On paper, backing up your files sounds simple when you’ve got a Network-Attached Storage. You create a dataset on your local server and fill it to the brim with all your essential documents and folders. But this rabbit hole goes a lot deeper than you think. Considering how tedious manual backups can be, scheduling everything using Kopia becomes a neat QoL tweak.

Less than a week into his tenure as Disney's newly-appointed CEO, Josh D'Amaro is already dealing with two separate crises that have cast a shadow over the company's future plans. OpenAI is shutting down its Sora image-generation program just months after Disney announced a $1 billion dollar collaboration to bake the tech into Disney Plus. And Fortnite maker Epic is laying off 1,000 employees at a time when we've heard basically nothing about the game studio's $1.5 billion investment deal with Disney to build a metaverse.Disney could still integrate generative AI into its streaming service, and we might end up seeing some version of the co …Read the full story at The Verge.

Woot is running a day-long sale coinciding with the start of Amazon’s Big Spring Sale. Many products across multiple tech categories are discounted, including dozens of video games and accessories. What’s more, you can get an extra 20 percent off through 12:59AM ET on March 26th when you use code SAVETWENTY. Also, if you’re a Prime member who links their Amazon account, you’ll get free shipping.Of the grab bag of products, the Nintendo Switch 2-related discounts stood out the most. For instance, you can get the physical version of Mario Kart World at Woot for $52 ($28 off). If your Switch 2 didn’t already include a digital copy of the exclusive, World is a must-have racing title that’s fun to play alone or with others (my colleague Andrew Webster called it “the perfect launch game” in his review). It includes an open world chock-full of challenges — a series first — or you can race through different course-filled cups, just like in the old days.Mario Kart WorldWhere to Buy: $79.99 $52 at Woot (with code SAVETWENTY)Additionally, 8BitDo’s fantastic Ultimate 2 and Pro 3 controllers — both compatible with the Switch 2 and other platforms — currently cost $36 and $37.60, respectively. Considering that both gamepads typically cost over $50 each, the savings are steep enough to consider getting more than one gamepad. The Ultimate 2 and Pro 3 have a similar set of features — rumble, motion controls, TMR joysticks, customizable back paddles, an extra shoulder button, and adjustable triggers — but their button and stick layouts cater to different gamers.8BitDo Ultimate 2 Bluetooth ControllerWhere to Buy: $69.99 $36 at Woot (with code SAVETWENTY)While the Ultimate 2 is arranged like a Switch 2 Pro (which itself is an Xbox-style layout), the Pro 3 is more akin to a PlayStation controller, with sticks close together in the middle. One neat feature of the Pro 3 not found in the Ultimate 2 is the ability to pull off its magnetic buttons and swap their positions, which is handy if you’re switching platforms. Both models also feature a 90-day Woot warranty. Read our Pro 3 review.8BitDo Pro 3 Wireless ControllerWhere to Buy: $69.99 $37.6 at Woot (with code SAVETWENTY)If you already own Mario Kart World — or don’t own a Nintendo Switch or Switch 2 — there are also plenty of other great deals to choose from, including titles for both the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X / S.Here’s a smattering of favorites:The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of WisdomWhere to Buy: $59.99 $37.6 at Woot (with code SAVETWENTY)Pokémon Legends: Z-AWhere to Buy: $59.99 $36 at Woot (Switch, with code SAVETWENTY)Super Mario Bros. WonderWhere to Buy: $59.99 $37.6 at Woot (with code SAVETWENTY)Metaphor: ReFantazioWhere to Buy: $69.99 $14.4 at Woot (Xbox, with code SAVETWENTY)Silent Hill FWhere to Buy: $69.99 $32 at Woot (PS5, with code SAVETWENTY)Animal Crossing: New Horizons – Switch 2 EditionWhere to Buy: $59.99 $44 at Woot (with code SAVETWENTY)Monster Hunter WildsWhere to Buy: $69.99 $16 at Woot (PS5, with code SAVETWENTY)Armored Core VI Fires of RubiconWhere to Buy: $59.99 $16 at Woot (PS5, with code SAVETWENTY) $59.99 $16 at Woot (Xbox, with code SAVETWENTY)

Razer is giving its Blade 16 gaming laptop a speed and battery boost for 2026. The high-end gaming laptop keeps the same thin chassis and RTX 50-series GPU options as last year's model, but it's now making the switch from AMD to an Intel Core Ultra 9 386H "Panther Lake" chip, and corresponding faster RAM. The new Blade 16 is available now directly from Razer, starting at $3,499.99 with an RTX 5080 GPU, 32GB of RAM, and 1TB SSD. The top-end RTX 5090 model gets 2TB of storage and costs $4,499.99. According to Razer's specs sheet, a cheaper Blade 16 with RTX 5070 Ti will be priced and released at a later time.Razer claims its new laptop is up …Read the full story at The Verge.

