Claude Code took my messy NotebookLM research and actually organized it
I have been using NotebookLM for research for about a year, and it does one thing better than any other AI tool I have tried: it actually sticks to the sources I…
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Wikipedia just banned its own co-founder for asking Wikipedia to be neutral
Larry Sanger co-founded Wikipedia in January 2001. In June 2026, twenty-five years later, he was “blocked indefinitely” by the site he helped create. The reason, as reported by Sanger himself and by…
The operating systems pushing back against age verification
Bryan Lunduke keeps a public list at github.com/BryanLunduke/DoesItAgeVerify. The repository tracks, by operating system, whether the OS has implemented age verification in the user account creation flow, the app store rating system,…
Chrome hid a multi-GB AI model on your disk without telling you
I opened Activity Monitor on my MacBook last Tuesday and noticed Chrome was using 8 GB of disk space for something I had not downloaded on purpose. The file was sitting in…
My smart TV has never touched Wi-Fi, and I still stream everything
I have not connected my smart TV to my home network in three years. I do not mean I sometimes forget. I mean the TV has never had the Wi-Fi password typed…
VLC is the most powerful media tool on your PC, and most people never noticed
I have been running VLC (VideoLAN Client, the open-source media player that ships on basically every operating system) for fifteen years and I treated it like a fancy .mp4 viewer. The icon…
Claude Design, but the free tier you can actually run
Up until a few months ago, my biggest complaint with AI tools was that the free tiers simply did not cut it anymore. I have since accepted that there is no escaping…
Incognito doesn’t hide you, and the one that does costs you
Incognito windows are a false sense of security. Your ISP can still see what you am doing, and the websites you visit still fingerprint your browser. Incognito clears your local history. That…
Seven viral ChatGPT image prompts, ranked by what holds up
I spent a weekend running the most-shared ChatGPT image prompts against GPT Image 2 (OpenAI’s current flagship image model, released earlier in 2026) and found something the viral posts leave out. About…
A dead iPad, a Raspberry Pi, and a security monitor that pulls weight
I had a stack of old iPads collecting dust. Some had cracked screens, some were too old to install modern apps, and none of them were useful enough to sell. The hardware…