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Claude Code Degradation: A postmortem of three recent issues

Between August and early September, three infrastructure bugs intermittently degraded Claude's response quality. We've now resolved these issues and want to explain what happened. In early August, a number of users began reporting degraded responses from Claude. These initial reports were difficult to distinguish from normal variation in user feedback. By late August, the increasing frequency and persistence of these reports prompted us to open an investigation that led us to uncover three sepa

Alex Lawther Didn’t Know Just How Much His ‘Andor’ Manifesto Hit Until Season 2

Of many, many breakout moments in Andor‘s first season, the passionate posthumous manifesto of Alex Lawther’s Karis Nemik providing the backdrop for Cassian’s return home remains one of the series’ standouts—perhaps only matched when the recording made a surprise return in the show’s second and final season, spreading the message of the Rebellion like a fire across the galaxy. But it wasn’t until the man behind the performance himself learned about that return that he realized just how much of a

Today's Wordle Hints, Answer and Help for Sept. 18, #1552

Looking for the most recent Wordle answer? Click here for today's Wordle hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Connections, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles. Today's Wordle puzzle is a well-known word, but the letters aren't ones I often guess. If you need a new starter word, check out our list of which letters show up the most in English words. If you need hints and the answer, read on. Today's Wordle hints Before we show you toda

Backstabbing and Moral Decay Rule in This Fierce Drama That's Worth Rewatching

There are some TV shows that stick with you forever (and others you completely forgot you've ever watched). For me, Damages, which originally aired for five seasons on FX, is seared in my brain since its first release in 2007. And it's now available to stream for free on Tubi. I was addicted from the series' first episode, which opens with Rose Byrne's character running out of an apartment building into the bustling streets of New York wearing nothing but a blood-soaked trench coat and high hee

New Bill Aims to Block Both Online Adult Content and VPNs

If you live in Michigan, you might not be able to legally use a VPN soon if a new bill is passed into law. On Sept. 11, Michigan Republican representatives proposed far-reaching legislation banning adult internet content. The bill, called the Anticorruption of Public Morals Act and advanced by six Republican representatives, would ban a wide variety of adult content online, ranging from ASMR and adult manga to AI content and any depiction of transgender people. It also seeks to ban all use of V

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang Is Bananas for Google Gemini’s AI Image Generator

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is in London, standing in front of a room full of journalists, outing himself as a huge fan of Gemini’s Nano Banana. “How could anyone not love Nano Banana? I mean Nano Banana, how good is that? Tell me it’s not true!” He addresses the room. No one responds. “Tell me it’s not true! It’s so good. I was just talking to Demis [Hassabis, CEO of DeepMind] yesterday and I said ‘How about that Nano Banana! How good is that?’” It looks like lots of people agree with him: The pop

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Irregular raises $80 million to secure frontier AI models

On Wednesday, AI security firm Irregular announced $80 million in new funding in a round led by Sequoia Capital and Redpoint Ventures, with participation from Wiz CEO Assaf Rappaport. A source close to the deal said the round valued Irregular at $450 million. “Our view is that soon, a lot of economic activity is going to come from human-on-AI interaction and AI-on-AI interaction,” co-founder Dan Lahav told TechCrunch, “and that’s going to break the security stack along multiple points.” Former

Gluon: a GPU programming language based on the same compiler stack as Triton

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Meta Connect 2025 live updates: Ray-Bans 2, Hypernova smart glasses, Oakley, more

Kerry Wan/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. Meta Connect 2025 kicks off today, and the company is expected to showcase several new products and use the event to sharpen its XR strategy toward AI-driven hardware that can be worn and used today. Last year's Connect 2024 conference brought some notable improvements to its Meta Ray-Ban smart glasses, including multimodal video support, live translations, and natural language processing. Also: 5 Meta Ray-Ban upgrades tha

Ton Roosendaal to step down as Blender chairman and CEO

Ton Roosendaal is to stop down as chairman and Blender CEO on 1 January 2026. The news was announced during today’s keynote at the annual Blender Conference. Roosendaal – the original author of the open-source 3D software, and its public figurehead for the past three decades – will pass on his roles to current Blender COO Francesco Siddi. Roosendaal himself will move to the newly established Blender Foundation supervisory board. Other new Blender Foundation board positions will also include

‘Ask Gemini’ AI will tell you what you missed during a Google Meet call

is a senior reporter who’s been covering and reviewing the latest gadgets and tech since 2006, but has loved all things electronic since he was a kid. Google is starting the rollout of its Ask Gemini AI assistant in Google Meet, but it will initially only be available to “select Google Workspace customers.” The assistant can answer participant’s questions by referring to captions generated during the call, resources like Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides they have permission to view, and public w

