Illustration by Nick Barclay / The Verge Twitch is changing the way it enforces its community guidelines. In an announcement posted on its website, Twitch said that it will introduce a new enforcement strategy in which strikes for certain offenses will depreciate over time, users will receive more information regarding their strikes, and users will be able to take educational courses to reduce the severity of enforcement actions. In an interview with The Verge, Rob Lewington, Twitch’s VP of safety operations, and Kristen Murdock, the director of safety risk and response, spoke about the new program and what it means for moderating communities on Twitch. According to Lewington, safety is Twitch’s highest priority. He said Twitch hosts over 105 million users per month with 1.3... Continue reading…

The Echo Hub offers an easy way for the whole household to control smart home gadgets, including the tech-averse. | Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge In case you missed the news, Amazon recently announced a second Prime Day event for the fall. The two-day deal blitz, dubbed Prime Big Deal Days once again, will run from October 8th through the 9th, offering Prime subscribers a chance to save on all sorts of tech ahead of Black Friday. It’s still a few weeks away, but in typical fashion, Amazon has already rolled out a selection of early deals and discounts. Admittedly, there aren’t that many gadgets on sale yet — and we’ll likely start to see better deals trickle in as we get closer to the event — but we’ve still managed to dig up a few solid deals, particularly for those already embedded in the Amazon ecosystem. These include sizable discounts on the new Echo Hub and Amazon’s latest... Continue reading…

Former President Donald Trump took to his Truth Social platform Friday to warn people who are voting illegally in this year's election that there will be consequences.

Former New York City COVID czar Dr. Jay Varma has admitted to taking part in "private gatherings" at the height of the pandemic but is claiming that his comments caught on hidden camera about going to sex parties and a dance party were "spliced, diced and taken out of context."

President Joe Biden summoned his Cabinet on Friday for a meeting for the first time in 11 months. Biden plans to direct his Cabinet to speed up their efforts to implement his agenda as time is running out on his presidency, Axios said.

Georgia's Republican-controlled election board voted on Friday to require a labor-intensive hand count of potentially millions of ballots in November, a move voting rights advocates say could cause delays, introduce errors and lay the groundwork for spurious challenges in...

The owner of the shuttered Three Mile Island nuclear power plant said Friday that it plans to restart the reactor under a 20-year agreement that calls for tech giant Microsoft to buy the power to supply its data centers with carbon-free energy.

NEW YORK, NY — Authorities announced a statewide manhunt for Sean "Diddy" Combs, who authorities say escaped from his cell at Brooklyn's Metropolitan Detention Center by lubing up his body and slipping through the bars.

U.S. — A tearful baseball fan reportedly rent his garments and cried out to Heavens while covered in dust and ashes, anguishedly asking God why Shohei Ohtani has to play for the Los Angeles Dodgers.

What was your first clue, geniuses?Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, and their foreign-policy team spent the last eleven months of handcuffing Israel in its war after Hamas' October 7 massacre and atrocities.…