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xAI publishes system prompts for Grok on GitHub, including telling Grok to be “extremely skeptical” and not to “blindly defer to mainstream authority or media” (www.theverge.com)
2025-5-17 GitHub

Epic Games says Fortnite on iOS will be offline worldwide “until Apple unblocks it” after Apple rejected its latest submission to the US App Store (www.theverge.com)
2025-5-16 IOS Apple

Sources: Microsoft stops production of its Surface Laptop Studio 2 and plans to mark the device's end of life in June, with no plans for a successor (www.theverge.com)
2025-5-16 Microsoft

FTC v. Meta: Meta asks the judge to throw out the antitrust case, arguing the FTC failed to prove that Meta is an illegal monopoly after five weeks of trial (www.theverge.com)
2025-5-16

Motorola Razr Ultra review: one of the best smartphone designs, great battery life, and useful outer screen, but useless AI button and durability concerns (www.theverge.com)
2025-5-15 AI Battery

Roblox rolls out tools to let eligible creators sell physical items from their games via its Commerce APIs, working with Shopify as a first “integrated partner” (www.theverge.com)
2025-5-15 Shopify

Apple adds red exclamation mark warnings on EU App Store listings for apps using third-party payment systems, not Apple's “private and secure payment system” (www.theverge.com)
2025-5-15 Apple

Grok replied with information about South Africa's “white genocide” when X users asked it to fact-check unrelated topics; the issue appears to have been fixed (www.theverge.com)
2025-5-15 Africa South Africa

Senators Marsha Blackburn and Richard Blumenthal reintroduce the Kids Online Safety Act, mandating platforms like Meta to mitigate harms; Apple supports KOSA (www.theverge.com)
2025-5-15 Apple

FTC v. Meta: Meta's lawyer disparaged tech journalists Kara Swisher and Om Malik, calling Malik a “failed blogger”, showing Meta's long-simmering media tensions (www.theverge.com)
2025-5-14

Microsoft extends support for Microsoft 365 apps on Windows 10 until October 10, 2028, after previously announcing plans to end support by October 14, 2025 (www.theverge.com)
2025-5-14 Microsoft

Trump's acting replacements for the Copyright Office are known to be unfriendly to the tech industry and not the kind of people that AI proponents would support (www.theverge.com)
2025-5-14 Trump AI

Google rebrands Find My Device to Find Hub, which recently added a People tab to track contacts, and adds UWB support to the app for more precise tracking (www.theverge.com)
2025-5-14 Google

PayPal reportedly launches iPhone NFC payments in Germany, after the EU's DMA forced Apple to open up (www.theverge.com)
2025-5-14 Germany iPhone Apple

FTC v. Meta: the US case may come down to whether Judge James Boasberg believes blockchain social platform MeWe is a closer competitor to Instagram than TikTok (www.theverge.com)
2025-5-14 Blockchain Instagram

Yuga Labs sells its CryptoPunks NFT collection, acquired in 2022, to Infinite Node Foundation for an undisclosed sum, after its market value and sales stagnated (www.theverge.com)
2025-5-14

Spotify updates its AI DJ to let Premium subscribers use English voice commands to customize its music selection, taking requests for artists, genres, and moods (www.theverge.com)
2025-5-13 AI Spotify

Chinese drone company DJI unveils the €2,099 Mavic 4 Pro with a 360° rotating gimbal, and says it won't be available in the US at launch, a first for its drones (www.theverge.com)
2025-5-13 China Drone Qihoo

Ticketmaster announces it will now show the full price of your ticket up front, ahead of the FTC's ban on junk fees, which goes into effect on May 12 (www.theverge.com)
2025-5-13 Ban

Honor launches a free AI image-to-video generator powered by Google's Veo 2 in the Honor 400 and 400 Pro, shipping May 22; Veo 2 is limited to paid Gemini plans (www.theverge.com)
2025-5-12 Google AI

Q&A with Sonos interim CEO Tom Conrad on the disastrous app redesign, the Ace headphones, subscriptions, the canceled video player, Google, and more (www.theverge.com)
2025-5-11 Google

Whoop sparks a backlash after asking its subscribers to pay to upgrade to 5.0, despite earlier promises of free hardware upgrades after six months of membership (www.theverge.com)
2025-5-10

Whoop launches Whoop 5.0, its latest screenless wearable, including a medical grade version with Healthspan, showing users how they are aging physiologically (www.theverge.com)
2025-5-10

A federal judge in Florida dismisses most claims against celebrities who endorsed FTX, ruling that they were “uninformed” and “reckless” but not fraudulent (www.theverge.com)
2025-5-9

Rockstar says its new Grand Theft Auto VI trailer was “captured entirely in-game from a PlayStation 5, comprised of equal parts gameplay and cutscenes” (www.theverge.com)
2025-5-8

Samsung subsidiary Harman has agreed to acquire Masimo's audio division, which includes the Bowers & Wilkins, Denon, and Polk Audio brands, for $350M (www.theverge.com)
2025-5-8 Samsung

Netflix says it plans to start testing a TikTok-like feed of vertical video in its mobile app in “the coming weeks” to help users find new content to watch (www.theverge.com)
2025-5-7 Mobile Netflix

The three most-downloaded PS5 games for April in North America and Europe were all Microsoft titles: Minecraft, the Oblivion remaster, and Forza Horizon 5 (www.theverge.com)
2025-5-7 Europe U.S. Microsoft

Microsoft unveils the $799+ Surface Pro 12, a fan-less, Arm-powered tablet with a 90Hz display and two USB-C 3.2 ports, shipping May 20, and a new $150 keyboard (www.theverge.com)
2025-5-6 Microsoft

Microsoft unveils the $899+ Surface Laptop 13, with a smaller 13" display, an 8-core Snapdragon X Plus, 16GB RAM, and up to 512GB of storage, shipping May 20 (www.theverge.com)
2025-5-6 Microsoft

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