House, and as part of their pitch to Warner, suggested that only they were in a position to overcome the regulatory hurdles of further media consolidation.
Sarandos seems to have rightly believed that the Ellisons overestimated their political clout. And despite some public efforts to turn the White House against the deal, Netflix won out, for now. There is of course, still a chance that Paramount could launch a hostile takeover effort, or that the Justice Department could try and scuttle the deal — nothing is guaranteed yet.
Sarandos tried to acquire Paramount before David Ellison swooped in, so snatching Warner Bros. out from under his nose is likely something of a personal victory.
Friday, the EU slapped X with a €120 million fine (about $140 million) for violating the Digital Services Act (DSA). It was the first time that a company had been hit with a penalty for running afoul of the law. Elon Musk responded with his trademark tact and professionalism by posting “Bullshit” on X in response to the announcement from the European Commission. But that wasn’t the end, because just a day later Nikita Bier, X’s head of product, accused the Commission of abusing an exploit to boost the reach of the announcement and responded by shutting down its ad account.
According to Bier, the Commission had not used its ad account since 2021, but used a post format explicitly reserved for ads in its announcement of the fine against X. He claims that the Commission posted “a link that deceives users into thinking it’s a video and to artificially increase its reach.” (For the record, the post itself includes a video.)
The seemingly retaliatory revocation of the European Commission’s ad account is unlikely to materially change things for either X or the EU. If, as Bier claims, the Commission has not used its ad account since 2021, holding it hostage is unlikely to give X any leverage. And, while it can appeal the decision, X is currently still on the hook for the sizable fine. Plus, it must provide details for how it plans to address the “deceptive” use of verified checkmarks in the next 60 days, or face additional penalties.
We’ve reached out to the Commission for comment and will update if we hear back.
Il semble que nous ne pouvons pas trouver le contenu demandé. Peut-être qu’une recherche peut vous aider.
It’s easy to think about AI as a sort of existential battle between human and machine. Maybe it will be, someday, in a Skynet sort of way. But there are also lots of people trying to figure out how to use AI not as a replacement for human creativity and thinking but as a tool meant to augment those things.
Sari Azout is one of those people. She’s the founder of Sublime, a platform dedicated to curation, creativity, and ideas. Sublime is all about taste, which makes it slightly surprising that there’s a huge amount of AI powering the way it works. But to Azout, it all makes sense.
Between keeping up with TikTok trends and whatever new gadget just dropped, it’s tough to know exactly what teens are into these days. Luckily, we can help. We may be older than teenagers, but many of us here at The Verge are kids at heart. Plus, we’ve also got a few staffers with older kids. To make your life a little easier this holiday season, we rounded up what we think are the best gifts for teens, based on our tech expertise as well as what our staff’s teens are into right now.
Below, you’ll find gift ideas for many types of teens. Some are more obvious choices, like the latest iPhone and Nintendo Switch 2, but we sought to include a …
The discount brings the price down to $299 ($100 off). | Image: The Verge
We thought Black Friday and Cyber Monday would bring the lowest prices of the year, but apparently not. Right now, you can snag Apple’s Watch Series 11 in the 42mm configuration with GPS for a new all-time low of $299 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy. That beats the $70 discount we saw at the beginning of the month, which means if you didn’t take advantage then, you can save even more now. The 46mm model with GPS is also down to its lowest price yet of $329 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy.
The Series 11 offers some nice improvements to the already-excellent Apple Watch Series 10. While this year’s model has the same dimensions as its predecessor, battery life has increased up to 24 hours per charge on the GPS / Wi-Fi model. At the same time, Apple managed to improve the Series 11’s durability and scratch-resistance, making it a better option for more intense workouts. Additionally, Apple added a more power-efficient 5G modem to the cellular model, so the battery won’t drain as quickly when you’re not on Wi-Fi.
Otherwise, the Series 11 carries over everything we loved about the Series 10. The wide-angle OLED display looks fantastic and is easy to read at a glance, while performance is excellent thanks to Apple’s S10 SiP chip. You also get a variety of health and wellness features, including FDA-cleared hypertension notifications, sleep apnea detection, and sleep score, which can summarize how well you slept. Meanwhile, you get access to the watchOS 26 update, which introduces a workout buddy and offers wrist-flick and double-tap gestures, along with the Liquid Glass redesign.
If you already own a Series 10, there aren’t many reasons to upgrade outside of the slightly improved battery life. However, if you have something older or you’re checking off a gift list, the Series 11 at $100 off is a great deal right before the holidays.
Slack users can now access Anthropic’s Claude Code directly in Slack by tagging Claude on coding-related messages and threads. The new feature is launching today in beta as a research preview.
When Claude is tagged, it will now automatically scan the message to see if it’s a coding task and, if so, route it to Claude Code using the context from the related Slack thread and the code repositories you’ve authenticated in Claude Code. Slack users can also directly tell Claude that a request is a coding task. For instance, you could ask Claude to investigate a bug report you’re discussing in Slack without needing to manually copy all the conte …
Lenovo has already demonstrated its ability to put rollable OLEDs into laptops by graduating last year from demo concept models to shipping the ThinkBook Plus Gen 6, an actual device you can buy. It has a built-in mechanism that expands the screen vertically to give you more screen real estate for typing and scrolling. However, the company might soon debut its first laptop that uses a rollable OLED to effectively transform its screen into an ultrawide 21:9 aspect ratio screen, with left and right edges that extend far outside the bottom chassis.
The Lenovo Legion Pro Rollable will be its first gaming laptop to feature a rollable horizontal …
At their biggest and most expensive, video games all sort of look the same. The reason often comes down to simple economics: More resources means more costs that need to be recouped, and historically the way publishers have done that is by being comically risk-averse. Hence the glut of semi-realistic rocky wastelands that look like death metal album covers where everyone is some kind of Wild West fetishist, or the hero shooters that all look like Pixar but shredded as hell and ready for fan artists to go places I shall not.
On occasion, however, new visual ground is staked. Octopath Traveler 0 is an example of this. The third game in the O …
Joshua Aaron, the developer of the ICEBlock app, is suing Attorney General Pam Bondi, US Homeland Security Secretary Kirsti Noem, acting director of ICE Todd Lyons, White House « Border Czar » Tom Homan, and other federal officials over the Trump administration’s « unlawful threats » made against Aaron and its actions to pressure Apple to pull the app from the App Store, which it did.
« We promised you we would fight back. Well, today’s the day we make good on the promise, » according to a post from ICEBlock’s official account on Bluesky. Aaron, Apple, and the Department of Homeland Security, didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment fr …
There’s an argument to be made that « the real monster is trauma » has become an overused trope in modern horror. Hereditary, The Babadook, and, much less effectively, Smile, are just a few higher-profile examples. But, if you ask me, few films have deployed this trope quite as effectively as the 2020 film His House.
The film follows Bol and Rial, refugees from South Sudan, played by Sope Dirisu and Wunmi Mosaku. Both deliver the kind of incredible performances that you rarely see in a genre film like this. It’s part of what elevates His House above the standard « haunted by trauma » fare. Mosaku, in particular, shows the sort of nuance and scr …
In November, Ted Sarandos, Netflix’s co-CEO made a trip to the White House for a lengthy meeting with Donald Trump. According to Bloomberg, the two discussed a number of topics, but chief among them was Netflix’s plan to bid on Warner Bros. At the end of their conversation, Sardonos felt that “Netflix wouldn’t face immediate opposition from the White House.”
This week, Netflix successfully won the bidding war for Warner, offering $82.7 billion. It’s well known that Paramount and its CEO David Ellison were eager to acquire the storied studio and its streaming assets. Ellison and his father, Larry Ellison, have close ties to the White House, and as part of their pitch to Warner, suggested that only they were in a position to overcome the regulatory hurdles of further media consolidation.
Sarandos seems to have rightly believed that the Ellisons overestimated their political clout. And despite some public efforts to turn the White House against the deal, Netflix won out, for now. There is of course, still a chance that Paramount could launch a hostile takeover effort, or that the Justice Department could try and scuttle the deal — nothing is guaranteed yet.
Sarandos tried to acquire Paramount before David Ellison swooped in, so snatching Warner Bros. out from under his nose is likely something of a personal victory.
Friday, the EU slapped X with a €120 million fine (about $140 million) for violating the Digital Services Act (DSA). It was the first time that a company had been hit with a penalty for running afoul of the law. Elon Musk responded with his trademark tact and professionalism by posting “Bullshit” on X in response to the announcement from the European Commission. But that wasn’t the end, because just a day later Nikita Bier, X’s head of product, accused the Commission of abusing an exploit to boost the reach of the announcement and responded by shutting down its ad account.
According to Bier, the Commission had not used its ad account since 2021, but used a post format explicitly reserved for ads in its announcement of the fine against X. He claims that the Commission posted “a link that deceives users into thinking it’s a video and to artificially increase its reach.” (For the record, the post itself includes a video.)
The seemingly retaliatory revocation of the European Commission’s ad account is unlikely to materially change things for either X or the EU. If, as Bier claims, the Commission has not used its ad account since 2021, holding it hostage is unlikely to give X any leverage. And, while it can appeal the decision, X is currently still on the hook for the sizable fine. Plus, it must provide details for how it plans to address the “deceptive” use of verified checkmarks in the next 60 days, or face additional penalties.
We’ve reached out to the Commission for comment and will update if we hear back.
Il semble que nous ne pouvons pas trouver le contenu demandé. Peut-être qu’une recherche peut vous aider.
It’s easy to think about AI as a sort of existential battle between human and machine. Maybe it will be, someday, in a Skynet sort of way. But there are also lots of people trying to figure out how to use AI not as a replacement for human creativity and thinking but as a tool meant to augment those things.
Sari Azout is one of those people. She’s the founder of Sublime, a platform dedicated to curation, creativity, and ideas. Sublime is all about taste, which makes it slightly surprising that there’s a huge amount of AI powering the way it works. But to Azout, it all makes sense.
Between keeping up with TikTok trends and whatever new gadget just dropped, it’s tough to know exactly what teens are into these days. Luckily, we can help. We may be older than teenagers, but many of us here at The Verge are kids at heart. Plus, we’ve also got a few staffers with older kids. To make your life a little easier this holiday season, we rounded up what we think are the best gifts for teens, based on our tech expertise as well as what our staff’s teens are into right now.
Below, you’ll find gift ideas for many types of teens. Some are more obvious choices, like the latest iPhone and Nintendo Switch 2, but we sought to include a …
The discount brings the price down to $299 ($100 off). | Image: The Verge
We thought Black Friday and Cyber Monday would bring the lowest prices of the year, but apparently not. Right now, you can snag Apple’s Watch Series 11 in the 42mm configuration with GPS for a new all-time low of $299 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy. That beats the $70 discount we saw at the beginning of the month, which means if you didn’t take advantage then, you can save even more now. The 46mm model with GPS is also down to its lowest price yet of $329 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy.
The Series 11 offers some nice improvements to the already-excellent Apple Watch Series 10. While this year’s model has the same dimensions as its predecessor, battery life has increased up to 24 hours per charge on the GPS / Wi-Fi model. At the same time, Apple managed to improve the Series 11’s durability and scratch-resistance, making it a better option for more intense workouts. Additionally, Apple added a more power-efficient 5G modem to the cellular model, so the battery won’t drain as quickly when you’re not on Wi-Fi.
Otherwise, the Series 11 carries over everything we loved about the Series 10. The wide-angle OLED display looks fantastic and is easy to read at a glance, while performance is excellent thanks to Apple’s S10 SiP chip. You also get a variety of health and wellness features, including FDA-cleared hypertension notifications, sleep apnea detection, and sleep score, which can summarize how well you slept. Meanwhile, you get access to the watchOS 26 update, which introduces a workout buddy and offers wrist-flick and double-tap gestures, along with the Liquid Glass redesign.
If you already own a Series 10, there aren’t many reasons to upgrade outside of the slightly improved battery life. However, if you have something older or you’re checking off a gift list, the Series 11 at $100 off is a great deal right before the holidays.
Slack users can now access Anthropic’s Claude Code directly in Slack by tagging Claude on coding-related messages and threads. The new feature is launching today in beta as a research preview.
When Claude is tagged, it will now automatically scan the message to see if it’s a coding task and, if so, route it to Claude Code using the context from the related Slack thread and the code repositories you’ve authenticated in Claude Code. Slack users can also directly tell Claude that a request is a coding task. For instance, you could ask Claude to investigate a bug report you’re discussing in Slack without needing to manually copy all the conte …
Lenovo has already demonstrated its ability to put rollable OLEDs into laptops by graduating last year from demo concept models to shipping the ThinkBook Plus Gen 6, an actual device you can buy. It has a built-in mechanism that expands the screen vertically to give you more screen real estate for typing and scrolling. However, the company might soon debut its first laptop that uses a rollable OLED to effectively transform its screen into an ultrawide 21:9 aspect ratio screen, with left and right edges that extend far outside the bottom chassis.
The Lenovo Legion Pro Rollable will be its first gaming laptop to feature a rollable horizontal …
At their biggest and most expensive, video games all sort of look the same. The reason often comes down to simple economics: More resources means more costs that need to be recouped, and historically the way publishers have done that is by being comically risk-averse. Hence the glut of semi-realistic rocky wastelands that look like death metal album covers where everyone is some kind of Wild West fetishist, or the hero shooters that all look like Pixar but shredded as hell and ready for fan artists to go places I shall not.
On occasion, however, new visual ground is staked. Octopath Traveler 0 is an example of this. The third game in the O …
Joshua Aaron, the developer of the ICEBlock app, is suing Attorney General Pam Bondi, US Homeland Security Secretary Kirsti Noem, acting director of ICE Todd Lyons, White House « Border Czar » Tom Homan, and other federal officials over the Trump administration’s « unlawful threats » made against Aaron and its actions to pressure Apple to pull the app from the App Store, which it did.
« We promised you we would fight back. Well, today’s the day we make good on the promise, » according to a post from ICEBlock’s official account on Bluesky. Aaron, Apple, and the Department of Homeland Security, didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment fr …
There’s an argument to be made that « the real monster is trauma » has become an overused trope in modern horror. Hereditary, The Babadook, and, much less effectively, Smile, are just a few higher-profile examples. But, if you ask me, few films have deployed this trope quite as effectively as the 2020 film His House.
The film follows Bol and Rial, refugees from South Sudan, played by Sope Dirisu and Wunmi Mosaku. Both deliver the kind of incredible performances that you rarely see in a genre film like this. It’s part of what elevates His House above the standard « haunted by trauma » fare. Mosaku, in particular, shows the sort of nuance and scr …
In November, Ted Sarandos, Netflix’s co-CEO made a trip to the White House for a lengthy meeting with Donald Trump. According to Bloomberg, the two discussed a number of topics, but chief among them was Netflix’s plan to bid on Warner Bros. At the end of their conversation, Sardonos felt that “Netflix wouldn’t face immediate opposition from the White House.”
This week, Netflix successfully won the bidding war for Warner, offering $82.7 billion. It’s well known that Paramount and its CEO David Ellison were eager to acquire the storied studio and its streaming assets. Ellison and his father, Larry Ellison, have close ties to the White House, and as part of their pitch to Warner, suggested that only they were in a position to overcome the regulatory hurdles of further media consolidation.
Sarandos seems to have rightly believed that the Ellisons overestimated their political clout. And despite some public efforts to turn the White House against the deal, Netflix won out, for now. There is of course, still a chance that Paramount could launch a hostile takeover effort, or that the Justice Department could try and scuttle the deal — nothing is guaranteed yet.
Sarandos tried to acquire Paramount before David Ellison swooped in, so snatching Warner Bros. out from under his nose is likely something of a personal victory.
Friday, the EU slapped X with a €120 million fine (about $140 million) for violating the Digital Services Act (DSA). It was the first time that a company had been hit with a penalty for running afoul of the law. Elon Musk responded with his trademark tact and professionalism by posting “Bullshit” on X in response to the announcement from the European Commission. But that wasn’t the end, because just a day later Nikita Bier, X’s head of product, accused the Commission of abusing an exploit to boost the reach of the announcement and responded by shutting down its ad account.
According to Bier, the Commission had not used its ad account since 2021, but used a post format explicitly reserved for ads in its announcement of the fine against X. He claims that the Commission posted “a link that deceives users into thinking it’s a video and to artificially increase its reach.” (For the record, the post itself includes a video.)
The seemingly retaliatory revocation of the European Commission’s ad account is unlikely to materially change things for either X or the EU. If, as Bier claims, the Commission has not used its ad account since 2021, holding it hostage is unlikely to give X any leverage. And, while it can appeal the decision, X is currently still on the hook for the sizable fine. Plus, it must provide details for how it plans to address the “deceptive” use of verified checkmarks in the next 60 days, or face additional penalties.
We’ve reached out to the Commission for comment and will update if we hear back.
Il semble que nous ne pouvons pas trouver le contenu demandé. Peut-être qu’une recherche peut vous aider.
It’s easy to think about AI as a sort of existential battle between human and machine. Maybe it will be, someday, in a Skynet sort of way. But there are also lots of people trying to figure out how to use AI not as a replacement for human creativity and thinking but as a tool meant to augment those things.
Sari Azout is one of those people. She’s the founder of Sublime, a platform dedicated to curation, creativity, and ideas. Sublime is all about taste, which makes it slightly surprising that there’s a huge amount of AI powering the way it works. But to Azout, it all makes sense.
Between keeping up with TikTok trends and whatever new gadget just dropped, it’s tough to know exactly what teens are into these days. Luckily, we can help. We may be older than teenagers, but many of us here at The Verge are kids at heart. Plus, we’ve also got a few staffers with older kids. To make your life a little easier this holiday season, we rounded up what we think are the best gifts for teens, based on our tech expertise as well as what our staff’s teens are into right now.
Below, you’ll find gift ideas for many types of teens. Some are more obvious choices, like the latest iPhone and Nintendo Switch 2, but we sought to include a …
The discount brings the price down to $299 ($100 off). | Image: The Verge
We thought Black Friday and Cyber Monday would bring the lowest prices of the year, but apparently not. Right now, you can snag Apple’s Watch Series 11 in the 42mm configuration with GPS for a new all-time low of $299 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy. That beats the $70 discount we saw at the beginning of the month, which means if you didn’t take advantage then, you can save even more now. The 46mm model with GPS is also down to its lowest price yet of $329 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy.
The Series 11 offers some nice improvements to the already-excellent Apple Watch Series 10. While this year’s model has the same dimensions as its predecessor, battery life has increased up to 24 hours per charge on the GPS / Wi-Fi model. At the same time, Apple managed to improve the Series 11’s durability and scratch-resistance, making it a better option for more intense workouts. Additionally, Apple added a more power-efficient 5G modem to the cellular model, so the battery won’t drain as quickly when you’re not on Wi-Fi.
Otherwise, the Series 11 carries over everything we loved about the Series 10. The wide-angle OLED display looks fantastic and is easy to read at a glance, while performance is excellent thanks to Apple’s S10 SiP chip. You also get a variety of health and wellness features, including FDA-cleared hypertension notifications, sleep apnea detection, and sleep score, which can summarize how well you slept. Meanwhile, you get access to the watchOS 26 update, which introduces a workout buddy and offers wrist-flick and double-tap gestures, along with the Liquid Glass redesign.
If you already own a Series 10, there aren’t many reasons to upgrade outside of the slightly improved battery life. However, if you have something older or you’re checking off a gift list, the Series 11 at $100 off is a great deal right before the holidays.
Slack users can now access Anthropic’s Claude Code directly in Slack by tagging Claude on coding-related messages and threads. The new feature is launching today in beta as a research preview.
When Claude is tagged, it will now automatically scan the message to see if it’s a coding task and, if so, route it to Claude Code using the context from the related Slack thread and the code repositories you’ve authenticated in Claude Code. Slack users can also directly tell Claude that a request is a coding task. For instance, you could ask Claude to investigate a bug report you’re discussing in Slack without needing to manually copy all the conte …
Lenovo has already demonstrated its ability to put rollable OLEDs into laptops by graduating last year from demo concept models to shipping the ThinkBook Plus Gen 6, an actual device you can buy. It has a built-in mechanism that expands the screen vertically to give you more screen real estate for typing and scrolling. However, the company might soon debut its first laptop that uses a rollable OLED to effectively transform its screen into an ultrawide 21:9 aspect ratio screen, with left and right edges that extend far outside the bottom chassis.
The Lenovo Legion Pro Rollable will be its first gaming laptop to feature a rollable horizontal …
At their biggest and most expensive, video games all sort of look the same. The reason often comes down to simple economics: More resources means more costs that need to be recouped, and historically the way publishers have done that is by being comically risk-averse. Hence the glut of semi-realistic rocky wastelands that look like death metal album covers where everyone is some kind of Wild West fetishist, or the hero shooters that all look like Pixar but shredded as hell and ready for fan artists to go places I shall not.
On occasion, however, new visual ground is staked. Octopath Traveler 0 is an example of this. The third game in the O …
Joshua Aaron, the developer of the ICEBlock app, is suing Attorney General Pam Bondi, US Homeland Security Secretary Kirsti Noem, acting director of ICE Todd Lyons, White House « Border Czar » Tom Homan, and other federal officials over the Trump administration’s « unlawful threats » made against Aaron and its actions to pressure Apple to pull the app from the App Store, which it did.
« We promised you we would fight back. Well, today’s the day we make good on the promise, » according to a post from ICEBlock’s official account on Bluesky. Aaron, Apple, and the Department of Homeland Security, didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment fr …
There’s an argument to be made that « the real monster is trauma » has become an overused trope in modern horror. Hereditary, The Babadook, and, much less effectively, Smile, are just a few higher-profile examples. But, if you ask me, few films have deployed this trope quite as effectively as the 2020 film His House.
The film follows Bol and Rial, refugees from South Sudan, played by Sope Dirisu and Wunmi Mosaku. Both deliver the kind of incredible performances that you rarely see in a genre film like this. It’s part of what elevates His House above the standard « haunted by trauma » fare. Mosaku, in particular, shows the sort of nuance and scr …
In November, Ted Sarandos, Netflix’s co-CEO made a trip to the White House for a lengthy meeting with Donald Trump. According to Bloomberg, the two discussed a number of topics, but chief among them was Netflix’s plan to bid on Warner Bros. At the end of their conversation, Sardonos felt that “Netflix wouldn’t face immediate opposition from the White House.”
This week, Netflix successfully won the bidding war for Warner, offering $82.7 billion. It’s well known that Paramount and its CEO David Ellison were eager to acquire the storied studio and its streaming assets. Ellison and his father, Larry Ellison, have close ties to the White House, and as part of their pitch to Warner, suggested that only they were in a position to overcome the regulatory hurdles of further media consolidation.
Sarandos seems to have rightly believed that the Ellisons overestimated their political clout. And despite some public efforts to turn the White House against the deal, Netflix won out, for now. There is of course, still a chance that Paramount could launch a hostile takeover effort, or that the Justice Department could try and scuttle the deal — nothing is guaranteed yet.
Sarandos tried to acquire Paramount before David Ellison swooped in, so snatching Warner Bros. out from under his nose is likely something of a personal victory.
Friday, the EU slapped X with a €120 million fine (about $140 million) for violating the Digital Services Act (DSA). It was the first time that a company had been hit with a penalty for running afoul of the law. Elon Musk responded with his trademark tact and professionalism by posting “Bullshit” on X in response to the announcement from the European Commission. But that wasn’t the end, because just a day later Nikita Bier, X’s head of product, accused the Commission of abusing an exploit to boost the reach of the announcement and responded by shutting down its ad account.
According to Bier, the Commission had not used its ad account since 2021, but used a post format explicitly reserved for ads in its announcement of the fine against X. He claims that the Commission posted “a link that deceives users into thinking it’s a video and to artificially increase its reach.” (For the record, the post itself includes a video.)
The seemingly retaliatory revocation of the European Commission’s ad account is unlikely to materially change things for either X or the EU. If, as Bier claims, the Commission has not used its ad account since 2021, holding it hostage is unlikely to give X any leverage. And, while it can appeal the decision, X is currently still on the hook for the sizable fine. Plus, it must provide details for how it plans to address the “deceptive” use of verified checkmarks in the next 60 days, or face additional penalties.
We’ve reached out to the Commission for comment and will update if we hear back.
Il semble que nous ne pouvons pas trouver le contenu demandé. Peut-être qu’une recherche peut vous aider.
It’s easy to think about AI as a sort of existential battle between human and machine. Maybe it will be, someday, in a Skynet sort of way. But there are also lots of people trying to figure out how to use AI not as a replacement for human creativity and thinking but as a tool meant to augment those things.
Sari Azout is one of those people. She’s the founder of Sublime, a platform dedicated to curation, creativity, and ideas. Sublime is all about taste, which makes it slightly surprising that there’s a huge amount of AI powering the way it works. But to Azout, it all makes sense.
Between keeping up with TikTok trends and whatever new gadget just dropped, it’s tough to know exactly what teens are into these days. Luckily, we can help. We may be older than teenagers, but many of us here at The Verge are kids at heart. Plus, we’ve also got a few staffers with older kids. To make your life a little easier this holiday season, we rounded up what we think are the best gifts for teens, based on our tech expertise as well as what our staff’s teens are into right now.
Below, you’ll find gift ideas for many types of teens. Some are more obvious choices, like the latest iPhone and Nintendo Switch 2, but we sought to include a …
The discount brings the price down to $299 ($100 off). | Image: The Verge
We thought Black Friday and Cyber Monday would bring the lowest prices of the year, but apparently not. Right now, you can snag Apple’s Watch Series 11 in the 42mm configuration with GPS for a new all-time low of $299 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy. That beats the $70 discount we saw at the beginning of the month, which means if you didn’t take advantage then, you can save even more now. The 46mm model with GPS is also down to its lowest price yet of $329 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy.
The Series 11 offers some nice improvements to the already-excellent Apple Watch Series 10. While this year’s model has the same dimensions as its predecessor, battery life has increased up to 24 hours per charge on the GPS / Wi-Fi model. At the same time, Apple managed to improve the Series 11’s durability and scratch-resistance, making it a better option for more intense workouts. Additionally, Apple added a more power-efficient 5G modem to the cellular model, so the battery won’t drain as quickly when you’re not on Wi-Fi.
Otherwise, the Series 11 carries over everything we loved about the Series 10. The wide-angle OLED display looks fantastic and is easy to read at a glance, while performance is excellent thanks to Apple’s S10 SiP chip. You also get a variety of health and wellness features, including FDA-cleared hypertension notifications, sleep apnea detection, and sleep score, which can summarize how well you slept. Meanwhile, you get access to the watchOS 26 update, which introduces a workout buddy and offers wrist-flick and double-tap gestures, along with the Liquid Glass redesign.
If you already own a Series 10, there aren’t many reasons to upgrade outside of the slightly improved battery life. However, if you have something older or you’re checking off a gift list, the Series 11 at $100 off is a great deal right before the holidays.
Slack users can now access Anthropic’s Claude Code directly in Slack by tagging Claude on coding-related messages and threads. The new feature is launching today in beta as a research preview.
When Claude is tagged, it will now automatically scan the message to see if it’s a coding task and, if so, route it to Claude Code using the context from the related Slack thread and the code repositories you’ve authenticated in Claude Code. Slack users can also directly tell Claude that a request is a coding task. For instance, you could ask Claude to investigate a bug report you’re discussing in Slack without needing to manually copy all the conte …
Lenovo has already demonstrated its ability to put rollable OLEDs into laptops by graduating last year from demo concept models to shipping the ThinkBook Plus Gen 6, an actual device you can buy. It has a built-in mechanism that expands the screen vertically to give you more screen real estate for typing and scrolling. However, the company might soon debut its first laptop that uses a rollable OLED to effectively transform its screen into an ultrawide 21:9 aspect ratio screen, with left and right edges that extend far outside the bottom chassis.
The Lenovo Legion Pro Rollable will be its first gaming laptop to feature a rollable horizontal …
At their biggest and most expensive, video games all sort of look the same. The reason often comes down to simple economics: More resources means more costs that need to be recouped, and historically the way publishers have done that is by being comically risk-averse. Hence the glut of semi-realistic rocky wastelands that look like death metal album covers where everyone is some kind of Wild West fetishist, or the hero shooters that all look like Pixar but shredded as hell and ready for fan artists to go places I shall not.
On occasion, however, new visual ground is staked. Octopath Traveler 0 is an example of this. The third game in the O …
Joshua Aaron, the developer of the ICEBlock app, is suing Attorney General Pam Bondi, US Homeland Security Secretary Kirsti Noem, acting director of ICE Todd Lyons, White House « Border Czar » Tom Homan, and other federal officials over the Trump administration’s « unlawful threats » made against Aaron and its actions to pressure Apple to pull the app from the App Store, which it did.
« We promised you we would fight back. Well, today’s the day we make good on the promise, » according to a post from ICEBlock’s official account on Bluesky. Aaron, Apple, and the Department of Homeland Security, didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment fr …
There’s an argument to be made that « the real monster is trauma » has become an overused trope in modern horror. Hereditary, The Babadook, and, much less effectively, Smile, are just a few higher-profile examples. But, if you ask me, few films have deployed this trope quite as effectively as the 2020 film His House.
The film follows Bol and Rial, refugees from South Sudan, played by Sope Dirisu and Wunmi Mosaku. Both deliver the kind of incredible performances that you rarely see in a genre film like this. It’s part of what elevates His House above the standard « haunted by trauma » fare. Mosaku, in particular, shows the sort of nuance and scr …
In November, Ted Sarandos, Netflix’s co-CEO made a trip to the White House for a lengthy meeting with Donald Trump. According to Bloomberg, the two discussed a number of topics, but chief among them was Netflix’s plan to bid on Warner Bros. At the end of their conversation, Sardonos felt that “Netflix wouldn’t face immediate opposition from the White House.”
This week, Netflix successfully won the bidding war for Warner, offering $82.7 billion. It’s well known that Paramount and its CEO David Ellison were eager to acquire the storied studio and its streaming assets. Ellison and his father, Larry Ellison, have close ties to the White House, and as part of their pitch to Warner, suggested that only they were in a position to overcome the regulatory hurdles of further media consolidation.
Sarandos seems to have rightly believed that the Ellisons overestimated their political clout. And despite some public efforts to turn the White House against the deal, Netflix won out, for now. There is of course, still a chance that Paramount could launch a hostile takeover effort, or that the Justice Department could try and scuttle the deal — nothing is guaranteed yet.
Sarandos tried to acquire Paramount before David Ellison swooped in, so snatching Warner Bros. out from under his nose is likely something of a personal victory.
Friday, the EU slapped X with a €120 million fine (about $140 million) for violating the Digital Services Act (DSA). It was the first time that a company had been hit with a penalty for running afoul of the law. Elon Musk responded with his trademark tact and professionalism by posting “Bullshit” on X in response to the announcement from the European Commission. But that wasn’t the end, because just a day later Nikita Bier, X’s head of product, accused the Commission of abusing an exploit to boost the reach of the announcement and responded by shutting down its ad account.
According to Bier, the Commission had not used its ad account since 2021, but used a post format explicitly reserved for ads in its announcement of the fine against X. He claims that the Commission posted “a link that deceives users into thinking it’s a video and to artificially increase its reach.” (For the record, the post itself includes a video.)
The seemingly retaliatory revocation of the European Commission’s ad account is unlikely to materially change things for either X or the EU. If, as Bier claims, the Commission has not used its ad account since 2021, holding it hostage is unlikely to give X any leverage. And, while it can appeal the decision, X is currently still on the hook for the sizable fine. Plus, it must provide details for how it plans to address the “deceptive” use of verified checkmarks in the next 60 days, or face additional penalties.
We’ve reached out to the Commission for comment and will update if we hear back.
Il semble que nous ne pouvons pas trouver le contenu demandé. Peut-être qu’une recherche peut vous aider.
It’s easy to think about AI as a sort of existential battle between human and machine. Maybe it will be, someday, in a Skynet sort of way. But there are also lots of people trying to figure out how to use AI not as a replacement for human creativity and thinking but as a tool meant to augment those things.
Sari Azout is one of those people. She’s the founder of Sublime, a platform dedicated to curation, creativity, and ideas. Sublime is all about taste, which makes it slightly surprising that there’s a huge amount of AI powering the way it works. But to Azout, it all makes sense.
Between keeping up with TikTok trends and whatever new gadget just dropped, it’s tough to know exactly what teens are into these days. Luckily, we can help. We may be older than teenagers, but many of us here at The Verge are kids at heart. Plus, we’ve also got a few staffers with older kids. To make your life a little easier this holiday season, we rounded up what we think are the best gifts for teens, based on our tech expertise as well as what our staff’s teens are into right now.
Below, you’ll find gift ideas for many types of teens. Some are more obvious choices, like the latest iPhone and Nintendo Switch 2, but we sought to include a …
The discount brings the price down to $299 ($100 off). | Image: The Verge
We thought Black Friday and Cyber Monday would bring the lowest prices of the year, but apparently not. Right now, you can snag Apple’s Watch Series 11 in the 42mm configuration with GPS for a new all-time low of $299 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy. That beats the $70 discount we saw at the beginning of the month, which means if you didn’t take advantage then, you can save even more now. The 46mm model with GPS is also down to its lowest price yet of $329 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy.
The Series 11 offers some nice improvements to the already-excellent Apple Watch Series 10. While this year’s model has the same dimensions as its predecessor, battery life has increased up to 24 hours per charge on the GPS / Wi-Fi model. At the same time, Apple managed to improve the Series 11’s durability and scratch-resistance, making it a better option for more intense workouts. Additionally, Apple added a more power-efficient 5G modem to the cellular model, so the battery won’t drain as quickly when you’re not on Wi-Fi.
Otherwise, the Series 11 carries over everything we loved about the Series 10. The wide-angle OLED display looks fantastic and is easy to read at a glance, while performance is excellent thanks to Apple’s S10 SiP chip. You also get a variety of health and wellness features, including FDA-cleared hypertension notifications, sleep apnea detection, and sleep score, which can summarize how well you slept. Meanwhile, you get access to the watchOS 26 update, which introduces a workout buddy and offers wrist-flick and double-tap gestures, along with the Liquid Glass redesign.
If you already own a Series 10, there aren’t many reasons to upgrade outside of the slightly improved battery life. However, if you have something older or you’re checking off a gift list, the Series 11 at $100 off is a great deal right before the holidays.
Slack users can now access Anthropic’s Claude Code directly in Slack by tagging Claude on coding-related messages and threads. The new feature is launching today in beta as a research preview.
When Claude is tagged, it will now automatically scan the message to see if it’s a coding task and, if so, route it to Claude Code using the context from the related Slack thread and the code repositories you’ve authenticated in Claude Code. Slack users can also directly tell Claude that a request is a coding task. For instance, you could ask Claude to investigate a bug report you’re discussing in Slack without needing to manually copy all the conte …
Lenovo has already demonstrated its ability to put rollable OLEDs into laptops by graduating last year from demo concept models to shipping the ThinkBook Plus Gen 6, an actual device you can buy. It has a built-in mechanism that expands the screen vertically to give you more screen real estate for typing and scrolling. However, the company might soon debut its first laptop that uses a rollable OLED to effectively transform its screen into an ultrawide 21:9 aspect ratio screen, with left and right edges that extend far outside the bottom chassis.
The Lenovo Legion Pro Rollable will be its first gaming laptop to feature a rollable horizontal …
At their biggest and most expensive, video games all sort of look the same. The reason often comes down to simple economics: More resources means more costs that need to be recouped, and historically the way publishers have done that is by being comically risk-averse. Hence the glut of semi-realistic rocky wastelands that look like death metal album covers where everyone is some kind of Wild West fetishist, or the hero shooters that all look like Pixar but shredded as hell and ready for fan artists to go places I shall not.
On occasion, however, new visual ground is staked. Octopath Traveler 0 is an example of this. The third game in the O …
Joshua Aaron, the developer of the ICEBlock app, is suing Attorney General Pam Bondi, US Homeland Security Secretary Kirsti Noem, acting director of ICE Todd Lyons, White House « Border Czar » Tom Homan, and other federal officials over the Trump administration’s « unlawful threats » made against Aaron and its actions to pressure Apple to pull the app from the App Store, which it did.
« We promised you we would fight back. Well, today’s the day we make good on the promise, » according to a post from ICEBlock’s official account on Bluesky. Aaron, Apple, and the Department of Homeland Security, didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment fr …
There’s an argument to be made that « the real monster is trauma » has become an overused trope in modern horror. Hereditary, The Babadook, and, much less effectively, Smile, are just a few higher-profile examples. But, if you ask me, few films have deployed this trope quite as effectively as the 2020 film His House.
The film follows Bol and Rial, refugees from South Sudan, played by Sope Dirisu and Wunmi Mosaku. Both deliver the kind of incredible performances that you rarely see in a genre film like this. It’s part of what elevates His House above the standard « haunted by trauma » fare. Mosaku, in particular, shows the sort of nuance and scr …
In November, Ted Sarandos, Netflix’s co-CEO made a trip to the White House for a lengthy meeting with Donald Trump. According to Bloomberg, the two discussed a number of topics, but chief among them was Netflix’s plan to bid on Warner Bros. At the end of their conversation, Sardonos felt that “Netflix wouldn’t face immediate opposition from the White House.”
This week, Netflix successfully won the bidding war for Warner, offering $82.7 billion. It’s well known that Paramount and its CEO David Ellison were eager to acquire the storied studio and its streaming assets. Ellison and his father, Larry Ellison, have close ties to the White House, and as part of their pitch to Warner, suggested that only they were in a position to overcome the regulatory hurdles of further media consolidation.
Sarandos seems to have rightly believed that the Ellisons overestimated their political clout. And despite some public efforts to turn the White House against the deal, Netflix won out, for now. There is of course, still a chance that Paramount could launch a hostile takeover effort, or that the Justice Department could try and scuttle the deal — nothing is guaranteed yet.
Sarandos tried to acquire Paramount before David Ellison swooped in, so snatching Warner Bros. out from under his nose is likely something of a personal victory.
Friday, the EU slapped X with a €120 million fine (about $140 million) for violating the Digital Services Act (DSA). It was the first time that a company had been hit with a penalty for running afoul of the law. Elon Musk responded with his trademark tact and professionalism by posting “Bullshit” on X in response to the announcement from the European Commission. But that wasn’t the end, because just a day later Nikita Bier, X’s head of product, accused the Commission of abusing an exploit to boost the reach of the announcement and responded by shutting down its ad account.
According to Bier, the Commission had not used its ad account since 2021, but used a post format explicitly reserved for ads in its announcement of the fine against X. He claims that the Commission posted “a link that deceives users into thinking it’s a video and to artificially increase its reach.” (For the record, the post itself includes a video.)
The seemingly retaliatory revocation of the European Commission’s ad account is unlikely to materially change things for either X or the EU. If, as Bier claims, the Commission has not used its ad account since 2021, holding it hostage is unlikely to give X any leverage. And, while it can appeal the decision, X is currently still on the hook for the sizable fine. Plus, it must provide details for how it plans to address the “deceptive” use of verified checkmarks in the next 60 days, or face additional penalties.
We’ve reached out to the Commission for comment and will update if we hear back.
Il semble que nous ne pouvons pas trouver le contenu demandé. Peut-être qu’une recherche peut vous aider.
It’s easy to think about AI as a sort of existential battle between human and machine. Maybe it will be, someday, in a Skynet sort of way. But there are also lots of people trying to figure out how to use AI not as a replacement for human creativity and thinking but as a tool meant to augment those things.
Sari Azout is one of those people. She’s the founder of Sublime, a platform dedicated to curation, creativity, and ideas. Sublime is all about taste, which makes it slightly surprising that there’s a huge amount of AI powering the way it works. But to Azout, it all makes sense.
Between keeping up with TikTok trends and whatever new gadget just dropped, it’s tough to know exactly what teens are into these days. Luckily, we can help. We may be older than teenagers, but many of us here at The Verge are kids at heart. Plus, we’ve also got a few staffers with older kids. To make your life a little easier this holiday season, we rounded up what we think are the best gifts for teens, based on our tech expertise as well as what our staff’s teens are into right now.
Below, you’ll find gift ideas for many types of teens. Some are more obvious choices, like the latest iPhone and Nintendo Switch 2, but we sought to include a …
The discount brings the price down to $299 ($100 off). | Image: The Verge
We thought Black Friday and Cyber Monday would bring the lowest prices of the year, but apparently not. Right now, you can snag Apple’s Watch Series 11 in the 42mm configuration with GPS for a new all-time low of $299 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy. That beats the $70 discount we saw at the beginning of the month, which means if you didn’t take advantage then, you can save even more now. The 46mm model with GPS is also down to its lowest price yet of $329 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy.
The Series 11 offers some nice improvements to the already-excellent Apple Watch Series 10. While this year’s model has the same dimensions as its predecessor, battery life has increased up to 24 hours per charge on the GPS / Wi-Fi model. At the same time, Apple managed to improve the Series 11’s durability and scratch-resistance, making it a better option for more intense workouts. Additionally, Apple added a more power-efficient 5G modem to the cellular model, so the battery won’t drain as quickly when you’re not on Wi-Fi.
Otherwise, the Series 11 carries over everything we loved about the Series 10. The wide-angle OLED display looks fantastic and is easy to read at a glance, while performance is excellent thanks to Apple’s S10 SiP chip. You also get a variety of health and wellness features, including FDA-cleared hypertension notifications, sleep apnea detection, and sleep score, which can summarize how well you slept. Meanwhile, you get access to the watchOS 26 update, which introduces a workout buddy and offers wrist-flick and double-tap gestures, along with the Liquid Glass redesign.
If you already own a Series 10, there aren’t many reasons to upgrade outside of the slightly improved battery life. However, if you have something older or you’re checking off a gift list, the Series 11 at $100 off is a great deal right before the holidays.
Slack users can now access Anthropic’s Claude Code directly in Slack by tagging Claude on coding-related messages and threads. The new feature is launching today in beta as a research preview.
When Claude is tagged, it will now automatically scan the message to see if it’s a coding task and, if so, route it to Claude Code using the context from the related Slack thread and the code repositories you’ve authenticated in Claude Code. Slack users can also directly tell Claude that a request is a coding task. For instance, you could ask Claude to investigate a bug report you’re discussing in Slack without needing to manually copy all the conte …
Lenovo has already demonstrated its ability to put rollable OLEDs into laptops by graduating last year from demo concept models to shipping the ThinkBook Plus Gen 6, an actual device you can buy. It has a built-in mechanism that expands the screen vertically to give you more screen real estate for typing and scrolling. However, the company might soon debut its first laptop that uses a rollable OLED to effectively transform its screen into an ultrawide 21:9 aspect ratio screen, with left and right edges that extend far outside the bottom chassis.
