Donald Trump sitting in the Oval Office. Donald Trump is no stranger to outlandish conspiracies or strange social media posts. But, by any measure, his post on Saturday night was particularly bizarre. The president posted (and later removed) a clip on Truth Social of a fake Fox News segment with Lara Trump detailing the White House’s announcement of the world’s first MedBed hospital and a national MedBed card system (two things that very much do not exist). Fox News told The Verge that the MedBed segment, “never aired on Fox News Channel or any other Fox News Media platforms.”There was no additional context, no text to explain things. Confusing matters more, the video appears to be completely AI generated, including Trump himself discussing the program in the Oval Office. (Perhaps one of the biggest giveaways being the president’s ability to stay on script.)MedBeds, for those that tend to avoid the more QANON-y corners of the internet, are an imaginary medical device that can do everything from treat asthma, to regrow missing limbs, to cure cancer. The fantasy of an all-in-one device that can cure all your ills has obvious appeal, but belief that these are real products being kept from the American public by Big Pharma has grown among conspiracy theorists in recent years.Many of the presidents followers acknowledged that the video was AI-generated, but still seemed to believe that Trump was confirming the existence of MedBeds. Whatever the purpose of the post was, we may never know. The president frequently sends things out into the ether and never explains himself. And now that the video has been removed the White House will likely try to pretend the whole incident away.Trump tonight appears to have pushed the false "medbed" conspiracy theory, which has spread in the far-right internet over the years. www.yahoo.com/news/qanon-c…— Alex Kaplan (@alkapdc.bsky.social) 2025-09-28T03:14:11.696ZUpdated September 28th: Added comment from Fox News.

The last few months, I've felt like I'm living in a cyberpunk movie. Each night, when I get ready to wind down, I reach for the remote to turn on a TV I got for free. When I hit the power button, a 55-inch screen lights up, but so does a smaller display beneath it. Widgets fill the secondary screen alongside a rotating ad that you can't dismiss.Before I can even navigate to the Netflix app, I hear something. "Hello, hello friends!" A smiling woman appears on the screen wearing a gray dress, her brown hair neatly styled into gentle waves. It's the host of the TV's built-in news segment, which uses the AI likeness of actress Alison Fiori to …Read the full story at The Verge.

Silksong resembles the original Hollow Knight in many ways, though right from the start, you can hear one key difference: Hornet. Hollow Knight's protagonist was silent, but just as Hornet was voiced in that game, as the protagonist of Silksong, she has a voice, too, and actor Makoto Koji brings a lot of personality to the role."She's confident, she's sure of herself, she's very stoic," Koji says in an interview with The Verge. But Hornet has a goofiness as well, according to Koji, and she thinks Team Cherry did a good job showing how multifaceted Hornet is. This is particularly impressive because Hornet, and all of the characters in Silks …Read the full story at The Verge.

When I built my first PC well over a decade ago, I didn't care much about the hardware besides the CPU and GPU. When it came to RAM, all that mattered to me was the capacity and speed. I remember going through listings on Amazon without any clue what half the other numbers meant. CAS latency, voltage, ranks, and even things like XMP profiles were just meaningless jargon to me at the time. In fact, I prioritized capacity so much that it never became an issue in the seven years I used that PC.

The Asus ROG Xbox Ally and ROG Xbox Ally X handheld gaming PCs are expected to change the Xbox brand, expanding Microsoft's console line into the handheld space. With the Xbox Ally and Ally X landing just next month, the hype for the new Asus and Xbox co-branded devices is pretty high.

On a recent trip, I had to pack lightly, which meant I needed to take a laptop that could run my go-to games. I thought about just sticking with my MSI Claw 7 AI+ handheld, but I knew I'd need to get some work done while on the road, and a laptop's the easier choice when traveling since I don't need to bring additional accessories.

For years, the gold standard for complex trip planning was simple: hire a travel agent. You pay for expertise, organization, and peace of mind. But times have changed. I recently discovered a better and infinitely more personalized way to build the trip of a lifetime using Google’s AI tool: NotebookLM.

A still from the Critterz short film. This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on the intersection of entertainment and technology, follow Charles Pulliam-Moore. The Stepback arrives in our subscribers' inboxes at 8AM ET. Opt in for The Stepback here.How it startedIn just a few short years, text-to-image models went from only being able to churn out smudgy, "dreamlike" approximations of their input to producing detailed visualizations of whatever you describe. As the AI image generators got better, text-to-video models like Runway's Gen series, Meta's Make-A-Video, and Google's Veo also came into their own. Now …Read the full story at The Verge.

So, Windows 10's end-of-life date is fast approaching. By the time October is over, Windows 10 will have fallen out of support. While there are plenty of official ways to score a free year of security updates, some people will choose to upgrade to Windows 11 instead.

We've all been there, haven't we? Gaming throughout our childhoods, our best teenage years, making memories of team plays with squad mates we still talk about. And yet, despite being known as 'gamers' in our collective friend groups, there's always a time when we just couldn't, for the life of us, pick up the controller and play something.

For most of his career Larry Ellison has been content to quietly let Oracle be the company, behind the company, behind the technology that makes headlines. Its biggest products being cloud computing and database products that it sells to enterprise customers like DHL, Northwell Health, and Fanatics. But, now in his 80s, Ellison has begun a second act shifting from Silicon Valley pioneer, to media mogul.Compared to many of the other people at the top of the Forbes Billionaires list, Larry Ellison tends to keep a low profile. That's not to say he hasn't seen his fair share of headlines, especially in recent years. But he, and his company Ora …Read the full story at The Verge.

Less elegant but much more scratch resistant. As the nation's foremost FineWoven hater, I have some great news about Apple's follow-up: it doesn't suck. I've been using a TechWoven case on an iPhone 17 Pro for the past week and I have no complaints. I took it up a mountain; I stored it in the sweaty back pocket of my yoga pants on a bike ride. I carried it next to my keys, gave it to my toddler, and handled it while measuring out ingredients for banana bread. It's fine. Fine is good.Remember FineWoven? Apple introduced the material in 2023 when the company discontinued its leather cases and accessories - which it did for good reasons. FineWoven's "microtwill," as Apple described it, i …Read the full story at The Verge.