Getting my first 3D printer kicked off a particular kind of excitement, the kind where you want to print something right now, even if you do not yet know what “right” looks like. I started with the classics, bounced into practical stuff, and then slowly realized that my early prints were less about usefulness and more about learning the machine’s personality. Some of those models still make sense as Day One choices, especially if you treat them as diagnostic tools rather than trophies. Others were technically successful prints that I would not bother repeating today.

Uptime Kuma is one of those tools that quietly becomes essential once you start self-hosting more than a couple of services. It provides a clean dashboard, actionable alerts, and a quick way to see whether the things you care about are responding. The trouble starts when your setup shifts from a few static services to a swarm of containers that change weekly. Suddenly, each new container requires an additional trip to the Uptime Kuma interface to add a monitor manually. That is precisely the kind of repetitive task that makes people put off monitoring until something breaks.

I'm not a huge fan of Windows 11, how it looks and feels, or the features it comes with. Fortunately, for everything Microsoft doesn't do, there are individuals and groups out there who have worked hard at making it a reality. And one such group is Ramen Software.

Screens at the White House display AI-modified videos of House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) and U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) that were shared on social media by President Donald Trump. | Credit: Alex Wong/Getty Images Hello and welcome to Regulator, a newsletter for Verge subscribers about the technology, broligarchs and brainrot rapidly transforming politics and civic society. Not subscribed to The Verge yet? You should! It can materially improve your life.Last week was a grim reminder that no matter what sort of horror is being perpetrated or how many people end up dead, the Trump administration's knee-jerk response is to shitpost through it. The White House's response on X to abducting the head of a sovereign nation? "FAFO". The response to an ICE agent shooting a woman in broad daylight? A Buzzfeed-style listicle of "57 Times Sick, Unhinged Democrat …Read the full story at The Verge.

There are a lot of great reasons to upgrade to a mechanical keyboard. So if you've been looking to improve your typing experience without spending a lot of money, now's going to be a good time. This mechanical keyboard by Logitech is simple, reliable, and affordable. Although it's built primarily for gamers, it can still be used for everyday use without any issues. And while it used to be affordable at just $80, it's now an absolute steal at just $40.

If you were born on or after the turn of the millennium, there's a good chance you never saw a game that had to ship with more than one disk included. For instance, the classic Final Fantasy VII for the PS1 had to ship with three CDs just to fit all of the game into one product. Once you had finished a whole disk of content, the game would ask you to pop the CD out and put the next one in.

It’s no secret that Excel has been my reliable, if sometimes tedious, partner in data analysis. I was convinced that manual data cleaning and formula building were just part of the job. But after pairing Excel with Copilot, I unlocked the hidden potential in no time.

If you've been looking for a large-screen laptop that isn't going to cost you a lot of money, then the Dell 16 is going to be it. Not only are you getting a large display, but the power is there too, thanks to Intel's Core 7 150U processor that's paired with 16GB of RAM and 1TB of SSD storage.

2026 is shaping up to be a tough year for PC hardware enthusiasts. The Consumer Electronics Show, perhaps the most highly anticipated tech event, promised to be a delight for consumers but instead felt more like a shareholder briefing across major computing segments.

Necessity is the mother of invention. Sometimes that necessity is born from something not existing, or from the desire to bring back something that once was. Sometimes, however, that necessity is looking at how expensive something has gotten and balking immediately.

OneNote has been the reliable place where great ideas, meeting minutes, and web clippings go live, but often end up forgotten. I often stare at my large notebook and OneDrive library, knowing the answer is buried somewhere in a subpage or in a Word document from three months ago, but lacking the time to dig it out.

Your smart home and the Internet of Things (IoT) devices it comprises are fantastic for convenience, but, as with most networked devices, the trade-off is reduced security. We've all seen the reports of IoT devices and other networked devices like printers being infected and turned into massive botnets, and the unwelcome truth is that many of our smart devices could be vulnerable to attack.