Vercel announces multiple features to prevent surprise cloud bills, including soft/hard caps, anomaly alerting, recursion protection for Functions, billing usage APIs, and always-on DDoS mitigation.
TinySol is a tiny Klondike Solitaire game for DOS, designed for vintage computers with monochrome screens. It is written in x86 Assembly, fits in 3KB, and supports various video modes.
Job Hunter Team is an open-source desktop app that uses a team of AI agents to search job boards, score postings against your profile, and draft tailored CVs and cover letters. The app is now available for Windows, macOS, and Linux, with pluggable AI providers like Claude, Codex, or Kimi, and is open to contributors.
A minimal Chrome extension that hides LinkedIn's home feed while keeping jobs, profiles, messaging, and search usable. Pending Chrome Web Store approval, with manual installation available.
Fastmail launches an EU data region, letting users choose to store their data on company-owned servers in Amsterdam, with details on data flow, redundancy, and fallback options.
Elon Musk highlights that Grok Imagine's image editing capabilities have been greatly improved, with precise segment editing tools that let users target specific parts of an image instead of regenerating the whole thing.
Musician Tom Vek discusses his passion project Sleevenote, a digital music player inspired by vinyl packaging, now releasing a smaller, cheaper Day One Edition for $349.
Bankr is a platform where AI agents can launch, raise capital, earn usage fees, and have their inference costs subsidized, positioning itself as an alternative to VC funding for agent-native projects.
Triton is a new Windows driver for QEMU that, together with the Neptune layer, brings full DirectX 11 graphics acceleration to Windows virtual machines by implementing the DirectX DDI instead of API interception.
A review of the Chuwi UniBook, a $450 Windows laptop with an Intel Wildcat Lake chip, finds that while it's cheap with good battery life, its poor screen, trackpad, speakers, performance, and build quality make it too good to be true.
Wired highlights a deep discount on the HP OmniBook 5 laptop, bringing the 14-inch OLED model with a Qualcomm Snapdragon X Plus chip down to $750. The article praises its display and battery life but criticizes the touchpad.
WIRED's 2026 guide to the best gaming laptops, featuring tested models from Razer, Asus, Dell, Alienware, and Lenovo, with advice on specs, sizing, and budgets.
The Xteink X4 Pro is a fun, ultra-portable pocket e-reader with a clear display and touchscreen, but its lack of a built-in ebook store and tiny screen make it a niche choice.
Apple announces a new leasing program that allows customers to lease iPhones and other Apple devices, offering an alternative to outright purchases or installment plans.
A guide to hiding or disabling Gemini AI features in Gmail and Google Docs, including changing settings in Gmail and using a Chrome extension for personal accounts.
A Wired review of the Hairmax LaserBand 82 ComfortFlex, a red-light laser headband for treating hair loss, detailing the author's five-month experience and the science behind low-level laser therapy.
WhatsApp is rolling out new group chat features including an @all mention that overrides mute settings, poll enhancements like voting deadlines and anonymous polls, and easier group creation from existing chats, with usernames coming later this year.
Wired reviews the best solar generators for off-grid trips, RVs, and home backup, featuring top brands like Jackery with specific model recommendations and buying advice.
Stirling-PDF is an open-source PDF processing platform offering 50+ tools (merge, split, OCR, compression, etc.), supporting browser use, Docker self-hosting, and a REST API, as well as a no-code automation pipeline. The project has 89k+ stars on GitHub and can be fully deployed locally to protect privacy.
The Verge reviews Nitecore's NB10000 Gen 4 power bank, praising it as the lightest and most compact 10,000mAh unit yet, thanks to silicon-carbon anode technology, while noting its premium price.