Suspect in UnitedHealthcare CEO shooting reportedly didn’t use a Citi Bike to escape CNN is reporting that according to an unnamed source in law enforcement, the person who shot and killed UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson outside the Hilton hotel in midtown Manhattan fled on an e-bike, but not a Citi Bike, as NYPD Chief of Detectives Joe Kenney previously said during a press conference. Thompson had been scheduled to appear …

Apple now lets you sync your passwords with Firefox, but not on Windows Illustration by Alex Castro / The VergeIf you keep your passwords stored on Apple’s iCloud, you can access those passwords on Firefox through an official iCloud Passwords extension, as spotted by MacRumors. However, the extension only supports macOS Sonoma or later, so you won’t be able to use it with Windows. If you do need to access your iClou…

Peloton’s new audio-based app is like an invisible strength coach The Strength Plus app isn’t Peloton’s first attempt at capitalizing on strength training. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The VergePeloton announced the launch of Strength Plus, a new standalone, audio-based strength training app. The app was introduced in a limited beta program earlier in September, but is now officially available. The Streng…

Verizon is once again raising its fees The fee creep is back. | Image: Cath Virginia / The VergeVerizon customers will soon see yet another fee increase on their next bill, a game that wireless carriers love to play. As spotted by Android Police, Verizon customers on reddit noticed the small fee bump — just 20 cents extra per line. But it comes only a couple of years after a bigger i…

OpenAI is partnering with defense tech company Anduril Illustration: The VergeOpenAI, the AI model maker that used to describe its mission as saving the world, is partnering with Anduril, a military contractor, the two companies announced Wednesday. As part of the partnership, OpenAI will integrate its software into Anduril’s counterdrone systems, which detect and take down drones. It’s OpenAI’s fir…

US officials recommend encrypted messaging to evade hackers in telecom networks Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge; Getty ImagesUS officials are urging Americans to make calls and send text messages over encrypted apps to minimize the risk of private information falling into the hands of foreign adversaries who might still be lurking in America’s telecommunications networks, NBC News reports. Two officials from the Federal B…

The NYPD is trying to track a Citi Bike used by the UnitedHealthcare CEO’s killer On Wednesday morning, someone shot and killed UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson outside the Hilton hotel in midtown Manhattan before walking away and then getting on a Citi Bike that they rode to Central Park, said NYPD Chief of Detectives Joe Kenney during a press conference. Thompson was scheduled to appear at the company’s investor meeting …

Jeff Bezos says he’s ‘very optimistic this time around’ about Trump Jeff Bezos. | Laura Normand / The VergeJeff Bezos and President-elect Donald Trump famously didn’t get along the last time Trump was in the White House. This time, Bezos says he’s “very optimistic” and even wants to help out. “I’m actually very optimistic this time around,” Bezos said of Trump during a rare public appearance at The New York Time…

Humane wants to put the AI Pin’s software inside your phone, car, and smart speaker Image: HumaneHumane, which makes the not-great AI Pin, wants other companies to build AI devices and gadgets that use its CosmOS operating system, and it has released a video that appears to show that the company already has it working in a car, TV, smart speaker, and phone. But note that the video, according to Humane’s own fine print, is for “…

You can try Dragon Age: The Veilguard’s excellent character creator for free Image: EADragon Age: The Veilguard has an incredible character creator, and starting today, you can mess around with it without having to buy the full game. EA will be releasing a free, standalone version of the character creator for all platforms the game is available on (PS5, Xbox Series X / S, and PC), and you’ll be able to bring the characte…

Donald Trump picks billionaire Jared Isaacman to lead NASA Photo by PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty ImagesPresident-Elect Donald Trump has nominated billionaire Jared Isaacman to head up NASA, he announced on Wednesday. Isaacman funded and partook in the Polaris Dawn mission, in which he and SpaceX engineer Sarah Gillis performed the first commercial spacewalk. Isaacman is set to replace former Florida …

Dune: Prophecy’s showrunner wants you to think beyond the hero / villain binary Image: Max / HBOAlison Schapker sees Dune: Prophecy as a story about the ebb and flow of institutional power. Read the full story at The Verge.

Nokia’s classic Snake game is now a Nothing widget A new Nothing Community Widgets app has launched with a Snake game as its first offering. | Image: NothingNothing has released a new Android app called Nothing Community Widgets that will highlight home screen tools and games co-created by its users. The first widget it includes is a recreation of Snake which was the most memorable of the three …

Threads takes an important baby step toward true fediverse integration Illustration: The VergeYou can now follow fediverse accounts on Threads, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has announced. Threads rolled out fediverse users’ likes and replies in a very limited way at first, and it’s the same here — fediverse posts won’t appear in your feeds, and you can only follow those accounts if they’ve interacted with a post on Thr…

GM and EVgo now have over 2,000 EV charging stalls and counting One of the co-branded GM Energy / EVgo fast chargers. | Image: General MotorsGeneral Motors and EV charging company EVgo announced that they’ve installed their 2,000th public EV charging stall, in Murrieta, California. With that, GM has met a deadline it set in September to have the bulk of its planned 2,850 DC fast-charging stalls set up by the…

2024 in review: AI Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty ImagesIn 2024, you couldn’t escape hearing about AI. From smartphones to wearables to the smart home, it seemed every tech company wanted to pitch their next great AI innovation. The year was filled with impressive technological leaps and useful new tools, endless hype and frequent misfires, and implicatio…

Misinformation researcher admits ChatGPT added fake details to his court filing Image: The VergeA misinformation expert accused of using AI to generate a legal document admitted he used ChatGPT to help him organize his citations, leading to “hallucinations” that critics said called the entire filing into question. Jeff Hancock, the founder of the Stanford Social Media Lab who wrote the document, says the errors don’t change…

ChatGPT now has over 300 million weekly users Image: The VergeChatGPT now has over 300 million people using the AI chatbot each week. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman revealed the milestone during The New York Times’ DealBook Summit on Wednesday, which comes just months after ChatGPT hit 200 million weekly users in August. “Our product has scaled … now we have more than 300 million weekly active use…

The new Gundam anime looks great and sounds like it was named by a cat on a keyboard Sunrise/KharaThere’s a new Mobile Suit Gundam show right around the corner, and while Bandai hasn’t revealed much about its story, its production studio and creative team bode very good things for the project. Sunrise has collaborated with Khara, the Hideaki Anno-founded studio behind the Rebuild of Evangelion films, to produce Mobile Suit Gunda…

Meta turns to nuclear energy for its AI ambitions Image: Cath Virginia / The VergeMeta is turning to nuclear energy to power its AI ambitions with the release a request for proposals to partner with nuclear energy developers. It’s the latest announcement in a string of recent deals Big Tech companies have made to secure nuclear energy for their data centers. Developing new AI tools is an energy…