A cheaper plan is also available, but only to existing All Apps subscribers.Some of Adobe’s most expensive Creative Cloud subscriptions are about to get even pricier for users in North America. Starting from June 17th, the Creative Cloud All Apps plan will be renamed Creative Cloud Pro for users in the US, Canada, and Mexico, adding a bunch of generative AI perks in exchange for bumping up subscription costs.The pre-tax monthly price for individual Creative Cloud All Apps subscribers on an annual contract will increase from $59.99 to $69.99, or from $659.88 to $779.99 annually. The monthly price for rolling, non-contracted subscribers will jump from $89.99 to $104.99. Contracted prices for teams start at $99.99 per month, up from $89.99, while student and teacher plans will jump from $34.99 to $39.99 monthly on renewal.The new Creative Cloud Pro plan provides access to the same Adobe apps and features as the previous All Apps plan, alongside some new additions. Users will have unlimited credits for powering generative AI image tools like Photoshop’s Generate Fill, and 4,000 monthly credits for “premium” AI video and audio features like Generative Extend in Premiere Pro. The plan also includes the ability to select third-party generative AI models like OpenAI’s GPT and Google Imagen, and access to Adobe’s in-beta collaborative whiteboard app, Firefly Boards.“We want to empower you with more time to explore ideas and create, so we’re focused on continually upgrading your apps’ performance, delivering innovations to your core workflows, and integrating generative AI-powered capabilities across Creative Cloud and through our new Firefly app that make you more productive,” Adobe said in its announcement. “Today, we’re sharing updates to our Creative Cloud offerings to reflect our continued innovation and commitment to providing you the best tools for bringing your visions to life.”The previous All Apps plan will no longer be available following the switch, and existing subscribers will be charged the increased price on their next renewal date. These changes only apply in North America, and Adobe says it isn’t planning to make name or pricing changes in other regions “at this time.”Adobe is also offering a stripped-back “Creative Cloud Standard” plan for users who don’t need its generative AI offerings. Starting at $54.99 per month for contracted subscribers or $82.49 for rolling users, the Creative Cloud Standard plan is nearly identical to the current All Apps plan, but reduces the previous 1,000 monthly generative credit allowance down to 25. Users also won’t have access to premium web and mobile app features that are unlocked for Creative Cloud Pro subscribers. Not only is Adobe defaulting current All Apps subscribers to the more expensive AI-laden plan, compared to the Standard offering that’s closer in price and features, but this new Creative Cloud Standard offering is only available to existing subscribers, forcing new customers to take the more expensive AI-focused plan.Adobe’s All Apps plan was a poor investment for most individual users anyway, as it’s rare for one person to need more than 20 apps that target such a wide variety of creative industries. Still, some existing All Apps subscribers aren’t too pleased with the changes, if the reactions on Adobe subreddits are any indication. Canva attempted to make similar AI-driven price increases last year, which were later softened due to backlash from its users, so we will have to see if Adobe sticks to its guns.

Watching your home lab grow from a modest single-server setup to a dedicated experimentation and self-hosting workspace can feel extremely gratifying. Besides adding extra computing prowess for your DIY, extra rigs let you tinker with high-availability clusters, and you can even arm them with some services that you’d typically want to avoid running on your main workstation.

Qualcomm is working on its next-gen Oryon CPU core, and the company plans to detail its capabilities in full at the Snapdragon Summit in September. Now, Qualcomm's Alex Katouzian has shared a release window, saying that next-gen Snapdragon X chips should start showing up in devices in Q1 2026. Although Qualcomm didn't have many announcements at Computex this year, it laid out plenty of teases for what's coming next, including the next-gen Oryon core and its expansion into the data center market.

Chapter 14: Spire of Nerathul in Doom: The Dark Agesis the biggest level in the game so far. If you thought chapter 6 was huge, wait till you get to the fourteenth level, which throws everything at the player from on-foot battle arenas, to dragon mount segments.

I'm still in the mess around and finding out stages of my home lab journey. My current experimentation phase is which reverse proxy solution to use for accessing my self-hosted apps from wherever, with easily remembered subdomains of a domain I own. So far, I've dabbled with Nginx, graduated to Nginx Proxy Manager, played with Pangolin, and tinkered with Traefik, but one other name keeps coming up. That's Caddy, which bills itself as 'the ultimate server', but it's much more than that.

Microsoft 365 is arguably the most popular productivity suite, but regardless of your opinion, it's lately been suffering from various issues quite frequently, disrupting users' workflow. For example, last month, Microsoft Teams momentarily prevented users from sharing files. While issues like these are usually fixed within a few hours, Microsoft can take months or even years to address what users ask of it, which are mostly feature requests and improvements.

