After CEO exit, Sonos gets rid of its chief product officer, too
A day after announcing that CEO Patrick Spence is departing the company, Sonos revealed that chief product officer Maxime Bouvat-Merlin is also leaving. Bouvat-Merlin had the role since 2023. As…
FBI forces Chinese malware to delete itself from thousands of US computers
The FBI said today that it removed Chinese malware from 4,258 US-based computers and networks by sending commands that forced the malware to use its “self-delete” function. The People’s Republic…
There was a straight shot from Earth to the Moon and Mars last night
I almost missed it. Amid a bout of prime-time doomscrolling, a social media post reminded me there was something worth seeing in the sky. Mars disappeared behind the full Moon…
Inside Meta’s race to beat OpenAI: “We need to learn how to build frontier and win this race”
Illustration: Nick Barclay / The Verge A major copyright lawsuit against Meta has revealed a trove of internal communications about the company’s plans to develop its open-source AI models, Llama,…
TikTok tells employees it’s planning ‘the way forward’ ahead of Supreme Court ruling
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge TikTok has told employees that its executives are planning “the way forward” ahead of the Supreme Court likely upholding a US ban of…
ChatGPT becomes more Siri-like with new scheduled tasks feature
OpenAI is making ChatGPT work a little more like older digital assistants with a new feature called Tasks, as reported by TechCrunch and others. Currently in beta, Tasks allows users…
North Korea linked to crypto heists of over $650 million in 2024 alone
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Hackers in North Korea stole a total of $659 million in crypto across several heists in 2024, according to a joint statement issued…
Netflix’s new animated Witcher spinoff movie sets sail this February
Netflix Though the fourth season of Netflix’s live-action Witcher series still doesn’t have a concrete release date, Netflix has finally announced when we’ll see yet another animated take on Geralt…
Sonos’ chief product officer is leaving the company
Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge A day after Sonos announced a CEO transition, the company is making more moves. Chief product officer Maxime Bouvat-Merlin will also be leaving his…
Parallels is testing x86 emulation on Apple silicon Macs
Photo by Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge Parallels has added support for x86 emulation in Parallels Desktop 20.2, product manager Mikhail Ushakov wrote in a blog post last…