The A57 has also been upgraded with a slightly thinner display bezel. Samsung has announced its two newest midrange phones, the Galaxy A57 and A37. Both phones benefit from a jump to IP68 water-resistance and some improved AI features, but the bigger upgrades are reserved for the A57, which is now thinner, lighter, and has a slimmer bezel around the display. The downside? They both also cost $50 more than last year's equivalents.The $549.99 Galaxy A57 is Samsung's direct rival to the $499 Google Pixel 10A and $599 iPhone 17E. To help it compete, Samsung has slimmed the phone to just 6.9mm thick, noticeably thinner than either alternative, while dropping the weight to 179g. That's been achieved without giving …Read the full story at The Verge.

Attendees wait in line outside the Situation Room by Polymarket pop-up bar in Washington, DC, US, on Friday, March 20, 2026. | Graeme Slona/Bloomberg via Getty Images. Hello and welcome to Regulator, a newsletter for Verge readers who are political junkies, and Washington insiders hooked on technology. If this email has been forwarded to you but you're not a subscriber, sign up here so you can get that pure, uncut Regulator every Wednesday, straight from the source (aka me). I was taking Friday off in Maine when two major pieces of tech news dropped: first, the White House released its framework for a comprehensive national AI bill with the intent of passing it through Congress. (Hayden Field, our AI reporter, has a thorough analysis of it here.) Second (and clearly more important), Polymarket opened th …Read the full story at The Verge.

If you're on an AMD RX 6000 or RX 7000 GPU, you've probably already made peace with the idea that FSR 4 — and now FSR 4.1 — isn't meant for you. At least, not officially. AMD's latest upscaler has brought some rather remarkable improvements to image stability, reconstruction, and performance scaling, but it's locked behind newer hardware in a way that feels unusually restrictive.

I didn’t think I’d ever care about Ethernet again. For the longest time, gigabit felt like it was enough. It was fast, stable, and the kind of tech you stop thinking about because it just works. But over the past year, I started noticing small things like downloads that should’ve been faster, file transfers dragging, and my network choking the moment everything ran at once.

My self-hosting journey began with a simple goal: to reclaim my data and build a high-performance environment that worked exactly the way I wanted. In the beginning, I was fascinated by every new Docker container. I was convinced that the more I customized and automated, the more efficient I would become.

Spotify is beta-testing a new feature called Artist Profile Protection that lets artists review releases before they go live. Sometimes songs end up on the wrong artist pages because of metadata mixups or shared names. But increasingly, artists have been targeted by impostors and AI-generated fakes. Profile Protection offers a buffer against bad actors.Everyone from Drake and Beyonce, to experimental composers like William Basinski, and indie rock acts like King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard have had fake tracks appear under their names on streaming platforms, with some that were likely AI-generated. It's an issue that has stoked a lot of …Read the full story at The Verge.

Everything about video games is getting more expensive, and soon that will include a budget-friendly console. The Nex Playground - a Kinect-like device aimed at families that made headlines by outselling the Xbox over the holidays last year - will cost $299 starting on April 1st, a $50 bump.In a statement on the Nex Playground site, co-founder and CEO David Lee cited a number of familiar reasons for the higher price point:Over the past six months, the cost of key components - especially memory (DDR) and storage (eMMC) - has risen significantly across the industry. These increases are driven in part by the rapid expansion of AI infrastru …Read the full story at The Verge.

It's a rookie mistake to assume that just because you're not using it, your network is sitting idle. While your laptop might be shut, and your phone might be on charge, your network is still very much active. Every device on your network is constantly sending and receiving data in the background. Be it software updates, sync services, analytics, status checks, it all adds up even if you can't really see it. And when things stop working the way you expect them to, you're left grasping for information.