Elon Musk’s X has agreed to pay President Donald Trump “about $10 million” to settle his lawsuit against Twitter, reports The Wall Street Journal. The settlement would come on top of an estimated $250 million that Musk, who now seemingly has broad authority over government agencies as the head of DOGE, put toward helping Trump get elected last year.Trump sued Twitter, Facebook, and Google over his account suspensions following the January 6th, 2021, riot at the US Capitol, and a judge dismissed this lawsuit in 2022, rejecting arguments that the company was a state actor or that Section 230 is unconstitutional. While Trump’s case against Google is still pending, Meta decided to settle with Trump for $25 million late last month. Before that, ABC News agreed to settle Trump’s defamation lawsuit for $15 million. And last month, the Journal reported Paramount Global was considering caving on Trump’s $10 billion lawsuit over the editing of a Kamala Harris 60 Minutes interview.

Tired of relying on Microsoft, Google, and other brands for your email? Want to bring everything under your direct control? Do it yourself with a custom email server for yourself, your friends and family, and anyone else you wish to provide an account. In this guide, I'll round up some tools and things you should consider while setting up your own email server. This will include basic stuff such as domains but also more advanced solutions for managing your server with a dynamic public IP address.

If you have a small business and you're looking for ways to improve your technical infrastructure, a NAS is one of the best ways to do it. I've helped out a few businesses at this stage with one, as while all of their needs were different, the best solution across many of them was a NAS to store data for ease of access.

Now that everything about the new RTX 5080 is out in the open, I've reluctantly decided to skip this generation and retain my RTX 3080 for another year. I was hoping to upgrade to the RTX 5080 in the months leading up to the launch, but no matter which way I cut it, I can't justify that anymore. My RTX 3080 still holds up in the latest games at 1440p optimized settings, so the wait continues for me.

Penpot’s open-source UX/UI software has taken the digital creative industries by storm since its inception in 2015. Penpot has great tools which are better than other UX/UI softwarelike Figma and alternatives, but since the tail end of 2024 and its introduction of plugins, it now competes even better with design and development software services. Plugins improve your user experience through creative tools with integrated third-party apps, whether you’re using plugins in DaVinci Resolve, Krita, or Photoshop. Now you can access community-made plugins for Penpot, too.

You can never have enough storage space, which is why it's important to always stock up on storage whenever it's possible. With that said, this Seagate Expansion 24TB external hard drive is going to be a fantastic way to keep all your things backed up, especially when it's down to its lowest price to date. For a limited time, you can now score this drive for $280, which is $50 less than its current retail price.

Usually, when you’re looking for open-source alternatives to Adobe apps, you have plenty of options to choose from. For instance, apps like GIMP and Photopea serve as solid alternatives to Photoshop. You can even build a whole creative suite similar to Creative Cloud using open-source software. However, there’s one Adobe app that has far too few open-source alternatives — Acrobat. It has become the default choice for reading and processing PDFs, whether you use a Windows PC or a Mac. Still, there are a handful of open-source alternatives to Acrobat that you might want to consider. Here are four of them.

I'm not much of an AI enthusiast, but I will admit that AI image editing has saved me a ton of time. I personally get a lot of leverage out of background removal tools, which always do a far better job than me messing around with the magic wand tool in GIMP. Luckily, for people who have my level of skill with image editors, Adobe's new Lightroom changes make it even easier to get stuff done.

A good quality monitor can really make a huge difference when it comes to the gaming experience. Not only can you get excellent visuals thanks to enhanced colors and black levels, but the performance numbers can also help with your gameplay as well. Of course, the major hurdle here is that gaming monitors that really make a difference are often quite expensive.

If you're still on Windows 10, you may have noticed that something new appeared on your operating system after doing a Windows update. The newest update brings in the brand new Outlook app, which Microsoft is using to replace the old Mail and Calendar apps. There's just one problem: it's not great.

We love customization here at XDA, and when it comes to Windows 11, there's no shortage of tools to help you get the exact experience you want. But most of those — whether it's something like Start11, StartAllBack, ExplorerPatcher, or Windhawk — focus on taking elements you already know and tweaking them. Sometimes they restore lost functionality, other times they add something completely new. But at their core, they feel more like tweaks than anything else. But that's where Rainmeter comes in.

I’ve been an Adobe subscriber for 12 years, starting during my graphic design degree, in which I thought I’d be reliant on Adobe Photoshop and its ilk for my entire career. As a professional tech journalist, I have used Photoshop plenty, but there are some great free Photoshop alternativesthat I could use more reliably. Krita is one of my favorite Photoshop alternatives; it offers all I need from a creative tool, so I won’t yearn for Photoshop once I quit. There are lots of reasons I’m moving to Krita. Some might resonate with you enough to join me.