Ursa’s classic spherical profile and centered legends dress up any Topre keyboard. Your Happy Hacking Keyboard can finally get fresh caps. While regular keyboards have an embarrassment of keycap options, Topre boards like the HHKB or Realforce R3 don't. They've more or less been relegated to OEM-profile PBT keycaps with dye-sublimated legends, in light grey, charcoal, white, or (recently) a few more colorful options. Something as basic as black keycaps with white legends just didn't exist for unmodified Topre boards. Until now. Ursa is a new style of keycap for Topre electrocapacitive switches. I first wrote about them in April 2024, during the group buy, which was originally expected to ship in early 2025. Well, here …Read the full story at The Verge.

When you buy the $799 Meta Ray-Ban Display, you aren’t just getting a pair of smart glasses: you’re also getting Meta’s Neural Band, a small wristband that you use to control what’s on the glasses’ display. It’s an essential part of the product.But, if by some unfortunate circumstance, you need to buy a replacement for the wristband, it’s been unclear how you would do that. The wristband isn’t listed for sale online. One buyer told The Verge that Meta’s customer service said it wasn’t possible to purchase a replacement. That led us to reach out to Meta just to make sure — it was hard to believe that the only solution to a lost Neural Band would be buying an entirely new pair of the smart glasses. It turns out that Meta actually will let you buy a new Neural Band if you contact customer service, but it’ll cost $199, making for a pretty expensive replacement. Only customers who have already purchased the Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses and need a band replacement that’s outside of Meta’s limited warranty policy will be able to buy the wristband on its own, according to Meta’s Tyler Yee. If you fall under those requirements, you can reach out to Meta’s customer support to make your case.

If you've seen my previous Raspberry Pi coverage, you'll know that I am a huge sucker for e-paper displays. What's not to love about them? They don't use a ton of power, they look professional, and you can use them for a ton of different things. If you need to display information on a screen but don't need a high refresh rate, e-paper is an excellent option.

If you own a Samsung phone, you'll know of the Samsung-branded apps that your device comes pre-loaded with. They're typically only on mobile, which, for stuff like the Samsung app store, isn't a huge deal. However, some people really gel with Samsung Internet, the built-in browser that comes with Samsung mobile devices, only to discover that they also can't download the browser on their PC.

The recent news of Qualcomm acquiring Arduino has stirred both excitement and unease in the maker and open-source hardware communities. Reports suggest that Arduino will retain its brand, tools, and mission under the deal and will continue to support chips from multiple manufacturers. Even so, the move raises several concerns about the future of Arduino, especially for hobbyists, educators, and smaller developers. Here are five reasons why I’m personally worried about this acquisition, based on what’s been shared publicly so far.

The Samsung 990 Pro has been around for a few years now, but is still one of the best Gen4 SSDs that you can buy. This particular model comes with a heatsink, allowing for better sustained performance, even in tight spaces. We gave this SSD high marks when we reviewed it, and it's perfect for upgrading the storage on your PC, laptop, gaming console, and other compatible devices.

Self-hosting your own services may seem like a chore, but it’s worth the hassle when cloud platforms and online applications inch closer to intrusive, subscription-based models with each passing day. While they’re often associated with home labs and server-grade equipment, you don’t need powerful systems or a lot of technical know-how to run services on local hardware.

