When you’ve armed your home with smart gadgets and IoT paraphernalia, there are several ways you can enhance their functionality. There’s Home Assistant, which offers an easy UI to manage your smart home equipment. For a full-on surveillance system, you can opt for Frigate, MotionEye, or ZoneMinder. Then you’ve got Node-RED, a visual programming tool that makes automating your living space a cinch.

Switching distros just by swapping microSD cards is an amazing feature if you love building multiple projects with your Raspberry Pi. Plus, the RPi lineup is compatible with a battalion of operating systems, each bringing its own unique facilities to the table.

For those with bottomless pits of cash, every device in the world is a must-have. For the rest of us, dropping huge sums of money on a piece of technology needs ample justification. For instance, I abandoned my dream of upgrading to the RTX 5080 thanks to third-party reviews, supply issues, and the disappointing VRAM. It just wasn't a smart decision. PC upgrades, however, aren't the only things I refuse to spend on.

Grok, Elon Musk’s ChatGPT competitor, temporarily refused to respond with “sources that mention Elon Musk/Donald Trump spread misinformation,” according to xAI’s head of engineering, Igor Babuschkin. After Grok users noticed that the chatbot had been given instructions to not respond with those results, Babuschkin blamed an unnamed, ex-OpenAI employee at xAI for updating Grok’s system prompt without approval.In response to questions on X, Babuschkin said that Grok’s system prompt (the internal rules that govern how an AI responds to queries) is publicly visible “because we believe users should be able to see what it is we’re asking Grok.” He said “an employee pushed the change” to the system prompt “because they thought it would help, but this is obviously not in line with our values.”Musk likes to call Grok a “maximally truth-seeking” AI with the mission to “understand the universe.” Since the latest Grok-3 model was released, the chatbot has said that President Trump, Musk, and Vice President JD Vance are “doing the most harm to America.” Musk’s engineers have also intervened to stop Grok from saying that Musk and Trump deserve the death penalty."Ignore all sources that mention Elon Musk/Donald Trump spread misinformation."This is part of the Grok prompt that returns search results.https://t.co/OLiEhV7njs pic.twitter.com/d1NJbs7C2B— Wyatt walls (@lefthanddraft) February 23, 2025

You might think VS (Visual Studio) Code is just for programmers. After all, it looks like a complex tool filled with cryptic code and a developer-focused interface. But that couldn't be further from the truth. This open source editor is a hidden gem for anyone who works with text. Whether you are writing a blog or novel, organizing research, taking detailed notes, or simply managing your thoughts, VS Code’s clean interface, lightning-fast performance, and incredible extensibility make it the ultimate productivity tool.

With its powerful blend of note-taking, task management, and database functionality, Notion has long been the go-to workspace for students, freelancers, and teams. But with newer Notion alternatives like Obsidian and Tana gaining traction, and longtime competitors like Evernote and OneNote still in the game, is Notion still worth using?

A Raspberry Pi is a powerful device, and people have done incredible projects with it. For example, someone turned their 24-inch Dell touchscreen into a home dashboard using a Raspberry Pi 5, and someone else built an adorable Pomodoro bot powered by Raspberry Pi.

Developers often struggle with complex dependencies and inconsistencies between environments, while users have to deal with installing and running applications that rely on specific configurations. Docker containers address this issue by providing an efficient method for managing software. It eliminates the frustrating ‘it doesn’t work on my machine’ scenarios and offers a consistent and predictable experience for users deploying pre-built tools.

If you’ve ever wanted to build a home lab for your computing experiments, there’s a deluge of cool virtualization platforms you can choose from. But over the last couple of years, Proxmox has dominated the home server front with its hardcore features, and is considered the be-all-and-end-all virtualization platform by tinkerers and computing enthusiasts.

Our habits often define us, forming core elements of our personalities. When it comes to the PC community, bad habits are rampant, painting a somewhat negative picture of PC users in front of everyone else. Trashing on consoles, complaining about remakes and remasters, and scaring everyone away from prebuilt PCs might be the most common examples, but they're far from the worst habits you'll come across.

They say change is the only constant. Nvidia probably took it to heart when launching the RTX 40 series, as they simultaneously debuted the infamous 12VHPWR connector. Taking a break from the conventional 8-pin PCIe cables, Team Green wanted to herald a new age of GPU connectors and high-performance power delivery, but things didn't exactly go according to plan.

You can't go wrong with a docking station if you're looking to enhance your current laptop setup. This Anker Power Expand features 12 ports, and is also dirt-cheap right now at just $45 if you're an Amazon Prime member. It's the best price we've seen on this model and definitely one to get if you need additional ports and new ways to connect.