Call of Duty will use AI to moderate voice chats

Image: Activision First-person shooters like Call of Duty are somewhat infamous for the toxicity of their lobbies and voice chats. Surveys have dubbed the franchise’s fan base the most negative in all of gaming; a feud between two players once resulted in the summoning of a SWAT team. Activision has been trying to crack down on this behavior for years, and part of the solution might involve artificial intelligence. Activision has partnered with a company called Modulate to bring “in-game voice chat moderation” to their titles. The new moderation system, using an AI technology called ToxMod, will work to identify behaviors like hate speech, discrimination, and harassment in real time. ToxMod’s initial beta rollout in North America begins today. It’s active… Continue reading… from The Verge – All Posts
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Panic’s first developer showcase had flies, football, and very messy food

Panic / The Verge Today, Panic put on its very first game publisher showcase. The showcase was short but very sweet, featuring some of the most interesting and innovative indie games coming to PlayStation, Xbox, PC, and Switch. Here are all the highlights, including a surprise announcement from the makers of Untitled Goose Game. Arco Arco comes from an international team of developers, artists, and storytellers. It’s a tactical action game that pits regular people against an all-powerful corporate gang. In the reveal trailer, the diverse landscapes exude so much ecological detail rendered in pixel graphics, and the combat seems like a real-time action game. Arco is due on Steam in 2024. Thank Goodness You’re Here Thank Goodness You’re Here, or TGYH for… Continue reading… from The Verge – All Posts
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Elon Musk’s FSD v12 demo includes a near miss at a red light and doxxing Mark Zuckerberg

Illustration by Laura Normand / The Verge Elon Musk’s Tesla almost ran a red light while livestreaming a demo of Tesla’s Full Self-Driving (FSD) beta software. Musk was also livestreaming the demo while in the driver’s seat, violating Tesla’s rules for its advanced driver-assist technology. Oh, and he kind of doxxes Mark Zuckerberg, too. The roughly 45-minute video was meant to demonstrate the prowess of v12 of Tesla’s advanced driver-assist technology, which has yet to be released to customers. And while the vehicle appears to be operating safely for the majority of the trip, it still ends up being a bizarre experience — which is typical of all things Musk.
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Threads for web, AI for bookmarks, and the best new car tech

Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 3, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. Thanks to everyone who sent stuff in this week — we’re starting to get the hang of how this all works, and I really hope it’s fun and useful! I know I’ve already downloaded a terrifying number of new apps thanks to y’all. Only one housekeeping thing today: Installer now has an RSS feed! You can add this link to any RSS reader, and it should work (let me know if you run into issues). Also, Installer’s new homepage has every edition ever — all two of them so far. We’re still working on some cool new ways you can subscribe and contribute to Installer, but hopefully, we’ve got all the basics covered now. This week, I’ve been watching season 3… Continue reading… from The Verge – All Posts
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What’s the Matter with the smart home?

But has it? | Photo by Fabian Sommer / Picture Alliance via Getty Images A year ago at Berlin’s IFA tech trade show (think European CES), Verge reporter Jon Porter witnessed a Google Nest Hub control an Apple HomeKit smart plug. This “lightbulb moment for the smart home” was the first public demonstration of Matter. The new smart home standard is designed to fix the biggest issue facing tech in our homes: interoperability, and witnessing two fierce competitors in the space working together was exciting. Twelve months later, on the eve of IFA 2023, we’re still waiting for that lightbulb to turn on across the industry. The smart home remains fragmented. Despite being developed by the biggest names in the industry — Amazon, Apple, Google, Samsung, and more — Matter has yet to deliver on its main promise. You… Continue reading… from The Verge – All Posts
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How to change your Mac wallpaper

