When Google first announced Gemini integration inside Google Maps, I honestly thought it was just another AI feature companies add because every app now needs “AI.” I expected a chatbot inside Maps and nothing more.

It's easy to assume that, if a program goes open-source, it's 100% safe to download. After all, if it were malicious, people would spot the bad code. Unfortunately, hackers do have ways to hijack supply chains and inject files that look identical in terms of the code, but still contain some nasty malware in the binaries themselves.

I think one of my most annoying grievances with Windows 11 is its right-click menus. For some reason, when moving from Windows 10 to 11, some right-click options remained, some got stuffed into a "Show more options" menu, and others still just flat-out didn't appear until you used the legacy right-click menu.

My Linux journey started with Ubuntu as a test operating system. I played around with hypervisors to get any Linux or alternative OS working. Back then, it wasn't about learning it but simply discovering what a Windows alternative looks like. Slowly, it became a part of my college curriculum, and I used it on both college and personal computers. But today's Ubuntu is wildly different from what I tried 11 years ago. Its design, feature set, and overall package try to appeal to a bigger audience.

After dedicating the better part of 2025 to rolling out Copilot on everything it owns, Microsoft is currently on a huge quest to repair Windows' major pain points for 2026. There's even a reported name for this initiative: Windows K2. It sounds like a new version of the OS, but in reality, it's the company's push to take the OS they already have and improve upon it in a bid to regain user trust.

You might think this looks like a phone at first glance, but it isn’t — it’s a mouse that’s folded in half. | Images by Logitech / shared by WinFuture Logitech is reportedly developing a new wireless mouse that folds in half to make it easier to carry around in a bag or pocket. According to leaked marketing images shared by WinFuture, Logitech's foldable mouse caused "22 percent less muscle strain" compared to using a laptop trackpad, and can be used across "multiple operating systems."Logitech's design is visually similar to Microsoft's Surface Arc mouse and Lenovo's Yoga mouse, sporting the same arched shape when unfolded for use. One key difference is that while Microsoft and Lenovo's offerings can only be folded flat, the new Logitech mouse - the name of which is still unknown - fold …Read the full story at The Verge.

I’ve been trying to build websites for quite some time now. The first website I built was a tech blog that I started as a passion project back in 2019. After that, I tried building a portfolio website, a few tools, and some other small projects, but I never really succeeded in getting things to the point I wanted. It usually takes a lot of effort just to get a site up and running.

My bookmarks are usually a mess because when I’m researching, the last thing I worry about is how neatly I organize them. I could be researching Obsidian and bookmarking its various features, then trying to connect the main ideas they share. So instead of erasing the folder, I moved it to NotebookLM to make sense out of it all. I thought I was going to get something I wouldn’t be able to work with, but I got a research partner who actually helps me make sense of it.

I was a very early adopter of the AM4 platform because, at the time, I was part of AMD's influencer team, received pre-release hardware, and was physically at the Zen launch event. At the time, it was a huge jump from the older Intel platform I'd been using, which had DDR3, PCIe 2.0, and a short expected lifespan because of Intel's release cadence. I used that hardware until very recently, and only upgraded when my daily tasks felt slower to accomplish.

Building a Network-Attached Storage server from old hardware is the best way to repurpose systems that would otherwise gather dust into reliable backup solutions. While you could go for weaker systems released over a decade ago, most DIY NAS setups typically involve x86 machines capable of supporting at least a handful of storage drives.

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The full version of Playground Games' upcoming Forza Horizon 6 game has leaked online over the weekend and has already been cracked by pirates. The download appeared on file sharing sites after some Steam users were allegedly able to obtain access to an unencrypted preload version of the game.Forza Horizon 6 isn't supposed to launch until May 19th on Xbox Series S / X and PC, but cracks to bypass online checks in the game are already widely available. Reddit users first noticed that games files, totaling more than 150GB, had appeared online yesterday, before Reddit's legal operations team removed the post.Earlier this year a pre-release …Read the full story at The Verge.