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Microsoft is unveiling its own command line text editor on Windows today. Edit on Windows will be accessible by using edit" in a command prompt, allowing developers to edit files within the command line. It's part of a number of improvements to Windows developer tools at Microsoft's Build conference today to improve the Windows experience [...]

A Microsoft employee disrupted the company's Build developer conference in Seattle, Washington, this morning, protesting against the company's cloud and AI contracts with the Israeli government. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella had only been onstage for a matter of minutes before protesters started interrupting his speech, with one shouting, Free Palestine!" Nadella continued his keynote, ignoring [...]

Bluesky is making it easier to know when an NBA game is happening with a new test that adds a red border to the NBA's profile picture, along with a live" callout below it. When you click the profile picture, you'll be taken out of Bluesky and to whatever live event the organization is promoting, [...]

Asus is updating three of its gaming laptop lines with configurations featuring the new GeForce RTX 5060 GPU, offering features like Multi Frame Generation for higher framerates at slightly lower prices. Nvidia's mid-range graphics are coming to the beefy ROG Strix G16 and G18, ROG Zephyrus G14 hybrid gaming / creativity laptop, and the entry-level [...]

Web developers will be able to start leveraging on-device AI in Microsoft's Edge browser soon, using new APIs that can give their web apps access to Microsoft's Phi-4-mini model, the company announced at its Build conference today. And Microsoft says the API will be cross-platform, so it sounds like these APIs will work with the [...]

Microsoft launched its Copilot Plus PC and Windows AI efforts last year, and now it's going a step further today with native Model Context Protocol (MCP) in Windows and the launch of the Windows AI Foundry. The groundwork is necessary for a future envisioned by Microsoft whereby automated AI agents assist their human companions. Introduced [...]

GitHub is launching an AI coding agent that can do things like fix bugs, add features, and improve documentation - all on a developer's behalf. The agent is embedded directly into GitHub Copilot, and it will start working once a user assigns it a task, according to an announcement at Microsoft Build. To complete its [...]

Microsoft's four-day Build conference kicks off on Monday, May 19th, with a livestream starting at 9AM PT / 12PM ET. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella will be on stage to present all the latest Windows, Office, and AI news, followed by developer sessions that will be free for anyone to register and watch online. Build is [...]

Today, I'm talking with Kevin Scott, the chief technology officer of Microsoft and one of the company's AI leaders. This is Kevin's third time on Decoder, and he's one of my favorite guests. He thinks a lot about the relationship between technology, art, and culture, and he's unusually willing to dive into the weeds of [...]

"So the 10,000-foot-level view is that we've had three big revolutions in personal computing." That's how Ramanathan V. Guha, a technical fellow at Microsoft, begins his explanation of what I had thought was a relatively minor AI announcement coming at this year's Build developer conference. But Guha continues to make his case that what he [...]

Razer is making its Blade 14 thinner and more powerful, just like it did recently with its 16-inch counterpart. In addition to giving it an RTX 5060 GPU with a starting price of $2,299.99, the Blade 14 can be specced out with the RTX 5070 for $2,699.99. Razer says it isn't limiting that 5070 in [...]

The portable and capable Sonos Move 2 wireless speaker just hit its lowest price yet at Amazon and Best Buy, costing $336 (was $449) for each of its three available colors. It's still pricey, but now it's a better deal. Its built-in battery can last up to 24 hours of continuous playback, and, like the [...]

Sunny days are on their way to Netflix. The streamer just announced that the next season of Sesame Street will be available on Netflix later this year." Season 56 of the show won't be fully exclusive to Netflix, as the company says that it has exclusive worldwide premiere rights and episodes will be available day-and-date [...]

Google's annual I/O developer conference is almost here, and all eyes will be on the company's opening keynote. But for the first time in years, we know there's little reason to hope for major Android OS announcements, since Google already did that last week. Instead, we're expecting I/O's keynote to be (almost) all about AI, [...]

Microsoft's annual developer conference kicks off today in Seattle, Washington, during the same week Google hosts its own I/O developer event in Mountain View, California. Build will be focused on Microsoft's latest platform changes for developers, including new AI announcements that are bound to go head-to-head with Google's own news. Microsoft is streaming Build online [...]

Apple Intelligence has been a wreck since its first features rolled out last year, and a big new report from Bloomberg's Mark Gurman details why - and how Apple is trying to piece things back together. And much of its effort hinges on rebuilding Siri from the ground up. Gurman has reported in the past [...]