If you’re tired of all this purple, there’s an easy fix. | Image: Samar Haddad / The Verge Look, no disrespect to Apple’s default desktop wallpapers, but staring at the same combination of orange and yellow all day, every day, can get a bit boring. If you’ve long felt that your office life could use a bit of spicing up, a new wallpaper could be just the thing you need. I’m here to show you how. It only takes a few seconds, and I’ll be with you every step of the way. How to change your Mac wallpaper First, you’ll want to open System Settings. This is in the Apple menu on the top left of your screen. From there: * Scroll down to the Wallpaper tab on the left side. * If your Mac is plugged into multiple displays, select the display you want to change. * Select a new wallpaper. Apple has a number of options that you can choose… Continue reading… from The Verge – All Posts
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Monarch Tractor CEO Praveen Penmetsa is coming to the Code Conference

Monarch Tractor CEO Praveen Penmetsa. | Image: Monarch Tractor Praveen Penmetsa is bringing the AI craze to farms. His company, Monarch Tractor, makes an electric tractor powered by an Nvidia AI platform that allows the vehicle to drive itself through farm fields and work autonomously. The first machines rolled out of the company’s Livermore, California headquarters last year. Now, Monarch Tractor is scaling up production in partnership with a Foxconn plant in Ohio, and Penmetsa is coming to the Code Conference to talk about it. He’ll chat with The Verge editor-in-chief Nilay Patel about making AI accessible, building in the US, and broader concerns around tractor repairability as their technology becomes all the more advanced. Penmetsa joins a host of other tech and business leaders who’ll be… Continue reading… from The Verge – All Posts
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The best budget laptop of 2023

Here are the best cheap Chromebooks and laptops you can buy. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales You can get a good laptop on a budget; you just have to know which one to pick. Here are what we recommend for those looking to spend anywhere from $300 to $800 on a new laptop for school, work, or play. Continue reading… from The Verge – All Posts
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Climate change is redrawing the disaster map

Vehicles and housing structures are partially submerged after Tropical Storm Hilary flooded a community of unhoused people on August 21st, 2023, in Cathedral City, California.  | Photo by Mario Tama / Getty Images Disasters have no borders, and a summer of unexpected catastrophe across the US shows it. California is notorious for drought and fire, not tropical storms like Hilary that barreled over Los Angeles this week. The East Coast expects hurricanes, not the pollution nightmare triggered by smoke that drifted in from blazes hundreds of miles away. Hawaii’s native greenery isn’t supposed to burn, and yet fires engulfed Maui. Climate change is sending new calamities to new places — a phenomenon that can be observed not just in the US but all over the world. It’s piling disaster upon disaster on communities figuring out how to adapt to these new realities. Often, they’re faced with some new crisis while still recovering from a previous one. C… Continue reading… from The Verge – All Posts
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Should California expect more tropical storms like Hurricane Hilary?

Palms are hit by strong wind and rain from Tropical Storm Hilary in the deserts of Southern California on August 20th, 2023, in Palm Desert, California.  | Photo by David McNew / Getty Images California is notoriously dry this time of year. Yet, over the course of a single day this weekend, some desert areas were hit with more than a year’s worth of rainfall. Hurricane Hilary threw California into a state of emergency after more than 80 years without a tropical storm making landfall there. This kind of storm is unusual for California, and it will probably remain a rare occurrence. Even so, strange and extreme weather is a hallmark of climate change. And experts say it could have more curveballs in store that the state should be preparing for. “There probably will not be a whole lot more [hurricanes that move into the southwestern US] in the future. But when they do happen, they’ll be much more like Hilary,” says David… Continue reading… from The Verge – All Posts
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Installer: An AI search engine and the coolest speakers ever

Image: William Joel / The Verge Hi, friends! Welcome back to issue No. 2 of Installer, your guide to all the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. Thanks so much to everyone who’s been emailing, commenting, sending feedback, and telling me what you want to see in this series going forward. I love chatting with you all about what you’re building, what you’re binge-watching, and everything else. Two housekeeping things: first, a bunch of you told me you didn’t like the whole “(link)” thing, both for aesthetic and accessibility reasons. Fair and fair! So we’re just scrapping it. From now on, it’ll be simpler: I’ll bold the most important link – the direct link to the thing we’re talking about — and regular link everything else. Thanks to everyone who emailed and… Continue reading… from The Verge – All Posts
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The fight over what’s real (and what’s not) on dissociative identity disorder TikTok

