Surprisingly, Windows 10's explorer.exe still works in Windows 11... Version 26H1, albeit bit buggy (e.g., non-working Task View). When ran (11's explorer isn't running), it'll use the taskbar from Windows 10, more features than Windows 11's taskbar such as resizing and moving it.show more

It's happening! Here's your first look at a movable... taskbar in Windows 11, coming soon. You'll be able to move and resize the taskbar on Windows 11, just like you did on Windows 10! It's still in internal testing, and to be clear, this video is from a virtual machine, which is why it might feel slow. Also, Microsoft won't use the right-click menu we're seeing in the video; it's only being used to quickly debug the feature. What else do you want Microsoft to improve in Windows 11? 👇show more

Microsoft teases a faster and configurable context menu (right-click... menu) for Windows 11 after years of complaints! Marcus Ash, who leads Design and Research for Windows and Devices, says Microsoft is working on making context menus faster, simpler by default, and configurable to what you use most. That last part is huge. Windows 11’s context menu was supposed to fix the cluttered Windows 10 right-click menu. Instead, it became slower, padded, inconsistent, and still messy. You often need “Show more options” just to reach the old menu, which defeats the whole point of redesigning it. Now Microsoft is taking the same approach it used with Start and taskbar: give users control. Resizable Start. Movable taskbar. Smaller taskbar. Customizable Start sections. And now, configurable context menus. This is the Windows 11 reset users wanted 🥳show more

Watch: What happens to your CPU when Windows 11's... Low Latency Profile feature is enabled. CPU usage automatically spikes briefly to speed up the launch of Windows 11's Start menu, Notifications Center, Control Center, right-click menu, and other OS-level features. The same CPU boost is coming soon to Windows apps, which will allow them to load faster and briefly spike your CPU usage.show more

I've been testing out Windows 11's new Haptic Signals... feature on compatible hardware, and I think I love it. I'm someone who yearns for small UX details like this, and I'm so happy to see Microsoft leaning into subtle but quality UX implementations like haptics across the Windows Shell. These new Haptic Signals provide a subtle bump when interacting with certain UI elements and actions, such as snapping app windows or dragging files in File Explorer. The feedback response feels great and intentional, and makes using the OS feel more satisfying. There's still room for improvement, but I'd be lying if I said I wasn't impressed with this first implementation. It's only supported on a handful of devices for now, but that should change over time. I've always loved the haptic feedback layered throughout Google Pixel phones, and now Windows is getting its own version of it. More UX niceties like this, please!show more

Microsoft is cooking! Windows 11’s faster app launches released... today, and everything is noticeably faster on low-end PCs. Windows 11’s CPU boost feature is no longer just for Start, Search, and shell flyouts. After installing the August 2026 security update, it is now silently active while opening apps too. We tested this on the same PC before and after KB5121003, and the difference is real. Notepad, Calculator, Chrome, VLC, PowerPoint, Weather, and even the Epic Games Store now trigger the same Low Latency Profile behavior Microsoft first rolled out for the Windows shell in June. The moment you open an app, Windows briefly pushes the CPU close to its maximum frequency for one to three seconds, finishes the launch work faster, and then drops back to idle. This is called “race to sleep,” and it is not a lazy trick. macOS and Linux already do similar things. CPU utilization does not spike the same way, so this is not your PC suddenly working harder forever. It is a short frequency burst to make Windows feel more responsive. I know people love mocking Windows performance, and often for good reason, but this one actually works. Apps open faster now, especially on budget and older PCs where every second of delay is noticeable. Windows 11 is finally getting the kind of performance work it should have had from day one.show more

