Nscale, which recently struck a $45 billion deal with Anthropic, is in talks to raise additional funds in anticipation of an upcoming IPO. … [Read more...]

When you set up a new NAS system, you might notice it constantly humming and drawing a lot of wattage, so you switch it to standby mode after 15 to 30 minutes of inactivity. This might feel like an energy-conscious decision, and you might notice your room get quieter, temperatures falling, and your annual electric bill dropping by up to $40. … [Read more...]

AMD's proprietary 3D V-cache is perhaps one of the most important CPU innovations of recent times, and anyone who has been remotely interested in processors knows that already. It's one of AMD's biggest tangible advantages in gaming over competitors right now, and it has been for a while, especially with Team Red steadily refining the formula with every generation. … [Read more...]

Most homelab guides hand you a 20+ container checklist to start with. The initial setup is usually the easy part; configuring and maintaining it is the real task that comes later. And most beginners get frustrated and drop the whole idea. … [Read more...]

One half of making a laptop is giving it the most powerful portable hardware on the market; the other half is squeezing all of that into an extremely thin shell. Fortunately, HP seems to have hit the balance perfectly, as it has just announced the world's thinnest RTX Spark laptops. These allow people to tap into on-board AI without sacrificing portability. … [Read more...]

Trump's racist new "Build the Wall" game. | Image: The White House The PR masterminds at the White House just released a series of vaguely policy-themed "arcade" games, some of which are racist - and modeled on real games whose copyright holders may not be too happy to be associated with the MAGA agenda. The Tetris Company has already responded to "Build the Wall," which is obviously modeled on … [Read more...]

ESP32 is a cheap and tiny microcontroller, but it can do things most people wouldn't expect. It's highly versatile and has onboard Bluetooth and Wi-Fi, making it well-suited to various smart home and networking projects. Besides, you can choose from many different ESP32 boards, depending on the complexity of your project. … [Read more...]

I have been using Plex on my Nvidia Shield TV Pro as a media server for a while now, but as my media collection has grown, I've considered getting a NAS to help with content flow. However, each time I think about it, I realize that with a bit of extra drive and a cheap powered hub, I can get by without the added expense. … [Read more...]

When I got the new Kindle Paperwhite 12th Gen, my older 11th Gen just sat on the nightstand. After jailbreaking my Kindle, I tend to use it mostly to run projects and rarely for reading. I remembered that Kindle runs a stripped-down Linux kernel. So jailbreaking gave me access to the kernel rather than to Amazon's reading app. … [Read more...]

GoPro CEO Nick Woodman said in a letter to customers that making cameras is still his company's "core DNA," after a proposed $285 million acquisition by Starman was announced earlier this week. He claims the merger puts GoPro in a better position to continue developing its content creation tech, after saying in the deal announcement that it would work with Starman to address "important areas of … [Read more...]

I was reading an article from OpenAI, published earlier this year, about how the company changed its development environment to make apps more legible to Codex. The AI company says it exposed logs, metrics, and traces to Codex so the agent could reproduce bugs, validate fixes, and make the necessary changes. … [Read more...]

A federal judge temporarily barred an X rival from using the Twitter name, but found that X was likely to have abandoned the "Tweet" trademark and bird logo. The startup has since relaunched as Tweet.app. … [Read more...]

It's not quite the "push button; get song" of Suno, but Roland's new Melody Flip tool marks the company's foray into generative AI music. Available as a plug-in for your digital audio workstation (DAW), Melody Flip offers around 250 "Palettes," which are essentially themed collections of musical ideas sorted by genre. You can start from scratch and ask it to generate any combination of melody, … [Read more...]

I feel like I've written this several times in my past few Pixel Pro reviews, but this year in particular, the Pixel 11 Pro is nearly identical to the Pixel 10 Pro. … [Read more...]

It's officially the Ternus era at Apple.   Tim Cook stepped down as CEO this week, handing the company to former hardware chief John Ternus, whose first memo promised a "huge launch next week" — timing that puts Apple's next iPhone event on his desk before he's even settled in. Cook isn't going far, though: he's staying on as Executive Chairman, focused on the kind of policy […] ➪ Continue … [Read more...]

OpenAI announced its next big model, GPT-6 Astra, and also, by the way, that "the AGI era" is here now. Today on The Vergecast, we've got an all-star panel to break down the news of the week. First, senior AI reporter Hayden Field joins us to talk about our supposed AGI era and Nvidia's acquisition of Hugging Face. Then, our friend Joanna Stern pops in to talk about new Apple CEO John Ternus, old … [Read more...]

When you start to reach a higher capacity on your NAS drive, you might start considering adding one or two more hard drives in order to gain storage, but this might break the bank. … [Read more...]

Getting a new PC is always exciting; setting it up, less so. Fortunately, if you're a developer, Microsoft is planning something big. Called "Project Zenith," it aims to give people a Windows device that comes with all the basics for programming set up out of the box, and it seems to be more than just a new variant of Windows. … [Read more...]

The company says no children under 13 can ride -- even with a parent. That's more restrictive than the Model Y SUVs it's using as robotaxis. … [Read more...]

Microsoft has introduced Project Zenith, a new developer-optimized Windows 11 experience built for a class of high-memory PCs capable of running large AI models directly on-device, marking a significant shift away from cloud-dependent AI development workflows. Announced as a follow-up to commitments made at Build 2026, Project Zenith targets developer-class hardware equipped with at least 64 GB of … [Read more...]