They’re putting up a united front against AI newcomers.
Matthew McConaughey is trying out an untested legal method to protect himself against unauthorized AI clones: trademarking himself.
The WSJ reports the actor has had eight applications approved by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, including him staring at a camera and saying “Alright, alright, alright.”
Long after Spotify’s Wrapped, or other annual data look-back features from PlayStation and Steam (but not Xbox), Nintendo has announced its Switch 2025 Year in Review tracker.
Other than sharing your results with the #NintendoSwitch2025 hashtag, there’s also an option to select GOTY, or go even further back in your Switch / Switch 2 history to the first game you played.
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Google is adding Meet’s automatic conference room detection feature to the Meet and Gmail mobile apps. First launched on laptops last year, it uses silent ultrasound signals that are picked up by your phone’s mic to automatically check you into your conference room and prompt you to join Meet calls with your device in Companion mode, avoiding annoying feedback or other problems.
A political comms professional breaks down Trump’s meme media strategy.
That’s me on The Vergecast, debating the finer points of our CES 2026 Best in Show: the Lego Smart Brick. Why is it smart, and is it an affront to the imagination? Spoiler: my wife isn’t convinced! And did David make the pew-pew sounds when he was a kid? Tune in.
As reported by Bloomberg, the revised deal would replace Netflix’s existing agreement to acquire WBD’s studio and streaming business in a cash and stock transaction. The rumored change comes as Paramount continues to press WBD to accept its “superior” $108 billion all-cash deal for the entire company.
During an interview with Wccftech, Micron VP of marketing Christopher Moore says the company is still serving consumers “through different channels,” such as focusing on supplying DRAM modules to device manufacturers like Dell and Asus:
Our viewpoint is that we are trying to help consumers around the world. We’re just doing it through different channels. We still have a very sizable business in the client and mobile markets... I think it’s really important for people to understand we are still servicing the consumer market.
This might not be a shock to anyone who’s known or been a teen, but many still oppose sweeping efforts to pry their phones away during the school day, according to a new Pew Research Center survey. Still, they’re slightly more open to phone bans during class than all day.
X’s deepfake porn feature clearly violates app store guidelines. Why won’t Apple and Google pull it?
Nia DaCosta’s 28 Years Later sequel turns the franchise on its head with a story about spirituality in the end times.
Thanks to Donald Trump’s hardline immigration policies, it’s much harder for high-skilled tech workers to apply for the American H-1B visa these days. But a new type of tech worker visa is on the rise: Onlyfans creators and influencers are increasingly applying for (and receiving) O-1 visas, which were once reserved for individuals with “extraordinary ability or achievement” in fields such as the arts, motion pictures, television, sciences, education, business, or athletics.
Now that they’re returned from and processed CES 2026, they’ll be fielding your questions starting at 3PM ET. Stop by!
Real people died while Trump treated war like a meme stock.
Capcom will show off more about Resident Evil Requiem, which will co-star a grizzly Leon Kennedy, in a new Resident Evil showcase on January 15 at 5PM ET. The game is launching soon, on February 26th.
GW won’t be making AI-generated Warhammer products any time soon, the Financial Times reports.
“We will be maintaining a strong commitment to protect our intellectual property and respect our human creators,” GW CEO Kevin Rountree says, adding that, among its senior managers, “none are that excited about [AI] yet.”
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A mysterious kaiju is stirring up trouble in this new teaser for season 2 of Monarch: Legacy of Monsters. The new creature seems bigger than King Kong and more menacing than Godzilla, but we’ll have to wait for the season’s premiere on February 27th to learn the monster’s name.
The latest project from Moxie Marlinspike is Confer, an AI chatbot that claims to offer end-to-end encryption, as spotted by Ars Technica. It looks like ChatGPT, but it works like Signal — the platform’s developers can’t access, sell, or share user data, or even train the AI on it.
An update rolling out today will allow Slackbot to do things like summarize information across multiple channels, help you sort through messages, and find time to schedule meetings with colleagues. The updated Slackbot is coming to Business Plus and Enterprise Plus customers following last year’s test.
