I ditched port forwarding for a mesh VPN, and my home network is finally secure

For as long as I’ve known it was possible, I’ve used port forwarding as a means to expose certain services to the open internet. It started with small things, like a game server here and a TeamSpeak VOIP server there, but once my interest grew towards hosting a media server and potentially replacing subscriptions, I knew it was time to find a better solution. Forwarding ports means opening a hole on your network for any and all traffic that goes looking, and believe me, if it’s open, people will find it. Instead of forwarding ports for everything I wanted to be able to access externally, I use a mesh VPN for the more personal stuff, and anything else that needs to be exposed is done through a reverse proxy.

Michael Johnson
Chicago

Your Nvidia GPU has dozens of RISC-V cores inside it, and one of them took over a huge part of the graphics driver

RISC-V has been around for a long time, but its big breakthrough always seems to be just around the corner. Maybe it'll turn up in a laptop one day, or a server, or your phone, but every year it feels as if all we get are development boards from the...

Samuele Guillot
Switzerland

The Galaxy Watch 8 is finally back on sale

The Galaxy Watch 8 is the Samsung smartwatch to get if you want great features and performance at a more affordable price. You can save $40 right now, dropping the price from $300 to $260, which is one of the lowest prices we've seen in months.

William Garcia
Boston

Changing these key settings made my ancient AV receiver sound brand new again

I replaced my cheap soundbar with a used AV receiver to get a true surround sound experience. The audio for movies and shows puts the soundbar to shame — even though it's old and I used a mix of leftover speakers I had lying around. In addition to the 14-year-old...

William Garcia
Boston

I wore Snap’s $2,200 smart glasses

My favorite part of wearing the Specs, Snap's new augmented reality glasses, was playing dominoes. Sitting across the table from a Snap employee wearing the same pair of chunky glasses, I could select a virtual domino with a pinch and then move my hand to drop it in place, watching...

Emily Brown
Houston

I ran a single command and found more garbage on my Windows 11 drive than Storage Sense cleaned all month

On Windows 11, Storage Sense does a decent job at what you would expect it to do in the background. Mine freed about 1.67GB just this morning, bringing its total for the past month to 10.2GB, all on the default settings that Windows 11 shipped it with without my having...

John Doe
New York

I squeezed DietPi onto a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W, and it replaced my $50-a-month cloud setup

The Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W doesn’t resemble an SBC that you can build a useful server from. Despite its exceptional software support, it’s difficult to envision it as a reliable server that can host useful items. The hardware specs show its severely limited capabilities, which is why many DIY...

William Garcia
Boston

The 2.5-hour AI-generated Odyssey movie is 2.5 hours too long

Christopher Nolan's engrossing take on The Odyssey dominated at the box office and spurred a newfound interest in classic literature among filmgoers. But a new retelling of the story made entirely with AI is so bad that it might just make viewers hate the original tale altogether. The new film,...

Sophia Wilson
Atlanta

The AI data center e-waste problem is huge — and getting bigger

E-waste from the AI boom has been vastly underestimated, a new report warns. By 2050, it could become enough trash to fill 23 million shipping containers - roughly enough 40-foot containers to circle the world six times if lined up in a row. It's a significantly higher estimate of AI's...

Olivia Miller
Seattle

I stopped uploading research to NotebookLM, and my local LLM does everything Google’s version promised

There are always tools that you can't stop using and talking about once you go hands-on with them. However, as time passes, the novelty often wears off and they slowly fade into the background as you move on to the next shiny thing.

Olivia Miller
Seattle

I used speculative decoding to make my local LLM feel instant, and now I actually prefer it to cloud APIs

You can easily run a local model on a decently specced PC or MacBook, but the performance is often abysmal for most tasks. The main reason is the hardware in your device, which limits how capable a model you can run, and most consumer PCs and laptops can’t run a...

Sophia Wilson
Atlanta

Snap is launching a new Specs AI tool, and it’s coming to iOS and Mac

Snap is introducing "Specs Intelligence," a new AI assistant that can connect other digital accounts to help you with things like work tasks and keeping track of travel information. It seems similar to AI assistants like Meta's Muse and Gemini's Spark, though Snap is pitching Specs Intelligence as an "anticipatory...

Emily Brown
Houston

n8n replaced my cron job chaos, and now I actually know when things break

Most of my automations used to live in a folder of scripts triggered by cron. Cron ran them on schedule, but the folder didn’t give me an easy way to understand how everything fit together. When one of these jobs stopped working, finding the point of failure became the difficult...

Jane Smith
Los Angeles

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I ditched port forwarding for a mesh VPN, and my home network is finally secure

Your Nvidia GPU has dozens of RISC-V cores inside it, and one of them took over a huge part of the graphics driver

The Galaxy Watch 8 is finally back on sale

Changing these key settings made my ancient AV receiver sound brand new again

I wore Snap’s $2,200 smart glasses

I ran a single command and found more garbage on my Windows 11 drive than Storage Sense cleaned all month

I squeezed DietPi onto a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W, and it replaced my $50-a-month cloud setup

The 2.5-hour AI-generated Odyssey movie is 2.5 hours too long

The AI data center e-waste problem is huge — and getting bigger

I stopped uploading research to NotebookLM, and my local LLM does everything Google’s version promised

I used speculative decoding to make my local LLM feel instant, and now I actually prefer it to cloud APIs

Snap is launching a new Specs AI tool, and it’s coming to iOS and Mac

n8n replaced my cron job chaos, and now I actually know when things break

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