The simplicity of spinning up containers in Docker is one of home lab's few simplicites. Find a service that looks interesting, pull the image, write a quick Compose file or a docker run command, publish a port, hit the web UI in a browser. It takes five minutes to go from an idea to a running service.

Panasonic has announced a new addition to its Lumix camera line with a compact body and fixed lens that's targeted at photographers instead of creators making video content. The Lumix L10 is available for preorder today with a black or silver finish for $1,499.99. To celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Lumix brand, the L10 will also be available in a titanium gold finish with matching accessories and software for $1,599.99, but only in limited numbers and primarily through Panasonic's online store.The Lumix L10 weighs 508 grams and features a magnesium alloy front case and a metal exterior partially wrapped in a textured finish designed …Read the full story at The Verge.

I really liked Google’s Antigravity when it was announced last year. The reason was it had a generous rate limit and was quite functional, being based on the Electron project, which is the same foundation as VS Code. You could get quite a lot done using even the Pro models in Antigravity, but now, when I went back to Gemini last week, things were very different. The rate limits are abysmal now. The platform is not even usable if you are not a Pro member. The free tier is basically a trial that does not even last half an hour if you try to do any serious work. I should not be complaining about not getting enough rate limit for free, but when you look at something like Codex, which has more than generous rate limits across both the Codex app and the VS Code extension, you start to question why you shouldn’t close Antigravity for good.

AI-generated widgets are among the features coming to Android this year. | Screenshot: Google Would it shock you to hear that Android 17 is filled with new AI-enabled features, like improved dictation and vibe-coded widgets? Fortunately, that's not all. The platform is getting non-AI updates too, from an emoji overhaul to a new screentime tool that helps you avoid distracting apps.Google has just revealed the biggest changes coming in its next OS update as part of its dedicated Android Show, ahead of next week's big I/O developer conference. The Android software updates came alongside a tease of upcoming Android-powered Googlebook laptops and a host of Android Auto updates. Here are all the new updates that matter and when you can …Read the full story at The Verge.

Google I/O is still a week away, but Google's big announcements kick off today with the "Android Show: I/O Edition," where it's expected to announce the major Android ecosystem highlights coming to its annual developer conference.When the Android Show will happen and where you can watch itAndroid Show: I/O Edition will be streaming live on YouTube and the Android website on Tuesday, May 12th at 10AM PT / 1PM ET. Based on last year's Android Show, we can expect the highlights to include a look at the next major Android update along with announcements about Gemini features on Android and potentially teases of some more forward-facing proje …Read the full story at The Verge.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says Elon Musk did "huge damage" to the culture of the AI startup. During testimony as part of Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI, Altman said Musk required OpenAI president Greg Brockman and former chief scientist Ilya Sutskever to rank researchers by their accomplishments and "take a chainsaw through a bunch."Altman conceded that this was the management style the Tesla CEO was known for, but that it was incompatible with his startup. "I don't think Mr. Musk understood how to run a good research lab," Altman testified when his lawyer, William Savitt, asked about the impact of Musk's departure from OpenAI on morale. "For a …Read the full story at The Verge.

This week at I/O, Google rolled out a series of major updates for Android Auto that include better sizing for unconventionally shaped screens, video streaming through YouTube, widget support, and of course, more AI-powered Gemini features. The company also announced some updates for cars that run on Google's built-in native software, including the ability to ask Gemini questions that are specific to the car you're driving.First off, it's screen size. It used to be that in-car screens all came in the same basic shape. But now the standard rectangle has evolved into a variety of curved, panoramic, swooping, and even circular displays. Google …Read the full story at The Verge.

Gemini Intelligence comes with a Liquid Glass-ish visual treatment. | Image: Google It is, once again, Gemini season. Google is announcing a host of new Gemini features during its pre-I/O Android showcase, many of which aim to help use your phone for you. You'll find Gemini in more places, like Chrome on Android, in your autofill suggestions, and all up in your apps - if you want.Google also has a new name for us to remember, because it just can't help itself: Gemini Intelligence. It "brings the very best of Gemini to our most advanced Android devices," according to Google's director of Android experiences, Ben Greenwood. Google is bundling some existing and new Gemini features under this name, and seems to be reserving t …Read the full story at The Verge.

Local LLMs have gone from a curiosity thing I poked at, to something I actually use on the regular now. Not for everything - cloud AI still wins at most tasks - but mainly personal documents I need to work through, anything where handing a cloud model the context feels like the wrong call. This use case alone made the whole thing worth setting up, and from there, I've just started paying more attention to what open models are actually capable of doing.

No thank you, we’re good. | Photo by Brandon Bell/Getty Images eBay has officially rejected GameStop's offer to buy the online marketplace for $56 billion, citing concerns around "operational risks" and how the acquisition will be financed. In a letter to GameStop CEO Ryan Cohen on Tuesday, eBay's board of directors said it has "concluded that your proposal is neither credible nor attractive.""We have taken into account such factors as 1) eBay's standalone prospects, 2) the uncertainty regarding your financing proposal, 3) the impact of your proposal on eBay's long-term growth and profitability, 4) the leverage, operational risks, and leadership structure of a combined entity, 5) the resulting implic …Read the full story at The Verge.

When Intel launched its Arc Alchemist GPUs in 2022, the reception was rather rough. The drivers were a mess, the performance was all but consistent, and hardware reviewers were quick with their verdicts. Two years later, the Battlemage arrived, and the $250 Arc B580 completely changed the pricing and performance conversations in the industry. Now, Team Blue is eyeing the handheld PC market again, which AMD has dominated for years with its Ryzen Z series processors.

Google is announcing a new line of laptops coming in the fall called Googlebooks. Details are sparse for now, as the tease is just a small part of various Android announcements during Google's Android Show. But we do know this is a major new initiative in the laptop space for Google, seemingly designed to succeed Chromebooks with something more capable: a platform running a long-rumored new operating system based on a fusion of Android and ChromeOS.That operating system, through various leaks, has been referred to as Aluminium OS. Google isn't announcing the OS's real name or giving many details about it just yet. "We'll have more to share …Read the full story at The Verge.