10-28-25 -

Nothings Ear Open earbuds are back under $100 right now
The wireless earbuds feature an over-the-ear hook style for a more secure fit. | Image: The Verge If you spend most of your time commuting, walking around, or exercising, the Nothing Ear Open earbuds are worth considering. These open-ear-s...

10-28-25 -

What the Trump family stands to gain from Changpeng Zhaos pardon
Hello and welcome to Regulator. When it comes to the news cycle, only the actual destruction of the White House could have overshadowed the slate of dubious pardons that President Donald Trump issued last week, including former Rep. Georg...

10-28-25 -

Amazon is ditching MMOs and cranking out party games
A screenshot from Throne and Liberty, one of Amazon’s MMOs. As part of Amazon’s mass layoffs announced today, the company is making “significant” changes to its gaming division, including halting much of its work on first-party AAA...

10-28-25 -

The latest Apple TV 4K just received a rare $30 discount
Apple’s 4K streaming device rarely goes on sale, but right now it’s available for its lowest price to date at Costco.com. Now through October 31st, Costco members can buy the third-gen Apple TV 4K online with an expanded 128GB of stor...

10-28-25 -

The FCC just gave itself the power to make a DJI drone ban stick
This morning, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted 3-0 to let itself retroactively ban gadgets and radio components that it previously approved for entry into the United States, if the company that makes them is deemed a nati...

10-28-25 -

Uber, Stellantis, Nvidia, and Foxconn make a robotaxi deal
Robotaxi fever is back, baby! After a bunch of automaker-led autonomous driving projects shut down amid concerns over safety and costs, car companies are expressing a renewed interest in self-driving cars, and robotaxis specifically. Stel...

10-28-25 -

Lucid jumps on the privately owned autonomous vehicle bandwagon
Lucid says it will eventually sell “privately owned” autonomous vehicles with the help of Nvidia’s artificial intelligence technology. The company is the latest to declare its intention to sell Level 4 autonomous vehicles to its cus...

10-28-25 -

Disney is breaking up with Doctor Who
Though there’s still a new Doctor Who spinoff making its way to Disney Plus, Disney’s production partnership with the BBC has come to an end. The BBC announced today that after two seasons of Doctor Who starring Ncuti...

10-28-25 -

Oppo Find X9 Pros massive 7,500mAh battery arrives in Europe
Hasselblad is still the camera partner on Oppo’s phones. Oppo has announced the international launch of its Find X9 and Find X9 Pro flagships, and both phones are going on sale in the UK and Europe. Best of all, unlike some other Chinese...

10-28-25 -

Season 2 of Netflix’s live-action One Piece premieres in March
(L to R) Iñaki Godoy as Monkey D. Luffy, Jacob Romero as Usopp, Taz Skylar as Sanji. | Image: Netflix Attention, Straw Hats — Netflix’s surprisingly great One Piece adaptation finally has a season 2 premiere date. Netflix an...

10-28-25 -

The BrickBoy upgrade kit costs more than twice as much as the Lego Game Boy
Upgrading Lego’s Game Boy using the BrickBoy kit will cost you a lot more than many handheld emulators that are far more capable. | Image: Kickstarter After being announced last week, the BrickBoy kit that turns Lego’s buildable Game B...

10-28-25 -

Youll be able to pay with PayPal in ChatGPT next year
PayPal announced today that you’ll be able to use its wallet to make purchases directly through ChatGPT beginning sometime in 2026. The recently-added Instant Checkout feature in ChatGPT will have an option to pay with PayPal, using the...

10-28-25 -

GitHub is launching a hub for multiple AI coding agents
GitHub is giving developers access to third-party AI coding agents with the launch of a new “Agent HQ.” Instead of just using GitHub Copilot, developers will get to try OpenAI’s Codex, Anthropic’s Claude, Google’s Jules, xAI, an...

10-28-25 -

MSI’s QD-OLED gaming monitor is very fast and $130 off
MSI’s Mag 271QP X28 is on sale for $519.99 ($130 off). Black Friday is one month away, but MSI didn’t wait to drop the price of its 27-inch Mag 271QP X28 QD-OLED gaming monitor. You can get it for an all-time low price of $519.99 ($13...

10-28-25 -

Battlefields free battle royale mode is available now
EA announced today that Battlefield Redsec, the free-to-play battle royale that the company says is “built on Battlefield’s iconic DNA,” is available now. Here’s how EA describes the mode in a press release: As part of this fre...

10-28-25 -

Razer’s new Huntsman V3 Pro 8kHz keyboard promises speed with improved ...
Available in white and black, full-size or tenkeyless. Razer is announcing a new Huntsman V3 Pro 8kHz keyboard for esports-level competition and speed-obsessed PC gamers. The newest version of Razer’s top-end wired keyboard supports 8,00...

