Before agents, before MCP, before every model maker started racing to out-benchmark the last, there's only one word that could win the Guinness World Record for the longest-serving term in the AI dictionary: prompt. Everything else has come and gone or been rebranded three times over, but the prompt has stayed exactly where it started. It's still the single thing standing between you and a good answer. Sure, the prompt engineering workshops and the $200 master ChatGPT courses have mostly faded out, and half the people who called themselves prompt engineers in 2023 have quietly changed their LinkedIn titles since.

The effect of AI on the Linux ecosystem is very interesting. Some groups accept AI coding and agent tools, citing it as an unavoidable next step in how people use their PCs and code features. The Linux kernel officially allows submissions generated by AI code (as long as the submitter is the one responsible for any issues, not the agent), and Ubuntu now lets you dictate into any text box using AI.

Phones can do a lot more than most people think, especially older Android phones that are probably lying forgotten in a drawer. Smartphones are the consumer devices we use more than almost anything else, which is why even older models often have better hardware than many other consumer devices you own, whether it's a NAS or a Raspberry Pi.

Engineers from Katalyst Space Technologies testing Link. | Image: NASA/Scott Wiessinger The Swift Observatory was launched in 2004, but recent solar storms have pushed its orbit lower, and it's in danger of burning up in Earth's atmosphere as soon as this year. To try and stave off its demise, NASA has enlisted Katalyst Space Technologies. The company's Link spacecraft launched Friday with the goal of intercepting Swift, which has no propulsion system, and boosting its orbit back to its original position. Right now, Swift is circling at an altitude of 224 miles, and Link is aiming to raise that by about 150 miles.Using a three-armed spacecraft to lift a satellite 150 miles higher into orbit is challenging enough, but the spee …Read the full story at The Verge.

There's no denying the fact that for years, Android phones have been more than powerful enough to handle everyday work. However, actually getting work done on a phone has always felt cramped. Be it writing long documents, juggling multiple apps, or managing files across cloud storage, it isn't very comfortable. Yes, I have a laptop, but often enough when I'm writing down notes on my Android phone, I would like the ability to just use the same device to draft out a full document as well.

Reading my email hasn't been a habit I've had for years now. The only times I do end up opening it is on the rare chance of an email-based OTP, or if I'm simply mailing things to myself between devices. Outside of that, I've had zero willingness to actually sift through tens of unread emails every single day. Suffice to say, going through my mail wasn't something I thought would suddenly become a part of my day that I would actively begin looking forward to.

AI assistants have permeated the world of online meetings quite a lot. People holding meetings deploy AI assistants to keep notes of everything said and covered. Attendees will sometimes invite their own bots to keep track of everything, or even stand in for them. However, with all these bots listening in and keeping notes, it creates a privacy issue. Where's all that information going, and who can get access to it?

How long have you been an Xbox gamer? One of the coolest parts of being a part of Microsoft's gaming ecosystem is that things very rarely deprecate. Stuff like your gamer score and your library of older games comes with you even if you started with the original Xbox, meaning all your memories are nicely stored away in one place.

DNS was something I used to think was a set-and-forget service. I installed a DNS server, implemented it on my home network, and forgot about it. I opened the dashboard once in a while to check statistics and catch the occasional error and sometimes when troubleshooting. That was it. I had DNS logs sitting around from months of running AdGuard Home and Pi-hole.

I first saw Microsoft's Intelligent Terminal at Computex, running on one of Nvidia's RTX Spark machines. At the time, I had no clue what it was, but it showed a terminal window with an AI agent pane docked to the bottom, diagnosing errors and suggesting fixes in real time. It looked impressive, and they told me that it was using a local Qwen 3.6 35B-A3B model to power it. I later found out what its name was, and I decided to give it a try.

I love OLED. Well, more specifically, I love QD-OLED, but that's not always an option on laptops and other screens. The gaming side of my desk has a 34-inch QD-OLED ultrawide, and it's the best panel technology I've played on. Perfect blacks, instant response, high refresh rates, and HDR highlights that make my favorite games pop. It's also the wrong screen for my terminal to live on, and I found that out the hard way.

If you ask any PC builder about the most impactful upgrade they've made to their rig, you'll likely walk into a conversation about a new GPU, a shiny new X3D chip, a high-end motherboard, or perhaps a PCIe Gen 5 NVMe. What almost nobody will mention, however, is a BIOS toggle, because unlocking more performance out of existing components isn't ever seen that way. But there are settings within your UEFI that can change how your PC experience feels, and they're almost certainly toggled incorrectly out of the box.