TikTok’s dissociative identity disorder community thinks doctors don’t know what’s going on. Some doctors feel the same about them. Continue reading… from The Verge – All Posts
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Disney Plus moves Ahsoka episodes into prime time on Tuesdays

Image: Disney Ahsoka, Disney’s next big Disney Plus Star Wars show, will now premiere on Tuesday nights at 9PM ET / 6PM PT, Disney announced on Friday. That means the first two episodes of the show will now be available the evening of Tuesday, August 22nd. It’s only a slight shift from Ahsoka’s original premiere date of Wednesdays. But since Disney Plus shows typically come out in the middle of the night, this new air time might make episodes easier to watch the moment they debut. Personally, I’m a huge fan of the change. I’m old and go to bed early, so it’s hard for me to stay up late to watch new episodes of shows right when they air. Since I live on the West Coast, I can now watch Ahsoka at the extremely reasonable time of 6PM PT and still be in… Continue reading… from The Verge – All Posts
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Google Maps will stop showing gas stations to EV owners

Google Maps on a Polestar 2. | Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Earlier this week, Google Maps reportedly demoted gas stations in the points of interest categories list for electric vehicle owners while using Android Auto. Google confirmed the changes, which it noted have been available to EV drivers since 2022. “To help people get the most relevant information when navigating, last year we added the ability for EV drivers to see a shortcut for charging stations instead of gas stations on Google Maps for Android Auto,” Google spokesperson Pearl Xu told The Verge. Xu added that the feature has also been live for vehicles equipped with Google built-in vehicle software since 2020. Xu sent over a list of all the EV-centric capabilities of Google Maps: Real-time charging port availability: Just search… Continue reading… from The Verge – All Posts
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Special counsel obtained ‘some volume’ of DMs from Donald Trump’s Twitter account

Image: Laura Normand / The Verge US special counsel Jack Smith acquired direct messages — potentially including deleted messages — from former President Donald Trump’s Twitter account, unsealed court transcripts have revealed. The transcripts, spotted by Politico, show that engineers for Twitter (now known as X) were able to produce Trump’s Twitter data after missing a January 7th deadline to comply with a search warrant that earned the company a $350,000 fine. Among many other things, the warrant sought the former president’s tweets (including drafts), likes, retweets, and any direct messages “sent from, received by, stored in draft form in, or otherwise associated with” his account, @realDonaldTrump. Twitter engineers were able to provide what Twitter lawyer George… Continue reading… from The Verge – All Posts
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Apple’s third-gen AirPods are matching their best price to date right now

The third-gen AirPods feature shorter stems than the prior model, making them a little more discrete. | Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge The AirPods Pro are an excellent pair of wireless earbuds, but they’re not for everybody. In fact, if you don’t need noise cancellation or superior sound quality, they might actually be overkill for many Apple users. Thankfully, you can save yourself some money by picking up the third-gen AirPods, which are currently on sale at Amazon with a Lightning charging case for just $139.99 ($30 off). If you’re an Apple aficionado looking for a terrific pair of wireless earbuds, you can’t go wrong with Apple’s newest entry-level earbuds. They feature automatic device switching, allowing you to quickly swap between your iPhone or iPad, as well as perks like IPX4 water resistance so you’ll be able to sweat it out at the gym or run in the rain…. Continue reading… from The Verge – All Posts
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Saudi group reportedly abandoned $2 billion deal with the Lord of the Rings game company

