Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is getting ready to dump even more AI-generated posts into your social feeds. During an earnings call on Wednesday, Zuckerberg said the company will “add yet another huge corpus of content” to its recommendations system as AI “makes it easier to create and remix” work that gets shared online.“Social media has gone through two eras so far,” Zuckerberg said. “First was when all content was from friends, family, and accounts that you followed directly. The second was when we added all of the Creator content.” Though Zuckerberg stops short of calling AI the third era of social media, it’s clear that the technology will be heavily involved in what comes next.Zuckerberg said that recommendation systems that “deeply understand” AI-generated posts and “show you the right content” will become “increasingly valuable.” The company has already begun embedding AI tools across its apps and is now experimenting with dedicated AI social apps, too.Meta CFO Susan Li said people generated over 20 billion images within the company’s new Vibes app, which serves up a feed of AI-generated videos, similar to OpenAI’s Sora. “I think that Vibes is an example of a new content type enabled by AI, and I think that there are more opportunities to build many more novel types of content ahead,” Zuckerberg added.Meta reported revenue of $51.24 billion this quarter, up 26 percent year over year, but took a one-time $15.93 billion tax charge associated with President Donald Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill.

It's no secret that we at XDA love the Steam Deck and a good home lab. So it was inevitable we'd find a way to combine them both. In fact, we've already used a Steam Deck as a home server. But that's far from the only use for a Steam Deck in your home lab environment.

I self-host a lot of different services, and one of the most common ways to organize that kind of collection is to self-host a dashboard like Homepage or Homarr. While I've tried those out, I haven't really managed to stick with them. However, there's one that has stuck with me so far, and that's Dashwise. Dashwise is an all-new self-hosted dashboard for your home lab and other services, and it shows a lot of promise as being a go-to home dashboard in the future.

If your old Windows 10 laptop is starting to feel sluggish, switching to a lightweight Linux distribution might be the best way to extend its usefulness. These systems are designed to run smoothly on modest hardware while offering a clean, modern experience.

I like to believe I have more than sufficient storage on my PC. A 2TB SSD and a 4TB HDD are not what you expect to see on a system with storage concerns. However, I was running out of space on my SSD — I observed that the free space on the drive kept dropping every few weeks. At first, I checked the storage settings to see what was occupying all the space, and even manually checked the folders on all the partitions. After my search went nowhere, I saw fellow users mentioning WizTree on several Reddit posts. I have used third-party storage analyzers before, but WizTree is by far the best of the bunch.

Google's NotebookLM is hands down my favorite AI tool. Frankly, it's also my go-to productivity companion. It's packed with genuinely useful features and stands out from every other AI app I've tried. Thanks to its source-grounded nature, it doesn't hallucinate nearly as often as most AI models do.

Xbox sales have been tanking for a while now — and the story hasn’t gotten any brighter. Microsoft just released its Q1 2026 earnings and Xbox hardware revenue was down 29 percent year-over-year. Last quarter, it was down 22 percent. Down 29 percent in the first two quarters of 2025, down 42 percent in Q4 of 2024… You get the picture. As tariffs and inflation take their toll, Microsoft has dramatically increased the prices on its gaming hardware, with the Series X now starting at $599.99. Microsoft’s response has been to deemphasize the console and pursue an “Xbox everywhere” strategy. That has yielded some success on the content and services front, though revenue there was largely flat this quarter, only growing one percent year over year.Microsoft would obviously like to see more growth there. The company has reportedly been pursuing dramatic 30 percent profit margins there, leading to layoffs and cancelled projects. But the company’s outlook for Q2 isn’t much rosier. It expects Xbox hardware revenue to continue to decline, and content and services to continue low-single digits growth. Microsoft did see hardware growth from Windows OEM and Devices, with revenue increasing a modest 6 percent year over year. The company stopped reporting Surface earnings separately, so it’s unclear how those devices are performing. They had been on a steady decline for several years.It’s Azure and cloud services that remain the driving force behind Microsoft’s ascent. The growth of its intelligent cloud services is substantial. Revenue increased 28 percent year over year to $30.9 billion, with Azure specifically growing 40 percent. More broadly, Microsoft Cloud revenue was $49.1 billion, an increase of 26 percent from Q1 2025. The company’s cloud divisions and Azure have been growing steadily for several years now. In total, Microsoft reported $77.7 billion in revenue for the quarter, up 18 percent from the same time last year. And its net income was $27.7 billion, up 12 percent. While those increases are largely driven by the company’s various cloud offerings, its productivity and business processes still account for a significant portion of its income ($33 billion).Update, October 29th: This article was updated with details from Microsoft’s earnings call. The headline was also updated to specify that it was hardware sales that were down.

