Lego-owned marketplace BrickLink has been offline for almost a week after identifying "unusual activity on the platform," leaving fans unable to buy and sell spare bricks and minifigures.The company initially described the outage as "necessary work"...
Nvidia CEO and founder Jensen Huang has been ousted after nearly two weeks of controversy that, at times, felt more like a soap opera than reality: a wealthy businessman, reported affairs, and an alleged Chinese spy and GPU smuggler.For Nvidia’s boa...
With tech CEO roles, a certain level of shamelessness comes with the job description. Yet Alex Karp, head honcho of Palantir, seems set to raise the bar with a conspicuous display of political flexibility following the Democratic wave in the US midt...
eMudhra's private key exposure has been a security disaster, but it also means that you can block those annoying ads on smart TVs if you’re so inclined. Luckily for those with some know-how and a hatred of smart TV ads, Czech software developer Dani...
Nvidia announced this morning that Jensen Huang has resigned as CEO following reports of two affairs, including one with an alleged Chinese spy and one with a direct report. The situation surrounding Huang has unfolded quickly, with The New Yor...
Printing with Windows has always been something of a choose-your-own-adventure, and November's security update has added another unwelcome plot twist: documents containing certain images might not print.The issue affects images rendered with a heigh...
The previous-generation Oura Ring 4 is on sale for as low as $249 at Amazon, Best Buy, and Target, $100 off the retail price, and the first big discount on the device since July. The price varies a bit by size and color, with most silver and bl...
The first 25 original Xbox on PC games. | Image: Microsoft For the 25th anniversary of Xbox, Microsoft is beginning to make good on its paid "next-gen game preservation" promise. Starting today, you can play 25 different original Xbox games on...
Over the last hour or so, reports have come in from around the world that people can't access their Outlook email, either through the web or apps. Microsoft has acknowledged the issue from its Microsoft 365 Status account, saying that "We've de...
United Airlines has become the latest company to slap restrictions on unauthorized third-party AI agents, warning that the bots could make unintended purchases, expose customer data, or bypass checks requiring human acknowledgment.The airline announ...
The SS Jeremiah O’Brien, a WWII ship/peptide party location. | Photo: Haus Fund This isOptimizer, a weekly newsletter sent from Verge senior reviewerVictoria Songthat dissects and discusses the latest gizmos and potions that swear they're goin...
Microsoft has warned customers still clinging to Exchange Server 2016 and 2019 to consider the software "permanently vulnerable" as November's security fixes arrive for Subscription Edition (SE) alone.The warning appears in the release documentation...
“I woke up and checked the agents' reports. 'DAMN!' They had found lots of villages and other regular shapes that looked like structures or houses,“ Pietro Miotti wrote on his blog. | Image: Pietro Miotti Armed with a team of AI agents, Google...
Nvidia's Jensen Huang has resigned as CEO of the company, following the revelation of his affair with a woman suspected of being a Chinese spy and reports of a relationhip another woman who was a company employee.In a Form 8-K [PDF] filed with the...
IBM has unveiled the Nighthawk r3, an upcoming next-gen quantum processor that will feature 520 qubits, as another step towards a planned fault-tolerant quantum system it hopes to launch in 2029.Big Blue's current Nighthawk r2 was only made availab...
The future’s so bright, he’s gotta wear sunglasses. | Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images I had other things to do today, but Alex Karp's pathetic attempt to pivot back to the left gave me no choice but to put them on hold.Last week's elections...
Hackers have used a dodgy third-party ScreenConnect extension to push malware onto at least 288 machines across 48 organizations, prompting ConnectWise to disable a handful of plugins in hundreds of customer environments.Security outfit Huntress fir...
I was certain, until the story of Jensen Huang's second affair hit, that Huang was bulletproof. After all, why wouldn't he be? He's placed himself indispensably at the center of the AI industry and famously had no succession plan at Nvidia. In...
The FreeBSD project's status team has published FreeBSD's third status report of 2026, showing plenty of ambitious work underway and a community still undecided on how to treat code from AI coding assistants. The FreeBSD Status Report Third Quarter...
Encountered some odd SQL Server connection behavior since the October update? There might be a culprit… Microsoft has admitted that a change has caused linked server queries to fail to close connections.Linked servers via OLE DB providers have been...