What do you know about Doom WADs? If you're not sure what wads of anything have to do with Doom, then you're in luck, because you're about to learn something cool. Even back in the early days of Doom, people were creating and sharing maps via the game's proprietary WAD format. In the wild west days of level creation, where people were still learning the ropes, you had everything from bored students cooking up a deathmatch level to kids who were far too young to play Doom uploading their entries.

As the AI market begins hoovering up hardware by the boatload, we're beginning to see companies duck out of the consumer market to better serve the needs of businesses. For instance, a long-term supporter of consumer RAM, Crucial, announced that it's ducking out of making memory for individuals, as it redirects all its focus into feeding the insatiable hunger of the AI market. And while other manufacturers haven't withdrawn from selling products, we have seen price hikes from places like Raspberry Pi and Framework.

There is a distinct thrill in setting up your first home server or NAS. Unless you're treating it like a backup server, this becomes your haven for storing photos, running a media server like Plex, or hosting a personal website. The logical next step thereafter is to enable remote access to all these services even when you're disconnected from the home network, but therein lies a huge, unopened can of worms. You could forward a few ports on your router, maybe set up a dynamic DNS, and you're live. However, the internet is teeming with bots, scripts, and scanners like Shodan that are constantly rattling doorknobs. The moment you open a port, you are painting a target on your digital back.

Finding the best mouse can depend on your needs, but if you're looking for something that can be used outside of gaming, then the Logitech MX Master 3s is going to be a fantastic choice. The design is sleek and comfortable, while also having impressive and accurate tracking.

For years, I was trapped in the ecosystem of smart note-taking apps. I explored Notion’s databases, Craft’s aesthetics, Capacities’ unique object-oriented approach, and even Obsidian’s graph views, and endlessly organized my digital second brain, only to find myself spending more time creating and organizing the content.

When I first decided to give Windows 11 virtual desktops a try, I thought I would keep using them. I would use one for work and another for personal projects. It felt like one of those features I couldn’t live without. But it wasn’t long before I started finding reasons to stop using it.

Adobe apps are powerful, but they’re also heavy and expensive. That’s why I dropped all my subscriptions this year and switched to free and open-source options. Most people don’t really need to pay for the Creative Cloud given how many viable alternatives there are. You just need tools that let you experiment freely, and that’s where non-destructive editing comes in.

We always recommend building a NAS if you have the knowledge and budget. It's a versatile option that will provide more value in the long run. However, if you're not in a position to build something right now, you can always go with something pre-built from a company like Buffalo.

Ed Murray has been in the solar business long enough to remember the bloodbath of 1985. That's when President Ronald Reagan ended Jimmy Carter-era solar tax credits meant to decrease US reliance on fossil fuels following the 1970s oil crisis."It was a sad time," says Murray, who is president of the trade group California Solar & Storage Association. Membership to the organization (which hadn't yet added "storage" to its name) fell from 670 companies to just 37 "almost overnight," Murray says, as hundreds of businesses went under without the tax credit. "I hope that that doesn't happen to us again." (Then-California Gov. George Deukmejian a …Read the full story at The Verge.

At the start of 2025, Copilot was beginning to get its bearings in the AI world. Now we're looking at the start of 2026, and Copilot has become a part of every part of Microsoft's ecosystem. And now that the Redmond giant has added Copilot to pretty much every product it can think of (yes, even Notepad), it has decided that Copilot should be on other people's services, too.

The PC building hobby is in shambles right now, with component pricing going sky-high. That puts OEM and SI PC builders in a good position, as they can get lower component prices via volume orders, and in some cases, it's actually better value to buy a prebuilt than go DIY.

A motherboard typically has four or more Serial AT Attachment (SATA) bus ports. These are found on the bottom right-hand side of the printed circuit board (PCB) and can be used to connect SATA hard drives and SSDs to your system. What isn't so great about these ports is the limited number available, especially when working with larger game collections, big data, video editing, network-attached storage (NAS), and home lab deployments. You'll quickly find the limited number of SATA ports troublesome.