The Lenovo Legion Pro Rollable will be its first gaming laptop to feature a rollable horizontal …
At their biggest and most expensive, video games all sort of look the same. The reason often comes down to simple economics: More resources means more costs that need to be recouped, and historically the way publishers have done that is by being comically risk-averse. Hence the glut of semi-realistic rocky wastelands that look like death metal album covers where everyone is some kind of Wild West fetishist, or the hero shooters that all look like Pixar but shredded as hell and ready for fan artists to go places I shall not.
On occasion, however, new visual ground is staked. Octopath Traveler 0 is an example of this. The third game in the O …
Joshua Aaron, the developer of the ICEBlock app, is suing Attorney General Pam Bondi, US Homeland Security Secretary Kirsti Noem, acting director of ICE Todd Lyons, White House « Border Czar » Tom Homan, and other federal officials over the Trump administration’s « unlawful threats » made against Aaron and its actions to pressure Apple to pull the app from the App Store, which it did.
« We promised you we would fight back. Well, today’s the day we make good on the promise, » according to a post from ICEBlock’s official account on Bluesky. Aaron, Apple, and the Department of Homeland Security, didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment fr …
There’s an argument to be made that « the real monster is trauma » has become an overused trope in modern horror. Hereditary, The Babadook, and, much less effectively, Smile, are just a few higher-profile examples. But, if you ask me, few films have deployed this trope quite as effectively as the 2020 film His House.
The film follows Bol and Rial, refugees from South Sudan, played by Sope Dirisu and Wunmi Mosaku. Both deliver the kind of incredible performances that you rarely see in a genre film like this. It’s part of what elevates His House above the standard « haunted by trauma » fare. Mosaku, in particular, shows the sort of nuance and scr …
In November, Ted Sarandos, Netflix’s co-CEO made a trip to the White House for a lengthy meeting with Donald Trump. According to Bloomberg, the two discussed a number of topics, but chief among them was Netflix’s plan to bid on Warner Bros. At the end of their conversation, Sardonos felt that “Netflix wouldn’t face immediate opposition from the White House.”
This week, Netflix successfully won the bidding war for Warner, offering $82.7 billion. It’s well known that Paramount and its CEO David Ellison were eager to acquire the storied studio and its streaming assets. Ellison and his father, Larry Ellison, have close ties to the White House, and as part of their pitch to Warner, suggested that only they were in a position to overcome the regulatory hurdles of further media consolidation.
Sarandos seems to have rightly believed that the Ellisons overestimated their political clout. And despite some public efforts to turn the White House against the deal, Netflix won out, for now. There is of course, still a chance that Paramount could launch a hostile takeover effort, or that the Justice Department could try and scuttle the deal — nothing is guaranteed yet.
Sarandos tried to acquire Paramount before David Ellison swooped in, so snatching Warner Bros. out from under his nose is likely something of a personal victory.
Friday, the EU slapped X with a €120 million fine (about $140 million) for violating the Digital Services Act (DSA). It was the first time that a company had been hit with a penalty for running afoul of the law. Elon Musk responded with his trademark tact and professionalism by posting “Bullshit” on X in response to the announcement from the European Commission. But that wasn’t the end, because just a day later Nikita Bier, X’s head of product, accused the Commission of abusing an exploit to boost the reach of the announcement and responded by shutting down its ad account.
According to Bier, the Commission had not used its ad account since 2021, but used a post format explicitly reserved for ads in its announcement of the fine against X. He claims that the Commission posted “a link that deceives users into thinking it’s a video and to artificially increase its reach.” (For the record, the post itself includes a video.)
The seemingly retaliatory revocation of the European Commission’s ad account is unlikely to materially change things for either X or the EU. If, as Bier claims, the Commission has not used its ad account since 2021, holding it hostage is unlikely to give X any leverage. And, while it can appeal the decision, X is currently still on the hook for the sizable fine. Plus, it must provide details for how it plans to address the “deceptive” use of verified checkmarks in the next 60 days, or face additional penalties.
We’ve reached out to the Commission for comment and will update if we hear back.
Il semble que nous ne pouvons pas trouver le contenu demandé. Peut-être qu’une recherche peut vous aider.
It’s easy to think about AI as a sort of existential battle between human and machine. Maybe it will be, someday, in a Skynet sort of way. But there are also lots of people trying to figure out how to use AI not as a replacement for human creativity and thinking but as a tool meant to augment those things.
Sari Azout is one of those people. She’s the founder of Sublime, a platform dedicated to curation, creativity, and ideas. Sublime is all about taste, which makes it slightly surprising that there’s a huge amount of AI powering the way it works. But to Azout, it all makes sense.
Between keeping up with TikTok trends and whatever new gadget just dropped, it’s tough to know exactly what teens are into these days. Luckily, we can help. We may be older than teenagers, but many of us here at The Verge are kids at heart. Plus, we’ve also got a few staffers with older kids. To make your life a little easier this holiday season, we rounded up what we think are the best gifts for teens, based on our tech expertise as well as what our staff’s teens are into right now.
Below, you’ll find gift ideas for many types of teens. Some are more obvious choices, like the latest iPhone and Nintendo Switch 2, but we sought to include a …
The discount brings the price down to $299 ($100 off). | Image: The Verge
We thought Black Friday and Cyber Monday would bring the lowest prices of the year, but apparently not. Right now, you can snag Apple’s Watch Series 11 in the 42mm configuration with GPS for a new all-time low of $299 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy. That beats the $70 discount we saw at the beginning of the month, which means if you didn’t take advantage then, you can save even more now. The 46mm model with GPS is also down to its lowest price yet of $329 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy.
The Series 11 offers some nice improvements to the already-excellent Apple Watch Series 10. While this year’s model has the same dimensions as its predecessor, battery life has increased up to 24 hours per charge on the GPS / Wi-Fi model. At the same time, Apple managed to improve the Series 11’s durability and scratch-resistance, making it a better option for more intense workouts. Additionally, Apple added a more power-efficient 5G modem to the cellular model, so the battery won’t drain as quickly when you’re not on Wi-Fi.
Otherwise, the Series 11 carries over everything we loved about the Series 10. The wide-angle OLED display looks fantastic and is easy to read at a glance, while performance is excellent thanks to Apple’s S10 SiP chip. You also get a variety of health and wellness features, including FDA-cleared hypertension notifications, sleep apnea detection, and sleep score, which can summarize how well you slept. Meanwhile, you get access to the watchOS 26 update, which introduces a workout buddy and offers wrist-flick and double-tap gestures, along with the Liquid Glass redesign.
If you already own a Series 10, there aren’t many reasons to upgrade outside of the slightly improved battery life. However, if you have something older or you’re checking off a gift list, the Series 11 at $100 off is a great deal right before the holidays.
Slack users can now access Anthropic’s Claude Code directly in Slack by tagging Claude on coding-related messages and threads. The new feature is launching today in beta as a research preview.
When Claude is tagged, it will now automatically scan the message to see if it’s a coding task and, if so, route it to Claude Code using the context from the related Slack thread and the code repositories you’ve authenticated in Claude Code. Slack users can also directly tell Claude that a request is a coding task. For instance, you could ask Claude to investigate a bug report you’re discussing in Slack without needing to manually copy all the conte …
Lenovo has already demonstrated its ability to put rollable OLEDs into laptops by graduating last year from demo concept models to shipping the ThinkBook Plus Gen 6, an actual device you can buy. It has a built-in mechanism that expands the screen vertically to give you more screen real estate for typing and scrolling. However, the company might soon debut its first laptop that uses a rollable OLED to effectively transform its screen into an ultrawide 21:9 aspect ratio screen, with left and right edges that extend far outside the bottom chassis.
The Lenovo Legion Pro Rollable will be its first gaming laptop to feature a rollable horizontal …
At their biggest and most expensive, video games all sort of look the same. The reason often comes down to simple economics: More resources means more costs that need to be recouped, and historically the way publishers have done that is by being comically risk-averse. Hence the glut of semi-realistic rocky wastelands that look like death metal album covers where everyone is some kind of Wild West fetishist, or the hero shooters that all look like Pixar but shredded as hell and ready for fan artists to go places I shall not.
On occasion, however, new visual ground is staked. Octopath Traveler 0 is an example of this. The third game in the O …
Joshua Aaron, the developer of the ICEBlock app, is suing Attorney General Pam Bondi, US Homeland Security Secretary Kirsti Noem, acting director of ICE Todd Lyons, White House « Border Czar » Tom Homan, and other federal officials over the Trump administration’s « unlawful threats » made against Aaron and its actions to pressure Apple to pull the app from the App Store, which it did.
« We promised you we would fight back. Well, today’s the day we make good on the promise, » according to a post from ICEBlock’s official account on Bluesky. Aaron, Apple, and the Department of Homeland Security, didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment fr …
There’s an argument to be made that « the real monster is trauma » has become an overused trope in modern horror. Hereditary, The Babadook, and, much less effectively, Smile, are just a few higher-profile examples. But, if you ask me, few films have deployed this trope quite as effectively as the 2020 film His House.
The film follows Bol and Rial, refugees from South Sudan, played by Sope Dirisu and Wunmi Mosaku. Both deliver the kind of incredible performances that you rarely see in a genre film like this. It’s part of what elevates His House above the standard « haunted by trauma » fare. Mosaku, in particular, shows the sort of nuance and scr …
In November, Ted Sarandos, Netflix’s co-CEO made a trip to the White House for a lengthy meeting with Donald Trump. According to Bloomberg, the two discussed a number of topics, but chief among them was Netflix’s plan to bid on Warner Bros. At the end of their conversation, Sardonos felt that “Netflix wouldn’t face immediate opposition from the White House.”
This week, Netflix successfully won the bidding war for Warner, offering $82.7 billion. It’s well known that Paramount and its CEO David Ellison were eager to acquire the storied studio and its streaming assets. Ellison and his father, Larry Ellison, have close ties to the White House, and as part of their pitch to Warner, suggested that only they were in a position to overcome the regulatory hurdles of further media consolidation.
Sarandos seems to have rightly believed that the Ellisons overestimated their political clout. And despite some public efforts to turn the White House against the deal, Netflix won out, for now. There is of course, still a chance that Paramount could launch a hostile takeover effort, or that the Justice Department could try and scuttle the deal — nothing is guaranteed yet.
Sarandos tried to acquire Paramount before David Ellison swooped in, so snatching Warner Bros. out from under his nose is likely something of a personal victory.
Friday, the EU slapped X with a €120 million fine (about $140 million) for violating the Digital Services Act (DSA). It was the first time that a company had been hit with a penalty for running afoul of the law. Elon Musk responded with his trademark tact and professionalism by posting “Bullshit” on X in response to the announcement from the European Commission. But that wasn’t the end, because just a day later Nikita Bier, X’s head of product, accused the Commission of abusing an exploit to boost the reach of the announcement and responded by shutting down its ad account.
According to Bier, the Commission had not used its ad account since 2021, but used a post format explicitly reserved for ads in its announcement of the fine against X. He claims that the Commission posted “a link that deceives users into thinking it’s a video and to artificially increase its reach.” (For the record, the post itself includes a video.)
The seemingly retaliatory revocation of the European Commission’s ad account is unlikely to materially change things for either X or the EU. If, as Bier claims, the Commission has not used its ad account since 2021, holding it hostage is unlikely to give X any leverage. And, while it can appeal the decision, X is currently still on the hook for the sizable fine. Plus, it must provide details for how it plans to address the “deceptive” use of verified checkmarks in the next 60 days, or face additional penalties.
We’ve reached out to the Commission for comment and will update if we hear back.
Il semble que nous ne pouvons pas trouver le contenu demandé. Peut-être qu’une recherche peut vous aider.
It’s easy to think about AI as a sort of existential battle between human and machine. Maybe it will be, someday, in a Skynet sort of way. But there are also lots of people trying to figure out how to use AI not as a replacement for human creativity and thinking but as a tool meant to augment those things.
Sari Azout is one of those people. She’s the founder of Sublime, a platform dedicated to curation, creativity, and ideas. Sublime is all about taste, which makes it slightly surprising that there’s a huge amount of AI powering the way it works. But to Azout, it all makes sense.
Between keeping up with TikTok trends and whatever new gadget just dropped, it’s tough to know exactly what teens are into these days. Luckily, we can help. We may be older than teenagers, but many of us here at The Verge are kids at heart. Plus, we’ve also got a few staffers with older kids. To make your life a little easier this holiday season, we rounded up what we think are the best gifts for teens, based on our tech expertise as well as what our staff’s teens are into right now.
Below, you’ll find gift ideas for many types of teens. Some are more obvious choices, like the latest iPhone and Nintendo Switch 2, but we sought to include a …
The discount brings the price down to $299 ($100 off). | Image: The Verge
We thought Black Friday and Cyber Monday would bring the lowest prices of the year, but apparently not. Right now, you can snag Apple’s Watch Series 11 in the 42mm configuration with GPS for a new all-time low of $299 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy. That beats the $70 discount we saw at the beginning of the month, which means if you didn’t take advantage then, you can save even more now. The 46mm model with GPS is also down to its lowest price yet of $329 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy.
The Series 11 offers some nice improvements to the already-excellent Apple Watch Series 10. While this year’s model has the same dimensions as its predecessor, battery life has increased up to 24 hours per charge on the GPS / Wi-Fi model. At the same time, Apple managed to improve the Series 11’s durability and scratch-resistance, making it a better option for more intense workouts. Additionally, Apple added a more power-efficient 5G modem to the cellular model, so the battery won’t drain as quickly when you’re not on Wi-Fi.
Otherwise, the Series 11 carries over everything we loved about the Series 10. The wide-angle OLED display looks fantastic and is easy to read at a glance, while performance is excellent thanks to Apple’s S10 SiP chip. You also get a variety of health and wellness features, including FDA-cleared hypertension notifications, sleep apnea detection, and sleep score, which can summarize how well you slept. Meanwhile, you get access to the watchOS 26 update, which introduces a workout buddy and offers wrist-flick and double-tap gestures, along with the Liquid Glass redesign.
If you already own a Series 10, there aren’t many reasons to upgrade outside of the slightly improved battery life. However, if you have something older or you’re checking off a gift list, the Series 11 at $100 off is a great deal right before the holidays.
Slack users can now access Anthropic’s Claude Code directly in Slack by tagging Claude on coding-related messages and threads. The new feature is launching today in beta as a research preview.
When Claude is tagged, it will now automatically scan the message to see if it’s a coding task and, if so, route it to Claude Code using the context from the related Slack thread and the code repositories you’ve authenticated in Claude Code. Slack users can also directly tell Claude that a request is a coding task. For instance, you could ask Claude to investigate a bug report you’re discussing in Slack without needing to manually copy all the conte …
Lenovo has already demonstrated its ability to put rollable OLEDs into laptops by graduating last year from demo concept models to shipping the ThinkBook Plus Gen 6, an actual device you can buy. It has a built-in mechanism that expands the screen vertically to give you more screen real estate for typing and scrolling. However, the company might soon debut its first laptop that uses a rollable OLED to effectively transform its screen into an ultrawide 21:9 aspect ratio screen, with left and right edges that extend far outside the bottom chassis.
The Lenovo Legion Pro Rollable will be its first gaming laptop to feature a rollable horizontal …
At their biggest and most expensive, video games all sort of look the same. The reason often comes down to simple economics: More resources means more costs that need to be recouped, and historically the way publishers have done that is by being comically risk-averse. Hence the glut of semi-realistic rocky wastelands that look like death metal album covers where everyone is some kind of Wild West fetishist, or the hero shooters that all look like Pixar but shredded as hell and ready for fan artists to go places I shall not.
On occasion, however, new visual ground is staked. Octopath Traveler 0 is an example of this. The third game in the O …
Joshua Aaron, the developer of the ICEBlock app, is suing Attorney General Pam Bondi, US Homeland Security Secretary Kirsti Noem, acting director of ICE Todd Lyons, White House « Border Czar » Tom Homan, and other federal officials over the Trump administration’s « unlawful threats » made against Aaron and its actions to pressure Apple to pull the app from the App Store, which it did.
« We promised you we would fight back. Well, today’s the day we make good on the promise, » according to a post from ICEBlock’s official account on Bluesky. Aaron, Apple, and the Department of Homeland Security, didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment fr …
There’s an argument to be made that « the real monster is trauma » has become an overused trope in modern horror. Hereditary, The Babadook, and, much less effectively, Smile, are just a few higher-profile examples. But, if you ask me, few films have deployed this trope quite as effectively as the 2020 film His House.
The film follows Bol and Rial, refugees from South Sudan, played by Sope Dirisu and Wunmi Mosaku. Both deliver the kind of incredible performances that you rarely see in a genre film like this. It’s part of what elevates His House above the standard « haunted by trauma » fare. Mosaku, in particular, shows the sort of nuance and scr …
In November, Ted Sarandos, Netflix’s co-CEO made a trip to the White House for a lengthy meeting with Donald Trump. According to Bloomberg, the two discussed a number of topics, but chief among them was Netflix’s plan to bid on Warner Bros. At the end of their conversation, Sardonos felt that “Netflix wouldn’t face immediate opposition from the White House.”
This week, Netflix successfully won the bidding war for Warner, offering $82.7 billion. It’s well known that Paramount and its CEO David Ellison were eager to acquire the storied studio and its streaming assets. Ellison and his father, Larry Ellison, have close ties to the White House, and as part of their pitch to Warner, suggested that only they were in a position to overcome the regulatory hurdles of further media consolidation.
Sarandos seems to have rightly believed that the Ellisons overestimated their political clout. And despite some public efforts to turn the White House against the deal, Netflix won out, for now. There is of course, still a chance that Paramount could launch a hostile takeover effort, or that the Justice Department could try and scuttle the deal — nothing is guaranteed yet.
Sarandos tried to acquire Paramount before David Ellison swooped in, so snatching Warner Bros. out from under his nose is likely something of a personal victory.
Friday, the EU slapped X with a €120 million fine (about $140 million) for violating the Digital Services Act (DSA). It was the first time that a company had been hit with a penalty for running afoul of the law. Elon Musk responded with his trademark tact and professionalism by posting “Bullshit” on X in response to the announcement from the European Commission. But that wasn’t the end, because just a day later Nikita Bier, X’s head of product, accused the Commission of abusing an exploit to boost the reach of the announcement and responded by shutting down its ad account.
According to Bier, the Commission had not used its ad account since 2021, but used a post format explicitly reserved for ads in its announcement of the fine against X. He claims that the Commission posted “a link that deceives users into thinking it’s a video and to artificially increase its reach.” (For the record, the post itself includes a video.)
The seemingly retaliatory revocation of the European Commission’s ad account is unlikely to materially change things for either X or the EU. If, as Bier claims, the Commission has not used its ad account since 2021, holding it hostage is unlikely to give X any leverage. And, while it can appeal the decision, X is currently still on the hook for the sizable fine. Plus, it must provide details for how it plans to address the “deceptive” use of verified checkmarks in the next 60 days, or face additional penalties.
We’ve reached out to the Commission for comment and will update if we hear back.
Il semble que nous ne pouvons pas trouver le contenu demandé. Peut-être qu’une recherche peut vous aider.
It’s easy to think about AI as a sort of existential battle between human and machine. Maybe it will be, someday, in a Skynet sort of way. But there are also lots of people trying to figure out how to use AI not as a replacement for human creativity and thinking but as a tool meant to augment those things.
Sari Azout is one of those people. She’s the founder of Sublime, a platform dedicated to curation, creativity, and ideas. Sublime is all about taste, which makes it slightly surprising that there’s a huge amount of AI powering the way it works. But to Azout, it all makes sense.
Between keeping up with TikTok trends and whatever new gadget just dropped, it’s tough to know exactly what teens are into these days. Luckily, we can help. We may be older than teenagers, but many of us here at The Verge are kids at heart. Plus, we’ve also got a few staffers with older kids. To make your life a little easier this holiday season, we rounded up what we think are the best gifts for teens, based on our tech expertise as well as what our staff’s teens are into right now.
Below, you’ll find gift ideas for many types of teens. Some are more obvious choices, like the latest iPhone and Nintendo Switch 2, but we sought to include a …
The discount brings the price down to $299 ($100 off). | Image: The Verge
We thought Black Friday and Cyber Monday would bring the lowest prices of the year, but apparently not. Right now, you can snag Apple’s Watch Series 11 in the 42mm configuration with GPS for a new all-time low of $299 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy. That beats the $70 discount we saw at the beginning of the month, which means if you didn’t take advantage then, you can save even more now. The 46mm model with GPS is also down to its lowest price yet of $329 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy.
The Series 11 offers some nice improvements to the already-excellent Apple Watch Series 10. While this year’s model has the same dimensions as its predecessor, battery life has increased up to 24 hours per charge on the GPS / Wi-Fi model. At the same time, Apple managed to improve the Series 11’s durability and scratch-resistance, making it a better option for more intense workouts. Additionally, Apple added a more power-efficient 5G modem to the cellular model, so the battery won’t drain as quickly when you’re not on Wi-Fi.
Otherwise, the Series 11 carries over everything we loved about the Series 10. The wide-angle OLED display looks fantastic and is easy to read at a glance, while performance is excellent thanks to Apple’s S10 SiP chip. You also get a variety of health and wellness features, including FDA-cleared hypertension notifications, sleep apnea detection, and sleep score, which can summarize how well you slept. Meanwhile, you get access to the watchOS 26 update, which introduces a workout buddy and offers wrist-flick and double-tap gestures, along with the Liquid Glass redesign.
If you already own a Series 10, there aren’t many reasons to upgrade outside of the slightly improved battery life. However, if you have something older or you’re checking off a gift list, the Series 11 at $100 off is a great deal right before the holidays.
Slack users can now access Anthropic’s Claude Code directly in Slack by tagging Claude on coding-related messages and threads. The new feature is launching today in beta as a research preview.
When Claude is tagged, it will now automatically scan the message to see if it’s a coding task and, if so, route it to Claude Code using the context from the related Slack thread and the code repositories you’ve authenticated in Claude Code. Slack users can also directly tell Claude that a request is a coding task. For instance, you could ask Claude to investigate a bug report you’re discussing in Slack without needing to manually copy all the conte …
Lenovo has already demonstrated its ability to put rollable OLEDs into laptops by graduating last year from demo concept models to shipping the ThinkBook Plus Gen 6, an actual device you can buy. It has a built-in mechanism that expands the screen vertically to give you more screen real estate for typing and scrolling. However, the company might soon debut its first laptop that uses a rollable OLED to effectively transform its screen into an ultrawide 21:9 aspect ratio screen, with left and right edges that extend far outside the bottom chassis.
The Lenovo Legion Pro Rollable will be its first gaming laptop to feature a rollable horizontal …
At their biggest and most expensive, video games all sort of look the same. The reason often comes down to simple economics: More resources means more costs that need to be recouped, and historically the way publishers have done that is by being comically risk-averse. Hence the glut of semi-realistic rocky wastelands that look like death metal album covers where everyone is some kind of Wild West fetishist, or the hero shooters that all look like Pixar but shredded as hell and ready for fan artists to go places I shall not.
On occasion, however, new visual ground is staked. Octopath Traveler 0 is an example of this. The third game in the O …
Joshua Aaron, the developer of the ICEBlock app, is suing Attorney General Pam Bondi, US Homeland Security Secretary Kirsti Noem, acting director of ICE Todd Lyons, White House « Border Czar » Tom Homan, and other federal officials over the Trump administration’s « unlawful threats » made against Aaron and its actions to pressure Apple to pull the app from the App Store, which it did.
« We promised you we would fight back. Well, today’s the day we make good on the promise, » according to a post from ICEBlock’s official account on Bluesky. Aaron, Apple, and the Department of Homeland Security, didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment fr …
There’s an argument to be made that « the real monster is trauma » has become an overused trope in modern horror. Hereditary, The Babadook, and, much less effectively, Smile, are just a few higher-profile examples. But, if you ask me, few films have deployed this trope quite as effectively as the 2020 film His House.
The film follows Bol and Rial, refugees from South Sudan, played by Sope Dirisu and Wunmi Mosaku. Both deliver the kind of incredible performances that you rarely see in a genre film like this. It’s part of what elevates His House above the standard « haunted by trauma » fare. Mosaku, in particular, shows the sort of nuance and scr …
In November, Ted Sarandos, Netflix’s co-CEO made a trip to the White House for a lengthy meeting with Donald Trump. According to Bloomberg, the two discussed a number of topics, but chief among them was Netflix’s plan to bid on Warner Bros. At the end of their conversation, Sardonos felt that “Netflix wouldn’t face immediate opposition from the White House.”
This week, Netflix successfully won the bidding war for Warner, offering $82.7 billion. It’s well known that Paramount and its CEO David Ellison were eager to acquire the storied studio and its streaming assets. Ellison and his father, Larry Ellison, have close ties to the White House, and as part of their pitch to Warner, suggested that only they were in a position to overcome the regulatory hurdles of further media consolidation.
Sarandos seems to have rightly believed that the Ellisons overestimated their political clout. And despite some public efforts to turn the White House against the deal, Netflix won out, for now. There is of course, still a chance that Paramount could launch a hostile takeover effort, or that the Justice Department could try and scuttle the deal — nothing is guaranteed yet.
Sarandos tried to acquire Paramount before David Ellison swooped in, so snatching Warner Bros. out from under his nose is likely something of a personal victory.
Friday, the EU slapped X with a €120 million fine (about $140 million) for violating the Digital Services Act (DSA). It was the first time that a company had been hit with a penalty for running afoul of the law. Elon Musk responded with his trademark tact and professionalism by posting “Bullshit” on X in response to the announcement from the European Commission. But that wasn’t the end, because just a day later Nikita Bier, X’s head of product, accused the Commission of abusing an exploit to boost the reach of the announcement and responded by shutting down its ad account.
According to Bier, the Commission had not used its ad account since 2021, but used a post format explicitly reserved for ads in its announcement of the fine against X. He claims that the Commission posted “a link that deceives users into thinking it’s a video and to artificially increase its reach.” (For the record, the post itself includes a video.)
The seemingly retaliatory revocation of the European Commission’s ad account is unlikely to materially change things for either X or the EU. If, as Bier claims, the Commission has not used its ad account since 2021, holding it hostage is unlikely to give X any leverage. And, while it can appeal the decision, X is currently still on the hook for the sizable fine. Plus, it must provide details for how it plans to address the “deceptive” use of verified checkmarks in the next 60 days, or face additional penalties.
We’ve reached out to the Commission for comment and will update if we hear back.
Il semble que nous ne pouvons pas trouver le contenu demandé. Peut-être qu’une recherche peut vous aider.
It’s easy to think about AI as a sort of existential battle between human and machine. Maybe it will be, someday, in a Skynet sort of way. But there are also lots of people trying to figure out how to use AI not as a replacement for human creativity and thinking but as a tool meant to augment those things.
Sari Azout is one of those people. She’s the founder of Sublime, a platform dedicated to curation, creativity, and ideas. Sublime is all about taste, which makes it slightly surprising that there’s a huge amount of AI powering the way it works. But to Azout, it all makes sense.
Between keeping up with TikTok trends and whatever new gadget just dropped, it’s tough to know exactly what teens are into these days. Luckily, we can help. We may be older than teenagers, but many of us here at The Verge are kids at heart. Plus, we’ve also got a few staffers with older kids. To make your life a little easier this holiday season, we rounded up what we think are the best gifts for teens, based on our tech expertise as well as what our staff’s teens are into right now.
Below, you’ll find gift ideas for many types of teens. Some are more obvious choices, like the latest iPhone and Nintendo Switch 2, but we sought to include a …
The discount brings the price down to $299 ($100 off). | Image: The Verge
We thought Black Friday and Cyber Monday would bring the lowest prices of the year, but apparently not. Right now, you can snag Apple’s Watch Series 11 in the 42mm configuration with GPS for a new all-time low of $299 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy. That beats the $70 discount we saw at the beginning of the month, which means if you didn’t take advantage then, you can save even more now. The 46mm model with GPS is also down to its lowest price yet of $329 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy.
The Series 11 offers some nice improvements to the already-excellent Apple Watch Series 10. While this year’s model has the same dimensions as its predecessor, battery life has increased up to 24 hours per charge on the GPS / Wi-Fi model. At the same time, Apple managed to improve the Series 11’s durability and scratch-resistance, making it a better option for more intense workouts. Additionally, Apple added a more power-efficient 5G modem to the cellular model, so the battery won’t drain as quickly when you’re not on Wi-Fi.
Otherwise, the Series 11 carries over everything we loved about the Series 10. The wide-angle OLED display looks fantastic and is easy to read at a glance, while performance is excellent thanks to Apple’s S10 SiP chip. You also get a variety of health and wellness features, including FDA-cleared hypertension notifications, sleep apnea detection, and sleep score, which can summarize how well you slept. Meanwhile, you get access to the watchOS 26 update, which introduces a workout buddy and offers wrist-flick and double-tap gestures, along with the Liquid Glass redesign.
If you already own a Series 10, there aren’t many reasons to upgrade outside of the slightly improved battery life. However, if you have something older or you’re checking off a gift list, the Series 11 at $100 off is a great deal right before the holidays.
Slack users can now access Anthropic’s Claude Code directly in Slack by tagging Claude on coding-related messages and threads. The new feature is launching today in beta as a research preview.
When Claude is tagged, it will now automatically scan the message to see if it’s a coding task and, if so, route it to Claude Code using the context from the related Slack thread and the code repositories you’ve authenticated in Claude Code. Slack users can also directly tell Claude that a request is a coding task. For instance, you could ask Claude to investigate a bug report you’re discussing in Slack without needing to manually copy all the conte …
Lenovo has already demonstrated its ability to put rollable OLEDs into laptops by graduating last year from demo concept models to shipping the ThinkBook Plus Gen 6, an actual device you can buy. It has a built-in mechanism that expands the screen vertically to give you more screen real estate for typing and scrolling. However, the company might soon debut its first laptop that uses a rollable OLED to effectively transform its screen into an ultrawide 21:9 aspect ratio screen, with left and right edges that extend far outside the bottom chassis.
The Lenovo Legion Pro Rollable will be its first gaming laptop to feature a rollable horizontal …
At their biggest and most expensive, video games all sort of look the same. The reason often comes down to simple economics: More resources means more costs that need to be recouped, and historically the way publishers have done that is by being comically risk-averse. Hence the glut of semi-realistic rocky wastelands that look like death metal album covers where everyone is some kind of Wild West fetishist, or the hero shooters that all look like Pixar but shredded as hell and ready for fan artists to go places I shall not.
On occasion, however, new visual ground is staked. Octopath Traveler 0 is an example of this. The third game in the O …
Joshua Aaron, the developer of the ICEBlock app, is suing Attorney General Pam Bondi, US Homeland Security Secretary Kirsti Noem, acting director of ICE Todd Lyons, White House « Border Czar » Tom Homan, and other federal officials over the Trump administration’s « unlawful threats » made against Aaron and its actions to pressure Apple to pull the app from the App Store, which it did.
« We promised you we would fight back. Well, today’s the day we make good on the promise, » according to a post from ICEBlock’s official account on Bluesky. Aaron, Apple, and the Department of Homeland Security, didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment fr …
There’s an argument to be made that « the real monster is trauma » has become an overused trope in modern horror. Hereditary, The Babadook, and, much less effectively, Smile, are just a few higher-profile examples. But, if you ask me, few films have deployed this trope quite as effectively as the 2020 film His House.
The film follows Bol and Rial, refugees from South Sudan, played by Sope Dirisu and Wunmi Mosaku. Both deliver the kind of incredible performances that you rarely see in a genre film like this. It’s part of what elevates His House above the standard « haunted by trauma » fare. Mosaku, in particular, shows the sort of nuance and scr …
In November, Ted Sarandos, Netflix’s co-CEO made a trip to the White House for a lengthy meeting with Donald Trump. According to Bloomberg, the two discussed a number of topics, but chief among them was Netflix’s plan to bid on Warner Bros. At the end of their conversation, Sardonos felt that “Netflix wouldn’t face immediate opposition from the White House.”
This week, Netflix successfully won the bidding war for Warner, offering $82.7 billion. It’s well known that Paramount and its CEO David Ellison were eager to acquire the storied studio and its streaming assets. Ellison and his father, Larry Ellison, have close ties to the White House, and as part of their pitch to Warner, suggested that only they were in a position to overcome the regulatory hurdles of further media consolidation.
Sarandos seems to have rightly believed that the Ellisons overestimated their political clout. And despite some public efforts to turn the White House against the deal, Netflix won out, for now. There is of course, still a chance that Paramount could launch a hostile takeover effort, or that the Justice Department could try and scuttle the deal — nothing is guaranteed yet.
Sarandos tried to acquire Paramount before David Ellison swooped in, so snatching Warner Bros. out from under his nose is likely something of a personal victory.
Friday, the EU slapped X with a €120 million fine (about $140 million) for violating the Digital Services Act (DSA). It was the first time that a company had been hit with a penalty for running afoul of the law. Elon Musk responded with his trademark tact and professionalism by posting “Bullshit” on X in response to the announcement from the European Commission. But that wasn’t the end, because just a day later Nikita Bier, X’s head of product, accused the Commission of abusing an exploit to boost the reach of the announcement and responded by shutting down its ad account.
According to Bier, the Commission had not used its ad account since 2021, but used a post format explicitly reserved for ads in its announcement of the fine against X. He claims that the Commission posted “a link that deceives users into thinking it’s a video and to artificially increase its reach.” (For the record, the post itself includes a video.)
The seemingly retaliatory revocation of the European Commission’s ad account is unlikely to materially change things for either X or the EU. If, as Bier claims, the Commission has not used its ad account since 2021, holding it hostage is unlikely to give X any leverage. And, while it can appeal the decision, X is currently still on the hook for the sizable fine. Plus, it must provide details for how it plans to address the “deceptive” use of verified checkmarks in the next 60 days, or face additional penalties.
We’ve reached out to the Commission for comment and will update if we hear back.
Il semble que nous ne pouvons pas trouver le contenu demandé. Peut-être qu’une recherche peut vous aider.
It’s easy to think about AI as a sort of existential battle between human and machine. Maybe it will be, someday, in a Skynet sort of way. But there are also lots of people trying to figure out how to use AI not as a replacement for human creativity and thinking but as a tool meant to augment those things.
Sari Azout is one of those people. She’s the founder of Sublime, a platform dedicated to curation, creativity, and ideas. Sublime is all about taste, which makes it slightly surprising that there’s a huge amount of AI powering the way it works. But to Azout, it all makes sense.
Between keeping up with TikTok trends and whatever new gadget just dropped, it’s tough to know exactly what teens are into these days. Luckily, we can help. We may be older than teenagers, but many of us here at The Verge are kids at heart. Plus, we’ve also got a few staffers with older kids. To make your life a little easier this holiday season, we rounded up what we think are the best gifts for teens, based on our tech expertise as well as what our staff’s teens are into right now.
Below, you’ll find gift ideas for many types of teens. Some are more obvious choices, like the latest iPhone and Nintendo Switch 2, but we sought to include a …
The discount brings the price down to $299 ($100 off). | Image: The Verge
We thought Black Friday and Cyber Monday would bring the lowest prices of the year, but apparently not. Right now, you can snag Apple’s Watch Series 11 in the 42mm configuration with GPS for a new all-time low of $299 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy. That beats the $70 discount we saw at the beginning of the month, which means if you didn’t take advantage then, you can save even more now. The 46mm model with GPS is also down to its lowest price yet of $329 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy.
The Series 11 offers some nice improvements to the already-excellent Apple Watch Series 10. While this year’s model has the same dimensions as its predecessor, battery life has increased up to 24 hours per charge on the GPS / Wi-Fi model. At the same time, Apple managed to improve the Series 11’s durability and scratch-resistance, making it a better option for more intense workouts. Additionally, Apple added a more power-efficient 5G modem to the cellular model, so the battery won’t drain as quickly when you’re not on Wi-Fi.
Otherwise, the Series 11 carries over everything we loved about the Series 10. The wide-angle OLED display looks fantastic and is easy to read at a glance, while performance is excellent thanks to Apple’s S10 SiP chip. You also get a variety of health and wellness features, including FDA-cleared hypertension notifications, sleep apnea detection, and sleep score, which can summarize how well you slept. Meanwhile, you get access to the watchOS 26 update, which introduces a workout buddy and offers wrist-flick and double-tap gestures, along with the Liquid Glass redesign.
If you already own a Series 10, there aren’t many reasons to upgrade outside of the slightly improved battery life. However, if you have something older or you’re checking off a gift list, the Series 11 at $100 off is a great deal right before the holidays.
Slack users can now access Anthropic’s Claude Code directly in Slack by tagging Claude on coding-related messages and threads. The new feature is launching today in beta as a research preview.
When Claude is tagged, it will now automatically scan the message to see if it’s a coding task and, if so, route it to Claude Code using the context from the related Slack thread and the code repositories you’ve authenticated in Claude Code. Slack users can also directly tell Claude that a request is a coding task. For instance, you could ask Claude to investigate a bug report you’re discussing in Slack without needing to manually copy all the conte …
Lenovo has already demonstrated its ability to put rollable OLEDs into laptops by graduating last year from demo concept models to shipping the ThinkBook Plus Gen 6, an actual device you can buy. It has a built-in mechanism that expands the screen vertically to give you more screen real estate for typing and scrolling. However, the company might soon debut its first laptop that uses a rollable OLED to effectively transform its screen into an ultrawide 21:9 aspect ratio screen, with left and right edges that extend far outside the bottom chassis.
The Lenovo Legion Pro Rollable will be its first gaming laptop to feature a rollable horizontal …
At their biggest and most expensive, video games all sort of look the same. The reason often comes down to simple economics: More resources means more costs that need to be recouped, and historically the way publishers have done that is by being comically risk-averse. Hence the glut of semi-realistic rocky wastelands that look like death metal album covers where everyone is some kind of Wild West fetishist, or the hero shooters that all look like Pixar but shredded as hell and ready for fan artists to go places I shall not.
On occasion, however, new visual ground is staked. Octopath Traveler 0 is an example of this. The third game in the O …
Joshua Aaron, the developer of the ICEBlock app, is suing Attorney General Pam Bondi, US Homeland Security Secretary Kirsti Noem, acting director of ICE Todd Lyons, White House « Border Czar » Tom Homan, and other federal officials over the Trump administration’s « unlawful threats » made against Aaron and its actions to pressure Apple to pull the app from the App Store, which it did.
« We promised you we would fight back. Well, today’s the day we make good on the promise, » according to a post from ICEBlock’s official account on Bluesky. Aaron, Apple, and the Department of Homeland Security, didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment fr …
There’s an argument to be made that « the real monster is trauma » has become an overused trope in modern horror. Hereditary, The Babadook, and, much less effectively, Smile, are just a few higher-profile examples. But, if you ask me, few films have deployed this trope quite as effectively as the 2020 film His House.
The film follows Bol and Rial, refugees from South Sudan, played by Sope Dirisu and Wunmi Mosaku. Both deliver the kind of incredible performances that you rarely see in a genre film like this. It’s part of what elevates His House above the standard « haunted by trauma » fare. Mosaku, in particular, shows the sort of nuance and scr …
In November, Ted Sarandos, Netflix’s co-CEO made a trip to the White House for a lengthy meeting with Donald Trump. According to Bloomberg, the two discussed a number of topics, but chief among them was Netflix’s plan to bid on Warner Bros. At the end of their conversation, Sardonos felt that “Netflix wouldn’t face immediate opposition from the White House.”
This week, Netflix successfully won the bidding war for Warner, offering $82.7 billion. It’s well known that Paramount and its CEO David Ellison were eager to acquire the storied studio and its streaming assets. Ellison and his father, Larry Ellison, have close ties to the White House, and as part of their pitch to Warner, suggested that only they were in a position to overcome the regulatory hurdles of further media consolidation.
Sarandos seems to have rightly believed that the Ellisons overestimated their political clout. And despite some public efforts to turn the White House against the deal, Netflix won out, for now. There is of course, still a chance that Paramount could launch a hostile takeover effort, or that the Justice Department could try and scuttle the deal — nothing is guaranteed yet.
Sarandos tried to acquire Paramount before David Ellison swooped in, so snatching Warner Bros. out from under his nose is likely something of a personal victory.
Friday, the EU slapped X with a €120 million fine (about $140 million) for violating the Digital Services Act (DSA). It was the first time that a company had been hit with a penalty for running afoul of the law. Elon Musk responded with his trademark tact and professionalism by posting “Bullshit” on X in response to the announcement from the European Commission. But that wasn’t the end, because just a day later Nikita Bier, X’s head of product, accused the Commission of abusing an exploit to boost the reach of the announcement and responded by shutting down its ad account.
According to Bier, the Commission had not used its ad account since 2021, but used a post format explicitly reserved for ads in its announcement of the fine against X. He claims that the Commission posted “a link that deceives users into thinking it’s a video and to artificially increase its reach.” (For the record, the post itself includes a video.)
The seemingly retaliatory revocation of the European Commission’s ad account is unlikely to materially change things for either X or the EU. If, as Bier claims, the Commission has not used its ad account since 2021, holding it hostage is unlikely to give X any leverage. And, while it can appeal the decision, X is currently still on the hook for the sizable fine. Plus, it must provide details for how it plans to address the “deceptive” use of verified checkmarks in the next 60 days, or face additional penalties.
We’ve reached out to the Commission for comment and will update if we hear back.
Il semble que nous ne pouvons pas trouver le contenu demandé. Peut-être qu’une recherche peut vous aider.
It’s easy to think about AI as a sort of existential battle between human and machine. Maybe it will be, someday, in a Skynet sort of way. But there are also lots of people trying to figure out how to use AI not as a replacement for human creativity and thinking but as a tool meant to augment those things.
Sari Azout is one of those people. She’s the founder of Sublime, a platform dedicated to curation, creativity, and ideas. Sublime is all about taste, which makes it slightly surprising that there’s a huge amount of AI powering the way it works. But to Azout, it all makes sense.
Between keeping up with TikTok trends and whatever new gadget just dropped, it’s tough to know exactly what teens are into these days. Luckily, we can help. We may be older than teenagers, but many of us here at The Verge are kids at heart. Plus, we’ve also got a few staffers with older kids. To make your life a little easier this holiday season, we rounded up what we think are the best gifts for teens, based on our tech expertise as well as what our staff’s teens are into right now.
Below, you’ll find gift ideas for many types of teens. Some are more obvious choices, like the latest iPhone and Nintendo Switch 2, but we sought to include a …
The discount brings the price down to $299 ($100 off). | Image: The Verge
We thought Black Friday and Cyber Monday would bring the lowest prices of the year, but apparently not. Right now, you can snag Apple’s Watch Series 11 in the 42mm configuration with GPS for a new all-time low of $299 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy. That beats the $70 discount we saw at the beginning of the month, which means if you didn’t take advantage then, you can save even more now. The 46mm model with GPS is also down to its lowest price yet of $329 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy.
