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Ex-Apple employee Dhirendra Prasad is sentenced to three years and must pay restitution for stealing $17M from Apple via kickbacks from parts suppliers, more (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)

Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: Ex-Apple employee Dhirendra Prasad is sentenced to three years and must pay restitution for stealing $17M from Apple via kickbacks from parts suppliers, more — A former Apple employee has been sentenced to three years in prison and must pay back over $19 million in restitution …

ASUS ROG Ally release date confirmed, price leaks

Credit: ASUS ASUS has confirmed that the ASUS ROG Ally release date will be May 11. A company spokesperson has said the price will be under $1,000. A leak suggests the price will be $699. Earlier this week, some outlets got the opportunity to get some hands-on time with the ASUS ROG Ally. While impressions

Apple TV Plus flop Ghosted still beat Succession in this popularity contest

Apple TV Plus movie Ghosted is having a rough time in the reviews right now, but people seem to be watching it a lot according to this new chart.

Bing on Edge barges in on Bard

A developer build of Microsoft’s Edge browser displays an invitation to use the new Bing if the user is on Google’s Bard page. | Screenshot: Umar Shakir / The Verge Microsoft’s Edge can be a great Chromium browser alternative to Google’s Chrome, but the former is displaying some annoying new rivalry antics: advertising Microsoft’s Bing

This Week in Security: Session Puzzling, Session Keys, and Speculation

Last week we briefly mentioned a vulnerability in the Papercut software, and more details and a proof of concept have been published. The vulnerability is one known as session puzzling. That’s essentially where a session variable is used for multiple purposes, or gets incorrectly set. In Papercut, it was possible to trigger the SetupCompleted class

Washington passes law requiring consent before companies collect health data

Illustration: Alex Castro / The Verge A new Washington state law will require companies to receive a user’s explicit consent before they can collect, share, or sell their health data. Washington Governor Jay Inslee signed the My Health, My Data bill into law on Thursday, giving users the right to withdraw consent at any time

A look at Google’s DeepMind-Brain merger; sources say Demis Hassabis ceded DeepMind’s cherished independence in return for greater power over the future of AI (Madhumita Murgia/Financial Times)

Madhumita Murgia / Financial Times: A look at Google’s DeepMind-Brain merger; sources say Demis Hassabis ceded DeepMind’s cherished independence in return for greater power over the future of AI — Start-up founder Demis Hassabis trades independence for greater influence over the future of artificial intelligence

Massive $17 million Apple fraud lands former employee with prison time

A former Apple employee has been sentenced to three years in prison and ordered to pay Apple $19 million after stealing around $17 million from the company.

The Verge’s 2023 Graduation Gift Guide

Image: Will Joel We found a wide range of gifts that’ll help graduates as they embark upon their next adventure, whether that’s college or a career. Continue reading…

Here are the first Lego Donkey Kong sets

Donkey Kong peeks out of his Lego tree house. | Image: Lego Donkey Kong has been around as long as Mario himself, but this August will be the first time he’s officially appeared in Lego form — on August 1st, the Danish toymaker is adding four Lego Donkey Kong sets to the ever-widening Lego Super

A profile of Sarah Cardell, the UK CMA’s Chief Executive, who played a key role in shaping the policy that led to Microsoft’s Activision takeover being blocked (Financial Times)

Financial Times: A profile of Sarah Cardell, the UK CMA’s Chief Executive, who played a key role in shaping the policy that led to Microsoft’s Activision takeover being blocked — Former corporate lawyer has attracted the ire of the US group by blocking its $75bn acquisition of Activision

Solana’s SOL is up about 125% since December 31, outperforming bitcoin’s 78% rally, as the blockchain tries to move past its association with Sam Bankman-Fried (Sidhartha Shukla/Bloomberg)

Sidhartha Shukla / Bloomberg: Solana’s SOL is up about 125% since December 31, outperforming bitcoin’s 78% rally, as the blockchain tries to move past its association with Sam Bankman-Fried — The SOL token of the Solana blockchain has more than doubled this year, outperforming Bitcoin, as the project tries to move past …

Reddit begins testing Discord-like chat channels with 25 volunteer subreddits that have under 100K members and will give moderators control in managing chats (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Reddit begins testing Discord-like chat channels with 25 volunteer subreddits that have under 100K members and will give moderators control in managing chats — Reddit announced Thursday that it is testing Discord-like chat channels with select subreddits.

