BOULDER, CO - MARCH 5:A Flock Safety license plate recognition camera is seen near the intersection of Marine Street and Arapahoe Avenue in Boulder on Thursday, March 5, 2026. (Photo by Matthew Jonas/MediaNews Group/Boulder Daily Camera via Getty Images) | MediaNews Group via Getty Images In April of 2025, Elgin Community College had six Flock safety cameras installed to "enhance the safety and security of students." But by September of that year, the school's administration grew concerned that Flock was sharing data with Customs and Border Patrol, that camera feeds were not properly secured, and that both law enforcement and the company's employees were abusing access to the data. So in October of 2025, Elgin Community College requested Flock to remove its cameras. According to Elgin's President Peggy Heinrich, Flock rejected the request, saying it had not violated its contract. According to the Chicago Sun-Times, school o …Read the full story at The Verge.

Ever since I got my TCL Mini-LED TV earlier this year, I've used it for very little beyond its 4K 120Hz screen for playing my PC and PS5. But it was only a matter of time before I properly started using my Google TV's own apps to watch my self-hosted media.

I started with one service on my homelab, and when it worked, I added another, then another. Within a year, my homelab grew so large that I don’t even remember which port I chose for Jellyfin, which volume I created for it, or which network I kept the container on. In day-to-day use, these things don’t matter much, but when they do, I never remember them in time. So, I finally decided to give the accumulated knowledge a proper home in Trilium.

I expected my new USB4 enclosure to feel like a second internal drive. Instead, the Satechi USB4 NVMe SSD Pro crawled along at 1,013 MB/s, and for weeks I blamed the cable, then the USB-C port I'd picked, then every other jack on my motherboard's rear panel.

The latest rumors are that the new Apple TV will have a built-in microphone, while the upgraded remote will get a speaker. The mic would let users control the set-top box using Siri without having to speak into the remote or a connected HomePod device. That could also let the Apple TV serve as a simple smart home hub - controlling thermostats and locking doors - without the need to hunt for the remote.If you happen to misplace the remote, the new integrated speaker should make it easier to track down. It could play an audio alert to guide you to its location, whether it got carelessly kicked under the couch or a child mischievously hid it …Read the full story at The Verge.

Claude Cowork made a pretty convincing case for letting an AI loose in your folders. All you had to do was give it access and give it a job, and then it went off and did the job, often on a schedule when you're off doing something else entirely. Anthropic has since merged Cowork into the main Claude app, but the workflow is still there and largely the same - and I think many of us still call it "Cowork", to be honest.

As dystopian as it sounds, I know a lot of people spend more time talking to AI chatbots than they do to actual people. It makes me incredibly sad, and though I admittedly spend a lot of time convincing people to actively use AI in their workflows because of how useful these tools can be, I do think there's a fine line between using AI to make your life easier and becoming overly dependent on it.

If you're looking for an open-source alternative to Android, you're in luck. One of the better options, LineageOS, has just upgraded to Android 17 with version 24. It's a little weird to write that one of the better Android alternatives out there is using a new version of Android, but I promise it makes more sense when I explain it.

When President Donald Trump announced his plans to rebrand artificial intelligence as "super intelligence," you'd be forgiven for being skeptical that it would catch on. While most of the broader population is sticking with AI, some of Silicon Valley's most powerful are falling in line and trying to give Trump the great AI rebrand he so desires. That Elon Musk was quick to jump on board, promising to rename SpaceXAI to SpaceXSI, isn't surprising. When, hours after Donald Trump declared that "The White House considers anyone that uses the term, 'Artificial Intelligence,' as opposed to the highly accepted new and more accurate term, 'Super I …Read the full story at The Verge.

Moonlight has been a mainstay on my devices for years. Paired with Sunshine on my main gaming PC, it was the easy answer to in-home streaming, and filled a lot of holes in compatibility or convenience.

I already use AI to write Home Assistant automations because putting together long YAML files isn’t something I particularly enjoy. I’ve also connected Claude Code to Home Assistant, so I can ask it to check device states, control the lights, or run an existing routine. And the most logical next step is giving it access to my configuration so it can check the automations I already have.

Modding your Steam Deck is always a great way to squeeze every drop out of your hardware, and it's something we're not unfamiliar with. But what if you could get Nvidia's upscaling model running on it and have it run better than AMD's offering, FSR? Well, one mod seemingly has achieved just that, and while it's way too soon to declare it the ultimate winner, things are already looking promising.