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Five months ago, Elon Musk filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, claiming the company breached its contract and it should once again revert to a non-profit. Just two months ago, Musk dropped his lawsuit against OpenAI.Today, Elon Musk has filed a new lawsuit against OpenAI, claiming he was "manipulated" into co-founding the non-profit organization that has since become the for-profit OpenAI. This new lawsuit includes much of the same as Musk's previously dropped suit. SEE ALSO:OpenAI has a '

Armond "Mondo" Duplantis has officially set the bar higher than anyone else in the world. The Swedish-American pole vaulter took home gold and then some at the 2024 Paris Olympics. After remaining entirely unbothered throughout the event, he secured the medal and the Olympic record. Then, he continued to compete against himself and his previous world record. On his third attempt, he cleared 6.25 meters, setting a new world record. He did it all with a coy smile and the best hair we've seen at th

A blank notebook, crisp pencils, new tech…there’s just something about shopping for a new school year that hits differently. This season, you can get that new-year feeling without overspending, thanks to Staples' huge back-to-school deals. Whether you’re stocking up for your dorm room, picking up teacher supplies, or grabbing essentials for the kids, Staples has got your back for BTS season. Major savings on back-to-school tech Opens in a new windowCredit: Stapl

Google has just lost a massive antitrust lawsuit from the U.S. Department of Justice that has huge ramifications for big tech companies and Google Search users.On Monday, U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta ruled that Google had indeed violated federal antitrust law in order to make sure Google Search was the dominant search product online."Google is a monopolist, and it has acted as one to maintain its monopoly," wrote Judge Mehta in the opinion.How did Google get itself into this predicament?The ma

Illustration: The Verge Apple is adding a new feature to Safari called “Distraction Control” that lets you remove distracting things like cookie preference popups while you’re browsing, MacRumors reports. The new feature is available with the fifth iOS 18, iPadOS 18, and macOS Sequoia developer betas that launched on Monday.
You can get an idea of how Distraction Control works thanks to a video from MacRumors. From a menu, you can choose an option to “Hide Distracting Ite

Illustration: The Verge Apple is adding a new feature to Safari called “Distraction Control” that lets you remove distracting things like cookie preference pop-ups while you’re browsing, MacRumors reports. The new feature is available with the fifth iOS 18, iPadOS 18, and macOS Sequoia developer betas that launched on Monday.
You can get an idea of how Distraction Control works thanks to a video from MacRumors. From a menu, you can choose an option to “Hide Distracting It

Tropical Storm Debby threatens to bring historic rains over parts of the Southeast.The National Weather service expects southeast Georgia and eastern South Carolina will receive extreme downpours as the downgraded hurricane (but still potent storm) stalls over these regions. "Nothing good can come of a slower storm," National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) scientist James Kossin previously told Mashable.SEE ALSO:A violent event occurred on Alaska's fat bear livestream
"Slow-moving

Laura Normand / The Verge A federal judge ruled that Google violated US antitrust law by maintaining a monopoly in the search and advertising markets.
“After having carefully considered and weighed the witness testimony and evidence, the court reaches the following conclusion: Google is a monopolist, and it has acted as one to maintain its monopoly,” the court’s ruling, which you can read in full at the bottom of this story, reads. “It has violated Section 2 of the Sherma

Photo by VALERIE MACON/AFP via Getty Images Actors have once again picked up their picket signs. But this time, members of the screen actors guild are striking against the video game industry after negotiations for a new contract governing interactive media and video games fell through. The guild began striking on Friday, July 26th, preventing over 160,000 SAG-AFTRA members from taking new video game projects and impeding games already in development from the biggest publishers to the smallest i

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Thanks to a report from The Wall Street Journal, Microsoft-backed OpenAI has admitted to having a tool that can watermark ChatGPT-generated text. According to OpenAI, the system has been ready for over a year now; however, there's been debate on whether or not to release it.SEE ALSO:OpenAI rolls out ChatGPT's new Voice AI (without Scarlett Johansson mode)
The admission comes in the form of an update to a May blog post from OpenAI titled "Understanding the source of what we see and hear online."

Illustration: The Verge Microsoft made it clear earlier this year that it was planning to make security its top priority, following years of security issues and mounting criticisms. Starting today, the software giant is now tying its security efforts to employee performance reviews.
Kathleen Hogan, Microsoft’s chief people officer, has outlined what the company expects of employees in an internal memo obtained by The Verge. “Everyone at Microsoft will have security as a Core Priority

Illustration: The Verge Microsoft made it clear earlier this year that it was planning to make security its top priority, following years of security issues and mounting criticisms. Starting today, the software giant is now tying its security efforts to employee performance reviews.
Kathleen Hogan, Microsoft’s chief people officer, has outlined what the company expects of employees in an internal memo obtained by The Verge. “Everyone at Microsoft will have security as a Core Priority

Waiting to see if your favorite Mac model will get the latest M4 chip upgrade before buying a new computer?Good news: Whether you're a MacBook Pro, Mac Mini, or even a Mac Pro user, the M4 will soon be coming to your favorite Mac.According to a new report from Bloomberg's Apple insider Mark Gurman, Apple is planning to roll its M4 Silicon chipset out to every single Mac computer model.Ever since Apple released its first M4 product earlier this year with the iPad Pro, Mac users have been speculat

