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Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge The Justice Department is suing the company behind a widely used software that helps landlords set rental prices. It alleges that RealPage’s rent recommendation algorithm drives up prices and “deprives renters of the benefits of competition on apartment leasing terms.” In the complaint, the DOJ, along with eight states,…

RIP La Jolla. | Photo by David Pierce / The Verge Meta is calling it quits on making a high-end mixed reality headset to compete with the Apple Vision Pro, The Information reports. This is despite recent news that the headset, codenamed La Jolla, would arrive sometime in 2027. According to The Information, Meta had…

Ring’s latest wired security camera is a lot like the Ring Indoor Cam, only with a motorized base and a lengthy USB-C power cable. | Image: Ring Many of today’s indoor security cameras are great, but unless you have multiple cameras positioned throughout your home at different angles, it can be tough to keep an…

Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge; Getty Images A Kansas man was sentenced to 24 years in prison after pouring $47.1 million into a pig butchering scam — using money from the bank he was in charge of. Shan Hanes, the former CEO of the small Heartland Tri-State Bank, pleaded guilty to embezzlement after routing…

Image: Game Science A perfectly fine action game has become saddled with a lot of baggage. Continue reading…

Image: Amazon MGM Studios Zoë Kravitz’s directorial debut has Get Out aspirations, but it lands somewhere closer to Don’t Worry Darling. Continue reading…

Two of Microsoft’s Copilot Plus PCs. (Left: the Surface Pro; right: the Surface Laptop.) | Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Before the beginning of summer, it was a little easier to shop for a basic productivity laptop. You could choose from a single version of Windows (x86), an Apple macOS device, or a…

Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photo by STR / NurPhoto, Getty Images Elon Musk sent an email to X staff overnight about their much-anticipated stock grants — but there’s a catch. In an email to staff viewed by The Verge, the company is planning to award stock options based on the anticipated impact…

Illustration by Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photos via Getty Images The Supreme Court could stall action on climate change yet again as it weighs whether to pause new pollution regulations for coal-fired power plants. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finalized rules this year aimed at curbing greenhouse gas emissions from coal plants. But…

Image: The Verge Microsoft is hosting an important summit on Windows security at its Redmond, Washington, headquarters next month. The Windows Endpoint Security Ecosystem Summit on September 10th will bring together Microsoft engineers and vendors like CrowdStrike to discuss improvements to Windows security and third-party best practices to try and prevent another CrowdStrike incident. “Microsoft,…