Easter gifts do not need to be expensive to feel thoughtful, especially when a 3D printer can turn a small amount of filament into something personal and festive. The best options are usually the ones that print quickly, look charming in pastel colors, and can be made in batches without turning your desk into a production line. That is why the smartest Easter picks tend to be simple, cheerful, and easy to customize. A good print can feel handmade in the best way while still keeping the budget under control.

The $2 monthly charge for Google One seems like a small price to pay to make a nagging notification disappear, but it’s another subscription you probably don’t even need. Most of us are sitting on gigabytes of forgotten newsletters, massive attachments from 2017, and high-def videos we didn’t realize were syncing to the cloud.

If you really want to make sure that nobody is spying on you through your home security camera, the best way is to make one yourself. Unfortunately, going from nothing to creating a full privacy-first camera system is no easy feat. The good news is, there are plenty of tinkerers out there who have done all the hard work for you, and you just need to follow in their footsteps.

My home server, which is really just a repurposed desktop PC that got swept aside to make way for a beefier rig, was chugging along fine with two 4TB hard drives. The drives were mirrored, which I considered a safe enough configuration for the media it was hosting.

Local AI enthusiasts value the elusive trinity of capable performance, generous VRAM, and affordability in a graphics card. The latest GPUs from Nvidia and AMD may be powerful for gaming, but when it comes to AI workloads, all of them fall short in one or the other department. The RTX 3090 is over 5 years old, but it still beats the latest GPUs when measured by the three metrics I mentioned above. It has a whopping 24GB of VRAM, can be bought for $600–$800 on the used market, and still boasts great performance for most local AI tasks. It's not a replacement for cloud subscriptions of popular AI models, but it offers the most value to enthusiasts hunting for a relatively affordable yet powerful graphics card for local AI.

If you have a sharp memory, you'll likely remember that Microsoft promised more with its Copilot assistant, but the features they demoed back in 2024 haven't made it to Windows 11 yet. Whether this is good or bad news depends on your attitude toward Copilot, but regardless of how you feel about it, it does beg the question: what happened to those features?

I've always been a staunch advocate of heavy expense on the display in your workstation, gaming PC, or home office setup for the simple reason that it gets more use than other expensive parts like the CPU and GPU. You might not always max out the core clocks and VRAM on those internals, but every minute your PC is operational, you're likely staring at its screen to get things done. That's the essential crux of why I'm dumbfounded when people spend thousands on building a nice PC, but cheap out on peripherals and I/O, even though you'd interact with the latter way more frequently.

We've reached a point where Google and Amazon are charging more money for fewer features while still injecting AI features that we didn't ask for into our private files. In 2026, the hardware, like the Raspberry Pi 5 or N100 Mini PC, is finally fast enough to run professional-grade software locally without the lag of the early 2020s.

Arielle Duhaime-Ross does a bike tune-up. | Photo by Evan Ortiz / The Verge One of the first major crashes I experienced as a chronically ill person happened on an unusually sunny January day in New York City. It was 2023, and I was riding my bike with a friend, flying high from the exercise. We'd covered just over 40 miles on mostly flat ground, a longish ride, but not out of ordinary for me. And that's when it started. About 15 minutes from my apartment, my body gave out. At first it was just my head - it grew hot, and within minutes, my brain felt like it was on fire. Pretty soon, the rest of my insides were burning up, too. As the skin on my arms and face turned red, and my limbs grew heavy, I felt bewildered. …Read the full story at The Verge.

Aether OS puts a full-fledged desktop in your browser that ties directly into the AT Protocol. That means it connects to your Bluesky account and other public records. It offers a pretty full suite of apps, 42 in total, covering text editing, task management, and social media. There's even a rudimentary tracker for making chiptunes, a DAW, and a video editor. Of course, part of the appeal is also the cyberpunk good looks that draw obvious inspiration from The Matrix. Right now, the project is in alpha, and there are a lot of rough edges. Documentation is also basically non-existent. So, if you get stuck trying to use an app, you're kind …Read the full story at The Verge.

I don't mean to make you feel old, but the Nvidia GTX 1080 based on Pascal is approaching its tenth birthday. Back in May 2026, gamers were putting the new card in their desktop PCs and pushing the card to its limits using games like Fallout 4 and GTA 5. GPU tech has come a long way since then, and now people are running GTA 5 on their integrated graphics chips. Maybe not the best experience, but it does work, apparently.

If you're tired of running to your home office every time a server goes down or a container is hung, you might be looking for an alternative solution that is probably sitting right in front of you. I wanted a way to manage my infrastructure from the comfort of my sofa without a bulky laptop. My Steam Deck OLED was staring me right in the face. Pair it with a high-quality dock and the built-in KDP Plasma desktop environment, and you've got yourself something that isn't just a gaming console but instead a portable battery-powered terminal that can monitor your entire network while you're waiting for a game to download.