Mercedes-Benz CEO Ola Källenius is the eternal optimist, and for good reason. He has long pushed the European Union to roll back its lofty goal of phasing out new internal combustion engine cars, arguing that weakening the rules was a return to pragmatism and not capitulation to opponents of Europe's green agenda.His push is working. The rigid deadlines for phasing out combustion engines after 2035 are "no longer feasible," Källenius told The Verge in a recent interview, given infrastructure bottlenecks and the sluggish adoption of EVs by consumers. More flexibility was needed to protect jobs and competitiveness, give consumers greater cho …Read the full story at The Verge.

I've rage-quit Notion at least seven times. Every time I open it, I'm greeted by a database I swear I'll maintain this time, followed by the creeping dread that I've overcomplicated my own thinking. I assumed the problem was me, that I just wasn't disciplined enough to keep up with the systems I built.

You know, it didn't feel like it was that long ago since we saw the GeForce RTX 50 series cards selling for some nasty inflated prices. Fortunately, those days are now over, and we're beginning to see sales for these GPUs where the price actually goes below the MSRP, which is a relief. So, if you've always wanted to pick up an RTX 5070, Walmart currently has them at $60 lower than the asking price, so be sure to grab one before they're gone.

I've run a Jellyfin server for several months now. It's been a huge help in cutting down on streaming costs, especially for comfort shows I fall asleep to. After all, who wants to pay a subscription just to watch Friends? Optimizing and maintaining the server has been a learning experience, but the great thing about Jellyfin is that anyone, even a complete beginner, can start a server and learn the ins and outs of it over time. That said, there are a few lessons I learned the hard way that I wish I had known before I set the server up. The time I spent figuring out the cause of the problems could have been better spent watching multiple movies.

I really love little gadgets that float. I know that under the hood, there are magnets working away to create the effect, but seeing a little floating thing still makes those child-like wonder neurons light up in my brain. So, when I saw that someone was using this tech in their ESP32 project, I had to report on it.

Unless you've been living under a rock for the past few years, Grand Theft Auto 6 is coming out soon. Although Rockstar Games had to delay its release a few times, the game is going to cause massive waves across the gaming industry. But as excited as everyone is for when GTA 6 finally arrives on consoles and PC, there's something that everyone will eventually have to think about. What happens next after GTA 6 is finally out? The next game that Rockstar begins to develop is going to be a big deal, and just as a follow-up to the latest entry in the Grand Theft Auto series.

So Microsoft has a little bit of a PR problem on its hands right now. We're seeing signs of Microsoft wanting to make an agentic Windows experience, including the President of Windows flat-out saying they want it. The thing is, people aren't as happy with these changes as Microsoft may like.

Putting smart home devices on their own VLAN sounds like a pretty straightforward task on paper. You isolate your IoT gadgets, and as a result, you tighten security and keep your main network free of noise. In practice, it’s a lot messier and more complicated than that.

Jeff Bezos is getting a new job. He’ll reportedly become co-CEO of Project Prometheus, a new startup that he’s partly funding. The company’s exact plans are still unknown, but its focus is on AI that could improve manufacturing in fields including computing, automobiles, and aerospace.The New York Times reports that Project Prometheus is already one of the better funded early-stage start-ups in the world, with $6.2 billion in investment, in part from Bezos himself. In addition to financing the venture, he’ll help run the company together with co-founder Vik Bajaj. He’s a physicist and chemist who once worked at Google X, the company’s experimental “moonshot factory,” before running health tech company Verily, an Alphabet-owned venture spun out of that division.Project Prometheus reportedly has nearly 100 employees already, including former staff from OpenAI, DeepMind, and Meta. With Bezos now among them, this will be his first formal operational role at a company since he stepped down as Amazon CEO in 2021, though since then he’s taken a keen interest in his SpaceX rival Blue Origin, which last week completed the first successful landing of its New Glenn booster. 

I've never invested in home network upgrades that require a new router, PCIe NIC, or mesh system. My ISP's router isn't exactly the best, but it does an okay job of covering the entire apartment. The only thing I've added to my ISP-provided fiber setup is a cheap mini UPS for the router. Long power cuts are very rare in my area, but brief cuts lasting a few minutes still happen a handful of times every month. The fiber connection itself stays online, but the router needs power before the central backup power kicks in. This makes the $20 router UPS one of the best upgrades I've ever made to my home network.

When you get into self-hosting, you'll start to realize that remembering different ports and IP addresses for your services and home lab can get frustrating. For many, the solution is to set up a self-hosted dashboard to easily sort and manage shortcuts to these services. But this requires additional configuration and troubleshooting. Plus, if you're self-hosting on a device with limited resources, you may what to limit how many additional services you add.

Girls like pink and peach, right? That Sky Sports felt the need to launch a TikTok channel specifically marketed towards women and billed as its “lil sis” was questionable enough. But once people got a taste of the content on Halo, it was clear the company had absolutely no idea what it was doing. Halo didn’t focus on women’s sports, nor did it seem to be doing a good job of elevating female voices in a male-dominated business. Instead, it slapped pink sparkly letters on videos, talked about “hot girl walks,” matcha, and posted shipping memes. Unsurprisingly, the backlash was swift and strong. The Barbification of its sports coverage was called infantilizing, patronizing, sexist, and misogynistic. After just three days, Sky deleted all of Halo’s posts and announced it would be ceasing activity on the account.Head of audience development and social media at Sky Sports, Andy Gill, posted on LinkedIn that he, “couldn’t be prouder and more excited about this launch. Proud, because this has been driven by the women in our team…” However, it seems hard to believe, considering the outcry from female sports fans, that Halo’s development was actually driven by the women at the company.View Link