A large portion of my workflow is research, and I often use AI to jump-start the process. While I don't implicitly trust AI results, it does serve as somewhere to start, and I can dig deeper into the results after the fact. That said, I encounter situations where I'd like to take a conversation in two different directions, and that's hard to do while maintaining the overall context so far. Then I found RabbitMap, an Obsidian plugin that makes it possible to interact with AI directly inside Obsidian, all while tracking those conversations inside an infinite canvas.

For the longest time, Nvidia users had to juggle between GeForce Experience and Nvidia Control Panel to manage their GPUs. One handled driver updates and game optimization, while the other buried essential GPU settings behind an outdated interface that felt stuck in the late 2000s. For a company that makes excellent hardware, the software experience felt oddly fragmented. Thankfully, that changed when Nvidia finally unified everything with the Nvidia app in 2024.

Each episode of HBO's The Pitt features some degree of medical trauma that almost makes the hospital drama feel like a horror series. Some patients are dealing with gnarly lacerations while others are fighting off vicious blood infections that could rob them of their limbs, and the chaos of working in an emergency room often leaves The Pitt's central characters shaken. But as alarming as many of The Pitt's more gore-forward moments can be, what's even more unsettling is the show's slow-burning subplot about hospitals adopting generative artificial intelligence.In its second season, The Pitt once again chronicles all the events that happen …Read the full story at The Verge.

With Ring facing fierce backlash over its Search Party feature, a new program is challenging developers to move Ring doorbell footage off of Amazon's cloud - and into users' own devices. The Fulu Foundation, the consumer advocacy group cofounded by YouTuber Louis Rossmann, is offering an initial bounty of $10,000 to anyone who can integrate Ring doorbells with a local PC or server, while cutting off access to Amazon's servers.Ring users currently have to pay a subscription fee to store recordings in Amazon's cloud. While the company has a local storage option through Ring Edge, it's only available with the Ring Alarm Pro, and it still requ …Read the full story at The Verge.

Several new features are coming to Windows 11 in a soon-to-be-released update, including a built-in network speed test accessible directly from the operating system's taskbar. The tool is currently bundled in an update rolling out to Windows 11 Insiders that are part of the Release Preview channel.

Running a home server inevitably means juggling repetitive tasks. If you've built a home server, there's no denying that you probably are a pro-user doing pro-user things, which would require you to constantly move files around, check notifications, and manage backups. Additionally, you are likely to use a range of services to pass data to each other. Sure, you can script parts of it, but over time, those scripts can get out of hand, requiring constant maintenance too — especially if you add more pieces to your stack. That's usually the point where people start looking at automation platforms.

I've spent time with Android Auto before while testing various EVs, but over the last few weeks, for the first time, I've primarily been using the Google-powered infotainment system over Apple's CarPlay.

For the last few GPU generations, buying Nvidia has been the path of least resistance. The drivers are solid, the feature stack is widely supported, and if you do anything even vaguely resembling content creation, CUDA has a way of becoming the default assumption. That’s the safe choice, and I get why most people make it.

Wayland’s original promise was a cleaner, safer foundation for Linux desktops, one that could finally stop inheriting decades of X11 baggage. The pitch was modern graphics without the historical quirks, smoother rendering with fewer hacks, and better isolation so one app could not casually snoop on another. It also implied a future where screen sharing, scaling, and input handling would be solved in a way that felt native, not bolted on. In other words, Wayland was supposed to be the grown-up table where the desktop could finally eat without spilling.

Microsoft is bringing postgame recaps that pull up an overview of notable moments from your most recent gaming session, including highlights, screenshots, clips, achievements, and "relevant in-game events," to the Xbox Windows 11 app.

Ready to get your home or office wired? Well, this cable deal should help you out plenty, with a variety of sizes coming in at fantastic prices. Best Buy right now is discounting some of its Cat 6 cables, with 8, 15, and 25 foot cables costing just $6. It also has a 50-foot cable for just $19, and a 150-foot cable for $25. Like I said, this is the ideal time to wire your location, with these prices you can't go wrong.

Last summer, Bria Sullivan was getting ready to launch her app, an adorable companion called Focus Friend meant to help people manage their screen time. Her outlandish dream was to get 100,000 downloads. She'd been building the app with Hank Green, a creator with a huge audience, so she thought maybe, maybe, Focus Friend could be a top-10 app in the productivity category. Even that felt like a stretch, though. "Our category has ChatGPT, it has Google," she says. "I mean, productivity includes Gmail!" Sullivan initially dropped the app into the iOS App Store without really telling anyone. But in August, thanks to a lot of promotion from Gr …Read the full story at The Verge.