Congress has reauthorized Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act - but only for another 45 days. The extension is meant to give legislators more time to negotiate reforms to the controversial wiretapping bill. If the past few weeks are any indication of how future debates will go, however, we're in for a bumpy ride.The House renewed Section 702 with minor reforms on Wednesday evening. The bill didn't include the hotly debated warrant requirement, but it did feature a provision prohibiting the Federal Reserve from issuing Central Bank Digital Currencies, which Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) described as a nonstar …Read the full story at The Verge.

Roblox's daily active users continued to slip last quarter due in part to its rollout of age checks on its platform. According to its latest earnings report, Roblox currently has 132 million daily active users globally, down from 144 million at the end of last year, which was a drop from 152 million in Q3 2025. In the US and Canada, the number of active users dropped by one million from the previous quarter, while Roblox's revenue still grew to $1.4 billion.Roblox says Q1 growth was "tempered by greater-than-expected headwinds" due to the rollout of its age-check features, which "slowed new user acquisition." Russia's December 2025 ban on …Read the full story at The Verge.

Microsoft has rolled out its gaming-focused Xbox Mode to all Windows 11 PCs and devices, including laptops, tablets, handhelds, and more. The console-like overlay aims to simplify gaming on Windows 11 with a stripped-back Xbox-inspired UI that's snappier and more intuitive.

Windows is a GUI-focused operating system and doesn't compel users to use the terminal for trivial settings changes and troubleshooting. However, when things get really messy or you need to quickly reach a deeply nested setting, using an appropriate command is a wise choice. My terminal usage increased as I gained experience in Windows, and there are some commands that I wish I had known earlier.

We are absolutely obsessed with benchmark scores and thermal throttling, yet we ignore the fact that our eyes hurt after two hours and our wrists are developing carpal tunnel. The world of PC gaming is very interesting. The irony is that you have spent $1,500 on a GPU to see more detail, but your monitor is positioned so poorly that you are actually squinting at it and have a hunchback in order to see it.

Apple's iPhone revenue jumped 22 percent to $57 billion over the past few months, despite supply chain issues impacting the device's processor. In an interview with Reuters, Apple CEO Tim Cook said iPhone "demand was off the charts," but there's "a little less flexibility at the moment for getting more parts." Cook added during an earnings call that supply constraints could come for Mac, too, "given the continued high levels of demand that we're seeing."Apple earned $111.2 billion in revenue during the second quarter of 2026, its "best March quarter ever," according to Cook. This latest earnings report comes a little over a week after the …Read the full story at The Verge.

Okay, I am not a lawyer so I only understood about half of what just happened. But I am fairly sure, given the context, that Elon Musk's lawyers may have just fucked up big.Jared "James Brickhouse" Birchall, Musk's finance guy and all-around fixer, took the stand after Musk today. Most of his testimony was dull and seemed to exist primarily to get some documents read into the record, which sucks but is a normal part of sitting through trials. But at the very end of his boring testimony something interesting happened. I believe we all got a surprise, something that rarely happens in courtrooms.The lawyer conducting his direct examination …Read the full story at The Verge.

AI tools have gotten much smarter over the past few years. They understand prompts better now, so you don’t always need to be extremely descriptive. That said, more detailed prompts still lead to better results. The problem is that being descriptive takes effort. You have to think more, write more, and refine what you’re asking to get the right output. If it’s something repetitive, like summarizing YouTube videos in a specific format, typing the same detailed prompt every time becomes tedious.

If you have purchased a laptop in the last few years or even explored available options, you must have noticed how all companies like Apple, Dell, Lenovo, and Asus are pushing thinner laptops. Marketed as sleek, slim, ultra-thin, or lightweight, these models are suddenly getting all the attention, whether on the official website or with third-party retailers.

There's no denying that Nvidia has been at the top of the PC graphics industry for a long time, and I'm not just talking about market share or enterprise footprint. It has also pushed GPU technology forward with gaming-focused innovations like real-time ray tracing, upscaling, and, more recently, AI frame generation. With Multi Frame Generation (MFG) launching with the RTX 50 series GPUs, Nvidia once again established feature dominance over the competition.

Rivian reported its first quarter earnings of 2026, providing us a closer look at the company's financial health as it kicks off production for the crucial R2 electric vehicle. We've already got Rivian's production and delivery statement from the first three months of the year. The company sold 10,365 vehicles in Q1, representing 20 percent increase year over year. And it produced 10,236 vehicles at its factory in Normal, Illinois, which represents a 30 percent increase compared to the same period last year. The company also reaffirmed its prediction that it will sell 62,000-67,000 vehicles this year.In terms of earnings, Rivian said it …Read the full story at The Verge.

VS Code is probably the best IDE out there right now. It has almost everything you need, whether it’s AI features, stability, or performance. In terms of pure features, it checks all the boxes, and on paper, it’s open source. There isn’t much to complain about at first glance.