Windows 11 has been out for a while, and it does a decent job of delivering a good overall user experience. However, certain settings and the way Windows 11 is set up out of the box could force you to trade convenience for your SSD's lifespan. With the current AI surge driving up hardware prices, it may be a good idea to review your settings and make sure Windows 11 isn't eating away at your SSD's life.

Valve is introducing a major new feature for Steam achievements called "achievement sets" that lets developers list different groups of achievements for a base game and DLCs."In games that support sets, you still unlock achievements by playing the game as usual," Valve says. "But when you browse what you have unlocked afterward, Steam will break the long list of game achievements into the developer-created sets, making it easier to see what you have completed and to find other related achievements you can unlock next." Achievement sets have their own progress bars, and if you finish a set, you'll get a "set complete" trophy that's visible …Read the full story at The Verge.

Looking at prices for brand-new PC components, it's difficult to see how someone on a budget could put together a new rig capable of high framerates at 1080p, let alone 1440p gaming. Everything is significantly more expensive than it was a year ago, but that doesn't mean it's impossible to put together a decent machine. The pre-owned market was the best way for budget builders to make an entry into PC gaming before the memory crisis, and it still is today. It'll take some patience and a little bit of trust, but it's more doable than you might expect.

I’ve used VS Code for half a decade, but recently I’ve been switching between it and Cursor. VS Code is a good editor, but it lacks some of the agentic features that draw me to Cursor. I use Cursor extensively for development alongside Claude, and its own Composer models are quite good for coding. VS Code already supports agentic workflows through extensions like Claude Code and Codex, along with GitHub Copilot. You can get a lot done with these tools, but the overall experience hasn’t quite matched what I get from Cursor.

Two days ago, we reported on how Total War: Shogun 2's Complete Edition was getting review-bombed after people discovered brand new bugs and alleged AI-upscaled assets. The backlash was so strong that the title earned an "Overwhelmingly Negative" review score, with only 19% of the reviews being positive. Well, it seems Sega recognises that its fanbase has a point, as it has removed Total War: Shogun 2 - Complete Edition from Steam until it fixes the problems.

Though movies about disruptive tech founders are nothing new, 2026 has been unusually stacked with features that take a much more critical look at how Silicon Valley is reshaping our reality. Aaron Sorkin's The Social Reckoning frames Mark Zuckerberg as a robotic villain whose ambitions are destabilizing society. Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim's You Can See Everything paints a damning picture of Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes as she prepares for her ongoing stint in prison. After years of being widely celebrated as a visionary, you can see how the larger narrative around Elon Musk has shifted in projects like Alex Gibney's Musk docume …Read the full story at The Verge.

OpenAI's ChatGPT Atlas browser is gone, but now ChatGPT's Google Chrome extension is getting some upgrades that allow it to use the browser tabs you already have open. With the extension installed, OpenAI says ChatGPT can now view your browser tabs when you tag Chrome in ChatGPT's web or desktop app, posting a demo video showing someone asking ChatGPT to compare the three tabs they have open with sofas they're considering.A few big upgrades for Chrome users today! We're bringing the power of computer use to anyone who uses Chrome.First up: ChatGPT can now use your tabs in Chrome to make answers more useful and get things done for you. If …Read the full story at The Verge.

Every time you spin up a virtual machine in Proxmox, the creation wizard makes a stop at the System tab that most people just click straight through. One of the fields there is Machine, and unless you change it manually, it defaults to i440fx, which tells QEMU to build your VM around emulating an Intel chipset from the 90s. Intel's 440FX chipset launched in 1996 for the Pentium Pro, and there is a much more modern option in the list, so why doesn't Proxmox use it?

President Donald Trump posted a series of photos on Truth Social showing off renovations to the White House - but one of them appears to be modified with AI. The picture, which compares an old White House column to a "restored" one, has several discrepancies and was flagged by Google's AI detector as "made or edited with OpenAI."As pointed out by users on Reddit, the picture of the "restored" column has an uneven number of steps on both sides of the structure. The number of steps also doesn't match up with the ones in the "before" photo. Additionally, the before and after photos appear nearly identical in angle and detail; the reflection i …Read the full story at The Verge.

When you have multiple TVs in the house and you start to pair them with smart TV boxes, keeping track of it all can be a nightmare. Universal TV remotes used to be more popular when you just needed an IR transmitter and TV interfaces were simple, but these days, interfaces are more complex, and there's more to consider.

AI coding has hit a tipping point where people can now perform native ports of games. Anyone can pick up an AI coding tool, ask it to decompile a game's source code, then recompile it so it can be ported anywhere they like. Unfortunately, it seems this new era of AI has taken its toll, as a major decomp community website has shut down amid the wave of LLM submissions.

Sega is removing Total War: Shogun 2 - Complete Edition from storefronts following a disastrous launch where users complained about issues like bugs and upscaling that appears to have been done by AI.Complete Edition, a remaster of the 2011 strategy game, launched on Tuesday, and it bundled the main game and all of its DLC with promised upgrades including "improved visuals," "1440p and 4K UI scaling," and modernized controls. It has an "Overwhelmingly Negative" rating on Steam, where it has already been pulled, and posts on Reddit showcase artwork that users believe AI messed up."We're aware that Total War: Shogun 2 - Complete Editio …Read the full story at The Verge.