I've been using Nginx Proxy Manager for quite a while now as a way to access my self-hosted services with valid SSL certificates over Tailscale. I have my own domain that I use with subdomains pointing to individual services, and it works very well. For applications that require HTTPS, such as Home Assistant for some features, it's absolutely perfect. However, I'd heard a lot about Caddy, and as I migrate some of my more essential home services to my mini PC Proxmox host, I decided to migrate my reverse proxies to the new host in Caddy instead of Nginx.

Last year, I upgraded to an ultrawide monitor from a dual-screen setup mainly because of the hype and aesthetics, and hoping to get an expansive real estate and immersive workspace. For someone who spends his day writing and editing, software testing, juggling between browser tabs, sometimes video/photo editing, and a bit of gaming over weekends, the idea of one giant screen to rule them all was seriously tempting.

The Final Fantasy games are among the greatest role-playing game series of all time. Since the first game was released in 1987 for personal computers, there have been many different mainline entries and spin-offs to get lost in. The series has been known for its heavy emphasis on high-quality presentation and intricate stories, with original characters and worlds that players can connect with. And because of that, the Final Fantasy series has continued to grow even more through the decades across multiple consoles.

Setting up complex passwords filled with cryptic characters is one of the best ways to keep hackers off your tail. After all, a 15+ string containing weirdly-arranged alphanumeric strings and symbols is a lot more effective at thwarting brute force and dictionary attacks than awful, easy-to-guess passkeys. The downside is that you’ll have a hard time recalling your wacky passwords, especially if you have different login credentials for all your accounts.

The days of fiddling with Adobe Photoshop, trying to find that one editing feature you believe will make your image truly shine, are long, long gone. The spotlight has now shifted to drag-and-drop design tools with easy-to-use interfaces and no steep learning curve to overcome before your image is Instagram-ready.

The Trump administration has reportedly fired Register of Copyrights Shira Perlmutter, who leads the US Copyright Office, following the office’s choice to release a pre-publication version of its opinion on the fair use status of AI training data that’s made up of copyrighted information. Representative Joe Morelle, the ranking Democrat of the Committee on House Administration, called her firing an “unprecedented power grab with no legal basis,” linking the firing directly to her report, which he says amounted to her refusing “to rubber-stamp Elon Musk’s efforts to mine troves of copyrighted works to train AI models.” Among the report’s conclusions is that while the fair use status of AI training “will depend on what works were used, from what source, for what purpose, and  with what controls on the outputs—all of which can affect the market.” The report says research and scholarship might be fair use but says many other AI tools might not be: But making commercial use of vast troves of copyrighted works to produce expressive content that competes with them in existing markets, especially where this is accomplished through illegal access, goes beyond established fair use boundaries. University of Colorado law professor Blake Reid called the report a “straight-ticket loss for the AI companies” in a post prior to reports emerged that Perlmutter had been fired, writing that he wondered “if a purge at the Copyright Office is incoming and they felt the need to rush this out.” Reid wrote that although the Copyright Office generally can’t “issue binding interpretations of copyright law,” courts turn to its expertise when drafting their opinions.Whether the Copyright Office’s release of its findings is the reason Perlmutter was cut loose or is just very curious timing isn’t clear, as the White House doesn’t seem to have commented on it. Copyright law expert Meredith Rose questioned the link, calling the report “113 pages of ‘well, it depends!’” and adding that “people who find that offensive enough to call for her ouster would have to be utter lunatics—on EITHER side of this fight.”Confusing the issue further, President Trump reposted (or ReTruthed, if you like) commentary on news of Perlmutter’s firing by a Truth Social account attributed to Mike Davis, a former legal clerk for Neil Gorsuch who was rumored last year for Trump’s Attorney General pick.“Now tech bros are going to attempt to steal creators’ copyrights for AI profits,” Davis wrote while linking to a CBS News story, “This is 100% unacceptable.” The day the Copyright Office’s report was released, President Trump also fired Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden, whose department the Copyright Office is part of. As NPR reports, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt claimed, without specifics, that Hayden had done “concerning things … in the pursuit of DEI and putting inappropriate books in the library for children.” Every book published in the United States goes into the Library of Congress.

UV printing opens up a world of creative possibilities, especially regarding gift-giving. With its ability to print vibrant, durable designs on a wide variety of surfaces, you can make personalized items that feel professional yet heartfelt. Whether you're crafting gifts for friends, family, or customers, UV printing lets you combine quality with imagination.

If you're building a new PC in 2025, DDR5 RAM is a no-brainer since it boasts significantly higher speeds and better efficiency than DDR4 modules. However, if you already have DDR4 RAM, upgrading to DDR5 doesn't make much sense, both financially and practically. That's because upgrading to DDR5 memory isn't as straightforward as buying new RAM sticks from online retailers. If you do that, you'd quickly realize you wasted your money when you try to install it onto your motherboard.

