Outer Wilds developer Mobius Digital is working on a new game, but it might be a very long time before we hear anything about it, the studio’s head of production tells The Verge.“It’s going to be quite awhile before we have any news or hints about our next game,” says Jackie Kreitzberg. “Likely on the order of years.” The studio also doesn’t plan to share “public development logs” in order to “preserve the mystery of the next game.”In 2021, Mobius released the Echoes of the Eye expansion for Outer Wilds, which Kreitzberg says is the game’s last. “We’re excited to make something new.”I reached out to Mobius after seeing Outer Wilds patch notes spotted by Rock Paper Shotgun that said the team is “hard at work on our next game.” But while that was the first I had heard of a new game, Kreitzberg notes that the studio confirmed it was in the works after last year’s resignations at Annapurna Interactive. Even if Mobius doesn’t want to talk about the new game, it appreciates the recent attention. “We’re thrilled that folks are excited to see what we make next and hope we don’t leave everyone hanging forever,” Kreitzberg says.

Amazon is expanding its prescription medication business to include your pooches and pussycats. Through its Vetsource partnership announced on Thursday, Amazon says that “hundreds of prescription pet medications” will now be available for US customers to purchase via Amazon’s storefront, including treatments for fleas, ticks, and chronic conditions.Prescription pet drugs can be found by searching for the required medication in Amazon’s search bar and inputting your prescribing veterinarian’s information during checkout. The Vetsource online pet pharmacy service will then dispense and deliver medications purchased through Amazon, with shipping expected to take between two to six days.Vetsource will contact your veterinarian for approval for first-time orders, but Amazon says that refills can then “usually be processed without additional veterinarian contact” if your account has an active prescription on file. All of the pet medications provided on Amazon are FDA approved, and the company says that the selection of drugs available will be expanded over time.The selling point here, much like when Amazon first launched its human-focused online pharmacy service in 2020, is convenience. Being able to order flea, worming, and other essential pet care prescriptions alongside everyday shopping items is convenient for everyone, but especially people who have mobility issues or live in rural areas and would otherwise have to make their way to a vet’s office or pharmacy location. It also puts Amazon more in line with competing online pharmacy services like Walmart, which launched its own service for pet medications in 2019.

Threads is getting a new transparency feature that allows users to see how their accounts are being reprimanded for breaking the platform’s rules. Video ads are also making their debut on the platform. The new account status dashboard is similar to existing account features on Instagram and Facebook, showing when posted content has been removed or lowered in feeds. It also shows posts that can’t be recommended to other users because they violate the Threads community guidelines, and tells users if they’ve been blocked from using certain features on the platform. If Threads users believe they have been penalized erroneously, the account status dashboard can facilitate an appeal.The feature aims to give users more clarity when action is taken against their account, make it easier to avoid being penalized in the future, and restore content or features they believe have been mistakenly restricted. The account dashboard is rolling out to Threads users now and can be accessed from the “account” section in the settings menu.Threads is also ramping up its monetization efforts, with Meta announcing on Thursday that it will soon begin testing video ads on the platform. Meta said at IAB NewFronts that a “small number” of 19:9 or 1:1 videos will be trialed by advertisers to appear in Threads users’ feeds between organic content. This follows advertising being first introduced to the platform in January and then globally expanded last month.Meta’s ad expansion will also be felt on Facebook and Instagram. A new “short-form video solution” trial will show ads next to popular Reels videos to piggyback on engagement, while new branded partnership ad formats will be rolling out to both Facebook and Instagram, including Facebook Live.

We don't often go tit-for-tat here on XDA, but I think it's worth doing sometimes, especially when I can offer a positive perspective. There's so much negativity around, why not look on the brighter side?

It's my final day at The Verge and Vox Media after over 13 years. And as luck should have it, I was able to wrap up my tenure here by interviewing Tom Conrad, the interim CEO of Sonos. I've covered this company more extensively than any other, and as our readers know, Sonos has been through the ringer over the last year - in a mess of its own making, to be clear. But over the last several months, Conrad, a Sonos board member since 2017, has kept the company laser-focused on a turnaround effort with frequent app improvements and bug fixes.With successful stints at Pandora, Snap, and elsewhere, Conrad has deep software roots. (Yes, he was also the chief product officer at Quibi.) So on Friday, I threw my most pressing questions at the man who clearly hopes to become the permanent CEO of Sonos. We covered some of what I know Sonos' Reddit community is likely curious about and other topics that seemed timely, and I came away encouraged about the company's odds of getting back on track.The below interview is lightly edited for length and clarity.Tom Conrad, it's great to finally meet. This week, you announced that the Symfonisk partnership with Ikea is no more. Talk about what le …Read the full story at The Verge.

