Steve Jobs' successor carried the torch of the iPhone and built Apple into a global powerhouse with few rivals. Since becoming CEO in 2011, Tim Cook has led the company to become one of the most dominant forces in the daily lives of billions of people. Today is his last day as CEO.Sending lots of love to the Apple community on my last day as CEO. My title changes tomorrow, but the love I have for the Apple community never will. Thank you for being a constant source of inspiration. My gratitude is endless, and I'm excited for the next chapter!- Tim Cook (@tim_cook) August 31, 2026We'll have a lot to say about new Apple CEO John Ternus a …Read the full story at The Verge.

Given I don't drive just yet, Google Maps has always been one of those apps I don't open all that often. I keep it installed for the obvious reasons, but outside of the occasional trip or trying to find my way somewhere unfamiliar, I typically don't have much reason to use it. Well, that is until I'm traveling. The second I land somewhere new, Google Maps goes from being an app I barely think about to one of the apps I use the most.

Around the same time last year, AI browsers were the hot new thing. It felt like every other company wanted to rethink the browser around AI, with names like Dia, Perplexity's Comet, Opera's Neon, and even ChatGPT's Atlas all promising to change the way we use the web.

I think one of the best parts of checking out the ESP32 community is finding projects where people hand-make a device that's legitimately better than what you can buy in stores. Such is the case with this gorgeous alarm clock, which has an ESP32 in a 3D-printed shell and an e-ink display. Best of all, it comes with an LED strip that doubles as a night-light and a wake-up light.

There's a funny image that makes its rounds on the internet. It shows someone who had set up a poll titled "Do you think Microsoft understands what consent is?" with the available poll options being "Yes" and "Remind me in 3 days." In recent years, Microsoft's services have had a hard time letting you say "No," but that's seemingly changing. Someone has reported that the out-of-box experience (OOBE) for Windows 11 will now let you decline setting up OneDrive instead of simply delaying it.

There have been a good number of projects lately that take advantage of the Cheap Yellow Display (CYD), likely because it's, well, a display that's cheap. However, I never expected someone to squeeze an offline version of Wikipedia on it. While that sounds like a monumental challenge at first, it turns out that the essentials for Wikipedia aren't really that big after all, and can easily fit onto an SD card.

You probably have a Gen4 or Gen5 SSD inside your gaming PC right now, which houses your OS and most-played games. It performs fine most of the time, but there are always those random microstutters in-game, or an app or file transfer that stalls for a fraction of a second. You may ignore this behavior as normal Windows shenanigans, but there could be a deep-seated BIOS setting at play.

Debian voted to allow developers to use AI tools in their contributions to the Linux distribution's "development, maintenance, [and] documentation." The new policy on AI acknowledges that "responsible" use of AI can improve developers' productivity, and goes on to say, "generative AI is neither exempt from nor subject to special rules beyond the standards already expected of Debian contributors."The project's voting developers considered several other proposals on how to handle AI, including some that would have banned contributions made using AI tools. As It's FOSS reports, some users and contributors aren't happy with the policy, includi …Read the full story at The Verge.

The original Nintendo Switch uses Joy-Cons as game inputs, but those controllers actually run their own real-time operating system with its origins in the 80s. Not only has Nintendo never mentioned it, it's barely been reported outside of Japanese media. The Switch, a SIM card, a Bosch dishwasher (maybe), and every Intel machine you've bought in the last decade all have something in common: they're all running operating systems that aren't advertised, talked about, or, in some cases, even admitted to.

Buying an OLED gaming monitor and then playing most games in SDR has always seemed a little backward to me. Sure, you're still getting many other benefits, like instant pixel response times, perfect blacks, and an infinite contrast ratio, all of which make OLED appealing in the first place. Still, HDR is a huge part of that experience, as those bright highlights really help these panels stand out compared to traditional LCDs.

It has been quite a while, but the popular PlayStation 2 emulator PCSX2 has received a new update, bringing it up to version 2.8.0. While it contains the regular batch of fixes and tweaks, there are some really nice additions with this new update. The star of the show is a big performance boost, which seems to really squeeze out every last frame out of your PS2 games.

I've spent most of this year trying to get the local models I run in a Proxmox LXC to behave like an agent rather than a chatbot with a to-do list, and the results have been mixed. Small models call the wrong tool; medium models call the right tool and then panic when it errors out; and the big models that can cope don't fit on a single consumer GPU. So when Meta dropped Muse Glimmer 30B under Apache 2.0 with the pitch of "always-on local agents," I was interested and skeptical in equal measure.