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 ...

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.

Detection and analysis tools for the atomic-lockfile supply-chain attack on the Arch User Repository (AUR), generalized to a campaign-based architecture that handles multiple concurrent and historical ...

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