Microsoft Azure, the company’s cloud computing service, has experienced an outage just one week after issues with AWS took out swaths of the internet. The issues impacted Microsoft’s services that run on Azure, including Microsoft 365, Xbox, and even Minecraft. Other companies, like Capital One, Alaska Airlines, and Starbucks, also had outages that were linked to the problems with Azure.On Azure’s status page, Microsoft’s messages have linked the outage to an “inadvertent configuration change” and DNS problem. As Microsoft reported its earnings on Wednesday afternoon, its main website continued to load slowly as the outage dragged on.An update on Microsoft’s status page at 7:40PM ET included this information:Starting at approximately 16:00 UTC on 29 October 2025, customers and Microsoft services leveraging Azure Front Door (AFD) may have experienced latencies, timeouts, and errors. We have confirmed that an inadvertent configuration change was the trigger event for this issue.Affected Azure services may have included, but were not limited to:App Service, Azure Active Directory B2C, Azure Communication Services, Azure Databricks, Azure Healthcare APIs, Azure Maps, Azure Portal, Azure SQL Database, Azure Virtual Desktop, Container Registry, Media Services, Microsoft Defender External Attack Surface Management, Microsoft Entra ID (Mobility Management Policy Service, Identity & Access Management, and User Management UX), Microsoft Purview, Microsoft Sentinel (Threat Intelligence), and Video Indexer.The AFD service is now operating above 98% availability. While the majority of customers and services are mitigated or seeing strong improvement across affected regions, we are continuing to work on tail-end recovery for remaining impacted customers and services. We have revised our mitigation time and are currently tracking toward full mitigation by 00:40 UTC on 30 October 2025, though we will communicate if mitigation is achieved sooner.The Xbox Support X account also says that gaming services have recovered to their pre-incident state; however, some players said they needed to restart their consoles to reconnect.At 12:25PM ET, Microsoft 365’s status account on X said the company is investigating reports of “issues accessing Microsoft 365 services and the Microsoft 365 admin center.” A Microsoft 365 update posted at 1:02PM ET said the company “identified portions of internal infrastructure that are experiencing connectivity issues,” and that it’s working to “reroute affected traffic to restore service health.” Meanwhile, Xbox’s status page still wasn’t loading, but that has since come back online.The outage stretched beyond Microsoft’s services, as Alaska Airlines and Hawaiian Airlines said they were “currently experiencing a disruption to key systems, including our websites” due to issues with Azure. The airlines advise customers to see an agent at the airport to get their boarding pass if they couldn’t check in online.Community Fibre, an internet provider in the UK, similarly confirmed that some customers may have experienced issues due to the Microsoft outage. Additionally, Kroger told customers that its site and mobile apps were “experiencing an unexpected outage,” while Starbucks’ and Costco’s websites and apps weren’t loading, and users reported issues with Capital One.A global outage impacted the Microsoft Azure platform today where several Alaska and Hawaiian Airlines services are hosted, causing a disruption to key systems, including our websites.Our teams worked quickly to stand up our backup infrastructure to allow our guests to book and…— Alaska Airlines News (@AlaskaAirNews) October 29, 2025Our configuration deployment and traffic rebalancing is showing steady service health improvement for the various affected M365 services. Some users may experience residual impact until availability fully recovers. We're monitoring for an extended period to ensure service health…— Microsoft 365 Status (@MSFT365Status) October 29, 2025All Xbox Services have recovered to their pre-incident state. Thank you for your patience while we addressed this issue.— Xbox Support (@XboxSupport) October 29, 2025Update, October 29th: Added details on recovery.

I've been self-hosting service for the past few months, but I'm not as far as I would like to be in my self-hosting journey. Over time, I've realized one of the things that people over-simplify about self-hosting is how much technical skill is involved.

If you love horror games, there's a good chance you've heard of Lethal Company before. It made huge waves in the horror scene when it released, and we're still seeing games released that base their mechanics on Lethal Company to this day. However, not everyone knows that the game's developer, Zeekerss, made other games, too.

As a PC user, diagnosing performance issues, blue screens, and weird behavior comes with the territory. Windows is often the culprit behind many of these problems, but it also has a built-in diagnostic tool you've probably never taken seriously. Event Viewer is an underrated tool that offers deep insight into everything that happens on your PC. It keeps a log of every single occurrence on your system, from system and application to security-related events. These detailed logs can offer you unprecedented clarity about why your PC has been acting up. Instead of rushing to third-party tools, you ought to check out Event Viewer first.

Usually, a motherboard upgrade usually means an upgrade of the CPU, along with the usual improvements of moving to a newer platform: faster memory support, more expansion slots available, maybe even better I/O. One of the biggest features I didn't expect to love so much wasn't performance-related at all, but rather, a mechanical quality-of-life feature that I never knew I would care about: tool-less mechanisms for installing hardware on the board.