Tom Fenton moves from local AI concepts to hands-on tools for matching LLMs to hardware, running local chatbots with Ollama and benchmarking AI performance.

A security researcher published six vulnerabilities in llama.cpp's model-file parser to the oss-security mailing list on May 15, 2026 — and none of them carry an assigned CVE number, meaning standard ...

The default Python install on Windows 11 comes packed with a variety of helpful tools and features. After a you successfully install Python on Windows, you should test out Python's built-in REPL tools ...

It’s been a story of the last week or so if you follow the kind of news channels a Hackaday scribe does, that Google have quietly installed an LLM as part of the Chrome browser. Reports vary as to ...

If you're shopping for a new CPU right now, the timing is actually pretty good, and much better than you might expect considering the state of things with most other PC components. In our last Best ...

After offering in the US, YouTube is making picture-in-picture (PiP) mode free for all users around the world. Free, non-YouTube Premium subscribers around the world will be able to use ...

There are numerous ways to run large language models such as DeepSeek, Claude or Meta's Llama locally on your laptop, including Ollama and Modular's Max platform. But if you want to fully control the ...

Meta has been one of the most interesting companies of the generative AI era — initially gaining a loyal and huge following of users for the release of its mostly open source Llama family of large ...

Llama is Meta’s latest large language model. You can use it for various purposes, such as resolving your queries, getting help with your school homework and projects, etc. Deploying Llama AI on your ...

CNBC got an exclusive first look at Arm's first ever in-house chip, the AGI CPU, purpose-built for running AI inference in data centers. Meta is the first official customer for the new chip, with ...