Holy shit... someone built a free portable tool that... activates Windows, kills the bloatware, and shuts down every telemetry service Microsoft buried in your OS. It's called GTweak. One .exe file. No install. No subscription. You download it, run it, and your Windows is finally yours. Every "Windows debloater" before this made you pick one trade-off. Activate but keep the spyware. Debloat but lose update control. Disable telemetry but break Defender toggles. GTweak does all of it inside a single portable executable. Here's what makes it different from every Windows tweaker that came before: → HWID + KMS activation built in, no sketchy batch scripts, no Massgrave links, no PowerShell one-liners pasted from a Reddit thread → Removes Cortana, Copilot, Recall, OneDrive, Edge, and every pre-installed UWP app on Windows 10 and 11 in one click → Disables keyloggers and telemetry across Windows and NVIDIA including the data collection tasks hiding in Task Scheduler that nobody talks about → Blocks Microsoft's shadow domains at the hosts file AND firewall level so the OS literally cannot phone home → Disables Defender, SmartScreen, Antimalware, VBS, and UAC with proper toggles instead of registry hacks that break on the next update → Pauses Windows Updates entirely and wipes the cached update files Microsoft refuses to let you delete → Kills Teredo, ISATAP, and IPv6 along with the diagnostic services running silently in the background → Activates the hidden Ultimate Performance power plan and fixes the Realtek audio delay bug nobody at Microsoft has patched in 5 years → Runs custom .ps1, .cmd, .bat, .reg scripts with TrustedInstaller privileges, the highest permission level Windows has → Built-in hardware monitor, NTFS compression, RAM cleaner, and secure Windows.old wipe Killed: $30 Windows 11 Pro keys, every "debloat script" repo with 47 forks and no maintenance, the $5/mo "PC optimizer" garbage running on YouTube ads. Works on every official Windows build since 10 (18362.116). One .NET Framework 4.8 dependency that's already on your machine. BSD 3-Clause License. 100% Opensource.show more

Microsoft's new Outlook takes more than 10 seconds to... open an email via notifications, while Outlook Classic opens instantly on Windows 11! The funniest part? If I ignore the notification, open Outlook manually, find the email myself, and click it, I can finish faster than the notification flow. It's all because Outlook for Windows is literally Microsoft Edge running Outlook .com in a browser window. New Outlook runs through WebView2 with around 10 separate processes: GPU process, service worker, utility processes, manager, and more. It uses roughly 490MB to 636MB RAM while idle, compared to Outlook Classic sitting around 117MB to 148MB. CPU usage is also worse: around 4% idle on new Outlook versus under 1% on Classic in my testing. Microsoft shut down Mail and Calendar, keeps pushing enterprises toward this web wrapper, and still wants people to believe it is the future of email on Windows. SHAME!show more

Microsoft's hidden Windows 11 trick makes apps launch 70%... faster. I tested it on a low-end PC, and early results are promising. Right now, when you click Start, open File Explorer, launch Edge, or right-click for a context menu, and there’s often that tiny micro-stutter before anything happens. Microsoft is now testing a feature called Low Latency Profile. Once turned on, and you do a high-priority action, Windows 11 briefly pushes the CPU to max frequency for 1–3 seconds, finishes the task faster, then drops back down. In my testing on a constrained VM with just 2 cores and 4GB RAM, the difference was obvious. Edge, Outlook, Copilot, and the Start menu opened much faster. CPU usage spiked to around 96–97%, but only for a few seconds. For high-end PCs, the difference may be small. But for budget laptops and low-end Windows 11 machines, this could be a real game-changer.show more

This is the Devil’s footprint It is one of... Germany's most famous legends: when Munich’s Frauenkirche was being built in the 15th century, the architect made a deal with the Devil. The church would be funded... but only on one condition: it could have no windows. When construction was finished, the Devil stood at a precise spot near the entrance and saw nothing but bare walls. Convinced he had won, he stomped his foot into the floor so hard that it left the dark imprint visitors still see today. But when he stepped forward, he discovered the truth. The "windowless" church was an illusion, created by perfectly positioned columns that hid the stained glass windows from his view. Realizing he had been tricked, the Devil fled in fury, leaving only his scorched footprint behind. Some ghost tours in Munich add even more to the myth. Guides claim the air near the entrance is strangely cold, as if the Devil still circles the church, searching for a way back in. In winter, they say, the snow at the doorway is always last to melt. History tells us it's just a legend... but the footprint is real, the illusion is real, and the story continues to haunt the cathedral to this day.show more

