You can now control the ROG lighting in Windows. | Photo by Tom Warren / The Verge Asus is planning to support Microsoft’s new Dynamic Lighting feature that allows Windows 11 users to control a motherboard’s RGB lighting without needing a separate app. Asus has started testing new beta BIOS updates for both of its AMD 600 and Intel 700 series motherboards that include the Dynamic Lighting support.Microsoft added Dynamic Lighting to Windows 11 in September, providing native RGB lighting controls inside Windows for the very first time. The feature lets users control RGB lights using the open HID LampArray standard, and manufacturers like Acer, Asus, HP, HyperX, Logitech, Razer, and Twinkly have all partnered with Microsoft to support this.The Dynamic Lighting support on Asus’ latest motherboards requires a BIOS update... Continue reading…

Honestly, this is Nothing’s best idea yet. I’ve never had so much fun taking a phone apart.That’s a misleading statement; I haven’t really taken any phones apart lately, but when CMF’s Phone 1 arrived, that’s the first thing I did. Because this one, my friends, is built different. It won’t be widely available in the US, but if you’re game, you can get one through Nothing’s beta program — and for $199, that’s seriously tempting.CMF, Nothing’s budget-conscious but still extremely style-driven subbrand, is shipping its first phone, the aptly named Phone 1. While it shares a name and an operating system with Nothing’s first own-brand phone, it comes to the table with a new modular approach to phone customizations. Why put a different case on your phone when you can put a whole new... Continue reading…

Image: Jackson Gibbs for The Verge Moving is one of the most stressful events that can happen in your life. It takes a lot of time and effort, it’s expensive, it’s complicated, and there’s just a ton to do. It’s not just a matter of finding a place you can afford, signing the lease or arranging for a mortgage, and figuring out how to get your stuff from one place to another. There are also a variety of other issues. You probably have to downsize and declutter before you move. You have to figure out which furniture to move, and which to keep, and get rid of all those old and outdated laptops and phones that have been moldering in the closet. And then, once you’re in your new home, you have to set everything up again — including the tech. You have to reassemble your home... Continue reading…

Not many people have a burglar alarm, but plenty of people have a Wi-Fi router in their home. So, what if you turned that Wi-Fi network into a security system that can detect intruders? This is what one company is trying to achieve with its latest crowdsourcing campaign, and you can get in on ground zero if you like the sound of it.

Screenshot by Tom Warren / The Verge Microsoft is finally rolling out spellcheck and autocorrect for its Notepad app in Windows 11, more than 40 years after the simple text editor was first introduced in Windows in 1983. The software giant started testing both features in March, and has now quietly started enabling them for all Windows 11 users in recent days.The spellcheck feature in Notepad is almost identical to how Word or Edge highlight misspelled words, with a red underline to clearly show mistakes. I say almost identical because when you right-click on a misspelled word in Notepad the spelling submenu isn’t automatically expanded like Microsoft does in Word, so you have to click again to see a list of correct spellings. It’s strange that Microsoft hasn’t fully... Continue reading…

Samsung's new Galaxy Z Fold 5 is only an iterative upgrade over its predecessor with just a handful of changes. That makes the Galaxy Z Fold 4 still worth considering or hanging onto, as there's plenty to like about it. It's more fragile than the regular slab phones with no moving parts, which is why I recommend getting a case for it. The last thing you want to do is get your device cracked or scratched up with day-to-day usage.

Image: Jackson Gibbs for The Verge Moving often means downsizing, and fast. Enter: Facebook Marketplace and Buy Nothing. Continue reading…

There are few things worse than a slow PC when you really need to use it. Unfortunately, the more you use it, the more things that can go wrong and slow down your PC. There's an old saying that goes something like "never move in with someone until you've seen them use slow internet". This is definitely grounded in truth, but unfortunately, there can be other causes as to why your Windows PC is running slow.

Cloud services are ubiquitous now, with most of us trusting at least some of our data to the likes of Apple, Google, or Microsoft. Whether it's a lifetime of photos, or your contacts or email, chances are you're making use of a cloud provider. But should you trust cloud providers with your most sensitive data?

Skydance founder David Ellison is set to become Paramount’s new chairman and chief executive. | Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images Paramount Global has agreed to merge with Skydance Media in a deal that will see the joint enterprise, temporarily dubbed “New Paramount,” valued at approximately $28 billion.As part of the two-step agreement announced on Sunday, Paramount Chair Shari Redstone (the daughter of Sumner Redstone) will sell National Amusements — which holds her family’s controlling stake in Paramount — for $2.4 billion. Skydance will then merge with Paramount, investing $8 billion to purchase Paramount’s shares and pay off some of the company’s balance sheet. Bloomberg reports that Paramount has $14.6 billion of debt as of March, partially attributed to streaming losses and a decline in the company’s broadcast and cable TV business.“Given the changes in... Continue reading…

Image: Jackson Gibbs for The Verge From note-taking apps to all-in-one browser tab managers, here are some of the tools that kept me, a massive mess, organized. Continue reading…

Boeing’s plea deal must receive the approval of a federal judge to take effect. | Photo by Cameron Spencer/Getty Images Boeing has agreed to plead guilty to a criminal fraud charge related to a pair of crashes of its 737 Max planes, as part of a plea deal with the US Department of Justice. Lawyers for the victims’ families plan to object to the deal, which was forged on Sunday just before a midnight deadline and must still be approved by a federal judge.The two crashes, which happened in 2018 and 2019, killed more than 300 people. The planes malfunctioned because of software that was intended to correct for a design flaw — and that software, called MCAS, relied on just a single external sensor for its data. However, when Boeing launched the 737 Max, it didn’t tell the Federal Aviation Administration, airlines, or pilots about MCAS in order to skirt... Continue reading…