My old hardware pays for itself every month.

PCWorld explains Windows Secure Boot as a critical security feature that acts like a checkpoint, verifying software before Windows loads to prevent bootkit malware infections. The 2011 Secure Boot ...

It's actually good enough for simple management tasks ...

Forty years ago, Apple made a TV ad that showed how personal computing would liberate us from Big Brother. Rather than being performed by some cold, faceless and distant corporation, computation ...

An intuitive EDA tool that transforms breadboard prototypes into schematics and fabrication-ready PCBs. Design, document, and validate electronic circuits before building the actual hardware.

The RootBoard is a handheld computer kit with a 3.5 inch color display, a 70-key thumb keyboard complete with function keys, and a built-in speaker plus what looks like a decent s ...

Tom Fenton moves from local AI concepts to hands-on tools for matching LLMs to hardware, running local chatbots with Ollama and benchmarking AI performance.

Scammers are looking to make a quick buck during the world's biggest sports event—but not all online freebies are scams. Here ...

Do you have an ancient laptop or desktop just lying around? Transform that aging PC into an NAS, experiment with a new OS, ...

The Raspberry Pi Pico is a microcontroller development board powered by the custom RP2040 chip. With its dual-core ARM Cortex-M0+ processor, extensive GPIO pins, and built-in programmable I/O (PIO), ...

Five independent security disclosures in a single week point to the same gap: AI agent permissions, not AI agent capabilities, are the problem enterprises haven’t solved. If you can only read one tech ...

A Red Hat build engineer has ended his second experimental effort at using a high-end Arm64 desktop computer as his daily driver. His conclusions are instructive. “Tired of Seriously Bad Computers ...