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PowerSchool data breach leaks info of students and staff at schools across the US
Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images Schools across the US and Canada are warning parents that a data breach may have leaked information for students and employees. The K-12 operations platform PowerSchool, which supports over 60 million students and has over 18,000 customers worldwide, suffered a breach that could’ve exposed names and addresses … Read more
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Swappable lenses let you place this laser projector exactly where you want it
Valerion’s VisionMaster Max projector at the company’s CES 2025 booth. | Image: Valerion Valerion announced a new feature for its VisionMaster Max projector at CES 2025 that will improve setup flexibility. The company will offer alternate lenses for the projector — a feature typically only offered on professional-grade home theater hardware — that can be … Read more
The best mobile skateboarding game now has a New York sequel
Image: Snowman For me, skateboarding has always been about getting into a flow state. Much like playing Tetris, I’m at my best when I’m skating almost subconsciously, not thinking and acting in the moment. It’s not an easy zone to get into, and music has always been my shortcut. So the greatest compliment I can … Read more
US Bitcoin ETFs first anniversary: A surge far above expectations
Many executives and analysts predicted the success of US spot Bitcoin ETFs in 2024, but the funds surpassed expectations.
TikTok’s last stand: Supreme Court hears arguments over potential ban
Illustration by Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photo from Getty Images One last chance before the divest-or-ban law takes effect on January 19th. TikTok has just over a week before it’s forced to either separate from its Chinese parent company ByteDance or functionally cease operations in the US. An appeals court upheld a divest-or-ban … Read more
China hacked US Treasury’s CFIUS, which reviews foreign investments for national security risks
The hackers targeting the Treasury are dubbed Silk Typhoon, and previously mass-hacked thousands of corporate email servers. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
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The Vergecast at CES 2025: the biggest stories and best gadgets
Image: Alex Parkin / The Verge CES is a TV show. And a car show. And a wearables show. And this year, oddly, kind of a pool-vacuum show? It is the biggest, most elaborate, most bizarre tech show of the year, during which practically the whole industry flies to Las Vegas to show off new … Read more
It’s Hard to Fund Midsize Green Assets. This Tokenization Startup Wants to Change That
The U.S. renewable energy industry is in an odd position. Large-scale projects, like SunZia, the southwestern wind turbine project that is expected to provide enough electricity to power three million homes, are funded with relative ease thanks to long-established relationships with financial giants. Meanwhile, small-scale installations such as solar panels on one’s rooftop are becoming … Read more
Cynthia Lummis Tapped to Lead First-Ever Senate Crypto Subcommittee
Such a subcommittee already exists in the larger House of Representatives, which is also undergoing a leadership change.
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Web3 creator platform ‘Oh’ raises $4.5M for AI-based digital influencers
Some of Oh’s AI agents are already generating over $10,000 in monthly revenue, the platform’s CEO told Cointelegraph.
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Sen. Ted Cruz: Fighting regulatory overreach, championing Bitcoin
In an interview with Cointelegraph, US Senator Ted Cruz discusses Bitcoin’s role in driving small business growth, its potential as a hedge against inflation, and why Texas is becoming a top crypto hub.
Drone takes out Super Scooper fighting Los Angeles wildfires
A Super Scooper drops ocean water on the Palisades fire. | Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images An aircraft helping to fight wildfires that are raging across Los Angeles was struck by a civilian drone on Thursday. The collision damaged the wing of the aircraft — a CL-415 “Super Scooper” … Read more
Venu Sports shuts down before it ever launches
Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge Venu, the live sports streaming service from ESPN, Fox, and Warner Bros. Discovery, isn’t happening. In a statement on Friday, the three companies announced the decision “not to move forward with the contemplated joint venture is effective immediately.” Since announcing Venu last year, the service hit a legal roadblock: … Read more
U.S. Added 256K Jobs in December, Blowing Past 160K Estimate
The employment market in the U.S. picked up steam in December, with job growth topping economist forecasts by a mile and the unemployment rate unexpectedly dipping. The economy added 256,000 jobs last month, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported on Friday, topping forecasts for 160,000 and up from 212,000 in November (revised from an originally … Read more
Cannabis company Stiiizy says hackers accessed customers’ ID documents
A ransomware gang took credit for the breach, claiming to have stolen over 400,000 government-issued identity documents from customers. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
XRP, XLM and DOGE See Recovery in Stateside Demand
This week, the crypto market has witnessed a notable positive shift, particularly in prices for major alternative cryptocurrencies XRP, DOGE and XLM. These tokens are once again priced more or less the same on the Nasdaq-listed Coinbase, considered a proxy for the stateside demand, and the offshore giant Binance, TradingView data shows. The recovery from … Read more
The coolest laptops of CES 2025
Lenovo’s rollable laptop stole the show, but there are a bunch of upcoming models I’m excited to test when the time comes. | Photo by Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge The new CPUs, GPUs, and laptops announced at CES this week set the tone for Windows computers in the year to come — … Read more
WhatsApp really hopes you want to talk with AI bots
Illustration: The Verge Meta’s popular messaging app WhatsApp is testing a new design that gives prominent space to a suite of AI chatbots. The design, currently only accessible through the app’s Android beta, adds a dedicated tab for AIs on the app’s homescreen. WABetaInfo spotted the change, which devotes one of WhatsApp’s four tabs solely … Read more
Bybit exchange suspends services in India due to regulatory pressure
Bybit will continue honoring user withdrawal requests despite temporarily halting other services.