Wi-Fi Protected Setup (WPS) is a legacy feature on routers that was developed two decades ago to make it easier to connect devices to the Wi-Fi network. It worked by bypassing the need to enter the Wi-Fi password on, say, your printer manually. Instead, an 8-digit PIN was used for authentication, supplying the Wi-Fi password to the device. While the concept made sense on the surface, the implementation was far from airtight, and the feature was quickly exploited by threat actors, brute-forcing their way into networks within minutes. The industry moved on to better mechanisms like Wi-Fi Easy Connect, but WPS still ships on modern routers to this day. Despite many of your current devices not supporting WPS, it can be used to hack into your home network if it's enabled on your router. It goes without saying that disabling WPS should be one of the first things you should do on a new router.

It took me far too long to get Proxmox up and running in my home lab, but now that everything is running smoothly, my focus has shifted to mapping, documenting, monitoring, and adding redundancies to ensure minimal downtime. Proxmox itself offers many features to aid with this. The web UI is absolutely awesome to use, and you can easily configure remote access for managing the home lab while away, but I wanted to use a few tools to take this a step further, bolstering on more protections with Proxmox's backups, snapshots, and other useful functionality.

Connecting AI tools to anything that contains loads of personal information has always felt like a step too far for me. Claude has been the only AI tool I've stuck with for this long and is usually the first, or only, one I open every day. But I'm not a security expert, and the things I keep reading from people who actually are have made me cautious about hooking it up to my real accounts and tools that span beyond work and projects, stuff where much more of my personal data lives.

New college graduates around the country have been booing and heckling commencement speakers who hype up AI. Microsoft would like everyone to talk it out.In a blog post running more than 3,100 words, Microsoft vice chair and president Brad Smith addressed the recent spate of viral clips from graduation ceremonies, like former Google CEO Eric Schmidt getting an earful at the University of Arizona, or the speaker in Florida who seemed surprised when students booed at the mention of AI as "the next industrial revolution." The videos speak to a broader societal sentiment around AI - the technology is deeply unpopular even as technology compani …Read the full story at The Verge.

(L-R) Sen. Mike Rounds, Pamela Brown, Chris Malachowsky, Kevin O'Leary, Gabriele Caccia, Tammy Haddad, Michele L. Jawando, Sen. Mark Warner, Michael Kelly and Major General Patrick Ellis attend the Second Annual AI Honors. | Getty Images for Washington AI N Hello and welcome to Regulator, a newsletter for Verge subscribers about tech politics, tech influence, and tech shenanigans in Washington, DC. (If you're not a subscriber, you can get on board here.) We're back after a two-week hiatus, during most of which I was gallivanting in the Netherlands for a family wedding, and a trip to the Heineken Experience, which is, truly, an ~experience~.Before I left, I asked everyone in Washington to please chill out while I was gone. This clearly did not happen, and I have returned to a political landscape that can be best described as that meme from Community where the room is on fire. Let's get into th …Read the full story at The Verge.

A group of independent musicians is suing Google claiming it trained Lyria on their uploads. | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge If you've uploaded a song to YouTube, Google almost certainly considers your video fair game for training its Lyria music AI, it just won't admit it right now. A group of independent musicians is suing Google, claiming that it illegally used songs they uploaded to YouTube to train its Lyria 3 model. Google has filed a motion to dismiss the case, saying:Their lawsuit is based on the unsupported hypothesis that Google trained on their specific works. Even accepting their untested allegations as fact, the Complaint cannot stand. Plaintiffs each granted YouTube, and Google - which provides the service-a broad license to use the uploaded con …Read the full story at The Verge.

Anthropic just released Claude Fable 5, calling it the most powerful AI model it has ever made widely available and praising its skills in biology, among others. But the model won't answer basic biology questions - the kind you'd expect a high schooler to handle. Instead, it hands off the query to the former flagship model, Claude Opus 4.8.It isn't because Fable doesn't know the answers. It's because Anthropic won't let it, by design.Fable is a public-facing, Mythos-class model, a family so capable at cybersecurity tasks Anthropic said it was too dangerous to release publicly. But while Anthropic has spent much of the extended Mythos rol …Read the full story at The Verge.

I have spent a decade convincing myself that incremental IDE upgrades like a faster syntax highlighter, smoother git integration, or even standard AI autocomplete were massive leaps forward.

When HexOS launched at the end of 2024, I was genuinely excited. Here was a NAS operating system built on top of TrueNAS Scale, one of the most battle-tested storage platforms in the world, but wrapped in an interface that didn't require much of anything by way of advanced Linux knowledge to understand. TrueNAS is phenomenal software, but it's built for enterprises and homelabbers who know what a ZFS vdev is, or is at least capable of learning. HexOS promised to make that power accessible to everyone else.

The Google TV Streamer has been updated to Thread 1.4, allowing you to access a way to manually share its Thread credentials. | Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge Apple and Google are updating their smart home streaming devices to Thread 1.4. As first spotted by Matter Alpha and 9to5 Google, the latest spec has arrived on compatible Apple TVs in the tvOS 27 developer beta and the Google TV Streamer through a software update.This lays the groundwork for these devices, which serve as Thread Border Routers, to implement Thread credential sharing, enabling them to connect more easily to an existing Thread network rather than creating their own.Thread is one of the connectivity protocols the interoperability standard Matter runs on. The original plan was for Thread Border Routers to all work seamlessly …Read the full story at The Verge.

The CFTC is considering its first regulation for prediction markets, as arrests over "insider trading" on everything from military operations to Google Search data continue to stack up. As CoinDesk reports, a notice of proposed rulemaking says "the proposal would establish a structured framework for evaluating whether such contracts involve an activity enumerated in Section 5c(c)(5)(C) of the Commodity Exchange Act -activity that involves terrorism, assassination, war, gaming, or conduct that is unlawful under federal or state law-and, if so, whether that contract is contrary to the public interest."Separately, Kalshi announced on Wednesda …Read the full story at The Verge.

When you're shopping for a new TV, it's almost always the panel quality, brightness figures, refresh rate, feature set, and apps that take priority. As such, the processor is probably the last thing on your mind, because, let's face it, a premium TV is supposed to be about the panel, front and center.