This is Lowpass by Janko Roettgers, a newsletter on the ever-evolving intersection of tech and entertainment, syndicated just for The Verge subscribers once a week. What do you get if you take a bunch of ripped, shirtless male K-pop idols in boxing gloves and have them spar in the ring until they’re sweating? For Netflix: […]
New Anthropic Opus Model Launched Amid Mythos Preview Buzz
Anthropic has released its most powerful “generally available” model to date: Claude Opus 4.7. The company called it a step up from Opus 4.6 for advanced software engineering tasks, particularly in complex coding areas that in the past required more hand-holding. It’s also supposed to be better at analyzing images and following instructions, and it […]
Microsoft’s New Xbox Chief Begins Making Her Mark
Microsoft’s new Xbox chief has had a busy couple of months after promising “the return of Xbox.” Asha Sharma met with publishers at the Game Developers Conference in March, and has also been on the road visiting Microsoft’s own game studios and product teams in recent weeks. Sharma, who used to work in Microsoft’s CoreAI […]
Microsoft Plans Surface Laptop with OLED Display
Microsoft is preparing to launch new Surface Pro and Surface Laptop models in the coming months. Windows Central reports that the refreshed models will include both Intel and Qualcomm variants, with Microsoft opting for an OLED display option for the Surface Laptop this year. Microsoft is expected to launch new Surface Pro and Laptop models […]
Google Integrates Nano Banana-Powered Image Generation into Gemini’s Personal Intelligence
The feature will be initially available to paid users in the U.S.
Two Americans Sentenced for Assisting North Korea in $5 Million Fake IT Worker Scheme
The U.S. Department of Justice announced that two Americans were sentenced to years in prison for helping the North Korean government place fake IT workers in U.S. companies.
Google Pixel 10 Gets Major Security Enhancement Advised for Every Android Device
Google’s Pixel 10 series devices are receiving a significant enhancement in security, as the company has recently initiated a substantial security upgrade that will soon reach your device. In a post on Google’s Security Blog from April 2026, the Android manufacturer announced that it has fortified its proactive security strategies on the Pixel 10 by “embedding a memory-safe Rust DNS (Domain Name System) parser into the modem firmware.”
This provides Pixel 10 series devices with an essential security boost, as Google indicates that utilizing the Rust programming language in its baseband DNS parser mitigates memory-related vulnerabilities, which consequently helps to greatly minimize security threats in the modem. Given the severe nature of memory-related vulnerabilities, one can hope that other Android phone makers will adopt Google’s approach.
Reasons for other Android manufacturers to follow suit
Claude Opus 4.7 Outperforms GPT-5.4 and Gemini 3.1 Pro on SWE-bench and Agentic Reasoning
In short: Anthropic has released Claude Opus 4.7, its most capable generally available model, with benchmark-leading scores on SWE-bench Pro (64.3% vs GPT-5.4âs 57.7%), multi-agent coordination for hours-long workflows, 3x higher image resolution, and a 14% improvement in multi-step agentic reasoning with a third of the tool errors. Priced at $5/$25 per million tokens, it […]
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Character.AI ‘Books’ Enables Users to Role-Play Classic Novels
Users can become a character in “Alice in Wonderland” or reimagine the story entirely.
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If you’re tired of YouTube Shorts, or if watching them has become a brain rot problem, you can now eliminate them on mobile.