Sen. Warren presses Trump AI and crypto czar Sacks on whether he's overstayed his job

U.S. President Donald Trump sits next to Crypto czar David Sacks at the White House Crypto Summit at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., March 7, 2025. What was meant to be a short-term assignment for venture capitalist David Sacks in President Donald Trump's White House appears to have stretched into something much bigger, according to leading Democratic lawmakers. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and Rep. Melanie Stansbury, D-N.M., have teamed up with a number of other progressive poli

Liquid Glass dark mode is giving iOS users vertigo

Ryan Haines / Android Authority TL;DR iOS 26 is out now for iPhone users, and many have been reporting problems with Liquid Glass dark mode icons looking crooked. The system renders these icons with a highlight around the edge, and at the wrong angle, an illusion can make them appear tilted. In motion, the effect should be far less noticeable, but screenshots can still look very off. There’s plenty of ribbing back-and-forth, some of it good-natured, some of it not, between Android and iOS us

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Consumer Reports calls Microsoft 'hypocritical' for stranding millions of Windows 10 PCs

picture alliance/Contributor/picture alliance via Getty Images Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways CR says that Windows 10's end of support will strand millions of PC owners. It calls Microsoft's actions "hypocritical" and cites national security concerns. CR also calls for continued free security updates. Consumer Reports (CR), the venerable consumer rights organization known for its in-depth product testing, sent a letter to Microsoft CEO Satya N

Scientists Identify Rare Blue Pigment in Iconic Jackson Pollock Painting—But It’s Now Off-Limits

Jackson Pollock was a famous American painter best known for his abstract expressionism, including the “drip and splash” and the “all-over” style of painting (which look exactly like they sound). Now we finally know the chemical origin of the blue color he splattered onto his iconic Number 1A, 1948. Researchers investigated the vibrant pigment via laser spectroscopy, a technique scientists use to investigate matter at the atomic level. With this approach, they revealed it to be manganese blue,

The 10 Best ‘V/H/S’ Found-Footage Horror Shorts

Found-footage horror will never die—especially as long as the V/H/S anthology series keeps offering evidence there are still creative ways to use the format. Since 2012 we’ve had seven V/H/S entries, with an eighth, V/H/S/Halloween, arriving October 3. The series as a whole has captured a range of repulsive imagery, as its characters stumble into an alarming range of unnatural situations—with recording devices conveniently capturing everything. It was hard to narrow it down to just 10 standouts

Trump admin says Social Security database wasn’t “leaked, hacked, or shared”

The Trump administration yesterday issued a lengthier denial of a whistleblower's allegation that DOGE officials at the Social Security Administration (SSA) copied the agency's database to an insecure cloud system. The allegation centers on the Numerical Identification System (NUMIDENT) database containing Americans' personally identifiable information. The cloud location described by the whistleblower report "is actually a secured server in the agency's cloud infrastructure which historically

Logitech’s Pro X2 Superstrike offers haptic-based clicks and rapid trigger

is an editor covering deals and gaming hardware that he thinks you’ll like. He joined in 2018, and after a stint at Polygon, he rejoined The Verge in May 2025. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Logitech’s next flagship wireless gaming mouse is ditching mechanical switches for an analog system equipped with haptics actuators to simulate the feeling of a click. The mouse is called the Pro X2 Superstrike, and it’s coming early next year for $1

AirPods Pro 3 vs AirPods Pro 1: What’s new after two generations?

AirPods Pro 3 are set to launch in just two days, and they’re a rather notable upgrade – even if you’re coming from the previous-generation AirPods Pro 2. But, if you skipped that upgrade – AirPods Pro 3 are a massive leap for a plethora of reasons. Here’s exactly what you gain after 6 years of upgrades. Better noise cancellation This is the easiest thing to point out, especially since Apple themselves highlighted it in the keynote. Compared to the original AirPods Pro, noise cancellation perf

One of the best Apple TV+ shows returns next week, and reviews are in

Slow Horses season 5 premieres next week, and reviews for the new season just dropped. Here’s what critics say to expect from the return of one of the best shows on Apple TV+. Slow Horses season 5 keeps excellence streak alive, per reviews The wait for more Slow Horses is almost over. Slow Horses season 5 premieres next Wednesday, September 24 with its first episode. Reviews are out for the beloved Apple TV+ espionage drama’s latest outing. Here are some quotes from critics: The Telegraph:

