The fight for net neutrality never seems to be truly won or lost.Federal net neutrality rules have been on and off for the past 15 years. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) passed the Open Internet Order under President Barack Obama in 2010, prohibiting ISPs from blocking or throttling lawful internet traffic, the baseline rule of net neutrality. Then, at the request of those ISPs, a court blocked its rules. An updated framework was passed by the FCC in 2015, only to be overturned in 2017 under President Donald Trump's first administration. It seemed poised for a comeback in 2024, but the victory lasted mere months before a court …Read the full story at The Verge.

Wireless technology has enabled us to progress considerably within the tech space. We have powerful smartphones, laptops, and a whole manner of hardware that allows for the creation of the smart home. Although we've moved through a few standard generations now, we're still encountering issues relating to wireless communications when used with smart home devices. Most homes will have access to an ISP-provided router, the small box that comes with your broadband connection, which is tasked with handling all traffic sent through available channels.

One of the best things about owning a 3D printer is that it can upgrade itself. Once you get past the first few successful Benchies, you start noticing all the little annoyances that slow you down or make printing more stressful than it needs to be. That is when printing your own accessories starts to feel less like a novelty and more like basic maintenance. Over time, I have settled on a handful of printed parts that stay on or next to my printers permanently. These are the quiet workhorses that keep everything running more smoothly, cleaner, and much more predictably.

It's hard to move away from something when you've gotten comfortable using it. But if it's for your health, the argument becomes a little easier, although it's still going to take a lot of convincing with something like a mouse.

Anyone else remember the time when demos were the event? You'd wait for the latest magazine to hit the stands, tear open the plastic wrap, and slide the demo disc into your PC or console, and lose entire weekends replaying the same 20 minutes of gameplay because that was all you had. Demos felt like a handshake between developers and players, with the former saying, "Here, try it. See if this is for you."

A new year is about to start, so the XDA team has been reflecting on the games that we’re looking forward to most next year. The big one, obviously, is Grand Theft Auto VI. Pushed out of 2025 and even further back into 2026 through two separate delays, we’re still eagerly awaiting what Rockstar Games has in store for us next and if it’ll live up to the lofty expectations already hoisted upon it.

If you follow my work, you know that I've become a huge fan of Linux in the past year or so, and I much prefer to use it over Windows 11 in most cases. I'm usually hopping between Linux or macOS in my daily life now.

We've seen DIY tinkerers make their own portable hardware plenty of times before. If you need some inspiration, just check out any cyberdeck, or that one time someone turned an Apple M4 Mac Mini into a portable computer. People just love making hardware that you can carry around with you.

Instagram boss Adam Mosseri is closing out 2025 with a 20-images-deep dive into what a new era of "infinite synthetic content" means as it all becomes harder and harder to distinguish from reality, and the old, more personal Instagram feed that he says has been "dead" for years. Last year, The Verge's Sarah Jeong wrote that "…the default assumption about a photo is about to become that it's faked, because creating realistic and believable fake photos is now trivial to do," and Mosseri eventually concurs:For most of my life I could safely assume photographs or videos were largely accurate captures of moments that happened. This is clearly …Read the full story at The Verge.

When it comes to smart home control, having a dedicated display where you can control all aspects of the devices you have isn't just convenient, it's practically required once you amass enough of them. For awhile, the go-to recommendation for many has been a purpose-built smart display; devices like the Echo Show or Nest Hub are designed and marketed as the ideal control surface. They're always-on, voice-enabled displays that, on paper, make sense.

As far as portable game consoles go, China-based One-Netbook's latest OneXPlayer gaming handheld is more than a little out there, but that's also what the company has built its reputation on so far.

NotebookLM is one of the most powerful tools available to us today, but it boasts a major, glaring downside: you're completely locked in to Google, and all of your data is available for review. Even though privacy is implied, it's not guaranteed. Also, Google doesn't exactly have the best track record of maintaining projects in the long-term (remember Stadia?) For writers with multi-year-long novel projects, that's not acceptable.