The Series 11 offers some nice improvements to the already-excellent Apple Watch Series 10. While this year’s model has the same dimensions as its predecessor, battery life has increased up to 24 hours per charge on the GPS / Wi-Fi model. At the same time, Apple managed to improve the Series 11’s durability and scratch-resistance, making it a better option for more intense workouts. Additionally, Apple added a more power-efficient 5G modem to the cellular model, so the battery won’t drain as quickly when you’re not on Wi-Fi.
Otherwise, the Series 11 carries over everything we loved about the Series 10. The wide-angle OLED display looks fantastic and is easy to read at a glance, while performance is excellent thanks to Apple’s S10 SiP chip. You also get a variety of health and wellness features, including FDA-cleared hypertension notifications, sleep apnea detection, and sleep score, which can summarize how well you slept. Meanwhile, you get access to the watchOS 26 update, which introduces a workout buddy and offers wrist-flick and double-tap gestures, along with the Liquid Glass redesign.
If you already own a Series 10, there aren’t many reasons to upgrade outside of the slightly improved battery life. However, if you have something older or you’re checking off a gift list, the Series 11 at $100 off is a great deal right before the holidays.
Slack users can now access Anthropic’s Claude Code directly in Slack by tagging Claude on coding-related messages and threads. The new feature is launching today in beta as a research preview.
When Claude is tagged, it will now automatically scan the message to see if it’s a coding task and, if so, route it to Claude Code using the context from the related Slack thread and the code repositories you’ve authenticated in Claude Code. Slack users can also directly tell Claude that a request is a coding task. For instance, you could ask Claude to investigate a bug report you’re discussing in Slack without needing to manually copy all the conte …
Lenovo has already demonstrated its ability to put rollable OLEDs into laptops by graduating last year from demo concept models to shipping the ThinkBook Plus Gen 6, an actual device you can buy. It has a built-in mechanism that expands the screen vertically to give you more screen real estate for typing and scrolling. However, the company might soon debut its first laptop that uses a rollable OLED to effectively transform its screen into an ultrawide 21:9 aspect ratio screen, with left and right edges that extend far outside the bottom chassis.
The Lenovo Legion Pro Rollable will be its first gaming laptop to feature a rollable horizontal …
At their biggest and most expensive, video games all sort of look the same. The reason often comes down to simple economics: More resources means more costs that need to be recouped, and historically the way publishers have done that is by being comically risk-averse. Hence the glut of semi-realistic rocky wastelands that look like death metal album covers where everyone is some kind of Wild West fetishist, or the hero shooters that all look like Pixar but shredded as hell and ready for fan artists to go places I shall not.
On occasion, however, new visual ground is staked. Octopath Traveler 0 is an example of this. The third game in the O …
Joshua Aaron, the developer of the ICEBlock app, is suing Attorney General Pam Bondi, US Homeland Security Secretary Kirsti Noem, acting director of ICE Todd Lyons, White House « Border Czar » Tom Homan, and other federal officials over the Trump administration’s « unlawful threats » made against Aaron and its actions to pressure Apple to pull the app from the App Store, which it did.
« We promised you we would fight back. Well, today’s the day we make good on the promise, » according to a post from ICEBlock’s official account on Bluesky. Aaron, Apple, and the Department of Homeland Security, didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment fr …
There’s an argument to be made that « the real monster is trauma » has become an overused trope in modern horror. Hereditary, The Babadook, and, much less effectively, Smile, are just a few higher-profile examples. But, if you ask me, few films have deployed this trope quite as effectively as the 2020 film His House.
The film follows Bol and Rial, refugees from South Sudan, played by Sope Dirisu and Wunmi Mosaku. Both deliver the kind of incredible performances that you rarely see in a genre film like this. It’s part of what elevates His House above the standard « haunted by trauma » fare. Mosaku, in particular, shows the sort of nuance and scr …
In November, Ted Sarandos, Netflix’s co-CEO made a trip to the White House for a lengthy meeting with Donald Trump. According to Bloomberg, the two discussed a number of topics, but chief among them was Netflix’s plan to bid on Warner Bros. At the end of their conversation, Sardonos felt that “Netflix wouldn’t face immediate opposition from the White House.”
This week, Netflix successfully won the bidding war for Warner, offering $82.7 billion. It’s well known that Paramount and its CEO David Ellison were eager to acquire the storied studio and its streaming assets. Ellison and his father, Larry Ellison, have close ties to the White House, and as part of their pitch to Warner, suggested that only they were in a position to overcome the regulatory hurdles of further media consolidation.
Sarandos seems to have rightly believed that the Ellisons overestimated their political clout. And despite some public efforts to turn the White House against the deal, Netflix won out, for now. There is of course, still a chance that Paramount could launch a hostile takeover effort, or that the Justice Department could try and scuttle the deal — nothing is guaranteed yet.
Sarandos tried to acquire Paramount before David Ellison swooped in, so snatching Warner Bros. out from under his nose is likely something of a personal victory.
Friday, the EU slapped X with a €120 million fine (about $140 million) for violating the Digital Services Act (DSA). It was the first time that a company had been hit with a penalty for running afoul of the law. Elon Musk responded with his trademark tact and professionalism by posting “Bullshit” on X in response to the announcement from the European Commission. But that wasn’t the end, because just a day later Nikita Bier, X’s head of product, accused the Commission of abusing an exploit to boost the reach of the announcement and responded by shutting down its ad account.
According to Bier, the Commission had not used its ad account since 2021, but used a post format explicitly reserved for ads in its announcement of the fine against X. He claims that the Commission posted “a link that deceives users into thinking it’s a video and to artificially increase its reach.” (For the record, the post itself includes a video.)
The seemingly retaliatory revocation of the European Commission’s ad account is unlikely to materially change things for either X or the EU. If, as Bier claims, the Commission has not used its ad account since 2021, holding it hostage is unlikely to give X any leverage. And, while it can appeal the decision, X is currently still on the hook for the sizable fine. Plus, it must provide details for how it plans to address the “deceptive” use of verified checkmarks in the next 60 days, or face additional penalties.
We’ve reached out to the Commission for comment and will update if we hear back.
Il semble que nous ne pouvons pas trouver le contenu demandé. Peut-être qu’une recherche peut vous aider.
It’s easy to think about AI as a sort of existential battle between human and machine. Maybe it will be, someday, in a Skynet sort of way. But there are also lots of people trying to figure out how to use AI not as a replacement for human creativity and thinking but as a tool meant to augment those things.
Sari Azout is one of those people. She’s the founder of Sublime, a platform dedicated to curation, creativity, and ideas. Sublime is all about taste, which makes it slightly surprising that there’s a huge amount of AI powering the way it works. But to Azout, it all makes sense.
Between keeping up with TikTok trends and whatever new gadget just dropped, it’s tough to know exactly what teens are into these days. Luckily, we can help. We may be older than teenagers, but many of us here at The Verge are kids at heart. Plus, we’ve also got a few staffers with older kids. To make your life a little easier this holiday season, we rounded up what we think are the best gifts for teens, based on our tech expertise as well as what our staff’s teens are into right now.
Below, you’ll find gift ideas for many types of teens. Some are more obvious choices, like the latest iPhone and Nintendo Switch 2, but we sought to include a …
The discount brings the price down to $299 ($100 off). | Image: The Verge
We thought Black Friday and Cyber Monday would bring the lowest prices of the year, but apparently not. Right now, you can snag Apple’s Watch Series 11 in the 42mm configuration with GPS for a new all-time low of $299 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy. That beats the $70 discount we saw at the beginning of the month, which means if you didn’t take advantage then, you can save even more now. The 46mm model with GPS is also down to its lowest price yet of $329 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy.
The Series 11 offers some nice improvements to the already-excellent Apple Watch Series 10. While this year’s model has the same dimensions as its predecessor, battery life has increased up to 24 hours per charge on the GPS / Wi-Fi model. At the same time, Apple managed to improve the Series 11’s durability and scratch-resistance, making it a better option for more intense workouts. Additionally, Apple added a more power-efficient 5G modem to the cellular model, so the battery won’t drain as quickly when you’re not on Wi-Fi.
Otherwise, the Series 11 carries over everything we loved about the Series 10. The wide-angle OLED display looks fantastic and is easy to read at a glance, while performance is excellent thanks to Apple’s S10 SiP chip. You also get a variety of health and wellness features, including FDA-cleared hypertension notifications, sleep apnea detection, and sleep score, which can summarize how well you slept. Meanwhile, you get access to the watchOS 26 update, which introduces a workout buddy and offers wrist-flick and double-tap gestures, along with the Liquid Glass redesign.
If you already own a Series 10, there aren’t many reasons to upgrade outside of the slightly improved battery life. However, if you have something older or you’re checking off a gift list, the Series 11 at $100 off is a great deal right before the holidays.
Slack users can now access Anthropic’s Claude Code directly in Slack by tagging Claude on coding-related messages and threads. The new feature is launching today in beta as a research preview.
When Claude is tagged, it will now automatically scan the message to see if it’s a coding task and, if so, route it to Claude Code using the context from the related Slack thread and the code repositories you’ve authenticated in Claude Code. Slack users can also directly tell Claude that a request is a coding task. For instance, you could ask Claude to investigate a bug report you’re discussing in Slack without needing to manually copy all the conte …
Lenovo has already demonstrated its ability to put rollable OLEDs into laptops by graduating last year from demo concept models to shipping the ThinkBook Plus Gen 6, an actual device you can buy. It has a built-in mechanism that expands the screen vertically to give you more screen real estate for typing and scrolling. However, the company might soon debut its first laptop that uses a rollable OLED to effectively transform its screen into an ultrawide 21:9 aspect ratio screen, with left and right edges that extend far outside the bottom chassis.
The Lenovo Legion Pro Rollable will be its first gaming laptop to feature a rollable horizontal …
At their biggest and most expensive, video games all sort of look the same. The reason often comes down to simple economics: More resources means more costs that need to be recouped, and historically the way publishers have done that is by being comically risk-averse. Hence the glut of semi-realistic rocky wastelands that look like death metal album covers where everyone is some kind of Wild West fetishist, or the hero shooters that all look like Pixar but shredded as hell and ready for fan artists to go places I shall not.
On occasion, however, new visual ground is staked. Octopath Traveler 0 is an example of this. The third game in the O …
Joshua Aaron, the developer of the ICEBlock app, is suing Attorney General Pam Bondi, US Homeland Security Secretary Kirsti Noem, acting director of ICE Todd Lyons, White House « Border Czar » Tom Homan, and other federal officials over the Trump administration’s « unlawful threats » made against Aaron and its actions to pressure Apple to pull the app from the App Store, which it did.
« We promised you we would fight back. Well, today’s the day we make good on the promise, » according to a post from ICEBlock’s official account on Bluesky. Aaron, Apple, and the Department of Homeland Security, didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment fr …
There’s an argument to be made that « the real monster is trauma » has become an overused trope in modern horror. Hereditary, The Babadook, and, much less effectively, Smile, are just a few higher-profile examples. But, if you ask me, few films have deployed this trope quite as effectively as the 2020 film His House.
The film follows Bol and Rial, refugees from South Sudan, played by Sope Dirisu and Wunmi Mosaku. Both deliver the kind of incredible performances that you rarely see in a genre film like this. It’s part of what elevates His House above the standard « haunted by trauma » fare. Mosaku, in particular, shows the sort of nuance and scr …
In November, Ted Sarandos, Netflix’s co-CEO made a trip to the White House for a lengthy meeting with Donald Trump. According to Bloomberg, the two discussed a number of topics, but chief among them was Netflix’s plan to bid on Warner Bros. At the end of their conversation, Sardonos felt that “Netflix wouldn’t face immediate opposition from the White House.”
This week, Netflix successfully won the bidding war for Warner, offering $82.7 billion. It’s well known that Paramount and its CEO David Ellison were eager to acquire the storied studio and its streaming assets. Ellison and his father, Larry Ellison, have close ties to the White House, and as part of their pitch to Warner, suggested that only they were in a position to overcome the regulatory hurdles of further media consolidation.
Sarandos seems to have rightly believed that the Ellisons overestimated their political clout. And despite some public efforts to turn the White House against the deal, Netflix won out, for now. There is of course, still a chance that Paramount could launch a hostile takeover effort, or that the Justice Department could try and scuttle the deal — nothing is guaranteed yet.
Sarandos tried to acquire Paramount before David Ellison swooped in, so snatching Warner Bros. out from under his nose is likely something of a personal victory.
Friday, the EU slapped X with a €120 million fine (about $140 million) for violating the Digital Services Act (DSA). It was the first time that a company had been hit with a penalty for running afoul of the law. Elon Musk responded with his trademark tact and professionalism by posting “Bullshit” on X in response to the announcement from the European Commission. But that wasn’t the end, because just a day later Nikita Bier, X’s head of product, accused the Commission of abusing an exploit to boost the reach of the announcement and responded by shutting down its ad account.
According to Bier, the Commission had not used its ad account since 2021, but used a post format explicitly reserved for ads in its announcement of the fine against X. He claims that the Commission posted “a link that deceives users into thinking it’s a video and to artificially increase its reach.” (For the record, the post itself includes a video.)
The seemingly retaliatory revocation of the European Commission’s ad account is unlikely to materially change things for either X or the EU. If, as Bier claims, the Commission has not used its ad account since 2021, holding it hostage is unlikely to give X any leverage. And, while it can appeal the decision, X is currently still on the hook for the sizable fine. Plus, it must provide details for how it plans to address the “deceptive” use of verified checkmarks in the next 60 days, or face additional penalties.
We’ve reached out to the Commission for comment and will update if we hear back.
Il semble que nous ne pouvons pas trouver le contenu demandé. Peut-être qu’une recherche peut vous aider.
It’s easy to think about AI as a sort of existential battle between human and machine. Maybe it will be, someday, in a Skynet sort of way. But there are also lots of people trying to figure out how to use AI not as a replacement for human creativity and thinking but as a tool meant to augment those things.
Sari Azout is one of those people. She’s the founder of Sublime, a platform dedicated to curation, creativity, and ideas. Sublime is all about taste, which makes it slightly surprising that there’s a huge amount of AI powering the way it works. But to Azout, it all makes sense.
Between keeping up with TikTok trends and whatever new gadget just dropped, it’s tough to know exactly what teens are into these days. Luckily, we can help. We may be older than teenagers, but many of us here at The Verge are kids at heart. Plus, we’ve also got a few staffers with older kids. To make your life a little easier this holiday season, we rounded up what we think are the best gifts for teens, based on our tech expertise as well as what our staff’s teens are into right now.
Below, you’ll find gift ideas for many types of teens. Some are more obvious choices, like the latest iPhone and Nintendo Switch 2, but we sought to include a …
The discount brings the price down to $299 ($100 off). | Image: The Verge
We thought Black Friday and Cyber Monday would bring the lowest prices of the year, but apparently not. Right now, you can snag Apple’s Watch Series 11 in the 42mm configuration with GPS for a new all-time low of $299 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy. That beats the $70 discount we saw at the beginning of the month, which means if you didn’t take advantage then, you can save even more now. The 46mm model with GPS is also down to its lowest price yet of $329 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy.
The Series 11 offers some nice improvements to the already-excellent Apple Watch Series 10. While this year’s model has the same dimensions as its predecessor, battery life has increased up to 24 hours per charge on the GPS / Wi-Fi model. At the same time, Apple managed to improve the Series 11’s durability and scratch-resistance, making it a better option for more intense workouts. Additionally, Apple added a more power-efficient 5G modem to the cellular model, so the battery won’t drain as quickly when you’re not on Wi-Fi.
Otherwise, the Series 11 carries over everything we loved about the Series 10. The wide-angle OLED display looks fantastic and is easy to read at a glance, while performance is excellent thanks to Apple’s S10 SiP chip. You also get a variety of health and wellness features, including FDA-cleared hypertension notifications, sleep apnea detection, and sleep score, which can summarize how well you slept. Meanwhile, you get access to the watchOS 26 update, which introduces a workout buddy and offers wrist-flick and double-tap gestures, along with the Liquid Glass redesign.
If you already own a Series 10, there aren’t many reasons to upgrade outside of the slightly improved battery life. However, if you have something older or you’re checking off a gift list, the Series 11 at $100 off is a great deal right before the holidays.
Slack users can now access Anthropic’s Claude Code directly in Slack by tagging Claude on coding-related messages and threads. The new feature is launching today in beta as a research preview.
When Claude is tagged, it will now automatically scan the message to see if it’s a coding task and, if so, route it to Claude Code using the context from the related Slack thread and the code repositories you’ve authenticated in Claude Code. Slack users can also directly tell Claude that a request is a coding task. For instance, you could ask Claude to investigate a bug report you’re discussing in Slack without needing to manually copy all the conte …
Lenovo has already demonstrated its ability to put rollable OLEDs into laptops by graduating last year from demo concept models to shipping the ThinkBook Plus Gen 6, an actual device you can buy. It has a built-in mechanism that expands the screen vertically to give you more screen real estate for typing and scrolling. However, the company might soon debut its first laptop that uses a rollable OLED to effectively transform its screen into an ultrawide 21:9 aspect ratio screen, with left and right edges that extend far outside the bottom chassis.
The Lenovo Legion Pro Rollable will be its first gaming laptop to feature a rollable horizontal …
At their biggest and most expensive, video games all sort of look the same. The reason often comes down to simple economics: More resources means more costs that need to be recouped, and historically the way publishers have done that is by being comically risk-averse. Hence the glut of semi-realistic rocky wastelands that look like death metal album covers where everyone is some kind of Wild West fetishist, or the hero shooters that all look like Pixar but shredded as hell and ready for fan artists to go places I shall not.
On occasion, however, new visual ground is staked. Octopath Traveler 0 is an example of this. The third game in the O …
Joshua Aaron, the developer of the ICEBlock app, is suing Attorney General Pam Bondi, US Homeland Security Secretary Kirsti Noem, acting director of ICE Todd Lyons, White House « Border Czar » Tom Homan, and other federal officials over the Trump administration’s « unlawful threats » made against Aaron and its actions to pressure Apple to pull the app from the App Store, which it did.
« We promised you we would fight back. Well, today’s the day we make good on the promise, » according to a post from ICEBlock’s official account on Bluesky. Aaron, Apple, and the Department of Homeland Security, didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment fr …
There’s an argument to be made that « the real monster is trauma » has become an overused trope in modern horror. Hereditary, The Babadook, and, much less effectively, Smile, are just a few higher-profile examples. But, if you ask me, few films have deployed this trope quite as effectively as the 2020 film His House.
The film follows Bol and Rial, refugees from South Sudan, played by Sope Dirisu and Wunmi Mosaku. Both deliver the kind of incredible performances that you rarely see in a genre film like this. It’s part of what elevates His House above the standard « haunted by trauma » fare. Mosaku, in particular, shows the sort of nuance and scr …
In November, Ted Sarandos, Netflix’s co-CEO made a trip to the White House for a lengthy meeting with Donald Trump. According to Bloomberg, the two discussed a number of topics, but chief among them was Netflix’s plan to bid on Warner Bros. At the end of their conversation, Sardonos felt that “Netflix wouldn’t face immediate opposition from the White House.”
This week, Netflix successfully won the bidding war for Warner, offering $82.7 billion. It’s well known that Paramount and its CEO David Ellison were eager to acquire the storied studio and its streaming assets. Ellison and his father, Larry Ellison, have close ties to the White House, and as part of their pitch to Warner, suggested that only they were in a position to overcome the regulatory hurdles of further media consolidation.
Sarandos seems to have rightly believed that the Ellisons overestimated their political clout. And despite some public efforts to turn the White House against the deal, Netflix won out, for now. There is of course, still a chance that Paramount could launch a hostile takeover effort, or that the Justice Department could try and scuttle the deal — nothing is guaranteed yet.
Sarandos tried to acquire Paramount before David Ellison swooped in, so snatching Warner Bros. out from under his nose is likely something of a personal victory.
Friday, the EU slapped X with a €120 million fine (about $140 million) for violating the Digital Services Act (DSA). It was the first time that a company had been hit with a penalty for running afoul of the law. Elon Musk responded with his trademark tact and professionalism by posting “Bullshit” on X in response to the announcement from the European Commission. But that wasn’t the end, because just a day later Nikita Bier, X’s head of product, accused the Commission of abusing an exploit to boost the reach of the announcement and responded by shutting down its ad account.
According to Bier, the Commission had not used its ad account since 2021, but used a post format explicitly reserved for ads in its announcement of the fine against X. He claims that the Commission posted “a link that deceives users into thinking it’s a video and to artificially increase its reach.” (For the record, the post itself includes a video.)
The seemingly retaliatory revocation of the European Commission’s ad account is unlikely to materially change things for either X or the EU. If, as Bier claims, the Commission has not used its ad account since 2021, holding it hostage is unlikely to give X any leverage. And, while it can appeal the decision, X is currently still on the hook for the sizable fine. Plus, it must provide details for how it plans to address the “deceptive” use of verified checkmarks in the next 60 days, or face additional penalties.
We’ve reached out to the Commission for comment and will update if we hear back.
Il semble que nous ne pouvons pas trouver le contenu demandé. Peut-être qu’une recherche peut vous aider.
It’s easy to think about AI as a sort of existential battle between human and machine. Maybe it will be, someday, in a Skynet sort of way. But there are also lots of people trying to figure out how to use AI not as a replacement for human creativity and thinking but as a tool meant to augment those things.
Sari Azout is one of those people. She’s the founder of Sublime, a platform dedicated to curation, creativity, and ideas. Sublime is all about taste, which makes it slightly surprising that there’s a huge amount of AI powering the way it works. But to Azout, it all makes sense.
Between keeping up with TikTok trends and whatever new gadget just dropped, it’s tough to know exactly what teens are into these days. Luckily, we can help. We may be older than teenagers, but many of us here at The Verge are kids at heart. Plus, we’ve also got a few staffers with older kids. To make your life a little easier this holiday season, we rounded up what we think are the best gifts for teens, based on our tech expertise as well as what our staff’s teens are into right now.
Below, you’ll find gift ideas for many types of teens. Some are more obvious choices, like the latest iPhone and Nintendo Switch 2, but we sought to include a …
The discount brings the price down to $299 ($100 off). | Image: The Verge
We thought Black Friday and Cyber Monday would bring the lowest prices of the year, but apparently not. Right now, you can snag Apple’s Watch Series 11 in the 42mm configuration with GPS for a new all-time low of $299 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy. That beats the $70 discount we saw at the beginning of the month, which means if you didn’t take advantage then, you can save even more now. The 46mm model with GPS is also down to its lowest price yet of $329 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy.
The Series 11 offers some nice improvements to the already-excellent Apple Watch Series 10. While this year’s model has the same dimensions as its predecessor, battery life has increased up to 24 hours per charge on the GPS / Wi-Fi model. At the same time, Apple managed to improve the Series 11’s durability and scratch-resistance, making it a better option for more intense workouts. Additionally, Apple added a more power-efficient 5G modem to the cellular model, so the battery won’t drain as quickly when you’re not on Wi-Fi.
Otherwise, the Series 11 carries over everything we loved about the Series 10. The wide-angle OLED display looks fantastic and is easy to read at a glance, while performance is excellent thanks to Apple’s S10 SiP chip. You also get a variety of health and wellness features, including FDA-cleared hypertension notifications, sleep apnea detection, and sleep score, which can summarize how well you slept. Meanwhile, you get access to the watchOS 26 update, which introduces a workout buddy and offers wrist-flick and double-tap gestures, along with the Liquid Glass redesign.
If you already own a Series 10, there aren’t many reasons to upgrade outside of the slightly improved battery life. However, if you have something older or you’re checking off a gift list, the Series 11 at $100 off is a great deal right before the holidays.
Slack users can now access Anthropic’s Claude Code directly in Slack by tagging Claude on coding-related messages and threads. The new feature is launching today in beta as a research preview.
When Claude is tagged, it will now automatically scan the message to see if it’s a coding task and, if so, route it to Claude Code using the context from the related Slack thread and the code repositories you’ve authenticated in Claude Code. Slack users can also directly tell Claude that a request is a coding task. For instance, you could ask Claude to investigate a bug report you’re discussing in Slack without needing to manually copy all the conte …
Lenovo has already demonstrated its ability to put rollable OLEDs into laptops by graduating last year from demo concept models to shipping the ThinkBook Plus Gen 6, an actual device you can buy. It has a built-in mechanism that expands the screen vertically to give you more screen real estate for typing and scrolling. However, the company might soon debut its first laptop that uses a rollable OLED to effectively transform its screen into an ultrawide 21:9 aspect ratio screen, with left and right edges that extend far outside the bottom chassis.
The Lenovo Legion Pro Rollable will be its first gaming laptop to feature a rollable horizontal …
At their biggest and most expensive, video games all sort of look the same. The reason often comes down to simple economics: More resources means more costs that need to be recouped, and historically the way publishers have done that is by being comically risk-averse. Hence the glut of semi-realistic rocky wastelands that look like death metal album covers where everyone is some kind of Wild West fetishist, or the hero shooters that all look like Pixar but shredded as hell and ready for fan artists to go places I shall not.
On occasion, however, new visual ground is staked. Octopath Traveler 0 is an example of this. The third game in the O …
Joshua Aaron, the developer of the ICEBlock app, is suing Attorney General Pam Bondi, US Homeland Security Secretary Kirsti Noem, acting director of ICE Todd Lyons, White House « Border Czar » Tom Homan, and other federal officials over the Trump administration’s « unlawful threats » made against Aaron and its actions to pressure Apple to pull the app from the App Store, which it did.
« We promised you we would fight back. Well, today’s the day we make good on the promise, » according to a post from ICEBlock’s official account on Bluesky. Aaron, Apple, and the Department of Homeland Security, didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment fr …
There’s an argument to be made that « the real monster is trauma » has become an overused trope in modern horror. Hereditary, The Babadook, and, much less effectively, Smile, are just a few higher-profile examples. But, if you ask me, few films have deployed this trope quite as effectively as the 2020 film His House.
The film follows Bol and Rial, refugees from South Sudan, played by Sope Dirisu and Wunmi Mosaku. Both deliver the kind of incredible performances that you rarely see in a genre film like this. It’s part of what elevates His House above the standard « haunted by trauma » fare. Mosaku, in particular, shows the sort of nuance and scr …
In November, Ted Sarandos, Netflix’s co-CEO made a trip to the White House for a lengthy meeting with Donald Trump. According to Bloomberg, the two discussed a number of topics, but chief among them was Netflix’s plan to bid on Warner Bros. At the end of their conversation, Sardonos felt that “Netflix wouldn’t face immediate opposition from the White House.”
This week, Netflix successfully won the bidding war for Warner, offering $82.7 billion. It’s well known that Paramount and its CEO David Ellison were eager to acquire the storied studio and its streaming assets. Ellison and his father, Larry Ellison, have close ties to the White House, and as part of their pitch to Warner, suggested that only they were in a position to overcome the regulatory hurdles of further media consolidation.
Sarandos seems to have rightly believed that the Ellisons overestimated their political clout. And despite some public efforts to turn the White House against the deal, Netflix won out, for now. There is of course, still a chance that Paramount could launch a hostile takeover effort, or that the Justice Department could try and scuttle the deal — nothing is guaranteed yet.
Sarandos tried to acquire Paramount before David Ellison swooped in, so snatching Warner Bros. out from under his nose is likely something of a personal victory.
Friday, the EU slapped X with a €120 million fine (about $140 million) for violating the Digital Services Act (DSA). It was the first time that a company had been hit with a penalty for running afoul of the law. Elon Musk responded with his trademark tact and professionalism by posting “Bullshit” on X in response to the announcement from the European Commission. But that wasn’t the end, because just a day later Nikita Bier, X’s head of product, accused the Commission of abusing an exploit to boost the reach of the announcement and responded by shutting down its ad account.
According to Bier, the Commission had not used its ad account since 2021, but used a post format explicitly reserved for ads in its announcement of the fine against X. He claims that the Commission posted “a link that deceives users into thinking it’s a video and to artificially increase its reach.” (For the record, the post itself includes a video.)
The seemingly retaliatory revocation of the European Commission’s ad account is unlikely to materially change things for either X or the EU. If, as Bier claims, the Commission has not used its ad account since 2021, holding it hostage is unlikely to give X any leverage. And, while it can appeal the decision, X is currently still on the hook for the sizable fine. Plus, it must provide details for how it plans to address the “deceptive” use of verified checkmarks in the next 60 days, or face additional penalties.
We’ve reached out to the Commission for comment and will update if we hear back.
Il semble que nous ne pouvons pas trouver le contenu demandé. Peut-être qu’une recherche peut vous aider.
It’s easy to think about AI as a sort of existential battle between human and machine. Maybe it will be, someday, in a Skynet sort of way. But there are also lots of people trying to figure out how to use AI not as a replacement for human creativity and thinking but as a tool meant to augment those things.
Sari Azout is one of those people. She’s the founder of Sublime, a platform dedicated to curation, creativity, and ideas. Sublime is all about taste, which makes it slightly surprising that there’s a huge amount of AI powering the way it works. But to Azout, it all makes sense.
Between keeping up with TikTok trends and whatever new gadget just dropped, it’s tough to know exactly what teens are into these days. Luckily, we can help. We may be older than teenagers, but many of us here at The Verge are kids at heart. Plus, we’ve also got a few staffers with older kids. To make your life a little easier this holiday season, we rounded up what we think are the best gifts for teens, based on our tech expertise as well as what our staff’s teens are into right now.
Below, you’ll find gift ideas for many types of teens. Some are more obvious choices, like the latest iPhone and Nintendo Switch 2, but we sought to include a …
The discount brings the price down to $299 ($100 off). | Image: The Verge
We thought Black Friday and Cyber Monday would bring the lowest prices of the year, but apparently not. Right now, you can snag Apple’s Watch Series 11 in the 42mm configuration with GPS for a new all-time low of $299 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy. That beats the $70 discount we saw at the beginning of the month, which means if you didn’t take advantage then, you can save even more now. The 46mm model with GPS is also down to its lowest price yet of $329 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy.
The Series 11 offers some nice improvements to the already-excellent Apple Watch Series 10. While this year’s model has the same dimensions as its predecessor, battery life has increased up to 24 hours per charge on the GPS / Wi-Fi model. At the same time, Apple managed to improve the Series 11’s durability and scratch-resistance, making it a better option for more intense workouts. Additionally, Apple added a more power-efficient 5G modem to the cellular model, so the battery won’t drain as quickly when you’re not on Wi-Fi.
Otherwise, the Series 11 carries over everything we loved about the Series 10. The wide-angle OLED display looks fantastic and is easy to read at a glance, while performance is excellent thanks to Apple’s S10 SiP chip. You also get a variety of health and wellness features, including FDA-cleared hypertension notifications, sleep apnea detection, and sleep score, which can summarize how well you slept. Meanwhile, you get access to the watchOS 26 update, which introduces a workout buddy and offers wrist-flick and double-tap gestures, along with the Liquid Glass redesign.
If you already own a Series 10, there aren’t many reasons to upgrade outside of the slightly improved battery life. However, if you have something older or you’re checking off a gift list, the Series 11 at $100 off is a great deal right before the holidays.
Slack users can now access Anthropic’s Claude Code directly in Slack by tagging Claude on coding-related messages and threads. The new feature is launching today in beta as a research preview.
When Claude is tagged, it will now automatically scan the message to see if it’s a coding task and, if so, route it to Claude Code using the context from the related Slack thread and the code repositories you’ve authenticated in Claude Code. Slack users can also directly tell Claude that a request is a coding task. For instance, you could ask Claude to investigate a bug report you’re discussing in Slack without needing to manually copy all the conte …
Lenovo has already demonstrated its ability to put rollable OLEDs into laptops by graduating last year from demo concept models to shipping the ThinkBook Plus Gen 6, an actual device you can buy. It has a built-in mechanism that expands the screen vertically to give you more screen real estate for typing and scrolling. However, the company might soon debut its first laptop that uses a rollable OLED to effectively transform its screen into an ultrawide 21:9 aspect ratio screen, with left and right edges that extend far outside the bottom chassis.
The Lenovo Legion Pro Rollable will be its first gaming laptop to feature a rollable horizontal …
At their biggest and most expensive, video games all sort of look the same. The reason often comes down to simple economics: More resources means more costs that need to be recouped, and historically the way publishers have done that is by being comically risk-averse. Hence the glut of semi-realistic rocky wastelands that look like death metal album covers where everyone is some kind of Wild West fetishist, or the hero shooters that all look like Pixar but shredded as hell and ready for fan artists to go places I shall not.
On occasion, however, new visual ground is staked. Octopath Traveler 0 is an example of this. The third game in the O …
Joshua Aaron, the developer of the ICEBlock app, is suing Attorney General Pam Bondi, US Homeland Security Secretary Kirsti Noem, acting director of ICE Todd Lyons, White House « Border Czar » Tom Homan, and other federal officials over the Trump administration’s « unlawful threats » made against Aaron and its actions to pressure Apple to pull the app from the App Store, which it did.
« We promised you we would fight back. Well, today’s the day we make good on the promise, » according to a post from ICEBlock’s official account on Bluesky. Aaron, Apple, and the Department of Homeland Security, didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment fr …
There’s an argument to be made that « the real monster is trauma » has become an overused trope in modern horror. Hereditary, The Babadook, and, much less effectively, Smile, are just a few higher-profile examples. But, if you ask me, few films have deployed this trope quite as effectively as the 2020 film His House.
The film follows Bol and Rial, refugees from South Sudan, played by Sope Dirisu and Wunmi Mosaku. Both deliver the kind of incredible performances that you rarely see in a genre film like this. It’s part of what elevates His House above the standard « haunted by trauma » fare. Mosaku, in particular, shows the sort of nuance and scr …
In November, Ted Sarandos, Netflix’s co-CEO made a trip to the White House for a lengthy meeting with Donald Trump. According to Bloomberg, the two discussed a number of topics, but chief among them was Netflix’s plan to bid on Warner Bros. At the end of their conversation, Sardonos felt that “Netflix wouldn’t face immediate opposition from the White House.”
This week, Netflix successfully won the bidding war for Warner, offering $82.7 billion. It’s well known that Paramount and its CEO David Ellison were eager to acquire the storied studio and its streaming assets. Ellison and his father, Larry Ellison, have close ties to the White House, and as part of their pitch to Warner, suggested that only they were in a position to overcome the regulatory hurdles of further media consolidation.
Sarandos seems to have rightly believed that the Ellisons overestimated their political clout. And despite some public efforts to turn the White House against the deal, Netflix won out, for now. There is of course, still a chance that Paramount could launch a hostile takeover effort, or that the Justice Department could try and scuttle the deal — nothing is guaranteed yet.
Sarandos tried to acquire Paramount before David Ellison swooped in, so snatching Warner Bros. out from under his nose is likely something of a personal victory.
Friday, the EU slapped X with a €120 million fine (about $140 million) for violating the Digital Services Act (DSA). It was the first time that a company had been hit with a penalty for running afoul of the law. Elon Musk responded with his trademark tact and professionalism by posting “Bullshit” on X in response to the announcement from the European Commission. But that wasn’t the end, because just a day later Nikita Bier, X’s head of product, accused the Commission of abusing an exploit to boost the reach of the announcement and responded by shutting down its ad account.
According to Bier, the Commission had not used its ad account since 2021, but used a post format explicitly reserved for ads in its announcement of the fine against X. He claims that the Commission posted “a link that deceives users into thinking it’s a video and to artificially increase its reach.” (For the record, the post itself includes a video.)
The seemingly retaliatory revocation of the European Commission’s ad account is unlikely to materially change things for either X or the EU. If, as Bier claims, the Commission has not used its ad account since 2021, holding it hostage is unlikely to give X any leverage. And, while it can appeal the decision, X is currently still on the hook for the sizable fine. Plus, it must provide details for how it plans to address the “deceptive” use of verified checkmarks in the next 60 days, or face additional penalties.
We’ve reached out to the Commission for comment and will update if we hear back.
Il semble que nous ne pouvons pas trouver le contenu demandé. Peut-être qu’une recherche peut vous aider.
It’s easy to think about AI as a sort of existential battle between human and machine. Maybe it will be, someday, in a Skynet sort of way. But there are also lots of people trying to figure out how to use AI not as a replacement for human creativity and thinking but as a tool meant to augment those things.
Sari Azout is one of those people. She’s the founder of Sublime, a platform dedicated to curation, creativity, and ideas. Sublime is all about taste, which makes it slightly surprising that there’s a huge amount of AI powering the way it works. But to Azout, it all makes sense.
Between keeping up with TikTok trends and whatever new gadget just dropped, it’s tough to know exactly what teens are into these days. Luckily, we can help. We may be older than teenagers, but many of us here at The Verge are kids at heart. Plus, we’ve also got a few staffers with older kids. To make your life a little easier this holiday season, we rounded up what we think are the best gifts for teens, based on our tech expertise as well as what our staff’s teens are into right now.
Below, you’ll find gift ideas for many types of teens. Some are more obvious choices, like the latest iPhone and Nintendo Switch 2, but we sought to include a …
The discount brings the price down to $299 ($100 off). | Image: The Verge
We thought Black Friday and Cyber Monday would bring the lowest prices of the year, but apparently not. Right now, you can snag Apple’s Watch Series 11 in the 42mm configuration with GPS for a new all-time low of $299 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy. That beats the $70 discount we saw at the beginning of the month, which means if you didn’t take advantage then, you can save even more now. The 46mm model with GPS is also down to its lowest price yet of $329 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy.
The Series 11 offers some nice improvements to the already-excellent Apple Watch Series 10. While this year’s model has the same dimensions as its predecessor, battery life has increased up to 24 hours per charge on the GPS / Wi-Fi model. At the same time, Apple managed to improve the Series 11’s durability and scratch-resistance, making it a better option for more intense workouts. Additionally, Apple added a more power-efficient 5G modem to the cellular model, so the battery won’t drain as quickly when you’re not on Wi-Fi.
Otherwise, the Series 11 carries over everything we loved about the Series 10. The wide-angle OLED display looks fantastic and is easy to read at a glance, while performance is excellent thanks to Apple’s S10 SiP chip. You also get a variety of health and wellness features, including FDA-cleared hypertension notifications, sleep apnea detection, and sleep score, which can summarize how well you slept. Meanwhile, you get access to the watchOS 26 update, which introduces a workout buddy and offers wrist-flick and double-tap gestures, along with the Liquid Glass redesign.
If you already own a Series 10, there aren’t many reasons to upgrade outside of the slightly improved battery life. However, if you have something older or you’re checking off a gift list, the Series 11 at $100 off is a great deal right before the holidays.
Slack users can now access Anthropic’s Claude Code directly in Slack by tagging Claude on coding-related messages and threads. The new feature is launching today in beta as a research preview.
When Claude is tagged, it will now automatically scan the message to see if it’s a coding task and, if so, route it to Claude Code using the context from the related Slack thread and the code repositories you’ve authenticated in Claude Code. Slack users can also directly tell Claude that a request is a coding task. For instance, you could ask Claude to investigate a bug report you’re discussing in Slack without needing to manually copy all the conte …
Lenovo has already demonstrated its ability to put rollable OLEDs into laptops by graduating last year from demo concept models to shipping the ThinkBook Plus Gen 6, an actual device you can buy. It has a built-in mechanism that expands the screen vertically to give you more screen real estate for typing and scrolling. However, the company might soon debut its first laptop that uses a rollable OLED to effectively transform its screen into an ultrawide 21:9 aspect ratio screen, with left and right edges that extend far outside the bottom chassis.
The Lenovo Legion Pro Rollable will be its first gaming laptop to feature a rollable horizontal …
At their biggest and most expensive, video games all sort of look the same. The reason often comes down to simple economics: More resources means more costs that need to be recouped, and historically the way publishers have done that is by being comically risk-averse. Hence the glut of semi-realistic rocky wastelands that look like death metal album covers where everyone is some kind of Wild West fetishist, or the hero shooters that all look like Pixar but shredded as hell and ready for fan artists to go places I shall not.
On occasion, however, new visual ground is staked. Octopath Traveler 0 is an example of this. The third game in the O …
Joshua Aaron, the developer of the ICEBlock app, is suing Attorney General Pam Bondi, US Homeland Security Secretary Kirsti Noem, acting director of ICE Todd Lyons, White House « Border Czar » Tom Homan, and other federal officials over the Trump administration’s « unlawful threats » made against Aaron and its actions to pressure Apple to pull the app from the App Store, which it did.
« We promised you we would fight back. Well, today’s the day we make good on the promise, » according to a post from ICEBlock’s official account on Bluesky. Aaron, Apple, and the Department of Homeland Security, didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment fr …
There’s an argument to be made that « the real monster is trauma » has become an overused trope in modern horror. Hereditary, The Babadook, and, much less effectively, Smile, are just a few higher-profile examples. But, if you ask me, few films have deployed this trope quite as effectively as the 2020 film His House.
The film follows Bol and Rial, refugees from South Sudan, played by Sope Dirisu and Wunmi Mosaku. Both deliver the kind of incredible performances that you rarely see in a genre film like this. It’s part of what elevates His House above the standard « haunted by trauma » fare. Mosaku, in particular, shows the sort of nuance and scr …
In November, Ted Sarandos, Netflix’s co-CEO made a trip to the White House for a lengthy meeting with Donald Trump. According to Bloomberg, the two discussed a number of topics, but chief among them was Netflix’s plan to bid on Warner Bros. At the end of their conversation, Sardonos felt that “Netflix wouldn’t face immediate opposition from the White House.”
This week, Netflix successfully won the bidding war for Warner, offering $82.7 billion. It’s well known that Paramount and its CEO David Ellison were eager to acquire the storied studio and its streaming assets. Ellison and his father, Larry Ellison, have close ties to the White House, and as part of their pitch to Warner, suggested that only they were in a position to overcome the regulatory hurdles of further media consolidation.
Sarandos seems to have rightly believed that the Ellisons overestimated their political clout. And despite some public efforts to turn the White House against the deal, Netflix won out, for now. There is of course, still a chance that Paramount could launch a hostile takeover effort, or that the Justice Department could try and scuttle the deal — nothing is guaranteed yet.
Sarandos tried to acquire Paramount before David Ellison swooped in, so snatching Warner Bros. out from under his nose is likely something of a personal victory.
Friday, the EU slapped X with a €120 million fine (about $140 million) for violating the Digital Services Act (DSA). It was the first time that a company had been hit with a penalty for running afoul of the law. Elon Musk responded with his trademark tact and professionalism by posting “Bullshit” on X in response to the announcement from the European Commission. But that wasn’t the end, because just a day later Nikita Bier, X’s head of product, accused the Commission of abusing an exploit to boost the reach of the announcement and responded by shutting down its ad account.
According to Bier, the Commission had not used its ad account since 2021, but used a post format explicitly reserved for ads in its announcement of the fine against X. He claims that the Commission posted “a link that deceives users into thinking it’s a video and to artificially increase its reach.” (For the record, the post itself includes a video.)
