When Nvidia launched the RTX 5090 last year, I didn't have the same level of excitement I used to have. I mean, I did watch the CES keynote live, but it didn't tempt me to consider buying it. And it wasn't just about the $2,000 MSRP. For the first time in years, I looked at a new flagship GPU and wondered whether it would meaningfully improve my gaming experience. Then, when early benchmarks started coming out on YouTube, I only had more reasons to skip this generation altogether.

You can't go wrong with attaching a tracking device on things you might commonly misplace or lose. And while you can stuff an Apple AirTag in your wallet if you want, we don't think it's the best solution since it's quite bulky when used in that scenario.

For the past few months, I’ve been making the case for the ESP32. I'd argue that the $5 ESP32 microcontroller can easily replace the Raspberry Pi 5. That helps to save on cost and reduce the bulk. I still believe that.

The Instructure-owned learning management platform, Canvas, is down after recently confirming a massive data breach that impacted student names, email addresses, ID numbers, and messages. Students attempting to access the system on Thursday saw a message from the hacking group ShinyHunters, which claimed responsibility for the attack:ShinyHunters has breached Instructure (again). Instead of contacting us to resolve it they ignored us and did some "security patches." If any of the schools in the affected list are interested in preventing the release of their data, please consult with a cyber advisory firm and contact us privately at TOX to …Read the full story at The Verge.

Linux offers an overwhelming number of distributions, and there's something for everyone. Desktop environments (DE) add the visual medium to interact with the underlying OS, and there's no dearth of them as well. You've got GNOME, KDE, Xfce, COSMIC, just to name a few. It's also possible to switch to a different desktop environment, which is one of the key things I love about Linux. I've been using Ubuntu with GNOME for a long time and KDE Plasma for a little less than that.

In the fourteen-ish hours I spend on my PC every single day, fifteen minutes are spent on LinkedIn, without fail. Not because I'm super interested in knowing what everyone in my network is up to, but because the daily LinkedIn puzzles and word-games are undeniably one of the best parts of my day. Of course, at the same time, it's impossible not to peruse through the feed, seeing every fifth post be about how resumes can be made more ATS-friendly by having an AI agent "clean it up" for you.

Have you ever wondered how an LLM works? Perhaps you know some of the basics, such as how they use tokens to get the job done, and how their text generation is somewhat like the autocomplete feature on your phone; however, how would you go about making one from scratch? Where would you even start?

If you are looking to add more storage to a system, an NVMe SSD is naturally the first thing that comes to mind. It's fast and reliable, and the price difference between SATA and NVMe is not as big as it used to be. With NVMe Gen3, you get maximum speeds of up to 3500 MB/s, and with every subsequent generation, this doubles. Gen4 and Gen5 deliver 7000 MB/s and 14000 MB/s, respectively. But is speed the only thing that matters, especially as Gen5 isn't all that faster than Gen4 in everyday use?

The price of computing products changed quite dramatically over the past year. While RAM and SSDs used to be pretty cheap, they're now nearly impossible to afford. Of course, this has had a domino effect on the industry, with desktops, laptops, and other devices seeing sharp increases in prices, or brands maintaining prices by getting clever with product configurations.

There it was, sitting in the darkest corner of my desk drawer like a forgotten gadget you can repurpose that had survived eras without breaking down.

Windows Phone users (yes, all ten of you) are eating well this week. It was just last week that we saw the rise of 8Marketplace, an unofficial store for Windows Phones. Now, someone else has emerged from the shadows to prove that, if there's any fanbase that's worthy of being labelled 'die-hard' in 2026, it's the Windows Phone one, and their offering is a native Telegram app.

DaVinci Resolve has been in my video editing rotation for years now, and it's long been my top pick over Premiere since canceling my Adobe subscriptions. So when Resolve 21 dropped a public beta with a whole new Photo page, I was naturally curious and excited to try it.