For those that haven't yet made the move to FreeBSD 15 with still relying on FreeBSD 14 in production, out today is FreeBSD 14.5-RELEASE...... Read more »

The mystery deepens around an x86 implementation from a corporate entity other than AMD and Intel and has been making some very intriguing changes for coming from a seeming start-up. Beyond 16 tile and 32 tile AMX implementations that already surpass Intel's current Advanced Matrix Extensions (AMX) capabilities in shipping... Read more »

As an interesting development for Ubuntu 26.10, the daily ISOs of the "Stonking Stingray" now include amd64v3 images...... Read more »

A recently posted Linux kernel patch has revealed a new security improvement with Zen 6 processors...... Read more »

Last week's set of DRM-Misc-Next changes submitted to DRM-Next with targeting the upcoming Linux 7.4 kernel cycle features HDMI 2.1 related work for both the AMDGPU kernel driver as well as the Nouveau open-source NVIDIA driver...... Read more »

Intel's Dynamic PAMT feature looks like it's finally going to be ready for mainline with Linux 7.4. The Intel Dynamic PAMT is used for helping to reduce memory overhead when making use of Trusted Domain Extensions (TDX) for confidential VMs...... Read more »

Rustls as the modern TLS library implementation written in the Rust programming language is out with a new feature release. This morning's Rustls 0.23.44 release enables post-quantum secure ML-DSA certificates by default...... Read more »

After the Linux 7.3 merge window concluded last weekend, today we are up to the Linux 7.3-rc2 test kernel release in working toward the stable v7.3 kernel during the second half of October...... Read more »

Following the recent Shotcut stable release with a stock asset library and other improvements, Shotcut 26.9 Beta is out today with yet more improvements for this open-source video editing application for Linux, macOS, and Windows systems...... Read more »

NetBSD 9.5 released today as the final release of the NetBSD 9 stable branch...... Read more »

Ahead of the Linux 7.3-rc2 kernel being released later today, a set of scheduler fixes have been sent out for this week's kernel test release. Most notable with the scheduler fixes are dealing with possible misfits for Cache-Aware Load Scheduling on hybrid CPUs like Intel Core (Ultra) processors...... Read more »

Asahi Linux developers announced today that they are now officially supporting the Linux distribution on Apple M3 powered Macs. With the exception of the Mac Studio M3 Ultra, other M3 / M3 Pro / M3 Max devices should now work with the latest Asahi Linux builds but with some feature... Read more »

ClangIR has been in development for a number of years now as a new intermediate representation for the Clang compiler. ClangIR makes use of MLIR and is higher-level than LLVM IR. With ClangIR able to preserve more C/C++ source semantics, its usage can lead to better diagnostics, code/static analysis, and... Read more »

Ahead of the Linux 7.3-rc2 kernel release due out later today, a merge causing a lot of code churn was pulled in by Linus Torvalds. This tree-wide effort converts more of the kmalloc() function calls over to the newer and superior kmalloc_obj() family of functions...... 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 »

Arm has introduced two compute platforms, one for data centre silicon aimed at agentic AI and one for mobile devices.... Read more »

Mistral has completed a €3bn ($3.48bn) Series D funding round, putting the AI company’s post-money valuation at more than €21bn ($24.4bn).... Read more »

Alex Laurie, CTO at Ping Identity, says AI watermarks are a step in the right direction but not the solution.... Read more »

Quantum Foundry Copenhagen and the Novo Nordisk Foundation have announced plans for a new 5,300m² quantum chip fabrication facility.... Read more »

NanoBridge Semiconductor has entered into an agreement with Siemens to use its Precision FPGA Synthesis tool for FPGA development.... Read more »

Sharon AI and Rafay Systems to orchestrate its AI Factory environments, with architecture designed for up to 150,000 GPUs.... Read more »

Anticipation builds for Apple’s expected September launch, where rumours suggest a first-generation foldable device will debut.... Read more »

Modern versions of conversational AI will see greater adoption of voice in customer service by taking away the frictions associated with the channel.... Read more »

Meta has announced the release of Muse Spark 1.3, the latest version of its advanced AI model, designed to improve agentic and coding tasks.... Read more »

HMD and Xplora are building a compact, drop-resistant kids' tablet with built-in 4G, AI content filtering, and location tracking — but pricing and release date remain unknown.... Read more »

Playground Games has pushed back against delay rumors, reaffirming a 2026 PS5 launch — but an exact date remains unannounced with GTA VI looming in November.... Read more »

Onimusha: Way of the Sword sold 1 million copies on day one, prompting Capcom to officially commit to bringing back long-dormant series. Dino Crisis is still not on the public list.... Read more »

