The Reon Pocket Pro Plus delivers a 20 percent improvement in cooling performance over last year’s model. | Image: Sony Sony has announced a new version of the wearable personal air conditioner the company first revealed in 2019 ahead of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. The latest version is an upgrade to last year's Pro model, and while the new Reon Pocket Pro Plus isn't a complete overhaul of the hardware, it comes with performance upgrades and design updates making it easier to wear discreetly under many kinds of shirts. It's launching in Europe and other markets today for €229/£199, or around $270. As with all the previous versions, Sony hasn't mentioned plans to bring it to the US.Instead of simply blasting you with air like the Dyson HushJet Mini Cool, the Re …Read the full story at The Verge.

OpenAI is launching Daybreak, an AI initiative focused on detecting and patching vulnerabilities before attackers find them. Daybreak uses the Codex Security AI agent that launched in March to create a threat model based on an organization's code and focus on possible attack paths, validate likely vulnerabilities, and then automate the detection of the higher risk ones.Its launch comes just over a month after rival Anthropic announced Claude Mythos, a security-focused AI model it claimed was too dangerous to publicly release and only shared privately as a part of its own initiative, dubbed Project Glasswing. Still, that didn't stop at leas …Read the full story at The Verge.

Panasonic has announced a new addition to its Lumix camera line with a compact body and fixed lens that's targeted at photographers instead of creators making video content. The Lumix L10 is available for preorder today with a black or silver finish for $1,499.99. To celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Lumix brand, the L10 will also be available in a titanium gold finish with matching accessories and software for $1,599.99, but only in limited numbers and primarily through Panasonic's online store.The Lumix L10 weighs 508 grams and features a magnesium alloy front case and a metal exterior partially wrapped in a textured finish designed …Read the full story at The Verge.

I really liked Google’s Antigravity when it was announced last year. The reason was it had a generous rate limit and was quite functional, being based on the Electron project, which is the same foundation as VS Code. You could get quite a lot done using even the Pro models in Antigravity, but now, when I went back to Gemini last week, things were very different. The rate limits are abysmal now. The platform is not even usable if you are not a Pro member. The free tier is basically a trial that does not even last half an hour if you try to do any serious work. I should not be complaining about not getting enough rate limit for free, but when you look at something like Codex, which has more than generous rate limits across both the Codex app and the VS Code extension, you start to question why you shouldn’t close Antigravity for good.

iRobot upgrades its lidar-based robot vacuum line with eight new models. | Image: iRobot iRobot has announced a new line of Roombas, a year after it debuted its first lidar-based robot vacuums. This week, it introduced eight robot vacuums that improve on its current lineup and feature lower prices, some up to £200 (about $270) cheaper. Key changes include higher suction power, a smaller overall size to better navigate your home, more models with roller mops, and the introduction of "hot spot mopping." iRobot filed for bankruptcy late last year, underwent a reboot, and is now owned by Shenzhen Picea Robotics, a Chinese original design manufacturer of robotic vacuums. The company says its new lineup is up to 25 percent smaller f …Read the full story at The Verge.

Google I/O is still a week away, but Google's big announcements kick off today with the "Android Show: I/O Edition," where it's expected to announce the major Android ecosystem highlights coming to its annual developer conference.When the Android Show will happen and where you can watch itAndroid Show: I/O Edition will be streaming live on YouTube and the Android website on Tuesday, May 12th at 10AM PT / 1PM ET. Based on last year's Android Show, we can expect the highlights to include a look at the next major Android update along with announcements about Gemini features on Android and potentially teases of some more forward-facing proje …Read the full story at The Verge.

I ran Home Assistant on a Raspberry Pi 4 for over a year. Though the Pi booted from an NVMe SSD, the Pi's 4GB memory limit became difficult to ignore as I built ESPHome devices. Recently, I moved Home Assistant to a mini PC and almost shelved the Pi, since it was just sitting in the corner doing nothing.

No thank you, we’re good. | Photo by Brandon Bell/Getty Images eBay has officially rejected GameStop's offer to buy the online marketplace for $56 billion, citing concerns around "operational risks" and how the acquisition will be financed. In a letter to GameStop CEO Ryan Cohen on Tuesday, eBay's board of directors said it has "concluded that your proposal is neither credible nor attractive.""We have taken into account such factors as 1) eBay's standalone prospects, 2) the uncertainty regarding your financing proposal, 3) the impact of your proposal on eBay's long-term growth and profitability, 4) the leverage, operational risks, and leadership structure of a combined entity, 5) the resulting implic …Read the full story at The Verge.

Local LLMs have gone from a curiosity thing I poked at, to something I actually use on the regular now. Not for everything - cloud AI still wins at most tasks - but mainly personal documents I need to work through, anything where handing a cloud model the context feels like the wrong call. This use case alone made the whole thing worth setting up, and from there, I've just started paying more attention to what open models are actually capable of doing.

The simplicity of spinning up containers in Docker is one of home lab's few simplicites. Find a service that looks interesting, pull the image, write a quick Compose file or a docker run command, publish a port, hit the web UI in a browser. It takes five minutes to go from an idea to a running service.

Cooling is essential for any PC, because proper airflow can keep your system running longer and harder, while also potentially increasing performance. So, it's something worth taking a look at whether you're building a new PC or looking to upgrade something you've been using for years.

When Intel launched its Arc Alchemist GPUs in 2022, the reception was rather rough. The drivers were a mess, the performance was all but consistent, and hardware reviewers were quick with their verdicts. Two years later, the Battlemage arrived, and the $250 Arc B580 completely changed the pricing and performance conversations in the industry. Now, Team Blue is eyeing the handheld PC market again, which AMD has dominated for years with its Ryzen Z series processors.