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LLMs are advancing at an alarming speed, and depending on your stance, that’s either apocalyptic or fantastic. AI agents are all the hype nowadays, but any agent is ultimately limited by the model powering it. So no matter what setup you’re running, it obviously matters which model you end up using. I’ve heard a lot about Claude, as you probably have too. It always seems like Claude is the go-to LLM for people who actually want to get things done — beyond turning photos into cartoons or venting to a chatbot. But I subscribed to ChatGPT when it launched and…

Between Netflix, Hulu, Disney+, HBO Max, Paramount+, Peacock, and more, streaming your favorite shows and movies can get complicated and expensive. But there’s a whole world of free streaming options out there that don’t require so much as an account. You can go to places like Pluto TV, Tubi, The Roku Channel, and Plex on the web and start watching tons of free movies and TV shows right now for free (with ads), and there are enough options that it makes you wonder why you were ever paying for streaming in the first place. Here are some of the biggest…

Early in March, Netflix stopped working on a great number of older smart TVs and streaming devices around the world. This was not a bug; Netflix updates itself regularly, and some older devices are no longer compatible with it. That sucks for people who had relied on these methods to watch what is still the streaming service that gives you the most bang for your buck, but happily, there are ways around it, if you haven’t already found that out for yourself. What devices no longer support Netflix And why were they discontinued? One of the most notable devices that…

Add another reason to the growing pile of reasons why it might be a good idea to shill out $13.99/month to pay for YouTube Premium: if you use the free version of YouTube and have to watch ads before and during some videos, you may have been bedeviled by an annoying bug over the past few months. If you open the official YouTube app on either your Apple or Android mobile device and blow up a video so it takes up your entire screen, you may see persistent ads in the lower corner that don’t go away no matter how…

VLC is undoubtedly one of the best apps ever built, not just in the media player category. Almost everyone who has used a computer has probably used VLC at some point. But if I had one complaint about VLC, it would be the interface. It feels basic and hasn’t changed in years. This is what made me look for alternatives, and that search eventually led me to Screenbox. It’s a free and open-source app that packs the power of VLC in a modern interface. This means you still get the legendary file compatibility VLC is known for, but wrapped in…

There’s buzz around “Cancel ChatGPT” — a movement aimed at convincing people to cancel their OpenAI subscriptions, or to stop using ChatGPT altogether. The effort, documented by users on the r/ChatGPT Reddit, comes as OpenAI formed a deal with the U.S. Department of Defense (unofficially called the Department of War) to deploy AI models in classified government networks. The controversy isn’t about the deal itself, but how it came to be. Anthropic previously contracted with the Department of Defense, but the U.S. government took exception to the company’s safeguards against the use of AI for mass domestic surveillance or fully…

Anime has been popular around the world for decades, and is only getting more buzz in recent years. There’s an anime series for everyone out there, whether you’re brand new to the genre or an old hand who wants something strange and challenging. But there are still many people out there who just aren’t interested in watching animation, for whatever reason. In that case, I’d be tempted to recommend some live-action remakes of anime movies and shows…if they weren’t so reliably terrible. There are near-universally celebrated anime series like Cowboy Bebop and Attack on Titan that have gotten dreadful live-action…

Netflix has a ton of original spy dramas to watch, including hits like The Night Agent, which dropped its third season in February and quickly shot to the top of Netflix’s charts, where it remained for weeks. It had some strange bedfellows, as spies often do. February also saw the release of Unfamiliar, a German-language spy drama that got way less hype than The Night Agent, but which also climbed the charts. If you haven’t seen Unfamiliar yet, it’s a great watch that has the potential to blow up into a long-lasting series. How Unfamiliar stands out Spies of a…

While watching a new episode of The Pitt on HBO Max, I noticed a half-second lag between the actors’ mouths and what I heard through my Bluetooth headphones, which took me completely out of the story. At first, I thought it was a settings glitch. I restarted everything, re-paired my headphones, and dug through my LG TV’s menus. Unfortunately, nothing helped. It took me longer than I’d like to admit tracking down the actual cause, and once I discovered it, the fix became obvious. Here’s what’s really going on, and how to actually solve it. Related These Sennheiser headphones fixed…

I wired every TV in our house to Ethernet and figured that was that—full speed, done. Then I pulled up my Ubiquiti controller one afternoon and saw a number I didn’t expect. Every TV in the house had negotiated at 100Mbps. My Mac Mini had Gigabit, but the smart TVs? Every one of them was at or near 100Mbps. I went down a rabbit hole after that and learned something I wish I’d known sooner—most smart TV manufacturers use 10/100 Ethernet ports. Whether you have a premium model or a budget one, it doesn’t matter. They justify it because major…