MinIO has had a really rough time over the past few years. Once the number one way to set up open-source object storage, the people behind MinIO began making changes to the software that people really did not gel with. This included swapping to GNU AGPLv3 in 2021, which demanded its users share their source code if they used MinIO, coming to a head in 2025 when the developers gutted the free admin console and stopped publishing Docker images.

If you ever feel like you're slowing down and not quite at your peak, just remember, you're not as slow as Microsoft's glacial attempts to kill off the Control Panel. I've been covering the slow and steady migration over to the Settings menu for almost two years now, and the company is still making progress towards it to this day.

With an ESP32 board, you can nosedive into a sea of potential projects at various skill levels. Home Assistant captures that data and transforms it into automation or other value. But to know whether your project is working, it’s natural to put an LED on it.

Docker is one of the easiest ways to run self-hosted applications, but the initial installation process can be rather time-consuming. Typing in the proper CLI (that's command line interface, for those who don't know) commands requires precision, and a single mistake will have you repeating the process. For a process that's already a bit intimidating for beginners, this can throw a wrench into things — but that's where Docker Compose comes in.

The world’s first playable gaming magazine? Tetris has been immortalized in a playable McDonald's plastic chicken nugget, a playable fake 7-Eleven Slurpee cup, and a playable wristwatch. But the most intriguing way to play Tetris yet is encased in paper. Last year the Tetris Company partnered with Red Bull for a gaming tournament that culminated in the 150-meter-tall Dubai Frame landmark being turned into the world's largest playable Tetris installation using over 2,000 drones that functioned as pixels. Although the timing was a coincidence, Red Bull also published a 180-page gaming edition of its The Red Bulletin lifestyle magazine around the same time as the event, with a limite …Read the full story at The Verge.

Whenever it’s time to perform advanced data analysis in Excel, I usually prefer Pivot tables, Slicers, charts, and dedicated dashboards to get the job done. But lately, I have stopped building them entirely. Not because I have given up on deep data analysis, but because I have found something more efficient.

The BIOS, much like the Windows Registry, is a part of the system we rarely configure. It seems fairly technical, and with all the warnings doing the rounds, it feels like something best left untouched. For a long time, I didn't change much in the BIOS, except for capping the battery charge level and a few other simple settings. But as I dug more into it, I found out that there are a bunch of other settings, which, if optimized, could boost the PC's performance. And these are not those risky overclocking tweaks we have all heard about. These are simple changes anyone can make, usually without introducing instability.

Former Ambassador to the UN Susan Rice at the State Department on September 26, 2023. | Photo: Alex Wong / Getty Images Donald Trump threatened that there would be "consequences" for Netflix if it didn't fire board member Susan Rice. Rice served in both the Obama and Biden administrations, and recently appeared on Preet Bharara's podcast, where she said corporations that "take a knee to Trump" are going to be "caught with more than their pants down. They are going to be held accountable."Right-wing influencer and conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer was quick to jump on the appearance and accused Rice of "threatening half the country with weaponized government and political retribution." She also pointed out that Netflix, whose board Rice is on, is trying to me …Read the full story at The Verge.

Fun vibes. Okay-ish photos. | Photo: Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge There's been a surge of interest over the last few years in inexpensive digital cameras. Younger folks are snapping up old point-and-shoots because they view the aesthetic as more authentic and more appealing than smartphone images. Companies are even rereleasing old tech at new prices. And there are cameras like the original Camp Snap: a $70 single-button point-and-shoot with no screen, designed as a modern take on a disposable film camera. It's cheap enough to send off with a kid to summer camp and accessible enough for just about anyone to enjoy its lo-fi aesthetic. I've been testing two charming examples of this formula: the $99 Camp S …Read the full story at The Verge.

This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on the dire state of tech regulation, follow Adi Robertson. The Stepback arrives in our subscribers' inboxes at 8AM ET. Opt in for The Stepback here.How it startedIn 1973, long before the modern digital era, the US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW) published a report called "Records, Computers, and the Rights of Citizens." Networked computers seemed "destined to become the principal medium for making, storing, and using records about people," the report's foreword began. These systems could be a "powerful management …Read the full story at The Verge.

As the RAM crisis begins to intensify around the world, we're beginning to see the knock-on effects. It began with the PC builders who noticed that their sticks of RAM had quadrupled in price in the span of a few months. However, it didn't take too long before the companies that build devices in batches began feeling the effects too.

Whenever I shop for a new motherboard, I always focus on specs that actually have at least some impact on performance, like VRMs, RAM compatibility, PCIe lane count, NVMe options, and rear I/O. After all, those are the things that shape stability, upgrade flexibility, and how balanced the PC feels once you're done building. Everything else tends to fall into the category of features that look good on a product page but rarely make any difference in day-to-day use. Reinforced PCIe slots always felt like one of them.