Is your iPhone sharing photos with Apple by default?
iOS 18 introduced an “Enhanced Visual Search” toggle for the Photos app. | Screenshot: iOS 18 Settings app Apple occasionally makes choices that tarnish its strong privacy-forward reputation, like when it was secretly collecting users’ Siri interactions. Yesterday, a blog post from developer Jeff Johnson highlighted such a choice: an “Enhanced More...
Architecting one of the year’s most ambitious films
Adrien Brody in The Brutalist | A24 Brady Corbet’s 3.5-hour saga is a tale of one man’s journey through architecture and assimilation — and one of the year’s best films. The director tells The Verge More...
2024 was a big year for Windows on Arm
Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images With rumors of Nvidia entering the CPU market, 2025 might be an even bigger year for Microsoft’s Arm efforts. Read the full story at The Verge. More...
Meta’s ‘software update issue’ has been breaking Quest headsets for weeks
A Meta Quest 3 on a charging dock. | Photo by David Pierce / The Verge Meta updated a note on the to say that a “software update issue” has been bricking Quest 2, Quest 3, and Quest 3S headsets. The More...
The US proposes rules to make healthcare data more secure
Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge The US Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) is proposing new cybersecurity requirements for healthcare organizations aimed More...
The SwitchBot S10, one of our favorite robovac / mop hybrids, is $500 off
The SwitchBot S10 offers a nearly hands-free cleaning experience for $699.99. | Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge If you’re somebody who likes to clean and declutter in preparation for a new More...
Hackers hijacked legitimate Chrome extensions to try to steal data
Illustration by Carlo Cadenas / The Verge A cyberattack campaign inserted malicious code into multiple Chrome browser extensions as far back as mid-December, Reuters reported yesterday. The code appeared More...
10 terrific Nintendo Switch games from 2024 to check out
Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images We’re all impatiently awaiting Nintendo’s next console, but in the meantime, it’s been quite the sendoff year for the Switch. Read the full story at The More...
Kindle Scribe (2024) review: nothing to write home about
Amazon’s finally added a key feature to the Scribe, but it has a long way to go before it’s actually useful. Read the full story at The Verge. More...
Apple pulls remaining Lightning-based devices from European stores
Lightning’s days have come to an end in the EU. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Apple is no longer selling its iPhone SE and iPhone 14 series in Europe — the last phone models with Apple’s More...
