When I first got to grips with using AI to boost my productivity, I found it kind of annoying. Every time I started a new chat, I'd have to start from scratch, telling the AI everything I was working on and what I wanted to achieve. This included telling the AI the same stuff they just taught me a moment ago, so they're up to speed. Continuing the old chats with all the context included would eventually begin to unravel after a few more prompts, and using the instructions feature was a pain if you wanted to use the model for anything else.

Tinder users who prove they're a real person by visiting an identity-verifying orb will soon be able to get five free boosts in the app - and it's just the latest service to embrace the orb. World, which was co-founded by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, initially tested Tinder verification using its facial scanning orbs through a pilot program in Japan last year. It's now expanding the service to "select markets, including Japan and the United States." To verify that they're not a bot or an AI agent, users have to physically visit one of World's orbs in person. According to World, the orb "takes pictures of your face and eyes, then encrypts and sto …Read the full story at The Verge.

You've got a perfect setup, let's say it's a PS5 or Xbox Series X, a premium OLED screen, and a high-end AV receiver, but for some reason, every 20 minutes the screen goes black for a few seconds. The frustration here is the fact that it isn't a total failure; it's just a flicker. It happens most often during intense gaming moments, or when HDR kicks in, and as a result, you assume the TV is dying, or the console is overheating.

Prediction market exchanges have created an environment where just about any piece of information is potentially monetizable: How well will BTS's new song perform this week? How hot will Los Angeles get? Will Donald Trump be impeached? Users can wager on all of that and, on some platforms, more gruesome and violent outcomes in the real world.The rapid rise and expansion of Polymarket and Kalshi have put newsrooms in a strange position. Prediction market evangelists often claim that their odds are more trustworthy and accurate than polls and traditional media - effectively positioning the industry as a replacement for news. At the same time …Read the full story at The Verge.

Valve's latest Proton 11.0-Beta1 might seem like a relatively expected update given the update's unassuming name, but under the hood, it includes a notable new feature: support for ARM64 devices.

Last month, OpenAI gave up on its Sora video generation tool, and on Friday, the Sora team's leader, Bill Peebles, announced that he is leaving the company. OpenAI has been shifting its priorities as part of an effort to avoid "side quests," and Peebles' departure is just one of many recent changes as the company moves to focus more on coding and enterprise use.As part of a note Peebles posted on X, he said:I am immensely grateful to Sam, Mark, Aditya and Jakub for fostering a research environment that allowed us to pursue ideas off-the-beaten path from the company's mainline roadmap. It's tempting in life to mode collapse to the most i …Read the full story at The Verge.

The Trump administration has spent nearly two months fighting with AI company Anthropic. It's dubbed the company a "RADICAL LEFT, WOKE COMPANY" full of "Leftwing nut jobs" and a menace to national security. But some of the ice may reportedly be melting between the two, thanks to Anthropic's buzzy new cybersecurity-focused model: Claude Mythos Preview.Anthropic's relationship with the Pentagon soured quickly in late February after the company refused to budge on two red lines: using its technology for domestic mass surveillance or lethal fully autonomous weapons with no human in the loop. Anthropic's tech has in the past been used heavily b …Read the full story at The Verge.

The iPhone 17E is the best cheap iPhone, no surprises there. | Photo: Allison Johnson / The Verge Over the last few months, every phone maker under the sun has refreshed its lineups, especially at the affordable end, with no major budget phone launches now expected until next year. That made it the perfect time to go back and reassess The Verge's recommendations for the best budget phones you can buy right now.You won't be too surprised to hear that the iPhone 17E is now our recommendation for the best cheap iPhone, not least because it's the only cheap iPhone. Still, this year's addition of MagSafe charging makes it a much more well-rounded package than last year's 16E, and with the same A19 chip as the flagship iPhone 17, you won't f …Read the full story at The Verge.

Remote 3D printing always sounded better in theory than it felt in practice. The promise is great: send a file from anywhere, check in from your phone, and come home to a finished part waiting on the bed. The reality, at least for me, was a lot less relaxing. Every time I started a print while I was away, there was a little knot of anxiety sitting in the background.

The dream of the AI-powered developer setup has always been a smarter autocomplete – a tool that could guess your next line before you typed it. But in 2026, the scenario has changed. While Cursor has long enjoyed its status as the heavyweight champion, new contenders like Google Antigravity and Windsurf are promising to change how we interact with our filesystems and terminals.

I’ve been rocking both TrueNAS and Proxmox in my home lab, with both platforms fulfilling their own roles. The former powers my local and remote Network-Attached Storage servers, houses most of my network shares, and runs services that tend to be on the data-hoarding side of the spectrum. Meanwhile, Proxmox Virtual Environment and its complementary first-party tools are responsible for hosting most of my FOSS tools, virtual machines, and other wacky virtual guests I use for typical home server projects.

I kind of wish it just took pictures. I've never been as charmed and frustrated by one gadget as I have with the Poetry Camera.It's a delightful object. White and cherry red with a color-matched woven strap, it looks playful and adorably lo-fi. If I saw it on a store shelf, I'd absolutely pick it up. But aside from obviously appealing, I'm not exactly sure what it is. I mean, I know what it is. It's a camera that makes AI poems instead of photos. You take a picture, and instead of printing a photo, you get an AI-generated poem inspired by the scene, printed on thermal receipt paper. But after printing dozens of poems, I can only report feeling frustrated instead of inspired. …Read the full story at The Verge.