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.

An agentic coding tool tasked with cloning and setting up a seemingly benign GitHub repository could execute a malicious ...

Eight shortcuts later, Windows finally works the way I do.

Ongoing research into AI agent framework security identified an exploit chain in AutoGen Studio (AutoGen’s open-source prototyping user interface) that allows untrusted web content rendered by a ...

Lapse… so does this $25 Raspberry Pi Zero! Tiny, lightweight, and incredibly versatile. Mount it anywhere—from rooftops to ...

Jupyter Notebook is a tool to run and write Python code easily, showing results right away, and allowing you to combine code, charts, notes, and files in one place. You can start Jupyter Notebook ...

We’ve been talking a bunch of home automation on the Podcast lately, and this week, in the Mailbag segment, a reader asked us about our setups. Neither Kristina nor I are poster children for the home ...

Today:Early fog in the far southwest clears quickly. Most areas stay dry with sunshine and variable cloud, though northern and northeastern regions may see isolated showers. Light winds overall, ...

I gave Claude access to my Home Assistant. It helped me audit, debug, and improve my smart home better than I ever could have.

For such an inexpensive, tiny little SBC, it certainly gives me a lot of fun and assistance in a number of projects ...