10-28-25 -

Warner Bros. mergers never work, but they’re trying again anyway
When Warner Bros. Discovery announced that it was open to the possibility of a sale, the entertainment giant was careful to mention that it has already received multiple unsolicited offers "for both the entire company and Warner Bros...

10-28-25 -

Privacy laws cant keep up with luxury surveillance
With Meta's new range of smart glasses, Mark Zuckerberg is pitching a vision of the future that sci-fi authors have been warning about for decades - one where privacy is truly dead, and everyone is recording everyone else at all times. Th...

10-28-25 -

OpenAI completed its for-profit restructuring and struck a new deal with Mic...
Microsoft Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella (L), speaks with OpenAI Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman, who joined by video during the Microsoft Build 2025 conference. OpenAI’s controversial for-profit restructuring is f...

10-28-25 -

Govees new power outlet expander gives you voice control and a night light
Govee’s new accessory can make two power outlets more functional. | Image: Govee Did you know you should be replacing your surge protectors every three to five years to avoid them becoming a potential fire risk? If you’re now on the hu...

10-28-25 -

Adobe Max 2025: all the latest creative tools and AI announcements
Adobe has kicked off its annual Max design conference, where it’ll be giving us a first glimpse at the latest updates coming to its Creative Cloud apps and Firefly AI models. The creative software giant is launching new generative AI to...

10-28-25 -

An Apple Shortcuts masterclass
If you know how to set it up, it can almost seem like your phone can read your mind. The minute you walk out of the office, a text gets automatically fired off letting your spouse know exactly when you'll be home. When you start reading a...

10-28-25 -

Samsung shows off its trifold phone in person
When fully open, the trifold is essentially a 10-inch tablet. | Photo: SeongJoon Cho / Bloomberg via Getty Images After long insisting that it will release its first trifold phone this year, Samsung has gotten one step closer by showing of...

10-28-25 -

Zillow adds DMs so you can chat about homes you’ll never buy
Zillow is trying to make it easier to share listings by putting a messaging feature directly in its app. Instead of sharing a link to your dream home over a text message, Zillow says you can invite a friend, family member, or significant ...

10-28-25 -

The government shutdown is delaying new gadgets
Tech products that are packaged and ready for sale aren't launching in the US as planned right now, thanks to the government shutdown. Earlier this month, Leica delayed its M EV1 camera due to holdups on approval from the partially shutte...

10-28-25 -

Democrats slam FCCs decision to gut prison phone call price caps
Senate Democrats are urging the Federal Communications Commission to enforce a rule that would lower the price of prison phone and video calls. In a letter to FCC Chair Brendan Carr, Sens. Chuck Schumer (D-NY), Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), Eliza...

10-28-25 -

Kensingtons new trackball comes packed with scroll wheels
The trackball’s scroll dial is now flanked by a pair of scroll wheels on either side of the mouse. | Image: Kensington Kensington has announced a new version of its Expert Mouse wireless trackball with a major facelift and some new funct...

10-28-25 -

Insta360s X4 Air is a smaller and cheaper version of its 360-degree X5 action...
The new Insta360 X4 Air also has a larger sensor than the older X4. | Image: Insta360 Insta360 debuted its new X5 360-degree action camera just six months ago, but it turns out that the company still has plans for its predecessor. Today, i...

10-28-25 -

Adobe’s AI social media admin is here with ‘Project Moonlight’
Project Moonlight As Adobe builds AI assistants into each of its applications, the company is also building an AI agent on its Firefly platform to act as a centralized creative director for social media campaigns. Project Moonlight’s cha...

10-28-25 -

You can tell Adobe Expresss new AI assistant to edit your designs for you
The AI Assistant is designed to be used without needing professional design experience. A new generative AI experience is coming to Adobe’s cloud-based Express design platform, enabling you to transform projects by vaguely describing wha...

10-28-25 -

Adobes new AI audio tools can add soundtracks and voice-overs to videos
Generate Soundtrack is like Mad Libs for backing instrumentals. Adobe is giving filmmakers new generative AI audio tools that can quickly add thematically appropriate backing tracks and narration to videos. Generate Soundtrack and Generate...

10-28-25 -

Photoshop and Premiere Pros new AI tools can instantly edit more of your work
Photoshop’s Generative Fill tool can now use third-party AI models. | Image: Adobe Adobe has kicked off its annual Max event, giving us a first look at new and upcoming generative AI tools launching for the company’s Photoshop, Premier...

10-28-25 -

Amazon is cutting 14,000 corporate jobs
Amazon is planning to axe around 14,000 corporate jobs. The mass layoffs were expected as part of the company’s cost-cutting drive, but are smaller than the 30,000 job losses previous reports had indicated.   Beth Gal...

