Massive podcast outage caused by Spotify’s failure to renew security certificate

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Podcast listeners could not access many of their favorite shows for more than eight hours on Mond...

Netflix's Password-Sharing Test in Peru is Confusing Subscribers

It's been a bumpy ride for Netflix recently, and the announcement that it will be charging for password sharing hasn't gone as smoot...

Greece, Saudi Arabia Eye Fibre Optic Data Cable To Link Europe With Asia

Greece and Saudi Arabia agreed on Tuesday on the main terms to set up a joint venture to lay a fibre optic data cable that will link Europe ...

Sonic Frontier’s first trailer channels Zelda and Horizon franchises

Sega / Sonic Team Ahead of Geoff Keighley’s not-E3 but also sorta kinda E3 Summer Games Fest next week, Sonic Team has released an extre...

Bo Burnham’s new hour-long video goes behind Inside (and has new songs)

While we were(n’t) outside touching grass, Bo Burnham has pieced together an entire hour’s worth of outtakes and cut content from his 2021...

The Underground Company That Hacks iPhones for Ordinary Consumers

Researchers suspect the checkm8[dot]info service is used by criminals to launder stolen iPhones. The tool's administrator claims the ser...

Google Quietly Bans Deepfake Training Projects on Colab

Google has quietly banned deepfake projects on its Colaboratory (Colab) service, putting an end to the large-scale utilization of the platfo...

Alleged Pixel 7 prototype hits eBay months ahead of the phone’s official release

A photo of the Pixel 7 prototype. | Image: eBay listing An alleged prototype of Google’s upcoming Pixel 7 smartphone has been posted on ...

Greece Passes First Climate Law, Vows To Cut Dependence on Fossil Fuels

Greece has passed its first climate law, which sets out specific targets to fight climate change and wean itself off coal in power generatio...

Oddly enough, The Weather Channel makes for a pretty great streaming service

Mixed reality forecasts are a big part of TWC’s future. | Image: The Weather Channel The Weather Channel is not trying to win you over by...

Japan Tries To Revitalize Its Research

Alarmed by the declining stature of its universities, Japan is planning to shower up to $2.3 billion a year on a handful of schools in hopes...

Australian Watchdog Sues Mastercard for Allegedly Misusing Card Payment Market Power

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has started legal proceedings in the Federal Court against Mastercard Asia Pacific...

California Fails to Pass Right to Repair Bill

It was "the furthest any Right to Repair bill for consumer electronics has come to becoming law" in America, reports the nonprofit...

'Turn an Old PC Into a High-End Amiga with AmiKit'

Mike Bouma (Slashdot reader #85,252) writes: AmiKit is a compilation of pre-installed and pre-configured Amiga programs running emulated on ...

Should IT Professionals Be Liable for Ransomware Attacks?

Denmark-based Poul-Henning Kamp describes himself as the "author of a lot of FreeBSD, most of Varnish and tons of other Open Source Sof...

For $500, you can buy the Third Sister’s 6.5-foot double-bladed lightsaber

It measures 6.5 feet in length with both blades attached. | Image: Hasbro Hasbro has designed a lifelike lightsaber just in time for the...

Instagram Moderators Say Iran Offered Them Bribes to Remove Accounts

The BBC reports: A Persian-language content moderator for Instagram and a former content moderator have said Iranian intelligence officials ...

Will Electric Cars Transform the Workforce?

Gas-powered vehicles "have hundreds of moving parts and other components" that keep mechanics busy, argues CalMatters (which descr...

Why Are There No Bridges Over the Amazon River?

LiveScience reports: Despite being around 4,300 miles in length, the Amazon River surprisingly has no bridges. The Amazon River is the world...

Minor League Baseball is Now Using AI Umpires to Call Strikes

"There's no guarantee that robot umpires will make their way to the majors," writes the San Francisco Chronicle. "But the...

Cydia's Antitrust Case Against Apple Can Proceed, Judge Rules

In 2018, Engadget described Cydia as the maker of an app store for jailbroken iPhones that shut down claiming it just wasn't profitable ...

How CentOS Stream and RHEL 9 Led to AlmaLinux 9

ZDNet writes that in late 2020 Red Hat decided "they'd no longer release CentOS Linux as a standalone distribution. Instead, CentOS...

Disney+ Premiers New Star Wars Miniseries 'Obi-Wan Kenobi'

CNET reviews Obi-Wan Kenobi, the new six-episode miniseries premiering today on Disney+ It's a question that's vexed Star Wars fans ...

Twitter Circle is starting to roll out to more users

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Twitter started testing Circle earlier this month with a limited group, and now it looks like it...

Newest Version of Systemd Includes Experimental Feature for A/B-Style Updating

"Let's popularize image-based OSes," writes Lennart Poettering, "with modernized security properties built around immutab...

The new Ayn Loki handheld runs Windows and starts at $299

The Ayn Loki inherits much of its design from the Ayn Odin. | Image: Ayn Ayn, the maker of the Odin Android handheld , is releasing a li...

Google is Rolling Out Chrome 102 with 32 Security Fixes, One Critical

This week Google began a rolling release for stable Chrome version 102 "with 32 security fixes for browser on Windows, Mac and Linux,&q...

Russian Academics Aim To Punish Colleagues Who Backed Ukraine Invasion

Some academic researchers in Russia are quietly working to prevent colleagues who have supported their country's invasion of Ukraine fro...

Netflix adds content warning to Stranger Things season 4 premiere after Texas school shooting

Millie Bobby Brown as Eleven. | Netflix Due to the general but chilling similarities the opening scenes of Stranger Things 4 bear to th...

Larger-than-30TB Hard Drives Are Coming Much Sooner Than Expected

Inside of hard disk drives are platters which hold all your data; these are all manufactured by one company in Japan called Showa Denko whic...