The emergence of AI-enabled web browsers promise a radical shift in how we navigate the internet, with new browsers like Perplexity's Comet, OpenAI's ChatGPT Atlas, and Opera Neon integrating language models (LLMs) directly into the browsing experience. They promise to be intelligent assistants that can answer questions, summarize pages, and even perform tasks on your behalf, but that convenience comes at a pretty major cost.

If your old Windows 10 laptop is starting to feel sluggish, switching to a lightweight Linux distribution might be the best way to extend its usefulness. These systems are designed to run smoothly on modest hardware while offering a clean, modern experience.

I self-host a lot of different services, and one of the most common ways to organize that kind of collection is to self-host a dashboard like Homepage or Homarr. While I've tried those out, I haven't really managed to stick with them. However, there's one that has stuck with me so far, and that's Dashwise. Dashwise is an all-new self-hosted dashboard for your home lab and other services, and it shows a lot of promise as being a go-to home dashboard in the future.

Google's NotebookLM is hands down my favorite AI tool. Frankly, it's also my go-to productivity companion. It's packed with genuinely useful features and stands out from every other AI app I've tried. Thanks to its source-grounded nature, it doesn't hallucinate nearly as often as most AI models do.

Tablets or mobile phones can be integrated into your smart home setup and SBC projects. You can use a tablet as a dashboard to display Home Assistant data or as a screen for your Raspberry Pi. However, a $20 ESP32 display (such as a Cheap Yellow display or CYD) still outperforms tablets and other small-screen devices, as well as Android/iOS devices, when deployed in an SBC project. There are plenty of projects where an ESP32 display makes more sense than a full-fledged tablet, which offers little to no flexibility.

Chromebooks are a favorite among professionals and students alike, but one of their best traits is that they come with all kinds of budgets in mind. If you're in school and want something that won't break the bank, there are plenty of Chromebooks for students that keep costs low.

It's no secret that we at XDA love the Steam Deck and a good home lab. So it was inevitable we'd find a way to combine them both. In fact, we've already used a Steam Deck as a home server. But that's far from the only use for a Steam Deck in your home lab environment.

I like to believe I have more than sufficient storage on my PC. A 2TB SSD and a 4TB HDD are not what you expect to see on a system with storage concerns. However, I was running out of space on my SSD — I observed that the free space on the drive kept dropping every few weeks. At first, I checked the storage settings to see what was occupying all the space, and even manually checked the folders on all the partitions. After my search went nowhere, I saw fellow users mentioning WizTree on several Reddit posts. I have used third-party storage analyzers before, but WizTree is by far the best of the bunch.

The new Vision Pro with M5 offers some improvements over the original. Apple's Vision Pro remains the best VR headset by a mile, and there are many moments when it feels magical to use. I love staring at 3D photos, watching movies on huge screens, and working across a bunch of floating windows. But I noticed something weird after I wrote my first review in 2024: I took the headset off, put it back in its box, and didn't put it back on again.The new M5 model remains a very good headset, now slightly faster and more comfortable than its predecessor. But I've still found it hard to return to instead of just watching a movie on my iPhone or TV, or working right from my Mac. It requires putting something on my hea …Read the full story at The Verge.

The Castlevania series is one of the most beloved and iconic action game and horror-themed franchises of all-time. Many people love the different iterations of the series that put players in the role of a vampire hunter standing against the forces of darkness led by the infamous vampire, Dracula. Whether it was the games on the NES, the iconic entries on the PlayStation, or any other modern-day video game console release, Castlevania games have been a staple of the action genre and continue to be very popular, especially during the Halloween season. But while the games have been front-runners of challenging and fun action games, their horror-inspired roots go pretty deep for those who love horror storytelling, and especially classic horror movies from throughout the decades.

Logitech knows how to make a great mouse, and the MX Master has always been the gold-standard for productivity mice. The newest model, the MX Master 4, is no exception to that. It's the same great MX Master formula with a few extra bells and whistles sprinkled on top. It's a little more expensive than it's predecessor, and I don't mind paying extra for a great product, but unfortunately, Logitech has lost my trust as a consumer. Their treatment of older products that they no longer wish to officially support makes me hesitant to buy a product that relies on their software to function, and unfortunately, the MX Master 4 could fall into that category.

It's been nearly two weeks since Microsoft, a multi-trillion dollar company, shipped a $600 handheld "Xbox" that can't be relied on to sleep, wake, or hold a charge while asleep in my tests. Neither Microsoft nor Asus would admit there's a problem with the white Xbox Ally or offer a timeline to fix it after repeated requests by The Verge. (Asus tells me it needs more time to test.)But if you want your white Asus handheld to start working reliably, you could do what I did: I installed the latest build of Bazzite, a SteamOS-like, Linux-based operating system that works properly with gamepad controls, and sleeps like a dream. I didn't need to …Read the full story at The Verge.