Microsoft is making it a lot faster and easier to add links to text inside Word documents. Instead of having to open a menu item to insert a link or use the CTRL + K keyboard shortcut, you can now simply paste a link on top of the text you want to hyperlink.This new feature reduces the amount of clicks you need to do an everyday task like linking URLs, and it works across Word for the web, Windows, and Mac. It's similar to the way WordPress any many other content management systems and text editors let you quickly insert links. Now we're just waiting on Google Docs to join the club.Microsoft has started rolling out this feature to all Wo …Read the full story at The Verge.

Towerborne, a side-scrolling action RPG published by Xbox Game Studios that has been available in early access, will officially launch on February 26th. But instead of launching as a free-to-play, always-on online game as originally planned, Towerborne is instead going to be a paid game that you can play offline."You will own the complete experience permanently, with offline play and online co-op," Trisha Stouffer, CEO and president of Towerborne developer Stoic, says in an Xbox Wire blog post. "This change required deep structural rebuilding over the past year, transforming systems originally designed around constant connectivity. The res …Read the full story at The Verge.

The Pioneer Sphera can be installed into a single-DIN space in your dash. I fully believe that once someone hears Dolby Atmos music in their car, they won't want anything else. The sonic envelopment turns your car cabin into an immersive, engaging experience. Every time I hear a demo - be it in a Rivian, Cadillac, or Mercedes - it leaves me energized and excited. But up to this point, Dolby Atmos has only been available in luxury vehicles that have a whole array of speakers. Pioneer is changing that with the Sphera, an aftermarket in-dash receiver with a 10.1-inch capacitive screen that enables Dolby Atmos playback in Apple CarPlay. And it works with as few as four speakers installed in your car, creating the At …Read the full story at The Verge.

With Ubuntu, Debian, and other popular distributions shipping with stable desktop environments, the Linux ecosystem is more approachable than ever. But as much as I love the GUI enhancements to my favorite distros, I rely on the all-powerful Linux terminal a lot during my coding tasks and virtualization experiments. As such, I also keep my Linux virtual machines and bare-metal setups equipped with a couple of CLI tools, even when the system in question has a proper graphical interface.

At CES 2026, Intel revealed its Panther Lake Core Ultra Series 3 chip series, touting the line's efficiency and revamped, more powerful GPU architecture.

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer says the country will take action against X following reports that the platform's Grok AI chatbot is generating sexualized deepfakes of adults and minors, as reported earlier by The Telegraph and Sky News."It's disgusting," Starmer says during an interview with Greatest Hits Radio. "X need[s] to get their act together and get this material down. And we will take action on this because it's simply not tolerable." @ghrnews EXCLUSIVE: Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer tells us he "will take action" on "disgraceful and disgusting" reports around child abuse imagery on Elon Musk's Grok AI. It's as the Internet W …Read the full story at The Verge.

Raspberry Pi Connect is the shiny new way to access your Pi from outside your home network, but it is not the only option and not always the best fit. Maybe you want something that never depends on someone else’s cloud, or you just need a simple way to share your desktop on the local network.

After failing the first time, I knew I didn’t want to build my smart home at the mercy of someone else’s servers. From smart home hubs to devices, nearly everything felt cloud-dependent by design. Over time, I noticed the side effects of that — laggy responses, delayed or failed automations, and occasional device failures. Turning a light shouldn’t require a command to take a trip across the internet. But that’s what was happening.

There have been some great discounts on Samsung monitors lately. And while this might not be an Odyssey G9 OLED, it's still a fantastic monitor for someone looking for an ultrawide with a lot of performance that also doesn't cost a lot.

Well, it's time to get stuck in with 2026. Before we say goodbye to 2025, though, I think it's worth taking the time to look back at all the cool stuff that got made over the year. After all, we saw (and even made) some awesome DIY projects over the past year, and I think there are some that don't deserve to be forgotten. So, as one last hurrah to the world of ESP32 tinkerers in 2025, here are my favorite projects from that year.

When you set up a NAS, you naturally expect to grow it in size over the coming years by adding more drives, attaching an expansion unit, or upgrading to a bigger NAS. However, downsizing the NAS after using it for a few years isn’t that common — although I did manage to do it. I didn’t decide to downsize my NAS because I ran out of space or wanted to save money. The real reason for this downsizing operation was to make the NAS much more efficient than it already was. It was doing too much, and I wanted it to do only the things it was actually meant for and good at.

Synology was once the top recommendation when it came to Network-Attached Storage systems. However, that all started to change once the company started making small changes here and there, with some even being labeled as "anti-consumer".