The seemingly retaliatory revocation of the European Commission’s ad account is unlikely to materially change things for either X or the EU. If, as Bier claims, the Commission has not used its ad account since 2021, holding it hostage is unlikely to give X any leverage. And, while it can appeal the decision, X is currently still on the hook for the sizable fine. Plus, it must provide details for how it plans to address the “deceptive” use of verified checkmarks in the next 60 days, or face additional penalties.
We’ve reached out to the Commission for comment and will update if we hear back.
Il semble que nous ne pouvons pas trouver le contenu demandé. Peut-être qu’une recherche peut vous aider.
It’s easy to think about AI as a sort of existential battle between human and machine. Maybe it will be, someday, in a Skynet sort of way. But there are also lots of people trying to figure out how to use AI not as a replacement for human creativity and thinking but as a tool meant to augment those things.
Sari Azout is one of those people. She’s the founder of Sublime, a platform dedicated to curation, creativity, and ideas. Sublime is all about taste, which makes it slightly surprising that there’s a huge amount of AI powering the way it works. But to Azout, it all makes sense.
Between keeping up with TikTok trends and whatever new gadget just dropped, it’s tough to know exactly what teens are into these days. Luckily, we can help. We may be older than teenagers, but many of us here at The Verge are kids at heart. Plus, we’ve also got a few staffers with older kids. To make your life a little easier this holiday season, we rounded up what we think are the best gifts for teens, based on our tech expertise as well as what our staff’s teens are into right now.
Below, you’ll find gift ideas for many types of teens. Some are more obvious choices, like the latest iPhone and Nintendo Switch 2, but we sought to include a …
The discount brings the price down to $299 ($100 off). | Image: The Verge
We thought Black Friday and Cyber Monday would bring the lowest prices of the year, but apparently not. Right now, you can snag Apple’s Watch Series 11 in the 42mm configuration with GPS for a new all-time low of $299 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy. That beats the $70 discount we saw at the beginning of the month, which means if you didn’t take advantage then, you can save even more now. The 46mm model with GPS is also down to its lowest price yet of $329 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy.
The Series 11 offers some nice improvements to the already-excellent Apple Watch Series 10. While this year’s model has the same dimensions as its predecessor, battery life has increased up to 24 hours per charge on the GPS / Wi-Fi model. At the same time, Apple managed to improve the Series 11’s durability and scratch-resistance, making it a better option for more intense workouts. Additionally, Apple added a more power-efficient 5G modem to the cellular model, so the battery won’t drain as quickly when you’re not on Wi-Fi.
Otherwise, the Series 11 carries over everything we loved about the Series 10. The wide-angle OLED display looks fantastic and is easy to read at a glance, while performance is excellent thanks to Apple’s S10 SiP chip. You also get a variety of health and wellness features, including FDA-cleared hypertension notifications, sleep apnea detection, and sleep score, which can summarize how well you slept. Meanwhile, you get access to the watchOS 26 update, which introduces a workout buddy and offers wrist-flick and double-tap gestures, along with the Liquid Glass redesign.
If you already own a Series 10, there aren’t many reasons to upgrade outside of the slightly improved battery life. However, if you have something older or you’re checking off a gift list, the Series 11 at $100 off is a great deal right before the holidays.
Slack users can now access Anthropic’s Claude Code directly in Slack by tagging Claude on coding-related messages and threads. The new feature is launching today in beta as a research preview.
When Claude is tagged, it will now automatically scan the message to see if it’s a coding task and, if so, route it to Claude Code using the context from the related Slack thread and the code repositories you’ve authenticated in Claude Code. Slack users can also directly tell Claude that a request is a coding task. For instance, you could ask Claude to investigate a bug report you’re discussing in Slack without needing to manually copy all the conte …
Lenovo has already demonstrated its ability to put rollable OLEDs into laptops by graduating last year from demo concept models to shipping the ThinkBook Plus Gen 6, an actual device you can buy. It has a built-in mechanism that expands the screen vertically to give you more screen real estate for typing and scrolling. However, the company might soon debut its first laptop that uses a rollable OLED to effectively transform its screen into an ultrawide 21:9 aspect ratio screen, with left and right edges that extend far outside the bottom chassis.
The Lenovo Legion Pro Rollable will be its first gaming laptop to feature a rollable horizontal …
At their biggest and most expensive, video games all sort of look the same. The reason often comes down to simple economics: More resources means more costs that need to be recouped, and historically the way publishers have done that is by being comically risk-averse. Hence the glut of semi-realistic rocky wastelands that look like death metal album covers where everyone is some kind of Wild West fetishist, or the hero shooters that all look like Pixar but shredded as hell and ready for fan artists to go places I shall not.
On occasion, however, new visual ground is staked. Octopath Traveler 0 is an example of this. The third game in the O …
Joshua Aaron, the developer of the ICEBlock app, is suing Attorney General Pam Bondi, US Homeland Security Secretary Kirsti Noem, acting director of ICE Todd Lyons, White House « Border Czar » Tom Homan, and other federal officials over the Trump administration’s « unlawful threats » made against Aaron and its actions to pressure Apple to pull the app from the App Store, which it did.
« We promised you we would fight back. Well, today’s the day we make good on the promise, » according to a post from ICEBlock’s official account on Bluesky. Aaron, Apple, and the Department of Homeland Security, didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment fr …
There’s an argument to be made that « the real monster is trauma » has become an overused trope in modern horror. Hereditary, The Babadook, and, much less effectively, Smile, are just a few higher-profile examples. But, if you ask me, few films have deployed this trope quite as effectively as the 2020 film His House.
The film follows Bol and Rial, refugees from South Sudan, played by Sope Dirisu and Wunmi Mosaku. Both deliver the kind of incredible performances that you rarely see in a genre film like this. It’s part of what elevates His House above the standard « haunted by trauma » fare. Mosaku, in particular, shows the sort of nuance and scr …
In November, Ted Sarandos, Netflix’s co-CEO made a trip to the White House for a lengthy meeting with Donald Trump. According to Bloomberg, the two discussed a number of topics, but chief among them was Netflix’s plan to bid on Warner Bros. At the end of their conversation, Sardonos felt that “Netflix wouldn’t face immediate opposition from the White House.”
This week, Netflix successfully won the bidding war for Warner, offering $82.7 billion. It’s well known that Paramount and its CEO David Ellison were eager to acquire the storied studio and its streaming assets. Ellison and his father, Larry Ellison, have close ties to the White House, and as part of their pitch to Warner, suggested that only they were in a position to overcome the regulatory hurdles of further media consolidation.
Sarandos seems to have rightly believed that the Ellisons overestimated their political clout. And despite some public efforts to turn the White House against the deal, Netflix won out, for now. There is of course, still a chance that Paramount could launch a hostile takeover effort, or that the Justice Department could try and scuttle the deal — nothing is guaranteed yet.
Sarandos tried to acquire Paramount before David Ellison swooped in, so snatching Warner Bros. out from under his nose is likely something of a personal victory.
Friday, the EU slapped X with a €120 million fine (about $140 million) for violating the Digital Services Act (DSA). It was the first time that a company had been hit with a penalty for running afoul of the law. Elon Musk responded with his trademark tact and professionalism by posting “Bullshit” on X in response to the announcement from the European Commission. But that wasn’t the end, because just a day later Nikita Bier, X’s head of product, accused the Commission of abusing an exploit to boost the reach of the announcement and responded by shutting down its ad account.
According to Bier, the Commission had not used its ad account since 2021, but used a post format explicitly reserved for ads in its announcement of the fine against X. He claims that the Commission posted “a link that deceives users into thinking it’s a video and to artificially increase its reach.” (For the record, the post itself includes a video.)
The seemingly retaliatory revocation of the European Commission’s ad account is unlikely to materially change things for either X or the EU. If, as Bier claims, the Commission has not used its ad account since 2021, holding it hostage is unlikely to give X any leverage. And, while it can appeal the decision, X is currently still on the hook for the sizable fine. Plus, it must provide details for how it plans to address the “deceptive” use of verified checkmarks in the next 60 days, or face additional penalties.
We’ve reached out to the Commission for comment and will update if we hear back.
Il semble que nous ne pouvons pas trouver le contenu demandé. Peut-être qu’une recherche peut vous aider.
It’s easy to think about AI as a sort of existential battle between human and machine. Maybe it will be, someday, in a Skynet sort of way. But there are also lots of people trying to figure out how to use AI not as a replacement for human creativity and thinking but as a tool meant to augment those things.
Sari Azout is one of those people. She’s the founder of Sublime, a platform dedicated to curation, creativity, and ideas. Sublime is all about taste, which makes it slightly surprising that there’s a huge amount of AI powering the way it works. But to Azout, it all makes sense.
Between keeping up with TikTok trends and whatever new gadget just dropped, it’s tough to know exactly what teens are into these days. Luckily, we can help. We may be older than teenagers, but many of us here at The Verge are kids at heart. Plus, we’ve also got a few staffers with older kids. To make your life a little easier this holiday season, we rounded up what we think are the best gifts for teens, based on our tech expertise as well as what our staff’s teens are into right now.
Below, you’ll find gift ideas for many types of teens. Some are more obvious choices, like the latest iPhone and Nintendo Switch 2, but we sought to include a …
The discount brings the price down to $299 ($100 off). | Image: The Verge
We thought Black Friday and Cyber Monday would bring the lowest prices of the year, but apparently not. Right now, you can snag Apple’s Watch Series 11 in the 42mm configuration with GPS for a new all-time low of $299 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy. That beats the $70 discount we saw at the beginning of the month, which means if you didn’t take advantage then, you can save even more now. The 46mm model with GPS is also down to its lowest price yet of $329 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy.
The Series 11 offers some nice improvements to the already-excellent Apple Watch Series 10. While this year’s model has the same dimensions as its predecessor, battery life has increased up to 24 hours per charge on the GPS / Wi-Fi model. At the same time, Apple managed to improve the Series 11’s durability and scratch-resistance, making it a better option for more intense workouts. Additionally, Apple added a more power-efficient 5G modem to the cellular model, so the battery won’t drain as quickly when you’re not on Wi-Fi.
Otherwise, the Series 11 carries over everything we loved about the Series 10. The wide-angle OLED display looks fantastic and is easy to read at a glance, while performance is excellent thanks to Apple’s S10 SiP chip. You also get a variety of health and wellness features, including FDA-cleared hypertension notifications, sleep apnea detection, and sleep score, which can summarize how well you slept. Meanwhile, you get access to the watchOS 26 update, which introduces a workout buddy and offers wrist-flick and double-tap gestures, along with the Liquid Glass redesign.
If you already own a Series 10, there aren’t many reasons to upgrade outside of the slightly improved battery life. However, if you have something older or you’re checking off a gift list, the Series 11 at $100 off is a great deal right before the holidays.
Slack users can now access Anthropic’s Claude Code directly in Slack by tagging Claude on coding-related messages and threads. The new feature is launching today in beta as a research preview.
When Claude is tagged, it will now automatically scan the message to see if it’s a coding task and, if so, route it to Claude Code using the context from the related Slack thread and the code repositories you’ve authenticated in Claude Code. Slack users can also directly tell Claude that a request is a coding task. For instance, you could ask Claude to investigate a bug report you’re discussing in Slack without needing to manually copy all the conte …
Lenovo has already demonstrated its ability to put rollable OLEDs into laptops by graduating last year from demo concept models to shipping the ThinkBook Plus Gen 6, an actual device you can buy. It has a built-in mechanism that expands the screen vertically to give you more screen real estate for typing and scrolling. However, the company might soon debut its first laptop that uses a rollable OLED to effectively transform its screen into an ultrawide 21:9 aspect ratio screen, with left and right edges that extend far outside the bottom chassis.
The Lenovo Legion Pro Rollable will be its first gaming laptop to feature a rollable horizontal …
At their biggest and most expensive, video games all sort of look the same. The reason often comes down to simple economics: More resources means more costs that need to be recouped, and historically the way publishers have done that is by being comically risk-averse. Hence the glut of semi-realistic rocky wastelands that look like death metal album covers where everyone is some kind of Wild West fetishist, or the hero shooters that all look like Pixar but shredded as hell and ready for fan artists to go places I shall not.
On occasion, however, new visual ground is staked. Octopath Traveler 0 is an example of this. The third game in the O …
Joshua Aaron, the developer of the ICEBlock app, is suing Attorney General Pam Bondi, US Homeland Security Secretary Kirsti Noem, acting director of ICE Todd Lyons, White House « Border Czar » Tom Homan, and other federal officials over the Trump administration’s « unlawful threats » made against Aaron and its actions to pressure Apple to pull the app from the App Store, which it did.
« We promised you we would fight back. Well, today’s the day we make good on the promise, » according to a post from ICEBlock’s official account on Bluesky. Aaron, Apple, and the Department of Homeland Security, didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment fr …
There’s an argument to be made that « the real monster is trauma » has become an overused trope in modern horror. Hereditary, The Babadook, and, much less effectively, Smile, are just a few higher-profile examples. But, if you ask me, few films have deployed this trope quite as effectively as the 2020 film His House.
The film follows Bol and Rial, refugees from South Sudan, played by Sope Dirisu and Wunmi Mosaku. Both deliver the kind of incredible performances that you rarely see in a genre film like this. It’s part of what elevates His House above the standard « haunted by trauma » fare. Mosaku, in particular, shows the sort of nuance and scr …
In November, Ted Sarandos, Netflix’s co-CEO made a trip to the White House for a lengthy meeting with Donald Trump. According to Bloomberg, the two discussed a number of topics, but chief among them was Netflix’s plan to bid on Warner Bros. At the end of their conversation, Sardonos felt that “Netflix wouldn’t face immediate opposition from the White House.”
This week, Netflix successfully won the bidding war for Warner, offering $82.7 billion. It’s well known that Paramount and its CEO David Ellison were eager to acquire the storied studio and its streaming assets. Ellison and his father, Larry Ellison, have close ties to the White House, and as part of their pitch to Warner, suggested that only they were in a position to overcome the regulatory hurdles of further media consolidation.
Sarandos seems to have rightly believed that the Ellisons overestimated their political clout. And despite some public efforts to turn the White House against the deal, Netflix won out, for now. There is of course, still a chance that Paramount could launch a hostile takeover effort, or that the Justice Department could try and scuttle the deal — nothing is guaranteed yet.
Sarandos tried to acquire Paramount before David Ellison swooped in, so snatching Warner Bros. out from under his nose is likely something of a personal victory.
Friday, the EU slapped X with a €120 million fine (about $140 million) for violating the Digital Services Act (DSA). It was the first time that a company had been hit with a penalty for running afoul of the law. Elon Musk responded with his trademark tact and professionalism by posting “Bullshit” on X in response to the announcement from the European Commission. But that wasn’t the end, because just a day later Nikita Bier, X’s head of product, accused the Commission of abusing an exploit to boost the reach of the announcement and responded by shutting down its ad account.
According to Bier, the Commission had not used its ad account since 2021, but used a post format explicitly reserved for ads in its announcement of the fine against X. He claims that the Commission posted “a link that deceives users into thinking it’s a video and to artificially increase its reach.” (For the record, the post itself includes a video.)
The seemingly retaliatory revocation of the European Commission’s ad account is unlikely to materially change things for either X or the EU. If, as Bier claims, the Commission has not used its ad account since 2021, holding it hostage is unlikely to give X any leverage. And, while it can appeal the decision, X is currently still on the hook for the sizable fine. Plus, it must provide details for how it plans to address the “deceptive” use of verified checkmarks in the next 60 days, or face additional penalties.
We’ve reached out to the Commission for comment and will update if we hear back.
Il semble que nous ne pouvons pas trouver le contenu demandé. Peut-être qu’une recherche peut vous aider.
It’s easy to think about AI as a sort of existential battle between human and machine. Maybe it will be, someday, in a Skynet sort of way. But there are also lots of people trying to figure out how to use AI not as a replacement for human creativity and thinking but as a tool meant to augment those things.
Sari Azout is one of those people. She’s the founder of Sublime, a platform dedicated to curation, creativity, and ideas. Sublime is all about taste, which makes it slightly surprising that there’s a huge amount of AI powering the way it works. But to Azout, it all makes sense.
Between keeping up with TikTok trends and whatever new gadget just dropped, it’s tough to know exactly what teens are into these days. Luckily, we can help. We may be older than teenagers, but many of us here at The Verge are kids at heart. Plus, we’ve also got a few staffers with older kids. To make your life a little easier this holiday season, we rounded up what we think are the best gifts for teens, based on our tech expertise as well as what our staff’s teens are into right now.
Below, you’ll find gift ideas for many types of teens. Some are more obvious choices, like the latest iPhone and Nintendo Switch 2, but we sought to include a …
The discount brings the price down to $299 ($100 off). | Image: The Verge
We thought Black Friday and Cyber Monday would bring the lowest prices of the year, but apparently not. Right now, you can snag Apple’s Watch Series 11 in the 42mm configuration with GPS for a new all-time low of $299 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy. That beats the $70 discount we saw at the beginning of the month, which means if you didn’t take advantage then, you can save even more now. The 46mm model with GPS is also down to its lowest price yet of $329 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy.
The Series 11 offers some nice improvements to the already-excellent Apple Watch Series 10. While this year’s model has the same dimensions as its predecessor, battery life has increased up to 24 hours per charge on the GPS / Wi-Fi model. At the same time, Apple managed to improve the Series 11’s durability and scratch-resistance, making it a better option for more intense workouts. Additionally, Apple added a more power-efficient 5G modem to the cellular model, so the battery won’t drain as quickly when you’re not on Wi-Fi.
Otherwise, the Series 11 carries over everything we loved about the Series 10. The wide-angle OLED display looks fantastic and is easy to read at a glance, while performance is excellent thanks to Apple’s S10 SiP chip. You also get a variety of health and wellness features, including FDA-cleared hypertension notifications, sleep apnea detection, and sleep score, which can summarize how well you slept. Meanwhile, you get access to the watchOS 26 update, which introduces a workout buddy and offers wrist-flick and double-tap gestures, along with the Liquid Glass redesign.
If you already own a Series 10, there aren’t many reasons to upgrade outside of the slightly improved battery life. However, if you have something older or you’re checking off a gift list, the Series 11 at $100 off is a great deal right before the holidays.
Slack users can now access Anthropic’s Claude Code directly in Slack by tagging Claude on coding-related messages and threads. The new feature is launching today in beta as a research preview.
When Claude is tagged, it will now automatically scan the message to see if it’s a coding task and, if so, route it to Claude Code using the context from the related Slack thread and the code repositories you’ve authenticated in Claude Code. Slack users can also directly tell Claude that a request is a coding task. For instance, you could ask Claude to investigate a bug report you’re discussing in Slack without needing to manually copy all the conte …
Lenovo has already demonstrated its ability to put rollable OLEDs into laptops by graduating last year from demo concept models to shipping the ThinkBook Plus Gen 6, an actual device you can buy. It has a built-in mechanism that expands the screen vertically to give you more screen real estate for typing and scrolling. However, the company might soon debut its first laptop that uses a rollable OLED to effectively transform its screen into an ultrawide 21:9 aspect ratio screen, with left and right edges that extend far outside the bottom chassis.
The Lenovo Legion Pro Rollable will be its first gaming laptop to feature a rollable horizontal …
At their biggest and most expensive, video games all sort of look the same. The reason often comes down to simple economics: More resources means more costs that need to be recouped, and historically the way publishers have done that is by being comically risk-averse. Hence the glut of semi-realistic rocky wastelands that look like death metal album covers where everyone is some kind of Wild West fetishist, or the hero shooters that all look like Pixar but shredded as hell and ready for fan artists to go places I shall not.
On occasion, however, new visual ground is staked. Octopath Traveler 0 is an example of this. The third game in the O …
Joshua Aaron, the developer of the ICEBlock app, is suing Attorney General Pam Bondi, US Homeland Security Secretary Kirsti Noem, acting director of ICE Todd Lyons, White House « Border Czar » Tom Homan, and other federal officials over the Trump administration’s « unlawful threats » made against Aaron and its actions to pressure Apple to pull the app from the App Store, which it did.
« We promised you we would fight back. Well, today’s the day we make good on the promise, » according to a post from ICEBlock’s official account on Bluesky. Aaron, Apple, and the Department of Homeland Security, didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment fr …
There’s an argument to be made that « the real monster is trauma » has become an overused trope in modern horror. Hereditary, The Babadook, and, much less effectively, Smile, are just a few higher-profile examples. But, if you ask me, few films have deployed this trope quite as effectively as the 2020 film His House.
The film follows Bol and Rial, refugees from South Sudan, played by Sope Dirisu and Wunmi Mosaku. Both deliver the kind of incredible performances that you rarely see in a genre film like this. It’s part of what elevates His House above the standard « haunted by trauma » fare. Mosaku, in particular, shows the sort of nuance and scr …
In November, Ted Sarandos, Netflix’s co-CEO made a trip to the White House for a lengthy meeting with Donald Trump. According to Bloomberg, the two discussed a number of topics, but chief among them was Netflix’s plan to bid on Warner Bros. At the end of their conversation, Sardonos felt that “Netflix wouldn’t face immediate opposition from the White House.”
This week, Netflix successfully won the bidding war for Warner, offering $82.7 billion. It’s well known that Paramount and its CEO David Ellison were eager to acquire the storied studio and its streaming assets. Ellison and his father, Larry Ellison, have close ties to the White House, and as part of their pitch to Warner, suggested that only they were in a position to overcome the regulatory hurdles of further media consolidation.
Sarandos seems to have rightly believed that the Ellisons overestimated their political clout. And despite some public efforts to turn the White House against the deal, Netflix won out, for now. There is of course, still a chance that Paramount could launch a hostile takeover effort, or that the Justice Department could try and scuttle the deal — nothing is guaranteed yet.
Sarandos tried to acquire Paramount before David Ellison swooped in, so snatching Warner Bros. out from under his nose is likely something of a personal victory.
Friday, the EU slapped X with a €120 million fine (about $140 million) for violating the Digital Services Act (DSA). It was the first time that a company had been hit with a penalty for running afoul of the law. Elon Musk responded with his trademark tact and professionalism by posting “Bullshit” on X in response to the announcement from the European Commission. But that wasn’t the end, because just a day later Nikita Bier, X’s head of product, accused the Commission of abusing an exploit to boost the reach of the announcement and responded by shutting down its ad account.
According to Bier, the Commission had not used its ad account since 2021, but used a post format explicitly reserved for ads in its announcement of the fine against X. He claims that the Commission posted “a link that deceives users into thinking it’s a video and to artificially increase its reach.” (For the record, the post itself includes a video.)
The seemingly retaliatory revocation of the European Commission’s ad account is unlikely to materially change things for either X or the EU. If, as Bier claims, the Commission has not used its ad account since 2021, holding it hostage is unlikely to give X any leverage. And, while it can appeal the decision, X is currently still on the hook for the sizable fine. Plus, it must provide details for how it plans to address the “deceptive” use of verified checkmarks in the next 60 days, or face additional penalties.
We’ve reached out to the Commission for comment and will update if we hear back.
Il semble que nous ne pouvons pas trouver le contenu demandé. Peut-être qu’une recherche peut vous aider.
It’s easy to think about AI as a sort of existential battle between human and machine. Maybe it will be, someday, in a Skynet sort of way. But there are also lots of people trying to figure out how to use AI not as a replacement for human creativity and thinking but as a tool meant to augment those things.
Sari Azout is one of those people. She’s the founder of Sublime, a platform dedicated to curation, creativity, and ideas. Sublime is all about taste, which makes it slightly surprising that there’s a huge amount of AI powering the way it works. But to Azout, it all makes sense.
Between keeping up with TikTok trends and whatever new gadget just dropped, it’s tough to know exactly what teens are into these days. Luckily, we can help. We may be older than teenagers, but many of us here at The Verge are kids at heart. Plus, we’ve also got a few staffers with older kids. To make your life a little easier this holiday season, we rounded up what we think are the best gifts for teens, based on our tech expertise as well as what our staff’s teens are into right now.
Below, you’ll find gift ideas for many types of teens. Some are more obvious choices, like the latest iPhone and Nintendo Switch 2, but we sought to include a …
The discount brings the price down to $299 ($100 off). | Image: The Verge
We thought Black Friday and Cyber Monday would bring the lowest prices of the year, but apparently not. Right now, you can snag Apple’s Watch Series 11 in the 42mm configuration with GPS for a new all-time low of $299 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy. That beats the $70 discount we saw at the beginning of the month, which means if you didn’t take advantage then, you can save even more now. The 46mm model with GPS is also down to its lowest price yet of $329 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy.
The Series 11 offers some nice improvements to the already-excellent Apple Watch Series 10. While this year’s model has the same dimensions as its predecessor, battery life has increased up to 24 hours per charge on the GPS / Wi-Fi model. At the same time, Apple managed to improve the Series 11’s durability and scratch-resistance, making it a better option for more intense workouts. Additionally, Apple added a more power-efficient 5G modem to the cellular model, so the battery won’t drain as quickly when you’re not on Wi-Fi.
Otherwise, the Series 11 carries over everything we loved about the Series 10. The wide-angle OLED display looks fantastic and is easy to read at a glance, while performance is excellent thanks to Apple’s S10 SiP chip. You also get a variety of health and wellness features, including FDA-cleared hypertension notifications, sleep apnea detection, and sleep score, which can summarize how well you slept. Meanwhile, you get access to the watchOS 26 update, which introduces a workout buddy and offers wrist-flick and double-tap gestures, along with the Liquid Glass redesign.
If you already own a Series 10, there aren’t many reasons to upgrade outside of the slightly improved battery life. However, if you have something older or you’re checking off a gift list, the Series 11 at $100 off is a great deal right before the holidays.
Slack users can now access Anthropic’s Claude Code directly in Slack by tagging Claude on coding-related messages and threads. The new feature is launching today in beta as a research preview.
When Claude is tagged, it will now automatically scan the message to see if it’s a coding task and, if so, route it to Claude Code using the context from the related Slack thread and the code repositories you’ve authenticated in Claude Code. Slack users can also directly tell Claude that a request is a coding task. For instance, you could ask Claude to investigate a bug report you’re discussing in Slack without needing to manually copy all the conte …
Lenovo has already demonstrated its ability to put rollable OLEDs into laptops by graduating last year from demo concept models to shipping the ThinkBook Plus Gen 6, an actual device you can buy. It has a built-in mechanism that expands the screen vertically to give you more screen real estate for typing and scrolling. However, the company might soon debut its first laptop that uses a rollable OLED to effectively transform its screen into an ultrawide 21:9 aspect ratio screen, with left and right edges that extend far outside the bottom chassis.
The Lenovo Legion Pro Rollable will be its first gaming laptop to feature a rollable horizontal …
At their biggest and most expensive, video games all sort of look the same. The reason often comes down to simple economics: More resources means more costs that need to be recouped, and historically the way publishers have done that is by being comically risk-averse. Hence the glut of semi-realistic rocky wastelands that look like death metal album covers where everyone is some kind of Wild West fetishist, or the hero shooters that all look like Pixar but shredded as hell and ready for fan artists to go places I shall not.
On occasion, however, new visual ground is staked. Octopath Traveler 0 is an example of this. The third game in the O …
Joshua Aaron, the developer of the ICEBlock app, is suing Attorney General Pam Bondi, US Homeland Security Secretary Kirsti Noem, acting director of ICE Todd Lyons, White House « Border Czar » Tom Homan, and other federal officials over the Trump administration’s « unlawful threats » made against Aaron and its actions to pressure Apple to pull the app from the App Store, which it did.
« We promised you we would fight back. Well, today’s the day we make good on the promise, » according to a post from ICEBlock’s official account on Bluesky. Aaron, Apple, and the Department of Homeland Security, didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment fr …
There’s an argument to be made that « the real monster is trauma » has become an overused trope in modern horror. Hereditary, The Babadook, and, much less effectively, Smile, are just a few higher-profile examples. But, if you ask me, few films have deployed this trope quite as effectively as the 2020 film His House.
The film follows Bol and Rial, refugees from South Sudan, played by Sope Dirisu and Wunmi Mosaku. Both deliver the kind of incredible performances that you rarely see in a genre film like this. It’s part of what elevates His House above the standard « haunted by trauma » fare. Mosaku, in particular, shows the sort of nuance and scr …
In November, Ted Sarandos, Netflix’s co-CEO made a trip to the White House for a lengthy meeting with Donald Trump. According to Bloomberg, the two discussed a number of topics, but chief among them was Netflix’s plan to bid on Warner Bros. At the end of their conversation, Sardonos felt that “Netflix wouldn’t face immediate opposition from the White House.”
This week, Netflix successfully won the bidding war for Warner, offering $82.7 billion. It’s well known that Paramount and its CEO David Ellison were eager to acquire the storied studio and its streaming assets. Ellison and his father, Larry Ellison, have close ties to the White House, and as part of their pitch to Warner, suggested that only they were in a position to overcome the regulatory hurdles of further media consolidation.
Sarandos seems to have rightly believed that the Ellisons overestimated their political clout. And despite some public efforts to turn the White House against the deal, Netflix won out, for now. There is of course, still a chance that Paramount could launch a hostile takeover effort, or that the Justice Department could try and scuttle the deal — nothing is guaranteed yet.
Sarandos tried to acquire Paramount before David Ellison swooped in, so snatching Warner Bros. out from under his nose is likely something of a personal victory.
Friday, the EU slapped X with a €120 million fine (about $140 million) for violating the Digital Services Act (DSA). It was the first time that a company had been hit with a penalty for running afoul of the law. Elon Musk responded with his trademark tact and professionalism by posting “Bullshit” on X in response to the announcement from the European Commission. But that wasn’t the end, because just a day later Nikita Bier, X’s head of product, accused the Commission of abusing an exploit to boost the reach of the announcement and responded by shutting down its ad account.
According to Bier, the Commission had not used its ad account since 2021, but used a post format explicitly reserved for ads in its announcement of the fine against X. He claims that the Commission posted “a link that deceives users into thinking it’s a video and to artificially increase its reach.” (For the record, the post itself includes a video.)
The seemingly retaliatory revocation of the European Commission’s ad account is unlikely to materially change things for either X or the EU. If, as Bier claims, the Commission has not used its ad account since 2021, holding it hostage is unlikely to give X any leverage. And, while it can appeal the decision, X is currently still on the hook for the sizable fine. Plus, it must provide details for how it plans to address the “deceptive” use of verified checkmarks in the next 60 days, or face additional penalties.
We’ve reached out to the Commission for comment and will update if we hear back.
Il semble que nous ne pouvons pas trouver le contenu demandé. Peut-être qu’une recherche peut vous aider.
It’s easy to think about AI as a sort of existential battle between human and machine. Maybe it will be, someday, in a Skynet sort of way. But there are also lots of people trying to figure out how to use AI not as a replacement for human creativity and thinking but as a tool meant to augment those things.
Sari Azout is one of those people. She’s the founder of Sublime, a platform dedicated to curation, creativity, and ideas. Sublime is all about taste, which makes it slightly surprising that there’s a huge amount of AI powering the way it works. But to Azout, it all makes sense.
Between keeping up with TikTok trends and whatever new gadget just dropped, it’s tough to know exactly what teens are into these days. Luckily, we can help. We may be older than teenagers, but many of us here at The Verge are kids at heart. Plus, we’ve also got a few staffers with older kids. To make your life a little easier this holiday season, we rounded up what we think are the best gifts for teens, based on our tech expertise as well as what our staff’s teens are into right now.
Below, you’ll find gift ideas for many types of teens. Some are more obvious choices, like the latest iPhone and Nintendo Switch 2, but we sought to include a …
The discount brings the price down to $299 ($100 off). | Image: The Verge
We thought Black Friday and Cyber Monday would bring the lowest prices of the year, but apparently not. Right now, you can snag Apple’s Watch Series 11 in the 42mm configuration with GPS for a new all-time low of $299 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy. That beats the $70 discount we saw at the beginning of the month, which means if you didn’t take advantage then, you can save even more now. The 46mm model with GPS is also down to its lowest price yet of $329 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy.
The Series 11 offers some nice improvements to the already-excellent Apple Watch Series 10. While this year’s model has the same dimensions as its predecessor, battery life has increased up to 24 hours per charge on the GPS / Wi-Fi model. At the same time, Apple managed to improve the Series 11’s durability and scratch-resistance, making it a better option for more intense workouts. Additionally, Apple added a more power-efficient 5G modem to the cellular model, so the battery won’t drain as quickly when you’re not on Wi-Fi.
Otherwise, the Series 11 carries over everything we loved about the Series 10. The wide-angle OLED display looks fantastic and is easy to read at a glance, while performance is excellent thanks to Apple’s S10 SiP chip. You also get a variety of health and wellness features, including FDA-cleared hypertension notifications, sleep apnea detection, and sleep score, which can summarize how well you slept. Meanwhile, you get access to the watchOS 26 update, which introduces a workout buddy and offers wrist-flick and double-tap gestures, along with the Liquid Glass redesign.
If you already own a Series 10, there aren’t many reasons to upgrade outside of the slightly improved battery life. However, if you have something older or you’re checking off a gift list, the Series 11 at $100 off is a great deal right before the holidays.
Slack users can now access Anthropic’s Claude Code directly in Slack by tagging Claude on coding-related messages and threads. The new feature is launching today in beta as a research preview.
When Claude is tagged, it will now automatically scan the message to see if it’s a coding task and, if so, route it to Claude Code using the context from the related Slack thread and the code repositories you’ve authenticated in Claude Code. Slack users can also directly tell Claude that a request is a coding task. For instance, you could ask Claude to investigate a bug report you’re discussing in Slack without needing to manually copy all the conte …
Lenovo has already demonstrated its ability to put rollable OLEDs into laptops by graduating last year from demo concept models to shipping the ThinkBook Plus Gen 6, an actual device you can buy. It has a built-in mechanism that expands the screen vertically to give you more screen real estate for typing and scrolling. However, the company might soon debut its first laptop that uses a rollable OLED to effectively transform its screen into an ultrawide 21:9 aspect ratio screen, with left and right edges that extend far outside the bottom chassis.
The Lenovo Legion Pro Rollable will be its first gaming laptop to feature a rollable horizontal …
At their biggest and most expensive, video games all sort of look the same. The reason often comes down to simple economics: More resources means more costs that need to be recouped, and historically the way publishers have done that is by being comically risk-averse. Hence the glut of semi-realistic rocky wastelands that look like death metal album covers where everyone is some kind of Wild West fetishist, or the hero shooters that all look like Pixar but shredded as hell and ready for fan artists to go places I shall not.
On occasion, however, new visual ground is staked. Octopath Traveler 0 is an example of this. The third game in the O …
Joshua Aaron, the developer of the ICEBlock app, is suing Attorney General Pam Bondi, US Homeland Security Secretary Kirsti Noem, acting director of ICE Todd Lyons, White House « Border Czar » Tom Homan, and other federal officials over the Trump administration’s « unlawful threats » made against Aaron and its actions to pressure Apple to pull the app from the App Store, which it did.
« We promised you we would fight back. Well, today’s the day we make good on the promise, » according to a post from ICEBlock’s official account on Bluesky. Aaron, Apple, and the Department of Homeland Security, didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment fr …
There’s an argument to be made that « the real monster is trauma » has become an overused trope in modern horror. Hereditary, The Babadook, and, much less effectively, Smile, are just a few higher-profile examples. But, if you ask me, few films have deployed this trope quite as effectively as the 2020 film His House.
The film follows Bol and Rial, refugees from South Sudan, played by Sope Dirisu and Wunmi Mosaku. Both deliver the kind of incredible performances that you rarely see in a genre film like this. It’s part of what elevates His House above the standard « haunted by trauma » fare. Mosaku, in particular, shows the sort of nuance and scr …
In November, Ted Sarandos, Netflix’s co-CEO made a trip to the White House for a lengthy meeting with Donald Trump. According to Bloomberg, the two discussed a number of topics, but chief among them was Netflix’s plan to bid on Warner Bros. At the end of their conversation, Sardonos felt that “Netflix wouldn’t face immediate opposition from the White House.”
This week, Netflix successfully won the bidding war for Warner, offering $82.7 billion. It’s well known that Paramount and its CEO David Ellison were eager to acquire the storied studio and its streaming assets. Ellison and his father, Larry Ellison, have close ties to the White House, and as part of their pitch to Warner, suggested that only they were in a position to overcome the regulatory hurdles of further media consolidation.
Sarandos seems to have rightly believed that the Ellisons overestimated their political clout. And despite some public efforts to turn the White House against the deal, Netflix won out, for now. There is of course, still a chance that Paramount could launch a hostile takeover effort, or that the Justice Department could try and scuttle the deal — nothing is guaranteed yet.
Sarandos tried to acquire Paramount before David Ellison swooped in, so snatching Warner Bros. out from under his nose is likely something of a personal victory.
Friday, the EU slapped X with a €120 million fine (about $140 million) for violating the Digital Services Act (DSA). It was the first time that a company had been hit with a penalty for running afoul of the law. Elon Musk responded with his trademark tact and professionalism by posting “Bullshit” on X in response to the announcement from the European Commission. But that wasn’t the end, because just a day later Nikita Bier, X’s head of product, accused the Commission of abusing an exploit to boost the reach of the announcement and responded by shutting down its ad account.
According to Bier, the Commission had not used its ad account since 2021, but used a post format explicitly reserved for ads in its announcement of the fine against X. He claims that the Commission posted “a link that deceives users into thinking it’s a video and to artificially increase its reach.” (For the record, the post itself includes a video.)
The seemingly retaliatory revocation of the European Commission’s ad account is unlikely to materially change things for either X or the EU. If, as Bier claims, the Commission has not used its ad account since 2021, holding it hostage is unlikely to give X any leverage. And, while it can appeal the decision, X is currently still on the hook for the sizable fine. Plus, it must provide details for how it plans to address the “deceptive” use of verified checkmarks in the next 60 days, or face additional penalties.
We’ve reached out to the Commission for comment and will update if we hear back.
Il semble que nous ne pouvons pas trouver le contenu demandé. Peut-être qu’une recherche peut vous aider.
It’s easy to think about AI as a sort of existential battle between human and machine. Maybe it will be, someday, in a Skynet sort of way. But there are also lots of people trying to figure out how to use AI not as a replacement for human creativity and thinking but as a tool meant to augment those things.
Sari Azout is one of those people. She’s the founder of Sublime, a platform dedicated to curation, creativity, and ideas. Sublime is all about taste, which makes it slightly surprising that there’s a huge amount of AI powering the way it works. But to Azout, it all makes sense.
Between keeping up with TikTok trends and whatever new gadget just dropped, it’s tough to know exactly what teens are into these days. Luckily, we can help. We may be older than teenagers, but many of us here at The Verge are kids at heart. Plus, we’ve also got a few staffers with older kids. To make your life a little easier this holiday season, we rounded up what we think are the best gifts for teens, based on our tech expertise as well as what our staff’s teens are into right now.
Below, you’ll find gift ideas for many types of teens. Some are more obvious choices, like the latest iPhone and Nintendo Switch 2, but we sought to include a …
The discount brings the price down to $299 ($100 off). | Image: The Verge
We thought Black Friday and Cyber Monday would bring the lowest prices of the year, but apparently not. Right now, you can snag Apple’s Watch Series 11 in the 42mm configuration with GPS for a new all-time low of $299 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy. That beats the $70 discount we saw at the beginning of the month, which means if you didn’t take advantage then, you can save even more now. The 46mm model with GPS is also down to its lowest price yet of $329 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy.
The Series 11 offers some nice improvements to the already-excellent Apple Watch Series 10. While this year’s model has the same dimensions as its predecessor, battery life has increased up to 24 hours per charge on the GPS / Wi-Fi model. At the same time, Apple managed to improve the Series 11’s durability and scratch-resistance, making it a better option for more intense workouts. Additionally, Apple added a more power-efficient 5G modem to the cellular model, so the battery won’t drain as quickly when you’re not on Wi-Fi.
Otherwise, the Series 11 carries over everything we loved about the Series 10. The wide-angle OLED display looks fantastic and is easy to read at a glance, while performance is excellent thanks to Apple’s S10 SiP chip. You also get a variety of health and wellness features, including FDA-cleared hypertension notifications, sleep apnea detection, and sleep score, which can summarize how well you slept. Meanwhile, you get access to the watchOS 26 update, which introduces a workout buddy and offers wrist-flick and double-tap gestures, along with the Liquid Glass redesign.
If you already own a Series 10, there aren’t many reasons to upgrade outside of the slightly improved battery life. However, if you have something older or you’re checking off a gift list, the Series 11 at $100 off is a great deal right before the holidays.
Slack users can now access Anthropic’s Claude Code directly in Slack by tagging Claude on coding-related messages and threads. The new feature is launching today in beta as a research preview.
When Claude is tagged, it will now automatically scan the message to see if it’s a coding task and, if so, route it to Claude Code using the context from the related Slack thread and the code repositories you’ve authenticated in Claude Code. Slack users can also directly tell Claude that a request is a coding task. For instance, you could ask Claude to investigate a bug report you’re discussing in Slack without needing to manually copy all the conte …
Lenovo has already demonstrated its ability to put rollable OLEDs into laptops by graduating last year from demo concept models to shipping the ThinkBook Plus Gen 6, an actual device you can buy. It has a built-in mechanism that expands the screen vertically to give you more screen real estate for typing and scrolling. However, the company might soon debut its first laptop that uses a rollable OLED to effectively transform its screen into an ultrawide 21:9 aspect ratio screen, with left and right edges that extend far outside the bottom chassis.
The Lenovo Legion Pro Rollable will be its first gaming laptop to feature a rollable horizontal …
At their biggest and most expensive, video games all sort of look the same. The reason often comes down to simple economics: More resources means more costs that need to be recouped, and historically the way publishers have done that is by being comically risk-averse. Hence the glut of semi-realistic rocky wastelands that look like death metal album covers where everyone is some kind of Wild West fetishist, or the hero shooters that all look like Pixar but shredded as hell and ready for fan artists to go places I shall not.
On occasion, however, new visual ground is staked. Octopath Traveler 0 is an example of this. The third game in the O …
Joshua Aaron, the developer of the ICEBlock app, is suing Attorney General Pam Bondi, US Homeland Security Secretary Kirsti Noem, acting director of ICE Todd Lyons, White House « Border Czar » Tom Homan, and other federal officials over the Trump administration’s « unlawful threats » made against Aaron and its actions to pressure Apple to pull the app from the App Store, which it did.
« We promised you we would fight back. Well, today’s the day we make good on the promise, » according to a post from ICEBlock’s official account on Bluesky. Aaron, Apple, and the Department of Homeland Security, didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment fr …
There’s an argument to be made that « the real monster is trauma » has become an overused trope in modern horror. Hereditary, The Babadook, and, much less effectively, Smile, are just a few higher-profile examples. But, if you ask me, few films have deployed this trope quite as effectively as the 2020 film His House.
