DHS reportedly detained a Columbia University student and content creator

Students are seen on the campus of Columbia University on April 14, 2025, in New York…

If Big Tech cared about fighting AI slop, we wouldn’t be drowning in it

As 2025 drew to a close, Instagram head Adam Mosseri ended the year by doom-posting about…

Smart glasses in court are a privacy nightmare

When Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg arrived at a Los Angeles courthouse on Wednesday, he did so…

Prediction markets want to eat the news

Substack has updated its partnership with betting platform Polymarket, “introducing native tools that make it easier…

Instagram on trial and the RAMaggedon rages on

This week, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg testified in a landmark social media trial, claiming the company…

The executive that helped build Meta’s ad machine is trying to expose it

Brian Boland spent more than a decade figuring out how to build a system that would…

Mastodon is testing easier ways to get you started in the fediverse

New users on the decentralized social network Mastodon could soon have an easier time getting started.…

It’s MAGA v Broligarch in the battle over prediction markets

Hello and welcome to Regulator, a newsletter for Verge subscribers about the love-hate (but mostly hate)…

Mark Zuckerberg and his Ray-Ban entourage have their day in court

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg entered a downtown Los Angeles courthouse in largely the same way as…

Mark Zuckerberg testifies in social media addiction trial that Meta just wants Instagram to be ‘useful’

Mark Zuckerberg took the stand Wednesday in a high-profile jury trial over social media addiction. In…