I run a Jellyfin server on an HP ProDesk 600 G6 in my home lab, under Proxmox with iGPU passed through for hardware transcoding. With the server side sorted, the app on each device decides how Jellyfin feels. Though the official clients work just fine, a handful of third-party clients include things I’d otherwise chase with a plugin or workaround.

When it comes to self-hosting your own media, Plex is undoubtedly the household name, and rightly so. It may be a paid commercial service, but it's also the easiest to operate, and the one with the least friction involved.

Elon Musk | Image: Laura Normand / The Verge Grokipedia, the AI-powered online encyclopedia from SpaceXAI, appears to be updating articles once again after a months-long pause. In August, Lawfare reported that articles on Grokipedia hadn't reviewed edits since April, but the platform's live updates site is now showing various recent changes to pages - though as I write this, many are just a note that says "recheck all references and sources."The site seems to have become active again relatively recently. The page for President Barack Obama has a note that says it was "Fact-checked by Grok" two days ago, and the page for Elon Musk was fact-checked while I was writing this, within the …Read the full story at The Verge.

When Nvidia unveiled DLSS 5 to the world at GTC in March 2026, it pitched it as its most significant graphics breakthrough since real-time ray tracing. Much of the headlines were dominated by the uncanny image previews and "DLSS 5 ON" memes, but that opening line said more about Nvidia's plans for the technology than anything it has talked about since. Ray tracing launched as a premium feature that came with a steep performance cost, had sparse adoption at launch, and if you had a GTX 1080 Ti, you couldn't run it properly because it didn't have the RT cores to do so.

Dutch police say they arrested a 24-year-old Amsterdam man in connection with ShinyHunters, the hacking group that claimed responsibility for high-profile attacks on Ticketmaster, Rockstar Games, and more recently, the FBI. In a press release, Dutch authorities state that they arrested the suspect on September 15th - just days before the hacking group claimed to have breached the FBI's website and stolen employee data, as reported earlier by Reuters.Neither Dutch authorities nor the FBI name the suspect, but Krebs on Security and Reuters report that police arrested Pepijn van der Stap, a Dutch man convicted for data theft and extortion in …Read the full story at The Verge.

When I got my first ESP32, tutorials were the first thing I consulted, and they worked well for the most part. If I wanted to build a Bluetooth proxy, I’d look into official and community posts on how to do so. Likewise, I’d check on common projects I could build with these tiny microcontrollers, and pick up the sensor, circuitry, and robotics modules accordingly. Although this methodical approach helped me build cool smart home gizmos, I didn’t really learn anything about the ESP32 during the projects.

This Baseus 12-in-1 docking station adds ports to your laptop, expanding its capabilities. It's a must-have accessory if you rely on your laptop for work and personal use. The good news is that it doesn't cost as much as you would think, with Amazon dropping the price down to just $42. The 19% discount isn't huge, but it is the best price we've seen on this product.

VLC is perhaps the only media player I've used consistently ever since Windows Media Player stopped being the one-stop video destination on my PC. Most of you reading this are probably in the same boat. VLC even has advanced tricks up its sleeve that most users never get around to. There's a reason it's still the most popular media player on Windows, and PCs in general.

I have two internet connections for my homelab, but neither gives me a simple path for incoming traffic. Both are behind CGNAT, which makes traditional hole-punching on my router difficult. For my homelab, where I have many apps that need public access, my redundant internet setup doesn't help at all. After running back and forth looking for a solution, I finally settled on Pangolin, and here's what changed.

Procrastination is one of the problems that the productivity world seems to keep throwing software at, promising to fix your life for good. To-do apps and planners have been at this for years, and now AI assistants are in on it too, with many happy to schedule your entire week for you. You might have already come across one or two tools that genuinely helped manage your time and track your productivity - most of these tools have something good to offer, and there's something out there for everyone.

When BMW first announced it was reimagining the i3 as an all-electric four-door sedan built on its Neue Klasse platform, it left out a lot of important details, like battery capacity, range, and price. Today, the German automaker is finally starting to fill in the blanks on the i3. Let's start with price. BMW says the 2027 i3 50 xDrive will start at $61,500, plus a $1,350 destination fee, putting it firmly in the Mercedes C-Class segment of competition. (Back in March, we could only guess a ballpark starting price around $60,000.) We also weren't certain when the new EV would be available in the US; today, BMW confirmed an official launch …Read the full story at The Verge.

Image: Carolyn Van Houten / The Washington Post via Getty Images The US executive branch is no longer acknowledging the existence of "artificial intelligence." Going forward, official policy websites, policy documents, and press releases will refer only to "Super Intelligence," thanks to a new executive order signed by President Donald Trump."The word super is the best word of all, and it's the simplest," Trump said at an event announcing the launch of America.gov earlier on Tuesday, and said Chinese President Xi Jinping, who visited the White House last week, "loves it" too. "We don't want to hear artificial. Because it's not artificial. It's very powerful, it's very brilliant. It's going to mostly be …Read the full story at The Verge.