A second wave of cuts in Istanbul and Frankfurt follows February's 15% reduction, leaving the studio's future deeply uncertain.... Read more »

Xiaomi's first tablet with an in-house Xring O3 processor starts at $715 in China, undercutting the iPad Pro 13 by 40% — if it ever reaches the US or UK.... Read more »

China's latest flagship foldable packs a proprietary Xring O3 processor, Leica cameras, and a 6,000 mAh battery — but don't hold your breath for a Western release.... Read more »

Samsung's new budget phone launches in Jordan with a rare promise — six major Android upgrades and six years of security patches at a sub-$200 price.... Read more »

TCL's new TAB A1 lineup splits into size and display type, with NxtPaper variants targeting readers and students at $189–$299 in the US.... Read more »

GPT-6 Astra completed Valve's puzzle classic autonomously, proving AI agents can handle 3D spatial reasoning — at a steep cost in time and API fees.... Read more »

Huawei's new FreeBuds 7 pack a third-gen AI audio chip with serious ANC specs, but they've launched China-only at around $140 with no confirmed Western release date.... Read more »

iQOO's new Z11xa lands in India with a massive battery, IP69+ protection, and a Sony-made main camera — but no Western retailer to buy it from.... Read more »

A 16:9.5 aspect ratio, 200MP camera, and 7,000 mAh battery — but HarmonyOS and no confirmed Western launch complicate the picture.... Read more »

PlayStation's long-dormant shooter franchise is reportedly in early development, with Polish studio People Can Fly handling the heavy lifting.... Read more »

Leaked sketches show a creaseless display, 3D glass, and a horizontal camera bar — but no release date or price yet.... Read more »

If you want to play retro games and want them to look accurate, in-line with the original designers' intentions, you pretty much need a CRT. You can get by with emulation and smart filters that simulate scan lines and other effects, but the biggest challenge to playing on real hardware... Read more »

Amid the ongoing Sony PlayStation physical media controversy, the developers behind the renowned RPCS3 emulator have achieved a milestone in the preservation of PlayStation 3 games. With its latest update, any system with a mainstream branch of RPCS3 and a supported disc drive across Windows, FreeBSD, Mac, or Linux can emulate... Read more »

You're not still getting by with tinny audio from your television's built-in speakers, are you? To be fair, TV makers have made an effort to equip modern models with better sound, but they still can't compete with discrete speaker solutions. The problem is, setting up a home theater sound system... Read more »

Sony has stepped in to correct misconceptions surrounding the future of PlayStation disc manufacturing, asserting that physical production will experience a 10% dip by 2028 rather than the previously rumored 90%. Can we breathe a sigh of relief now, maybe? If you've been keeping up with the matter, the controversy... Read more »

AMD unveiled its beastly Threadripper Halo Station during its keynote at IFA Berlin 2026.  Capable of running AI models with more than a trillion (yes, TRILLION) parameters, AMD's Senior VP Jack Huynh said the Threadripper Halo Station is "about as close as you can get to a personal super computer,"... Read more »

A Microsoft Distinguished Engineer is claiming that typing code is effectively dead thanks to artificial intelligence. No, that doesn't mean that developers are about to go extinct,  it's just that AI will take over the boring part of manually coding and building line by line, allowing humans to focus on... Read more »

First previewed earlier this summer, HP is now sharing more details on its upcoming lineup of NVIDIA RTX Spark-powered PCs. Leading the pack are the HP OmniBook Ultra 16 and HP OmniBook X 14, which HP claims are the world's thinnest RTX Spark laptops. Alongside these slim mobile workstations, HP... Read more »

The weekend may be nearly over, but there is still time to save big on a range of gaming laptops, desktop PCs, monitors, and more during Best Buy's Labor Day sales event, which ends on Monday. We're seeing hundreds of dollars off several gaming PCs from the likes of ASUS,... Read more »

The refrain in the DIY PC community has been clear for a few years now: if you're doing PC gaming, you need an AMD 3D V-Cache CPU. The degree of necessity is exaggerated—at normal resolutions and settings, you're generally GPU-bound anyway—but it is true that for high-framerate eSports and poorly-optimized... Read more »

If you missed out on Woot's previous sale on Alienware laptops, this is your chance to take a mulligan, provided you're okay with going the factory reconditioned route and are not looking to set any benchmark records. Those qualifiers out of the way, the Amazon-owned deal site is offering a... Read more »

Unveiled at IFA 2026 in Berlin, Minisforum has officially announced the MS-S1 Max-P495, an ultra-compact mini-workstation designed to put serious local AI horsepower on your desk. Powered by AMD's flagship Gorgon Halo chip, the Ryzen AI Max+ Pro 495, and a generous heap of 192GB of LPDDR5X-8533 unified memory, this... Read more »

