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Illustration: The Verge Canada’s security agency is trying to dissuade Canadians from using TikTok, telling users that their data is “available to the government of China.”
In an interview with CBC News set to air on Saturday, David Vigneault, the director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, said that “there is a very clear strategy on the part of the government of China … to be able to acquire … personal information from around the world,”

Delta Emulator is abandoning its current logo for a different, yet-to-be-revealed mark — because Adobe thinks Delta’s stylized letter “D” is a bit too close to its stylized letter “A” for comfort.It’s not every day you see an app changelog that includes news of a legal threat, but get a load of this:Image via iOS App Store“Adobe threatened legal action unless we changed our app icon — so we did!” it reads.
The situation unfolded quickl

Image: 91Mobiles After 2023’s big year for foldable phones, what’s next? According to these leaked pics, we can expect Motorola’s foldable Razr line to stretch that front cover screen even further on both versions. As revealed by 91Mobiles and Sudhanshu Ambhore on X, the Razr 50 Ultra 5G will feature a 4.0-inch screen on the outside, which is a noticeable upgrade from the 2023 Razr 40 Ultra (called the Razr Plus in the US) and its 3.6-inch front cover screen. Photo by Allison J

OpenAI is famously not all that open. Dazzling, cutting-edge AI products emerge without warning, generating excitement and anxiety in equal measure (along with plenty of disdain). But like its product development, the company's internal culture is unusually opaque, which makes it all the more unsettling that Jan Leike, the departing co-head of its "superalignment" team — a position overlooking OpenAI's safety issues — has just spoken out against the company.Tweet may have been delete

Image: Tyler McVicker Valve’s next game appears to be a multiplayer hero shooter known as Deadlock. This is according to leaks from playtesters posted on social media earlier today, with some of the details verified by known Valve data miner Tyler McVicker.
“Since testers started sharing Deadlock screenshots all over the place, here’s ones I can verify, featuring one of the heroes called Grey Talon,” McVicker posted on X.
The post included four screenshots allegedly from

You might want to sit down for this seismic, mind-blowing news: The next iPhone could have a better battery than the current one.That's according to prolific Apple prognosticator Ming-Chi Kuo, at least. Kuo wrote on his Medium page that Apple is considering bumping up the energy density in future iPhone batteries. Apple could potentially increase the amount of juice in a battery of the same size as the existing ones, or preserve the current battery life in a smaller unit to make space for other

Illustration by Nick Barclay / The Verge Since the iPhone X’s introduction of OLED and Face ID in 2017, Apple’s phones haven’t changed their look significantly, but now The Information reports a major redesign is underway for a new “Slim” iPhone. The outlet says it could arrive in 2025 as part of the iPhone 17 refresh, with a price even higher than Apple’s current most expensive model, the iPhone Pro Max.
9to5Mac reported on a rumor from Haitong International

Cath Virginia / The Verge As the corpse of E3 lies a-mouldrin’ in its grave, its spirit marches on in the form of bevy of video game showcases and events. There’s a hefty number of them — some notable, some not (but they should be) — and they encompass a wide range of games and genres. Here’s your guide to the whats, wheres, and whens of this year’s summer of games.Access-Ability Summer Showcase 2024Accessibility has become a major feature of games, with devel

Illustration: The Verge Jan Leike, a key OpenAI researcher who resigned earlier this week following the departure of cofounder Ilya Sutskever, posted on X Friday morning that “safety culture and processes have taken a backseat to shiny products” at the company.
Leike’s statements came after Wired reported that OpenAI had disbanded the team dedicated to addressing long-term AI risks (called the “Superalignment team”) altogether. Leike had been running the Superalignm

The iPhone 16 rumors are flooding in – and we're curious about how it'll be different from the iPhone 15. We’re hearing tons whispers about a RAM boost for the iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Plus models. The iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max, on the other hand, are reportedly getting some striking upgrades to the cameras that may dazzle the masses. Here’s a compilation of everything we know so far about next year's iPhone 16 line.SEE ALSO:iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus review
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Both the Garmin Epix Pro and Fenix 7S Pro are currently matching their all-time low. The same goes for Garmin’s inReach Mini 2. | Image: Garmin Here at The Verge, our deal writers spend a lot of time covering the latest discounts at Amazon, Best Buy, and other retailers that happen to sell the tech we cover. Admittedly, REI is often not one of them, but the company’s anniversary sale — which runs through May 27th — is a great chance to save not only on tents, glamping cha

