For years now, I've treated 4K as the finish line, but it has proven elusive. A better encode leaves me wanting a higher bitrate, and then I want the sharpest upscaler, and it ends with me yearning for an OLED TV rotting in my wishlist. There's always been another improvement to chase, and rightly so. After all, these upgrades do matter, and they feel meaningful."

Steam's refund policy is pretty strict, but fair. To get a refund, you must request it within 14 days of purchase and have under two hours of playtime. If either condition isn't met, Valve will often reject the refund request, except in special circumstances.

The iOS 27 update arrives just in time for the iPhone 18 Pro release. | Photo by Allison Johnson / The Verge Apple is now rolling out its iOS 27 update to compatible devices today, alongside the watchOS 27, iPadOS 27, and visionOS 27 updates. Siri AI is the headline feature across all four updates, the delayed AI-powered overhaul of the Siri assistant. Siri AI is available as a beta today for English-only devices, and Apple says support for French, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, and Spanish is coming in October.Siri AI isn't the only big feature in iOS 27, though. Apple is adding a new Liquid Glass opacity slider that lets you pick between a clearer UI or a more frosty one. A lot of built-in apps are also getting new icon designs, with subtle twea …Read the full story at The Verge.

Microsoft is about to make one of Windows 11's core security features a lot harder to ignore. The next Patch Tuesday update, rolling out on October 13, 2026, will automatically enable memory integrity on more eligible Windows PCs. If you've poked around Windows Security before, this may not sound like news. After all, memory integrity has been around for years, and Microsoft already enables it by default on clean Windows 11 installations if your PC meets its requirements.

Demonstrators hold a banner against Flock security cameras during a protest outside the G20 Innovation Ministerial in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, US, on Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2026. Photographer: Cornell Watson/Bloomberg via Getty Images | Bloomberg via Getty Images From Florida to Washington state, local governments across the country are canceling their contracts with Flock, the company behind the controversial AI-enabled license plate readers, in response to public outcry. But ending the contracts doesn't necessarily mean the cameras will come down immediately - or that the information they've gathered will be deleted anytime soon.Even as state and local governments decide to rein in their surveillance capabilities, uncertainty remains about what Flock can and will do with data that has already been collected. Each jurisdiction's contract is different, but many of them let Flock retain data long af …Read the full story at The Verge.

The memory crisis has stung the dedicated graphics market, making already expensive GPUs a lot more expensive for consumers. Nvidia's latest Blackwell GPUs launched within an MSRP range from $299 for an entry-level card to $1,999 for the flagship. Street prices right now, however, tell another story, because somehow, the entry-level card is near $470 and the flagship regularly crosses the $5,000 territory, with the entire lineup carrying a massive premium on the launch price.

I've been intrigued by the possibilities of an e-ink monitor as a second display to keep an eye on to-do lists or music playback. However, even years later, e-ink monitors command sky-high prices. Prices I absolutely was not willing to pay. I have an old Kindle that I barely use anymore. It's perfectly functional, but it's just sitting around as I have newer readers. So, instead of letting it collect dust, I decided to see if it could be used as an e-ink reader.

Qwen 3.5-9B is actually quite a good alternative to cloud models. It strikes the right balance between being a general-purpose LLM and handling agentic coding. My hardware is an M5 MacBook Air with 16 GB of RAM, so it’s quite limited. I’ve been model-hopping to see what works best for me. Originally, I used a customized Qwen 2.5 Coder for tool calls. It was relatively fast, but it would often fail at calling tools correctly.

The Game Boy era would have been even cooler if they could hook up to the internet; alas, we had to make do with performing Pokémon trades using a local link cable with our friends. Fortunately, with modern-day technology, we can retroactively give the Game Boy Advance a lifeline to our routers, and one person has found a great way to achieve that goal.

There's an iconic scene in the movie The Matrix where Neo dodges bullets as the camera pans around him. Recreating the scene as it appeared in the movie using nothing more than a Raspberry Pi is likely impossible, but we can achieve something similar. Such is the case with this Raspberry Pi camera, which snaps photos using four lenses at the same time; when you merge the four photos into one GIF, it looks like the scene is 'wobbling'.

With storage prices as high as they are right now, I've been looking harder at where I can save money in my home server and NAS setup. It's a search that has led me down a couple of avenues, including one that actually makes a lot of sense. Used enterprise SSDs are one place where you can save a significant sum of money without much of a concern about the state of usage. Look hard enough, and you can get a high-capacity SATA or NVMe drive for considerably less than new consumer models, and for the kind of workloads I run, a used drive can still have plenty of life left in it.

Out of all of the internet arguments you see online on a daily basis, how many have you seen become famous? It seems odd for a digital scrap to reach the annals of history, but one debate on a Usenet site did just that. Back in 1992, the creator of the Minix OS, Andrew S. Tanenbaum, made a post claiming that Linux was obsolete and would soon die out, and while it obviously didn't quite pan out like that, Minix also managed to make its home in modern-day computing.