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I built a NAS from a $70 broken laptop—here's why it beats a dedicated enclosure

A broken laptop is the best $70 NAS host device you can buy ...
The Verge

Perplexity’s Personal Computer turns your spare Mac into an AI agent

The AI search startup is positioning the tool as a more secure version of OpenClaw that runs on a Mac. The AI search startup is positioning the tool as a more secure version of OpenClaw that runs on a ...
Ars Technica

Perplexity’s “Personal Computer” brings its AI agents to the, uh, Personal Computer

Last month Perplexity announced the confusingly named “Computer,” its cloud-based agent tool for completing tasks using a harness that makes use of multiple different AI models. This week, the company ...
TechRadar

'AI is the Computer': Perplexity reveals Personal Computer, a cloud-based AI agent running on your Mac

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Personal Computer is designed to be your personal assistant with access to all your tools It's ...
9to5Mac

Perplexity’s Personal Computer is a cloud-based AI agent running on Mac mini

Apple’s Mac mini is back in the AI headlines. Last month, Perplexity released its own version of the OpenClaw “personal AI assistant” idea with a feature called Perplexity Computer. Now the company is ...
Digital Trends

Perplexity’s Personal Computer: What is it, what can it do, and what does it cost?

At its inaugural Ask 2026 developer conference — held inside a former church in San Francisco’s North Beach — Perplexity unveiled Personal Computer, a cloud-based AI agent designed to function as a ...
TechCrunch

Perplexity’s new Computer is another bet that users need many AI models

Starting this week, Perplexity subscribers will have a new agentic tool at their disposal. Perplexity Computer, in the company’s words, “unifies every current AI capability into a single system.” More ...
ZDNet

Is Perplexity's new Computer a safer version of OpenClaw? How it works

I wore the world's first HDR10 smart glasses TCL's new E Ink tablet beats the Remarkable and Kindle Anker's new charger is one of the most unique I've ever seen Best laptop cooling pads Best flip ...
TechCrunch

The great computer science exodus (and where students are going instead)

Something strange happened at University of California campuses this fall. For the first time since the dot-com crash, computer science enrollment dropped. System-wide, it fell 6% last year after ...
Stars and Stripes

Congress removes provisions in policy bill that would have allowed military to repair its own equipment

WASHINGTON — A defense policy bill expected to be voted on this week does not include provisions that would have ensured the military’s ability to purchase the technical data, parts and information ...
Time

Computer Chips in Our Bodies Could Be the Future of Medicine. These Patients Are Already There

It's been a long time since Alice Charton got a good look at a human face. There are plenty of people moving through her world, of course—her husband, her friends, her doctors, her neighbors—but ...
Military.com

Military Right to Repair Reform Could Reshape Readiness and Innovation

Series: Military Readiness Reform – Part I: The Right to Repair For years, service members have been limited in what they can fix, even when they know how. A broken part often meant waiting for a ...