Logitech recently released the MX Master 4 mouse, its new flagship mouse for productivity. You may have already read our review (and you should if you haven't), but I've also been using the mouse for the past few weeks (I also received a review unit), and I've quickly fallen in love with it. It's frankly a huge upgrade over the previous model.

This is an excerpt of Sources by Alex Heath, a newsletter about AI and the tech industry, syndicated just for The Verge subscribers once a week.This week, I got an up-close look at how far apart Silicon Valley and Hollywood are on what to do about AI.First, at OpenAI DevDay, Sam Altman presented the new Sora app as a gift to content creators. If anything, he suggested, OpenAI was being too censorious by not allowing people to make even more kinds of AI videos."On the whole, creators, rights holders, people are very excited about the potential of this," Altman said during a media Q&A in San Francisco on Monday that I attended. "They bel …Read the full story at The Verge.

There are a lot of keyboards to choose from if you do a quick search on Amazon, which can be overwhelming if you're looking for something new. That's why it's always best to go with a trusted brand, and if we're talking about keyboards, there's no better company than Keychron.

After nearly a decade of waiting, Hollow Knight: Silksonghas finally been released, and fans who are returning to the series are finding it much more difficult than they anticipated, especially against the new bosses. With almost 50 unique boss fights in the game, we've rounded up the four that gave us the hardest time, and offer a few tricks that make them easier to deal with.

Will OpenAI send police to your door if you advocate for AI regulation?  Nathan Calvin, a lawyer who shapes policies surrounding the technology at Encode AI, claims OpenAI did just that.“One Tuesday night, as my wife and I sat down for dinner, a sheriff’s deputy knocked on the door to serve me a subpoena from OpenAI,” Calvin writes on X. In addition to subpoenaing the organization he works for, Calvin claims that OpenAI subpoenaed him personally, with the sheriff’s deputy asking for his private messages with California legislators, college students, and former OpenAI employees.“I believe OpenAI used the pretext of their lawsuit against Elon Musk to intimidate their critics and imply that Elon is behind all of them,” Calvin says. Last month, The San Francisco Standard reported that OpenAI had subpoenaed Encode AI to find out whether the group is funded by Elon Musk. OpenAI issued the subpoena as part of its countersuit against Elon Musk, which claims the billionaire has engaged in “bad-faith tactics to slow down OpenAI.” OpenAI also subpoenaed Meta about its involvement with Musk’s $97.4 billion takeover bid.One Tuesday night, as my wife and I sat down for dinner, a sheriff’s deputy knocked on the door to serve me a subpoena from OpenAI.I held back on talking about it because I didn't want to distract from SB 53, but Newsom just signed the bill so… here's what happened:🧵 pic.twitter.com/VnYCJYg2DH— Nathan Calvin (@_NathanCalvin) October 10, 2025Encode advocates for safety in AI and recently put together an open letter that presses OpenAI on how it plans to preserve its nonprofit mission amidst its corporate restructuring plans. The organization also pushed for SB 53, the landmark AI bill in California signed into law in September, which compels large AI companies to reveal information about their safety and security processes.“This is not normal. OpenAI used an unrelated lawsuit to intimidate advocates of a bill trying to regulate them. While the bill was still being debated,” Calvin said, adding that he didn’t turn over any of the documents requested.When reached for comment, OpenAI pointed The Verge to a post from Aaron Kwon, the company’s chief strategy officer, saying: “Our goal was to understand the full context of why Encode chose to join Elon’s legal challenge.” Encode backed Musk’s efforts to block OpenAI from becoming a for-profit company last year. Kwon also adds that “it’s quite common for deputies to also work as part-time process servers.”OpenAI’s head of mission alignment, Joshua Achiam, responded to Calvin’s post on X. “At what is possibly a risk to my whole career I will say: this doesn’t seem great,” Achiam wrote. “We can’t be doing things that make us into a frightening power instead of a virtuous one. We have a duty to and a mission for all of humanity. The bar to pursue that duty is remarkably high.”Tyler Johnston, the founder of the AI watchdog group The Midas Project, similarly reported that he and his organization received subpoenas from OpenAI. Johnston said OpenAI asked for “a list of every journalist, congressional office, partner organization, former employee, and member of the public” that the organization has spoken to about OpenAI’s restructuring.Update, October 10th: Added a response from OpenAI.

