The Verge

Cash App’s launching a phone service
I went to the woods to drink surprisingly great espresso
Boox’s new e-reader could replace your Kindle, Kobo, and digital notepad
Anthropic apologizes for invisible Claude Fable guardrails
The library rules (and so do library streaming services)
iFixit Trump phone teardown confirms it’s an HTC dupe
YouTube is introducing DMs (again)
Ryanair is under investigation over charging parents to sit with their kids
Deezer launches an AI music detector for other streaming services
Bluesky is getting ‘communities’
Framework delays its first Laptop 13 Pro shipments by a month
Apple’s new Siri AI knows when to shut up
Nearly a million passports and photo IDs were left unprotected on the public internet
Xbox warns of a ‘reset’ as it prepares for layoffs
Apple, Google add support for Thread 1.4
Kalshi adds required employment verification for some prediction market bets
Claude Fable won’t answer basic biology questions
Microsoft, like, totally gets why students are booing AI-pilled graduation speakers
The future of AI regulation is courting the strangest, most anxious bedfellows
Google won’t just admit it’s feeding YouTube creators to its music AI