While the best iPad deals usually land during major sale events like Black Friday and Prime Day,many great iPad deals are attainable outside of those times. The day-to-day discounts may come and go like changing winds, but there's often some amount to be saved, particularly on Apple's more affordable iPads. The most recentiPad Pro and [...]

China has launched the first 12 satellites of a planned 2,800-strong orbital supercomputer satellite network, reports Space News. The satellites, created by the company ADA Space, Zhijiang Laboratory, and Neijang High-Tech Zone, will be able to process the data they collect themselves, rather than relying on terrestrial stations to do it for them, according to [...]

For most of my life, I've relied on a paper map when I go outdoors. Then, in March, I joined my friend Rusty on the Appalachian Trail for two weeks. He told me to download FarOut. FarOut was my introduction to the world of app-based navigation. It's focused on thru-hikers, and has useful details, including [...]

There have been a lot of big games this year that have felt all-consuming, like Monster Hunter Wilds or Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. Maze Mice offers something different: a small, pick-up-and-play experience that takes a bunch of ideas from some classics and adds a clever twist. The game, from Luck Be a Landlord developer TrampolineTales, [...]

Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 83, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you're new here, welcome, please don't spoil Andor for me, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I've been reading about Mission: Impossible and Sam Altman's kitchen and [...]

Yesterday, Reuters ran a story with the headline Weeks after Amazon's Alexa+ AI launch, a mystery: where are the users?," in which it detailed its difficulty locating first-hand accounts of the AI-upgraded assistants' use online. The Verge asked Amazon about the story, and the company has responded to say that the idea that Alexa Plus [...]

A former DoorDash delivery driver pleaded guilty this week to a wire fraud conspiracy that scammed the company out of over $2.5 million, the US Attorney's Office in California's Northern District announced on Tuesday. He and others made it happen over a period of months using fake customer accounts, deliveries that never happened, driver accounts, [...]

Epic is asking District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers to order Apple to review - and approve if compliant with Apple's guidelines - Epic's submission of Fortnite to the US App Store in a new court filing.The company argues in the document that Appleis once again in contempt of the judge's April order restricting it from [...]

Last fall, Logitech CEO Hanneke Faber was roundly ridiculed after suggesting the company would like to produce a "Forever Mouse" - a mouse with a monthly subscription fee for software updates. It seemed to betray a lack of understanding: many people who buy mice don't want software at all, much less software they have to [...]

Let's get one thing out of the way immediately: you shouldn't buy Huawei's trifold phone, the Mate XT. And that's alright, because you probably couldn't if you wanted to - while it's no longer exclusive to China, it's only on sale in a handful of countries, and not in the US or Europe. Besides, I [...]

If you like games with parrying, there are two great new ways to get your fix: Doom: The Dark Ages and Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. These very different games - one is a fast-paced first-person shooter, the other a turn-based fantasy RPG - approach the mechanic in very different ways. Let's start with Doom. One [...]

Android is getting its biggest visual update in years, and rather than unveiling it for the first time at its big annual developer conference, Google announced Material Three Expressive at a pre-show event broadcast on YouTube the week before. If a major design language shift for the world's most popular mobile OS doesn't qualify as [...]

Meta's building a new AI data center so massive in Louisiana that the local utility company has plans to construct three new gas-fired power plants to provide it with enough electricity. Now, advocates and lawmakers are pressing Meta for answers about how it'll clean up pollution stemming from the data center's energy consumption. Sen. Sheldon [...]

GameStop will have additional Switch 2 stock available in-store and online when the console launches next month, according to a post on X. In-store launch events will begin at 3PM local time on June 4th, according to the company. Pickups start on June 5th at 12AM EST / June 4th at 9PM PST. Online orders [...]

Activision is starting to wind down Call of Duty: Warzone Mobile just over a year after its global launch. The game has not met our expectations with mobile-first players like it has with PC and console audiences," according to a post on X. The company will be pulling the game from the App Store and [...]

Nintendo announced last month that it would be updating a handful of Switch games to run better on the Switch 2, and now some details about the planned improvements are available on its website. The improvements vary per game, but they include things like optimizing visuals for the Switch 2's larger screen, better frame rates, [...]

It's a great time to catch up on some big games you might've missed out on recently. Epic Games is holding a Mega Sale that includes big discounts on a ton of PC games, including Grand Theft Auto V Enhanced, which is on sale for $14.99 instead of $29.99, and The Last of Us Part [...]

Microsoft has quietly launched an updated Spotlight-like launcher app for Windows that provides quick access to commands, apps, and development tools. The software maker originally launched its PowerToys Run launcher for Windows 10 nearly five years ago, and the updated version - Command Palette - now includes search for apps, folders, and files, calculations, system [...]

