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.

Siri’s new logo. According to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman Apple is testing Siri’s upcoming revamp using an internal chatbot called Veritas. The company’s struggles as it tries to keep pace in the AI race are no secret. The next-gen Siri has been delayed multiple times and the debut of Apple Intelligence was met with a tepid response. Veritas gives Apple the ability to quickly develop, test, and collect feedback on new Siri features like “search[ing] through personal data… and perform[ing] in-app actions like editing photos.“According to Gurman Veritas resembles other chatbot apps like ChatGPT and Gemini. Employees type requests, have back and forth conversations, and can even revisit old exchanges to dig deeper on a particular topic. But, at least for now, it doesn’t appear like there’s any plan to release it to consumers. (Which Gurman believes is a mistake.) Instead Apple plans to keep its internal chatbot just that, internal. Instead it’s looking increasingly likely that Apple is going to rely on Google’s Gemini for its AI-powered search.

We all love a good, well-written video game antagonist, don't we? A villain who is fleshed out, hard to sympathize with but easy to understand, and you can almost see how they could've been the hero in their own story. On the other hand, it is just as much fun to see a villain just be a straight-up monster who is pure evil just because that's who they are.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Email isn't exciting, but no one can deny that it still sits at the heart of everyday life and productivity. For open-source users, Thunderbird has been the long-standing favorite, and for good reason. It offers flexibility and control without locking you into a subscription. But Thunderbird is far from perfect. In fact, the app has a bit of a reputation for slow updates and general sluggishness. Betterbird fixes that in more ways than one.

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.

Whenever buying new hardware, it's all too easy to get caught in the "bigger number better" mantra and lose sight of which specifications are the important ones. I'm not immune to that misstep, and when I expanded my home lab earlier this year, I was on the hunt for some NVMe SSDs to cache data for my existing NAS, and to fill the empty slots in my new all-flash NAS.

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.