Hello and welcome to Regulator, the newsletter for Verge subscribers that goes into tech shenanigans that take place in the backrooms of Washington. Really, it sometimes does feel like the online series The Backrooms: a parallel universe with no internal logic, evil corporations lurking in the ba...
Devolver promises "both familiar and all-new mechanics."
A week ago, newly appointed Disney CEO Josh D'Amaro was busy regaling investors with plans to turn Disney Plus into the company's "digital centerpiece." By last Friday, though, his attention had presumably shifted to a fight with the Trump administration over free speech. Disney-owned ABC has now...
The venture capital firm has reportedly donated $115.5 million during this election cycle.
The t-shirt in question refers to Dante and "Virgil."
For the second year in a row, Netflix's ad-supported tier more than doubled its monthly viewerbase. During its 2026 upfront presentation, Netflix revealed that its $8.99-per-month plan reaches more than 250 million people around the globe, a significant leap from 94 million users reported last ye...
Classics as well as newer films like Anora are on sale. | Image: Neon If you’ve been meaning to grow your physical movie collection, now’s a good time to do it. Through May 25th, The Criterion Collection is taking 30 percent off every disc on its site, including standard Blu-rays, 4K releases, ...
And, brace yourself, Microsoft is also testing a new startup experience.
The bill appears to be gaining new momentum.
Marketing, engineering and product teams are among those affected, according to a leaked memo.
Instagram is once again cribbing from competitors like Snapchat and BeReal with a new photo-sharing format it calls "Instants," which are ephemeral photos that you can't edit and that you can only share with your close friends or followers that follow you back. Instants are available globally beg...
Last month, it said it would use employees' mouse movements and keystrokes to train AI models.
It's all about sharing candid snaps in the moment.
Premium members are also getting the classic arcade shooter Time Crisis.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg says its new Incognito Chat is "the first major AI product where there is no log of your conversations stored on servers." Messages in Incognito Chat aren't saved or stored in users' chat history, similar to incognito modes on other AI chatbots, but Meta says its version ...
Epic Games might be doing more to mark Overwatch's 10th anniversary than Blizzard is.
xAI has reportedly added 19 more unpermitted methane gas turbines to its latest data center site.
Maybe I'm just punch-drunk in my third week attending Musk v. Altman, but I have become very, very fond of Microsoft during the course of this trial. They don't want to be here any more than I do. Their opening statement was honestly one of the most Microsoft things I've ever seen. More than anyt...
It looks just like the A7R V, and other Sony cameras. | Image: Sony Sony announced its new flagship high-resolution camera, the A7R VI. The standout feature is its fully stacked full-frame sensor with 66.8 megapixels of resolution and up to 16 stops of dynamic range. That's only an increase of ...
They were supposed to be made in the US, but instead were "designed with American values in mind."