President Donald Trump is weakening environmental regulations in the name of speeding up the construction of AI data centers, raising health risks for Americans, a cadre of former EPA officials said this week in a briefing and new report. They are urging - perhaps futilely - the president to adopt a "Data Center Health Protection Pledge" to signal that the administration is taking the environmental threat seriously. At the start of his term, Trump's EPA administrator, Lee Zeldin, proclaimed his goal of making America "the AI capital of the world" through deregulation. Since then, Zeldin and the White House have rolled back dozens of rules …Read the full story at The Verge.

OpenAI has spent the last few years planting flags across the increasingly difficult terrain in mathematics. This week, it claimed one of its biggest prizes yet: a solution to a legendary Millennium Prize problem. In normal circumstances, this would have been celebrated as a historic achievement.Instead, many mathematicians have watched OpenAI's relentless advance with growing unease. To them, the company appears less like an enthusiastic newcomer than an impossibly well-resourced interloper, charging into problems they have dedicated their lives to studying with little apparent regard for long-standing norms or the consequences for those …Read the full story at The Verge.

You could easily spend hundreds of dollars on a high-end tri-band Wi-Fi 6E or Wi-Fi 7 mesh system. The box will promise you blanket multi-gigabit coverage across a 5,000-square-foot home; however, the real-world experience is plagued by weird and erratic wireless behavior. Your phone might desperately cling to a distant node instead of handing off cleanly, and download speeds in your office might spike, causing jitter and packet loss for someone gaming in the living room.

The CPU and GPU temperatures often get the most attention, but the SSD temps go largely ignored. After all, your storage doesn't affect your gaming experience to the extent your CPU and GPU do. Still, it's important to know how hot your SSD is running, if only to eliminate it as a possible reason behind performance slowdown.

I have been looking for a good harness for my local models, something as good as Codex. I have tried tools like OpenCode and Aider, but for some reason, they just don't have the same finesse as Claude Code or Codex. They also lack many of the features you'd expect from a coding agent now.

The vast majority of OS bugs happen while it's running, but it's not unheard of for issues to strike before it can even get itself installed on your system. Such is the case with Ubuntu 24.04.5 Noble, which has had its AMD64 installer pulled because it would fail to install the OS whenever someone opted to perform an extended install.

Due to a scheduling mishap, I was only able to check out two movies on my second day at the Toronto International Film Festival - but I did manage to get an early look at and some fascinating details on one of my most anticipated films this year.Even if you don't know the name Laika, you probably know the studio's work; it's the animation house behind stop-motion hits like ParaNorman, The Boxtrolls, and Kubo and the Two Strings. Over the years Laika's films have steadily gotten more impressive on both a technical and artistic level. Which brings us to the incredible-looking Wildwood, hitting theaters next month. If you're unfamiliar, here' …Read the full story at The Verge.

Self-hosting gives you more control over your apps, services, and data, but it also puts the responsibility for protecting them in your hands. A failed drive, broken update, accidental deletion, or server problem can quickly turn into lost work. That makes backups an important part of running a self-hosted setup, not something to think about after something goes wrong. The good news is that building a solid backup system doesn't have to be complicated. Several tools can handle different parts of the process, from protecting files to managing recovery points. Here are some options worth considering for a stronger self-hosted backup setup.

Earlier this week, Gamers Nexus, Level1Techs, and independent security researchers detailed some alarming findings about how LG's TVs are logging and uploading data on its users. Now the company is pushing back against those allegations, saying that "Some recent media coverage may have contributed to misconceptions about how LG smart TVs work."LG released a statement in which it claims that its "TVs do not continuously record or transmit users' conversations," and that wake-word detection is all processed locally. However, the word "continuously" is doing a lot of heavy lifting here as Gamers Nexus demonstrated an LG TV keeping extensive l …Read the full story at The Verge.

Have you been having issues with either WSL or Claude Cowork on Windows 11 lately? IF so, you're not alone. Microsoft has updated its documentation to report that something within the latest Windows 11 update has created problems with Plan9, and the company is working on a fix.

I always assumed Microsoft 365 was one of those subscriptions I simply had to keep. My work depends on documents, spreadsheets, notes, cloud storage, and a bunch of small productivity tools, so replacing the entire suite sounded more annoying than useful. Still, I wanted to see how far free open-source software has come.

Which color suits you best? | Photo: Nilay Patel / The Verge The iPhone 18 Pro and 18 Pro Max are almost here. Announced at Apple's September 2026 "Sunrise and shine" event alongside the iPhone Duo and other new gear, the two upgraded phones feature the faster A20 Pro processor with more GPU power as well as more neural cores for AI-related tasks, plus some welcome improvements to the camera.The phones will arrive on Friday, September 18th, and preordering one is never a bad idea if you want to ensure you get the color and storage capacity configuration you're seeking. Speaking of, preorders are officially open.The 6.3-inch iPhone 18 Pro starts at $1,199 for the 256GB model, and goes all the way u …Read the full story at The Verge.