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Stevie Bonifield

Stevie Bonifield

News Writer

News Writer

Stevie Bonifield is a news writer at The Verge covering all things consumer tech, from laptops and gaming gear to AI and cybersecurity. Before joining The Verge, Stevie spent almost two years writing for Laptop Mag and has also written news, reviews, and features for PC Gamer, Tom’s Guide, IGN, XDA, and TechRadar.

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Google’s revamping its ‘CC’ AI as an organizing agent for families.

It says the new version of CC can help families manage household tasks like sorting through emails, keeping track of everyone’s schedules, filling out permission slips, and creating shopping lists. Up to six users can manage and interact with the same CC agent and choose what to share with it.

A screenshot of a daily briefing from Google’s CC AI agent
Image: Google
Stevie Bonifield
Stevie Bonifield
King Charles says AI needs “sufficient means of control before it is all too late.”

He joined growing calls for more safety measures around AI at a gathering of AI leaders on Thursday, including Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, Google’s Demis Hassabis, OpenAI’s Sarah Friar, and Anthropic’s Tino Cuéllar.

Stevie Bonifield
Stevie Bonifield
Judge orders Google to make its ad tech work with rivals and share ad data with customers.

US District Court Judge Leonie Brinkema said in her unsealed ruling on Google’s ad tech trial that measures to break it up were “neither realistic nor needed,” the New York Times reports. Brinkema also called for Google to appoint a monitor to make sure it complies with the order.

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Stevie Bonifield
iFixit now has guides for repairing your Steam Machine.

The new guides cover everything from replacing the motherboard to cleaning the heatsink, and offer a neat look at the Steam Machine’s internals.

A partially disassembled Steam Machine
A partially disassembled Steam Machine
A partially disassembled Steam Machine
1/3Image: iFixit
Stevie Bonifield
Stevie Bonifield
Monster Hunter Wilds players won’t have to pay to edit their characters starting next year.

Capcom’s getting rid of its character edit vouchers with the upcoming Ascendance expansion, so you can change your character’s appearance for free without needing workarounds. Capcom is giving players 10 free character and Palico edit vouchers to tide them over in the meantime.

Stevie Bonifield
Stevie Bonifield
Cricket Wireless offers home internet now, too.

Similar to home internet offerings from Mint Mobile and Straight Talk, customers can bundle Cricket’s 5G home internet with a phone plan starting at $75/month for new customers or as a $45/month add-on for existing customers. Both prices factor in an autopay discount.

Stevie Bonifield
Stevie Bonifield
Memory chip giant SK Hynix is reportedly in talks with Intel about making chips in the US.

A Reuters report claims SK Hynix is considering leasing part of Intel’s Ohio chip factory or forming a venture with Intel and other companies.

However, SK Hynix says “nothing has been finalized regarding cooperation with any specific companies mentioned in the article,” while Reuters notes any deal to produce HBM or DRAM chips may face opposition from South Korea’s government.

Stevie Bonifield
Stevie Bonifield
NASA’s Curiosity rover celebrates 5,000 days on Mars with a new “postcard.”

The shot marks 14 years since Curiosity landed on the Martian surface in 2012. NASA created it by merging two black-and-white panoramas from Curiosity’s navigation cameras then added color “for an artistic interpretation of the scene, with blue representing the morning panorama and yellow representing the afternoon one.”

A panorama of the Martian surface from NASA’s Curiosity rover from September 2026
Image: NASA