Liquid's LFM2.5-8B-A1B smashed OpenAI's gpt-oss-20b on tool calling We... ran both locally on a MacBook Pro M5 Max, 64GB, and gave each the same trip-planning request that only completes if the model fires all 7 tool calls - weather for 3 cities, two currency conversions, an email and a reminder Outputs: LFM2.5-8B-A1B: 4.8 GB RAM usage, 7/7 tool-calls, 266 tok/s, 6.9s OpenAI gpt-oss-20b: 11 GB RAM usage, 3/7 tool-calls, 146 tok/s, 15.0s The 8B used less than half the RAM and still fired all 7 calls, while the 20B silently dropped more than half of its own. It also ran ~2x faster, wrapping the full agentic request in 6.9s against 15s. That's what 38T training tokens buy: a 1B-active MoE that nails the agentic tool calls a model 2.5x its active size keeps droppingshow more

Polymarket pays me $400 a day because it's slower... than Binance by 2 seconds. And this is just the beginning - while I was writing this post, the bot made another $40. Let me explain. I built a bot on OpenClaw. It monitors Binance 24/7. Sees a sharp impulse - switches to high attention mode. If price doesn't snap back within a second (the impulse could be a squeeze) - it opens a trade on Polymarket in the same direction. Why this works. When BTC moves sharply, Polymarket odds don't have time to adjust. These windows appear every day - especially now, with elevated volatility across financial markets. I usually enter when the gap is 200+ points. Odds are still stale - I capture the spread before it closes. Aggressive mode - spreads from 100 points, significantly more trades per day. $20 per trade. 10-30 trades a day. Morning. Coffee. Open the laptop. The bot closed 14 trades overnight. Another good dayshow more

Nibiru has moved from 4 o’clock position to 3... o’clock position. Moving up towards the elliptic (center of Sun - circle) and seen closer to the Sun. Nibiru is moving infront of the Sun, just as predicted by the Zetas. 10/24/25 vs 11/04/25 ☄️ #Nibiru #Atlas “November is when the Nibiru Complex will move from the left of the Sun to center in front of the Sun.” “• Planet X, finding itself tilting along the flow lines while close to the Sun, does a slow roll to align with the Sun at its middle, the S Pole slung away from the Sun's S Pole, this direction and momentum continuing until it rolls 270° to click into a side-by-side alignment with the Sun. This is implied in Eastfield, a 270° roll both before and after the timeline. • Planet X does more than one 270° roll, as the fastest way to align itself again with magnetic flow lines after piercing the Ecliptic, as implied in Eastfield, the second roll culminating in the passage where the visible presence of Planet X increases enormously during the week of rotation stoppage. The timeline implies a position of Planet X prior to the passage that include angles of 45° on either side and a 180° reversal in between. • Planet X first approaches creating wobbles in the orientation of the Earth as it passes the Sun's S Pole, then a tight lock while rising through the flow lines to the Ecliptic, then slinging the Earth in a radically different orientation (denoted by the beak) during a 270° roll, and then halting the rotation of the Earth as the Atlantic Rift is gripped in line with Planet X.”show more

