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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.

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X has reportedly requested to be able to return to Brazil.

The company already said it would abide by Brazilian Supreme Court orders. Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes ordered the X ban on August 30th.


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Fubo is getting multiview in beta on some Roku devices.

You’ll be able to watch up to four Fubo channels simultaneously. “Additional” Roku devices are set to get the feature in the “coming weeks,” Fubo says.

Fubo’s multiview is also available on Apple TV.


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Apple might release iOS 18.0.1 soon.

MacRumors logs show that Apple is testing the new update, which will probably just fix bugs. Some iOS 18 users have run into touchscreen responsiveness issues, so perhaps that’s one change for the rumored update.


Meta’s Connect keynote is done.

The developer portion is over, and now the room is clearing out. Staffers are taking photos onstage and celebrating.

Thanks for following along with us! Now go read our awesome posts!


A photo of Meta’s Connect stage.
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Meta is launching new avatars on October 1st.

And later in 2025, users will be able to generate a new avatar with an AI prompt.


A photo from Connect of Meta’s new avatars.
Meta is touting increased Horizon Worlds usage.

5X usage growth in 2024, and the app is a top five Quest 3 app in terms of weekly users, the company says.

Correction: Horizon Worlds is not a Quest 5 app.


Meta is releasing a camera passthrough API for Quest developers early next year.

Could be a really big deal for developers — the announcement got huge cheers in the Connect keynote room.