Ledger Co-Founder’s Kidnapping Highlights Threat of Crypto Robberies David Balland and his wife were rescued in a police operation involving elite units, Paris Prosecutor Laure Beccuau said.

Chris Ware explains how to draw strangers on the bus without getting arrested Image: Pordenone Cartoon MuseumThe celebrated cartoonist talks anxiety, process, and the final installment of his Acme Novelty Datebook series. Read the full story at The Verge.

The Supreme Court’s TikTok ruling is an ominous turn for online speech Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty ImagesWhen the Supreme Court upheld a law that banned TikTok from the US, it seemed well aware that its ruling could resonate far beyond one app. The justices delivered an unsigned opinion with a quote from Justice Felix Frankfurter from 1944: “in considering the application of established legal rules to t…

Live translations on Meta’s smart glasses work well — until they don’t Live translations work decently well, but trip up on things like slang and faster speech. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The VergeI was in middle school the last time I took a Spanish class. I remember enough for toddler talk — phrases like “Donde está el baño?” and “mi gato es muy gordo” — but having a meaningful conversation in Spanish wi…

2025 looks like a great year for Xbox Image: Cath Virginia / The VergeThere’s a long-running joke in the Xbox community that Microsoft will finally hit its stride with Game Pass and Xbox releases “next year.” The joke has been going around since 2018, when Microsoft made a series of big studio acquisitions to create more Xbox games and make Game Pass more appealing. Year after year,…

The Ram 1500 Rev’s 500-mile battery option is reportedly canceled Image: RamStellantis is reportedly canceling the 500-mile range version of the upcoming Ram 1500 Rev, leaving the electric truck with only one option that maxes out at an estimated 350 miles on a single charge. The news comes from Mopar Insiders, which got hold of internal emails telling suppliers to stop working on truck components for the larg…

Threads is offically getting ads Illustration: The VergeYour Threads feed will soon have ads. On Friday, Meta announced that it’s rolling out a “limited, early test of ads in Threads,” and the test will happen with a “handful of brands in the US and Japan,” according to Instagram boss Adam Mosseri. Image: Meta Ads on Threads will appear as images between posts in your home…

Meta’s censoring of abortion information is nothing new Illustration: Nick Barclay / The VergeEarlier this week, several posts on the Instagram page of Aid Access, an abortion pill provider, were inaccessible to the public. Some images were blurred out, with no option to click through and view the post. Others appeared simply as a gray square with nondescript alt text, as if the image didn’t load. A…

Mark Zuckerberg wants you to know he has a big AI data center, too Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge; Getty ImagesMeta CEO Mark Zuckerberg expects to spend as much as $65 billion on AI in 2025 as part of a “massive effort” to further the company’s AI ambitions. Part of the plan includes a Louisiana data center that Zuckerberg says “is so large it would cover a significant part of Manhattan,” he wrote on Threads …

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5 New Things Your iPhone Can Do in iOS 18.3 Apple is set to release iOS 18.3 next week, bringing further refinements to Apple Intelligence features, a couple of neat new capabilities to iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 16 devices, and bug fixes. While not quite as packed with new features as Apple’s preceding iOS 18 point releases, iOS 18.3 still introduces capabilities that aim to make your iPh…

Siri Gives Eagles 33 False Super Bowl Wins in Basic Knowledge Test In what may not come as much of a surprise, a new test of Siri’s knowledge of Super Bowl history has revealed significant accuracy issues with Apple’s virtual assistant, suggesting Apple still has some way to go in overcoming challenges with Siri’s ability to provide reliable information. In a methodical experiment, One Foot Tsunami’s Paul Kafa…

Threads Now Lets You Schedule Posts Up to 75 Days in Advance Threads, Meta’s social network that’s meant to rival X, has announced it is rolling out the ability for all users to schedule posts. Threads can now be created and scheduled to go up at a later date and time. Multiple posts can be scheduled per day, up to 75 days in advance, but it’s not possible to schedule replies. To use the feature, create…

Apple’s Macintosh Turns 41 Today Apple announced the Macintosh 41 years ago today, introducing the first widely successful personal computer with a graphical user interface. The Macintosh revolutionized personal computing by popularizing the use of a mouse to control an on-screen pointer. At the time, this point-and-click navigation method was unfamiliar to most, as personal c…

Apple Announces New In-App Purchase API Apple yesterday announced a new API to expand in-app purchase capabilities on the App Store, providing developers with new ways to support large content catalogs, creator-driven experiences, and customizable subscription models. The new “Advanced Commerce API” addresses three broad use cases: Apps offering extensive libraries of one-time purch…

Unreleased Sony WH-1000XM6 Headphones Appear in FCC Filing Sony could be close to launching the successor model to its popular WH-1000XM5 over-ear noise-canceling headphones, if a new FCC filing is anything to go by. The company’s WH-1000XM5 cans, which we compared to Apple’s AirPods Max back in May 2022, are considered by many to offer some of the best noise-canceling in the business, providing great …

Semler Scientific Tumbles After Market Close on $75M Convertible Note Offering, Earnings Fourth-quarter revenue and income from operations rose while the medical-devices company holds 2,321 BTC.