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Flipper Devices, a company that built a banned hacking device, now wants to hack your attention span.

First announced over a year ago in April 2025, the Busy Bar will be available for purchase starting on July 14th when the device also starts shipping. Created by the same team behind the Flipper Zero wireless multitool, the Busy Bar is instead described as a "productivity multitool" that relies on a pixelated LED display […]

Flipper Device's new Busy Bar will retail for $249.

I gave GLM-4.5-Air (106B, open weights) 12 coding tasks through opencode on my RTX 3090. It scored 0% — never edited a single file. Same model, same GPU, same tasks, but driven by a ~150-line LangGraph agent instead: 93% . The model was never the problem. The orchestrator was. Here's the benchmark — including the part nobody else measures, the electricity cost per correct task . Setup RTX 3090 (24 GB) + 128 GB RAM , models via ollama , Q4 quants, temp 0.2 5 recent open models × 2 orchestrators (opencode vs custom LangGraph ReAct with ollama-native tool-calling) 17 graded tasks (12 coding in Python/JS/C++ + 5 general-agent) with hidden unit tests Every run priced in GPU watts via my open-source homelab-monitor Results Model tok/s opencode adh. LangGraph adh. LangGraph coding LangGraph general Qwen3-Coder 30B-A3B 130 92% 100% 100% 100% GLM-4.5-Air 106B 5.7 0% 100% 89% 100% Devstral Small 24B 49 8% 53% 8% 40% Seed-OSS 36B 9.5 0% 7% 0% 20% DeepSeek-R1-Distill 32B 6.7 0% 0% 0% 0% Tool-adherence = % of tasks where the model actually called a tool instead of just printing code in chat. It was the master variable. (GLM's headline "93%" is its blended score across all 17 tasks: 89% coding + 100% general.) Three takeaways The framework can matter more than the model. opencode sends a frontier-shaped system prompt + 12 tools over its OpenAI-compat path; most local models fall back to chatting. Native tool-calling through a lean agent fixes that — GLM went 0% → 93%. (Qwen3-Coder is the exception: it's tuned for agentic tool use and aces opencode out of the box.) Acting ≠ solving. LangGraph made Devstral act (8% → 53% adherence) but not solve (coding stayed 8%). The framework decides whether a model acts; the model decides whether it's right. The wattmeter ranks honestly. Qwen solved tasks at ~0.0005 BGN each; the models that scored zero still burned 10–30× more energy for nothing. On a home rig, the cheapest model is the fast, correct one — and MoE (Qwen activates ~3B of 30B pe

Four years ago, overlooking a canal in Amsterdam, the smart home industry collectively launched Matter, the one interoperability standard to rule them all. Heralded as the solution to the industry's struggles, Matter was built on open standards and existing technologies and is the result of years of collaboration between traditional rivals, including Apple, Google, Amazon, […]

Everyone is sick of spam calls and creeper sites that show weirdos where you live—but can any service solve it?

I've been using Home Assistant for a few years and Trading212 for longer than that. It was inevitable these two things would end up connected. The Trading212 API is surprisingly good — portfolio value, individual positions, pies, dividends, all there. So I wrote a custom integration to pull it all into HA as sensors, then a Lovelace card to make it actually look decent on a dashboard rather than a wall of entity rows. The card does zero-config auto-discovery which was the bit I spent the most time on. You drop it on a dashboard and it finds your sensors automatically — no copying entity IDs, no manual config unless you want it. Five card types: portfolio overview with a sparkline, scrollable positions list, pies with goal progress, and a combined one if you want everything in one card. The sparkline was fiddly. HA's recorder only writes state changes, not regular samples, so if your portfolio value is flat between polls the chart has gaps. Had to smooth over those client-side. The part I use most though is the automations. Every weekday at 8am Alexa tells me where I stand: action : - action : notify.alexa_media_kitchen data : message : > Portfolio is worth {{ states('sensor.trading212_total_value') | float | round(0) | int }} pounds. Today you are {% if states('sensor.trading212_pnl_today') | float >= 0 %}up{% else %}down{% endif %} {{ states('sensor.trading212_pnl_today') | float | abs | round(2) }} pounds. data : type : tts And Friday at 6pm I get the weekly version with P&L for the week and which position moved the most. I like that it just tells me — if the market's had a bad week I'd probably avoid opening the app, but Alexa doesn't give me the option to ignore it. Both the integration and the card are on GitHub. The card is in HACS as a custom repo while it waits for default catalogue approval: https://github.com/Smart-Home-Assistant-UK/lovelace-trading212-card I wrote up the full setup with all the automation YAML here if you want to copy the whole thing: ful

We’ve already rounded up the best Philips Hue deals of Prime Day, but if you’re looking for something a little more budget-friendly, Govee’s latest sale is worth checking out. The company has heavily discounted several of its color-changing smart lamps, including the Table Lamp 2 ($53.99, down from $79.99), Floor Lamp Basic ($59.99, regularly $99.99), the […]

Ninja Creami Swirl, Crispi, Slushi, and Cafe Luxe Pro are all on Prime Day deals that will soon go away.

Assa Abloy has laid off the majority of staff at Level Home, the smart lock company known for building smart tech into traditional-looking deadbolts, and is folding the business into Kwikset, according to a source familiar with the decision. The Verge obtained exclusive details from a person familiar with the restructuring who requested anonymity as […]

We know that ICE wants to deploy eyeglasses with facial recognition that can identify people in real time. Turns out Meta is prototyping the feature with a Pentagon supplier. (Alternate news story.)

Do you crave speedy, reliable Wi-Fi throughout your home? Snag one of these Prime Day router or mesh deals.

Philips Hue products don’t often see major discounts, which makes this year’s Prime Day deals especially notable. Prices have dropped significantly across much of the company’s smart lighting lineup, with deals on everything from smart bulb starter kits and sleep lamps to smart buttons. In some cases, the lowest prices are available directly from Philips […]

From October this year Samsung will roll out a variety of new paid tiers for access to its SmartThings API, including a $4.99 monthly plan for "non-commercial, individual developers." It won't just be developers that pay the price though. Some more advanced smart home users are likely to fall afoul of the rule change if […]

Kids love 3D printers almost as much as K-Pop Demon Hunters. Just give in and get one.

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