If you’re not staying on top of Analogue 3D updates, now’s the time to start. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Analogue has released a new firmware update for its Analogue 3D console that adds the Memories save state feature. Memories, which was first introduced with its handheld Analogue Pocket, allows you to save at any moment and resume from that exact spot later on, rather than having to reach a specific point in a game to save your progress. The feature should also help reduce some headaches with saving game progress on the Analogue 3D as its Virtual Controller Pak option still isn't available when using original or wired N64 controllers.Although the feature was announced when the company first shared all the details about its 4K Nintendo 64 i …Read the full story at The Verge.

The T1 Phone has the wrong number of stripes, but it does at least have 50 stars. | Screenshot: Trump Mobile Where's the Trump phone? We're going to keep talking about it every week. We've reached out, as usual, to ask about the Trump phone's whereabouts. This week, despite our best hopes, we still don't have our phone - but we do have some fresh doubts about the company's patriotic credentials.This has been a momentous few days for Trump Mobile, in which it defied the haters by announcing that its phones will be shipping to buyers this very week. Not that there's any sign the company has actually done that, but I digress. Because what I really want to talk about today is the American flag.I am not an American, which probably explains why I did …Read the full story at The Verge.

The use cases for large language models are growing exponentially by the day, and new image and video generation capabilities from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google have accelerated that considerably. The frontier models on offer do far more than just writing, and are now instead active participants in a wide variety of creative and technical workflows that required significant user effort and prerequisite expertise previously.

The Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus was billed by the company in late March as one of its “fastest gaming desktop processor ever.” That hype was evidently accurate, as benchmarks done by Gamers Nexus show the processor giving AMD’s pricier X3D cache-equipped Ryzen 9000-series CPUs a run for their money. The Ultra 7 270K Plus also outperforms the Core i9 14900K in many tasks, which has long been a preferred choice for gamers.Thankfully, it won’t cost you a ton to buy the 270K Plus if you’re considering a PC upgrade or building one from scratch. You can get this CPU at an all-time low price of $279.99 (about $45 off the normal price) right now at Amazon. Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus processorWhere to Buy: $325.99 $279.99 at AmazonThe 270K Plus requires a motherboard with an LGA 1851 socket, of which there are many options available that support DDR5 RAM, plenty M.2 SSDs, and with support for Wi-Fi 7. It’s great to see prices come down on some PC components, though the savings are tougher to appreciate when costs on RAM are still much higher than they used to be. If you’re looking for a range of parts, Micro Center has component bundles that loop in discounted RAM for the best prices on the web.One nice perk of getting the CPU is that, through July 31st, you can register your purchase with Intel to get a full download of the Lego Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight game.

Google updated its spam policy to mark attempts to "manipulate" its AI model in search results as spam, including results in AI Overview or AI Mode in Search, as Search Engine Land reports: "In the context of Google Search, spam refers to techniques used to deceive users or manipulate our Search systems into featuring content prominently, such as attempting to manipulate Search systems into ranking content highly or attempting to manipulate generative AI responses in Google Search."Some users have been trying to influence AI search responses, using tactics like biased "best-of" listicles or "recommendation poisoning," which injects LLM …Read the full story at The Verge.

ArXiv, a popular platform for preprint academic research, is taking a new step to attempt to reduce the volume of papers that include AI slop.If a paper has "incontrovertible evidence that the authors did not check the results of LLM generation," such as hallucinated references or "meta-comments" left by an LLM, authors will be banned from ArXiv for a year, according to Thomas Dietterich, ArXiv's section chair of its computer science section. Future ArXiv submissions will also have to be accepted at "a reputable peer-reviewed venue."Here's what he said on X:Attention @arxiv authors: Our Code of Conduct states that by signing your name …Read the full story at The Verge.

NAS and self-hosting are one and the same now, but they weren't always as synonymous with one another. At some point in the last few years, subscription costs began to pile up, streaming libraries fragment further every quarter, and the idea of paying indefinitely for software you could run yourself has started to feel less like convenience and more like you're getting the short end of the stick.

OpenAI announced yet another reorganization Friday, consolidating certain areas and making company president Greg Brockman the official lead of all things product.In a memo viewed by The Verge, Brockman wrote that since OpenAI's product strategy for this year is to go all-in on AI agents, the company is combining its products to "invest in a single agentic platform and to merge ChatGPT and Codex into one unified agentic experience for all."To do this, the company is making a suite of org chart changes, although it's still operating under some of the same ones from last month. That's when AGI boss Fidji Simo went on medical leave and Open …Read the full story at The Verge.

Ask the hardcore tinkering community about the best Network Attached Storage practices, and you’re bound to have some veterans claiming a NAS should be treated as a storage machine, not an experimentation node. Truth be told, I agree with them wholeheartedly, but I’d tweak that statement to replace storage “machine” with storage “server.”

I've really been getting into interactive fiction lately. I think with all the D&D tabletop and video games I've been playing, plus excellent Steam titles like Sorcery! and Slay the Princess, I've been in the mood for a book you can play. And what better way to revisit this classic genre than to make a text-based adventure game?

Whether you are navigating the Google TV interface or trying to launch a heavy streaming app, there's nothing more frustrating than a smart TV that feels anything but smart. While most people assume they need a new streaming stick or a total factory reset, the solution is often buried deep within menus you were never meant to see.

AI radio DJs demonstrated their volatile personalities. | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images Andon Labs has been running a series of experiments in which AI agents run businesses without human intervention. Its latest is a quartet of radio stations run by some of the most popular AI models out there. "Thinking Frequencies" is run by Claude, "OpenAIR" by ChatGPT, "Backlink Broadcast" by Google's Gemini, and "Grok and Roll Radio," obviously enough, by Grok. They were each given a simple prompt:Develop your own radio personality and turn a profit…As far as you know, you will broadcast forever.They all failed, some in pretty spectacular fashion. It didn't take long for each to burn through their initial $20 in seed money. Only DJ …Read the full story at The Verge.