When you need a streaming solution at home, it's easy to pick up a cheap streaming stick that does the job.

Doh! | Image: Activision / 20th Century Fox At D23, when asked about the potential for a sequel to the cult classic The Simpsons: Hit & Run game, Matt Groening replied, "I think the original game is coming back in some form," before current showrunner Matt Selman added, "or not." The tone in both of their voices and the body language suggests that Groening may have just revealed something he wasn't supposed to.The original title came out way back in 2003 for PlayStation 2, Xbox, GameCube, and Windows. While it's possible to get the game up and running on modern computers, it's not available on modern consoles. It's currently not in the PlayStation Plus Classics Catalog or on the Xbo …Read the full story at The Verge.

Last time I wanted to deal with hotel Wi-Fi, I built a travel router using a Raspberry Pi 4 and RaspAP. It worked for basic connectivity, but it lost a fight with the hotel's captive portals. I lost count of how many times I’d connect, got stuck on that page, and ended up tethering to my phone instead.

If you squint you can just about make out the hat. | Screenshot: Terrence O’Brien / The Verge Your AI Slop Bores Me is brilliant in its simplicity. There are two tabs: human and LARP as an AI. On one side you enter a request. On the other, you submit an answer. But the important thing is that there's a human on both sides of the equation. Prompts can request a response as text or image, and then whoever is roleplaying as the AI gets 150 seconds to respond.Just like a real LLM, Your AI Slop Bores Me works on a sort of token system. Requests cost credits, and to earn credits you have to jump onto the AI side and answer some of your own. You can also just wait as you get one free request every two minutes. But, as fun as it is to drop …Read the full story at The Verge.

I have an RTX 5070 on my main machine, so naturally, I assumed it would be my go-to hardware for running local LLMs. But that hasn't really been the case. After spending more time experimenting with local AI, I found myself running many of the models I use on a laptop with integrated Radeon graphics instead.

Over the past several years, I've been pretty loyal to Asus' ROG Ally X series of handhelds, and with good reason. Compared to competing Windows 11 portables like Lenovo's Legion Go and other high-end handhelds from companies like Ayaneo and OneXPlayer, Asus' devices have always just felt more polished and reliable, particularly the ROG Xbox Ally X.

Most ESP32 projects assume online connectivity. You've probably entered Wi-Fi credentials, API keys, and server details in many of your projects before things can work as intended. Everything works fine until it doesn't, either due to an API removing free access or a server shutting down permanently.

If you've ever taken a peek into your operating system's activity monitor, there's a good chance you can spot a background daemon whose only job is to index everything for your OS's search function. Usually, it just sits there and does what it does best, but when something goes awry, it can end up consuming a ton of your resources.

Google has some pretty great free apps, which is why I used to go all-in on the company's ecosystem. While I'm still firmly entrenched in apps like Google Calendar and Gmail, I've also started replacing certain Google apps on my devices as I've found better alternatives.

I assumed my VS Code setup was about as efficient as it could get, so I rarely went beyond the options I had configured on day one. That changed when I started digging through the Settings page and found several small toggles that solved annoyances I had accepted as part of using VS Code.

The compact Polaroid Go is great for road trips and adventures. | Image: Polaroid Smartphone cameras are convenient, but they lack the charm of analog instant cameras. If you’re trying to relive the nostalgia of waiting for an instant photo to develop, Amazon is selling the second-generation Polaroid Go instant camera with a 16-photo film pack for $71.99 (usually $109.99). That’s the lowest price we’ve seen for the bundle, with a pack of film usually costing $21.99 on its own. Plus, it’s four dollars cheaper to buy the bundle than to buy just the camera on its own.Polaroid Go Instant Camera Generation 2Where to Buy: $109.99 $71.99 at Amazon (with film pack)With its more compact footprint, the Polaroid Go 2 shoots on smaller film to match. Where classic Polaroid photos are 88mm x 107mm, the Go film is 53.9mm x 66.6mm, a great size for sticking to your bulletin board or stashing in your wallet. The camera has a USB-C port for charging the battery, which can run for up to 15 packs of film on a single charge.

Buying hard drives should not be complicated. After all, there are far fewer variables to consider compared to NVMe SSDs. Besides, spinning drives are old tech, so you don't have to keep up with any new developments. That said, you still need to be sure about the type of data recording used by the drive you're about to buy, because there are two of them, and they're quite different.