Most people might get an Ender 3 or a Bambu Labs A1, print a handful of low-poly figures, maybe a headphone stand, and eventually relegate the printer to a corner of the room. There's a persistent myth in the tech and maker spaces that desktop FDM printers are inherently limited, as though there's a cap on what you can and cannot print. Most potential buyers presume they are strictly for prototyping rough, blocky shapes, and if you want real precision or a professional finish, you need to shell out for a messy resin setup or outsource the job to a commercial service with DMLS machines.

Sony has finally stepped in to clear up the growing confusion around a new DRM (Digital Rights Management) system on PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4 consoles. Users reported that the system's latest updates seemingly introduced a requirement to go online once every 30 days to validate game licenses, but Sony now says this is false.In a statement to GameSpot, a Sony Interactive Entertainment spokesperson said that "a one-time online check is required to confirm the game's license, after which no further check-ins are required." The DRM rumors had sparked concerns that gamers who don't sign in every month would lose access to their games by …Read the full story at The Verge.

If you've been looking for a monitor that delivers impressive sharpness and color accuracy, the Asus ProArt PA329CV monitor is going to be right up your alley. This 32-inch 6K monitor features an IPS panel with a resolution of 6016 x 3384, 98% DCI-P3 color coverage, and 100% sRGB wide color gamut.

Just a simple country CEO who was being tricked by that sophisticated lawyer. | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images About five hours into Elon Musk's testimony, I typed the following sentence into my notes: "I have never been more sympathetic to Sam Altman in my life."Musk's direct testimony was an improvement over yesterday - even if his lawyer kept asking leading questions to cue him in how to answer. But that memory was immediately obliterated by an absolutely miserable cross-examination. For hours, Musk refused to answer yes or no questions with yes or no, occasionally "forgot" things he'd testified to in the morning, and scolded defense lawyer William Savitt. I watched a few jury members glance at each other. During one testy exchange, one woman wa …Read the full story at The Verge.

If 2025 was Microsoft's year of Copilot, then 2026 is shaping up to be Microsoft's year of cleaning up the mess it made in 2025. Between lots of AI integrations and buggy Windows updates, Microsoft has eroded user trust over the last year, and it knows it. Fortunately, the company is already making headway into fixing the operating system's biggest pain points, and it doesn't seem like it's going to stop any time soon.

One of the coolest things about the tinkering community is that, if you have a problem connecting two pieces of hardware together, they've likely already figured out a way to bridge the two. It'll usually feature a Raspberry Pi or an ESP32 that sits between the two, but whichever computing device they pick, you can be sure that it'll be cheap, easy to set up, and best of all, really useful at what it does.

The Osmo Pocket 4 is no reinvention; it looks just like the Pocket 3. First they came for the drones, and now the vlogging cameras. DJI's Osmo Pocket 4 is the first of its compact steadicams not to launch in the US, following a string of DJI drones also missing the US market. The good news for American buyers is that the Pocket 4 is mostly an evolutionary upgrade, and there's little it does that the Pocket 3 doesn't (it looks like the rumored dual-lens Pro version will be more of a reinvention). The good news for everyone else is that those evolutions run throughout the Pocket 4, from the camera sensor to the controls. That makes this an unmistakable improvement over the previous generation.DJI Osmo Pocket …Read the full story at The Verge.

If you've tried to purchase a Steam Deck lately, you may have noticed that it's very difficult to purchase one from Valve if you live in specific regions. Right now, the popular handheld gaming device is going through a severe shortage issue due to RAM prices, delivery problems, and people opting for devices over PCs as the latter's prices skyrocket.

You can't go wrong with a mini PC nowadays, especially with the price of RAM, storage, and other PC components going through the roof. Mini PCs are quite versatile, providing excellent power in a compact size. While they can be used as a desktop replacement for work, they can also be a compact gaming PC.

I got into local LLMs because it seemed interesting, if I’m being completely honest. Running my own AI on my own hardware just felt like something worth trying, and not because I had a specific gap to fill or super strong feelings about data privacy at the time. The novelty was the whole draw at first.

I'll admit it; there's something about the vibe that consoles had around the OG Xbox era that I'm desperate to return to. Not just the Xbox, but the PS2, the GameCube, and even the Dreamcast; for me, that's when consoles still had that joy and whimsy to them before gaming got too serious and companies stopped doing fun stuff with their devices.

If you've spent any time in the local LLM space, you're almost certainly familiar with the hardware ceiling. The most interesting open-source models keep getting bigger, and the gap between what's published on Hugging Face and what you can actually load into VRAM at home has generally been growing, sans the handful of releases a year that run on anything and are genuinely impressive. Sure, you can download a 230B mixture-of-experts model for free, but it's not free to run. You need a workstation that costs as much as a car, and even then, you're often quantizing the thing into oblivion just to fit it.