GIMP and I have a weird history. I keep it installed, occasionally open it, and then remember why I stopped trying to use it as my main editor. This is mainly because the interface is…a lot. There’s not only a lot going on, but panels and features feel very disconnected, at least when you come from editors that use traditional layouts like Photoshop, Photopea, Affinity, and those types. From what I’ve gathered, GIMP has a loyal user base, so this all might sound silly if you’re already used to navigating GIMP. Either way, it’s still free and powerful, so I’m keeping it in my arsenal.

The DualSense controller was one of Sony's main selling points for the PS5. Beyond things like a striking new design and adaptive triggers, the controller's haptic feedback offered genuinely cool new experiences for games. Rumble effects had been around for decades at that point, but the DualSense offered something very different: I'm still blown away by the sand crunching under Astro's feet in Team Asobi's Astro's Playroom or the futuristic pulses from weapons in Housemarque's Returnal.But there have been few titles since the PS5's release that have captured that same magic and showed off what made the controller so distinct. This week, H …Read the full story at The Verge.

The Razr Plus only comes in one color, but it’s a good one. The memory crisis claims another couple of victims. Motorola's midtier and entry-level flip phones cost $100 more than their predecessors, and have few upgrades to show for it.The 2026 Razr Plus costs $1,099, up from $999. It still comes with a Snapdragon 8S Gen 3 chipset - two years old at this point - with 12GB of RAM and 256GB of storage. Its silicon-carbon battery offers a 4,500mAh capacity compared to the 4,000mAh capacity on last year's model, which is a significant boost.But that's its biggest improvement. The main camera hardware is unchanged, but Motorola swapped the previous generation's 50-megapixel 2x telephoto for a 50-megap …Read the full story at The Verge.

A developer has created a method to get Linux running on some versions of Sony's PlayStation 5 console. Andy Nguyen previously showed off a ported version of Ubuntu running PC games on a PS5 last month, and he's now published the installation steps on GitHub this week.This is a soft mod, so it won't persist between power downs or restarts, but the Linux installation will let you play PC games once it's up and running. So far we've seen GTA V running with enhanced ray tracing at 60fps in Ubuntu on a PS5, as well as Spider-Man running at 1440p resolution and 60fps.Nguyen is relying on a patched vulnerability to transform a PS5 into a Linux …Read the full story at The Verge.

I mean, c’mon. Look, you're not going to find much new on the 2026 version of the Motorola Razr Ultra. There's a new main camera sensor, a slightly bigger battery, and a higher price: $1,499, up from $1,299. But one thing hasn't changed: this is a darn good looking phone.The wood-finish back panel returns, and is joined by a new suede-like Alcantara option in orient blue. To everyone who has complained to me over the past year that "phones are boring now," which is many-a Verge reader, please look at these phones. They are definitely not boring. They feel nice, they look nice, and they are eminently photographable. That's the good ne …Read the full story at The Verge.

Gotta hand it to Motorola: it’s a good-looking phone. 2026 is shaping up to be a tough year to launch a high-end phone. The memory crisis has phone prices rising across the board, so an already expensive phone risks becoming a much too expensive phone. That might be what happened to the Razr Fold, which will cost $1,900 when it goes on sale in the US on May 14th. That doesn't include the Moto Pen Ultra stylus, which costs an additional $100.Motorola has dripped out some of the Fold's specs since it was first previewed at CES, and those early signs indicated that this device wouldn't be the more affordable folding phone the market so desperately needs. Today's announcement confirms that: it'll …Read the full story at The Verge.

Running a home lab starts simply with a few containers for media and photo backups, and maybe Home Assistant to build out a smart home. But once you start going down the rabbit hole, the setup grows fairly quickly. More services get added in over time, more devices, and all too soon, if you're like me, you're managing a small infrastructure instead of just a simple hobby project. Trust me, when you're that deep into the hobby, visibility starts becoming a real problem.

Google Photos is launching a new AI-powered feature you can use to virtually try on clothes you already have. Using the photos in your gallery, Google will create a virtual "wardrobe," allowing you to mix and match outfits, save the looks you like, and share them with friends.A video shared by Google shows how Photos organizes your outfits and individual pieces of clothing into a virtual "wardrobe." You can browse through the outfits you were captured wearing, as well as create new ones by choosing from tops, bottoms, skirts, dresses, and shoes to put together a new look.You can also select the button in the bottom right corner of each o …Read the full story at The Verge.

Canonical's plan to add AI features to Ubuntu has some users asking for "a version of Ubuntu that does not include these features," while others say they'll stick with older versions of the Linux distro or even switch to a different one. After Canonical's announcement earlier this week that it's bringing AI features to Ubuntu, replies included requests for an AI "kill switch" or a way to disable the upcoming features, and comparisons to Microsoft's addition of AI features into Windows 11. Canonical's VP of engineering, Jon Seager, responded on Tuesday, stating that Canonical isn't planning to add a "global AI kill switch," but users will be …Read the full story at The Verge.

Stock coolers have earned themselves a bad rap among PC building enthusiasts, and it wasn't without reason. Both AMD and Intel's stock cooler designs were simply not enough for what the processors were demanding, and that was the cause of the aftermarket CPU cooler's rise to prominence. If you were hunting performance and didn't want your CPU to throttle under heavy thermal load, you simply needed an aftermarket cooler.

The Musk v. Altman trial is underway, and that means exhibits, or the evidence to be presented in court, are being revealed piece by piece. So far, email exchanges, photos, and corporate documents are circulating from the earliest days of OpenAI - and from before the AI lab even had a name. Some high-level takeaways: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang gave OpenAI an in-demand supercomputer, Musk largely drafted OpenAI's mission and heavily influenced its early structure, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman appeared to want to lean heavily on Y Combinator for early support for OpenAI, OpenAI president Greg Brockman and Ilya Sutskever worried about Musk's level of con …Read the full story at The Verge.