I'll admit it; I have a soft spot for Raspberry Pi cases that look like a miniature gaming rig. Maybe it's how cool they look, and maybe it's just really cute to have a teeny-tiny case sitting on your PC like a gaming rig for mice. Either way, when I saw that Pironman was back in the Raspberry Pi case game, I knew I had to take a look.

Building a home lab is a process, and the more self-hosted services you add, the more complicated it becomes to provide security and manage them. It gets to be a headache eventually, but you can make things easier by using a reverse proxy to expose your services using human-readable URLs instead of IP and port combinations. There are plenty of options to choose from, depending if you need versatility, ease of setup and use, and how well you're versed in the command line, but Nginx Proxy Manager ticks all the boxes for most home lab users. It's got a web-based GUI, is quick to set up thanks to a Docker container, and has the option of advanced configuration if you need it down the road.

Everyone knows that the File Explorer Microsoft includes with Windows 11 is fine, but not much more than that. There are plenty of alternatives out there for those wanting to boost their productivity while browsing and managing their files, but I have to say my personal favorite remains File Pilot.

Customs and Border Protection (CBP) plans on photographing every single person who leaves the US by car, an agency spokesperson told Wired. The agency says it will start using facial recognition technology at official border crossings to match all outbound travelers’ faces to their passports, visas, or other travel documents, though there’s no public timeline for when this will happen.“Although we are still working on how we would handle outbound vehicle lanes, we will ultimately expand to this area,” CBP spokesperson Jessica Turner told Wired. It’s an expansion of the agency’s current practice of photographing travelers as they enter the country and matching those photos with “all documented photos, i.e., passports, visas, green cards, etc,” the agency has on record.CBP has been working on ways to track people as they leave the US for over a decade. After two years of lab tests, CBP experimented with collecting travelers’ biometrics at airports in 2016. That year, the agency partnered with Delta Air Lines to photograph passengers boarding a Tokyo-bound flight at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport. The agency’s collection of outgoing travelers’ biometric data has expanded since then. CBP currently uses “biometric facial comparison technology” to process travelers exiting the US at 57 airports, including Hartsfield-Jackson in Atlanta, Los Angeles International Airport, Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport, and John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York — some of the busiest airports in the country. The airport panopticon continues to expand.“We found that facial recognition was intuitive for people. Everybody knows how to stand in front of a camera and have his or her photo taken,” John Wagner, the deputy assistant commissioner of CBP’s office of field operations, said in an agency article promoting CBP’s biometric technologies. “Not so with iris scans and fingerprints. Every time a traveler does the process wrong, someone has to instruct him or her the right way to do it.”Collecting passengers’ fingerprints may be less intuitive than taking their pictures, but CBP does that, too. Agents stationed at airports across the country use a handheld device called Biometric Exit Mobile to take certain travelers’ fingerprints before they board their flights. Those fingerprints are then run against law enforcement databases.If CBP’s role is to process people for entry into the US, why track people on the way out? Wired notes that biometric databases could be used to monitor self-deportations. Having realized that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) lacks the resources to arrest, detain, and deport each and every one of the estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants living in the US, President Donald Trump is encouraging undocumented immigrants to leave the US on their own, offering people $1,000 if they leave the country voluntarily. But CBP was devising ways to collect travelers’ photos, fingerprints, and other biometric data long before Trump took office. The agency says it collects this data to run people’s biometrics against law enforcement databases, therefore ensuring that people with criminal records are removed from the US. The agency’s promotional article touting its biometric technologies includes a “success story” involving a Polish couple who had “criminal histories with multiple identities” caught leaving the US under false names. Since DHS’s formation in the wake of the September 11th attacks, immigration enforcement has blurred the lines between criminal enforcement and national security. Every international traveler is a potential criminal or terrorist, justifying mass surveillance.Trump didn’t invent this playbook. But his mass deportation agenda is getting a helpful boost from decades of bipartisan turbocharging of the surveillance state.

When it comes to Docker containers, the most popular or readily available options aren’t always the most efficient or feature-rich. While Docker undeniably offers excellent value, certain containerized solutions proved to be more time-consuming to configure or ultimately lacked the necessary features I required in my workflow. In several instances, exploring both open-source and even some carefully chosen closed-source alternatives proved to be more effective than their Dockerized counterparts.

Sonic Rumble opened its doors for pre-registration in December 2024, with a May 8th, 2025 release date scheduled for the game. Sega and Rovio asserted that they would be working diligently on the game during the pre-launch period, gathering feedback from players and the community at large.

I've been slowly replacing the creative tools I relied on with free and open-source alternatives. It was mainly out of exploration at first, but then canceling all my Adobe subscriptions also forced me to find better options. Now, I've finally overhauled my graphics workflow and haven't looked back.