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Microsoft 365 subscribers set to lose up to 4TB of OneDrive storage

Microsoft 365 subscribers on Family, Premium, or Pro tiers who make full use of their OneDrive storage allotments consider this a warning: It’s fixin’ to shrink. Redmond published a support page this week detailing changes to Microsoft 365 shared st...

SpaceX to buy key spectrum that could help Starlink Mobile become major US cell carrier

SpaceX is looking to take on the incumbent mobile networks in the US with a combination of low-band spectrum that can penetrate indoors together with the 2 GHz spectrum supported by its Starlink Gen2 satellites for bandwidth. The rocket-flinging ope...

Growing pains: how distributed AI training changes the network between datacenters

Large-scale AI training has already escaped the confines of a single datacenter. Google said Gemini was trained synchronously across clusters in multiple locations; Microsoft has connected AI data centres in Wisconsin and Georgia into what it descri...

Oracle lets AI agents do the work, provided you stay in Big Red's world

Oracle's new Fusion Claw runtime could give customers more control over AI agents automating business processes, analysts say. But they warn that adoption remains at an early stage and customers risk becoming more tightly tied to Oracle's applicatio...

Global PC shipments crater 20% as rising prices hammer demand

The global PC market has taken a beating, with shipments plunging more than 20 percent in the third quarter as the AI-driven memory shortage pushes up prices and buyers decide their existing machines will do just fine. New figures from Omdia show wo...

‘Pure insanity’: Mathematicians will need years to make sense of OpenAI’s latest drop

"Staggering." "Overwhelming." "Unprecedented." "Surreal." "Pure insanity." Those were among the descriptions more than three dozen mathematicians reached for in conversations with The Verge as they tried to make sense of the flood of mathematic...

US Navy bets another $150M on fighter drone that skips the runway

American defense biz Shield AI says combined US government funding and its own investment commitments have reached $400 million to advance its autonomous vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) fighter drone toward flight testing. The X-BAT aircraft wa...

Brendan Carr says he’ll let Pete Hegseth decide whether TV networks can air the public execution

FCC chairman Brendan Carr said he will defer to Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth on whether TV networks can air the planned execution of convicted Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan by firing squad.The Pentagon has said the execution will be livest...

Nikon microscopic video competition winner disqualified for using generative AI

The original first place video used AI in post-processing. | Image: Dr. Ning Xu Nikon says the video that originally won first place in its Small World in Motion contest "did not comply with the competition rules regarding generative AI." BBC...

Google teases Fitbit Edge launch next week

Google shared a closeup of its upcoming fitness tracker. | Image: Google It looks like Google is getting ready to take the wraps off its rumored Fitbit Edge next Monday. In a post on X, Google posted a picture of what appears to be the side of...

Citrix gives NetScaler admins another critical reason to patch

Citrix is urging customers to patch another critical NetScaler vulnerability after weeks of disclosures involving actively exploited flaws. CVE-2026-107406 affects NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway and can lead to remote code execution (RCE) or de...

The Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra is down to $950 after Prime Day

Amazon has the Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra in black with 256GB of storage discounted to $949.99, a healthy discount from its usual price of $1,399.99. This phone’s standout feature is the adjustable privacy display, which can hide your entire scre...

Amazon’s new Kindles appear to have a light leak problem

Some usersare reporting that the new Kindles have a light leak issue that is especially apparent when using dark mode. The latest base-model Kindles have a flush bezel that gives them a sleek appearance and looks great… as long as you keep the...

Microsoft tries to spark new life into Windows

When Microsoft released Windows 11 five years ago, it felt like an operating system that was still being renovated, a work in progress. You'd think by now that those renovations would be complete, with Microsoft turning its attention to Windows...

Frances Haugen hopes The Social Reckoning will inspire more whistleblowers

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - OCTOBER 04: Frances Haugen attends the Social Reckoning world premiere at Regal Union Square on October 04, 2026 in New York City. (Photo by Sean Zanni/Getty Images for Sony Pictures Entertainment) | Getty Images for Sony...

Apple and LG leak shows new ‘tap to control’ HomeKit features

A post on X from "pdfu," who has previously posted leaks and renders of suspected Apple features and LG smart home gear, shows new details of rumored Apple Home accessories from LG. According to the new leak, they could include an NFC-based "Pr...

Anthropic asks users to stop being mean to Claude

Anthropic has updated its rules to stop people being mean to Claude, apparently deciding that its AI chatbot needs protection from the humans paying to use it. The AI developer's latest usage policy prohibits "sustained and needless abusive or cruel...

Microsoft and Anthropic play invoice tennis with startup's $17,600 Claude bill

A Norwegian startup says it ran up a $17,600 bill using Claude in Microsoft Foundry after assuming its Azure credits would cover the cost. We reported a similar case in March, involving third-party model charges that weren't covered by Azure sponsor...

YouTube, Meta, and Twitch won’t say if they’ll allow the US government to livestream an execution

YouTube, Twitch, Meta, and X aren't saying whether they'll allow the US government to livestream an execution on their platforms. The four companies didn't respond to The Verge's requests for comment after an unnamed Pentagon official said yest...

BOFH: Smells like team spirit

CRISIS! The ancient computer in the basement – which has something to do with our waste water system – has stopped. And while we may not know exactly what it does when it's running, we definitely know what happens when it stops. The PFY and I took a...