As of today, Windows 10 will no longer receive non-security support. As long as you're enrolled in the extended support plan, you'll continue to get security-critical updates for at least another year. This should keep the operating system safe to connect to the internet, but it does mean that you won't get any more cool features or patches for annoying issues.

I used to think you had to pay for pro-level tools to get smooth editing and fast rendering. Adobe software used to be my default, and not necessarily because I loved it, but because every free alternative felt too limited or clunky (and I also felt loyal to Adobe). So for a long time, Premiere Pro felt like the only serious option to get high-quality video edits.

Netflix is no longer just a home for TV shows, movies, documentaries, and live WWE matches — soon, you’ll be able to stream video podcasts, too. The streaming giant announced on Tuesday that it’s partnering with Spotify’s podcast studio and The Ringer to offer 16 series on its platform, including The Bill Simmons Podcast, Conspiracy Theories, as well as The Ringer’s shows on the NFL, NBA, Fantasy Football, and F1.The podcasts will appear on Netflix in the US starting in 2026 before expanding to other countries. As part of the deal, the shows won’t appear “in their entirety” on YouTube, according to a report from The New York Times. Not only is YouTube Netflix’s biggest rival, it also tops Spotify and Apple Music as the most popular podcast streaming platform, raking in more than 1 billion listeners each month. Video podcasts, which show hosts during their conversations, are becoming increasingly popular as creators try to expand their reach across social media.Netflix won’t show commercial breaks for this first round of video podcasts, but Spotify’s ads within the podcasts will remain, the Times reports. The streaming service already produces several podcasts about its shows, like You Cannot Make This Up, Skip Intro, and We Have the Receipts, which also appear on YouTube. In April, Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos hinted at bringing podcasts to the platform during an earnings call, saying, “As the popularity of video podcasts grow, I suspect you’ll see some of them find their way to Netflix.”It sounds like Spotify has more plans to expand the reach of its podcasts, too, as the company says it aims to “bring similar opportunities to a wider range of creators” in the future. You can view the full list of podcasts coming to Netflix on the company’s website.

Microsoft and Asus are set to launch the ROG Xbox Ally gaming handhelds very soon, and with them comes a new Windows 11 experience designed for this kind of device. We've actually tried enabling this new software experience on an existing gaming handheld and came away very impressed with Microsoft's strides to make the experience better and more comparable to something like the Steam Deck.

YouTube is updating the look of the video player to be “cleaner and more immersive” beginning this week. “This includes updated controls and new icons to make the viewing experience more visually satisfying while obscuring less content,” YouTube says. It started testing changes to the player earlier this year. A screenshot from YouTube shows how the new look includes rounded on-screen buttons with a little bit of translucency, though the effect isn’t nearly as intense as Apple’s Liquid Glass. YouTube says the new player will be available on mobile, web, and TV devices. The company is introducing a bunch of other updates, too. YouTube says the double-tap to skip feature will be “modern and less intrusive to your video watching experience.” A new “structured system for comment replies” is intended to “provide a more focused reading experience within the replies panel.” And on some videos, hitting the like button will show a “dynamic” animation, like a music note when liking a music video.

Well, here we are. This month's Patch Tuesday is also the end-of-life date for Windows 10. While people who are signed up for the Windows 10 extended support scheme will still receive security updates for at least another year, we'll see no more patches that address anything other than threats to the operating system.

I’ve tried various note-taking apps, including Evernote, Google Keep, and Microsoft OneNote. Then I tested Obsidian, and even though it took some time to learn, it quickly stood out. I like the various themes to choose from and the freedom it gives me when editing my notes. With the large variety of Community Plugins to choose from, there’s always something new to learn. My notes are in a plain Markdown file I control and can back up to any location. Quick Switcher opens any note faster, and with Templates, I save time by easily using the same starter.

Google might have yet another Pixel with a battery problem, and this time, affecting the brand new Pixel 10 Pro Fold. In a video published today, YouTuber JerryRigEverything, aka Zack Nelson, subjected the foldable to his usual durability tests, but as he’s filming his bend test — after having already broken the phone open — the battery expands, appears to overheat, emits enough smoke to set off a nearby fire alarm, and ultimately ends up as a charred wreckage on his testing table.To be fair, Nelson puts an extraordinary amount of stress on the phone. He originally breaks open the phone by bending it backwards while the phone is fully unfolded, and the battery doesn’t swell up until he exerts a lot of force on the broken part of the phone in such a way that he’s essentially folding the screen behind itself.That’s not a scenario any normal person is going to encounter day to day. But it’s still unusual even given the extreme circumstances, according to Nelson. He says he hasn’t seen anything like it during prior tests.“Surprisingly, in the decade that I’ve been durability-testing phones, I have never had a smartphone explode before,” Nelson says. “The Pixel 10 Pro Fold is the first phone to go up in smoke.” And while he notes that this is an “extreme test,” he adds that “I’ve also subjected every mainstream smartphone made in the past 10 years to these exact same tests. And this is the first time I’ve ever had one fail so spectacularly to the point where my fire alarm is going off.”Google didn’t immediately reply to a request for comment. But this isn’t the first of Google’s battery issues this year: the company updated the Pixel 6A to “address a potential battery overheating risk,” and it also pushed an update to the Pixel 4A to “improve the stability of their battery’s performance.”“As dramatic as a battery fire is, we don’t think this is necessarily a sign that something is wrong with the Pixel 10 Pro Fold design,” iFixit’s Elizabeth Chamberlain tells The Verge. “The possibility of thermal runaway is just a reality of Li-ion batteries. Looks like Zack probably didn’t discharge the battery before opening up the phone (most new phones have 60%+ charge out of the box). We usually recommend discharging a battery below 25%, but with the extreme stresses Zack places on devices, that may even be too high.Chamberlain adds that “thermal runaway is basically a local short circuit, and it is most likely to happen when you break through the insulating layers of a jelly roll-style battery.” She also pointed to a post and a video from iFixit about batteries catching fire.Nelson put the Pixel 10 Pro Fold’s IP68 dust resistance to the test, too. While Google has called the phone its “most durable foldable yet” and highlighted the benefits of the phone’s gearless hinge, Nelson pours some dust right onto the hinge and opens and closes the phone, resulting in some sickening crunches as dust gets stuck inside. “This is kind of embarrassing,” Nelson says. 