Few PC mods offer the visual wow factor of a vertically mounted graphics card. It is a shame that the default mounting style places the carefully designed and rather good-looking GPU shroud facing down, where nobody can see it. All the reference designs, triple-fan coolers, and RGB lighting are just pitifully pointed at the floor. Flipping that card upright turns it from a mere component into the centerpiece of your build, a true work of art showcased behind a tempered glass panel. If you have little use for the PCI expansion slots below your primary one, it's a fantastic way to personalize your rig.

Bring out the pumpkins and the skeletons because the spooky season is yet again upon us. Truth be told, there's no better time throughout the year to play horror games than October, because that's when the heebie-jeebies are in the air, and every scary game becomes just a tad more terrifying because of the season.

Bose is discontinuing support for the cloud-based features available on its SoundTouch products on February 18th, 2026.“After February 18, certain features — including access to integrated music services like Spotify and TuneIn, as well as multi-room playback — will no longer be available,” Bose says. That same day, the SoundTouch app will stop working, too, meaning you won’t be able to use it to control your speakers. “However, if your SoundTouch product supports Bluetooth, AUX, or HDMI, you’ll still be able to enjoy high-quality audio playback from connected devices.”Specifically, here’s what Bose says will be affected:Some functions such as Bluetooth and AUX on standalone SoundTouch speakers (like SoundTouch 10, 20 Series III, and 30 Series III) will most likely continue to work when connected to a local source, but we can’t guarantee long-term performance. For SoundTouch-enabled home theater products such as Lifestyle 650, SoundTouch 130, and SoundTouch 300 Soundbar, HDMI and optical inputs as well as Bluetooth should continue to work. Other features like SoundTouch streaming and app control, will no longer function.The company launched its first SoundTouch products in 2013, but Bose says that “technology has evolved since then and we’re no longer able to sustain the development and support of the cloud infrastructure that powers this older generation of products.” The company had already partially started moving on from the SoundTouch line years ago, adding a notice to its website in 2020 that said it would be “discontinuing sales of some SoundTouch products.” At the time, Bose said it was committed to supporting “both the SoundTouch app and product software for the foreseeable future.”With this cloud services shutdown, Bose will also stop offering security updates for SoundTouch products. And Bose isn’t planning to offer a replacement app or platform: “we do not plan to support SoundTouch products through any other app,” the company says.Many users on the Bose subreddit are unhappy with the change, with a thread about the announcement getting more than 260 comments as of this writing. “I have literally spent many thousands on these products,” one user wrote. “What a slap in the face. They are basically doorstops now.”Bose didn’t immediately reply to a request for comment. 

It's very rare to find a game that's focused on World War 2 and doesn't involve you fighting people. However, such titles do exist, and WW2 Rebuilder is one of them. While other games set during one of humanity's darkest times typically focus on the struggles of soldiers, this city builder puts the spotlight on the people who picked up the pieces and rebuilt society once again.

Notion is a powerful, immensely capable tool, but it's easy to fall into the trap of believing that it's more capable than it actually is. I implemented it into my workflow for a while, but it didn't take long to realize I was less productive than before, if only because I felt like I had to make Notion fit into how I approached projects. It's a solid application for certain tasks, but not everything.

When you're building out your home network, you might be tempted by some ex-enterprise networking gear, and it's not hard to see why. Consumer networking cards tend to top out at 10GbE, which is fine, honestly, but then you look at decommissioned data center gear, which could be 25GbE, 40GbE, or even 100GbE and beyond. It's incredibly enticing, and a situation I've found myself in once or thrice.

If you discount my AWS app stack and the virtual machines I’d run on TrueNAS, Proxmox was technically the first home server distribution I ever tinkered with. Thanks to its intuitive UI and a rich set of virtualization features, it didn’t take long for Proxmox to drag me down the home lab rabbit hole – and while I’ve cycled between numerous server-oriented platforms since then, my PVE nodes have remained faithfully by my side.