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WhatsApp launches passkey-encrypted backups for iOS and Android, letting users encrypt their stored message history using their face, fingerprint, or a code (www.theverge.com)
10 hours ago Android IOS WhatsApp

OpenAI's Sora app adds new features, including “character cameos” to create AI deepfakes of pets, illustrations, and more, clip stitching, and leaderboards (www.theverge.com)
11 hours ago AI

YouTube is using AI to upscale videos uploaded at between 240p and 720p to HD on TV screens, but users can opt out, and plans 4K upscaling “in the near future” (www.theverge.com)
1 day ago AI YouTube

Grammarly rebrands as Superhuman after its acquisitions of Superhuman Mail in June and Coda in December 2024; the standalone writing tool Grammarly still exists (www.theverge.com)
1 day ago

Grokipedia hands-on: many articles clone Wikipedia, but deviate significantly on topics conflicting with Elon Musk's worldview; at times, it is overtly racist (www.theverge.com)
1 day ago Elon Musk Racism

YouTube will age-restrict more video game content showing “graphic violence” and stop creators from directing users to gambling sites involving digital goods (www.theverge.com)
2 days ago YouTube

Oppo launches €999 Find X9 and €1,299 Find X9 Pro in the UK and EU, with 7,025mAh and 7,500mAh silicon-carbon batteries and a MediaTek Dimensity 9500 chip (www.theverge.com)
2 days ago OPPO

Adobe unveils Project Moonlight, an AI agent on its Firefly platform designed to act as a creative director for social media campaigns via text prompts (www.theverge.com)
2 days ago AI Adobe

At its Adobe Max event, Adobe unveils AI tools for Photoshop, Premiere Pro, and Lightroom, and says Firefly Image 5 can generate images in native 4MP resolution (www.theverge.com)
2 days ago AI Adobe

xAI's Grokipedia says Grok fact-checked its entries and some “content is adapted from Wikipedia”; some pages, like the PS5's, are almost identical to Wikipedia (www.theverge.com)
2 days ago

After AWS's major outage, Signal's Meredith Whittaker says there “isn't really another choice” but to use AWS and “the entire stack” is “owned by 3-4 players” (www.theverge.com)
2 days ago

Q&A with Zocdoc CEO Oliver Kharraz on the patient scheduling platform's telehealth expansion, its policy of not providing medical advice through AI, and more (www.theverge.com)
4 days ago AI

Netflix shuts down Boss Fight Entertainment, the game studio behind mobile game Squid Game: Unleashed, after acquiring it in March 2022 (www.theverge.com)
6 days ago Mobile Netflix

OpenAI launches a “company knowledge” ChatGPT update to let Business, Enterprise, and Education users search for data in connected apps like Slack and GitHub (www.theverge.com)
6 days ago Education Slack GitHub

PUBG maker Krafton unveils an “AI First” strategy, investing ~$70M to build a GPU cluster to automate AI workflows and strengthen AI R&D and in-game AI services (www.theverge.com)
7 days ago AI

Microsoft updates Copilot to add Copilot Groups, enabling up to 32 people to collaborate in a session, and a “real talk” mode to add more personality to Copilot (www.theverge.com)
7 days ago Microsoft

Microsoft unveils Mico, a character that responds with real-time expressions when talked to, now on by default in Copilot's voice mode in the US, UK, and Canada (www.theverge.com)
7 days ago Microsoft Canada

Eight Sleep adds an outage mode to its smart beds after complaints they were stuck at sweltering temperatures and in inclined positions during the AWS outage (www.theverge.com)
7 days ago

Q&A with GM CEO Mary Barra and CPO Sterling Anderson on GM's plans for AI and autonomous driving, ditching Apple CarPlay and Android Auto on all its cars, more (www.theverge.com)
8 days ago Android AI Apple

YouTube now lets mobile users set a customizable daily limit to restrict how long they can scroll Shorts feeds; the limit notifications are dismissible (www.theverge.com)
8 days ago Mobile YouTube

Sources: Microsoft is significantly increasing the price of its Xbox Development Kit from $1,500 to $2,000, after hiking Series X prices by $150 in September (www.theverge.com)
8 days ago Microsoft Xbox

Apple MacBook Pro 14 (M5) review: feels the same as M4 with a speed upgrade and still good value for money with great battery life, but only a modest update (www.theverge.com)
9 days ago Apple MacBook Battery

ChatGPT Atlas will feature an agent mode to let ChatGPT take actions; clicking a search link will show a split-screen with the webpage and a ChatGPT transcript (www.theverge.com)
9 days ago

iPad Pro (M5, 2025) review: amazing performance, hardware remains unbeaten, and iPadOS is getting more Mac-like, but still too pricey for a secondary computer (www.theverge.com)
9 days ago iPad

Oura launches a redesigned app with a new metric to show a weekly overview of stress management and says it is working with the US FDA on a blood pressure study (www.theverge.com)
10 days ago

SpaceX launched 56 Starlink satellites on separate Falcon 9 rockets on October 19, surpassing 10,000 total satellites launched into low Earth orbit to date (www.theverge.com)
10 days ago SpaceX

AWS is currently experiencing a major outage that has taken down many services, including Amazon, Alexa, Snapchat, Fortnite, and Signal; AWS is investigating (www.theverge.com)
10 days ago Amazon Snapchat

A look at Opera's Neon, a $20-per-month agentic AI browser that can take over browsing tasks, but its three built-in AI chatbots can be confusing and unreliable (www.theverge.com)
10 days ago AI chatbot Browser

X plans a Handle Marketplace for Premium+ and Business subscribers to search for and request inactive usernames; rare handles can cost from $2,500 to $1M+ (www.theverge.com)
11 days ago

Meta plans new Instagram teen safety tools in 2026, letting parents block teens from chatting with AI characters and sending them “insights” from teens' chats (www.theverge.com)
13 days ago AI Instagram

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