Wordle’s creator made a fun new puzzle game
Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 119, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you’re…
March 2026
European retailers yank popular headphones after study reports trace amounts of hormone-disrupting chemicals
Some European retailers have stopped selling certain headphones after an EU-funded study found that they contained hormone-disrupting chemicals. The study…
Interpol – Operation Synergia III leads to 45,000 malicious IPs dismantled and 94 arrests worldwide
INTERPOL dismantled 45,000 malicious IPs and servers and arrested 94 suspects in a global cybercrime operation. INTERPOL announced a global…
Staff complain that xAI is flailing because of constant upheaval
Elon Musk has ordered another round of job cuts at xAI after growing frustrated with the poor performance of its…
NASA officials sidestepped questions on Artemis II risks—there’s a reason why
When talking about risk during a press conference on Thursday, the NASA officials in charge of the upcoming Artemis II…
Woman sneezes out maggots after fly larvae get trapped in her deviated septum
A 58-year-old woman in Greece appears to hold the record for growing a parasitic sheep bot fly in her nose…
Slay the Spire 2 is a bit too familiar for its own good
Do you remember the joyful satisfaction you felt when you really started to understand Slay the Spire? This isn’t a…
Figuring out why AIs get flummoxed by some games
With its Alpha series of game-playing AIs, Google’s DeepMind group seemed to have found a way for its AIs to…
Google Fiber will be sold to private equity firm and merge with cable company
Google Fiber, now officially called GFiber, is being sold to private equity firm Stonepeak and will be combined with cable-and-fiber…
Supply-chain attack using invisible code hits GitHub and other repositories
Researchers say they’ve discovered a supply-chain attack flooding repositories with malicious packages that contain invisible code, a technique that’s flummoxing…