Your smart home and the Internet of Things (IoT) devices it comprises are fantastic for convenience, but, as with most networked devices, the trade-off is reduced security. We've all seen the reports of IoT devices and other networked devices like printers being infected and turned into massive botnets, and the unwelcome truth is that many of our smart devices could be vulnerable to attack.

It’s no secret that Excel has been my reliable, if sometimes tedious, partner in data analysis. I was convinced that manual data cleaning and formula building were just part of the job. But after pairing Excel with Copilot, I unlocked the hidden potential in no time.

President Donald Trump made an unconventional pick for his nomination to the Federal Trade Commission: WeatherTech founder and CEO David MacNeil.MacNeil founded the company, which makes weather-resistant car floor mats, in 1989, according to its website, and he owns 100 percent of the company. WeatherTech has made it a mission to keep its manufacturing and workforce in the US. FTC Chair Andrew Ferguson congratulated MacNeil on X and called him an "outstanding businessman and great patriot," sharing a clip from a news segment where MacNeil shared his commitment to manufacturing in the US. If confirmed, MacNeil become the third member of the …Read the full story at The Verge.

One of the most profitable and competitive markets in technology is the mobile phone market. One reason is that nearly everyone in the rapidly advancing technological world has one. While mobile phone manufacturers typically launch new models annually, each model normally upgrades key features such as camera quality, battery life, and aesthetics.

Screens at the White House display AI-modified videos of House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) and U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) that were shared on social media by President Donald Trump. | Credit: Alex Wong/Getty Images Hello and welcome to Regulator, a newsletter for Verge subscribers about the technology, broligarchs and brainrot rapidly transforming politics and civic society. Not subscribed to The Verge yet? You should! It can materially improve your life.Last week was a grim reminder that no matter what sort of horror is being perpetrated or how many people end up dead, the Trump administration's knee-jerk response is to shitpost through it. The White House's response on X to abducting the head of a sovereign nation? "FAFO". The response to an ICE agent shooting a woman in broad daylight? A Buzzfeed-style listicle of "57 Times Sick, Unhinged Democrat …Read the full story at The Verge.

As of today, you can do almost everything on Linux through a graphical interface. You can install applications from an app center, change system settings, and search for files using a file manager, all without touching the terminal. For most users, this is more than enough.

After months of rumors, Apple has officially announced Creator Studio, a software suite that bundles several of its key creative apps under one subscription platform. The tech giant says that Apple Creator Studio is launching in the App Store on January 28th.

Getting online is simple, but if you want to surf using protection, the answer becomes slightly more complicated. There are a number of ways you can keep your data safe, like running your own VPN, but we think most people are going to opt in for some sort of subscription service.

In late December, notable SSD and memory brand Micron announced that its Crucial brand would be leaving the consumer memory industry by the end of January as the company shifted its focus to supplying memory to far more lucrative tech giant AI data centers. Given this leaves SK hynix and Samsung as the two remaining consumer DRAM makers, this move is expected to make the ongoing memory shortage even worse.

Necessity is the mother of invention. Sometimes that necessity is born from something not existing, or from the desire to bring back something that once was. Sometimes, however, that necessity is looking at how expensive something has gotten and balking immediately.

Getting my first 3D printer kicked off a particular kind of excitement, the kind where you want to print something right now, even if you do not yet know what “right” looks like. I started with the classics, bounced into practical stuff, and then slowly realized that my early prints were less about usefulness and more about learning the machine’s personality. Some of those models still make sense as Day One choices, especially if you treat them as diagnostic tools rather than trophies. Others were technically successful prints that I would not bother repeating today.

2026 is shaping up to be a tough year for PC hardware enthusiasts. The Consumer Electronics Show, perhaps the most highly anticipated tech event, promised to be a delight for consumers but instead felt more like a shareholder briefing across major computing segments.