ChatGPT, underpinned with GPT-4o, just got a little more useful for people who like doing stuff with charts.OpenAI announced in a blog post that paying members (Plus, Team, and Enterprise tiers) will get access to some new time-saving chart and table features "in the coming weeks" as part of its new GPT-4o initiative. These include the ability to upload charts directly from Google Drive or Microsoft OneDrive to ChatGPT, rather than having to download them first and then upload them separately.Tw

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The PGA Championship — one of golf's four major tournaments — got off to a tragic, then quite strange, start. There was a fatal pedestrian accident in the early hours near Valhalla Golf Club in Louisville, Kentucky, the site of this year's tournament. It caused a delay in the golf activities and lots of traffic outside the club. Thus there was a bit of confusion as Scottie Scheffler — the best golfer in the world and the recent Masters champion — attempted to get into Val

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Illustration: The Verge A note from OpenAI says that you may no longer have to download files you have on Google Drive or OneDrive if you want to use ChatGPT to analyze your data. You will be able to add those files directly to the chatbot. The feature, rolling out to paying ChatGPT users over the next few weeks, will save people from the annoyance of having to first download a file and then upload it again on the chatbot.
Once they’ve got access to the feature, ChatGPT Plus, Enterprise, a

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If you’ve been to London recently you may have noticed packs of dark green and brown ebikes lining the city’s streets. They belong to Forest, an aptly named startup that claims to be London’s cheapest and most sustainable shared ebike operator.   Its success stems from an advertising model unique to the world of micro-mobility.  Forest’s main competitors in the capital are Lime and Tier. All three ebike sharing schemes work in much the same way.  You

Signing in is about to get more convenient in Android 15 and Wear OS 5. | Screenshot: Google AI was the main focus of the Google I/O keynote this year, but there are still a bunch of new feature updates hidden in the various developer sessions. Case in point, 9to5Google spotted that Android 15 and Wear OS 5 are going to get some convenient passkey updates.
In its “Passkeys and identity best practices” dev session, Google announced that Android 15 is going to get a single-tap sign-in

Microsoft may face a harsh scolding from the European Union (EU) after failing to provide information on risks posed by generative AI tools. The tech company has until May 27 to present the commission with appropriate documents that outline potential harm arising from Bing’s generative AI features specifically, like its AI assistant Copilot and image generator Image Creator by Designer. As TechCrunch reported, the EU worries that such tools could pose a threat to "civic discourse and elect

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First we lost Sonic, now goes Steam. | Image: Tesla Tesla might be dropping Steam support on some new deliveries of Model X, according to a message from the company shared by a Reddit user who is expecting to take delivery of the long-range version of the electric SUV.
Tesla’s message alerts the customer that the company is “updating the gaming computer” in the Model X and says it’s “no longer capable of playing Steam games.” The message ends with a button for

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Photo: Dania Maxwell / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images Sony Music sent letters to hundreds of tech companies and warned them against using its content without permission, according to Bloomberg, which obtained a copy of the letter.
The letter was sent to more than 700 AI companies and streaming platforms and said that “unauthorized use” of Sony Music content for AI systems denies the label and artists “control and compensation” of their work. The letter, according to B

Image: Honda Honda continues to place bets on hydrogen with the debut of a new Class 8 truck powered by the most abundant element in the universe. The concept vehicle joins the automaker’s hydrogen fuel cell SUV revealed earlier this year. And it comes at a time of skyrocketing fuel prices and a shaky outlook for hydrogen in the transportation space.The truck runs on three of Honda’s new fuel cell systems, which are now in production at the company’s Fuel Cell System Manufactur

A few months back, reports emerged that Reddit had signed a $60 million deal with OpenAI to allow the ChatGPT creator to train its LLM using Reddit content. On Thursday, the deal was confirmed.In a blog post shared by Reddit and OpenAI the companies unveiled the details of the agreement, which essentially sees the "front page of the internet" trading its content for access to AI tools and an advertising partnership."Keeping the internet open is crucial, and part of being open means Reddit conten

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Microsoft has reportedly decided to add the next installment of Call of Duty to Xbox Game Pass. The Wall Street Journal reports that Microsoft will announce that Call of Duty is coming to its game subscription service during the company’s Xbox showcase on June 9th.
I reported earlier this month that Microsoft had been debating whether to put new releases of Call of Duty into Game Pass, with concerns from some at the company that the revenue generated