Occasionally, we witness an indie game that takes a specific genre to new heights. Balatro was one of them; it really introduced people to the idea of a gambling game where you can adjust the parameters and tweak the multipliers to benefit your specific play style. It wasn't the first to do it—Balatro was inspired by a game called Luck Be A Landlord that did something very similar—but it definitely thrust the genre into the forefront.

If you often wonder why your CPU never seems to achieve the boost clocks it's advertised for, its power limits might be the reason. The way your motherboard manufacturer tunes the BIOS can hold your CPU back, even if you have a capable cooling solution on your PC. Your CPU has multiple power limits that work in tandem to determine the boundary conditions within which it operates. You can often tweak these limits in the BIOS/UEFI, changing your processor's behavior. However, you need to understand how they function before you can do that.

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.

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.

What counts as "essential" accessories for laptops varies from person to person, but the ideal ones are usually those that enhance your workflow. While different people use laptops for various purposes, better ergonomics and improved cooling are features that many laptop users want.

Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 99, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you're new here, welcome, happy pumpkin spice season, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I've been reading about Lizzo and Uniqlo and book thieves and Max Verstappen, obsessing over both Black Rabbit and The Lowdown, eating aggressively too many Pop'ums pretzels, listening to everything in the AirPods Pro 3s, updating my old Ray-Ban Metas to see if the AI is any good, meal planning with Crouton, and posting all my junk for free on Nextdoor.I also have for you an impressive new GoPro, an em …Read the full story at The Verge.

Silksong resembles the original Hollow Knight in many ways, though right from the start, you can hear one key difference: Hornet. Hollow Knight's protagonist was silent, but just as Hornet was voiced in that game, as the protagonist of Silksong, she has a voice, too, and actor Makoto Koji brings a lot of personality to the role."She's confident, she's sure of herself, she's very stoic," Koji says in an interview with The Verge. But Hornet has a goofiness as well, according to Koji, and she thinks Team Cherry did a good job showing how multifaceted Hornet is. This is particularly impressive because Hornet, and all of the characters in Silks …Read the full story at The Verge.

The last few months, I've felt like I'm living in a cyberpunk movie. Each night, when I get ready to wind down, I reach for the remote to turn on a TV I got for free. When I hit the power button, a 55-inch screen lights up, but so does a smaller display beneath it. Widgets fill the secondary screen alongside a rotating ad that you can't dismiss.Before I can even navigate to the Netflix app, I hear something. "Hello, hello friends!" A smiling woman appears on the screen wearing a gray dress, her brown hair neatly styled into gentle waves. It's the host of the TV's built-in news segment, which uses the AI likeness of actress Alison Fiori to …Read the full story at The Verge.

There are plenty of productivity apps that you can self-host, but I often find these apps a bit overwhelming. It's challenging to strike a balance between functionality and usability, particularly when features are hidden or overly complex.

Less elegant but much more scratch resistant. As the nation's foremost FineWoven hater, I have some great news about Apple's follow-up: it doesn't suck. I've been using a TechWoven case on an iPhone 17 Pro for the past week and I have no complaints. I took it up a mountain; I stored it in the sweaty back pocket of my yoga pants on a bike ride. I carried it next to my keys, gave it to my toddler, and handled it while measuring out ingredients for banana bread. It's fine. Fine is good.Remember FineWoven? Apple introduced the material in 2023 when the company discontinued its leather cases and accessories - which it did for good reasons. FineWoven's "microtwill," as Apple described it, i …Read the full story at The Verge.

Proxmox’s support for advanced server-oriented features is one of the many reasons why this platform is loved by many home labbers (including yours truly). After all, PCI passthrough, high-availability clusters, Ceph distributed storage, and SDN configurations are quite useful once you dive headfirst into hardcore server projects. However, there are just as many simple tools that are often overlooked by many when bringing their home lab ideas to life.

A still from the Critterz short film. This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on the intersection of entertainment and technology, follow Charles Pulliam-Moore. The Stepback arrives in our subscribers' inboxes at 8AM ET. Opt in for The Stepback here.How it startedIn just a few short years, text-to-image models went from only being able to churn out smudgy, "dreamlike" approximations of their input to producing detailed visualizations of whatever you describe. As the AI image generators got better, text-to-video models like Runway's Gen series, Meta's Make-A-Video, and Google's Veo also came into their own. Now …Read the full story at The Verge.