MSI has revealed its latest iteration of its Claw PC gaming handheld — and this time, it’s powered by AMD. The company showed off the Claw A8 BZ2EM at Computex 2025, which comes with an AMD Ryzen Z2 Extreme chip along with up to 24GB of DDR5 memory.That’s a bit less than the 32GB of memory that came with the Intel-equipped Claw 8 AI Plus released late last year, but it still has an 8-inch full HD display, a 120Hz refresh rate, and a 1TB M.2 SSD. The AMD-powered Claw A8 will also come in two colors: white and lime green.MSI had a bit of a rough start with the release of its original Claw handheld in March 2024, but it seemed to redeem itself with the launch of the MSI Claw 8 AI Plus. Lenovo also snapped up one of AMD’s new handheld-focused chips for the Legion Go S, but it uses the weaker Z2 Go version that my colleague Sean Hollister said “can’t compete” with its predecessor’s Z1 Extreme.There’s a new MSI Claw 8 AI Plus “Polar Tempest” edition, too, which features an up to Intel Core Ultra 7 258V processor and a 2TB NVMe SSD. It also has what MSI calls a “glittering” white coating. MSI didn’t reveal a release date or price for either model, but it will likely be in the same ballpark as the standard Intel-powered MSI Claw 8 Plus, which Best Buy lists as costing $999.99.

Qualcomm didn't need to hold a keynote at Computex 2025, but the moment CEO Cristiano Amon took the stage, it was immediately clear why Qualcomm had a presence at the show. A year ago, Qualcomm introduced the Snapdragon X Elite, and although there have been some bumps with bringing Windows on Arm to life, Qualcomm has had a remarkable run with its chips in just 12 months.

Renewable energy has driven a manufacturing boom in the US, but that’s all at stake as Congress weighs cuts to Biden-era tax incentives.Solar, wind, and battery companies have announced plans to either create or expand 250 manufacturing facilities since August 2022. That’s when Congress passed the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), considered the biggest federal investment to date in climate and clean energy. If those projects are up and running by 2030, they would collectively create more than 575,000 jobs and contribute $86 billion annually to gross domestic product, according to a report published today by the American Clean Power Association (ACP). Republican districts benefit the most from the IRA’s clean energy tax credits. But now, GOP lawmakers could take away those tax incentives if they follow through with President Donald Trump’s plan to pass a “big, beautiful” spending bill that would rollback what he calls a “green new scam.” “Republican districts benefit the most from the IRA’s clean energy tax credits”Red states are home to 73 percent of active facilities, according to the ACP. And already, solar, wind, and battery manufacturing supports 122,000 full-time jobs. Solar manufacturing employed the biggest share of Americans, some 75,400 people. Solar was the fastest-growing source of electricity in 2024, according to data from the US Energy Information Administration, accounting for 81 percent of added annual capacity. Costs for solar and wind have fallen dramatically for decades, with utility-scale solar now the cheapest source of electricity in most parts of the world. Despite that growth, supply chains for solar energy have been concentrated in China and beset with concerns about forced labor and human rights violations, particularly in the Xinjiang region. The Inflation Reduction Act was meant to supercharge domestic manufacturing, largely through tax credits. And it was starting to pay off. Manufacturing capacity for solar modules grew 190 percent in the US last year, according to a separate report by the Solar Energy Industries Association and research firm Wood Mackenzie.Those tax credits are now in the crosshairs of a Republican-controlled Congress trying to ram Trump’s agenda into a sweeping spending bill. A draft bill from the House Ways and Means committee last week proposes phasing out the advanced manufacturing tax credit (45x) and other tax incentives for renewables established in the IRA, and would add stipulations in the meantime that would make it difficult for projects to qualify for credits.If those proposals are ultimately signed into law, the US clean energy industry will see job losses as factories shut down, MJ Shiao, ACP Vice President of Supply Chain and Manufacturing said during a press briefing last week.“What we have seen from these texts from House Ways and Means, it basically goes too far, too fast,” Shiao said. “The manufacturers that were being supported by these incentives, and frankly, were trusting that the government was going to honor these incentives, you know, they’re getting the rug pulled out from under them.”

I've been using Google Photos to back up my pictures for close to a decade now. For the most part, I've had a seamless experience doing so, since the app automatically backs up photos shot on my phone in the background. Whenever I need to access my gallery, I can either use the app or fire up Google Photos on the web. However, there are two issues with a service like Google Photos. One -- you need to pay for cloud storage beyond a certain capacity, and two, your data is uploaded to remote servers, so there's always some sort of risk involved. Owing to this, I started looking for alternatives that tackled both these issues.

Single Board Computers (SBCs) like Raspberry Pi are small devices that appear complicated at first glance. I first learned about them in my college lab sessions. I never thought of it as anything more than a fancy project with no real use for home setups. They appeared complex to set up and use, and didn’t appear as usable as Windows or any other popular PC OS. But when I re-explored them a few years later, most of the myths about SBCs were completely false.

MSI is busy launching numerous products at Computex 2025, and one of the highlights is the all-new Claw A8. This has a rather unique name compared to its existing Claw gaming handheld line-up, and that's because this thing doesn't have an Intel processor inside. Opening up the handheld, which is not recommended, would reveal an AMD Z2 Extreme. As well as this stunning new portable console, we've got a few motherboards, laptops, and more to get through.