For a long time, I only opened Claude Code when I thought I had a coding problem. I’d ask it to write a script, explain something unfamiliar, or help me untangle a project that had already gone sideways. It was useful, but I kept treating Claude’s ability to inspect an entire directory as a side feature rather than my favorite use. Once I started pointing it at messy project folders, scattered notes, old drafts, and files with names that stopped being helpful months ago, it became far more useful in my actual day-to-day work.

I stood before a hulking glass and brick structure in the heart of Fort Worth, Texas. Thousands gathered inside to see what had been billed as "the future of policing in the digital age." As press, I was prohibited from entering, but from a number of nearby locations, I met with attendees who told me what was being sold within. And I learned that AI is threatening to seize the very heart of policing in America.The promise of AI at this year's International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) Technology Conference focused on automating routine parts of the job, which also happen to be critical steps in the legal process. It's a similar …Read the full story at The Verge.

I’ve been using Immich to organize my photos for a while, and thanks to its built-in 3-2-1 backup provisions, neat UI, and memories facility, I managed to get my family to switch over to this FOSS application. But after sifting through Immich’s documentation to configure email notifications for the other denizens of my household, I came across a page on its machine-learning algorithms.

The OnePlus 15 was the company’s final US flagship. | Photo: Allison Johnson / The Verge OnePlus has confirmed what industry observers have long expected: it's quitting the US and European markets, and will no longer launch new products in either region. Parent company Oppo promises that it will honor existing support and warranty agreements, with devices transitioning to its ColorOS for future updates."Software updates and after-sale support will be guaranteed" in both the US and Europe, Oppo's senior PR manager in Europe, James Paterson, told The Verge in a call. The company wouldn't confirm any specifics on how it will honor its warranty and support agreements in the US, where it will now have no presence at all. In Europe, …Read the full story at The Verge.

Google must give rival AI assistants and search engines greater access to key parts of Android and Google Search after the European Union ordered the company to comply with the bloc's digital antitrust rules. The two decisions, handed down Thursday, could weaken Google's control over two of the tech industry's most important platforms and have far-reaching consequences for the company, shape the future of its AI tool Gemini, and open up new opportunities for rivals to gain ground. The rulings stem from technical regulatory proceedings under the EU's Digital Markets Act (DMA), which requires dominant platforms - designated "gatekeepers" - …Read the full story at The Verge.

I'm not going to act like I'm great at choosing PC parts that offer incredible value because I've upgraded from an RTX 3090 to a 4090, replaced a 240Hz monitor with a 360Hz OLED, and even ditched my 5800X3D for a 9800X3D earlier this year, even though I wasn't really CPU bottlenecked. Still, every single one of these upgrades gave me something tangible in return. The CPU and GPU upgrades improved frame rates, and the faster monitor let me make better use of those extra frames.

Though I've been a Waze user for years, I've expanded my navigation app horizons to include Apple Maps (it's so much better than it was at launch) and, more recently, Google Maps.

While typewriters have moved on from general public use, they do have one good use in a busy modern-day world: they're totally free of digital distractions. But how do you bring the typewriter into the 21st century for general use? Well, Myth Made on YouTube has the solution: an e-ink typewriter that's the perfect blend of old and new.

After Sony stated that it will halt PlayStation disc production in 2028, the discourse around owning physical copies of video games has once again bubbled to the surface. However, one person has gone one step further and turned their Steam library into individual SSD "cartridges" for each game. And yes, you need to slot them in for them to work.

Roblox is about to let people make games with AI right inside its mobile app, which could make a platform that's already filled with content of questionable quality feel even more overloaded. The company has embraced AI with open arms, including a preview of an ambitious take on AI world models similar to Google's Project Genie, an AI foundation model that developers can use to generate 3D game assets, and an AI assistant chatbot that can help developers while they're building games. The tools announced today will make using AI for Roblox game development far more accessible, though the company is starting small at first.The new feature is …Read the full story at The Verge.

Google CEO Sundar Pichai | Bloomberg via Getty Images Today, the European Union ordered Google to give its AI rivals greater access to Android, the open-source operating system that powers billions of devices worldwide. The demand is hardly surprising. It may look like a defeat on paper for Google, which has spent years resisting exactly this kind of access, but it is a regulatory win. It's also a sign that Google may have outmaneuvered Apple by playing Brussels' regulatory game far more shrewdly. In one of two decisions handed down on Thursday, the European Commission - the EU's executive arm and the principal enforcer of the bloc's competition rules - said Google must give rival AI assistan …Read the full story at The Verge.

Google is giving its AI note-taking app a new name. The company announced on Thursday that NotebookLM is becoming Gemini Notebook, but will remain a standalone app even as it integrates more deeply across Gemini and Google Search.Google first revealed Gemini Notebook - then called Project Tailwind - in May 2023 before widely releasing the app just months later. Over the past few years, Google has been adding new features to the app to help organize and make sense of your notes, such as the ability to summarize them as AI podcasts, narrated slideshows, and TikTok-style clips. It recently started letting users connect their notebooks to the …Read the full story at The Verge.