In the world of networking, most people are familiar with IPv4. These numerical labels, like 192.168.2.1, have identified billions of devices on the internet for decades and have been responsible for connecting those devices to the internet for decades at this point. As of 2025, less than half of Internet traffic is over IPv6, meaning IPv4 still carries the majority of data despite its fundamental limitation of using 32-bit addresses. IPv4 has been on life support for years on account of its 4.3 billion address limit, leading to the advent of IPv6 with its 128-bit address space.

Over the last couple of months, I’ve reviewed several Network-Attached Storage enclosures and tinkered with multiple NAS-centric distributions. As such, I keep a separate set of Seagate IronWolf drives and Crucial SSDs just so I can subject the storage enclosures and NAS operating systems to a series of tests. Unfortunately, this leaves me with a few drives for my home lab experiments, and I’m often on the prowl for cheap deals on storage disks.

President Donald Trump has threatened Apple with a tariff of “at least 25 percent” just for its iPhones unless it moves production to the United States.“I have long ago informed Tim Cook of Apple that I expect their iPhone’s that will be sold in the United States of America will be manufactured and built in the United States, not India, or anyplace else,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “If that is not the case, a Tariff of at least 25% must be paid by Apple to the U.S. Thank your for your attention to this matter!”The threat comes a week after Trump declared that he’d “had a little problem with Tim Cook,” following reports that Apple intends to source all of its US iPhones from India, which will require ramping up Indian production. Just yesterday the Financial Times reported that FoxConn, Apple’s main manufacturer, is developing a $1.5 billion plant in southern India’s Chennai to supply iPhone displays. Apple has been diversifying its production for several years, which was accelerated by both covid and US animosity towards China.Developing…

When the Raspberry Pi 1 Model B+ launched back in 2012, it sparked a wave of excitement in the DIY and education communities. The 2014 revision brought a modest bump to the SoC and USB ports, but it's still a far cry from today’s Raspberry Pi 4 or Pi 5. So why did I pull one out of storage in 2025 and try to use it again? Mostly curiosity, partly nostalgia. I assumed it would be slow, frustrating, and borderline unusable, but I was surprised at how far a little patience and the right expectations could take it.

The annual Computex show in Taipei takes place in Asus's backyard, and so it's no surprise to see the Taiwanese tech giant once again putting on a big presence. This year's Asus announcements included some impressive peripheral developments including -- just about -- the world's fastest monitor, the ultimate Doom: The Dark Ages PC build and a sci-fi styled eGPU dock.

Like many, I suffered with an ISP-provided router for many years—more than I wish to admit to, really. After tracking its performance for a while, I decided it was time to kick that useless box to the curb.

Doom: The Dark Ages has been ripping and tearing since launch, getting a stellar review from us, but there is one aspect of the game that has left me disappointed. Unfortunately, Doom: The Dark Ages does not have a multiplayer component. While that's fairly common for games that are primarily being sold in the single-player campaign, especially in the year 2025, the last two games had multiplayer modes.

Discord has become the place for gaming communities on the internet. The company just celebrated its 10th anniversary, and its impact is now big enough that it's available directly on PlayStation and Xbox and was ripped off by Nintendo for the Switch 2's GameChat.But as it tries to grow, one of the big challenges Discord faces is that, for big or longer-running communities, it can be hard to know where to start, hard to catch up to the speed of real-time conversations, and hard to sift through the potentially huge amounts of conversations and channels. A lot of communities used to form around forums, but Discord just isn't a good replacement for that kind of structured messaging, as covered by Aftermath's Luke Plunkett."This is something we want to solve," Peter Sellis, Discord's SVP of product, tells The Verge. "It is not our intention to lock a bunch of this knowledge into Discord."One way Discord wants to tackle the problem is add features that are "more amicable to structured knowledge sharing, like forums, that we could probably do a better job of investing in and is something we want to do for game developers," Sellis says.Another involves LLMs. "There's an incredibl …Read the full story at The Verge.

Even though we're coming up on four years since Windows 11 officially launched, a huge chunk of people still aren't quite ready to leave Windows 10 for good. While a considerable number of them choose to stick with Windows 10 because of complaints they have with the operating system itself, some simply have no choice — their PCs don't meet Windows 11's hardware requirements.

Home Assistant is a fantastic piece of software that I use to automate my home, thanks to a combination of software integrations and physical Zigbee sensors distributed in my home. Over time, I've automated more and more in my home, with notifications being a crucial part of that. When my day starts, I get a notification with my first call of the day and what the weather will be like. I also have notifications configured through Home Assistant for when some of my crucial self-hosted services go down, but I recently discovered actionable notifications, and they've been incredible.

After a six-year absence, Nike will soon begin selling products directly on Amazon, having previously stopped in 2019 to go it alone. At the same time, the company is reportedly set to increase prices across most of its sneakers and other clothes in the wake of recent US tariffs.Nike stopped selling through Amazon after just two years on the platform, blaming the decision to end sales on Amazon’s inability to crack down on counterfeiters and unlicensed sellers. Just as pivotal was its desire to build its own direct-to-consumer sales platforms in the Nike app and website, which saw it reduce its other retail partners around the same time.Nike goods have continued to appear on Amazon in the years since, but only sold by third-party sellers on the platform. According to The Information those merchants have been told that they have until July 19th to stop selling certain Nike products.“While independent sellers have listed some Nike inventory in our store for many years, Amazon will soon begin sourcing a much wider range of Nike products directly to expand our selection for US customers,” Amazon spokesperson Megan Lagesse told The Verge. “We value independent sellers, and we’re providing an extended period of time for the small number of sellers affected to sell through their inventory of overlapping items.”Nike’s direct-to-consumer strategy seemed to be working well during the covid pandemic, when online shopping spiked, but has wobbled since. In 2023 the company began restoring its relationships with retailers including Foot Locker and Macy’s, and new CEO Elliott Hill, who took up the post in October 2024, has made building back Nike’s wholesale business a key pillar of the company’s plans.CNBC reports that Nike is also set to raise prices across its products from June 1st, likely in response to US tariffs. Adult clothes and shoes priced above $100 will rise by $2 to $10, though cheaper goods and children’s products won’t be affected. Nike will also avoid raising the price of its $115 Air Force 1 shoe and some of its Jordan-branded apparel.

Despite the attempts from app developers to bridge the gap between different operating systems, switching from one OS to another remains quite a hassle. Not only do you have to work with a radically different interface, but you may also end up losing access to your application if it hasn’t been ported over to your new daily driver OS. For example, switching from Windows to Linux means letting go of the Adobe Creative Cloud and switching to FOSS alternatives, which is still not feasible for professional creators.