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Tether freezes the wallets of people sanctioned by the US Treasury’s OFAC to stop “potential misuse” of its tokens, one of its new CEO’s first significant moves (Zack Abrams/The Block)

Zack Abrams / The Block: Tether freezes the wallets of people sanctioned by the US Treasury’s OFAC to stop “potential misuse” of its tokens, one of its new CEO’s first significant moves — – Tether has frozen its coins held in crypto wallets sanctioned by the U.S. Office of Foreign Asset Controls, the company announced

Tether freezes the wallets of people sanctioned by the US Treasury’s OFAC to stop “potential misuse” of its tokens, one of its new CEO’s first significant moves (Zack Abrams/The Block)

Pico Makes a So-So Keyboard Neat-O

When someone gives you a crappy little toy keyboard, what can you do? Sadly plunk on the thing one note at a time? Well yes, but that’s not going to get you on Hackaday. Do what [Turi] did and give that thing a complete overhaul. [Turi] threw away the original controller board, keeping only the

OctoML ends its deal with text-to-image AI model sharing platform Civitai, after a report found some images made by Civitai users “could be categorized as” CSAM (Emanuel Maiberg/404 Media)

Emanuel Maiberg / 404 Media: OctoML ends its deal with text-to-image AI model sharing platform Civitai, after a report found some images made by Civitai users “could be categorized as” CSAM — Civitai, a text-to-image AI model sharing platform, is seeking a new cloud computing provider and instructing …

Epic used Fortnite OG to lure players back to a very different game

Image: Epic Games You could say that Fortnite is entering a new phase. With the launch of Lego Fortnite, Rocket Racing, and Fortnite Festival, the game is now more than a popular battle royale — it’s a platform designed to house lots of different kinds of experiences. That shift was preceded by an event that

The quiet plan to make the internet feel faster

Illustration by Hugo Herrera / The Verge A few months ago, I downgraded my internet, going from a 900Mbps plan to a 200Mbps one. Now, I find that websites can sometimes take a painfully long time to load, that HD YouTube videos have to stop and buffer when I jump around in them, and that

Android Apps Weekly: iMessage sort of comes to Android, and more

Welcome to the 513th edition of Android Apps Weekly, where we discuss the latest in mobile news and take a closer look at some of the most interesting new apps and games. This week saw the release of another app claiming to replicate iMessage for Android users, but this time it actually seems to work.

The European Parliament and the EU’s 27 member states will need to approve the AI Act, which seeks fines of up to €35M or 7% of global turnover for violations (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: The European Parliament and the EU’s 27 member states will need to approve the AI Act, which seeks fines of up to €35M or 7% of global turnover for violations — – Region couldn’t ‘let the perfect be the enemy of the good’ — Negotiators broke coffee machine working late-night deal

Apple’s 10th-gen iPad is actually worthwhile when it’s $100 off

Plus, it comes in this awesome yellow color. | Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge We’ve found Apple’s latest generation of its base-model iPad to be a bit awkwardly priced from the start. At $449 it’s a little close to the much nicer iPad Air and simultaneously a lot pricier than its ninth-gen predecessor.

Fortnite Festival is Rock Band without the plastic instruments

Image: Epic Games Epic released a trilogy of new games inside of Fortnite this week. It started with Lego Fortnite, continued with Rocket Racing, and is wrapping up today with Fortnite Festival, developed by Guitar Hero studio Harmonix (which Epic acquired in 2021). It’s all part of an ambitious plan to turn Fortnite from a

Degrees of Freedom, But for Whom?

Opening up this week’s podcast, I told Kristina about my saga repairing our German toilet valve. I’m American, and although I’ve lived here over a decade, it’s still surprising how things can be subtly different from how they worked back home. But what was amazing about this device was that it had a provision for

ChatGPT with Voice made me forget I was talking to an AI

Credit: Calvin Wankhede / Android Authority Opinion post by Calvin Wankhede Imagine this: you’re walking down the street wearing earbuds with your phone locked away in a pocket. You speak a few sentences when a thought crosses your mind, and within seconds, hear a response. Not from a friend or a stranger, but from ChatGPT.

Finishing every part of Mario Wonder is no peach

Mario Wonder is just so gosh darn charming I didn’t want to stop playing. | Image: Nintendo My mission to 100 percent Super Mario Bros. Wonder officially started a couple of weeks ago, but really it began in the late ‘80s. As a kid, I was certifiably bad at Mario. We didn’t have our own

[Thread] Texas’ and Florida’s online speech rules for platforms cannot be justified, as less restrictive tools that give users control over online content exist (Daphne Keller/@daphnehk)

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How to build a bike lane in America

Illustration by Sisi Kim for The Verge Advocates are working across the country to make their communities safer and more accessible for cyclists, but not every effort is successful. Continue reading…

Hirokazu Kore-eda is so back

Well Go USA The director of Monster talks about the complexities (and simplicities) of portraying multiple points of view Continue reading…

The Withings Scanwatch Light is a smartwatch for those who don’t want one

Credit: Rita El Khoury / Android Authority Despite more than a decade of improvement, today’s best smartwatches still come with two important caveats: a design that rarely looks like a regular watch and a one- or two-day battery life at best. If the reason you haven’t gotten a smartwatch is because you don’t want either

13 Great Deals on Headphones, Wireless Earbuds, and Gaming Headsets

Whether you’re picking up a last-minute gift or treating yourself, now’s a great time to snag some headphones on sale.

Marconi Circuit Magnification Meter Gives Up Secrets

[Thomas] picked up a Marconi TF1245 with dents and dings. We have to admit that we had not heard of a “circuit magnification meter,” but apparently, this was a thing in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Turns out, we have heard of this kind of meter before, but it was called a Q meter.

All the Fish We Cannot See

In a dark, unexplored layer of ocean, a hidden cache of fish might play an unexpected role in our climate’s future. It seems like a bad time for a new fishery.

Text Blaze is the one Chrome extension I can’t live without

Credit: Rita El Khoury / Android Authority Chrome is a resource beast. I spend most of my day in the browser, hopping between Gmail, Asana, WordPress, Airtable, and a smorgasbord of sites and services, so I try to keep any extras to a minimum. That means no Chrome extensions unless they’re work-required. There’s one exception

How parametric insurance startups use data science and AI to limit their liability, as climate change makes typical kinds of coverage unprofitable (Christopher Mims/Wall Street Journal)

Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal: How parametric insurance startups use data science and AI to limit their liability, as climate change makes typical kinds of coverage unprofitable — A new breed of insurer is finding opportunity as larger companies exit some markets — If floodwaters outside a warehouse in Freeport …

EcoFlow Glacier review: a solar-powered fridge, freezer, and ice maker

Fire and ice make everything nice. Continue reading…

When Is A 6502 Not Quite A 6502?

We all know that fake chips are a risk when it comes to buying parts on eBay or from Chinese markets such as AliExpress. It’s a simple enough scam, take a cheap chip and mark it as an expensive one, pocket the difference. It’s happened in several different forms, with everything from completely different devices

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