AMD’s new AI chips have a home in HP’s next Copilot Plus laptop The HP OmniBook Ultra features an AMD Ryzen AI 300-series processor and integrated AMD Radeon 800M graphics. | Image: HPHP’s resurrected OmniBook line will soon be getting a performance boost with the new HP OmniBook Ultra, featuring an AMD Ryzen AI 300-series processor with integrated AMD Radeon 800M graphics, up to 32GB of RAM, and a pair of 4…

FBI is working to break into the phone of the Trump rally shooter Illustration by Alex Castro / The VergeInvestigators are working to break into the phone of the man who shot at former President Donald Trump at a Pennsylvania rally on Saturday. The shooting is being probed as an assassination attempt. The FBI said in a statement that it had obtained the shooter’s phone “for examination.” Officials told report…

The Trump rally shooter had a Discord account, company says Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty ImagesThe person who attempted to assassinate Donald Trump during a rally on Saturday had a Discord account — though it was rarely used — according to the company. “Discord removed the account according to our off-platform behavior policy and we are assisting law enforcement in their investigation,” Clint …

The DOJ Antitrust Division isn’t afraid to go to court Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty ImagesWhen the Department of Justice released its more than 70-page lawsuit against Apple, its narrative read more like a docudrama than a stodgy legal document. It dropped the reader right into a 2010 exchange between an Apple executive and then-CEO Steve Jobs, who were just beginning to recognize how eas…

Terminator heads back to 1997 in first trailer for Netflix anime Image: NetflixThe first animated take on Terminator is looking pretty slick in its debut teaser trailer. Netflix just released the first proper look at Terminator Zero, which is helmed by anime powerhouse Production I.G and starts streaming on August 29th. The show follows a resistance fighter sent to the distant past of 1997, where she’s taske…

Apple launches a black HomePod Mini Image: AppleApple just launched a version of its HomePod Mini smart speaker in a new “midnight” color. The dark color looks very similar to the original space gray that the Mini launched in, but the new naming brings it in line with the midnight HomePod second-gen that was released early last year. It goes up for sale on July 17th in the US (sti…

Biden’s top tech adviser says AI is a ‘today problem’ Photo illustration by The Verge / Photo by OSTPArati Prabhakar, a former DARPA chief and now director of the White House’s OSTP, says the time to regulate AI is now. Continue reading…

Google is reportedly planning its biggest startup acquisition ever Illustration: The VergeGoogle is considering spending $23 billion to buy Wiz, a cloud cybersecurity startup with partners that include Amazon and Oracle, reports The Wall Street Journal. At close to twice what it spent for Motorola Mobility in 2012, it would be the most Google has ever paid for another company. The New York City-based Wiz offers…

Hopefully, this new PARAMOUNT logo won’t stick around for long This probably isn’t Paramount’s new logo. | Image: ParamountIf you didn’t know Paramount Global is set to merge with Skydance, then the logo included in their recent investor presentation would like to share an important update. Under its traditional mountain and stars, it shouts PARAMOUNT, using the all-caps styling and arched text of the Skyda…

AT&T reportedly gave $370,000 to a hacker to delete its stolen customer data Illustration by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The VergeAT&T paid a hacker about $370,000 to delete customer data that was stolen from it as part of a hacking spree earlier this year. The hacker then provided a video to prove they had deleted the data, according to a Wired report today. AT&T reportedly negotiated through an intermediary, called Reddi…

Complaints about crashing 13th, 14th Gen Intel CPUs now have data to back them up Photo by Tom Warren / The VergeAlderon Games, the maker of dinosaur MMO Path of Titans, says it’s swapping out its Intel 13th and 14th Gen-based servers for AMD and urges others hosting the game’s servers to do the same. The developer has had “significant” instability issues that none of the fixes so far have reversed, wrote Alderon founder Matt…

Inside the AI memory machine Image: Samar Haddad for The VergeHumans are terrible at remembering things. We forget things over time; we fail to remember them in the first place because we’re also not great at paying attention; we misremember things because of our inherent biases and the way we perceive the world. There’s a lot going on, and we don’t keep much of it for long…

A supercheap Android phone with looks to spare Image: David Pierce / The VergeHi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 45, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you’re new here, welcome, sorry I love productivity apps so much, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) I’m back from a few days off, feeling rested and sunburned and ready to ru…

Shooting conspiracies trend on X as Musk endorses Trump Illustration: The VergeConspiracy theories about the shooting at a Trump rally began surfacing on X shortly after the news broke this afternoon, with the platform promoting topics including “#falseflag” and “staged” to users. X owner Elon Musk has staunchly advocated for “free speech” on social media platforms — which can include misinformation …

After initially rejecting it, Apple has approved the first PC emulator for iOS Images of UTM SE from its App Store listing. | Screenshots: UTM SEApple has approved UTM SE, an app for emulating a computer to run classic software and games, weeks after the company rejected it and barred it from being notarized for third-party app stores in the European Union. The app is now available for free for iOS, iPadOS, and visionOS. A…

Trailers of the week: Captain America, F1, and Gladiator II There’s a bit of a theme of payoff in this week’s trailers. Anthony Mackie finally takes the lead on the big screen after 10 years in the MCU; Ridley Scott’s two-decade-plus plan for a Gladiator sequel is coming to fruition; and we finally get to find out what happens next to the macrodata refinement team in Severance. There’s a lot to go throu…

Kobo’s Elipsa 2E, our favorite e-reader for taking notes, has hit its best price yet The Kobo Elipsa 2E lets you actually take notes directly on pages, which is one of the reasons I recommend it over the Kindle Scribe. | Image: KoboWe’re already seeing great deals land on Amazon devices like the Kindle Scribe ahead of Prime Day next week, which makes sense as it’s an Amazon event. It’s possible we’ll see even more Kindle deals a…

Fantasmas’ vision of the future is a dystopian dreamland Image: HBOIn Julio Torres’ series Fantasmas, survival in the future is an intricate, corporate-owned game of feeding your identity to the machine. Continue reading…

The making of Eno, the first generative feature film Image: First Film Corp.Director Gary Hustwit tells us about his living documentary and the technology that changes it for every screening. Continue reading…

Here’s how much Valve pays its staff — and how few people it employs Image: The VergeValve is a famously secretive company with an enormous influence on the gaming industry, particularly because it runs the massive PC gaming storefront Steam. But despite that influence, Valve isn’t a large organization on par with EA or Riot Games’ thousands of employees: according to leaked data we’ve seen, as of 2021, Valve emp…