When I initially started thinking about building myself an all-flash NAS, speed was the only thing on my mind. It seems pretty obvious. All-flash storage is an order of magnitude faster than spinning drives, so it must be the obvious endgame for a home server. Faster reads, faster writes, no risk of hard disk crashes. Plus, no noise — a surprising benefit that's always more than welcome. Or at least that's what was on my mind. Of course, things change. That narrative changed entirely by the time I got around to deploying TrueNAS on my existing hardware and started using it the way a home server should be used. The bottleneck wasn't speed, and I ended up rethinking my entire setup and strategy. Here's why.

Microsoft has been on a bit of a culling spree with its apps lately. Back in January, the Redmond giant cut support for one of its most beloved mobile apps. And now, the company has confirmed the end date for another one of its Android offerings. However, unlike the previous app the company got rid of, I don't think I've ever heard of this one.

The Pura X Max’s wide aspect ratio should make it a better option for watching horizontal video. | Image: Huawei Apple and Samsung have both been strongly linked with plans for foldable phones in a boxy, wide aspect ratio, but it looks like another company will get there first. Huawei has just revealed the design of the Pura X Max, a new foldable it's launching in China next week, and its passport-esque form factor is a dead ringer for early leaks of the iPhone Fold.We don't know too much about the Pura X Max yet, which will get a full release on April 20th alongside the colorful Pura 90 series, but early images shared by Huawei show blue, white, orange, and black versions of the phone, all featuring a triple rear camera. The rear design, with gridde …Read the full story at The Verge.

Elon Musk promised Neuralink would bring superhuman abilities and minds merged with AI. Then he fueled a runaway hype train for his brain implant technology, which ended up with a grisly record for implants in monkeys and some success with human subjects. But for all of the hype, he's still further away than Mars from his goal. And that's because his relentless ambition is once again hitting the wall of scientific reality.The heart of the issue is how brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) translate thought into results. Neuralink's products have all been brain-to-cursor interfaces, which allow patients to control a mouse with their minds. But N …Read the full story at The Verge.

CPU bottleneck is something I've always dealt with ever since I paired my RTX 4090 with the Ryzen 9 5900X a few years ago. It wasn't a huge deal at 4K, but considering I mostly play competitive titles and AAA first-person shooters at 1440p, it was impossible to ignore my GPU hovering around 70–80% most of the time. Things did improve when I later replaced it with the 5800X3D, but even then, the GPU usage wouldn't consistently stay above 90%, which meant that I still wasn't getting the most out of it at 1440p.

Microsoft has started testing its own virtual mouse cursor inside its Xbox mode for Windows-based handhelds. The new Gamepad Cursor option provides a quick way to turn the left stick of a handheld like the Xbox Ally X into a virtual mouse.While Asus has its own cursor as part of Armory Crate, Microsoft's Gamepad Cursor lives inside its own Xbox mode in Windows 11, and it's easy to activate from the Game Bar without having to use Armory Crate. Once activated, the Gamepad Cursor will turn your left stick into a mouse for precise control, or for apps that aren't designed for controllers.The left stick will scroll around a screen like a mous …Read the full story at The Verge.

Linux 7.0 didn't have the smoothest of release candidate phases. Linus reported that some of the early builds had some of the biggest numbers of changes he had ever seen, and there was the ever-present chance of him deciding to push back Linux 7.0's release to ensure everything was running smoothly. However, because Linus noted that the majority of the changes were small tweaks instead of huge fixes for system-critical issues, he forged ahead regardless.

Sam Altman was seemingly targeted by a second attack on Sunday morning, with two suspects arrested following a shooting at his Russian Hill residence, The San Francisco Standard reports. The suspects were arrested and charged with negligent discharge, according to a police report on the incident, citing surveillance footage that appears to show a vehicle passenger firing a weapon at Altman's home.This follows an earlier attack on Friday, in which a 20-year-old man was arrested for allegedly throwing a Molotov cocktail at the same property. The investigations for both incidents are still ongoing.According to San Francisco Police, offers w …Read the full story at The Verge.

The topic of using Windows Update has always been a tug-of-war between the user and Microsoft. Users would prefer that they update Windows on their own whim, while Microsoft would prefer that everyone download the updates as soon as they are released for the new fixes and features.

I finally hit a breaking point with my monthly subscriptions. Between photo editing suites and productivity platforms, my monthly credit card bill was starting to feel like a second mortgage. So, I went on a mission to see if I could replicate a professional-grade workflow without spending a single dime.

AI and automation are two terms we’ve all heard enough over the past few years. Tools like Claude, ChatGPT, and agentic automation platforms like OpenClaw are everywhere right now, but some of us prefer to self-host our own stack. I’ve been experimenting with different setups to build an AI automation stack, and the best combination I’ve landed on includes n8n, Dify, and Ollama. n8n is already my favorite automation tool, and when you throw it into the mix with the other two, you get an AI automation stack that can rival even the cloud.

Digital photo frames have been around for years, and yet, somehow, the best options still require you to hand your photos to someone else's server. We've got Google's Nest Hub which pulls from Google Photos and Amazon's Echo Show that pulls from Amazon Photos. Even dedicated frames from the likes of Aura and Nixplay route everything through their own cloud. They all look great on a shelf, sure, but your device is at the whim of those companies graciously continuing to support them as time goes on.