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The livestream of Alaska's fat bears is unfiltered. It can be brutal.On July 27, one of the largest and most dominant bears of Katmai National Park and Preserve's Brooks River attacked a cub, to the dread of web onlookers. The cub looked seriously injured, appeared to slightly improve over a couple of days, but ultimately died in the river. It's an event that reveals the bears' natural world in its full, wild spectrum."We get to see their moments of joy," Mike Fitz, a former Katmai park ranger a

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Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Folks are beginning to receive checks from Apple to compensate them for having to spend money when their MacBook butterfly keyboards malfunctioned. As the payments go out, Apple is closing the book on an issue with stuck or otherwise unusable keys that plagued owners of Mac laptops made between 2015 and 2019.
The checks are the result of Apple’s $50 million settlement of a class action lawsuit over the keyboards in 2022. People who filed during the claims

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Several online trading sites went down after the U.S. stock market took a nosedive on Monday morning. After the Nasdaq, Dow Jones, and S&P 500 indexes all sharply dropped, Downdetector (which shares Mashable's parent company Ziff Davis) reported outages with financial sites. Currently, major outages on Downdetector include Charles Schwab, Vanguard, Ameritrade, and Fidelity. Bloomberg also reported that Robinhood and E-Trade users experienced technical issues. Downdetector outage reports spik

The balance beam at the 2024 Paris Olympics made more than a few enemies today.Monday's Women's Balance Beam Finals — the second to last gymnastics event Team USA competed in — featured not one but four athletes falling, including Team USA's beloved all-around champs Simone Biles and Sunisa Lee. After their falls both Biles and Lee were shut out of medaling, much to commentator and fan dismay. Biles, the most decorated gymnast of all time, received a 13.1 placing her in fifth, while

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Photo: Sean Hollister / The Verge Lenovo seems to have unintentionally bolstered rumors of a new Legion Go PC gaming handheld with details published on its own product page in a since-removed FAQ spotted by VideoCardz. The page hinted at a console with a “7-inch or 8-inch display,” an HDMI port, and dual fans — things the original Legion Go lacks — before it was apparently removed.
You can still find the FAQ on The Internet Archive, where I found snapshots as far back as

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After 17 years without a proper, non-VR Half-Life title, fans have at least a little reason to hope again.That's due to supposed leaks appearing in a couple of different places, per Eurogamer. Evidence of Half-Life 3?First, a voice actor's website was found to include a reference to something called "Project White Sands," which was attributed to Valve. That, alone, doesn't tell us much. Valve occasionally still makes new video games — even if they aren’t called Half-Life. It's worth

House of the Dragon Season 2 had one more Harrenhal vision for Daemon Targaryen (Matt Smith) up its sleeve — and this one was a doozy.In the Season 2 finale, titled "The Queen Who Ever Was," Daemon touches Harrenhal's weirwood tree and has a vision of the future, including images that any Game of Thrones fan would recognize, like White Walkers and Daenerys Targaryen herself. But she's not the only Game of Thrones character to feature prominently in Daemon's vision. SEE ALSO:The 'House of t

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Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge; Getty Images Here at The Verge, we’ve been doing our best not to uncritically publish every random statement and half-cocked idea that comes out of Donald Trump’s mouth for several years now. He just says stuff, especially about tech, and most of it doesn’t come to anything.
But last week, Trump casually mentioned to Fox Business’ Maria Menounos that “Google has to be careful” because “they’ve been very irresponsib

The Google Pixel 9 series is set to launch on Aug. 13 at the Made by Google event, but the question is, how will they differ from the previous generation?I don't know about you, but I want to see Google step it up with a new set of features that will blow competitors away. According to leaks and rumors, however, it appears that the Pixel 9 series series will be playing "catch up" with some of the biggest players on the market.I won't keep you in suspense for long, so here's the scuttlebutt we've

Image: Nintendo When The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom is released on September 26th, it will be the first Zelda game in decades with the titular princess as the hero. Nintendo has released a new trailer highlighting some of the new powers she’ll have and all the places she’ll get to use them.Princess Zelda will have the whole of Hyrule to explore in Echoes of Wisdom. She’ll traverse the harsh landscape of the Gerudo Desert, the calming waters of Jabul, the jungles of the F

TikTok will permanently withdraw its controversial Lite Rewards programme in the EU to comply with the Digital Services Act (DSA) — a sweeping content moderation rulebook for online platforms. TikTok Lite is the data-light version of the app, designed to work at slower internet connections and in devices with small memory capacity. Its Rewards programme allows users to earn points by liking content, watching videos, following creators, and inviting friends to join the platform. They can t

The FCC wanted to reinstate some net neutrality rules, but a U.S. appeals court has temporarily blocked the decision, siding with broadband providers challenging the regulations. This decision came after the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted to resume oversight of broadband internet earlier this year. According to Reuters, the court's appeal is a setback to President Joe Biden's attempt to reinstate the rules, which would require that internet service providers treat all internet dat

All colors of the M3 Air are on sale, including starlight. | Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Wow, it wasn’t long ago that the M2 MacBook Air dropped to its lowest price (and that deal is still kicking, by the way), but now there’s a chance to get the newer M3 model for its best-ever rate, too. The 13-inch M3 MacBook Air with 8GB of RAM and 256GB of storage is $849.98 (around $250 off) in all available colors at Amazon. And for those who want more storage or RAM, Amazon is also selli