AT&T believes its network wasn’t at fault for a conference call where President Donald Trump accused the company of being “totally unable to make their equipment work properly.” Instead, AT&T is blaming an unnamed “conference call platform.” Earlier on Monday, President Donald Trump complained on Truth Social about apparent issues with AT&T’s network during a “major conference call with faith leaders from all over the country” that had “tens of thousands of people on the line.” Trump said that “this is the second time it’s happened” and that if “the Boss of AT&T, whoever that may be” would get involved, “it would be good.”It appears AT&T initially wasn’t sure what was going on, as it replied to White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt on X to say that it had reached out to the White House ”to quickly understand and assess the situation.”At 6:53PM ET, the company said that “our initial analysis indicates the disruption was caused by an issue with the conference call platform, not our network. Unfortunately, this caused the delay, and we are working diligently to better understand the issue so we can prevent disruptions in the future.”View LinkAT&T didn’t say which conference call platform it believes is at fault, and didn’t immediately respond to The Verge’s question about that. The White House didn’t immediately reply to a request for comment.Shortly after his original post, Trump followed up to say that the call may be rescheduled and that “we’ll use another carrier next time.”

An OLED monitor has been on my wishlist since forever, but I'm not about to drop $800–$1,000 on one anytime soon. Fortunately, I got to experience a fantastic OLED display that I recently received for testing. I spent a few days on the display, playing games and working a bit, just to see what having an OLED monitor felt like.

Five years ago, budget GPUs were free from the stigma of subpar performance and poor value for money that we see today. Buying a budget graphics card didn't mean that you were settling for an uninspired gaming experience. We had sub-$250 GPUs in the GTX 16 series that were great performers not only at 1080p but also at 1440p. I used a GTX 1660 Ti for years before moving to an RTX 3080 in 2022. Today's so-called budget GPUs are markedly different from the ones we were familiar with, and I don't like where the industry is going.

Dashboards are a pretty good software implementation that organizes and presents all the available apps under one roof. It's easy on the eyes, and you don't have to conjure a terminal to accomplish basic tasks like launching an app. There are ample dashboards available for Raspberry Pi that can turn your headless Pi with a non-graphical interface operating system into a visually accessible medium. But the DietPi Dashboard is quite different from a traditional app launcher or a customisation-rich Pi dashboard you're familiar with.

Most of us have clicked on a bit.ly or t.co link without a second thought, and these links are practically everywhere. These are known as link-shorteners, or URL-shorteners, and these services are baked into social platforms, email tools, and even print ads. Plenty of people use these for all kinds of things, but why use a publicly-hosted URL shortener when you can host your own instead?

Google's AI-powered research assistant, NotebookLM, is one of the few AI productivity tools that offers an entirely unique set of features and is genuinely game-changing for productivity. The AI tool was launched in 2023, so it's still fairly new. Given NotebookLM's success, their team has been constantly directing its efforts toward improving the tool by adding new features, fixing quirks, and improving the overall user experience.

Video editors can feel heavy on your system, crash often, or be subscription-only tools. Using Omni Tools, I can edit my videos in multiple ways directly in the browser for free. This open-source tool offers many other features, including image editing that rivals basic Photoshop tasks and PDF tools, among others. Having an open-source, browser-based video editing tool is helpful for many reasons, including better accessibility and privacy.

Everyone is familiar with the heavy hitters when it comes to JRPGs, like Final Fantasy and Persona, but there are plenty of underrated games in the genre. While the J in JRPG stands for Japanese, the term has expanded to include turn-based RPGs that are heavily inspired by those classic Japanese games, or emulate their style, like Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. The primary difference between JRPGs and RPGs is usually action versus turn-based combat, although there are other aspects of the style, like the storytelling style and the type of characters and themes used.

Valve has added a new performance monitor to Steam that can help you understand why a game may or may not be running smoothly. Not only does it break out a game’s overall frame rate, it can tell you how many of those frames were generated by techniques  like Nvidia’s DLSS or AMD’s FSR, according to a post.The change is included as part of an update to the Steam Client that’s available now, though Valve notes that this “first version” focuses on “Windows users and on the most common GPU hardware.”The company says the new performance monitor currently offers up to four different levels of detail: a single FPS value, FPS details, CPU and GPU utilization, and “FPS, CPU, GPU & RAM Full Details.” The more you choose to show, the more of your screen will be taken up by the performance monitor.Steam previously offered a simple FPS counter, but separating out generated frames from the frames fully rendered by your graphics cores can help you better understand key differences between what you see and how a game feels. “Frame generation can’t help with things like input latency that matter to competitive gamers, but it can make things look visually smoother on today’s high refresh rate monitors,” Valve says in a detailed support document about the performance monitor. In practice, what that should mean is that you can see whether your game feels like it’s running at just 30 fps because it actually is running at 30 fps inside the game engine, even though you’re seeing a visually smoother image due to Nvidia and AMD’s added “fake frames.” (It’s a whole debate in the PC gaming community, and it appears Valve isn’t taking sides here.) Valve has already given handheld gamers a taste of these quick insights by building tools like MangoHud into the Steam Deck and SteamOS, which similarly let you monitor your CPU, graphics, RAM, and carefully ration out your battery life. But having a way to do so built into desktop Steam will make the insights much more accessible to many more gamers.In the future, Valve says that it has plans to “add some additional pieces of data to the performance overlay going forward, to detect certain common bad hardware performance scenarios, and to show a larger summary of your game’s performance in the overlay itself when you hit shift-tab.”

Rainmeter is one of the most powerful Windows customization utilities. It can transform the way you view and interact with the desktop. Skins allow you to add widgets for system performance, the weather, and more. Rainmeter is one of the best graphical tools available for creating beautiful desktop experiences on Windows.

I've used most of the gaming handhelds on the market, and I keep going back to my Steam Deck. There's just something about the solid feel of Valve's hardware that none of the others can match. And thanks to the Proton translation layer, it can run almost any Windows game with ease. Almost. I mean, it is a Steam Deck, and runs far better with games on Steam's storefront. Does anyone really expect otherwise?

You can't go wrong with a portable SSD if you're looking for additional storage. Not only are you going to get great performance, but you're also getting something that's compact and durable. Of course, you're going to be paying the price with SSDs, being some of the more expensive options when it comes to storage media.