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I was called a rookie when I recently mentioned that my media server has no more than 5TB of storage. I agree that 5TB isn't a very large collection, but the idea that your media server needs double-digit terabytes of storage is flawed. … [Read more...]

National outcry against data center construction has spread to Philadelphia, where officials suggested possible construction in a neighborhood already impacted by a now-defunct oil refinery. … [Read more...]

Every paid Claude plan meters usage in two ways: a rolling 5-hour window and a weekly cap across all models, and that quota is shared with Claude chat and whatever else is running on the same account. So if you're a heavy Cowork or Claude Design user in addition to Claude Code, then you're out of luck or onto the Max plan. … [Read more...]

A few months back before RAM prices hit the roof, I decided to add a nice little perk to my NAS. Specifically, I added in SSD caching to eke out a bit more speed, because I thought my hard drives were being the bottleneck to peak performance. My NAS handles everything from file storage to applications, indexing, backups, and more. Once in a while, I might even dabble in a workload with plenty of … [Read more...]

It's been more than two years since the last major Windows event, so Microsoft is heading to San Francisco next month to outline the future of Windows and Surface devices. At an event on October 7th, the company says it will host a "conversation on how local AI will shape the next chapter of the PC." Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella will be in attendance, alongside Windows and Surface chief Pavan … [Read more...]

Storage was cheap and accessible a year ago, and I rarely thought about maintaining it. My laptop has an NVMe SSD, and I have a couple of other SATA SSDs inside SATA-to-USB enclosures. My SSD is five years old, and I've been putting as much stress on it as possible. But the landscape changed in 2025, and AI development bolstered the storage and memory prices by a huge margin. … [Read more...]

Microsoft agreed to adopt guardrails and privacy standards for its AI in schools, as negotiated with the American Federation of Teachers. … [Read more...]

When it comes to retro video game decompilation ports, we've definitely been eating very well lately. … [Read more...]

Two years ago, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt released his New York Times bestseller The Anxious Generation. The book posits that the rise of social media and smartphone use is largely to blame for the prominent decline in teen mental health since 2010. It quickly became a central rallying cry of the social media backlash. Haidt has been credited with helping inspire Australia's nationwide … [Read more...]

A new WhatsApp Business MCP server lets developers use AI coding agents like Claude, Cursor, Codex, and ChatGPT to handle setup, messaging templates, testing, and troubleshooting. … [Read more...]

I've been a heavy Spotify user for years now, and while I appreciate the desktop app (and the level of customization available to me through tools like Spicetify), there's a part of me that misses the days of Windows Media Player. Not just the visualizer, although that was a huge draw for me as a teenager, but the speed, too. Spotify isn't exactly slow, but on occasion, it does take its time. … [Read more...]

The Google Pixel 10a is one of the best mid-range phones you can buy right now. It's retail price of $499 is more than fair, but the discount that drops it to $424 makes it even better. This is close to the lowest price that we've seen for this phone, making it a fantastic time to pick one up. … [Read more...]

With the price of every Raspberry Pi single-board computer hitting the unhinged mark, the original RPi Zero is the only one that's still in the affordable range. Unfortunately, it's a tad too outdated and underpowered for anything other than simple projects that can leverage its GPIO pins in 2026 – and that's something I recently learned when attempting to deploy typical Docker containers on the … [Read more...]

Point-in-time audits and sampled assessments offer only snapshots; continuous control monitoring provides evidence that security controls are working today. … [Read more...]

When Nvidia launched the Shield TV Pro in 2019, it future-proofed its box. It packed the Android TV box with a Tegra X1+ SoC, a 256-core GPU, two USB 3.0 ports, and 3GB of RAM. The older box still has the horsepower for 4K streaming, self-hosted media, and cloud-based gaming, and seven years later it's still the premium box on the market. … [Read more...]

From Apple's repeatedly delayed Siri AI to OpenAI's messy 'super app' launch, here's a look at the AI projects that shut down or missed expectations. … [Read more...]

Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on a previously undocumented Brazilian banking malware operation that delivers a toolkit called KREMLIN. Elastic Security Labs is tracking the activity under the moniker REF9334. Active since at least May 2025, the threat actor has used lures that impersonate a dozen Brazilian banks and install a malicious browser extension on Google Chrome and ➪ … [Read more...]

You may not know it, but minivans are making a comeback in the US. Look around, and you'll start to notice an uptick in these breadboxes on wheels. Sales were up 21 percent in 2025, suggesting that the humble minivan is shaking off its "uncool" stigma and finding new fans among an SUV-weary public. I'm here for it. One of the companies currently carrying the torch for minivans is Kia, which has … [Read more...]

You can easily drop over $1,000 on a top-tier Wi-Fi 7 3-pack mesh kit. The box marketing promises up to 27Gbps and true whole-home multi-gigabit coverage. … [Read more...]

The AI frenzy could push U.S. data centers to become one of the largest consumers of natural gas in the world. … [Read more...]