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If you've spend any meaningful time inside ChatGPT—brainstorming ideas, planning schedules, organizing your thoughts—you've probably felt the friction of having to move all that work into a separate tool afterward. But what if you didn't have to? What if ChatGPT, apart from helping you tackle your projects and tasks, could also help you manage them?

Where I live in Florida, power interruptions are just part of life. The lights flicker, the voltage dips, or the power cuts out for a few seconds without much warning. Brownouts happen throughout the year, and sometimes they're enough to crash a computer or interrupt whatever you're working on.

I'd like to believe I'm a champion of the cinematic experience. Call me old school, but nothing beats the feeling of watching a movie on the big screen in a packed theater on a Friday night. I vividly remember how the audience exploded for Iron Man during his snap in Avengers: Endgame. I can still hear the screams from my theater when Chris enters the "sunken place" in Get Out. These are memories I'll always cherish.

Finding a new vehicle that is fuel-efficient, safe, and genuinely affordable can feel daunting. As we move through 2026, the national average transaction price for a new car has trended so high that even a six-figure salary might not provide enough cushion when factoring in other living expenses. Subaru, however, is taking a refreshingly different path with the 2026 Forester Hybrid.

Depending on how you go about it, building or buying a NAS can be an expensive hobby or a cost-effective venture. You can repurpose an old PC and turn it into a NAS, but you can also buy highly specialized, ready-made NAS units to satisfy all your storage needs. One way or another, even just the hard drives alone can cost a lot, especially considering the current prices of storage.

Sometimes, fuel economy figures are seen as fixed and unchangeable numbers. That what appears on the EPA window sticker (i.e., city, highway, and combined) when a vehicle is new are the preset numbers, no matter what.

If I want to hear about how billionaire tech bros are making the world worse, I can turn on the news. If I want to hear about how billionaire tech bros are making the world worse and at least laugh about it, I can watch The Audacity.

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Created by Jonathan Glatzer, a writer and producer on Succession and Better Call Saul, The Audacity takes a satirical sledgehammer to Silicon Valley. It tears into the tech world with cutting one-liners and a parade of ultra-wealthy, ultra-insecure "billionaire man children" who often feel frighteningly familiar.

What is The Audacity about? Zach Galifianakis and Billy Magnussen in "The Audacity." Credit: Ed Araquel / AMC

Among those man children is Duncan Park (Billy Magnussen), the data mining CEO of tech company Hypergnosis. He's a sleeveless vest stuffed with delusion and insecurity, a man who's convinced of his own genius, yet still needs those around him to validate said genius.

His closest confidante is his strung-out therapist Dr. JoAnne Felder (Sarah Goldberg), who's certainly not getting paid enough to hear about Duncan's fraudulent activity. However, JoAnne's record isn't spotless either. Thanks to information from her sessions with Duncan and the other tech titans she treats, she's picked up enough confidential information to get into some serious insider trading.

When Duncan discovers this, and when his own stock threatens to plummet, he blackmails JoAnne to help him out, resulting in a sharp, self-destructive spiral for both.

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There are few joys in television greater than watching two great actors have it out, and you'll get plenty of that in The Audacity thanks to Magnussen and Goldberg.

So often a highlight in supporting roles, from Into the Woods to HBO's short-lived The Franchise, Magnussen takes center stage with his usual full-throttle commitment to ridiculousness. His Duncan is someone you love to hate: smarmy, full of himself, and always ready to keep digging deeper into a hole if it means he'll get what he wants. Magnussen channels each of Duncan's flaws with glee, and the result is cringe comedy gold.

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While Duncan believes he's on top of the world, Goldberg's JoAnne is all too aware of the fact that she's at the bottom of the Silicon Valley pyramid. That fuels Goldberg's impeccable take on JoAnne's building breakdown, as does Duncan's blackmail and her strained relationship with teen son Orson (Everett Blunck). We've seen Goldberg play a woman losing control before, as Barry's Sally Reed. (Who could forget her Season 3 elevator tirade?) Here, she once again nails that same level of desperation, coupled with JoAnne's more composed therapist persona. Watching her go from therapist mode to panicked mode is one of The Audacity's darkly comic highlights. Watching the two begin to merge is even better.

Magnussen and Goldberg's chemistry is superb, with Duncan and JoAnne wrestling for power in increasingly ridiculous ways. An early season highlight? JoAnne preferring to drive her car off a road in order to avoid interacting with an oncoming Duncan. He pulls into frame with the goofiest smile on his face, acting like her bestie even though he's straight-up using her car data to track her. He believes he's living in a tech thriller, while JoAnne's fully in a horror movie. That imbalance is a core part of why JoAnne-Duncan dynamic works so well, but it's also proof of The Audacity's tech bros' total delusion: They live so far above everyone else that they feel they can do anything.

