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How to turn your old tablet into a portable monitor for your Windows PC

Stop letting your old tablet collect dust and turn it into a second monitor for free in under two minutes.

I jailbroke my old Kindle, but I found a safer way to add books - for free

With Amazon support ending, I jailbroke my outdated Kindle to install KOReader. Here are the risks, and an alternative.

I transferred my old DVDs onto Jellyfin and it only took 3 steps

Here's how I effortlessly relocated the contents of my DVD collection onto a free, personal Jellyfin server in no time at all ...

Your Yarbo lawnmower is a backdoor into your Wi-Fi network

Security researcher Andreas Makris recently outlined exploits that could allow hackers to hijack thousands of Yarbo ...

My aging family kept falling for scams. For $20, I built a no-code app to protect them.

Matter Sanner, 54, vibe coded an app using Cursor called ScamSkeptic for his aging family, who had fallen victim to scams.
Android

OpenAI's ChatGPT Codex to Finally Get Remote PC Control from Android Devices

OpenAI is developing a new feature for the ChatGPT Android app that will allow users to remotely control Codex coding sessions on their PCs. Found in version 1.2026.125, this update addresses a ...

New Linux 'Dirty Frag' zero-day gives root on all major distros

A new Linux zero-day exploit, named Dirty Frag, allows local attackers to gain root privileges on most major Linux ...