Terrence O’Brien is a journalist, editor, and producer from New York City with over 18 years of experience and is The Verge’s weekend editor. In addition to spending 10 years as managing editor at Engadget, his work has appeared on Wired, MusicTech, Guitar.com, Refinery 29, and more. He has also composed music for podcasts and feature films. In his spare time, Terrence collects hobbies at an alarming rate.
Chase Bliss has made the unfortunate decision to discontinue the instrument because of production costs. But it has decided to open-source the entire project, including the hardware, and even released a new, simplified firmware as a jumping-off point for any would-be tinkerers. This also means you could build your own Chompi if you really wanted.
OOTP Baseball is a nitty-gritty, hyperrealistic baseball sim that puts you in the GMs office.
NPR’s Wild Card comment section was hijacked by middle schoolers. Producer Hannah Chin used Google Docs as a makeshift chat room. Even The Verge was turned into a gathering place for people trying to get around the TikTok ban. Did you use status messages on your 3Ds to chat? Or maybe you took over the comments on a slow-motion deer video?
Tech YouTuber Matt Robb claims Meta’s new Muse AI agent accepted a lowball bid and gave out his address without telling him. When the buyer showed up, Muse didn’t say a word and let the buyer storm off, pissed. When confronted hours later, the chatbot gave the typical AI sycophant “you’re right” apology.
SNL’s send-up of Dario Amodei absolutely nails the incredibly dumb moment we find ourselves in. Almost everyone seems to agree that AI is at a dangerous precipice, and nobody is willing to take responsibility for their actions.
If you haven’t opted into the company’s firmware betas, or just haven’t installed the latest, don’t. People are reporting endless loading screens, broken Libby integration, and missing data, including annotations and sideloaded books. Kobo is warning readers not to roll back the update, though, as it will make any missing data permanently unretrievable.
Minecraft Dungeons 2 is coming out on September 29th with the first new Minecraft dimension in 14 years: The Sift. But Microsoft has confirmed that you’ll also be able to check out the new realm in both the Java and Bedrock editions of Minecraft in 2027.
