If you're thinking about upgrading your home network to multi-gig speeds, welcome to the future. Gigabit has served its purpose for years, and now it's time to move on to faster connectivity for your wired devices. That's especially true if you're planning to upgrade to the faster speeds of Wi-Fi 6E or 7, as you'll want a fast backhaul to address potential bottlenecks.

There's a new name in charge of stewarding Star Wars at Lucasfilm. The studio just announced that Dave Filoni - best-known for his work on The Mandalorian and The Clone Wars - will be taking over as president. Former president Kathleen Kennedy, whose departure had been rumored for some time, will be stepping down and returning to producing films full-time.Under the new structure, Filoni will continue to serve as chief creative officer at Lucasfilm, alongside becoming the studio's president. Lynwen Brennan, who has been at the studio since 1999 and most recently served as president and GM of Lucasfilm business, will be co-president."My lo …Read the full story at The Verge.

Two months before it changed its name to "Meta," Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg personally introduced us to his metaverse for work: Horizon Workrooms, envisioned as a virtual space for workers to collaborate. Today, the company announced it's shutting that space down: "Meta has made the decision to discontinue Workrooms as a standalone app, effective February 16, 2026," reads the note tucked away on a help page.Meta will also no longer sell its headsets and software as a service for businesses, another help page reads: "We are stopping sales of Meta Horizon managed services and commercial SKUs of Meta Quest, effective February 20, 2026."Me …Read the full story at The Verge.

Airflow is important when it comes to computing products. The better the airflow, the less work your components need to do in order to keep it running optimally. While there are plenty of choices out there when it comes to fans and cooling, we think this 3-pack from Corsair is going to be a great option.

This is Lowpass by Janko Roettgers, a newsletter on the ever-evolving intersection of tech and entertainment, syndicated just for The Verge subscribers once a week.Last month, Netflix made the surprising decision to kill off a key feature: With no prior warning, the company removed the ability to cast videos from its mobile apps to a wide range of smart TVs and streaming devices. Casting is now only supported on older Chromecast streaming adapters that didn't ship with a remote, Nest Hub smart displays, and select Vizio and Compal smart TVs.That's a stunning departure for the company. Prior to those changes, Netflix allowed casting to a …Read the full story at The Verge.

This is one of those products that's all about the looks. If you love nostalgic designs, and are a fan of Nintendo products, then this 8Bitdo N30 wireless mouse is going to be right up your alley. The best part is that it doesn't cost all that much right now, with a substantial discount knocking it down to just $20.

As technology has evolved, OLED displays have become more and more common on all kinds of devices. Phones were first to make this a mainstream feature, but now you see a lot of laptops with OLED screens built-in, as well as many OLED monitors, especially for gamers.

Isn't there a special kind of pain reserved for watching a franchise you grew up worshiping slowly turn into an IP-shaped logo on a corporate roadmap? Plenty of games that once used to define eras — which were all we could talk about at school, at LAN cafés, in comment sections — are a husk of their older selves today.

Ashley St. Clair, the mother of one of X owner Elon Musk's children, is suing his company for enabling its AI to virtually strip her down into a bikini without her consent. St. Clair is one of the many people over the past couple weeks who have found themselves undressed without permission by X's AI chatbot, Grok. The chatbot has been gingerly complying with users' requests to remove clothing from many women and some apparent minors, or put them in sexualized poses or scenarios. The feature has caused an uproar from policymakers around the world who have launched investigations and vowed that new and existing laws should prevent this kind …Read the full story at The Verge.

While making your own locking system can be quite tricky, not all of them need to be of the highest security possible. Sure, if you're creating, say, a lock to protect your property or your deepest, darkest secrets, then, yes, you'll want to go all out on the details and buy only the best components. However, if you're making something just for fun, where the contents aren't incredibly important to your well-being, you don't need to splash out for it.

Using a media server on your utilities bill, inside your home, seems like a lot of work until you go about setting one up. The feeling immediately turns to regret that you should've done this sooner and saved so much on cloud subscription costs. That was my experience in a nutshell, switching from cloud providers to self-hosting for media, and the price delta only gets wider with time as a NAS gets pricier upfront and streaming services we hoped would replace cable TV become the very evil they sought to destroy, riddled with ads and confusing bundle pricing.

As someone who tests and writes about productivity tools for a living, NotebookLM is hands-down the tool I find myself using most. It’s packed with just the right features that don’t feel like AI purely for the sake of AI, and it’s clear that it’s designed to solve a specific problem — retrieving information with minimal (close to none) hallucinations.