Microsoft .NET Community Toolkit 8.2 shines on MVVM

Microsoft has launched .NET Community Toolkit 8.2, again with improvements for MVVM (model-view-viewmodel) development. The preceding 8.1 release, published in January, also focused on MVVM capabilities. The .NET Community Toolkit features a collection of APIs and helpers for .NET developers, agnostic of any UI platform. Source code for version 8.2, announced April 27, can be

When will the fascination with cloud computing fade?

Cloud computing has enabled businesses to focus on their core competencies and scale up their operations without worrying about the IT infrastructure. That’s pretty much the same take we had many years ago. Now that cloud computing is already more than 20 years old (depending on who you ask), will interest remain in this technology

A profile of Liu Xiaoping, a dog food seller on Pinduoduo who coaches Chinese merchants on using legal action to fight Pinduoduo’s refund-without-return policy (Viola Zhou/Rest of World)

Viola Zhou / Rest of World: A profile of Liu Xiaoping, a dog food seller on Pinduoduo who coaches Chinese merchants on using legal action to fight Pinduoduo’s refund-without-return policy — A dog food seller known as “Lawsuit Bro” is leading the fight. — A dog food seller on Pinduoduo has emerged as an unlikely

Incoming EU rules force Apple to reveal App Store user numbers in Europe

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Apple has revealed the number of active monthly users for various versions of its App Store in Europe in order to comply with the EU’s Digital Services Act (DSA). The disclosure published on Apple legal resources site reveals that the iOS App Store has 101 million users in

An Ominous Heating Event Is Unfolding in the Oceans

Average sea surface temperatures have soared to record highs, and stayed there. It’s a worrying signal of an ocean in crisis.

Dark Mode’s Shadowy Promises

Light-on-dark displays tap into society’s deepest fears about technology’s ills. But reducing screen light isn’t the same as putting your device away.

Checking Out and Reviving a Batch of Used Floppy Disks

With the last manufacturer of 3.5″ floppy disks (FDs) having shut down in 2010, those who are still using this type of storage medium for production and/or retrocomputing purposes have to increasingly rely on a dwindling stack of new old stock, or the used market. With the purported unreliability of this type of magnetic media

AT&T email accounts reportedly broken into to steal crypto

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Hackers have reportedly been breaking into AT&T-provided email addresses, and using this access to steal large quantities of cryptocurrency, TechCrunch reports. While it’s not clear how many people have been impacted, one alleged victim claims to have lost $134,000 from a Coinbase account associated with a compromised email

Nothing will be among first phone brands to offer Android 14 beta access

Credit: Supplied by Nothing Nothing will be one of the first Google Android partners to offer beta access to Android 14. The company didn’t reveal any release details, though. Google I/O is right around the corner, and that gets us Android fans all excited! We’re expecting to learn a lot more about the major Android

Sony reports 6.3M PS5 sales in Q4 2022, up from 2M in Q4 2021, taking FY 2022 to 19.1M and 38.4M since launch, and $29B revenue for FY 2022, up from $19.9B YoY (Steve Dent/Engadget)

Steve Dent / Engadget: Sony reports 6.3M PS5 sales in Q4 2022, up from 2M in Q4 2021, taking FY 2022 to 19.1M and 38.4M since launch, and $29B revenue for FY 2022, up from $19.9B YoY — Now that it’s solved its supply shortages, Sony is seeing a lot of pent-up demand for PlayStation

Master and Dynamic MH40 Review: Beautiful Austerity

These high-end cans look fantastic and sound great, but they don’t have noise canceling or advanced EQ.

The Cheap And Available Microwave Playground

There’s something of a mystique about RF construction at the higher frequencies, it’s seen as a Black Art only practiced by elite wizards. In fact, UHF and microwave RF circuitry is surprisingly simple and easy to understand, and given the ready availability of low-noise block downconverters (LNBs) for satellite TV reception there’s even a handy

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