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Google’s Project Zero finds 18 zero-day vulnerabilities, including four top-severity flaws, affecting some Samsung phones and other devices with Exynos chipsets (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch)

Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: Google’s Project Zero finds 18 zero-day vulnerabilities, including four top-severity flaws, affecting some Samsung phones and other devices with Exynos chipsets — Google’s security research unit is sounding the alarm on a set of vulnerabilities it found in certain Samsung chips included …

Amazon stops selling newspaper and magazine subscriptions for Kindle and print, and plans to shut down Kindle Newsstand in September 2023 (Michael Kozlowski/Good e-Reader)

Michael Kozlowski / Good e-Reader: Amazon stops selling newspaper and magazine subscriptions for Kindle and print, and plans to shut down Kindle Newsstand in September 2023 — Amazon has announced they are abandoning the Kindle for Periodicals or the Kindle Newsstand, which will completely shutter on September 2023.

Twitter starts showing the number of times a tweet has been bookmarked, but not by whom, initially for iOS users on the tweet details page, with plans to expand (Mitchell Clark/The Verge)

Mitchell Clark / The Verge: Twitter starts showing the number of times a tweet has been bookmarked, but not by whom, initially for iOS users on the tweet details page, with plans to expand — Twitter is adding yet another public metric to measure posts by. There’s now a counter for how many bookmarks a

Amazon stops selling magazines and newspapers through Kindle Newsstand

I guess Amazon would prefer that you buy books instead. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Amazon is no longer selling magazine and newspaper subscriptions through Kindle Newsstand and will stop delivering current Kindle Newsstand subscriptions in September, according to an announcement from last week. Kindle Newsstand let people read Kindle-specific versions

The next Motorola Razr might have a laughably small battery

Credit: Ryan Haines / Android Authority The next Razr could be known as the Motorola Razr Plus. A new rumor suggests it could have a small battery at just 2,850mAh, roughly 19% smaller than the 2022 Razr. The leak also includes model number XT2321. We’ve already seen a few leaks for the next clamshell-style foldable

Private equity firm Ethical Capital Partners acquires Pornhub owner MindGeek, which had $460M in 2018 revenue and sources say profit margins near 50% at times (Patricia Nilsson/Financial Times)

Patricia Nilsson / Financial Times: Private equity firm Ethical Capital Partners acquires Pornhub owner MindGeek, which had $460M in 2018 revenue and sources say profit margins near 50% at times — MindGeek acquired by Ethical Capital Partners for undisclosed sum — MindGeek, one of the world’s largest and most controversial porn companies …

Google might give the Pixel 8 a Video Unblur tool

Credit: Robert Triggs / Android Authority An APK teardown has revealed a new video unblur feature. The teardown also uncovered video overlay effects. Neither feature appears to be functional yet. One of the big selling points of the Pixel 7 series was Google’s Photo Unblur feature. Now that we’re on our way to the Pixel

In a presentation about the new Copilot features, Microsoft acknowledges AI’s tendency to produce inaccurate responses but says the tech can be “usefully wrong” (Jonathan Vanian/CNBC)

Jonathan Vanian / CNBC: In a presentation about the new Copilot features, Microsoft acknowledges AI’s tendency to produce inaccurate responses but says the tech can be “usefully wrong” — – Microsoft debuted ChatGPT-like features dubbed Copilot that will eventually come to its business apps like Word and Excel.

Ugreen’s Nexode 140W charger is for 16-inch MacBook Pro trekkers

The Ugreen Nexode 140W charger is one of few all-in-one charger options for on-the-go video editors rocking powerful PD 3.1-capable laptops. And it’s a good one. Continue reading…

Taking Apart IKEA’s Latest Air Quality Sensor

Whether it’s because they’re concerned about worsening pollution or the now endemic variants of COVID-19, a whole lot of people have found themselves in the market for a home air quality monitor thee last couple of years. IKEA noted this trend awhile back, and released the VINDRIKTNING sensor to capitalize on the trend. The device

Quick fix: get rid of Android’s Discover page

Illustration: Samar Haddad / The Verge Issue Google’s Discover page, which is the leftmost page on many Android phones, can be a useful source of news, or it can be an irritating list of clickbait headlines and repetitive articles. And because it is an intrinsic part of the OS on many phones, unless you actually

Great, tweets are showing another metric now

Another addition to a tweet’s report card — this bar is getting full. Twitter is adding yet another public metric to measure posts by. There’s now a counter for how many bookmarks a tweet has gotten that lives beside the retweet, quote retweet, and like numbers. The counter is currently only showing up for iOS

