When OpenAI announced in July that ChatGPT Atlas would stop working in August 2026, less than a year after its October 2025 launch, the shutdown was less surprising than the timing. Nine months from launch to sunset for a browser that was supposed to be OpenAI's big play at Chrome, folded back into the ChatGPT desktop app and a Chrome extension instead.

The highly anticipated (and highly controversial) DLSS 5 is finally out. We've seen some breathtaking implementations, but unfortunately, the benchmarks aren't looking as good. Nvidia's latest neural rendering technology delivers some impressive visual results when it comes to atmosphere, characters and objects with respect to tone and depth, but getting there comes with a hefty performance cost that could drive enthusiasts away rather than luring them in.

I've made no secret of my issues with Chrome. As feature-rich as the browser is, it's an absolute hog on system resources. Opening six tabs shouldn't demand as much RAM as it does, and that strain becomes increasingly apparent on older hardware. Yet in spite of these complaints, I haven't made the jump to Safari because it lacks the robust extension collection that Chrome has, and I can't imagine browsing the web without my favorite suite of tools.

When I sit down to code, my editor takes up most of the screen, but it’s never working alone. Over time, I’ve built a small lineup of apps that I keep open throughout the day. They help me handle the different parts of development without turning my desktop into a sea of browser tabs. I don’t open these apps because they look impressive or promise better productivity. They’re simply tools I’ve found useful enough to keep around every time I code.

Smart products exist in pretty much every single product category, including for your pets. When I looked at a smart terrarium controller for my gecko, I noticed it easily ran me between $80 and $150. Most were clunky, relied on proprietary, ad-ridden cloud apps, connected over flaky 2.4GHz Wi-Fi blobs, and featured primitive on/off logic that wears out hardware.

Recently, I spent $6 on a compression tool that I randomly found on Steam as I was looking for new games to play. Since I was seriously considering getting a secondary SSD, even at the current inflated prices, I figured I had nothing to lose by giving it a shot first. After all, it doesn't even cost as much as an indie game these days. If it could free up enough space to put off that SSD purchase for a while, that's a win in my books. And sure enough, it helped me get back hundreds of gigabytes of space.

New Mexico's Supreme Court is punishing a lawyer for including AI-fabricated witnesses and fake police testimony in an appeal for his client's murder conviction, according to a report from Reuters. In a filing on Wednesday, the court fined Stephen Aarons $5,000 and held him in contempt for failing to "verify the factual claims and legal authority in his AI-generated brief."The filing says the brief "contained false testimony from wholly fabricated witnesses," along with "false testimony" about the shooter's clothing and appearance. Justice C. Shannon Bacon questioned how Aarons wasn't aware of the risks posed by AI during an August hearing …Read the full story at The Verge.

I've got hundreds of thousands of photos sitting on my Synology NAS, and the fact of the matter is that a significant portion of them are duplicates that I haven't gotten around to yet. Some are exact copies, while others might be compressed versions shared by others. There are even versions created during photo editing sessions. Finding them manually is just not practical. I simply don't have the time for it.

When I renovated my home a few months back, I decided to drop the big television hogging space on the wall. In fact, I don't have a television at all anymore. Instead, I use a portable projector because, for the way I consume media, it solves several problems that a conventional TV simply can't.

Two days after being placed on a paid leave of absence, Matt Mullenweg says he has been reinstated as CEO of Automattic, according to a Slack message seen by TechCrunch. WordPress Executive Director Mary Hubbard confirmed Mullenweg's return to the CEO role in a Friday post on X, which the official WordPress account shared and Mullenweg reposted.I'm relieved and pleased to see Matt Mullenweg return as CEO of Automattic, the largest financial contributor to the WordPress project. Having WordPress's Co-founder and Project Lead at the helm gives me confidence that their support will remain strong. Matt has my support.- Mary Hubbard (@4thhubba …Read the full story at The Verge.

When it comes to self-hosted media, Plex is where many people start, since it's straightforward to set up and use. A lot of people are familiar with music companion Plexamp, but may not know about other apps that can enhance their media experience.

When I got my first FDM 3D printer, I didn’t care all that much about filament purge. Sure, the printer would leave randomly extruded bits of filament to prime the nozzle, but I was more concerned with failed models, as they were the primary source of filament waste for my setup. Multi-color printing, however, is a completely different story, and it wasn't until I tried using an AMS-like module that I finally realized why 3D printing enthusiasts have mixed feelings about these setups.