OpenAI says it will deny internet access to the frontier models it is training, a move that underscores the inadequacy of safety measures undertaken to date."Based on the current state of alignment research, monitoring systems, and the security of i...
As the PHP2Shell chaos continues, researchers have found a third PHP vulnerability that could allow attackers to take over websites or remotely run malware on vulnerable systems. But this one won’t receive an emergency fix.The PHP Foundation on Frid...
An independent evaluation of OpenAI's internal misalignment monitoring system revealed that the system was not fit for purpose during a period when the company's bots were breaking into model-hosting platform Hugging Face. The safeguards weren't nea...
Xbox's first chief operating officer (COO) is leaving after the new role was created just a few months ago. Helen Chiang is leaving Microsoft today, according to an internal Xbox memo seen by The Verge. Chiang has been at Microsoft for 21 years...
OpenAI is now training its most advanced AI models without internet access following a string of rogue hacking incidents. In a blog post on Friday, OpenAI says it built an offline testing environment where AI models can interact with indexed an...
If you've ever wondered what the bots think of us puny humans, you'll be disappointed in the answer. An AI ranking outfit asked 12 different LLMs about people, and every single one agreed: We’re not as rational and intelligent as we think. “A person...
Most programming languages were written for human programmers, but that's about to change. University of Michigan professor Jason Mars has developed an academically ambitious language called Jac, and a runtime called Jaseci, that treats AI and AI ag...
Remember Popcorn Time, the app that served as an easy-to-use front end for streaming torrents of movies and TV shows? Development of the MPAA's least-favorite app of the 2010s has been abandoned for years, but the "Netflix of Piracy" software i...
Jack Dorsey's Block announced an AI model called Dessa that's trained "from scratch on nothing but human conversation," and to show off the model, Block shared chats it has had with humans that can occasionally be a little awkward and uncanny.T...
The Arc browser has flatlined, with its maker announcing it will be sunsetting it altogether on December 22, 2026. The Browser Company announced the news on October 22, just over three years after we noted Arc's arrival. Nothing will happen immedia...
The Space 2 comes in multiple colors, including an attractive seafoam green. | Photo: Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge My colleague John Higgins considered Soundcore’s Space One some of the best budget noise-canceling headphones you could bu...
SparkyOS is a novel distro from the folks behind SparkyLinux: it's a version of Arch that can you can use without installing it at all.SparkyOS is a new distro from the team behind the Debian-based SparkyLinux, but it's quite different. SparkyOS is...
If your dog or cat is prone to getting lost, or you frequently go on adventures together, you can save 30 percent on Fi pet trackers through October 25th when you enter coupon code SCARY at checkout. The sale includes several satellite-connecte...
Last week, Starshield - the version of SpaceX's Starlink used by the Ukrainian military - was throttled to block terminals traveling above certain speeds from accessing the service. The Ukrainian army's interceptors, which counter Russian drone...
Microsoft ended support for Publisher this month, but users with orphaned documents still have options.Support for perpetual versions ended on October 13, but those copies will keep working without further security updates, bug fixes, or technical s...
We gave the iPhone Duo a 7 /10. But that wasn't always the score we planned, and it might not be the right score forever. Such are the challenges of reviewing - and assessing - a big, new idea about the most popular smartphone in history. On th...
Google has updated its privacy policy in a way that could mean you'll start seeing targeted ads based on your personal data if you're using personalized AI features. The update, spotted by Android Authority, adds an exception to its promise abo...
The iPhone Duo officially goes on sale today, but a few units already have broken screens. According to posts on Reddit about the affected units, the issue appears to be happening at a similar spot on all of them: Some kind of problem shows up...
NASA's safety watchdog, the Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel (ASAP), had good news and bad news for the space agency, and SpaceX boss Elon Musk quickly disagreed with some of it.Musk disputed the reported suggestion that approximately 22 launches mig...
Linus Torvalds is embracing AI to write Linux kernel code, and some people are having fits. He has a message for them. So do I.Roy Schestowitz, editor of Tux Machines, summed up his reaction to the news as "Linus Torvalds Turns to Slop." In the podc...