I told you to claim your free 16GB NVIDIA... GPU for learning Local LLMs. Now I’m going to show you how to double its inference speed without touching the hardware. Google Colab gives you an enterprise grade NVIDIA Tesla T4 GPU for free, roughly 4 hours every single day. It is the absolute perfect sandbox for learning AI engineering, testing inference flags, and pushing massive context windows. The local AI timeline is moving way too fast. If you aren't using Multi Token Prediction (MTP) yet, you are leaving massive performance on the table. I just pushed DeepMind’s Gemma 4 26B to 64.9 t/s on this exact free tier. Let's look at the raw benchmark data running on an Ubuntu Linux environment with the latest compiled llama.cpp binaries and quantized GGUFs from Unsloth via HuggingFace: # Qwen 3.5 9B (Dense): Base: [ Prompt: 626.7 t/s | Generation: 21.0 t/s ] With MTP: [ Prompt: 539.1 t/s | Generation: 24.8 t/s ] # Gemma 4 26B QAT (MoE): Base: [ Prompt: 634.2 t/s | Generation: 48.3 t/s ] With MTP: [ Prompt: 572.1 t/s | Generation: 64.9 t/s ] If you are paying attention, this single Colab notebook reveals 3 massive observations about the current state of local LLMs: # 1. The MTP Speedup (Software Overclocking) Standard autoregressive decoding guesses one token at a time. MTP acts like a highly optimized, built in speculative decoder. It predicts multiple future tokens at once and the main model verifies them in parallel. The result? Zero accuracy loss and a massive throughput increase. Gemma jumped from 48 to 65 t/s just by flipping a flag. # 2. The MoE Paradox (Bigger is Faster) How does a 26B parameter model absolutely destroy a 9B model in raw speed on the exact same hardware? Architecture. Qwen 3.5 9B is a dense model. it activates all 9 billion parameters for every single token. Gemma 4 26B is a Mixture of Experts (MoE) model. It routes data efficiently, activating only 4B parameters per token. You get the reasoning capabilities of a 26B model with the compute cost of a 4B model. 3. Thinking Efficiency When I ran the exact same complex prompt on both models, the larger MoE spent significantly fewer "thinking" tokens to arrive at the correct answer. A smarter model doesn't just give better answers; it gets to the point faster, saving you compute cycles and preserving your context window. # Want to run this yourself? Here are the exact llama.cpp CLI commands. For Qwen (MTP is baked into the main model): ./llama-cli -m Qwen3.5-9B-UD-Q4_K_XL.gguf -p "Explain quantum computing." -n 2000 -c 8000 -ngl 99 -fa on --spec-type draft-mtp --spec-draft-n-max 4 --spec-draft-p-min 0.7 For Gemma (Using a separate lightweight draft model): ./llama-cli -m gemma-4-26B-A4B-it-qat-UD-Q4_K_XL.gguf --model-draft mtp-gemma-4-26B-A4B-it.gguf -p "Explain quantum computing." -n 2000 -c 8000 -ngl 99 -fa on --spec-type draft-mtp --spec-draft-n-max 4 --spec-draft-p-min 0.7 Stop waiting for a $3,000 rig. Boot up Colab, pull these models, and start building your stack. I’ve put together a completely free, cell by cell Google Colab notebook that automates this entire workflow so you can test it yourself in 5 minutes and learn. Link to the notebook is in the comments below. Experiemt with different MTP parameters, context windows and post your results in the comments.show more

before The Best Thing aired, all I wished for... was a smooth broadcast at the right time. it was an A level drama adapted from a small IP with a small budget as it didn't have many promotions materials back then before airing. but surprisingly, during the airing, it was well received by the viewers. it achieved S+ rating and got more than 3 million rmb revenue from its merchandise. it became the only modern drama to maintain a long post-airing tail, with over +11 million views per episode even after its peak period ended. clearly shows that there are lots of new viewers and it has strong rewatch value. now, it has even become the most watched cdrama on iQIYI in 2025. congratulations to all casts & crew for these achievements🎉 also thank you for finding your way into my spring last year and warming it so gently, The Best Thing♡show more

