House votes to reauthorize FISA, without the warrant requirement amendment

Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photos from Getty Images After three failed attempts and a heated floor debate, the House voted on Friday to reauthorize a controversial program that lets US intelligence agencies spy on foreign communications without a warrant. The bill ultimately passed 273–147. Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act is … Read more

Spotify’s lossless audio could finally arrive as part of ‘Music Pro’ add-on

Image: Nick Barclay / The Verge Could lossless streaming on Spotify actually be happening this time? We’ve been through so many twists and turns with this saga already, but there’s new cause for hope. Code snippets in recent builds of Spotify for Android yet again tease the possibility of the company’s long-delayed lossless audio coming … Read more

Meta is testing an AI-powered search bar in Instagram

Meta is pushing ahead with its efforts to make its generative AI-powered products available to more users. Apart from testing Meta AI chatbot with users in countries like India on WhatsApp, the company is also experimenting with putting Meta AI in the Instagram search bar for both chat with AI and content discovery. The search … Read more