The Asus ROG Ally is our favorite Windows handheld. Its powerful processor and high refresh rate screen ensure smooth gameplay. Despite controversies and quality control issues, the company sold enough units to satisfy its investment. How do we know that? Because the ROG Ally X was released at Computex 2024, bringing a host of improvements to the handheld gaming console as a mid-cycle refresh. Is the ROG Ally X worth the upgrade if you already own the Ally? Well, that depends on whether you hit any of the issues, like the seemingly defective microSD card reader.

Last week, HP held an event to preview its upcoming ASI technologies, committing to being a leader in the space. Among the announcements is the first flagship laptop from its OmniBook brand, the OmniBook Ultra. The product is promised to get up to 55 AI TOPS, and if you're recalling that no silicon vendor has announced a 55 TOPS chip, you're correct.

If you're an Apple user who loves emulation, you've probably had a lot of fun checking out all the new apps that hit the App Store in recent months. Ever since the company opened the gates to emulators, we saw great examples such as Delta and RetroArch make their debut on the App Store. In fact, our own Brady Snider gave the Delta emulator a test run to see if it's even worth getting a gaming handheld anymore. Now, Apple is allowing even more emulators onto its platform, including one that had been rejected from the App Store beforehand.

Photo by Tom Warren / The Verge Alderon Games, the maker of dinosaur MMO Path of Titans, says it's swapping out its Intel 13th and 14th Gen-based servers for AMD and urges others hosting the game’s servers to do the same. The developer has had “significant” instability issues that none of the fixes so far have reversed, wrote Alderon founder Matthew Cassells in a blog post last week.Cassells wrote that Alderon has recorded “thousands of crashes” on gamers’ CPUs using its crash reporting tools and says the processors can also corrupt SSDs and memory. He added that in his team’s experience, 100 percent of the affected CPUs “deteriorate over time, eventually failing.” On the contrary, Unreal Engine decompression tool maker RAD Game Tools, which Cassells cites in the... Continue reading…

The best wireless keyboards can free you from the mess of cables on your desk, and they provide more versatility should you want to do some typing away from the office or gaming room. For example, I've long used a wireless keyboard in my living room to easily control the PC connected to my TV. Wireless keyboard technology has advanced to the point where there's no drawback compared to using a wired option, even if you're involved in something like gaming where responsiveness is paramount. Many of the best keyboards on the market are wireless, and many have optional wired capabilities when a wireless connection isn't possible.

When AI assistants appear in productivity suites, people understandably get concerned over what they can and can't read. If you're working on a sensitive and private document, you likely don't want an AI assistant scanning it and beaming all of your data to an external server. Unfortunately, that may have been what happened to one user, who noticed that Google Gemini automatically gave its opinion on a document he had just opened, despite him having never asked it to do so.

Illustration by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge AT&T paid a hacker about $370,000 to delete customer data that was stolen from it as part of a hacking spree earlier this year. The hacker then provided a video to prove they had deleted the data, according to a Wired report today. AT&T reportedly negotiated through an intermediary, called Reddington, acting on behalf of a member of the ShinyHunters hacking group. The hacker originally asked for $1 million before AT&T talked them down to the amount, which it paid on May 17th in bitcoin, Wired writes. The outlet reports that Reddington, whom AT&T paid for his part in negotiations, said he believes the only complete copy of the data had been deleted after AT&T paid the ransom, but that it’s possible excerpts are still in the wild.... Continue reading…

This probably isn’t Paramount’s new logo. | Image: Paramount If you didn’t know Paramount Global is set to merge with Skydance, then the logo included in their recent investor presentation would like to share an important update. Under its traditional mountain and stars, it shouts PARAMOUNT, using the all-caps styling and arched text of the Skydance logo instead of a more gently whispered Paramount.It’s... not good. But, like the very bad Warner Bros. Discovery logo that appeared in 2021 when their merger was announced but disappeared by the time the deal closed a year later, it’s unlikely this is the final version of whatever redesign Paramount might cook up. If and when the deal gets done, the logo at that time probably won’t look like some poor shmoe had to jam out a quick synergistic symbol... Continue reading…

Image: Samar Haddad for The Verge Humans are terrible at remembering things. We forget things over time; we fail to remember them in the first place because we’re also not great at paying attention; we misremember things because of our inherent biases and the way we perceive the world. There’s a lot going on, and we don’t keep much of it for long.Maybe AI can fix that. It sure looks like we’re about to find out. Microsoft, for instance, is making a big bet on Recall, an app that promises to use AI to collect, store, organize, and resurface everything you do and see on your computer. (Imagine just being able to ask your computer, “What was that article about bees I read the other day? What was the timeline it mentioned?”) At this year’s Google I/O, the most impressive AI... Continue reading…

Assembling your own NAS can have a number of benefits over buying pre-built enclosures. Besides customizing the hardware to your liking, you also get to pick between quite a few operating systems that bring their own set of pros and cons to the table.

The Galaxy Z Flip 6 launched recently, and the lifestyle-focused flip foldable is better than ever. Samsung's latest devices enter an evolving foldable phone market, with multiple manufacturers all vying to be the best. As one of the forerunners, Samsung's devices have had time to mature, and the Z Flip 6 is proof that foldable phones are here to stay. It might not have any huge changes from the previous two installments, but it is good enough to be the foldable flip phone to buy if you're in the market for one.

Illustration: The Verge Google is considering spending $23 billion to buy Wiz, a cloud cybersecurity startup with partners that include Amazon and Oracle, reports The Wall Street Journal. At close to twice what it spent for Motorola Mobility in 2012, it would be the most Google has ever paid for another company.The New York City-based Wiz offers “siloed security tools and scanners” for the enterprise space, according to the company. Wiz writes that it secures corporate cloud infrastructure “by creating a normalizing layer between cloud environments,” letting businesses “rapidly identify and remove critical risks.” Buying such a company feels particularly targeted at an increasingly vulnerable-looking Microsoft that’s recently weathered multiple high-profile... Continue reading…