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These days, supply chain attacks targeting npm are not rare. It's been a couple of months, but we're back with yet another attack—this one affecting over 500 packages. Yikes.

As we head into the holiday season and the end of the year, you'd better believe that Disney+ and Hulu have a snow pile's worth of shows and movies—including specials, premieres, and dozens of catalog titles—to give you plenty to curl up with.

Intel has so far chosen to avoid adding one key feature AMD has been using for years to increase the performance of its chips—a larger L3 cache, which actually results in a tangible performance increase in games. This might finally change soon.

Crossovers like the Toyota RAV4 have long dominated the market, but there’s one model quietly offering more value than most shoppers realize. The Volkswagen Tiguan often flies under the radar, yet its blend of space, refinement, and pricing makes it a compelling alternative for anyone considering the segment’s best-sellers. For buyers focused on practicality and long-term value, it may deliver more than expected.

Are you enamored with the idea of scoring insane deals and buying new PC components this Black Friday? Now might be a decent time to buy a GPU or CPU, but you should pump the brakes on that hot RAM deal you might have found.

When you think of German luxury cars, names like Mercedes, BMW, and Audi probably come to mind first. But there’s a Volkswagen that quietly delivers all the luxury, style, and performance you’d expect—without the sky-high price tag.

It's that time of the year again. Not only is Black Friday and holiday shopping right around the corner, but the cold winter months are nearly here, which means more time in a warm garage working on DIY projects. If you're looking for some new power tools and battery packs, Home Depot just revealed some of its doorbuster deals, and one particular Milwaukee option caught my attention.

AI has matured a lot, and it wouldn't be right not to recognize it. But it also makes the occasional mistake. And when it comes to money, you probably don't want mistakes. So maybe steer clear of Perplexity this Black Friday season.

The ROG Xbox Ally is getting a major quality of life boost that should make Windows handheld gaming feel a lot more like the streamlined experience you get on the Steam Deck. Microsoft, Xbox, and ASUS are rolling out a new feature called Default Game Profiles in preview, which will give you that boost.

HBO Max is heating up December by way of all the new titles they’re adding—some of the most exciting of which are the arrivals of all seven seasons of one of television’s most renowned shows, Mad Men, and the 80s cult classic film The Goonies.

Plex has confirmed that it will require a Remote Watch Pass or Plex Pass for remote streaming on its TV apps. The change is going into effect for the Roku app first, followed by all other TV apps and third-party clients in 2026.

Microsoft has spent the last four years trying to get everyone to upgrade to Windows 11, but not everyone has made the switch. With Windows 10 reaching “End of Life” last month, many are considering ditching Windows altogether. If you've felt the urge to finally check out a Linux alternative, you're not alone—and the numbers prove it.

When the M5 iPad Pro was announced, I was excited. I had been looking for a reason to upgrade my M2 iPad Pro, and with promises of improved performance for artificial intelligence—which will only become more integrated into future products—it seemed like a worthy upgrade.

When faced with a choice of spending thousands of dollars on a new NAS or building my own, the choice was clear. It’s crazy what NAS companies charge for servers when it’s so easy to build your own. Instead of buying a new system, I simply went to eBay, found a cheap server, and the rest is history.

Mercedes-AMG cars have always had a reputation for being fast, flashy, and just a little bit unhinged—in the best way possible. And back in the 2000s, the CLK lineup was Mercedes’ answer to BMW and Audi’s two-door toys, offered in all sorts of trims and engines.

Sick of paying for streaming services like HBO Max and Netflix? Black Friday might be your last chance to grab discounted hardware for a Plex media server.

Graphics cards have been prohibitively expensive over the past few years, and with the ongoing DRAM shortage likely pushing prices even higher, now may be the right time to consider older GPUs. Prices on the second-hand market have become much more reasonable, and there are still some surprisingly powerful models available for not too much money.

The beauty of Android is the huge ecosystem of awesome open-source apps available for the platform. There is an entire app store called F-Droid that exclusively features free and open-source apps. Some of these apps are so good that I would pay for them if they weren’t free. I’m sharing a few here.

I spend so much time watching TV that sometimes I feel like my Apple TV remote is an extension of my hand. Some people complain about its trackpad functions, but I actually prefer its flowy, swipey (that’s a technical term, right?) usability. With one exception.

You love Home Assistant, and so do we, but not everyone is as excited about an open smart home platform as the rest of us. Some brands have gone out of their way to break Home Assistant integrations, while others do things in a way that feels antithetical to the open-source smart home concept.