The film follows Bol and Rial, refugees from South Sudan, played by Sope Dirisu and Wunmi Mosaku. Both deliver the kind of incredible performances that you rarely see in a genre film like this. It’s part of what elevates His House above the standard « haunted by trauma » fare. Mosaku, in particular, shows the sort of nuance and scr …
In November, Ted Sarandos, Netflix’s co-CEO made a trip to the White House for a lengthy meeting with Donald Trump. According to Bloomberg, the two discussed a number of topics, but chief among them was Netflix’s plan to bid on Warner Bros. At the end of their conversation, Sardonos felt that “Netflix wouldn’t face immediate opposition from the White House.”
This week, Netflix successfully won the bidding war for Warner, offering $82.7 billion. It’s well known that Paramount and its CEO David Ellison were eager to acquire the storied studio and its streaming assets. Ellison and his father, Larry Ellison, have close ties to the White House, and as part of their pitch to Warner, suggested that only they were in a position to overcome the regulatory hurdles of further media consolidation.
Sarandos seems to have rightly believed that the Ellisons overestimated their political clout. And despite some public efforts to turn the White House against the deal, Netflix won out, for now. There is of course, still a chance that Paramount could launch a hostile takeover effort, or that the Justice Department could try and scuttle the deal — nothing is guaranteed yet.
Sarandos tried to acquire Paramount before David Ellison swooped in, so snatching Warner Bros. out from under his nose is likely something of a personal victory.
Friday, the EU slapped X with a €120 million fine (about $140 million) for violating the Digital Services Act (DSA). It was the first time that a company had been hit with a penalty for running afoul of the law. Elon Musk responded with his trademark tact and professionalism by posting “Bullshit” on X in response to the announcement from the European Commission. But that wasn’t the end, because just a day later Nikita Bier, X’s head of product, accused the Commission of abusing an exploit to boost the reach of the announcement and responded by shutting down its ad account.
According to Bier, the Commission had not used its ad account since 2021, but used a post format explicitly reserved for ads in its announcement of the fine against X. He claims that the Commission posted “a link that deceives users into thinking it’s a video and to artificially increase its reach.” (For the record, the post itself includes a video.)
The seemingly retaliatory revocation of the European Commission’s ad account is unlikely to materially change things for either X or the EU. If, as Bier claims, the Commission has not used its ad account since 2021, holding it hostage is unlikely to give X any leverage. And, while it can appeal the decision, X is currently still on the hook for the sizable fine. Plus, it must provide details for how it plans to address the “deceptive” use of verified checkmarks in the next 60 days, or face additional penalties.
We’ve reached out to the Commission for comment and will update if we hear back.
Il semble que nous ne pouvons pas trouver le contenu demandé. Peut-être qu’une recherche peut vous aider.
It’s easy to think about AI as a sort of existential battle between human and machine. Maybe it will be, someday, in a Skynet sort of way. But there are also lots of people trying to figure out how to use AI not as a replacement for human creativity and thinking but as a tool meant to augment those things.
Sari Azout is one of those people. She’s the founder of Sublime, a platform dedicated to curation, creativity, and ideas. Sublime is all about taste, which makes it slightly surprising that there’s a huge amount of AI powering the way it works. But to Azout, it all makes sense.
Between keeping up with TikTok trends and whatever new gadget just dropped, it’s tough to know exactly what teens are into these days. Luckily, we can help. We may be older than teenagers, but many of us here at The Verge are kids at heart. Plus, we’ve also got a few staffers with older kids. To make your life a little easier this holiday season, we rounded up what we think are the best gifts for teens, based on our tech expertise as well as what our staff’s teens are into right now.
Below, you’ll find gift ideas for many types of teens. Some are more obvious choices, like the latest iPhone and Nintendo Switch 2, but we sought to include a …
The discount brings the price down to $299 ($100 off). | Image: The Verge
We thought Black Friday and Cyber Monday would bring the lowest prices of the year, but apparently not. Right now, you can snag Apple’s Watch Series 11 in the 42mm configuration with GPS for a new all-time low of $299 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy. That beats the $70 discount we saw at the beginning of the month, which means if you didn’t take advantage then, you can save even more now. The 46mm model with GPS is also down to its lowest price yet of $329 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy.
The Series 11 offers some nice improvements to the already-excellent Apple Watch Series 10. While this year’s model has the same dimensions as its predecessor, battery life has increased up to 24 hours per charge on the GPS / Wi-Fi model. At the same time, Apple managed to improve the Series 11’s durability and scratch-resistance, making it a better option for more intense workouts. Additionally, Apple added a more power-efficient 5G modem to the cellular model, so the battery won’t drain as quickly when you’re not on Wi-Fi.
Otherwise, the Series 11 carries over everything we loved about the Series 10. The wide-angle OLED display looks fantastic and is easy to read at a glance, while performance is excellent thanks to Apple’s S10 SiP chip. You also get a variety of health and wellness features, including FDA-cleared hypertension notifications, sleep apnea detection, and sleep score, which can summarize how well you slept. Meanwhile, you get access to the watchOS 26 update, which introduces a workout buddy and offers wrist-flick and double-tap gestures, along with the Liquid Glass redesign.
If you already own a Series 10, there aren’t many reasons to upgrade outside of the slightly improved battery life. However, if you have something older or you’re checking off a gift list, the Series 11 at $100 off is a great deal right before the holidays.
Slack users can now access Anthropic’s Claude Code directly in Slack by tagging Claude on coding-related messages and threads. The new feature is launching today in beta as a research preview.
When Claude is tagged, it will now automatically scan the message to see if it’s a coding task and, if so, route it to Claude Code using the context from the related Slack thread and the code repositories you’ve authenticated in Claude Code. Slack users can also directly tell Claude that a request is a coding task. For instance, you could ask Claude to investigate a bug report you’re discussing in Slack without needing to manually copy all the conte …
Lenovo has already demonstrated its ability to put rollable OLEDs into laptops by graduating last year from demo concept models to shipping the ThinkBook Plus Gen 6, an actual device you can buy. It has a built-in mechanism that expands the screen vertically to give you more screen real estate for typing and scrolling. However, the company might soon debut its first laptop that uses a rollable OLED to effectively transform its screen into an ultrawide 21:9 aspect ratio screen, with left and right edges that extend far outside the bottom chassis.
The Lenovo Legion Pro Rollable will be its first gaming laptop to feature a rollable horizontal …
At their biggest and most expensive, video games all sort of look the same. The reason often comes down to simple economics: More resources means more costs that need to be recouped, and historically the way publishers have done that is by being comically risk-averse. Hence the glut of semi-realistic rocky wastelands that look like death metal album covers where everyone is some kind of Wild West fetishist, or the hero shooters that all look like Pixar but shredded as hell and ready for fan artists to go places I shall not.
On occasion, however, new visual ground is staked. Octopath Traveler 0 is an example of this. The third game in the O …
Joshua Aaron, the developer of the ICEBlock app, is suing Attorney General Pam Bondi, US Homeland Security Secretary Kirsti Noem, acting director of ICE Todd Lyons, White House « Border Czar » Tom Homan, and other federal officials over the Trump administration’s « unlawful threats » made against Aaron and its actions to pressure Apple to pull the app from the App Store, which it did.
« We promised you we would fight back. Well, today’s the day we make good on the promise, » according to a post from ICEBlock’s official account on Bluesky. Aaron, Apple, and the Department of Homeland Security, didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment fr …
There’s an argument to be made that « the real monster is trauma » has become an overused trope in modern horror. Hereditary, The Babadook, and, much less effectively, Smile, are just a few higher-profile examples. But, if you ask me, few films have deployed this trope quite as effectively as the 2020 film His House.
The film follows Bol and Rial, refugees from South Sudan, played by Sope Dirisu and Wunmi Mosaku. Both deliver the kind of incredible performances that you rarely see in a genre film like this. It’s part of what elevates His House above the standard « haunted by trauma » fare. Mosaku, in particular, shows the sort of nuance and scr …
In November, Ted Sarandos, Netflix’s co-CEO made a trip to the White House for a lengthy meeting with Donald Trump. According to Bloomberg, the two discussed a number of topics, but chief among them was Netflix’s plan to bid on Warner Bros. At the end of their conversation, Sardonos felt that “Netflix wouldn’t face immediate opposition from the White House.”
This week, Netflix successfully won the bidding war for Warner, offering $82.7 billion. It’s well known that Paramount and its CEO David Ellison were eager to acquire the storied studio and its streaming assets. Ellison and his father, Larry Ellison, have close ties to the White House, and as part of their pitch to Warner, suggested that only they were in a position to overcome the regulatory hurdles of further media consolidation.
Sarandos seems to have rightly believed that the Ellisons overestimated their political clout. And despite some public efforts to turn the White House against the deal, Netflix won out, for now. There is of course, still a chance that Paramount could launch a hostile takeover effort, or that the Justice Department could try and scuttle the deal — nothing is guaranteed yet.
Sarandos tried to acquire Paramount before David Ellison swooped in, so snatching Warner Bros. out from under his nose is likely something of a personal victory.
Friday, the EU slapped X with a €120 million fine (about $140 million) for violating the Digital Services Act (DSA). It was the first time that a company had been hit with a penalty for running afoul of the law. Elon Musk responded with his trademark tact and professionalism by posting “Bullshit” on X in response to the announcement from the European Commission. But that wasn’t the end, because just a day later Nikita Bier, X’s head of product, accused the Commission of abusing an exploit to boost the reach of the announcement and responded by shutting down its ad account.
According to Bier, the Commission had not used its ad account since 2021, but used a post format explicitly reserved for ads in its announcement of the fine against X. He claims that the Commission posted “a link that deceives users into thinking it’s a video and to artificially increase its reach.” (For the record, the post itself includes a video.)
The seemingly retaliatory revocation of the European Commission’s ad account is unlikely to materially change things for either X or the EU. If, as Bier claims, the Commission has not used its ad account since 2021, holding it hostage is unlikely to give X any leverage. And, while it can appeal the decision, X is currently still on the hook for the sizable fine. Plus, it must provide details for how it plans to address the “deceptive” use of verified checkmarks in the next 60 days, or face additional penalties.
We’ve reached out to the Commission for comment and will update if we hear back.
Il semble que nous ne pouvons pas trouver le contenu demandé. Peut-être qu’une recherche peut vous aider.
It’s easy to think about AI as a sort of existential battle between human and machine. Maybe it will be, someday, in a Skynet sort of way. But there are also lots of people trying to figure out how to use AI not as a replacement for human creativity and thinking but as a tool meant to augment those things.
Sari Azout is one of those people. She’s the founder of Sublime, a platform dedicated to curation, creativity, and ideas. Sublime is all about taste, which makes it slightly surprising that there’s a huge amount of AI powering the way it works. But to Azout, it all makes sense.
Between keeping up with TikTok trends and whatever new gadget just dropped, it’s tough to know exactly what teens are into these days. Luckily, we can help. We may be older than teenagers, but many of us here at The Verge are kids at heart. Plus, we’ve also got a few staffers with older kids. To make your life a little easier this holiday season, we rounded up what we think are the best gifts for teens, based on our tech expertise as well as what our staff’s teens are into right now.
Below, you’ll find gift ideas for many types of teens. Some are more obvious choices, like the latest iPhone and Nintendo Switch 2, but we sought to include a …
The discount brings the price down to $299 ($100 off). | Image: The Verge
We thought Black Friday and Cyber Monday would bring the lowest prices of the year, but apparently not. Right now, you can snag Apple’s Watch Series 11 in the 42mm configuration with GPS for a new all-time low of $299 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy. That beats the $70 discount we saw at the beginning of the month, which means if you didn’t take advantage then, you can save even more now. The 46mm model with GPS is also down to its lowest price yet of $329 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy.
The Series 11 offers some nice improvements to the already-excellent Apple Watch Series 10. While this year’s model has the same dimensions as its predecessor, battery life has increased up to 24 hours per charge on the GPS / Wi-Fi model. At the same time, Apple managed to improve the Series 11’s durability and scratch-resistance, making it a better option for more intense workouts. Additionally, Apple added a more power-efficient 5G modem to the cellular model, so the battery won’t drain as quickly when you’re not on Wi-Fi.
Otherwise, the Series 11 carries over everything we loved about the Series 10. The wide-angle OLED display looks fantastic and is easy to read at a glance, while performance is excellent thanks to Apple’s S10 SiP chip. You also get a variety of health and wellness features, including FDA-cleared hypertension notifications, sleep apnea detection, and sleep score, which can summarize how well you slept. Meanwhile, you get access to the watchOS 26 update, which introduces a workout buddy and offers wrist-flick and double-tap gestures, along with the Liquid Glass redesign.
If you already own a Series 10, there aren’t many reasons to upgrade outside of the slightly improved battery life. However, if you have something older or you’re checking off a gift list, the Series 11 at $100 off is a great deal right before the holidays.
Slack users can now access Anthropic’s Claude Code directly in Slack by tagging Claude on coding-related messages and threads. The new feature is launching today in beta as a research preview.
When Claude is tagged, it will now automatically scan the message to see if it’s a coding task and, if so, route it to Claude Code using the context from the related Slack thread and the code repositories you’ve authenticated in Claude Code. Slack users can also directly tell Claude that a request is a coding task. For instance, you could ask Claude to investigate a bug report you’re discussing in Slack without needing to manually copy all the conte …
Lenovo has already demonstrated its ability to put rollable OLEDs into laptops by graduating last year from demo concept models to shipping the ThinkBook Plus Gen 6, an actual device you can buy. It has a built-in mechanism that expands the screen vertically to give you more screen real estate for typing and scrolling. However, the company might soon debut its first laptop that uses a rollable OLED to effectively transform its screen into an ultrawide 21:9 aspect ratio screen, with left and right edges that extend far outside the bottom chassis.
The Lenovo Legion Pro Rollable will be its first gaming laptop to feature a rollable horizontal …
At their biggest and most expensive, video games all sort of look the same. The reason often comes down to simple economics: More resources means more costs that need to be recouped, and historically the way publishers have done that is by being comically risk-averse. Hence the glut of semi-realistic rocky wastelands that look like death metal album covers where everyone is some kind of Wild West fetishist, or the hero shooters that all look like Pixar but shredded as hell and ready for fan artists to go places I shall not.
On occasion, however, new visual ground is staked. Octopath Traveler 0 is an example of this. The third game in the O …
Joshua Aaron, the developer of the ICEBlock app, is suing Attorney General Pam Bondi, US Homeland Security Secretary Kirsti Noem, acting director of ICE Todd Lyons, White House « Border Czar » Tom Homan, and other federal officials over the Trump administration’s « unlawful threats » made against Aaron and its actions to pressure Apple to pull the app from the App Store, which it did.
« We promised you we would fight back. Well, today’s the day we make good on the promise, » according to a post from ICEBlock’s official account on Bluesky. Aaron, Apple, and the Department of Homeland Security, didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment fr …
There’s an argument to be made that « the real monster is trauma » has become an overused trope in modern horror. Hereditary, The Babadook, and, much less effectively, Smile, are just a few higher-profile examples. But, if you ask me, few films have deployed this trope quite as effectively as the 2020 film His House.
The film follows Bol and Rial, refugees from South Sudan, played by Sope Dirisu and Wunmi Mosaku. Both deliver the kind of incredible performances that you rarely see in a genre film like this. It’s part of what elevates His House above the standard « haunted by trauma » fare. Mosaku, in particular, shows the sort of nuance and scr …
In November, Ted Sarandos, Netflix’s co-CEO made a trip to the White House for a lengthy meeting with Donald Trump. According to Bloomberg, the two discussed a number of topics, but chief among them was Netflix’s plan to bid on Warner Bros. At the end of their conversation, Sardonos felt that “Netflix wouldn’t face immediate opposition from the White House.”
This week, Netflix successfully won the bidding war for Warner, offering $82.7 billion. It’s well known that Paramount and its CEO David Ellison were eager to acquire the storied studio and its streaming assets. Ellison and his father, Larry Ellison, have close ties to the White House, and as part of their pitch to Warner, suggested that only they were in a position to overcome the regulatory hurdles of further media consolidation.
Sarandos seems to have rightly believed that the Ellisons overestimated their political clout. And despite some public efforts to turn the White House against the deal, Netflix won out, for now. There is of course, still a chance that Paramount could launch a hostile takeover effort, or that the Justice Department could try and scuttle the deal — nothing is guaranteed yet.
Sarandos tried to acquire Paramount before David Ellison swooped in, so snatching Warner Bros. out from under his nose is likely something of a personal victory.
Friday, the EU slapped X with a €120 million fine (about $140 million) for violating the Digital Services Act (DSA). It was the first time that a company had been hit with a penalty for running afoul of the law. Elon Musk responded with his trademark tact and professionalism by posting “Bullshit” on X in response to the announcement from the European Commission. But that wasn’t the end, because just a day later Nikita Bier, X’s head of product, accused the Commission of abusing an exploit to boost the reach of the announcement and responded by shutting down its ad account.
According to Bier, the Commission had not used its ad account since 2021, but used a post format explicitly reserved for ads in its announcement of the fine against X. He claims that the Commission posted “a link that deceives users into thinking it’s a video and to artificially increase its reach.” (For the record, the post itself includes a video.)
The seemingly retaliatory revocation of the European Commission’s ad account is unlikely to materially change things for either X or the EU. If, as Bier claims, the Commission has not used its ad account since 2021, holding it hostage is unlikely to give X any leverage. And, while it can appeal the decision, X is currently still on the hook for the sizable fine. Plus, it must provide details for how it plans to address the “deceptive” use of verified checkmarks in the next 60 days, or face additional penalties.
We’ve reached out to the Commission for comment and will update if we hear back.
Il semble que nous ne pouvons pas trouver le contenu demandé. Peut-être qu’une recherche peut vous aider.
It’s easy to think about AI as a sort of existential battle between human and machine. Maybe it will be, someday, in a Skynet sort of way. But there are also lots of people trying to figure out how to use AI not as a replacement for human creativity and thinking but as a tool meant to augment those things.
Sari Azout is one of those people. She’s the founder of Sublime, a platform dedicated to curation, creativity, and ideas. Sublime is all about taste, which makes it slightly surprising that there’s a huge amount of AI powering the way it works. But to Azout, it all makes sense.
Between keeping up with TikTok trends and whatever new gadget just dropped, it’s tough to know exactly what teens are into these days. Luckily, we can help. We may be older than teenagers, but many of us here at The Verge are kids at heart. Plus, we’ve also got a few staffers with older kids. To make your life a little easier this holiday season, we rounded up what we think are the best gifts for teens, based on our tech expertise as well as what our staff’s teens are into right now.
Below, you’ll find gift ideas for many types of teens. Some are more obvious choices, like the latest iPhone and Nintendo Switch 2, but we sought to include a …
The discount brings the price down to $299 ($100 off). | Image: The Verge
We thought Black Friday and Cyber Monday would bring the lowest prices of the year, but apparently not. Right now, you can snag Apple’s Watch Series 11 in the 42mm configuration with GPS for a new all-time low of $299 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy. That beats the $70 discount we saw at the beginning of the month, which means if you didn’t take advantage then, you can save even more now. The 46mm model with GPS is also down to its lowest price yet of $329 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy.
The Series 11 offers some nice improvements to the already-excellent Apple Watch Series 10. While this year’s model has the same dimensions as its predecessor, battery life has increased up to 24 hours per charge on the GPS / Wi-Fi model. At the same time, Apple managed to improve the Series 11’s durability and scratch-resistance, making it a better option for more intense workouts. Additionally, Apple added a more power-efficient 5G modem to the cellular model, so the battery won’t drain as quickly when you’re not on Wi-Fi.
Otherwise, the Series 11 carries over everything we loved about the Series 10. The wide-angle OLED display looks fantastic and is easy to read at a glance, while performance is excellent thanks to Apple’s S10 SiP chip. You also get a variety of health and wellness features, including FDA-cleared hypertension notifications, sleep apnea detection, and sleep score, which can summarize how well you slept. Meanwhile, you get access to the watchOS 26 update, which introduces a workout buddy and offers wrist-flick and double-tap gestures, along with the Liquid Glass redesign.
If you already own a Series 10, there aren’t many reasons to upgrade outside of the slightly improved battery life. However, if you have something older or you’re checking off a gift list, the Series 11 at $100 off is a great deal right before the holidays.
Slack users can now access Anthropic’s Claude Code directly in Slack by tagging Claude on coding-related messages and threads. The new feature is launching today in beta as a research preview.
When Claude is tagged, it will now automatically scan the message to see if it’s a coding task and, if so, route it to Claude Code using the context from the related Slack thread and the code repositories you’ve authenticated in Claude Code. Slack users can also directly tell Claude that a request is a coding task. For instance, you could ask Claude to investigate a bug report you’re discussing in Slack without needing to manually copy all the conte …
Lenovo has already demonstrated its ability to put rollable OLEDs into laptops by graduating last year from demo concept models to shipping the ThinkBook Plus Gen 6, an actual device you can buy. It has a built-in mechanism that expands the screen vertically to give you more screen real estate for typing and scrolling. However, the company might soon debut its first laptop that uses a rollable OLED to effectively transform its screen into an ultrawide 21:9 aspect ratio screen, with left and right edges that extend far outside the bottom chassis.
The Lenovo Legion Pro Rollable will be its first gaming laptop to feature a rollable horizontal …
At their biggest and most expensive, video games all sort of look the same. The reason often comes down to simple economics: More resources means more costs that need to be recouped, and historically the way publishers have done that is by being comically risk-averse. Hence the glut of semi-realistic rocky wastelands that look like death metal album covers where everyone is some kind of Wild West fetishist, or the hero shooters that all look like Pixar but shredded as hell and ready for fan artists to go places I shall not.
On occasion, however, new visual ground is staked. Octopath Traveler 0 is an example of this. The third game in the O …
Joshua Aaron, the developer of the ICEBlock app, is suing Attorney General Pam Bondi, US Homeland Security Secretary Kirsti Noem, acting director of ICE Todd Lyons, White House « Border Czar » Tom Homan, and other federal officials over the Trump administration’s « unlawful threats » made against Aaron and its actions to pressure Apple to pull the app from the App Store, which it did.
« We promised you we would fight back. Well, today’s the day we make good on the promise, » according to a post from ICEBlock’s official account on Bluesky. Aaron, Apple, and the Department of Homeland Security, didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment fr …
There’s an argument to be made that « the real monster is trauma » has become an overused trope in modern horror. Hereditary, The Babadook, and, much less effectively, Smile, are just a few higher-profile examples. But, if you ask me, few films have deployed this trope quite as effectively as the 2020 film His House.
The film follows Bol and Rial, refugees from South Sudan, played by Sope Dirisu and Wunmi Mosaku. Both deliver the kind of incredible performances that you rarely see in a genre film like this. It’s part of what elevates His House above the standard « haunted by trauma » fare. Mosaku, in particular, shows the sort of nuance and scr …
In November, Ted Sarandos, Netflix’s co-CEO made a trip to the White House for a lengthy meeting with Donald Trump. According to Bloomberg, the two discussed a number of topics, but chief among them was Netflix’s plan to bid on Warner Bros. At the end of their conversation, Sardonos felt that “Netflix wouldn’t face immediate opposition from the White House.”
This week, Netflix successfully won the bidding war for Warner, offering $82.7 billion. It’s well known that Paramount and its CEO David Ellison were eager to acquire the storied studio and its streaming assets. Ellison and his father, Larry Ellison, have close ties to the White House, and as part of their pitch to Warner, suggested that only they were in a position to overcome the regulatory hurdles of further media consolidation.
Sarandos seems to have rightly believed that the Ellisons overestimated their political clout. And despite some public efforts to turn the White House against the deal, Netflix won out, for now. There is of course, still a chance that Paramount could launch a hostile takeover effort, or that the Justice Department could try and scuttle the deal — nothing is guaranteed yet.
Sarandos tried to acquire Paramount before David Ellison swooped in, so snatching Warner Bros. out from under his nose is likely something of a personal victory.
Friday, the EU slapped X with a €120 million fine (about $140 million) for violating the Digital Services Act (DSA). It was the first time that a company had been hit with a penalty for running afoul of the law. Elon Musk responded with his trademark tact and professionalism by posting “Bullshit” on X in response to the announcement from the European Commission. But that wasn’t the end, because just a day later Nikita Bier, X’s head of product, accused the Commission of abusing an exploit to boost the reach of the announcement and responded by shutting down its ad account.
According to Bier, the Commission had not used its ad account since 2021, but used a post format explicitly reserved for ads in its announcement of the fine against X. He claims that the Commission posted “a link that deceives users into thinking it’s a video and to artificially increase its reach.” (For the record, the post itself includes a video.)
The seemingly retaliatory revocation of the European Commission’s ad account is unlikely to materially change things for either X or the EU. If, as Bier claims, the Commission has not used its ad account since 2021, holding it hostage is unlikely to give X any leverage. And, while it can appeal the decision, X is currently still on the hook for the sizable fine. Plus, it must provide details for how it plans to address the “deceptive” use of verified checkmarks in the next 60 days, or face additional penalties.
We’ve reached out to the Commission for comment and will update if we hear back.
Il semble que nous ne pouvons pas trouver le contenu demandé. Peut-être qu’une recherche peut vous aider.
It’s easy to think about AI as a sort of existential battle between human and machine. Maybe it will be, someday, in a Skynet sort of way. But there are also lots of people trying to figure out how to use AI not as a replacement for human creativity and thinking but as a tool meant to augment those things.
Sari Azout is one of those people. She’s the founder of Sublime, a platform dedicated to curation, creativity, and ideas. Sublime is all about taste, which makes it slightly surprising that there’s a huge amount of AI powering the way it works. But to Azout, it all makes sense.
Between keeping up with TikTok trends and whatever new gadget just dropped, it’s tough to know exactly what teens are into these days. Luckily, we can help. We may be older than teenagers, but many of us here at The Verge are kids at heart. Plus, we’ve also got a few staffers with older kids. To make your life a little easier this holiday season, we rounded up what we think are the best gifts for teens, based on our tech expertise as well as what our staff’s teens are into right now.
Below, you’ll find gift ideas for many types of teens. Some are more obvious choices, like the latest iPhone and Nintendo Switch 2, but we sought to include a …
The discount brings the price down to $299 ($100 off). | Image: The Verge
We thought Black Friday and Cyber Monday would bring the lowest prices of the year, but apparently not. Right now, you can snag Apple’s Watch Series 11 in the 42mm configuration with GPS for a new all-time low of $299 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy. That beats the $70 discount we saw at the beginning of the month, which means if you didn’t take advantage then, you can save even more now. The 46mm model with GPS is also down to its lowest price yet of $329 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy.
The Series 11 offers some nice improvements to the already-excellent Apple Watch Series 10. While this year’s model has the same dimensions as its predecessor, battery life has increased up to 24 hours per charge on the GPS / Wi-Fi model. At the same time, Apple managed to improve the Series 11’s durability and scratch-resistance, making it a better option for more intense workouts. Additionally, Apple added a more power-efficient 5G modem to the cellular model, so the battery won’t drain as quickly when you’re not on Wi-Fi.
Otherwise, the Series 11 carries over everything we loved about the Series 10. The wide-angle OLED display looks fantastic and is easy to read at a glance, while performance is excellent thanks to Apple’s S10 SiP chip. You also get a variety of health and wellness features, including FDA-cleared hypertension notifications, sleep apnea detection, and sleep score, which can summarize how well you slept. Meanwhile, you get access to the watchOS 26 update, which introduces a workout buddy and offers wrist-flick and double-tap gestures, along with the Liquid Glass redesign.
If you already own a Series 10, there aren’t many reasons to upgrade outside of the slightly improved battery life. However, if you have something older or you’re checking off a gift list, the Series 11 at $100 off is a great deal right before the holidays.
Slack users can now access Anthropic’s Claude Code directly in Slack by tagging Claude on coding-related messages and threads. The new feature is launching today in beta as a research preview.
When Claude is tagged, it will now automatically scan the message to see if it’s a coding task and, if so, route it to Claude Code using the context from the related Slack thread and the code repositories you’ve authenticated in Claude Code. Slack users can also directly tell Claude that a request is a coding task. For instance, you could ask Claude to investigate a bug report you’re discussing in Slack without needing to manually copy all the conte …
Lenovo has already demonstrated its ability to put rollable OLEDs into laptops by graduating last year from demo concept models to shipping the ThinkBook Plus Gen 6, an actual device you can buy. It has a built-in mechanism that expands the screen vertically to give you more screen real estate for typing and scrolling. However, the company might soon debut its first laptop that uses a rollable OLED to effectively transform its screen into an ultrawide 21:9 aspect ratio screen, with left and right edges that extend far outside the bottom chassis.
The Lenovo Legion Pro Rollable will be its first gaming laptop to feature a rollable horizontal …
At their biggest and most expensive, video games all sort of look the same. The reason often comes down to simple economics: More resources means more costs that need to be recouped, and historically the way publishers have done that is by being comically risk-averse. Hence the glut of semi-realistic rocky wastelands that look like death metal album covers where everyone is some kind of Wild West fetishist, or the hero shooters that all look like Pixar but shredded as hell and ready for fan artists to go places I shall not.
On occasion, however, new visual ground is staked. Octopath Traveler 0 is an example of this. The third game in the O …
Joshua Aaron, the developer of the ICEBlock app, is suing Attorney General Pam Bondi, US Homeland Security Secretary Kirsti Noem, acting director of ICE Todd Lyons, White House « Border Czar » Tom Homan, and other federal officials over the Trump administration’s « unlawful threats » made against Aaron and its actions to pressure Apple to pull the app from the App Store, which it did.
« We promised you we would fight back. Well, today’s the day we make good on the promise, » according to a post from ICEBlock’s official account on Bluesky. Aaron, Apple, and the Department of Homeland Security, didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment fr …
There’s an argument to be made that « the real monster is trauma » has become an overused trope in modern horror. Hereditary, The Babadook, and, much less effectively, Smile, are just a few higher-profile examples. But, if you ask me, few films have deployed this trope quite as effectively as the 2020 film His House.
The film follows Bol and Rial, refugees from South Sudan, played by Sope Dirisu and Wunmi Mosaku. Both deliver the kind of incredible performances that you rarely see in a genre film like this. It’s part of what elevates His House above the standard « haunted by trauma » fare. Mosaku, in particular, shows the sort of nuance and scr …
In November, Ted Sarandos, Netflix’s co-CEO made a trip to the White House for a lengthy meeting with Donald Trump. According to Bloomberg, the two discussed a number of topics, but chief among them was Netflix’s plan to bid on Warner Bros. At the end of their conversation, Sardonos felt that “Netflix wouldn’t face immediate opposition from the White House.”
This week, Netflix successfully won the bidding war for Warner, offering $82.7 billion. It’s well known that Paramount and its CEO David Ellison were eager to acquire the storied studio and its streaming assets. Ellison and his father, Larry Ellison, have close ties to the White House, and as part of their pitch to Warner, suggested that only they were in a position to overcome the regulatory hurdles of further media consolidation.
Sarandos seems to have rightly believed that the Ellisons overestimated their political clout. And despite some public efforts to turn the White House against the deal, Netflix won out, for now. There is of course, still a chance that Paramount could launch a hostile takeover effort, or that the Justice Department could try and scuttle the deal — nothing is guaranteed yet.
Sarandos tried to acquire Paramount before David Ellison swooped in, so snatching Warner Bros. out from under his nose is likely something of a personal victory.
Friday, the EU slapped X with a €120 million fine (about $140 million) for violating the Digital Services Act (DSA). It was the first time that a company had been hit with a penalty for running afoul of the law. Elon Musk responded with his trademark tact and professionalism by posting “Bullshit” on X in response to the announcement from the European Commission. But that wasn’t the end, because just a day later Nikita Bier, X’s head of product, accused the Commission of abusing an exploit to boost the reach of the announcement and responded by shutting down its ad account.
According to Bier, the Commission had not used its ad account since 2021, but used a post format explicitly reserved for ads in its announcement of the fine against X. He claims that the Commission posted “a link that deceives users into thinking it’s a video and to artificially increase its reach.” (For the record, the post itself includes a video.)
The seemingly retaliatory revocation of the European Commission’s ad account is unlikely to materially change things for either X or the EU. If, as Bier claims, the Commission has not used its ad account since 2021, holding it hostage is unlikely to give X any leverage. And, while it can appeal the decision, X is currently still on the hook for the sizable fine. Plus, it must provide details for how it plans to address the “deceptive” use of verified checkmarks in the next 60 days, or face additional penalties.
We’ve reached out to the Commission for comment and will update if we hear back.
Il semble que nous ne pouvons pas trouver le contenu demandé. Peut-être qu’une recherche peut vous aider.
It’s easy to think about AI as a sort of existential battle between human and machine. Maybe it will be, someday, in a Skynet sort of way. But there are also lots of people trying to figure out how to use AI not as a replacement for human creativity and thinking but as a tool meant to augment those things.
Sari Azout is one of those people. She’s the founder of Sublime, a platform dedicated to curation, creativity, and ideas. Sublime is all about taste, which makes it slightly surprising that there’s a huge amount of AI powering the way it works. But to Azout, it all makes sense.
Between keeping up with TikTok trends and whatever new gadget just dropped, it’s tough to know exactly what teens are into these days. Luckily, we can help. We may be older than teenagers, but many of us here at The Verge are kids at heart. Plus, we’ve also got a few staffers with older kids. To make your life a little easier this holiday season, we rounded up what we think are the best gifts for teens, based on our tech expertise as well as what our staff’s teens are into right now.
Below, you’ll find gift ideas for many types of teens. Some are more obvious choices, like the latest iPhone and Nintendo Switch 2, but we sought to include a …
The discount brings the price down to $299 ($100 off). | Image: The Verge
We thought Black Friday and Cyber Monday would bring the lowest prices of the year, but apparently not. Right now, you can snag Apple’s Watch Series 11 in the 42mm configuration with GPS for a new all-time low of $299 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy. That beats the $70 discount we saw at the beginning of the month, which means if you didn’t take advantage then, you can save even more now. The 46mm model with GPS is also down to its lowest price yet of $329 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy.
The Series 11 offers some nice improvements to the already-excellent Apple Watch Series 10. While this year’s model has the same dimensions as its predecessor, battery life has increased up to 24 hours per charge on the GPS / Wi-Fi model. At the same time, Apple managed to improve the Series 11’s durability and scratch-resistance, making it a better option for more intense workouts. Additionally, Apple added a more power-efficient 5G modem to the cellular model, so the battery won’t drain as quickly when you’re not on Wi-Fi.
Otherwise, the Series 11 carries over everything we loved about the Series 10. The wide-angle OLED display looks fantastic and is easy to read at a glance, while performance is excellent thanks to Apple’s S10 SiP chip. You also get a variety of health and wellness features, including FDA-cleared hypertension notifications, sleep apnea detection, and sleep score, which can summarize how well you slept. Meanwhile, you get access to the watchOS 26 update, which introduces a workout buddy and offers wrist-flick and double-tap gestures, along with the Liquid Glass redesign.
If you already own a Series 10, there aren’t many reasons to upgrade outside of the slightly improved battery life. However, if you have something older or you’re checking off a gift list, the Series 11 at $100 off is a great deal right before the holidays.
Slack users can now access Anthropic’s Claude Code directly in Slack by tagging Claude on coding-related messages and threads. The new feature is launching today in beta as a research preview.
When Claude is tagged, it will now automatically scan the message to see if it’s a coding task and, if so, route it to Claude Code using the context from the related Slack thread and the code repositories you’ve authenticated in Claude Code. Slack users can also directly tell Claude that a request is a coding task. For instance, you could ask Claude to investigate a bug report you’re discussing in Slack without needing to manually copy all the conte …
Lenovo has already demonstrated its ability to put rollable OLEDs into laptops by graduating last year from demo concept models to shipping the ThinkBook Plus Gen 6, an actual device you can buy. It has a built-in mechanism that expands the screen vertically to give you more screen real estate for typing and scrolling. However, the company might soon debut its first laptop that uses a rollable OLED to effectively transform its screen into an ultrawide 21:9 aspect ratio screen, with left and right edges that extend far outside the bottom chassis.
The Lenovo Legion Pro Rollable will be its first gaming laptop to feature a rollable horizontal …
At their biggest and most expensive, video games all sort of look the same. The reason often comes down to simple economics: More resources means more costs that need to be recouped, and historically the way publishers have done that is by being comically risk-averse. Hence the glut of semi-realistic rocky wastelands that look like death metal album covers where everyone is some kind of Wild West fetishist, or the hero shooters that all look like Pixar but shredded as hell and ready for fan artists to go places I shall not.
On occasion, however, new visual ground is staked. Octopath Traveler 0 is an example of this. The third game in the O …
Joshua Aaron, the developer of the ICEBlock app, is suing Attorney General Pam Bondi, US Homeland Security Secretary Kirsti Noem, acting director of ICE Todd Lyons, White House « Border Czar » Tom Homan, and other federal officials over the Trump administration’s « unlawful threats » made against Aaron and its actions to pressure Apple to pull the app from the App Store, which it did.
« We promised you we would fight back. Well, today’s the day we make good on the promise, » according to a post from ICEBlock’s official account on Bluesky. Aaron, Apple, and the Department of Homeland Security, didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment fr …
There’s an argument to be made that « the real monster is trauma » has become an overused trope in modern horror. Hereditary, The Babadook, and, much less effectively, Smile, are just a few higher-profile examples. But, if you ask me, few films have deployed this trope quite as effectively as the 2020 film His House.
The film follows Bol and Rial, refugees from South Sudan, played by Sope Dirisu and Wunmi Mosaku. Both deliver the kind of incredible performances that you rarely see in a genre film like this. It’s part of what elevates His House above the standard « haunted by trauma » fare. Mosaku, in particular, shows the sort of nuance and scr …
In November, Ted Sarandos, Netflix’s co-CEO made a trip to the White House for a lengthy meeting with Donald Trump. According to Bloomberg, the two discussed a number of topics, but chief among them was Netflix’s plan to bid on Warner Bros. At the end of their conversation, Sardonos felt that “Netflix wouldn’t face immediate opposition from the White House.”
This week, Netflix successfully won the bidding war for Warner, offering $82.7 billion. It’s well known that Paramount and its CEO David Ellison were eager to acquire the storied studio and its streaming assets. Ellison and his father, Larry Ellison, have close ties to the White House, and as part of their pitch to Warner, suggested that only they were in a position to overcome the regulatory hurdles of further media consolidation.
Sarandos seems to have rightly believed that the Ellisons overestimated their political clout. And despite some public efforts to turn the White House against the deal, Netflix won out, for now. There is of course, still a chance that Paramount could launch a hostile takeover effort, or that the Justice Department could try and scuttle the deal — nothing is guaranteed yet.
Sarandos tried to acquire Paramount before David Ellison swooped in, so snatching Warner Bros. out from under his nose is likely something of a personal victory.
Friday, the EU slapped X with a €120 million fine (about $140 million) for violating the Digital Services Act (DSA). It was the first time that a company had been hit with a penalty for running afoul of the law. Elon Musk responded with his trademark tact and professionalism by posting “Bullshit” on X in response to the announcement from the European Commission. But that wasn’t the end, because just a day later Nikita Bier, X’s head of product, accused the Commission of abusing an exploit to boost the reach of the announcement and responded by shutting down its ad account.
According to Bier, the Commission had not used its ad account since 2021, but used a post format explicitly reserved for ads in its announcement of the fine against X. He claims that the Commission posted “a link that deceives users into thinking it’s a video and to artificially increase its reach.” (For the record, the post itself includes a video.)
The seemingly retaliatory revocation of the European Commission’s ad account is unlikely to materially change things for either X or the EU. If, as Bier claims, the Commission has not used its ad account since 2021, holding it hostage is unlikely to give X any leverage. And, while it can appeal the decision, X is currently still on the hook for the sizable fine. Plus, it must provide details for how it plans to address the “deceptive” use of verified checkmarks in the next 60 days, or face additional penalties.
We’ve reached out to the Commission for comment and will update if we hear back.
Il semble que nous ne pouvons pas trouver le contenu demandé. Peut-être qu’une recherche peut vous aider.
It’s easy to think about AI as a sort of existential battle between human and machine. Maybe it will be, someday, in a Skynet sort of way. But there are also lots of people trying to figure out how to use AI not as a replacement for human creativity and thinking but as a tool meant to augment those things.
Sari Azout is one of those people. She’s the founder of Sublime, a platform dedicated to curation, creativity, and ideas. Sublime is all about taste, which makes it slightly surprising that there’s a huge amount of AI powering the way it works. But to Azout, it all makes sense.
Between keeping up with TikTok trends and whatever new gadget just dropped, it’s tough to know exactly what teens are into these days. Luckily, we can help. We may be older than teenagers, but many of us here at The Verge are kids at heart. Plus, we’ve also got a few staffers with older kids. To make your life a little easier this holiday season, we rounded up what we think are the best gifts for teens, based on our tech expertise as well as what our staff’s teens are into right now.
Below, you’ll find gift ideas for many types of teens. Some are more obvious choices, like the latest iPhone and Nintendo Switch 2, but we sought to include a …
The discount brings the price down to $299 ($100 off). | Image: The Verge
We thought Black Friday and Cyber Monday would bring the lowest prices of the year, but apparently not. Right now, you can snag Apple’s Watch Series 11 in the 42mm configuration with GPS for a new all-time low of $299 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy. That beats the $70 discount we saw at the beginning of the month, which means if you didn’t take advantage then, you can save even more now. The 46mm model with GPS is also down to its lowest price yet of $329 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy.
The Series 11 offers some nice improvements to the already-excellent Apple Watch Series 10. While this year’s model has the same dimensions as its predecessor, battery life has increased up to 24 hours per charge on the GPS / Wi-Fi model. At the same time, Apple managed to improve the Series 11’s durability and scratch-resistance, making it a better option for more intense workouts. Additionally, Apple added a more power-efficient 5G modem to the cellular model, so the battery won’t drain as quickly when you’re not on Wi-Fi.
Otherwise, the Series 11 carries over everything we loved about the Series 10. The wide-angle OLED display looks fantastic and is easy to read at a glance, while performance is excellent thanks to Apple’s S10 SiP chip. You also get a variety of health and wellness features, including FDA-cleared hypertension notifications, sleep apnea detection, and sleep score, which can summarize how well you slept. Meanwhile, you get access to the watchOS 26 update, which introduces a workout buddy and offers wrist-flick and double-tap gestures, along with the Liquid Glass redesign.
If you already own a Series 10, there aren’t many reasons to upgrade outside of the slightly improved battery life. However, if you have something older or you’re checking off a gift list, the Series 11 at $100 off is a great deal right before the holidays.
Slack users can now access Anthropic’s Claude Code directly in Slack by tagging Claude on coding-related messages and threads. The new feature is launching today in beta as a research preview.