The Audacity's Silicon Valley is downright sinister. Simon Helberg in "The Audacity." Credit: Ed Araquel / AMC

The Audacity builds out a full, frightening world around Duncan and JoAnne. Disillusioned tech pioneers like Carl Bardolph (Zach Galifianakis) look down their noses at what Silicon Valley has become, all while trying to find a way back in. Parents like Duncan and his wife Lili (Lucy Punch) try to ensure their daughter Jamison (Ava Telek) gets into Stanford by any means necessary, hiring an elite team of coaches even though it makes her miserable. Elsewhere, inventor Martin Pfister (Simon Helberg) works tirelessly on perfecting an AI child, all while neglecting his own daughter Tess (Thailey Roberge).

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For the show's teen ensemble of Orson, Jamison, and Tess, alienation from their parents is the norm. Through their eyes, Silicon Valley becomes a nightmare place to grow up.

Through the adults' eyes, the Valley doesn't seem so pretty either, despite the lavish mansions or luxury mud baths just a helicopter ride away in Napa. Instead of a tech heaven, it's a surreal tech dystopia, one where a single algorithm can play God and package every bit of a person's data for exploitation. It would almost feel like science fiction if this kind of data mining technology didn't already exist, and that's part of The Audacity's bleak appeal: making us laugh at ridiculousness that's just one step removed from reality.

"The world there is not the world," Orson says of Silicon Valley. He's right. It's a bubble bursting with big net worths and bigger egos. But, The Audacity reminds us, that bubble has a major impact on the real world, and isn't that a silly, frightening thing?

The Audacity was reviewed out of its premiere at SXSW. It premieres April 12 at 9 p.m. ET on AMC and AMC+.

I'm a big believer in smart home automation over smart home control. Being able to turn on a light using an app on your phone or by asking Alexa is great, but the light turning on automatically when you enter the room is much better.

Google doesn’t have the best reputation when it comes to privacy, but that doesn’t mean it’s all bad. Pixel phones actually have some of the best privacy-focused features you can find in the Android world. You just have to make sure to enable them.

Subcompact SUVs have exploded in popularity over the past decade. Automakers rushed to meet demand, rolling out smaller crossovers built for city life and young families.

As we near the 98th Academy Awards, which will air on March 15, prep for the star-studded event is underway. Host Conan O'Brien has rolled out the red carpet, statuettes gleam with fresh polish, and influencers are prepping their interview questions amid viral nominee backlash.

Also on the docket: The annual Golden Raspberry Awards, also known as The Razzies, which dishonorably award the worst Hollywood had to offer in the year prior.

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Many of Hollywood's finest take a Razzie win in stride, including Academy Award winners Halle Berry and Sandra Bullock, who attended the Razzies to accept the dishonor on behalf of Catwoman and All About Steve, respectively.

Alas, this year's virtual parody ceremony didn't feature any in-person Hollywood cameos. You'll also have to stomach some unsettling animated visuals on the YouTube livestream — or just scroll down for the full list.

Worst Picture

The Electric State          
Hurry Up Tomorrow
Disney’s Snow White (2025)   
Star Trek: Section 31
War of the Worlds (2025)

Winner: War of the Worlds (2025)

War of the Worlds, the latest film adaptation of the H.G Wells novel directed by Rich Lee, swept this year's Razzies. It currently has a 2.5-star rating on IMDb, a 4% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, and a single star on Letterboxd. The movie is available to stream on Amazon Prime Video.

Worst Actress

Ariana DeBose, Love Hurts
Milla Jovovich, In the Lost Lands
Natalie Portman, Fountain of Youth 
Rebel Wilson, Bride Hard
Michelle Yeoh, Star Trek: Section 31

Winner: Rebel Wilson

Bride Hard is a real movie in which Wilson plays a secret agent whose spy duties are getting in the way of her being a bridesmaid. It has a 4.4 rating on IMDB, a 14% on Rotten Tomatoes, and 1.9 on Letterboxd.

Worst Actor

Dave Bautista, In the Lost Lands
Ice Cube, War of the Worlds
Scott Eastwood, Alarum
Jared Leto, Tron: Ares
Abel “The Weeknd” Tesfaye, Hurry Up Tomorrow

Winner: Ice Cube

Despite widespread panning from critics and viewers, War of the Worlds gave the world at least one good thing: a meme-worthy shot of Ice Cube sitting at a computer monitor, the glow of Zoom tinging his glasses.