If you have just obtained your Raspberry Pi or have been using one for a while, you have realized that the terminal is where you will spend most of your time working with this device. Whether using the Pi as a DNS server for your home network, a smart home hub, a media server, or working on any other project, familiarizing yourself with basic commands is essential to make everything smoother. I have been using a Raspberry Pi for various projects, and several commands are like an everyday toolkit. Some are basic and suitable for getting started, and some are advanced, perfect for digging deeper into the system or automating tasks. Below are the main ones.

The iPhone 16 Pro Max, pictured here, is already pretty glassy.This morning, while summarizing an Apple “product blitz” he expects for 2027, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman writes in his Power On newsletter that Apple is planning a “mostly glass, curved iPhone” with no display cutouts for that year, which happens to be the iPhone’s 20th anniversary. That follows a report last weekend from The Information, which said that “at least one 2027 iPhone model that will place the front-facing camera underneath the screen to enable a truly edge-to-edge display.” Late last year, a report from The Elec said Apple is working with its display partners to create a bezel-less iPhone, but not one that curves the display down the side of the phone — a trick companies like Samsung and Vivo have employed in the past. But the “mostly glass, curved” part of Gurman’s prediction is more interesting to me, because what the heck does that mean? After all, I’d describe the iPhone 15 Pro sitting on my desk right now as “mostly glass,” with the only exterior metal being around the camera lenses and in its titanium edge, which the front and back curve down to. Assuming he’s not describing a banana-shaped iPhone, the closest hints are probably in Apple patents revealed over the years, like one from 2019 that describes a phone encased in glass that “forms a continuous loop” around the device. Apart from a changing iPhone, Gurman describes what sounds like a big year for Apple. He reiterates past reports that the first foldable iPhone should be out by 2027, and that the company’s first smart glasses competitor to Meta Ray-Bans will be along that year. So will those rumored camera-equipped AirPods and Apple Watches, he says. Gurman also suggests that Apple’s home robot — a tabletop robot that features “an AI assistant with its own personality” — will come in 2027. On that “personality” mention, it’s hard not to think about the adorable robotic lamp Apple’s internal researchers have been tinkering with. Finally, Gurman writes that by 2027 Apple could finally ship an LLM-powered Siri and may have created new chips for its server-side AI processing. A December report from The Information covered such a development and suggested that the team handling Apple’s new AI chips is the same Israel-based silicon design group that was “instrumental in designing” the Apple silicon chips that let the company ditch Intel chips for its Macs in 2020.

A year ago, I wouldn't have believed my ears if you had told me that there would be a $7,000 gold-plated GPU on the market. However, that was before we saw scalpers sell the base GPU for $9,000 earlier this year, so suddenly a $7k price point doesn't seem that expensive. If you're in the mood for something as mighty as it is flashy, you can now score a gold-plated RTX 5090 from ROG, and honestly, it looks pretty amazing.

Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum speaking on April 22, 2025. | Photo by YURI CORTEZ/AFP via Getty ImagesMexican President Claudia Sheinbaum announced Friday that her government is suing Google for relabeling the Gulf of Mexico as “Gulf of America” for US users, CBS News reports. The company had done so in Google Maps after President Trump ordered the name change at the beginning of his Presidential term. The lawsuit makes good on Sheinbaum’s February threat that Mexico would “proceed to court” if the company didn’t change the name, which it kept as Gulf of Mexico for users in Mexico, but switched to “Gulf of Mexico (Gulf of America)” in regions outside of the two countries. According to a machine-translated transcript of Sheinbaum’s Friday press briefing, she says “the only thing we want is compliance with the decree issued by the United States government,” which, she adds, “wouldn’t have the authority to name the entire Gulf, because that is an international attribution.” President Sheinbaum continues:We couldn’t say anything about changing the name of a state, a mountain, or a lake. So, the part of their territory that corresponds to them can be called whatever they decide. The part that corresponds to Mexico can’t be renamed. The part that corresponds to Cuba can’t be renamed, either. So, what we’re saying is, “Google, stick to what the United States government approved.”Prior to her briefing, Mexico sent letters to Google asking it not to label its territorial waters as Gulf of America, and Sheinbaum shared a reply from Google VP of government affairs and public policy Cris Turner stating the company had no plans to change its policy. CBS News notes that the US House passed a bill on Thursday that would codify the name change.The Trump administration has been insistent that non-government entities honor the Gulf of America moniker, even barring The Associated Press from Oval Office press briefings when the outlet refused to use the new name in initial reporting — a ban that a federal judge ordered last month be dropped. Among tech companies, Google was one of the first tech to comply with Trump’s wishes, altering the Gulf of Mexico’s name to Gulf of America in app and browser versions of Google Maps by February 10th. Apple soon followed suit. MapQuest, on the other hand, doesn’t seem to have given in, and has a site specifically making light of the name change.Google did not immediately respond to The Verge’s request for comment.