Twitch’s Hype Train record smashed again by Pirate Software
The record was broken during a 15-hour stream on April 1st. | Illustration by Nick Barclay / The Verge Game developer Jason Thor Hall, better known by the moniker Pirate…
Will the Apple antitrust case affect your phone’s security?
Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge Of all the allegations that the Department of Justice has laid at Apple’s door, the most contentious is perhaps its salvo over security and…
How Meta’s global head of safety approaches online age verification
Illustration: Nick Barclay / The Verge “The ability to know somebody’s age and try to protect privacy at the same time can be challenging,” says Meta’s Global Head of Safety…
Tesla FSD 12.3.X Is Over Three Times Better Than the Best FSD V11.X on Miles Per Disengagement
Tesla FSD Tracker crowdsources data on the Tesla FSD driver experiences. They are now recording 448 Miles between critical disengagements for Tesla FSD 12.3 Supervised. This is over three times…
Trash from the International Space Station may have hit a house in Florida
Enlarge / This cylindrical object, a few inches in size, fell through the roof of Alejandro Otero’s home in Florida last month. (credit: Alejandro Otero on X) A few weeks…
Samsung says Bixby’s still not dead
Are you there, Bixby? | Photo by Allison Johnson / The Verge Bixby’s not dead yet, apparently. A Samsung executive tells CNBC that the company is “working so hard” to…
OpenAI drops login requirements for ChatGPT’s free version
Enlarge (credit: Benj Edwards) On Monday, OpenAI announced that visitors to the ChatGPT website in some regions can now use the AI assistant without signing in. Previously, the company required…
Tesla Beats BYD in Battery Electric Vehicle Sales in 2024
BYD sold 300,114 passenger BEVs in the first quarter of 2024, up 13.4 percent year-on-year but down 42.99 percent from the fourth quarter last year. Tesla is expected to announce…
Large Mouse Study Still Tracking to Experimentally Doubling Remaining Life of Middle Age Male Mice
The all-treatments group is still taking roughly twice as long as the all-controls group (starting from 19 months old, when the experiment began) to get down to a given survival…
How to mix politics with your Threads
Illustration: The Verge You can’t really blame Meta’s executives for wanting to limit the amount of political yelling on Instagram and Threads. That stuff can get pretty toxic. As a…