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...]

I've learned that self-hosting comes with an unexpected problem: the more useful your server becomes, the more you have to protect it . What started as a few containers eventually turned into a setup holding files and services I actually care about. That made backup less of a side task and more of a requirement. … [Read more...]

It's the latest failure of OpenAI's internal monitoring and security systems. … [Read more...]

Noteworthy stories that might have slipped under the radar: Microsoft rolled out patches for cloud services, hackers compromised 5,000 Dropbox accounts, and Guardio is now valued at $1.1 billion. … [Read more...]

Nearly two dozen issues, tracked collectively as CVE-2026-73749 (CVSS score of 9.8), were addressed with the updates. … [Read more...]

The Daybreak initiative will provide subsidized AI cyber capabilities, training and technical assistance, though OpenAI has disclosed few details about costs and eligibility. … [Read more...]

Microsoft's Copilot rarely reproduces even full sentences from news articles and books, let alone substantive chunks that could substitute for the original, the company says in new legal filings as it fights copyright claims from publishers including The New York Times and book authors. As part of the lawsuit's discovery, Microsoft provided 8.2 million Copilot chat logs to an expert hired by news … [Read more...]

If there's one thing that DLSS has taught PC gamers, it's that you can apparently have your cake and render fewer pixels too. Over the past few years, Nvidia's upscaling technology has become the go-to answer whenever a GPU starts running out of horsepower. The entire DLSS suite promises more frames while decreasing the load on the hardware, which, for 8GB graphics cards, sounds almost too good to … [Read more...]

Microsoft is alerting of a "high-volume phishing campaign" that's using invisible Unicode tag characters to bypass email filters. "Instead of using these characters to hide instructions from people while exposing them to AI models, the attacker used them to split financial lure words such as 'funding' to prevent email filters from parsing them," the Microsoft Security Research team said. The ➪ … [Read more...]

Out of all the TVs I have in my house, the oldest (and cheapest) one had reached the point where calling its software "smart" felt generous. It's an old 1080p set with a painfully dated interface, so I've spent years jumping between its built-in apps and the 2017 Fire TV Stick, depending on what I want to watch — Netflix and YouTube on TV, and Prime Video, along with all my sideloaded apps on the … [Read more...]

PostgreSQL has released updates to address a security flaw that allows an account with the REPLICATION attribute to run arbitrary code as the operating-system user running the database server. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-6471 (CVSS score: 7.2), has been present since logical decoding was introduced in PostgreSQL 9.4 in 2014. Versions before PostgreSQL 18.6, 17.11, 16.15, 15.19, and 14.24 are ➪ … [Read more...]

A 3D printer can go from "that looks fine" to "why is there filament everywhere?" faster than I'd like. A corner lifts, a support snaps, or the nozzle starts dragging material around, and the printer keeps going because, as far as it knows, nothing is wrong. Remote monitoring helps, but I care more about how quickly I can get a useful look at the print than about how polished the camera interface … [Read more...]

U.S. CD revenue jumped 58.6% in the first half of 2026, reversing last year's decline as interest in retro tech and physical media continues to grow. … [Read more...]

Gaming laptop deals aren't what they used to be (stares daggers at RAMageddon), which is why I consider Woot's deal on a refurbished Alienware 16 Aurora gaming laptop with Nvidia's RTX 5050 a pretty good deal at $927 for new Woot customers (with code WOOTALIEN used at checkout). It costs $1,029 for returning Woot shoppers, which is a decent discount off the new $1,099.99 price at Alienware's site. … [Read more...]

Apple's September 9th launch event could be one of its biggest in years. It will be Apple's first event since John Ternus took over as CEO on September 1st, stepping in for Tim Cook, and will likely feature the first models in Apple's iPhone 18 lineup. That could include the long-rumored foldable "iPhone Ultra," coming just a couple months after Samsung debuted its own passport-style foldable, the … [Read more...]

A previously undocumented Linux toolkit has been found compiled directly into the trojanized HAProxy load balancers of two South Korean organizations, where it intercepted web traffic and served altered pages to selected visitors. The attackers named the implant ted in debug strings left in the binary. It is not a HAProxy vulnerability, and installing it requires code execution on the host and ➪ … [Read more...]