- Firmware update bricks Hue Bridge Pro devices; Philips gives free replacements
ars-technica· 10-jul
Affected users will have to configure their lights and settings all over again.
- Increased drone surveillance of illegal July 4th fireworks led to $100K fine
ars-technica· 10-jul
More police and firefighters use drones to catch and deter illegal fireworks.
- Valve's new Steam Machine verification system is silent on these Steam Deck-busters
ars-technica· 10-jul
Dozens of titles too taxing for Steam Deck are still unrated for the new hardware.
- Study shows how toxic RFK Jr.’s change to measles vaccine is for US toddlers
ars-technica· 10-jul
The children who get a combination shot are some of the most vulnerable.
- A Jupiter-size planet that escaped its star's death
ars-technica· 11-jul
It's unclear how the planet avoided its star's bloated red giant stage.
- Check out the first images of Quest shipwreck
ars-technica· 10-jul
The Quest shipwreck is in worse shape than expected, but it has turned into a thriving marine ecosystem.
- Quantum error correction can constantly recalibrate a processor
ars-technica· 10-jul
Reinforcement learning uses error information to adjust control algorithms.
- China recovered its first reusable rocket and showed a new way to do it
ars-technica· 10-jul
"Clearly, they admire the work that's being done by SpaceX and are trying to replicate it."
- Overhaul of public lands grazing regulations seeks to cut public involvement
ars-technica· 11-jul
For the first time since 1995, the Bureau of Land Management is rewriting its grazing regulations.
- Ransomware negotiator hired to represent victims was working for the attackers
ars-technica· 10-jul
Six years in prison for man who "sold out the very victims he was hired to represent."
- The foundational elements of AI architecture that IT leaders need to scale
mit-tech-review· 07-jul
With the rapid progress of AI capabilities and the move to agentic systems, organizations are expanding their use cases as the technology continues to grow. That constant evolution also introduces risk, leaving IT leaders to wonder which investments will prove valuable even six months into the future. Returning to the foundational elements of AI architecture—the…
- Why worms (and microbes) are catching on as a manure pollution solution
mit-tech-review· 07-jul
Anthony Agueda, a third-generation California dairy farmer, pulls a rake through a bed of dark, wet wood chips on his family’s land in Hickman, a tiny town in the state’s agricultural heartland. He reaches down with both hands and pulls up a clump of muck, turning it over to reveal a half-dozen squirming red earthworms.…
- The Download: your stake in OpenAI, and the Treasury’s AI warning
mit-tech-review· 07-jul
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Your family’s $300 stake in OpenAI Sam Altman’s proposal that Americans should share in the wealth created by AI is back in the spotlight, with reports that he is discussing giving…
- The Download: worms fight pollution, and geoengineering faces reality
mit-tech-review· 08-jul
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Why worms (and microbes) are catching on as a manure pollution solution Anthony Agueda, a third-generation California dairy farmer, pulls a rake through a bed of dark, wet wood chips to…
- EmTech AI 2026: The Rise of the AI Platform
mit-tech-review· 08-jul
- Four nuclear reactors hit a big milestone in the US
mit-tech-review· 09-jul
I was really looking forward to July 4, and not just because I love a poolside barbecue. This year the American holiday also marked a big symbolic deadline for US nuclear power. Last year the Trump administration set a goal to see three new microreactors achieve criticality, a technical milestone establishing that a reactor can…
- The Download: a nuclear landmark, and China eyes Nvidia chips
mit-tech-review· 09-jul
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Four nuclear reactors hit a big milestone in the US —Casey Crownhart I was really looking forward to July 4, and not just because I love a poolside barbecue. This year…
- Anthropic found a hidden space where Claude puzzles over concepts
mit-tech-review· 09-jul
The AI firm Anthropic has developed a technique that has given it the clearest glimpse yet at what’s really going on inside large language models as they answer questions or carry out tasks. What they found ranges from the mundane to the unnerving. Researchers at the company built a tool called the Jacobian lens (or…
- Sperm donors need limits, says a European fertility group
mit-tech-review· 10-jul
Ties van der Meer doesn’t know how many siblings he has. The 47-year-old was conceived at a private fertility clinic in the Netherlands using sperm provided by an anonymous donor. After the Netherlands banned anonymous donation in 2004, the doctor who ran the clinic destroyed records that might have identified those donors, he says. He…
- The Download: Claude’s inner workings and OpenAI’s “super app”
mit-tech-review· 10-jul
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Anthropic found a hidden space where Claude puzzles over concepts The AI firm Anthropic has got the clearest glimpse yet at what’s really going on inside large language models as they…
- A new app, HyperTexting, turns the open web into a scrollable social media-like feed
techcrunch· 10-jul
HyperTexting's new app aims to make the open web feel more like social media by turning websites, blogs, newsletters, and podcasts into a scrollable feed, while also making it easier to post to your own website.
