If you've been looking for a new keyboard, chances are, you've seen the startling amount of options available. And while mechanical keyboards can be more expensive than a traditional membrane keyboard, they tend to offer better durability and reliability, and some can even be upgraded and serviced.

I wanted the Colorsonic to zap my grays. Instead, I got a lesson in tradeoffs. Read the full story at The Verge.

Do you put your Raspberry Pi into a case, or do you leave it sitting around? If you're into little Pi enclosures, you may have found that the current offerings aren't very good for keeping the board cool. If you have this issue but don't feel like buying another one to figure out if the next model is better, someone has created one you can 3D print.

Ilya Sutskever. | Photo by JACK GUEZ/AFP via Getty Images OpenAI’s cofounder and former chief scientist, Ilya Sutskever, made headlines earlier this year after he left to start his own AI lab called Safe Superintelligence Inc. He has avoided the limelight since his departure but made a rare public appearance in Vancouver on Friday at the Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS).“Pre-training as we know it will unquestionably end,” Sutskever said onstage. This refers to the first phase of AI model development, when a large language model learns patterns from vast amounts of unlabeled data — typically text from the internet, books, and other sources. “We’ve achieved peak data and there’ll be no more.”During his NeurIPS talk, Sutskever said that, while he believes existing data can still take AI development farther, the industry is tapping out on new data to train on. This dynamic will, he said, eventually force a shift away from the way models are trained today. He compared the situation to fossil fuels: just as oil is a finite resource, the internet contains a finite amount of human-generated content.“We’ve achieved peak data and there’ll be no more,” according to Sutskever. “We have to deal with the data that... Read the full story at The Verge.

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The search functionality in File Explorer helps you locate specific files or folders on your system. However, when dealing with a large dataset, a standard name search may not be efficient. This is where advanced search filters come into play. These filters enable you to find files based on their size, properties, metadata, type, extension, or even content, saving you both time and effort.

Actor Brandon Wilson dons the first-person camera rig. | Amazon MGM Studios and Orion Pictures When RaMell Ross signed on to direct the adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s Nickel Boys, he wanted nearly the entire film to be shot from the first-person perspective. Here’s how he pulled off one of the year’s best and most ambitious movies. Read the full story at The Verge.

Mark Zuckerberg. | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge; Getty Images Meta is asking California Attorney General Rob Bonta to block OpenAI’s planned transition from a non-profit to for-profit entity.In a letter sent to Bonta’s office this week, Meta says that OpenAI “should not be allowed to flout the law by taking and reappropriating assets it built as a charity and using them for potentially enormous private gains.”The letter, which was first reported on by The Wall Street Journal and you can read in full below, goes so far as to say that Meta believes Elon Musk is “qualified and well positioned to represent the interests of Californians in this matter.” Meta supporting Musk’s fight against OpenAI is notable given that Musk and Mark Zuckerberg were talking about literally fighting in a cage match just last year.OpenAI started as a non-profit but stumbled into commercial success with ChatGPT, which now makes billions of dollars a year in revenue. CEO Sam Altman has been clear that the company needs to shed its non-profit status to become more attractive to investors and continuing funding its ambitions. The stakes are so high that OpenAI will have to return the billions of dollars it raised this year (with interest) if it can’t successfully... Read the full story at The Verge.

If you're thinking about gaming on the go but you don't want a gaming laptop or a nice tablet, a gaming handheld is definitely the way to go. MSI's latest Claw is shaping up to be a particularly competitive handheld at that, so you'll want to make sure you keep yours protected with a solid case. Luckily, the 7 AI+ has the same dimensions as the original Claw, so you've got options.

Apple CEO Tim Cook will meet with President-elect Donald Trump for dinner on Friday at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, according to The New York Times. It’s reportedly Cook’s first time meeting with Trump since the election.During Trump’s first term, Cook established a direct relationship with the president that other tech CEOs have wanted to replicate. As Trump prepares for his second term, Cook may want to discuss potential tariffs, which could significantly affect Apple’s business. Cook may also want to discuss the European Union’s actions against Apple; during his presidential campaign, Trump claimed that Cook called him to complain about the fines Apple faces in the European Union, with accusations of anticompetitive behavior in App Store policies and how it manages platforms like the iPhone and Mac.Cook’s visit follows reports of Trump’s conversation with Google CEO Sundar Pichai yesterday and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos next week. Trump met with Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg in November.Tech companies and leaders, including Meta, Amazon, and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, have also been appealing to the President-elect with $1 million donations to his inauguration fund.

Microsoft recently started rolling out the Windows 11 24H2 update to more devices, even though users are still facing issues. In addition to aiming to fix them as soon as possible, the software giant is also busy working towards introducing some exciting changes to future Windows 11 updates.

While Steam Deck alternatives don't come with SteamOS out of the box, Valve definitely isn't against the idea. The company has always said that it wants to supply third-party companies with versions of SteamOS to use with their devices, and we've seen some movement behind the curtain showing that Valve is working away at making this a reality. Now, a recent leak has revealed what might be the first handheld device to have SteamOS as a factory default.