Profiles can be customized with different avatars and themes to make them easier to select at a glance. Mozilla is introducing profiles to its Firefox web browser that make it easier to separate and organize your online activity. The profile management update will roll out starting October 14th, allowing Firefox users to create specific browsing spaces that house bookmarks, logins, history, extensions, and themes.Firefox already supports multi-account containers, an extension that organizes browsing history, cookies, and tracking information into dedicated tabs to keep your digital footprint more private. Profiles allow users to organize more browser features, however, making it easier to create separate experiences for work, projects, and personal browsing. Like account containers, each Firefox profile keeps its own browsing data separate. Individual profiles can also be customized with specific avatars, colors, and themes to make them distinguishable at a glance. The experience is similar to having multiple Google profiles in Chrome, only with more privacy features and without the requirement of creating multiple accounts with dedicated email addresses.“Profiles in Firefox aren’t just a way to clean up your tabs. They’re a way to set boundaries, protect your information, and make the internet a little calmer,” Mozilla said in the announcement blog. “By keeping your different roles online neatly separate, you spend less mental energy juggling contexts and avoid awkward surprises (like your weekend plans popping up in a work presentation).”

When OpenAI released its new AI-generated video app Sora last week, it launched with an opt-out policy for copyright holders - media companies would need to expressly indicate they didn't want their AI-generated characters running rampant on the app. But after days of Nazi SpongeBob, criminal Pikachu, and Sora-philosophizing Rick and Morty, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced the company would reverse course and "let rightsholders decide how to proceed."In response to a question about why OpenAI changed its policy, Altman said that it came from speaking with stakeholders and suggested he hadn't expected the outcry. "I think the theory of wha …Read the full story at The Verge.

There have been a lot of changes going on with PlayStation and many of their services for PlayStation 5 owners. While PlayStation Plus has been adding more games to the ever-growing catalog of classics and new releases, the rewards program from PlayStation has also undergone big changes. Unfortunately, it was something that many PlayStation fans were baffled and annoyed by, which garnered a lot of negative reactions towards the company. After PlayStation Stars was discontinued by PlayStation and shut down, they announced that they would be launching a new kind of rewards program called Franchise Rewards. And the response from everyone was anything but positive.

For the last few years, I've been bouncing between productivity apps like Slack, Notion, Trello, and more. Now, let me be clear: these apps are great. However, when it came to building a system for my own business, I didn't want a scattered solution where notes were stored in Notion, conversations took place in Slack, and files were keptin Drive. Nor did I need the complexity that comes with the full capabilities of these systems. I wanted an app that could blend structured thinking with an easy way to converse with a small team. And if it could be run locally with no subscription fees attached, even better. That's how I stumbled upon Colanode, a self-hosted, open-source platform that combines Notion's structure and Slack's conversation flow into a single platform. It's private, lets you retain full ownership of your data, and runs fast. It's all I've been looking for.

I’ve tested more productivity tools than I can count. From complex second-brain setups to minimal note apps that promise focus but end up cluttered anyway. So I wasn’t expecting much when I stumbled across Kortex. It’s a free productivity app that looks like yet another Notion clone at first glance. But a few hours in, I realized this one is actually different; it has something most other productivity apps don’t.

