Why buy a handheld console when you can make your own? We've seen plenty of Raspberry Pi portable consoles in the past, ranging from the Steam Deck-esque to the truly "pocket-sized." But rarely do we see them come with two screens, akin to Nintendo's DS and 3DS systems.

Let me start by confessing my dislike for AI note-takers like Otter AI and Fireflies. They are undeniably useful, but also a privacy nightmare. All it takes is one teammate bringing one of these note-takers into a meeting, and suddenly everyone else is forced to deal with email notifications they never consented to. On top of that, they flood in-call chats with ongoing transcriptions. Reports have even alleged that Otter AI secretly records private work conversations.

To make the most of AMD's 3D V-Cache technology, you'll need to play some games that can fully leverage the additional cache and other improvements over standard AMD Ryzen CPUs. I've been messing around with the AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D inside my gaming rig, replacing the also brilliant Ryzen 9 9950X, to see how it impacts the games that I play. For a more in-depth look at the processor, I do highly recommend our Ryzen 9 9950X3D review, which also features some benchmarks, test runs, and plenty of graphs.

This is the laptop to get if you're looking to grab something for a special project or just need something that can handle the basics. It's nothing fancy, but the $150 price tag makes it an alluring purchase, and the fact that it's produced by Asus should put your mind at ease when it comes to the device's reliability.

When you're looking at motherboard features for your next PC build or upgrade, one of the most important specifications is how many PCIe lanes it supports, thanks to the combination of CPU and chipset. The better your motherboard, the more lanes you have for your graphics card, NVMe SSDs, and peripherals. But with modern consumer platforms from AMD and Intel, does stressing yourself out over how many PCIe lanes you have make sense? After all, both Ryzen 9000 and Arrow Lake have similar PCIe lane support. It's not quite as clear-cut as not having to worry, but there are still some pitfalls when you choose your motherboard that you'll need to be aware of.

With their remote monitoring, motion detection, PTZ control, and data storing provisions, Network Video Recorders are a great way to turn a bunch of IP cameras into a full-fledged surveillance system. Better yet, the self-hosting landscape is chock-full of cool NVR solutions that not only let you manage your security footage, but also preserve your privacy and money while doing so.

After the United Kingdom began enforcing its sweeping Online Safety Act in April, British regulator Ofcom served violation notices to three notorious sites: 4chan, Gab, and Kiwi Farms, each of which risked multimillion-dollar fines. Late last week, Preston Byrne, a First Amendment lawyer representing them, struck back. Byrne announced he would sue Ofcom in US federal court and added an unusual request. He called on the Trump administration "to invoke all diplomatic and legal levers available to the United States" to protect his clients from the OSA's reach.Byrne's request could put a trio of sites known as hotbeds of violence, harassment, …Read the full story at The Verge.

Ninja Gaiden is having a renaissance. The last mainline entry was originally released more than a decade ago, but by the end of 2025, there will be three new Ninja Gaiden titles. Two are 3D: Ninja Gaiden 2 Black, a modern-day remaster of Ninja Gaiden II released earlier this year, and Ninja Gaiden 4, co-developed by PlatinumGames and set to release in October. But there's a new 2D game, too. Ninja Gaiden: Ragebound is a retro-styled side-scrolling platformer from Dotemu and the developers of Blasphemous - and it absolutely rips.In Ragebound, you play as Kenji Mozu, a young ninja trained by usual series star Ryu Hayabusa. Early on, Kenji's …Read the full story at The Verge.

Upskilling is the need of the hour as AI starts taking over most tasks you'd accomplish on a laptop, but there's no rules that prevent me from using AI for said skill acquisition. However, my fundamental concern with the process lay in the evaluation—my newly acquired skill would be put to test in the real world right away, or an academic examination if you're a student. I sought a low-consequence test methodology with few variables in the evaluation phase to see if NotebookLM is any good at learning a new skill.

If you work on multiple projects with different clients, you probably know how difficult it is to manage files across external drives, network shares, Google Drive, and other cloud buckets. It's pretty annoying, inefficient, and definitely not what you expect file management to be in today's time.

Alright, let's make one thing clear — I'm not happy with the current gaming generation when it comes to consoles. As an exclusive PlayStation-plus-PC guy since the PS4, I was quick to buy a PS5, and slow to realize just how terribly short the list of true exclusives on that console was. Am I happy that a lot of PlayStation games are now on PC where I can enjoy them with better framerates and mods? Absolutely. At the same time, there's just something special about kicking back on the La-Z-Boy and taking in a brilliant 'PlayStation exclusive'.

In the past week, the President of the United States of America, Donald Trump, was in talks with the CEO of Intel, Lip-Bu Tan. We didn't hear much of what was going on, and while there were some speculations and claims as to what was going on around the negotiation table, we didn't hear of anything concrete. Well, now we have confirmation as to what was going on, as both the POTUS and Intel have broken the silence to say that the US government has acquired 10% of Intel's shares, seemingly for free.