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ICE Rolls Facial Recognition Tools Out to Officers' Phones

WIRED published a shocking investigation this week based on records, including audio recordings, of hundreds of emergency calls from United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention centers. The calls—which include reports of incidents of staff sexual assaults, suicide attempts, and head injuries—indicate a system inundated by life-threatening incidents, delayed treatment, and overcrowding. In a 6-3 decision on Friday, the US Supreme Court upheld a Texas porn ID law, finding th

What to Stream This Weekend: 'The Bear,' 'My Mom Jayne' and 'Squid Game'

Our expert, award-winning staff selects the products we cover and rigorously researches and tests our top picks. If you buy through our links, we may get a commission. Reviews ethics statement What to Stream This Weekend: 'The Bear,' 'My Mom Jayne' and 'Squid Game' Don't miss the latest on Hulu, Netflix and other streaming services. Here's what you should binge this weekend.

The First Week of Tesla's Robotaxis Has Been a Disaster

While autonomous vehicle companies like Waymo and Baidu clock hundreds of thousands of self-driving taxi trips, Tesla is lagging far behind. We're now one week into the EV giant's robotaxi pilot in Austin — a program Elon Musk has teased for over a decade — and it's going about as horribly as expected. Citizens who've braved the robotaxi program have flooded social media this week with videos and tales of their harrowing experiences. The footage ranges from one Tesla veering into an oncoming l

What Meta and Anthropic really won in court

is editor-at-large and Vergecast co-host with over a decade of experience covering consumer tech. Previously, at Protocol, The Wall Street Journal, and Wired. A lot of the future of AI will be settled in court. From publishers to authors to artists to Hollywood conglomerates, the creative industry is picking a big copyright fight over the vast quantities of data used to train AI models — and the ultimate output of those models. (Disclosure: Vox Media, The Verge’s parent company, has a technolog

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'28 Weeks Later' Is in Netflix's Top 10 but Not in the US. Here's Where You Can Stream It

Every week, Netflix unveils its Top 10 lists for the week before, ranking TV shows and movies by viewership. It seems like the whole world had been preparing for the release of the zombie horror, 28 Years Later, by watching its predecessor, 28 Weeks Later, on Netflix. Actually, when I say "the whole world," I mean places that are not the US. That's because while 28 Weeks Later ranked No. 8 in Netflix's Top 10 films for the week of June 16, its thanks to viewers in 36 other countries. The film is

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Bernie Sanders: If AI Is Doing Such Amazing Work, Everyone Should Get a Four-Day Workweek

In 2025, we're constantly told, artificial intelligence is bringing about a workplace revolution. Countless billionaires have waxed poetic about the "coming recession" and "unemployment crisis" that their hyped up AI chatbots are sure to bring. Bernie Sanders, the progressive senator from Vermont, has been listening. Calling the US tech industry on its AI hype — which mostly involves generating shareholder value — Sanders recently posed a rhetorical question on the Joe Rogan podcast: if AI is

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The biggest new movie in theaters this weekend was shot on iPhone

Source: IGN This coming weekend is a big one at the box office for Apple, with F1 The Movie debuting. But there was a film release this past weekend that’s especially significant to Apple too. 28 Years Later, the top new premiere at the US box office, was shot primarily on iPhone. 28 Years Later is a summer box office success, and it was shot on iPhone Over the weekend, US moviegoers had two main new options: Elio, the latest Pixar animated film and 28 Years Later, a sequel to the horror fl

‘Elio’ Gave Pixar Its Worst Box Office Opening Ever

Elio may have garnered some very solid reviews–low for Pixar considering its back catalogue, but still very solid–but that apparently wasn’t enough to save it from setting a pretty grim record. The movie is now currently Pixar’s worst-performing opening weekend, but while there is still plenty of time for things to change, what it might say about the future of the studio’s output isn’t so optimistic. Variety reports that Elio ranked third at the Box Office this weekend behind the still-continue

Israel Says Iran Is Hacking Security Cameras for Spying

Amid Israeli airstrikes this week and the imminent threat of further escalations by the United States, Iran started severely limiting internet connectivity for its citizens, limiting Iranians' access to crucial information and intentionally pushing them toward domestic apps that may not be secure. Meanwhile, the Israel-tied hacking group known as Predatory Sparrow is waging cyberwar on Iran’s financial system, attacking Iran’s Sepah Bank and destroying more than $90 million in cryptocurrency hel

