It's no secret that people enjoy playing video games. Some experiences that we get from games are often so good that we want to experience them again and again, many times over. For some people, revisiting a game after an extended period of time is fun because they get to have a similar feeling to when they first played. But outside of nostalgia, there are certain things with game releases these days that can get us to return to our favorite video games for another run.

Anthropic will now let its Claude AI chatbot “remember” the details of previous conversations without prompting. The feature is only rolling out for Team and Enterprise users for now, allowing Claude to automatically incorporate someone’s preferences, the context of the project they’re working on, and their main priorities into each of its responses.Anthropic rolled out the ability for paid users to prompt Claude to remember past chats last month, but now the chatbot can pull up these details without Team and Enterprise users having to ask. Claude’s memory also carries over to projects, a feature that lets Pro and Teams generate things like diagrams, website designs, graphics, and more, based on files they upload to the chatbot. It seems to be particularly focused on work-related details, like a “team’s processes” and “client needs.” Anthropic notes that memory is “fully optional.”Anthropic says users can view and edit the memory Claude has stored from their settings menu. “Based on what you tell Claude to focus on or to ignore, Claude will adjust the memories it references,” Anthropic says. Both OpenAI and Google have already launched cross-chat memories for their chatbots. Last month, a report from The New York Times linked ChatGPT’s rollout of cross-chat memories to an increase in reports of “delusional” AI chats.Along with memories, Anthropic is rolling out incognito chats for all users, which Claude won’t save to its chat history or refer to in future chats. Google similarly rolled out Private Chats for Gemini in August.

If you're thinking about building your first NAS, or just need to upgrade the storage space for the one that you already own, these Seagate Barracuda drives are going to be right up your alley. They are reliable, durable, and more importantly, on sale for a very limited time, which is going to save you some money. While Seagate has a long list of options, this promotion is going to be for the 16TB and 24TB models, as they drop to their lowest prices.

I’ve been building Raspberry Pi projects for a few years now. But even with all the Single-Board Computers in my arsenal, I don’t have enough boards for all my DIY ideas. As such, I tend to keep different microSD cards for my essential projects, and often shift the ones that require more processing horsepower to my server nodes.

Microsoft Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella (L), speaks with OpenAI Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman, who joined by video during the Microsoft Build 2025, conference in Seattle, Washington on May 19, 2025. As OpenAI attempts to restructure itself and eventually go public, a hurdle for the startup, recently valued at $500 billion, is its increasingly complicated partnership with Microsoft.  On Thursday afternoon, the two companies released this joint statement about an agreement they’ve reached.Microsoft & OpenAI:Microsoft and OpenAI have signed a non-binding memorandum of understanding (MOU) for the next phase of our partnership. We are actively working to finalize contractual terms in a definitive agreement. Together, we remain focused on delivering the best AI tools for everyone, grounded in our shared commitment to safety.Microsoft has invested $13 billion in OpenAI since 2019, and shares in the revenue earned by ChatGPT as well as its API. Microsoft also now includes OpenAI as a competitor, allows OpenAI to lean on other cloud providers for compute power, and has started to increase its reliance on its own AI models. In a company town hall meeting on Thursday, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and AI chief Mustafa Suleyman committed to “significant investments” in its own models. “We should have the capacity to build world class frontier models in house of all sizes, but we should be very pragmatic and use other models where we need to,” said Suleyman.There was one specific detail about the agreement with Microsoft released by OpenAI in another statement, saying that its nonprofit parent company will continue to hold authority over the for-profit business, with an equity stake worth more than $100 billion. Other philanthropies and nonprofits have reportedly pushed back against OpenAI’s unusual restructuring plan, and the attorneys general of California and Delaware have opened investigations. In its announcement, OpenAI said, “We continue to work with the California and Delaware Attorneys General as an important part of strengthening our approach, and we remain committed to learning and acting with urgency to ensure our tools are helpful and safe for everyone, while advancing safety as an industry-wide priority.”

