Using a Fire TV Stick 4K for long enough means the default interface becomes less snappy over time. Opening apps takes a moment. Navigating between libraries feels a bit sluggish. I’ve been using Fire TV Stick 4K (Gen 1) for years, and this slowdown finally got to me.

So, how about that Steam Machine price? If you've been out of the loop, Valve officially announced the price point for its newest console-not-console, and if you were hoping for something that wasn't in four figures of USD, then you're going to be disappointed.

Whenever someone was tired of Google Chrome’s memory-hogging practice, the answer was simple: switch to Microsoft Edge for speed or return to Firefox for privacy.

If you've just upgraded to a multi-gigabit local switch, a Wi-Fi 7 router, or a high-speed NAS, you might go to Amazon to buy a few patch cables. You will probably find them for less than $10 and think you're future-proofing your home lab for a bargain.

Amid the growing memory crisis, AMD seems to have found a rather unconventional plan to reduce reliance on DRAM. On June 15, the company acquired MEXT, a California-based startup behind the development of an AI-driven memory tiering system capable of making NAND flash storage behave like DRAM.

When you approach the world of Linux, you have a ton of distros at your disposal; however, you'll only see a handful get recommended. For newcomers, people point toward Linux Mint. From there, people may direct others to Fedora, Ubuntu, or even an Arch-based system. But one distro I rarely see pop up in discussions surrounding distros is openSUSE's offerings, which is really saddening, given how I adore its rolling release distro, Tumbleweed.

Public pushback against data centers has emphasized their water and energy consumption, and now Nvidia is highlighting its claim that the Rubin generation reference design for a fully liquid-cooled data center has "eliminated massive amounts of power usage and pretty much all water usage." Still, it doesn't address all of the concerns around AI data centers, including during their construction, and for the power generation requirements of the massive facilities. Also, as Gizmodo points out, Nvidia's blog post doesn't mention the cost of building this style of data center vs. one using less efficient air cooling, but claims that "every cloud …Read the full story at The Verge.

You might buy a vertical PCIe riser bracket to show off your GPU flat against your tempered glass side panel. It will look stunning, but in reality, the vertical GPU mount is an architectural error masquerading as a premium luxury feature. By prioritizing case aesthetics over basic fluid dynamics, builders are forcing high-end graphics cards to draw intake air through a microscopic boundary layer, destroying thermal efficiency in 90% of standard PC configurations.

Every time I had to reboot my mini PC to update a Docker container, a VM, or just to apply patches, my entire home network went down with it. My family often noticed that before I did. My mini PC wasn’t struggling with the Pi-hole's load, but there was a simpler, yet just as problematic issue.

Valve's Steam Machine finally has a price: a whopping $1,049 for the 512GB configuration or $1,349 for the 2TB version. And those are without bundled controllers, which drive up the cost more. The prices are so high in part because Valve isn't subsidizing the hardware, and the company has already indicated that the component crisis forced it to reconsider its initial pricing plans. In an interview with the YouTube channel Gamers Nexus, Valve engineers discussed the reality of sourcing RAM in 2026, with take-it-or-leave-it prices as memory and other components remain in short supply, from only a few vendors like Samsung, Micron, and SK Hyni …Read the full story at The Verge.

Joyce, a native New Yorker, didn't think finding her first solo apartment in the city would be easy. But she also didn't think it'd be "hell." After looking at a lot of tiny, overpriced places she described as "shitholes," Joyce found her dream apartment: a reasonably priced studio in Manhattan. "It was big and airy, and there was a fireplace," she said. The kitchen was small but well equipped and looked like it had been recently renovated. She dropped everything to see the apartment, and when she got there, she learned that five other women, all around her age, had viewings scheduled after hers."I get in, and it's not the same apartment …Read the full story at The Verge.

If you have $1,000 burning a hole in your pocket, I have the perfect game for you: Congratulations on Your Purchase. The title, which seems to be an elaborate joke or some absurd way to flex on your friends, costs an absolutely astounding $1,000.