According to The Information, Apple is planning to get back into the server game and might just pair up with Nvidia to make it happen. Apple retired its Xserve line in 2011 and has largely left enterprise machines to other manufacturers since. But the growing demand for compute power as the AI industry continues to expand has apparently led the company to believe there is an opening for its powerful but efficient ARM-based M processors. Its Mac Mini and Mac Studio have proven popular with AI developers, which has led to shortages.The server product, whether it's called Xserve or something else, likely won't debut until 2029. Word is that i …Read the full story at The Verge.

You can manage a WordPress site with ChatGPT or Claude using WPVibe. It’s a free plugin that connects both AI tools directly to your site. We tested it by connecting Claude to our demo travel site and giving it real tasks. Within a few minutes,… Read More »The post How to Manage Your WordPress Website with ChatGPT or Claude first appeared on WPBeginner.

Google is inviting third-party agents, including Claude and Open Claw, into Google Home. | Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge Google is opening up its smart home to AI agents, letting tools like Claude and Open Claw access and control your connected devices and analyze your home's data using the standardized Model Context Protocol. Google Home MCP is a new integration that lets third-party AI agents control and monitor your smart home and act on your behalf. It "allows any AI agents that support MCP, including Google Antigravity, Claude, Hermes or Open Claw, to securely work with all of the devices and event history in your Google Home ecosystem," Taylor Lehman, group product manager at Google Home & Nest, said in a blog post.According to Lehman, Home MCP integ …Read the full story at The Verge.

RISC-V has been around for a long time, but its big breakthrough always seems to be just around the corner. Maybe it'll turn up in a laptop one day, or a server, or your phone, but every year it feels as if all we get are development boards from the likes of SiFive. Here's the thing, though: Nvidia thinks it shipped over a billion RISC-V cores in 2024, even if they're not your typical computing-oriented chips.

When I first started out with Home Assistant, I always wrote “happy path” automations. I was naive enough to assume that when a door opened, the Zigbee sensor would instantly broadcast that state, Home Assistant would receive it within milliseconds, and the light would turn on. But I quickly learned things aren't quite so rosy.

Last month, Amazon released a Fire TV software update that prevented several devices from sideloading apps through Downloader and similar sideloading apps. Given Amazon's shift to Vega OS and the fact that the tech giant obviously isn't a fan of the piracy sideloading can enable, it wouldn't be entirely surprising if this was an intentional move by the company.

My villain origin story is my Whoop age. How do you age at 0.9 times your age and end up four to five years older than you are? | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge This is Optimizer, a weekly newsletter sent from Verge senior reviewer Victoria Song that dissects and discusses the latest gizmos and potions that swear they're going to change your life. Opt in for Optimizer here.During last week's Apple Watch announcement, I let out a distinct "Noooo!" in the Steve Jobs Theater. Along with a new readiness metric and a redesigned Health app, Apple had just announced that later this year, it'd be introducing a new longevity feature called Health Age. This is a familiar concept in the wearable and health tech world. The idea is that if you put effort into your health and fitness, your physiological age c …Read the full story at The Verge.

When Paul W.S. Anderson's Resident Evil hit theaters in 2002, video game movies were largely seen as a niche. Films like Mortal Kombat and Tomb Raider had proven that big-screen game adaptations could be successful, but the commercial and critical failure of projects like the 1993 Super Mario Bros. still cast a long shadow. And while Anderson's vision of Raccoon City might have captivated audiences on the whole, many hardcore fans of Capcom's games were left disappointed by the way the original movies wildly deviated from the source material.Weapons director Zach Cregger's new take on Resident Evil is a return to the franchise's fundamenta …Read the full story at The Verge.

The Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W doesn’t resemble an SBC that you can build a useful server from. Despite its exceptional software support, it’s difficult to envision it as a reliable server that can host useful items. The hardware specs show its severely limited capabilities, which is why many DIY users skip it.

Claude is getting a pair of new tools today: Docs and Slides. They'll let you create documents and presentations through Claude chats, which you can export, edit, and share with other users.As part of the announcement, Anthropic is also simplifying how Claude chats work, merging regular chats and Cowork into "one Claude," with all of its AI productivity tools available from any chat. Artifacts and Claude Design capabilities will be available through the new single interface as well. According to Anthropic, Claude "can now figure out what a task needs, so what Cowork and Design can do is available from any conversation, with the context, sk …Read the full story at The Verge.

Samus is geared up for another adventure. | Image: Nintendo The Metroid series is going back to its 2D roots again with Metroid Ravenous for the Nintendo Switch 2, the first side-scrolling game in the series since 2021’s Metroid Dread for the Nintendo Switch. If you’re already excited enough to consider preordering, you can save $10 on the physical version of the game when you buy it from Walmart. It’s $59.88 instead of $69.99, about the same as buying it digitally. The game launches on January 28th, 2027, but it’s not clear how long the preorder discount will last. If it’s anything like other Walmart preorders, it may occasionally disappear.Metroid RavenousWhere to Buy: $69.99 $59.88 at WalmartNintendo first showed off the side-scrolling adventure game at its September 2026 Direct, with a frantic trailer cutting between cinematic sequences, Samus dashing and rolling across a variety of environments, and engaging a number of enemies and bosses in battle. Samus absorbs some powerful abilities at the conclusion of Dread, and Ravenous seem to be all about plowing through anyone stopping her from escaping the planet. Other details of the story, including unique new mechanics, are being kept under wraps for the time being.If you haven’t played Metroid Dread, I recommend it, especially at its $41.99 discounted price at Amazon. It’s part of Nintendo’s “Customer Appreciation” sale happening through September 26th, and several other games and accessories are cheaper, too.

You can easily run a local model on a decently specced PC or MacBook, but the performance is often abysmal for most tasks. The main reason is the hardware in your device, which limits how capable a model you can run, and most consumer PCs and laptops can’t run a very good model.