After weeks of negotiating with the Trump administration, Anthropic is finally going to be able to bring Claude Fable 5 back online. In a post on X, Anthropic said it plans to begin restoring access Wednesday to users globally on Claude platforms, and that the company would re-enable access on AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Foundry soon, but with no set timeline.Anthropic wrote:We've received notice that the Department of Commerce has lifted export controls on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5.We'll begin restoring access tomorrow, and will share an update soon.We're grateful to our users for their patience, and to everyone who work …Read the full story at The Verge.

Owning an e-reader certainly helps save physical space. Still, books need to be bought, and digital copies aren’t that cheap either. While Project Gutenberg is a popular go-to source for loading free books on my e-reader, there’s a limit to the number of titles and genres available. Many were digitized long ago and lack proper formatting, making them feel like a chore to read.

The Steam Machine is fast approaching, but realistically, we don't need Valve to build a dedicated home console, since the Steam Deck is already a chameleon. Why spend $1,000+ on Steam's new console when the Steam Deck is a handheld you can use on the train and also doubles as a flawless console under the TV? By using a Steam Deck dock, you can turn this handheld into a permanent living room fixture that easily outclasses the convenience of Windows and the locked-down ecosystem of traditional consoles.

The Federal Trade Commission fined Amazon $2.25 million to settle claims that the company failed to help customers who fell victim to identity theft, as reported earlier by Bloomberg. In its complaint, the FTC accuses Amazon of refusing to provide customers with information about purchases made with fraudulent accounts, in violation of the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA).As alleged in the filing, identity theft victims who contacted Amazon "would often enter a Kafkaesque sequence" where a support agent wouldn't provide records related to a fraudulent account unless they could name the person who opened it.In one instance, a victim attem …Read the full story at The Verge.

For decades, your choice of simple word processors on Windows was simple. If you wanted to have formatting, editing tools, and other handy features, you opened up Wordpad. If you wanted something that just accepted words and didn't add anything fancy, you booted up Notepad. However, Microsoft eventually phased out Wordpad, added all the features to Notepad, and then stuck Copilot in there for some reason.

Dish, the company that operates Dish TV and Sling TV, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy," as reported earlier by Reuters. The plan will allow the EchoStar-owned company to continue to wind down its wireless operations after "unforeseen delays" held back its sale of $23 billion worth of 5G spectrum to AT&T. Dish TV, Sling TV, and other brands involved will continue to operate during the process, and in a press release, the company says it plans to emerge from Chapter 11 by the end of the third quarter of 2026.Boost Mobile and Gen Mobile aren't included in the bankruptcy process and will continue to operate as normal.Due to the delayed 5 …Read the full story at The Verge.

When I implemented Pi-hole on my home network, I thought of it as a set-and-forget thing, as most of the community discussion suggested. I installed Pi-hole on my home Debian server, added a couple of reputable blocklists, and set it as a default DNS on my dual-WAN gateway. And for a while, it really did seem like the job was done. Ads disappeared, obvious trackers filtered out, and the dashboard showed me thousands of blocked queries.

My favorite thing about Google's Pixel line has always been how minimal and straightforward it is — it also helps that it's very iPhone-like (sorry, hardcore Android users).

Obsidian has been the center of my note-taking and productivity workflow, but one thing was always missing: a proper way to organize notes like a database. I tried building my own system with Dataview, and while it worked, it took time to set up and wasn't always as intuitive as I wanted.

TCL's TV division is going through flux right now, as next year it starts making co-branded Bravia TVs after taking over a majority stake from Sony. That makes the QM9K that we're looking at today special, as the last flagship before the changeover. Will it be a fitting swansong for the brand, or will it fall on its face? Only a few months of viewing and testing will tell, and we've already done that, so here's what we found.

Wine is an incredible piece of technology that has been enabling users to run Windows apps on Linux for years. Thanks to contributions by Valve through the Proton project, Wine has evolved massively in recent years, and a lot of games are now playable on Linux this way, with a lot of apps also being functional this way.

I upgraded to macOS 27 Golden Gate Beta 2 after coming back from vacation, tired and just wanting to get back to work. I had been using the first beta without a hitch, and I was excited to see what the new beta had to offer. However, within a couple of hours, my M4 Pro MacBook Pro was getting uncomfortably hot and the battery was dropping ridiculously fast, from 100% to about 40% in two hours. I closed Affinity first since it's a known battery drainer, but that made no difference. The laptop stayed hot, the fans kicked in, and I figured I'd sort it out later.