Giving a local LLM full VM access showed me why we need better AI guardrails
…I wanted it to figure out what tools it needed to go wild on the Ubuntu instance it's running on, and which MCP servers would be helpful. After saying it would…
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Tailscale Aperture is currently in alpha testing, but you'll need to request access if you want to use it. It's a little bit like a password manager, but it's for your AI API keys, and will only work when connected to your tailnet. It sits at http://ai/ui/ while you're connected, and lets you store one API key per provider, then share that API key with anyone authorized on your tailnet. But it's more than that. Trying to rotate API keys if someone leaves or if you know you had an API leak is a major pain. By keeping them in Aperture, you don't have to worry about that, because once you remove
AI agents are a security nightmare for home labs, and Tailscale just shipped a fixI gave Gemini access to my entire Google Drive and it became the assistant I actually wanted
…You stop using it as a question-answering tool and start using it as a work memory that actually sticks. Google Gemini Gemini is Google's AI assistant which can help you…
VS Code is slowly becoming an operating system, and I’m not sure that’s a good thing
…VS Code today includes a file explorer, terminal, extension marketplace, UI framework, remote access layer, and increasingly, AI tooling. This reduces friction and makes workflows easier to manage across machines and environments…
I didn’t expect Gemini Notebooks to pull me away from ChatGPT Projects, but it did
…They are slowly becoming full-fledged productivity workspaces built around research, context, and long-term workflows. Over the past year, I have tested countless AI tools for organizing information, managing research, and…
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I finally audited my smart home after 3 years and found 4 security problems hiding in plain sight
Jasmine Mannan Apr 24, 2026, 1:30 PM EDT Jasmine is Software and PC Hardware Author at XDA with years of tech reporting experience ranging from AI chatbots right down to gaming…
Your Android phone has a hidden dashboard that shows which apps are spying on you
…But spam calls are such a problem locally, and built-in call screening tools don't work well here, so it has become a necessary tool. The most notable permissions used in…
Dual-booting Windows and Linux stopped making sense once my hardware got good enough
…Although it only shines in AI and ML-related use cases, I still appreciate the automatic configuration and driver support for WSL machines. It’s an official tool that focuses on reducing…
My old phone became a $200 webcam upgrade, and the setup took 10 minutes
…He's written about everything from UI and UX changes across various apps to emerging software and AI trends. At XDA, he showcases his versatility in the tech reporting space with articles…
Your guest network is a security nightmare, and splitting it in two actually fixes it
Jasmine Mannan May 27, 2026, 1:30 PM EDT Jasmine is Software and PC Hardware Author at XDA with years of tech reporting experience ranging from AI chatbots right down to gaming…
Cal.com just went closed source over AI, but AI is exactly why open source still wins
…Cal's move is security through obscurity, and I cannot name a decade in computing where that has worked. AI doesn't tilt that calculation in their favor either. I put it…