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Illustration: The Verge The Turkish government has blocked access to Roblox following a government investigation that found content that could lead to child exploitation. “According to our Constitution, our State is obliged to take the necessary measures to ensure the protection of our children,” Justice Minister Yılmaz Tunç says in a machine-translated post on X.It’s unclear when Roblox might be unblocked in the country. “On Aug 7, we learned that Roblox was

Illustration by The Verge Anybody with a Substack account can now publish posts on Substack’s web and mobile app, the company announced on Thursday, turning the newsletter platform into even more of a social network. (Currently, users publishing posts on their profile from mobile can only do so via the Substack iOS app, though support for Android is coming soon.)
Substack members can publish content, get paid and free subscribers, and accumulate pledges from their Substack profile without

Image: The Verge OpenAI is going to let users of ChatGPT’s free tier make up to two images per day with its DALL-E 3 model, the company announced on Thursday. When the company launched DALL-E 3 in September, it was available first to users who paid for ChatGPT Plus.
One of DALL-E 3’s key improvements is that ChatGPT can come up with a prompt to make an image, which should make it easier to make images. For example, as my former colleague Emilia David wrote last year:
In a demo to The

The Thumby Color shrinks the Game Boy Advance to a handheld just two inches in size. | Image: TinyCircuits How small can you shrink the Nintendo Game Boy Advance? That’s a question Tiny Circuits is answering with the Thumby Color, a GBA clone measuring just two inches in size that still manages to fit a directional pad, shoulder buttons, a rumble motor, a 16-bit color screen, and the ability to link two of them together with a USB-C cable for multiplayer gaming.
Unlike the myriad of Game B

Tesla owners won’t need to use their own adapter at Omni Port-capable stations. | Image: ChargePoint ChargePoint has a new plug system for its charging stations that will make it easier for EV drivers to select the correct connecter for their electric vehicle. The new plug, called Omni Port, works by automatically installing an adapter (or excluding one) to the tip of the connector when you’re ready to charge, which means Tesla owners won’t need to bring out their adapter.
In a

Delta's problems following the CrowdStrike outage that temporarily bricked millions of Windows PCs around the world just became more of a headache.Some customers who had their Delta flights canceled due to the outage have filed a class-action lawsuit against the company, per CNN. The lawsuit, filed by Sauder Schelkopf and Webb, Klase & Lemond, accused Delta of failing to properly compensate customers for their troubles, either by refusing refunds outright or making customers sign a waiv

Image: OpenAI OpenAI has released its GPT-4o System Card, a research document that outlines the safety measures and risk evaluations the startup conducted before releasing its latest model.
GPT-4o was launched publicly in May of this year. Before its debut, OpenAI used an external group of red teamers, or security experts trying to find weaknesses in a system, to find key risks in the model (which is a fairly standard practice). They examined risks like the possibility that GPT-4o would create u

Next time you watch a TikTok of someone gushing about their favorite TV show, there might be a link in the bottom left corner directing you to even more information. SEE ALSO:Internet Princess Rayne Fisher-Quann left TikTok in search of something beyond the algorithm
Called TikTok Spotlight, the tool will aid entertainment studios in turning social media hype into streaming numbers and ticket sales. Whether it's a new release or newly discovered, the feature identifies brand-friendly TikToks and

Musk has chosen lawfare over free speech. | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images A group of advertisers, called the Global Alliance for Responsible Media (GARM), have “discontinued” activities, Business Insider reports, citing an email sent to members. The group said it had limited money, and was focused on fighting the antitrust lawsuit filed against it by X.
GARM was an initiative formed in 2019 by the World Federation of Advertisers (WFA); the idea was to stop advertisin

Nanoleaf’s Essentials Matter line, which includes an A19 bulb and light strip, will be one of the first Matter products to work with Apple Home’s Adaptive Lighting feature. | Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge A major feature of Apple Home will soon work with Matter devices. With iOS 18, Apple is enabling Adaptive Lighting for smart lights connected to its smart home platform through Matter, the interoperability standard developed by Apple, Amazon, and Google. The feature,

Image: Oculus Studios Meta is closing Ready At Dawn, its first-party studio behind VR games like Echo VR and Lone Echo, Android Central reported on Wednesday. The shutdown is effective immediately. Meta acquired the studio in 2020.
As for why Meta is shutting down the studio, here’s what Android Central said:
One report in mid-July said that Meta was cutting its Reality Labs division’s budget by 20% by 2026, and an internal memo sent to Meta employees by Gio Hunt, VP Oculus Studios &

250 lumens of illumination isn’t super bright, but the light is cheap enough to group several of them together. | Image: TTArtisan Even if you switched to a digital camera decades ago, TTArtisan’s Mini LED Light is a fun reason to carry around a film cartridge. Instead of a roll of 35-millimeter film inside, there’s a rechargeable battery and an array of 15 LEDs. It’s not the brightest camera light you can buy, but it’s also just $7.
With just 250 lumens of illumina

