For years, OneNote has been my trusted companion for capturing thoughts and organizing information. While it comes with a robust search function, I wanted a system that actively engages with this wealth of data. Here is where I came across Google’s NotebookLM AI tool, which has a unique take on extracting information through uploaded documents, weblinks, YouTube videos, and PDF files.

If you have the same fashion sense that I have, your morning dress is likely whatever shirt you grab first followed by whatever pants you grab first. Any sort of semblance or color-matching is more coincidental than deliberate; you'd have more luck trying to put together a look by rolling a dice for each piece instead of letting me pick.

Sometimes, a new Windows feature is a nasty game of "good news, bad news." Well, here's the good news: Microsoft is making it easier to invoke a particular app via the context menu. Just right-click the file you want to send to the app and click on its new shiny button to ship it over in a snap. The bad news is, that "app" is Copilot, and people are already finding ways to remove this new context menu items from their computer.

Microsoft's made one thing loud and clear — Windows 10 is nearing its End of Life status this October. And the tech giant hasn't been subtle about it, at all. In fact, it's taken every possible opportunity to make Windows 10 users aware of it. However, many are adamant about sticking it out with Windows 10 for as long as they possibly can.

Even if you've never picked up a video game in your life, I wouldn’t believe you if you said you haven’t heard of GTA VI. After all the memes surrounding the game's impending release, it's practically become a running joke on the internet at this point. The game was initially set to launch in the fall of this year but was pushed back to May 26, 2026, just a week ago.

Pope Leo XIV speaking to the College of Cardinals on May 10th. | Photo by Simone Risoluti – Vatican Media via Vatican Pool / Getty ImagesAs Pope Leo XIV laid out his vision for the papacy in an address to the College of Cardinals, he also explained why he picked his papal name. Incredibly, artificial intelligence played a big part. In the Vatican’s translation of his speech, Pope Leo XIV explained that his name references Pope Leo XII, who presided over the church at the dawn of the industrial revolution.…I chose to take the name Leo XIV. There are different reasons for this, but mainly because Pope Leo XIII in his historic Encyclical Rerum Novarum addressed the social question in the context of the first great industrial revolution. In our own day, the Church offers to everyone the treasury of her social teaching in response to another industrial revolution and to developments in the field of artificial intelligence that pose new challenges for the defence of human dignity, justice and labour.Below is more of the excerpt, published by the Catholic News Service.The Catholic Church has taken a keen interest in the development of AI in recent years. In a January document published by the Vatican and translated to English, the church reflected on AI, its limitations, its relationship with the truth, and the ethics of developing and using the technology. The document also references a warning issued a year prior by Pope Francis about AI’s potential to create “partially or completely false narratives, believed and broadcast as if they were true.” But if Pope Francis set up how the Catholic Church feels about AI, Pope Leo XIV citing it as a main reason for his name hints that it will be an even bigger part of the church’s focus during his papacy.

As someone who juggles Docker containers regularly, I know how crucial it is to have a handle on everything without getting bogged down in endless commands. There is no shortage of tools to manage your containers effortlessly, but I keep coming back to Portainer for several reasons. This open-source tool acts as a fantastic visual layer on top of my Docker environments and makes it simple to manage containers, images, volumes, and networks through its clean web interface.

The FTC seal.The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) was set to start enforcing the remaining provisions of its “click-to-cancel” rule on May 14th, requiring that subscriptions be as easy to cancel as to start. Now, the agency says it won’t enforce the rule until July 14th, as TechCrunch reports.Also known as the Negative Option Rule, the big component of click-to-cancel is that it forbids companies from making customers jump through hoops that differ from the process to sign up for an account. If you can sign up online, you must be able to cancel online, too. As the FTC points out, the original May 14th deadline was already a deferral for that and related provisions.The agency says it chose to push enforcement back even further after “a fresh assessment of the burdens that forcing compliance by this date would impose.” The FTC voted 3-0 for the delay, but as TechCrunch notes, two of a typical five commissioners were absent from the vote. That’s because they were illegally fired by Donald Trump in March. Perhaps on the bright side for consumers, the FTC says that starting on the new deadline, “regulated entities must be in compliance with the whole of the Rule because the Commission will begin enforcing it.” However, it doesn’t rule out changing any of the regulation’s provisions, writing that it’s “open to amending the Rule” if enforcing it “exposes any problems.”

Google's NotebookLM has proven to be a popular tool among note-takers for its powerful features and ability to summarize a variety of sources. While I prefer simple note-taking apps due to the drawbacks I experience from productivity apps, and I'm not a big fan of AI-powered features, NotebookLM manages to stand out by avoiding the pitfalls of many of its competitors.

NAS (network-attached storage) devices have the reputation of being meant for the technical audience, while most family members don’t even touch them to avoid messing anything up. But that means you’re underutilizing your NAS, and your family can’t reap its various benefits either. Once set up, the NAS works in the background and elevates your digital life without getting in the way. You can set it up to be more inclusive of your family members so that everyone can be an equal user of this central data hub of your life.

A home lab is a tech enthusiast’s playground. It's a space to host servers, run self-hosted applications and software, and experiment with different programs. You can be managing media servers, testing new tools, or building custom dashboards that can display data from all the different sources of your choice if you set up a home lab. While it's a treasure trove in terms of the functionality you can achieve by experimenting with different software, it can be an equal nightmare in case things go wrong. One of the most popular parameters where things can potentially go wrong in a home lab is security.

UV printing delivers bold colors and crisp details on just about any material, but only if the surface is prepared correctly. No matter how good your design is, skipping prep steps can lead to smudging, poor adhesion, or designs that peel or flake off too soon. Fortunately, most of the fixes are simple. With a few quick tools and a little patience, you can set yourself up for clean, professional-looking results every time.