NotebookLM may just be an assistant to many people, but this is just the most basic functionality. You can take advantage of its system to do whatever you want, and that means it can be a way to have fun.

Google Chrome is rolling out updates to its autofill feature, giving the browser much deeper access to the data stored in your Google Account and Google Wallet. This move means consolidating even more of your personal information under Google's umbrella.

Google just announced that it has raised the rate limits for its Antigravity development platform. However, this benefit is primarily reserved for users who pay for Google AI Pro or Ultra subscriptions. Free users still have to do the workarounds for the incredibly low limits.

Calibre just dropped version 8.16.1, and it brings a new feature that lets you ask an AI what book you should read next. This latest update builds on the AI capabilities the Calibre team has been adding over the past few months, which follows the trend of adding AI whenever possible.

Discord has finally introduced its own version of the popular annual recap feature with the rollout of Discord Checkpoint for 2025 activity. This is the first time the platform has given users a comprehensive, personalized look back at their yearly habits, and the results are interesting.

Canonical just made a massive announcement for anyone using Linux on Windows, Ubuntu Pro is now available for the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), and the best part is that it is still free for personal use. If you’re a developer or a power user who relies on WSL to get work done, this is a huge deal.

Microsoft is currently investigating a serious service issue preventing customers from downloading Microsoft 365 desktop applications directly from the service homepage. The company has tagged the problem as an "Incident," which means it’s a critical service issue with noticeable user impact.

Home Assistant is closing out the year with its 2025.12 release, bringing major quality of life improvements, an overhaul to automation building, and a new area for testing preview features. There's a lot here to give you more intuitive control over your smart homes.

Home Assistant is closing out the year with its 2025.12 release, bringing major quality of life improvements, an overhaul to automation building, and a brand new area for testing preview features. There's a lot coming that should give users more intuitive control over their smart homes.

Microsoft has quietly rolled out a partial mitigation for the high-severity Windows LNK vulnerability, CVE-2025-9491, which multiple state-sponsored groups and cybercrime gangs have been exploiting as a zero-day. This security flaw lets attackers hide malicious commands inside standard Windows shortcut files.

Raspberry Pi just announced software updates for its growing suite of AI products. This is coming with full support for the AI HAT+ on the Trixie release of Raspberry Pi OS and a brand new debugging feature for the AI Camera.

Google’s new AI coding platform, Antigravity, just executed a catastrophic command that wiped an entire hard drive partition belonging to one of its users. This is a great reason not to give powerful AI agents free rein over a local machine's terminal.

Linux usage on Steam has officially hit an all-time high, reaching 3.2% market share according to the Steam Survey results for November 2025. This is fantastic news for the open-source community, and it shows that the momentum driven by Valve’s hardware strategy isn't slowing down at all.

When you look at the huge world of software development that's always changing, choosing a code editor is probably the most personal and important choice a developer makes. VS Code is a great place to start, but it has so many limitations and issues with privacy that you may end up looking for alternatives.

The Zig Programming Language is officially quitting GitHub and moving its main repository over to Codeberg. The reasoning is a collapse in engineering quality and an aggressive push toward artificial intelligence tools. It is the most direct shot at Copilot from a developer I've seen in some time.

Amazon has officially started testing an ultra-fast delivery service that promises to get essential items to your door in 30 minutes or less in parts of Seattle and Philadelphia. It seems like this is to compete with DoorDash and Instacart by bringing back a super speedy delivery model.

Microsoft just released an optional update for Windows 11. This was supposed to give users the long-awaited consistent dark mode experience, but it accidentally broke the File Explorer interface with blinding white screen flashes.

The Tor Project is fundamentally changing its release schedule for the Alpha channel, switching it from the Firefox Extended Support Release base to the much faster Rapid Release cadence. This will come with real consequences for both testers and stable users.

NVIDIA has released a critical hotfix driver, version 581.94, that fixes the severe performance drops when you run Windows 11 after the mandatory October 2025 cumulative update. Even though Microsoft hasn’t actually acknowledged the problem yet, we have a real solution.

The Linux 6.18 stable kernel has officially been released, bringing a lot of major performance improvements and crucial hardware support. This new kernel is packed with features, touching everything from storage and networking to graphics and Apple hardware support.