Americas News
Amazon Luna axes third-party game purchases
- Technology
- Emma Roth
- Apr 10, 2026
Amazon Luna announced a big change on Friday that will prevent players from purchasing third-party games and subscriptions. The cloud gaming service will remove previously-purchased games on June 10th...
The Iranian Lego AI video creators credit their virality to ‘heart’
- Technology
- Charles Pulliam-Moore
- Apr 10, 2026
Donald Trump has spun the recent rescue of a downed airman whose fighter jet was destroyed behind Iranian borders as a resounding success. But the story is very different in one of the many viral, AI-...
Little Snitch’s software counter surveillance jumps from Mac to Linux
- Technology
- Stevie Bonifield
- Apr 10, 2026
The popular macOS app Little Snitch brought its network-monitoring tools over to Linux this week. In a blog post announcing the launch, one of the developers at Objective Development shared some early...
Congress can finally close a mass surveillance loophole — but will they?
- Technology
- Gaby Del Valle
- Apr 10, 2026
A warrantless wiretapping authority that has facilitated surveillance for decades is up for renewal in Congress. Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), last reauthorized in 2...
Trump Mobile isn’t giving up just yet
- Technology
- Dominic Preston
- Apr 10, 2026
Where's the Trump phone? We're going to keep talking about it every week. We've reached out, as usual, to ask about the Trump phone's whereabouts. We're back to being ignored, but the company is showi...
Why your Whoop might tell you to up your testosterone
- Technology
- Victoria Song
- Apr 10, 2026
This is Optimizer, a weekly newsletter sent every Friday from Verge senior reviewer Victoria Song that dissects and discusses the latest gizmos and potions that swear they're going to change your life...
Cloudflare made a WordPress for AI agents
- Technology
- Emma Roth
- Apr 10, 2026
Cloudflare, the cloud provider that connects millions of sites to the internet, wants to "fix" another digital giant: WordPress. It announced a new open-source system, called EmDash, that's supposed t...
Inflation surges to highest level in nearly two years as energy costs spike
- Business
- Scott Horsley
- Apr 10, 2026
- US
Consumer prices in March were up 3.3% from a year ago, the biggest annual increase in nearly two years. Higher gasoline prices tied to the war with Iran accounted for much of the surge.
Interior design at 25,000 mph
- Technology
- Georgina Torbet
- Apr 10, 2026
As the Artemis II astronauts prepare for the most dramatic and potentially dangerous part of their mission - reentry into Earth's atmosphere - the eyes of the world will be on the Orion capsule and th...
Fear and loathing at OpenAI
- Technology
- David Pierce
- Apr 10, 2026
Sam Altman's tenure at OpenAI has been… messy. Messy to the point where Altman was briefly fired from his role as CEO, only to be reinstated days later, at which point he began reshaping the organizat...
Snap is sticking with Qualcomm for its next AR glasses
- Technology
- Jay Peters
- Apr 10, 2026
Snap's upcoming consumer AR glasses are still set to launch sometime this year, and they'll be powered by a Snapdragon XR chip from Qualcomm, according to an announcement of a "multi-year strategic ag...
Gen Z’s love-hate relationship with AI
- Technology
- Robert Hart
- Apr 10, 2026
Gen Z is increasingly disillusioned with AI - just not enough to stop using it. A new Gallup report released this week, based on responses from nearly 1,600 people ages 14 to 29 across the US, suggest...