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  • Joby Aviation has filed a lawsuit against rival Archer, alleging corporate espionage involving stolen trade secrets by a former employee.
  • WhatsApp introduced a new "About" feature, allowing users to share their status updates similar to Instagram's Notes.
  • Kalshi, a prediction betting platform, has raised $1 billion, boosting its valuation to $11 billion with investments from firms like Sequoia Capital.
  • Salesforce is investigating a data breach following a hacking incident at Gainsight, which exposed some customer data.
  • OpenAI has globally rolled out group chat functionality in ChatGPT, enabling collaboration in various tasks by including up to 20 participants in conversations.

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  • You can now play Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2 in your browser an hour ago by Will Shanklin
    Video Games, site|engadget, provider_name|Engadget, region|US, language|en-US, author_name|Will Shanklin

    Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2 knew how to lay on the camp. But it wasn’t only known for having some of the most delightfully cheesy cutscenes this side of The 7th Guest. Red Alert 2 was also an acclaimed real-time strategy game for its time, and it’s still perfectly playable today. Want to see for yourself? It’s now as easy as opening your browser. The Chrono Divide project (via PC Gamer) lets you play the 2000 RTS in Chrome, Edge, or Safari. Although it supports Firefox, too, its developer says it should be avoided if you want “good performance.” It

  • Microsoft has open sourced the Zork trilogy of text games an hour ago by Anna Washenko
    Video Games, site|engadget, provider_name|Engadget, region|US, language|en-US, author_name|Anna Washenko

    Preservation has become a pressing topic for games in this era of digital-only releases and games-as-a-service. So it's wonderful to have a big win in archiving a trio of seminal text games for the ages. Microsoft announced today that the code for Zork, Zork II and Zork III will be made available open source under the MIT License. The company's Open Source Programs Office, Xbox and Activision all contributed to the effort. "The goal is not to modernize Zork but to preserve it as a space for exploration and education," Microsoft team members wrote in the blog post sharing the

  • Microsoft brings the Xbox Ally X's full screen experience to other handhelds 2 hours ago by Ian Carlos Campbell
    Software, Technology & Electronics, Game Consoles, site|engadget, provider_name|Engadget, region|US, language|en-US, author_name|Ian Carlos Campbell

    A major selling point of the Xbox Ally and Ally X is that they ship with a full screen version of Windows that plays nice with handheld PCs. As part of the company's recent Xbox Partner Showcase, Microsoft has announced that the Windows "full screen experience" or FSE is finally rolling out to all other Windows 11 handhelds starting November 21. For the most part, FSE lets you live inside a touch and controller-friendly version of the Xbox PC app, rather than the normal Windows desktop. The launcher collects games from a multitude of game marketplaces like Steam and the Epic

  • ChatGPT group chats roll out to everyone 3 hours ago by Engadget
    Technology & Electronics, site|engadget, provider_name|Engadget, region|US, language|en-US

    After what was apparently a successful testing period, OpenAI has announced that it is rolling out group chats in ChatGPT to "all logged-in users on ChatGPT Free, Go, Plus and Pro plans globally over the coming days." The company first started testing a way to collaborate with peers directly inside ChatGPT around a week ago in Japan, New Zealand, South Korea and Taiwan. Once you start a chat in ChatGPT you can invite other people to join (up to 20 in a chat), either with their existing ChatGPT account, or one they make after clicking the invite link. Beyond being able

  • Meta ordered to pay €479 million to Spanish media outlets 3 hours ago by Engadget
    Business, site|engadget, provider_name|Engadget, region|US, language|en-US

    Stop me if you've heard this one before: Meta has been fined for unlawfully processing user data to gain a market advantage. On Thursday, Reuters reported that a Madrid court ordered the company to pay €479 million ($552 million) in damages to 87 Spanish media outlets. The fine stems from the company changing its legal grounds for harvesting personal data after new regulations took effect. The court found that Meta's data collection practices violated the EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) — and, by extension, Spanish antitrust law. After the GDPR took effect in 2018, the company changed its legal grounds


The Verge

  • Microsoft’s AI-powered copy and paste can now use on-device AI an hour ago by Emma Roth
    AI, Microsoft, News, Tech, Windows

    Microsoft is upgrading its Advanced Paste tool in PowerToys for Windows 11, allowing you to use an on-device AI model to power some of its features. With the 0.96 update, you can route requests through Microsoft’s Foundry Local tool or the open-source Ollama, both of which run AI models on your device’s neural processing unit (NPU) instead of connecting to the cloud. That means you won’t need to purchase API credits to perform certain actions, like having AI translate or summarize the text copied to your clipboard. Plus, you can keep your data on your device. Along with support for on-device AI,

  • Meta’s Hyperscape is ready to turn your real living room into a VR hangout an hour ago by Jay Peters
    Meta, News, Tech, Virtual Reality

    Meta’s impressive, photorealistic digital replicas of real places built using its “Hyperscape” capture tech, which uses the cameras on a Quest 3 or Quest 3S VR headset to scan a room, have so far been solitary spaces. If you wanted to visit a virtual version of a room in your house (or of Gordon Ramsay’s home kitchen), you could only do it on your own. But beginning this week, Meta is rolling out the ability to share links that will let other people visit Hyperscape rooms with you in a Quest 3 or 3S VR headset or via the Meta

  • Wicked: For Good is a soaring second act that brings it all full circle 2 hours ago by Charles Pulliam-Moore
    Books, Entertainment, Film, Movie Review, Music

    When Jon M. Chu first announced that his big-screen Wicked adaptation would be split into two parts, there was concern about whether the original musical's second act could be fashioned into a fully fleshed-out movie. Compared to the stage show's lengthy first act, where all the musical's most recognizable songs are front-loaded, the second act is shorter and moves at a much faster pace while picking up after a big time jump. It was easy to imagine Wicked: Part Two (the original title) being too disorienting and frenetic to work as a standalone feature. But Wicked: For Good proves that

  • Bethesda’s $300 Pip-Boy 3000 replica can measure (harmless) radiation 2 hours ago by Andrew Liszewski
    Entertainment, Gadgets, Gaming, News, Toys

    The replica is now available for preorder and expected to ship as soon as June 2026. | Image: Bethesda Bethesda is now selling a highly-detailed wearable replica of the Pip-Boy 3000 from Fallout 3 and Fallout: New Vegas. It was designed using the 3D models of the accessory in the games to make it as accurate as possible, and is available for preorder now for $299.99, with shipping expected to start as early as June 2026. Sadly, it won’t arrive in time for the season two premiere of Amazon’s Fallout series that starts on December 17th, 2025.  It’s not the first time

  • The Verge’s favorite holiday gifts under $100 2 hours ago by Brandon Russell
    Gadgets, Gift Guides, Tech, Verge Shopping

    Between all the new phones, smartwatches, and laptops we see throughout the year, it often feels like we're constantly being nudged toward shinier, more expensive gadgets. And I get it. As a self-professed gadget nerd, few things are more exciting than unboxing and setting up a new device. But the truth is, you can still find plenty of great gifts for under $100. I use the Leatherman Free T4 every day, while Donkey Kong Bananza has provided me (and other Verge staffers) with hours of entertainment. If someone in your life loves the satisfaction of building and has shelves full of


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