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Apple briefly yanked Telegram from the App Store over CSAM violations

Telegram is back on the App Store after Apple briefly removed it on Monday night over concerns about child sexual abuse material (CSAM). In a statement to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, Apple says a review found that Telegram "violates our strict guidelines prohibiting child sexual abuse material," adding that it restored the app "after the developer […]
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Nothing CMF is launching its first open earbuds

Open earbuds are having a bit of a moment right now, and Nothing is the latest company jumping on the trend. Its budget sub-brand has introduced the CMF Clip Pro, CMF's first open earbuds that are designed to provide comfort and sound quality for people who don't want to sacrifice their situational awareness. The $99 […]
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Peak Design’s latest bags have clever integrated hooks

Peak Design's new City Line collection includes six lightweight bags designed for everyday carry. There's a 15-liter and 22L City Backpack, 15L City Tote, 6L and 12L City Crescent crossbody bags, and 2L City Sling. All are available starting today and feature a new BagLev hook that can suspend the bags from a table ledge […]
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Our favorite memories at the movies

It's a great time to go back to theaters! The Odyssey is currently making believers in IMAX. And combined with the power of Spider-Man, it's also breaking box-office records. After Verge senior reviewer David Imel reported back on his latest 70MM IMAX adventure, it got most of the staff talking in Slack about our favorite […]
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We’re giving away a back-to-school bag filled with over $800 of free tech

It’s time for yet another giveaway. We raided The Verge’s closet full of tech in New York City to stuff as much can fit into a Nomatic Messenger Bag. It’s overstuffed, to say the least, and if you’re chosen as the winner of this sweepstakes on August 18th, the bag and its contents (valued at […]
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Apple is working on iPhone-to-Windows copy-paste

Apple is working on a feature that will allow users in the European Union to copy content on their iPhone and paste it onto their Windows PC (or vice versa), as spotted earlier by MacRumors. The move comes in response to an interoperability request from Microsoft that asks Apple to open up its Universal Clipboard […]
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The Asus Chromebook Plus CX34 is at one of its lowest prices

The Asus Chromebook Plus CX34 is a dependable laptop that doesn’t cost a fortune, despite being nearly three years old. It’s cheaper than usual right now, and you have a few options in the sub-$400 range. The option with the most storage is currently on sale for $399.99 (about $100 off recent prices) at Amazon. […]
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Texas says data centers must pass an audit before connecting to the grid

Texas announced new a audit on data centers that could slow approval for new facilities seeking to connect to the state energy grid. Governor Greg Abbott (R) on Monday directed the Public Utility Commission of Texas (PUCT) and the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) to verify and audit new data center proposals, writing that […]
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Samsung’s HDR10 Plus Advanced is launching this month on Prime Video

After previewing HDR10 Plus Advanced late last year, Samsung's not-Dolby Vision 2 spec will launch globally on Amazon's Prime Video this month. The first TVs announced with support are Samsung's 2026 lineup, which will be able to make use of the extra metadata to deliver more precise HDR that is optimized for what you're watching, […]
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Spotify now has over 300M subscribers

Notably, the company saw its subscriber base swell by 9% in the second quarter despite raising prices in several regions this year.
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Host a Side Event during TechCrunch Founder Summit Week in Boston

Want to tap into the energy of 1,100+ startup founders, investors, and tech leaders descending on Boston for the Founder Summit 2026 on June 9? Host your own Side Event during “Founder Summit Week,” happening June 4-10!
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Spotify expands AI remix and covers project with Merlin partnership

Spotify says Merlin, which represents more than 30,000 independent labels and distributors, has joined Universal Music Group in backing its upcoming AI-powered remix and covers product. The paid tool will let fans create AI-generated covers and remixes of participating artists’ music while ensuring artists opt in, receive credit, and are compensated.
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MCP Explained: The Protocol Powering AI Agents

Introduction Artificial Intelligence has evolved far beyond answering questions and generating code. Modern AI systems can search databases, interact with APIs, read files, execute commands, access cloud services, and even coordinate multiple tools to complete complex tasks. This shift has given rise to AI agents - systems that don't just generate responses but can actively perform work on behalf of users. However, enabling an AI model to interact with external tools introduces a chall...
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DeepSeek V4 Flash API Cost: Thinking Mode Corrupts Strict JSON

DeepSeek V4 Flash costs $0.14 per million input tokens and $0.28 per million output, with cache hits at $0.0028, and the retrained 0731 build that now ships under that name has a defect you need to route around: with thinking on (the default) and a strict json_schema , integer fields came back corrupted in 8 of 13 default-thinking runs across two independent request paths. Turning thinking off fixed every run and cut the extraction to a seventh of the tokens. We measured deepseek-v4-flash-0731...
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Turn Your Routine Into an Assistant: A Practical Guide to Small AI Helpers

AI is not a genie. Treat it like a function. Most people use AI the way they use a search box: type a question, read the answer, move on. That works for one-off curiosity. It is a bad fit for the work you repeat every week, because you re-explain the context every time and never build anything you can trust. A small assistant is different. It is one narrow task, wired up once, with a fixed input and a fixed output shape. You run it, check it, improve it. After a few iterations it stops be...
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Building the foundation Claudius runs on

This tutorial was written by Néstor Daza . This is the third article in a series about building Claudius , my own Claude-based chatbot ( Github ). The previous article discussed the MongoDB data model to use for the app. The previous article decided the shape of the data. None of it matters until the app around it is working, and getting it there is the unglamorous half of this phase. It comes down to three things: an identity system the client cannot tamper with, proof that C...
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LLD Data Structures in Design Context: Stack — Understanding Last In, First Out Through Design

"A Stack isn't designed to store data. It's designed to make the most recent piece of work the easiest to access." In the previous article, we discovered a new kind of design problem. Some systems don't need to find the fastest item. Some don't need to process tasks in arrival order. Instead, they need to work with whatever happened most recently . That's exactly the problem a Stack solves. In this article, we'll understand how a Stack works and why its behavior appears natu...