10-28-25 -

First look: DJIs Romo robot vacuum
The Romo P robot vacuum from DJI is now available in Europe for €1,899. Of all the companies that could have launched a robot vacuum in 2025, I didn't have DJI in the running - but here we are. The drone and camera manufacturer released ...

10-28-25 -

Pluribus’ Vince Gilligan on making shows that attract really smart viewers
Rhea Seehorn in Pluribus. Now he's best known for the crime-fueled duology of Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul, but when Vince Gilligan was first starting out in television, it was in the realm of sci-fi. Over seven years he penned a numb...

10-27-25 -

Elon Musks Grokipedia contains copied Wikipedia pages
xAI’s Grokipedia, its Wikipedia-like online encyclopedia, is now live. The similarities go deeper than expected. Grokipedia’s design is pretty basic right now; like Wikipedia, the homepage is mostly just a big search bar, and entries...

10-27-25 -

ExxonMobil accuses California of violating its free speech
Darren Woods, chairman and chief executive officer of Exxon Mobil Corp, during the Summit on Methane and Other Non-CO2 Greenhouse Gases on day three of the COP28 climate conference at Expo City in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, on Saturday, De...

10-27-25 -

Trumps DHS is recruiting ICE officers with a Halo meme
After using the original Pokémon theme song in a montage of ICE raids, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is using another popular video game franchise to promote itself on social media: Halo. This morning, the DHS posted an image...

10-27-25 -

AMD, Department of Energy announce $1 billion AI supercomputer partnership
AMD has sealed a $1 billion deal with the US Department of Energy to develop two supercomputers, Lux and Discovery, in collaboration with Oracle and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE). Both supercomputers will live at Oak Ridge National Lab...

10-27-25 -

Spotify finally brings video podcasts and music videos to its Apple TV app
You can now watch your favorite video podcasts on your big screen with Spotify’s new tvOS app update. | Image: Spotify Spotify has announced a redesigned version of its Apple TV app that the company says has been “rebuilt from the grou...

10-27-25 -

The last-gen Kindle is a steal at just $65 refurbished
The last-gen Kindle is a great budget-friendly e-reader. In case you didn’t know, the last-gen Kindle is nearly just as good as the current model. Not only is the reading experience nearly identical, it also has the same sharp 30...

10-27-25 -

GM isnt ready to rip off the CarPlay/Android Auto band-aid quite yet
Last week, General Motors CEO Mary Barra caused a stir when she said that the company would eventually kill Apple CarPlay and Android Auto in all of its gas cars. The company had already successfully removed phone mirroring capabilities f...

10-27-25 -

LexisNexis CEO says the AI law era is already here
Today, I’m talking with Sean Fitzpatrick, the CEO of LexisNexis, one of the most important companies in the entire legal system. For years — including when I was in law school — LexisNexis was basically the library. It’s where you...

10-27-25 -

‘There isn’t really another choice:’ Signal chief explains ...
After last week’s major Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage took Signal along with it, Elon Musk was quick to criticize the encrypted messaging app’s reliance on big tech. But Signal president Meredith Whittaker argues that the company d...

10-27-25 -

Beats Powerbeats Pro 2 are nearly matching their best price to date
The discount is available for every color, including the purple and orange shades. | Photo: Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge If you’re in the market for workout earbuds, now’s your chance to make a move. The Beats Powerbeats Pro 2 ar...

10-27-25 -

Fitbits overhauled app and AI health coach arrive tomorrow
New coach, new app. | Photo: Victoria Song / The Verge Fitbit's new Gemini-powered health coach is debuting in preview today, as part of an entirely new app experience that was announced back in August. Premium subscribers in the US on And...

10-27-25 -

Tesla rehashing old threats to get shareholders to approve Musks $1 trillion ...
Tesla’s board of directors issued a stark warning to shareholders today: approve Elon Musk’s unprecedented $1 trillion pay package or risk losing him as CEO. It’s a familiar threat, one that the board has used before, and if history...

10-27-25 -

Qualcomm is turning parts from cellphone chips into AI chips to rival Nvidia
Qualcomm is launching a pair of new AI chips in an attempt to challenge Nvidia’s dominance in the market. On Monday, Qualcomm announced plans to release its new AI200 chip next year, followed by the AI250 in 2027 — both of which are b...

10-27-25 -

Sora is showing us how broken deepfake detection is
C2PA has merit, but it isn’t enough to protect online users from being misled by OpenAI’s deepfake factory. OpenAI's new deepfake machine, Sora, has proven that artificial intelligence is alarmingly good at faking reality. The AI-gener...

10-27-25 -

Threads is getting disappearing posts
Threads is launching a new feature called the “ghost post:” a post it will automatically archive after 24 hours. These posts will come in handy if you want to share a thought, but don’t want to keep it on your profile. It’s also...