Closed, the Find N6 is about as thin as any regular phone. | Photo: Dominic Preston / The Verge There are always a few reasons people give for not buying a foldable phone. Some - price, battery life, camera quality - are mostly a matter of manufacturers balancing spec sheets to offset the added cost of the folding hardware. Others - durability, size - were practical design problems that have mostly been solved. But the crease always felt different, fundamental: something that foldables would be stuck with no matter what.Oppo disagrees.It claims that the Find N6 is the first foldable with a "zero-feel" crease, one so subtle that you can hardly tell it's there. And while there's just a hint of marketing exaggeration there, Oppo isn't …Read the full story at The Verge.

In 2026, phishing emails have a real human element. They don't have typos anymore. It can be written in your boss's exact tone of voice and references an actual project you're working on. The problem is we've hit a point where human intuition is no longer a reliable firewall against AI-driven social engineering. The most effective 2026 security habits are removing human judgment from the equation and replacing it with cryptographic certainty.

Whether you like swapping out hardware or tweaking what apps your PC has, there's a certain joy in having a computer you can truly customize. However, if you want to go all-in on a laptop you can make truly yours, you can do a lot worse than grabbing a Framework laptop and putting Linux on it. Framework builds modular laptops that let you swap parts out as you need them, and Linux hands you the reins on how the software on your device works.

Backups are one of those jobs that look solved right up until they fail at the worst possible moment. For a long time, my Proxmox backup strategy was technically functional, but it demanded too much attention to deserve any real trust. I had jobs running, storage targets assigned, and enough moving pieces to convince myself I was covered. What I didn't have was confidence that restoring a VM or container would be as painless as the backup logs made it sound.

Unless your PC is terribly ancient, you probably have more than one M.2 slot on your motherboard. Assuming the primary slot is occupied by your SSD, that still leaves one or more M.2 slots that you probably never used. While you could add a second NVMe SSD to your system, M.2 slots aren't made for storage alone. They're highly versatile connectors that use high-speed PCIe lanes to connect to a variety of devices. You could bring new features to your old motherboard or improve your already-capable motherboard with more advanced devices. The M.2 slot is one of the most powerful and affordable ways to enhance your PC's capabilities. Whether it's advanced connectivity or extra USB and SATA ports you're after, your unused M.2 slots are prepared for almost anything.

We've all used PowerToys Run in the form of Alt + Spacebar, but even the best keyboard launcher requires you to stop what you're doing and type. Microsoft has now introduced the Command Palette Dock, a second taskbar that can be pinned to any edge of the screen. The PowerToys V0.98 update has finally addressed the one thing Windows users have envied about macOS and Linux for years: a persistent and extensible command dock.

On Tuesday morning, everything was business as usual at OpenAI. By the end of the day, the company had announced that it would scrap its video-generation app, Sora, and reverse plans for video generation inside ChatGPT; it would wind down a $1 billion Disney deal; it would shuffle the role of a high-level executive; and it would raise an additional $10 billion from investors, adding up to more than $120 billion total for its latest funding round. OpenAI is now in a frenzy to turn a profit, or at least lose less money. Since its launch, Sora seems to have taken up a massive amount of compute without the financial return to justify it. Indus …Read the full story at The Verge.

Those 12 panels generate over 500W and fold down very small. We don't review many solar panels at The Verge, but the tech inside Bluetti's incredibly portable Sora 500 panel makes it worth a deeper look. The new N-Type panels made by Bluetti and others give you more bang for the buck, pound, and square inch. That's a big deal for vanlifers like me who depend upon these beefy portable solar panels to extend off-grid stays.In real-world testing, I saw Bluetti's 500W panel deliver 509W to my van's power station, allowing me to generate over 800W when combined with the three sad 140W monocrystalline solar panels I have installed on top of my van. That kind of stationary output is fantastic. I typically …Read the full story at The Verge.

If you've been tuning your GPU for gaming for years, you've probably focused more on pushing the core clock to push your framerates higher, with some undervolting thrown in for lower thermals. That may work for gaming, but local AI models don't respond to core clock boosts as much as they do to an increase in the memory clock. LLMs thrive on memory bandwidth and capacity to accelerate data transfer in and out of the VRAM. Instead of compute-heavy workloads like gaming, LLM inference is memory-intensive, depending more on memory clock, bus width, and bandwidth. Of course, you also need a relatively newer GPU architecture and sufficient memory capacity to avoid stalled LLM workloads. The next time you are optimizing your GPU for LLM inference, focus on the memory clock instead of the core clock.

As much as I hate hearing myself over a microphone, I have to admit that listening to yourself while adjusting your mic volume is vital. That way, you know you're not coming through too quietly or too loudly, and you can get a feel for the audio quality, too. Windows has had this feature for a while now, but unfortunately, KDE Plasma won't let you.

Building out a smart home can make almost any gadget look essential, especially when the box promises stronger coverage, fewer dead zones, or easier control. I’ve learned that some networking gear doesn’t actually solve a problem so much as relocate it into a shinier enclosure with more blinking lights. In a house full of connected devices, that kind of mistake gets expensive fast. These are the networking purchases I regret most, not because they never worked, but because they added unnecessary friction.

Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 121, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you're new here, welcome, good luck in the Elite Eight, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I've been reading about Will Wright and sync music and the smartphone theory of everything, picking up The Soul of a New Machine again after hearing that Tracy Kidder died, adding SNL UK to my weekly YouTube clip rotation, watching all my favorite things collide when Hilary Duff went on Hot Ones, moving all my music into Parachord, playing with the NewsBlur Android beta, listening to the new podcast f …Read the full story at The Verge.