Each episode of HBO's The Pitt features some degree of medical trauma that almost makes the hospital drama feel like a horror series. Some patients are dealing with gnarly lacerations while others are fighting off vicious blood infections that could rob them of their limbs, and the chaos of working in an emergency room often leaves The Pitt's central characters shaken. But as alarming as many of The Pitt's more gore-forward moments can be, what's even more unsettling is the show's slow-burning subplot about hospitals adopting generative artificial intelligence.In its second season, The Pitt once again chronicles all the events that happen …Read the full story at The Verge.

Several new features are coming to Windows 11 in a soon-to-be-released update, including a built-in network speed test accessible directly from the operating system's taskbar. The tool is currently bundled in an update rolling out to Windows 11 Insiders that are part of the Release Preview channel.

Microsoft is bringing postgame recaps that pull up an overview of notable moments from your most recent gaming session, including highlights, screenshots, clips, achievements, and "relevant in-game events," to the Xbox Windows 11 app.

You check your battery health on your laptop, and it's at 92%, which feels quite high, but somehow you're still only getting three hours of work done before your device shuts down entirely. You start googling replacement batteries, but the problem isn't the battery itself; it's actually the configuration.

With Ring facing fierce backlash over its Search Party feature, a new program is challenging developers to move Ring doorbell footage off of Amazon's cloud - and into users' own devices. The Fulu Foundation, the consumer advocacy group cofounded by YouTuber Louis Rossmann, is offering an initial bounty of $10,000 to anyone who can integrate Ring doorbells with a local PC or server, while cutting off access to Amazon's servers.Ring users currently have to pay a subscription fee to store recordings in Amazon's cloud. While the company has a local storage option through Ring Edge, it's only available with the Ring Alarm Pro, and it still requ …Read the full story at The Verge.

Ready to get your home or office wired? Well, this cable deal should help you out plenty, with a variety of sizes coming in at fantastic prices. Best Buy right now is discounting some of its Cat 6 cables, with 8, 15, and 25 foot cables costing just $6. It also has a 50-foot cable for just $19, and a 150-foot cable for $25. Like I said, this is the ideal time to wire your location, with these prices you can't go wrong.

Running a home server inevitably means juggling repetitive tasks. If you've built a home server, there's no denying that you probably are a pro-user doing pro-user things, which would require you to constantly move files around, check notifications, and manage backups. Additionally, you are likely to use a range of services to pass data to each other. Sure, you can script parts of it, but over time, those scripts can get out of hand, requiring constant maintenance too — especially if you add more pieces to your stack. That's usually the point where people start looking at automation platforms.

Wayland’s original promise was a cleaner, safer foundation for Linux desktops, one that could finally stop inheriting decades of X11 baggage. The pitch was modern graphics without the historical quirks, smoother rendering with fewer hacks, and better isolation so one app could not casually snoop on another. It also implied a future where screen sharing, scaling, and input handling would be solved in a way that felt native, not bolted on. In other words, Wayland was supposed to be the grown-up table where the desktop could finally eat without spilling.

For the longest time, Nvidia users had to juggle between GeForce Experience and Nvidia Control Panel to manage their GPUs. One handled driver updates and game optimization, while the other buried essential GPU settings behind an outdated interface that felt stuck in the late 2000s. For a company that makes excellent hardware, the software experience felt oddly fragmented. Thankfully, that changed when Nvidia finally unified everything with the Nvidia app in 2024.

For the last few GPU generations, buying Nvidia has been the path of least resistance. The drivers are solid, the feature stack is widely supported, and if you do anything even vaguely resembling content creation, CUDA has a way of becoming the default assumption. That’s the safe choice, and I get why most people make it.

Brian Boland spent more than a decade figuring out how to build a system that would make Meta money. On Thursday, he told a California jury it incentivized drawing more and more users, including teens, onto Facebook and Instagram - despite the risks.Boland's testimony came a day after Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg took the stand in a case over whether Meta and YouTube are liable for allegedly harming a young woman's mental health. Zuckerberg framed Meta's mission as balancing safety with free expression, not revenue. Boland's role was to counter this by explaining how Meta makes money, and how that shaped its platforms' design. Boland testified …Read the full story at The Verge.

Sometimes, using a controller is the best way to play some games, which is why having one in your setup is vital. Of course, there are plenty of different options to choose from, but we think 8BitDo Pro 3 is a good way to go, especially with this recent discount that knocks nearly 30% off its usual retail price.