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The Verge

US technology news publication owned by Vox Media, covering consumer technology, online platforms and artificial intelligence.

Known aliases

  • Decoder
  • Notepad
  • The Vergecast
  • theverge.com
  • Verge
  • Vergecast

Current stories

securityOne report1 publisher

Eiliko robot flaws let a researcher read 13 million chats and rewrite a toy's behavior

Researcher Sammy Azdoufal reached 13 million conversations and what appeared to be all 68,000 active Eiliko robots, The Verge reported. The same flaws let him change what a reporter's robot said, and Malwarebytes advises owners to take the device off Wi-Fi.

Publishers:malwarebytes.com

Reality

Evidence50
Adoption15
Hype gap+10
Incentives
Not scored
Confidence45
productOne report1 publisher

iPhone Handoff reaches T-Mobile customers first, at $5 a month

T-Mobile is the first US carrier to support Apple's iPhone Handoff, at $5 a month, The Verge reports. Verizon plans to follow by year-end, but T-Mobile bars business accounts at launch, so for now the users are T-Mobile customers outside business accounts.

Publishers:theverge.com

Reality

Evidence45
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap
Not scored
Incentives
Not scored
Confidence45
productOne report1 publisher

Eiliko robot toy backend exposed 13 million conversations to a hacker, The Verge reports

Energize Lab left the cloud service behind its Eiliko robot toy unprotected, exposing 13 million conversations, The Verge reported. For buyers and builders of companion toys, the first test is whether one account can read another's records.

Publishers:theverge.com

Reality

Evidence62
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+8
Incentives
Not scored
Confidence60
productOne report1 publisher

Apple TV 4K costs $149.01 more than Google's TV Streamer before anyone has tested it

Apple will sell its fourth-generation Apple TV 4K for $299 from Nov. 13, $149.01 more than Google's $149.99 TV Streamer. TechRepublic's comparison puts the burden on the A19 chip, Siri AI microphones and HomePod surround support to justify that premium.

Publishers:techrepublic.com

Reality

Evidence45
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+15
Incentives
Not scored
Confidence50
productOne report1 publisher

Two Googlebooks needed repeated restarts to stay linked to phones, The Verge found

The Verge spent a week with Asus and HP Googlebooks and found the phone link unreliable for app casting and file sharing. Limits in native Android apps add to the problem on a $1,000 laptop, according to the reviewer's first-week account.

Publishers:theverge.com

Reality

Evidence50
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+30
Incentives
Not scored
Confidence55
productOne report1 publisher

Amazon's Alexa Tablet 12 Pro with keyboard and pen costs $407 less than an iPad Air with keyboard and pencil

Amazon's Alexa Tablet 12 Pro ships Oct. 14 at $499.99, about $249 below the $749 starting price of Apple's iPad Air M4. With keyboard and stylus the gap grows to about $407, and for a work fleet the choice then turns on apps, cellular needs and assistant controls.

Publishers:techrepublic.com

Reality

Evidence45
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+5
Incentives
Not scored
Confidence55
productOne report1 publisher

Googlebook OS trails its own hardware, The Verge's early testing finds

Four Verge staff testing all five launch Googlebooks rate the hardware great to excellent and call Googlebook OS the weak point. Their notes describe Android apps acting like tablet software on a laptop, so a team that buys now is signing up for beta software.

Publishers:theverge.com

Reality

Evidence55
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+40
Incentives
Not scored
Confidence50
securityConfirmed6 publishers

Attackers hijack Microsoft's 13-million-follower X account to promote a Clippy crypto token

Unknown attackers hijacked @Microsoft, the company's X account with more than 13 million followers, on Thursday to promote a $Clippy crypto token. Microsoft has not said how they got in, and the takeover fits a run of crypto-scam hijacks of verified accounts on X.

Perspective Coverage

7 publishers
Builder
Builder 16%
Operator
Operator 46%
Investor
Investor 38%

Reality

Evidence70
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+10
Incentives60
Confidence72
productOne report1 publisher

Diners are citing ChatGPT to overrule their server's shellfish warning

Madison, a New York server, told The Verge that guests with shellfish allergies dispute her warnings because ChatGPT says the dish is safe. Staff have improvised polite lines for invented wines, but allergens need a written house rule that holds when the guest disagrees.

