Genetic testing company 23andMe disclosed late Saturday that its recent data breach impacted significantly more customers than previously reported, according to a recent TechCrunch report. Originally stating that the breach compromised the personal data of only 14,000 individuals, 23andMe has now confirmed that nearly 7 million customers were impacted. In an email to TechCrunch, 23andMe
Read MoreA DoorDash cyclist delivers during a snow storm in New York City in 2021. | Photo by Noam Galai/Getty Images For most markets where DoorDash operates, customers are prompted to tip on the checkout screen, with a middle option already selected by default. If they want to, they can adjust the tip later from the
Read MoreIllustration by Hugo Herrera for The Verge UK telecoms regulator Ofcom has laid out how porn sites could verify users’ ages under the newly passed Online Safety Act. Although the law gives sites the choice of how they keep out underage users, the regulator is publishing a list of measures they’ll be able to use
Read MoreToday, Taiwan’s economy minister announced that U.S. authorities are arranging a trip to Taiwan to provide in-depth explanations to local firms on the latest export restrictions affecting advanced chip shipments, mainly targeting China. This strategic visit aims to provide guidance and support to Taiwanese companies that may be impacted by the new regulations, ensuring they
Read MoreYou’d be forgiven if you thought [Nicholas Sherlock’s] new lens design was a macro lens that was 3D printed. In fact, it is, but it is also a macro lens that takes 3D images using two different cameras. If you have a pair of Sony E/FEs, you can 3D print your own copy today. If
Read MoreCecilia D’Anastasio / Bloomberg: Rockstar releases the first trailer for Grand Theft Auto VI, set in a fictional Miami, featuring a male and a female protagonist, and to be released in 2025 — Crime-themed franchise is among the most successful in video-game history — Rockstar Games released the first trailer …
Read MoreImage: The Verge Heavyweight, one of Gimlet’s flagship shows and a favorite among people in the industry, has been cancelled by Spotify. After the show finishes its current season, the team that makes Heavyweight will be laid off, a person familiar with the situation told The Verge. “We are extremely proud of the team who
Read MoreImage: Rockstar Games Less than a day before Rockstar was set to debut GTA VI’s first trailer, a now-suspended account posted the trailer on X (formerly Twitter). Though the GTA VI trailer was scheduled to premiere Tuesday, December 5th at 9AM ET, Rockstar quickly responded by publishing the trailer in full on its official YouTube
Read MoreBlake Brittain / Reuters: A US appeals court throws out VLSI Technology’s $2.18B award won from Intel in a 2021 patent-infringement case, leading to a new trial for one of VLSI’s patents — A U.S. appeals court on Monday threw out a $2.18 billion patent-infringement award won by patent owner VLSI Technology against Intel Corp
Read MoreThe Verge A UK court ruled a lawsuit from Getty Images against Stable Diffusion creator Stability AI can move on to trial, finding merit in Getty’s insistence that its copyrighted material was used to train AI models. The Business and Property Courts of England and Wales under the High Court of Justice ruled on Friday,
Read MoreBloomberg: Sources: cloud-based call center software maker Five9 is exploring a sale and held discussions with Zoom; Five9 scrapped a $14.7B takeover by Zoom in Sept. 2021 — – Call center software firm working to gauge buyer interest — Five9 and Zoom have spoken about possibly resurrecting a deal
Read MoreSarah Perez / TechCrunch: Apptopia: Threads hit 620K daily Android and iOS downloads on Nov. 23, vs. ~350K in early November; since September, X saw 27M new downloads, vs. Threads’ 41M — Recent efforts by Meta to grow Threads’ install base have been working. According to a new analysis of app store trends …
Read MoreFollowing the recent turmoil at OpenAI, new reporting has brought to light a 2019 agreement between OpenAI and Rain AI, an AI-chip manufacturing startup. According to WIRED, which first reported this news, the letter of intent reviewed includes OpenAI’s non-binding commitment to purchase $51 million worth of AI chips from Rain AI once developed. Sam
Read MoreCarl Franzen / VentureBeat: Generative AI video startup Runway ML partners with Getty Images on a new AI video model available in the coming months for use in Hollywood and advertising — Runway ML, the New York City video AI startup backed by Google and Nvidia, continues to entrench itself in the marketplace of the
Read MoreBloomberg: Sources: Mistral AI is in the final stages of raising €450M in a round valuing the OpenAI rival around $2B; a16z is in talks to provide €200M in funding — – French AI startup is set to raise about €450 million in round — Adviser Cedric O is among insiders set to sell partial
Read MorePhoto by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Meta is discontinuing a feature that lets you see notifications from your smartphone while you’re using a Quest VR headset, according to the patch notes for the Quest’s v60 update. The company introduced the ability to see iOS and Android notifications in the headset in 2021. Meta
Read MoreImage: Toho Director Takashi Yamazaki opens up about taking the king of monsters back to its roots for a modern audience. Continue reading…
Read MoreCredit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority Photomoji is now starting to roll out for Google Messages. The Messages app will alert you that the feature is available with a circular badge on top of the emoji button. The feature has yet to roll out widely to all beta program users. Last week, Google announced a
Read MoreKyle Bradshaw / 9to5Google: Meta says cross-app chatting between Messenger and Instagram will be discontinued in “mid-December 2023”, three years after it announced the feature — Meta is beginning the process of disconnecting the ability to have “cross-app chats” with your Instagram contacts via Facebook Messenger and vice-versa.
Read MoreImage: Getty 23andMe confirmed that a recent breach leaked data belonging to 6.9 million users. In an emailed statement to The Verge, company spokesperson Andy Kill says the breach affected around 5.5 million users who had DNA Relatives enabled, a feature that matches users with similar genetic makeups, while an additional 1.4 million people had
Read MoreElon Musk at the Tesla Model 3 launch in 2017. | Photo by Lauren Goode / The Verge A federal tax credit funded through the Inflation Reduction Act can currently shave up to $7,500 off the price of Tesla’s Model 3, but that’s about to drop in half. The tax credit will fall to $3,750
Read MoreSpotify is the world’s biggest music streamer but rarely turns a profit and just cut 17 percent of its workforce. Its business model looks increasingly precarious.
Read MoreWhile vacuum electronic devices have largely been superseded over much of consumer electronics, there’s one place where they can still be found for now. The cavity magnetron is a power RF oscillator device in which electrons are induced to move in a circular path through a tuned cavity, inducing a high-power RF field, and it
Read MoreBloomberg: A look at Osaka-based Fuso Chemical, which supplies 90%+ of the silica to polish wafers, sinking deeper into debt by refusing to raise its prices to cover capex — – Fuso Chemical says lifting prices would be betraying customers — Osaka firm dominates in chip silica but struggles with capex
Read MoreIllustration: The Verge OpenAI may be chasing after enterprise users, but some of its executives warn people not to expect the technology to change their businesses quickly. OpenAI chief operating officer Brad Lightcap said in an interview with CNBC that one of the more overhyped parts of artificial intelligence is that “in one fell swoop,
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