This Tweet is currently unavailable. It might be loading or has been removed. Worst Supporting Actress

Anna Chlumsky, Bride Hard 
Ema Horvath, The Strangers: Chapter 2
Scarlet Rose Stallone, Gunslingers 
Kacey Rohl, Star Trek: Section 31
Isis Valverde, Alarum

Winner: Scarlet Rose Stallone

Stallone is, in fact, the daughter of action star Sylvester Stallone. She stars alongside another famous Hollywood name, Nic Cage, in Gunslingers, which has a 3.6 on IMDB, 5% on Rotten Tomatoes, and 1.8 stars on Letterboxd.

Worst Supporting Actor

All Seven Artificial Dwarfs, Snow White (2025)
Nicolas Cage, Gunslingers
Stephen Dorff, Bride Hard
Greg Kinnear, Off the Grid
Sylvester Stallone, Alarum

Winner: All Seven Artificial Dwarfs

The uncanny, CGI dwarfs of 2025's Snow White took home a joint Razzie, stealing yet another award that could have actually gone to a real-life actor with dwarfism.

Worst Remake / Rip-Off / Sequel

I Know What You Did Last Summer (2025)
Five Nights at Freddy’s 2
Smurfs (2025)
Snow White (2025)
War of the Worlds (2025)

Winner: War of the Worlds

Remake or rip-off? How about both...

Worst Screen Combo

All Seven Dwarfs, Snow White (2025)
James Corden & Rihanna, Smurfs (2025)
Ice Cube & His Zoom Camera, War of the Worlds (2025)
Robert De Niro & Robert De Niro (as Frank & Vito), The Alto Knights
The Weeknd & His Colossal Ego, Hurry Up Tomorrow

Winner: All Seven Dwarfs

Let's just use this moment to shout out the real voices behind the digital Razzie winners: Martin Klebba (Grumpy), George Salazar (Happy), Andy Grotelueschen (Sleepy), Tituss Burgess (Bashful), Jason Kravits (Sneezy), and Jeremy Swift (Doc).

This Tweet is currently unavailable. It might be loading or has been removed. Worst Director 

Rich Lee, War of the Worlds (2025)
Olatunde Osunsanmi, Star Trek: Section 31
The Russo Brothers, The Electric State
Trey Edward Shults, Hurry Up Tomorrow
Marc Webb, Snow White (2025)

Winner: Rich Lee

Lee's bookshelf will be full of golden raspberries, which are actually really cute decor IMO. In the words of the Razzies, "Own your bad!"

Worst Screenplay

The Electric State, Screenplay by Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely. Adapted from the illustrated novel by Simon Stalenhag.
Hurry Up Tomorrow, Screenplay by Trey Edward Shults, Abel Tesfaye, Reza Fahim.
Snow White (2025), Screenplay by Erin Cressida Wilson et. al. Drawing from the original fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm.
Star Trek: Section 31, Screenplay by Craig Sweeny with original story concept developed by Bo Yeon Kim & Erika Lippoldt.
War of the Worlds (2025), Screen story and screenplay by Kenny Golde and screenplay by Marc Hyman. Adapted from the novel by H.G. Wells.

Winner: War Of The Worlds (2025) / Kenny Golde, Marc Hyman

Trying to adapt War of the Worlds in the age of TikTok dances and mogging is a doomed enterprise. But with this win, War of the Worlds ties with Cats for the most wins at the Razzies.

Razzie Redeemer AwardWinner: Kate Hudson, Song Sung Blue

The Redeemer Award is presented to a previous nominee or winner who has successfully come back from a critical failure. Hudson has multiple Razzie nominations, including My Best Friend’s Girl, Mother’s Day, and, most recently, 2021's Music. However, Hudson redeemed herself with a "pitch-perfect" performance in Song Sung Blue and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress.

Installing apps on Windows hasn't changed much in years. Most people still open a browser, search for the program they want, download an installer, and click through a handful of setup screens. It works, but it's slow and repetitive. If you're setting up a new PC or reinstalling Windows, the process gets even worse. Installing a handful of everyday apps can mean jumping between half a dozen websites and repeating the same steps over and over or pulling out a USB drive full of installers and running them one by one.

If you ask me, the 1980s and 1990s were the golden age of action films. However, everyone knows the classics from the 20th century. If we start the clock at the year 2001 or later to give newer films a fair chance, how do they rank? This is my attempt at putting up a scoreboard for the new century so far.

