The CPU and GPU temperatures often get the most attention, but the SSD temps go largely ignored. After all, your storage doesn't affect your gaming experience to the extent your CPU and GPU do. Still, it's important to know how hot your SSD is running, if only to eliminate it as a possible reason behind performance slowdown.

I have been looking for a good harness for my local models, something as good as Codex. I have tried tools like OpenCode and Aider, but for some reason, they just don't have the same finesse as Claude Code or Codex. They also lack many of the features you'd expect from a coding agent now.

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.

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.

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.

The vast majority of OS bugs happen while it's running, but it's not unheard of for issues to strike before it can even get itself installed on your system. Such is the case with Ubuntu 24.04.5 Noble, which has had its AMD64 installer pulled because it would fail to install the OS whenever someone opted to perform an extended install.

Self-hosting gives you more control over your apps, services, and data, but it also puts the responsibility for protecting them in your hands. A failed drive, broken update, accidental deletion, or server problem can quickly turn into lost work. That makes backups an important part of running a self-hosted setup, not something to think about after something goes wrong. The good news is that building a solid backup system doesn't have to be complicated. Several tools can handle different parts of the process, from protecting files to managing recovery points. Here are some options worth considering for a stronger self-hosted backup setup.

Have you been having issues with either WSL or Claude Cowork on Windows 11 lately? IF so, you're not alone. Microsoft has updated its documentation to report that something within the latest Windows 11 update has created problems with Plan9, and the company is working on a fix.

OpenAI has spent the last few years planting flags across the increasingly difficult terrain in mathematics. This week, it claimed one of its biggest prizes yet: a solution to a legendary Millennium Prize problem. In normal circumstances, this would have been celebrated as a historic achievement.Instead, many mathematicians have watched OpenAI's relentless advance with growing unease. To them, the company appears less like an enthusiastic newcomer than an impossibly well-resourced interloper, charging into problems they have dedicated their lives to studying with little apparent regard for long-standing norms or the consequences for those …Read the full story at The Verge.

I always assumed Microsoft 365 was one of those subscriptions I simply had to keep. My work depends on documents, spreadsheets, notes, cloud storage, and a bunch of small productivity tools, so replacing the entire suite sounded more annoying than useful. Still, I wanted to see how far free open-source software has come.

Which color suits you best? | Photo: Nilay Patel / The Verge The iPhone 18 Pro and 18 Pro Max are almost here. Announced at Apple's September 2026 "Sunrise and shine" event alongside the iPhone Duo and other new gear, the two upgraded phones feature the faster A20 Pro processor with more GPU power as well as more neural cores for AI-related tasks, plus some welcome improvements to the camera.The phones will arrive on Friday, September 18th, and preordering one is never a bad idea if you want to ensure you get the color and storage capacity configuration you're seeking. Speaking of, preorders are officially open.The 6.3-inch iPhone 18 Pro starts at $1,199 for the 256GB model, and goes all the way u …Read the full story at The Verge.

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.