Fedora was the Linux distro that got me off Windows, and one of its main fortes, in my opinion, is its stability. I've very rarely had issues with using the OS, and anything that I have encountered was both easy to remedy and fixed pretty rapidly. So, as you might expect, if a new release of Fedora has a few nasty bugs in it, the community would rather delay the release than ruin the trust people have in the OS and ship it.

What's the first thing that comes to your mind when you think of PC upgrades? If you're a gamer, chances are, it's a better GPU. After all, that's the upgrade everyone loves to talk about because it brings the most improvements. I totally understand the appeal of chasing higher frame rates, but as someone who has made plenty of mistakes in the past while upgrading, I've realized that it's not always the smartest place to start, especially if you already have a decent mid-range or high-end card.

For years, Raspberry Pi occupied a very specific spot in my brain. It was the board I reached for when I wanted a project to feel open-ended, a little scrappy, and still powerful enough to run a full operating system. That bargain started to wobble when the Raspberry Pi 5 arrived at $60 for 4GB and $80 for 8GB, which was already a noticeable shift from the old story people told about the Pi as a cheap default computer. By the time of this writing, the situation had gone from mildly annoying to impossible to ignore. Official price increases had pushed the Raspberry Pi 5 16GB to $305, while even the 4GB and 8GB models keep climbing.

This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more stories on Big Tech versus politics in Washington, DC, follow Tina Nguyen and read Regulator. The Stepback arrives in our subscribers' inboxes at 8AM ET. Opt in for The Stepback here.How it startedA long time ago, in 2004, the Federal Communications Commission laid down a rule designed to prevent a monopoly: No one company could broadcast to more than 39 percent of all the TV households in the United States. But then Donald Trump returned to the White House in 2025. Brendan Carr became FCC chairman and immediately kicked off a deregu …Read the full story at The Verge.

Before Claude Artifacts, I had a routine I really hated. I’d be 30 messages deep in the conversation, and need to look at the table Claude built for me earlier, and start scrolling.

I use Claude every day. But when I type things out, it slows me down. It's frustrating because my typing speed can't keep up with how fast ideas pop into my head. So I switched to Claude Voice Mode. Now, instead of typing out my questions, thoughts, or half-formed ideas, I can speak my mind and even do a massive brain dump on Claude, letting it help me work through them.

Over the past several years, Nothing’s budget-centric subsidiary, CMF, has built a reputation for producing attractive, inexpensive products with features often reserved for gadgets that cost twice the price. The CMF Headphone Pro — the company’s first pair of over-ear wireless headphones — fit precisely in that lane, especially now that they’re on sale at Amazon in both light gray and a subtle green shade for an all-time low of $69 ($30 off).CMF Headphone ProWhere to Buy: $99 $69 at Amazon (light gray) $99 $69 at Amazon (green)Although the Headphone Pro eschew the retro-transparent design found on Nothing wares like the Headphone 1, I wouldn’t necessarily say that’s a bad thing given the polarizing, squared-off design of the latter. Instead, the Pro go all in on the curves, with circular earcups, cushions, and a plush headband. You can also add an additional pop of color with CMF’s $25 interchangeable cushions, which, as of now, are available in either orange or the aforementioned green hue.Unlike many premium pairs of noise-canceling headphones, the Pro ditch touch-capacitive controls for physical buttons — a plus, as far as I’m concerned — allowing you to control playback, adjust the volume, and tweak a range of other settings using a customizable action button and a multi-function roller. Nothing also includes something called an Energy Slider, so you can adjust the treble and bass balance on the fly without digging into Nothing’s app to make EQ adjustments.The biggest draw of the Headphone Pro, aside from their adaptive ANC, is that they offer a whopping 100 hours of battery life per charge, ensuring you can travel just about anywhere without having to top them off. That number drops to 50 hours with active noise cancellation enabled; however, that’s still 10 hours more than what you’d get with a higher-end pair like Sony’s WH-1000XM6 and 20 hours more than the latest Bose QuietComfort Ultra Headphones. The fact that they support Google Fast Pair and the higher-quality LDAC codec is just a plus.Other alternatives to considerBeats Solo 4With lossless USB-C audio, 50 hours of battery life, Find My support, spatial audio, and comfy ear cups, the Beats Solo 4 offer significant quality-of-life improvements over their predecessors. They still deliver that bass-rich Beats sound, too. Read our review.Where to Buy: $199.95 $129.95 at Amazon $199.95 $129 at Walmart $199.95 $149.99 at Best BuySony WH-CH520The Sony WH-CH520 offer a lot for very little. The on-ear Bluetooth headphones provide 50 hours of battery life and support hands-free voice assistants, including Google Assistant and Siri. They also offer multipoint Bluetooth support and can tap into Google’s Find Hub network.Where to Buy: $59.99 $38 at Amazon $59.99 $38 at Best Buy $59.99 $39.99 at Target

3D printing is one of the most gratifying hobbies, since you can envision an object and hold it after just a few hours of CAD and printing. However, after printing my fair share of chainmail armor, articulating dragons in rainbow filament, and little business card holders, I've concluded that functional prints give me the greatest joy. Items that solve a problem I acknowledge, no matter how trivial, with the simplest of engineering.

Gully Foyle is my name… | Image: Brick Tower Press This might feel like a somewhat obvious recommendation to some, but it flew under my radar until now. Alfred Bester's The Stars My Destination (originally published as Tiger! Tiger! in the UK) is a 1956 sci-fi novel that some have cited as a precursor to cyberpunk. It's a work I admit I have some conflicted feelings about, but one I think is well worth reading if you consider yourself a fan of sci-fi. It's also well worth seeking out a physical copy, something I wish I had known before I started reading it in the objectively inferior e-book form that can't capture the ergodic elements of the climax.It's hard to explain the plot of The Star …Read the full story at The Verge.

A little while ago, we reported on how Google and NotebookLM were teaming up to make life a lot easier for people who use both. The idea is that the two apps can sync with one another, so you can ask Gemini about stuff you've stored on NotebookLM, and you can save stuff you research with Gemini to NotebookLM.

The Keychron Q1 Ultra 8K in white (left) and the V5 Ultra 8K in black (right). | Photo: Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge Keychron's expansive keyboard catalog covers everything from basic full-size mechanical boards to niche layouts like southpaw Alice or a one-handed half-keyboard for gaming. Its Q and V series are among our go-to recommendations for off-the-shelf keyboards, and the latest iterations - the Q and V Ultra models - are a straightforward upgrade to the lineup, with benefits for regular users and deep-in-the-weeds keyboard nerds alike.I've been testing two Ultra keyboards: the Keychron V5 Ultra 8K and Keychron Q1 Ultra 8K. The $119.99 V5 Ultra is a near-full-size 1800-layout board with a number pad in a plastic case, while the $229.99 Q1 Ultra i …Read the full story at The Verge.

Generally, I agree with the saying "Better late than never," especially when it comes to software fixes. Having a bug or annoying behavior hang around in the code forever is a lot more irritating than the fix arriving late. However, sometimes a tweak comes so late that it makes me wonder if there's perhaps an upper limit on using that phrase.