Thanks to the rising prices of everything, including PC components, the looming RAM-pocalypse, and the fact that RGB is slowly falling out of favor among PC gamers, there's a growing trend of PC components once considered "obsolete" finding their way back into more and more desktop PCs.

Are you tired of everyone recommending a new Linux distro claiming it's the best? Are you wondering which one of these best distros is actually aligned with your needs and requirements? Well, let me spotlight five popular Linux distros and what they do, so you can finally make your choice!

I cut the cord and went all-in on streaming back in 2015. Thanks to Sling TV, I ditched my expensive cable TV bill and got all the essential channels at a fraction of the price. Everything was great for a few years, and eventually, I switched to YouTube TV, but the good old days are long behind us.

An anonymous group installed an anti-Elon Musk vending machine that dispenses the Epstein Files at SXSW 2026 in Austin, Texas, on Saturday morning.

Mashable witnessed a group of four men installing the piece of guerrilla protest art at the corner of Red River Street and 4th Street in downtown Austin. After a brief installation, passersby started collecting DVDs titled "Elon's Epstein Files." The vending machine is covered with anti-Elon Musk slogans, and messages on the machine say "Grok makes AI child porn free!" and "Our founder Elon Musk is in the Epstein Files."

A group of unidentified men install an anti-Elon Musk art project at SXSW 2026. Credit: Timothy Werth / Mashable

Grok has been the subject of global investigations after the AI chatbot was accused of generating nude images of children. The Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) and the New York Times found that Grok created an estimated 3 million sexualized images, which included 23,000 images depicting children, during an 11-day period between December and January.

When Grok Imagine first launched, Mashable reported that the tool lacked basic safety guardrails to prevent sexual deepfakes.

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A QR code inside the DVD takes you to Jmail, a site that lets you search through Epstein's emails in a Gmail-like interface. (Exercise caution when scanning QR codes from unknown sources.) Specifically, this code links to a search in Jmail that shows emails between Musk and Epstein. What Mashable has covered previously: Jmail is the brainchild of Riley Walz, a digital "prankster," and developer Luke Igel. However, it's unclear if this Elon Musk vending machine is associated with the Jmail project.

The men setting up the vending machine refused to say who they were or who hired them. Two men who described themselves as the "security detail" said the vending machine would be up until Wednesday. A photographer and the man installing the machine told Mashable they were hired by a company that was hired by another company, and refused to provide identifying details.

An Anti-Elon Musk vending machine appears in downtown Austin during SXSW 2026. Credit: Timothy Werth / Mashable Credit: Timothy Werth / Mashable

The men installing the machine also claimed responsibility for the Epstein Walk of Shame art installation, which appeared in downtown Austin earlier in the week.

The annual SXSW festival takes place in Austin, Texas, where it runs from March 12 to 18.

The golden era of couch co-op gaming is still one of the most loved times in video game history. Even though modern consoles focus on online-only multiplayer, that immediate, in-person feeling you get from local competition is exactly why games like Super Smash Bros. Melee, Mario Kart: Double Dash!!, and the Mario Party series are my favorites. For years, if you wanted to keep that nostalgia alive, it meant you had to track down old hardware, hunt for controllers, and deal with those fuzzy, standard-definition graphics.

Meta is pulling its end-to-end encryption option on Instagram DMs.

The company announced the change in an update to its support page and via alerts to users in the app, writing:

End-to-end encrypted messaging on Instagram will no longer be supported after May 8, 2026.

If you have chats that are impacted by this change, you will see instructions on how you can download any media or messages you may want to keep.

If you're on an older version of Instagram, you may also need to update the app before you can download your affected chats.

Meta spokesperson Dina El-Kassaby Luce told The Verge that the company was discontinuing the feature because "very few people" were using it. With end-to-end encryption enabled for both users, DMs and calls aren't visible to outside actors, including Meta, unless they're shared.

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Meta and other tech leaders have come under fire for turning over user communications to outside entities, including law enforcement. But they have also received flak for offering end-to-end encryption to users across the board, with some critics saying that the feature enables child predators to target and communicate with minors undetected.

TikTok, for example, does not offer end-to-end encryption for user DMs and explained to the BBC that the decision is the result of numerous safety considerations. The company told the outlet that providing law enforcement and internal training teams with chat data keeps users safe.

For users who still want end-to-end encryption, Meta's spokesperson says to turn to WhatsApp — but the Meta-owned messaging service isn't entirely safe from intrusions, either. Meta says end-to-end encryption will still be available on Messenger.

How many devices do you have in your smart home? How many are connected to the internet, and how many of them are running updated firmware? Do you even know for sure? If not, it's time for an audit of your smart home devices.