Earlier today, the FBI shared two blurry photos on X of a person of interest in the shooting of right-wing activist Charlie Kirk. Numerous users replied with AI-upscaled, “enhanced” versions of the pictures almost immediately, turning the pixelated surveillance shots into sharp, high-resolution images. But AI tools aren’t uncovering secret details in a fuzzy picture, they’re inferring what might be there — and they have a track record of showing things that don’t exist.Many AI-generated photo variations were posted under the original images, some apparently created with X’s own Grok bot, others with tools like ChatGPT. They vary in plausibility, though some are obviously off, like an “AI-based textual rendering” showing a clearly different shirt and Gigachad-level chin. The images are ostensibly supposed to help people find the person of interest, although they’re also eye-grabbing ways to get likes and reposts.But it’s unlikely any of them are more helpful than the FBI’s photos. In past incidents, AI upscaling has done things like “depixelating” a low-resolution picture of President Barack Obama into a white man and adding a nonexistent lump to President Donald Trump’s head. It extrapolates from an existing image to fill in gaps, and while that can be useful under certain circumstances, you definitely shouldn’t treat it as hard evidence in a manhunt.Here is the original post from the FBI, for reference:We are asking for the public's help identifying this person of interest in connection with the fatal shooting of Charlie Kirk at Utah Valley University. 1-800-CALL-FBIDigital media tips: https://t.co/K7maX81TjJ pic.twitter.com/ALuVkTXuDc— FBI Salt Lake City (@FBISaltLakeCity) September 11, 2025And below are some examples of attempted “enhancements.”

I’ve been in the Adobe ecosystem for years, mainly out of habit and familiarity, but also because I didn’t believe there were any alternatives that were good enough. Photoshop, Illustrator, and Adobe Express in particular felt like the only way to get any serious design work done. I eventually canceled my Adobe subscriptions because the constant updates and subscription fatigue started killing my workflow.

Building a budget gaming PC inevitably comes with compromises; my objective for the build in question is to make only the right ones. That means avoiding AM4, so that there's a legitimate upgrade path for the future. It also means GPUs with 8GB of VRAM are out of the running, which increases the price of this "budget" build, but that's where we are right now. I'm also avoiding components of questionable quality that might come back to bite you later.

In the wake of right-wing activist Charlie Kirk's fatal shooting, some political figures are threatening a crackdown on free speech - a cause Kirk claimed to fight for. Members of Congress, the State Department, and President Donald Trump have all attacked people who celebrated Kirk's death online or criticized him while he was alive, in some cases saying they'll use the government's authority to punish statements almost certainly protected by the First Amendment.While it remains unclear who killed Kirk or why at a college campus in Utah Wednesday, Republican political figures all the way up to Trump have threatened retaliation against Dem …Read the full story at The Verge.

When setting up your network-attached storage (NAS) device, you have a few options for the filesystem. You could choose to run absolutely anything you desire, but I'm here to tell you that the correct choice is actually the Zeta File System (ZFS). You'll often come across Btrfs, NTFS, and Ext4 on your travels, but ZFS is the way to go if you wish to maximize availability, reliability, and data storage redundancy. I'll cover data integrity checks, ZFS's Copy-on-Write (COW) design, compression, scalability, and advanced caching.Once at the end, you'll agree that ZFS is the best filesystem for your NAS.

The never-ending need for storage in my office and home lab has meant I've built up a considerable stack of loud HDDs in a Synology unit over the years. But it's very noisy even at the best of times, and downright annoying when it decides to optimize things. I've always wanted a better solution inside my office that won't give me a headache, and this wonderful mini PC has given me the answer.

Microsoft AI launched its first in-house models last month, adding to the already complicated relationship with its OpenAI partner. Now, Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman says the company is making "significant investments" in the compute capacity required to Microsoft's own future frontier models."We should have the capacity to build world class frontier models in house of all sizes, but we should be very pragmatic and use other models where we need to," said Suleyman during Microsoft's employee-only town hall on Thursday. "We're also going to be making significant investments in our own cluster, so today MAI-1-preview was only trained …Read the full story at The Verge.