The Beam Ultra is made for TVs up to 65 inches. It will also be available in black. | Photo by Cameron Faulkner / The Verge Sonos unveiled a bunch of new stuff today at its open house event. There's the $699 Beam Ultra soundbar and the $449 Ace Ultra headphones, plus several under-the-hood app updates (some coming sooner than others). While the show floor was a less than ideal venue to judge audio quality of either new product, a private demo in a smaller room provided a better hint as to what the Beam Ultra soundbar might be capable of.With the 7.1.2 soundbar about six feet in front of the press, the team ran through a couple demos to show off its range, particularly with Dolby Atmos content. The opening minutes of Widow's Bay subtly illustrates the Beam Ultra …Read the full story at The Verge.

Mozilla shut Pocket down in July 2025, and by October the export window closed and any data left in there was wiped. That's over a year ago at this point, and people are still asking what to switch to in the read-later corners of the internet. The two names that come up first are Instapaper and Raindrop, and I think both are reasonable alternatives. However, I've been using something completely different, it's not even marketed as a read-it-later app, but if you actually look at how I've been using Pocket, it makes complete sense.

I’ve been trying to find the best way to remotely access my Jellyfin server, and after trying port forwarding, I can safely say that it doesn’t belong anywhere near my top five. On paper, you only need to open a port on your router and direct incoming traffic to the machine running Jellyfin. In practice, you have CGNAT, double NAT, changing public IP addresses, firewall rules, and the security risk of exposing your server to the internet.

Adobe's DNG Converter is essentially a black box program; it takes in raw photos and converts them to Adobe's open-standard Digital Negative format, commonly known as DNG. There's no source code for Adobe’s converter, so while you can see exactly what goes in and what comes out, what happens in between is hidden.

As he steps down from his post as Apple CEO today, Tim Cook leaves behind a mostly positive environmental record. As far as billionaire tech moguls and the environment go, Cook will likely be remembered as one of the better ones - certainly far from the worst. But it will become harder for the company to meet the climate goals Cook set in place as Apple tries to catch up in the AI race. Under his watch, Apple set industry-leading goals for reducing the amount of pollution created by its products and suppliers. It has managed to keep its carbon footprint from growing while other tech giants see their emissions rise with the energy needs of …Read the full story at The Verge.

Depending on who you ask, developer platform Hugging Face was recently attacked by OpenAI - after it lost control of its own AI tools - or by a succession of AI "civilizations." Welcome to the linguistic battlefield of AI safety, where word choices can shift responsibility for a massive cybersecurity incident from a company to the AI it built. And the discourse online is getting heated, and all over a blog from last week.Until last week, the details surrounding the OpenAI-Hugging Face hack felt fairly settled. In July, a cybersecurity test of one of OpenAI's autonomous AI agents went wrong. The agent escaped its supposedly isolated test en …Read the full story at The Verge.

Apple is pushing for "expedited discovery" in its legal battle against OpenAI over concerns the company is actively destroying evidence, as reported earlier by Bloomberg. In a filing on Monday, Apple alleges OpenAI only just handed over a MacBook used by a former employee at the center of the lawsuit, which contained discussions about "destroying the types of forensic data Apple needs."This is the latest development in Apple's lawsuit against OpenAI, which accuses the ChatGPT-maker of stealing trade secrets to build an AI device. The lawsuit revolves around three former Apple employees who recently joined OpenAI, including Chang Liu, who a …Read the full story at The Verge.

A wired connection beats wireless any day, which is why many PC users prefer Ethernet to Wi-Fi. It isn't subject to wireless shenanigans and allows you to enjoy your connection's full speed. You just need a way to route a cable from your router to your PC to use your internet plan to the fullest.

Having spent a lot of time with the Raspberry Pi 4 and Zero, I was beyond ecstatic when the fifth iteration of this uber-popular single-board computer hit the shelves. After all, this tiny gizmo packs a better CPU (and GPU) than its predecessor, making it better than the RPi 4 for projects where I need more computational prowess. On top of that, it has an onboard power connector and a PCIe 2.0 slot that I’d wanted on this SBC family for years.

New Apple CEO John Ternus sent out his first staff memo, thanking his predecessor Tim Cook, and quickly turning to what the company will do next, reports Bloomberg. "We have a huge launch next week that's going to be phenomenal. Thanks for everything you've all done to make it possible," writes Ternus, referring to the September 9th event where Apple's expected to unveil new iPhones including the rumored foldable iPhone Ultra and iPhone 18 Pro models. Ternus also hints at "incredible products already in the works and the ones we haven't even imagined yet," presumably moving beyond camera-equipped AirPods, home robots, and even more OLED di …Read the full story at The Verge.

It probably will not come as a surprise to most when I say that your Windows boot drive has enough on its plate. It handles the OS, applications, Windows updates, caches, temporary files, telemetry, and the list goes on and on. As such, it is useful to offload some of these tasks when it's possible, and most users start with pagefile.sys, since it is one of the few high-write files Windows lets you relocate without trouble.

Expectations for Tim Cook were almost impossibly high when he stepped in to replace Apple's visionary cofounder in 2011. He inherited a company on a blockbuster run, after Steve Jobs returned and revitalized the Mac, launched the iPod, and oversaw the launch of the iPhone.Now, after 15 years in the CEO role, Tim Cook is stepping down. He's replaced today by hardware leader John Ternus. Over the course of Cook's tenure, Apple accomplished a lot, with the launch of plenty of new products, features, and services that the company just wouldn't be the same without. There were plenty of ups and downs, but Cook helped cement the company as one of …Read the full story at The Verge.