If you run a website today, there’s a good chance that AI bots are trying to index and scrape your content. Cloudflare sees more than 50 billion AI crawler requests each day on its network. Many of these bots ignore standard “no crawl” rules and, without the site owner’s consent, siphon off content to train large language models. Blocking them outright often just tips them off, prompting them to change tactics.

Automation apps are great for improving your quality of life, and there are plenty of cool platforms that let you create trigger-action workflows. On the smart home front, you’ve got Home Assistant and Node-RED, which can pull events from your sensors and microcontrollers before using them to execute certain actions. Meanwhile, the home lab department is dominated by the likes of Ansible playbooks and Terraform configuration files.

After getting inspired by my XDA colleagues, I started using Obsidian as my primary note-taking app on my computer. I used it to jot down my thoughts, ideas, links, photos, and other relevant bits. But typing long notes does get tiring at times, and I wish Obsidian had a native feature to convert voice notes to text. Before, I tried Apple’s Notes app to take and transcribe voice notes, but my experience was underwhelming. It all changed when I discovered the Whisper plugin for Obsidian. Since I started using the plugin, it has been a game-changer. I vehemently use it to take voice notes without worrying about when or how I will transcribe them all.

Nuclear reactors always have that weird mystique about them, don't they? While modern-day reactors are probably a lot safer than the ones created decades ago, thinking about them still invokes mental images of events like Chernobyl, where a nuclear reactor went into meltdown and set off a chain reaction that's still active today.

Whenever Microsoft makes a change on Windows 11, the tweak gets its fair share both fans and its haters. More often than not, it's haters, but sometimes Microsoft manages to get something right and resonate with its users in a big way.

It can be difficult choosing a monitor with so many different options available. Of course, if you want to maximize your screen real estate, then going with an ultrawide is going to be an excellent solution. This Samsung Odyssey G9 (G95SD) monitor manages to deliver everything that you'd want, with an impressive screen and jaw-dropping performance. And while its original retail price of $1,900 is absolutely shocking, you can now claim a steep $850 discount from Woot that brings it down to its best price yet at $1,050.

When it comes to data storage, it's all about preference. Some like relying on the cloud because it's easy and versatile, while others like to have their data on physical devices. Of course, you can have the best of both worlds by setting up your own NAS, which can sound complicated, but it's actually really simple once you understand the basics.

Do you know what the biggest problem is regarding the original Switch? The internet is full of too much good advice as to what you should do with it after buying the Switch 2. People are saying you should donate it to a loved one, or sell it off, or keep it around as a spare, and they're all perfectly valid pieces of advice, and you should definitely heed them. But we don't have enough outrageous, downright terrible ideas for what you can do with a spare Switch. And we need those for...reasons, I guess.

Intel may not be winning the marathon on the CPU front, but the company has done some incredible work with its Arc graphics cards. The two latest entries in this famof the Intel Arc B570 and B580. These are mid-range 1440p gaming machines at reasonable prices, starting from just $219 at MSRP. Compared to Nvidia's next-gen pricing and even AMD's own mid-tier GPU line-up and Intel has some excellent options for gamers on tighter budgets. I've been using the Intel Arc B570 one and off for months now as I keep returning to see how Intel has further developed its software support for the B-series Arc GPUs. It's difficult to overstate just how important this B570 GPU is for the gaming community.

For the longest time, I resisted the call to upgrade my wired network. I didn't think I needed 10 GbE at home, so I trundled along with 2.5 GbE for the few wired devices in my network stack. And you know what, I was wrong. Faster wired connections were precisely what my network needed to perform better in all areas, including my Wi-Fi.

The word bottleneck is enough to send shivers down the spines of PC gamers. And the worst kind of bottleneck is a GPU bottleneck, even though that's ideally what you want on a gaming PC. Most games are GPU-bound, so you want a situation where none of the other components are holding your GPU back. In some cases, though, a weaker or older GPU can actually bottleneck your PC, stopping you from getting the maximum performance your system is capable of. Here are the signs that you need a new GPU to eliminate a significant bottleneck.

The Nintendo Switch 2 has arrived, alongside a launch line-up containing Mario Kart World and Nintendo Switch 2 Welcome Tour. In addition to the console and games, a number of accessories for the new console are also now available, including the Nintendo Switch 2 GameCube controller. Released alongside the new console, the GameCube controller is basically a new version of the classic controller, with the same look and feel as it had 20 years ago. It exists so thatyou can use it with the Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack GameCube gameslaunched alongside the new system.