Picture this: you've picked out case fans you like, installed enough for your PC case, and oriented them correctly, yet your gaming PC seems to be overheating and throttling under high loads. What's more, your fans seem to be twitchy, ramping up at the littlest tasks when still mostly idle at the desktop.

Sharing your location on Chrome for Android is a very all-or-nothing move. A website will either have no idea where you are, or it will get to know your exact location down to where you're standing on the street you're on. But sometimes you don't need to give a service your precise coordinates; sometimes a vague general area will do just fine.

For years, Denuvo DRM was positioned as the ultimate boss in the piracy battle — an ever-evolving system that could keep games uncracked long enough to secure their most valuable sales window. For the longest time, it even worked.

The next update to Apple's operating systems could allow users to choose their preferred AI model for running Apple Intelligence. According to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, Apple is planning to allow third-party chatbots to power its AI features system-wide in iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27, all expected for this fall. In addition to running Siri, compatible third-party AI models, called "Extensions," will also now be able to run other Apple Intelligence features like Writing Tools and Image Playground. According to Gurman, Apple will also allow users to choose different Siri voices for different AI models - Siri responses from one of Apple's …Read the full story at The Verge.

Proxmox has a way of making a home lab feel more professional than it really is. You get a clean web interface, neatly named VMs, tidy storage views, and enough knobs to convince yourself the whole thing is under control. That confidence is useful because it keeps you building instead of second-guessing every decision. It can also hide some very ordinary mistakes until the day something breaks loudly.

Apple has agreed to pay $250 million to settle a class action lawsuit that accused it of misleading customers about the availability of its Apple Intelligence features. The proposed settlement would apply to people in the US who purchased all models of the iPhone 16 and the iPhone 15 Pro between June 10th, 2024 and March 29th, 2025.People who submit qualifying claims can receive $25 for each eligible device, "which may decrease or increase up to $95 per device, depending on claim volume and other factors," according to Clarkson Law Firm, the legal team behind the class action lawsuit. The settlement will resolve a 2025 lawsuit, alleging …Read the full story at The Verge.

Google Home users can now ask Gemini to complete more complex, multi-step tasks and combine multiple tasks in a single command. Google has updated Gemini for Home to Gemini 3.1, which it says will improve the smart home assistant's ability to interpret and act on requests. The upgrade will also make Gemini for Home better at handling recurring and all-day events and allow users to "move around" upcoming events. Last month, Google also updated Gemini for Home with improvements for understanding natural language and identifying devices correctly. The upgrades follow reports of bugs in Google's new smart home assistant, like confusing differe …Read the full story at The Verge.

Xbox is "winding down Copilot on mobile" and "will stop development of Copilot on console," new Xbox CEO Asha Sharma announced on Tuesday. The move follows Sharma's reorganization of the Xbox platform team earlier on Tuesday, which added executives from Microsoft's CoreAI team - where Sharma worked before taking over Xbox - to the Xbox side of the company.Sharma, on X:Xbox needs to move faster, deepen our connection with the community, and address friction for both players and developers.Today, we promoted leaders who helped build Xbox, while also bringing in new voices to help push us forward. This balance is important as we get th …Read the full story at The Verge.

I've been paying for Claude Pro for a while now. And that's not a complaint, I use it enough that the cost makes sense…on paper at least. But I also have Gemini open half the time, Qwen running locally almost every day, and a couple of other AI tools in rotation, none of which I'm paying for. So the math gets fuzzy when I start to think about it. There's always that background hum of "is the subscription actually giving me something I don't already have?"

Given that everyone's been talking about Claude Code lately (even people who once dismissed AI coding tools entirely), your feed is likely flooded with posts about the ideal setup, hidden tips and tricks, and underrated features you're supposedly missing out on. We at XDA are no exception. We absolutely love Claude, and we're always writing about ways to get the most out of your subscription.

If you're an Xbox fan, this is definitely good news.

Somewhere between the power jack and Ethernet ports on your router lies a lonely USB port or two. Most of the time, these sit dormant, and remain unused for the lifespan of the router, and most people assume it's for firmware updates via a USB stick, or maybe just for powering a small accessory. In reality, on most modern consumer routers, that port can turn a spare USB drive into a basic network share accessible by every device in your home. It's not glamorous, and it's nowhere near a proper NAS, but for the right use cases, it's a genuinely useful trick hiding in hardware you already own.