Discord made huge waves among its community when it announced that it would begin rolling out age checks worldwide. Originally intended only for countries like the UK, where age scans are mandatory, Discord has claimed it'll begin asking everyone for face or ID scans to help protect teen safety.

I found out I had way more monthly subscriptions than I initially thought, and that was after trimming down quite a few. It's easy to sign up for services and forget about them; in fact, according to a 2024 report, the average American has between four and five subscriptions and pays roughly $924 per year — that's about $77 per month — on subscriptions. That's easy to believe, especially when a premium-tier Netflix subscription is $25 on its own. Throw in just a couple of other streaming services and those costs stack up fast.

Back in 2023, we were all having the same conversation: was it finally time to move on from DDR4? I asked myself that exact question when I built my own PC that year, and decided to jump onto AM5 with DDR5, convinced that it was the more "future-proof" choice. DDR4 felt like it was aging out, nearing the end of its lifecycle, and sticking with it seemed like delaying the inevitable.

Given how it's one of my favorite desktop environments, I'm always happy when I hear that a distro has adopted KDE Plasma as its default layout. However, I've never seen a dev team go the opposite way until today. As good as I think KDE Plasma is, some teams just don't want to jump through the hoops that it demands, as proven by one OS that used KDE Plasma for years will now use a different desktop environment.

Two hours before one of the most important live events in Netflix's history, LA's sprawling CBS Radford Studio Center is abuzz with the strangest combination of things. As I walk through one cavernous soundstage on a Tuesday afternoon, I hear multiple people warming up their voices to sing. I pass a man carefully waving a hair dryer in front of a piano. Outside, a man and a woman, both in scant black leather, walk past with a wave. I'm told they're aerialists. Somewhere in this enormous rehearsal space, there's also a 74-year-old budding standup comedian, an 11-year-old gospel singer, and a dancing border collie.Such is the wondrous, bizar …Read the full story at The Verge.

Hollywood groups have spoken out against Seedance 2.0 since generated videos like fight scenes between Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt went viral. | Image by Dave Benett / WireImage via Getty TikTok creator ByteDance says that it is working to improve safeguards on its new AI video generator after Disney, Paramount, and Hollywood trade groups accused the tool of violating copyright protections. Concerns were raised after hyperrealistic videos generated by the Seedance 2.0 model went viral last week, with the likeness of actors, such as Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt, and characters from Dragon Ball Z, Family Guy, and Pokémon."ByteDance respects intellectual property rights and we have heard the concerns regarding Seedance 2.0," a ByteDance spokesperson said in a statement shared by CNBC. "We are taking steps to strengthen current saf …Read the full story at The Verge.

While it seems like a new AI model is entering the game every single day, only a handful of names actually dominate the conversation. For the longest time, I bounced between Gemini, Perplexity, and, of course, ChatGPT. I relied on each for different tasks, convinced that rotating between them was the only way to get the best results.

Sam Altman announced on X that Peter Steinberger, the man behind the trendy AI agent OpenClaw, was joining OpenAI. He said that Steinberger has "a lot of amazing ideas" about getting AI agents to interact with each other, saying "the future is going to be extremely multi-agent." He also said that this ability for agents to work together will "quickly become core to our product offerings."OpenClaw, previously known as Moltbot and Clawdbot, exploded on the scene earlier this year and became the darling of the tech world. Its rise was swift, but not without its bumps along the way. Earlier this month, researchers found over 400 malicious skil …Read the full story at The Verge.

The hype surrounding the 2026 Steam Machine revival is nothing if not palpable at the moment. Valve seems to have finally perfected the "console-like" PC experience, offering a sleek, living-room-ready box that promises to bridge the gap between the desk and the couch. Right now, things are a bit iffy, though, with the future of the Steam Machine unclear, along with its pricing and software capabilities. That's thanks to the ongoing AI boom and the RAM crisis, which have proven to be a bane for PC hardware enthusiasts in 2026.

It's no surprise that games have been taking up more and more space these days. The optimist in me wants to say it's because we're exploring bigger, more feature-rich, and more graphically intense worlds, but there is a pessimistic side that believes that, because we're at a point where terabytes of data come easily, game developers just don't put in much effort to squeeze their game down.

When I first started using Obsidian, it felt intimidating. Creating a note wasn’t as easy as it was in other apps. But little by little, I started putting together my setup and adding community plugins that gave me the look and features I needed to structure my notes the way I wanted.

I've been getting into atomic Linux distros lately, which is a sentence I can only really say on a tech blog and not among my friends. But while I've only used an atomic distro on a PC, I am interested to see how it'd run on a mobile device. I'm not so brave as to wipe my current phone and go all-in on using Linux on it just yet (well, a non-Android Linux OS, anyway), but now that I've learned that there's an atomic Fedora OS that works on mobile phones, I might just give it a go.