The drive that used to copy a folder of games in seconds now crawls halfway through and stalls, and the explanation seems obvious: the thing is just getting old. It has probably been in your PC for years, and everything slows down eventually, so why would SSDs be any different?

The man whose Tesla struck and killed a woman inside her Texas home last month is now facing manslaughter charges, as reported earlier by The Wall Street Journal and local news outlet KHOU 11. 44-year-old Michael Butler was arrested on Wednesday and claimed to have been driving his Model 3 using Tesla's Full-Self Driving (FSD) system at the time of the crash, according to an arrest affidavit.The court document includes the officer saying that data extraction from Butler's phone found several FSD-related Google searches from May 2026: "Tesla fsd not aggressive enough 2026 model," "tesla fsdnot [sic] aggressive enough 2026," "tesla fsdnot [s …Read the full story at The Verge.

Between its terrific support for low-end hardware, detailed documentation, and the ultra-handy PVE-Helper Scripts repo, Proxmox is significantly easier to pick up for newcomers compared to other virtualization platforms. But that doesn’t change the fact that Proxmox is loaded with cool QoL-enhancing (if somewhat complex) features, some of which you might not even encounter unless you go look for them specifically.

Text snippets are one of the easiest ways to save time in your day-to-day life. Essentially, you can type a very short text string and have it automatically expand to a piece of text that's as large as you want. It can save a ton of time with repetitive bits of information you may use throughout the day, like your address, email, and so on.

Battery life is one of the things that people look for when buying any device. After all, your phone goes everywhere you go, and it is expected to last you all day. For a lot of people, a laptop is the same — another device that is expected to last. However, over time, you might have noticed your device's battery draining more quickly and even dying on you sooner.

I have been in an on-and-off relationship with local LLMs. Initially, I tried 1st-gen or 2nd-gen 8B models, but they were not always up to my expectations. I gave up on them and moved back to cloud models. A couple of weeks ago, I gave local LLMs another shot. I even tested three local LLMs side by side on my RTX 4070 Ti and decided to keep one of them as the default. Not because that one single model beat the other two, but because running all three side by side for every single prompt wasn't practical. Every model had its own strengths, though, so I kept the other two around and reached them whenever the prompt really mattered. That got me thinking: what if I could use all three to get better output? That’s when I came across Karpathy's LLM Council, initially designed to work across cloud APIs. I liked the idea and decided to rebuild it around local models running on my own hardware.

The video game disc is dead, and Sony's been planning to kill it for some time, according to a report out of Austria. The man who leads Sony's discmaking operations, Sony DADC president Dietmar Tanzer, told ORF Salzburg that the company's Thalgau plant produces 600,000 discs every day, half of which are for PlayStation. But since it'll only be making 10 percent of that volume in 2028, it's planning to retrain all 300 employees to work on optical microlenses instead.Thalgau isn't just one of Sony's disc plants. It's where the disc-making division is headquartered, and appears to be its only remaining wholly owned disc manufacturing facility …Read the full story at The Verge.

The thing about Claude Code that nobody really spells out is that it's just Claude with access to a folder. That's the whole product. The coding part everyone talks about is one job among many, and the productivity side barely gets mentioned, which is a shame because it's arguably where Code shines the brightest for people who aren't shipping software. Point it at a folder, write a CLAUDE.md file that tells it how to behave in there, and you've pretty much built something that can replace another tool entirely, perhaps even a paid one…

For some people, travel isn't just for fun; it's part of their bucket list. Some adventurous types have made it their life goal to visit every single country in the world, and while I can't say I share the same enthusiasm as them, I definitely respect it.

Mozilla shut down the well-loved read-it-later Pocket app last year, and now Meta is launching an app called Pocket with an entirely different, AI-focused pitch: this new app lets you make and share little interactive "gizmos" built from an AI prompt, as reported by Business Insider. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is all in on AI as the new social media, and he's previously described a vision of how users could use AI to make interactive experiences and share them with people. The launch of Pocket appears to be one manifestation of that idea, and it follows Meta hiring engineers from a company called Atma Sciences Inc., which made an app called …Read the full story at The Verge.

The Steam Machine has only just hit the market, and people are already doing all sorts of creative things. Not with the hardware itself, but instead replicating something somewhat similar to the Steam Machine's specifications but $300 cheaper. One company has even begun selling prebuilt gaming PCs that have SteamOS preinstalled.

DDR4 platforms seem to have made an unexpected comeback this year, and for most hardware enthusiasts, that's a sign of bad news. The industry-wide demand for DRAM over the past ten months, followed by a supply shortage and subsequent inflation in prices has made platform upgrades to the DDR5 ecosystem economically unfeasible for many. With the demand from data centers showing no signs of slowing down, the return of DDR4 in consumer PCs feels like a rational response.