When Claude is tagged, it will now automatically scan the message to see if it’s a coding task and, if so, route it to Claude Code using the context from the related Slack thread and the code repositories you’ve authenticated in Claude Code. Slack users can also directly tell Claude that a request is a coding task. For instance, you could ask Claude to investigate a bug report you’re discussing in Slack without needing to manually copy all the conte …
Lenovo has already demonstrated its ability to put rollable OLEDs into laptops by graduating last year from demo concept models to shipping the ThinkBook Plus Gen 6, an actual device you can buy. It has a built-in mechanism that expands the screen vertically to give you more screen real estate for typing and scrolling. However, the company might soon debut its first laptop that uses a rollable OLED to effectively transform its screen into an ultrawide 21:9 aspect ratio screen, with left and right edges that extend far outside the bottom chassis.
The Lenovo Legion Pro Rollable will be its first gaming laptop to feature a rollable horizontal …
At their biggest and most expensive, video games all sort of look the same. The reason often comes down to simple economics: More resources means more costs that need to be recouped, and historically the way publishers have done that is by being comically risk-averse. Hence the glut of semi-realistic rocky wastelands that look like death metal album covers where everyone is some kind of Wild West fetishist, or the hero shooters that all look like Pixar but shredded as hell and ready for fan artists to go places I shall not.
On occasion, however, new visual ground is staked. Octopath Traveler 0 is an example of this. The third game in the O …
Joshua Aaron, the developer of the ICEBlock app, is suing Attorney General Pam Bondi, US Homeland Security Secretary Kirsti Noem, acting director of ICE Todd Lyons, White House « Border Czar » Tom Homan, and other federal officials over the Trump administration’s « unlawful threats » made against Aaron and its actions to pressure Apple to pull the app from the App Store, which it did.
« We promised you we would fight back. Well, today’s the day we make good on the promise, » according to a post from ICEBlock’s official account on Bluesky. Aaron, Apple, and the Department of Homeland Security, didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment fr …
There’s an argument to be made that « the real monster is trauma » has become an overused trope in modern horror. Hereditary, The Babadook, and, much less effectively, Smile, are just a few higher-profile examples. But, if you ask me, few films have deployed this trope quite as effectively as the 2020 film His House.
The film follows Bol and Rial, refugees from South Sudan, played by Sope Dirisu and Wunmi Mosaku. Both deliver the kind of incredible performances that you rarely see in a genre film like this. It’s part of what elevates His House above the standard « haunted by trauma » fare. Mosaku, in particular, shows the sort of nuance and scr …
In November, Ted Sarandos, Netflix’s co-CEO made a trip to the White House for a lengthy meeting with Donald Trump. According to Bloomberg, the two discussed a number of topics, but chief among them was Netflix’s plan to bid on Warner Bros. At the end of their conversation, Sardonos felt that “Netflix wouldn’t face immediate opposition from the White House.”
This week, Netflix successfully won the bidding war for Warner, offering $82.7 billion. It’s well known that Paramount and its CEO David Ellison were eager to acquire the storied studio and its streaming assets. Ellison and his father, Larry Ellison, have close ties to the White House, and as part of their pitch to Warner, suggested that only they were in a position to overcome the regulatory hurdles of further media consolidation.
Sarandos seems to have rightly believed that the Ellisons overestimated their political clout. And despite some public efforts to turn the White House against the deal, Netflix won out, for now. There is of course, still a chance that Paramount could launch a hostile takeover effort, or that the Justice Department could try and scuttle the deal — nothing is guaranteed yet.
Sarandos tried to acquire Paramount before David Ellison swooped in, so snatching Warner Bros. out from under his nose is likely something of a personal victory.
Friday, the EU slapped X with a €120 million fine (about $140 million) for violating the Digital Services Act (DSA). It was the first time that a company had been hit with a penalty for running afoul of the law. Elon Musk responded with his trademark tact and professionalism by posting “Bullshit” on X in response to the announcement from the European Commission. But that wasn’t the end, because just a day later Nikita Bier, X’s head of product, accused the Commission of abusing an exploit to boost the reach of the announcement and responded by shutting down its ad account.
According to Bier, the Commission had not used its ad account since 2021, but used a post format explicitly reserved for ads in its announcement of the fine against X. He claims that the Commission posted “a link that deceives users into thinking it’s a video and to artificially increase its reach.” (For the record, the post itself includes a video.)
The seemingly retaliatory revocation of the European Commission’s ad account is unlikely to materially change things for either X or the EU. If, as Bier claims, the Commission has not used its ad account since 2021, holding it hostage is unlikely to give X any leverage. And, while it can appeal the decision, X is currently still on the hook for the sizable fine. Plus, it must provide details for how it plans to address the “deceptive” use of verified checkmarks in the next 60 days, or face additional penalties.
We’ve reached out to the Commission for comment and will update if we hear back.
Il semble que nous ne pouvons pas trouver le contenu demandé. Peut-être qu’une recherche peut vous aider.
It’s easy to think about AI as a sort of existential battle between human and machine. Maybe it will be, someday, in a Skynet sort of way. But there are also lots of people trying to figure out how to use AI not as a replacement for human creativity and thinking but as a tool meant to augment those things.
Sari Azout is one of those people. She’s the founder of Sublime, a platform dedicated to curation, creativity, and ideas. Sublime is all about taste, which makes it slightly surprising that there’s a huge amount of AI powering the way it works. But to Azout, it all makes sense.
Between keeping up with TikTok trends and whatever new gadget just dropped, it’s tough to know exactly what teens are into these days. Luckily, we can help. We may be older than teenagers, but many of us here at The Verge are kids at heart. Plus, we’ve also got a few staffers with older kids. To make your life a little easier this holiday season, we rounded up what we think are the best gifts for teens, based on our tech expertise as well as what our staff’s teens are into right now.
Below, you’ll find gift ideas for many types of teens. Some are more obvious choices, like the latest iPhone and Nintendo Switch 2, but we sought to include a …
The discount brings the price down to $299 ($100 off). | Image: The Verge
We thought Black Friday and Cyber Monday would bring the lowest prices of the year, but apparently not. Right now, you can snag Apple’s Watch Series 11 in the 42mm configuration with GPS for a new all-time low of $299 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy. That beats the $70 discount we saw at the beginning of the month, which means if you didn’t take advantage then, you can save even more now. The 46mm model with GPS is also down to its lowest price yet of $329 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy.
The Series 11 offers some nice improvements to the already-excellent Apple Watch Series 10. While this year’s model has the same dimensions as its predecessor, battery life has increased up to 24 hours per charge on the GPS / Wi-Fi model. At the same time, Apple managed to improve the Series 11’s durability and scratch-resistance, making it a better option for more intense workouts. Additionally, Apple added a more power-efficient 5G modem to the cellular model, so the battery won’t drain as quickly when you’re not on Wi-Fi.
Otherwise, the Series 11 carries over everything we loved about the Series 10. The wide-angle OLED display looks fantastic and is easy to read at a glance, while performance is excellent thanks to Apple’s S10 SiP chip. You also get a variety of health and wellness features, including FDA-cleared hypertension notifications, sleep apnea detection, and sleep score, which can summarize how well you slept. Meanwhile, you get access to the watchOS 26 update, which introduces a workout buddy and offers wrist-flick and double-tap gestures, along with the Liquid Glass redesign.
If you already own a Series 10, there aren’t many reasons to upgrade outside of the slightly improved battery life. However, if you have something older or you’re checking off a gift list, the Series 11 at $100 off is a great deal right before the holidays.
Slack users can now access Anthropic’s Claude Code directly in Slack by tagging Claude on coding-related messages and threads. The new feature is launching today in beta as a research preview.
When Claude is tagged, it will now automatically scan the message to see if it’s a coding task and, if so, route it to Claude Code using the context from the related Slack thread and the code repositories you’ve authenticated in Claude Code. Slack users can also directly tell Claude that a request is a coding task. For instance, you could ask Claude to investigate a bug report you’re discussing in Slack without needing to manually copy all the conte …
Lenovo has already demonstrated its ability to put rollable OLEDs into laptops by graduating last year from demo concept models to shipping the ThinkBook Plus Gen 6, an actual device you can buy. It has a built-in mechanism that expands the screen vertically to give you more screen real estate for typing and scrolling. However, the company might soon debut its first laptop that uses a rollable OLED to effectively transform its screen into an ultrawide 21:9 aspect ratio screen, with left and right edges that extend far outside the bottom chassis.
The Lenovo Legion Pro Rollable will be its first gaming laptop to feature a rollable horizontal …
At their biggest and most expensive, video games all sort of look the same. The reason often comes down to simple economics: More resources means more costs that need to be recouped, and historically the way publishers have done that is by being comically risk-averse. Hence the glut of semi-realistic rocky wastelands that look like death metal album covers where everyone is some kind of Wild West fetishist, or the hero shooters that all look like Pixar but shredded as hell and ready for fan artists to go places I shall not.
On occasion, however, new visual ground is staked. Octopath Traveler 0 is an example of this. The third game in the O …
Joshua Aaron, the developer of the ICEBlock app, is suing Attorney General Pam Bondi, US Homeland Security Secretary Kirsti Noem, acting director of ICE Todd Lyons, White House « Border Czar » Tom Homan, and other federal officials over the Trump administration’s « unlawful threats » made against Aaron and its actions to pressure Apple to pull the app from the App Store, which it did.
« We promised you we would fight back. Well, today’s the day we make good on the promise, » according to a post from ICEBlock’s official account on Bluesky. Aaron, Apple, and the Department of Homeland Security, didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment fr …
There’s an argument to be made that « the real monster is trauma » has become an overused trope in modern horror. Hereditary, The Babadook, and, much less effectively, Smile, are just a few higher-profile examples. But, if you ask me, few films have deployed this trope quite as effectively as the 2020 film His House.
The film follows Bol and Rial, refugees from South Sudan, played by Sope Dirisu and Wunmi Mosaku. Both deliver the kind of incredible performances that you rarely see in a genre film like this. It’s part of what elevates His House above the standard « haunted by trauma » fare. Mosaku, in particular, shows the sort of nuance and scr …
In November, Ted Sarandos, Netflix’s co-CEO made a trip to the White House for a lengthy meeting with Donald Trump. According to Bloomberg, the two discussed a number of topics, but chief among them was Netflix’s plan to bid on Warner Bros. At the end of their conversation, Sardonos felt that “Netflix wouldn’t face immediate opposition from the White House.”
This week, Netflix successfully won the bidding war for Warner, offering $82.7 billion. It’s well known that Paramount and its CEO David Ellison were eager to acquire the storied studio and its streaming assets. Ellison and his father, Larry Ellison, have close ties to the White House, and as part of their pitch to Warner, suggested that only they were in a position to overcome the regulatory hurdles of further media consolidation.
Sarandos seems to have rightly believed that the Ellisons overestimated their political clout. And despite some public efforts to turn the White House against the deal, Netflix won out, for now. There is of course, still a chance that Paramount could launch a hostile takeover effort, or that the Justice Department could try and scuttle the deal — nothing is guaranteed yet.
Sarandos tried to acquire Paramount before David Ellison swooped in, so snatching Warner Bros. out from under his nose is likely something of a personal victory.
Friday, the EU slapped X with a €120 million fine (about $140 million) for violating the Digital Services Act (DSA). It was the first time that a company had been hit with a penalty for running afoul of the law. Elon Musk responded with his trademark tact and professionalism by posting “Bullshit” on X in response to the announcement from the European Commission. But that wasn’t the end, because just a day later Nikita Bier, X’s head of product, accused the Commission of abusing an exploit to boost the reach of the announcement and responded by shutting down its ad account.
According to Bier, the Commission had not used its ad account since 2021, but used a post format explicitly reserved for ads in its announcement of the fine against X. He claims that the Commission posted “a link that deceives users into thinking it’s a video and to artificially increase its reach.” (For the record, the post itself includes a video.)
The seemingly retaliatory revocation of the European Commission’s ad account is unlikely to materially change things for either X or the EU. If, as Bier claims, the Commission has not used its ad account since 2021, holding it hostage is unlikely to give X any leverage. And, while it can appeal the decision, X is currently still on the hook for the sizable fine. Plus, it must provide details for how it plans to address the “deceptive” use of verified checkmarks in the next 60 days, or face additional penalties.
We’ve reached out to the Commission for comment and will update if we hear back.
Il semble que nous ne pouvons pas trouver le contenu demandé. Peut-être qu’une recherche peut vous aider.
It’s easy to think about AI as a sort of existential battle between human and machine. Maybe it will be, someday, in a Skynet sort of way. But there are also lots of people trying to figure out how to use AI not as a replacement for human creativity and thinking but as a tool meant to augment those things.
Sari Azout is one of those people. She’s the founder of Sublime, a platform dedicated to curation, creativity, and ideas. Sublime is all about taste, which makes it slightly surprising that there’s a huge amount of AI powering the way it works. But to Azout, it all makes sense.
Between keeping up with TikTok trends and whatever new gadget just dropped, it’s tough to know exactly what teens are into these days. Luckily, we can help. We may be older than teenagers, but many of us here at The Verge are kids at heart. Plus, we’ve also got a few staffers with older kids. To make your life a little easier this holiday season, we rounded up what we think are the best gifts for teens, based on our tech expertise as well as what our staff’s teens are into right now.
Below, you’ll find gift ideas for many types of teens. Some are more obvious choices, like the latest iPhone and Nintendo Switch 2, but we sought to include a …
The discount brings the price down to $299 ($100 off). | Image: The Verge
We thought Black Friday and Cyber Monday would bring the lowest prices of the year, but apparently not. Right now, you can snag Apple’s Watch Series 11 in the 42mm configuration with GPS for a new all-time low of $299 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy. That beats the $70 discount we saw at the beginning of the month, which means if you didn’t take advantage then, you can save even more now. The 46mm model with GPS is also down to its lowest price yet of $329 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy.
The Series 11 offers some nice improvements to the already-excellent Apple Watch Series 10. While this year’s model has the same dimensions as its predecessor, battery life has increased up to 24 hours per charge on the GPS / Wi-Fi model. At the same time, Apple managed to improve the Series 11’s durability and scratch-resistance, making it a better option for more intense workouts. Additionally, Apple added a more power-efficient 5G modem to the cellular model, so the battery won’t drain as quickly when you’re not on Wi-Fi.
Otherwise, the Series 11 carries over everything we loved about the Series 10. The wide-angle OLED display looks fantastic and is easy to read at a glance, while performance is excellent thanks to Apple’s S10 SiP chip. You also get a variety of health and wellness features, including FDA-cleared hypertension notifications, sleep apnea detection, and sleep score, which can summarize how well you slept. Meanwhile, you get access to the watchOS 26 update, which introduces a workout buddy and offers wrist-flick and double-tap gestures, along with the Liquid Glass redesign.
If you already own a Series 10, there aren’t many reasons to upgrade outside of the slightly improved battery life. However, if you have something older or you’re checking off a gift list, the Series 11 at $100 off is a great deal right before the holidays.
Slack users can now access Anthropic’s Claude Code directly in Slack by tagging Claude on coding-related messages and threads. The new feature is launching today in beta as a research preview.
When Claude is tagged, it will now automatically scan the message to see if it’s a coding task and, if so, route it to Claude Code using the context from the related Slack thread and the code repositories you’ve authenticated in Claude Code. Slack users can also directly tell Claude that a request is a coding task. For instance, you could ask Claude to investigate a bug report you’re discussing in Slack without needing to manually copy all the conte …
Lenovo has already demonstrated its ability to put rollable OLEDs into laptops by graduating last year from demo concept models to shipping the ThinkBook Plus Gen 6, an actual device you can buy. It has a built-in mechanism that expands the screen vertically to give you more screen real estate for typing and scrolling. However, the company might soon debut its first laptop that uses a rollable OLED to effectively transform its screen into an ultrawide 21:9 aspect ratio screen, with left and right edges that extend far outside the bottom chassis.
The Lenovo Legion Pro Rollable will be its first gaming laptop to feature a rollable horizontal …
At their biggest and most expensive, video games all sort of look the same. The reason often comes down to simple economics: More resources means more costs that need to be recouped, and historically the way publishers have done that is by being comically risk-averse. Hence the glut of semi-realistic rocky wastelands that look like death metal album covers where everyone is some kind of Wild West fetishist, or the hero shooters that all look like Pixar but shredded as hell and ready for fan artists to go places I shall not.
On occasion, however, new visual ground is staked. Octopath Traveler 0 is an example of this. The third game in the O …
Joshua Aaron, the developer of the ICEBlock app, is suing Attorney General Pam Bondi, US Homeland Security Secretary Kirsti Noem, acting director of ICE Todd Lyons, White House « Border Czar » Tom Homan, and other federal officials over the Trump administration’s « unlawful threats » made against Aaron and its actions to pressure Apple to pull the app from the App Store, which it did.
« We promised you we would fight back. Well, today’s the day we make good on the promise, » according to a post from ICEBlock’s official account on Bluesky. Aaron, Apple, and the Department of Homeland Security, didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment fr …
There’s an argument to be made that « the real monster is trauma » has become an overused trope in modern horror. Hereditary, The Babadook, and, much less effectively, Smile, are just a few higher-profile examples. But, if you ask me, few films have deployed this trope quite as effectively as the 2020 film His House.
The film follows Bol and Rial, refugees from South Sudan, played by Sope Dirisu and Wunmi Mosaku. Both deliver the kind of incredible performances that you rarely see in a genre film like this. It’s part of what elevates His House above the standard « haunted by trauma » fare. Mosaku, in particular, shows the sort of nuance and scr …
In November, Ted Sarandos, Netflix’s co-CEO made a trip to the White House for a lengthy meeting with Donald Trump. According to Bloomberg, the two discussed a number of topics, but chief among them was Netflix’s plan to bid on Warner Bros. At the end of their conversation, Sardonos felt that “Netflix wouldn’t face immediate opposition from the White House.”
This week, Netflix successfully won the bidding war for Warner, offering $82.7 billion. It’s well known that Paramount and its CEO David Ellison were eager to acquire the storied studio and its streaming assets. Ellison and his father, Larry Ellison, have close ties to the White House, and as part of their pitch to Warner, suggested that only they were in a position to overcome the regulatory hurdles of further media consolidation.
Sarandos seems to have rightly believed that the Ellisons overestimated their political clout. And despite some public efforts to turn the White House against the deal, Netflix won out, for now. There is of course, still a chance that Paramount could launch a hostile takeover effort, or that the Justice Department could try and scuttle the deal — nothing is guaranteed yet.
Sarandos tried to acquire Paramount before David Ellison swooped in, so snatching Warner Bros. out from under his nose is likely something of a personal victory.
Friday, the EU slapped X with a €120 million fine (about $140 million) for violating the Digital Services Act (DSA). It was the first time that a company had been hit with a penalty for running afoul of the law. Elon Musk responded with his trademark tact and professionalism by posting “Bullshit” on X in response to the announcement from the European Commission. But that wasn’t the end, because just a day later Nikita Bier, X’s head of product, accused the Commission of abusing an exploit to boost the reach of the announcement and responded by shutting down its ad account.
According to Bier, the Commission had not used its ad account since 2021, but used a post format explicitly reserved for ads in its announcement of the fine against X. He claims that the Commission posted “a link that deceives users into thinking it’s a video and to artificially increase its reach.” (For the record, the post itself includes a video.)
The seemingly retaliatory revocation of the European Commission’s ad account is unlikely to materially change things for either X or the EU. If, as Bier claims, the Commission has not used its ad account since 2021, holding it hostage is unlikely to give X any leverage. And, while it can appeal the decision, X is currently still on the hook for the sizable fine. Plus, it must provide details for how it plans to address the “deceptive” use of verified checkmarks in the next 60 days, or face additional penalties.
We’ve reached out to the Commission for comment and will update if we hear back.
Il semble que nous ne pouvons pas trouver le contenu demandé. Peut-être qu’une recherche peut vous aider.
It’s easy to think about AI as a sort of existential battle between human and machine. Maybe it will be, someday, in a Skynet sort of way. But there are also lots of people trying to figure out how to use AI not as a replacement for human creativity and thinking but as a tool meant to augment those things.
Sari Azout is one of those people. She’s the founder of Sublime, a platform dedicated to curation, creativity, and ideas. Sublime is all about taste, which makes it slightly surprising that there’s a huge amount of AI powering the way it works. But to Azout, it all makes sense.
Between keeping up with TikTok trends and whatever new gadget just dropped, it’s tough to know exactly what teens are into these days. Luckily, we can help. We may be older than teenagers, but many of us here at The Verge are kids at heart. Plus, we’ve also got a few staffers with older kids. To make your life a little easier this holiday season, we rounded up what we think are the best gifts for teens, based on our tech expertise as well as what our staff’s teens are into right now.
Below, you’ll find gift ideas for many types of teens. Some are more obvious choices, like the latest iPhone and Nintendo Switch 2, but we sought to include a …
The discount brings the price down to $299 ($100 off). | Image: The Verge
We thought Black Friday and Cyber Monday would bring the lowest prices of the year, but apparently not. Right now, you can snag Apple’s Watch Series 11 in the 42mm configuration with GPS for a new all-time low of $299 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy. That beats the $70 discount we saw at the beginning of the month, which means if you didn’t take advantage then, you can save even more now. The 46mm model with GPS is also down to its lowest price yet of $329 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy.
The Series 11 offers some nice improvements to the already-excellent Apple Watch Series 10. While this year’s model has the same dimensions as its predecessor, battery life has increased up to 24 hours per charge on the GPS / Wi-Fi model. At the same time, Apple managed to improve the Series 11’s durability and scratch-resistance, making it a better option for more intense workouts. Additionally, Apple added a more power-efficient 5G modem to the cellular model, so the battery won’t drain as quickly when you’re not on Wi-Fi.
Otherwise, the Series 11 carries over everything we loved about the Series 10. The wide-angle OLED display looks fantastic and is easy to read at a glance, while performance is excellent thanks to Apple’s S10 SiP chip. You also get a variety of health and wellness features, including FDA-cleared hypertension notifications, sleep apnea detection, and sleep score, which can summarize how well you slept. Meanwhile, you get access to the watchOS 26 update, which introduces a workout buddy and offers wrist-flick and double-tap gestures, along with the Liquid Glass redesign.
If you already own a Series 10, there aren’t many reasons to upgrade outside of the slightly improved battery life. However, if you have something older or you’re checking off a gift list, the Series 11 at $100 off is a great deal right before the holidays.
Slack users can now access Anthropic’s Claude Code directly in Slack by tagging Claude on coding-related messages and threads. The new feature is launching today in beta as a research preview.
When Claude is tagged, it will now automatically scan the message to see if it’s a coding task and, if so, route it to Claude Code using the context from the related Slack thread and the code repositories you’ve authenticated in Claude Code. Slack users can also directly tell Claude that a request is a coding task. For instance, you could ask Claude to investigate a bug report you’re discussing in Slack without needing to manually copy all the conte …
Lenovo has already demonstrated its ability to put rollable OLEDs into laptops by graduating last year from demo concept models to shipping the ThinkBook Plus Gen 6, an actual device you can buy. It has a built-in mechanism that expands the screen vertically to give you more screen real estate for typing and scrolling. However, the company might soon debut its first laptop that uses a rollable OLED to effectively transform its screen into an ultrawide 21:9 aspect ratio screen, with left and right edges that extend far outside the bottom chassis.
The Lenovo Legion Pro Rollable will be its first gaming laptop to feature a rollable horizontal …
At their biggest and most expensive, video games all sort of look the same. The reason often comes down to simple economics: More resources means more costs that need to be recouped, and historically the way publishers have done that is by being comically risk-averse. Hence the glut of semi-realistic rocky wastelands that look like death metal album covers where everyone is some kind of Wild West fetishist, or the hero shooters that all look like Pixar but shredded as hell and ready for fan artists to go places I shall not.
On occasion, however, new visual ground is staked. Octopath Traveler 0 is an example of this. The third game in the O …
Joshua Aaron, the developer of the ICEBlock app, is suing Attorney General Pam Bondi, US Homeland Security Secretary Kirsti Noem, acting director of ICE Todd Lyons, White House « Border Czar » Tom Homan, and other federal officials over the Trump administration’s « unlawful threats » made against Aaron and its actions to pressure Apple to pull the app from the App Store, which it did.
« We promised you we would fight back. Well, today’s the day we make good on the promise, » according to a post from ICEBlock’s official account on Bluesky. Aaron, Apple, and the Department of Homeland Security, didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment fr …
There’s an argument to be made that « the real monster is trauma » has become an overused trope in modern horror. Hereditary, The Babadook, and, much less effectively, Smile, are just a few higher-profile examples. But, if you ask me, few films have deployed this trope quite as effectively as the 2020 film His House.
The film follows Bol and Rial, refugees from South Sudan, played by Sope Dirisu and Wunmi Mosaku. Both deliver the kind of incredible performances that you rarely see in a genre film like this. It’s part of what elevates His House above the standard « haunted by trauma » fare. Mosaku, in particular, shows the sort of nuance and scr …
In November, Ted Sarandos, Netflix’s co-CEO made a trip to the White House for a lengthy meeting with Donald Trump. According to Bloomberg, the two discussed a number of topics, but chief among them was Netflix’s plan to bid on Warner Bros. At the end of their conversation, Sardonos felt that “Netflix wouldn’t face immediate opposition from the White House.”
This week, Netflix successfully won the bidding war for Warner, offering $82.7 billion. It’s well known that Paramount and its CEO David Ellison were eager to acquire the storied studio and its streaming assets. Ellison and his father, Larry Ellison, have close ties to the White House, and as part of their pitch to Warner, suggested that only they were in a position to overcome the regulatory hurdles of further media consolidation.
Sarandos seems to have rightly believed that the Ellisons overestimated their political clout. And despite some public efforts to turn the White House against the deal, Netflix won out, for now. There is of course, still a chance that Paramount could launch a hostile takeover effort, or that the Justice Department could try and scuttle the deal — nothing is guaranteed yet.
Sarandos tried to acquire Paramount before David Ellison swooped in, so snatching Warner Bros. out from under his nose is likely something of a personal victory.
Friday, the EU slapped X with a €120 million fine (about $140 million) for violating the Digital Services Act (DSA). It was the first time that a company had been hit with a penalty for running afoul of the law. Elon Musk responded with his trademark tact and professionalism by posting “Bullshit” on X in response to the announcement from the European Commission. But that wasn’t the end, because just a day later Nikita Bier, X’s head of product, accused the Commission of abusing an exploit to boost the reach of the announcement and responded by shutting down its ad account.
According to Bier, the Commission had not used its ad account since 2021, but used a post format explicitly reserved for ads in its announcement of the fine against X. He claims that the Commission posted “a link that deceives users into thinking it’s a video and to artificially increase its reach.” (For the record, the post itself includes a video.)
The seemingly retaliatory revocation of the European Commission’s ad account is unlikely to materially change things for either X or the EU. If, as Bier claims, the Commission has not used its ad account since 2021, holding it hostage is unlikely to give X any leverage. And, while it can appeal the decision, X is currently still on the hook for the sizable fine. Plus, it must provide details for how it plans to address the “deceptive” use of verified checkmarks in the next 60 days, or face additional penalties.
We’ve reached out to the Commission for comment and will update if we hear back.
Il semble que nous ne pouvons pas trouver le contenu demandé. Peut-être qu’une recherche peut vous aider.
It’s easy to think about AI as a sort of existential battle between human and machine. Maybe it will be, someday, in a Skynet sort of way. But there are also lots of people trying to figure out how to use AI not as a replacement for human creativity and thinking but as a tool meant to augment those things.
Sari Azout is one of those people. She’s the founder of Sublime, a platform dedicated to curation, creativity, and ideas. Sublime is all about taste, which makes it slightly surprising that there’s a huge amount of AI powering the way it works. But to Azout, it all makes sense.
Between keeping up with TikTok trends and whatever new gadget just dropped, it’s tough to know exactly what teens are into these days. Luckily, we can help. We may be older than teenagers, but many of us here at The Verge are kids at heart. Plus, we’ve also got a few staffers with older kids. To make your life a little easier this holiday season, we rounded up what we think are the best gifts for teens, based on our tech expertise as well as what our staff’s teens are into right now.
Below, you’ll find gift ideas for many types of teens. Some are more obvious choices, like the latest iPhone and Nintendo Switch 2, but we sought to include a …
The discount brings the price down to $299 ($100 off). | Image: The Verge
We thought Black Friday and Cyber Monday would bring the lowest prices of the year, but apparently not. Right now, you can snag Apple’s Watch Series 11 in the 42mm configuration with GPS for a new all-time low of $299 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy. That beats the $70 discount we saw at the beginning of the month, which means if you didn’t take advantage then, you can save even more now. The 46mm model with GPS is also down to its lowest price yet of $329 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy.
The Series 11 offers some nice improvements to the already-excellent Apple Watch Series 10. While this year’s model has the same dimensions as its predecessor, battery life has increased up to 24 hours per charge on the GPS / Wi-Fi model. At the same time, Apple managed to improve the Series 11’s durability and scratch-resistance, making it a better option for more intense workouts. Additionally, Apple added a more power-efficient 5G modem to the cellular model, so the battery won’t drain as quickly when you’re not on Wi-Fi.
Otherwise, the Series 11 carries over everything we loved about the Series 10. The wide-angle OLED display looks fantastic and is easy to read at a glance, while performance is excellent thanks to Apple’s S10 SiP chip. You also get a variety of health and wellness features, including FDA-cleared hypertension notifications, sleep apnea detection, and sleep score, which can summarize how well you slept. Meanwhile, you get access to the watchOS 26 update, which introduces a workout buddy and offers wrist-flick and double-tap gestures, along with the Liquid Glass redesign.
If you already own a Series 10, there aren’t many reasons to upgrade outside of the slightly improved battery life. However, if you have something older or you’re checking off a gift list, the Series 11 at $100 off is a great deal right before the holidays.
Slack users can now access Anthropic’s Claude Code directly in Slack by tagging Claude on coding-related messages and threads. The new feature is launching today in beta as a research preview.
When Claude is tagged, it will now automatically scan the message to see if it’s a coding task and, if so, route it to Claude Code using the context from the related Slack thread and the code repositories you’ve authenticated in Claude Code. Slack users can also directly tell Claude that a request is a coding task. For instance, you could ask Claude to investigate a bug report you’re discussing in Slack without needing to manually copy all the conte …
Lenovo has already demonstrated its ability to put rollable OLEDs into laptops by graduating last year from demo concept models to shipping the ThinkBook Plus Gen 6, an actual device you can buy. It has a built-in mechanism that expands the screen vertically to give you more screen real estate for typing and scrolling. However, the company might soon debut its first laptop that uses a rollable OLED to effectively transform its screen into an ultrawide 21:9 aspect ratio screen, with left and right edges that extend far outside the bottom chassis.
The Lenovo Legion Pro Rollable will be its first gaming laptop to feature a rollable horizontal …
At their biggest and most expensive, video games all sort of look the same. The reason often comes down to simple economics: More resources means more costs that need to be recouped, and historically the way publishers have done that is by being comically risk-averse. Hence the glut of semi-realistic rocky wastelands that look like death metal album covers where everyone is some kind of Wild West fetishist, or the hero shooters that all look like Pixar but shredded as hell and ready for fan artists to go places I shall not.
On occasion, however, new visual ground is staked. Octopath Traveler 0 is an example of this. The third game in the O …
Joshua Aaron, the developer of the ICEBlock app, is suing Attorney General Pam Bondi, US Homeland Security Secretary Kirsti Noem, acting director of ICE Todd Lyons, White House « Border Czar » Tom Homan, and other federal officials over the Trump administration’s « unlawful threats » made against Aaron and its actions to pressure Apple to pull the app from the App Store, which it did.
« We promised you we would fight back. Well, today’s the day we make good on the promise, » according to a post from ICEBlock’s official account on Bluesky. Aaron, Apple, and the Department of Homeland Security, didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment fr …
There’s an argument to be made that « the real monster is trauma » has become an overused trope in modern horror. Hereditary, The Babadook, and, much less effectively, Smile, are just a few higher-profile examples. But, if you ask me, few films have deployed this trope quite as effectively as the 2020 film His House.
The film follows Bol and Rial, refugees from South Sudan, played by Sope Dirisu and Wunmi Mosaku. Both deliver the kind of incredible performances that you rarely see in a genre film like this. It’s part of what elevates His House above the standard « haunted by trauma » fare. Mosaku, in particular, shows the sort of nuance and scr …
In November, Ted Sarandos, Netflix’s co-CEO made a trip to the White House for a lengthy meeting with Donald Trump. According to Bloomberg, the two discussed a number of topics, but chief among them was Netflix’s plan to bid on Warner Bros. At the end of their conversation, Sardonos felt that “Netflix wouldn’t face immediate opposition from the White House.”
This week, Netflix successfully won the bidding war for Warner, offering $82.7 billion. It’s well known that Paramount and its CEO David Ellison were eager to acquire the storied studio and its streaming assets. Ellison and his father, Larry Ellison, have close ties to the White House, and as part of their pitch to Warner, suggested that only they were in a position to overcome the regulatory hurdles of further media consolidation.
Sarandos seems to have rightly believed that the Ellisons overestimated their political clout. And despite some public efforts to turn the White House against the deal, Netflix won out, for now. There is of course, still a chance that Paramount could launch a hostile takeover effort, or that the Justice Department could try and scuttle the deal — nothing is guaranteed yet.
Sarandos tried to acquire Paramount before David Ellison swooped in, so snatching Warner Bros. out from under his nose is likely something of a personal victory.
Friday, the EU slapped X with a €120 million fine (about $140 million) for violating the Digital Services Act (DSA). It was the first time that a company had been hit with a penalty for running afoul of the law. Elon Musk responded with his trademark tact and professionalism by posting “Bullshit” on X in response to the announcement from the European Commission. But that wasn’t the end, because just a day later Nikita Bier, X’s head of product, accused the Commission of abusing an exploit to boost the reach of the announcement and responded by shutting down its ad account.
According to Bier, the Commission had not used its ad account since 2021, but used a post format explicitly reserved for ads in its announcement of the fine against X. He claims that the Commission posted “a link that deceives users into thinking it’s a video and to artificially increase its reach.” (For the record, the post itself includes a video.)
The seemingly retaliatory revocation of the European Commission’s ad account is unlikely to materially change things for either X or the EU. If, as Bier claims, the Commission has not used its ad account since 2021, holding it hostage is unlikely to give X any leverage. And, while it can appeal the decision, X is currently still on the hook for the sizable fine. Plus, it must provide details for how it plans to address the “deceptive” use of verified checkmarks in the next 60 days, or face additional penalties.
We’ve reached out to the Commission for comment and will update if we hear back.
Il semble que nous ne pouvons pas trouver le contenu demandé. Peut-être qu’une recherche peut vous aider.
It’s easy to think about AI as a sort of existential battle between human and machine. Maybe it will be, someday, in a Skynet sort of way. But there are also lots of people trying to figure out how to use AI not as a replacement for human creativity and thinking but as a tool meant to augment those things.
Sari Azout is one of those people. She’s the founder of Sublime, a platform dedicated to curation, creativity, and ideas. Sublime is all about taste, which makes it slightly surprising that there’s a huge amount of AI powering the way it works. But to Azout, it all makes sense.
Between keeping up with TikTok trends and whatever new gadget just dropped, it’s tough to know exactly what teens are into these days. Luckily, we can help. We may be older than teenagers, but many of us here at The Verge are kids at heart. Plus, we’ve also got a few staffers with older kids. To make your life a little easier this holiday season, we rounded up what we think are the best gifts for teens, based on our tech expertise as well as what our staff’s teens are into right now.
Below, you’ll find gift ideas for many types of teens. Some are more obvious choices, like the latest iPhone and Nintendo Switch 2, but we sought to include a …
The discount brings the price down to $299 ($100 off). | Image: The Verge
We thought Black Friday and Cyber Monday would bring the lowest prices of the year, but apparently not. Right now, you can snag Apple’s Watch Series 11 in the 42mm configuration with GPS for a new all-time low of $299 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy. That beats the $70 discount we saw at the beginning of the month, which means if you didn’t take advantage then, you can save even more now. The 46mm model with GPS is also down to its lowest price yet of $329 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy.
The Series 11 offers some nice improvements to the already-excellent Apple Watch Series 10. While this year’s model has the same dimensions as its predecessor, battery life has increased up to 24 hours per charge on the GPS / Wi-Fi model. At the same time, Apple managed to improve the Series 11’s durability and scratch-resistance, making it a better option for more intense workouts. Additionally, Apple added a more power-efficient 5G modem to the cellular model, so the battery won’t drain as quickly when you’re not on Wi-Fi.
Otherwise, the Series 11 carries over everything we loved about the Series 10. The wide-angle OLED display looks fantastic and is easy to read at a glance, while performance is excellent thanks to Apple’s S10 SiP chip. You also get a variety of health and wellness features, including FDA-cleared hypertension notifications, sleep apnea detection, and sleep score, which can summarize how well you slept. Meanwhile, you get access to the watchOS 26 update, which introduces a workout buddy and offers wrist-flick and double-tap gestures, along with the Liquid Glass redesign.
If you already own a Series 10, there aren’t many reasons to upgrade outside of the slightly improved battery life. However, if you have something older or you’re checking off a gift list, the Series 11 at $100 off is a great deal right before the holidays.
Slack users can now access Anthropic’s Claude Code directly in Slack by tagging Claude on coding-related messages and threads. The new feature is launching today in beta as a research preview.
When Claude is tagged, it will now automatically scan the message to see if it’s a coding task and, if so, route it to Claude Code using the context from the related Slack thread and the code repositories you’ve authenticated in Claude Code. Slack users can also directly tell Claude that a request is a coding task. For instance, you could ask Claude to investigate a bug report you’re discussing in Slack without needing to manually copy all the conte …
Lenovo has already demonstrated its ability to put rollable OLEDs into laptops by graduating last year from demo concept models to shipping the ThinkBook Plus Gen 6, an actual device you can buy. It has a built-in mechanism that expands the screen vertically to give you more screen real estate for typing and scrolling. However, the company might soon debut its first laptop that uses a rollable OLED to effectively transform its screen into an ultrawide 21:9 aspect ratio screen, with left and right edges that extend far outside the bottom chassis.
The Lenovo Legion Pro Rollable will be its first gaming laptop to feature a rollable horizontal …
At their biggest and most expensive, video games all sort of look the same. The reason often comes down to simple economics: More resources means more costs that need to be recouped, and historically the way publishers have done that is by being comically risk-averse. Hence the glut of semi-realistic rocky wastelands that look like death metal album covers where everyone is some kind of Wild West fetishist, or the hero shooters that all look like Pixar but shredded as hell and ready for fan artists to go places I shall not.
On occasion, however, new visual ground is staked. Octopath Traveler 0 is an example of this. The third game in the O …
Joshua Aaron, the developer of the ICEBlock app, is suing Attorney General Pam Bondi, US Homeland Security Secretary Kirsti Noem, acting director of ICE Todd Lyons, White House « Border Czar » Tom Homan, and other federal officials over the Trump administration’s « unlawful threats » made against Aaron and its actions to pressure Apple to pull the app from the App Store, which it did.
« We promised you we would fight back. Well, today’s the day we make good on the promise, » according to a post from ICEBlock’s official account on Bluesky. Aaron, Apple, and the Department of Homeland Security, didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment fr …
There’s an argument to be made that « the real monster is trauma » has become an overused trope in modern horror. Hereditary, The Babadook, and, much less effectively, Smile, are just a few higher-profile examples. But, if you ask me, few films have deployed this trope quite as effectively as the 2020 film His House.
The film follows Bol and Rial, refugees from South Sudan, played by Sope Dirisu and Wunmi Mosaku. Both deliver the kind of incredible performances that you rarely see in a genre film like this. It’s part of what elevates His House above the standard « haunted by trauma » fare. Mosaku, in particular, shows the sort of nuance and scr …
In November, Ted Sarandos, Netflix’s co-CEO made a trip to the White House for a lengthy meeting with Donald Trump. According to Bloomberg, the two discussed a number of topics, but chief among them was Netflix’s plan to bid on Warner Bros. At the end of their conversation, Sardonos felt that “Netflix wouldn’t face immediate opposition from the White House.”
This week, Netflix successfully won the bidding war for Warner, offering $82.7 billion. It’s well known that Paramount and its CEO David Ellison were eager to acquire the storied studio and its streaming assets. Ellison and his father, Larry Ellison, have close ties to the White House, and as part of their pitch to Warner, suggested that only they were in a position to overcome the regulatory hurdles of further media consolidation.
Sarandos seems to have rightly believed that the Ellisons overestimated their political clout. And despite some public efforts to turn the White House against the deal, Netflix won out, for now. There is of course, still a chance that Paramount could launch a hostile takeover effort, or that the Justice Department could try and scuttle the deal — nothing is guaranteed yet.
Sarandos tried to acquire Paramount before David Ellison swooped in, so snatching Warner Bros. out from under his nose is likely something of a personal victory.
Friday, the EU slapped X with a €120 million fine (about $140 million) for violating the Digital Services Act (DSA). It was the first time that a company had been hit with a penalty for running afoul of the law. Elon Musk responded with his trademark tact and professionalism by posting “Bullshit” on X in response to the announcement from the European Commission. But that wasn’t the end, because just a day later Nikita Bier, X’s head of product, accused the Commission of abusing an exploit to boost the reach of the announcement and responded by shutting down its ad account.
According to Bier, the Commission had not used its ad account since 2021, but used a post format explicitly reserved for ads in its announcement of the fine against X. He claims that the Commission posted “a link that deceives users into thinking it’s a video and to artificially increase its reach.” (For the record, the post itself includes a video.)
The seemingly retaliatory revocation of the European Commission’s ad account is unlikely to materially change things for either X or the EU. If, as Bier claims, the Commission has not used its ad account since 2021, holding it hostage is unlikely to give X any leverage. And, while it can appeal the decision, X is currently still on the hook for the sizable fine. Plus, it must provide details for how it plans to address the “deceptive” use of verified checkmarks in the next 60 days, or face additional penalties.
We’ve reached out to the Commission for comment and will update if we hear back.
Il semble que nous ne pouvons pas trouver le contenu demandé. Peut-être qu’une recherche peut vous aider.
It’s easy to think about AI as a sort of existential battle between human and machine. Maybe it will be, someday, in a Skynet sort of way. But there are also lots of people trying to figure out how to use AI not as a replacement for human creativity and thinking but as a tool meant to augment those things.
Sari Azout is one of those people. She’s the founder of Sublime, a platform dedicated to curation, creativity, and ideas. Sublime is all about taste, which makes it slightly surprising that there’s a huge amount of AI powering the way it works. But to Azout, it all makes sense.
Between keeping up with TikTok trends and whatever new gadget just dropped, it’s tough to know exactly what teens are into these days. Luckily, we can help. We may be older than teenagers, but many of us here at The Verge are kids at heart. Plus, we’ve also got a few staffers with older kids. To make your life a little easier this holiday season, we rounded up what we think are the best gifts for teens, based on our tech expertise as well as what our staff’s teens are into right now.