- Apple sues OpenAI over alleged trade secret theft
techcrunch· 10-jul
Apple alleges the misconduct was directed by OpenAI's senior leadership, including a longtime former employee.
- Bluesky’s interim CEO, Toni Schneider, drops the ‘interim’
techcrunch· 10-jul
Schneider, who formerly served as the CEO of Automattic and is a partner at True Ventures, says he is "all in" on the unconventional social media platform.
- China is catching up to Elon Musk’s reusable rockets
techcrunch· 10-jul
China's state-owned space company recovered its first orbital rocket booster after launch.
- Filing: College app Fizz accuses VC of sharing confidential startup information with rival Sidechat
techcrunch· 10-jul
Fizz has expanded its lawsuit against rival Sidechat, alleging that a Maveron VC shared its confidential information obtained during a fundraising meeting with the competing startup.
- Meta removes controversial AI feature on Instagram after backlash
techcrunch· 10-jul
"Our intent was to provide a useful creative tool and to give people control over whether their public content could be referenced in this way," the company said in a blog post. "We've heard the feedback that this feature missed the mark, so it's no longer available."
- Phia accused of ‘cookie stuffing,’ taking affiliate credit on purchases it didn’t earn
techcrunch· 11-jul
Phia, the shopping startup founded by Bill Gates’ daughter, Phoebe, and her friend Sophia Kianni is under fire for a practice known as “cookie stuffing,” which helped the product receive commissions and credit for sales it did not actually generate, per a Bloomberg investigation.
- SK Hynix raises $26.5B in the biggest foreign IPO in US history, is urged to build new US fabs
techcrunch· 10-jul
The AI chip boom just produced its biggest Wall Street moment yet. Now SK Hynix and Samsung are being asked to build U.S. factories.
- US cybersecurity agency CISA had to build its incident playbook during the incident, agency reveals
techcrunch· 11-jul
Independent cybersecurity journalist Brian Krebs reported in May that a security researcher with cyber firm GitGuardian alerted him to reams of exposed passwords stored in a publicly accessible GitHub repository, which an employee of a CISA contractor had uploaded.
- OpenAI bets on families as ChatGPT goes deeper into households
techcrunch· 11-jul
ChatGPT is hiring a dedicated product manager to build experiences for families, caregivers, and older adults, according to a job posting.
- A tasty RPG that will make you very hungry
the-verge· 11-jul
Roleplaying games are often defined by excess. Storylines that span dozens of hours, side quests so big they could be their own game, massive worlds that require complex maps to explore, and casts so big you start forgetting character names. That's part of what makes these games feel like epic adventures, but it can also make them intimidating, particularly if you have limited spare time. Dosa Divas, on the other hand, manages to capture much of that same feeling in a package that spans less than 10 hours. And it does it with a bold sense of style and a story that seamlessly flits between big themes and personal drama. There's just one big d … Read the full story at The Verge.
- A decade later, Pokémon Go finally made good on its original promise
the-verge· 10-jul
When Niantic dropped the first Pokémon Go trailer in 2015, it was hard to grasp how a bunch of players could work together to catch a pokémon like Mewtwo. But this week at the game's 10th anniversary event in New York City, Pokémon Go showed the world how it's done. Almost 2,000 players (many of them Pokémon Go influencers) packed into Times Square on Thursday evening to participate in a special battle. It was cool to see Times Square briefly go dark before the billboards began lighting up, revealing an escaped Mewtwo Mega Evolving, and it was even wilder to see people living the fantasy depicted in the game's first trailer. Even though mo … Read the full story at The Verge.
- ICE is threatening to deport witnesses of its latest shooting
the-verge· 10-jul
Department of Homeland Security. | Image: The Verge Advocates are demanding that the Department of Homeland Security release bodycam footage of the fatal shooting of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a Mexican immigrant who was killed by ICE officers in Houston during a traffic stop earlier this week. But DHS claims the agents involved in the shooting weren't wearing body cameras because of the lengthy government shutdown that prevented ICE and Customs and Border Protection from receiving additional federal funding for 76 days - a shutdown that was itself spurred by congressional bickering over reforms to DHS after federal agents killed two civilians earlier this year. Two competing narratives have em … Read the full story at The Verge.
