My RTX 4070 Ti Super was just as transformative for my gaming experience as it was for local AI inference on my old gaming PC. This rig was built many years ago around an RTX 2070 Super, a Ryzen 5 3600 with 32GB of DDR4, and until this upgrade, served to store the family's documents and whatever local models could fit inside 8GB of VRAM, which is a shorter list than it sounds.

Receiving new security measures on Windows is usually good, but those new measures usually need to take up some resources to actually work. If you're someone who pushes their PC to its utmost to get the best framerates, these additions may end up harming your performance a little bit. Next month, Windows is receiving a security update that may harm your in-game framerates, but you can turn it off before it even arrives on your PC.

I’ve tried just about everything to stop my coding agent from making the same mistakes repeatedly. I tried pointing out the mistake in my prompt, explaining exactly what went wrong, and adding another instruction to AGENTS.md. The agent would follow it for that session. The next time I gave it a similar task, it would make the same mistake again.

Uber beat out Waymo in launching a commercial robotaxi service in London, the city's first. The vehicles use autonomous driving tech developed by Wayve, a UK-based startup, and will initially feature safety drivers behind the wheel. The launch is a milestone for Uber, which has been plotting a UK launch with Wayve for several years. In beating Waymo to the punch, it allows Uber to set the standard for the robotaxi experience for thousands of Londoners. It's also an early test of whether there's appetite for driverless ridehailing beyond the US and China, where most of the world's robotaxis are currently clustered. (There's a smattering in …Read the full story at The Verge.

Google launched Gemini 3.8 Flash, arriving just a few weeks after its predecessor. The company claims the new model "works harder" than Gemini 3.7 Flash by performing more reasoning steps on complex tasks and "calling tools iteratively." It has the same introductory pricing as 3.7 Flash, $0.75 per million input tokens and $3.75 per million output tokens, but could still end up costing users more. Google warns that "the model might use more tokens to maximize performance, especially at higher effort levels." Developers can keep using Gemini 3.7 Flash if they want to minimize token usage. Gemini 3.8 Flash's launch was followed by some early …Read the full story at The Verge.

When I think of cheap, tiny, and portable hardware for small homelab services, the Raspberry Pi is the first thing that comes to my mind. And if I visit a homelab thread on a tech forum, Pi comes up as a settled recommendation, not something to question again.

I have a bad habit of bookmarking every interesting website I come across. Over time, my bookmarks folder has amassed hundreds of links, some of which are from websites that don't even exist anymore. However, as a digital hoarder, deleting these en masse is something I'm just not comfortable with.

Every generation of Wi-Fi has made significant jumps in terms of maximum throughput, with Wi-Fi 7 bringing us to 46 Gbps (Wi-Fi 6/6E topped out at 9.6 Gbps). This upgrade in speed makes every successive Wi-Fi standard theoretically superior to the previous one, but the average user isn't seeing the benefit on the ground. Most people in the US are still using 300 Mbps connections, not multi-gig plans that can benefit from Wi-Fi 7.

Google pixels have often seen a long-standing critique as they offer incredible computational photography and clean software but are paired with a mediocre screen on time and heavy idle drain. Users routinely blame the Tensor SoC or the cellular modem for warm pockets and battery drain while missing the massive software overhead running 24/7 in user space.

I've been running self-hosted apps for years, and like most setups, mine didn't stay the same. Some services were installed because they looked interesting, while others simply stuck around because they worked well enough. Eventually, I started noticing that a few of them felt outdated compared with newer options available today.

I've been using Steam for nearly two decades now. I've watched it evolve from a fairly straightforward PC game store into something that sits at the center of almost everything I do with my gaming PC. It's one of the rare few apps on my PC that have earned startup privileges, and rightly so.

One app I really missed when I moved from Windows to Linux was Paint.NET. It filled this amazing niche for tasks that were too complex for regular Paint, but not complex enough for me to justify booting up GIMP. And Linux does have Krita and Pinta, and they're both excellent, but my heart still yearns for Paint.NET.