If you need a small PC that's plenty capable, the Mac mini M4 is the way to go. It does everything you need it to and more. Perhaps the only thing that it needs is more ports and a way to easily expand the storage. Apple is going to change those points on the Mac mini any time soon, so you'll have to take things into your own hands by buying a dock.

Artemis II is capturing images of the far side of the Moon, partially visible here, which can’t be seen from Earth. | Image: NASA A few minutes before 2PM ET on Monday, the crew of Artemis II broke a record set 56 years ago by the ill-fated Apollo 13 mission - at over 248,655 miles, they have now traveled farther from Earth than any humans before them. They marked the occasion with a crater naming ceremony that left the whole crew embracing each other in lunar orbit.To commemorate the Artemis II mission, the astronauts announced their suggestion to rename certain features on the Moon to honor the Orion spacecraft, named Integrity, as well as commander Reid Wiseman's late wife, Carroll. pic.twitter.com/ejfhnItDo8- NASA (@NASA) April 6, 2026The Artemis II crew prop …Read the full story at The Verge.

Most of my Docker journey started because of design tools. After ditching my Adobe subscriptions, I went deep on open-source alternatives, and that’s when I kept running into the word “self-hosting” next to the apps I was already using. I honestly didn’t really understand what that meant at the time, but the more I looked into it, the more it made sense. I started paying more attention to where my creative stack actually lived, and it was mostly on servers I had no say over and updating on schedules I didn’t set. But if I could self-host my tools, it would fix that.

Managing a home lab often feels like a mess. I jumped between Docker CLI and heavy-duty dashboards like Portainer or Komodo, but I always felt something was missing. I wanted the visual ease of a GUI, and that’s when I found Dockge.

The two iPhone 18 Pro dummies look much like last year’s 17 Pro models. | Image: Sonny Dickson We might have our first good look at the shape of the oddly wide iPhone Fold, after leaker and journalist Sonny Dickson shared photos of what he says is a dummy unit of the foldable, alongside similar models of the iPhone 18 Pro and 18 Pro Max. The apparent design leak comes as it's reported that early engineering tests of the foldable have suffered from production problems which may cause it to ship months later than other iPhones this year.Dickson, who has a good track record for sourcing accurate dummy models of Apple and Samsung phones used by case makers to test and design their products, shared images of the foldable unit on Bluesky …Read the full story at The Verge.

Google says it has updated Gemini to better direct users to get mental health resources during moments of crisis. The change comes as the tech giant faces a wrongful death lawsuit alleging its chatbot "coached" a man to die by suicide, the latest in a string of lawsuits alleging tangible harm from AI products.When a conversation indicates a user is in a potential crisis related to suicide or self-harm, Gemini already launches a "Help is available" module that directs users to mental health crisis resources, like a suicide hotline or crisis text line. Google says the update - really more of a redesign - will streamline this into a "one-touc …Read the full story at The Verge.

You've likely heard people say that keeping up with AI has become a full-time job. I agree with that, but with a slightly different take. Nowadays, keeping up with Claude alone is the full-time job! Anthropic has been shipping features so incredibly fast that by the time I finish testing one, a bunch more have dropped.

If you're looking to get the theater experience at home, then this TV is going to bring it. This massive 100-inch TV from Samsung is going to deliver the visual and audio experience to take your movies and TV shows to a new level.

Cases from many hardware generations ago can easily house the hardware of today, and while that's a large part of the appeal, it doesn't come without pitfalls. One of those pitfalls is the front I/O, and it's one of the most misunderstood parts of a desktop PC. It's usually among the last things that you think about when buying a new case, and when most builders are carrying over an existing case from a previous build, it's no wonder that it's such an afterthought. USB has changed a lot, and plugging in a flash drive to transfer some files quickly can expose this quickly.

Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers vetoed a bill that would've required residents to verify their age before accessing porn sites, as reported earlier by 404 Media. In a letter to the members of the assembly last week, Evers writes that the bill "imposes an intrusive burden on adults who are trying to access constitutionally protected materials."The bill (AB 105) would've required sites with more than one-third of their total content deemed harmful to minors to impose a "reasonable" form of age verification, such as asking users to show their government-issued ID. More than two dozen states have already passed similar age check requirements for acc …Read the full story at The Verge.

For a long time, I treated my home lab like a problem that could be solved if I just made one more smart upgrade. There was always a better layout, a cleaner dashboard, a more elegant backup flow, or a more efficient way to run the same handful of services. I kept telling myself I was getting closer to the version that would finally feel finished. What I actually built was a cycle where the lab never sat still long enough to prove it was working.

Usually, when I share an ESP32 project, I like to emphasise how it's something that you, too, can make at home. Looking at projects is cool, but recreating one in your home lab is a lot cooler. However, sometimes, while a project is theoretically reproducible at home, I'm not 100% sure I can recommend actually doing it.