I have used air coolers for the majority of my PC building journey, only switching to liquid cooling as recently as 2022. Well, it turns out AIO liquid coolers aren't universally better than air coolers, not even in the performance department. Sure, if you compare the best liquid coolers on the market against the best air coolers, liquid cooling will win, but the average user doesn't need the best and most high-end coolers.

The Nintendo Switch 2 is finally out now for everyone to pick up in stores. Despite a minor scare about availability at first, many people are finally experiencing the Switch 2 for the first time. Along with their new console, people have been playing games with online functionality through the Nintendo Switch online service. Those with an active membership with Switch Online can enjoy what's new in the service with Nintendo's newest console release. Whether you're driving through the long roads of Mario Kart World or diving into any of the other third-party titles available at the launch of Switch 2, chances are you're going to hop online at some point.

If you’re running self-hosted services in Docker containers, keeping an eye on their logs is essential. But manually tailing logs or building scripts to monitor them is time-consuming and can easily miss important issues. That’s where LoggiFly comes in. This small but powerful app reads the logs of your Docker containers and sends alerts based on customizable patterns. It fills a much-needed gap for self-hosted sysadmins who want granular control without a full observability stack.

I thought my workspace was organized, until it wasn’t. Over time, USB dongles, flash drives, SD cards, and microSD cards began to pile up. I kept trying different ways to corral them: boxes, drawers, even small pouches. Each attempt worked for a while, but the clutter always came creeping back. Eventually, I realized I needed a solution that would stick.

I've never been a Linux-first user. Great respect to you if you are, but like most of the planet, I was introduced to Windows first, and I've used it as my main operating system ever since. Still, I've dabbled with Linux, and over the past few years, it's slowly started to take over my PC gaming setup without me even realizing it.

So, regardless of which devices are in your smart home, and whether they're inherently smart or controlled by smart plugs and other gadgets, they all need reliable communication protocols to work. Whether they use Zigbee, Z-Wave, Matter, Thread, or plain Wi-Fi or Bluetooth, all of them need ways to announce their existence, and so that other devices can control them or take information from their sensors.

Lately, it feels like older GPUs across the board are under relentless attack by a combination of forces. Poorly optimized games, rising VRAM overhead, and modern features have together brought into question the remaining lifespan of old GPUs that were bravely soldiering on till now. While your 5-to-7-year-old might not have been an FPS champ in the last few years, it was at least enough for excellent 1080p gaming and basic productivity. However, those credentials might be under threat if your graphics card falls into the following buckets.

PCIe 7.0 is earmarked for data-heavy applications rather than consumer computing hardware.The PCIe 7.0 specification has now been released, while many of us are still waiting for PCIe 6.0 to materialize in consumer products. The PCI Special Interest Group (PCI-SIG) announced on Wednesday that PCIe 7.0 is now available to members of its organization, delivering a theoretical maximum bandwidth speed of 512GB per second in both directions, across a x16 connection.“PCIe technology has served as the high-bandwidth, low-latency IO interconnect of choice for over two decades and we are pleased to announce the release of the PCIe 7.0 specification, which continues our long-standing tradition of doubling the IO bandwidth every three years,” PCI-SIG President Al Yanes said in the announcement. “As artificial intelligence applications continue to scale rapidly, the next generation of PCIe technology meets the bandwidth demands of data-intensive markets deploying AI, including hyperscale data centers, high performance computing (HPC), automotive, and military/aerospace.”You may have noticed that consumer computing devices weren’t included in that statement — the specification is targeting data-driven applications like cloud and quantum computing datacenters for now, and will take some time to even appear in those markets. PCI-SIG says that PCIe 7.0 will be backward compatible with previous PCI Express versions, but there’s no mention of plans to bring it to everyday desktop SSDs or GPUs any time soon. That shouldn’t be surprising, given the PCIe 5.0 spec that launched in 2019 only started trickling into consumer hardware two years ago, and is still fairly uncommon.Meanwhile, PCI-SIG says that pathfinding for PCIe 8.0 is “already in progress.” With any luck, PCIe 6.0 will have made its consumer debut by the time the next-gen specifications have been finalized in 2028.

Windows 10 is reaching end-of-life (EoL) in a few months, and Microsoft is gearing up to migrate its customers to Windows 11 in one final push ahead of the October 14, 2025 deadline. While many Windows users will likely gravitate towards the latest version of the operating system, or stick around with their unsupported OS, there is also a third option that we have highlighted in the past. That is, migration to a free Linux distro, such as Linux Mint. Now, the creator of the popular LibreOffice software has suggested doing the same, citing the high costs of switching to Windows 11.

Years ago, no high-end PC was complete without a couple of boot drives configured in RAID 0. Today, things are a bit different. SSDs are available for reasonable prices, in high capacities, and with even higher speeds. But you don't have to throw RAID away. There are still a ton of benefits to using SSDs in a RAID array between redundancy, parity, and with the right RAID controller, even higher speeds. Still, SSDs and HDDs aren't built equally, and there are some common mistakes you should navigate around if you're configuring SSDs into a RAID array.

If you approach any Raspberry Pi fan and ask them about their favorite free apps for the SBC, there's a good chance you'll be given a full shopping list of ideas. Not only are there a ton of different tools available to perform all kinds of jobs, but you also have multiple apps that all perform a specific job and are good for specific reasons. Basically, what I'm trying to say is that there are a lot of choices.

We’re still over a month away from the premiere of season three, but Paramount has announced that Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is getting a fifth season — and that it will be its last.While Strange New Worlds’ first four seasons are (or will be) all ten episodes long, the fifth will run for just six. Still, executive producers Akiva Goldsman, Henry Alonso Myers, and Alex Kurtzman said in a joint statement that they’ll “complete our five-season mission, just as we envisioned it.”“From the very beginning, Strange New Worlds set out to honor what Star Trek has always stood for — boundless curiosity, hope and the belief that a better future is possible,” the statement reads. “And to the passionate fans who’ve boldly joined us on this journey — thank you. With three more spectacular seasons ahead for you to see and enjoy, this adventure is far from over.”The prequel, which follows the USS Enterprise under Captain Pike (portrayed by Anson Mount), complete with younger versions of a few members of the original crew, was renewed for a fourth season in April 2024. That’s now in production, with the fifth set to follow later this year, but before either airs the series will return to Paramount Plus with a two-part season three premiere on July 17th. The other Trek series on the way right now are Starfleet Academy and an untitled live action comedy.