As the rest of the country celebrated the USA's first World Cup win and the New York Knicks championship, Anthropic spent its weekend fighting the Trump administration over its latest model release. At 5:21 PM on Friday, the company received a US export control directive to suspend access to its Mythos 5 and Fable 5 AI models by "any foreign national" inside or outside the US, "including foreign national Anthropic employees." The only way that was possible, Anthropic determined, was to completely disable products it spent the past week hyping - and travel to Washington, DC in hopes of changing President Donald Trump's mind. Now, over the com …Read the full story at The Verge.

Back in 2021, reports surfaced online of a port of the classic Nintendo 64 game GoldenEye 007 for the Xbox 360. The port was developed by Rare, the same studio that made the N64-exclusive, and was originally intended to release in 2008.

A while ago I wrote about how Claude Pro had become a daily tool for me, and how none of that had anything to do with coding. That's still true, but I finally caved on the one part I'd been avoiding. Claude Code kept showing up everywhere I looked, and I almost started to feel out of the loop for being one of the few tech writers who hadn't tried it yet.

You know, given how much landscape data Google has, I'm surprised it took this long for it to make a simple flight simulator with it. Still, it's better late than never, as the tech giant has revealed that you can now take flight over all of the landscapes it has gathered data on over the years. The best part is, you don't even need to download anything; you can climb into a virtual plane from your browser.

I've been using Hermes Agent for a while now, and the more time I spend with it, the less I think about it as another chat interface. The model matters, obviously, but a chat box is a mere conduit once the model can read files, run scripts, send messages, schedule work, and talk to the services I already use.

Threads has surpassed 500 million monthly active users, Meta announced on Tuesday, hitting the milestone just shy of the platform's third birthday. Threads got off to a hot start in 2023, reaching 100 million users even faster than ChatGPT, and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has said that he thinks Threads could hit 1 billion users.Meta says that daily active users on Threads continue to "increase strongly across the globe," with "all" of it driven by communities, which allow users to see and make posts about different topics. The company is bringing them out of beta and adding features like a communities hub in the Threads menu and giving communitie …Read the full story at The Verge.

There's a lot of debate about where AI should and shouldn't be in the workplace, but one area I always advocate using AI for is for doing really laborious tasks that an LLM is designed to perform extremely quickly. And one thing an AI can do much faster than us is churn through a huge chunk of data and create a summary based on its findings.

It's not every day that Steam Hardware Survey stats make me stop scrolling, but May 2026's numbers seem to have done exactly that. Windows 7, often heralded as one of the greatest versions of Microsoft's desktop OS, is now down to just 0.07% of Steam users. Meanwhile, there's another story unfolding in the GPU department, where only 8.54% of Nvidia RTX owners are still gaming on an RTX 20 series graphics card. Now, at first glance, those two figures might not have anything to do with one another, but together, they do paint a familiar picture.

Ensuring your code is working at its utmost best can be pretty daunting if you're not sure what to pull back, and by how much. However, sometimes the stars align, and you spot a really simple fix that significantly boosts your software's speed. As good as that is, though, not many people can claim they sped up a process by 5% just by moving three chunks of code down by a few lines, which is exactly what one Linux engineer achieved with kernel version 7.2.

Last year, we called the Alienware 16 Area-51 a "return to form" for weirdness, and this year's refresh is no different. It's packed with power, heavy, hot (in more than one way), and looks like it was beamed down to Earth, and that's everything I need to know about a gaming laptop.

One of my favorite things about e-Ink displays is that they don't look like displays. Sure, they are screens, and you can put whatever you want on them, but unlike LCDs, you can put an e-Ink display into a picture frame, and it won't look out of place. One excellent example just appeared in the Raspberry Pi community, and while the end product looks amazing, the software running it is an excellent tool for smart home displays.

It won’t be for everyone, but there’s something delightful about the retro look. | Photo: Commodore When Christian Simpson, a retro gaming YouTuber also known as Peri Fractic, bought the remains of an early PC company called Commodore in 2025, he decided to pick up right where the original Commodore left off. Which meant starting product development in the mid-1990s. Simpson and his team first set to work reviving the company's most iconic product, and you can now buy a Commodore 64 that is the spitting image of the 1982 original (other than the Wi-Fi connectivity, the USB ports, and a few other slightly modern niceties). It's a pure nostalgia play, and by most accounts, a very good one. Commodore says it has sold 30,000 of them since last …Read the full story at The Verge.