Rivian announced some changes today with regard to the factory its building in the state of Georgia. The company was planning to build the facility in two phases, each resulting in 200,000 vehicles of annual production capacity, for a total of 400,000 units. Rivian held a ground breaking ceremony late last year. Now the company says it is only planning for 300,000 units of annual capacity as a result of a revised loan agreement with the US Department of Energy - though its planning on hitting that annual capacity sooner than originally planned. DOE will now loan Rivian $4.5 billion, instead of the originally agreed amount of $6.6 billion …Read the full story at The Verge.

Roblox's daily active users continued to slip last quarter due in part to its rollout of age checks on its platform. According to its latest earnings report, Roblox currently has 132 million daily active users globally, down from 144 million at the end of last year, which was a drop from 152 million in Q3 2025. In the US and Canada, the number of active users dropped by one million from the previous quarter, while Roblox's revenue still grew to $1.4 billion.Roblox says Q1 growth was "tempered by greater-than-expected headwinds" due to the rollout of its age-check features, which "slowed new user acquisition." Russia's December 2025 ban on …Read the full story at The Verge.

Congress has reauthorized Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act - but only for another 45 days. The extension is meant to give legislators more time to negotiate reforms to the controversial wiretapping bill. If the past few weeks are any indication of how future debates will go, however, we're in for a bumpy ride.The House renewed Section 702 with minor reforms on Wednesday evening. The bill didn't include the hotly debated warrant requirement, but it did feature a provision prohibiting the Federal Reserve from issuing Central Bank Digital Currencies, which Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) described as a nonstar …Read the full story at The Verge.

Windows is a GUI-focused operating system and doesn't compel users to use the terminal for trivial settings changes and troubleshooting. However, when things get really messy or you need to quickly reach a deeply nested setting, using an appropriate command is a wise choice. My terminal usage increased as I gained experience in Windows, and there are some commands that I wish I had known earlier.

Apple's iPhone revenue jumped 22 percent to $57 billion over the past few months, despite supply chain issues impacting the device's processor. In an interview with Reuters, Apple CEO Tim Cook said iPhone "demand was off the charts," but there's "a little less flexibility at the moment for getting more parts." Cook added during an earnings call that supply constraints could come for Mac, too, "given the continued high levels of demand that we're seeing."Apple earned $111.2 billion in revenue during the second quarter of 2026, its "best March quarter ever," according to Cook. This latest earnings report comes a little over a week after the …Read the full story at The Verge.

Rivian reported its first quarter earnings of 2026, providing us a closer look at the company's financial health as it kicks off production for the crucial R2 electric vehicle. We've already got Rivian's production and delivery statement from the first three months of the year. The company sold 10,365 vehicles in Q1, representing 20 percent increase year over year. And it produced 10,236 vehicles at its factory in Normal, Illinois, which represents a 30 percent increase compared to the same period last year. The company also reaffirmed its prediction that it will sell 62,000-67,000 vehicles this year.In terms of earnings, Rivian said it …Read the full story at The Verge.

AI tools have gotten much smarter over the past few years. They understand prompts better now, so you don’t always need to be extremely descriptive. That said, more detailed prompts still lead to better results. The problem is that being descriptive takes effort. You have to think more, write more, and refine what you’re asking to get the right output. If it’s something repetitive, like summarizing YouTube videos in a specific format, typing the same detailed prompt every time becomes tedious.

The first thing that comes to mind when our CPUs run a bit too hot for our liking is to consider a new AIO. In fact, whenever I used to see CPU temperatures exceeding 85C while gaming, I'd start browsing Amazon or Newegg for better options. While a more powerful cooler can lower temperatures, the return on investment is far from convincing. Take that from someone who has splurged on multiple high-end AIOs like the Aorus 360 and Liquid Freezer II 360 in the past.

Microsoft has rolled out its gaming-focused Xbox Mode to all Windows 11 PCs and devices, including laptops, tablets, handhelds, and more. The console-like overlay aims to simplify gaming on Windows 11 with a stripped-back Xbox-inspired UI that's snappier and more intuitive.

Close watchers of the Supreme Court knew that the conservative supermajority was about to murder what was left of the Voting Rights Act. Wednesday's decision in Louisiana v. Callais took down Section 2 of the law, clearing the way for racist gerrymandering, because it is now racist to remedy racism. The decision is an affront to the history of the Voting Rights Act, an affront to the history of the United States, and an affront to math. The state of Louisiana, which is around 30 percent Black, has six districts. The voting districts are drawn so that there are two majority-Black districts. That is two out of six districts; approximately 33 …Read the full story at The Verge.

There's no denying that Nvidia has been at the top of the PC graphics industry for a long time, and I'm not just talking about market share or enterprise footprint. It has also pushed GPU technology forward with gaming-focused innovations like real-time ray tracing, upscaling, and, more recently, AI frame generation. With Multi Frame Generation (MFG) launching with the RTX 50 series GPUs, Nvidia once again established feature dominance over the competition.

Being connected to the internet has always been slightly dangerous, but in the age of automated scanning and AI, it's never been more so. Network security is something many assume their router is going to handle on its own, if they think about it at all, but the myth of being too small to be worth targeting is long over. You should have a firewall to protect your network from external and internal threats, and it's one of the first things I set up when putting together a new home network.