After convincing the world to buy open source and give up the Morse Code test for ham radio licenses, Bruce Perens has a new gambit: develop a license that ensures software developers receive compensation from large corporations using their work. The new Post-Open Zero Cost License seeks to address the financial disparities in open source
Read MoreIllustration by Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photos from Getty Images More news organizations, including the New York Daily News, Chicago Tribune, Orlando Sentinel, San Jose Mercury News, and four others, are suing OpenAI and Microsoft for alleged copyright infringement. The publications, all owned by the hedge fund Alden Global Capital, claim that both
Read MorePhoto by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Buttons feel magical. You press here, and invisible connections make something happen elsewhere. But “magical” is probably not how I’d describe most public drinking fountains. Who among us hasn’t walked up to a drinking fountain, expecting a bubbling stream of life-giving water, only to experience the crushing
Read MoreLarge swathes of Asia are sweltering through a heatwave that has topped temperature records from Myanmar to the Philippines and forced millions of children to stay home from school. From a report: In India, record temperatures have triggered a deadly heatwave and concerns about voter turnout in the nation’s marathon election. Extreme heat has also
Read MoreCredit: Kaitlyn Cimino / Android Authority A study found that Wear OS grabbed 21% of the market share in 2023 outside of China. It’s predicted that number will climb to 27% in 2024. Meanwhile, Apple’s market share is expected to drop from 53% to 49%. Wear OS has long struggled to keep pace with the
Read MoreCredit: Hadlee Simons / Android Authority WhatsApp is testing a new feature on iOS that shows which of your contacts have been recently online. Contacts who have disabled their “Last Seen” or online status won’t be visible. The same feature was recently introduced in the Android beta version of WhatsApp. WhatsApp, one of the most
Read MoreAn anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: The ransomware gang that hacked into U.S. health tech giant Change Healthcare used a set of stolen credentials to remotely access the company’s systems that weren’t protected by multifactor authentication (MFA), according to the chief executive of its parent company, UnitedHealth Group (UHG). UnitedHealth CEO Andrew Witty
Read MoreA US judge has sentenced crypto kingpin Changpeng Zhao, also known as CZ, to four months in prison for breaking anti-money-laundering rules.
Read MoreChina’s brain-computer interface technology is catching up to the US. But it envisions a very different use case: cognitive enhancement.
Read MoreAndroid 15 could revamp the lock screen and notifications panel to look better in landscape mode on phones. The lock screen can’t even be rotated into landscape mode on phones right now. Meanwhile, the notifications panel can be rotated into landscape mode, but the layout sacrifices a lot of space. Although Google designed Android’s UI
Read MoreApple’s Q2 financial results are being announced on May 2, and it might be rough, compared to the financial victories of the last five years. Here’s what to expect, and what the analysts are saying. Apple CEO Tim Cook Apple will be issuing its second-quarter results on May 2, with the figures anticipated to be
Read MoreZhao “violated US law on an unprecedented scale,” prosecutors wrote in their sentencing memo. | Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photos from Getty Images Changpeng Zhao pleaded guilty to money laundering charges. Continue reading…
Read MoreAmazon Web Services (AWS) on Tuesday said that it was making its generative AI-powered coding assistant Amazon Q Developer generally available. Introduced as the evolution of Amazon CodeWhisperer at AWS re:Invent in November, Amazon Q will compete with rival offerings such as GitHub Copilot, Gemini Code Assist, and IBM’s Watsonx Code Assistant, AWS said. To
Read MoreThe Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to block on free speech grounds a provision of Texas law aimed at preventing minors from accessing pornographic content online. From a report: The justices turned away a request made by the Free Speech Coalition, a pornography industry trade group, as well as several companies. The challengers said the
Read MorePhoto: Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images Tesla was on the cusp of taking over electric vehicle charging in the US — then, the layoffs came. Today, multiple outlets reported that the company has laid off hundreds of employees, just weeks after cutting 10 percent (approximately 14,000 people) of its global workforce.
Read MoreIllustration: The Verge A software engineer who was fired from Google in connection to internal protests at the company’s offices says the company retaliated against him for merely watching the demonstration against an Israeli defense contract. The former employee, who asked to remain anonymous, said he went to the lounge on the 10th floor of
Read MoreApple gamers can get ready to hit the streets of Baghdad in “Assassin’s Creed Mirage,” as the Ubisoft title will be available on select iPhone and iPad models this June. Image Credit: Ubisoft While we’ve known it was coming for some time, we’ve finally gotten a release date for Assassin’s Creed Mirage — June 10,
Read MoreThe Biden administration on Tuesday released rules designed to speed up permits for clean energy while requiring federal agencies to more heavily weigh damaging effects on the climate and on low-income communities before approving projects like highways and oil wells. From a report: As part of a deal to raise the country’s debt limit last
Read MoreWhen The Matrix hit the cinemas back in 1999 it started a minor revolution with its use of so-called “Bullet time” — a freeze-frame technique in which the action could move round a momentarily frozen subject. It’s filmed using an array of cameras in an arc, something which was pretty expensive back then but is
Read MoreWith a dead battery, this is just a nice-looking paperweight. | Image: David Pierce / The Verge Just a week after its initial launch, the Rabbit R1’s first software update is here — and not a moment too soon. Right on top of the list of improvements in the OTA update is “up to 5x”
Read MoreBeats Solo 4 offer a premium experience at less than half the cost of Apple’s AirPods Max. Here’s how the two Apple offerings compare. Beats Solo 4 [left], AirPods Max [right] At the end of April, Beats finally updated its seven-year-old Solo3 with a new model. The Beats Solo 4 built upon the legacy of
Read MoreCredit: Aamir Siddiqui / Android Authority Apple has created a secretive lab in Zurich dedicated to AI research. The company has gone on a hiring spree, particularly targeting AI experts from Google. The goal is to develop new AI models and products that can rival its competitors. Although Google, Microsoft, and other major tech players
Read MoreIllustration by Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photos from Getty Images Binance founder Changpeng Zhao was sentenced to four months in prison for failing to establish adequately anti-money laundering protections. Zhao, once the head of the largest crypto exchange in the world, pleaded guilty in November 2023. Judge Richard Jones says that Zhao prioritized
Read MoreThe fourth round of developer betas for Apple’s current operating systems has arrived, with new builds of iOS 17.5 and others now available for testing. iOS 17 Developers taking part in Apple’s beta program can get the latest builds from the Apple Developer Center or by simply updating their iPhone or iPad that are already
Read MoreMacworld Apple has released the fourth beta of the Sonoma 14.5 update to developers and the public. The beta 4 comes a week after the third beta was released. The full version will likely arrive for all users in the next week or two, perhaps after the May 7 “Let Loose” event. macOS 14.5: Beta
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