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Oh Dear, ‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’

At San Diego Comic-Con 2024, Paramount teased our very first look at Star Trek: Strange New Worlds‘ third season with a clip that proved to be rather baffling. A contextless gag that saw Pike, Chapel, La’an, and Uhura seemingly permanently transformed into Vulcans, the clip immediately sparked discussion about the Vulcan crew’s sudden racially prejudiced treatment of Spock as, well, the extra half-Vulcan among them. What did Strange New Worlds think it was doing making a scene of jokily played

High-severity vulnerability in Passwordstate credential manager. Patch now.

The maker of Passwordstate, an enterprise-grade password manager for storing companies’ most privileged credentials, is urging them to promptly install an update fixing a high-severity vulnerability that hackers can exploit to gain administrative access to their vaults. The authentication bypass allows hackers to create a URL that accesses an emergency access page for Passwordstate. From there, an attacker could pivot to the administrative section of the password manager. A CVE identifier isn’t

Xbox’s cross-device play history syncs your recently played games on every screen

is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. On Thursday, Xbox announced it’s widely rolling out cross-device play history. With the new update, even if you’re on a different Xbox console, Ally handheld, or PC, your recently played game list will remain the same, so you can jump right back in where you lef

The best Labor Day TV sales

Labor Day weekend marks the unofficial end of summer, which is a bit sad, but it’s a great time to get a deal on a fancy, new TV. The US holiday is happening just before the start of the 2025-2026 NFL season, the World Cup qualifiers, and the lead-up to the MLB post-season games. This sports trifecta means you can take advantage of Labor Day sales on 4K TVs, whether you’re planning on hosting big at-home viewing parties, or you just want to tune in alone. Right now, you can save hundreds of dol

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Proton offers a new lifeline for when the unexpected happens

TL;DR Proton has rolled out a new feature called Emergency Access. This feature allows paid users to pick five trusted contacts who can gain access to their account in case anything happens. Users can allow their trusted contacts to access their account immediately or after a custom set period of time. We all have crucial information stored in the various apps we use. For instance, you could have an important message sitting in your inbox, logins in your password manager, or financial informa

The Lobster Programming Language

The Lobster Programming Language Lobster is a programming language that tries to combine the advantages of static typing and compile-time memory management with a very lightweight, friendly and terse syntax, by doing most of the heavy lifting for you. While it is a general purpose language, its current implementation is biased towards games and other graphical things, with plenty of “batteries included” functionality. Lobster is Open Source (Apache v2 license) and can be found on github. Onli

This Is How You Log Off

Lauren Goode: I'm so glad we brought you on today. No, I'm genuinely glad, though. Here's my thing, is that I think we've become beta testers. There's this promise right now from the purveyors of technology that agentic AI is going to start doing some of these tasks for us. I won't spend an hour shopping because I'm going to put in a prompt what I need, and then it's going to order it for me. In the meantime, that requires so much babysitting and so much hand holding and so much authentication a

Kirby’s new Switch 2 expansion adds just the right amount of challenge

So I heard you want to play Kirby on hard mode: tough bosses, tricky platforming, complicated puzzles, hidden collectibles, and maybe even punishments for failing. The Star-Crossed World expansion in Kirby and the Forgotten Land’s Switch 2 edition certainly introduces new challenges. There’s pressure from time constraints and consecutive platforming sequences, multistep puzzles, and bosses have more health, varied attacks, and phases. In Star-Crossed World, the promise of a more difficult Kirby

Star Wars: Starfighter is going to be star-studded

is a reporter focusing on film, TV, and pop culture. Before The Verge, he wrote about comic books, labor, race, and more at io9 and Gizmodo for almost five years. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Production on Star Wars: Starfighter officially began today, and Lucasfilm has finally confirmed the other actors who will be bringing the film to life alongside Ryan Gosling. Lucasfilm announced today that Star Wars: Starfighters has added Flynn

MathGPT.ai, the ‘cheat-proof’ tutor and teaching assistant, expands to over 50 institutions

As AI becomes more prevalent in the classroom — where students use it to complete assignments and teachers are uncertain about how to address it — an AI platform called MathGPT.ai launched last year with the goal of providing an “anti-cheating” tutor to college students and a teaching assistant to professors. Following a successful pilot program at 30 colleges and universities in the U.S., MathGPT.ai is preparing to nearly double its availability this fall, with hundreds of instructors planning

