Sean Hollister

“TP-Link would begin assembling these Wi-Fi 8 devices in the United States by next year,” it claims in a letter to the FCC — if the FCC will exempt its routers from the foreign router ban. Notably, both Netgear and Asus got exemptions without promising to make routers in the US, even though the FCC’s paperwork requires companies to commit to US manufacturing to get that exemption.

The Today I’m Toying With giveaway is still going strong. I start a new giveaway each Wednesday, each runs for one week, and you can enter as many of them as you’d like — as long as you enter each one before its deadline of 9AM ET Wednesday! Here’s how to enter TITW Giveaway #16. Tell a friend!

“For gamers, DLSS 5 is a simple on-or-off toggle,” Nvidia told us in September, claiming DLSS 5 would “preserve artistic intent” behind games instead of just aging characters’ faces. But modders will have access to the same tools as developers, Nvidia now says — on October 23rd, it’s adding DLSS 5 to its RTX Remix tool for modding older DX8 and DX9 games. Used properly, it doesn’t look bad?

The FCC has been cracking down on some Chinese test labs that improperly helped authorize gadgets for import into the US — now, it wants to get rid of Chinese labs altogether starting December 2028, only authorizing labs if they have a reciprocal economic relationship with the US. It’ll vote on October 29th; you can read the whole argument here.

Remember when I said I’d just given away the biggest Today I’m Toying With giveaway prize yet? The winner seems pretty happy! A new giveaway just started today, as it does every Wednesday while supplies last. Here’s how to enter TITW Giveaway #15.

What if we had an incredibly easy to snap-on and snap-off magnetic USB-C port? It’s a joy in person. It might still be proprietary, though: Microsoft is patenting the thing and isn’t quite saying whether it’ll let other manufacturers use it. Either way, you can plug any ol’ USB-C cable into the laptop’s female port.