If you're running Home Assistant, there's a good chance that you've built a dashboard or considered one. I get it; dashboards are great. However, a dashboard isn't always the best way to take quick actions on your Home Assistant instance. Most of the time, you're far away from the dashboard, so you reach for your phone. And sometimes, if you're a bit lazy like me, you don't want to pop open your Home Assistant app either. You want to tap once, take action, and then go back to whatever you were doing.

The Game Awards 2025 was a very exciting night for Star Wars fans who love to play video games. There were two new and upcoming projects announced during the awards show that are set in a galaxy far, far away. While the first takes us back to the era of the Old Republic with Star Wars: Fate of the New Republic, the second game announcement brings back a beloved sport to the Star Wars galaxy. It's time for fans to prepare their podracers and speeders, because Star Wars: Galactic Racing is coming in 2026.

There is an abundance of free encryption tools, but if you’re running Windows, BitLocker is the only tool most people need, especially for home use. Although its encryption function is only available on Windows Pro, Education, and Enterprise editions, the Windows Home edition can still access encrypted drives when given the proper authentication.

Running your own services feels great once the stack settles in. You have your containers lined up, your reverse proxy is stable, and your dashboards make you feel like you run a small data center from your living room. The trouble starts when you actually need to use all of it. Every service hides behind a different port, which means you end up with a forest of tabs, and things start to feel more scattered than they should. That is when you realize something important. The server is not your primary interface. The browser is.

I'll admit it; I have zero self-control when it comes to giving myself a treat after performing a task. I mean, sure, I could treat myself with something tasty after I've exercised, or I can just have the delicious snack now and just pretend that I did it. You know, because the treats are right there, and I can just take one easy-peasy.

My introduction to Sudan Archives was the song "Nont for Sale" from her first EP Sink in 2018. I've been a die-hard fan ever since. With each album, she finds new ways to sculpt the sound of her violin, contorting it in defiance of expectations. Athena found her in conversation with it, leaving its timbre largely recognizable and organic, veering from experimental pop to more ambient passages. Natural Brown Prom Queen embraced the aesthetics of sound collage, samples, and modern R&B, blending her violin with more expressly electronic elements. The BPM has identifiable violin passages, but it fully embraces the more technological elements o …Read the full story at The Verge.

Grok's track record is spotty at best. But even by the very low standards of xAI, its failure in the aftermath of the tragic mass shooting at Bondi Beach in Australia is shocking. The AI chatbot has repeatedly misidentified 43-year-old Ahmed al Ahmed, the man who heroically disarmed one of the shooters, and claimed the verified video of his deed was something else entirely - including that it was an old viral video of a man climbing a tree.In the aftermath of the attack, Ahmed has been widely praised for his heroism, but some have tried to dismiss or even deny his actions. Someone even quickly whipped up a fake news site that appears to be …Read the full story at The Verge.

Switching away from Adobe Acrobat wasn't something I planned, it was a necessity. After years of using it, I felt every update piled on more features, making the software feel heavier and slower. I constantly dealt with endless loading, unnecessary cloud services, and prompts I never asked for. Frankly, I just wanted a PDF reader that didn't slow me down.

If you ask me what the ideal Linux distro is for people trying to flee Windows, I'll point to Linux Mint. If you ask me what the ideal Linux distro is for people who have tried Linux Mint and want to explore deeper into what Linux can do, I'd recommend checking out a distro with KDE. I personally ended up settling with Fedora KDE, and now, every time I try out a new operating system, I try to get KDE up and running on it. Arch Linux became a lot easier to digest once I had all my familiar KDE tools at hand.

The 3i S10 Ultra is the flagship robot vacuum from Picea, the company that will own iRobot. iRobot, the owner of the Roomba robot vacuum, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, stating that it will be acquired by its contract manufacturer, Picea Robotics. The Chinese-based company assumed iRobot's $190 million loan earlier this month and, under the terms of iRobot's restructuring, will waive that debt, along with the $161.5 million iRobot owes it for manufacturing its robots. In return, Picea will own iRobot in its entirety.So, who is Picea? Shenzhen Picea Robotics, also known as 3irobotix, is one of the largest original design manufacturers (ODM) of robot vacuums. The logos of iRobot, Shark, and Anker (which owns the Eufy vacuum b …Read the full story at The Verge.

After 35 years, the maker of the Roomba robot vacuum filed for bankruptcy protection late Sunday night. Following warnings issued earlier this year that it was fast running out of options, iRobot says it is entering Chapter 11 protection and will be acquired by its contract manufacturer, China-based Picea Robotics.The company says it will continue to operate "with no anticipated disruption to its app functionality, customer programs, global partners, supply chain relationships, or ongoing product support." This should mean that, at least for now, your Roomba will continue cleaning your floors just as it did before.The Massachusetts-based …Read the full story at The Verge.

If you thought the GPU shortage of 2021 was a headache, we are currently watching hardware OEMs feed the insatiable hunger of artificial intelligence. AI isn't fun chatbots and image generation trends anymore, because it is worryingly vacuuming up every silicon wafer usable for RAM available on Earth, well into 2026. It has directly caused fabs to retool and pump out HBM (High Bandwidth Memory) frantically for Nvidia’s latest accelerators because that’s where the profits are greatest, so much so that Micron, the company behind the Crucial brand of SSDs, shut its consumer-facing operations to focus on AI hardware demand.