I used to think of NotebookLM as one of those Google tools that seemed interesting at first but not worth opening every morning. I could see the call, but I already had my tools to dump my information and was hoping that would help me later. Everything changed once I tried using NotebookLM to pick up a topic after leaving it alone for a few days. Now that I use it daily, I no longer have to reopen documents, flip through tabs, and try to remember why I saved all this information in the first place. Now NotebookLM no…
Author: Daniel Morris
Homebridge 2.0 brings Matter support to help build the future of smart home devices After years in beta, Homebridge 2.0 supports even more devices on Apple Home, as well as other Matter platforms. Here are the new features.Homebridge was launched in 2015 with the simple goal of connecting unsupported devices to Apple Home. With plugins, this locally managed server would allow many devices such as Dyson fans or Ring cameras to work within the Apple Home app.In 2018, AppleInsider has created a helpful tutorial on how you can create your own HomeKit Secure Video compatible camera. It was a time…
There has been an epidemic in recent years of iPhone thieves using electric scooters and bikes to snatch the devices from their owners’ hands as they walk down the street. The reason this method is favored by thieves is that it allows them to get hold of an unlocked iPhone, which can be worth $800 more to them than a locked iPhone… Phone theft on an industrial scale A report last year said the use of stolen e-scooters and bikes to grab phones on the streets had reached an “industrial scale”. A Met Police crackdown in London saw 230…
Like every other subset of the home lab ecosystem, the router/firewall faction is primarily split between pfSense and OPNsense, and rightly so. The former is known for its solid stability, while the latter benefits from a more user-friendly approach and fast update cycles. During my years of working from home, I migrated to a pfSense virtual machine running on my network attached storage server, and it served me well for a long time. However, I had heard good things about OPNsense, and with the criticism of pfSense’s shenanigans piling up, I jumped on the former. Although I wouldn’t say that…
You can now update your Apple TV and HomePod to tvOS 26.5, although you won’t see any exciting new features.As is often the case with tvOS updates, the latest update, tvOS 26.5, is largely a stability and performance update. These updates are crucial to keep your device running smoothly.While tvOS 26.5 didn’t bring anything extraordinary, tvOS 26.4 was a bit more remarkable. In this update, Apple has officially removed the iTunes Movies and iTunes TV Shows apps from tvOS 26.4.In doing so, consumers can no longer purchase shows or movies through the apps. To make purchases, they will need to…
Designed to be rehabilitated in mixed districts, welcoming housing, offices, shops and services, the villages of athletes and the media represent more than 4,200 new residential goods, part of which is intended for individuals. Contacted by AFP, the main promoters took stock of the sale of individual lots in late July 2025. “, Consequently affirm our colleagues, who specify that 52% of these apartments were sold.
It has been more than 200 years since the United States has published a brand letter allowing the corsairs to attack the ships of the foreign nations, but these letters can return to empower cyber operators if a bill introduced to the congress really succeeds in passing. The Republican of Arizona David Schweikert presented the scam and the authorization to reprisals from 2025 to the House of Representatives last week. If it is signed, it would give the American president a lot of latitude to issue brand letters to create an armada of Internet corsairs. Brand letters were popular…
OpenAI has announced a new way to interact with its Codex system from your iPhone. An update to ChatGPT for iOS brings remote access to Codex for Mac to the iPhone. Codex for mobile lives in the ChatGPT app While Codex is a standalone app on Mac, OpenAI integrates remote access features into the ChatGPT app for iPhone. Codex is now in the ChatGPT mobile app so you can stay in the loop from anywhere while Codex works on your laptops, devboxes, or remote environments. As agents take on longer duration work, a new rhythm of collaboration emerges. To continue…
May is here, so let’s check the MacBook Neo inventory for the new month. In April, Apple sold out of its online inventory for the month after just 15 days. For the month of May, Apple is starting the month with MacBook Neo shipping estimates ranging from May 18th to May 26th. Apple doesn’t seem to be catching up with MacBook Neo demand anytime soon The quickest way to buy a MacBook Neo from Apple is to take advantage of in-store stock. As delivery dates continue to move back daily, in-store pickup options change throughout the month. Meanwhile, Amazon is…
A conflict is brewing in Europe over the 6 GHz portion of the wireless spectrum, between those who believe it should be allowed for use by cellular networks and others who want it reserved for Wi-Fi. The Wi-Fi Alliance and the Dynamic Spectrum Alliance (DSA) have published open letters addressed to “European digital ministers”, expressing concerns that the upper 6 GHz band (6425 to 7125 MHz) could be banned from Wi-Fi networks in European Union countries. At the heart of the problem is the fact that new Wi-Fi standards such as Wi-Fi 6E and Wi-Fi 7 are capable of using…