Below, you’ll find gift ideas for many types of teens. Some are more obvious choices, like the latest iPhone and Nintendo Switch 2, but we sought to include a …
The discount brings the price down to $299 ($100 off). | Image: The Verge
We thought Black Friday and Cyber Monday would bring the lowest prices of the year, but apparently not. Right now, you can snag Apple’s Watch Series 11 in the 42mm configuration with GPS for a new all-time low of $299 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy. That beats the $70 discount we saw at the beginning of the month, which means if you didn’t take advantage then, you can save even more now. The 46mm model with GPS is also down to its lowest price yet of $329 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy.
The Series 11 offers some nice improvements to the already-excellent Apple Watch Series 10. While this year’s model has the same dimensions as its predecessor, battery life has increased up to 24 hours per charge on the GPS / Wi-Fi model. At the same time, Apple managed to improve the Series 11’s durability and scratch-resistance, making it a better option for more intense workouts. Additionally, Apple added a more power-efficient 5G modem to the cellular model, so the battery won’t drain as quickly when you’re not on Wi-Fi.
Otherwise, the Series 11 carries over everything we loved about the Series 10. The wide-angle OLED display looks fantastic and is easy to read at a glance, while performance is excellent thanks to Apple’s S10 SiP chip. You also get a variety of health and wellness features, including FDA-cleared hypertension notifications, sleep apnea detection, and sleep score, which can summarize how well you slept. Meanwhile, you get access to the watchOS 26 update, which introduces a workout buddy and offers wrist-flick and double-tap gestures, along with the Liquid Glass redesign.
If you already own a Series 10, there aren’t many reasons to upgrade outside of the slightly improved battery life. However, if you have something older or you’re checking off a gift list, the Series 11 at $100 off is a great deal right before the holidays.
Slack users can now access Anthropic’s Claude Code directly in Slack by tagging Claude on coding-related messages and threads. The new feature is launching today in beta as a research preview.
When Claude is tagged, it will now automatically scan the message to see if it’s a coding task and, if so, route it to Claude Code using the context from the related Slack thread and the code repositories you’ve authenticated in Claude Code. Slack users can also directly tell Claude that a request is a coding task. For instance, you could ask Claude to investigate a bug report you’re discussing in Slack without needing to manually copy all the conte …
Lenovo has already demonstrated its ability to put rollable OLEDs into laptops by graduating last year from demo concept models to shipping the ThinkBook Plus Gen 6, an actual device you can buy. It has a built-in mechanism that expands the screen vertically to give you more screen real estate for typing and scrolling. However, the company might soon debut its first laptop that uses a rollable OLED to effectively transform its screen into an ultrawide 21:9 aspect ratio screen, with left and right edges that extend far outside the bottom chassis.
The Lenovo Legion Pro Rollable will be its first gaming laptop to feature a rollable horizontal …
At their biggest and most expensive, video games all sort of look the same. The reason often comes down to simple economics: More resources means more costs that need to be recouped, and historically the way publishers have done that is by being comically risk-averse. Hence the glut of semi-realistic rocky wastelands that look like death metal album covers where everyone is some kind of Wild West fetishist, or the hero shooters that all look like Pixar but shredded as hell and ready for fan artists to go places I shall not.
On occasion, however, new visual ground is staked. Octopath Traveler 0 is an example of this. The third game in the O …
Joshua Aaron, the developer of the ICEBlock app, is suing Attorney General Pam Bondi, US Homeland Security Secretary Kirsti Noem, acting director of ICE Todd Lyons, White House « Border Czar » Tom Homan, and other federal officials over the Trump administration’s « unlawful threats » made against Aaron and its actions to pressure Apple to pull the app from the App Store, which it did.
« We promised you we would fight back. Well, today’s the day we make good on the promise, » according to a post from ICEBlock’s official account on Bluesky. Aaron, Apple, and the Department of Homeland Security, didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment fr …
There’s an argument to be made that « the real monster is trauma » has become an overused trope in modern horror. Hereditary, The Babadook, and, much less effectively, Smile, are just a few higher-profile examples. But, if you ask me, few films have deployed this trope quite as effectively as the 2020 film His House.
The film follows Bol and Rial, refugees from South Sudan, played by Sope Dirisu and Wunmi Mosaku. Both deliver the kind of incredible performances that you rarely see in a genre film like this. It’s part of what elevates His House above the standard « haunted by trauma » fare. Mosaku, in particular, shows the sort of nuance and scr …
In November, Ted Sarandos, Netflix’s co-CEO made a trip to the White House for a lengthy meeting with Donald Trump. According to Bloomberg, the two discussed a number of topics, but chief among them was Netflix’s plan to bid on Warner Bros. At the end of their conversation, Sardonos felt that “Netflix wouldn’t face immediate opposition from the White House.”
This week, Netflix successfully won the bidding war for Warner, offering $82.7 billion. It’s well known that Paramount and its CEO David Ellison were eager to acquire the storied studio and its streaming assets. Ellison and his father, Larry Ellison, have close ties to the White House, and as part of their pitch to Warner, suggested that only they were in a position to overcome the regulatory hurdles of further media consolidation.
Sarandos seems to have rightly believed that the Ellisons overestimated their political clout. And despite some public efforts to turn the White House against the deal, Netflix won out, for now. There is of course, still a chance that Paramount could launch a hostile takeover effort, or that the Justice Department could try and scuttle the deal — nothing is guaranteed yet.
Sarandos tried to acquire Paramount before David Ellison swooped in, so snatching Warner Bros. out from under his nose is likely something of a personal victory.
Friday, the EU slapped X with a €120 million fine (about $140 million) for violating the Digital Services Act (DSA). It was the first time that a company had been hit with a penalty for running afoul of the law. Elon Musk responded with his trademark tact and professionalism by posting “Bullshit” on X in response to the announcement from the European Commission. But that wasn’t the end, because just a day later Nikita Bier, X’s head of product, accused the Commission of abusing an exploit to boost the reach of the announcement and responded by shutting down its ad account.
According to Bier, the Commission had not used its ad account since 2021, but used a post format explicitly reserved for ads in its announcement of the fine against X. He claims that the Commission posted “a link that deceives users into thinking it’s a video and to artificially increase its reach.” (For the record, the post itself includes a video.)
The seemingly retaliatory revocation of the European Commission’s ad account is unlikely to materially change things for either X or the EU. If, as Bier claims, the Commission has not used its ad account since 2021, holding it hostage is unlikely to give X any leverage. And, while it can appeal the decision, X is currently still on the hook for the sizable fine. Plus, it must provide details for how it plans to address the “deceptive” use of verified checkmarks in the next 60 days, or face additional penalties.
We’ve reached out to the Commission for comment and will update if we hear back.
Il semble que nous ne pouvons pas trouver le contenu demandé. Peut-être qu’une recherche peut vous aider.
It’s easy to think about AI as a sort of existential battle between human and machine. Maybe it will be, someday, in a Skynet sort of way. But there are also lots of people trying to figure out how to use AI not as a replacement for human creativity and thinking but as a tool meant to augment those things.
Sari Azout is one of those people. She’s the founder of Sublime, a platform dedicated to curation, creativity, and ideas. Sublime is all about taste, which makes it slightly surprising that there’s a huge amount of AI powering the way it works. But to Azout, it all makes sense.
Between keeping up with TikTok trends and whatever new gadget just dropped, it’s tough to know exactly what teens are into these days. Luckily, we can help. We may be older than teenagers, but many of us here at The Verge are kids at heart. Plus, we’ve also got a few staffers with older kids. To make your life a little easier this holiday season, we rounded up what we think are the best gifts for teens, based on our tech expertise as well as what our staff’s teens are into right now.
Below, you’ll find gift ideas for many types of teens. Some are more obvious choices, like the latest iPhone and Nintendo Switch 2, but we sought to include a …
The discount brings the price down to $299 ($100 off). | Image: The Verge
We thought Black Friday and Cyber Monday would bring the lowest prices of the year, but apparently not. Right now, you can snag Apple’s Watch Series 11 in the 42mm configuration with GPS for a new all-time low of $299 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy. That beats the $70 discount we saw at the beginning of the month, which means if you didn’t take advantage then, you can save even more now. The 46mm model with GPS is also down to its lowest price yet of $329 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy.
The Series 11 offers some nice improvements to the already-excellent Apple Watch Series 10. While this year’s model has the same dimensions as its predecessor, battery life has increased up to 24 hours per charge on the GPS / Wi-Fi model. At the same time, Apple managed to improve the Series 11’s durability and scratch-resistance, making it a better option for more intense workouts. Additionally, Apple added a more power-efficient 5G modem to the cellular model, so the battery won’t drain as quickly when you’re not on Wi-Fi.
Otherwise, the Series 11 carries over everything we loved about the Series 10. The wide-angle OLED display looks fantastic and is easy to read at a glance, while performance is excellent thanks to Apple’s S10 SiP chip. You also get a variety of health and wellness features, including FDA-cleared hypertension notifications, sleep apnea detection, and sleep score, which can summarize how well you slept. Meanwhile, you get access to the watchOS 26 update, which introduces a workout buddy and offers wrist-flick and double-tap gestures, along with the Liquid Glass redesign.
If you already own a Series 10, there aren’t many reasons to upgrade outside of the slightly improved battery life. However, if you have something older or you’re checking off a gift list, the Series 11 at $100 off is a great deal right before the holidays.
Slack users can now access Anthropic’s Claude Code directly in Slack by tagging Claude on coding-related messages and threads. The new feature is launching today in beta as a research preview.
When Claude is tagged, it will now automatically scan the message to see if it’s a coding task and, if so, route it to Claude Code using the context from the related Slack thread and the code repositories you’ve authenticated in Claude Code. Slack users can also directly tell Claude that a request is a coding task. For instance, you could ask Claude to investigate a bug report you’re discussing in Slack without needing to manually copy all the conte …
Lenovo has already demonstrated its ability to put rollable OLEDs into laptops by graduating last year from demo concept models to shipping the ThinkBook Plus Gen 6, an actual device you can buy. It has a built-in mechanism that expands the screen vertically to give you more screen real estate for typing and scrolling. However, the company might soon debut its first laptop that uses a rollable OLED to effectively transform its screen into an ultrawide 21:9 aspect ratio screen, with left and right edges that extend far outside the bottom chassis.
The Lenovo Legion Pro Rollable will be its first gaming laptop to feature a rollable horizontal …
At their biggest and most expensive, video games all sort of look the same. The reason often comes down to simple economics: More resources means more costs that need to be recouped, and historically the way publishers have done that is by being comically risk-averse. Hence the glut of semi-realistic rocky wastelands that look like death metal album covers where everyone is some kind of Wild West fetishist, or the hero shooters that all look like Pixar but shredded as hell and ready for fan artists to go places I shall not.
On occasion, however, new visual ground is staked. Octopath Traveler 0 is an example of this. The third game in the O …
Joshua Aaron, the developer of the ICEBlock app, is suing Attorney General Pam Bondi, US Homeland Security Secretary Kirsti Noem, acting director of ICE Todd Lyons, White House « Border Czar » Tom Homan, and other federal officials over the Trump administration’s « unlawful threats » made against Aaron and its actions to pressure Apple to pull the app from the App Store, which it did.
« We promised you we would fight back. Well, today’s the day we make good on the promise, » according to a post from ICEBlock’s official account on Bluesky. Aaron, Apple, and the Department of Homeland Security, didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment fr …
There’s an argument to be made that « the real monster is trauma » has become an overused trope in modern horror. Hereditary, The Babadook, and, much less effectively, Smile, are just a few higher-profile examples. But, if you ask me, few films have deployed this trope quite as effectively as the 2020 film His House.
The film follows Bol and Rial, refugees from South Sudan, played by Sope Dirisu and Wunmi Mosaku. Both deliver the kind of incredible performances that you rarely see in a genre film like this. It’s part of what elevates His House above the standard « haunted by trauma » fare. Mosaku, in particular, shows the sort of nuance and scr …
In November, Ted Sarandos, Netflix’s co-CEO made a trip to the White House for a lengthy meeting with Donald Trump. According to Bloomberg, the two discussed a number of topics, but chief among them was Netflix’s plan to bid on Warner Bros. At the end of their conversation, Sardonos felt that “Netflix wouldn’t face immediate opposition from the White House.”
This week, Netflix successfully won the bidding war for Warner, offering $82.7 billion. It’s well known that Paramount and its CEO David Ellison were eager to acquire the storied studio and its streaming assets. Ellison and his father, Larry Ellison, have close ties to the White House, and as part of their pitch to Warner, suggested that only they were in a position to overcome the regulatory hurdles of further media consolidation.
Sarandos seems to have rightly believed that the Ellisons overestimated their political clout. And despite some public efforts to turn the White House against the deal, Netflix won out, for now. There is of course, still a chance that Paramount could launch a hostile takeover effort, or that the Justice Department could try and scuttle the deal — nothing is guaranteed yet.
Sarandos tried to acquire Paramount before David Ellison swooped in, so snatching Warner Bros. out from under his nose is likely something of a personal victory.
Friday, the EU slapped X with a €120 million fine (about $140 million) for violating the Digital Services Act (DSA). It was the first time that a company had been hit with a penalty for running afoul of the law. Elon Musk responded with his trademark tact and professionalism by posting “Bullshit” on X in response to the announcement from the European Commission. But that wasn’t the end, because just a day later Nikita Bier, X’s head of product, accused the Commission of abusing an exploit to boost the reach of the announcement and responded by shutting down its ad account.
According to Bier, the Commission had not used its ad account since 2021, but used a post format explicitly reserved for ads in its announcement of the fine against X. He claims that the Commission posted “a link that deceives users into thinking it’s a video and to artificially increase its reach.” (For the record, the post itself includes a video.)
The seemingly retaliatory revocation of the European Commission’s ad account is unlikely to materially change things for either X or the EU. If, as Bier claims, the Commission has not used its ad account since 2021, holding it hostage is unlikely to give X any leverage. And, while it can appeal the decision, X is currently still on the hook for the sizable fine. Plus, it must provide details for how it plans to address the “deceptive” use of verified checkmarks in the next 60 days, or face additional penalties.
We’ve reached out to the Commission for comment and will update if we hear back.
Il semble que nous ne pouvons pas trouver le contenu demandé. Peut-être qu’une recherche peut vous aider.
It’s easy to think about AI as a sort of existential battle between human and machine. Maybe it will be, someday, in a Skynet sort of way. But there are also lots of people trying to figure out how to use AI not as a replacement for human creativity and thinking but as a tool meant to augment those things.
Sari Azout is one of those people. She’s the founder of Sublime, a platform dedicated to curation, creativity, and ideas. Sublime is all about taste, which makes it slightly surprising that there’s a huge amount of AI powering the way it works. But to Azout, it all makes sense.
Between keeping up with TikTok trends and whatever new gadget just dropped, it’s tough to know exactly what teens are into these days. Luckily, we can help. We may be older than teenagers, but many of us here at The Verge are kids at heart. Plus, we’ve also got a few staffers with older kids. To make your life a little easier this holiday season, we rounded up what we think are the best gifts for teens, based on our tech expertise as well as what our staff’s teens are into right now.
Below, you’ll find gift ideas for many types of teens. Some are more obvious choices, like the latest iPhone and Nintendo Switch 2, but we sought to include a …
The discount brings the price down to $299 ($100 off). | Image: The Verge
We thought Black Friday and Cyber Monday would bring the lowest prices of the year, but apparently not. Right now, you can snag Apple’s Watch Series 11 in the 42mm configuration with GPS for a new all-time low of $299 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy. That beats the $70 discount we saw at the beginning of the month, which means if you didn’t take advantage then, you can save even more now. The 46mm model with GPS is also down to its lowest price yet of $329 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy.
The Series 11 offers some nice improvements to the already-excellent Apple Watch Series 10. While this year’s model has the same dimensions as its predecessor, battery life has increased up to 24 hours per charge on the GPS / Wi-Fi model. At the same time, Apple managed to improve the Series 11’s durability and scratch-resistance, making it a better option for more intense workouts. Additionally, Apple added a more power-efficient 5G modem to the cellular model, so the battery won’t drain as quickly when you’re not on Wi-Fi.
Otherwise, the Series 11 carries over everything we loved about the Series 10. The wide-angle OLED display looks fantastic and is easy to read at a glance, while performance is excellent thanks to Apple’s S10 SiP chip. You also get a variety of health and wellness features, including FDA-cleared hypertension notifications, sleep apnea detection, and sleep score, which can summarize how well you slept. Meanwhile, you get access to the watchOS 26 update, which introduces a workout buddy and offers wrist-flick and double-tap gestures, along with the Liquid Glass redesign.
If you already own a Series 10, there aren’t many reasons to upgrade outside of the slightly improved battery life. However, if you have something older or you’re checking off a gift list, the Series 11 at $100 off is a great deal right before the holidays.
Slack users can now access Anthropic’s Claude Code directly in Slack by tagging Claude on coding-related messages and threads. The new feature is launching today in beta as a research preview.
When Claude is tagged, it will now automatically scan the message to see if it’s a coding task and, if so, route it to Claude Code using the context from the related Slack thread and the code repositories you’ve authenticated in Claude Code. Slack users can also directly tell Claude that a request is a coding task. For instance, you could ask Claude to investigate a bug report you’re discussing in Slack without needing to manually copy all the conte …
Lenovo has already demonstrated its ability to put rollable OLEDs into laptops by graduating last year from demo concept models to shipping the ThinkBook Plus Gen 6, an actual device you can buy. It has a built-in mechanism that expands the screen vertically to give you more screen real estate for typing and scrolling. However, the company might soon debut its first laptop that uses a rollable OLED to effectively transform its screen into an ultrawide 21:9 aspect ratio screen, with left and right edges that extend far outside the bottom chassis.
The Lenovo Legion Pro Rollable will be its first gaming laptop to feature a rollable horizontal …
At their biggest and most expensive, video games all sort of look the same. The reason often comes down to simple economics: More resources means more costs that need to be recouped, and historically the way publishers have done that is by being comically risk-averse. Hence the glut of semi-realistic rocky wastelands that look like death metal album covers where everyone is some kind of Wild West fetishist, or the hero shooters that all look like Pixar but shredded as hell and ready for fan artists to go places I shall not.
On occasion, however, new visual ground is staked. Octopath Traveler 0 is an example of this. The third game in the O …
Joshua Aaron, the developer of the ICEBlock app, is suing Attorney General Pam Bondi, US Homeland Security Secretary Kirsti Noem, acting director of ICE Todd Lyons, White House « Border Czar » Tom Homan, and other federal officials over the Trump administration’s « unlawful threats » made against Aaron and its actions to pressure Apple to pull the app from the App Store, which it did.
« We promised you we would fight back. Well, today’s the day we make good on the promise, » according to a post from ICEBlock’s official account on Bluesky. Aaron, Apple, and the Department of Homeland Security, didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment fr …
There’s an argument to be made that « the real monster is trauma » has become an overused trope in modern horror. Hereditary, The Babadook, and, much less effectively, Smile, are just a few higher-profile examples. But, if you ask me, few films have deployed this trope quite as effectively as the 2020 film His House.
The film follows Bol and Rial, refugees from South Sudan, played by Sope Dirisu and Wunmi Mosaku. Both deliver the kind of incredible performances that you rarely see in a genre film like this. It’s part of what elevates His House above the standard « haunted by trauma » fare. Mosaku, in particular, shows the sort of nuance and scr …
In November, Ted Sarandos, Netflix’s co-CEO made a trip to the White House for a lengthy meeting with Donald Trump. According to Bloomberg, the two discussed a number of topics, but chief among them was Netflix’s plan to bid on Warner Bros. At the end of their conversation, Sardonos felt that “Netflix wouldn’t face immediate opposition from the White House.”
This week, Netflix successfully won the bidding war for Warner, offering $82.7 billion. It’s well known that Paramount and its CEO David Ellison were eager to acquire the storied studio and its streaming assets. Ellison and his father, Larry Ellison, have close ties to the White House, and as part of their pitch to Warner, suggested that only they were in a position to overcome the regulatory hurdles of further media consolidation.
Sarandos seems to have rightly believed that the Ellisons overestimated their political clout. And despite some public efforts to turn the White House against the deal, Netflix won out, for now. There is of course, still a chance that Paramount could launch a hostile takeover effort, or that the Justice Department could try and scuttle the deal — nothing is guaranteed yet.
Sarandos tried to acquire Paramount before David Ellison swooped in, so snatching Warner Bros. out from under his nose is likely something of a personal victory.
Friday, the EU slapped X with a €120 million fine (about $140 million) for violating the Digital Services Act (DSA). It was the first time that a company had been hit with a penalty for running afoul of the law. Elon Musk responded with his trademark tact and professionalism by posting “Bullshit” on X in response to the announcement from the European Commission. But that wasn’t the end, because just a day later Nikita Bier, X’s head of product, accused the Commission of abusing an exploit to boost the reach of the announcement and responded by shutting down its ad account.
According to Bier, the Commission had not used its ad account since 2021, but used a post format explicitly reserved for ads in its announcement of the fine against X. He claims that the Commission posted “a link that deceives users into thinking it’s a video and to artificially increase its reach.” (For the record, the post itself includes a video.)
The seemingly retaliatory revocation of the European Commission’s ad account is unlikely to materially change things for either X or the EU. If, as Bier claims, the Commission has not used its ad account since 2021, holding it hostage is unlikely to give X any leverage. And, while it can appeal the decision, X is currently still on the hook for the sizable fine. Plus, it must provide details for how it plans to address the “deceptive” use of verified checkmarks in the next 60 days, or face additional penalties.
We’ve reached out to the Commission for comment and will update if we hear back.
Il semble que nous ne pouvons pas trouver le contenu demandé. Peut-être qu’une recherche peut vous aider.
It’s easy to think about AI as a sort of existential battle between human and machine. Maybe it will be, someday, in a Skynet sort of way. But there are also lots of people trying to figure out how to use AI not as a replacement for human creativity and thinking but as a tool meant to augment those things.
Sari Azout is one of those people. She’s the founder of Sublime, a platform dedicated to curation, creativity, and ideas. Sublime is all about taste, which makes it slightly surprising that there’s a huge amount of AI powering the way it works. But to Azout, it all makes sense.
Between keeping up with TikTok trends and whatever new gadget just dropped, it’s tough to know exactly what teens are into these days. Luckily, we can help. We may be older than teenagers, but many of us here at The Verge are kids at heart. Plus, we’ve also got a few staffers with older kids. To make your life a little easier this holiday season, we rounded up what we think are the best gifts for teens, based on our tech expertise as well as what our staff’s teens are into right now.
Below, you’ll find gift ideas for many types of teens. Some are more obvious choices, like the latest iPhone and Nintendo Switch 2, but we sought to include a …
The discount brings the price down to $299 ($100 off). | Image: The Verge
We thought Black Friday and Cyber Monday would bring the lowest prices of the year, but apparently not. Right now, you can snag Apple’s Watch Series 11 in the 42mm configuration with GPS for a new all-time low of $299 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy. That beats the $70 discount we saw at the beginning of the month, which means if you didn’t take advantage then, you can save even more now. The 46mm model with GPS is also down to its lowest price yet of $329 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy.
The Series 11 offers some nice improvements to the already-excellent Apple Watch Series 10. While this year’s model has the same dimensions as its predecessor, battery life has increased up to 24 hours per charge on the GPS / Wi-Fi model. At the same time, Apple managed to improve the Series 11’s durability and scratch-resistance, making it a better option for more intense workouts. Additionally, Apple added a more power-efficient 5G modem to the cellular model, so the battery won’t drain as quickly when you’re not on Wi-Fi.
Otherwise, the Series 11 carries over everything we loved about the Series 10. The wide-angle OLED display looks fantastic and is easy to read at a glance, while performance is excellent thanks to Apple’s S10 SiP chip. You also get a variety of health and wellness features, including FDA-cleared hypertension notifications, sleep apnea detection, and sleep score, which can summarize how well you slept. Meanwhile, you get access to the watchOS 26 update, which introduces a workout buddy and offers wrist-flick and double-tap gestures, along with the Liquid Glass redesign.
If you already own a Series 10, there aren’t many reasons to upgrade outside of the slightly improved battery life. However, if you have something older or you’re checking off a gift list, the Series 11 at $100 off is a great deal right before the holidays.
Slack users can now access Anthropic’s Claude Code directly in Slack by tagging Claude on coding-related messages and threads. The new feature is launching today in beta as a research preview.
When Claude is tagged, it will now automatically scan the message to see if it’s a coding task and, if so, route it to Claude Code using the context from the related Slack thread and the code repositories you’ve authenticated in Claude Code. Slack users can also directly tell Claude that a request is a coding task. For instance, you could ask Claude to investigate a bug report you’re discussing in Slack without needing to manually copy all the conte …
Lenovo has already demonstrated its ability to put rollable OLEDs into laptops by graduating last year from demo concept models to shipping the ThinkBook Plus Gen 6, an actual device you can buy. It has a built-in mechanism that expands the screen vertically to give you more screen real estate for typing and scrolling. However, the company might soon debut its first laptop that uses a rollable OLED to effectively transform its screen into an ultrawide 21:9 aspect ratio screen, with left and right edges that extend far outside the bottom chassis.
The Lenovo Legion Pro Rollable will be its first gaming laptop to feature a rollable horizontal …
At their biggest and most expensive, video games all sort of look the same. The reason often comes down to simple economics: More resources means more costs that need to be recouped, and historically the way publishers have done that is by being comically risk-averse. Hence the glut of semi-realistic rocky wastelands that look like death metal album covers where everyone is some kind of Wild West fetishist, or the hero shooters that all look like Pixar but shredded as hell and ready for fan artists to go places I shall not.
On occasion, however, new visual ground is staked. Octopath Traveler 0 is an example of this. The third game in the O …
Joshua Aaron, the developer of the ICEBlock app, is suing Attorney General Pam Bondi, US Homeland Security Secretary Kirsti Noem, acting director of ICE Todd Lyons, White House « Border Czar » Tom Homan, and other federal officials over the Trump administration’s « unlawful threats » made against Aaron and its actions to pressure Apple to pull the app from the App Store, which it did.
« We promised you we would fight back. Well, today’s the day we make good on the promise, » according to a post from ICEBlock’s official account on Bluesky. Aaron, Apple, and the Department of Homeland Security, didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment fr …
There’s an argument to be made that « the real monster is trauma » has become an overused trope in modern horror. Hereditary, The Babadook, and, much less effectively, Smile, are just a few higher-profile examples. But, if you ask me, few films have deployed this trope quite as effectively as the 2020 film His House.
The film follows Bol and Rial, refugees from South Sudan, played by Sope Dirisu and Wunmi Mosaku. Both deliver the kind of incredible performances that you rarely see in a genre film like this. It’s part of what elevates His House above the standard « haunted by trauma » fare. Mosaku, in particular, shows the sort of nuance and scr …
In November, Ted Sarandos, Netflix’s co-CEO made a trip to the White House for a lengthy meeting with Donald Trump. According to Bloomberg, the two discussed a number of topics, but chief among them was Netflix’s plan to bid on Warner Bros. At the end of their conversation, Sardonos felt that “Netflix wouldn’t face immediate opposition from the White House.”
This week, Netflix successfully won the bidding war for Warner, offering $82.7 billion. It’s well known that Paramount and its CEO David Ellison were eager to acquire the storied studio and its streaming assets. Ellison and his father, Larry Ellison, have close ties to the White House, and as part of their pitch to Warner, suggested that only they were in a position to overcome the regulatory hurdles of further media consolidation.
Sarandos seems to have rightly believed that the Ellisons overestimated their political clout. And despite some public efforts to turn the White House against the deal, Netflix won out, for now. There is of course, still a chance that Paramount could launch a hostile takeover effort, or that the Justice Department could try and scuttle the deal — nothing is guaranteed yet.
Sarandos tried to acquire Paramount before David Ellison swooped in, so snatching Warner Bros. out from under his nose is likely something of a personal victory.
Friday, the EU slapped X with a €120 million fine (about $140 million) for violating the Digital Services Act (DSA). It was the first time that a company had been hit with a penalty for running afoul of the law. Elon Musk responded with his trademark tact and professionalism by posting “Bullshit” on X in response to the announcement from the European Commission. But that wasn’t the end, because just a day later Nikita Bier, X’s head of product, accused the Commission of abusing an exploit to boost the reach of the announcement and responded by shutting down its ad account.
According to Bier, the Commission had not used its ad account since 2021, but used a post format explicitly reserved for ads in its announcement of the fine against X. He claims that the Commission posted “a link that deceives users into thinking it’s a video and to artificially increase its reach.” (For the record, the post itself includes a video.)
The seemingly retaliatory revocation of the European Commission’s ad account is unlikely to materially change things for either X or the EU. If, as Bier claims, the Commission has not used its ad account since 2021, holding it hostage is unlikely to give X any leverage. And, while it can appeal the decision, X is currently still on the hook for the sizable fine. Plus, it must provide details for how it plans to address the “deceptive” use of verified checkmarks in the next 60 days, or face additional penalties.
We’ve reached out to the Commission for comment and will update if we hear back.
Il semble que nous ne pouvons pas trouver le contenu demandé. Peut-être qu’une recherche peut vous aider.
It’s easy to think about AI as a sort of existential battle between human and machine. Maybe it will be, someday, in a Skynet sort of way. But there are also lots of people trying to figure out how to use AI not as a replacement for human creativity and thinking but as a tool meant to augment those things.
Sari Azout is one of those people. She’s the founder of Sublime, a platform dedicated to curation, creativity, and ideas. Sublime is all about taste, which makes it slightly surprising that there’s a huge amount of AI powering the way it works. But to Azout, it all makes sense.
Between keeping up with TikTok trends and whatever new gadget just dropped, it’s tough to know exactly what teens are into these days. Luckily, we can help. We may be older than teenagers, but many of us here at The Verge are kids at heart. Plus, we’ve also got a few staffers with older kids. To make your life a little easier this holiday season, we rounded up what we think are the best gifts for teens, based on our tech expertise as well as what our staff’s teens are into right now.
Below, you’ll find gift ideas for many types of teens. Some are more obvious choices, like the latest iPhone and Nintendo Switch 2, but we sought to include a …
The discount brings the price down to $299 ($100 off). | Image: The Verge
We thought Black Friday and Cyber Monday would bring the lowest prices of the year, but apparently not. Right now, you can snag Apple’s Watch Series 11 in the 42mm configuration with GPS for a new all-time low of $299 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy. That beats the $70 discount we saw at the beginning of the month, which means if you didn’t take advantage then, you can save even more now. The 46mm model with GPS is also down to its lowest price yet of $329 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy.
The Series 11 offers some nice improvements to the already-excellent Apple Watch Series 10. While this year’s model has the same dimensions as its predecessor, battery life has increased up to 24 hours per charge on the GPS / Wi-Fi model. At the same time, Apple managed to improve the Series 11’s durability and scratch-resistance, making it a better option for more intense workouts. Additionally, Apple added a more power-efficient 5G modem to the cellular model, so the battery won’t drain as quickly when you’re not on Wi-Fi.
Otherwise, the Series 11 carries over everything we loved about the Series 10. The wide-angle OLED display looks fantastic and is easy to read at a glance, while performance is excellent thanks to Apple’s S10 SiP chip. You also get a variety of health and wellness features, including FDA-cleared hypertension notifications, sleep apnea detection, and sleep score, which can summarize how well you slept. Meanwhile, you get access to the watchOS 26 update, which introduces a workout buddy and offers wrist-flick and double-tap gestures, along with the Liquid Glass redesign.
If you already own a Series 10, there aren’t many reasons to upgrade outside of the slightly improved battery life. However, if you have something older or you’re checking off a gift list, the Series 11 at $100 off is a great deal right before the holidays.
Slack users can now access Anthropic’s Claude Code directly in Slack by tagging Claude on coding-related messages and threads. The new feature is launching today in beta as a research preview.
When Claude is tagged, it will now automatically scan the message to see if it’s a coding task and, if so, route it to Claude Code using the context from the related Slack thread and the code repositories you’ve authenticated in Claude Code. Slack users can also directly tell Claude that a request is a coding task. For instance, you could ask Claude to investigate a bug report you’re discussing in Slack without needing to manually copy all the conte …
Lenovo has already demonstrated its ability to put rollable OLEDs into laptops by graduating last year from demo concept models to shipping the ThinkBook Plus Gen 6, an actual device you can buy. It has a built-in mechanism that expands the screen vertically to give you more screen real estate for typing and scrolling. However, the company might soon debut its first laptop that uses a rollable OLED to effectively transform its screen into an ultrawide 21:9 aspect ratio screen, with left and right edges that extend far outside the bottom chassis.
The Lenovo Legion Pro Rollable will be its first gaming laptop to feature a rollable horizontal …
At their biggest and most expensive, video games all sort of look the same. The reason often comes down to simple economics: More resources means more costs that need to be recouped, and historically the way publishers have done that is by being comically risk-averse. Hence the glut of semi-realistic rocky wastelands that look like death metal album covers where everyone is some kind of Wild West fetishist, or the hero shooters that all look like Pixar but shredded as hell and ready for fan artists to go places I shall not.
On occasion, however, new visual ground is staked. Octopath Traveler 0 is an example of this. The third game in the O …
Joshua Aaron, the developer of the ICEBlock app, is suing Attorney General Pam Bondi, US Homeland Security Secretary Kirsti Noem, acting director of ICE Todd Lyons, White House « Border Czar » Tom Homan, and other federal officials over the Trump administration’s « unlawful threats » made against Aaron and its actions to pressure Apple to pull the app from the App Store, which it did.
« We promised you we would fight back. Well, today’s the day we make good on the promise, » according to a post from ICEBlock’s official account on Bluesky. Aaron, Apple, and the Department of Homeland Security, didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment fr …
There’s an argument to be made that « the real monster is trauma » has become an overused trope in modern horror. Hereditary, The Babadook, and, much less effectively, Smile, are just a few higher-profile examples. But, if you ask me, few films have deployed this trope quite as effectively as the 2020 film His House.
The film follows Bol and Rial, refugees from South Sudan, played by Sope Dirisu and Wunmi Mosaku. Both deliver the kind of incredible performances that you rarely see in a genre film like this. It’s part of what elevates His House above the standard « haunted by trauma » fare. Mosaku, in particular, shows the sort of nuance and scr …
In November, Ted Sarandos, Netflix’s co-CEO made a trip to the White House for a lengthy meeting with Donald Trump. According to Bloomberg, the two discussed a number of topics, but chief among them was Netflix’s plan to bid on Warner Bros. At the end of their conversation, Sardonos felt that “Netflix wouldn’t face immediate opposition from the White House.”
This week, Netflix successfully won the bidding war for Warner, offering $82.7 billion. It’s well known that Paramount and its CEO David Ellison were eager to acquire the storied studio and its streaming assets. Ellison and his father, Larry Ellison, have close ties to the White House, and as part of their pitch to Warner, suggested that only they were in a position to overcome the regulatory hurdles of further media consolidation.
Sarandos seems to have rightly believed that the Ellisons overestimated their political clout. And despite some public efforts to turn the White House against the deal, Netflix won out, for now. There is of course, still a chance that Paramount could launch a hostile takeover effort, or that the Justice Department could try and scuttle the deal — nothing is guaranteed yet.
Sarandos tried to acquire Paramount before David Ellison swooped in, so snatching Warner Bros. out from under his nose is likely something of a personal victory.
Friday, the EU slapped X with a €120 million fine (about $140 million) for violating the Digital Services Act (DSA). It was the first time that a company had been hit with a penalty for running afoul of the law. Elon Musk responded with his trademark tact and professionalism by posting “Bullshit” on X in response to the announcement from the European Commission. But that wasn’t the end, because just a day later Nikita Bier, X’s head of product, accused the Commission of abusing an exploit to boost the reach of the announcement and responded by shutting down its ad account.
According to Bier, the Commission had not used its ad account since 2021, but used a post format explicitly reserved for ads in its announcement of the fine against X. He claims that the Commission posted “a link that deceives users into thinking it’s a video and to artificially increase its reach.” (For the record, the post itself includes a video.)
The seemingly retaliatory revocation of the European Commission’s ad account is unlikely to materially change things for either X or the EU. If, as Bier claims, the Commission has not used its ad account since 2021, holding it hostage is unlikely to give X any leverage. And, while it can appeal the decision, X is currently still on the hook for the sizable fine. Plus, it must provide details for how it plans to address the “deceptive” use of verified checkmarks in the next 60 days, or face additional penalties.
We’ve reached out to the Commission for comment and will update if we hear back.
Il semble que nous ne pouvons pas trouver le contenu demandé. Peut-être qu’une recherche peut vous aider.
It’s easy to think about AI as a sort of existential battle between human and machine. Maybe it will be, someday, in a Skynet sort of way. But there are also lots of people trying to figure out how to use AI not as a replacement for human creativity and thinking but as a tool meant to augment those things.
Sari Azout is one of those people. She’s the founder of Sublime, a platform dedicated to curation, creativity, and ideas. Sublime is all about taste, which makes it slightly surprising that there’s a huge amount of AI powering the way it works. But to Azout, it all makes sense.
Between keeping up with TikTok trends and whatever new gadget just dropped, it’s tough to know exactly what teens are into these days. Luckily, we can help. We may be older than teenagers, but many of us here at The Verge are kids at heart. Plus, we’ve also got a few staffers with older kids. To make your life a little easier this holiday season, we rounded up what we think are the best gifts for teens, based on our tech expertise as well as what our staff’s teens are into right now.
Below, you’ll find gift ideas for many types of teens. Some are more obvious choices, like the latest iPhone and Nintendo Switch 2, but we sought to include a …
The discount brings the price down to $299 ($100 off). | Image: The Verge
We thought Black Friday and Cyber Monday would bring the lowest prices of the year, but apparently not. Right now, you can snag Apple’s Watch Series 11 in the 42mm configuration with GPS for a new all-time low of $299 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy. That beats the $70 discount we saw at the beginning of the month, which means if you didn’t take advantage then, you can save even more now. The 46mm model with GPS is also down to its lowest price yet of $329 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy.
The Series 11 offers some nice improvements to the already-excellent Apple Watch Series 10. While this year’s model has the same dimensions as its predecessor, battery life has increased up to 24 hours per charge on the GPS / Wi-Fi model. At the same time, Apple managed to improve the Series 11’s durability and scratch-resistance, making it a better option for more intense workouts. Additionally, Apple added a more power-efficient 5G modem to the cellular model, so the battery won’t drain as quickly when you’re not on Wi-Fi.
Otherwise, the Series 11 carries over everything we loved about the Series 10. The wide-angle OLED display looks fantastic and is easy to read at a glance, while performance is excellent thanks to Apple’s S10 SiP chip. You also get a variety of health and wellness features, including FDA-cleared hypertension notifications, sleep apnea detection, and sleep score, which can summarize how well you slept. Meanwhile, you get access to the watchOS 26 update, which introduces a workout buddy and offers wrist-flick and double-tap gestures, along with the Liquid Glass redesign.
If you already own a Series 10, there aren’t many reasons to upgrade outside of the slightly improved battery life. However, if you have something older or you’re checking off a gift list, the Series 11 at $100 off is a great deal right before the holidays.
Slack users can now access Anthropic’s Claude Code directly in Slack by tagging Claude on coding-related messages and threads. The new feature is launching today in beta as a research preview.
When Claude is tagged, it will now automatically scan the message to see if it’s a coding task and, if so, route it to Claude Code using the context from the related Slack thread and the code repositories you’ve authenticated in Claude Code. Slack users can also directly tell Claude that a request is a coding task. For instance, you could ask Claude to investigate a bug report you’re discussing in Slack without needing to manually copy all the conte …
Lenovo has already demonstrated its ability to put rollable OLEDs into laptops by graduating last year from demo concept models to shipping the ThinkBook Plus Gen 6, an actual device you can buy. It has a built-in mechanism that expands the screen vertically to give you more screen real estate for typing and scrolling. However, the company might soon debut its first laptop that uses a rollable OLED to effectively transform its screen into an ultrawide 21:9 aspect ratio screen, with left and right edges that extend far outside the bottom chassis.
The Lenovo Legion Pro Rollable will be its first gaming laptop to feature a rollable horizontal …
At their biggest and most expensive, video games all sort of look the same. The reason often comes down to simple economics: More resources means more costs that need to be recouped, and historically the way publishers have done that is by being comically risk-averse. Hence the glut of semi-realistic rocky wastelands that look like death metal album covers where everyone is some kind of Wild West fetishist, or the hero shooters that all look like Pixar but shredded as hell and ready for fan artists to go places I shall not.
On occasion, however, new visual ground is staked. Octopath Traveler 0 is an example of this. The third game in the O …
Joshua Aaron, the developer of the ICEBlock app, is suing Attorney General Pam Bondi, US Homeland Security Secretary Kirsti Noem, acting director of ICE Todd Lyons, White House « Border Czar » Tom Homan, and other federal officials over the Trump administration’s « unlawful threats » made against Aaron and its actions to pressure Apple to pull the app from the App Store, which it did.
« We promised you we would fight back. Well, today’s the day we make good on the promise, » according to a post from ICEBlock’s official account on Bluesky. Aaron, Apple, and the Department of Homeland Security, didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment fr …
There’s an argument to be made that « the real monster is trauma » has become an overused trope in modern horror. Hereditary, The Babadook, and, much less effectively, Smile, are just a few higher-profile examples. But, if you ask me, few films have deployed this trope quite as effectively as the 2020 film His House.
The film follows Bol and Rial, refugees from South Sudan, played by Sope Dirisu and Wunmi Mosaku. Both deliver the kind of incredible performances that you rarely see in a genre film like this. It’s part of what elevates His House above the standard « haunted by trauma » fare. Mosaku, in particular, shows the sort of nuance and scr …
In November, Ted Sarandos, Netflix’s co-CEO made a trip to the White House for a lengthy meeting with Donald Trump. According to Bloomberg, the two discussed a number of topics, but chief among them was Netflix’s plan to bid on Warner Bros. At the end of their conversation, Sardonos felt that “Netflix wouldn’t face immediate opposition from the White House.”
This week, Netflix successfully won the bidding war for Warner, offering $82.7 billion. It’s well known that Paramount and its CEO David Ellison were eager to acquire the storied studio and its streaming assets. Ellison and his father, Larry Ellison, have close ties to the White House, and as part of their pitch to Warner, suggested that only they were in a position to overcome the regulatory hurdles of further media consolidation.
Sarandos seems to have rightly believed that the Ellisons overestimated their political clout. And despite some public efforts to turn the White House against the deal, Netflix won out, for now. There is of course, still a chance that Paramount could launch a hostile takeover effort, or that the Justice Department could try and scuttle the deal — nothing is guaranteed yet.
Sarandos tried to acquire Paramount before David Ellison swooped in, so snatching Warner Bros. out from under his nose is likely something of a personal victory.
Friday, the EU slapped X with a €120 million fine (about $140 million) for violating the Digital Services Act (DSA). It was the first time that a company had been hit with a penalty for running afoul of the law. Elon Musk responded with his trademark tact and professionalism by posting “Bullshit” on X in response to the announcement from the European Commission. But that wasn’t the end, because just a day later Nikita Bier, X’s head of product, accused the Commission of abusing an exploit to boost the reach of the announcement and responded by shutting down its ad account.
