Trump Mobile will take your $499 right now

Android 17’s new foldable gaming mode could make flippy phones more fun

YouTube updates Shorts to make it even more like TikTok

OpenAI will delay GPT-5.6 after Trump administration request

Framework has good news and bad news

Instagram for TV is another sign that the company has lost sight of what actually keeps people logging on to the app (the fact that we've always got our phones with us and our attention spans are in the gutter)

Score a discounted Xbox console before the prices jump

Instagram wants to monopolize your attention

RAMageddon just got extremely real

"I formed friendships that could not have existed otherwise, meeting people from all kinds of backgrounds all over the world. You could be anyone you wanted, but EverQuest felt like a rare place online where what people wanted was just to be themselves." Read more:

Today’s Vergecast: How to train your data. Training data is the raw material of the AI industry. Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, and the rest are built on top of oceans of stuff. What is that stuff? Books. Blog posts.... https://www.theverge.com/podcast/957223/todays-vergecast-how-to-train-your-data

While I was writing this blog post spurred in part by Apple's sweeping price hikes, Xbox announced its own significant price hikes that I also wrote about and then included in this article. It's bad out there. www.theverge.com/tech/957151/...

Microsoft is hiking the price of its Xbox consoles by $100 or more. The discless Xbox Series X will start at $749.99, while the disc drive version is $799.99. Overall, 512GB models will be $100 more expensive, while 1TB models will be $150 more expensive www.theverge.com/games/957042...

If you’ve been in the market for a new computer or tablet, this week has been filled with sticker shock. Given how many companies announced price hikes related to component shortages, it seems unlikely things will get cheaper any time soon. Read more from @jaypeters.net: buff.ly/Jup4xIP

You won’t have long to get these iPad deals before Apple’s price hike

Polestar has been muscled out of the US market

Here’s a bunch of Prime Day deals on keyboards, mice, and other peripherals we like

The Apple Watch Series 11 is $120 off for Prime Day, its all time low price

yeesh, it's rough out there www.theverge.com/games/957042...

Microsoft is increasing the prices of Xbox consoles again. Starting August 1st, 512GB models will be $100 more expensive, while 1TB models will be $150 more expensive. This means that the Xbox Series X without a disc drive will start at $749, and the Series X with a disc drive will start at $799.

The Samsung S26 Ultra is already marked down to $920 for Prime Day

The latest in my ongoing quest to fill my life with single-purpose distraction free gadgets.

Here are all of the Apple price hikes

Upgrade your home with Prime Day deals for $40 or less

Oppo’s Bubble selfie screen is crying out for Qi2

BYOK is my new go-to distraction-free writing tool

Hi friends! It's Thursday, I'm listening to pop-punk covers of Disney songs, I'm putting together this week's Installer and want to know what you're into. What are you watching / reading / playing / gluing back together this week? Tell me so I can tell everyone! (And subscribe to Installer!)

How the World Cup became a US streaming success story

Get Macbooks at a Prime Day discount before Apple’s new price hikes kick in

Bungie hit with ‘significant’ layoffs after ending Destiny 2 www.theverge.com/entertainmen...

The entire industry will be watching how GTA VI does — it’s a game so big it’s altering the entire 2026 release calendar — so Rockstar’s code-in-a-box decision could mark a turning point that might embolden even more publishers to do the same. Read more from @jaypeters.net: buff.ly/Z35kbBW

Consumer electronics getting significantly more expensive due to the AI industry may accelerate the backlash even faster than the data center buildout www.theverge.com/tech/952162/...

assigned a hands-on with everquest legends and i got this beautiful piece back instead www.theverge.com/games/954841...

EverQuest Legends is a powerful nostalgia machine

Apple has just announced price hikes for MacBooks, iPads, Apple TV devices, and other hardware. The MacBook Neo now starts at $699, and the price of an iPad Air just jumped by $150 www.theverge.com/tech/952162/...

Samsung’s new budget phone costs $50 more despite downgrades

This week, eight Texas activists were sentenced to between 30 and 100 years in prison — one for attempted murder, but most for supposedly belonging to an insurrectionary “Antifa cell,” including one sentenced to 30 years in part for moving a box of zines. Read more from @gabydvj.bsky.social:

Leica’s $6,690 SL3-P pairs 44-megapixel stills with 8K video

Apple reveals price hikes for MacBooks and iPads

Ford had to hire back former engineers to fix mistakes made by its automated systems

Disney agrees to pay $50 million to YouTube TV and DirecTV subscribers

The 124 best tech deals for day three of Prime Day

Is this solar e-bike a good idea or sophisticated e-waste?

Facebook’s Creator Studio has been revived as an AI companion app

Charlie Kirk’s legacy is a 30-year sentence for moving zines

Microsoft introduces cheaper Surface devices with half the memory

A new paper argues Microsoft exaggerated its quantum claims a year ago

The thing that is darkly funny to me is that as a PC gamer, the last time I tried to buy a physical disc, I got an empty box with a code printed inside and it was... Mass Effect 3, in 2012. That fight has been lost for a very long time 🫠 (And I fully agree with all the reasons that's bad)

Congresswoman denies staff used AI to write defense funding amendment

GTA VI being a code in the box sets a bad precedent for the rest of the industry and for physical games: www.theverge.com/games/956389...