Three years after being caught off guard by ChatGPT, Gemini appears to have everything it needs to take down OpenAI and everyone else.
Two days after Nick Benson asked for donated dashcams in order to document the behavior of federal immigration agents flooding his city, Renee Nicole Good was shot and killed by federal agent Jonathan Ross.
”It was immediately clear that ICE was lying about it,” Benson told 404 Media. Donations have jumped since then, and Benson distributes the cameras to local community organizers and whoever wants them.
With the launch, any user can start a community on “on nearly any topic,” according to TechCrunch. That would solve one of my biggest issues with the platform when I tested it last year. The public beta rollout is expected to begin at around 4PM ET.
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Nia DaCosta’s 28 Years Later sequel turns the franchise on its head with a story about spirituality in the end times.
”Did you decide in the middle of the hearing to officially abandon the FCC’s independence? Or had that decision already been made by you and President Trump prior to the hearing?” Rep. Rob Menendez (D-NJ) asked. Carr said he’s “pleased that the FCC website reflects my views.”
New US dietary guidelines promote more protein and beef tallow, potentially moving Americans further away from a low-carbon diet.
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.
That’s according to Nothing CEO Carl Pei, who, in a big post on X, also said that:
Memory is fast becoming one of the most expensive smartphone components and potentially the single largest cost driver in the bill of materials by year-end, with estimates suggesting that memory modules which cost less than $20 a year ago could exceed $100 by year-end for top-tier models.
Well, they’re not kids anymore, but things are not looking good for the cast of Euphoria in the new season 3 trailer, which sees just about everyone involved in some kind of criminal enterprise or... content creation. The series returns to HBO on April 12th.
In a highly unusual move, FBI agents executed a search warrant on Washington Post journalist Hannah Natanson’s Virginia home, the Post reports. Natanson has written about the Department of Government Efficiency’s federal workforce overhaul. Investigators are reportedly probing a system administrator with security clearance accused of removing classified information.
Attorney General Pam Bondi confirmed the search on X, saying it was requested by the Department of War after the reporter was allegedly “obtaining and reporting classified and illegally leaked information from a Pentagon contractor.” Washington Post spokesperson Olivia Petersen confirmed the Post is monitoring the situation.
Update: Added comment from Bondi and The Washington Post.
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Real people died while Trump treated war like a meme stock.
Ahmad Al-Dahle, who previously led the team behind Meta’s Llama AI models, is now joining Airbnb as part of plans to revamp search and other features in its app, Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky tells Bloomberg:
What that means is moving away from an anonymous customer just searching, and making sure everyone’s search, everyone’s conversation is unique to them and that we take into account all prior conversations we ever had with you, all information we have.
In addition to the new look, available on Samsung Galaxy smartphones and tablets, the app has “personalized content suggestions, and video integrated directly into the application to help players explore and enjoy the gaming experiences that matter most to them,” according to a press release.
Sales of Nvidia’s AI chips to customers in China will be approved on a “case-by-case basis,” as Bloomberg reports. But the chips shipped to China can be “no more than 50% of the total products made for the US market,” and can’t create a shortage in the US.
Here’s yet another manufacturing pressure we have the AI chip boom to thank for: glass cloth. It’s a key component in the chip substrates for printed circuit boards, and the industry is mostly reliant on a single manufacturer in Japan, which can no longer keep up with demand.
The Dealer will be a crime series following a casino dealer who starts gambling herself to fund her wedding. Squid Game creator Hwang Dong-hyuk will produce the show, though he isn’t writing or directing this time.
Apple’s new Creator Studio subscription is pitched as an Adobe alternative, but a lot of Verge commenters made it clear: without a decent equivalent to Lightroom, it won’t work for most photographers.
Nevpaurion:
For the love of god make a lightroom alternative so i can stop giving adobe my money.
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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.