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Embracer Group was forced to halt its breakneck pace of acquisitions after a mysterious partner left a $2 billion deal intended to drive its continued gaming ambitions. Now, we might know who the partner is: Axios reported today that Savvy Games Group is the party that backed out of the deal in May. Savvy is owned by Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth Public Investment Fund and is the vehicle through which the Middle Eastern country funnels investments in the video games industry. After the deal blew up, Embracer announced it was “restructuring” and that it would shut down or sell studios and pause some game development. In a filing, the group said it expects to finish that process on October 1st and has already begun its studio pruning. P… Continue reading… from The Verge – All Posts
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The ‘Apple Watch X’ is reportedly a major redesign, but it’s not coming this year

Illustration: The Verge Apple is preparing for its first major redesign in several generations of the mainline Apple Watch, but we won’t be seeing it this year, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman in his Power On newsletter this morning. Instead, Apple is working on a thinner “Apple Watch X” with magnetic watch band attachment points, a blood pressure sensor, and a microLED screen either in late 2024 or even 2025, Gurman says. The old mechanical attachments of all Apple Watches so far have been great for allowing customers to reuse their old bands for years, but Gurman says they eat up space the company could use to shrink the wearable and beef up the battery and internal components. See the Apple Watch Ultra, which Apple gave a bigger battery at the expense… Continue reading… from The Verge – All Posts
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The new app every movie lover needs

Image: William Joel / The Verge Hi friends! Welcome to the first-ever edition of Installer. My hope here every week is to be your guide to all the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. My original pitch for this was just “what if we just found all the cool apps/videos/creators/whatevers every week and put it all in one place,” and that’s what Installer is here to be. Normally, these won’t start with a long preamble about How It All Works, but seeing as we’ve never done this before, I’ll try and explain things as we go. First and most important: Installer absolutely positively does not work without you. I’m going to do my best to find great new stuff every week, but I’m also hoping you’ll tag me in funny posts, DM me hilarious memes, and email me (i… Continue reading… from The Verge – All Posts
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Mill’s ambitious smart trash can isn’t going to solve the food waste problem

This $400 kitchen bin eats your leftovers and promises to turn them into chicken food rather than landfill. A nicer-smelling kitchen and less waste are great, but not at this price. Continue reading… from The Verge – All Posts
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Nearly 400 sickos have beaten Baldur’s Gate 3 already

Image: Larian Studios Today, Larian Studios shared a ton of interesting player stats for Baldur’s Gate 3, the seriously massive RPG boasting over 10,000 unique endings and 174 hours worth of cutscenes. Those stats included class / race breakdowns, total number of hours played, and how many times players have pet the dog. Let’s take a look at what y’all were getting up to. Slight spoilers for Baldur’s Gate 3 to follow. According to Larian, the most popular race is half-elf aka “spicy human” and the most popular class is paladin. More interestingly, players have spent a combined total of 88 years in the character creator. That’s a lot of time, so I have hope that players are making more than just a basic human like most did during the early part of Early Access…. Continue reading… from The Verge – All Posts
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Rival air taxi startups Wisk and Archer settle their trade secret theft lawsuit

Image: Wisk.aero Wisk and Archer, two leading air taxi startups, have settled their legal dispute over allegations of stolen trade secrets, avoiding a jury trial that would have cast a negative light on the emerging aviation technology sector. Wisk, a wholly owned subsidiary of Boeing, sued Archer in 2021 for allegedly stealing its trade secrets and infringing on its patents. A judge sent the lawsuit to trial in June, but now, the two sides have settled the dispute. Wisk said it will become the exclusive provider of autonomous flying technology to Archer, should Archer decide to pursue a self-flying aircraft. Boeing will invest in the private investment in public equity (PIPE) financing that Archer released today as part of its second quarter earnings… Continue reading… from The Verge – All Posts
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Where have all the fitness bands gone?

