I ditched Otter.ai for a self-hosted transcription tool, and the privacy alone was worth it ...

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Setting up a home server might sound like an intimidating project, but it can be incredibly rewarding and beneficial in many ways. Whether you’re looking to centralize your media files, run a personal ...

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Cloud image editors are now much harder to justify.

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Backblaze, Inc. recently reported first-quarter 2026 results showing sales of US$38.67 million versus US$34.61 million a year earlier, with net loss narrowing to US$6.15 million and basic loss per ...

Reporting from May 2026 accurately claimed that Google Chrome silently installed a 4-gigabyte artificial intelligence model on users' devices without consent, and that the model reinstalls itself if ...

Google is downloading a 4GB file to the PCs of many Chrome users. The file is harmless and is used for the Gemini Nano on-device LLM. You'll see it if you've opted into the on-device AI setting in ...

I spend more time today than ever before interacting with terminal windows, which is something I don’t think Past Me would have believed in the early ’90s. Back then, poor MS-DOS was the staid ...

Files is a powerful, modern alternative to Windows File Explorer, built on WinUI 3 with a clean UI, dual-pane support, tabs, tags, and advanced tools like previews, Git, and FTP. It fixes many ...

Transcribing audio to text on your PC is made accessible and secure with Vibe, an open source application that operates entirely offline. By using OpenAI’s Whisper model, Vibe supports transcription ...