Publishers:theverge.com

Reality

Evidence30
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+25
Incentives
Not scored
Confidence40
buildOne report1 publisher

Domain counts hide 90 Pinterest segment events in a captured WIRED homepage session

RuntimeWire says a captured WIRED homepage session sent Pinterest 90 audience-segment events plus fields labelled email_sha256 and fingerprint. That traffic sits in request bodies, where a tally of outside domains cannot see it.

Publishers:runtimewire.com

Reality

Evidence55
Adoption70
Hype gap+15
Incentives75
Confidence50
productConfirmed2 publishers

Apple's own code points to a new iPad mini, HomePod mini and Apple TV 4K before year-end

Images in Apple's own code, found by MacRumors contributor Aaron Perris, show an A20 Pro iPad mini 8, a HomePod mini 2 and a fourth-generation Apple TV 4K. Apple has set no date, so tablet buyers and app teams can plan on the hardware details sooner than on the October window the reports expect.

Perspective Coverage

3 publishers
Builder
Builder 30%
Operator
Operator 50%
Investor
Investor 20%

Reality

Evidence55
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+15
Incentives40
Confidence60
buildOne report1 publisher

Chrome 152 again exempts google.com from its delete-site-data-on-close setting

Chrome 152 keeps google.com's cookies and storage after 'delete on close' is switched on, developer Jeff Johnson found. Google fixed a similar exemption in 2020, and the same behaviour in open-source Chromium means other browsers and test rigs need their own check.

Publishers:dev.to

Reality

Evidence55
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+10
Incentives
Not scored
Confidence50
productOne report1 publisher

Apple brings AI clip descriptions to HomeKit cameras at up to triple rivals' price

Apple charges $9.99 to $59.99 a month for AI alerts on one to five HomeKit cameras, up to triple rivals' prices, a Verge review says. All three platforms tested beat 'motion detected,' so the buyer's choice is which cameras deserve the fee.

Publishers:theverge.com

Reality

Evidence55
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+10
Incentives
Not scored
Confidence60
productOne report1 publisher

Meta's cute Muse mascot coaxed health details out of a reviewer who had been holding back

Verge reviewer Victoria Song gave Meta's Muse agent health details she had withheld after its mascot reshaped itself from her email, though its 5K plan was mid. For teams deploying agents, the extra data came from the design, with no sign yet that the advice improved.

Publishers:theverge.com

Reality

Evidence35
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+20
Incentives
Not scored
Confidence40
productOne report1 publisher

Apple's 15-second Watch buffer moves the consent problem onto the person standing nearby

Apple's new Watches transcribe a rolling 15 seconds of nearby speech and summarise the day, with an audible chime as the notice to everyone else in the room. Teams copying the pattern inherit two-party consent law.

Publishers:theverge.com

Reality

Evidence44
Adoption24
Hype gap+26
Incentives68
Confidence46
productOne report1 publisher

Meta moves the VR computer into a pocket puck to get the glasses to 100g

Meta's new VR Glasses leave the display and sensors on the face and move the processor, the memory and the battery onto a wired puck in the pocket. The Verge tried them at Meta's campus this week.

Publishers:theverge.com

Reality

Evidence58
Adoption10
Hype gap+22
Incentives72
Confidence62

Earlier coverage

  1. Meta's Muse stopped at the payment screen on a $7 espresso part

    Product · September 23, 2026 · One report1 publisher

  2. The Googlebook pitch rests on three features that need an Android 17 phone

    Product · September 21, 2026 · Confirmed2 publishers

  3. Secret Service confiscated a Politico reporter's White House pass at the gate

    Product · September 22, 2026 · Confirmed2 publishers

  4. Apple swaps the iPhone 18 Pro's fixed aperture for four settings behind a six-dot button

    Product · September 18, 2026 · Confirmed3 publishers

  5. Bose splits its open-ear line into a $299 flagship and a $199 sport pair

    Product · September 17, 2026 · Confirmed3 publishers

  6. The Pixel 11's hardware changelog: a glass camera bar and seven grams

    Product · August 19, 2026 · Confirmed3 publishers

  7. Fairphone charges $39.99 for a replacement battery

    Product · September 6, 2026 · One report1 publisher