Repurposing old devices is quite popular in the DIY projects landscape, and it’s a trend I can get behind. While ancient PCs and dinosaur laptops can be turned into decent server workstations, it’s possible to reuse individual peripherals and accessories as well. An old microphone can be combined with a Home Assistant server and a locally-hosted LLM setup to build a voice-controlled AI helper. … [Read more...]

With a barrage of new Apple and Google devices around the corner, our reviews team is clearing their desks of new products before the pre-fall deluge begins. There's a well-rounded mix of in-depth testing this time around, including a detailed preview of watchOS 26 and more VPN trials. Kick off the weekend by catching up on all of the reviews you might've missed over the last few weeks from … [Read more...]

EntertainmentGames ReviewFMVs take an ordinary horror game to frighteningly real-feeling heights.Aug 16, 2025, 1:00 PM UTCEntertainmentGames ReviewFMVs take an ordinary horror game to frighteningly real-feeling heights.Aug 16, 2025, 1:00 PM UTCAsh Parrish is a reporter who covers the business, culture, and communities of video games, with a focus on marginalized gamers and the quirky, horny … [Read more...]

Purchasing a 3D printer has been an excellent decision, since it has allowed me to explore a bunch of creative projects over the years. I’ve printed lots of laptop accessories, PC parts, and even fixed broken things around the house – all using parts printed right at home. Along with being a lot of fun, 3D-printing these objects has also helped me save a substantial amount of money over the years. … [Read more...]

If you're looking for a speedy USB drive, then this SK hynix Tube T31 is going to be it. While this looks like your typical USB drive, it's far from it, packed with a 1TB SSD with DRAM to ensure you're getting lightning-quick transfer speeds of up to 1,000MB/s. It's one of the smallest SSD drives you'll find, and it comes in priced to move at just $60 for a limited time. Source: … [Read more...]

If you're running a home server or a NAS, it's likely that you're using Docker containers to get access to some of the best open-source tools and services. But there's one big problem with self-hosting - remote access. As easy as it is to pull a container's web UI when you are on your home network, things can get pretty messy once you step out. Port forwarding can be risky, dynamic IP addresses … [Read more...]

When I first started home labbing, I thought it would be as simple as getting some hardware, spinning up a few services, and letting things run. I quickly learned that there’s a lot more to it. Over time, I’ve made mistakes, reconfigured my setup more than once, and discovered things I wish I’d known from the beginning. If you’re thinking about starting a home lab, these insights might save you … [Read more...]

Instead of fixing air safety regulations, the Trump administration is undermining them.Aug 16, 2025, 12:00 PM UTCInstead of fixing air safety regulations, the Trump administration is undermining them.Aug 16, 2025, 12:00 PM UTCAt the end of July, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) convened a three-day public hearing to investigate January’s mid-air collision over Washington, DC that … [Read more...]

A sophisticated social engineering campaign by the EncryptHub threat group that combines impersonation tactics with technical exploitation to compromise corporate networks. The Russian-linked cybercriminals are posing as IT support staff and using Microsoft Teams requests to establish remote access, ultimately deploying malicious payloads through a previously unknown Windows … [Read more...]

The use of IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer) by NASA's international team of astronomers has brought into question the known theories of the fate of matter around a black hole. The study of incoming X-rays by astronomers, as well as measuring their light's electric field direction, has been made possible through IXPE. The degree of polarisation is an indicator of how single or multiple the … [Read more...]

Welcome to our latest recap of what's going on in the indie game space. Quite a few intriguing games dropped this week and some high-profile ones have been ported to more platforms. Before we get to those, though, I'd like to tell you about one of my favorite games of the year so far.I struggle to fully engage with many RPGs. By and large, I'm not interested in spending lots of time optimizing my … [Read more...]

There was just never anything like the Super Nintendo, was there? When Nintendo followed up the NES with the SNES in 1990, it was one of the biggest generational leap forwards in gaming history. This was 16-bit sorcery with colors, music, and depth that made the NES look like a warm-up act. Source: xda-developers.com … [Read more...]

Aug 16, 2025Ravie LakshmananAndroid / Malware Cybersecurity researchers have detailed the inner workings of an Android banking trojan called ERMAC 3.0, uncovering serious shortcomings in the operators' infrastructure. "The newly uncovered version 3.0 reveals a significant evolution of the malware, expanding its form injection and data theft capabilities to target more than 700 banking, shopping, … [Read more...]

United Launch Alliance (ULA) conducted its most critical Vulcan rocket lift for the u.s military on August 12, lifting an experimental navigation satellite. It launched the rocket from Florida's Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, with the clock at 8:56 p.m. EDT (0056 GMT August 13). The Vulcan Centaur rocket, equipped with four solid rocket boosters, performed the rocket-powered quadcopter … [Read more...]

WIRED copublished an investigation this week with The Markup and CalMatters showing that dozens of data brokers have been hiding their opt-out and personal-data-deletion tools from Google Search, making it harder for people to find and utilize them. The report prompted US senator Maggie Hassan to demand accountability from the companies. WIRED also took a deep dive looking at what the … [Read more...]

When you're in the market for a new SSD, you're probably focusing on the PCIe interface (PCIe 4.0 or PCIe 5.0) and the read/write speeds. Most people choose a reasonably priced PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD for their PC, and the one spec they might check is the read/write speed. That's where the research ends in most cases, but it's important to know a few other things about the drive you're buying. Whether … [Read more...]

Ariane 6, Europe's heavy-lift rocket made it's third successful lift-off from from Kourou, French Guiana on August 12 at 8:37 p.m. EDT. This time, it's payload is Metop-SGA1, an 8,900-pound (4,040-kilogram) weather satellite that will be operated by the international group EUMETSAT (European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites). After liftoff, Ariane 6 placed the payload … [Read more...]

API, short for Application Programming Interface, is a mechanism that helps extract data from software applications and transfer it to other software or users using APIs. Communication through APIs is based on different requests and responses, and developers provide good documentation on structuring requests to get the desired response. APIs allow many software/applications to automatically … [Read more...]

I’ve been hanging on to a machine with 8GB of RAM for a while now, and for the most part, it does the job. However, these days, it feels like almost every app I use is an Electron app — essentially, a web app bundled with Chromium. Source: xda-developers.com … [Read more...]

With Task, Mare of Easttown's Brad Ingelsby returns with a tense, character-driven crime drama starring Mark Ruffalo in an impressive live-television return. The seven-episode HBO series, set around Philly's Main Line, tracks an FBI task force probing a spate of violent home-invasion robberies. As the case unfolds, we see that these three people take very different paths to similar ends and learn … [Read more...]