Thermal interface materials seldom get a mention in the PC building discourse, but it's an essential catalyst for effective CPU and GPU cooling. Selecting the right thermal compound can often represent a thin line between frustrating thermal throttling that comes up as micro-stutters and seamless performance.

For five years, Windows 11 users have lived in a world where the taskbar was treated like a wall, glued to the bottom of the screen. It was an irritating design choice that took away decades of muscle memory and forced power users into a sea of third-party workarounds like StartAllBack.

NASA’s Artemis II rocket launched from the Kennedy Space Center on Wednesday. | Photo: Joe Raedle via Getty Images On Thursday, during Artemis II's journey to the Moon, commander Reid Wiseman ran into a tech issue some of us back on Earth can relate to: Microsoft Outlook wasn't working. In a conversation captured in NASA's Artemis livestream and shared on Bluesky, Wiseman reported to Mission Control: "I also see that I have two Microsoft Outlooks and neither one of those are working." To take care of the issue, Mission Control had to remotely access Wiseman's personal computing device (PCD), a Microsoft Surface Pro. During a press conference on Thursday, Artemis flight director Judd Frieling said NASA had fixed the issue, stating, "This is not uncommon …Read the full story at The Verge.

It feels like Netflix is no longer the one-stop shop. It's expensive, the library rotates too fast, and the Basic with Ads tier is a significant downgrade.

If there's one thing PC gamers really look forward to besides new releases, it's upgrading their hardware. And nothing feels quite as exciting as installing a brand-new GPU. You expect everything to run smoother despite cranking up the graphics settings, and for the most part, you get exactly that. It's the kind of upgrade that's supposed to be instantly noticeable, not something you have to second-guess like a CPU or RAM upgrade usually is.

The Legion Go 2’s mouse mode, unique among Windows handhelds. | Photo: Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge Remember when we thought the Legion Go 2 was expensive at $1,099 and up? Those were the days - Best Buy is now listing Lenovo's handheld for $1,499 with a Ryzen Z2 or $1,999 with a Z2 Extreme. The latter originally cost $1,349, so that's a $650 jump in just six months.And yes, that means Lenovo's flagship may now cost twice as much as a $999 Microsoft/Asus Xbox Ally X with the same AMD chip, as much as a far more powerful GPD Win 5 with AMD Strix Halo cost last year. But the way things are going, it's probably only a matter of time till Microsoft hikes its handheld Xbox price too. (For now, Asus rep Anthony Spence tells me there's "no pric …Read the full story at The Verge.

Utah is allowing an AI system to prescribe psychiatric drugs without a doctor. It's only the second time the state - and the country - has delegated this kind of clinical authority to AI. State officials say it could bring costs down and ease care shortages, but physicians warn the system is opaque, risky, and unlikely to expand mental health care to those who need it.The one-year pilot, announced last week, will allow Legion Health's AI chatbot to renew certain prescriptions for psychiatric medications, in some cases. The San Francisco startup promises Utah-based patients "fast, simple refills" through a $19-a-month subscription. The prog …Read the full story at The Verge.

If you’ve been a part of the home lab ecosystem for a long time, you’ll often hear veterans complaining about the hassle of managing multiple virtual guests, detailed backup pipelines, network stacks, and clusters. I agree with them to some extent, as there comes a point in this hobby when everything starts to feel like a second job.

Ubuntu 26.04 LTS's release date is on the horizon, with the operating system being released on 23rd April if everything goes well. As part of the lead-up to the release, the developers behind Ubuntu, Canonical, have updated the system requirements for the operating system.

I’ve been using NotebookLM for long enough now to know its pain points, and the lack of organizational features is something I’ve just kind of accepted. I made do, tried to find workarounds, and just tolerated the chaos. Then I started getting closer to my notebook cap (I’m using the free tier), and it dawned on me that I was going to have to do some decluttering. And since NotebookLM doesn’t have many organizational functions, it would need to be done manually - painstakingly sifting through all the notebooks and every notebook’s contents to decide what’s worth keeping or tossing.

OpenAI is undergoing another round of C-suite changes, according to an internal memo viewed by The Verge. Fidji Simo, OpenAI's CEO of AGI deployment - who was until recently the company's CEO of applications - says in the memo that she will be stepping away on medical leave "for the next several weeks" due to a neuroimmune condition. While she's out, OpenAI president Greg Brockman will be in charge of product, including leading OpenAI's super app efforts. On the business side, CSO Jason Kwon, CFO Sarah Friar, and CRO Denise Dresser will take charge. OpenAI's CMO, Kate Rouch, has also decided to step down in order to focus on her health, …Read the full story at The Verge.

After hearing good things about Anthropic's Claude AI, I wanted to give the chatbot a try for myself. I'm usually skeptical of LLM tools because of their habit of hallucinating, so I wanted to see if Claude really offered a different experience.