I let Claude audit my messy Home Assistant setup, and it was a massive wake-up call

I gave Claude access to my Home Assistant. It helped me audit, debug, and improve my smart home better than I ever could have ...

Warsh brings a skinny Fed approach to a complex, information-hungry world

By Howard Schneider WASHINGTON, June 19 (Reuters) - U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh put his stamp on the job fast ...

AI data centres’ voracious thirst for water makes their environmental footprint even bigger

The enormous Google data centre in Papillion, Neb., consumed 1.5 billion litres of water in 2024 to cool its power-mad AI ...

CEO Tim Sweeney: "Unreal Engine 6 will fundamentally change the development paradigm"

Epic Games officially announced its next-generation engine, 'Unreal Engine 6,' and unveiled its technical details at UNREAL ...
Visual Studio Magazine

Using Local AI to Cut Copilot Usage-Based Billing Shock

After being gobsmacked by the new billing plan using almost all my monthly credits in one or two days, I tried pushing some Copilot-style coding work onto local models in VS Code. What I found was ...