One of the classic problems of looking into a palantir was correctly interpreting what the viewer saw... | Image: The Verge Palantir, the company named for the dangerous seeing-stones that tended to mislead their users, has announced a partnership with Microsoft to deliver services for classified networks in US defense and intelligence agencies.
“This is a first-of-its-kind, integrated suite of technology that will allow critical national security missions to operationalize Microsoft&rsquo

Image: ADT Security company ADT disclosed in an SEC filing that hackers obtained “some limited customer information, including email addresses, phone numbers and postal addresses.” TechCrunch reports that ADT’s disclosure follows a seller on a cybercrime forum claiming last week that they had obtained more than 30,000 stolen ADT customer records.
The hackers obtained the information by accessing “certain databases containing ADT customer order information,” accordin

Goodbye photo dumps, hello Facebook albums. Instagram is no longer restricting carousels to 10 photos or videos. Now, you can post up to 20.SEE ALSO:Instagram now lets you create an AI version of yourself
The art of an Instagram post has gone through many phases. What began as heavily filtered low-stakes shots morphed into pristine "aesthetic" photos and finally into the highly curated photo dump that started out fun and turned into a series of seemingly mandatory life updates — Mashable's

Elon Musk has often touted that X is a place for news since acquiring the company then known as Twitter. Regardless of studies and reports showing misinformation on his social media platform are running rampant, Musk has repeatedly claimed that X is the best online destination for truth.On Thursday, Musk seemingly fell for a photoshopped fake news headline from a far-right user on X — and shared it with his more than 293 million followers.Tweet may have been deletedMusk's tweet-and-delete

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Rep. Lori Trahan (D-MA) are calling for answers on how OpenAI handles whistleblowers and safety reviews after former employees complained that internal criticism is often stifled.
“Given the discrepancy between your public comments and reports of OpenAI’s actions, we request information about OpenAI’s whistleblower and conflict of interest protections in order to understand whether federal intervention may be necessary,” Warren and Trahan

Illustration: Alex Castro / The Verge Instagram is expanding the number of photos and videos that can be added to a single grid post, the company said today.
Each carousel post can now have up to 20 photos or videos. Users could previously add up to 10 pieces of content to each carousel post — something that’s colloquially known as a “photo dump.” The carousel feature was first rolled out to users in 2017.Image: Instagram
Instagram has slowly added more features to the ca

We already know that the more advanced Apple Intelligence features might come with a price. Now Apple analysts are predicting what that price might be.Neil Shah, a partner at Counterpoint Research, told CNBC that premium AI features could cost between $10 and $20 for a monthly subscription. "Software and services makes it more lucrative for Apple to pass it on with the Apple One subscription model," Shah told the outlet. SEE ALSO:Apple Intelligence: A ‘pep talk’ is given to the AI to

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Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Apple’s smallest Mac is in for some major changes, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman.A new version of the Mac Mini coming later this year will undergo the product’s most significant redesign in over a decade. Gurman says “the device will be far smaller than its predecessor, approaching the size of an Apple TV set-top box.” That’s tiny, even if the Mini will likely be taller than Apple’s streamer.The company has been te

2024 Dodge Charger Daytona Scat Pack, two-door version. | Image: Stellantis Dodge has put a price on its first all-electric vehicle, the Charger Daytona, and it won't be cheap for the mean, clean, neighborhood-disturbing machine. The 2024 Daytona two-door models will start at $59,595 for the R/T and $73,190 for the Scat Pack — both excluding a $1,995 destination fee.
Both Daytona models are starting production this summer, and four-door models will be built in the first half of 2025. You c

Cyclists have quick access to two of eight selectable alert tones. | Image: Trek The quiet ding of many bike bells isn’t always enough to alert pedestrians or vehicles of a cyclist’s presence. Trek’s new BellBeats is a compact Bluetooth speaker that can be mounted to a bike’s handlebars giving cyclists a selection of eight quick access alert tones that are either friendly or urgent.
Like a traditional bike bell, the alert tones on the BellBeats can be triggered while ridi

We love our TVs, we need our TVs. But for the aesthetically-minded among us, incorporating a TV into our home décor can be...a challenge. Samsung answered this dilemma with The Frame TV. The brand's line seamlessly turns TVs into works of art when turned off, plus, this spring, Samsung launched a Frame speaker that looks just another picture frame on your gallery wall.Until this year, Samsung didn't have much competition since it launched The Frame in 2017. Back in 2022, Amazon embraced a

Photo by Tom Warren / The Verge Asus and MSI have both released beta BIOS updates today to address Intel’s crashing 13th and 14th Gen Raptor Lake desktop processors. While the BIOS updates won’t fix CPUs that are already damaged, they include Intel’s new microcode update that should help further address the instability issues.
If it works well, this could be a very big deal for Intel, which lost some of its reputation after its flagship chips were found to crash earlier this ye

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