The barrier to entry for self-hosting seems to get lower with each passing month. Community scripts that allow you to go from nothing to having a service up are lifesavers for novice home-lab users, and the services themselves have become more plug-and-play than they ever have thanks to things like Docker Compose. One consequence of lowering the barrier to entry, though, is introducing more potential "easy targets" for malicious actors to attack, and that's where self-hosting can go from a neat hobby to a genuine security risk.

I've built enough systems in my life to know how the first hour after assembly usually goes. Get a successful POST, check immediate temps, BIOS update, and then immediately back into the BIOS to undo a lot of the defaults. Out of the box, a motherboard runs your memory below its rated speed, feeds your CPU more voltage than it needs, and pushes more current through the I/O die than the memory controller has any use for, and while these things help make sure your system boots on the first go, they're not great settings to run all the time.

When I began my 3D printing journey, I pretty much stuck to PLA alone for my models. In all fairness, that turned out to be the right call, since my early days as a 3D printing enthusiast were spent creating novelty prints, cool miniature models, and decorative accessories. However, things took a turn for the worse when I tried using PLA for functional models, as my painstakingly-printed STL files would become unusable anytime they got exposed to harsh conditions.

DLSS 4.5 Ray Reconstruction was finally unveiled at Gamescom, putting the finishing touch on what could only be described as one of the most remarkable leaps in upscaling technology that is Nvidia's second-generation transformer-based DLSS 4.5 stack. Unlike many GPU features that arrive with a new generation of hardware attached, this one comes as a free present for all GeForce RTX graphics card owners.

A senior Anthropic safety researcher has said there is more than a 10 percent chance artificial intelligence "could kill all humans" by the end of the decade, just hours after a colleague resigned over fears the AI lab and its rivals are carelessly racing to build "superhuman systems" they cannot control. In a post on X announcing his departure, Jacob Coxon, a researcher who has trained AI systems at Anthropic, said he had quit the company over its lax approach to safety. Coxon, who previously trained systems for OpenAI, accused the two AI companies of "racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives," even …Read the full story at The Verge.

I’ve been using Docker long enough to know my way around Compose files, containers, and the usual networking settings. But for years, I treated port configuration as one of those things that simply worked if the syntax was right. That changed when I started dealing with more complex setups and had to troubleshoot why services behaved differently depending on where a connection came from. I realized I had been looking at Docker networking too narrowly. The commands weren't the hard part. The missing piece was understanding what Docker was doing between the application, container, host, and network. That shift completely changed how I configure containers.

The new Apple Watches come in a variety of material and strap combinations. Apple rolled out the Apple Watch Series 12 and Apple Watch Ultra 4 at the "Surprise and shine" event. The new watches feature sizable improvements to the health sensors and tracking, plus the ability to recite audio transcriptions and summaries, plus a ceramic case option for the Series 12. Despite the new features, the watches start at the same base price as their previous iterations. The Apple Watch Series 12 costs $399 for the aluminum version without cellular, and the Apple Watch Ultra 4 costs $799.The biggest differences between the models are new features powered by the S11 processor. It supports the new Apple Intelligence features a …Read the full story at The Verge.

Apple has just announced its first foldable iPhone, the iPhone Duo. The new phone has a 5.4-inch outer screen and a 7.6-inch inner screen, two back cameras, Touch ID for authentication, an IP68 rating, and all sorts of slick software tricks to make iOS feel more at home on the new device. Preorders start on October 16th ahead of availability on October 23rd, and it starts at $1,999 for 256GB of storage.It's a huge announcement for Apple, and we have many feelings about it. Here's our gut reactions to the phone. And let us know in the comments what you think!The Duo name is goodI think iPhone Duo is the perfect name for Apple's foldable …Read the full story at The Verge.

With only a few hours left until the first iPhone launch event since John Ternus took over as the CEO of Apple, Bloomberg reporter Mark Gurman says the name of the company's long-rumored folding phone is the iPhone Duo. The midnight report suggests it will have a price starting at $2,000 for a model with 256GB of storage, or around $3,000 for up to 2TB. Shipping is said to start as soon as October in two colors: white and dark blue.So far, the rumored foldable has been mostly referred to as the iPhone Ultra, while the Duo name would raise a title that Google used for one of its many ill-fated attempts at messaging and chat, and that Micros …Read the full story at The Verge.

Building a decent presentation usually means spending far too much time fixing layouts, rewriting slide copy, looking for the right structure, and making sure the whole deck looks consistent.

The Lenovo Idea Tab Pro is an Android tablet with a 12.7-inch 3K screen, MediaTek Dimensity 8300 chip, 8GB of RAM, and 256GB of storage. It's great for watching your favorite shows, browsing the web, playing games, and even getting some work done. It comes with a stylus and costs just $280 thanks to a steep $180 discount from Best Buy right now.

I have paid for enough AI subscriptions to know that access to the smartest model doesn't automatically make me productive.