The Framework Laptop 13 Pro is delayed. The new 13-inch Framework flagship was set to launch in June, but shipments from the first batch are now expected in July - and there's still a chance some shipments could slip to early August. If you're not in the first batch, your Laptop 13 Pro shifts from a July shipment to August, though some could be as late as early September. Framework informed customers who preordered a Laptop 13 Pro of the delay via email, outlining the reasons for the extra wait. The main culprits are the new haptic trackpad and custom display. Mainboard preorders and any orders that didn't include these components are sti …Read the full story at The Verge.

Near the end of 2025, Microsoft had a big wake-up call. Its huge Copilot push was not winning over the hearts of its users, and its software, including its flagship OS Windows 11, began showing problems. As such, when 2026 came around, the company went full speed ahead on getting back to its roots and improving its software over Copilot.

Bluesky will be getting "communities," which will function as smaller spaces where you can "go deeper and hang out with people who care about the same stuff" sometime this year, according to head of product Alex Benzer. They will be built on the decentralized AT Protocol that underpins Bluesky, with Benzer saying that "it's a new structure for everyone" that's part of the "Atmosphere" (a shorthand for the AT Protocol ecosystem).Benzer listed out a "few ideas we have in mind so far" in a thread. "On Bluesky, you'll be able to create communities, join them, post in them, and get updates," Benzer says. "The core features on Bluesky stay simpl …Read the full story at The Verge.

Nvidia and Microsoft recently unveiled the much-awaited N1X and N1 SoCs, now called RTX Spark. These Arm-based chips are meant to reinvent Windows PCs for the AI era, with Nvidia claiming that laptops powered by RTX Spark are purpose-built for agentic AI. Offering 1 petaflop of compute, RTX 5070–level GPU performance, and tons of unified memory, these laptops are set to change what Windows on Arm laptops will look like at the premium end of the market. Nvidia is trying to do for Windows what Apple did for macOS, bringing its hardware leadership, software dominance, and partner ecosystem to the personal AI market. To be clear, these machines, especially the maxed-out memory models, will be too expensive for the average user, but adoption by the high-end creator market could slowly influence other segments. Nvidia could see itself competing head-to-head with AMD and Qualcomm, as each of them tries to grab the attention of serious creators and AI professionals.

Giving users the power to easily find and install new extensions is just as important as having a huge library of them. You can have the biggest catalog of tools known to man, but if people can't easily browse them and grab the ones they want, a lot of them will go uninstalled, or worse, undiscovered.

The GTX 1080 Ti is widely considered a legendary GPU among PC enthusiasts, not just because it set the benchmark for value, but because it stayed relevant for many years. Even though Nvidia introduced newer RTX cards that supported hardware-accelerated ray tracing and DLSS, many gamers simply didn't feel compelled to upgrade. That's why I think the Ryzen 7 5800X3D deserves a similar reputation in the CPU world. It's the CPU that kept AM4 relevant all these years, and it makes sense why AMD relaunched it this year.

The next few weeks are going to be a little weird for people using Microsoft Office on an Apple device. Because of how certificates for Office on iOS and macOS work, the productivity apps will soon "lock themselves down" and prevent users from editing documents. The good news is that Office 2021 and Microsoft 365 users will get an update that fixes it. The bad news is, if you're still using Office 2019, your app is going to lock you out of editing soon, and Microsoft isn't going to help.

Ryanair said the CMA’s investigation is “bogus.” | Photo by Nicolas Economou / NurPhoto via Getty Images European economy airline Ryanair is under investigation in the UK for charging parents mandatory fees to sit with their children. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said it was looking into whether the seating fees, which may be charging parents for the airline to meet its child safety and disability‑related obligations, are "unfair" under consumer law.Under Ryanair's terms and conditions, at least one parent or guardian is required to sit with children aged between 2 and 11 when they fly, which the airline calls a "mandatory family seat." This approach to seating imposes a fee - typically £8 (around $10) per flight, according to …Read the full story at The Verge.

You have to be over 18 and already be connected with the person you want to chat with on other messaging platforms. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge YouTube is reintroducing private messaging after testing new ways for users to share videos and "have conversations about them" last year. In an announcement on its official blog, YouTube says it's now starting to expand the in-app video sharing and messaging feature to users in the US and "other global regions" who are 18 or older.The video sharing platform had previously introduced private messaging in 2017, before discontinuing it just two years later to focus on public conversations like the Instagram-like Stories feature - which it also killed in 2023. When it started testing its latest in-app messaging capabilities in November 2025, …Read the full story at The Verge.

Deezer will now scan your playlists on other streaming platforms to detect AI-generated music. Deezer was the first of the big streaming services to start labeling AI-generated music. It even offered its tech to other platforms, but it doesn't seem like it had many buyers. Qobuz launched its own detection tech, while Apple and Spotify have opted for a voluntary tagging system. "No other company has followed our lead yet, so we decided to make it possible for everyone to check if their playlists include synthetic music, no matter which streaming platform they use," Deezer CEO Alexis Lanternier said in a press release. So, since nobody is ta …Read the full story at The Verge.

An old laptop might sound like a dead end to a regular user who has upgraded to a better system. But for home lab enthusiasts, it's an underutilized treasure that can serve as a reliable home server at no additional cost. While new users love jumping on the SBC bandwagon, I prefer turning old laptops and workstations into devices that host my favorite tools and do a small but useful job in the overall setup.

This is the Trump phone, but it could just as easily be an HTC. | Image: Trump Mobile After getting its hands on a Trump phone and tearing it apart, iFixit has confirmed what I first reported back in February: the T1 Phone is an almost exact duplicate of the HTC U24 Pro.iFixit partnered with NBC to get hold of the network's media sample of the Trump phone, along with a U24 Pro. They ran the phones through a CT scanner, tore them down to parts, and even put them back together into a functional Frankenstein phone with the U24 Pro's board inside the T1 Phone's chassis, confirming along the way that the two phones are functionally identical.There are minor differences: The flash has been moved slightly, the speaker grille was …Read the full story at The Verge.