Flock told a city council its cameras do not track individuals. The council found out the next day.
We are against these things, and the reason has nothing to do with which way you vote. Flock told one city council its cameras…
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ESPHome ships its first official starter kit. No soldering, no code.
The first official ESPHome Starter Kit shipped this month -- no soldering, no code, $39.99. What's in it, and what it means for anyone…
Patching your FortiGate did not rotate the password it already leaked
Half of internet-facing FortiGate firewalls had working credentials cracked this summer, and the FortiOS upgrade that was supposed to fix the hashing didn't rewrite…
Home Assistant 2026.8: the port 80 change is not the breaking one
A lot of coverage framed the port 80 default as a breaking change. It only affects new installs. The changes that will actually break…
Proxmox finally supports ARM. It still will not run on your Raspberry Pi.
Proxmox VE 9.2 shipped official ARM64 support with full feature parity. It does not run on a Raspberry Pi, and the UEFI/ACPI reason why…
The Steam Machine got bad reviews and sold out in 10 minutes anyway
The Steam Machine got a 62/100 review average and sold out in 10 minutes anyway. Both are true because of the same thing: DDR5…
150 protests, 42 states, one month: the pushback against AI data centers
Nearly 150 protests against AI data centers happened across 42 states in one month. What the water and power numbers actually look like, and…
Plex tripled its price. Jellyfin’s founders just walked. Here’s where that leaves us.
Two things happened to home media servers this summer, and neither one changes what’s running on our NAS, but they’re both worth talking about,…