I used to treat the VS Code Marketplace like an endless toolbox. Whenever I wanted a new shortcut, visual tweak, or small improvement, I would search for an extension and install it. Over time, that left me with a setup packed with tools I barely remembered adding. I recently decided to take a different approach and see what happened if I removed most of them. Instead of trying to build the perfect extension collection, I wanted to see how far VS Code could take me on its own. The result was more interesting than I expected, and it made me question how much customization I actually needed.

I've used virtually every Jellyfin client app currently available. Of course, new ones keep popping up every day. One of the awesome things about the Jellyfin community is that there's always something new to try. While some alternative apps focus on a single media type or platform, like Findroid for video or Jellybox for music, Pelagica delivers all of my media in a lightweight UI.

As Linux distros decide whether LLM-generated content is allowed in code commits, we've seen people leave over disagreements about what they can and can't do. When Debian voted on whether to allow AI code in submissions, one developer quit after the community voted to allow LLM-generated code by a decisive margin. Now, we're seeing a reverse situation where a contributor to Void Linux has orphaned over 100 packages because it had banned AI-generated content.

For some people, "classic" World of Warcraft includes everything pre-Burning Crusade, and that's that. As such, when Blizzard announced that World of Warcraft: Classic would slowly progress through all the expansions, disgruntled gamers went back to private servers to relive the 'true' classic experience.

This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on cars, data privacy, and autonomous vehicles, follow Andrew J. Hawkins. The Stepback arrives in our subscribers' inboxes at 8AM ET. Opt in for The Stepback here.How it startedEarlier this year, the Federal Trade Commission issued an unprecedented penalty against General Motors: a five-year ban on selling customer data to consumer reporting agencies and third-party data brokers. For years, GM had been collecting all sorts of data on its customers - such as how often they sped or whether they drove at night - and selling it to brok …Read the full story at The Verge.

There are always things you only realize you need until you actually get your hands on them. The tech world is particularly guilty of this.

The storage economy is playing a cruel joke on consumers right now. If you've scrolled through Amazon, BestBuy or Newegg listings recently, you'll know that somehow, M.2 NVMe SSD prices have gone up faster than the NVDA ticker on NASDAQ. A PCIe 4.0 Samsung 990 Pro 1TB will set you back $240, up from a retail price of $89 in 2024. Meanwhile, NAND contract prices rose by 55% over the previous quarter in Q2 2026 alone.

When you see a motherboard with three or four M.2 slots, it's easy to assume that you can fill all of them if you ever need more storage down the line. After all, the manufacturer confidently advertises all those slots on the product page, so there's no reason to think otherwise. And when they all look the same under the motherboard's heatsink, there's a good chance you don't even think about which one you install your second SSD in.

Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 143, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you're new here, welcome, new tech season is here, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I've been devouring every iPhone Duo video I can find, clicking on the wonderful websites nominated for this year's Tiny Awards, catching up on the excellent Onimusha: Way of the Sword, reading Wildwood ahead of the upcoming movie, watching the new Taskmaster series, coming to grips with Link's new look in the Ocarina of Time remake, and fixing the flat tire on my toddler's stroller. I'm very proud of that …Read the full story at The Verge.

When you’re trying to run a handful of prompts through local large language models, most folks tend to stick to the querying interface that ships with their inference engine. Or, you’re probably an Open WebUI user who relies on this self-hosted platform for everything from harnessing MCP servers to adding images, text, and audio samples while querying your local LLMs.

Back in 1992, AT&T paid an expert witness to spend over 400 hours assessing Berkeley's version of Unix line by line, and what he returned with amounted to 186 lines of code, when Berkeley's own release amounted to roughly 1.5 million lines. That was what was considered to be the meaningful code overlap at the center of a lawsuit that dragged on for 22 months and, arguably, decided which free Unix we all ended up running.

For six weeks, I left my ISP’s gateway in a drawer and used a white, dinner-plate-sized Cisco Aironet 2802i instead. It cost less than a large pizza. Like many home lab enthusiasts point out, old enterprise hardware can be ridiculously capable for very little money. The catch is that it’s built differently.