A $50 fitness band like the Amazfit Band 7 is a rare sight these days. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Smartwatches are the default wearable option these days, but why is it so hard to find simple yet affordable alternatives like the fitness bands of yesteryear? Continue reading… from The Verge – All Posts
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Joe Biden’s new monument near the Grand Canyon stops some — but not all — uranium mining

US President Joe Biden is greeted as he arrives at Grand Canyon National Park Airport in Grand Canyon Village, Arizona, on August 7th, 2023.  | Photo by JIM WATSON / AFP via Getty Images The Biden administration announced the creation of a new national monument surrounding the Grand Canyon in the hopes of protecting it from mining and development. But that still won’t stop a controversial mine from producing uranium within the monument’s boundaries. Biden’s designation of a new national monument is expected to protect nearly 1 million acres of land and stop new mining and development. But with mining rights already grandfathered in, the existing Pinyon Plain Mine is an exception. The mine has been at the center of a decades-long fight over the future of domestic uranium production and nuclear energy in the US. Uranium has already contaminated land and water in the Southwest, making people sick. The Havasupai Tribe and… Continue reading… from The Verge – All Posts
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Hackers had access to UK voter data for over a year before anyone noticed

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge A cyberattack that began in August 2021 exposed the personal data of people in the United Kingdom who registered to vote between 2014 and 2022. The attack wasn’t detected until October 2022, the UK Electoral Commission reported today. Attackers would have also had access to data from voters who’d opted to keep their data off public voter rolls, according to the BBC. The Electoral Commission said on X (formerly Twitter) that it waited to report the delay so it could stop the attack and “assess the extent of the incident” as well as harden its systems and get in touch with the National Cyber Security Centre and the UK Information Commissioner’s Office. Much of the data was “already in the public domain,” wrote the Electoral Commission, but… Continue reading… from The Verge – All Posts
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The Pixel Tablet and Pixel 7 phones are just a few Google gadgets on sale

The new Google Pixel Tablet is on sale for $60 off, which is a discount we’ve not seen before. | Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge For some inexplicable reason, Google has been discounting its products left and right this week — and other retailers are taking note by matching their prices. Maybe it has something to do with Google’s forthcoming 25th anniversary, but in the past few days alone, we’ve seen the first notable discount on the new Google Pixel Tablet and even a new all-time low price on the Google Pixel 7A. Rather than highlight each deal in separate blog posts, we thought we’d make everybody’s life easier by rounding them all up here. We have no idea when these sales will end or if they’ll get even better as we approach the tech giant’s birthday, but for now, here are the best Google gadget deals currently available. Google Pixel Tablet First up, we’re… Continue reading… from The Verge – All Posts
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The cage match is back: Musk says Zuck fight will ‘be live-streamed on X’

Illustration by Kristen Radtke / The Verge; Getty Images Elon Musk and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s cage match will be livestreamed on Musk’s Twitter, currently rebranding as X, according to a tweet from Musk posted early this morning. Musk says the proceeds will go to charity for veterans. Twitter CEO Linda Yaccarino reposted Musk’s tweet with a comment that she is clearing her calendar. On Zuckerberg’s side, though, things appear to be quiet for the moment, as he has not commented on Threads or Instagram so far this morning. The cage match goes back to June, when the two billionaires agreed to the fight via a series of social media posts on their respective platforms (Musk on Twitter, Zuckerberg on Instagram). Talk of the fight has been relatively quiet since the end of June though, and in… Continue reading… from The Verge – All Posts
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Striking writers met with Hollywood studios for the first time in months

Image: The Writers Guild of America The Writers Guild of America (WGA) met yesterday with representatives of the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) to confidentially discuss resuming talks, but the meeting ended without a definite agreement to resume negotiations (via Deadline). After the AMPTP withdrew to “consult with their member studios,” the WGA sent an email to its members disclosing the particulars of the discussion, saying studios had leaked details of the meeting to the press. In the Friday talk, according to the WGA letter published by Deadline, the AMPTP said it was willing to offer more for “a few writer-specific TV minimums,” and was willing to discuss studio AI use, but wouldn’t consider success-based residuals or preserving writers’… Continue reading… from The Verge – All Posts
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The former Canoo CEO hired by Apple is facing a lawsuit from the SEC