Peter Thiel says he had $50M in a personal account at SVB when the bank collapsed, even after Founders Fund warned portfolio companies that the bank was at risk (George Hammond/Financial Times)

George Hammond / Financial Times: Peter Thiel says he had $50M in a personal account at SVB when the bank collapsed, even after Founders Fund warned portfolio companies that the bank was at risk — Prominent investor’s Founders Fund among those that had warned about US bank’s risks ahead of its collapse

California’s drought has eased, but the state isn’t out of the woods yet

Flooded strawberry fields in Pajaro, California, on Wednesday, March 15th, 2023. | Image: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images An extremely wet winter has lifted much of California out of drought, and more rain is on the way. The deluge of rain and snowfall this season has “wiped out exceptional and extreme drought in California”

Sources: Tiger Global marked down its investments in private companies by ~33% across its VC funds in 2022, erasing $23B in value from its portfolio of startups (Wall Street Journal)

Wall Street Journal: Sources: Tiger Global marked down its investments in private companies by ~33% across its VC funds in 2022, erasing $23B in value from its portfolio of startups — The markdowns erased $23 billion in value from Tiger’s portfolio of startups — Tiger Global marked down the value …

Nimble, which helps companies automate their warehouses using logistics robots, raised a $65M Series B led by Cedar Pine, bringing its total funding to $115M (Brian Heater/TechCrunch)

Brian Heater / TechCrunch: Nimble, which helps companies automate their warehouses using logistics robots, raised a $65M Series B led by Cedar Pine, bringing its total funding to $115M — There’s a long-standing debate in the world of logistics robotics. On one side stand the greenfield folk, who insist …

10 Powerful Artificial Intelligence Tools to Check Out in 2023

It’s no secret that productivity is the key to success, and AI is the secret tool that has been specially designed for humans to increase their productivity manifold. According to a study by the tech research firm Gartner, 37% of companies use AI to run their businesses today. Moreover, according to another research by Gartner,

YouTube TV raises subscription to $72.99, inching closer to cable pricing

Illustration: Alex Castro / The Verge YouTube TV is getting more expensive again, as its pricing inches closer toward what the cable providers it was supposed to replace are charging. The company announced today that its service is going from $64.99 a month to $72.99 a month, an $8 increase. Anyone starting a new subscription

Kia’s EV9 has big Soul energy for when you start a family

The 2024 Kia EV9 electric SUV has been revealed. | Image: Kia Remember those real hip hamsters that starred in Kia’s Soul commercials? If they finally grew up and started a family, the EV9 is exactly the electric vehicle they’d be looking to buy. Kia this week revealed the production version of the EV9 SUV

Robot Hand Looks and Acts Like the Real Thing

Throughout history, visions of the future included human-looking robots. These days we have plenty of robots, but they don’t look like people. They look like disembodied arms, cars, and over-sized hockey pucks concealing a vacuum cleaner. Of course there’s still demand for humanoid robots like Commander Data, but there are many challenges: eyes, legs, skin,

Clip Studio Paint 2.0 update improves color blending and 3D toolkit

V2 of Celsys’ art and animation software provides new features for automatic illustration adjustments and referencing. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Celsys has released Clip Studio Paint 2.0, the first major update for its popular digital illustration app that introduces new 3D referencing tools, brush effects, and additional language support. Some of

Microsoft details Business Chat, part of 365 Copilot, which can summarize meetings, recent customer contacts, calendar entries, and more, similar to Bing’s AI (The Verge)

The Verge: Microsoft details Business Chat, part of 365 Copilot, which can summarize meetings, recent customer contacts, calendar entries, and more, similar to Bing’s AI — One of the new Copilot AI features coming to Microsoft 365 apps and services is dubbed Business Chat.

Senator Warner on the Restrict Act and a US TikTok Ban

WIRED spoke with the coauthor of the Restrict Act, a bipartisan bill to crack down on tech from six “hostile” countries.

Hackaday Berlin: Final Schedule, Last Call for Tickets, and More

Hackaday Berlin is just about a week away, and we’ve just put the finishing touches on our preparations. And that includes a snazzy landing page, the full schedule, details on the Friday night meetup, and more. We’ll be meeting up Friday the 24th at 19:00 at DogTap / Brew Dog, Im Marienpark 23 for an

Epic’s Unreal Editor for Fortnite is finally launching on March 22nd

Image: Epic Games Epic Games is finally sharing more details about the Unreal Editor for Fortnite, which will let creators use tools from Unreal Engine to build games and experiences specifically for Fortnite. “Unreal Editor for Fortnite (UEFN) is a new PC application for designing, developing, and publishing games and experiences directly into Fortnite,” Epic

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