Tumblr users were left scrambling on Wednesday after dozens of accounts were banned in the same afternoon by an automated system. Numerous users contacted The Verge about the incident, claiming that the wave of bans disproportionately seemed to impact accounts run by users who identify as trans women, many of whom were given no specific reason for why their accounts were terminated. Screenshots of the email some users received notifying them of the ban state that, "This action was taken as the result of an internally-generated report. Automated means may have been used to identify the content at issue." Chenda Ngak, head of communications …Read the full story at The Verge.

It probably doesn't happen very often, but we've all been in this situation: you sit down to stream a TV show or movie on Disney+, only to be greeted with the spinning wheel of doom. Maybe the app has an issue? Nope — you already tried opening and closing it. Next up, you give your TV a hard reset — still nothing.

A new version of Nintendo's Switch 2 is reportedly on the way, but it's likely not what you expect.

The resurgence of mechanical keyboards in the past decade has unlocked several possibilities previously thought challenging, or impossible to implement, and ergonomic keyboards squarely fit the bill. They're a niche within a niche, taking the basic principles of ergonomics followed on assembly lines and industrial workplaces, and applying them to typing apparatus, hopefully for a more comfortable approach. The vast majority of the ergonomic mechanical keyboards you can buy or build today don't claim medical benefits or advertise designs based on medical research, but they share a few core concepts that should, in theory, alleviate strain from typing for eight to 10 hours every day.

A California jury determined that Elon Musk misled Twitter investors before making a $44 billion deal to buy the company in 2022, reports CNBC. The New York Times reports that Musk had testified this month that he didn't believe his posts would spook markets, but he did say that "If this was a trial about whether I made stupid tweets, I would say I'm guilty."CNBC reports Musk's attorneys are expected to file an appeal, as damages could reach as high as $2.6 billion, according to attorneys representing the plaintiffs.While finding that Musk did not engage in a specific scheme to defraud shareholders, the jury cited two of Musk's tweets, f …Read the full story at The Verge.

Claude Code is one of the best agentic coding harnesses out there right now, and for good reason. It understands your codebase, calls tools, edits files, and can plan multi-step tasks with minimal hand-holding. The problem is that it's tied to Anthropic's cloud by default, and while that's fine for a lot of work, there are times when I'd rather not send my code to someone else's servers. Privacy aside, I also just like running things locally when I can.

Bluetooth coverage in Home Assistant requires me to constantly juggle devices and settings. Some devices don’t report to Home Assistant reliably, which often fails to trigger automations. To fix that, I deployed ESP32 boards as Bluetooth proxies to work as a dedicated relay point. Honestly, I’d rather free them up for other experiments.

NotebookLM is pretty powerful on its own, but it’s rarely used in isolation. We all "pair" it with our other tools in one way or another, whether a browser for source retrieval, a notes app for capturing knowledge, or a chatbot for quick understanding. One of the things that makes NotebookLM so compatible with browser-based work specifically is the extensions. I honestly don’t know what I’d do without them because I already live in my browser - it’s where all my NotebookLM sources come from.

Windows remains the default desktop operating system for a reason. It is familiar, polished, has the best application support, and usually asks very little of the person sitting in front of it. For the vast majority of people, this convenience is what makes Windows the operating system of choice for their desktops and laptops.

Nintendo plans to release a Switch 2 revision in the European Union that will let users replace their own batteries, Nikkei reports. The current version of the Switch 2 has a glued-in battery. But Nintendo apparently plans to make the change in order to comply with EU rules going into effect in February 2027 that will require devices to let users easily swap out portable batteries.The new version of the Switch 2 will be released "soon," and both the console and the Joy-Cons will have replaceable batteries, according to Nikkei. In Japan, the console's specifications will remain the same, Nikkei says. Nintendo didn't immediately reply to a r …Read the full story at The Verge.

The CPU cooler is usually the first thing we blame when we're dealing with high temperatures. I mean, it makes sense when you consider that it's the one component responsible for pulling heat away from your CPU in the first place. So when you see your CPU hovering in the high 80s, it's easy to jump to the conclusion that your cooler isn't good enough, and you need a better one. But the reality is that most of the time, the cooler itself isn't the real problem.

VLC has been sitting on my PC for years, and it's been quietly doing what it has always done best, which is playing literally anything I throw at it. It's dependable, boring in the best way, and so familiar that I stopped expecting anything more from it.