Image: Canoo Ulrich Kranz, the Apple car executive who served as the former CEO of the EV startup Canoo, is facing some legal trouble. On Friday, the Securities and Exchange Commission filed a lawsuit against Kranz and former Canoo chief financial officer Paul Balciunas over claims they provided “unreasonable revenue projections” to investors, as first reported by Bloomberg. As outlined in the lawsuit, the SEC states that Kranz and Balciunas told investors Canoo would make $120 million in 2021 and $250 million in 2022. However, the SEC alleges that the pair “should have known that these projections were unreasonable” because the projects it used to calculate these amounts “were unlikely to materialize.” The SEC also claims that Kranz failed to… Continue reading… from The Verge – All Posts
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Sony’s WF-1000XM4 wireless earbuds are down to $170

Sony’s WF-1000XM4 are our favorite noise-canceling earbuds. | Image: Sony Whether you work from home or are trying to crank out a paper from a dorm, a good pair of noise-canceling wireless earbuds will help you focus. Sony’s WF-1000XM4 are an excellent option that’s hit a new all-time low. Right now, you can buy the earbuds for $169.95 in their lighter color ($110 off) at Amazon. Despite some battery drain issues the new Sony’s WF-1000XM5 are supposed to fix, these are still otherwise excellent wireless earbuds for a ton of reasons. For one thing, they offer a terrific balance of superb sound and voice call quality. For another, they boast powerful noise cancellation along with multipoint support, too, so you can connect the earbuds to two Bluetooth devices at once. Sony’s new WF-1000XM5 are more comfortable… Continue reading… from The Verge – All Posts
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The WGA and the AMPTP are having their first meeting since the writing strike began

Image: The Writers Guild of America Though it won’t necessarily lead to an immediate end to Hollywood’s ongoing writing strike, the Writers Guild of America and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers are scheduled to have a meeting this Friday — their first since the strike began three months ago. Variety reports that WGA chief negotiator Ellen Stutzman has agreed to meet with AMPTP president Carol Lombardini this Friday in response to a direct request from the AMPTP head to discuss next steps that could lead to labor contract negotiations resuming. In a statement shared to its members on Tuesday evening, the WGA confirmed that Lombardini and Stutzman are set to speak and stressed the importance of paying attention to the union’s official channels. “We’ll… Continue reading… from The Verge – All Posts
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A bankrupt crypto firm tried to return funds — but customer data might’ve been stolen instead

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The bankrupt crypto firm Voyager Digital suffered a potential data breach when it started letting customers recover their funds last month, as first reported by Bloomberg. In a court document filed on July 28th, Voyager’s lawyers say they’re investigating reports that scammers targeted customers using potentially stolen personal information. Voyager Digital reopened its platform for 30 days in June, allowing customers to withdraw the funds that had been trapped in the brokerage following its collapse last year. While customers withdrew over $491 million from the platform, their data may have been compromised during the process. Voyager’s lawyers say they’re aware of “numerous scams and phishing attempts” affecting customers, some of… Continue reading… from The Verge – All Posts https://ift.tt/fyOKVvG via Grabey
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Elon Musk’s extravagant ‘X’ sign atop the former Twitter HQ has been dismantled

Workers prepare to dismantle a large X logo on the roof of X headquarters on July 31, 2023 in San Francisco, California. | Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Well that was fast. Twitter, which is currently rebranding itself to X, is now removing the giant, garishly-lit X logo that was placed on top of its San Francisco headquarters, as previously reported by CNBC and ABC7 Bay Area. The sign, rapidly erected and supported in part by sandbags, had already received complaints from residents living near the building. According to the city’s complaint, Twitter repeatedly denied access to inspectors seeking access to the roof, explaining to them that the X logo was a “temporary lighted sign for an event.” Videos of the logo over the weekend showed a bright light that pulsed and crawled across the logo, which the company just began using about a week ago. At the same time, crews continued… Continue reading… from The Verge – All Posts https://ift.tt/iH2o6X3 via Grabey
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