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A word with a woman who’s trying to pull off a crossbody phone strap https://www.theverge.com/tech/990849/crossbody-phone-strap-style

Apple Maps follows Google in renaming Lake Ontario https://www.theverge.com/tech/987784/apple-maps-lake-america-renaming

GoPro has been acquired and is getting into ‘defense, government, robotics and aerospace’ https://www.theverge.com/news/987494/gopro-starman-holding-merger-aquisition

Enormous 12TB Steam leak includes abandoned Half-Life 2: Episode 3 assets https://www.theverge.com/games/986552/12tb-steam-leak-half-life-2-episode-3

Google tells Android app developers to cool it on memory use, or else https://www.theverge.com/tech/985679/google-play-android-17-memory-limit

Major YouTube creators are facing backlash for accepting AI money https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/983181/matti-haapoja-sam-kold-kolder-higgsfield-seedance-backlash

Comcast is turning millions of its routers into motion detectors https://www.theverge.com/news/981381/comcast-xfinity-shield-wifi-motion-sensing

AI bots started a religion — humans immediately followed https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/975017/ai-spiralism-chatbot-movement

Bluesky’s new CEO wants a big tent, not a bubble https://www.theverge.com/podcast/974387/bluesky-toni-schneider-interview-ai-atproto-atmosphere

Fender’s CEO seems to think your bandmates are just analog AI https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/974265/fender-ceo-bud-cole-ai-music

The US government just banned Roombas https://www.theverge.com/policy/972312/us-robot-ban-sweep-up-chinese-vacuums

Razer’s analog Huntsman V3 Pro is over 20 percent off https://www.theverge.com/gadgets/971557/razer-huntsman-v3-pro-tkl-optical-analog-gaming-keyboard-deal-sale

OpenAI says it accidentally hacked Hugging Face with a new AI system https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/968988/openai-hugging-face-hack-ai

White House deletes thousands of web pages about energy conservation as heatwave slams US https://www.theverge.com/policy/961449/white-house-mamdani-heatwave-deletion

The FBI reportedly won’t investigate ICE anymore https://www.theverge.com/policy/967674/fbi-wont-investigate-ice-assaults

Taylor Farms pulls iceberg lettuce from the US market after cyclosporiasis outbreak https://www.theverge.com/science/967563/cyclospora-taylor-farms-taco-bell-iceberg-lettuce

Why are CD sales suddenly growing again? https://www.theverge.com/entertainment/966726/cd-sales-vinyl-physical-media-luminate

Daylight saving time is on track to become permanent in the US https://www.theverge.com/policy/965952/daylight-saving-time-permanent-us-house

Meta accused of using biased AI targeting for mass layoffs https://www.theverge.com/tech/965486/meta-lawsuit-former-employees-ai-layoffs

Meta turns off the Instagram feature that users make AI deepfakes of public accounts https://www.theverge.com/tech/964416/meta-instagram-ai-muse-image-deepfakes