- ICE are heavily armed killers. They’re also huge losers
the-verge· 11-jul
Federal agents patrol the halls of immigration court at the Jacob K. Javits Federal Building in December 2025. | Photo by Michael Nigro/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images Donald Trump's Homeland Security regime has been at the center of two critical stories in the past two weeks. In the first, federal agents shot and killed a man and quickly got to work justifying the use of force under the flimsiest of pretenses. In the other, it made house calls to people who said mean things to them online. Since taking office last year, the Trump administration has been telling us that fighting the good fight of white supremacy will make you look cool and noble. The DHS under former Secretary Kristi Noem spent $220 million to help her cosplay as a cowboy railing against immigrants and call up …
- The FCC is cracking down on DJI tech that dodged the foreign drone ban
the-verge· 10-jul
The Xtra Muse and the DJI Osmo Pocket 3. | Photo by Sean Hollister / The Verge Last year, we told you about Xtra, the company that lets DJI sneak its popular cameras into the US, and Skyrover, a brand seemingly selling DJI drones in disguise. They're just two of the many firms DJI is suspected of starting to skirt the United States' foreign drone ban. But it appears the FCC is finally doing something about "DJI front companies," as watcher Konrad Iturbe dubbed them last year. Today, the FCC is fining eight of them $25,000 each - and giving them until Monday, July 20th, just 10 calendar days, to answer the FCC's questions before the agency takes further action. Those companies include Cogito Tech, Fixaxo Technology, … Read the full story at The Verge.
- Are you filthy enough for a $700 portable shower?
the-verge· 11-jul
A luxurious hot shower anywhere you go. Hot showers, like electricity, are a luxury that's easy to take for granted. That all changes after a few nights camping at a music festival, a week toiling at a backcountry job site, or overlanding all summer in the great unknown. An itchy scalp and the vague smell of warm clams suddenly make the idea of spending hundreds on a portable shower seem less absurd. I've been testing the Hottap Go from Australia-based Joolca while vanlifing to shower after surfing and to wash up after cooking. It features a 12L integrated water tank which is an improvement on other portable showers that require an external container and long, cumbersome hose th … Read the full story at The Verge.
- The perfect kit for all your tiny repairs
the-verge· 11-jul
Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 135, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you're new here, welcome, crank the AC, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I've been reading about cold plunges and Colson Whitehead and the food truck mafia, finally getting to the theater to see Obsession, watching The Agency because it's apparently everyone's favorite underrated show, nodding sadly to Adam Conover's video about the death of sitcoms, making a lot of noises during the Dune: Part Three trailer, testing Atlas as a visual journal, giggling endlessly at the new InfoWars, and s … Read the full story at The Verge.
- Apple sues OpenAI for allegedly stealing hardware secrets
the-verge· 10-jul
Apple has sued OpenAI, alleging that engineers stole Apple secrets to advance the AI startup's hardware plans. In its complaint, Apple says it uncovered "a pattern of theft of Apple's trade secrets by OpenAI employees who were formerly at Apple." In addition to OpenAI, the lawsuit also names IO Products - Jony Ive's hardware startup, which OpenAI bought in 2025 - along with two specific employees, Tang Tan (OpenAI's chief hardware officer) and Chang Liu (who joined OpenAI from Apple in January). An Apple spokesperson shared this statement with 9to5Mac: At Apple, our teams are constantly developing breakthrough technologies to create the b … Read the full story at The Verge.
- Meta turns off the Instagram feature that let users make AI deepfakes of public accounts
the-verge· 10-jul
Following significant backlash, Meta is turning off the feature it announced this week that let users generate AI images based on content from public Instagram accounts just by tagging them. The feature, as originally set up, meant that content from any public Instagram account could be used in AI creations without the account owner's permission. "Earlier this week, we announced that one way for people to generate images in Meta AI is by @-mentioning public Instagram accounts that they want to reference," Meta says in an update to a blog post about its new Muse Image AI model. "Our intent was to provide a useful creative tool and to give pe … Read the full story at The Verge.
- No, Flock isn’t threatening people for debating surveillance
the-verge· 11-jul
On Thursday, the Instagram account for a lecture series in Newport Beach, CA posted a photo of what appeared to be a cease and desist letter from the surveillance technology company Flock Safety. Flock has received significant backlash over its technology and work with law enforcement agencies, and this letter kicked off yet another wave of criticism against the company for allegedly trying to shut down discussions of its work. "WE WILL NOT BE SILENCED," the group, The Saturday Salon, wrote in the Instagram post, which has more than 3,000 likes. A separate post about the letter on Bluesky has more than 360 reposts. The text of the letter de … Read the full story at The Verge.