It's beta day for Fedora 43 and the release media is ready for testing!..... Read more »

As a pleasant surprise waking up this morning is AMD ROCm 7.0 release tags beginning to appear on GitHub, indicating the likely imminent official release of the ROCm 7.0 compute stack as the open-source AMD Radeon/Instinct software stack aimed to be the open alternative to NVIDIA's CUDA ecosystem...... Read more »

Fedora 43 Beta is releasing today as we work toward the official release in either late October or early November. I have been testing out the Fedora Workstation 43 Beta candidate to great success on the AMD Ryzen AI Max+ "Strix Halo" powered Framework Desktop. Here are some benchmarks of... Read more »

Queued up in the past few days to the USB subsystem's "usb-next" Git branch are the Intel USBIO drivers for Linux 6.18. These drivers are needed to support the web cameras on various newer Intel laptop models...... Read more »

Patches were posted this past weekend for enabling the mainline Linux kernel to run on the Tenstorrent Blackwhole SoC of A0 silicon on the Blackhole P100 and P150 PCIe accelerator cards...... Read more »

Godot 4.5 is out today as the latest update to this leading open-source and cross platform game engine...... Read more »

After being in the works for the past two years and going through 18+ rounds of code review, AMD ABMC looks poised to be mainlined for the upcoming Linux 6.18 kernel...... Read more »

The Alliance for Open Media announced today that they will be launching the next-generation AV2 video codec at the end of 2025...... Read more »

To no real surprise given the happenings (or there the lack of) the past few months, AMD formally announced publicly today that their open-source AMDVLK driver has been discontinued in favor of the Mesa RADV driver for Vulkan needs on Linux...... Read more »

The maintainer of the libxml2 project announced he is stepping down from this widely-used open-source library without any replacement maintainer yet determined...... Read more »

It's been a while since delivering any benchmarks on Phoronix of Microsoft's Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL2) for running Linux applications and other software under the confines of Windows 11. When recently carrying out the Windows 11 25H2 vs. Linux benchmarks I also took the opportunity for seeing how WSL... Read more »

Canonical announced today that they will formally support the NVIDIA CUDA toolkit and also make it available via the Ubuntu repositories...... Read more »

Casilda 1.0 is out today as the Wayland compositor widget for the GTK4 toolkit...... Read more »

Prominent KDE developer Jonathan Riddell who was formerly involved with Kubuntu and then KDE Neon, served for a while on KDE Plasma release management, and other significant contributions over the years announced he's stepping away from the KDE world...... Read more »

Time to power down for good.... Read more »

One of the best mobile DACs I've reviewed, the iFi GO bar Kensei is a masterclass in build quality, and quality features, with audiophile-grade pricing... Read more »

Have audiophile aspirations and a "beer wallet?" Fiio's KA11 delivers without breaking the bank if you have a solid pair of headphones or IEMs.... Read more »

A wealth of features, a speedy pan and tilt motor, and smart security features make the Tapo TC73 the best on the market right now.... Read more »

Aqara gets a lot right with their Smart Video Doorbell G4, including pricing and features. However, if your porch is tight, its aspect ratio may leave you a bit in the blind.... Read more »

Smart privacy features, Wi-Fi 6, f/2.0 lens, and wallet-friendly pricing make the Aqara Camera E1 tough to beat.... Read more »

This mobile Bluetooth DAC has it all! Beautiful design, highly functional features, and excellent sound quality make this my top pick right now.... Read more »

Who says your indoor security camera needs to be all business to be effective? The Aqara Camera Hub G3 is long on features and fun!... Read more »

This smooth DAC from iFi is a solid performer for those wanting to level up their desktop audio experience.... Read more »

Paying just $60 for this high-quality DAC means you can spend your money where it counts most, high-quality headphones.... Read more »

What you get for $100 with the Qudelix-5K is quite impressive, but that's just the beginning. Wait until you crack open the app! It's PEQ heaven.... Read more »

Combining a great indoor PT camera, Zigbee hub, and a huge list of accessories to connect to makes the Aqara Camera Hub G2H Pro a HomeKit standout!... Read more »

The former design lead at Apple has teamed up with Sam Altman’s artificial intelligence company.... Read more »

Nebula's newest projector has already replaced my 4K television — but it comes with a price.... Read more »

As China and Silicon Valley go all in on humanoid robots, what’s the likelihood they’ll be widely deployed in the next five years?... Read more »

M&A can result in stronger, more nimble companies. But they often introduce new costs, contradictions and mysteries into unified tech stacks.... Read more »

Too many companies are rushing to embrace the latest agentic AI innovations without considering the part played by best practice and governance structures.... Read more »

Incidents where North Korean agents have posed as fake IT workers highlight a growing and avoidable problem with remote hiring practices.... Read more »

