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Obsidian gets most of its praise from being local-first, offline, and future-proof with its plain-text nature. When you sit and think for a minute about what the vault actually is, a regular folder with markdown, then Obsidian suddenly becomes more than just a notes app and starts behaving more like a hub that other tools can plug straight into. … [Read more...]

Ever since the PlayStation 5 came out, it has never had two things — a web browser and a Jellyfin client on the PlayStation Store. For as long as I've owned mine, I've settled with having to switch over to my TV's browser to access my Jellyfin library. … [Read more...]

My sister recently started making homemade chocolate chip cookies from her kitchen, and she wanted to turn that small idea into an actual business. The product was simple — one signature chocolate chip cookie. I thought the branding would be a fun test for AI. Instead of helping her myself, I decided to see what three popular AI chatbots would come up with. … [Read more...]

Audacity 4 has been in the works for some time, and had its own mini controversy last year when an unfortunate redesigned logo started making the rounds. The final version of the new icon isn't nearly as bad as the early rendition that was circulating last October. But more importantly, all the promised improvements to the self-proclaimed "world's most popular audio editing and recording app" are … [Read more...]

Nscale, which recently struck a $45 billion deal with Anthropic, is in talks to raise additional funds in anticipation of an upcoming IPO. … [Read more...]

When you set up a new NAS system, you might notice it constantly humming and drawing a lot of wattage, so you switch it to standby mode after 15 to 30 minutes of inactivity. This might feel like an energy-conscious decision, and you might notice your room get quieter, temperatures falling, and your annual electric bill dropping by up to $40. … [Read more...]

AMD's proprietary 3D V-cache is perhaps one of the most important CPU innovations of recent times, and anyone who has been remotely interested in processors knows that already. It's one of AMD's biggest tangible advantages in gaming over competitors right now, and it has been for a while, especially with Team Red steadily refining the formula with every generation. … [Read more...]

Most homelab guides hand you a 20+ container checklist to start with. The initial setup is usually the easy part; configuring and maintaining it is the real task that comes later. And most beginners get frustrated and drop the whole idea. … [Read more...]

One half of making a laptop is giving it the most powerful portable hardware on the market; the other half is squeezing all of that into an extremely thin shell. Fortunately, HP seems to have hit the balance perfectly, as it has just announced the world's thinnest RTX Spark laptops. These allow people to tap into on-board AI without sacrificing portability. … [Read more...]

Trump's racist new "Build the Wall" game. | Image: The White House The PR masterminds at the White House just released a series of vaguely policy-themed "arcade" games, some of which are racist - and modeled on real games whose copyright holders may not be too happy to be associated with the MAGA agenda. The Tetris Company has already responded to "Build the Wall," which is obviously modeled on … [Read more...]

ESP32 is a cheap and tiny microcontroller, but it can do things most people wouldn't expect. It's highly versatile and has onboard Bluetooth and Wi-Fi, making it well-suited to various smart home and networking projects. Besides, you can choose from many different ESP32 boards, depending on the complexity of your project. … [Read more...]

I have been using Plex on my Nvidia Shield TV Pro as a media server for a while now, but as my media collection has grown, I've considered getting a NAS to help with content flow. However, each time I think about it, I realize that with a bit of extra drive and a cheap powered hub, I can get by without the added expense. … [Read more...]

When I got the new Kindle Paperwhite 12th Gen, my older 11th Gen just sat on the nightstand. After jailbreaking my Kindle, I tend to use it mostly to run projects and rarely for reading. I remembered that Kindle runs a stripped-down Linux kernel. So jailbreaking gave me access to the kernel rather than to Amazon's reading app. … [Read more...]

GoPro CEO Nick Woodman said in a letter to customers that making cameras is still his company's "core DNA," after a proposed $285 million acquisition by Starman was announced earlier this week. He claims the merger puts GoPro in a better position to continue developing its content creation tech, after saying in the deal announcement that it would work with Starman to address "important areas of … [Read more...]

I was reading an article from OpenAI, published earlier this year, about how the company changed its development environment to make apps more legible to Codex. The AI company says it exposed logs, metrics, and traces to Codex so the agent could reproduce bugs, validate fixes, and make the necessary changes. … [Read more...]

A federal judge temporarily barred an X rival from using the Twitter name, but found that X was likely to have abandoned the "Tweet" trademark and bird logo. The startup has since relaunched as Tweet.app. … [Read more...]

It's not quite the "push button; get song" of Suno, but Roland's new Melody Flip tool marks the company's foray into generative AI music. Available as a plug-in for your digital audio workstation (DAW), Melody Flip offers around 250 "Palettes," which are essentially themed collections of musical ideas sorted by genre. You can start from scratch and ask it to generate any combination of melody, … [Read more...]

I feel like I've written this several times in my past few Pixel Pro reviews, but this year in particular, the Pixel 11 Pro is nearly identical to the Pixel 10 Pro. … [Read more...]

It's officially the Ternus era at Apple.   Tim Cook stepped down as CEO this week, handing the company to former hardware chief John Ternus, whose first memo promised a "huge launch next week" — timing that puts Apple's next iPhone event on his desk before he's even settled in. Cook isn't going far, though: he's staying on as Executive Chairman, focused on the kind of policy […] ➪ Continue … [Read more...]

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...]