At CES 2026, Intel revealed its Panther Lake Core Ultra Series 3 chip series, touting the line's efficiency and revamped, more powerful GPU architecture.

Synology was once the top recommendation when it came to Network-Attached Storage systems. However, that all started to change once the company started making small changes here and there, with some even being labeled as "anti-consumer".

I installed Home Assistant as a convenient hub. I use it for morning and night routines, manage smart lights and smart TVs, and automate small parts of my home. Since I like tinkering, I didn’t mind spending hours setting up and tweaking Home Assistant to suit my needs. Though it felt like a time-intensive hobby that only made sense to me, I’m glad I got into it. The Home Assistant managed to interest my family in everyday usage. It also taught me that I can build a smart home on a budget.

When you set up a NAS, you naturally expect to grow it in size over the coming years by adding more drives, attaching an expansion unit, or upgrading to a bigger NAS. However, downsizing the NAS after using it for a few years isn’t that common — although I did manage to do it. I didn’t decide to downsize my NAS because I ran out of space or wanted to save money. The real reason for this downsizing operation was to make the NAS much more efficient than it already was. It was doing too much, and I wanted it to do only the things it was actually meant for and good at.

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer says the country will take action against X following reports that the platform's Grok AI chatbot is generating sexualized deepfakes of adults and minors, as reported earlier by The Telegraph and Sky News."It's disgusting," Starmer says during an interview with Greatest Hits Radio. "X need[s] to get their act together and get this material down. And we will take action on this because it's simply not tolerable." @ghrnews EXCLUSIVE: Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer tells us he "will take action" on "disgraceful and disgusting" reports around child abuse imagery on Elon Musk's Grok AI. It's as the Internet W …Read the full story at The Verge.

The Pioneer Sphera can be installed into a single-DIN space in your dash. I fully believe that once someone hears Dolby Atmos music in their car, they won't want anything else. The sonic envelopment turns your car cabin into an immersive, engaging experience. Every time I hear a demo - be it in a Rivian, Cadillac, or Mercedes - it leaves me energized and excited. But up to this point, Dolby Atmos has only been available in luxury vehicles that have a whole array of speakers. Pioneer is changing that with the Sphera, an aftermarket in-dash receiver with a 10.1-inch capacitive screen that enables Dolby Atmos playback in Apple CarPlay. And it works with as few as four speakers installed in your car, creating the At …Read the full story at The Verge.

Internet debates can get intense no matter the topic, and talking about operating systems is no different. There will always be people defending either Windows 11 or Linux (maybe even macOS), and sometimes it may sound like people hate one or the other.

After failing the first time, I knew I didn’t want to build my smart home at the mercy of someone else’s servers. From smart home hubs to devices, nearly everything felt cloud-dependent by design. Over time, I noticed the side effects of that — laggy responses, delayed or failed automations, and occasional device failures. Turning a light shouldn’t require a command to take a trip across the internet. But that’s what was happening.

There have been some great discounts on Samsung monitors lately. And while this might not be an Odyssey G9 OLED, it's still a fantastic monitor for someone looking for an ultrawide with a lot of performance that also doesn't cost a lot.

USB-C is becoming a universal standard, and it's great that we won the war for a universal connector. But in turn, we've lost the battle for universal compatibility. Right now, you probably have five identical-looking cables on your desk; one charges your laptop at 240W but transfers data at USB 2.0 speeds, another handles 80 Gb/s data transfer but can't power a monitor and, lastly, you have the mystery cable that came with your electric toothbrush.

With Ubuntu, Debian, and other popular distributions shipping with stable desktop environments, the Linux ecosystem is more approachable than ever. But as much as I love the GUI enhancements to my favorite distros, I rely on the all-powerful Linux terminal a lot during my coding tasks and virtualization experiments. As such, I also keep my Linux virtual machines and bare-metal setups equipped with a couple of CLI tools, even when the system in question has a proper graphical interface.

Raspberry Pi Connect is the shiny new way to access your Pi from outside your home network, but it is not the only option and not always the best fit. Maybe you want something that never depends on someone else’s cloud, or you just need a simple way to share your desktop on the local network.