Grand Theft Auto VI has reached stratospheric levels of hype after Rockstar dropped an extended look of the game on Netflix last week. Sony is looking to capitalize on that excitement with two limited edition DualSense controllers that “capture that unmistakable Vice City energy.” Though, the company has been upstaged... Read more »

Say a sad goodbye to unlimited Xbox cloud play, folks, because Microsoft will soon be enforcing strict monthly playtime caps for Xbox Game Pass subscribers while simultaneously opening up cloud access to non-subscribers. Beginning this November, Microsoft will end its unlimited streaming policy, shifting to a tier-based allowance system... Read more »

The joint European and Japanese BepiColombo Mercury mission that left Earth some eight years ago has finally entered its arrival phase, shedding its propulsion module to begin a months-long orbital insertion of its two science orbiters. The jettisoning of the Mercury Transfer Module comes as a relief for this joint... Read more »

If you went looking for Docker on your Synology NAS and couldn’t find it, nothing was removed. Synology renamed the package to Container Manager in DSM 7.2, and that rename is responsible for most of the confusion around this topic. Container Manager is Docker: it runs the same containers, it... Read more »

For about a decade, the answer to “what NAS should I buy for Plex” was simple: get an Intel Synology and let Quick Sync do the work. That answer died in 2025, when Synology moved its Plus lineup to AMD processors with no integrated GPU and took hardware transcoding with... Read more »

A year ago this wasn’t much of a debate. Synology DSM won on software, you paid a premium for it, and that was the end of the conversation. Since then UGOS Pro has had a full year of updates, Synology has made a few decisions that pushed people away, and... Read more »

UniFi runs my entire network, and I’ve been running UniFi’s NAS line since the original UNAS Pro launched. Right now I’m running the UNAS Pro 8 in parallel with a TrueNAS box, plus a Synology and a UGREEN unit I use for off-site backups. The UNAS is what I keep... Read more »

UGREEN went from “the charging cable company” to one of the most interesting NAS brands in about two years, and I’ve had NASync units in my own setup for most of that time. Two of them handle my actual backups: a DXP4800 Plus that turns on at 2 a.m. every... Read more »

Pi-hole runs on almost anything, which is good news and bad news. The good news is that you can install it on a Raspberry Pi, an Ubuntu server, a Proxmox LXC, in Docker, or on a NAS. The bad news is that the variety of installation methods makes it hard... Read more »

The UniFi Dream Machine Beast (UDMB) is Ubiquiti’s newest and most capable gateway in the Dream Machine lineup, priced at $1,499, and I just got my hands on it for a first look. It sits above the Dream Machine Pro Max ($599, which I’ve been running for close to two... Read more »

I’ve been running Synology NAS devices for over seven years, across the DS1019+, DS1821+, and DS923+. The place people get stuck before anything else even starts is finding the box on the network. You plug it in, the drive lights come on, and then nothing tells you what IP address... Read more »

HACS (Home Assistant Community Store) is what most people install right after getting Home Assistant running. It gives you access to community-built integrations, themes, and cards that aren’t in the official store. I run Home Assistant OS in a Proxmox VM, but the process is the same whether you’re on... Read more »

Libre Closet is a free, open-source, and self-hosted digital wardrobe organizer that allows users to catalog clothing items, upload and automatically background-remove photos, build outfits, and manage their personal closets through an offline-ready progressive web app on their own server. In this step by step guide I will show you... Read more »

Ollama is an open-source project that serves as a powerful and user-friendly platform for running LLMs on your local machine. Get up and running with large language models with Ollama. In this step by step guide I will show you how to install Ollama on your UGREEN NAS using Docker & Dockhand.... Read more »

Formbricks is a solution for in-product micro-surveys that promises to supercharge your product experience. Formbricks provides a free and open source surveying platform. Gather feedback at every point in the user journey with beautiful in-app, website, link and email surveys. In this step by step guide I will show you... Read more »

Open Dronelog is a high-performance, open-source dashboard for organizing and analyzing drone flight logs privately and locally. It focuses on DJI (.txt logs) and Litchi (CSV) formats with support for Airdata and some third-party CSVs, offering a fully local-first alternative to cloud-based tools. In this step by step guide I... Read more »

UGREEN officially made the DXP6800 and DXP8800 Ultra NAS available to the general public. The models went on sale through the official UGREEN store and Amazon at the following prices. DXP6800 Ultra: $1,449.99 or 1.248,01 Euro DXP8800 Ultra: $1,779.99 or 1.532,04 Euro I personally say the iDX6011 Pro is better:... Read more »