My Steam Deck has survived three years of me trying to replace it while loading as many odd software packages as I could. I’ve tested the challengers, tried the alternative operating systems, and realized I prefer playing some games on another device. It’s no secret that the Steam Deck changed how I approach gaming, and I’d assumed the sales figures would match my excitement level. I was wrong, at least about the sales figures and the size of the PC gaming handheld market.

According to the Financial Times, OpenAI disbanded its preparedness team at the end of last month. The job of the preparedness team was to assess if models posed serious risks and develop ways to mitigate those risks. (You know, like the possibility that it could go rogue and hack another company.) According to FT, responsibility has instead been divided up for specific areas like bio and cyber, then moved into existing teams.This is the latest change at the company, which has been in upheaval as it heads towards what is expected to be a massive IPO. Over the last few years, it's slowly torn down its more reach-led model, dissolving its AG …Read the full story at The Verge.

My living room’s TV has had a Fire TV Stick 4K plugged into its HDMI port for the past few years. The Fire TV Stick does its job of providing quick streaming access to Netflix, Prime Video, and other services my family enjoys. As I delved deeper into building my home lab, the Fire TV Stick struggled to keep up. Initially, I just tried using the streaming stick to access my home media server and assumed that was the end of it.

PLA is still the filament I’d recommend to a beginner if the goal is getting a 3D printer up and running without turning the first few prints into a troubleshooting exercise. It behaves predictably, prints cleanly, and I generally know what to expect when I load a spool. My problem with PLA starts later, once the print is off the bed and in use. I’ve become much less willing to equate “easy to print” with “good material for the job,” especially when that job involves being dropped, bumped, flexed, or otherwise treated like a normal object rather than a display piece.

In every possible universe? | Image: Backwoodz Studioz "Breakups are… tough."It's the opening lines of an interlude towards the end of DOOMED! Called "It Happens in Every Universe." It's also basically the thesis of the entire record. It's no grand revelation, but it's a well-trodden subject that Open Mike Eagle manages to mine for artistic gold.Eagle's subject matter is usually personal, and his productions tinged with nostalgia. But DOOMED! is his most intimate album yet. A lot of that is due to the production from Kenny Segal. The two have traveled in the same orbit and worked together before, but this is the first full-length album release from the two. These are some of Segal's most c …Read the full story at The Verge.

At CES 2026, HDMI 2.2 looked every bit like the future — we saw a 500Hz gaming monitor showing off impossibly smooth motion, and the shiny new Ultra96 cables from Elka that sat right beside it made us all want them immediately. For everyone watching, that demo was enough to make them wonder just how far behind their own setups had fallen.

Running AI models locally sounds like something that requires a powerful gaming PC with an expensive NVIDIA GPU. That's what I thought too, until I started experimenting with the integrated graphics on my Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 3. My testing setup included an AMD Ryzen 7 5000 Series processor, 16GB of RAM, a 512GB SSD, and AMD Radeon Graphics.

For many self-hosted media server owners, downloading compressed 1080p and 4K web rips is enough to call it a day. The server works, the library looks pretty, and storage demands stay low. However, when doing an A/B comparison, loading up an uncompressed 4K Blu-ray remux on a proper home theater setup with an OLED display reveals that commercial streaming platforms and web rips compress away a significant amount of the raw data.

Switching over to Immich was one of the best self-hosting decisions I made. It gives me the convenience of Google Photos while giving me full ownership of my data by running on my NAS. It's got all the essential features like face recognition, albums, and search, and it works well enough that I don't need to look elsewhere. But as good as it is, Immich isn't perfect.

I'd been running a nightly file sync on my desktop through Windows' Task Scheduler for a few months. One afternoon, I went looking for an older version of a document and found that the newest file in my backup folder was several weeks old. Task Scheduler still listed the job and showed it as enabled. It even reported that the last run (last night) had finished successfully.

Uploading personal documents to cloud chatbots is pretty normalized, but that doesn't mean that you don't feel a little pause before doing it. You know that your private information is "somewhere out there" now, but because we can't see what's actually happening, it's easy to sweep it under the rug.

So, good news for Linux fans: it seems the 'year of Linux' may finally be upon us. The bad news is, the year of Linux may not happen on Linux. A past interview with a member of Canonical reveals that the number of people installing Ubuntu in a Linux environment on Windows is rapidly outpacing native Ubuntu installs, and it may one day become the biggest market share.