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.

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.

There are a lot of different ways to go if you're looking for a new mouse. But if you want something that's a little different, that promises better comfort than the traditional mouse, we think this one from Logitech is going to be a good choice.

At a Senate hearing Wednesday on government censorship of tech platforms, a Meta executive expressed regret to Republican lawmakers for failing to speak out more against the Biden administration's requests that it remove health and election misinformation, including satire. Google, meanwhile, held firm in its stance, saying that evaluating - and often rejecting - government content requests is business as usual. Democrats questioned why Congress was relitigating years-old moderation decisions instead of the Trump administration's recent speech crackdown - even as Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) hopes to recruit them for a new anti-jawboning bill. An …Read the full story at The Verge.

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.

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.

It's strange to think how many of the best, most memorable video games out there started as pen-and-paper campaigns around someone's kitchen table. Before they became cinematic, controller-clutching experiences, they were dice rolls, character sheets, and fueled by nothing but pure imaginations.

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.

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.

Rode’s Wireless Micro Camera Kit includes a charging case to extend the battery life of its receivers and mics. | Image: Rode Last November, Rode launched its Wireless Micro microphone system that paired two tiny lavalier mics with a small receiver that connected to your phone’s charging port. Rode later gave that product a free upgrade, sending out another receiver that let the mics connect to digital cameras, too. Now, the company is launching an updated version of that receiver with an OLED screen — but this time, it’s charging for it.The new version of Rode’s wireless camera receiver is now available as part of a Wireless Micro Camera Kit that bundles it with two Wireless Micro lavalier mics and an additional wireless receiver used to connect the mics to mobile devices using their USB-C or Lightning ports. The kit is priced at $149, which is what Rode’s Wireless Micro system was initially priced at when it launched last November (minus a camera receiver) before getting a price cut earlier this month to $99 when new color options were introduced. Rode’s wireless lav mics still don’t offer as much functionality as DJI’s offerings like the Mic Mini or Mic 3, but they’re more competitively priced.As with the original, the new receiver is designed to sit atop cameras by connecting to their cold shoe mount while audio from up to two wireless mics is delivered to the camera through a USB-C or 3.5mm audio cable. Battery life is estimated to be up to seven hours and is maximized by the receiver only powering on when it’s connected to a camera. The receiver’s runtime can be further extended to up to 21 hours using the Wireless Micro Camera Kit’s charging case when you’re away from a power source.The 1.1-inch OLED screen shows details about the battery life and signal strength of the receiver and wirelessly connected devices. It works alongside three buttons for navigating and adjusting various settings including gain assist levels, but for ease of use the receiver can also make those adjustments automatically to suppress volume spikes and ensure all the audio coming into the camera is perfectly balanced.

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.

Having built and deployed a few firewalls before launching one at home, I'd like to think I know a thing or two about getting it right. Thankfully, if you're choosing between OPNsense and pfSense, it's difficult to get it wrong since even as a default installation. Both are fairly secure and will do a stellar job at keeping unwanted parties from gaining access to your local area network (LAN). But there are still some things I wish I had been told when I built my first firewall.