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Valve responds to Steam leak rumors: ‘this was not a breach of Steam systems’
14 May

Valve responds to Steam leak rumors: ‘this was not a breach of Steam systems’

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A leak of old text messages sent to Steam customers with one-time codes for logins was “not a breach of Steam systems,” Valve says in a post published Wednesday. Valve’s response follows news that a hacker is allegedly in possession of 89 million user records and put them up for sale for $5,000, as BleepingComputer reports. BleepingComputer looked at 3,000 leaked files and found “historic SMS text messages with one-time passcodes for Steam, including the recipient’s phone number.” While one X user claimed that there is evidence tying the breach to Twilio, a Twilio spokesperson told BleepingComputer that “there is…
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Apple might let you scroll with your eyes in the Vision Pro
14 May

Apple might let you scroll with your eyes in the Vision Pro

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Apple is testing a feature that will let users scroll through Vision Pro apps using the headset’s eye-tracking capability, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. Eye-based scrolling will apparently work across all of Apple’s built-in apps, and Gurman says the company is working on letting third-party developers use the feature, too. How it would actually function is a mystery, but I could see a system where you have to look at the edge of a page long enough to start scrolling, or focusing on a UI element, then looking above or below it to move a page. You can do a…
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Trump wants to weaken protections against forever chemicals in drinking water
14 May

Trump wants to weaken protections against forever chemicals in drinking water

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Part of a filtration system designed to filter out forever chemicals from a drinking water supply in Pennsylvania in 2019. | Photo: Getty Images The Trump administration plans to weaken drinking water rules meant to protect Americans from “forever chemicals” that have been linked to cancer, reproductive risks, liver damage, and other health issues.  Last year, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finalized the nation’s first legally enforceable federal drinking water limits on the most common types of forever chemicals. Today, the EPA announced an about-face. The agency now wants to exclude several types of the chemicals from the rule, including…
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Meta’s beef with the press flares at its antitrust trial
14 May

Meta’s beef with the press flares at its antitrust trial

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Long-simmering tension between Silicon Valley and the press that covers it is surfacing during the Federal Trade Commission's antitrust trial against Meta. During a heated cross-examination of the FTC's key economic expert, Scott Hemphill, Meta's lead attorney, Mark Hansen, noted that Hemphill joined Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes and former Biden official Tim Wu in pitching regulators on an antitrust probe of the company back in 2019. The pitch deck for the probe that was shown in court included "public recognition" of the company's aggressive acquisition strategy from two reporters: Kara Swisher, who currently hosts two podcasts for The Verge's parent…
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DJI said Mavic 4 Pro wouldn’t launch in US but these stores are selling it anyhow
13 May

DJI said Mavic 4 Pro wouldn’t launch in US but these stores are selling it anyhow

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By the time you read these words, it's quite possible that Adorama will be out of stock of the new DJI Mavic 4 Pro. But when I wrote them, the US-based retailer was still selling a drone that wasn't supposed to go on sale in the US at all, with roughly 70 left in stock. This morning, I wrote how DJI was skipping the US with its most advanced drone yet, citing Trump's tariffs among other reasons for the decision. DJI did not send the drone to US reviewers, and it wouldn't provide US prices when we asked. But Adorama…
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Here are the best robot vacuum deals available right now
13 May

Here are the best robot vacuum deals available right now

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A number of excellent models are on sale right now, including the SwitchBot S10. | Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge We’re in an age where you can realistically delegate tasks to smart hunks of metal, whether it’s a self-driving car or a robot that can clean on your behalf. Most of us probably won’t be able to afford the helpful sentient humanoids being developed in our lifetimes, but robot vacuums are an affordable way to experience that promised utopia right now. Today’s floor cleaners are also more advanced than ever. In addition to vacuuming, many of the…
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Judge slams lawyers for ‘bogus AI-generated research’
13 May

Judge slams lawyers for ‘bogus AI-generated research’

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A California judge slammed a pair of law firms for the undisclosed use of AI after he received a supplemental brief with “numerous false, inaccurate, and misleading legal citations and quotations.” In a ruling submitted last week, Judge Michael Wilner imposed $31,000 in sanctions against the law firms involved, saying “no reasonably competent attorney should out-source research and writing” to AI, as pointed out by law professors Eric Goldman and Blake Reid on Bluesky. “I read their brief, was persuaded (or at least intrigued) by the authorities that they cited, and looked up the decisions to learn more about them…
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13 May

Elon Musk’s apparent power play at the Copyright Office completely backfired

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What initially appeared to be a power play by Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to take over the US Copyright Office by having Donald Trump remove the officials in charge has now backfired in spectacular fashion, as Trump's acting replacements are known to be unfriendly - and even downright hostile - to the tech industry. When Trump fired Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden last week and Register of Copyrights Shira Perlmutter over the weekend, it was seen as another move driven by the tech wing of the Republican Party - especially in light of the Copyright…
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Samsung’s S25 Edge is a thin phone with two big tradeoffs
13 May

Samsung’s S25 Edge is a thin phone with two big tradeoffs

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The S25 Edge is just 5.8mm thick, not counting the camera bump. Samsung's thin phone is here. The Galaxy S25 Edge - first teased back in January - is essentially a slimmed-down S25 Plus, with the same 6.7-inch OLED display, Snapdragon 8 Elite for Galaxy chipset, and AI features. The compact design comes at a price though, and you'll have to do without the telephoto lens or beefy battery. At 163g (about 5.7 ounces), the Edge is just a gram heavier than the regular S25, with its dinky little 6.2-inch screen, and at 5.8mm thick it's comfortably thinner than any…
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Fallout’s second season premieres in December and will be followed by a third
12 May

Fallout’s second season premieres in December and will be followed by a third

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Get ready for more Fallout. The second season of the hit Prime Video show will premiere in December, and the show has already been renewed for a third, Variety reports. The second season will “pick up in the aftermath of Season One’s epic finale and take audiences along for a journey through the wasteland of the Mojave to the post-apocalyptic city of New Vegas,” according to a description included in Variety. Production wrapped on the season last week. There’s no word on when the third season might premiere. Hopefully the early renewal means we’ll see it sooner rather than later.…
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