I’ll confess, with no shame whatsoever, that I really love ads. Artsy ones, funny ones, weird ones, emotional ones – TV commercials were my childhood TikTok before any of us were using terms like “short-form video.” But like most creative things in my life, AI […]
Year: 2026
Get stuff done by yelling at your phone
Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 113, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you’re new here, welcome, please send hot cocoa to my freezing-cold house, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This […]
Verizon Outage Over, But Phones Still Struggling: Quick Fixes Inside!
Here’s How to Fix Your Phone Now That Verizon Says the Outage Is Resolved Verizon’s massive nationwide outage that began on January 24, 2026, has officially ended, but that doesn’t mean your phone is automatically working again. If you’re still experiencing connectivity issues after the […]
Tiny Falcons Protect Michigan Cherry Farms, Slash Pest Damage and Boost Food Safety
Tiny Falcons Are Helping Keep the Food Supply Safe on Cherry Farms In northern Michigan’s vast cherry orchards, American kestrels—the smallest falcons in North America—are emerging as unexpected heroes in food safety.[1][2] These tiny raptors, scientifically known as Falco sparverius, naturally deter pest birds like […]
Demand for Intel’s processors is apparently there, but the supply is not
Intel is allocating more of its own production to its money-making server chips.
Podcast Review: Agent Ching Attacks | Official Trailer | Atlee & Ranveer Singh | Sreeleela, Bobby Deol 🔥🔥🔥
As the leaves change color and the chill of fall sets in, the cinema world is heating things up with the latest Bollywood blockbuster, ‘Agent Ching Attacks’. Directed by none other than the south Indian sensation, Atlee, who is notorious for his over-the-top cinematic style, […]
cURL Halts Bug Bounties, Citing AI Spam and Mental Health Concerns
Overrun with AI Slop, cURL Scraps Bug Bounties to Ensure “Intact Mental Health” In a bold move to combat the flood of low-quality, AI-generated bug reports, the cURL project is shutting down its HackerOne bug bounty program by January 31, 2026, redirecting all future submissions […]
Congress doesn’t seem to know if the TikTok deal complies with its law
TikTok finally closed a deal meant to bring it into compliance with the law that should have banned it a year ago, and the lawmakers who passed that law still don’t seem to know what’s going on. The company announced Tuesday that its US service […]
Leak: Nvidia is about to challenge ‘Intel Inside’ with as many as eight Arm laptops
Intel and AMD have split the Windows laptop market for years, but the x86 players may be getting outnumbered. It’s not just Apple MacBooks and MediaTek-based Chromebooks using Arm chips anymore. There are finally competent Qualcomm Snapdragon laptops running Windows, and – as soon as […]
Instagram ICE critic wins fight to stay anonymous as DHS backs down
Community watch groups have a playbook to keep ICE away from subscriber information.