Marina Galperina

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Milleanials are like
Millennials*

are the balls ... in the cereal

CBP Tapped Into the Online Advertising Ecosystem To Track Peoples’ Movements An internal DHS document obtained by 404 Media shows for the first time CBP used location data sourced from the online advertising industry to track phone locations. ICE has bought access to similar t...

SCOOP: An internal DHS document obtained by 404 Media shows for the first time CBP used location data sourced from the online advertising industry to track phone locations.

This surveillance can happen through all sorts of apps, such as video games, news apps, weather trackers, and dating apps.

In May '25, a beloved Australian games website was sold off. It went dark then, a month later, rose from the dead but stuffed full of gambling links and AI authors.

It wasn't the first time, or the last time, this exact thing had happened. And it's still happening.

My months-long investigation 👇

Investigating the 61-pound machine that eats plastic and spits out bricks Like WALL-E, it turns trash into bricks.

Great piece from @seanhollister.bsky.social and @justcalma.bsky.social on whether you need a robot trashcan that turns soft plastics into plastic bricks... that you ship off to Indiana to get "recycled"

Meta won’t let morality get in the way of a product launch What a great time to add facial recognition to everything!

"Tech is never neutral; it is owned, created, and maintained by people with specific points of view, priorities, and vested political interests."

"...it seems unfair to lament the plight of Punch without remembering the thousands of other monkeys of all ages whose emotional suffering goes unnoticed because they are, quite intentionally, not on display for all of us to see..."

Does Anthropic think Claude is alive? Define ‘alive’ “We don’t know if the models are conscious,” Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said on a podcast earlier this month.

Anthropic is "reinforcing ideas that have caused real harm, including some deaths by suicide among people who believe that the chatbot they’re speaking with exhibits some form of consciousness or deep empathy." - @haydenfield.bsky.social

Some writers will simply take pics with their phone at home. But few will scale mountains equipped with nothing but piss grenades and determination to get even better shots.

your duty is clear: to build and maintain those robots

America desperately needs new privacy laws Invasive government and corporate surveillance isn’t inevitable — but Congress needs to act.

"As of early 2026, in many places, a sense of learned helplessness around privacy has taken hold..."

For more on the dire state of tech regulation, read @thedextriarchy.bsky.social. Subscribe to The Stepback newsletter: Sundays from @theverge.com.

Prediction markets want to eat the news The fix is in.

I have some suspicions about why prediction markets are striking deals with newsrooms. www.theverge.com/business/881...

"Selling Safety": A Journalist's Guide to Covering Police Technology selling_safety.pdf

EFF, CJJ, and IPVM have teamed up on a resource for journalists looking to better cover the growing police surveillance technology industry. www.eff.org/document/se...

I review laptops for The Verge, ask me anything Nerd out with me today at 11AM PT / 2PM ET

Our laptop reviewer @superantonio64.bsky.social has covered everything from humble Chromebooks to $6,000 gaming beasts. Got any questions? We're holding a subscriber-exclusive AMA today at 2PM ET, so drop questions in the comments at this link and we'll talk trackpads and keyboards this afternoon.

The wellness wild west’s latest skincare fad is salmon sperm Vampire facials, bird poop, snail mucin… and now salmon sperm.

Also this week on Optimizer, I talk about salmon sperm facials and serums — aka PDRN.

Skinfluencers would have you believe that topical PDRN is just as good as injectable, that it's clinically proven, and so on and so forth. The truth is, as always, not that simple.

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we might be informed but no one has ever accused us of being mature

"These questions are extremely easy for students. They don’t require any deep thinking or analysis, which means students aren’t being challenged to develop the critical reasoning skills they’ll need for the SAT."

Or, like, life.

Legendary composer Laurie Spiegel on the difference between algorithmic music and ‘AI’ Music Mouse is back for its 40th anniversary.

“It’s pretty easy by now to use computers to generate music-like material that is not actually the expression of an individual human being. Music is a fundamental human experience.” @terrenceobrien.bsky.social interviews @lauriespiegel.bsky.social

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every time i see this block of text again i loose another brain cell

Everyone is stealing TV Fed up with increasing subscription prices, viewers embrace rogue streaming boxes.

Just in time for the Super Bowl, we asked @jank0.bsky.social to dive deep into all the aunties and uncles streaming every channel and sports feed available with generic IPTV boxes, which have created a fascinating parallel tech economy across America: www.theverge.com/streaming/87...

When I heard that the march had been tear gassed, I ran down to the ICE building to do some reporting; I arrived about an hour and a half after the first gassing, and was immediately tear gassed myself. The people from earlier in the day had long since dispersed; the protesters who were there now were, like myself, wearing gas masks. Even the Portland Chicken was wearing a full-face gas mask inside of his chicken costume. About 40 minutes later, I watched glowing munitions arc over my head and fall toward me. I ducked and held my helmet over my head; once again, tear gas billowed all around me. Some of the protesters had been collecting the spent munitions from the ground, and let me look through the bucket of sludgy, dented canisters. I found approximately 20 spent munitions in the bucket.

Tear gas (which should not be used on children) (which was not justified in use against any of those people) (which should be illegal in general) should be skipped on the ground. They're launching it into the air. www.theverge.com/policy/87278...

personally I think we should all take another, much closer look at every single scientist who benefited from epstein money :)

Supernatural was a breakout VR fitness sensation — meet the women furious with Mark Zuckerberg for killing it ‘I despise Meta.’

Here’s a story I’ve been working on for a few weeks.

Over 50 Supernatural fans reached out to share how a VR fitness game changed their lives — and they had choice words about how Mark Zuckerberg and Meta killed the one thing that brought them together.

(Gift link)

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What is Nick Shirley? Slop doesn’t need to be AI-generated

The violent occupation of Minneapolis started with a vlog. I've wanted to find a framework to describe Nick Shirley & others like him: "Influencer" is too quaint. "Journalist" is obviously wrong.

I landed on "slopagandist."

Gift link (open in a web browser) www.theverge.com/news/869824/...

Best gas masks “How did these people go out and get gas masks?” AG Bondi asked.

me, emotionally writing an essay on the use of force by federal agents: ok but what if i packaged this in the most insane way possible www.theverge.com/policy/86857...

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I grew up with Alex Pretti The kind-hearted ICU nurse shot by ICE agents was my childhood best friend.

I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com

The Samsung Trifold will cost nearly three grand Thrice the phone for thrice the price.

I have a new appreciation for beautiful gadgets but I will never buy something that costs as much as a car and doesn't weigh as much as a car