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Jay Peters

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Jay Peters is a News Editor at The Verge. He covers breaking news in consumer technology, social media, video games, virtual worlds, streaming, and more. He’s appeared on CNBC, NPR, BBC News, WNYC, and other broadcast outlets to discuss technology news.

Before joining The Verge as a News Writer in 2019, Jay worked for Techmeme, where he helped curate the most important technology news of the moment. He actually started his career in technology public relations, working in the field for more than five years. He graduated from the University of Oregon’s School of Journalism and Communication.

When he’s not writing, Jay really likes running. But he prefers to run far, not fast.

The Until Dawn remake launches in October.

You’ll be able to play this new version of Sony’s narrative / horror game starting October 4th on PS5 and PC. In addition to updated visuals (built using Unreal Engine 5), the game will offer “revised cinematography,” a reworked prologue, and new collectibles, according to a PlayStation blog post.

But note that on PC, you’ll need a PlayStation Network account, like with God of War Ragnarök.


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Google Classroom is turning 10.

The education tool has now been around for a decade, and Google is adding some new features, including a way for parents to keep tabs on the work students are getting assigned. Google also says that it’s bringing Gemini to Google Classroom “soon” for English users globally.


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In “early” September, Steam store descriptions won’t be able to include links.

Valve is making this change and its recent upgrades for game demos in part because it saw a lot of Steam store pages that were becoming advertisements for other Steam store pages. (There will still be a section in store pages with dedicated link fields.) Valve also wanted to help reduce confusion around “prologue” games.


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The FBI is looking into purported attempts by Iran to hack the Trump and Biden-Harris campaigns.

Trump adviser Roger Stone told The Washington Post that “a couple” of his personal email accounts had been compromised.

As for phishing emails sent to three Biden-Harris campaign staffers, the publication reports that “investigators have not found evidence that those hacking attempts were successful.”


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Twitch: “Are you sure you want to send this?”

The streaming platform is testing a prompt that encourages you to pause before sending a chat message that might be offensive. (It sounds kind of like the prompts that Twitter developed.)

Just don’t go posting the message Twitch used as an example.


Apple’s iOS 18 app theming just got a nice upgrade.

With iOS 18 developer beta 6 and public beta 4, the app color tints you select will now stay linked with the wallpaper you pair them with, as shown by betaprofiles.

I love this — even though I keep my iPhone pretty gray most of the time, this feature means it’s easier to switch over to something with a different pop of color.