Sources tell Semafor that Reddit wants to combat AI bots using World ID, the cryptocurrency and human identification project co-founded by Altman. It uses an iris scanner known as the Orb to assign people a World ID, which Semafor says Reddit could use to verify human users while keeping them anonymous.

The Senate parliamentarian — a nonpartisan congressional advisor — says Republicans are violating a budget reconciliation rule in their attempt to fast-track some parts of President Trump’s agenda.

According to @NekoMichiUBC on X, and a Reddit thread, the first developer beta of macOS Tahoe does not include support for the IEEE 1394 standard, which Apple calls FireWire. Older external drives, capturing footage from MiniDV cameras, and even the first generation iPod aren’t compatible.

Apple has released The Parent Presentation, an 81-page slide deck available in Google Slides, PowerPoint, or Keynote format, and a (now set to private) promo video hosted by “nepo baby” / Please Don’t Destroy comedian Martin Herlihy, aimed at getting students a Mac for school next year.

The Supreme Court sent a fax spam case back to a lower court after determining it erred in deferring to the Federal Communications Commission’s legal interpretation. After the FCC said the law didn’t cover online fax services, a lower court decertified a class of fax recipients seeking damages for receiving unsolicited ads. SCOTUS says the court should have made its own interpretation, which could be meaningful for medical professionals who still use faxes.

If you’re of the rare homeowner set and even if you’re not there’s something powerfully attractive about a power washer. You point it at something dirty, pull the trigger, and it’s dirty no more (or if it’s glass, it is simply no more.)

The British broadcaster has threatened legal action against Perplexity for allegedly using BBC content to train AI, saying that the Perplexity chatbot was regurgitating its content verbatim. This is the first time that the BBC has taken action against an AI company, demanding that Perplexity cease scraping BBC content, delete copies of infringing material, and provide the broadcaster with “financial compensation.”

The preliminary findings of Australia’s Age Assurance Technology Trial “didn’t find a single ubiquitous solution” for the country’s incoming social media ban for under-16s, but trial director Tony Allen said there’s little stopping services like Facebook, Instagram, and X from implementing existing age-verification methods like facial scans, behavior assessments, and parental controls.

While Meta said ads will be globally introduced to WhatsApp’s updates tab “slowly over the next several months,” the company has now clarified to Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DCP) that they won’t arrive in the European Union market until 2026. That gives EU privacy regulators time to discuss data-sharing concerns about the ad model.

to readers of Katherine Losse’s The Boy Kings. The Financial Times makes a compelling case that loser-bro Zuck is who he has always been. Also, his feelings were very hurt when we all had a good laugh about Meta’s avatars (“Legs coming soon!”). No wonder he wants AI friends, who’ll never mock him like that.

We already got a glimpse at what seems to be the repair-friendly Fairphone 6 earlier this month, but now Winfuture is back with another leak that shows how you can remove the lower half of the two-part back cover to reveal the phone’s battery.

Nothing is teasing a “Glyph Matrix” for the upcoming Nothing Phone 3. A recent leak seemed to show that the phone wouldn’t have Glyph lights, but it appears it will have this Matrix instead.

Maybe, argues longtime internet law scholar Danielle Citron, sometimes you shouldn’t. We’ve got a slow holiday Thursday here at The Verge, so it’s time for me to finally read this paper from early June about alternatives to the “parental control model” of children’s privacy online — a topic that’s not going away any time soon.

The incredibly weird saga of the ordered, then reversed, then passed, then upheld, then ignored, then ignored even harder attempt to ban one of America’s most popular social networks continues — as it will continue until US-China tensions cool down, everyone forgets it ever happened, or the heat death of the universe.