Month: June 2025
Senate confirms Trump’s FCC pick, Olivia Trusty
The Senate confirmed Republican Olivia Trusty to serve on the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on Tuesday, installing another nominee by President Donald Trump and ending the brief lack of quorum at the agency. The vote was 53-45, with Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) being the only Democrat to vote in her…
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Meta is making all Facebook videos reels
Meta is making a change to how sharing videos works on Facebook. Right now, you can share videos as a video from the post composer or as a reel, and both have different sharing workflows. In “the coming months,” however, “all videos on Facebook will be shared as reels,” according…
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WhatsApp’s rollout of ads will change the app forever
This week, WhatsApp did something its founders said it would never do: it’s putting advertisements inside the app. It ends WhatsApp’s decade-plus run of offering an ad-free messaging and calling experience. Meta, which acquired WhatsApp in 2014, attempted to justify the decision by saying ads will be sequestered to its…
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This is the cheapest Wi-Fi 7 BE9300 VPN-aware router I could find and, thanks to four 2.5GbE LAN ports, it is probably also the best value out there
GL.iNet Flint 3 is a powerful Wi-Fi 7 router with 2.5GbE ports at a bargain early bird price Supports OpenWrt, VPNs, and mesh with wide plugin compatibility It’s the follow-up to the Slate 7, the world’s first mobile Wi-Fi 7 router The GL.iNet Flint 3 (GL-BE9300) may be the cheapest…
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Nintendo will take your Switch 2 offline forever if you use a Mig flash cartridge
Some Switch 2 owners have received the error code 2134-4508, which results in their consoles being permanently banned from accessing any of its online services, as spotted by IGN. It’s not a ban hammer from sucking at Mario Kart World, thankfully for me, but one that’s targeting consoles that have…
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Here’s the first ever test of the world’s largest SSD, and yes, an even bigger 246TB SSD may well land before the end of 2025
Solidigm’s 122.88TB SSD may not be the fastest, but it wins on density and design At $12,400, this SSD isn’t cheap, but it could slash rack space and energy waste Solidigm already has rivals with competing 122.88TB SSD products With a staggering capacity of 122.88TB, the Solidigm D5-P5336 currently holds…
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