10 mistakes you’re making when you’re using a browser

Using a web browser seems straightforward, but many people unknowingly make mistakes that can slow them down, compromise their privacy, or even put their devices at risk. Here’s a list of common mistakes you can make when using a browser, and how to avoid them.

Torcato Ribeiro
Brazil

Home a**istant kept wasting power on my home lab, and this tiny change fixed it

I love Home Assistant, and it's become an essential part of my smart home ever since I first tried it a couple of years ago. Recently, however, I was having an issue with my home lab, where Home Assistant is installed, which was constantly being loud for reasons I couldn't...

Lenni Waara
Finland

Nvidia promised ray tracing would change gaming forever, but upscaling became the real revolution

I don't know if you still remember, but Nvidia made a big deal about ray tracing when it launched the RTX 20-series GPUs back in 2018. The company's CEO, Jensen Huang, even said, "Computer graphics will never be the same again." At the time, a lot of us bought into...

Michael Johnson
Chicago

Microsoft’s rumored Windows 11 revamp initiative is confirmed with a movable Taskbar

For a few weeks now, we've been throwing around the term "Windows K2." On the surface, it sounds like a whole new version of Windows, but the truth is, it's a little more scaled back. A while ago, an insider claimed that Windows K2 was Microsoft's initiative to redirect attention...

Daniel Martinez
Dallas

Nvidia, Microsoft, and Arm are all teasing Nvidia’s new N1X laptop processors

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang with an RTX laptop at CES 2025. | Image: Getty Images It's the world's worst kept secret that Nvidia is about to announce its own Arm-powered laptop chips at Computex this weekend, and now Microsoft, Nvidia, and Arm are all openly teasing the announcement. The Windows...

Sophia Wilson
Atlanta

I built my own smart TV setup with a monitor and a cheap device, and it turned out better than I expected

A smart TV is generally the default choice for anyone who wants a screen for casual gaming, streaming, and everything in between. Some of the upper-end options make things easier by pairing solid speakers with a good display, but the day-to-day experience doesn't tend to be dramatically different from that...

Luka Ramfjord
Norway

Microsoft and Nvidia tease “a new era of PC” as a potential Surface refresh looms

It looks like Microsoft and Nvidia are working on something really big.

John Doe
New York

Magic Pointer won’t save the Googlebook because Google still doesn’t understand what PC users want

Google recently made waves with its announcement of the Googlebook platform. Bringing together elements of Chrome OS and Android, along with a lot of AI features, it's the company's latest attempt at winning over laptop users, after Chromebooks mostly gained traction in the entry-level education market.

Emma Larsen
Denmark

SpaceX gets $4 billion contract to build missile-tracking ‘Golden Dome’ satellites

The Pentagon awarded SpaceX a $4.16 billion contract to build missile-tracking satellites linked with President Donald Trump's planned "Golden Dome" defense system, as reported earlier by Bloomberg. In an announcement on Friday, the US Space Force says the sensor-equipped satellites will allow it to detect and track targets from space....

Sepp Franzen
Germany

I replaced cloud LLMs with local models running off a Proxmox LXC, and the performance trade-off was worth it

Whether it’s Perplexity’s reliable and transparent nature or Claude Code’s programming capabilities, there’s no denying that cloud-based large language models can be a godsend for productivity. Most cloud LLMs ship with beginner-friendly UIs, and the fact that you don’t have to put in extra work just to get them up...

Sophia Wilson
Atlanta

Claude Design’s Canva integration just saved me hours of editing, and that’s why I’m ditching my old workflow

Canva and Anthropic have been working together for a while now, and if you've used the two in tandem via the Canva connector, you already know how interesting the pairing can be for ideating and generating visual designs through Claude on its chat interface. The collaboration has steadily deepened over...

Michael Johnson
Chicago

Lenovo’s Yoga Pro 27UD-10 proves that premium monitors can do more than just display pixels

It's getting harder and harder to find a monitor that doesn't have some flavor of OLED panel, which is a good thing because the technology is getting better and better. That leaves monitor manufacturers having to differentiate in other ways, like this Lenovo Yoga Pro 27UD-10.

Verónica Ortiz
Spain

4 Windows 11 “features” I turned off to make my PC feel truly mine again

After years of sticking to Windows 10, I finally switched to Windows 11 a while back. This was a forced upgrade since I wanted to use my new OLED display's HDR capabilities to the fullest, and also because Windows 10 entered EOL status back in October 2025. I assumed I...

Çetin Durak
Turkey

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