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Trump is upping the price of Big Tech’s favorite visa

In the span of a few hours on Monday, the Department of Homeland Security announced that it would be implementing a fee of over $103,000 on H-1B visas, and news broke that the State Department plans on revoking the visas of up to 200,000 asylum seekers - which, according to The Associated Press, would be the largest mass visa revocation in US history. More than a year into President Donald Trump's second term, it's become clear that the only way Trump can get the deportation numbers he wants is by stripping legal immigrants of status. Beyond having ICE arrest, detain, and deport immigrants, the administration is pressuring noncitizens to " … Read the full story at The Verge.

X sends cease-and-desist to open-source project Nitter over alleged scraping

X has sent cease-and-desist letters to Nitter, the open source project behind privacy-friendly X frontends, demanding its instances and code repository be taken down over alleged scraping.

At just $8, you owe it to yourself to grab Inscryption

What starts as a roguelite deckbuilder builds into something far more ambitious. | Image: Daniel Mullins Games/Devolver Digital If you watched the Gamescom 2026 announcements, you might have caught a trailer for the bizarre, frenetic Pony Island 2: Panda Circus, a game from Daniel Mullins. In case you haven’t heard of him, get a crash course with a fantastic discount on Inscryption. Humble is currently selling Steam versions of the secret-packed deckbuilder for $7.99, a sizable discount from its usual price of $20. It’s compatible with Windows, macOS, and Linux machines. Inscryption Where to Buy: $19.99 $7.99 at Humble The game starts out as a fairly straightforward deckbuilding roguelike game with a dark atmosphere. Stick with it, and it’ll evolve, defying genres, breaking the fourth wall, and leading you through a twisted story with plenty of surprises. Part of the fun is discovering those twists yourself, so I won’t say anything else. It’s one of my personal favorite games, and it’s

Instagram’s ‘First Draft’ feature aims to make editing Reels less tedious

Instagram is making one of the most tedious parts of creating Reels easier. The company announced Tuesday in a Threads post that it’s rolling out “First Draft,” a new editing feature that automatically trims selected video clips and removes pauses, pulling together the best moments into an initial cut. Instagram says the process can produce [ ]

Stability AI, maker of image generator Stable Diffusion, raises $76 million in fresh funding

The company's new fundraising total now stands at $232 million.

Dreame’s dream of a rocket-powered car is dead

The Dreame NEXT event during the Silicon Valley Summit at the Palace of Fine Arts on April 29, 2026 in San Francisco, CA. | Photo by Kelsey McClellan / The Verge Dreame, the Chinese vacuum company that aspires to be a global technology giant, is reportedly shutting down its automotive project after funding from the government dried up. According to CarNewsChina, the company's automotive division called "Project Starry Sky" once employed over 1,000 people, but now only a handful legal and HR staffers remain, charged with winding down the operation. In a statement, Dreame said it "recently adjusted certain operations that were in the exploratory phase," and that going forward, it would focus on four key business areas: "smart home, outdoor/garden, smart mobility, and embodied AI." (A spokesperson for … Read the full story at The Verge.

Take a look at Microsoft’s new 25th anniversary Halo accessories

The new Designed for Xbox 25th Anniversary collection features a handful of limited edition gadgets available for pre-order today. Paying homage to the Halo special edition of the original Xbox, almost everything in the collection is translucent "OG Green," matching the Xbox Series X25 limited edition console it announced in June at E3. That includes 25th anniversary versions of the Razer Basilisk V3 Pro 35K mouse, Razer BlackWidow V4 75% gaming keyboard, and Razer Hammerhead V3 X HyperSpeed earbuds. There's also a translucent green 8BitDo Ultimate charging dock for Xbox Series X/S and Xbox One controllers, along with … Read the full story at The Verge.

Claude Cowork finally remembers what you told the app in chat

Anthropic is giving Claude a shared memory across chat and Cowork, so users no longer have to repeatedly brief the AI on projects, preferences, and other context.

Clara (YC P26) Is Hiring a Growth Engineer to Bring AI Doctors to Market

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Hacker News·2d ago

Prompt injection ranks No. 1 with OWASP and No. 12 in the incident record. The attack itself is invisible to a scan.

A CISO who sees a low CVE count and deprioritizes prompt injection is reading the scoreboard wrong. Prompt injection has held the No. 1 spot on the OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications for three consecutive years. When two leaders of that list checked it against 6,639 labeled real-world incidents, it came back at No. 12. The drop measures visibility rather than danger, because the attack operates where a vulnerability scanner cannot see it.That finding belongs to Kyriakos “Rock” Lambros and Steve Wilson, two leaders of the OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications project, who published it on arXiv on August 18 with the disclaimer attached. The analysis is exploratory, not peer reviewed, and not the official OWASP release, and the authors state it does not supersede the official list or its process.The machinery behind it is real: 7,714 LLM security incidents from CVE, GitHub Security Advisories, OSV, and the AIAAIC AI-harm database, 6,639 of them labeled against a 20-entry taxonomy, and a Bayesi

VentureBeat·2d ago

Gamescom Opening Night Live 2026: The biggest announcements and trailers

It’s time for another Geoff Keighley-hosted blast of gaming news. Gamescom’s two-hour Opening Night Live event is scheduled to kick off on Tuesday at 2PM ET, with a preshow starting 30 minutes before. Thanks to teases on social media, we already have some idea of what to expect, including looks at Final Fantasy VII Revelation, The Witcher 3’s new Songs of the Past expansion, Gears of War: E-Day, and the Game of Thrones strategy game. The event is happening just ahead of a potentially very big fall for the games industry. Grand Theft Auto VI is scheduled to release on November 19th, and the rest of the games industry is largely steering clear of GTA VI’s launch. That means the next several weeks are packed with major releases, and we could see some of those new games at Opening Night Live, too. (Though GTA VI probably won’t show up given that it’s set to have a reveal event of its own on Thursday). Here’s our coverage from Gamescom and Opening Night Live. You can watch the livestream of

GeForce Now is getting support for the Steam Controller

Nvidia's GeForce Now cloud gaming service will officially support Valve's Steam Controller and Steam Machine starting later this year. With Steam Controller support, you'll be able to play games with Valve's great new gamepad when using the GeForce Now app on your Steam Deck or Steam Machine. If you're using GeForce Now on Windows or macOS, support for the Steam Controller is coming "later," Nvidia says. GeForce Now is getting a few other upgrades, too. Nvidia will soon add new DLSS 4.5 controls for DLSS Super Resolution, Dynamic Frame Generation, and Ray Reconstruction. (Ray Reconstruction is also officially launching for RTX GPUs in early … Read the full story at The Verge.