Beehiiv, a creator platform that has risen in popularity as an alternative to Substack, is increasing its prices - and many users aren't happy. In a post explaining the increase, Beehiiv cofounder and CEO Tyler Denk says it will allow the company to "continue investing in our core platform experience."As part of the change, Beehiiv is changing the name of its midrange Scale plan to Lite, which has gone up by at least $10 per month depending on subscriber count. For someone with up to 10,000 subscribers, for example, Beehiiv will charge $139 / month instead of $109. Meanwhile, the Pro plan (formerly Max) will cost $239 / month for up to 10, …Read the full story at The Verge.

Rivian had high hopes for its more affordable R2 vehicle - and so far, those hopes appear to be paying off. The company released its third-quarter production and delivery numbers today, reporting 19,751 vehicles produced and 19,248 delivered. That represents an 85 percent year-over-year increase in production and a 45 percent jump in deliveries. (For a direct-to-consumer automaker like Rivian, deliveries serve as a proxy for sales.) The company also reaffirmed its full-year 2026 guidance, expecting to deliver 65,000 to 70,000 vehicles.Rivian's sales surge is a rare bright spot in a struggling industry. A year after President Trump and Re …Read the full story at The Verge.

My WireGuard tunnel never actually dropped. The handshake stayed fresh, my NAS loaded, and yet my lab hostnames stopped resolving, ad blocking quietly switched off, and some services failed once before working on the second try. I'd already lost an evening to the Tailscale version of this problem, so I had a hunch about the cause.

In a throwback to MySpace-style internet drama, Shivon Zilis announced that she and the father of her four children, Elon Musk, had broken up on X.To do so, she quote-tweeted a post from "Big Tech Alert," an account that, among other things, monitors what accounts are following and unfollowing each other. That post noted Musk was no longer following her on X. It was also sponsored by Kalshi, because everything in this relationship is totally fucking cursed, dude.In her statement, Zilis wrote, "It's hard to go from in love to let go in a week with no warning, but that's just how it is sometimes." "Uh, you know."Zilis, in addition to h …Read the full story at The Verge.

New helpful little guy just dropped. | Photo: Allison Johnson / The Verge It's a tale as old as last week: OpenAI's new agent platform, called Dots, is full of cute little guys who can do your bidding. But unlike the ultra-approachable Meta Muse, Dots feel very much like using workplace software that happens to be able to order you a burrito - emphasis on work. OpenAI announced Dots earlier this week. Like Muse, Dots have blobby, anthropomorphic avatars and customizable names. In the future, OpenAI says you'll be able to have multiple Dots, but right now you get one. I named mine Dotty McDotface.The interface looks similar to Muse's; you chat with the agent in one window and follow its work in another as it …Read the full story at The Verge.

Shopify merchants: your agentic storefronts setting now shares products with Meta and unnamed startups. Leave it on, and watch what Shopify adds.The post Shopify Now Enrolls Your Store In Every New AI Shopping Channel appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

OpenAI's answer to Muse arrived this week, and it looks a whole lot like Muse dressed up in a suit and tie. Dots is a business-first product - for now, at least - costing a minimum of $100 per month. And sure, you can make a cute little Dot character, just like you can make a cute little Muse character. But OpenAI's early marketing is all about how you can use it to do Business Things: launch websites, reschedule calls, build slide decks for board meetings. Muse, on the other hand, keeps reminding me to buy a jacket I looked at.This week on The Vergecast, we're talking about Dots and the current state of agentic assistants. Our conversatio …Read the full story at The Verge.

I mostly use my Windows 11 PC for work, and it involves testing a lot of programs and software I have to write about. Because it's not my primary platform, what usually happens is I'll install a program or set something up, use it for testing and screenshots, and then turn off the computer without much of a thought.

Nacon announced what the company is claiming is the world's first officially licensed PlayStation 5 controller with a built-in screen for adjusting settings like joystick sensitivity or remapping buttons right on the gamepad. The Revolution 5 Unlimited's screen can also be used to mix audio from multiple sources so while using a pair of headphones connected to the gamepad with a cable you can listen to music from your phone and sounds from the game you're playing at the same time.The Revolution 5 Unlimited is available for preorder starting today for $229.99 through Nacon's online store and is expected to ship sometime later this year. Whi …Read the full story at The Verge.

You can't be a tech enthusiast and not be interested in 3D printing. Recently, I picked up a Bambu Labs A2L printer, a little out of FOMO, but largely because I wanted to add one more tool to my tinkering hobby. While I'm yet to make headway on printing out parts for the hundreds of projects I've been dreaming up, I've certainly printed my fair share of desk toys, trinkets, and tools. Each of these solves a small or large annoyance in keeping my desk tidy.

Dish-owned Sling TV will no longer be offering its Sling Pass feature that allowed people to buy a single day of cable TV programming at a time, as reported by The Desk.The feature was announced last year and offered a day pass, a weekend pass, and a week-long pass option to be able to watch channels like ESPN and CNN without a full-month cable subscription. But soon after it launched, Disney and Warner Bros. Discovery sued Sling TV over Sling Pass, though a federal judge ruled against Disney in its request for a preliminary injunction to block the feature."Sling was built to give our customers the ultimate control over their entertainme …Read the full story at The Verge.

This Samsung 27-inch gaming monitor delivers at every level, with impressive colors and contrast, plus excellent performance thanks to its 180Hz refresh rate and 1ms response time. What's even more impressive is the current price, coming in at just $150. This is the lowest price we've seen on this monitor and well below its $250 MSRP. Skip the Prime Big Deal Days event and get this one right now.