3+ hour, 7+ min ago   (201+ words) The issue appears to be mostly affecting users on the West Coast, but certain services that rely on Azure, including the'Microsoft Store, are experiencing outages and slowdowns after a data center suffered a partial'power loss. Microsoft's Azure Status Page is…...

3+ hour, 12+ min ago   (674+ words) I need an OS, not another hobby. It's a complete coincidence that I installed Linux around the same time as my colleagues Nathan Edwards and Stevie Bonifield. A few months ago, I decided to breathe new life into a 2019 Dell…...

9+ hour, 42+ min ago   (721+ words) Plus, in this week's Installer: An AI bookmarking app, a Nintendo book, the Muppets, and much more. Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 115, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you're new here, welcome, go…...

1+ day, 6+ hour ago   (1213+ words) Amazon's redesign has made the shopping list feature mostly unusable, so I've switched to Apple's Reminders. I've used Alexa to manage my shopping list for years. There are plenty of great list apps out there, but the convenience of adding…...

1+ day, 23+ hour ago   (189+ words) ChatGPT users who create designs via the Canva app can now connect to their Canva Brand Kits, allowing designs to draw from on-brand colors and assets. Anthropic's good week continues, however " Claude got the same Canva Brand Kit feature first....

2+ day, 4+ hour ago   (358+ words) Now you're just like, "Here's the magic castle. Build it.' And it gets done." Boris Cherny gets recognized in public relatively often. At the bar, at the airport, and in generally any public space, people want to take selfies with…...

2+ day, 4+ hour ago   (253+ words) Opus 4.6 is here. Anthropic's "smartest model" is getting a major boost, the company said in a blog post announcing Claude Opus 4.6. On the coding front, Anthropic said in a release that Opus 4.6 was built to improve developers' experience with Claude…...

2+ day, 7+ hour ago   (1672+ words) Why AI labeling efforts are falling flat in the face of slop, disinformation, and messy metadata standards. To do this, I'm going to bring on Verge reporter Jess Weatherbed, who covers creative tools for us " a space that's been totally…...

2+ day, 10+ hour ago   (179+ words) The fine, a measly "247,590 (about $335,000), is because Imgur owner MediaLab wasn't checking users ages, and so handled young kids' data without proper consent measures. After the ICO warned a fine was coming last September, Imgur started blocking UK users entirely…...

2+ day, 11+ hour ago   (189+ words) Substack is notifying some users that the email addresses and phone numbers linked to their accounts were exposed in a "security incident" last year. In an email to account holders, Substack CEO Chris Best said that a hacker had accessed…...