I want to believe, but there's too much evidence... that not only tells me but shows me that they lied. I feel like low Earth orbit is as far as we can go... 1. The van Allen radiation belt. 2. The disgusted, unexciting, ashamed post moon landing conference with the three astronauts. Their body language, mannerisms, and answers scream that they're lying. 3. The lack of noise of the jet engines in the "videos." 4. How did they get the lunar rover on the spaceship? 5. No craters or dust underneath the spaceship. 6. How did the film the spaceship take off perfectly if nobody was left on the moon to operate the camera, and how was it so perfect if there was a delay? 7. The rockets and the spaceship look like a model. 8. The video of them saying that they are 130,000 miles away from Earth when all they really did was cover up the windows when they are in low earth orbit and film a small portion of Earth from low Earth orbit to simulate that they were far away, but then you find out that they're only in low Earth orbit when they uncover the windows. (Shown in the video below) 9. How we have to redesign the space suits to be able to handle the atmosphere on the moon. 10. The lack of talk and missions to the moon ever since. 11. The numerous blacked out photos from NASA. 12. How an older smartphone has way more technology than the entire spaceship back in 1969, and how we were able to even communicate with them in the spaceship as the one astronaut who passed away before the moon launch specified that they had trouble communicating between buildings and the shuttle on the ground. 13. Not one single astronaut would put their hand on the Bible and say they went to the moon. Why? 14. All the CGI and bubbles caught on NASA videos. 15. All the green screen captures and astronauts on wires in the "shuttle" and on the "ISS." There are so many bloopers and outtakes of astronauts and shuttle hatches malfunctioning, people appearing in the background of videos of the shuttle, people fading in and out, I could go on forever... How would you convince me against the evidence or prove me wrong from the arguments that I have provided?show more

🙏🇺🇸🙏 Vietnam vet US Army 82nd Airborne's Dennis Franz... Schlachta AKA actor Dennis Franz Dennis Franz: Airborne Division, U.S. Army After graduating from college in 1968, Franz was drafted and immediately enlisted in officer's school. He served 11 months with the 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions in Vietnam. Franz served 11 month in Vietnam in a reconnaissance unit, and after his service he suffered depression for some time afterwards." "It was the loneliest, most depressing, frustrating time," he said in a 1995 interview. "It was life-altering. I came back a much different person than when | left, much more serious. I left my youth over there." "I was curious about the military service and went into the Army," Franz told TV Guide. "I regretted my curiosity about two weeks after I was in. I ended up in the 82nd Airborne and the 101st Airborne in Vietnam for 11 months." "I'm not as frivolous as I once was. I experienced death over there, and losing friends. I got as close to being shot as I care to. I could feel and hear bullets whizzing over my head, and that shakes you up quite a bit. When I came back in the early 1970s, there was still a lot of anti-war feeling. I didn't know how I fit in... I was torn up and angry for a year." - Dennis Franz Thank you for your service! 🙏🇺🇸🙏show more

BREAKING: SpaceXAI has released a major new update for... Grok Build (v1.0.13). The update improves reliability with automatic retries and recovery from truncated responses, inference failures, oversized images and session-saving issues. It also adds smarter hooks, better Windows support, faster MCP and session startup, improved scheduled tasks and quicker compressed CLI downloads. Features • Length-truncated responses now continue automatically instead of failing the turn. • Hooks can now ask the user to confirm a tool call instead of always allowing or denying. • Hooks can now request deferral or add context shown to the model after a tool runs. • Session close now records detailed timing data for performance analysis. • Credit limit upsell now offers a Try Again button to retry the last prompt. • Pasted images now show a live pixel preview in the prompt box on iTerm2. Bug Fixes • Transient inference failures (stalls, drops, 5xx) now retry automatically instead of ending the turn. • Windows users can now correctly open ~/.grok and worktree sessions. • Session data is now more reliably saved after prompts and on power loss. • Compaction failures now show the actual error instead of a generic message. • Truncation error messages now show the right guidance instead of suggesting an unhelpful retry. • Truncated tool calls are now executed instead of failing the turn when arguments are complete. • Images larger than 2000px no longer brick sessions on many-image requests. • Wrapped hyperlinks in the pager now remain fully clickable on Windows Terminal instead of only the first line. • Recurring scheduled tasks now include a reminder to stop the monitor when work finishes. • Scheduled task IDs are now full UUID strings, preventing collisions when tasks are created in the same millisecond. Performance • Subagent spawning is faster when connections drop during bursts. • Session startup with MCP servers is now much faster when auth is already configured. • MCP server startup no longer stalls behind a fixed batch size. • CLI downloads are now compressed, making fresh installs and updates substantially faster. Download Grok Build: Update to the latest Alpha release: grok update --alpha Update to the latest Stable release: grok updateshow more

