The relationship between Windows 11 users and Microsoft is one of the most toxic ones I've ever seen. As one of those users myself, I can't leave Windows 11 for good, but I can't accept Microsoft's arbitrary restrictions either. For instance, the mandatory Microsoft account requirement has forced Windows 11 users to resort to registry changes, command prompt workarounds, and third-party utilities.

It's getting easier and easier to build out a security system for your home or office, especially when the price of the equipment is so cheap. You can always build your own, or just buy something off the shelf for easy setup. If you're in the latter category, this Blink Mini camera is going to be just the thing, with a 1080p sensor, night vision, two-way communication, and a $10 price tag.

It can be annoying when you're convinced that your ISP is throttling your speeds, but it won't own up to its actions. Fortunately, there are ways to double-check if it is, in fact, your ISP that's causing the issues. One person decided to take matters into their own hands with a Raspberry Pi speed tester, and it did, in fact, prove that the ISP was at fault.

Obsidian has been the center of my productivity system. It's where I capture ideas, plan projects, research new topics, and build long-term knowledge. But as AI tools have become more capable, I started wondering if they could do more than just answer questions or summarize notes. Could an AI actually help me make better use of everything I'd already written? To find out, I gave Claude read-only access to my Obsidian vault, and the results were far more useful than I expected.

When purchasing a digital movie from a service like Amazon or Apple, it's added to your digital library for access whenever you want. However, I have also bought many digital movies from several retail services over the years, and having to pull them up on their respective services, such as Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, and others, can be tedious.

As AI coding tools evolve over time, the open-source scene has been drawing its lines in the sand as to how much AI is too much. On one side of the debate, Linus Torvalds has stated that he thinks AI tools are useful (which has attracted backlash). On the other side, we saw Fedora's community tear down the plans for an AI Developer Desktop spin.

For about a year and a half, anyone running a GeForce RTX 50 graphics card was flying half-blind on temperatures. The card was quietly tracking its own hottest point, the hotspot or junction reading, but Nvidia had walled that number off from the monitoring tools everyone uses, leaving owners with only the gentler averaged GPU temperature. This summer, a wave of third-party utilities cracked the reading back open, and what surfaced ranges from perfectly ordinary to genuinely alarming. The sensor, it turns out, was never gone. It was hidden, and the story of why is more revealing than the numbers themselves.

Less than a week before Meta's lawyers were set to return to a Los Angeles courtroom, the plaintiff accusing the platform of inflicting harm dropped the case. Brought by 15-year-old Florida plaintiff going by initials R.K.C., the case was set to be the second in a set of bellwether trials meant to test legal arguments that social media giants allegedly broke the law by creating features that hooked and harmed teens.TikTok, Snap, and YouTube previously settled claims brought by R.K.C. for undisclosed amounts. "In light of the overall successful result of the litigation and his concerns about enduring a grueling weekslong trial, he has elect …Read the full story at The Verge.

A Tesla Model 3 electric car is seen during the China International Supply Chain Expo (CISCE) in Beijing on July 16, 2025. (Photo by Jade GAO / AFP) (Photo by JADE GAO/AFP via Getty Images) | AFP via Getty Images After a dismal two years of weakening demand, falling sales, and damage to its brand by Elon Musk's political activities, Tesla's road to recovery continues apace. On the heels of an impressive delivery report, the company released its earnings for the second quarter of 2026 - giving us the latest glimpse at the EV company that Musk has said he wants to transform into a leader of AI and robotics. Despite that mission, Tesla remains a car company. And in the second quarter, it sold an impressive 480,126 vehicles, about a 25 percent increase compared to the second quarter of 2025. (For a direct-to-consumer company like Tesla, deliveries are …Read the full story at The Verge.

What are the signs of an industry in trouble? Certainly, shortages and inflation are the most obvious signs, but it's not something that has ever been unusual in the PC hardware market. I would, however, argue that the more interesting signs are the ones that hide in plain sight. For example, a shift in consumer behavior. Consumers start changing the way they buy to adjust to a market that simply isn't providing them goods or services at a price point that's reasonable.

Carl Merriam has designed some of my favorite nostalgia-inducing Lego sets, including the Lego Nintendo Game Boy and Piranha Plant. He's assisted on the incredible Lion Knights' Castle, Galaxy Explorer, and Pirates of Barracuda Bay. Now, he's helped the company create a $200 Donkey Kong arcade machine set that managed to win even Mario creator Shigeru Miyamoto's favor - or so he's told.It doesn't play quite like Donkey Kong, of course. Jumpman, the character that would be renamed Mario, can never reach the top under his own power. But like Lego's $230 pinball machine, it does contain a basic fully functional game. There's a working joyst …Read the full story at The Verge.

Much of the controversy surrounding artificial intelligence lies with its ability to do all the thinking for the user, rather than pushing them to think for themselves or assisting them with things they might otherwise miss. It's a fair criticism; a lot of AI tools do have a tendency to take the reins, so to speak (although that can be avoided by prompting them correctly, but I digress). I set out in search of a tool that genuinely helped the user learn things, rather than just giving them the answer, and I discovered Heptabase.