There was a time when we didn't need photorealism, 4K textures, or open-world quests to feel like superheroes. All that one needed was a rectangular controller, some patience, and that click of a NES cartridge sliding into place. Well before the era of bloated cinematic universes, these games were the be-all and end-all of superhero experiences.

OPNsense isn't just one of the best options for your home network, with the ability to handle routing and firewall duties to secure your network from the wider internet. It's also easily extendable for new functionality, as it offers a wide selection of plugins to utilize. These add new security features, valuable tools, monitoring software, and other handy things, and they're all easily installed with a few clicks.

Look, I get it; picking Windows as your daily driver generally isn't the best idea if customizability is your most considerable interest. That goes double for Windows 11, which has actually taken the lack of custom stuff you can do on Windows and somehow found a way to make it even worse.

Like many developers, I used to think of VS Code primarily as a slick code editor – great for writing, debugging, and managing projects. It’s a fantastic tool, no doubt, but my perspective shifted when I started digging into its vast ecosystem of extensions. These aren’t your everyday syntax highlighters or linters; these are powerful tools that transform VS Code into something far more versatile. Here are the hidden gems that prove VS Code is capable of so much more than just an Integrated Development Environment.

There are few things more exciting to a PC hardware enthusiast than a shiny new GPU. Once every 4 or 5 years, the time comes when it's time to replace my current GPU. Games get more demanding, and just by the nature of my job, it's important I stay somewhat on the cutting edge. I want to be "up to date" as it were. But after the sheen of the new card wears off, and I've benchmarked all my games, it's hard not to feel a little twinge of buyers' remorse.

Running Android apps on my Raspberry Pi used to be a niche curiosity, but with Waydroid, it has become a genuinely useful feature of my home setup. I've got it running on Raspberry Pi OS with Wayland enabled, and the performance is smooth enough to use regularly. Whether it's for testing apps or bridging the gap with Android-only tools, it opens up some interesting possibilities.

When I am working on my Windows PC, I need apps and tools that make my workflow easier and more efficient. I am always looking for new ways to speed up file management, settings, writing, note-taking, and more. Out of the box, Windows is pretty bland, and it doesn’t have the things I need. I actually deleted many Windows inbox apps, so they are out of my way for other tools.

Back in the early 2000s, first-person shooters were raw, ambitious, and constantly experimenting with the genre itself. This was the era when cover systems were optional, objectives weren't hand-held, and healing was done through medkits instead of just standing still.

The E. Barrett Prettyman Courthouse in Washington, DC. The future of the internet will be determined in one building in Washington, DC - and for six weeks, I watched it unfold.For much of this spring, the E. Barrett Prettyman Courthouse in downtown Washington, DC, was buzzing with lawyers, reporters, and interested onlookers jostling between dimly lit courtrooms that hosted everyone from the richest men in Silicon Valley to fired federal workers and the DOGE-aligned officials who terminated them. The sprawling courthouse, with an airy atrium in the middle and long, dark halls that spring from it, is where cases involving government agencies often land, and that meant it was hosting two of the most consequential tech cases in the country, all while fielding a flurry of unprecedented lawsuits against President Donald Trump's administration.Between mid-April and late May, Judges James Boasberg and Amit Mehta respectively oversaw FTC v. Meta and US v. Google, a pair of long-running antitrust lawsuits that seek to split up two titans of Silicon Valley. Over the same period, several DC judges - including Boasberg - had a full docket of cases related to Trump's first 100 days in office, covering the administration's attempt to mass-depor …Read the full story at The Verge.

The internet is not permanent. That's something most of us forget until a favorite blog goes offline, a forum shuts down or a decade-old article you'd bookmarked for research is no longer available. Or perhaps, your favorite piece of writing gets tucked behind a paywall. Over the last few years, I've come to realize how fragile the internet is with pages breaking and hosts vanishing, and you can never assume that your favorite piece of content will be available in perpetuity.

It's funny how we've spent years trying to cram as many features into our devices as possible, only to invent gadgets that deliberately have as few features as possible in response. However, sitting in front of a modern PC, it's easy to see why. Writing the next chapter of your book, the next page of your dissertation, or the first draft of your wedding speech suddenly gets a lot less interesting when you have social media, notifications, and system updates pinging you every few minutes.

The Switch Online service has added a number of classic and beloved games to the Classics section for Nintendo Switch owners to play. Many of the games that were added were standout titles from their respective consoles. As part of the online service, being a subscriber has more value when you want to revisit older titles. Now that Nintendo 64 games are part of the Switch Online Expansion Pass, fans of Nintendo have been clamoring for some of the best games that were part of the N64 library to be included on the service.