While we've all taken different journeys into home lab experiments, one of the mainstays is running your own NAS with an operating system like TrueNAS. You get to use your own choice of hardware, which can be significantly more potent than bespoke NAS enclosures, and you get more ways of doing things. Plus, you get to choose your file system, and if you're not picking ZFS, then I'm here to say you're wrong.

Things have not been going too well for Xbox and the recent changes to Xbox Game Pass. The price increase to Xbox Game Pass Ultimate has rubbed everyone the wrong way, and the changes to tiers of the service have been questionable to most people. Being a subscriber to Xbox Game Pass is getting tougher, even with many of the benefits that come with being part of it. But one aspect of Xbox Game Pass that has always been supplemental for most players was PC Game Pass, which also got some changes with the recent updates.

It's no secret that NotebookLM has become a fast favorite tool here, especially because of how well it helps dissect complex research topics. But Google isn't the only AI model provider out there, and you're handing even more of your data to the search giant in return for using Gemini's models. I've been trying to self-host more services to reduce my dependence on the big cloud providers, so naturally I went looking to see if there was an alternative to NotebookLM.

Meta has removed a Facebook page dedicated to tracking Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) action in Chicago after the Justice Department got involved. Attorney General Pam Bondi wrote on X Tuesday that Facebook had taken down an unnamed “large group page that was being used to dox and target” ICE agents after outreach from the DOJ. Meta spokesperson Andy Stone confirmed the group, which he did not identify, “was removed for violating our policies against coordinated harm.” Its removal follows Apple and Google blocking ICE-tracking apps, also following government demands.The DOJ declined to comment beyond Bondi’s post, and ICE did not immediately respond to a request for comment about whether specific credible threats were made to ICE agents on the page. The DOJ appears to have taken action after Laura Loomer, a right-wing influencer who has led several campaigns against federal workers she deems disloyal to Trump, posted about a Facebook group called “ICE Sighting- Chicagoland” that she claimed “is providing location updates on ICE raids and ICE agent locations in the Chicago area.” While neither the DOJ nor Meta confirmed the name of the group taken down, Loomer claimed a DOJ source told her the agency had seen her post and contacted Meta about such pages. As President Donald Trump has ramped up immigration enforcement across the country, including through more aggressive tactics like workplace raids, several tools and community groups have popped up to alert people to ICE’s presence in their area. The ICEBlock app used to anonymously report ICE sightings rose to the top of Apple’s app store this summer before it was similarly removed by Apple after the DOJ reached out, with Bondi claiming it was “designed to put ICE agents at risk just for doing their jobs.” ICEBlock developer Joshua Aaron told Fox News Digital it was “patently false” that the app “served to harm law enforcement officers.”Bondi’s statement raises questions about whether the government engaged in illegal jawboningAs private sector businesses, Apple and Meta can generally legally remove groups or apps as they see fit. But Bondi’s statement raises questions about whether the government engaged in illegal jawboning, or pressuring private actors to take down legal speech. It’s not clear precisely what the DOJ said to platforms that prompted them to take action, or whether Meta might have removed the page even without government intervention. But the administration has recently suggested that a broad range of speech might constitute actionable support for domestic terrorism and pledged to crack down on it. The incident is particularly notable since President Donald Trump and other Republicans have repeatedly characterized the Biden administration’s outreach to tech platforms over covid and voting misinformation as censorship, slamming the government’s role in flagging posts they labeled harmful to voting engagement or public health. Conservative state AGs sued the administration in a case that went all the way to the Supreme Court, which did not find a “concrete link” between the platforms’ removal decisions and the government’s communication with the tech executives. There’s also little direct evidence that ICE-tracking tools have led to violence. The administration amped up pressure after claiming that a shooter at a Dallas field office in September used tracking apps, but it’s unclear what, if any, role they played in the attack (which led to the deaths of two detainees and no ICE officers). ICE agents have experienced more assaults as their presence in American communities has increased, but to a far lower degree than the government has claimed, a recent National Public Radio report found.