Logitech’s Creative Console and other MX accessories are now compatible with several productivity apps. | Image: Logitech Logitech has announced a new suite of Productivity Plugins for its entire MX line of accessories, including its Stream Deck alternative, the MX Creative Console. Since the console launched in September 2024, Logitech has been expanding its capabilities with plug-ins that support creativity-focused apps such as Final Cut Pro, Adobe Lightroom, and Figma. That is now expanding to include productivity apps, such as Microsoft Office's Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, as well as Slack and Notion.Shortcuts, actions, and specific tools in those apps can be quickly accessed using Logitech's Actions Ring menus, which are supported by accessories like th …Read the full story at The Verge.

Google has signed a classified deal that allows the US Department of Defense to use its AI models for "any lawful government purpose," The Information reports. The agreement was reported less than a day after Google employees demanded CEO Sundar Pichai block the Pentagon from using its AI amid concerns that it would be used in "inhumane or extremely harmful ways."If the agreement is confirmed, it would place Google alongside OpenAI and xAI, which have also made classified AI deals with the US government. Anthropic was also among that list until it was blacklisted by the Pentagon for refusing the Department of Defense's demands to remove we …Read the full story at The Verge.

When you're trying to get work done, and you need to download and organize a ton of files, the last thing you want is a download manager that makes things more complicated than they really should be. This goes double for productivity apps like Microsoft Teams, where people download sensitive and time-critical documents all the time.

Last August, some of the best cybersecurity teams in the business gathered in Las Vegas to demonstrate the strength of their AI bug-finding systems at DARPA's Artificial Intelligence Cyber Challenge (AIxCC). The tools had scanned 54 million lines of actual software code that DARPA had injected with artificial flaws. The teams were capable enough to identify most of the artificial bugs, but their automated tools went beyond that - they found more than a dozen bugs that DARPA hadn't inserted at all.Even before the security earthquake that Anthropic delivered this month with Claude Mythos - the new AI model that seems to find vulnerabilities …Read the full story at The Verge.

The last few weeks have bordered on overwhelming for science fiction fans. While Project Hail Mary is dominating the box office, For All Mankind is currently in the midst of its penultimate season, with a spinoff streaming next month. When it comes to games, Capcom kicked off a new sci-fi franchise with Pragmata, and Housemarque is about to launch the haunting shooter Saros. With all of that going on, it'd be easy to miss Aphelion. It's a comparatively small and quiet adventure game, one focused more on storytelling than gameplay. But that also makes it a perfect complement to all of the current blockbusters, offering something much more int …Read the full story at The Verge.

Adobe's generative fill and Firefly features are absolutely magical, but they are locked behind a mandatory subscription, a cloud credit system, and a privacy policy that often leaves many professionals uneasy. The 600 AI isn't just for Linux nerds anymore. With the release of GIMP 3.0 and the maturity of Krita's AI integration, the local-first creative suite is now faster and more powerful than the cloud-tethered alternatives.

A years-old bank heist may soon have major privacy implications for every American who owns a cellphone. On Monday, the Supreme Court heard arguments in Chatrie v. United States, a case involving police's use of controversial "geofence warrants" to find and arrest Okello Chatrie, the suspect of a 2019 bank robbery outside Richmond, Virginia. At stake is how private your location data - and any other information you store with a large tech company - actually is. Chatrie was tracked down via the Location History feature on Google Maps, which can identify a person's location within three meters and refreshes every two minutes. Police served G …Read the full story at The Verge.

Similar to other new hardware, the out-of-box experience of a router can leave your network with a lot of loose ends, despite it being able to function properly right away. These defaults are intentional: manufacturers ship these devices with settings that prioritize getting users online in just a few minutes, and they're not necessarily the most secure or performant. Every time I set up a new router, I run through this list of settings before a single device touches the network, and it only takes a few minutes.

A second nozzle sounds like the sort of 3D printer feature that could easily become marketing confetti, but on the Bambu Lab X2D, it has a genuinely practical role. The real value is not that it lets you make louder multicolor trinkets.

Elon Musk officially began his testimony in the trial he has brought against OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and company president Greg Brockman.The three were on the initial founding team of OpenAI, with Musk investing up to $38 million early on before the co-founders' relationship soured over disagreements over company structure and mission, including whether or not OpenAI should be folded into Musk-owned Tesla. Musk walked away and, years later, founded xAI - his own direct competitor to OpenAI, which is now owned by Musk's SpaceX. In recent years, Musk has filed no less than four different lawsuits against OpenAI, many of which have since been …Read the full story at The Verge.

When you get into using LLMs to help with coding tasks, it's a fun, vibe-coding way to work through complex setup tasks. I highly recommend testing it out, even if you're not a coder, because at least then you have some experience to talk about the process. But when you want to get onto real work, that time spent setting up could be better spent on tasks. Setup is often a convoluted process of Python, scripts, multiple package managers, and tools collected from across the internet, and what works on one machine rarely works on another.

Regardless of which AI tool you use or how long you've been using them, you've likely found yourself constantly explaining context to your AI assistant. This includes repeating your preferences again and again, rehashing what you've already covered, re-uploading documents, and telling it (for the hundredth time in a week) that you're working on this project, not that one. It's the kind of friction that makes you wonder: isn't the AI supposed to be the smart one?