Ghost Story Games must have sensed that we were becoming antsy about Judas, the upcoming game from BioShock creator Ken Levine that’s touted an impressive-sounding “narrative LEGOs” approach. The studio has dropped the first of seemingly multiple Dev Logs today, with this one talking about the game’s complex, Shadow of Mordor-like “Villainy” system. Levine has been alluding to the game’s …
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Revolutionary Cortisol Test Lets You “See” Stress With a Smartphone Camera
A groundbreaking biosensor powered by protein design and smartphone cameras could transform how we measure the body’s stress hormone, cortisol, bringing lab-level precision to point-of-care testing. Credit: Shutterstock A protein-based biosensor measures cortisol with high accuracy. Smartphone compatibility makes stress testing more accessible. Cortisol plays a key role in regulating essential body functions such as blood pressure and metabolism, and …
Read More »Critical Docker Desktop flaw lets attackers hijack Windows hosts
A critical vulnerability in Docker Desktop for Windows and macOS allows compromising the host by running a malicious container, even if the Enhanced Container Isolation (ECI) protection is active. The security issue is a server-side request forgery (SSRF) now identified as CVE-2025-9074, and it received a critical severity rating of 9.3. “A malicious container running on Docker Desktop could access the Docker Engine …
Read More »Apple Music Now Lets You Import Playlists From Spotify and Other Streaming Services
Apple Music is rolling out a new tool that allows you to import playlists from other streaming services. After beta-testing in Australia and New Zealand, the tool is now available in the United States, United Kingdom, Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, and Mexico. The tool, announced by Apple and spotted by MacRumors, is accessed through a new menu in Music settings …
Read More »Framework sells a gaming laptop that lets you easily upgrade its GPU
Framework CEO Nirav Patel said he would deliver “the holy grail for gamers” with the Framework Laptop 16. In 2023, he suggested it’d be the first consumer notebook to fulfil the promise of modular, upgradable graphics cards like a desktop PC. We at The Verge were skeptical, because the last time we heard someone tell that story, it ended in …
Read More »Using an AI Browser Lets Hackers Drain Your Bank Account Just by Showing You a Public Reddit Post
Numerous tech companies are vying to harness the power of AI for a new generation of web browsers. Probably the most prominent is Perplexity’s Comet, which it describes as a “personal assistant and thinking partner” while you surf the web. Unsurprisingly, that approach can have enormous cybersecurity implications. As privacy-focused browser company Brave noted in a blog post last week, it’s alarmingly easy …
Read More »Major flaw in top password managers lets hackers steal your login details, 2FA codes, credit card info and more
Several of the best password managers have been found to be vulnerable to a flaw that lets hackers pull off clickjacking attacks. Researcher Marek Tóth recently demonstrated how the bug allows attackers to overlay invisible HTML elements over an interface so that users think they’re clicking on a standard popup but instead, they’re actually unknowingly leaking sensitive information like account …
Read More »Supreme Court Lets Trump Cut Millions of Dollars in NIH Grants
A splintered US Supreme Court let the Trump administration temporarily cut off potentially hundreds of millions of dollars in medical research grants that government officials say don’t align with the president’s policies. The justices partially put on hold a federal trial judge’s decision that the National Institutes of Health acted in an “arbitrary and capricious” manner when it terminated thousands …
Read More »US Supreme Court lets Trump cut diversity-related NIH grants – Reuters
US Supreme Court lets Trump cut diversity-related NIH grants Reuters Trump Pays Visit to Law Enforcement Officers in D.C.: Live Updates The New York Times Supreme Court allows NIH to stop making nearly $800M in research grants for now NPR Supreme Court clears way for nearly $800 million in cuts to NIH grants The Washington Post Supreme Court lets Trump admin cut off health …
Read More »Spotify now lets you create seamless transitions between songs on your custom playlists
Spotify routinely debuts new playlist features for its users, but the company’s latest update has the potential to dramatically alter custom mixes. Starting today, premium users will have access to a new tool for creating customized transitions within playlists. This will allow seamless progression from one track to the next, with natural-sounding changeovers and no awkward silence. Once you’ve created …
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