Amazfit’s Active 2 is surprisingly stylish for a watch that retails for less than $100. | Photo: Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge Smartwatches from big brands like Apple, Google, and Garmin may get all the attention when it comes to wearables, but they’re not the only ones worth considering if you’re in the market for a capable fitness tracker. Amazfit’s Active 2 is a fantastic option if you’re working with a tight budget, and it’s one that touts a surprising amount of features for the price. And right now, it’s on sale at Amazon as a part of Prime Big Deal Days for $80.74 ($19 off), which is 75 cents away from matching its lowest-ever price.Amazfit Active 2Where to Buy: $99.99 $80.74 at Amazon $99.99 $84.99 at Amazfit $99.99 $84.99 at WalmartThe Active 2 is one of the best fitness trackers you can buy, boasting features typically found only in wearables that cost twice the price. However, despite being relatively cheap, the water-resistant wearable still offers snappy performance, a bright 2,000-nit OLED display, and a solid 10 hours of regular use on a single charge. The comfy wearable, which features a stylish stainless steel case and tempered glass screen, also offers offline maps with turn-by-turn navigation and location tracking, with support for all five major GNSS satellite systems.All the basic health and fitness features — from steps to calories burned — are included, but Amazfit has also added more advanced perks, such as continuous heart rate monitoring, blood oxygen rate, and menstrual cycle tracking. Additionally, the wearable includes AI-powered features like the Zepp Flow assistant, which lets you issue basic voice commands, and Zepp Coach, which can create personalized training plans. And if you’re willing to pay $77 per year, you can even access the Zepp Aura AI chatbot, which provides tailored insights into your sleep and recovery. It’s not that insightful, but it’s well integrated and relatively quick to respond to your queries.Read our Amazfit Active 2 review.

The Touch looks like a squat, blocky smartphone from a decade ago. The new HMD Touch 4G — only available in India for now, and unlikely to ever come to the US — splits the difference between smartphones and feature phones, offering a touchscreen and video calling, but with the small size (and price) of feature phones. Announced yesterday, the Touch costs just ₹4,999 (about $55). It looks mostly like a smartphone, but oddly smushed down: its screen is just 3.2 inches, and the whole thing only weighs 100g. That might make it sound like the small phone savior we’ve all been waiting for, but there’s an awful lot this phone can’t do.It doesn’t run on Android, instead using a custom OS called RTOS Touch. That means no Android apps — instead, you can access Cloud Phone Service, essentially a platform for basic HMD browser apps. You do get smartphone messaging options like group chats and video calls, but only in a specific app called Express Chat — it’s available for Android and iOS too, but you’ll have to persuade smartphone-owning friends to download it.A headphone jack helps, and at least it charges over USB-C. But you might need to invest in a microSD card, because the whopping 128MB of internal storage might not last long.

I've been rocking a 32GB (2x16GB) DDR4 memory kit ever since I got my current AM4 build. It's natural to consider an upgrade to a 64GB DDR5 kit when I eventually move to AM5 in a year or two. After all, 64GB kits aren't exactly "overpriced" on a high-end build, and there are obvious benefits to having more spare memory than ever. However, all things considered, I've decided to stick with 32GB RAM even on my next build. Based on my needs and preferences, spending more on a 64GB kit doesn't make sense (yet).

If you’ve read my articles on XDA, you’ll know that I use Proxmox for the majority of my home lab tasks. After all, LXCs – especially those deployed using the Proxmox VE Helper-Community Scripts repo – are great for running FOSS tools inside containerized environments. Proxmox’s KVM-powered virtualization provisions deserve just as much credit, as it’s possible to run everything from obscure Linux distros to other home server operating systems on a PVE node.

Raspberry Pi OS, based on Debian 13 Trixie, lands with meaningful quality of life updates that you notice the moment the desktop loads. It is not just a new base with fresher packages. The team has reorganized settings, modernized the look, and made it far easier to tailor installs for your exact use case. Here are the four changes that stood out to me right away.

Pi-hole is one of those rare tools that feels indispensable once you start using it. It quietly filters out ads and trackers for every device on your network, reducing bandwidth waste and enhancing privacy with minimal maintenance. For a long time, I ran Pi-hole on my NAS because it seemed efficient to keep everything centralized. After all, if the NAS is already always on, why not let it handle DNS too?

I should start by saying I've been a Synology user for most of a decade, and have used four different models in that time, with the current machine being a DS1621xs+. But over the last year, the company has been moving away from supporting home users and adding arbitrary restrictions, and it's time for me to move on.