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This post lists the five best NAS devices among those I’ve reviewed and used extensively. They are truly battle-tested servers. Network-attached storage devices are designed to provide large amounts of storage space to the entire network—they connect to the network’s router (or a switch) rather than to a peripheral port, such as USB or Thunderbolt. NAS server explained: Redundancy and the basics of accessing shared network storage NAS servers are similar to traditional servers (computers) in terms of functionality, except they don’t require a keyboard, mouse, or screen. Instead, they are managed via a web-based user interface and are suitable…

But 1,000 tokens per second is actually modest by Cerebras standards. The company has measured 2,100 tokens per second on Llama 3.1 70B and reported 3,000 tokens per second on OpenAI’s own open-weight gpt-oss-120B model, suggesting that Codex-Spark’s comparatively lower speed reflects the overhead of a larger or more complex model. AI coding agents have had a breakout year, with tools like OpenAI’s Codex and Anthropic’s Claude Code reaching a new level of usefulness for rapidly building prototypes, interfaces, and boilerplate code. OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic have all been racing to ship more capable coding agents, and latency has become…

During its State of Play livestream on Thursday, Sony revealed the first PlayStation Plus Game Catalog addition for February and it’s a doozy. Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 (PS5) will finally websling its way onto the Game Catalog on February 17.Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 was released in October 2023, and Insomniac’s third Spidey game is the the best of the bunch. You can play as both Peter Parker and his protégé Miles Morales. Each Spidey has his own skill tree and moveset to master.Traversing New York (with a lot more of it explorable than in previous entries) has never felt better thanks to…

It’s rare that I spot something at the grocery store that makes my heart cry out with unbridled, capitalistic desire. Yes, both the wine and fancy cheese departments sometimes have fun finds, but otherwise, there are only so many ways to remix the foodstuff canon. It wasn’t something edible that recently caught my eye, though, but rather a genius bit of infrastructure. And it was brightly colored packaging, in fact, but not in the processed-food department or the produce aisle. I spotted them in a fellow shopper’s cart: four technicolor shopping bags, one of them insulated, designed to fit inside the…

Looking for a different day?A new NYT Strands puzzle appears at midnight each day for your time zone – which means that some people are always playing ‘today’s game’ while others are playing ‘yesterday’s’. If you’re looking for Thursday’s puzzle instead then click here: NYT Strands hints and answers for Thursday, February 12 (game #711).Strands is the NYT’s latest word game after the likes of Wordle, Spelling Bee and Connections – and it’s great fun. It can be difficult, though, so read on for my Strands hints.Want more word-based fun? Then check out my NYT Connections today and Quordle today…

Here’s some good news for fans of Ubiquiti’s NAS approach: The company today released the latest UniFi Drive 4 app, which powers all of its UNAS servers. Unlike other NAS servers on the market that have their own full-scale Linux-based operating system, Ubiquit’s UNAS is the UniFi Drive app running on the company’s UniFi OS. As a result, each UNAS server is a single-app UniFi console that focuses primarily on storage, without additional standalone features such as a media streaming server or a surveillance system, which, by the way, is another UniFi app called Protect. That said, UniFi Drive 4…

Last May, law enforcement authorities around the world scored a key win when they hobbled the infrastructure of Lumma, an infostealer that infected nearly 395,000 Windows computers over just a two-month span leading up to the international operation. Researchers said Wednesday that Lumma is once again “back at scale” in hard-to-detect attacks that pilfer credentials and sensitive files. Lumma, also known as Lumma Stealer, first appeared in Russian-speaking cybercrime forums in 2022. Its cloud-based malware-as-a-service model provided a sprawling infrastructure of domains for hosting lure sites offering free cracked software, games, and pirated movies, as well as command-and-control channels and…

ExpressVPN is back on sale again, and its two-year plans are up to 81 percent off right now. You can get the Advanced tier for $88 for 28 months. This is marked down from the $392 that this time frame normally costs. On a per-month basis, it works out to roughly $3.14 for the promo period.We’ve consistently liked ExpressVPN because it’s fast, easy to use and widely available across a large global server network. In fact, it’s our current pick for best premium VPN. One of the biggest drawbacks has always been its high cost, and this deal temporarily solves…

A few years ago, I developed some pain on the top right side of my right foot that wouldn’t go away, so I went to a podiatrist. While he said it was nothing serious, he suggested I get a pair of Oofos recovery slides and recommended not only wearing them instead of my shoes as much as possible but also wearing them around the house instead of going barefoot. “All these people working from home don’t realize your feet need more support than you think, especially as you get older,” he told me. “It was a big problem during the…

If you’ve been looking to upgrade or expand your fleet of kitchen appliances, Ninja has discounted a whole heap of its current product range – including some newly released devices.Ninja’s Amazon page has listed at least 30 items with discounts, ranging from marginal cuts of 5% all the way up to 54% for the Ninja Professional Food Processor, which takes it down to just AU$115.Some of the noteworthy deals include the newly released Ninja Crispi glass-bottom air fryer and the Luxe Cafe espresso machine, and I’ve added a few others below that I think are worth your hard earned cash…