For years, Denuvo DRM was positioned as the ultimate boss in the piracy battle — an ever-evolving system that could keep games uncracked long enough to secure their most valuable sales window. For the longest time, it even worked.

Given that everyone's been talking about Claude Code lately (even people who once dismissed AI coding tools entirely), your feed is likely flooded with posts about the ideal setup, hidden tips and tricks, and underrated features you're supposedly missing out on. We at XDA are no exception. We absolutely love Claude, and we're always writing about ways to get the most out of your subscription.

Sharing your location on Chrome for Android is a very all-or-nothing move. A website will either have no idea where you are, or it will get to know your exact location down to where you're standing on the street you're on. But sometimes you don't need to give a service your precise coordinates; sometimes a vague general area will do just fine.

If you're an Xbox fan, this is definitely good news.

The Apple AirPods Max 2 are some of the best headphones you can buy. Not only are you getting fantastic audio, but the ANC is also top-tier as well. Don't shy away just because this is an Apple device, it's compatible with Android and other products that support Bluetooth.

Proxmox has a way of making a home lab feel more professional than it really is. You get a clean web interface, neatly named VMs, tidy storage views, and enough knobs to convince yourself the whole thing is under control. That confidence is useful because it keeps you building instead of second-guessing every decision. It can also hide some very ordinary mistakes until the day something breaks loudly.

PLA has a reputation for being the easy filament, and most of the time, that reputation is well earned. It prints at modest temperatures, sticks well to common build plates, and doesn't demand the same environmental control as ABS or nylon. That makes it the default recommendation for beginners, schools, hobbyists, and anyone who wants fewer variables in the way. But PLA’s friendly reputation can make its weaknesses feel more surprising when a print suddenly starts lifting, splitting, or failing for reasons that don’t look obvious at first.

Picture this: you've picked out case fans you like, installed enough for your PC case, and oriented them correctly, yet your gaming PC seems to be overheating and throttling under high loads. What's more, your fans seem to be twitchy, ramping up at the littlest tasks when still mostly idle at the desktop.

PC component prices are at an all-time high right now, making it harder to build a new PC. Of course, if you're just looking to build something cheap or want to use some spare parts you have lying around, this AMD Ryzen 5 5500 chip is just the thing.

You might think it's crazy, but I personally used the Raspberry Pi 4 and 5 as my main desktop for 3 years for light gaming, coding, and recently, AI, so I certainly have a unique perspective on what the single-board computer is capable of. I can play most of my games on it, and I've coded some semi-complex applications, all on a device that costs about as much as a nice series of books.

Apple has agreed to pay $250 million to settle a class action lawsuit that accused it of misleading customers about the availability of its Apple Intelligence features. The proposed settlement would apply to people in the US who purchased all models of the iPhone 16 and the iPhone 15 Pro between June 10th, 2024 and March 29th, 2025.People who submit qualifying claims can receive $25 for each eligible device, "which may decrease or increase up to $95 per device, depending on claim volume and other factors," according to Clarkson Law Firm, the legal team behind the class action lawsuit. The settlement will resolve a 2025 lawsuit, alleging …Read the full story at The Verge.

Google Home users can now ask Gemini to complete more complex, multi-step tasks and combine multiple tasks in a single command. Google has updated Gemini for Home to Gemini 3.1, which it says will improve the smart home assistant's ability to interpret and act on requests. The upgrade will also make Gemini for Home better at handling recurring and all-day events and allow users to "move around" upcoming events. Last month, Google also updated Gemini for Home with improvements for understanding natural language and identifying devices correctly. The upgrades follow reports of bugs in Google's new smart home assistant, like confusing differe …Read the full story at The Verge.