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Modders reverse-engineer unreleased Nvidia DLSS 5 from NBA 2K27 leak

Modders are trying out an unofficial version of Nvidia's DLSS 5 on Skyrim, Cyberpunk 2077, GTA V, and a bunch of other games after code for the AI upscaling tech appeared in an early-access build of NBA 2K27. Members of the RenoDX modding channel on Discord reportedly found a way to extract the DLSS

The Verge·August 28, 2026

TECHNOLOGY

Court blocks Pentagon’s politically motivated blacklisting of Anthropic

On Thursday, a judge ruled that the Pentagon's blacklisting of Anthropic earlier this year was unconstitutional, delivering the AI lab a win in a monthslong rollercoaster of a battle with the Trump administration. The lawsuit, filed in March in a California district court, accused the Trump administ

The Verge·August 28, 2026

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Google Play Books gets AI integration to challenge Kindle dominance

Google's AI note-taking app, Gemini Notebook, can now pull information from the books you've purchased. The new "Expert Intelligence" feature allows you to bring titles from Google Play Books directly into Gemini Notebook, which means you can ask questions about the material, as well as generate pla

The Verge·August 27, 2026

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Google makes Android developers choose between efficiency and Play Store access

Google will start policing memory-hungry Android apps as a direct response to the RAM crisis. Spotted by TechCrunch, the company yesterday published a memo addressing the Play Store's role in enforcing new memory-usage restrictions. The post emphasizes the importance of meeting new memory usage limi

The Verge·August 27, 2026

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Nvidia’s AGI claim exposes how tech industry redefined the goal

On Nvidia's earnings call Wednesday, CEO Jensen Huang casually announced the company had "achieved AGI," one of the tech industry's ultimate goals some of its biggest players have spent years chasing. Almost immediately, Huang dismissed the coveted milestone as "senseless." He's right. For the suppo

The Verge·August 27, 2026

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OpenAI’s unreleased model breached sandbox, infiltrated Hugging Face

In July, an unreleased OpenAI model broke out of a restricted environment, figured out how to get access to the internet, allowed AI agents to talk to each other using a secret "message board," and hacked into the internal systems of a different AI lab, Hugging Face. It took nearly two weeks for Ope

The Verge·August 26, 2026

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Google’s transcription AI could reshape the market for professional audio editing

Google has updated Gemini Audio with new transcription capabilities that automatically detect specialized jargon and more than 85 languages. Gemini 3.5 Transcribe is a new addition to the Gemini family that follows the launch of 3.5 Live Translate, and comes as we're still waiting for Google to rele

The Verge·August 26, 2026

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Trump’s H-1B fee hike will reshape how tech companies hire abroad

In the span of a few hours on Monday, the Department of Homeland Security announced that it would be implementing a fee of over $103,000 on H-1B visas, and news broke that the State Department plans on revoking the visas of up to 200,000 asylum seekers - which, according to The Associated Press, wou

The Verge·August 25, 2026

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Instagram’s First Draft signals the editing arms race is far from over

Instagram is launching a new Reels-editing feature that automatically trims your video clips to focus on the highlights. The feature, called First Draft, is rolling out to Instagram's iPhone app and provides a "starting point" that you can build upon with other edits, according to an announcement on

The Verge·August 25, 2026

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Nothing OS 5.0 shows how Carl Pei’s startup positions Android design against Samsung and Google

With the new design of Nothing OS 5.0, app icons and widgets can use adaptive color to get color tints pulled from your wallpaper, which update whenever your wallpaper changes. Alongside Android's built-in Dynamic Colors, the company says it allows you to have specific elements change to match your

The Verge·August 25, 2026

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Lenovo’s Legion Go update damage exposes gaps in handheld gaming support

When a company's software update turns your computer into a useless brick, should fixes be free? Framework, the modular computer startup, apparently thinks so. But it's not clear that computing giant Lenovo will go that far. Three weeks after a Redditor presented a nearly $300 repair bill for their

The Verge·August 24, 2026

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Netflix explores becoming a streaming aggregator like Amazon and Apple

Netflix executives have considered making third-party streaming services available within its app, according to a report from The New York Times. The recent discussions reportedly centered around bringing Peacock and Fox One to Netflix, though it's unclear whether the streaming giant would sell subs

The Verge·August 24, 2026

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