AMD shipped Nvidia's new AI laptop over a year ago, and the software is finally catching up
Adam Conway Jun 6, 2026, 7:01 PM EDT I’m Adam Conway, an Irish technology fanatic with a BSc in Computer Science and I'm XDA’s Lead Technical Editor. My…
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I tried a new 8B local LLM, and its design might be the biggest shift since DeepSeek R1
…In a separate announcement , the company announced Zaya1-8B-Diffusion-Preview, building on the autoregressive Zaya1-8B base checkpoint. This is a discrete diffusion language model that drafts 16 tokens at once…
HexOS can finally manage your NAS locally instead of through the cloud, and it fixes its biggest flaw
…December 2025 brought nine new apps, May 2026 added three more, and June 2026 added another six. The HexOS team is actively engaged on Reddit and their own announcements forum, and new…
4 ways I stopped fighting Android Auto and started customizing it instead
Chandraveer Mathur Apr 27, 2026, 8:31 AM EDT A seasoned mechanical design engineer turned tech reporter and reviewer, Chandraveer brings more than four years of consumer tech journalism experience to the…
Your home lab probably falls apart for the wrong reason, and these tools fix it
…The project remains actively maintained, with current releases and migration guidance for its newer major version still being updated in 2026. That matters because home lab problems rarely announce themselves politely. A…
Intel's Arrow Lake refresh should have arrived months ago
Joe Rice-Jones Mar 24, 2026, 5:00 PM EDT Maker, meme-r, and unabashed geek, Joe has been writing about technology since starting his career in 2018 at KnowTechie. He's…
Claude Code turned my Docker Compose chaos into a home lab I could trust again
Jeff Butts Jun 4, 2026, 10:30 AM EDT Jeff's been involved in the IT industry since before the Internet and spent more than 20 years working in technical support, system…
I built my own Googlebook with a Raspberry Pi, local LLMs, and old hardware
…So, I had an idea about building my own version of a Googlebook while watching the official announcement stream. One shower thought led to another, and soon, I had a DIY Googlebook…
I don't use HDMI, and I never will
Joe Rice-Jones May 2, 2026, 9:30 AM EDT Maker, meme-r, and unabashed geek, Joe has been writing about technology since starting his career in 2018 at KnowTechie. He's…
The Orange Pi Zero 3W beats the Raspberry Pi 5 on paper, but it can't use half its own hardware
Adam Conway May 8, 2026, 8:00 PM EDT I’m Adam Conway, an Irish technology fanatic with a BSc in Computer Science and I'm XDA’s Lead Technical Editor. My…