I used to treat the VS Code Marketplace like an endless toolbox. Whenever I wanted a new shortcut, visual tweak, or small improvement, I would search for an extension and install it. Over time, that left me with a setup packed with tools I barely remembered adding. I recently decided to take a different approach and see what happened if I removed most of them. Instead of trying to build the perfect extension collection, I wanted to see how far VS Code could take me on its own. The result was more interesting than I expected, and it made me question how much customization I actually needed.

For years, my inbox doubled as a temporary storage space. If I had a file on my iPhone that I needed on my Windows PC, I would simply email it to myself. It worked, but it was hardly an elegant solution.

Back in 1992, AT&T paid an expert witness to spend over 400 hours assessing Berkeley's version of Unix line by line, and what he returned with amounted to 186 lines of code, when Berkeley's own release amounted to roughly 1.5 million lines. That was what was considered to be the meaningful code overlap at the center of a lawsuit that dragged on for 22 months and, arguably, decided which free Unix we all ended up running.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman confirmed that there would be no OpenAI IPO in 2026 during an interview with Fortune. Over the course of 45 minutes, Altman discussed a variety of subjects including the Hugging Face hacking incident, recursive self-improvement, and the possibility of building an AI that was beyond human control. On the latter, he said it was "absolutely" possible, but vowed to take actions to prevent that from happening, even if it meant pausing training, adding that "there are risks we should not be able to incur on behalf of humanity.""We're not rushing into an IPO. I actually think that, given everything happening with safety, th …Read the full story at The Verge.

For some people, "classic" World of Warcraft includes everything pre-Burning Crusade, and that's that. As such, when Blizzard announced that World of Warcraft: Classic would slowly progress through all the expansions, disgruntled gamers went back to private servers to relive the 'true' classic experience.

The storage economy is playing a cruel joke on consumers right now. If you've scrolled through Amazon, BestBuy or Newegg listings recently, you'll know that somehow, M.2 NVMe SSD prices have gone up faster than the NVDA ticker on NASDAQ. A PCIe 4.0 Samsung 990 Pro 1TB will set you back $240, up from a retail price of $89 in 2024. Meanwhile, NAND contract prices rose by 55% over the previous quarter in Q2 2026 alone.

As Linux distros decide whether LLM-generated content is allowed in code commits, we've seen people leave over disagreements about what they can and can't do. When Debian voted on whether to allow AI code in submissions, one developer quit after the community voted to allow LLM-generated code by a decisive margin. Now, we're seeing a reverse situation where a contributor to Void Linux has orphaned over 100 packages because it had banned AI-generated content.

In May, hundreds of malicious and spam packages were uploaded to RubyGems, causing a serious disruption for the host. Now independent researchers have said that a swarm of OpenAI agents were responsible for the attack. Not only that, but the AI tried to steal users' API keys. At the time, RubyGems described it as a "major malicious attack" and shut down signups for four days as it tried to mitigate the damage and collect data. Researchers said that the contents of the packages that brought RubyGems to its knees were clearly authored by an LLM, and that the agents submitting those packages self-identified as being from OpenAI. They said the …Read the full story at The Verge.

When you see a motherboard with three or four M.2 slots, it's easy to assume that you can fill all of them if you ever need more storage down the line. After all, the manufacturer confidently advertises all those slots on the product page, so there's no reason to think otherwise. And when they all look the same under the motherboard's heatsink, there's a good chance you don't even think about which one you install your second SSD in.

For so many smart home builders, the reality is you're sat at your desk or on the sofa reading an article or watching a movie, and suddenly the room plunges into pitch-black darkness. You're forced to vigorously wave your arms around just to trick a wall sensor into turning the lights back on.

I've used virtually every Jellyfin client app currently available. Of course, new ones keep popping up every day. One of the awesome things about the Jellyfin community is that there's always something new to try. While some alternative apps focus on a single media type or platform, like Findroid for video or Jellybox for music, Pelagica delivers all of my media in a lightweight UI.

There are always things you only realize you need until you actually get your hands on them. The tech world is particularly guilty of this.