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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.

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Meta is detailing how it’s fighting ‘pig butchering’ scams.

“This year alone, we’ve taken down over two million accounts linked to scam centers in Myanmar, Laos, Cambodia, the United Arab Emirates and the Philippines,” Meta says.

The scams typically involve a scammer (who is sometimes a forced laborer) building trust with someone, asking them for money, and then disappearing.


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Steam’s autumn sale kicks off on Wednesday.

Based on a trailer, a lot of great games are getting discounts — might be time for me to finally pick up Animal Well.

The sale runs from 1PM ET on November 27th to 1PM ET on December 4th.


Threads will now show you replies when you’re working on a reply.

This seems very useful!


A screenshot from the Threads account showing a compose window over other replies.
Screenshot from the Threads account.
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Some of PlayStation’s 30th anniversary PS5 hardware is coming back.

Sony is giving you another shot to try and buy the retro-gray PS5 slim, DualSense, and DualSense Edge tomorrow at 12PM ET from PlayStation Direct, as spotted by Wario64. Good luck!


An image of the 30th anniversary PS5.
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Fortnite’s subscription is about to become a better deal.

As of December 1st, Fortnite Crew, a monthly $11.99 subscription that already includes perks like the Battle Royale battle pass and 1,000 V-bucks, will also give you access to the rewards passes for Fortnite Festival, Lego Fortnite, and a new “OG Pass” that will tie into the revived Fortnite OG mode. The change is part of Epic’s work to streamline its passes.


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Comcast is reportedly going through with a plan to spin off its cable business.

MSNBC, CNBC, USA, Oxygen, E! and more will be spun out, The Wall Street Journal reports. Comcast will keep Bravo, Peacock, and NBC. The plan, which Comcast had already signaled it was considering, will apparently be announced tomorrow.