The BIOS menu has always been something I only checked when setting up a new PC or troubleshooting an issue. But as long as everything was working as intended, I never felt the need to revisit my motherboard's settings. And to be fair, that's probably how most people treat the BIOS. There's nothing inherently wrong with this approach, except that BIOS updates and even hardware upgrades can quietly reset some of the settings you configured years ago. And I've learned that the hard way.

Finding an automation app that fits my thinking style has been difficult. Many apps require familiarity with automation and certain syntax to create helpful flows. Meanwhile, more accessible options can be extremely limited in their functionality or require a subscription to unlock multiple automations.

Storage is one of the biggest expenses of running a large Plex library. You can keep adding hard drives whenever you run out of space, but that doesn't solve the fact that many of the files already in your library are unnecessarily large. My collection has grown over the years, which means it now includes plenty of older H.264 encodes, high-bitrate files, and movies carrying audio tracks I would never use.

When it comes to Windows 11 gaming handhelds, my goal is to get the best visuals and frame rate from AAA games that I can. Sometimes this just isn't possible, even with the ROG Xbox Ally X, and I'm forced to lower the resolution and graphics settings considerably just to barely hit 15-20fps. However, in most situations, I've managed to tweak my handheld's settings enough to make recently released games surprisingly playable.

Angela Nissel smiles through the pain. | Image: Angela Nissel Angela Nissel's latest book, Good Grief, Pass the Bread, Mom Is Dead, is my kind of memoir. Sure, it's a deeply emotional tale about caring for a terminally ill parent. But it's delivered with the sort of gallows humor that I often turn to to get me through tough times. Of course, that sort of dark humor should come as no surprise from Nissel. She first made a splash with The Broke Diaries, which grew out of a blog she kept in college detailing her daily struggles and, at times, embarrassment at being a broke student. Eventually she went on to produce and write for hit shows including Scrubs and The Boondocks.One of her most lasting cont …Read the full story at The Verge.

Donald Trump speaks during the House Republican Party member retreat. | Image: Mandel NGAN / AFP via Getty Images The FBI, the EPA, and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) have stopped short of officially blaming Iran for a spate of cyberattacks on Minnesota's water systems, but consensus is that Iran is likely behind them. That, of course, hasn't stopped Donald Trump from sharing his own theory - that Governor Tim Walz is to blame and telling reporters that "I don't think there was an Iranian cyberattack."Trump's comments come shortly after the FBI issued a warning that the cyberattacks on American infrastructure were spreading to other states. In Minnesota alone, at least 30 community water systems had been targeted in what a …Read the full story at The Verge.

HDMI 2.2 was first announced at CES 2025, but it was too early to say much about it back then because the specs weren't even released to device and cable manufacturers.

Claude Code is one of the best coding agents out there, but it’s really hard to get anything done with it because of its almost unusable usage limits. I’d been using the $20 plan for almost six months, but I recently canceled it because of the sheer number of options available out there. I ditched it for a local LLM layer I built into VS Code, and while the experience hasn’t been the same, it lets me get a lot more done than I could with Claude Code.

That cover art is almost certainly AI, too. | Image: Fenix Flexin Fenix Flexin is best known as a member of Shoreline Mafia, a rap duo from Los Angeles. But he's recently found solo success with the track "Rubberz," which has climbed to number 58 on the Billboard Hot 100. Almost immediately, though, questions were raised about the song's origins, with many speculating that it was largely, if not entirely, generated by AI. Fenix has denied those accusations, but done little to dispel them.Part of the suspicion is certainly due to the fact that the song is a dramatic left turn. Fenix has primarily trafficked in trap-influenced West Coast rap. "Rubberz," on the other hand, is heavily influenced by '80s UK s …Read the full story at The Verge.

Android Headlines claims to have the specs and price for the entire Pixel 11 lineup. What the site shared basically lines up with everything else that we've heard in the lead-up to the August 12th event. The Pixel 11 is expected to get a $100 price hike, starting at $899, but will come with 256GB of storage instead of 128GB in the base model. While the entire lineup will sport the new Tensor G6 and Titan M3 chips, the base model Pixel 11 Pro and Pixel 11 Pro XL are both getting that rumored RAM cut to just 12GB, along with price increases to $1,099 and $1,299, respectively.The Pixel 11 will supposedly ditch the telephoto lens and settle fo …Read the full story at The Verge.

A bootleg of Spider-Man: Brand New Day was up on X for over seven hours before eventually being pulled. During that time, it reached over 5.9 million accounts and accumulated over 143,000 likes. Other accounts have reposted the leaked film, but none have lasted particularly long, as Disney now seems to be on top of issuing takedown requests.The leak is unlikely to slow down the box office juggernaut, which is already shattering records. It raked in $72 million in previews this week. The previous record holder was Avengers: Endgame, which grossed $60 million during its previews way back in 2019. Endgame went on to set staggering records for …Read the full story at The Verge.

When you pay for Gigabit Fiber, your speed tests might proudly display 940 Mbps down and up speeds, but your real-world network responsiveness regularly falls apart. When the network is under load — the moment someone backs up a cloud photo library, downloads a 100 GB game patch on Steam, or streams 4K video — your gaming ping can spike from 12ms to 350ms, and your web pages will stutter.