12m ago
Errant F1 safety-car message muddles Leclerc’s British GP win
Charles Leclerc won at Silverstone, but an automated safety-car graphic wrongly suggested a final-lap restart that race...
By Riley Okafor/section
Internet/
17m ago
Smithsonian’s Starstruck VR show puts astronomy inside a headset
The 40-minute VR astronomy exhibit opened in Washington and is slated for Denver, Orlando and San Antonio later this yea...
By June Castellano
24m ago
Microsoft lets Double Fine and Compulsion keep their game rights
Two Xbox studios leaving Microsoft will retain their catalogs, while Ninja Theory and Undead Labs are set for new owners...
By Dana Voss
25m ago
New York’s Summer of Ludd takes anti-platform organizing offline
A week of no-phone events in the East Village is channeling frustration with social platforms, AI and data centers into...
By June Castellano
28m ago
Wing Commander IV shows why FMV games looked like the future in 1996
Origin Systems spent big on film, actors and CDs, but its landmark space sim now reads as a preserved branch of gaming t...
By Dana Voss
36m ago
Dr. Zachary Rubin’s anti-misinformation work gets a Verge spotlight
The pediatric allergist and immunologist uses Instagram, TikTok and YouTube to push back on junk science and medical mis...
By Riley Okafor
1h ago
ICE watchdog office probes online critics as speech fights widen
Court filings and subpoenas show ICE’s internal oversight office has pursued online posts about agency employees, raisin...
By Riley Okafor
1h ago
PamStealer targets macOS passwords with a quieter fake Maccy installer
Jamf says the new macOS infostealer uses AppleScript, JXA, Rust and PAM to validate and steal login passwords while avoi...
By Riley Okafor
1h ago
WIRED names Asus RT-BE96U its top Wi-Fi 7 router pick
After testing more than 40 routers, WIRED’s Simon Hill favors Asus for raw Wi-Fi 7 performance while warning that US rou...
By Dana Voss
1h ago
Ars Technica editor marks US at 250 with case for guarded optimism
Eric Berger cites science, space work, local journalism and reality's stubbornness as reasons for hope amid political an...
By Dana Voss
1h ago
Meta glasses backlash exposes the weak privacy math in AI wearables
Smart glasses and AI recording gadgets are getting cheaper and subtler, while privacy signals remain easy to miss or def...
By Dana Voss
1h ago
Xtra’s Muse camera drops to $329 as DJI’s Pocket 3 sits at $378
The gimbal camera deal undercuts DJI’s Pocket 3, while Best Buy and Amazon also have notable discounts on Apple hardware...
By June Castellano