Dominic Preston

Nothing is shaking up the branding of its cheapest phones, following up last year's Phone 3A Lite with a new Phone 4B. Combining design elements of the 4A and 4A Pro, it follows Nothing's previous cheaper handsets in skipping the US market. The company already uses the "A" branding to market its cheaper tier of… Cell Phones

Reddit is clamping down on spammy AI activity, a problem that is definitely not, in any way, shape, or form, a problem of Reddit’s own making. Bread19: > Let’s use AI to filter out AI because we sold our content to AI and AI is reading all the AI Get the day’s best comment and more in my free newsletter, The Verge Daily.

The Galaxy Unpacked invite teases a new shape for Samsung's foldable phones.

As San Francisco sellers start trading houses for AI stock, you might wonder whether someone out there is trying to run the housing crisis all over again. tomatocactus: > “How can we make this bubble MORE like the housing crisis” is not a question I expected people to ask Get the day’s best comment and more in my free newsletter, The Verge Daily.

Every heat wave Europe is embroiled in an argument over whether more air conditioning would save lives or simply worsen the climate crisis. Energy-efficient cooling will help, but scientists are also hard at work on new types of coolant to end our reliance on refrigerants, often potent greenhouse gases in their own right. [Link: Is an Air-Conditioning Revolution Coming to Europe?

Muse Spark 1.1 is available to US developers through a public API preview.

The addictive design threatens the ‘physical and mental wellbeing of users.’

Meta is in breach of the EU's Digital Services Act (DSA), a preliminary investigation has found, over the "addictive" design of Instagram and Facebook. It's likely to be forced to redesign both apps, and could face a fine of up to $12 billion. The European Commission said Meta "did not adequately assess the… Mobile Apps & Add-Ons

I’ve spent a week with the T1 so you don’t have to.

My Trump phone review is here. And with that, it’s time to wrap up the weekly coverage. I’m not entirely done with the T1 yet — I’m still trying to find out how many buyers have one, and how and where it’s made — but I’ll give the execs at Trump Mobile a break for a bit. [Link: I spent a week using the Trump phone — it sucks