China Unveils Plans to Establish a Fully AI-Powered Economy by 2035

As the western world braces for the "pop" of an enormous AI spending bubble, it seems China is going all-in on the AI hype. Yesterday, the Chinese State Council — the government body responsible for carrying out Chinese Government policy, sort of like the executive branch of the US — released its ten-year plan for AI development. By 2035, it declares, AI will become a "key growth engine for the country's economic development," enabling the People's Republic to "fully enter a new stage of devel

Passwordstate dev urges users to patch auth bypass vulnerability

Click Studios, the company behind the Passwordstate enterprise-grade password manager, has warned customers to patch a high-severity authentication bypass vulnerability as soon as possible. Passwordstate works as a secure password vault that enables organizations to store, organize, and control access to passwords, API keys, certificates, and various other types of credentials via a centralized web interface. Click Studios says its Passwordstate password manager is used by over 370,000 IT prof

Optimising for maintainability – Gleam in production at Strand

Strand is a marketing agency based in London, UK. The company specialises in copywriting and content creation for many of the world’s largest enterprise technology companies, running marketing programmes that produce hundreds of white papers, case studies, blog posts and articles every year. Challenge For many years, Strand has relied on a custom-built project management system to support the operational aspects of its business—creating projects, tracking activities and managing documents. How

Figma-Killer Framer Valued at $2B in New Funding Round as No-Code Heats Up

Framer, a Dutch company specializing in tools for automating web design, has secured a $100 million funding round that values the startup at $2 billion. The investment was led by existing backers Meritech Capital Partners and Atomico, according to a statement released Thursday. The massive capital infusion positions it to take on its largest rival, Figma, which also uses a community-based model to create websites and design. It went public in 2023 and debuted on the New York Stock Exchange thi

The Cast of ‘Star Wars: Starfighter’ Is Revealed as Production Begins

Lucasfilm just announced the cast of Star Wars: Starfighter, directed by Shawn Levy, which is now in production. Ryan Gosling stars, and he’ll be joined by Flynn Gray, Matt Smith, Mia Goth, Aaron Pierre, Simon Bird, Jamael Westman, Daniel Ings, and Amy Adams. “I feel a profound sense of excitement and honor as we begin production on Star Wars: Starfighter,” Levy said on the official Star Wars website. “From the day Kathy Kennedy called me up, inviting me to develop an original adventure in this

China Takes a Key Step Toward Its ‘Meltdown-Proof’ Nuclear Reactor

China’s ambitious plan to dramatically pull back from fossil fuels is perhaps most evident in the explosive growth of its nuclear energy program. The latest news suggests China may be tantalizingly close to bringing self-cooling reactors to practical use—a development with profound safety implications. In a statement earlier this week, the China Institute of Atomic Energy (CIAE) announced that it had recently concluded tests for a residual heat removal system for integral fast reactors (IFRs).

Rumored PS6 Handheld Could Steal the Switch 2’s Best Features

There’s something so intoxicatingly convenient about a game handheld. Despite the fact the Nintendo Switch 2’s design hasn’t changed from its 8-year-old prequel, it’s still the epitome of gaming thanks to the dock that connects it to your TV. Sony’s PlayStation brand seems to be hedging on the same bet Nintendo made nearly a decade ago. The latest rumors and leaks suggest Sony’s rumored PlayStation 6 handheld could also dock with a TV and offer even better performance than both the Switch 2 and

Trump admin dismisses Endangered Species List as “Hotel California”

“You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave.” It’s the ominous slogan for “Hotel California,” an iconic fictional lodging dreamed up by the Eagles in 1976. One of the rock band’s lead singers, Don Henley, said in an interview that the song and place “can have a million interpretations.” For US Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, what comes to mind is a key part of one of the country’s most central conservation laws. “The Endangered Species List has become like the Hotel Californ

The 48 Best Deals From REI’s 2025 Labor Day Sale

Isn't it amazing how fast summer goes by? The kids are back in school, and it's time for the annual REI Labor Day Sale. This year’s event kicks off today, August 22, and ends on Labor Day, September 2. Many items are up to 30 percent off, and REI Co-op members save 20 percent on any REI Outlet item. To get the member discount, add the promo code LABORDAY2025 at checkout. We've rounded up the best deals on all our favorite tents, backpacks, sleeping bags, pads, cookware, outdoor apparel, and mor

