Some smart homes fail at the most basic of tasks, and that might be because your setup relies entirely on sluggish smartphone GPS geofencing. When you rely on the Home Assistant companion app or native platform geofences to track home vs. away states, you assume your phone GPS is enough to run an automated household. While your phone GPS is designed for navigating highways, it's not built to manage your doorstep. It suffers from massive latency, battery-draining polling intervals, and dead zones that leave you standing in the dark.

The new Apple TV 4K and remote look just like the old ones and mostly have the same features. It's been four long years since the last Apple TV 4K was released, and in that time there have been lots of hopes and dreams for features in whatever comes next. A new chip, 4K/120Hz support, audio passthrough, a remote locator, better home control integration - the 2022 Apple TV 4K is a great box, but there's still plenty of room for improvement. With the fourth-gen Apple TV 4K announced on Tuesday, some of those hopes were met, while others were unfortunately left out.Coloring the announcement is the device's price. Apple eliminated the cheaper 64GB, Wi-Fi-only model, leaving just the 128GB, Wi-Fi and Ethernet model - and bumped up its p …Read the full story at The Verge.

I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve stood in a corner of my house and suddenly lost wireless connectivity. I knew I couldn’t fully trust those Wi-Fi signal bars, so I'd shift my stance and wait for the bars to climb back up, hoping the connection would hold. But the number of bars never told me what I needed to do to use Wi-Fi without getting booted out.

OpenAI is facing a new wave of lawsuits from eight US states that accuse the company of harming children and misleading customers about the safety of ChatGPT, as reported earlier by Reuters. The lawsuits, filed separately by Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, West Virginia, Arkansas, Arizona, Idaho, and Montana, allege OpenAI unlawfully put profits over safety when developing ChatGPT.The string of complaints claims that OpenAI violated local consumer protection laws by failing to warn customers about the dangers of ChatGPT, citing several lawsuits filed by the family members of teens and adults that allege the AI chatbot played a role in their loved …Read the full story at The Verge.

Last week, Anthropic and OpenAI looked like they had the AI race to themselves, pulling ahead with increasingly powerful models that left their rivals in the dust. Google seemed hopelessly far behind, while Meta, despite spending billions to revive its floundering AI ambitions, had yet to establish itself as a serious contender. Even the latest models coming out of China, impressive as they were, appeared to be playing catch-up.Then, in the space of a few days, everything changed. Google and Meta both unveiled frontier models they claim can go toe to toe with the best from OpenAI and Anthropic. Suddenly, the race is back on - and it's anyo …Read the full story at The Verge.

I jailbroke my Kindle a few months ago to use it for more than reading, like sideloading games and playing music. I figured kTerm would be enough to reach my self-hosted services and my Linux home server. But kTerm just opens a shell into a stripped-down BusyBox environment. It’s there to run the e-reader, not to act as a general Linux machine, and there’s no apt to pull in the tools I’d normally reach for on a server.

YouTube is adding a "Made with AI" label to tracks that were "altered or fully generated" using AI, with a similar approach to its existing process for applying AI labels to videos. It doesn't sound like this will apply to any and all use of AI tools in making music, but according to YouTube, it includes things like "using a generative model to create the composition and vocals." In its rules for music partners who upload their songs, YouTube lays out how to disclose generative AI use, and says that if there's no disclosure, it may use "other signals" to decide if a song is AI-generated.The label is rolling out starting today in the YouTub …Read the full story at The Verge.

When you own a smart home, random smart plugs go offline, bulbs refuse to report their state, and security cameras drop streams for no apparent reason. This means you constantly have to power-cycle devices.

So, you're one of the lucky ones who built a PC or upgraded your SSD way before the DRAM crisis exploded prices across the industry. Your NVMe SSD may have been blazing-fast when new, but you might feel that it has lost some of that speed over the years. It's not your imagination; SSDs can slow down over time if you aren't careful about upkeep and updates.

New York Attorney General Letitia James revealed a years-long multi-state investigation against Character.AI as they now seek to require protections on consumer data sold through its bankruptcy proceeding.James is among 40 bipartisan AGs who filed a notice of interest in Character.AI's bankruptcy case "to put all parties on notice of the regulatory issues that will need to be addressed in any sale or transfer of the Debtor's business or assets." Character.AI announced Tuesday it was filing for Chapter 11 and selling some assets to Disney. But the AGs warn there could be serious risk involved in the transfer of the technology due to the "hi …Read the full story at The Verge.

We've all gotten a scam text about a nonexistent parking ticket or a fake package delivery, but hopefully you'll start seeing fewer of them. Microsoft says it helped dismantle a marketplace for scammers sending phishing messages like those around the world. Through an investigation with Japan's National Police Agency, it tracked scam activity back to a marketplace called YAM Store and a pair of phishing kits, CoGUI and Iron Man:Since January 2026, YAM Store, CoGUI and Iron Man have collectively enabled more than one billion malicious messages targeting over 75,000 organizations worldwide, including more than 750 million messages geared to …Read the full story at The Verge.

I prefer to watch media with smooth visuals. Doesn't everybody? When you own a streaming box, you want to adjust the settings to get the best picture quality possible. However, Google TV streaming boxes turn off an essential setting by default, which prevents you from fixing uneven motion. So I adjusted one key option tucked away in the advanced display settings.