Technology

Remarkable’s refurbished bundle is an awesome deal that’s over $350 off

A lot of us here at The Verge are fans of Remarkable’s digital note-taking tablets, and right now one of its higher-end options is much cheaper than usual. The Remarkable Paper Pro normally sells for $629 on its own, but Woot is currently…

PayPal turned down $53bn, and pointed to a beat and a $70 target

PayPal finally addressed the $53bn offer sitting on its table. Its answer was: not at that price. The company gave its first public response on Tuesday’s Q2 earnings call, alongside a beat. Chief executive Enrique Lores would not comment…

Updating your app might not keep you safe: How outdated OpenVPN code leaves VPNs exposed

Trust your VPN software updates keep you safe? Believe that downloading the latest release protects you from most known threats? You might be surprised to learn that there could be a set of invisible vulnerabilities lurking inside your…

Gemini for MacOS Gets New Voice and ‘Screen Awareness’ Features

Google’s pushing a more hands-off experience with its latest Gemini for Mac release.

Ukraine purges intelligence service over failed terrorist attack against Yermolayev

According to the official, the personnel purges are fully coordinated with Vladimir Zelensky, who seeks to remove from military intelligence the people who remain loyal to former head of the department Kirill Budanov

Agentic security doesn't need a whole new definition – you just need to reframe what you already know

Though attack vectors and threat environments have changed since the advent of the internet, one thing has remained a constant – humans use software, and software has predefined parameters. That distinction is exactly why social…

DoorDash gets FAA clearance for in-house drone programme, DoorDash Air

DoorDash has won approval from the Federal Aviation Administration to run its own delivery drones, and promptly made clear that most of your food will still arrive by human. The company unveiled an in-house programme called DoorDash Air on…

Former PM Manmohan Singh gets posthumous clean chit: Recalling the coal block ‘scam’ case

AI major focus as Hong Kong funds record 12 university research projects

Hong Kong’s main public research funding body for universities has approved a record 12 projects worth about HK$478 million in its latest financing round, with artificial intelligence featuring in more than a third of successful proposals…

Open weights vs. closed: An AI civil war's afoot, and the stakes are existential

It started as China vs. the US, but it's become a face-off between two fundamentally different ways of building LLMs. And the safety of everything is on the line.

Atlassian tightens tracking of staff AI use as other technology firms encourage ‘tokenmaxxing’

Some companies reportedly using leaderboards for employees who used the most AI in their work Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Software firm Atlassian has sought to tighten tracking of its staff’s AI spending by…

Icac hits paydirt as Reformers’ ‘shit sheets’ are given a very public airing

Dirt files are always damaging – not least those originating in the secretive rightwing Reformers sub-faction of the party Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast From time to time, dirt files – crudely known as shit…