Amazon confirms employee data breach, but says it’s limited to contact info Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The VergeAmazon says a data breach exposed the email addresses, phone numbers, and building locations linked to its employees, as reported earlier by 404 Media. In a statement to The Verge, Amazon spokesperson Adam Montgomery said the company was “notified about a security event at one of our property management…

Signal calls now work a lot more like Meet and Zoom Illustration by Alex Castro / The VergeSignal is making a bunch of improvements to calls so they are more competitive with Zoom and Google Meet, including the ability to share a link to a call. Previously, you could only initiate a call from a Signal group chat, so this new feature should make it much easier to hop on the phone with a friend or …

Super Nintendo World’s new Donkey Kong area has a rollercoaster and rhythm games Image: NintendoNintendo is finally ready to show off the next phase of Super Nintendo World at Universal Studios Japan in Osaka. In a Nintendo Direct today, the company gave the first proper look at the Donkey Kong Country-themed expansion for the theme park, which includes a mine cart rollercoaster and a real-life, three-player version of the D…

Bluesky adds 700,000 new users in a week Image: BlueskyBluesky gained more than 700,000 new users in the last week and now has more than 14.5 million users total, Bluesky COO Rose Wang confirmed to The Verge. The “majority” of the new users on the decentralized social network are from the US, Wang says. The app is currently the number two free social networking app in the US App Store,…

The NYT Tech Guild’s election week strike is over Photo by Erik McGregor/LightRocket via Getty ImagesThe New York Times’ tech employees, who are behind Wordle and Connections among other games and features, will go back to work on Tuesday following a weeklong strike. In a statement published on Monday, the New York Times Tech Guild said union members will “march into the office together in the …

Why the Grammys need to change, with CEO Harvey Mason Jr. Image: The Verge; Photo by Rebecca Sapp / Getty Images for the Recording AcademyRebooting the member list, taking the show streaming — is it enough in the age of AI? Continue reading…

Amazon reportedly working on Echo Frames for delivery drivers Amazon’s rumored smart glasses for delivery drivers would have an embedded display, unlike the audio-only consumer version. | Image: David Pierce / The VergeAmazon is developing smart glasses for delivery drivers, Reuters reports. The aim is to give drivers turn-by-turn directions, thereby shaving seconds off of each delivery. Citing anonymous…

Waymo compiles ‘largest ever’ dataset of pedestrian and cyclist injuries Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photo from Getty ImagesIf autonomous vehicles are to go mainstream, they need to go as far as they can to ensure the safety of everyone on the road. And no one is in more need of protection than so-called vulnerable road users like pedestrians, cyclists, and motorcyclists, thousands of whom are killed every year. Way…

Apple will let you share AirTag locations with a link Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The VergeApple will now let you share the location of a lost AirTag with other people. The Find My feature, called Share Item Location and available as part of the just-launched iOS 18.2 public beta, will allow you to share the location of lost luggage with an airline, for example. When using the feature, you can generate…

Cash App users have a week left to claim part of a $15 million settlement Illustration by Hugo Herrera / The VergeCurrent or former Cash App users who have used the service since 2018 have until next week to claim part of a $15 million settlement that Cash App Investing (and owner Block Inc.) reached as part of a class action lawsuit, The Hill reports. The lawsuit alleged that the companies were negligent in respondin…

The Boox Palma e-reader is down to a new low price for Verge readers The smartphone-sized Boox Palma is highly portable and lets you read in a variety of apps. | Image: Boox Amazon announced a slew of new Kindles recently, but if you’re not already locked into Amazon’s ecosystem they may not be the best options. If you’re looking for an e-reader that offers more flexibility, our readers can currently buy the Boo…

The final season of What If…? storms its way onto Disney Plus this December Though it’s going to be a while before X-Men ‘97 returns to Disney Plus, the third and final season of What If…? is about to bring one of Marvel’s mutants to the MCU in the flashiest way possible. Ahead of What If…?’s season 3 premiere on December 22nd, Disney Plus has dropped a trailer spotlighting some of the new alternate universe stories fea…

How to deactivate your X account Illustration by Samar Haddad / The VergeOnce upon a time, Twitter — now X — was the place to get your memes, world news, and pop culture. However, even at the time, being an active Twitter user also required sifting through a daily deluge of toxic characters, bots, and deepfakes. Then the Elon Musk circus came to town and began steadily altering…

Mattel accidentally linked a porn site on Wicked doll packaging The first part of Wicked, starring Ariana Grande (left) and Cynthia Erivo (right) will arrive in theaters on November 22nd. | Image: Universal PicturesBarbie producer Mattel has issued an apology after customers spotted its Wicked edition dolls listed an adult website on the packaging. The toy merchandise mistakenly directed customers to the hom…

Amazon tests mixing and matching its grocery operations Photo by Howard Schnapp/Newsday RM via Getty ImagesAmazon’s next ideas for growing its grocery business could blur the lines between Whole Foods and Amazon Fresh by enmeshing the two businesses’ fulfillment networks in a new set of experiments, according to The Wall Street Journal. Amazon has reportedly started shipping Whole Foods products fro…

The next Nintendo Direct is all about Super Nintendo World’s Donkey Kong Country Donkey Kong Country gets a Nintendo Direct showcase on Monday. | Image: NintendoNintendo says it’s finally going to show off the long-awaited Donkey Kong Country area of Super Nintendo World in a Nintendo Direct stream on Monday at 5PM ET. It’s an encouraging sign for the theme park expansion devoted to Mario’s first nemesis, the opening of whic…

Apple now sells iPhone 16 and 16 Pro repair parts Photo: Allison Johnson / The VergeApple has begun selling repair parts for iPhone 16 and 16 Pro phones on its self-service repair store. That includes replacements for commonly damaged parts like cameras, displays, and back glass, and follows the release of official Apple iPhone 16 repair manuals in September, as MacRumors notes. A replacement c…

Chill games for a chill weekend Image: David Pierce / The VergeHi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 60, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you’re new here, welcome, it’s a lot of gaming stuff this week, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I’ve been… doomscrolling about the election, if I’m honest. But l…

Spotify’s AI is no match for a real DJ Was anyone asking for this? | Image: Cath Virginia / The VergeAt the risk of stating the obvious, AI is absolutely everywhere lately. There’s AI in your car, AI in your messaging app, AI in your glasses. I’ve gotten pretty desensitized to it all as a hazard of the job, but it was Spotify’s AI DJ that actually got my attention. I’ve listened to …

Auto-Tune always and forever Image: Samar Haddad / The VergePopular music changes all the time, but there’s been one consistent element in practically everything released in the last two decades: Auto-Tune is everywhere. What started as a simple audio processing tool in the 1990s has become the dominant force in music. Artists are training to sing with Auto-Tune; songs soun…