Figma has been my main design tool for years now and I genuinely don't have many complaints about it. But the open-source design space has been getting more interesting lately, and you'd kind of be missing out not to at least poke around in it. Penpot is the one I keep coming back to and have already written about more times than is probably reasonable - it's by far the most evolved Figma alternative out there. But it's not the only one, and a few newer ones have caught me off guard recently.

Google TV is famed for being clunky and packed with ads, but you know what's worse? Roku. I'll admit that Roku is still faster and easier to navigate than most Google TV devices. However, the sheer number of ads it now pushes has become a major turnoff. I recently ditched Roku altogether and shook hands with the Big G, and let me tell you, the experience isn't the greatest if you've used Apple TV, but it's quite decent.

The deadline to reauthorize Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act is coming up a week from now on June 12th, and legislators seem no closer to reaching a deal. If this sounds like deja vu, it's because we've been here before. Congress reauthorized Section 702 in late April - but only for 45 days, so lawmakers could negotiate reforms to the controversial wiretapping authority."There were no reformers in any of the conversations that happened. Full stop," Sean Vitka, the executive director of Demand Progress, said on a press call Friday afternoon, hours after the Senate voted 52 to 47 against a deal that would have renewed …Read the full story at The Verge.

Chronologically, Control Resonant is a sequel to 2019's Control. But in most other ways, the games aren't directly connected. To developer Remedy, they're more like two sides of the same coin.When Resonant was first revealed last year, creative director Mikael Kasurinen said you can play the games in any order. The world of Control is reality-bending in lots of ways, but the general linear progression of time isn't really one of them - how would someone start with the sequel?It didn't click until I played Resonant myself. In a two-plus-hour preview earlier this week, I played the opening act of the game, as well as a later story mission …Read the full story at The Verge.

Three years of 3D printing have taught me that filament choice matters most after the novelty wears off. PLA still has a place on my shelf, and I’ll happily use it for quick prototypes, decorative parts, and anything that doesn’t need to survive daily use. But when I’m printing something that has to hold weight, resist heat, clip into place, or live near electronics, I don’t reach for PLA anymore. I reach for PETG because it offers the best balance of strength, flexibility, and reliability without turning every print into a materials science project.

Scott Pelley, correspondent, 60 Minutes. | Photo by Michele Crowe / CBS News via Getty Images It should have been the final straw. The new power couple of editorial failure - Bari Weiss and Nick Bilton - had fired legendary 60 Minutes journalist Scott Pelley. Why? Because he dared to question the fact that CBS had installed sycophants in its top ranks. Instead of standing in solidarity, correspondents Lesley Stahl, Bill Whitaker, and Jon Wertheim declared in a joint memo to staff that they'd stay on to save the program. "We don't want to see 60 Minutes die," they said. The kids in Weekend at Bernie's held a similar position.The canary in the media coal mine isn't just sick, it's a charred skeleton.The remaining trio of correspond …Read the full story at The Verge.

If you're not a developer, chances are you boarded the Claude hype train late. For most of its run, Anthropic was known for having models that had stronger coding capabilities than the rest of the competition, and Claude was the the model engineers and the people you'd likely call "tech-savy" reached to serious work while everyone else thought all AI could do was improve an email you were writing to your boss to ask for a raise, or whip up a birthday message for a cousin they barely remember. However, before we knew it, it turned into the AI app everyone (and their mothers) seemed to be talking about overnight. It hit number one on the App Store, people started casually name dropping it in group chats (just as they'd tell you they "GPT-ed" it), and your timeline filled up with people discovering, apparently for the first time, that AI could do more than reword a paragraph.

Starting your smart home journey using Zigbee can be pretty simple at first. You start with a single Zigbee coordinator and a few temperature sensors. It works flawlessly, and suddenly you're eager to expand. You add dozens of Zigbee smart plugs, smart bulbs, and switches, assuming you are building an indestructible, self-healing mesh network across your entire home.

Geoff Keighley’s annual June celebration of games is here. Summer Game Fest Live, the big live show that will feature a whole bunch of gaming news and announcements, begins at 5PM ET and is set to run for two hours. The event itself will take place in person at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles, but it will also be streaming live on YouTube.Summer Game Fest Live sits squarely in the middle of a big run of video game showcases; PlayStation hosted a State of Play on Tuesday, and the Xbox Games Showcase takes place on Sunday. That doesn’t mean there won’t be some big surprises, though. Last year, for example, Capcom used the show to announce Resident Evil Requiem. According to this year’s livestream’s description, expect a “live look at what’s next in video games, with new game announcements, surprise special guests and more,” and while that’s not very specific, Keighley probably has some flashy news in store.Read on for our coverage of the biggest updates from the show. Get your knives out for this one. Screenbound, a game that can be both a 2D and 3D platformer simultaneously, launches in September. I know Threads of Time isn’t newly announced, but it looks so cool. More than a decade later, the team behind N++ is back with a multiplayer sequel Fortnite’s next season tests the extraction waters. A bloody good announcement. Grand Theft Auto VI is warping the video game release calendar Final Fantasy VII’s remake trilogy will conclude with Revelation Tifa can kick Ryu’s ass, and now you can prove it. The Wolf Among Us 2 isn’t dead yet. For those following along at home… Palworld 1.0 launches in July. Attack on Titan in its entirety. Another look at Clutch. Gotta go a little fast. A wild expansion has appeared. There’s a surprise drop among us. 007 First Light is getting a new story mission later this year. A new hope. Assassin’s cat. Virtua Fighter Crossroads is the next Virtua Fighter game. It’s the Sebulba game! Titled Goose Game. Control Resonant is a sequel — and also a starting point Who doesn’t love a good cube? PlatinumGames is making another TMNT game. Stranger Than Heaven is coming out in January — and features Tupac? Fumito Ueda’s next game is Gen Atlas. Uh oh, the xenomorph is back. Cuphead returns. Capcom is remaking Resident Evil: Code Veronica. No Highguard-esque ending today. TGI(SG)F. Minecraft Dungeons II could launch this September. Paramount is making a unified games studio.

When picking between AI model subscriptions, the focus is usually on what you can do with them, or how fast they can generate output, or a myriad of other benchmarks that directly compare how the model performs. And that's fine, the whole tech world is built on benchmarks as the thread that weaves between vastly different devices, software, and other services. When you're a company with one main product, it's all about finding ways to use that one thing, and making it better than the competition.

It's been about a month and a half since Microsoft's new Xbox Mode rolled out, and the vision behind it is clear. The company wants to bring a simplified, gaming console-style interface to all PCs running Windows 11. Having spent some time testing it, I can already say it's one of Microsoft's most significant, yet simple leaps towards gearing up the operating system for an uncompromised gaming experience.

This is the watch to get if you're looking for one that can really go the distance. Not only are you getting excellent fitness and health tracking, but there are also top-tier features like mapping, fitness coaching, and more.