Democratic candidates touted their credentials taking on the tech industry far more than in prior election cycles, an analysis by public policy group Reset Tech finds. Between 2020 and 2024, only two Democratic ads used the phrase “Big Tech.” From 2025 to 2026, that number was 154.
A county election official asked the election board for approval to rescan ballots from two scanners experiencing equipment issues. One scanner seemed to wrongly display that it had a paper jam, CBS News reports, while another displayed an error after a voter accidentally rolled over its cable with a wheelchair.
The nonpartisan Election Protection Coalition says it’s received over 8,000 hotline calls today, but the reported concerns are fairly standard for large elections. Rev. Dr. Katie Sexton Wood, executive director of the Arizona Faith Network, says there’s been no verified reports of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) near Arizona polling spots.
Ubisoft and “at least two other gaming companies” have made bids for Arkane, which Xbox is working to divest as part of its “reset,” Bloomberg reports. Xbox has “also weighed selling the studio to its management.”
After receiving clearance from the FDA in July, Samsung announced that its more advanced sleep apnea detection feature is now rolling out to its smart ring. The upgraded feature uses an “enhanced algorithm” to analyze vitals during sleep, and was previously only available on the Galaxy Watch 9.
State officials got reports that DOJ monitors asked poll workers in Dearborn for their training materials, Michigan Attorney General office spokesperson Danny Wimmer confirms. The DOJ’s team overseeing Michigan monitors told state officials such actions were not part of their training, Wimmer says, and that the team would follow up.
But in a statement to The Verge, DOJ spokesperson Kiersten Pels says the questions monitors asked were “typical questions about election official training” that are standard on forms provided to monitors and the same as those asked under the previous administration. Pels added that the DOJ has not confimed that monitors have asked for training materials, but told Michigan officials they’d remind monitors they can ask about training, but “don’t need to request training materials.”
Update: Added DOJ statement.
Ahead of the game’s release on Wednesday, 404 Media reports the influx of vibe-coded AI slop add-ons pushed one developer to make their Github repositories private after finding AI ripoffs of their code. The CEO of the popular Warcraft Logs site also said it’s struggling to keep up with surging requests to use its API.