According to Bier, the Commission had not used its ad account since 2021, but used a post format explicitly reserved for ads in its announcement of the fine against X. He claims that the Commission posted “a link that deceives users into thinking it’s a video and to artificially increase its reach.” (For the record, the post itself includes a video.)
The seemingly retaliatory revocation of the European Commission’s ad account is unlikely to materially change things for either X or the EU. If, as Bier claims, the Commission has not used its ad account since 2021, holding it hostage is unlikely to give X any leverage. And, while it can appeal the decision, X is currently still on the hook for the sizable fine. Plus, it must provide details for how it plans to address the “deceptive” use of verified checkmarks in the next 60 days, or face additional penalties.
We’ve reached out to the Commission for comment and will update if we hear back.
Il semble que nous ne pouvons pas trouver le contenu demandé. Peut-être qu’une recherche peut vous aider.
It’s easy to think about AI as a sort of existential battle between human and machine. Maybe it will be, someday, in a Skynet sort of way. But there are also lots of people trying to figure out how to use AI not as a replacement for human creativity and thinking but as a tool meant to augment those things.
Sari Azout is one of those people. She’s the founder of Sublime, a platform dedicated to curation, creativity, and ideas. Sublime is all about taste, which makes it slightly surprising that there’s a huge amount of AI powering the way it works. But to Azout, it all makes sense.
Between keeping up with TikTok trends and whatever new gadget just dropped, it’s tough to know exactly what teens are into these days. Luckily, we can help. We may be older than teenagers, but many of us here at The Verge are kids at heart. Plus, we’ve also got a few staffers with older kids. To make your life a little easier this holiday season, we rounded up what we think are the best gifts for teens, based on our tech expertise as well as what our staff’s teens are into right now.
Below, you’ll find gift ideas for many types of teens. Some are more obvious choices, like the latest iPhone and Nintendo Switch 2, but we sought to include a …
The discount brings the price down to $299 ($100 off). | Image: The Verge
We thought Black Friday and Cyber Monday would bring the lowest prices of the year, but apparently not. Right now, you can snag Apple’s Watch Series 11 in the 42mm configuration with GPS for a new all-time low of $299 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy. That beats the $70 discount we saw at the beginning of the month, which means if you didn’t take advantage then, you can save even more now. The 46mm model with GPS is also down to its lowest price yet of $329 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy.
The Series 11 offers some nice improvements to the already-excellent Apple Watch Series 10. While this year’s model has the same dimensions as its predecessor, battery life has increased up to 24 hours per charge on the GPS / Wi-Fi model. At the same time, Apple managed to improve the Series 11’s durability and scratch-resistance, making it a better option for more intense workouts. Additionally, Apple added a more power-efficient 5G modem to the cellular model, so the battery won’t drain as quickly when you’re not on Wi-Fi.
Otherwise, the Series 11 carries over everything we loved about the Series 10. The wide-angle OLED display looks fantastic and is easy to read at a glance, while performance is excellent thanks to Apple’s S10 SiP chip. You also get a variety of health and wellness features, including FDA-cleared hypertension notifications, sleep apnea detection, and sleep score, which can summarize how well you slept. Meanwhile, you get access to the watchOS 26 update, which introduces a workout buddy and offers wrist-flick and double-tap gestures, along with the Liquid Glass redesign.
If you already own a Series 10, there aren’t many reasons to upgrade outside of the slightly improved battery life. However, if you have something older or you’re checking off a gift list, the Series 11 at $100 off is a great deal right before the holidays.
Slack users can now access Anthropic’s Claude Code directly in Slack by tagging Claude on coding-related messages and threads. The new feature is launching today in beta as a research preview.
When Claude is tagged, it will now automatically scan the message to see if it’s a coding task and, if so, route it to Claude Code using the context from the related Slack thread and the code repositories you’ve authenticated in Claude Code. Slack users can also directly tell Claude that a request is a coding task. For instance, you could ask Claude to investigate a bug report you’re discussing in Slack without needing to manually copy all the conte …
Lenovo has already demonstrated its ability to put rollable OLEDs into laptops by graduating last year from demo concept models to shipping the ThinkBook Plus Gen 6, an actual device you can buy. It has a built-in mechanism that expands the screen vertically to give you more screen real estate for typing and scrolling. However, the company might soon debut its first laptop that uses a rollable OLED to effectively transform its screen into an ultrawide 21:9 aspect ratio screen, with left and right edges that extend far outside the bottom chassis.
The Lenovo Legion Pro Rollable will be its first gaming laptop to feature a rollable horizontal …
At their biggest and most expensive, video games all sort of look the same. The reason often comes down to simple economics: More resources means more costs that need to be recouped, and historically the way publishers have done that is by being comically risk-averse. Hence the glut of semi-realistic rocky wastelands that look like death metal album covers where everyone is some kind of Wild West fetishist, or the hero shooters that all look like Pixar but shredded as hell and ready for fan artists to go places I shall not.
On occasion, however, new visual ground is staked. Octopath Traveler 0 is an example of this. The third game in the O …
Joshua Aaron, the developer of the ICEBlock app, is suing Attorney General Pam Bondi, US Homeland Security Secretary Kirsti Noem, acting director of ICE Todd Lyons, White House « Border Czar » Tom Homan, and other federal officials over the Trump administration’s « unlawful threats » made against Aaron and its actions to pressure Apple to pull the app from the App Store, which it did.
« We promised you we would fight back. Well, today’s the day we make good on the promise, » according to a post from ICEBlock’s official account on Bluesky. Aaron, Apple, and the Department of Homeland Security, didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment fr …
There’s an argument to be made that « the real monster is trauma » has become an overused trope in modern horror. Hereditary, The Babadook, and, much less effectively, Smile, are just a few higher-profile examples. But, if you ask me, few films have deployed this trope quite as effectively as the 2020 film His House.
The film follows Bol and Rial, refugees from South Sudan, played by Sope Dirisu and Wunmi Mosaku. Both deliver the kind of incredible performances that you rarely see in a genre film like this. It’s part of what elevates His House above the standard « haunted by trauma » fare. Mosaku, in particular, shows the sort of nuance and scr …
In November, Ted Sarandos, Netflix’s co-CEO made a trip to the White House for a lengthy meeting with Donald Trump. According to Bloomberg, the two discussed a number of topics, but chief among them was Netflix’s plan to bid on Warner Bros. At the end of their conversation, Sardonos felt that “Netflix wouldn’t face immediate opposition from the White House.”
This week, Netflix successfully won the bidding war for Warner, offering $82.7 billion. It’s well known that Paramount and its CEO David Ellison were eager to acquire the storied studio and its streaming assets. Ellison and his father, Larry Ellison, have close ties to the White House, and as part of their pitch to Warner, suggested that only they were in a position to overcome the regulatory hurdles of further media consolidation.
Sarandos seems to have rightly believed that the Ellisons overestimated their political clout. And despite some public efforts to turn the White House against the deal, Netflix won out, for now. There is of course, still a chance that Paramount could launch a hostile takeover effort, or that the Justice Department could try and scuttle the deal — nothing is guaranteed yet.
Sarandos tried to acquire Paramount before David Ellison swooped in, so snatching Warner Bros. out from under his nose is likely something of a personal victory.
Friday, the EU slapped X with a €120 million fine (about $140 million) for violating the Digital Services Act (DSA). It was the first time that a company had been hit with a penalty for running afoul of the law. Elon Musk responded with his trademark tact and professionalism by posting “Bullshit” on X in response to the announcement from the European Commission. But that wasn’t the end, because just a day later Nikita Bier, X’s head of product, accused the Commission of abusing an exploit to boost the reach of the announcement and responded by shutting down its ad account.
According to Bier, the Commission had not used its ad account since 2021, but used a post format explicitly reserved for ads in its announcement of the fine against X. He claims that the Commission posted “a link that deceives users into thinking it’s a video and to artificially increase its reach.” (For the record, the post itself includes a video.)
The seemingly retaliatory revocation of the European Commission’s ad account is unlikely to materially change things for either X or the EU. If, as Bier claims, the Commission has not used its ad account since 2021, holding it hostage is unlikely to give X any leverage. And, while it can appeal the decision, X is currently still on the hook for the sizable fine. Plus, it must provide details for how it plans to address the “deceptive” use of verified checkmarks in the next 60 days, or face additional penalties.
We’ve reached out to the Commission for comment and will update if we hear back.
Il semble que nous ne pouvons pas trouver le contenu demandé. Peut-être qu’une recherche peut vous aider.
It’s easy to think about AI as a sort of existential battle between human and machine. Maybe it will be, someday, in a Skynet sort of way. But there are also lots of people trying to figure out how to use AI not as a replacement for human creativity and thinking but as a tool meant to augment those things.
Sari Azout is one of those people. She’s the founder of Sublime, a platform dedicated to curation, creativity, and ideas. Sublime is all about taste, which makes it slightly surprising that there’s a huge amount of AI powering the way it works. But to Azout, it all makes sense.
Between keeping up with TikTok trends and whatever new gadget just dropped, it’s tough to know exactly what teens are into these days. Luckily, we can help. We may be older than teenagers, but many of us here at The Verge are kids at heart. Plus, we’ve also got a few staffers with older kids. To make your life a little easier this holiday season, we rounded up what we think are the best gifts for teens, based on our tech expertise as well as what our staff’s teens are into right now.
Below, you’ll find gift ideas for many types of teens. Some are more obvious choices, like the latest iPhone and Nintendo Switch 2, but we sought to include a …
The discount brings the price down to $299 ($100 off). | Image: The Verge
We thought Black Friday and Cyber Monday would bring the lowest prices of the year, but apparently not. Right now, you can snag Apple’s Watch Series 11 in the 42mm configuration with GPS for a new all-time low of $299 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy. That beats the $70 discount we saw at the beginning of the month, which means if you didn’t take advantage then, you can save even more now. The 46mm model with GPS is also down to its lowest price yet of $329 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy.
The Series 11 offers some nice improvements to the already-excellent Apple Watch Series 10. While this year’s model has the same dimensions as its predecessor, battery life has increased up to 24 hours per charge on the GPS / Wi-Fi model. At the same time, Apple managed to improve the Series 11’s durability and scratch-resistance, making it a better option for more intense workouts. Additionally, Apple added a more power-efficient 5G modem to the cellular model, so the battery won’t drain as quickly when you’re not on Wi-Fi.
Otherwise, the Series 11 carries over everything we loved about the Series 10. The wide-angle OLED display looks fantastic and is easy to read at a glance, while performance is excellent thanks to Apple’s S10 SiP chip. You also get a variety of health and wellness features, including FDA-cleared hypertension notifications, sleep apnea detection, and sleep score, which can summarize how well you slept. Meanwhile, you get access to the watchOS 26 update, which introduces a workout buddy and offers wrist-flick and double-tap gestures, along with the Liquid Glass redesign.
If you already own a Series 10, there aren’t many reasons to upgrade outside of the slightly improved battery life. However, if you have something older or you’re checking off a gift list, the Series 11 at $100 off is a great deal right before the holidays.
Slack users can now access Anthropic’s Claude Code directly in Slack by tagging Claude on coding-related messages and threads. The new feature is launching today in beta as a research preview.
When Claude is tagged, it will now automatically scan the message to see if it’s a coding task and, if so, route it to Claude Code using the context from the related Slack thread and the code repositories you’ve authenticated in Claude Code. Slack users can also directly tell Claude that a request is a coding task. For instance, you could ask Claude to investigate a bug report you’re discussing in Slack without needing to manually copy all the conte …
Lenovo has already demonstrated its ability to put rollable OLEDs into laptops by graduating last year from demo concept models to shipping the ThinkBook Plus Gen 6, an actual device you can buy. It has a built-in mechanism that expands the screen vertically to give you more screen real estate for typing and scrolling. However, the company might soon debut its first laptop that uses a rollable OLED to effectively transform its screen into an ultrawide 21:9 aspect ratio screen, with left and right edges that extend far outside the bottom chassis.
The Lenovo Legion Pro Rollable will be its first gaming laptop to feature a rollable horizontal …
At their biggest and most expensive, video games all sort of look the same. The reason often comes down to simple economics: More resources means more costs that need to be recouped, and historically the way publishers have done that is by being comically risk-averse. Hence the glut of semi-realistic rocky wastelands that look like death metal album covers where everyone is some kind of Wild West fetishist, or the hero shooters that all look like Pixar but shredded as hell and ready for fan artists to go places I shall not.
On occasion, however, new visual ground is staked. Octopath Traveler 0 is an example of this. The third game in the O …
Joshua Aaron, the developer of the ICEBlock app, is suing Attorney General Pam Bondi, US Homeland Security Secretary Kirsti Noem, acting director of ICE Todd Lyons, White House « Border Czar » Tom Homan, and other federal officials over the Trump administration’s « unlawful threats » made against Aaron and its actions to pressure Apple to pull the app from the App Store, which it did.
« We promised you we would fight back. Well, today’s the day we make good on the promise, » according to a post from ICEBlock’s official account on Bluesky. Aaron, Apple, and the Department of Homeland Security, didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment fr …
There’s an argument to be made that « the real monster is trauma » has become an overused trope in modern horror. Hereditary, The Babadook, and, much less effectively, Smile, are just a few higher-profile examples. But, if you ask me, few films have deployed this trope quite as effectively as the 2020 film His House.
The film follows Bol and Rial, refugees from South Sudan, played by Sope Dirisu and Wunmi Mosaku. Both deliver the kind of incredible performances that you rarely see in a genre film like this. It’s part of what elevates His House above the standard « haunted by trauma » fare. Mosaku, in particular, shows the sort of nuance and scr …
In November, Ted Sarandos, Netflix’s co-CEO made a trip to the White House for a lengthy meeting with Donald Trump. According to Bloomberg, the two discussed a number of topics, but chief among them was Netflix’s plan to bid on Warner Bros. At the end of their conversation, Sardonos felt that “Netflix wouldn’t face immediate opposition from the White House.”
This week, Netflix successfully won the bidding war for Warner, offering $82.7 billion. It’s well known that Paramount and its CEO David Ellison were eager to acquire the storied studio and its streaming assets. Ellison and his father, Larry Ellison, have close ties to the White House, and as part of their pitch to Warner, suggested that only they were in a position to overcome the regulatory hurdles of further media consolidation.
Sarandos seems to have rightly believed that the Ellisons overestimated their political clout. And despite some public efforts to turn the White House against the deal, Netflix won out, for now. There is of course, still a chance that Paramount could launch a hostile takeover effort, or that the Justice Department could try and scuttle the deal — nothing is guaranteed yet.
Sarandos tried to acquire Paramount before David Ellison swooped in, so snatching Warner Bros. out from under his nose is likely something of a personal victory.
Friday, the EU slapped X with a €120 million fine (about $140 million) for violating the Digital Services Act (DSA). It was the first time that a company had been hit with a penalty for running afoul of the law. Elon Musk responded with his trademark tact and professionalism by posting “Bullshit” on X in response to the announcement from the European Commission. But that wasn’t the end, because just a day later Nikita Bier, X’s head of product, accused the Commission of abusing an exploit to boost the reach of the announcement and responded by shutting down its ad account.
According to Bier, the Commission had not used its ad account since 2021, but used a post format explicitly reserved for ads in its announcement of the fine against X. He claims that the Commission posted “a link that deceives users into thinking it’s a video and to artificially increase its reach.” (For the record, the post itself includes a video.)
The seemingly retaliatory revocation of the European Commission’s ad account is unlikely to materially change things for either X or the EU. If, as Bier claims, the Commission has not used its ad account since 2021, holding it hostage is unlikely to give X any leverage. And, while it can appeal the decision, X is currently still on the hook for the sizable fine. Plus, it must provide details for how it plans to address the “deceptive” use of verified checkmarks in the next 60 days, or face additional penalties.
We’ve reached out to the Commission for comment and will update if we hear back.
Il semble que nous ne pouvons pas trouver le contenu demandé. Peut-être qu’une recherche peut vous aider.
It’s easy to think about AI as a sort of existential battle between human and machine. Maybe it will be, someday, in a Skynet sort of way. But there are also lots of people trying to figure out how to use AI not as a replacement for human creativity and thinking but as a tool meant to augment those things.
Sari Azout is one of those people. She’s the founder of Sublime, a platform dedicated to curation, creativity, and ideas. Sublime is all about taste, which makes it slightly surprising that there’s a huge amount of AI powering the way it works. But to Azout, it all makes sense.
Between keeping up with TikTok trends and whatever new gadget just dropped, it’s tough to know exactly what teens are into these days. Luckily, we can help. We may be older than teenagers, but many of us here at The Verge are kids at heart. Plus, we’ve also got a few staffers with older kids. To make your life a little easier this holiday season, we rounded up what we think are the best gifts for teens, based on our tech expertise as well as what our staff’s teens are into right now.
Below, you’ll find gift ideas for many types of teens. Some are more obvious choices, like the latest iPhone and Nintendo Switch 2, but we sought to include a …
The discount brings the price down to $299 ($100 off). | Image: The Verge
We thought Black Friday and Cyber Monday would bring the lowest prices of the year, but apparently not. Right now, you can snag Apple’s Watch Series 11 in the 42mm configuration with GPS for a new all-time low of $299 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy. That beats the $70 discount we saw at the beginning of the month, which means if you didn’t take advantage then, you can save even more now. The 46mm model with GPS is also down to its lowest price yet of $329 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy.
The Series 11 offers some nice improvements to the already-excellent Apple Watch Series 10. While this year’s model has the same dimensions as its predecessor, battery life has increased up to 24 hours per charge on the GPS / Wi-Fi model. At the same time, Apple managed to improve the Series 11’s durability and scratch-resistance, making it a better option for more intense workouts. Additionally, Apple added a more power-efficient 5G modem to the cellular model, so the battery won’t drain as quickly when you’re not on Wi-Fi.
Otherwise, the Series 11 carries over everything we loved about the Series 10. The wide-angle OLED display looks fantastic and is easy to read at a glance, while performance is excellent thanks to Apple’s S10 SiP chip. You also get a variety of health and wellness features, including FDA-cleared hypertension notifications, sleep apnea detection, and sleep score, which can summarize how well you slept. Meanwhile, you get access to the watchOS 26 update, which introduces a workout buddy and offers wrist-flick and double-tap gestures, along with the Liquid Glass redesign.
If you already own a Series 10, there aren’t many reasons to upgrade outside of the slightly improved battery life. However, if you have something older or you’re checking off a gift list, the Series 11 at $100 off is a great deal right before the holidays.
Slack users can now access Anthropic’s Claude Code directly in Slack by tagging Claude on coding-related messages and threads. The new feature is launching today in beta as a research preview.
When Claude is tagged, it will now automatically scan the message to see if it’s a coding task and, if so, route it to Claude Code using the context from the related Slack thread and the code repositories you’ve authenticated in Claude Code. Slack users can also directly tell Claude that a request is a coding task. For instance, you could ask Claude to investigate a bug report you’re discussing in Slack without needing to manually copy all the conte …
Lenovo has already demonstrated its ability to put rollable OLEDs into laptops by graduating last year from demo concept models to shipping the ThinkBook Plus Gen 6, an actual device you can buy. It has a built-in mechanism that expands the screen vertically to give you more screen real estate for typing and scrolling. However, the company might soon debut its first laptop that uses a rollable OLED to effectively transform its screen into an ultrawide 21:9 aspect ratio screen, with left and right edges that extend far outside the bottom chassis.
The Lenovo Legion Pro Rollable will be its first gaming laptop to feature a rollable horizontal …
At their biggest and most expensive, video games all sort of look the same. The reason often comes down to simple economics: More resources means more costs that need to be recouped, and historically the way publishers have done that is by being comically risk-averse. Hence the glut of semi-realistic rocky wastelands that look like death metal album covers where everyone is some kind of Wild West fetishist, or the hero shooters that all look like Pixar but shredded as hell and ready for fan artists to go places I shall not.
On occasion, however, new visual ground is staked. Octopath Traveler 0 is an example of this. The third game in the O …
Joshua Aaron, the developer of the ICEBlock app, is suing Attorney General Pam Bondi, US Homeland Security Secretary Kirsti Noem, acting director of ICE Todd Lyons, White House « Border Czar » Tom Homan, and other federal officials over the Trump administration’s « unlawful threats » made against Aaron and its actions to pressure Apple to pull the app from the App Store, which it did.
« We promised you we would fight back. Well, today’s the day we make good on the promise, » according to a post from ICEBlock’s official account on Bluesky. Aaron, Apple, and the Department of Homeland Security, didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment fr …
There’s an argument to be made that « the real monster is trauma » has become an overused trope in modern horror. Hereditary, The Babadook, and, much less effectively, Smile, are just a few higher-profile examples. But, if you ask me, few films have deployed this trope quite as effectively as the 2020 film His House.
The film follows Bol and Rial, refugees from South Sudan, played by Sope Dirisu and Wunmi Mosaku. Both deliver the kind of incredible performances that you rarely see in a genre film like this. It’s part of what elevates His House above the standard « haunted by trauma » fare. Mosaku, in particular, shows the sort of nuance and scr …
In November, Ted Sarandos, Netflix’s co-CEO made a trip to the White House for a lengthy meeting with Donald Trump. According to Bloomberg, the two discussed a number of topics, but chief among them was Netflix’s plan to bid on Warner Bros. At the end of their conversation, Sardonos felt that “Netflix wouldn’t face immediate opposition from the White House.”
This week, Netflix successfully won the bidding war for Warner, offering $82.7 billion. It’s well known that Paramount and its CEO David Ellison were eager to acquire the storied studio and its streaming assets. Ellison and his father, Larry Ellison, have close ties to the White House, and as part of their pitch to Warner, suggested that only they were in a position to overcome the regulatory hurdles of further media consolidation.
Sarandos seems to have rightly believed that the Ellisons overestimated their political clout. And despite some public efforts to turn the White House against the deal, Netflix won out, for now. There is of course, still a chance that Paramount could launch a hostile takeover effort, or that the Justice Department could try and scuttle the deal — nothing is guaranteed yet.
Sarandos tried to acquire Paramount before David Ellison swooped in, so snatching Warner Bros. out from under his nose is likely something of a personal victory.
Friday, the EU slapped X with a €120 million fine (about $140 million) for violating the Digital Services Act (DSA). It was the first time that a company had been hit with a penalty for running afoul of the law. Elon Musk responded with his trademark tact and professionalism by posting “Bullshit” on X in response to the announcement from the European Commission. But that wasn’t the end, because just a day later Nikita Bier, X’s head of product, accused the Commission of abusing an exploit to boost the reach of the announcement and responded by shutting down its ad account.
According to Bier, the Commission had not used its ad account since 2021, but used a post format explicitly reserved for ads in its announcement of the fine against X. He claims that the Commission posted “a link that deceives users into thinking it’s a video and to artificially increase its reach.” (For the record, the post itself includes a video.)
The seemingly retaliatory revocation of the European Commission’s ad account is unlikely to materially change things for either X or the EU. If, as Bier claims, the Commission has not used its ad account since 2021, holding it hostage is unlikely to give X any leverage. And, while it can appeal the decision, X is currently still on the hook for the sizable fine. Plus, it must provide details for how it plans to address the “deceptive” use of verified checkmarks in the next 60 days, or face additional penalties.
We’ve reached out to the Commission for comment and will update if we hear back.
Il semble que nous ne pouvons pas trouver le contenu demandé. Peut-être qu’une recherche peut vous aider.
It’s easy to think about AI as a sort of existential battle between human and machine. Maybe it will be, someday, in a Skynet sort of way. But there are also lots of people trying to figure out how to use AI not as a replacement for human creativity and thinking but as a tool meant to augment those things.
Sari Azout is one of those people. She’s the founder of Sublime, a platform dedicated to curation, creativity, and ideas. Sublime is all about taste, which makes it slightly surprising that there’s a huge amount of AI powering the way it works. But to Azout, it all makes sense.
Between keeping up with TikTok trends and whatever new gadget just dropped, it’s tough to know exactly what teens are into these days. Luckily, we can help. We may be older than teenagers, but many of us here at The Verge are kids at heart. Plus, we’ve also got a few staffers with older kids. To make your life a little easier this holiday season, we rounded up what we think are the best gifts for teens, based on our tech expertise as well as what our staff’s teens are into right now.
Below, you’ll find gift ideas for many types of teens. Some are more obvious choices, like the latest iPhone and Nintendo Switch 2, but we sought to include a …
The discount brings the price down to $299 ($100 off). | Image: The Verge
We thought Black Friday and Cyber Monday would bring the lowest prices of the year, but apparently not. Right now, you can snag Apple’s Watch Series 11 in the 42mm configuration with GPS for a new all-time low of $299 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy. That beats the $70 discount we saw at the beginning of the month, which means if you didn’t take advantage then, you can save even more now. The 46mm model with GPS is also down to its lowest price yet of $329 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy.
The Series 11 offers some nice improvements to the already-excellent Apple Watch Series 10. While this year’s model has the same dimensions as its predecessor, battery life has increased up to 24 hours per charge on the GPS / Wi-Fi model. At the same time, Apple managed to improve the Series 11’s durability and scratch-resistance, making it a better option for more intense workouts. Additionally, Apple added a more power-efficient 5G modem to the cellular model, so the battery won’t drain as quickly when you’re not on Wi-Fi.
Otherwise, the Series 11 carries over everything we loved about the Series 10. The wide-angle OLED display looks fantastic and is easy to read at a glance, while performance is excellent thanks to Apple’s S10 SiP chip. You also get a variety of health and wellness features, including FDA-cleared hypertension notifications, sleep apnea detection, and sleep score, which can summarize how well you slept. Meanwhile, you get access to the watchOS 26 update, which introduces a workout buddy and offers wrist-flick and double-tap gestures, along with the Liquid Glass redesign.
If you already own a Series 10, there aren’t many reasons to upgrade outside of the slightly improved battery life. However, if you have something older or you’re checking off a gift list, the Series 11 at $100 off is a great deal right before the holidays.
Slack users can now access Anthropic’s Claude Code directly in Slack by tagging Claude on coding-related messages and threads. The new feature is launching today in beta as a research preview.
When Claude is tagged, it will now automatically scan the message to see if it’s a coding task and, if so, route it to Claude Code using the context from the related Slack thread and the code repositories you’ve authenticated in Claude Code. Slack users can also directly tell Claude that a request is a coding task. For instance, you could ask Claude to investigate a bug report you’re discussing in Slack without needing to manually copy all the conte …
Lenovo has already demonstrated its ability to put rollable OLEDs into laptops by graduating last year from demo concept models to shipping the ThinkBook Plus Gen 6, an actual device you can buy. It has a built-in mechanism that expands the screen vertically to give you more screen real estate for typing and scrolling. However, the company might soon debut its first laptop that uses a rollable OLED to effectively transform its screen into an ultrawide 21:9 aspect ratio screen, with left and right edges that extend far outside the bottom chassis.
The Lenovo Legion Pro Rollable will be its first gaming laptop to feature a rollable horizontal …
At their biggest and most expensive, video games all sort of look the same. The reason often comes down to simple economics: More resources means more costs that need to be recouped, and historically the way publishers have done that is by being comically risk-averse. Hence the glut of semi-realistic rocky wastelands that look like death metal album covers where everyone is some kind of Wild West fetishist, or the hero shooters that all look like Pixar but shredded as hell and ready for fan artists to go places I shall not.
On occasion, however, new visual ground is staked. Octopath Traveler 0 is an example of this. The third game in the O …
Joshua Aaron, the developer of the ICEBlock app, is suing Attorney General Pam Bondi, US Homeland Security Secretary Kirsti Noem, acting director of ICE Todd Lyons, White House « Border Czar » Tom Homan, and other federal officials over the Trump administration’s « unlawful threats » made against Aaron and its actions to pressure Apple to pull the app from the App Store, which it did.
« We promised you we would fight back. Well, today’s the day we make good on the promise, » according to a post from ICEBlock’s official account on Bluesky. Aaron, Apple, and the Department of Homeland Security, didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment fr …
There’s an argument to be made that « the real monster is trauma » has become an overused trope in modern horror. Hereditary, The Babadook, and, much less effectively, Smile, are just a few higher-profile examples. But, if you ask me, few films have deployed this trope quite as effectively as the 2020 film His House.
The film follows Bol and Rial, refugees from South Sudan, played by Sope Dirisu and Wunmi Mosaku. Both deliver the kind of incredible performances that you rarely see in a genre film like this. It’s part of what elevates His House above the standard « haunted by trauma » fare. Mosaku, in particular, shows the sort of nuance and scr …
In November, Ted Sarandos, Netflix’s co-CEO made a trip to the White House for a lengthy meeting with Donald Trump. According to Bloomberg, the two discussed a number of topics, but chief among them was Netflix’s plan to bid on Warner Bros. At the end of their conversation, Sardonos felt that “Netflix wouldn’t face immediate opposition from the White House.”
This week, Netflix successfully won the bidding war for Warner, offering $82.7 billion. It’s well known that Paramount and its CEO David Ellison were eager to acquire the storied studio and its streaming assets. Ellison and his father, Larry Ellison, have close ties to the White House, and as part of their pitch to Warner, suggested that only they were in a position to overcome the regulatory hurdles of further media consolidation.
Sarandos seems to have rightly believed that the Ellisons overestimated their political clout. And despite some public efforts to turn the White House against the deal, Netflix won out, for now. There is of course, still a chance that Paramount could launch a hostile takeover effort, or that the Justice Department could try and scuttle the deal — nothing is guaranteed yet.
Sarandos tried to acquire Paramount before David Ellison swooped in, so snatching Warner Bros. out from under his nose is likely something of a personal victory.
Friday, the EU slapped X with a €120 million fine (about $140 million) for violating the Digital Services Act (DSA). It was the first time that a company had been hit with a penalty for running afoul of the law. Elon Musk responded with his trademark tact and professionalism by posting “Bullshit” on X in response to the announcement from the European Commission. But that wasn’t the end, because just a day later Nikita Bier, X’s head of product, accused the Commission of abusing an exploit to boost the reach of the announcement and responded by shutting down its ad account.
According to Bier, the Commission had not used its ad account since 2021, but used a post format explicitly reserved for ads in its announcement of the fine against X. He claims that the Commission posted “a link that deceives users into thinking it’s a video and to artificially increase its reach.” (For the record, the post itself includes a video.)
The seemingly retaliatory revocation of the European Commission’s ad account is unlikely to materially change things for either X or the EU. If, as Bier claims, the Commission has not used its ad account since 2021, holding it hostage is unlikely to give X any leverage. And, while it can appeal the decision, X is currently still on the hook for the sizable fine. Plus, it must provide details for how it plans to address the “deceptive” use of verified checkmarks in the next 60 days, or face additional penalties.
We’ve reached out to the Commission for comment and will update if we hear back.
Il semble que nous ne pouvons pas trouver le contenu demandé. Peut-être qu’une recherche peut vous aider.
It’s easy to think about AI as a sort of existential battle between human and machine. Maybe it will be, someday, in a Skynet sort of way. But there are also lots of people trying to figure out how to use AI not as a replacement for human creativity and thinking but as a tool meant to augment those things.
Sari Azout is one of those people. She’s the founder of Sublime, a platform dedicated to curation, creativity, and ideas. Sublime is all about taste, which makes it slightly surprising that there’s a huge amount of AI powering the way it works. But to Azout, it all makes sense.
Between keeping up with TikTok trends and whatever new gadget just dropped, it’s tough to know exactly what teens are into these days. Luckily, we can help. We may be older than teenagers, but many of us here at The Verge are kids at heart. Plus, we’ve also got a few staffers with older kids. To make your life a little easier this holiday season, we rounded up what we think are the best gifts for teens, based on our tech expertise as well as what our staff’s teens are into right now.
Below, you’ll find gift ideas for many types of teens. Some are more obvious choices, like the latest iPhone and Nintendo Switch 2, but we sought to include a …
The discount brings the price down to $299 ($100 off). | Image: The Verge
We thought Black Friday and Cyber Monday would bring the lowest prices of the year, but apparently not. Right now, you can snag Apple’s Watch Series 11 in the 42mm configuration with GPS for a new all-time low of $299 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy. That beats the $70 discount we saw at the beginning of the month, which means if you didn’t take advantage then, you can save even more now. The 46mm model with GPS is also down to its lowest price yet of $329 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy.
The Series 11 offers some nice improvements to the already-excellent Apple Watch Series 10. While this year’s model has the same dimensions as its predecessor, battery life has increased up to 24 hours per charge on the GPS / Wi-Fi model. At the same time, Apple managed to improve the Series 11’s durability and scratch-resistance, making it a better option for more intense workouts. Additionally, Apple added a more power-efficient 5G modem to the cellular model, so the battery won’t drain as quickly when you’re not on Wi-Fi.
Otherwise, the Series 11 carries over everything we loved about the Series 10. The wide-angle OLED display looks fantastic and is easy to read at a glance, while performance is excellent thanks to Apple’s S10 SiP chip. You also get a variety of health and wellness features, including FDA-cleared hypertension notifications, sleep apnea detection, and sleep score, which can summarize how well you slept. Meanwhile, you get access to the watchOS 26 update, which introduces a workout buddy and offers wrist-flick and double-tap gestures, along with the Liquid Glass redesign.
If you already own a Series 10, there aren’t many reasons to upgrade outside of the slightly improved battery life. However, if you have something older or you’re checking off a gift list, the Series 11 at $100 off is a great deal right before the holidays.
Slack users can now access Anthropic’s Claude Code directly in Slack by tagging Claude on coding-related messages and threads. The new feature is launching today in beta as a research preview.
When Claude is tagged, it will now automatically scan the message to see if it’s a coding task and, if so, route it to Claude Code using the context from the related Slack thread and the code repositories you’ve authenticated in Claude Code. Slack users can also directly tell Claude that a request is a coding task. For instance, you could ask Claude to investigate a bug report you’re discussing in Slack without needing to manually copy all the conte …
Lenovo has already demonstrated its ability to put rollable OLEDs into laptops by graduating last year from demo concept models to shipping the ThinkBook Plus Gen 6, an actual device you can buy. It has a built-in mechanism that expands the screen vertically to give you more screen real estate for typing and scrolling. However, the company might soon debut its first laptop that uses a rollable OLED to effectively transform its screen into an ultrawide 21:9 aspect ratio screen, with left and right edges that extend far outside the bottom chassis.
The Lenovo Legion Pro Rollable will be its first gaming laptop to feature a rollable horizontal …
At their biggest and most expensive, video games all sort of look the same. The reason often comes down to simple economics: More resources means more costs that need to be recouped, and historically the way publishers have done that is by being comically risk-averse. Hence the glut of semi-realistic rocky wastelands that look like death metal album covers where everyone is some kind of Wild West fetishist, or the hero shooters that all look like Pixar but shredded as hell and ready for fan artists to go places I shall not.
On occasion, however, new visual ground is staked. Octopath Traveler 0 is an example of this. The third game in the O …
Joshua Aaron, the developer of the ICEBlock app, is suing Attorney General Pam Bondi, US Homeland Security Secretary Kirsti Noem, acting director of ICE Todd Lyons, White House « Border Czar » Tom Homan, and other federal officials over the Trump administration’s « unlawful threats » made against Aaron and its actions to pressure Apple to pull the app from the App Store, which it did.
« We promised you we would fight back. Well, today’s the day we make good on the promise, » according to a post from ICEBlock’s official account on Bluesky. Aaron, Apple, and the Department of Homeland Security, didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment fr …
There’s an argument to be made that « the real monster is trauma » has become an overused trope in modern horror. Hereditary, The Babadook, and, much less effectively, Smile, are just a few higher-profile examples. But, if you ask me, few films have deployed this trope quite as effectively as the 2020 film His House.
The film follows Bol and Rial, refugees from South Sudan, played by Sope Dirisu and Wunmi Mosaku. Both deliver the kind of incredible performances that you rarely see in a genre film like this. It’s part of what elevates His House above the standard « haunted by trauma » fare. Mosaku, in particular, shows the sort of nuance and scr …
In November, Ted Sarandos, Netflix’s co-CEO made a trip to the White House for a lengthy meeting with Donald Trump. According to Bloomberg, the two discussed a number of topics, but chief among them was Netflix’s plan to bid on Warner Bros. At the end of their conversation, Sardonos felt that “Netflix wouldn’t face immediate opposition from the White House.”
This week, Netflix successfully won the bidding war for Warner, offering $82.7 billion. It’s well known that Paramount and its CEO David Ellison were eager to acquire the storied studio and its streaming assets. Ellison and his father, Larry Ellison, have close ties to the White House, and as part of their pitch to Warner, suggested that only they were in a position to overcome the regulatory hurdles of further media consolidation.
Sarandos seems to have rightly believed that the Ellisons overestimated their political clout. And despite some public efforts to turn the White House against the deal, Netflix won out, for now. There is of course, still a chance that Paramount could launch a hostile takeover effort, or that the Justice Department could try and scuttle the deal — nothing is guaranteed yet.
Sarandos tried to acquire Paramount before David Ellison swooped in, so snatching Warner Bros. out from under his nose is likely something of a personal victory.
Friday, the EU slapped X with a €120 million fine (about $140 million) for violating the Digital Services Act (DSA). It was the first time that a company had been hit with a penalty for running afoul of the law. Elon Musk responded with his trademark tact and professionalism by posting “Bullshit” on X in response to the announcement from the European Commission. But that wasn’t the end, because just a day later Nikita Bier, X’s head of product, accused the Commission of abusing an exploit to boost the reach of the announcement and responded by shutting down its ad account.
According to Bier, the Commission had not used its ad account since 2021, but used a post format explicitly reserved for ads in its announcement of the fine against X. He claims that the Commission posted “a link that deceives users into thinking it’s a video and to artificially increase its reach.” (For the record, the post itself includes a video.)
The seemingly retaliatory revocation of the European Commission’s ad account is unlikely to materially change things for either X or the EU. If, as Bier claims, the Commission has not used its ad account since 2021, holding it hostage is unlikely to give X any leverage. And, while it can appeal the decision, X is currently still on the hook for the sizable fine. Plus, it must provide details for how it plans to address the “deceptive” use of verified checkmarks in the next 60 days, or face additional penalties.
We’ve reached out to the Commission for comment and will update if we hear back.
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It’s easy to think about AI as a sort of existential battle between human and machine. Maybe it will be, someday, in a Skynet sort of way. But there are also lots of people trying to figure out how to use AI not as a replacement for human creativity and thinking but as a tool meant to augment those things.
Sari Azout is one of those people. She’s the founder of Sublime, a platform dedicated to curation, creativity, and ideas. Sublime is all about taste, which makes it slightly surprising that there’s a huge amount of AI powering the way it works. But to Azout, it all makes sense.
Between keeping up with TikTok trends and whatever new gadget just dropped, it’s tough to know exactly what teens are into these days. Luckily, we can help. We may be older than teenagers, but many of us here at The Verge are kids at heart. Plus, we’ve also got a few staffers with older kids. To make your life a little easier this holiday season, we rounded up what we think are the best gifts for teens, based on our tech expertise as well as what our staff’s teens are into right now.
Below, you’ll find gift ideas for many types of teens. Some are more obvious choices, like the latest iPhone and Nintendo Switch 2, but we sought to include a …
The discount brings the price down to $299 ($100 off). | Image: The Verge
We thought Black Friday and Cyber Monday would bring the lowest prices of the year, but apparently not. Right now, you can snag Apple’s Watch Series 11 in the 42mm configuration with GPS for a new all-time low of $299 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy. That beats the $70 discount we saw at the beginning of the month, which means if you didn’t take advantage then, you can save even more now. The 46mm model with GPS is also down to its lowest price yet of $329 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy.
The Series 11 offers some nice improvements to the already-excellent Apple Watch Series 10. While this year’s model has the same dimensions as its predecessor, battery life has increased up to 24 hours per charge on the GPS / Wi-Fi model. At the same time, Apple managed to improve the Series 11’s durability and scratch-resistance, making it a better option for more intense workouts. Additionally, Apple added a more power-efficient 5G modem to the cellular model, so the battery won’t drain as quickly when you’re not on Wi-Fi.
Otherwise, the Series 11 carries over everything we loved about the Series 10. The wide-angle OLED display looks fantastic and is easy to read at a glance, while performance is excellent thanks to Apple’s S10 SiP chip. You also get a variety of health and wellness features, including FDA-cleared hypertension notifications, sleep apnea detection, and sleep score, which can summarize how well you slept. Meanwhile, you get access to the watchOS 26 update, which introduces a workout buddy and offers wrist-flick and double-tap gestures, along with the Liquid Glass redesign.
If you already own a Series 10, there aren’t many reasons to upgrade outside of the slightly improved battery life. However, if you have something older or you’re checking off a gift list, the Series 11 at $100 off is a great deal right before the holidays.
Slack users can now access Anthropic’s Claude Code directly in Slack by tagging Claude on coding-related messages and threads. The new feature is launching today in beta as a research preview.
When Claude is tagged, it will now automatically scan the message to see if it’s a coding task and, if so, route it to Claude Code using the context from the related Slack thread and the code repositories you’ve authenticated in Claude Code. Slack users can also directly tell Claude that a request is a coding task. For instance, you could ask Claude to investigate a bug report you’re discussing in Slack without needing to manually copy all the conte …
Lenovo has already demonstrated its ability to put rollable OLEDs into laptops by graduating last year from demo concept models to shipping the ThinkBook Plus Gen 6, an actual device you can buy. It has a built-in mechanism that expands the screen vertically to give you more screen real estate for typing and scrolling. However, the company might soon debut its first laptop that uses a rollable OLED to effectively transform its screen into an ultrawide 21:9 aspect ratio screen, with left and right edges that extend far outside the bottom chassis.
The Lenovo Legion Pro Rollable will be its first gaming laptop to feature a rollable horizontal …
At their biggest and most expensive, video games all sort of look the same. The reason often comes down to simple economics: More resources means more costs that need to be recouped, and historically the way publishers have done that is by being comically risk-averse. Hence the glut of semi-realistic rocky wastelands that look like death metal album covers where everyone is some kind of Wild West fetishist, or the hero shooters that all look like Pixar but shredded as hell and ready for fan artists to go places I shall not.
On occasion, however, new visual ground is staked. Octopath Traveler 0 is an example of this. The third game in the O …
Joshua Aaron, the developer of the ICEBlock app, is suing Attorney General Pam Bondi, US Homeland Security Secretary Kirsti Noem, acting director of ICE Todd Lyons, White House « Border Czar » Tom Homan, and other federal officials over the Trump administration’s « unlawful threats » made against Aaron and its actions to pressure Apple to pull the app from the App Store, which it did.
« We promised you we would fight back. Well, today’s the day we make good on the promise, » according to a post from ICEBlock’s official account on Bluesky. Aaron, Apple, and the Department of Homeland Security, didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment fr …
