Anyone who knows me knows how much I love ultrawide monitors. I've been using one since the form factor first launched, and I currently have two 34-inch models side by side on my desk. They make me more productive, and they're immersive when I get the chance to play games.

I'm sure most of us are obsessed with AMD's X3D CPUs at this point. It's an easy recommendation for gamers, and I totally get why. Ever since I ditched my 5900X for a 5800X3D, I've been a huge fan myself because it finally allowed my RTX 4090 to stretch its legs at 1440p. It's why I upgraded to the 9800X3D recently, even though I didn't necessarily need it. When you see that kind of uplift in FPS and GPU usage firsthand, it's hard not to want to chase it again.

As a home labber, I’ve always been an advocate for running services on my local hardware instead of relying on cloud platforms. And my stance on FOSS tools hasn’t changed even after I started running large language models. If anything, I’ve grown to love the 9B and 12B LLMs I’ve deployed on my server nodes, as I don’t have to worry about external firms gaining access to all the documents and log files I upload to my models.

GPUs today are absurdly powerful, and there's no denying it. Even mid-range cards can brute-force their way through games that would've melted high-end hardware just a few years ago. And yet, despite all that raw horsepower, we're still nudged into tweaking settings just to get the "right" experience. Be it lower latency, smoother frame pacing, better power behavior, or fewer hitches, we all have to dive into our GPU's driver settings, looking for toggles we just found out exist.

Apple's Mac Mini now starts at $799 after the company pulled the $599 option with 256GB of storage from its online store, as spotted earlier by MacRumors. The model's discontinuation comes just one day after Apple CEO Tim Cook said during an earnings call that a chip shortage will impact its Mac products in the coming months."If you look forward to June, the majority of our supply constraints will be on several Mac models," Cook said. "We think looking forward that the Mac Mini and the Mac Studio may take several months to reach supply-demand balance." He added that both devices saw "higher-than-expected demand" as well, with many people b …Read the full story at The Verge.

Microsoft is launching a new AI agent inside Word that's specifically designed for legal teams. Legal Agent handles document edits, negotiation history, and complex documents to help legal teams handle tasks like reviewing contracts."Instead of relying on general AI models to interpret commands, the agent follows structured workflows shaped by real legal practice, managing clearly defined, repeatable tasks like reviewing contracts clause by clause against a playbook," explains Sumit Chauhan, corporate vice president of Microsoft's Office Product Group. The Legal Agent can work with existing documents that have tracked changes, and analyz …Read the full story at The Verge.

Smart home displays like the Echo Show or Google Nest Hub are notorious for being underpowered, laggy, and filled with ads. Without even realizing it, you've got a better alternative: sitting in a junk drawer already at home. Your old Pixel 6 has a Tensor chip, a high-refresh-rate OLED screen, and a battery that also can be bypassed for straight power from the USB port. The Google Pixel is the ultimate sleeper smart home device.

Building a smart home that responds in less than a second is no joke. Take it from someone who wrestled with Amazon Echo and Apple HomePod to build a smart home that fires commands and automations after a couple of seconds. And that too, if they worked at all.

The Dyson Spot + Scrub Ai is Dyson’s first combination robot vacuum and mop. | Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge I'm deeply conflicted about the Dyson Spot + Scrub Ai robot vacuum and mop. It's the company's best robotic floor cleaner to date, with excellent mopping performance, good navigation and obstacle detection, and a multifunction dock that takes much of the busywork off your hands. But Dyson's first attempt at a vacuum-and-mop combo is a worse vacuum than its predecessors, and that's because there's no Dyson motor in this vacuum.You read that right. For $1,200, the Spot + Scrub doesn't get you a Dyson vacuum; instead, you're getting a third-party motor and brush system. "It's not one of our V10 motors, it's one of our partner technologies," N …Read the full story at The Verge.

Jellyfin is one of those self-hosted apps that can look simple at first glance, especially if you only use it as a place to dump movies and TV shows.

If you need a high-performance gaming monitor on the cheap, then this one from Asus is going to be right up your alley. It features a 380Hz refresh rate, 0.03ms response time, along with a host of other features that should make gaming a true pleasure.

For more than two decades now, Adobe has unilaterally dominated the image and video editing space, and it bothers me as a hobbyist photographer. Photoshop, Lightroom CC, and Lightroom Classic are the industry standard for photo management and RAW file processing, and I wouldn't mind paying per download, but no. Adobe milks its users with a monthly subscription fee.