Exploring an undersea terrain sculpted by glaciers and volcanoes
On May 2, 2008, the Chaitén volcano in Chile awoke with unexpected fury after more than 9,000 years of dormancy. The eruption blasted rocks and ash a dozen miles into…
Google’s counteroffer to the government trying to break it up is unbundling Android apps
Illustration by Cath Virginia / The Verge The Department of Justice’s list of solutions for fixing Google’s illegal antitrust behavior and restoring competition in the search engine market started with…
Pegasus spyware maker NSO Group is liable for attacks on 1,400 WhatsApp users
Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge NSO Group, the organization behind the Pegasus spyware, has been found liable in a lawsuit brought by Meta’s WhatsApp over attacks on…
Josh King’s viral slide-out MagSafe gamepad found a home at OhSnap and looks amazing
Image: Josh King / OhSnap When 19-year-old Josh King suggested he would single-handedly redefine mobile gaming with his 3D-printed gamepad, drawing a direct line from himself to Steve Jobs, I…
Qualcomm wins a legal battle over Arm chip licensing
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge A federal jury in Delaware determined on Friday that Qualcomm didn’t breach its agreement with Arm through its 2021 acquisition of Nuvia, a…
12 days of OpenAI: The Ars Technica recap
Over the past 12 business days, OpenAI has announced a new product or demoed an AI feature every weekday, calling the PR event “12 days of OpenAI.” We’ve covered some…
Report: Humanity’s Next Quarter Century: 10 Defining Facets of our Future
We need to be thinking big picture. What better time when a mind-boggling first quarter century of the millenium has passed, and we dive headfirst into what will inevitably be…
US reveals charges against alleged LockBit ransomware developer
Illustration: Beatrice Sala The US government has charged a dual Russian and Israeli national with allegedly building and maintaining LockBit’s malware code, while receiving over $230,000 in cryptocurrency for his…
OpenAI Releases O3 Model With High Performance and High Cost
OpenaI o3 sets new records in several key areas, particularly in reasoning, coding and mathematical problem-solving. It scores 75.7% on the semi-private eval in low-compute mode (for $20 per task…
The AI talent wars are just getting started
Naveen Rao, VP of AI at Databricks. | Naveen Rao / The Verge For my last issue of the year, I’m focusing on the AI talent war, which is a…