Windows users will no longer be forced to run automatic updates in the middle of a game or a busy day. Microsoft is rolling out some long-awaited changes to Windows Update to users on its Dev and Experimental Windows Insider channels, including the ability to indefinitely delay updates up to 35 days at a time. Last month, Microsoft announced a slew of upcoming changes to improve Windows 11 and address some of users' most common complaints about the platform. Chief among the company's planned fixes was making updates less disruptive. In its blog post on Friday, Microsoft says you'll be able to "extend the pause end date as many times as you …Read the full story at The Verge.

Claude has been having a big moment lately, and it’s not just hype. It’s genuinely one of the most useful AI tools I’ve come across. It’s long stopped being just a tool I open on occasion - I now practically live in it. It’s there when I need ideas for the novel I’m chipping away at, references for design projects, random research I actually need to retain, literally everything that I’d normally spend four times as long Googling or procrastinating on. It became my default first stop for a weird spread of things.

Until recently, IPv6 was perpetually on my "deal with it later" list. I'm sure it's the same story for many home lab enthusiasts. We all know IPv6 exists, and that IPv4 is living on borrowed time, which has been continually extended by various NAT workarounds that were never meant to be permanent fixes. As long as everything on my network kept working, IPv6 felt easy to ignore. Then, my ISP quietly transitioned to IPv6, and I realized it left a security hole in my firewall rules that I hadn't anticipated.

PC performance comes down to more than just a few small tweaks, but there are small setting changes that can make a big difference to your system's ability to churn out frames or blaze through productivity tasks. None of the items on this list are asking you to set aside a weekend to completely reinstall your OS, repaste your CPU and dust out your computer, but instead, they're changes that take one or two clicks that give a noticeable bump in FPS, clean up frametimes and latency, and make your system feel a bit snappier overall.

Alex Jones is onto something. | Photo by Joe Buglewicz / Getty Images Alex Jones may soon lose Infowars, the digital perch that he's used for decades to traffic in conspiracy theories, to The Onion, the satirical newspaper. But not before he's uncovered something truly dastardly: comedian Tim Heidecker's past (publicly available) work."The Onion newspaper has been rocked by the discovery that their new creative director, produced pro pedo/child kidnapping, torture and murder programs," Jones wrote on X on Friday. "Below is an actual mug shot of the creep.." he continued. Included in the post is a fake mugshot of Heidecker taken from a 2017 Adult Swim courtroom series, in which he's standing trial for 20 coun …Read the full story at The Verge.

Proxmox isn’t the only serious option for a home lab, and that’s exactly why I think this point matters. You can build a great setup around TrueNAS, Unraid, plain Debian, or a carefully maintained Docker host if that’s what fits the job. None of those are fake alternatives, and none of them need to be dismissed just to make Proxmox look better. But once you have to actually live with your setup day after day, Proxmox starts to stand out less for the platform itself and more for everything around it.

Want to get the best results from your network? A new router might be the answer. A router provided by an ISP isn't going to be the end of the world, but it won't get you the best results if you're looking for them.

Following Paramount Skydance's move to launch an investigation into how its upcoming Avatar Aang: The Last Airbender animated feature leaked onto the internet, a suspect has been taken into custody by police.The Straits Times reports Singaporean police have arrested a 26-year-old man who is alleged to have uploaded the new Avatar movie (previously titled The Legend of Aang: The Last Airbender) online after accessing a server where the project was being held ahead of its scheduled October 9th premiere on Paramount Plus. According to the authorities, a copy of the entire movie was found on the suspect's electronic devices. If he is ultimatel …Read the full story at The Verge.

Though every AI lab out there is practically unstoppable right now, launching new capabilities at a pace that's genuinely hard to keep up with, Anthropic's been shipping updates at a rate that makes the rest of the industry feel like they're standing still. Just in the past few days alone, the company launched Claude Design, routines in Claude Code, Claude for Word, Managed Agents, released Cowork generally and the list goes on.

Transitioning from downloading STLs from Printables to making your own models in CAD software is the most liberating leap you'll make on your 3D printing journey. It transforms you from a consumer of ready made hardware to a thoroughbred creator. However, there's a cavernous difference between any random 3D model and one that's actually printable, meant to survive real-world usage, serving its intended function.

Let's say you've just spent $2,000 on a high-end OLED, but the picture still looks off, and you can't really figure out why. It's either too dim during the day, or movies look like they were filmed on a cheap 90s camcorder. The culprit is that manufacturers have to meet strict energy regulations and compete with bright neon lights on retail shelves. This leads to vivid modes and energy-saving features that kill the premium experience.

It’s not quite the color-changing car that’s been teased, but BMW’s new BMW iX3 Flow Edition brings us closer. | Image: BMW At CES 2022, BMW debuted its BMW iX Flow concept car that could dynamically change its appearance using the same grayscale E Ink panels found in e-readers like the Kindle. It was followed by the BMW i Vision Dee concept and the BMW i5 Flow Nostokana that were both upgraded with color E Ink panels. Its latest concept, the BMW iX3 Flow Edition announced at the 2026 Beijing Auto Show, might look slightly less ambitious but it takes a new approach, pushing color-changing cars closer to actual production.BMW's previous concepts wrapped the entire vehicle in a patchwork of E Ink panels that were all custom-sized and shaped to match its contours. …Read the full story at The Verge.