The hunt for the next Twitter: all the news about alternative social media platforms from the Verge Jay Peters
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National Guard Discord leaker sentenced to 15 years in prison from the Verge Emma Roth
Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge After pleading guilty in March to six counts of willful retention and transmission of national defense information under the Espionage Act, former Air National Guard member Jack Teixeira was sentenced today to 15 years in prison for posting “hundreds of pages” of classified military documents on Discord. Some of…
Here are the best Black Friday deals you can already get from the Verge Sheena Vasani
Google’s new Pixel Buds Pro 2 have already fallen to $179 ahead of the holiday. | Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Can’t wait until Black Friday to start your holiday shop or score a killer deal on a gadget you’ve been eyeing? You may not have to. Although Black Friday isn’t until November…
The Verge’s guide to Black Friday 2024 from the Verge The Verge Staff
Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge These days, Black Friday isn’t so much a single-day shopping holiday as it is an ever-expanding, monthslong event that often begins as early as October. The 24-hour deal blitz that once was the focus of newspaper headlines and mobs outside of stores is no more, which makes knowing when…
Amazon is shutting down Freevee from the Verge Jay Peters
Image: Freevee Amazon is going to shut down Freevee, its free ad-supported streaming television (FAST) service. The service’s content has already been migrated over to Prime Video and new episodes of Freevee shows will be available to people who don’t pay for Prime, Deadline reports. The brand will be phased out “over the coming weeks,”…
Trump says Elon Musk will lead ‘DOGE’ office to cut ‘wasteful’ government spending from the Verge Jay Peters
Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photo by STR / NurPhoto, Getty Images President-elect Donald Trump has appointed Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy to lead what he calls the Department of Government Efficiency — yes, the acronym is DOGE — to “pave the way” for his administration to “dismantle Government Bureaucracy, slash excess regulations,…
Monster Hunter is getting an open-world RPG spinoff for mobile from the Verge Andrew Webster
Image: Capcom The Monster Hunter franchise is bringing, well, monster hunting to your smartphone. Capcom has announced that it’s teaming up with TiMi — the studio behind games like Call of Duty: Mobile and Pokémon Unite — for a spinoff called Monster Hunter Outlanders. It’s described as an “open-world survival game” that’s playable either solo…
When to catch the last supermoon of the year from ABC
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How to deactivate your X account from the Verge Barbara Krasnoff
Illustration by Samar Haddad / The Verge Once upon a time, Twitter — now X — was the place to get your memes, world news, and pop culture. However, even at the time, being an active Twitter user also required sifting through a daily deluge of toxic characters, bots, and deepfakes. Then the Elon Musk…
Amazon confirms employee data breach, but says it’s limited to contact info from the Verge Emma Roth
Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Amazon says a data breach exposed the email addresses, phone numbers, and building locations linked to its employees, as reported earlier by 404 Media. In a statement to The Verge, Amazon spokesperson Adam Montgomery said the company was “notified about a security event at one of our…