A lot can change in a year—and PC building sure took unexpected directions since I launched this newsletter in May 2025. Back ...

ASUS is positioning the XG129C as a performance monitor, bundling a year of AIDA64 Extreme to display CPU temps, GPU load, fan speeds, and system data.

Dell's Alienware 16 Area-51 is a powerhouse gaming laptop with a luxurious mechanical keyboard and matte OLED display.

Linus Torvalds has released Linux 6.19 kernel, moving legacy AMD Radeon GPUs to the modern amdgpu driver and enabling larger block sizes in ext4 for improved storage performance. The AMD driver switch ...

Anthropic has released Claude Code v2.1.0, a notable update to its "vibe coding" development environment for autonomously building software, spinning up AI agents, and completing a wide range of ...

November 10, 1983: Microsoft tells the world about an upcoming product called Windows that will bring the graphical user interface to IBM PCs. Although Microsoft’s announcement about the new operating ...

The emerging field of AI orchestration just got an additional boost of confidence with the alpha release of LangChain’s two flagship platforms, LangGraph and LangChain version 1.0. Graduating to a 1.0 ...

Windows without PowerShell 2.0: Microsoft removes the version still included for compatibility for good. It has long been considered obsolete. PowerShell 2.0 is finally history: The version of the ...

If you buy something from a Verge link, Vox Media may earn a commission. See our ethics statement. Asus overhauled its ROG Zephyrus gaming laptops in 2024, giving them sleek, aluminum bodies and ...

The titans of the PC industry slugged things out in 2024, jockeying for dominance in the new AI era blossoming before our eyes. It was most evident in laptops: Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X Elite chips ...

Although Apple didn’t release iOS 18.1 beta 6 this week for whatever reason, they did release new betas of watchOS, tvOS, and visionOS, which can occasionally give hints on Apple’s plans for other ...