Kobo replaces Pocket with Instapaper on its e-readers in a free update

A big draw of Kobo e-readers has always been Pocket integration. But, when Mozilla announced in late May that it was shutting down the read-it-later app in July, the Kobo community was left in a bit of a lurch. To the company’s credit, in late July, it announced that it would be replacing Pocket with another stalwart of the scene, Instapaper. And, just a month after that, support is already live and available as a free firmware update for all currently supported Kobo readers (and the list is sur

MathGPT.AI, the ‘cheat-proof’ tutor and teaching assistant, expands to over 50 institutions

As AI becomes more prevalent in the classroom—where students use it to complete assignments and teachers are uncertain about how to address it—an AI platform called MathGPT.AI launched last year with the goal of providing an “anti-cheating” tutor to college students and a teaching assistant to professors. Following a successful pilot program at 30 colleges and universities in the U.S., MathGPT.AI is preparing to nearly double its availability this fall, with hundreds of instructors planning to

I love Nothing’s Android phones, but it’s getting harder to trust them

Ryan Haines / Android Authority Since the launch of the Nothing Phone 1 in 2022, Nothing has marketed itself as “not like the other phone brands.” From product design to offbeat videos showing CEO Carl Pei reacting to reviews, the company has constantly tried to demonstrate how it stands apart from other smartphone makers. However, Nothing has recently been involved in a photo-fakery scandal. Between this latest controversy and previous ones, it’s clear that Nothing isn’t really different from

Google Maps will finally ask how you want Motion Photos handled (APK teardown)

TL;DR Motion Photos combine a still picture with a short video clip. Currently when uploading a Motion Photo to Google Maps, it only works as a still pic. The app appears to be working on support for letting users choose to upload Motion Photos as videos. Motion Photos may be one of the coolest camera options available to us that we just don’t pay nearly enough attention to, able to fuse short video clips with our still photos in order to better preserve the whole vibe of a moment. They’re gr

Google Photos adds image background removal for custom stickers, only on iOS

Google Photos is rolling out support for making custom stickers from your photos, but it only works on iOS with seemingly no plans to bring it to Android. If you open up certain photos in your Google Photos library on iOS, you might notice the ability to turn those photos into a sticker by removing the background. A ring around the photo subject will appear after a second or two, indicating that you can use the photo to make a sticker. After that, you can either copy it to your clipboard or sha

3 smart ways business leaders can build successful AI strategies - before it's too late

Serg Myshkovsky/Photodisc via Getty Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Business leaders should create a platform to test AI concepts. Encourage employees to take risks with AI, but proceed with care. Keep one eye on the market for new technologies that might be exploited. Making the most of AI is tough. MIT recently revealed that 95% of enterprises attempting to harness generative AI aren't seeing measurable results in revenue or growth. However, w

How AI agents can eliminate waste in your business - and why that's smarter than cutting costs

Hazal Ak / iStock via Getty Images Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways AI agents help identify and remove waste in business. All waste is costly, but not all costs are wasteful. CEOs pursue cost efficiency with AI to protect performance. In an AI-powered economy, business leaders are focused on enhancing the productivity and efficiency of their workforce and operations. To accelerate value creation, while focusing on cost reductions and efficiencie

Figma-Killer Framer Valued at $2B in New Funding Round As No-Code Heats Up

Framer, a Dutch company specializing in tools for automating web design, has secured a $100 million funding round that values the startup at $2 billion. The investment was led by existing backers Meritech Capital Partners and Atomico, according to a statement released Thursday. The massive capital infusion positions it to take on its largest rival, Figma, which also uses a community-based model to create websites and design. It went public in 2023 and debuted on the New York Stock Exchange thi

Elden Ring Nightreign is getting even harder in September

is an entertainment editor covering streaming, virtual worlds, and every single Pokémon video game. Andrew joined The Verge in 2012, writing over 4,000 stories. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. If FromSoftware’s multiplayer take on Elden Ring was just a little too easy for you, the developer has just the thing coming up. The studio announced “Deep of Night,” a new mode for Nightreign that is focused specifically on difficulty. Namely, it s

Mark Cuban’s war on America’s $5 trillion healthcare machine: ‘They can’t react as quickly’

Billionaire entrepreneur and investor Mark Cuban thinks America’s healthcare industry is broken, and he’s not mincing words about it. “No one looks at the financial side of healthcare and says, ‘This is the way it should work,’” Cuban said on this week’s episode of the Equity podcast. “When you go to the doctor and you get a prescription . . . you have no idea what the cost to you is going to be. You don’t know if you can afford it or not.” The former “Shark Tank” host and minority owner of th