Valve's Steam Machine announcement had sent the company's fans into a tizzy as they eagerly awaited a Steam console/PC hybrid to enjoy their entire library on their TV. Valve marketed the Steam Machine as a PC six times more powerful than the Steam Deck, providing the SteamOS experience at 4K 60 FPS, although its internals cast heavy doubts on that claim. While Valve essentially created the PC handheld market with the excellent Steam Deck, the Steam Machine seems less like a slam dunk. Its launch is still a ways away, but considering what we know about it, and how the PC hardware market has transformed in the last six months, all signs point to the Steam Machine being dead on arrival. Valve is trying to create a new market, but the delay in the Steam Machine's launch might be the biggest reason it loses out on that very market.

A Baidu Apollo Go robotaxi in Wuhan, China. | Image: Bloomberg via Getty Images China has suspended new licenses for autonomous vehicles, Bloomberg reports, citing unnamed people familiar with the matter. The move comes after dozens of robotaxis operated by Chinese tech giant Baidu ground to a halt in traffic last month in Wuhan, creating chaos. The restrictions will prevent companies from adding new driverless cars to their fleets, expanding into new cities, or starting new test projects. It is unclear when officials will start issuing new licenses again.Bloomberg said the Wuhan incident alarmed authorities in Beijing, prompting regulators to urge local governments to review the sector to prevent similar episodes. …Read the full story at The Verge.

We didn't have many complaints when we reviewed this CPU. The AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D is fast, versatile, and can handle pretty much anything you can throw at it. However, with something this good, you already expect a high price, which is one part of the chip we didn't like.

GitHub has not been making any friends lately with its stability issues. Everyone, from small hobbyists to large businesses, has been hit with GitHub reliability problems as of late, to the point where OpenAI reportedly thought of making its own variant just so it could ensure it had access to its own code at all times.

GitHub employees fixed a critical remote code execution vulnerability in less than six hours last month. Wiz Research used AI models to uncover a vulnerability in GitHub's internal git infrastructure that could have allowed attackers to access millions of public and private code repositories."Our security team immediately began validating the bug bounty report. Within 40 minutes, we had reproduced the vulnerability internally and confirmed the severity," explains Alexis Wales, GitHub chief information security officer. "This was a critical issue that required immediate action."GitHub's engineering team developed a fix and deployed it jus …Read the full story at The Verge.

Gemini is coming to Cadillac, Chevrolet, Buick, and GMC vehicles. | Image: General Motors General Motors is planning to bring Google's Gemini AI assistant to around four million vehicles across the US. Model year 2022 and newer Cadillac, Chevrolet, Buick, and GMC vehicles with Google built-in will be eligible for the AI upgrade, which will be rolled out via over-the-air software updates for GM's infotainment system "over several months," according to GM's announcement.GM says this update represents "one of the largest deployments of Gemini in the industry," and that "customers will notice an upgrade from the current Google Assistant to a smarter, more intuitive AI assistant that continues to improve over time." The assistant …Read the full story at The Verge.

LG probably isn't the first brand you'd think about when considering a new laptop. However, the brand has been making some fantastic laptops for some time and has quite a robust lineup to choose from. While some models can be pricey, you can score a pretty good discount if you're willing to wait for them to go on sale.

Ask any developer, and they'll tell you that their setup is usually set in stone. Even as a hobbyist, my setup has been consistent for years, with iTerm2 being a reliable, fast, and deeply configurable tool in my arsenal. But it also comes with frictions that I've had to learn to work around. Be it long scroll backs, a dated interface, cluttered output, or just having to jump interfaces to figure something out when you run into something you don't understand.

There's just something innately cool about mixing ESP32 and 3D-printing technology with the cosmos. After all, mankind has been staring up at the planets and the moon for millennia, so representing the positions of the celestial bodies in the comfort of your own living room has a special vibe to it.

As someone who has been a part of the home lab ecosystem for almost a decade, I’ve cycled between several devices over the years. Heck, I’ve switched distributions, container runtimes, and virtualization platforms a bunch of times before I ended up with my current software arsenal. However, one thing that has remained consistent all this time is the amount of experience I gained from my tinkering misadventures and botched experiments.

We've all seen the news reports, stories, and videos surrounding AI development and large language models (LLMs) hosting with huge encompassing data centers. These things can draw similar amounts of power as small cities, and they only seem to be replicating worldwide as we slowly incorporate AI and chatbots more into our daily lives. As a tool, they're great at offloading mundane tasks, quickly looking something up, or even interacting with other parts of your home. Throw in a smart home platform like Home Assistant and your own self-hosted LLM, and you've got one powerful local setup.

Meta could face fines of up to $12 billion if it doesn’t remedy the DSA breaches. | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images Meta is breaching Europe's Digital Services Act (DSA) rules by failing to prevent children under 13 from using Facebook and Instagram, according to a preliminary decision issued by the European Commission.The Commission announced the ruling on Wednesday after an almost two-year investigation, saying that Meta doesn't have adequate measures in place to stop under-13s from accessing its services, or to identify and remove those already on its social media platforms. A notable example is that minors can simply enter a false birth date when signing up for Facebook and Instagram to falsely declare they're over 13 years old - the minimum age ou …Read the full story at The Verge.