USB-C is becoming a universal standard, and it's great that we won the war for a universal connector. But in turn, we've lost the battle for universal compatibility. Right now, you probably have five identical-looking cables on your desk; one charges your laptop at 240W but transfers data at USB 2.0 speeds, another handles 80 Gb/s data transfer but can't power a monitor and, lastly, you have the mystery cable that came with your electric toothbrush.

At CES 2026, Intel revealed its Panther Lake Core Ultra Series 3 chip series, touting the line's efficiency and revamped, more powerful GPU architecture.

Internet debates can get intense no matter the topic, and talking about operating systems is no different. There will always be people defending either Windows 11 or Linux (maybe even macOS), and sometimes it may sound like people hate one or the other.

President Donald Trump has no shame in admitting what he wants to get out of attacking Venezuela and threatening other energy resource-rich nations. "We're gonna get the oil flowing the way it should be," he said January 3rd, soon after his administration stunned the world with what many policy experts and Democratic lawmakers are calling an unlawful incursion into Caracas that led to the arrest of President Nicolás Maduro.Trump's fixation on so-called "energy dominance" is also more pretext - on top of federal drug trafficking charges against Maduro - for a plain-old power grab. "Under our new national security strategy, American dominanc …Read the full story at The Verge.

New TVs from TCL and Hisense, like the TCL X11L, are closing the performance gap to those from Sony, LG, and Samsung. For all the time that I've been covering technology, there's been a hierarchy when it comes to TV brands. The big three - Sony, Samsung, and LG - have been on top for a while. Pioneer and Panasonic were up there with plasma TVs, and Panasonic is getting back in the game in the States. Hisense, TCL, and Vizio battled it out as midrange tiers for years before Vizio pivoted from hardware profits to an ad-centric model under Walmart, leaving the other two to one up each other by offering the most bang for the buck.But over the past couple years, both TCL and Hisense have made impressive strides in performance, bringing them closer and closer t …Read the full story at The Verge.

With Ubuntu, Debian, and other popular distributions shipping with stable desktop environments, the Linux ecosystem is more approachable than ever. But as much as I love the GUI enhancements to my favorite distros, I rely on the all-powerful Linux terminal a lot during my coding tasks and virtualization experiments. As such, I also keep my Linux virtual machines and bare-metal setups equipped with a couple of CLI tools, even when the system in question has a proper graphical interface.

Synology was once the top recommendation when it came to Network-Attached Storage systems. However, that all started to change once the company started making small changes here and there, with some even being labeled as "anti-consumer".

I installed Home Assistant as a convenient hub. I use it for morning and night routines, manage smart lights and smart TVs, and automate small parts of my home. Since I like tinkering, I didn’t mind spending hours setting up and tweaking Home Assistant to suit my needs. Though it felt like a time-intensive hobby that only made sense to me, I’m glad I got into it. The Home Assistant managed to interest my family in everyday usage. It also taught me that I can build a smart home on a budget.

There have been some great discounts on Samsung monitors lately. And while this might not be an Odyssey G9 OLED, it's still a fantastic monitor for someone looking for an ultrawide with a lot of performance that also doesn't cost a lot.

Raspberry Pi Connect is the shiny new way to access your Pi from outside your home network, but it is not the only option and not always the best fit. Maybe you want something that never depends on someone else’s cloud, or you just need a simple way to share your desktop on the local network.

So, you were excited to buy one of the best CPUs in the world. It came with a huge price tag, but you convinced yourself that you'd actually utilize all that extra performance. Maybe you bought it as a "just in case" investment, hoping to use all those cores someday. Maybe you expected more cores to net you more FPS in your favorite games. You might even have bought a Ryzen X3D CPU hoping to outshine every other chip on the market. However, the best laid plans often go awry, especially when you overspend on something that you never end up using. Here are three telltale signs that you wasted money on that expensive CPU.

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer says the country will take action against X following reports that the platform's Grok AI chatbot is generating sexualized deepfakes of adults and minors, as reported earlier by The Telegraph and Sky News."It's disgusting," Starmer says during an interview with Greatest Hits Radio. "X need[s] to get their act together and get this material down. And we will take action on this because it's simply not tolerable." @ghrnews EXCLUSIVE: Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer tells us he "will take action" on "disgraceful and disgusting" reports around child abuse imagery on Elon Musk's Grok AI. It's as the Internet W …Read the full story at The Verge.