Building your own navigation device is always great, but if you don't intend to travel too far, there's not much point in downloading the maps every time. Such is the case with this DIY bike GPS, which doesn't require any internet connection to let you know where you are. All the maps are local, and once you hook up GPS data to it, it'll let you know where you are even when there's no phone signal around.

When it comes to my home lab, I’m a firm believer in running my virtualization platforms, routers, storage servers, and other essential systems separately on different machines. So, rather than consolidating my NAS server and productivity-driven virtual guests on the same Proxmox guest, I’ve relied on a bare-metal rig for my TrueNAS workloads for a long time. After all, considering the wacky experiments I partake in, I’d say I’m fairly justified in keeping my PVE nodes away from my central backup server.

Earlier this month, OpenAI gave several of its AI models a task: complete a test designed to measure their cybersecurity capabilities. It put the systems in a sandboxed environment without an internet connection and set them off to work.What happened next is almost laughably silly - but also, as Adam Gleave, cofounder and CEO of AI safety organization FAR.AI, put it, "a visceral example of how misaligned AI could cause harm." According to OpenAI, the models escaped the sandbox meant to contain them, moved through the company's internal systems, found a route to the internet, and then started looking for a way into Hugging Face. And why was …Read the full story at The Verge.

I’ve been testing agentic coding workflows by swapping between Claude Code, Codex, and local LLMs via Crush, but no matter how adjusted to the process I get, none of them return perfect results. The harness around each model works differently, but maybe by using the two together we could get better results. I came across a plugin the other day that would allow me to use Claude as an orchestrator for Codex agents, and started looking for a project to run with it.

Choosing the right containers and apps to run on a home server can prove challenging if you don't know where to start. I've been running apps and services on network-attached storage (NAS) enclosures, a powerful Threadripper custom server, mini PCs, and compact business-class desktop PCs. If I'm starting fresh with a mini PC for a home lab setting, which I did for a development and experimental branch, I always make sure a few self-hosted apps are installed and running 24/7.

The AI agent that escaped from OpenAI and hacked developer platform Hugging Face attacked other companies as well, OpenAI revealed on Tuesday. The update substantially widens the scope of an already concerning incident, which has alarmed industry insiders and fueled growing calls for stronger oversight on frontier AI systems. In an update to a blog post detailing its ongoing investigation into the incident, OpenAI said the wayward AI agent attacked several "publicly-available services" in its efforts to reach Hugging Face. "This includes four accounts on four services," the company said, adding that the agent had found login credentials o …Read the full story at The Verge.

When you're setting up a new gaming monitor, you probably think about enabling game modes, VRR, and HDR settings for the best gaming experience. Something that you might assume works properly by default is your panel's response time. And in many cases, that's indeed true. However, sometimes your monitor's response time settings might not be optimal, leading to ghosting or inverse ghosting.

We love the ESP32 line of microcontrollers here at XDA, so whenever a new one is released, it's always an exciting time. Fortunately, Espressif has just given us a new reason to celebrate by releasing developer boards for the ESP32-S31. This new board comes with some new features and some upgraded tools, and it's at a very respectable price.

If you ever see someone do something cool with technology, but all you can do is look at it and ask, "Why?" you should know that the answer is almost always "Why not?" For example, someone took the open-source Morrowind engine, OpenMW, and made a version you can play entirely in your browser. Because why not?

After the recent Xbox outage even blocked people from playing offline disc-based console games, Microsoft is trying to soothe concerns that you don't truly own anything under Xbox's license system. In a statement to The Verge, Xbox technology chief Scott Van Vliet says that while physical game discs are subject to licensing inspections, that shouldn't have prevented them from working during this week's outage, or while consoles are offline."We're looking into reports that some players were unable to access games using discs as expected during the service interruption. Disc-based entitlement checks should not prevent players from accessing …Read the full story at The Verge.

When you're deep in a Microsoft Teams chat with someone, the last thing you want to do is split your attention between what's being said and the message they just linked to you. Right now, Teams users have had to master the art of juggling between the two. Fortunately, Microsoft has announced that it's adding a new option to open message links in a new window, making it much easier to keep tabs on the current conversation.

Getting Arch Linux set up can be tricky, especially if you're new to Linux as a whole. While Arch veterans wear the badge of honor they earned by installing the OS on a Compaq Portable III using only the left side of their keyboard, there are apps out there for us mere mortals who need a helping hand.