Redmond’s use of Chinese coders to maintain DoD cloud environments raises questions on the extent of their use in UK and European equivalents.... Read more »

Summer witnessed several retail giants get breached. Do cybercriminals know something about the retail sector that we don't?... Read more »

AI models can only advance so far using dubious training methods. Safeguard your business by using models that respect creators instead. ... Read more »

A spate of recent breaches should shake the industry out of thinking cybersecurity is just a minor concern for their beleaguered IT departments.... Read more »

It’s time we started investing in firms with real potential that make money over and above overvalued, underachieving prospects.... Read more »

iQOO is preparing to launch the Neo 11 series in China after the presentation of the iQOO 15. Geekbench spotted the Neo 11 Pro (V2520A) model, which will receive a new yet-to-be-announced flagship MediaTek Dimensity 9500 chip, Android 16, and 16 GB of RAM. The smartphone scored 3320 points in... Read more »

Gamers are in for a winter update and bug cleanup... Read more »

The Galaxy S25 has already started to receive the update... Read more »

The big question is: PlayStation Showcase or State of Play?... Read more »

Alphabet joins Apple, Microsoft and Nvidia, which earlier crossed the $3 trillion threshold... Read more »

All details of the mobile processor will be announced at Snapdragon Summit... Read more »

The Xiaomi 17 lineup is expected to be unveiled in September... Read more »

A full release is planned for next year, also on consoles... Read more »

Premium subscribers received the classic Legacy of Kain: Defiance... Read more »

The lithography industry is facing hard times - Moore's Law has started to stall, and technology is approaching the physical limits of silicon. To ensure performance gains every year, manufacturers are increasing the crystal area and raising frequencies, but this is a road to nowhere - the increase in heat... Read more »

MediaTek has officially confirmed the date of the presentation of its new flagship processor - Dimensity 9500. The event will take place on 22 September. This chip is expected to power premium smartphones from Vivo, Oppo, and other brands.... Read more »

Real photos of the Huawei FreeClip 2 have been leaked, giving a first glimpse of the updated design ahead of its official launch on 24 September in China. These headphones have a unique clip shape that Huawei first introduced in 2023 in the first version of FreeClip.... Read more »

Volkswagen is once again pushing back the launch dates of key electric vehicles. According to Handelsblatt, production of the electric ID. Golf and ID. Roc in Wolfsburg will not start until 2030. Initially, the ID. Golf was planned for 2028, then 2029, and ID. Roc was expected in 2029. Now... Read more »

Did you miss the iPhone leaks?... Read more »

Remember Tensordyne, who promised to slash AI GPU power consumption with a new way of doing things? That entire pitch was basically predicated on the power predicament that the industry finds itself in. Put simply, there's just not enough electricity to scale out the world's AI compute demands. That's likely... Read more »

Yesterday, eager eyes noticed that Rockstar Games had made a job listing for Lead Software Engineer, claiming within that Grand Theft Auto 6 would be "the largest game launch in history"— but just a day later, the text within that job listing has changed, omitting the entire paragraph and combining... Read more »

UEFI secure boot was designed to block malicious code from sneaking into your PC's BIOS boot-up process. However, a newly discovered ransomware dubbed HybridPetya somehow found a way to circumvent this. Cybersecurity firm ESET discovered the threat and revealed that it had not been observed in any active attacks just yet.... Read more »

As of this week, the best-selling workstation GPU on popular PC products retailer Newegg isn't from one of the usual suspects AMD or NVIDIA. Instead, Intel has secured the crown by nailing a key, neglected budget segment in the workstation GPU market with its Intel Arc Pro B50. This remarkable... Read more »

Japanese Twitter user Komenezumi (@komenezumi1006) purchased something quite curious: a GUNNIR "Intel Arc Sample1 TF 16G Graphics Card." What is it? Well, Windows and the Intel Arc drivers think it's a 16GB version of the Intel Arc A750. Officially, such a product doesn't exist, but it doesn't particularly surprise us... Read more »

Apple has delivered its promise to release iOS 26 today, and as expected, it boasts a host of new features and functionality. So we thought it was a good idea to take you through some of iOS26's most notable features and also show you how to prepare your iPhone for... Read more »

China's market regulators announced today a preliminary finding that U.S.-based chip giant NVIDIA has violated the country's anti-monopoly law. The declaration from the State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR) adds more sparks to the already tense trade and tech rivalry between the world's two largest economies. The investigation... Read more »

A team of Pennsylvania State University researchers has a unique take on mysterious red dots first observed by the James Webb Space Telescope. Initially thought to be tiny, crimson galaxies, the red dots are now proposed to be a new and exotic class of celestial object: a hybrid of a... Read more »

With Borderlands 4 out in the wild, we're already seeing some complaints about its performance. This has become a somewhat common trend with large releases during the last several years, independent of what platform it is on. Borderlands 4 is available across various performance-tiers of hardware, including the PC, Xbox,... Read more »

