I have a lot of smart home and IoT devices on my home network, and what I'm perpetually scared of is them talking to external servers without me knowing exactly what they're up to. That fear isn't entirely unfounded. Recent reports confirm that modern LG TVs can scan a local network and collect information for various devices on my network. In fact, it might even be listening in on conversations. That's far from ideal.

My Proxmox host uses a 500 GB NVMe SSD as its boot drive, and to be honest, while that capacity is on the smaller side for a modern boot drive, it's overkill for a machine like this. Proxmox itself takes up a few gigs, container templates and ISOs take up a bit more, and then every actual byte of data that I care about lives on the ZFS mirror that's stored on two SAS drives off of an HBA card. Despite being rarely called upon to do any actual work, that boot drive is constantly being written to in the background by Proxmox, and it eats into the drive's TBW. Most people have no idea, and it can have a very real effect on the lifespan of your SSD.

Nearly two years after the last update to Boox's smartphone-sized black-and-white e-reader, the company announced the Palma 3 with a sleek redesign, new functionality, and a handful of other small updates that may justify its significant price bump depending on how you plan to use it. While the Palma 2 launched in 2024 for $279.99, the Palma 3 will be $339.99 and is expected to be "available soon."The most obvious upgrade for the Palma 3 is the hardware itself. It still features the same 6.13-inch, 300ppi E Ink Carta screen as its predecessor (which is now quite a few years old), but it's wrapped in a new anodized aluminum frame with a pap …Read the full story at The Verge.

If you've seen my articles around XDA, you'll know that I absolutely adore e-ink readers. So, when I heard that BOOX was releasing three more devices to cover every possible use case, I knew I had to check them out.

My villain origin story is my Whoop age. How do you age at 0.9 times your age and end up four to five years older than you are? | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge This is Optimizer, a weekly newsletter sent from Verge senior reviewer Victoria Song that dissects and discusses the latest gizmos and potions that swear they're going to change your life. Opt in for Optimizer here.During last week's Apple Watch announcement, I let out a distinct "Noooo!" in the Steve Jobs Theater. Along with a new readiness metric and a redesigned Health app, Apple had just announced that later this year, it'd be introducing a new longevity feature called Health Age. This is a familiar concept in the wearable and health tech world. The idea is that if you put effort into your health and fitness, your physiological age c …Read the full story at The Verge.

Meta may be ready to reveal a new pair of smart glasses with no camera at all, amid a PR crisis for the company caused by the video recording capabilities of its flagship smart glasses. A new report from The Information claims the camera-free glasses, codenamed Luna, could be revealed as soon as the Meta Connect event next week.Instead of a camera, the Luna glasses will reportedly include six microphones that allow users to chat to Meta AI and the new Muse AI agent, along with speakers for audio playback. Stripping the camera out has apparently made it possible to make the glasses' arms smaller, and closer to ordinary frames. Meta is repor …Read the full story at The Verge.

Google is inviting third-party agents, including Claude and Open Claw, into Google Home. | Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge Google is opening up its smart home to AI agents, letting tools like Claude and Open Claw access and control your connected devices and analyze your home's data using the standardized Model Context Protocol. Google Home MCP is a new integration that lets third-party AI agents control and monitor your smart home and act on your behalf. It "allows any AI agents that support MCP, including Google Antigravity, Claude, Hermes or Open Claw, to securely work with all of the devices and event history in your Google Home ecosystem," Taylor Lehman, group product manager at Google Home & Nest, said in a blog post.According to Lehman, Home MCP integ …Read the full story at The Verge.

When I first started out with Home Assistant, I always wrote “happy path” automations. I was naive enough to assume that when a door opened, the Zigbee sensor would instantly broadcast that state, Home Assistant would receive it within milliseconds, and the light would turn on. But I quickly learned things aren't quite so rosy.

Being a power OneNote user for years, I thought I already knew it inside out. I had my notebooks neatly organized, relied on them for work notes, ideas, research, and random thoughts, and rarely bothered digging through their settings.

Claude is getting a pair of new tools today: Docs and Slides. They'll let you create documents and presentations through Claude chats, which you can export, edit, and share with other users.As part of the announcement, Anthropic is also simplifying how Claude chats work, merging regular chats and Cowork into "one Claude," with all of its AI productivity tools available from any chat. Artifacts and Claude Design capabilities will be available through the new single interface as well. According to Anthropic, Claude "can now figure out what a task needs, so what Cowork and Design can do is available from any conversation, with the context, sk …Read the full story at The Verge.

Windows 11 has its fair share of problems, but it seems that Microsoft is finally listening to its users. A group of Windows Insiders has managed to get their hands on an experimental build of Windows 11, and it's already reporting that things feel snappy. And the good news is, if Microsoft is ready to show Insiders these improvements, it shouldn't be long until we all get them.

You can manage a WordPress site with ChatGPT or Claude using WPVibe. It’s a free plugin that connects both AI tools directly to your site. We tested it by connecting Claude to our demo travel site and giving it real tasks. Within a few minutes,… Read More »The post How to Manage Your WordPress Website with ChatGPT or Claude first appeared on WPBeginner.