I stopped treating my Fire TV Stick like a cheap streaming box the day I started sideloading APKs. And it turned out to be more capable than I expected. Its fate changed when I started removing ads and loading an Android launcher.

Antigravity, Claude Code, and Codex are the three tools most people are deciding between right now, and although they all handle much of the same, the way they do it varies drastically. Two of them charge before you can do anything meaningful, while the third hands out frontier models on a free tier that hasn't asked for your credit card yet. This might sound like the choice is easy; just pick the free one, right?

When a home network starts feeling sluggish, the reflex is to buy a new router. Wi-Fi 7 routers are everywhere; the marketing is loud, and it feels like the obvious fix. But for most homes, the router is not the bottleneck, and a $500 flagship won't fix what's actually wrong.

My Lenovo Legion 5 Pro has definitely seen better days. It carried me through university from 2021 to 2023, and at some point one of its cooling fans gave out, so every time I turned it on, it welcomed me with a rather horrendous screech. Laptops age far less gracefully than desktops, so it is easy to forget them in a drawer and leave it there for a long while. Eventually, though, I decided to stop ignoring it and put it to work making my own life easier.

I use spreadsheets for all kinds of small tasks, from keeping track of projects to organizing information I need regularly. For years, Google Sheets was the obvious choice because it was quick, familiar, and worked from anywhere. But as I moved more of my software to my own setup, keeping important spreadsheets in someone else's cloud started to feel out of place.

Recently unsealed court documents in the New York Times' case against OpenAI and Microsoft are pretty damning. The companies' own documentation warned that it was starting a "doom loop" that would damage the web, characterized its scraping of data to train its models as the "largest theft of labor in human history," and that it made a "complete mockery of the idea of fair use."Many of the most eye-catching quotes from the document come from Microsoft's Director of Applied Science, Brent Hecht. Though, the company has tried to distance itself from Hecht's assertions. Microsoft spokesperson Alex Haurek told The Verge that "These comments ref …Read the full story at The Verge.

I've been using the ChatGPT Desktop app recently, and as far as it was concerned, it's been talking to OpenAI's servers this entire time. In actuality, it's been talking to a combination of models through my OpenCode subscription, MiniMax M3, and even my local LLMs, like Qwen 3.8 27B and GLM-5.3-Flash.

Starting last month, Microsoft began removing a tool called WMIC from Windows 11, and it seems to be the final blow. Short for Windows Management Instrumentation Command-line, this tool allowed users to change or get all kinds of information about their system. It wasn't for everyone, but quite a few scripts used it.

Well, it's almost time. The good folks over at KDE are dotting the i's and crossing the t's as they're getting ready for the big Plasma 6.8 launch. The bad news is, the developers don't often have time to code fully fleshed-out features, so we're in bug-fixing mode right now. The good news is...well, we're getting KDE Plasma 6.8 on October 14th, which is a huge plus. Regardless, the KDE community has published patch notes detailing all the fixes they got out the door before the big release.

With people patiently waiting for the release of Grand Theft Auto VI in two months' time, there's one excellent way to pass the time: play Grand Theft Auto V. However, what if you've already played it to death? Well, if Xbox gamers are anything to go by, the best answer is to make another hop back and check out what Grand Theft Auto IV was doing.

I've tried more Notion alternatives than I probably needed to. Every time I look around, AFFiNE and AppFlowy seem to be the names everyone recommends. They look polished, offer plenty of features, and make a strong case for moving away from Notion. But I found myself going in a different direction. I started using Outline, and unlike many other tools I've tested, I never felt the urge to replace it. It isn't the loudest or most exciting app in this space. In fact, calling it boring is probably fair. But there's something refreshing about software that doesn't constantly try to win my attention.

If you use multiple AI agents, including Claude, you may have noticed that while other agents play nicely with an AGENTS.md file, Claude specifically prefers a CLAUDE.md file. After years of people needing workarounds to get their config files working on all their agents, Anthropic has finally revealed native support for AGENTS.md files. The problem is, the community isn't as excited as Anthropic may like.