A commercial ship is viewed anchored off the coast of the United Arab Emirates, in the Strait of Hormuz, Dubai, on March 2nd, 2026. Increased maritime traffic led to a buildup of vessels waiting near Dubai, highlighting the strategic importance of the strait, which handles 20 percent of global energy trade. | Photo: Getty Images Soon after the Trump administration launched its war on Iran, I called up Reed Blakemore, director of research and programs at the Atlantic Council Global Energy Center, to talk about the consequences. While oil and gas prices were already on the rise, there was still more hope then that the impact of the conflict might be short-lived. At the end of our conversation, Blakemore said plainly: "Let's have a call again [next week] … We'll have a much clearer picture of what the conflict is going to look like and what the story really is going to be for energy moving forward." Energy infrastructure has become a key leverage point in the unfold …Read the full story at The Verge.

Original Xbox emulation has landed on Android via an unofficial port of the long-running original Xbox emulator Xemu, called X1 Box.

It's easy to get caught up in all the new and exciting developments in operating systems that demand more powerful hardware to render. However, there are some operating systems out there that not only run on very old hardware, but its developers are determined to keep it that way.

VS Code is perfect for most of us, but let’s not pretend it’s just another open-source tool. The source code is available under the MIT license, but the product you actually download from Microsoft is distributed under a different license. It also includes telemetry and tracking. If you want an editor that just works, and you’re okay with Microsoft collecting that data, I’m not even going to try to sell you an alternative. VS Code fits your use case perfectly.

Ford announced a new AI-powered service for its commercial fleet and telematics software customers called Ford Pro AI. The generative AI system analyzes data generated by commercial vehicles - including vehicle speed, seat belt activity, and engine health - and converts it into actionable items for fleet managers.The new system manifests as - what else? - an AI chatbot within Ford's Telematics software that customers can ask questions about their fleets or delegate tasks. Managers can ask the chatbot for recommendations to lower fuel costs, insight about specific vehicles in their fleets, or even to draft emails to a supervisor summarizing …Read the full story at The Verge.

Was it a threat or a reality check? That's a key question in the government's anti-monopoly case against Live Nation, which is currently in limbo after the Justice Department reached a settlement with the company and as dozens of states push ahead.The Verge obtained the audio of a 2021 call at the center of the case. The recording, a public exhibit that was played for jurors in the first week of trial, features then-CEO of Barclays Center John Abbamondi and Live Nation CEO Michael Rapino arguing over a ticketing deal for Brooklyn's Barclays Center arena. A transcript of the call was previously posted to the docket, but the audio gives a be …Read the full story at The Verge.

It is a great time to own an Intel GPU. At a time when the PC hardware market is increasingly being defined by forced obsolescence, Team Blue seems to be flipping the script by democratizing its most advanced software features and bringing them to existing owners. With the rollout of XeSS 3 and Multi-Frame generation, Intel has proudly proclaimed that no GPU will be left behind when it comes to getting the latest features.

Anyone who finds themselves wishing they could spend less time on meal prep might have a solution in the form of the recently-launched Nosh One from Nosh Robotics, an AI kitchen appliance that can autonomously cook for you. All users need to do is load their ingredients into the robot's tray then select a recipe. The Nosh One adds the ingredients into its pot at the appropriate time, stirs everything, uses AI to monitor the ingredients with a built-in camera, and completes the meal without needing any intervention along the way. Nosh's app notifies users when the meal is ready. They can also use the app to view and edit recipes and schedul …Read the full story at The Verge.

While I initially switched to Proton Pass as a more secure way to store my passwords than my browser's built-in tool, the password manager turned out to have other benefits.

I use Obsidian the way most people do. All my notes, random ideas, half-drafts, and research snippets get stored somewhere in my vault. And while I love the flexibility of a Markdown-based note-taking system and the local vault, I realized I wasn’t actually opening Obsidian that often unless I wanted to store some text. My notes were technically all there, but the app itself had become more of an archive than something I actively use every day.

Though the live-action Cowboy Bebop was a big disappointment, Shinichirō Watanabe is ready to give it another go with one of his other iconic pieces of IP.Variety reports that Watanabe has given his blessing and agreed to work on a new live-action Samurai Champloo adaptation from Tomorrow Studios, the same production house behind Netflix's Cowboy Bebop (which Watanabe wasn't directly involved in) and the streamer's surprisingly excellent take on One Piece. The project is in its earliest stages of development and is not attached to a distributor. After Cowboy Bebop, this all feels a little iffy, but Tomorrow Studios heads Marty Adelstein an …Read the full story at The Verge.

There has been a gradual but noticeable shift in the Linux scene where distro developers are adopting KDE Plasma as the default desktop environment. Granted, there are a few examples of distros going the opposite way, but it feels like we don't go a few months without another operating system adopting KDE Plasma as the norm.