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A look back at BitTorrent, launched by Bram Cohen 25 years ago, and how media piracy fueled its growth while its architecture shielded it from legal liability (www.theverge.com)
2026-7-3

Amazon says Leo reached 396 satellites in low-Earth orbit following a recent launch, which is “enough to support continuous service across initial latitudes” (www.theverge.com)
2026-7-2 Amazon

Sources: Microsoft has been working on a disc-to-digital feature for Xbox One and Xbox Series X that will let users digitize their physical game collections (www.theverge.com)
2026-7-2 Microsoft Xbox

Sony says it is closing the virtual PlayStation 3 store in select markets in 2026 ahead of global store closures for the PS3 and PS Vita in July 2027 (www.theverge.com)
2026-7-1 Sony

Meta introduces a $20/month Meta One Premium tier for its glasses and limits its Conversation Focus feature to three hours of use per month for free users (www.theverge.com)
2026-7-1

OpenAI teases a device it is launching in partnership with keyboard maker Work Louder on July 15, saying “Your favorite Codex shortcuts are getting an upgrade” (www.theverge.com)
2026-6-30

Rocket Lab plans to acquire Iridium for $8B and combine Rocket Lab's launch services with Iridium's satellite-based communications network to rival SpaceX (www.theverge.com)
2026-6-30 SpaceX

Rockstar sets the release date for GTA VI for November 19 and says it will cost $79.99, or $99.99 for the Ultimate Edition; pre-orders start at midnight tonight (www.theverge.com)
2026-6-24

Valve Steam Machine review: small and quiet, runs PC games well on a TV, but nearly twice the price of a PS5 for PS5 performance and needs manual configuration (www.theverge.com)
2026-6-24

Meta Fury, Meta Adventurer, and Meta Glasses by Kylie all sport EssilorLuxottica branding; Meta executives say dropping Ray-Ban helps keep the price down (www.theverge.com)
2026-6-23 Ban

Real estate professionals are increasingly using AI-powered virtual staging tools like Stuccco and BoxBrownie to create misleading house and apartment listings (www.theverge.com)
2026-6-23 AI

Valve says Steam Machine, its new living room-friendly PC, will start at $1,049 for the 512GB base model, and go on sale starting June 29 (www.theverge.com)
2026-6-23

Valve Steam Machine review: much smaller than PS5, surprisingly smooth, and navigable with any modern gamepad but very expensive and needs manual configuration (www.theverge.com)
2026-6-23

Barret Zoph leaves OpenAI again five months after rejoining in January; Zoph initially left OpenAI in 2024 to serve as Thinking Machines Lab co-founder and CTO (www.theverge.com)
2026-6-19

Midjourney unveils its first hardware product, the Midjourney Scanner, an ultrasound-based full-body scanner; it is unclear how AI fits into the medical effort (www.theverge.com)
2026-6-18 AI

Snap unveils $2,195 Specs, its first “fully standalone” AR glasses, which have a 51-degree field of view, set to ship “this fall” in the US, the UK, and France (www.theverge.com)
2026-6-18 France AR

Google's $99 Google Home Speaker, which is built for Gemini for Home and works as a Matter controller, will ship on June 29, nine months after it was announced (www.theverge.com)
2026-6-18 Google

Snap unveils $2,195 Specs, its first AR glasses that are “fully standalone” and have a 51-degree field of view, expected “this fall” in the US, UK, and France (www.theverge.com)
2026-6-17 France AR

Microsoft upgrades Surface Pro and Surface Laptop with Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 chips; Pro starts at $1,499 and Laptop at $1,599, both $100 higher than last-gen (www.theverge.com)
2026-6-16 Microsoft

Roblox rolls out Roblox Kids accounts, for ages 5-8, and Roblox Select accounts, for ages 9-15, globally, after launching them in four countries last month (www.theverge.com)
2026-6-16

As the 2026 FIFA World Cup begins, there is still no clear replacement for “Sports Twitter”, which was a perfect second-screen experience during live events (www.theverge.com)
2026-6-14 Twitter

Nothing CEO Carl Pei says memory is now the costliest phone component, accounting for 50%+ of BOM in some models, and predicts phone prices will rise into 2027 (www.theverge.com)
2026-6-14

Product head Alex Benzer says Bluesky in 2026 plans to add “communities”, smaller spaces to “go deeper and hang out with people who care about the same stuff” (www.theverge.com)
2026-6-12

Deezer launches an AI music detection tool for users of 20 services, including Spotify and Apple Music, after no company licensed its AI detection tech (www.theverge.com)
2026-6-11 AI Apple Spotify

Product head Alex Benzer says Bluesky plans to add “communities” this year, smaller spaces to “go deeper and hang out with people who care about the same stuff” (www.theverge.com)
2026-6-11

Xbox CEO Asha Sharma and CCO Matt Booty warn of an “Xbox reset” in the next 100 days, citing challenges like annual revenue down ~$500M over the past five years (www.theverge.com)
2026-6-11 Xbox

Instagram expands Your Algorithm to its main feed, letting users choose topics they want to see, and is working to support requests for people, moods, and more (www.theverge.com)
2026-6-11 Instagram Algorithm

Sources: Microsoft is restricting employees from using Claude Fable 5 because of Anthropic's new 30-day data retention requirements (www.theverge.com)
2026-6-11 Microsoft

Hands-on with Siri AI: successfully executed multi-step prompts, understood context well, has strong guardrails, and is a bit more dispassionate than Gemini (www.theverge.com)
2026-6-10 AI

Meta plans to expand the use of off-platform data, such as e-commerce purchases, from serving ads to personalize content feeds and AI responses (www.theverge.com)
2026-6-10 AI

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