This is what a plant sounds like when it’s stressed

A gardener facing water shortages checks his tomato plants in southern France in August 2022. | Image: PASCAL GUYOT/AFP via Getty Images ...

The ‘Truckla’ DIY Tesla pickup truck is still trucking

Simone Giertz pulls up in her freshly detailed and upgraded Truckla. | Image: Simone Giertz Remember that Tesla Model 3 that was chopped...

Groupon, Which Has Lost 99.4% of Its Value Since Its IPO, Names a New CEO

An anonymous reader shares a report: A dozen years ago, Groupon shot to fame popularizing the online group buying format, confidently reject...

Audible is Testing Ad-Supported Access To Select Titles For Non-Members

Audible is testing ad-supported access to select titles for non-members, the Amazon-owned audiobook company revealed on a help page on its w...

Twitter takes its algorithm ‘open-source,’ as Elon Musk promised

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Twitter has released the code that chooses which tweets show up on your timeline to GitHub and h...

Reddit Says It's Banning More People Than Ever in Big Transparency Push

An anonymous reader writes: Reddit's transparency reports go beyond what most social media companies offer, providing copious data on co...

Synopsys Intros AI-Powered EDA Suite To Accelerate Chip Design and Cut Costs

Synopsys has introduced the industry's first full-stack AI-powered suite of electronic design automation tools that covers all stages of...

E3 2023 Has Been Canceled

E3 2023 has been called off "after huge gaming companies like Nintendo, Microsoft, and Ubisoft all said they wouldn't be participat...

South Korea Passes Tax Break-Driven 'Chips Act' as Protectionism Fears Mount

South Korea has passed legislation giving tax breaks to its semiconductor companies in a bill being labelled as the "Korean Chips Act.&...

Star Trek: Starfleet Academy will follow the most ambitious students in the galaxy

Star Trek: Starfleet Academy. | Image: Paramount Plus A few months ago, we received the news that Star Trek: Discovery was being cancel...

The Framework Laptop 16 is trying to bring back snap-on removable batteries

Turns out the Framework Laptop 16’s Expansion Bay is designed to accommodate secondary batteries, too. | Image: Framework I may have cha...

BuzzFeed is using AI to write SEO-bait travel guides

Image: Hugo Herrera / The Verge BuzzFeed has taken its next step into AI-written content and started publishing AI-generated travel guid...

US, Partner Countries Call For Controls To Counter Misuse of Spyware

The United States and some of its partner countries on Thursday called for strict domestic and international controls to counter the prolife...

After Two Years, Autodesk Maya and AutoCAD Become Apple Silicon-Native

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: It has been two years and four months since the first Apple Silicon Mac hit the marke...

Microsoft Patched Bing Vulnerability That Allowed Snooping on Email and Other Data

Microsoft patched a dangerous security issue in Bing last month just days before it launched a new artificial intelligence-powered version o...

Free AI Programs Prone To Security Risks, Researchers Say

Companies rushing to adopt hot new types of artificial intelligence should exercise caution when using open-source versions of the technolog...

Danganronpa’s creator wants to make detective games more approachable

Master Detective Archives: Rain Code. | Image: Spike Chunsoft While detective stories are a mainstay in the worlds of film, television, ...

Sam Bankman-Fried's Legal Defense Is Being Funded With Alameda Money He Gifted His Father

While still CEO of now-collapsed FTX, Sam Bankman-Fried transferred millions of dollars to his father. Some of those funds have since been u...

Exxon's Climate Opponents Were Infiltrated by Massive Hacking-for-Hire Operation

An anonymous reader shares a report: In the midst of perpetrating what federal prosecutors say was a massive corporate hacking campaign, Isr...

Senator Rand Paul Opposes TikTok Ban Push in Congress

Republican Senator Rand Paul on Wednesday opposed efforts in Congress to ban popular Chinese-owned social media app TikTok, which is used by...

Amazon Starts Flagging 'Frequently Returned' Products That You Maybe Shouldn't Buy

Amazon is starting to warn consumers when products sold on its platform are regularly shipped back for returns. The Verge: As reported by Th...

There might be new X-Files from Black Panther director Ryan Coogler

Obligatory “the truth is out there.” | Fox Ryan Coogler, the director of Creed and both Black Panther films, may be eying another franc...

Microsoft Unveils OpenAI-Based Chat Tools for Fighting Cyberattacks

Microsoft, extending a frenzy of artificial intelligence software releases, is introducing new chat tools that can help cybersecurity teams ...

Russia Supplies Iran With Cyber Weapons as Military Cooperation Grows

Russia is helping Iran gain advanced digital-surveillance capabilities as Tehran seeks deeper cooperation on cyberwarfare, WSJ reported Tues...

Google Partners With AI Startup Replit To Take on Microsoft's GitHub

Alphabet's Google is striking a partnership to combine its artificial intelligence language models with software from startup Replit tha...

Scientists erupt at NASA gutting funding for crucial Venus mission

Maat Mons is displayed in this computer-generated 3D perspective of the surface of Venus. | Image: NASA/JPL The recent discovery of volc...

Microsoft Says Its New Version of Teams Is Twice As Fast

Microsoft said Monday it is starting to roll out a faster new version of its Teams communication app for Windows to commercial clients enrol...

President Joe Biden says US can’t buy spyware that other countries have used against it

Illustration: Alex Castro / The Verge The Biden administration is trying to clamp down on the government’s use of any commercial spyware ...

Ubisoft bails on E3 in favor of its own show in Los Angeles

Illustration: Alex Castro / The Verge Ubisoft is backing out of its planned attendance at the E3 2023 in-person expo in favor of its own ...

Glass Beads On Moon's Surface May Hold Billions of Tons of Water, Scientists Say

Slashdot reader votsalo shares a report from the Guardian: Tiny glass beads strewn across the moon's surface contain potentially billion...

Japan Lawmakers Eye Ban on TikTok, Others If Used Improperly

A group of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) lawmakers plans to compile a proposal next month urging the government to ban s...