Being able to copy and paste across all my devices is really important to me, but unfortunately, it is not that straightforward. I often find myself scrambling to get the text I copied on my computer over to my phone. I use an Android phone and a MacBook, so the interconnectivity between the two is minimal. Things were not much better when I was using a Windows PC. Back then, I often emailed text to myself or pasted it into Google Keep just to copy it from there.

It’s almost time for Geoff Keighley’s next major gaming show. The 2025 edition of Gamescom’s Opening Night Live event kicks off at 2PM ET today, and you can watch everything on the official livestream on The Game Awards’ YouTube channel. Ahead of the main event, there will also be a preshow at 1:30PM ET featuring “multiple new game announcements.”Keighley has already teased a bunch of the games that will be featured, including Call of Duty: Black Ops 7, Resident Evil Requiem, Ghost of Yōtei, and Ninja Gaiden 4. It seems like there’s even going to be an announcement about the highly anticipated Hollow Knight: Silksong, which has been in development for years and is set to launch sometime in 2025. Expect some kind of announcement about the second season of Prime Video’s Fallout TV show, which premieres in December. There will even be a live performance of the excellent music from Clair Obscur: Expedition 33.

Remakes are a mixed bag. Sometimes they get the love and attention the source material deserves, and sometimes they're very clearly a quick cash-in to fill the coffers in the name of nostalgia. Fortunately, the games in the former camp usually do things so well, they stand the test of time and reintroduce an old favorite to a new audience.

Apple secures a victory in its fight against the UK’s encryption access demands. The United Kingdom will no longer force Apple to provide backdoor access to secure user data protected by the company’s iCloud encryption service, according to US Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard.“Over the past few months, I’ve been working closely with our partners in the UK, alongside @POTUS and @VP, to ensure Americans’ private data remains private and our Constitutional rights and civil liberties are protected,” Gabbard posted to X on Monday. “As a result, the UK has agreed to drop its mandate for Apple to provide a ‘back door’ that would have enabled access to the protected encrypted data of American citizens and encroached on our civil liberties.”This announcement follows the UK issuing a secret order in January this year, demanding Apple provide it with backdoor access to encrypted files uploaded by users worldwide. In response, Apple pulled the ability for new users in the UK to sign up to its Advanced Data Protection (ADP) encrypted iCloud storage offering, and challenged the order, winning the right to publicly discuss the case in April. Earlier this year, US officials started examining whether the UK order had violated the bilateral CLOUD Act agreement, which bars the UK and US from issuing demands for each other’s data.This pressure from the US sparked reports last month that Britain would walk back the demands it issued to Apple, with one unnamed UK official telling the Financial Times that the UK “had its back against the wall,” and was looking for a way out. While it’s unclear if the UK would negotiate new terms with Apple that avoid implicating the data of US citizens, an unnamed US official told The Financial Times that such negotiations would not be faithful to the new agreement.With the order now reportedly removed, it’s unclear if Apple will restore access to its ADP service in the UK. We have reached out to Apple for comment. The UK Home Office has refused to comment on the situation.

Running K3s on a Raspberry Pi has been one of the most rewarding projects I’ve tried in my home lab. The lightweight nature of K3s makes it perfect for a Raspberry Pi cluster, and it allows me to run applications in a way that is both resilient and easy to manage. Over time, I’ve experimented with several different workloads, and some of them have become permanent fixtures in my setup. Here are five of the most useful applications I’ve deployed.

There are few experiences that can eclipse that of firing up a new GPU and getting to see your favorite titles in newfound visual fidelity, or feeling your workflow efficiency increase significantly. Before that, however, like with any new component, installing drivers is necessary. Most settings that come stock with a fresh driver install will be good for most people, and that's the goal for Nvidia, Intel and AMD: to have a set of default settings that will cause the least number of issues for users out of the box.

Despite my fair share of complaints from the ninth console generation in general, a lack of fantastic horror games isn't nearly one of them. Between RE8 and the remake for 4, along with Silent Hill 2's incredible remake, Alan Wake 2, we've had some major AAA survival horror games absolutely nail it, and things don't seem to be slowing down one bit, either.

After years of tinkering with computing devices, I’ve accumulated huge volumes of data – including photos from my childhood, movies I’ve bought over the last decade, and the ebook library I’ve painstakingly built. As if that’s not enough, the other denizens of my household also create GBs of data every month. Luckily, I’ve got a reliable set of self-hosted applications to help me manage all these files.

I'll never forget how it felt logging into good old Windows XP in my elementary school's computer lab. Maybe some would say XP was "ugly" by today's standards, but I'll always have nostalgia for it, with its iconic rolling fields wallpaper and vibrant blue and green UI. Modern Windows is dull by comparison.

I bought a 3D printer a few years ago, primarily with the aim of printing functional items to use around the house. It has served that purpose extremely well and has even helped me save a few bucks over the years. In fact, I've also fixed a lot of broken items around the house by printing parts with my 3D printer. All of this is in addition to the various laptop accessories and PC parts that I keep printing on and off. While all of this is super useful, I've also felt limited in terms of what I can print. Don't get me wrong — there are tens of thousands of models available on lots of online websites and databases. But all of these are how the original creator of the design wanted them to be.

When using Linux, you're bound to fire up a terminal session at some point. Whether it's to dabble with some commands to see how you fare, learn something new, or troubleshoot an issue that the GUI is unable to assist with. Although many would love to believe you can solely use Linux without touching the command line interface (CLI), that's simply not the case, even in 2025. Thankfully, there are some cool tools available to help you should you encounter the dreaded terminal.

One thing I really admire about Raspberry Pi as a collective is how cheap the hardware can get. Grabbing a Raspberry Pi SBC can be both a powerful and affordable way to get started with DIY tinkering. So, every time the foundation brings out something new, I'm always keen to see what's next on the docket.