Holding off on that Raspberry Pi 5 purchase since last year was a mistake. Raspberry Pi has raised prices three separate times since December 2025. With the price revision in April, some models were selling for 83% above their launch price. The 16GB Pi 5, which was selling for $120, is now $205 after the price hike. The company, like many others, pointed to the DRAM shortage as the cause of global price increases across several products.

Samsung has announced that its next Galaxy Unpacked launch event will be held on July 22nd, with the tagline: "A new shape unfolds."It's long been rumored that Samsung is about to expand its foldable phone line to a third format, with a shorter and wider version of its big book-style foldables, to match Huawei's Pura X Max and Apple's expected foldable iPhone. Today's announcement adds to that impression, showing a tall ticket with the stub torn off, leaving it shorter than before.Alongside the wider foldable, Samsung is expected to announce updated versions of its existing Flip and Fold phones, with the latter potentially rebranded to t …Read the full story at The Verge.

With the arrival of AI, different distros have approached the new tech with different stances. Canonical, with its Ubuntu distro, has been pretty pro-AI, as long as any added tools serve a useful enough purpose. However, not everyone agrees with this stance, including Tuxedo OS, which cites it as just one of several reasons why it's ditching its Ubuntu core in place of Debian.

To say that PC building as a hobby has become more expensive would be an understatement. The RAM crisis and ballooning GPU prices that never came back down have made it outright unaffordable for some, and for others, an upgrade seems like nothing more than a mirage. If you're one of those people looking to make their first entry into PC gaming, or you're looking for an entirely fresh start from an aged-out system, I'm here to tell you that it's not all doom and gloom. It's still possible to build a very capable system for a reasonable price in 2026, it just takes some patience and a little bit of compromise. Buying everything new while staying under that budget simply isn't an option, but the good news is the used market is still quite healthy, and it's your ticket to a 4K-ready system.

As summer hits its peak, Samsung's finally ready to debut its new foldables. We've been hearing rumors for a couple of weeks, but we now have the official word from the brand itself that its next Galaxy Unpacked event will take place on July 22, 2026.

Even though Netflix is the world's most popular paid streaming service, the company has been struggling to keep viewers watching its series after their first seasons. Beef - the streamer's anthology about people locked in feuds - lost 70 percent of its viewership when it returned earlier this year. There seems to be some confusion as to why people aren't champing at the bit to dive back into once-popular projects like the live-action adaptations of Avatar: The Last Airbender and One Piece. Netflix is reportedly hard at work trying to figure out what, exactly, is prompting subscribers to jump ship in droves. But if you've spent any time payin …Read the full story at The Verge.

After using Claude to create a gaming backlog manager and an interactive watchlist with my Instagram posts, I just had to give Claude the biggest challenge yet: cleaning up my 1,000+ video YouTube Watch Later playlist. I had created this massive playlist by religiously saving every video I thought I'd watch over almost nine years. You can probably guess that I have made little progress in terms of reducing my backlog during this time. The problem with YouTube's Watch Later playlist is that it doesn't allow deep filtering, sorting, or searching options to help me attack the backlog in a realistic manner. YouTube is one of my most-used apps, both on my phone and on the TV, so I always have new stuff to watch, meaning the Watch Later playlist is always growing. So, I had to take Claude's help to turn this chaotic watchlist into one that gave me the power to slice and dice my 9-year-long saved videos collection.

The acceptance of AI use in video games is a bit of a gray area. Some people are fine with it, some people loathe it, and some just don't care. Then there are the gritty details: do you care if a game used generative AI to make images? What about using it for voice acting, NPC dialogue trees, or coding?

The Linux kernel is one of those weird things where you didn't know what kind of hardware it supported until said support was removed. For example, I didn't know that the kernel supported the i486 processor until Linux 7.1 removed it.

Even so, the privacy LED light is still hard to see. It’s on in this photo. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Amid public backlash over its smart glasses, Meta announced that it will be updating its glasses with a new feature that will disable the camera when it detects that someone has tampered with or destroyed the glasses' privacy LED light. The update is meant to address modders who have taken actions such as physically drilling into the LED light.Meta has previously tried to discourage tampering with the LED light. For example, starting with its second generation glasses, blocking the light with tape or other objects will trigger a prompt asking users to uncover the recording light. However, many modders have found various workarounds for tha …Read the full story at The Verge.

Right on cue, Samsung has confirmed that its next Unpacked event will take place on July 22nd in London, United Kingdom.

If you're a tinkerer, there's a very good chance you have a spare Raspberry Pi board or two sitting around. If one of them happens to be either a Raspberry Pi Zero W or a Zero 2 W, and all it's doing is collecting dust right now, why not turn it into an Arduino? It may sound impossible, but one project, called PiZZa, aims to let you do just that.