I tested every local LLM tweak people recommend, and only these ones actually mattered
…Sign in to your XDA account When I first set up my local LLM , I was mostly ignoring the settings panel. I came from cloud AI where none of this is your…
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Microsoft's Surface RTX Spark Dev Box packs serious Arm-based AI power
…RTX Spark Dev Box , a new Arm-based, developer-focused PC designed for heavy workloads, agentic AI pipelines, and local model fine-tuning, all in a pint-sized 100W package. As you…
Tailscale is the only home lab change I made this year that I actually noticed
…Each agent is also tracked by Tailscale's ACLs and metrics, and I can see which ones are using the most tokens. Related AI agents are a security nightmare for home labs…
Anthropic keeps taking features away from Claude Pro, and I'm running out of reasons to defend it
…This includes in-depth coverage of AI tools like NotebookLM to breaking news across the AI space. Her passion for technology started when she received her first iPod Touch (4th generation) on…
Alexa+ just made impulse spending dangerously easy, and Amazon knows it
…Alexa+, which is the generative AI-powered subscription tier of Alexa, Amazon is pushing hard into agentic AI. These are features that don't just answer questions but take real-world actions…
Cal.com just went closed source over AI, but AI is exactly why open source still wins
…are pushing the boundary of what an autonomous agent can do against an unfamiliar target with no source code in front of it. None of it is slowing down, either. AI changed…
Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini get all the hype, but the most interesting AI models are coming from elsewhere
…Z.ai, the lab behind it, completed a Hong Kong IPO on January 8, 2026, raising roughly HKD 4.35 billion, making it the one of the first publicly traded foundation-model…
Cloud AI is becoming cable TV: too many subscriptions, confusing limits, and bundles nobody asked for
…AI subscriptions are getting crowded and harder to understand Every plan now feels like a moving target The first problem is that “AI subscription” barely means anything anymore. One plan might include…
A popular Python library just became a backdoor to your entire machine
…LiteLLM is a transitive dependency for a growing number of AI agent frameworks, MCP servers, and LLM orchestration tools. That means even if you never ran pip install litellm yourself, it may…
I replaced Claude Code with Codex for a week, and the trade-offs were not what I expected
…first workflow. If you want a tool that feels close to your thinking process, Claude Code still has a strong case. If you want to offload more work and manage AI agents…