My workflow has been a mess between browser tabs: I would draft an outline in one window, look for a specific PDF in Google Drive in another, keep Gmail pinned just to track client feedback, and have Canva open for brand assets.

Everyone mentions the obvious PC building mistakes new builders should be aware of. Stuff like breadboarding, motherboard standoffs, PSU orientation, and removing the peel from coolers and heatsinks is important, but most builders know it by now. There are, however, other PC building and maintenance mistakes that you're probably still making. These mistakes can limit your PC's performance, lead to overheating, tarnish your gaming experience, and even reduce component lifespan. Some of them are linked to conventional wisdom, while others are tied to ignorance. You may not even know that some of the items on this list are mistakes, per se, but fortunately, it's pretty easy to fix them once you get to know about them.

I used Claude the same way most people probably do: open a tab, type a question, get an answer, and close the tab. It kind of worked. But I kept running into the same issue: responses that were technically correct but missed the point.

As someone who owns the RTX 4090, I've always found my Ryzen 7 5800X3D to be somewhat limiting, even though it was one of the best CPUs available when the card came out in 2022. It was still a big improvement over my old 5900X in gaming, especially since it increased my GPU usage across the board, but I always felt like it couldn't fully keep up with what my 4090 was capable of. That's what pushed me to bite the bullet and finally upgrade to AM5 despite the outrageous RAM prices.

Polymarket bets started popping up in Google News alongside legitimate news articles. But now those results aren't showing, and Google says they were never supposed to. Spokesperson Ned Adriance told The Verge that "Google News is designed to show sources that create content about current issues, events, and important topics, and we have policies for sites to be eligible to appear. This site briefly appeared in Google News in error, and it is no longer surfacing in News."The links led directly to betting markets tied to specific news events. For instance, before the results were removed, Futurism searched "will ships transit the strait," ( …Read the full story at The Verge.

There was a time when native resolution was the gold standard, and that was when I grew up. Native resolution was an unquestioned baseline that defined visual fidelity in gaming. You either ran a game at native, or you compromised by dropping a few tiers for smoothness. Somewhere along the way, though, that expectation began to erode.

When I first tried my hand at vide-coding, it was nothing more than a fun distraction, perhaps something born out of boredom and curiosity. Lately, I've been getting the hang of it, and so, instead of just generating neat little party tricks, I've started doing it to address the real points of friction in my daily workflow.

The illustration for The New Yorker's profile of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is a jump scare. Altman stands in a blue sweater with a blank expression. Around his head hovers a cluster of disembodied faces - creepy alt-Altmans, their expressions ranging from anger to open-mouthed woe. Some barely look like Altman. One final face rests in his hands. And at the bottom, there's a disclosure that might spook many illustrators far more: "Visual by David Szauder; Generated using A.I."Szauder is a mixed-media artist who has been working with collage, video, and generative art processes that predate commercial AI tools for over a decade, and was recently …Read the full story at The Verge.

Claude was already impressive on the free tier - impressive enough that I used it daily without paying a cent. And I got some good use out of it; I even managed to complete some of my graphics projects with it. However, that five-hour rolling usage reset gets old fast when you start using it more heavily. Eventually, I hit the wall enough times that Pro felt less like an upgrade and more like an inevitability.

I’ve started pairing my FOSS applications with self-hosted LLMs running on my Ollama and LM Studio instances, and AI-powered workflows have made my life a lot smoother. Whether it’s automatically creating tags for my bookmarked blogs, extracting text from images and PDFs, or helping me troubleshoot annoying terminal outputs, LLMs are great at tackling cumbersome tasks.

You first, dude. | Image: The Pokémon Company, Nintendo Like many live-service games before it, Pokémon Champions' launch has been messy. The free-to-start battle sim, which is out now on the Switch and Switch 2 (and also coming to mobile later this year), is plagued with bugs, some of which cause issues with basic battle mechanics - not great for a game that's only about battling. But bugs can be fixed, and encouragingly, some of them already have been. Champions' bigger problem is that, in trying to be a competitive battling platform for all kinds of players, it risks satisfying none of them.Coming hot on the heels of Pokopia, a creative and cozy spinoff with no battling whatsoever, Champions …Read the full story at The Verge.

There was a time when I genuinely believed that if I waited long enough, every great game would eventually find its way to PC. After all, it felt inevitable. The platform kept growing, publishers kept loosening their grip, and entire back catalogs were slowly making the jump.