Although the early Raspberry Pi units didn’t rank too high on the performance front, you’d often find folks relying on it for entry-level server tasks. Now, I’m well-aware that the Raspberry Pi wasn’t designed for home lab experiments, but these pint-sized boards were (and still are) more than enough to handle a couple of QoL containers, run cheap non-transcoding media servers, and even support Home Assistant setups involving a handful of devices.

Jellyfin for video, Navidrome for music, and Calibre-Web for ebooks — my home server felt like a nearly complete puzzle. It was clean, complete, and entirely mine. What was missing was an unorganized partition full of CBZ files that I had collected over the years, but never quite dealt with.

Local LLMs have turned into useful tools now and can easily handle tasks that you wouldn't have thought of even a year ago. The latest from Google is Gemma 4, and while there are four models in the family, each is tweaked for different tasks.

There is no shortage of apps you can put on an ESP32. In fact, it feels like someone creates a new app every week that pushes the microcontroller to its limits and achieves something really cool. There's just one problem: actually finding these apps can be a mess. They each have their own GitHub page, with wildly different names, and it can be difficult to find the one app you're looking for.

New Windows patches are supposed to promise stability and security, and fresh GPU drivers should be synonymous with better performance and optimization. In 2026, however, that "Download and Install" button feels like a random tile in Minesweeper, where you hope for the best and click.

On Tuesday, NASA announced several upcoming lunar missions to the Moon's South Pole region. These missions will pave the way for the crewed Artemis landing slated for 2028, starting with three Moon Base missions NASA says are "the first of more than a dozen missions that will be announced this year."Moon Base I, launching "no earlier than fall 2026," will use Blue Origin's Blue Moon Mark 1 Endurance lander to bring NASA payloads to the Moon, including the Stereo Camera for Lunar Plume-Surface Studies instrument and the Laser Retroreflective Array. NASA will use these "to study how thrusters interact with the Moon's surface" and help "orbi …Read the full story at The Verge.

We all know Windows 11 isn't perfect, but some of its quirks are most noticeable when you have a multi-monitor setup. For instance, something as simple as finding your cursor can get annoying when you have three monitors arranged neatly on your desk. Then, there are the headaches that come with managing windows across multiple displays. When you think about how much time you spend organizing windows before you can get to work, you'll wonder why Windows still makes you do so much of it manually.

It's possible that AI was used to write parts of Pope Leo XIV's latest encyclical about AI's impact on humanity. An analysis by Linch Zhang posted on the forum LessWrong found certain paragraphs of Magnifica Humanitas to be between 40 percent and 100 percent written by AI, according to the popular AI detector Pangram.The document includes known traits that appear in AI-generated writing, such as a higher use of the word "genuinely" - which crops up in writing by Anthropic's Claude - than previous encyclicals, Zhang says. Another person ran the text of the document section by section through Pangram, finding that 62 percent of its first cha …Read the full story at The Verge.

On Monday, Pope Leo XIV unveiled an encyclical letter addressing the societal implications of artificial intelligence. The letter, titled Magnifica Humanitas, warned that the "use of AI is never a purely technical matter: when it enters processes that affect people's lives, it touches on rights, opportunities, status and freedom." Alongside him was Anthropic cofounder and interpretability team lead Christopher Olah, representing a partnership between the Catholic Church and one of the biggest players in AI.The letter elicited a wide range of reactions from in and around the tech industry. Nearly everyone believed the document would be infl …Read the full story at The Verge.

I'm not sure if you've noticed, but PC and laptop prices have been pretty terrible the past few months. With the great AI rush causing people to vacuum up RAM sticks and storage by the dozen, there isn't much left for folks who want to build or purchase a new computer.

I didn’t start using Claude Code for 3D printing because I wanted it to slice models, tune profiles, or replace the judgment that comes from failed prints. I started using it because my 3D printing folders were slowly turning into a junk drawer with export files, old revisions, screenshots, slicer profiles, and half-finished project notes scattered everywhere. The printer was doing its job, but everything around the printer had become harder to manage than it needed to be. That made Claude Code feel less like a magic wand and more like a decent way to finally clean the workbench.

Visual Studio Code (or one of its many forks) is used by a huge number of developers, and the thing that makes it worth using isn't really the editor at all. It's the extensions which make it applicable to practically any workflow or language. There's one for seemingly every language and every framework, and extensions that transform it from a simple editor to a productivity tool instead. Installing those extensions is a single click from a marketplace Microsoft runs, and that marketplace is the whole reason VS Code won. But it's also the part that security researchers have been sounding alarm bells over for years.