I've collected ESP32 boards like they were Pokémon, and just like my gaming skills, I keep choosing the wrong ones. Some have no Bluetooth. Others can't run the ESPHome firmware I wanted to use with them because they don't have enough memory, and only one of them can do Zigbee, even though that's the protocol I want to use. And it's not really my fault, because the ESP32 covers roughly 15 chips, two CPU architectures, and more radio combinations than the ice cream flavors at Baskin-Robbins.

The Steam Deck has now been around for over four years, and while it was holding up fine at release and the year after that, the hardware has now started to show its age. It has an 8-CU RDNA iGPU (integrated GPU), while current-gen mainstream gaming handhelds like the ROG Xbox Ally X come with 16-CU RDNA 3.5 iGPUs or better.

I first dipped my toe into Notion over a year ago, and its functionality was impressive — but it didn't quite work the way I wanted. As I kept exploring software, I found Obsidian, then its massive plugin library and the variety of automation options available to me.

The RTX 5080 is a great GPU in a vacuum. It's got a decent VRAM buffer, enough raw raster capability to play games at 4K, and the ray tracing chops to turn the settings up a bit. It was my first and only purchase from the 50-series, and without any context, it's a well-performing GPU.

German company Isar Aerospace has successfully launched Europe's first entirely commercial orbital rocket. It attempted to achieve the feat last March, but that lasted all of 30 seconds before the vehicle crashed into the sea and exploded. This time the company managed to get the two-stage Spectrum into low Earth orbit from a Norwegian spaceport.CEO and Co-Founder Daniel Metzler said in a press release:"Today, Isar Aerospace opened space from Continental Europe. Launch continues to be the largest bottleneck for the global space industry and from today on, there is a true alternative for commercial and institutional customers … Europe no …Read the full story at The Verge.

The OpenAI logo is displayed on a smartphone screen placed on a reflective surface on which the company's logo is projected in Creteil, France, on September 4, 2026, as OpenAI began rolling out GPT-6 Astra, its most advanced model to date. (Photo by Samuel Boivin/NurPhoto via Getty Images) | NurPhoto via Getty Images The Seattle Times and Newsday are just the latest plaintiffs to take OpenAI to court, alleging copyright infringement. The two outlets say the company used their journalism as training data for its AI models without permission and often reproduces passages from their reporting in response to user queries. This is similar to lawsuits filed by The New York Times, Ziff Davis, Merriam-Webster, and Encyclopedia Britannica against OpenAI.The Seattle Times and Newsday also named Microsoft as a defendant in the suit, since Copilot is built on OpenAI's technology. The publishers join a list of nearly 400 local newspapers that recently sued the two …Read the full story at The Verge.

As someone who's used Windows for most of my life, I've disabled several features over the years, mainly because I didn't need them or because they got in the way of my daily workflow. But rarely have I ever turned off a feature and gotten anything meaningful in return. This time around, that wasn't the case. I just disabled a feature I don't recall ever using on a desktop and got back about 25GB of free space immediately.

My browser bookmarks are, for all practical purposes, a dumping ground for websites that I use regularly, and often not so regularly. I try to keep them organized into folders, but finding the right folder and the right link tends to be a chore. More specifically, a time-consuming chore.

I was making Docker networking far more complicated than it needed to be. Every time I ran a new service, I treated it like another little networking project: expose a port, remember the address, update my bookmarks, and hope I didn’t create another mess I would have to clean up later.

An Amazon cargo plane crashed at Miami International Airport on September 06, 2026. | Photo: Joe Raedle / Getty Images A plane bearing an Amazon logo overran the runway at Miami International Airport on Sunday during landing, crashing into vehicles and resulting in multiple injuries. The extent of the damage or the seriousness of the injuries was not clear at the time of publication. In the aftermath of the incident, the FAA released a statement saying:21 Air Flight 7598 overran the runway after landing at Miami International Airport around 2 p.m. local time on Sunday, Sept. 6. The Boeing 767-300 cargo aircraft departed from Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport in San Juan, Puerto Rico.As a result, flights at the airport were grounded and over 60 M …Read the full story at The Verge.

My Android-powered smart TV was destroyed when a lightning storm hit, and I had connected it to the wrong surge protector. I'll never make that mistake again, but I digress; in the meantime, I used different streaming sticks. However, compared to the Android/Google TV experience, they're so locked down and full of ads.

There's a strange little lie we tell ourselves about our gaming backlogs — that we're saving those games "for later." Later, when work isn't so busy, or when we have that ever-elusive long weekend, or when the stars align to finally let us boot up an 80-hour-long game. Naturally, that "later" never comes around.