If you’re running Home Assistant on a server that’s not easily accessible, you might be interested in making the platform’s files more easily accessible via a network share. This is pretty easy to do, ...

Personally, I’m a staunch member of the Proxmox faction and wouldn’t trade it for anything else. But after falling down the ...

For instance, we use Jeena's TextEd instead of Apple's text editor. For browsers, email, chat, productivity, writing, and so on, we use FOSS and freeware apps, and wherever possible, ones that also ...

At MAI (Microsoft AI), we don’t just build AI tools, we care about how real people interact with them. So as 2025 wraps up, we’ve gone headfirst into a mountain of de-identified data, searching for ...

Google has a device usage study involving everyday consumers to understand 'how users interact with the internet.' Consumers should take more care in reading privacy policies, especially when asked to ...

To better understand which social media platforms Americans use, Pew Research Center surveyed 5,022 U.S. adults from Feb. 5 to June 18, 2025. SSRS conducted this National Public Opinion Reference ...

In 1940, St. Clair McKelway typed a memo to William Shawn, The New Yorker’s managing editor for fact. McKelway was writing a six-part Profile of Walter Winchell for the magazine, and he was unhappy ...

Even when the VM is idle (no CPU consumption reported), VirtualBox takes as much CPU as I allocated on the host. For instance, if I give 2 cores to the VM, on the host I will always have 2 corers busy ...

As someone who writes about the AI industry relatively frequently for this site, there is one question that I find myself constantly asking and being asked in turn, in some form or another: What do ...

Kara Alaimo is an associate professor of communication at Fairleigh Dickinson University. Her book “Over the Influence: Why Social Media Is Toxic for Women and Girls — And How We Can Take It Back” was ...

For years, teachers have been bashing their heads against the wall as students outsource their homework to large language model (LLM) chatbots like ChatGPT. But as students of all ages grow to depend ...

What if you woke up tomorrow to find your most trusted AI assistant suddenly limited in how much it could help you? For a small but significant group of users—just 5%—this scenario is now a reality.