When most people hear "vibe coding," their minds jump straight to building full-fledged apps, websites, and landing pages using nothing but natural language prompts. And fair enough. That's the most visible version of it. For the longest time, that was my perception too. I actually started my own vibe-coding journey by building a simple Chrome extension to solve a personal annoyance.

The Musk v. Altman trial is underway, and that means exhibits, or the evidence to be presented in court, are being revealed piece by piece. So far, email exchanges, photos, and corporate documents are circulating from the earliest days of OpenAI - and from before the AI lab even had a name. Some high-level takeaways: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang gave OpenAI an in-demand supercomputer, Musk largely drafted OpenAI's mission and heavily influenced its early structure, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman appeared to want to lean heavily on Y Combinator for early support for OpenAI, OpenAI president Greg Brockman and Ilya Sutskever worried about Musk's level of con …Read the full story at The Verge.

Bambu Studio looks simple when you first open it, but a lot of its best tricks are tucked away behind right-click menus, advanced toggles, and settings that don’t announce themselves very loudly. That’s part of what makes the slicer so good once you start digging into it. You can still hit slice and print without thinking too hard, but the hidden tools are where you start solving the little problems that separate a decent print from one that feels dialed in. The defaults are good enough to make Bambu printers feel almost automatic, but the best results usually come from knowing when to step in and take control.

GIMP and I have a weird history. I keep it installed, occasionally open it, and then remember why I stopped trying to use it as my main editor. This is mainly because the interface is…a lot. There’s not only a lot going on, but panels and features feel very disconnected, at least when you come from editors that use traditional layouts like Photoshop, Photopea, Affinity, and those types. From what I’ve gathered, GIMP has a loyal user base, so this all might sound silly if you’re already used to navigating GIMP. Either way, it’s still free and powerful, so I’m keeping it in my arsenal.

Nintendo recently announced a new pricing policy, which knocks $10 off the cost of digital versions of future first-party titles exclusive to the Nintendo Switch 2. Splatoon Raiders, for instance, is available for preorder ahead of its July 23rd release for $49.99 digitally or $59.99 for the physical edition. However, Walmart is the exception in how it’s pricing preorders for the cartridge version. Right now, you can reserve the upcoming for $49.94 — just a few cents cheaper than the digital version. Raiders isn’t a sequel to Splatoon 3, but rather a spinoff that has similar third-person, paint-splatting gameplay set in new locales.Splatoon RaidersWhere to Buy: $59.99 $49.94 at Walmart (physical) $59.99 at Amazon (physical)The same $10 discount is in effect for Yoshi and the Mysterious Book, a side-scrolling adventure with a gorgeous storybook art style that comes out on May 21st. The price of the physical version is $69.99, but Walmart is currently offering it for $59.88, which is similar to the digital edition’s price. Given that prices on many tech and gaming-related products are increasing, it’s nice to see notable discounts on physical Switch 2 games. If you’re looking for other gaming deals, we’ve pulled together the best discounts from Amazon’s weeklong Gaming Week sale.Yoshi and the Mysterious BookWhere to Buy: $69.99 $59.88 at Walmart (physical) $69.99 at Amazon (physical)

Microsoft's Xbox hardware revenue continues to tumble, with the company revealing a 33 percent decline as part of its earnings report released on Wednesday. Even though the rest of Microsoft's consumer-focused division took a dip, the company's cloud and productivity businesses continue to soar, driving the company toward $82.9 billion in revenue.Along with declining Xbox hardware revenue, Microsoft reported a 5 percent drop in Xbox content and services as well. Microsoft has seen a significant amount of executive turnover over the past few months, with the retirement of Xbox chief CEO Phil Spencer and the departure of former Xbox presiden …Read the full story at The Verge.

Windows 11 can be a pest, reminding you to link your phone to the OS using Phone Link, but I gave up on that utility years ago. It's built on a solid premise: if the basic bits of your handheld were accessible on your PC, you wouldn't need to interrupt your focus flow by switching to the phone. Moreover, using the phone starts with the innocent intention of reading a 2FA code or dismissing a rogue email notification, but quickly spirals into unrelated distractions.

General atmosphere during Grindr White House Correspondents' Dinner Weekend Party 2026 at LXIV DC on April 24, 2026 in Washington, DC. | Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images for Grindr Inc. Hello and welcome to Regulator, a newsletter for Verge subscribers about technology, politics, and technology learning how to politick. If you're not a subscriber but would like to support our work, please subscribe here. I promise that your money will not go toward paying for a drone-proof ballroom for The Verge staff, no matter how much fun we'd have throwing parties there.Speaking of parties: The Verge normally wouldn't do a party report from the White House Correspondents' Dinner week, also known as "Nerd Prom," because it's a bit too much Washington insider circle-jerking for normal people to stomach. (This year was weirder than most, …Read the full story at The Verge.

Google Search queries hit an "all time high" in the first quarter of 2026, according to a statement from CEO Sundar Pichai published as part of Alphabet's earnings on Wednesday."Our AI investments and full stack approach are lighting up every part of the business," Pichai says. "Search had a strong quarter with AI experiences driving usage, queries at an all time high, and 19% revenue growth." He also notes that Q1 was "our strongest quarter ever for our consumer AI plans, driven by the Gemini App" and that the company now has more than 350 million paid subscriptions, with "YouTube and Google One being the key drivers."Alphabet also anno …Read the full story at The Verge.

TVs are still absurdly slow, even in 2026. If you've used a Google TV, LG webOS, or Samsung Tizen TV, you already know how painful the experience is. When you first turn on the TV, it takes close to a minute to boot up, and even after that, navigating through apps is slow. Opening Netflix takes time, and basic things like going into settings or changing Wi-Fi feel like a chore.

Running a home lab starts simply with a few containers for media and photo backups, and maybe Home Assistant to build out a smart home. But once you start going down the rabbit hole, the setup grows fairly quickly. More services get added in over time, more devices, and all too soon, if you're like me, you're managing a small infrastructure instead of just a simple hobby project. Trust me, when you're that deep into the hobby, visibility starts becoming a real problem.