Ever since generative AI took to image and video generation, the internet is brimming with what's known as "AI slop". You may come across it while scrolling through YouTube shorts, Instagram Reels or through X threads. Before more sophisticated image models arrived, these used to be low-effort, easily identifiable content, but now, generative AI has advanced to a point that some media blurs the lines between fact and fiction.

Fedora holds a big, big place in my heart. Fedora KDE was the operating system that finally got me to ditch Windows around September 2025, and I've been repping it ever since. Well, okay, I rep Fedora Kinoite now, because I'm in love with the atomic immutable design, but it's very much in the same vein.

I’ve been keeping a close eye on design tools for several years now, whether that’s tracking new releases or waiting to see what new updates land in the tools I already use. Every now and then, a new tool shows up and claims to replace one of the bigger players in the industry, but that’s rarely the case. And sometimes, an unpopular tool comes onto my radar and ends up being much better than I expected.

For most of my day, slow Wi-Fi is never an issue. In fact, considering how 90% of my entire existence is in front of a PC with a wired Ethernet connection, Wi-Fi barely ever comes to mind. And yet, the times when an Instagram reel or video on my phone or laptop takes a while to load, my day gets ruined and my disappointment becomes immeasurable. I do love putting in a long list of speed-related complaints on my ISP's app, but that list has become considerably shorter ever since I changed a few settings on my router.

If I'm using an Android device, I always opt for the Pixel line because I appreciate Google's clean take on Android. The UI is simple, straightforward, and easier to navigate than Samsung's One UI, especially if you're like me and also use an iPhone. Even from a hardware perspective, the Pixel is very understated, especially the most recent Pixel 10 series and its cicular camera bump.

I've always been a forgetful person. As a kid, that meant forgetting my multiplication tables. In high school, that meant spending hours creating flashcards for memorization-heavy courses. Before you blame academics for ruining my memory, I should clarify: I was (and still am) a total nerd. I actually liked learning, and it wasn’t limited to just school. My forgetfulness just refused to cooperate.

NVMe SSDs are known for their blazing-fast sequential speeds compared to the humble SATA SSDs. Even the older Gen3 drives are about 7 times faster than what SATA SSDs are capable of. However, not every NVMe SSD is guaranteed to perform better than every SATA drive in every scenario. Depending on the make and model of your NVMe drive, it can very well exhibit slower transfer speeds than a quality SATA SSD, sometimes even dropping to HDD speeds. The sustained performance of any SSD depends on the type of NAND and the cache configuration inside it. For the average user, NVMe trumps SATA hands down, but anyone transferring large files and running professional workloads needs to buy NVMe storage more carefully to avoid underwhelming performance.

We tend to treat the output from our CPUs as gospel, an absolute truth. Reality is rarely as straightforward, and computing errors have been a thing ever since the first microprocessors. Processors are incredibly complex and can be faulty due to design issues, environmental conditions, and physical system failures. Many of these faults are known and accounted for by error-correcting codes in ECC RAM or file system-level checks, but others can be much, much weirder.

President Donald Trump arrives at the White House as joint US-Israeli military strikes on Iran continue. Washington, DC, on March 1st, 2026. | Photo: Getty Images Fuel prices surged after the Trump administration launched strikes against Iran on Saturday, immediately raising questions about whether the war would increase energy costs for Americans, put more pressure on power grids, and push companies to pump out more oil and gas in the US. If conflict drags on, that could potentially play into Donald Trump's plans to "drill, baby, drill" - but that doesn't necessarily protect Americans from higher energy prices. Keep in mind that it's still too early to tell what kind of war the US may have sparked. The spike in global oil prices could be short-lived. But prolonged conflict and disruptions to oil an …Read the full story at The Verge.

In a downtown Manhattan courtroom on Monday, lawyers for the US Justice Department and 40 state and district attorneys general warned a jury that the concert industry was being squeezed by a monopolist: Live Nation-Tickemaster. After amassing dominance over ticketing and artists' use of large amphitheaters, lead DOJ counsel David Dahlquist alleged, Live Nation constructed a "flywheel" of power that forced venue customers to stay within its ecosystem. It threatened or retaliated against them when they considered leaving. To even attempt to win business, Dahlquist said, ticketing rivals needed to offer "retaliation insurance" to venues worried …Read the full story at The Verge.

Whenever we're facing performance issues while gaming, we're usually quick to point fingers at our GPU. That does make sense to an extent, since it's the component responsible for most of the heavy lifting when it comes to graphics workloads. So when your frame rates look underwhelming while monitoring with MSI Afterburner, it's almost instinctive to assume the GPU is struggling to keep up.

At a previous job a few years ago, my team and I had a running joke that 5G's marketing was becoming so over-the-top that within a few months, we'd definitely see a 5G smartphone with a vape built into it. While the "5G vape phone" never happened, this might be the next best thing.