Kat Abughazaleh, who has announced a campaign for Illinois' 9th Congressional District, carries yard signs into her campaign office Kat Abughazaleh, a 26-year-old Palestinian American and Democratic candidate for Congress in the 9th District of Illinois, has been indicted by the Department of Justice on charges connected to protests outside an ICE facility. The indictment alleges that Abughazaleh and a handful of other protesters conspired on the morning of September 26th to prevent an ICE agent “from discharging the duties of his office, and to injure him in his person or property.”The indictment accuses Abughazaleh and the other protesters named in it of banging on an ICE agent’s car and attempting to stop it from entering an ICE facility by physically surrounding it, scratching the word “PIG” into the car, breaking a side mirror, and breaking off a rear windshield wiper. As MSNBC reports, other defendants include Michael Rabbitt, a Cook County Democratic Committee member, and Cat Sharp, a candidate for the Cook County Board of Commissioners, and the charges of assaulting an officer can carry prison sentences of up to eight years.A video of Abughazaleh being thrown to the ground by an ICE agent outside the Broadview facility went viral in September, and on the same morning as the incident cited in the indictment, she posted a video on X of her and other protesters surrounding an ICE vehicle. As MSNBC notes, in recent weeks, right-wing accounts have repeatedly posted about her videos, calling for her to be arrested and tagging US Attorney General Pam Bondi. At the same time, Trump has said that Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson should be jailed for allegedly “failing to protect” ICE officers. The Trump Administration has also charged or threatened criminal charges against others who’ve opposed his agenda, including former FBI Director James Comey, New York Attorney General Letitia James, and New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani. Abughazaleh, who has a background as a journalist and influencer on social media channels like Twitch, posted a video today responding to the indictment, stating:“This is a political prosecution, and a gross attempt to silence dissent, a right protected under the First Amendment. This case is a major push by the Trump administration to criminalize protest and punish anyone who speaks out against them. That’s why I’m going to fight these unjust charges.”Abughazaleh goes on to note that “ICE has hit, dragged, thrown, shot with pepper balls, and teargassed hundreds of protesters.” She also calls out the Trump administration for “weaponizing the federal justice system” to scare protesters, but vows “we’re not going to be silent.” “This case targets our rights to protest, speak freely, and associate with anyone who disagrees with the government.” 

Chromebooks are a favorite among professionals and students alike, but one of their best traits is that they come with all kinds of budgets in mind. If you're in school and want something that won't break the bank, there are plenty of Chromebooks for students that keep costs low.

The Castlevania series is one of the most beloved and iconic action game and horror-themed franchises of all-time. Many people love the different iterations of the series that put players in the role of a vampire hunter standing against the forces of darkness led by the infamous vampire, Dracula. Whether it was the games on the NES, the iconic entries on the PlayStation, or any other modern-day video game console release, Castlevania games have been a staple of the action genre and continue to be very popular, especially during the Halloween season. But while the games have been front-runners of challenging and fun action games, their horror-inspired roots go pretty deep for those who love horror storytelling, and especially classic horror movies from throughout the decades.

Running a self-hosted stack feels great. You spin up your first container, set up your first Nginx reverse proxy, maybe a Plex or Jellyfin server. It all feels great running your server, owning your hardware, software stack, data, and defining your own rules. Except when it comes crashing down. Trust me, as a seasoned self-hoster, even I'm guilty of losing track of what's happening under the hood. As your stack grows, containers crash, memory spikes happen, hard disks or SSDs start filling up, and you find yourself SSH-ing into your machine trying to make sense of everything.

The new Vision Pro with M5 offers some improvements over the original. Apple's Vision Pro remains the best VR headset by a mile, and there are many moments when it feels magical to use. I love staring at 3D photos, watching movies on huge screens, and working across a bunch of floating windows. But I noticed something weird after I wrote my first review in 2024: I took the headset off, put it back in its box, and didn't put it back on again.The new M5 model remains a very good headset, now slightly faster and more comfortable than its predecessor. But I've still found it hard to return to instead of just watching a movie on my iPhone or TV, or working right from my Mac. It requires putting something on my hea …Read the full story at The Verge.