The Nintendo GameCube is one of the most beloved home consoles. Its library of games is filled with first-party and third-party classics that people love to revisit. To many Nintendo fans, the GameCube has some of the best modern-day titles the company has ever produced. But while many GameCube games are popular among players who grew up with the console, there are a few elusive titles that have become very rare. Retro game collectors are constantly looking for these gems that are considered valuable parts of the GameCube legacy. They're just not easy to obtain like most other GameCube games.

If you spend time talking to most Linux enthusiasts, you'll get plenty of reasons why they use a particular flavor of the operating system. They'll tell you why it's better on the side of open-source software, without having their data sold for advertising purposes, and how wonderful alternatives to paid apps exist if you'd only look. I'm not going to tell you those things because, while they're not wrong, they're not my reasons for using Linux.

Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 85, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you're new here, welcome, sorry in advance that this week is a tiny bit politics-y, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I've been reading about Sean Evans and music fraud and ayahuasca, playing with the new Obsidian Bases feature, obsessing over every behind-the-scenes Final Reckoning video I can find, listening to MGK's "Cliche" more times than I'm proud of, installing some Elgato Key Lights to improve my WFH camera look, digging the latest beta of Artifacts, and downloading every podcast I can find because I have 20 hours of driving to do this weekend.I also have for you a very funny new movie about tech CEOs, a new place to WhatsApp, a great new accessory for your phone, a helpful crypto politics explainer, and much more. Short week this week, but still lots going on. Let's do it.(As always, the best part of Installer is your ideas and tips. What are you reading / playing / watching / listening to / shopping for / doing with a Raspberry Pi this week? Tell me everything: [email protected]. And if you know someone else wh …Read the full story at The Verge.

Home Assistant is a fantastic software package that basically hands you complete control of your smart home. With support for limitless integrations, most software can just work in a way that you can tangibly improve your life. With the advent of Large Language Models (LLMs), too, the possibilities when it comes to processing data points into something useful are endless. That's why I combined an LLM with my Home Assistant, and it's made a lot of things possible, including dynamic notifications.

I've been a Windows user since I first laid hands on a keyboard, but since my childhood, I've branched out and dabbled with every operating system one could think of. Even still, most of my work and play occurs on Mac and Windows PCs, respectively. Linux was the odd one left out, and it's unfortunate because I love the idea of Linux. Open-source, ultimate customizability, and absolutely zero bloat just sounds like total bliss, but I've always delayed any kind of swap for two main reasons: comfort and compatibility.

You can never have enough local storage, which is why it's important to pick up SSDs, HDDs, or portable drives whenever they go on sale. With that said, this Team Group 2TB M.2 SSD with heatsink is now down to a price that can't be ignored, coming in at just $120 for a 2TB stick. This is the best price we've seen on this model all year, which makes it the perfect time to pick one up.

When Google first unveiled NotebookLM, I will admit, I was skeptical. I thought it would be another note-taking app with a few bells and whistles, but nothing groundbreaking. After all, I have used countless similar tools over the years, and most of them have fallen short of the hype. But when Google announced NotebookLM mobile apps, I decided to give it a genuine shot.

Father's Day rules. It's a day to celebrate all that dads have contributed to the people, homes, and communities that they're a part of. Being a dad is a lot of work - something I can vouch for, being a relatively new one myself - so for Father's Day, why not give dear old dad a token of appreciation and love? Whether your dad prefers practical or clever gifts, we think you'll be pleased with the selection of picks below.As usual, we lean pretty heavily on tech, but there are several non-tech suggestions that most dads will be happy to receive, all of which come courtesy of the thoughtful staff here at The Verge. If a fast-charging portable battery or Sony's collapsible WH-1000XM6 headphones won't do the trick, perhaps Kurt Vonnegut's recently discovered two-player board game or a mountable Lego van Gogh replica will?Read the full story at The Verge.

The student-built Purdubik’s Cube set a new Guinness World Record by solving a Rubik’s Cube in just 0.103 seconds. | Photo: Matthew Patrohay / Purdue UniversityA team of Purdue University students recently set a new Guinness World Record with their custom robot that solved a Rubik's Cube in just 0.103 seconds. That was about a third of the time it took the previous record-setting bot. But the new record wasn't achieved by simply building a robot that moves faster. The students used a combination of high-speed but low-res camera systems, a cube customized for improved strength, and a special solving technique popular among human speed cubers.The Rubik's Cube-solving robot arms race kicked off in 2014, when a robot called Cubestormer 3 built with Lego Mindstorms parts and a Samsung Galaxy S4 solved the iconic puzzle in 3.253 seconds - faster than any human or robot could at the time. (The current world record for a human solving a Rubik's Cube belongs to Xuanyi Geng, who did it in just 3.05 seconds.) Over the course of a decade, engineers managed to reduce that record to just hundreds of milliseconds.Last May, engineers at Mitsubishi Electric in Japan claimed the world record with a robot that solved a cube in 0.305 seconds. The record stood for almost a year before the team from Purdue's Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer …Read the full story at The Verge.

Every few weeks, it seems like there's a new headline about a lawyer getting in trouble for submitting filings containing, in the words of one judge, "bogus AI-generated research." The details vary, but the throughline is the same: an attorney turns to a large language model (LLM) like ChatGPT to help them with legal research (or worse, writing), the LLM hallucinates cases that don't exist, and the lawyer is none the wiser until the judge or opposing counsel points out their mistake. In some cases, including an aviation lawsuit from 2023, attorneys have had to pay fines for submitting filings with AI-generated hallucinations. So why haven't they stopped?The answer mostly comes down to time crunches, and the way AI has crept into nearly every profession. Legal research databases like LexisNexis and Westlaw have AI integrations now. For lawyers juggling big caseloads, AI can seem like an incredibly efficient assistant. Most lawyers aren't necessarily using ChatGPT to write their filings, but they are increasingly using it and other LLMs for research. Yet many of these lawyers, like much of the public, don't understand exactly what LLMs are or how they work. One attorney who was sa …Read the full story at The Verge.

Depending on the type of user you are, you might have never come across enterprise-grade components. I've been using pre-built and custom machines for over two decades, but still haven't felt the need to dabble in enterprise hardware. That said, enthusiasts and home lab users have a lot to gain from picking older enterprise components compared to modern consumer-grade hardware.

There are plenty of ways to upgrade your painstakingly-assembled battlestation of a PC. On the software front, you could go for Lossless Scaling, MSI Afterburner, and a host of cool utilities. Meanwhile, the hardware side is governed by several neat peripherals, accessories, and components designed to enhance the functionality of your rig. This includes PCIe devices, and I don’t just mean graphics cards.