After getting off the phone with Oregon Governor Tina Kotek on Saturday, the president mused over something that had baffled him about the call. Kotek had been "very nice," said Trump in an interview the next day. But she was trying hard to convince him not to send in the National Guard, and that just didn't make any sense to him. "But I said, 'Well wait a minute, am I watching things on television that are different from what's happening?'" Hours later, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a memorandum federalizing 200 members of Oregon's National Guard to deploy to Portland, and the state of Oregon promptly filed suit to stop it from ha …Read the full story at The Verge.

Looking for deals before Black Friday? Amazon has you covered with Big Deal Days. Basically, Prime Day in October, the sale runs the 7th and 8th this year, with Prime exclusive sales, hundreds (if not thousands) of products on sale, and companies vying for your attention (and wallet).

In many ways, looking at the TV market indicates exactly how far technology has progressed in a short time. Some of this progress is good — OLED is fantastic, while quantum dot film makes every panel look epic — while other aspects of the smart TV experience are less enjoyable, like having your viewing patterns analyzed and used for advertising. And that's to say nothing about the lackluster internal hardware that's barely capable of running the operating system, let alone running it smoothly and satisfactorily.

This Anker docking station is a great way to keep all your cables and devices organized. Not only do you get 14 ports to connect, but it also comes with a small screen that can show you the status of devices that are plugged in. The best part is that this device is now $100 below its usual retail, coming in at its lowest price yet. It's a great time to pick one up, and we don't think you'll see a better price during Amazon's upcoming Prime Day event.

If you have a digital library, you know the struggle: a growing mountain of PDFs, research papers, and ebooks scattered across folders and cloud drives. It doesn’t feel like a library since you can’t find what you need when you need it. I was tired of spending more time hunting for that perfect quote than actually using my knowledge.

PC gaming has long been at the forefront of pushing the boundaries when it comes to performance, choice, and innovations. We've seen all the vintage packaging that graphics cards and other PC parts used to be shipped within, but the actual hardware was also fairly experimental for its time. Building a new system or upgrading a specific part, such as the aforementioned GPU, never used to cost an arm and a leg, but times have most certainly changed since the days of ATI and Nvidia. We're now experiencing platform lock-in, rising costs, and creep control. Nvidia has the upper hand when it comes to software and flagship hardware, but AMD has made ground and continues to try and undercut the competition.

Laptops don't need to be expensive to get the job done. We've seen plenty of great examples pop up over the past year, delivering some excellent specifications at a fair price. The Dell Inspiron 14 is one such example, featuring a compact design and lots of power thanks to Qualcomm's Snapdragon X chip. While it's usually priced at $800, you can score a stellar $350 discount, dropping the price to just $450 for a limited time.

In the age of self-hosting and the home lab, the Internet of Things (IoT) continues to play a vital role in providing data from thermostats to security cameras. These products offer unparalleled convenience, but often come at the cost of security. Your home could become a potential entry point for malware, data breaches, and more, all thanks to those seemingly innocent smart home devices that are set up and connected to the network. Thankfully, there are a few ways you can safeguard your home network from potential attack.

I’ve been hosting applications on local hardware for years and have come across numerous tools during this time. Media streaming platforms, photo managers, game servers, ebook organizers, and a host of other utilities are the more popular ones of the bunch and are extremely useful for data hoarders like myself. On the other hand, I’ve also run into some quirky services that, despite appearing somewhat weird at first glance, have their own niche utility in my home lab.

One of Discord’s third-party customer service providers was compromised by an “unauthorized party,” the company says. The unauthorized party gained access to “information from a limited number of users who had contacted Discord through our Customer Support and/or Trust & Safety teams” and aimed to “extort a financial ransom from Discord.” The unauthorized party “did not gain access to Discord directly.”Data potentially accessed by the hack includes things like names, usernames, emails, and the last four digits of credit card numbers. The unauthorized party also accessed a “small number” of images of government IDs from “users who had appealed an age determination.” Full credit card numbers and passwords were not impacted by the breach, Discord says. The company is notifying impacted users now over email. If your ID might have been accessed, Discord will specify that. Discord also says it revoked the support provider’s access to Discord’s ticketing system, has notified data protection authorities, is working with law enforcement, and has reviewed “our threat detection systems and security controls for third-party support providers.”

Although Borderlands 4 has suffered from technical issues during its launch, some people are still playing and enjoying the game. The next mainline entry in the Borderlands series takes players to a new planet, filled with many dangers to overcome and loot to discover. It's a guarantee that you'll get into a firefight with not one, but many different enemies while completing missions and searching for more rewards to gather. But some people will find themselves in battles that can be tougher than usual, especially if they're doing things that won't help them out in combat. Some bad habits can cost you more than you realize.

Applications make the operating system, at least for me. In terms of Linux, I not only need a proper suite of usable tools, but I also need them to be compatible with their Windows counterparts. I love the experience of using Linux when it works, and I'm no stranger to the terminal, so getting up and running with alternatives isn't an issue. In a lot of situations, these alternative apps are great, and in a lot of ways they exceed my expectations, but when push comes to shove, there are some apps that make it impossible for me to fully make the switch to Linux.