Microsoft is going to allow Xbox owners to pin apps and games directly to the Home UI. The latest change to the homescreen section of the Xbox dashboard will be available to Xbox Insiders this week, alongside options to hide system apps, choose the number of apps and games listed, and modify the size of [...]

Fortnite maker Epic Games has announced that Apple has blocked the game's return to iOS. Following the rejection, Fortnite is no longer available on iPhones and iPads even in the European Union, where it had previously been available to download through the Epic Games Store. Apple has blocked our Fortnite submission so we cannot release [...]

Verizon's $20 billion deal to acquire the fiber internet provider Frontier is officially happening. On Friday, the Federal Communications Commission signed off on the merger, which will allow Verizon to upgrade and expand" Frontier's existing fiber networks. Verizon expects to bring fiber to 1 million homes each year following the acquisition. The deal went through [...]

After The Washington Post earlier this month revealed that Secretary of State Marco Rubio had instructed the State Department to help Starlink expand in order to fend off Chinese technological influence, an extensive ProPublica article published Thursday dove deeper into what those campaigns looked like at the ground level. According to cables sent between the [...]

Succession creator Jesse Armstrong has never been subtle with his commentary on the rich and powerful, but the new trailer for his HBO feature Mountainhead spells out exactly what makes its central characters people you shouldn't be rooting for. Set in a remote cabin at the top of a mountain, Mountainhead revolves around a quartet [...]

xAI has published the system prompts for its AI chatbot Grok after an unauthorized" change led to a slew of unprompted responses on X about white genocide. The company says it will publish its Grok system prompts on GitHub from now on, which provide some insight into the way xAI has instructed Grok to respond [...]

Spotify announced earlier this month that podcast creators and listeners would get a new data point: how many plays an episode has gotten. The idea, according to Spotify, was that listeners could discover new shows they hadn't heard of, enticed by this new public measure of fandom. Podcasters did not see it that way. Since [...]

Bungie has issued a statement on social media saying it is investigating how unauthorized artwork appeared in the closed alpha test of its PvPvE shooter Marathon. Earlier this week, Scottish artist Fern Hook posted on social media that her work had appeared in the Marathon alpha without her knowledge or permission. Its environments are covered [...]

OpenAI's next "low-key research preview" has arrived. This time, it's not ChatGPT, but a coding agent dubbed Codex that is being made available to ChatGPT Pro, Enterprise, and Team subscribers starting Friday. By drumming up comparisons to how ChatGPT was first described, CEO Sam Altman and other company leaders are positioning Codex as the company's [...]

Four years after the company released its first wireless arcade-style controller, 8BitDo is debuting a new version that's almost one-third as thick as the original. Its new Arcade Controller managed to slim down by ditching the original's joystick and focusing on only buttons in a unique layout. Often referred to as a leverless controller, or [...]

The US Army is done relying on contractors to repair its equipment. Earlier this month, Army Secretary Daniel Driscoll committed to including right-to-repair provisions in all existing and future contracts with manufacturers, a change Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) told The Verge will put an end to our dependence on giant defense contractors who charge billions [...]

When Fortnite players meet Darth Vader in the game's ongoing Star Wars event, they will be able to speak with the Sith Lord directly, and he's going to respond with a voice that sounds exactly like James Earl Jones. Though Darth Vader has previously appeared as an NPC (and a battle pass skin) in Fortnite, [...]

Microsoft says it has found no evidence that the Israeli military has used its Azure and AI technology to harm Palestinian civilians or anyone else in Gaza. The software maker says it has conducted an internal review and engaged an external firm," to perform a review, after some Microsoft employees have repeatedly called on the [...]

At this point, there are more than enough ways to play Street Fighter II. But Project Justice and Plasma Sword? Well, those are something entirely different, and much harder to find. And Capcom has made the smart decision to continue to make some of its more obscure fighters the focal point of its growing library [...]

It's not TV, it's HBO. No, sorry, it's HBO Go. And also HBO Now. But now it's HBO Max, except wait, now it's not HBO at all? It's just Max? Actually, I'm being told it is once again HBO Max. Thank you for joining us on this wild and utterly nonsensical branding journey. Please keep [...]

Charter and Cox have announced plans to merge in a $34.5 billion deal that will create a cable and internet behemoth. The two telecom companies say the merger will allow them to aggressively compete" against larger broadband companies and mobile providers that have rolled out internet plans of their own. Charter, which currently has 31.5 [...]