Image: Mozilla Mozilla is ending its partnership with Onerep after the company’s CEO admitted to having ties to a data broker, as first reported by Krebs on Security. “Though customer data was never at risk, the outside financial interests and activities of Onerep’s CEO do not align with our values,” writes Mozilla’s vice president of communications Brandon Borrman, in a statement provided to The Verge.In February, Mozilla bundled Onerep’s data removal service into its new $8.99 per month Monitor Plus subscription. The service let users hunt down their personal information on the web and submit takedown requests across dozens of websites — all through Mozilla’s partnership with Onerep.However, an in-depth report from Krebs on Security found that... Continue reading…

Most of us use our computers in the typical landscape orientation, since that's what they're all designed around. That's especially true of laptops, which can't be rotated unless they're also tablets. However, convertible laptops are very common, and many monitors also support rotation (usually called pivot), meaning you can use them in portrait orientation.

After you look over all the best AMD chips and land on an 8700G, as well as after you find a nice AM5 motherboard, you'll need to pick out some RAM that's a good fit for the AM5 platform and your 8700G. Luckily, we've taken all the confusion out of this equation by finding the best memory out there for the 8700G, regardless of your particular budget or capacity preferences.

Cath Virginia / The Verge It’s all about Apple’s vise grip over the smartphone market and the iPhone’s locked-down ecosystem. Continue reading…

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Windows 11 has been out for a while now, and although there's no official sign of a "Windows 12" yet, Microsoft's latest operating system continues receiving new features on a regular basis. As the OS continues to evolve, it is important that existing software applications continue to function as expected. To achieve this goal, the Redmond tech firm hosted a solution called "Test Base for Microsoft 365". However, it is now sunsetting this technology.

Photo by Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images Emad Mostaque is stepping down from his role as CEO of Stability AI, the startup that helped bring Stable Diffusion to life. In a press release late on Friday night, Stability AI says Mostaque is leaving the company “to pursue decentralized AI.” Mostaque will also step down from his position on the board of directors at Stability AI.The board has appointed two interim co-CEOs to lead Stability AI — COO Shan Shan Wong and CTO Christian Laforte — while it conducts a search for a permanent CEO. “As we search for a permanent CEO, I have full confidence that Shan Shan Wong and Christian Laforte, in their roles as interim co-CEOs, will adeptly steer the company forward in developing and commercializing industry-leading generative AI... Continue reading…

The Asus ROG NUC. | Image: Asus When Asus rescued Intel’s NUC brand of compact computers from the dumpster, I held out hope that the company might also revive Intel’s ambitious miniature gaming PCs. It did, but prepare for a little sticker shock — these systems may cost as much or more than a comparable gaming laptop.The company’s website currently lists two models of the ROG NUC, with what Asus tells us are tentative prices of $1,629 and $2,199. The entry-level model sports an Intel Core Ultra 7 155H, Nvidia RTX 4060 graphics, 16GB of 5600MHz DDR5 RAM and 512GB of NVMe SSD storage, while the advanced config bumps that up to an Core Ultra 9 185H, RTX 4070, and 32GB / 1TB of RAM and storage respectively.Since you can easily find Asus’ popular Zephyrus G14 and G16... Continue reading…

Illustration by Cath Virginia / The Verge United States v. Apple is a lawsuit written for the general public, an 88-page press release designed to be read aloud on cable news shows. A lawsuit is, functionally speaking, a communication between lawyers and a judge. Because it is a specialized missive to a specialized audience, it can become highly technical and jargonistic — this is especially so when it comes to niche areas of law like antitrust or complex sectors of litigation like technology. Tech lawsuits are often obscure even to techies, interspersed with bizarre software terminology that is pretty much meaningless outside of a court of law. (For example, antitrust law loves “middleware,” and copyright law loves “technological protection measure.”)Although the dreaded... Continue reading…

Image: Mint If you’ve been using Intuit’s Mint app to help you budget, automatically collect your expenses, put them in useful categories, and remind you to pay them, then you were probably a bit shocked to find out that Intuit will be folding Mint into its other financial service, Credit Karma. Originally, the final date was going to be January 1st, 2024, but now, Mint will officially disappear on March 23rd, 2024.Credit Karma’s main service is to offer advice about financial products based on your credit score, which means this may be a good fit depending on how many of Mint’s features will be moved to Credit Karma. But it’s too soon to tell. (According to Intuit, “some of the most popular Mint-like features are available on Intuit Credit Karma,”... Continue reading…

After more than a year without new entries in its most iconic Surface devices, Microsoft finally introduced the Surface Pro 10 and Surface Laptop 6 earlier this week. Well, kind of. What we really got was the Surface Pro 10 for Business and Surface Laptop 6 for Business, and if you're thinking this is all Microsoft has in store, think again.

AI has come a long way in a short amount of time. It feels like every month, AI can create better images, voice clones, and descriptions of concepts than it did the month before. However, despite all of its progress, AI hasn't made much of a jump in generating 3D art. Nvidia is set to change that by announcing "Latte3D," an AI model that can generate 3D models from a text prompt.