First Call of Duty Black Ops 6 Double XP Weekend Dates Announced for Season 4

It's finally time to get ahead on the battle pass with the first set of double XP boosts in Black Ops 6 Season 4. Developer Treyarch has your back with a new double XP weekend featuring three boosts for players to take advantage of -- you'll be able to speed through account levels, weapon attachment unlocks and battle pass tiers to kickstart your advancement of the newest seasonal content. This double XP weekend runs from Thursday to Monday. Anyone playing Black Ops 6 during the event period ha

Rumor Replay: Siri’s AI upgrades, iPhone Fold, AirPods Pro 3 timing, more

This is Rumor Replay, a weekly column at 9to5Mac offering a quick rundown of the most recent Apple product rumors, with analysis and commentary. Today: Siri’s AI upgrade timing, iPhone Fold updates, AirPods Pro 3 delays, and more. Here are this week’s Apple rumors. Siri’s AI upgrades officially 2026, likely in iOS 26.4 In last week’s WWDC presentation, Apple addressed its delayed Siri AI upgrades directly—but didn’t share anything new. It used the same timing language that had been previously

Would you switch browsers for a chatbot?

is editor-at-large and Vergecast co-host with over a decade of experience covering consumer tech. Previously, at Protocol, The Wall Street Journal, and Wired. Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 87, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you’re new here, welcome, happy It’s Officially Too Hot Now Week, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) I also have for you a much-awaited new browser, a surprise update to a great photo editor, a neat

RFK Jr. Orders HHS to Give Undocumented Migrants’ Medicaid Data to DHS

With demonstrations ramping up against the Trump administration, this week was all about protests. With President Donald Trump taking the historic step to deploy US Marines and the National Guard to Los Angeles, we dove into the “long-term dangers” of sending troops to LA, as well as what those troops are permitted to do while they’re there. Of course, it’s not just the military getting involved in the LA protests against the heavy crackdowns by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). There’

Week in Review: WWDC 2025 recap

Welcome back to Week in Review! We have lots for you this week, including what came out of WWDC 2025; The Browser Company’s AI browser; OpenAI’s partnership with Mattel; and updates to your iPad. Have a great weekend! The Apple experience: We kicked the week off with WWDC 2025, Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference, where the company showed off a newly designed iOS 26, new features across its products, and much more. There was considerable pressure on Apple this year to build on its promises

These 3 iOS Updates Are a Bigger Deal than Liquid Glass

Ever since downloading an early developer beta preview of iOS 26, my iPhone has more bounce, warble and bloop about it. The design changes coming to Apple gadgets have been a hot topic on social media. The new operating systems are adopting an interface style called Liquid Glass, revealed this week at the Worldwide Developers Conference, which transforms menus, apps and buttons into something of translucent jelly... with spunk. But if you can see past the clear icons, there are other updates co

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DeepSeek Open Infra: Open-Sourcing 5 AI Repos in 5 Days

Hello, DeepSeek Open Infra! 202502 Open-Source Week We're a tiny team @deepseek-ai pushing our limits in AGI exploration. Starting next week, we'll open-source 5 repos – one daily drop – not because we've made grand claims, but simply as developers sharing our small-but-sincere progress with full transparency. These are humble building blocks of our online service: documented, deployed and battle-tested in production. No vaporware, just code that moved our tiny moonshot forward. Why? Becaus

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ChatGPT reaches 400M weekly active users

ChatGPT has surpassed 400 million weekly active users. "We feel very fortunate to serve 5 percent of the world every week," OpenAI COO Brad Lightcap said on X about the new audience stat. This figure is twice the weekly active user count reported by the company in August 2024 , which was double the figure it posted in November 2023. The latest milestone for the AI assistant comes after a huge uproar over new rival platform DeepSeek earlier in the year, which raised questions about whether the c

Beta Technologies’ bet on electric flight and Hyundai’s new Tesla charging port comes up short

Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation. Sign up here for free — just click TechCrunch Mobility! Fifteen years ago, I started writing about a little EV startup that was trying to survive even as others failed in the clean tech boom-and-bust cycle. Back then Tesla had captured the interest of some celebrities and EV enthusiasts — but it was a small circle. A lot has changed since then, including the profile of its largest shar

Broken legs and ankles heal better if you walk on them within weeks

Twenty years ago my husband, Mark, broke his left ankle and was in a cast and on crutches for nearly two months. Last year he broke the other ankle. But this time, after surgery, his doctor surprised us by instructing Mark to walk on it two weeks later. It turns out the standard advice to stay off a broken leg bone for at least six weeks is based less on scientific evidence and more on cultural caution—physicians like to play it safe. But now studies show that complications are no more likely w