The German soccer season is never short of drama. Bayern Munich scored in the 89th minute of the last game of the 2022-23 season to snatch the title and maintain their dominance of the top division. With marquee signing Harry Kane already amongst the goals in the opening weekend, they will take some stopping. There’s
Read MoreThe Information: Sources: Salesforce is leading a ~$200M funding round in Hugging Face at a $4B+ valuation, more than doubling its share price and private valuation — Salesforce is leading a financing round in Hugging Face, one of the most highly valued startups helping businesses use artificial intelligence …
Read MoreIoannis Kouvakas / Just Security: A look at the UK government’s planned revisions to its Investigatory Powers Act, including potential unintended consequences like slowing down security updates — The United Kingdom (U.K.) government has recently unveiled plans to revise the Investigatory Powers Act 2016 (IPA) …
Read MoreKyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: OpenAI adds fine-tuning to GPT-3.5 Turbo, letting developers, for a fee, customize models with their own data to make them perform better for their use cases — OpenAI customers can now bring custom data to the lightweight version of GPT-3.5, GPT-3.5 Turbo — making it easier to improve …
Read MoreIoannis Kouvakas / Just Security: A look at the UK government’s planned revisions to its Investigatory Powers Act, including potential unintended consequences like slowing down security updates — The United Kingdom (U.K.) government has recently unveiled plans to revise the Investigatory Powers Act 2016 (IPA) …
Read MoreThe right natural link structure can make all the difference in SEO success. No longer is it just a matter of quantity; quality organic link building is what really counts. In order to get ahead, businesses need to gain an understanding of natural link graphs on the web and how to properly maintain one. From
Read MoreIllustration by Nick Barclay / The Verge Twitch is the latest tech company to try a TikTok-like way to browse content. The company is experimenting with a feature that surfaces clips in a new vertically-scrolling feed that it calls the “discovery feed,” and the feed is starting to roll out to “select users” on Tuesday,
Read MoreImage: Clay Enos / Netflix Zack Snyder is heading far from Earth for his next film. The director of 300 and Justice League just revealed a teaser trailer for Rebel Moon, a sci-fi movie coming to Netflix in December. This is the first proper look at the film, though Netflix previously released a behind-the-scenes featurette
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Read MoreVehicles and housing structures are partially submerged after Tropical Storm Hilary flooded a community of unhoused people on August 21st, 2023, in Cathedral City, California. | Photo by Mario Tama / Getty Images Disasters have no borders, and a summer of unexpected catastrophe across the US shows it. California is notorious for drought and fire,
Read MoreCredit: MySmartPrix A leaker suggests the OnePlus Open colors could be “Voyage Black” and “Emerald Eclipse.” Every OnePlus flagship since the OnePlus 10 Pro has come in varying shades of black and green. It’s possible OnePlus could offer limited edition colorways later in the release cycle. Back at the beginning of 2022, the OnePlus 10
Read MoreShubham Sharma / VentureBeat: Nvidia and VMware extend partnership to help companies iterate on open models like Llama 2 for their AI apps, using Nvidia’s NeMo framework on VMware’s cloud — VMware and Nvidia today extended their decade-long strategic collaboration to announce a new fully-integrated solution focused on generative AI training and deployment.
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Microsoft Paint could be the next Windows app to get the AI treatment. According to a report from Windows Central, Microsoft is exploring ways to bring AI-powered features to the app in Windows 11, which could include the ability to generate a canvas based on a text prompt.
Read MoreIllustration: Nick Barclay / The Verge Meta plans to roll out default end-to-end encryption for its Messenger product by the end of this year, the company confirmed in a blog post Tuesday. “Starting today, millions more people’s chats on Messenger will be upgraded to stronger encryption standards as part of our ongoing end-to-end encryption (E2EE)
Read MoreImage: Clay Enos / Netflix Zack Snyder is heading far from Earth for his next film. The director of 300 and Justice League just revealed a teaser trailer for Rebel Moon, a sci-fi movie coming to Netflix in December. This is the first proper look at the film, though Netflix previously released a behind-the-scenes featurette
Read MoreImage: Level Infinite The Command & Conquer series is getting another mobile game. The new title, Command & Conquer: Legions, offers a “reimagined storyline,” a “new approach to strategy gameplay” that “opens endless strategic possibilities,” and includes “iconic heroes and villains, factions, and a vast array of units” from the series, according to a blog
Read MoreLeah Nylen / Bloomberg: Sources: Thoma Bravo will close its $2.3B acquisition of identity software provider ForgeRock this week after the US DOJ declined to challenge the deal — – Justice Department probed identify management software overlap — Thoma Bravo LLC will close its $2.3 billion acquisition …
Read MoreImage: Paramount Plus Paramount Plus’ new take on Frasier begins streaming on October 12th, Paramount announced on Tuesday. The show brings back Kelsey Grammer as Frasier Crane, the titular character from the hit sitcom that debuted in 1993. New episodes in Frasier’s 10-episode season will come out every Thursday. Paramount will also air the first
Read MoreScreenshot by Emma Roth / The Verge Microsoft Designer, the company’s free AI-powered design tool, is now broadly available to Edge users in the US. This means you can access Designer from Edge’s sidebar, allowing you to generate designs without opening up a separate tab or program. After launching Designer last year, Microsoft announced in
Read MoreWatch this video on YouTube’s website to see if you have the rounded corners yet. | Screenshot by Jay Peters / The Verge YouTube is rolling out rounded edges on the main video player you see on YouTube.com, spokesperson Allison Toh confirmed to The Verge on Tuesday. They’re coming to all users, so if you’re
Read MorePhoto illustration by Alex Parkin / The Verge Today, I’m talking with Perkins Miller. He’s the CEO of Fandom, which runs thousands of wikis for everything from Disney and Taylor Swift to The Matrix and Grand Theft Auto as well as several publications like TV Guide, Metacritic, and GameSpot. It’s a big, complicated media company
Read MoreJoseph Cox / 404 Media: A look at the dire state of Americans’ privacy, made worse by credit bureaus’ data policies; Telegram bots offer huge dossiers on targets for ~$15 in bitcoin — Most Americans have very little choice but to provide their personal information to credit bureaus.
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Read MoreImage: AT&T AT&T is expanding the availability of its $55 per month Internet Air plan (or $60 per month without autopay), which uses 5G to beam Wi-Fi into your home. The plan comes with no overage fees, equipment costs, or annual contracts, but AT&T will charge up to $10 per month extra for up to
Read MoreLAist Studios/SCPR This is Hot Pod, The Verge’s newsletter about podcasting and the audio industry. Sign up here for more. I’m writing to you today from Podcast Movement in Colorado — where I hope to meet many of you over the next few days. This morning kicked off with a discussion on the state of
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