Qualcomm revealed the name of its next flagship system-on-chip (SoC) for future Android devices, and it's called Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5. At first glance, it may seem like Qualcomm skipped a few generations after releasing the Snapdragon 8 Elite last year. Qualcomm acknowledges this in a blog post explaining... Read more »

What do Big Foot, the Loch Ness Monster, and an AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT priced at MSRP all have in common? Nobody has ever supplied definitive proof that any of them actually exist. That may change, however, with the Radeon RX 9070 XT inching closer to its $599 recommended... Read more »

Over the weekend, it came to attention that Founders Edition models of the GeForce RTX 5090 and GeForce RTX 5080 had disappeared from NVIDIA's website in several regions, including the United States and United Kingdom. This led to speculation that NVIDIA may have discontinued the FE models to make room... Read more »

Once upon a time, hitting triple-digit frame rates in a game was considered a big deal, and that's still sometimes the case but no longer a rarity. So what is a big deal these days? Blowing past the capabilities of any monitor on the market and crossing over the 1,000... Read more »

In the last couple of days, some rather interesting Geekbench results for Apple's new A19 Pro chip were posted to Geekbench's results browser, and made their way to social media. These synthetic Geekbench results, one for the CPU and one for the GPU, paint Apple's new iPhone 17 lineup in... Read more »

Running a private cloud is something that the majority of home lab users are or will be interested in, but there are so many ways to do it. I have run Synology Drive for many years, and it’s worked great, but I have always wanted to switch to an open... Read more »

I’ve been running Proxmox in a full, 2U home server that I built for my Home Lab, but there’s a massive problem that I’ve been running into, and it’s around power consumption. Even using a 65W TDP Ryzen 9700X Processor for my Home Server, my power consumption is in the... Read more »

Today is Amazon’s Prime Day for 2025, and there are a few deals worth considering, so we’ll be looking at some of the best Prime Day Deals of 2025. This list will focus on home lab equipment, meaning NAS devices, networking (routers & switches), hard drives, Mini PCs, and more.... Read more »

For many years, I’ve used UniFi switches in my Home Lab – everything from their Flex models to rack-mount devices. While the UniFi Pro XG 24 PoE was admittedly overkill for my setup, it gave me the opportunity to test a device that’s better suited for large-scale or professional deployments.... Read more »

After configuring a Home Lab, a boring, but important step is to ensure that you have a complete way of monitoring it. This involves servers, uptime, logging, and more. The video below highlights the entire process on how you can monitor your home lab, but the information below can be... Read more »

In this article, we’re going to look at how to set up Docker in Proxmox. One of the most common questions you’ll run into when trying to configure Docker in Proxmox is whether you should use a VM (virtual machine) or LXC (Linux Container). I’ve run Docker using both a... Read more »

In this tutorial, we’re going to look at how to find a Synology NAS on a network. When you first purchase your Synology NAS and plug it in, there are a few different ways that you can find it to set it up. This is necessary in order to configure... Read more »

In this tutorial, we will look at how to set up OpenVPN on a Synology NAS. OpenVPN allows you to securely access your NAS (and even your local network) while remote. In general, VPN servers are the most secure way of accessing your Synology NAS when you’re remote. Video on... Read more »

In this article, we’ll look at the best Synology NAS alternatives that you can use in 2025. If you’re trying to determine if you’d like to buy a Synology NAS or go with an alternative, there are two different routes you can take. The first is purchasing a prebuilt NAS... Read more »

Invoice Generator is a free, open-source invoice generator which gives you the option to add your company logo. You can instantly download professional invoice PDF templates and the app is free of ads and popups. Invoice Generator has a clean interface and is lightweight. In this step by step guide... Read more »

Have you already installed Mautic 6 on your Synology NAS? Today, after many, many emails asking me how to set up email Notifications on Mautic 6, I have finally come about to writing an article on how to set up Gmail Notifications on Mautic 6 so you can enjoy it... Read more »

Mautic is an open-source marketing automation platform that helps businesses and organizations manage, automate, and optimize their marketing campaigns across various channels like email, social media, and text messages. It provides tools for lead management, campaign automation, landing page creation, customer segmentation, and performance tracking. As an open-source solution, Mautic... Read more »

Gameyfin is a simple, fast, and free open-source application designed to manage your video game library. Inspired by Jellyfin, it automatically scans and indexes your game collection, allowing you to access and download games directly through a web browser. In this step by step guide I will show you how... Read more »

Docker containers have revolutionized self-hosting by offering lightweight, portable, and isolated environments for running applications, including game servers. For gamers and homelab enthusiasts, self-hosting game servers with Docker provides a cost-effective, customizable, and efficient way to enjoy multiplayer gaming with friends or communities. Whether you’re running a server on your... Read more »