Image: Kristen Radtke / The Verge The FBI said it ‘gained access’ to the Trump rally shooter’s phone just two days after the attempted assassination. Continue reading…

Whether youre moving into a new home or are building your dream home, setting up a home network is a lot easier if you do it before moving everything in. A home network needs to have enough coverage for all of your devices around the house, while offering enough speed to continue to be useful as internet speeds and file sizes continue to improve. If the house is already built, or if youre moving into an apartment, youre going to have fewer options, but it will still pay off if you make the most of what you have.

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Powerful record labels, including UMG Recordings, Warner Music, and Sony Music, filed a lawsuit Friday accusing Verizon of intentionally ignoring its customers’ copyright violations for profit, reports Music Business Worldwide. The plaintiffs say they are entitled to as much as $150,000 per violation under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), which could add up to as much as $2.6 billion.The lawsuit includes a list of 17,335 tracks from artists or bands, including Elvis Presley, Matchbox Twenty, Goo Goo Dolls, and Brandy. (Here’s the list if you’d like to dive further in — it starts with Sam Cooke and ends with Wiz Khalifa.) The labels say they’ve sent “nearly 350,000 infringement notices” to Verizon since 2020, alleging that... Continue reading…

Image: The Verge News moves fast following shocking events. But the hustlers trying to make a quick buck might move even faster.Within hours of a shooter attempting to assassinate Donald Trump at a rally on Saturday, countless products emblazoned with an image of Trump, bloodied and fist raised, were for sale on e-commerce platforms. A shirt on Temu with an image from the rally and the words “TRUMP BULLETPROOF” is for sale for $9.59. (One person died at the rally and two were critically injured.) On Amazon, many of the top-selling men’s novelty T-shirts are nearly identical: some version of an image of Trump at the rally, alongside phrases like “FIGHT!” and “NEVER SURRENDER.” Screenshot: Temu With the Republican National Convention... Continue reading…

Building a PC with all-new parts is one of the great joys of life. The excitement of unboxing shiny new components, taking in the intoxicating smell, and assembling the system in anticipation of a great experience is unmatched. But, buying everything new every single time might not be an option maybe you're building a stop-gap PC while saving for something better, putting together a secondary PC for a DIY project, or even taking it as a challenge to build a killer PC with used parts.

Last week, HP held an event to preview its upcoming ASI technologies, committing to being a leader in the space. Among the announcements is the first flagship laptop from its OmniBook brand, the OmniBook Ultra. The product is promised to get up to 55 AI TOPS, and if you're recalling that no silicon vendor has announced a 55 TOPS chip, you're correct.

The best wireless keyboards can free you from the mess of cables on your desk, and they provide more versatility should you want to do some typing away from the office or gaming room. For example, I've long used a wireless keyboard in my living room to easily control the PC connected to my TV. Wireless keyboard technology has advanced to the point where there's no drawback compared to using a wired option, even if you're involved in something like gaming where responsiveness is paramount. Many of the best keyboards on the market are wireless, and many have optional wired capabilities when a wireless connection isn't possible.

Windows 11 is an operating system that's friendly to users from all over the world, speaking all kinds of different languages. If you've moved to a new country and aren't comfortable with the language, you can easily change the language on your PC to match what you're most comfortable with. But you can also change the language and layout used for your keyboard, which affects things like spellchecking, and also how you enter certain special characters.

Illustration: The Verge Google is considering spending $23 billion to buy Wiz, a cloud cybersecurity startup with partners that include Amazon and Oracle, reports The Wall Street Journal. At close to twice what it spent for Motorola Mobility in 2012, it would be the most Google has ever paid for another company.The New York City-based Wiz offers “siloed security tools and scanners” for the enterprise space, according to the company. Wiz writes that it secures corporate cloud infrastructure “by creating a normalizing layer between cloud environments,” letting businesses “rapidly identify and remove critical risks.” Buying such a company feels particularly targeted at an increasingly vulnerable-looking Microsoft that’s recently weathered multiple high-profile... Continue reading…

Assembling your own NAS can have a number of benefits over buying pre-built enclosures. Besides customizing the hardware to your liking, you also get to pick between quite a few operating systems that bring their own set of pros and cons to the table.

We've been really getting stuck into macOS Sequoia, Apple's latest operating system announced during its WWDC24 event. Our own Brady Snider has been casting a critical eye over Sequoia, and he's also been hard at work unearthing all the hidden features and changes made to the operating system. If you want to hop on the new macOS goodness, here's how you can get yourself signed up for the beta.

When AI assistants appear in productivity suites, people understandably get concerned over what they can and can't read. If you're working on a sensitive and private document, you likely don't want an AI assistant scanning it and beaming all of your data to an external server. Unfortunately, that may have been what happened to one user, who noticed that Google Gemini automatically gave its opinion on a document he had just opened, despite him having never asked it to do so.