EcoFlow DELTA 3 Ultra Plus Review: Portability meets serious firepower

Quick Review The EcoFlow DELTA 3 Ultra Plus is a powerful portable power station built for homeowners who want reliable emergency backup without committing to a permanent whole-home battery ...
Virtualization Review

Running AI Locally, Part 2: From VMware Context to Hands-On Tools

Tom Fenton moves from local AI concepts to hands-on tools for matching LLMs to hardware, running local chatbots with Ollama and benchmarking AI performance.
Windows Latest

Microsoft called Linux a cancer, now ships its own free distro that’s nothing like Ubuntu or Fedora

Azure Linux 4.0 is Microsoft's own Fedora-derived Linux distro for Azure cloud workloads. Here is how it compares to Ubuntu, ...
Virtualization Review

Running AI Locally: Why VMware Shops Should Care

Tom Fenton explains how local AI fits into the broader private AI discussion for VMware environments, distinguishing enterprise-scale private AI deployments from smaller local AI setups running on ...

Prepare for The Worst With This Self-Sustaining Doomsday Tech Survival Kit

Learn how to create a portable doomsday tech kit capable of running indefinitely off-grid using solar energy and highly ...
XDA Developers on MSN

I quantized a local LLM on my home server and ditched cloud AI for smart home control entirely

My Proxmox node now powers my entire smart home without touching a single cloud service ...
XDA Developers on MSN

I paired a local LLM with Frigate and Home Assistant, and my smart cameras finally understand what they are looking at

My smart home camera alerts used to be useless, but now they tell me what actually happened ...
CNET

Chrome Has Been Secretly Downloading AI to Your Computer. Here's What You Can Do

Chrome has been automatically downloading Gemini Nano (a 4GB AI model) to users' computers without notification or an easy way to prevent it. Alex Valdes from Bellevue, Washington has been pumping ...