A startup called Operation Bluebird is trying to reclaim Twitter's branding, as reported earlier by Ars Technica and Reuters. Last week, Operation Bluebird filed a petition that asks the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) to cancel X Corp.'s ownership of the "Twitter" and "Tweet" trademarks, claiming they've been "abandoned" by the Elon Musk-owned company.Operation Bluebird is led by founder Michael Peroff, an Illinois trademark and brand protection attorney, along with Stephen Coates, a trademark attorney who worked as Twitter's associate director of trademarks, domain names, and marketing from 2014 to 2016. The startup also filed a t …Read the full story at The Verge.

Windows 11 did a major overhaul of the native File Explorer app, which was equally liked and mocked after the release. While the app did improve over time, it added essential features like tab support, an improved details pane, and support for more archive formats. I don't hate the app, but there's a reason so many third-party alternatives exist. Windows 11 File Explorer doesn't match everyone's expectations and can act sluggishly, ignore necessary features, and has many more drawbacks. These drawbacks might not matter to the average PC user who needs a basic app.

A new beta feature on Spotify takes the idea behind the Discover Weekly playlist and puts the control in users' hands through AI prompts. Prompted Playlists, which are initially launching in New Zealand on Thursday, let users type out exactly what they want to listen to, with as much or little detail as they like. Then Spotify's AI curates a playlist based on those instructions and the user's listening history. Users can also set Prompted Playlists to regularly refresh with new songs based on the same prompt, effectively allowing you to make a Discover Weekly playlist with an algorithm you control. Earlier this year, Discover Weekly playli …Read the full story at The Verge.

Portable monitors had a bit of a moment a few years back, with cheap offerings flooding the market, making them great displays if you needed something that you could take with you on the go. However, they can also be a great tool if you're looking to debug your home lab.

My Network-Attached Storage servers are an essential part of my home lab, as they house essential project files, VM data, OS images, actual images, ebooks, ROM files, and everything in between. As my collection of hoarded files grew, I had to start upgrading my NAS' capacity or risk making my “private” data vulnerable to hardware failures and (admittedly) my own botched experiments.

There's a very specific kind of magic that Nintendo used to deal in. It was the kind that made you believe cardboard could become robotic, and that you looked ultra-cool with a plastic bazooka strapped to your shoulder. Over the ages, it really does feel like Nintendo has tried everything under the sky, and, for me, the worst part is that most of the coolest stuff seems to have happened before my time.

If you'd asked me a couple of years ago which machine I'd want for running large language models locally, I'd have pointed straight at an Nvidia-based dual-GPU beast with plenty of RAM, storage, and processing power. That was the safe answer, of course. CUDA has been around for a long time with a thriving ecosystem, and much of AI has been built off the back of it. Paired with a ton of VRAM (such as the RTX 3090, which has 24GB of VRAM), it would have been the best option most consumers could even fathom.

I get it, life takes over sometimes, leaving your desk a mess, filled with devices, cables and anything else that's long been forgotten about. If you've been looking for a way to tidy things up, this Anker docking station might be helpful. It features 14 ports for versatile connectivity, and can also provide up to 160W of power to devices when needed.

When business leaders spout buzzwords like "AI," "8K" and "5G," sometimes in the same sentence, we often get a sneaking suspicion they don't know what they mean! With President Donald Trump, there's no need to wonder: he clearly has no idea. "What does [6G] do? Give you a little bit deeper view into somebody's skin?" he mused today, live on TV, right in front of Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon, who did not bother to correct him.Trump: So we're into 6G now. Yeesh. I was a leader on 5G, getting that done. What does that do? Give you a little bit deeper view into somebody's skin? I like the cameras of the old days.- FactPost (@factpostnews.bsky. …Read the full story at The Verge.

Storage has come a long way in recent years, from hard disk drives to solid-state drives, and now that we're multiple generations deep into the SSD reign, it has to be said: the HDD is not dead.

The Trump administration could soon require tourists from dozens of nations to hand over their social media handles before entering the country. Under a proposal from US Customs and Border Protection, the agency would make social media history from the past five years a "mandatory" part of the screening process, as reported earlier by The New York Times. Right now, travelers from 42 countries - including Australia, France, Germany, Japan, and the UK - can visit the US for up to 90 days without a visa. If the proposal becomes official, visitors would have to include their social media accounts when applying through the Electronic System for …Read the full story at The Verge.

The computing landscape is shifting towards lower-powered processors that give better efficiency while still providing enough compute power for advanced tasks. But if you wanted to use Arm-based devices in your home lab, the only real options were SBCs like the Raspberry Pi.