The past few days have been a bit of a rollercoaster ride for fans of Microsoft's Surface devices. We've only just recovered from the realisation that Microsoft's flagship Surface PCs are $500 more now than they were on release, due to rising memory and storage costs. Now, there's apparently some good news on the horizon; Microsoft is working on a new version of the Surface Laptop 8 and Surface Pro 12, albeit you should probably cast aside any thoughts on the models being cheap.

We've all been there; you're watching a presentation, you zone out for a little bit, and when you tune back in, the presentation has moved on, and you have zero idea what the presenter is talking about. You want to understand what on Earth is going on, but at the same time, you don't want to raise your hand and admit you've been thinking about cats for the last five minutes.

We all love our gaming desktops and workstations. We love the colors, the neat components, the displays, and, of course, we love showing them all off, too. Perhaps the biggest hurdle in showing off our PCs, however, is the mess — everything has a cable running to and from it, going somewhere, and perhaps looping in on itself.

Adding new security measures to a piece of beloved software is always a double-edged sword. On one hand, the extra layer of defense makes it harder for malicious actors to get into the system or spread viruses. On the other hand, people who are already veterans with the software and perhaps have their own security measures get a little peeved that their workflow has been tampered with.

YouTube's time management settings now have an option to put a zero-minute time limit on Shorts, effectively removing them from your app in Android and iOS. The option is an update to the Shorts timer YouTube originally announced in October; the lowest previous option was 15 minutes. The feature was expanded in January to give parents some control over how long their kids spend scrolling through Shorts, with an option for zero minutes "coming soon." According to YouTube spokesperson Makenzie Spiller, the option to set the timer to zero is now "live for all parents, and is currently being rolled out to everyone," including users with regula …Read the full story at The Verge.

An operating system is a fairly complex piece of software, and typically, you wouldn't think to run it inside a web browser. You might be able to access it inside a browser, but that typically just means the actual operating system is running on a remote computer, and you're just using a remote desktop tool.

We love a good monitor when it goes on sale. This 34-inch ultra-wide by MSI delivers fantastic colors, has a refresh rate up to 144Hz with a 1ms response time, and now costs just $174. If you're a gamer on a budget that's been looking for a new monitor, this is going to be the one. Just be sure to act fast because this deal won't be around for long.

Microsoft made some drastic decisions with Windows 11, leaving many users, including me, livid. Even after nearly five years since its launch, Windows 11 has a lot of unresolved issues and missing features. PowerToys was a very thoughtful revival that helped soften the loss of features to some extent. It kept adding new tools and today has a great set of utilities, the best of which is the Command Palette. It fixed two main eyesores in Windows 11 for me, and I'll keep using it until Microsoft implements the feature naturally.

Claude and its many models have been popular with seasoned developers, vibe coders, and everyone else in between, but Anthropic's latest announcement is a departure from anything it has released before. The model, named "Claude Mythos Preview", is touted as the most capable model the company has ever developed, and it's also one that won't be available to the public.

I used to think of the Raspberry Pi as something that belonged in a project box, tucked behind a TV, or bolted into a home lab rack where nobody had to look at it. It was useful, sure, but not something I’d seriously consider carrying on a trip when real work needed to get done. The Raspberry Pi 5 has changed that for me more than I expected. It still has obvious limits, but it’s crossed a line from novelty into something genuinely practical.

Changing out the radio in your car used to be a huge pain back in the day, which usually required a professional to install something new. While that's still the case today, you now have manuals online and video guides on YouTube that can make the process a lot easier.

A CPU cooler's primary function is to cool your CPU, and it can do so through two primary mediums that have been compared and contrasted for decades: air and liquid. People compare thermal charts, argue about noise levels, debate whether a 240mm radiator is enough, and try to work out whether a modern CPU “needs” liquid cooling in the first place.