Halloween approaches, and the spooky season is in full swing. It's the perfect time to download and play many of the games that fill up the horror genre and provide plenty of scares for every kind of player out there. Luckily for PlayStation console owners, there's a ton of great games to browse through and play for the spooky holiday. Whether you want something to scare the pants off you, or just something that can have tons of ghouls around, there's no shortage of horror-themed games to dive into.

In most home networks, a router’s DHCP service automatically assigns IP addresses to the devices, requiring little to no manual setup. That worked fine at first in my home, but over time, I began running into connectivity issues, IP conflicts, and unreliable access to devices across the network. While DHCP's dynamic IP address assignment was convenient, it wasn’t reliable for my setup. So I decided to switch my home network from DHCP to static IPs for devices in my home to gain more control and ensure consistent connectivity across the network.

xAI’s Grokipedia, its Wikipedia-like online encyclopedia, is now live. The similarities go deeper than expected.Grokipedia’s design is pretty basic right now; like Wikipedia, the homepage is mostly just a big search bar, and entries resemble very basic Wikipedia entries, with headings, subheadings, and citations. I haven’t seen any photos on the site yet. Wikipedia lets users edit pages, but it doesn’t appear that users can currently do that on Grokipedia; a big edit button at the top only appeared on a few pages for me, and when I clicked the button, it only showed edits that had already been completed without specifying who is actually suggested or made the changes, and I wasn’t able to suggest changes of my own. Entries also claim that Grok has fact-checked them — a controversial idea, given how large language models tend to make up false “facts” — and how long ago the “fact check” happened.However, despite Elon Musk promising that Grokipedia would be a “massive improvement” over Wikipedia, some articles appear to be cribbing information from Wikipedia. At the bottom of the page for the MacBook Air, for example, you can see this message: “The content is adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License.” In some cases, the cribbing goes farther than a rewrite: I’ve also seen that message on pages for the PlayStation 5 and the Lincoln Mark VIII, and both of those pages are almost identical — word-for-word, line-for-line — to their Wikipedia counterparts.“Even Grokipedia needs Wikipedia to exist,” Lauren Dickinson, a spokesperson for the Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit that operates Wikipedia tells The Verge. You can read Dickinson’s full statement in full at the end of this article.It’s not the first time xAI’s AI has been caught pointing to Wikipedia; last month, in response to an X user pointing out that Grok cites Wikipedia pages, Musk said that “we should have this fixed by end of year.”Not all Grokipedia articles are based directly on Wikipedia ones, and some will be controversial. While both sites have articles on climate change, for example, Wikipedia’s page points out that “There is a nearly unanimous scientific consensus that the climate is warming and that this is caused by human activities. No scientific body of national or international standing disagrees with this view.” In Grokipedia’s entry, meanwhile, the word “unanimous” only appears in one paragraph: “Critics contend that claims of near-unanimous scientific consensus on anthropogenic causes dominating recent climate change overstate agreement due to selective categorization in literature reviews.” It suggests that the media and advocacy organizations like Greenpeace are “contributing to heightened public alarm,” and are part of “coordinated efforts to frame the issue as an existential imperative, influencing public discourse and policy without always grounding in proportionate empirical evidence.”According to a ticker at the bottom of the homepage, Grokipedia has over 885,000 articles; Wikipedia currently maintains around 7 million English pages. However, this is an early version of Grokipedia — it has a v0.1 version number on the homepage.Here is Dickinson’s full statement:We’re still in the process of understanding how Grokipedia works.Since 2001, Wikipedia has been the backbone of knowledge on the internet. Hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation, it remains the only top website in the world run by a nonprofit. Unlike newer projects, Wikipedia’s strengths are clear: it has transparent policies, rigorous volunteer oversight, and a strong culture of continuous improvement. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, written to inform billions of readers without promoting a particular point of view. Wikipedia’s knowledge is – and always will be – human. Through open collaboration and consensus, people from all backgrounds build a neutral, living record of human understanding – one that reflects our diversity and collective curiosity. This human-created knowledge is what AI companies rely on to generate content; even Grokipedia needs Wikipedia to exist. Wikipedia’s nonprofit independence — with no ads and no data-selling — also sets it apart from for-profit alternatives. All of these strengths have kept Wikipedia a top trusted resource for more than two decades.Many experiments to create alternative versions of Wikipedia have happened before; it doesn’t interfere with our work or mission. As we approach Wikipedia’s 25th anniversary, Wikipedia will continue focusing on providing free, trustworthy knowledge built by its dedicated volunteer community. For more information about how Wikipedia works, visit our website and new blog series.

Every Halloween, there’s always that one house that goes a little too far with the decorations, and that’s usually the one everyone remembers. This year, that house can be yours without spending a fortune at the store. Each of these 3D-printable props can turn your porch, living room, or yard into a haunted scene straight out of a horror film. With a bit of filament and patience, you can make your guests question whether what they’re seeing is real.

In the gaming world, development hell is one phase that strikes fear in the hearts of publishers, players, and, of course, developers themselves. It's when a game enters a limbo of overwhelming uncertainty, and it gets there via bad decision-making from the top, re-writes, ballooning costs and bloated timelines, teams being lost and new ones being brought in, along with a host of other problems that a lot of games have historically dealt with.

I’ve been an Adobe subscriber for years, and although its software is undeniably powerful, I mostly stayed out of habit. Sticking to the same ecosystem for all your editing needs keeps things smooth and reliable. But I eventually canceled all my subscriptions due to several factors - I was paying for features I wasn’t using, I had some concerns over my data, and the fees didn’t feel justified anymore. So I had to start looking for alternatives.

A Raspberry Pi can do far more than run a few hobby projects. When connected to your NAS, it can turn a simple file server into a fully featured media hub that streams, organizes, and protects your content. With the right combination of tools to support and extend your NAS, the Pi becomes the central brain of your home entertainment setup. Each of these tools adds a specific capability, building a system that is efficient, secure, and surprisingly powerful.

Handheld gaming PCs are versatile little devices. They're designed to let you game on the go, but these are full PCs underneath the customized gaming-center overlays, whether you're running SteamOS or Windows 11. So you can also use a handheld gaming PC as your home server, turn it into a desktop or laptop replacement, or even use it as a thin client for your home lab.

Battlefield 6 just dropped, and gamers are no doubt updating their graphics card drivers to get the best performance. While I also update my graphics drivers every few months, I can’t recall the last time I did the same for any other hardware in my PC. When I saw a discussion on Reddit about whether using a third-party driver update software is a good idea, I figured it was still apt to reiterate the long-standing rule to never use them.

When I talk about high-end GPUs, I refer to Nvidia cards with more than 10,000 CUDA cores or AMD GPUs with more than 4,000 stream processors. These GPUs are built for seriously graphically-intensive workloads, like 8K gaming, cinematic rendering or AI training. In those regions, they still reign unchallenged without a hint of a doubt.

AI has had a huge impact on the world of technology, and video games were not spared. Developers, both triple-A and independent, began experimenting with what AI could do to make their jobs easier. Coding with AI was a given, but what about generating textures and assets? How about using AI to deliver voice lines, especially if the dialogue is procedurally generated? In fact, why not put AI in the game as an NPC and let it react to the player?

Testing out new tech and software is my absolute favorite thing to do, and lately, I've been going all-in on AI browsers. Honestly, I can’t imagine not using one in 2025. I’ve tried pretty much every AI browser launched so far, giving each a fair shot as my primary browser for a few days.