Why Redbox has been powering down (www.theverge.com)
A new Resident Evil is in the works (www.theverge.com)
Silvergate Bank didn’t adequately monitor $1 trillion in crypto transactions, SEC says (www.theverge.com)
Trump is “absolutely” immune for “official acts” on Jan 6th, SCOTUS rules (www.theverge.com)
Redbox's owner files for bankruptcy after repeatedly missing payments and payroll: The company hasn’t paid employees in over a week and owes money to almost everyone in Hollywood ($970M in debt) (www.theverge.com)
ACLU suspects warrantless surveillance in neo-Nazi’s prosecution (www.theverge.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.sdf.org/post/18833721...
ACLU suspects warrantless surveillance in neo-Nazi’s prosecution (www.theverge.com)
I hate that groups like the ACLU have to defend nazi scum to protect my liberties. Better that the government not violate our rights in the first place, but in lieu of that, even nazi scum is subject to the same rights and due process as any other citizen. However, I wouldn’t mind if they got pantsed a couple of times by their...
Dr Disrespect finally shares why he was banned from Twitch (www.theverge.com)
I love when completely innocent people say things like “no wrongdoing was acknowledged" and “no criminal charges have ever been brought against me”. I was suspicious before, but if there were no criminal charges then who cares, right? Right?
Redbox missed a multimillion-dollar payment it couldn’t afford to miss (www.theverge.com)
The DVD rental kiosk company was supposed to pay $16.7 million in three installments. After missing the first payment, there’s a court order to pay the whole balance.
Over 1,300 Retro Games Are Heading To iPhone Via New Streaming Service (www.theverge.com)
The Service
EU chat control law proposes scanning your messages — even encrypted ones (www.theverge.com)
Sims competitor Life by You has been canceled (www.theverge.com)
Major Nelson is joining Unity (www.theverge.com)
cross-posted from: sopuli.xyz/post/13910617
US sues Adobe for “deceiving” subscriptions that are too hard to cancel (www.theverge.com)
Former head of NSA joins OpenAI board [The Verge] (www.theverge.com)
Epic Games database leak hints at a trove of unannounced games (www.theverge.com)
Epic won’t update Fortnite to run on the Steam Deck. Tim Sweeney says Linux is ‘a terrifically hard audience to serve’ (2022) (www.theverge.com)
Microsoft announces a disc-less Xbox Series X console in white (www.theverge.com)
The new console option won’t include a disc drive, and will be entirely all-digital. Inside it’s identical to the Xbox Series X, with the same performance for existing Xbox games. This new white model will be available with 1TB of storage later this year, priced at $449.99....
Silicon Valley warms up to Donald Trump (www.theverge.com)
Why the video game industry is such a mess (www.theverge.com)
Israel reportedly used fake social media accounts to influence US lawmakers (www.theverge.com)
I’m absolutely shocked that Israel would stoop so low. /s
Baldur’s Gate 3 mod support is coming in September (www.theverge.com)
Sony’s PSVR 2 PC adapter launches in August (www.theverge.com)
Vivek Ramaswamy can’t even dunk on Buzzfeed right (www.theverge.com)
YouTube rolls out its new Playables games to all users (www.theverge.com)
