Brendan Carr plans to let prisons jam cellphone signals
FCC Chairman Brendan Carr announced the agency will vote on November 19th on rules that would allow prisons to use signal jamming. Radiofrequency jammers are generally banned under Section 333 and the Communications Act of 1934, with few exceptions, and…
The ‘Vulnpocalypse’ is coming for the internet’s aging code, says Wiz’s CTO
The PHP scare may have faded from your feed, but the cleanup is far from over. Last week, two critical bugs in the open source language behind roughly 70% of websites left organizations scrambling to fix their systems, with some taking sites offline un...
Microsoft is ending Copilot support on smart TVs
Nearly two years after LG and Samsung announced at CES 2025 that their latest smart TVs would include access to Microsoft's Copilot, the company is ending support for the AI assistant's functionality on all TVs this year, according to a report by Windows…
Surprise: The Google Xreal glasses debut at a Meta-beating $1,099
In this economy, how often does a product get less expensive before its debut? That just happened with the Google / Xreal Aura, the lightweight 95-gram glasses with a tethered Android XR compute puck and multiple virtual screens that just went on sale…
Here’s where to preorder the new MacBook Pros
As expected, Apple finally showed off its 14- and 16-inch MacBook Pros at its recent "Pro and tell" event. The long-awaited laptops feature a Tandem OLED display with full touch capabilities, while also cutting some weight and bringing back the glowing…
You can see every red flag in Theranos 2.0
This is Optimizer, a weekly newsletter sent from Verge senior reviewer Victoria Song that dissects and discusses the latest gizmos and potions that swear they're going to change your life. Opt in for Optimizer here. From afar, it's easy to look back at…
Here’s how macOS is changing for touchscreens
Touchscreen laptops are nothing new in the Windows world, but Apple has only just announced its first MacBook with a touchscreen. Apple isn't rushing to change a bunch of things in macOS to optimize for touch, though: Most of the touch action will be in…
Apple ‘Pro and Tell’ event: everything announced this week
Apple closed out its week of product announcements with a "Pro and Tell" event on Wednesday, where it took the wraps off its long-rumored touchscreen MacBook Pro. Though Apple may have saved its biggest and most exciting update for last, it revealed a…
Watch Apple’s reveal video for the touchscreen MacBook Pro
Apple just announced its first touchscreen MacBook at its "Pro and tell" event on Wednesday. It showed off the long-awaited touchscreen in a video of the new MacBook Pro during the event that you can watch right here to see the new display in action. The…
Hands-on with Apple’s touchscreen MacBook Pro
Steve Jobs famously called touchscreen laptops "ergonomically terrible," and for over a decade, Apple stridently refused to make one. Today that all changes with the MacBook Pro - the company's first laptop to embrace a touch interface. While it's…
