Back in January 2025, Bambu Lab cut off OrcaSlicer's direct cloud printing feature. Previously, people could send their slices directly to their Bambu Lab printers; however, Bambu Lab wanted users to route connections through its standalone app, Bambu Connect, which acts as a bridge to its printers. Bambu Lab said that OrcaSlicer could use Bambu Connect, but the developers didn't want to make a one-app solution into a two-app system. Users were stuck with a choice: to either update their firmware and lose OrcaSlicer's printing feature, or stick with the old firmware and never receive updates again.

I went into Claude Code expecting the usual AI coding assistant pitch. Faster boilerplate, fewer dead ends, and a lot of promises about how it could speed up the parts of development that feel repetitive. That use case is there, and I’m not pretending otherwise. What surprised me was that the workflow I liked most had very little to do with asking it to write code for me. The real value showed up when I used it to make sense of everything around the code instead.

I've tried a lot of Home Assistant dashboards, between tablets propped up on stands, old Android phones, cheap ESP32 displays, and more. Yet my favorites have always been the ePaper displays I've got to try, as those other options all have one thing in common: screens. They needed power, they needed to be on, and they'll always draw your eye whether you want them to or not.

As someone who is equal parts gamer and tinkerer, I spend a lot of time looking at performance metrics. Average FPS is just the tip of the iceberg for me. I'm interested in seeing frametime, latency graphs, and other metrics like GPU Busy compared on a run-to-run basis. Visualizing these metrics for personal use is easy: applications like CapFrameX do this for you, but I was looking for a way to produce slick graphs for publication here on XDA and elsewhere, and so, like most people who have rudimentary knowledge of coding, I turned to Claude Code to assist with making an application that could do just that. It succeeded in accomplishing that task far beyond my expectations, and there's still so much I can improve on.

Microsoft started teasing a mysterious Discord and Xbox Game Pass partnership yesterday, and a new leak appears to have detailed exactly what's coming. Discord Previews has uncovered a new Xbox Game Pass "Starter Edition" that is bundled with Discord Nitro.The Starter Edition reportedly includes "access to over 50 games from the Game Pass library," as well as 10 hours a month of Xbox Cloud Gaming streaming and the ability to earn Xbox Rewards points while playing games. It's not clear which games will be part of the more than 50 titles available, but the leaked images suggest that Stardew Valley, Grounded, and Fallout 4 will be included. …Read the full story at The Verge.

When I first got into Obsidian, I also got into the plugins at the same time. That’s just what you do - every setup video, Reddit thread, or “here’s my vault” post had a plugin list at the end. So I built mine too. But the vault started feeling more like a project I was managing on top of my actual projects. Which is kind of the opposite of what I wanted when I picked Obsidian over something like Notion to begin with.

The Windows Subsystem for Android (WSA) is history now. Microsoft caved in and killed the project, which angered a lot of users because it was one of the main highlights of the Windows 11 launch. Microsoft failed to anticipate the demand for running Android apps with Google Play Store support, and the option to only download apps via the Amazon Appstore didn’t appeal to a lot of users. I thought WSA would kill third-party Android emulators on Windows, but WSA didn’t catch up with them.

Satechi is a brand that's pretty well-known for its high-quality accessories, delivering some of the best chargers, docks, and other PC accessories that you'll find on the market. Most of the Satechi products we've reviewed in the past have obtained high marks.

Under the guidance of consummate bully / chairman Brendan Carr, the FCC is taking steps towards cracking down on children's entertainment that in any way explores the complexities of gender identity.On Wednesday, the FCC's Media Bureau announced that it is soliciting comments from the public about whether the TV ratings system has made sound decisions regarding children's programming with transgender or non-binary characters. In a statement about the commenting period the FCC said that it was soliciting feedback due to an alleged uptick in "significant concerns" about whether "controversial gender identity issues are being included or prom …Read the full story at The Verge.

Having built tens of PCs over the course of the past few years, I can objectively state that unboxing and installing the GPU is undoubtedly the best part of the process. This is, after all, the part that will power every gaming experience you're about to have.

Claude users can access more apps with Anthropic's AI now thanks to new connectors for everything from hiking to grocery shopping. Anthropic already supported connecting numerous work-related apps to Claude, like Microsoft apps, but this expansion focuses on personal apps like Audible, Spotify, Uber, AllTrails, TripAdvisor, Instacart, TurboTax, and others. Some of these apps, such as Spotify, already have similar connectors in OpenAI's ChatGPT. Once an app is connected, Claude will suggest relevant connected apps directly in your conversations, like using AllTrails for hike recommendations. Anthropic notes in its blog post announcing the n …Read the full story at The Verge.

Nicolas Maduro is seen in handcuffs after landing at a Manhattan helipad on January 5, 2026 in New York City. We knew someone made over $400,000 on suspicious Polymarket bets around the US operation to capture Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro, but now we have a name: Gannon Ken Van Dyke. The US Attorney for the Southern District of New York announced Thursday that Van Dyke is in custody, on several charges, including using confidential government information for personal gain.As described in the indictment, prosecutors allege Van Dyke was directly involved in the planning and execution of "Operation Absolute Resolve" to capture Maduro, and in the days before the capture, made several transactions purchasing "$33,934 worth of 'YES' shares on Mad …Read the full story at The Verge.