Before I was assigned this story, I hadn't tuned into a TV channel in over 10 years. My video consumption shifted firmly to platforms like YouTube during my college days. From study guides to silly animal clips, being able to always find content that aligns with my interests online had gradually pulled me away from the remote.

If you often wonder why your CPU never seems to achieve the boost clocks it's advertised for, its power limits might be the reason. The way your motherboard manufacturer tunes the BIOS can hold your CPU back, even if you have a capable cooling solution on your PC. Your CPU has multiple power limits that work in tandem to determine the boundary conditions within which it operates. You can often tweak these limits in the BIOS/UEFI, changing your processor's behavior. However, you need to understand how they function before you can do that.

We love our DIY Halloween decorations here at XDA. In fact, our resident SBC enthusiast, Jeff Butts, discussed how to make a haunted house using a Raspberry Pi. However, there is one thing that all of the projects we cover have in common: they're only spooky in the silly sense. They may be fun little ghosts or portraits that look at you, but at the end of the day, they're harmless and a ton of fun.

A still from the Critterz short film. This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on the intersection of entertainment and technology, follow Charles Pulliam-Moore. The Stepback arrives in our subscribers' inboxes at 8AM ET. Opt in for The Stepback here.How it startedIn just a few short years, text-to-image models went from only being able to churn out smudgy, "dreamlike" approximations of their input to producing detailed visualizations of whatever you describe. As the AI image generators got better, text-to-video models like Runway's Gen series, Meta's Make-A-Video, and Google's Veo also came into their own. Now …Read the full story at The Verge.

Occasionally, we witness an indie game that takes a specific genre to new heights. Balatro was one of them; it really introduced people to the idea of a gambling game where you can adjust the parameters and tweak the multipliers to benefit your specific play style. It wasn't the first to do it—Balatro was inspired by a game called Luck Be A Landlord that did something very similar—but it definitely thrust the genre into the forefront.

If you've ever tried the Windows night light, you'll know that you can set it to a specific schedule. That way, you can have it go at full blast during the day, then slowly dim to a more comfortable shade at night. After all, our monitors can mimic the same blue light we see during the day, so having that light enter our eyes at night only disrupts our circadian cycle.

What counts as "essential" accessories for laptops varies from person to person, but the ideal ones are usually those that enhance your workflow. While different people use laptops for various purposes, better ergonomics and improved cooling are features that many laptop users want.

Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 99, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you're new here, welcome, happy pumpkin spice season, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I've been reading about Lizzo and Uniqlo and book thieves and Max Verstappen, obsessing over both Black Rabbit and The Lowdown, eating aggressively too many Pop'ums pretzels, listening to everything in the AirPods Pro 3s, updating my old Ray-Ban Metas to see if the AI is any good, meal planning with Crouton, and posting all my junk for free on Nextdoor.I also have for you an impressive new GoPro, an em …Read the full story at The Verge.

After using CRT, TN, and IPS monitors for over 25 years, I upgraded to an OLED display this month. The Alienware AW3423DWF feels like a significant step up from my LG 27GL850 — 27" to 34", flat 16:9 to curved ultrawide, and IPS to OLED. Gaming has been a rewarding experience, and the extra screen real estate is useful for work as well. However, I haven't discarded my IPS monitor yet. Owing to the few downsides of OLED displays and the multiple ways I can still use my old monitor, I'm keeping it around.

If you have a Nintendo or a Microsoft controller nearby, go ahead and grab it and give it a good, solid look. Notice the face buttons, the ones with letters on them? You'll see that they're labelled A, B, X, and Y. They've been that way for decades, and it's to the point where we don't really wonder why it's like that. But...why is it like that? Wouldn't A, B, C, and D make more sense?

Proxmox’s support for advanced server-oriented features is one of the many reasons why this platform is loved by many home labbers (including yours truly). After all, PCI passthrough, high-availability clusters, Ceph distributed storage, and SDN configurations are quite useful once you dive headfirst into hardcore server projects. However, there are just as many simple tools that are often overlooked by many when bringing their home lab ideas to life.

There are plenty of productivity apps that you can self-host, but I often find these apps a bit overwhelming. It's challenging to strike a balance between functionality and usability, particularly when features are hidden or overly complex.