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Stevie Bonifield
Stevie Bonifield
AMD also has a rumored 10 percent price hike coming.

The price increase reportedly follows higher prices from chip manufacturer TSMC, and could impact everything from AMD’s GPUs to its motherboard chipsets. Intel is reportedly planning a similar price hike, and Qualcomm and Nvidia also raised prices earlier this year.

TC Sottek
TC Sottek
Will there be anyone left covering this White House?

Trump has once again escalated his capricious assault on journalism. The president said today that “effective immediately” he is banning CNN, MSNOW, and Politico from the White House, and threatened for “other fake news media outlets to follow.” In 2025, he banned the Associated Press during a temper tantrum over its refusal to go along with his renaming of the Gulf of Mexico. It’s not clear what set the president off this time.

TC Sottek
TC Sottek
iPhone Duo: “it’s sort of the greatest hits.”

The team behind Apple’s new foldable basically gave a second keynote to GQ, and snagged a couple brief statements from new CEO John Ternus. “Steve [Jobs] talked about the intersection of technology and liberal arts, and I think iPhone Duo is a perfect example of that,” Ternus told GQ.

Andrew Liszewski
Andrew Liszewski
Spending two and a half hours watching this meticulous Leica restoration is time well spent.

After 100 years this Leica I was suffering from light leaks as a result of shutter curtains that had become porous. This satisfying ASMR video shares the two and a half hour process of the camera being disassembled, cleaned, repaired, and put back together by an expert technician.

Travis Larchuk
Travis Larchuk
Join us for a Version History livestream of The Oregon Trail!

Find out who lives and who dies as Verge staffers travel the treacherous Oregon Trail in a live playthrough of the classic edutainment game. This season, Version History is going back to school: We’ll talk about the TI-84+ graphing calculator, One Laptop Per Child, Chromebook, LeapPad, and the overhead projector. Our premiere episode about The Oregon Trail is already live!

What Hollywood thinks about existential AI warnings

The studios have been silent, but Hollywood’s biggest labor unions aren’t buying the AI apocalypse narrative.

Charles Pulliam-Moore
Hayden Field
Hayden Field
More than 100 AI industry experts wrote a letter calling for independent evaluation of frontier models.

Academics, evaluators, and AI leaders signed a public letter calling not just for embedded third-party evaluators at top AI labs like OpenAI and Anthropic, but for conditions that allowed for transparency by those evaluators, like “limiting the scope of non-disclosure agreements.” I wrote an in-depth feature about the battle over the need for embedded evaluators this week for The Verge.

Jennifer Pattison Tuohy
Jennifer Pattison Tuohy
ICYMI: Apple is charging up to $60 a month for Apple Intelligence features on HomeKit cameras.

You’ll have to pay at least $9.99 a month for Apple Home’s new AI-powered features, including video summaries, for just one camera. If you want access on up to five cameras, it’s $59.99 (included in the 12TB iCloud Plus plan). Is this a sign of more subscription fees on the horizon for Apple’s smart home?

Apple Intelligence can provide written summaries of activity captured by your HomeKit Secure Video-compatible cameras. But it will cost you.
Apple Intelligence can provide written summaries of activity captured by your HomeKit Secure Video-compatible cameras. But it will cost you.
Screenshot by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge
Cameron Faulkner
Cameron Faulkner
Hacks’ full five-season run is coming to Blu-ray on December 8th.

HBO’s Hacks was a magnet for well-deserved Emmys, and I was personally delighted to hear that the complete series would come to Blu-ray. The set recently went up for preorder, costing $69.99 at Amazon, and includes cast screen tests, deleted scenes, bloopers, table reads, and more detailed at Blu-ray.com.

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