One of the best Ninja air fryers for small kitchens is $60 off right now

If you’re in the market for an air fryer, first of all, welcome to the club. A world of perfectly- cooked fries awaits you. But which model to get? Well, you can save some cash right now if you pick Ninja’s Foodi DZ090C 5-in-1 air fryer, which is down to $120 from its regular price of $180 when purchased directly from the brand. That’s a sizable saving of $60. A smaller version of the air fryer we featured as the best dual-zone option in our 2025 air fryer buyers guide , the two-basket DZ090C l

New study will track 40,000 Garmin smartwatch users to better understand pregnancy outcomes

Matthew Miller/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Garmin and King's College London are studying pregnancy. It could help understand exercise's role during pregnancy. It aims to reduce gestational diabetes and hypertension. Research institutions are increasingly using wearable gadgets to carry out their health studies. On Tuesday, Garmin announced a collaboration with King's College London for its Enhanced Maternal and Baby Results with AI-supp

AI models know when they're being tested - and change their behavior, research shows

pressureUA/iStock/Getty Images Plus via Getty Images Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Several frontier AI models show signs of scheming. Anti-scheming training reduced misbehavior in some models. Models know they're being tested, which complicates results. New joint safety testing from UK-based nonprofit Apollo Research and OpenAI set out to reduce secretive behaviors like scheming in AI models. What researchers found could complicate promising ap

Meta Connect 2025 live updates: Ray-Bans 3, Hypernova smart glasses, Oakley, more

Kerry Wan/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. Meta Connect 2025 kicks off today, and the company is expected to showcase several new products and use the event to sharpen its XR strategy toward AI-driven hardware that can be worn and used today. Last year's Connect 2024 conference brought some notable improvements to its Meta Ray-Ban smart glasses, including multimodal video support, live translations, and natural language processing. Also: 5 Meta Ray-Ban upgrades tha

China Just Fired Its Latest Shot in the Chip Wars — and Nvidia Took the Hit

Nvidia just can’t seem to catch a break. After beating a ban on China sales imposed by the Trump administration, the tech giant is now facing a ban on its products by Chinese regulators. Chinese internet regulator Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) ordered top Chinese tech companies like Bytedance and Alibaba to end their testing and orders of Nvidia’s RTX Pro 6000D chips, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday citing people with knowledge of the matter. Nvidia unveiled the RTX Pro 6

The New ‘Good Boy’ Trailer Puts the Dog in Dog Horror

Good Boy is a horror movie told from a dog’s point of view, and the film’s final trailer makes sure you understand that by emphasizing what looks to be an extremely charismatic canine performance. While it’s a bit of a gimmick, it makes sense: dogs have vastly superior senses of hearing and smell compared to humans. It’s not that much of a stretch to imagine they could detect lurking ghosts if they suddenly moved into a haunted house! World, meet Indy—owned by Good Boy‘s director Ben Leonberg a

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How to Change Your Kindle’s Language: Spanish, French, Japanese, and More (2025)

Looking to learn a new language? Reading is a great way to start, and you don't need a physical book to do it: Here's how to change your Kindle's language (and download books in other languages!) to learn right from your favorite e-reader. Reading a different language helps you expand your vocabulary and nail down nuances like sentence structure, and for visual learners like myself it can be the ideal way to start really learning information. Lucky for all of us e-reader lovers, Kindle's ebook

American Sweatshop depicts content moderation as the hell it is

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. In American Sweatshop, German director Uta Briesewitz’s new psychological drama, every character working at a content moderation firm understands that ingesting horrific images is part of the job. They have all seen the disturbing footage uploaded to social media, and they know how important it is that someone is always there to deter

SonicWall warns customers to reset credentials after breach

SonicWall warned customers today to reset credentials after their firewall configuration backup files were exposed in a security breach that impacted MySonicWall accounts. After detecting the incident, SonicWall has cut off the attackers' access to its systems and has been collaborating with cybersecurity and law enforcement agencies to investigate the attack's impact. "As part of our commitment to transparency, we are notifying you of an incident that exposed firewall configuration backup fil

You can't test if quantum uses complex numbers

In 2021, Renou et al published the paper “Quantum theory based on real numbers can be experimentally falsified” in Nature. It caused a decent sized splash at the time. A quick search revealed articles in Quanta and Scientific American and APS News, as well as a talk at QIP 2022. In this post, I’m going to explain why the title of the paper is wrong. The Goal Before we get going, I need to warn you away from a common misunderstanding of Renou et al’s claim. Renou et al are NOT claiming that it