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Wes Davis

Wes Davis

Weekend Editor

Wes Davis holds down The Verge on weekends, reporting on everything tech and entertainment under the sun. He loves fixing what is (and ain’t) broke with gadgetry and smart home tech, and came to The Verge from the freelance Wi-Fi router review world.
When he’s not writing tech news, Wes is cycling (transportation, not racing), gaming, or recording music nobody should listen to. You can find him most places under the username "blunderchief."

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A man faces an October jury trial after using AI to make abusive images of real children.

That’s according to Forbes, which reports that the man had used a GoPro to record children at Disney World for the purpose:

... Justin Culmo, who was arrested in mid-2023, admitted to creating thousands of illegal images of children taken at the amusement park and at least one middle school, using a version of AI model Stable Diffusion ...


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Capcom director Hideaki Itsuno is leaving after 30 years.

Itsuno says he will “start developing a new game in a new environment” beginning next month. He has directed some of Capcom’s most well-regarded games, including most of the Devil May Cry games, Power Stone 2, and, most recently, Dragon’s Dogma 2.

Check out Andrew Webster’s 2019 Verge interview with Itsuno, where he talked about his approach to Devil May Cry 5.


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Telegram CEO Pavel Durov faces court questioning in France.

Durov was released from police custody and transferred to court ahead of a possible indictment, reports The Associated Press.

French authorities arrested Durov Saturday in a preliminary investigation of the relationship between Telegram’s moderation practices and the distribution of CSAM and other criminal content by another unnamed person on the platform.


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Will Nothing’s next wireless earbuds be called the Ear Open?

That seems to be the name the company is going with for a new addition to its Ear line, based on a recently granted Singapore certification spotted by 91mobiles.

The certification reveals little else — only that the headphones will connect with Bluetooth and are assigned the model number B182.