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Programmatic snafu speak, translated: a guide to the usual excuses
Barely two months into the year, and here we are with yet another expose on the cesspool of content that programmatic ads bankroll. A decade into these recurring scandals, the reaction cycle is p...

If Google’s cookie phase-out ever comes, here’s what a cookie-less future looks like for Mars’ chief brand officer Rankin Carroll
Subscribe: Apple Podcasts • Spotify Google’s long kiss goodnight with third-party cookies seems never-ending at this point, as the tech giant’s cookie phase-out plans still remain uncle...

Elon Musk-Led Investor Group Submits Bid to Buy OpenAI Nonprofit
A group of investors led by Elon Musk reportedly submitted a bid to OpenAI’s board of directors Monday (Feb. 10) to buy the nonprofit that controls the company for $97.4 billion. The unsolicited off...

Meta Workforce Reductions Expected to Continue Through February
Meta began notifying employees affected by its previously announced job cuts on Monday (Feb. 10). The company’s emails notifying those who were being let go marked the beginning of a process that is...

FTC Names General Counsel and Heads of Consumer Protection and Competition Bureaus
The Federal Trade Commission has a new general counsel and two new heads of bureaus. FTC Chairman Andrew N. Ferguson announced the appointments Monday (Feb. 10). The new director of the FTC’s Bureau...

As NCMEC Removes Any Mention of Trans Youth, the Anti-Porn Movement Shows Its True Colors With Trump’s Executive Order Against ‘Gender Ideology’
I’ve long maintained the certitude that anti-pornography campaigners aligned with the far-right and conservative Christian movements are directly or indirectly transphobic and anti-LGBTQ. A body o...

Elon Musk just offered to buy OpenAI for $97.4 billion
In a dramatic escalation of Silicon Valley’s most heated AI rivalry, Elon Musk just announced that he’s leading ...

Big Tech is still silent on Trump’s tariffs
President Donald Trump’s 10 percent tariff on goods imported from China has been in effect for nearly a week. Ahead of the tariff going into effect, I wrote that “Big Tech has been silent on T...

OpenAI and Government Officials Discuss DeepSeek Development
OpenAI has talked with government officials about what the company has learned about whether DeepSeek used data obtained in an unauthorized way from OpenAI’s technology. “We’ve seen some evidenc...

CES 2025: all the news, gadgets, and surprises
CES 2025 was a wild ride, and The Verge was on the ground in Las Vegas to cover the biggest gadgets, press conferences, and surprises of the show. You can follow along below for all the news, impr...

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