Why Half-Life 3 speculation is reaching a fever pitch again
The more than two decades since Half-Life 2‘s release have been filled with plenty of rumors and hints about Half-Life 3, ranging from the official–ish to the thin to the…
Appeals court blocks FCC’s efforts to bring back net neutrality rules
On Thursday, a three-judge panel struck down net neutrality rules that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) had hoped would stop broadband providers from varying speeds for users when connecting to…
Net neutrality eviscerated by appeals court ruling
Illustration by Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photo from Getty Images Federal net neutrality rules, which briefly came back from the dead under the Biden administration, have been struck…
Meta appoints new Trump-friendly policy chief
Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge; Getty Images Meta is shaking up its policy team ahead of President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration, with global policy head Nick Clegg stepping down after…
The US government announced a ‘historic’ nuclear energy deal
Two cooling towers being rehabilitated for nuclear power generation under Microsoft at Crane Clean Energy Center, previously known as Three Mile Island, stand tall over the residential and farm lands…
It’s January, which means another batch of copyrighted work is now public domain
It’s January, and for people in the US, that means the same thing it’s meant every January since 2019: a new batch of previously copyrighted works have entered the public…
Siri “unintentionally” recorded private convos; Apple agrees to pay $95M
Apple has agreed to pay $95 million to settle a lawsuit alleging that its voice assistant Siri routinely recorded private conversations that were then sold to third parties for targeted…
USB-C gets a bit more universal as the EU’s mandate goes into effect
“It’s time for THE charger,” the European Commission posted to X on December 28, 2024. While the sentiment only applies to one continent (and not all of it) and only…
Someone made a CAPTCHA where you play Doom on Nightmare difficulty
People have been complaining for a while that passing a CAPTCHA is too difficult, but developer and tech CEO Guillermo Rauch has made one of the hardest yet: a fully…
Tesla’s sales fell year-over-year for the first time
Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Tesla’s production and delivery numbers for 2024 are out, and the numbers are pretty sobering. The premiere EV company in the US produced 1.77 million…