As of today, Zound Industries is officially called the Marshall Group following its acquisition of Marshall Amplification. Zound had used the British amp manufacturer’s branding for its headphones and speakers for over a decade.

Check out my March interview with Marshall Group CEO Jeremy de Maillard for more details on the merger.

Data from NASA’s Cassini probe shows signatures of phosphorous in a subsurface ocean on Enceladus, one of Saturn’s moons. According to planetary scientist Frank Postberg of Freie Universität Berlin, “It’s the first time this essential element has been discovered in an ocean beyond Earth.”

Six years after its mission ended with a dive into Saturn’s atmosphere, the list of Cassini discoveries keeps growing. You can read the scientist’s paper here or check out this video from a few years ago explaining how Cassini collected those particles.

At an event in DC today, FCC Chair Jessica Rosenworcel said the new team would be updating its rules governing what cell carriers can do with customer data:

“We’re going to bring all of our technical and legal experts together from across the agency to maximize coordination and use the law to reach results by evolving our policies and taking enforcement action.”

Back in 2018, the New York Times reported that some of the US’s largest carriers — including AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon — were selling their customers’ real-time location data. Unfortunately and unsurprisingly, the government hasn’t really done much to stop it since then.

With the FCC still deadlocked, the task force could put the agency in a better position to approve stricter rules to prevent sim-swapping, data breaches, and the unauthorized sale of customer data if a third Democrat gets confirmed.

A full trailer, release date, and what sounds like preorders are coming tomorrow, tweets series creator J. Michael Straczynski. Here’s everything else we know about Babylon 5: The Road Home.

I usually get a few emails about every episode of Decoder — I really do read them all! — but the response to this week’s episode with Brenden Ballou on the influence of private equity companies on businesses of all kinds has been fascinating, since it connects a wonky financial idea to real experiences so many people have had at work. There’s a 300+ comments thread at Hacker News about it, even. And here I thought this would just be a wonky passion project of an episode!

I’m excited to announce that the full archive of Command Line, my weekly newsletter about the tech industry’s inside conversation, is now accessible on our website.

Since early January, I’ve been taking subscribers deeper into the companies and personalities we cover here on The Verge every day. A good example is last week’s issue on the headset wars, featuring my visit to Apple HQ to try the Vision Pro and more from inside Meta’s big all-hands meeting with employees.

Our updated FAQ has everything you need to know about logging in to view full issues of Command Line, managing your subscription, and more. The next issue drops this Friday.

Galaxy Watches were already capable of taking EKGs, but those are just spot checks. This feature is more passive, and works in the background to detect signs you may have atrial fibrillation.

Samsung already got FDA clearance for this feature last month, but now it’s got Korea’s Ministry of Food and Drug Safety to sign off too. Plus, it’ll be introduced to 11 more countries across South America, Europe, and the Middle East whenever the One UI 5 Watch update arrives later this year. (Check out the entire list here.)

That’s 13 countries! No small feat when you think about how tedious regulatory clearance is.

This is why we started this website in 2011. This exact sentence, as tipped by reader Dave Lee. Smoke ‘em if you got ‘em (meats).

Apparently his name is Marty and he belongs to Sen. Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire, according to Roll Call. Every year they wheel him around in celebration of the “Live Free or Die” state.

It still doesn’t explain the GoPro though.

We’ve talked before about setting one’s Venmo to private, but even that won’t help if you’re an idiot. This story is about a black market in human body parts:

Between Sept. 3, 2018, and July 12, 2021, Taylor made 39 electronic payments, totaling $37.355.56, to a PayPal account controlled by Denise Lodge, the indictment said. A memo attached to a transaction on May 19, 2019, read, “head number 7.”

Another transaction was labeled, “braiiiiiins.”

Its latest ultra-dramatic sports drama, Quarterback, is scheduled to hit the service on July 12th.

If you’ve seen what Drive to Survive did for F1, what Full Swing (which, disclosure, Vox Media Studios produced — check out next season to watch as a golfer gets the LIV merger news) did for golf, or what Break Point did for tennis, you know this is going to be good.

This was one of my “sets that got away,” so I’m overjoyed it’s coming back — particularly now it’s composed of several modular islands with their own secret underground passages instead of a single rigid baseplate. (You can “unfold” it kind of like the Lion Knights’ Castle.)

It’s coming July 7th for $215, and I can’t wait to pair it with Lego’s Black Seas Barracuda remake when I find the cash.

That’s according to a report from The Information on the value for Google of YouTube as an AI training dataset. The fact that OpenAI scraped YouTube isn’t surprising, but the company is famously secretive about its training data, partly for competition reasons, and partly, it’s thought, to stymie potential lawsuits.

YouTube’s terms of service forbid using content for anything other than “personal, non-commercial use,” but it’s an open secret in the AI industry that everyone is scraping the web constantly. If Google protests too much, it would end up incriminating itself.

This is a smart take from Dan Moren at Macworld, reading between the WWDC lines — StandBy, widgets, DockKit, Siri — and wondering if we’re about to see Apple invest in in-home gear in a big way. I think he’s right, but I also think the HomePod is the future of exactly nothing. Super curious about all these docks, though!

The Reddit blackout rages on, so we spent some time with Apollo developer Christian Selig figuring out why. Plus, is Threads the future of Instagram? And is a 15-inch MacBook Air the one we’ve all been waiting for?

Fujifilm announced it’s releasing the Instax Square SQ40 instant camera at the end of June for $149.95.

It’s basically like the Instax Mini 40 with the same vintage look but it prints square photos. So, far the photo quality in my tests is as good as the new Instax Mini 12’s. But $149.95 for square prints and style? Eh, I’ll stick with the $80 Instax Mini 12.

The latest trailer for Nimona, Netflix’s punk rock fairy tale based on ND Stevenson’s graphic novel, is full of manic energy as its lead changes into all kinds of creatures. And she seems to be having, ahem, a whale of a time while doing it. The movie hits Netflix on June 30th.