Created with PixVerse V6 on BudgetPixel AI Title :... From Blueprint to Reality Style: Ultra-realistic, cinematic, emotional, 4K, shallow depth of field, realistic lighting, smooth camera movements, detailed architecture, cinematic color grading. Full Prompt: A highly realistic cinematic 15-second video. The scene begins inside a modest room during golden hour. A young man in casual clothes sits at a wooden desk beside a window. Warm sunlight falls across the table, illuminating a detailed blueprint of his dream house. The room is quiet except for the soft sound of birds and a gentle breeze moving the curtains. The camera slowly moves over the blueprint, showing detailed floor plans and sketches. The young man touches the drawing with his fingers, imagining his future home. Suddenly, the blueprint begins to glow with soft golden light. Tiny particles rise into the air, and the room slowly fades away. In a magical transition, the young man finds himself standing at the entrance of the exact house from the blueprint. The camera circles around him as he looks at the beautiful modern home with large glass windows, a green lawn, and warm interior lighting. He slowly walks inside, seeing the spacious living room, elegant furniture, and sunlight entering through the windows. He walks toward the balcony and looks around in disbelief. His eyes fill with happiness and pride. The camera pulls back to reveal the entire house at sunset while he smiles, realizing his dream has become reality. Ultra-realistic textures, cinematic lens flare, volumetric sunlight, realistic shadows, smooth motion, 4K quality. Scene Timing 0–4 sec: Young man studying the blueprint in his room. 4–7 sec: Blueprint glows and magical transition begins. 7–11 sec: He arrives inside the dream house. 11–15 sec: He explores the home and smiles with joy. Voice Over (English) "Every dream starts as a simple drawing... a vision held in our hearts. One moment, it was only lines on paper. The next, I was standing inside the life I always imagined. Dreams become real when we dare to believe in them."show more

MARCUS CHEN STACKED 30 MAC MINIS INTO AN AI... SERVER FARM. ONE $599 MAC MINI REPLACES YOUR $200/MONTH CLAUDE CODE BILL WITH $3 IN ELECTRICITY two months ago a developer posted his claude code bill on reddit. $170 in 10 days. someone replied "i bought a mac mini m4. haven't paid anthropic since." apple stores ran out of mac minis the same week the m4 chip has 120 gb/s memory bandwidth and unified memory architecture. cpu and gpu share one pool so the model loads once and both read from it. a $599 mac mini runs ai faster than a $1,500 windows pc with a discrete gpu since january 2026 ollama supports the anthropic messages api format. claude code connects directly to your local mac mini with one environment variable. same interface, zero api costs, $0 per request a heavy developer pays $459 a month across claude code max, chatgpt pro, gemini, cursor and copilot. that's $5,508 a year. the mac mini pays off in 3 months and runs on $3 in electricity after that uber rolled out claude code to 5,000 engineers and burned through their $3.4 billion 2026 ai budget in 4 months. the people who own the hardware in 2026 are going to look very far ahead in 2028 bookmark this and read the article belowshow more

Sometimes you have to spend money to make money.... This cabin is 30 yrs old & sits on the land my small retreat center is being built. But, to bring in that “WOW” factor, I’m spending $200K on renovations here. The total cost of the house & 16 acres was $300K back in 2020. But, when I drop the link to my treehouses on here, I want this to be a jaw dropper as well. When a guest walks in the door, I want them blown away. A few things I’m doing: 1) Ripping off entire back wall to headers and putting floor to ceiling windows. 2) Redoing all bathrooms and modernizing 3) Tongue and Groove ceilings with stain 4) New back deck (already built) 5) Separate deck off of new deck for hot tub and either a swinging bed or heat sauna 6) Paint entire interior 7) Full rip out of kitchen to modernize 8) New furniture 9) New paint on exterior and new metal roof 10) Full arcade game room and pool table 11) Basement Finish with added bathroom/shower, bedroom, and movie theater roomshow more