Gaggle monitors students’ work on school-owned accounts for potentially “harmful” keywords. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge The Trevor Project, a nonprofit that provides crisis support to LGBTQ-plus youth, will cut ties with student-focused monitoring software company Gaggle after the partnership sparked backlash from activists. The organization began listing Gaggle as a…
Sony is likely not pleased. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge While it’s thankfully getting much easier to buy a PlayStation 5, the nearly two-year-old console has had enough time with modders to slowly (very slowly) get picked apart. Now, hackers have demonstrated how a recent IPV6 kernel exploit utilizing a Webkit vulnerability…
Samar Haddad / The Verge Apple’s second-generation AirPods Pro have more powerful noise cancellation and better sound quality than the original pair, but the company has also made significant improvements to the charging case. Aside from the new lanyard loop, the case itself now contains a speaker that can emit sounds when you’re trying to…
A photo of a NASA ER-2 high-altitude aircraft with the AVIRIS instrument installed. | Image: NASA NASA and the US Geological Survey plan to deploy aircraft to spot critical minerals buried across the southwest US. They’ll take to the skies to map the minerals, which are crucial to the Biden administration’s plans to build up…
Image: Apple Despite Will Smith’s Oscars slap, Apple will be releasing an upcoming film starring the actor this year. Emancipation, which stars Smith as Peter, a man who has escaped slavery and is on the run to try and return to his family, will debut in theaters on December 2nd and on Apple TV Plus…
This week in Washington IP news, both houses of Congress are silent as they enter scheduled work periods but the Hudson Institute and the American Enterprise Institute host conversations with Chris Miller, the author of Chip Wars: The Fight for the World’s Most Critical Technology. Another Hudson Institute event with Federal Trade Commission Commissioner Noah…
Kardashian was paid $250,000 by the makers of EthereumMax in 2021. Deposit Photos The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced today it is charging Kim Kardashian with “unlawfully touting” a cryptocurrency to her 225 million Instagram followers last year. Kardashian was paid $250,000 for the social media shoutout. Despite Kardashian including “#AD” at the…
Heading into 2022, it seemed like we were poised for a big year in M&A. This was especially true for enterprise SaaS companies that saw their values begin to fall in late 2021, a trend that extended into this year. Why are we not seeing more aggressive M&A activity and some good old-fashioned bargain hunting…
Twitter is rolling out the ability to edit tweets to Blue subscribers in Canada, Australia and New Zealand, the social network announced on Monday. The company says the edit button will roll out to Blue subscribers in the U.S. soon, but didn’t provide a specific launch date. Blue subscribers in these countries can now edit…
TL;DR: Oct. 3 is the final day of the big Overstock Day sale — plenty of items are still discounted, from coffee tables, to bedding, to kitchen appliances, and more. As it starts to get more chilly outside in many parts of the country, you’re most likely going to be trading your fun summer days…