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Africa CDC, Africa Frontline First Deepen Partnership to Expand Community Health Workforce
NAIROBI, Kenya, April 29, 2026/ -- The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) (
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Drone strikes on data centers spook Big Tech, halting Middle East projects
A data center developer has paused all Middle East project investments after one of its facilities was damaged by an Iranian missile or drone attack. The decision comes as the Iran war is forcing Silicon Valley investors and tech companies to rethink a trillion-dollar plan to build more AI and cloud...
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New Sam Bankman-Fried trial would be huge waste of court’s time, judge says
In an order denying Sam Bankman-Fried's request for a new trial, a judge accused the disgraced FTX founder of wasting precious court resources on wild conspiracies. To the judge, the motion seemed like a last-ditch attempt to give himself a MAGA makeover that the Trump administration absolutely wasn...
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Howdy's dated $3/month ad-free streaming service said to have 1M subscribers
Six months after its launch, research firm Antenna estimates that the Howdy streaming service has more than 1 million subscribers. Roku debuted Howdy in August. The subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) service is $3 per month and doesn't have commercials. In an announcement today, Antenna estimated t...
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OpenAI Codex system prompt includes explicit directive to "never talk about goblins"
The system prompt for OpenAI's Codex CLI contains a perplexing and repeated warning for the most recent GPT model to "never talk about goblins, gremlins, raccoons, trolls, ogres, pigeons, or other animals or creatures unless it is absolutely and unambiguously relevant to the user's query." The expli...
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ABC can beat Trump FCC's license threat if owner Disney is willing to fight
Disney will have the law on its side in its fight against the unusual broadcast license review ordered yesterday by the Federal Communications Commission, legal experts say. In 1996, Congress made it a lot harder for the FCC to take away a broadcast license, even when it's up for renewal. "Since the...
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Google Search queries hit an ‘all time high’ last quarter
Google Search queries hit an "all time high" in the first quarter of 2026, according to a statement from CEO Sundar Pichai published as part of Alphabet's earnings on Wednesday . "Our AI investments and full stack approach are lighting up every part of the business," Pichai says. "Search had a stron...
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Microsoft reports sinking Xbox revenue as its cloud business climbs
Microsoft's Xbox hardware revenue continues to tumble, with the company revealing a 33 percent decline as part of its earnings report released on Wednesday . Even though the rest of Microsoft's consumer-focused division took a dip, the company's cloud and productivity businesses continue to soar, dr...
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Splatoon Raiders preorders for the Switch 2 are nearly 20 percent off
Nintendo recently announced a new pricing policy , which knocks $10 off the cost of digital versions of future first-party titles exclusive to the Nintendo Switch 2. Splatoon Raiders , for instance, is available for preorder ahead of its July 23rd release for $49.99 digitally or $59.99 for the physi...
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Grindr — yes, Grindr — won the WHCD party circuit
General atmosphere during Grindr White House Correspondents' Dinner Weekend Party 2026 at LXIV DC on April 24, 2026 in Washington, DC. | Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images for Grindr Inc. Hello and welcome to Regulator , a newsletter for Verge subscribers about technology, politics, and technology learnin...
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Elon Musk’s worst enemy in court is Elon Musk
Just a simple country CEO who was being tricked by that sophisticated lawyer | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images About five hours into Elon Musk's testimony, I typed the following sentence into my notes: "I have never been more sympathetic to Sam Altman in my life." Musk's direct testim...
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Meta is still burning money on AR/VR
Meta is losing billions on Reality Labs each quarter, and its AI expenditures are only going to increase its spending.
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On the stand, Elon Musk can’t escape his own tweets
Elon Musk took the stand for the second day for his attempt to legally dismantle OpenAI.
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Sources: Anthropic could raise a new $50B round at a valuation of $900B
The maker of Claude has received multiple pre-emptive offers at valuations in the $850 billion to $900 billion range, according to sources familiar with the matter.
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Amazon’s cloud business is surging — and so is its capital spending
The e-commerce giant is making more money than expected from AWS but it's also spending a lot, and will continue to do so in the near term, its chief executive said.
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Amazon, Meta join fight to end Google Pay, PhonePe dominance in India
PhonePe and Google Pay command 80% of India's UPI instant payments network. Rivals are set to meet with regulators to lobby for restrictions.
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Why a recent supply-chain attack singled out security firms Checkmarx and Bitwarden
It has been a bad six weeks for security firm Checmarx. Over the past 40 days, it has been the victim of at least one supply-chain attack that delivered malware to customers on two separate occasions. Now it has been hit by a ransomware attack from prolific fame-seeking hackers. The streak of misfor...
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Check your gravity with NASA's Artemis II zero-g indicator
Rise, the fan-created, flown-to-the-moon plush toy that served as the Artemis II crew's zero-g indicator and mascot, is now available as a NASA-approved collectible . Its sales will benefit the agency's employee morale activities. "Perfect for display, gifting or inspiring the next generation of exp...
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Sam Altman is “the face of evil” for not reporting school shooter, says lawyer
OpenAI could have prevented one of the deadliest mass shootings in Canada's history, a string of seven lawsuits filed Wednesday in a California court alleged. Ultimately, the AI company overruled recommendations from its internal safety team. More than eight months prior to the school shooting, trai...
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A Falcon 9 rocket will hit the Moon this summer at seven times the speed of sound
Astronomers say the upper stage of a Falcon 9 rocket that launched in early 2025 will strike the Moon later this summer, likely on the near side of the Moon. Bill Gray, who writes the widely used Project Pluto software to track near-Earth objects, has published a comprehensive report on the impact e...
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Saros reminded me how great the DualSense can be
The DualSense controller was one of Sony's main selling points for the PS5. Beyond things like a striking new design and adaptive triggers, the controller's haptic feedback offered genuinely cool new experiences for games. Rumble effects had been around for decades at that point, but the DualSense o...
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Electric air taxis are finally taking flight — just not with passengers
Joby’s electric air taxi at the Lower Manhattan helipad, April 28th, 2026. | Photo: Owen Grove / The Verge It was the perfect day for an electric air taxi demonstration - albeit one without passengers. On Monday, an electric aircraft from Joby Aviation took off from JFK Airport for a flight demonstr...
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Taylor Swift deepfakes are pushing scams on TikTok
Scammers are using AI-generated videos of celebrities including Taylor Swift and Rihanna to promote shady services on TikTok, according to authentication company Copyleaks. The ads typically show celebrities in interview settings, such as red carpets, podcasts, or talk shows, and often manipulate re...
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Larry’s risky business
Oracular spectacular? | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge If you want to know whether the AI bubble is bursting, there's only one publicly traded company that will tell you: Oracle. That's right, the database company. Oracle has burned its boats and pivoted to AI, but not in any kind of usual way. It...