What's better than a cool ESP32 project you can make at home? One which doesn't require any code, that's what. Someone created a handy day planner for their niece, and the best part is, everything is based on a template, meaning you don't have to do any coding to get this project running.

One of the big things I didn't like about Windows 11 was the right-click context menu. It was slow to open, you couldn't really mess with it, and you kept having to swap between the new menu and the old one to get anything done. Well, if one report is to be believed, that may soon be a thing of the past. Not only is Microsoft reportedly making the right-click context menu snappier, but you can tweak what's on it.

For most of the time I've spent on Windows 11, the search box has been simultaneously the fastest way to open an app and the slowest way to find what you're actually looking for. Multiple times a week, I type something into the search box and hit enter reflexively, and instead of opening the thing I wanted, it conjures something completely irrelevant that I did not search for. And this is with Bing search disabled.

Like most people, I can be quite bad at keeping the files on my PC organized. I've gotten better at it over time, but I have had some laptops running for years without a proper reset. Files have piled up, and they're scattered all over the place, so finding the exact one I want at any given time can be a nightmare.

Apple may allow users to pay to increase their AI usage limits. During an earnings call on Thursday, Apple CEO Tim Cook said that he believes people will want to use Apple Intelligence and the upcoming Siri AI "a lot," adding that "we will have some kind of upgrade possibilities on iCloud Plus where people can buy up the stack."This fall, Apple will broadly launch its long-delayed Siri AI with iOS 27, which can do things like answer questions about what's on your screen and take action across your apps. It also includes a new standalone Siri AI app that offers a ChatGPT-like interface. In June, Apple said that its AI features, including …Read the full story at The Verge.

As AI coding tools become a key part of people's workflows, the open-source scene is beginning to ask itself if AI-generated code belongs in its projects. Linus Torvalds has made his stand, claiming that AI-generated code is fine (as long as you're held accountable for its inputs), while Debian is currently debating whether to ban LLM outputs outright.

As much as I love using Linux these days, there's still a special spot in my heart for the Task Manager. Fortunately, if you're on macOS, the very man who created the Task Manager has decided to take a crack at making one for Apple devices. And if you're wondering why he'd do that instead of just using the Activity Monitor, there's a good reason for that; he doesn't like it.

Sony has received a lot of backlash from PlayStation fans since announcing that it's killing physical game disc production, but that hasn't swayed its decision. During Sony's latest earnings call, chief financial officer Lin Tao said that while the company "put in a lot of thought and time" when considering the opposition put forward by its gaming community, Sony has come to the conclusion that it will "cautiously move this forward.""There are various reasons we made this decision, the biggest being that the digitalization of content overall has been progressing, that's the big factor," Tao said through an interpreter. "It's not just for P …Read the full story at The Verge.

I might have more devices running Claude than the average user, but I’ve also got local LLMs on most of those to test against. But whichever AI tool I’m using, I rely on memory and chat history to keep my home lab and experiments in order.

Memory has become genuinely painful to buy over the last year, to the point that a DDR5 kit costs several times what the same capacity went for in 2024. That does odd things to how people think about the RAM they already own, and holding onto a platform you'd fully intended to replace starts looking less like stubbornness and more like basic math.

As much as I'd like to say that Linux is the best operating system out there and can do nothing wrong, the truth is, things do often go wrong. Such is the case with Linux Mint, which recently rolled out version 7.0.0-28 of the Linux kernel. Unfortunately, it seems that the update is causing chaos with some people's computers, but the good news is that it's easy to roll back to a previous kernel version.

Asha Sharma. | Image: The Verge, Microsoft After a massive Xbox "reset" that laid off thousands of employees and spun off four studios, Xbox CEO Asha Sharma wants to get Xbox back to growth. In a memo obtained by The Verge, Sharma told staff by the end of fiscal year 2027 (which runs through next June), "we will return XBOX to player and revenue growth." Xbox will also "improve profits back in line with industry averages," Sharma said. "Every function and studio will own part of that outcome."Since taking over Xbox in February, Sharma has made sweeping changes to attempt to turn things around. Previously, she has cited challenges like a low accountability margin, increasing compone …Read the full story at The Verge.