If you own a Snapdragon X2 device, but you're not too pleased with its current state when running Linux, I have excellent news for you. Since Snapdragon Summit 2025, Qualcomm has been hard at work getting everything settled in the world of FOSS. Now, the company is ready to show off its results with an Early Developer Preview.

Task Manager is one of those things I open on Windows without even thinking twice whenever an app or game stops responding, or my PC suddenly feels sluggish for no reason. It's reassuring to know that I can press Ctrl + Shift + Esc at any point and hit End Task on an app that just won't close normally, or see what's hogging my CPU or RAM. And if that's all you do in Task Manager, you probably don't have anything to complain about.

The Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 3i is a laptop that flies under the radar but delivers strong performance at a great price. This model is now nearly 50% off at Best Buy, with the retail price of $1,300 dropping to just $680. It's an impressive discount that's only available for one day, so you'll want to be quick.

It's time once again for Meta's annual September product launch event, and The Verge is on the ground in Menlo Park to cover the show live. Meta says that today's keynote by Mark Zuckerberg will be about how "Meta is building a future for everyone" - something he wrote at length about in a recent essay about AI, smart glasses, and more. That means we can expect more news from Zuckerberg and his team on those topics; perhaps we'll hear more about Meta's recently launched Muse AI agent and new glasses hardware.Whatever Zuckerberg and Meta have to say about smart glasses will be particularly notable. The company is dealing with an outpouring …Read the full story at The Verge.

Meta is quickly iterating on its new Muse AI agent, announcing a bunch of updates today that make the bot more capable and able to chat with you in more ways.Muse agents are getting their own email addresses that they can use for accomplishing tasks. You'll also be able to communicate with your Muse agent over the new email addresses, too. In addition, the recently launched Muse Mac app will be getting the ability to use your computer.Meta is also going to give you another way to chat with its popular AI agent: video calls. Since its recent launch, the primary way to talk with Muse was through a chat interface, but you'll soon be able to …Read the full story at The Verge.

Just a few months after revealing the Snapdragon X2 Elite-powered Surface Pro 12 and Surface Laptop 8 (13.8-inch/15-inch models), Microsoft and Qualcomm have officially revealed the 6-core Snapdragon X2 Plus-equipped Surface Pro 12-inch and Surface Laptop 13-inch, an upgrade from 2024's Snapdragon X Plus models.

When you use local LLMs for real workflows, your local AI runners usually end up being in some sort of rotation because no single tool really covers everything you need it to. I usually bounce between LM Studio for casual chat, AnythingLLM for RAG workflows, llama.cpp for cutting-edge features, and a couple more. So you end up with a bunch of different tools for different jobs.

I recently bought an older Blu-ray player for my spare guest room for around $20, and I realized how much fun physical media can be. I started remembering the days when streaming media was a thing and all we had was physical media, including carefully wiping smudges off dirty discs with a microfiber cloth and waiting in anticipation for the menu to appear so I could watch a movie or show.

I still remember how normal it used to be for GPUs to have at least one DVI port on the back. The first graphics card I ever bought, the GTX 680, actually had two of them. Even the GTX 1070 I upgraded to years later had one DVI-D port. This port started disappearing from GPUs with the RTX 20-series, mostly sticking around on lower-end and mid-range models. And by the time I upgraded to the RTX 3090 in 2020, I had already gotten used to seeing nothing but DisplayPort and HDMI.

The Surface Pro 12-inch Second Edition comes in black, silver, or violet. | Image: Microsoft Microsoft is refreshing its Surface Pro 12-inch and Surface Laptop 13-inch devices with Qualcomm's latest Snapdragon X2 Plus chips. The smaller Surface devices retain the same design and hardware features from last year, with faster and more capable chips inside and higher price tags (thanks RAMageddon!).While the 12-inch Surface Pro started at $799.99 last year, it's debuting on October 13th at a starting price of $1,149.99. Likewise, the 13-inch Surface Laptop was originally priced at $899.99, but it's up to $1,199.99 this time around. There's no base 8GB model this time, causing some of the price increase, as both devices launch with a …Read the full story at The Verge.

I've been using AI tools for some time, switching between services like Gemini, Claude, ChatGPT, and NotebookLM. But rather than just using the tools, I wanted to understand them on a deeper level.

It’s about time for Meta Connect, the company’s annual product launch event. This year, given the company’s major focus on AI and wearables like smart glasses, it seems likely that we’ll see updates from CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his team on those categories. The company has been facing significant scrutiny because of how some users have been covertly recording other people using the glasses, meaning that one of the biggest announcements of the show could be its rumored camera-free pair.Connect has also traditionally been a venue for updates on Meta’s VR hardware and software. While the company has scaled back its VR ambitions, a recent leak seemingly revealing some kind of unannounced mixed reality glasses could indicate that Meta will show off new immersive headwear technology during the event.Zuckerberg’s keynote is scheduled to begin at 7PM ET / 4PM PT on Wednesday, September 23rd. Follow along with all of our coverage right here. Meta Connect 2026 live blog: On the ground at Mark Zuckerberg’s next big product launch Meta ditches the camera on its newest smart glasses Meta is making Muse more powerful and will let you video chat with it, too