PHP
The $1,000 AWS mistake
A cautionary tale about AWS VPC networking, NAT Gateways, and how a missing VPC Endpoint turned S3 data transfers into an expensive lesson. Read more
Android
What’s new in the Jetpack Compose December ’25 release
Posted by Nick Butcher, Jetpack Compose Product Manager Today, the Jetpack Compose December ‘25 release is stable. This contains version 1.10 of the core Compose modules and version 1.4 of Material 3 (see the full Read more…
PHP
A Slice of PIE, PHP’s new extension installer
PIE’s creator James Titcumb shows of PIE. Read more
Android
Indiegogo is launching ‘Express Crowdfunding’ so creators can ship things sooner
Indiegogo is planning to launch a new “Express Crowdfunding” campaign format that lets creators ship things while the campaign is on-going instead of forcing creators to wait until the campaign is over. Indiegogo spokesperson Maciej Read more…
Android
Google is experimentally replacing news headlines with AI clickbait nonsense
“BG3 players exploit children,” reads an Google AI-generated headline. | Image: Google Did you know that BG3 players exploit children? Are you aware that Qi2 slows older Pixels? If we wrote those misleading headlines, readers Read more…
Android
Amazon’s bet that AI benchmarks don’t matter
Rohit Prasad, Amazon’s SVP of AGI. This is an excerpt of Sources by Alex Heath, a newsletter about AI and the tech industry, syndicated just for The Verge subscribers once a week. Amazon’s AI chief Read more…
Android
Silicon Valley is rallying behind a guy who sucks
Hello and welcome to Regulator, a newsletter for Verge subscribers that covers the political intrigue and power struggles between Big Tech and Big Government. Subscribe here for a weekly dispatch of tech oligarchs fighting regular Read more…
Android
Helldivers 2’s new ‘slim’ version saves 131GB of space on your drive
If you’ve been short on storage on your PC, the latest Helldivers 2 beta update might help. The developers said Tuesday they’ve managed to cut down the PC file size for Helldivers 2 by about Read more…
Android
HBO Max’s Mad Men 4K release is the opposite of a remaster
Though HBO Max was very proud to announce that it would be the first platform to stream Mad Men in 4K, the show’s new rollout has been an absolute mess. When HBO Max subscribers fired Read more…
Android
Roborock’s powerful Saros 10 robovac is still at its lowest price ever
The Roborock Saros 10 is one of the best Cyber Monday deals still lingering around. | Photo: Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge Black Friday and Cyber Monday brought some of the best deals of Read more…