A floating Claude Code chat that sees your screen Discussion | Link

Amid signs of slowing engagement, Netflix is reportedly considering launching "always-on" live channels, giving subscribers something to tune into 24/7.

I really enjoyed the old Google, the nerd Google, the "don’t be evil" Google... Google Reader, Android, GTalk, etc. It made communication with my friends much easier. I had already been moving everything away from the Google ecosystem for about two years, but Google Photos was the hardest part because it contained so many memories that I wouldn’t risk losing. The final straw was when I accidentally subscribed to Google One with AI, which costs much more than simple additional storage. It’s not t

The Trump phone was never a serious phone. Not when it was announced last June, in dodgy renders and with an incoherent spec sheet. Nor when Trump Mobile admitted - just two weeks later - that it wouldn't be made in the US. Not even when the company revealed the final phone, first to me […]

The tech giant is in breach of the Digital Services Act by focusing on features like infinite scroll, autoplay, push notifications, and the highly personalized recommendation algorithms, the European Commission said.

This week on the Engadget Podcast, we dive into Microsoft's brutal Xbox layoffs with Mike Futter of the Virtual Economy Podcast.

A third ransomware negotiator has been jailed for helping a notorious ransomware group extort American victim companies into paying the hackers.

Give your AI agents design taste from existing websites Discussion | Link

Open source AI is booming, according to Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue. The company has grown into something like a GitHub for AI in recent years, where AI builders can share and download open models and datasets, now used by roughly half the Fortune 500. Delangue has seen the same story play out again and again: companies start […]

This is Optimizer, a weekly newsletter sent from Verge senior reviewer Victoria Song that dissects and discusses the latest gizmos and potions that swear they're going to change your life. Opt in for Optimizer here. Bryan Johnson, best known as the man who wants to live forever, has an incurable autoimmune disease. The internet's most […]

Hello my friends! My protocol pals! My computational compadres! I'm David, a technology reporter and cohost of the Waveform Podcast. I'll be hosting a subscriber-only "AMA" today at 11AM PT / 2PM ET. For the next six weeks, I'm filling in for senior reviewer Allison Johnson, who you are all likely very familiar with. That […]

VW's plan calls for half as many models but didn't mention closures or job cuts.

Agentic testing is an AI-driven approach to end-to-end test automation introduced by Slack engineering. It uses AI agents that execute workflows based on intent rather than fixed scripts, adapting to UI and system changes at runtime. The approach aims to reduce brittle tests in distributed systems while complementing deterministic unit, integration, and E2E testing strategies. By Leela Kumili

Though Instagram head Adam Mosseri doesn't want to filter out AI content on the platform, he argues that you "shouldn't have it in your feed" if you don't like it. "I don't think we should filter out AI content," Mosseri said during an interview on Lenny Rachitsky's podcast. "I think we should let you know […]

Bryan Oliver discusses the frontier of AI infrastructure: chaos engineering for large-scale GPU clusters. He shares how engineering leaders can handle complex topologies, network protocols like RDMA, and NUMA misalignments. Discover seven practical fault-injection strategies to maximize multi-million dollar hardware efficiency and build robust observability loops. By Bryan Oliver