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Claude Code turned every engineer into three. Now companies need more product thinkers

Anthropic recently told its growth team to hire more product managers, not fewer. The reason, as reported in industry coverage, was that Claude Code had quietly turned its engineering org into a team that ships at roughly three times its actual headcount, and the bottleneck moved…

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Microsoft Raises Xbox Prices, Drops High-End Storage Model From Lineup

Microsoft’s Xbox blog: Effective August 1, 2026, we will be updating prices worldwide. The price of XBOX consoles will increase by US$100 for 512 GB models and US$150 for 1 TB models. We will also be sunsetting our 2 TB model. Last October, we increased XBOX console price by $20-…

Apple Vision Pro exec is reportedly leaving for OpenAI

Paul Meade, the Apple vice president in charge of the Vision Pro headset, is reportedly leaving the company to join OpenAI’s hardware team.

Micron Executive Sumit Sadana Tells Tim Cook to Stop Hitting Himself

From the bottom of Rolfe Winkler’s report for The Wall Street Journal Thursday, on Apple’s unprecedented price increases (gift link): Apple’s price hikes arrived the day after Micron Technology, the big American maker of memory and storage, reported blowout quarterly earnings, to…

Here’s a Clue About SpaceX’s Actual Revenue-Generating Plans

It's mobile phone service.

‘The Boroughs’ Dies With High Streaming Views

Netflix may not want more 'The Boroughs,' but it seems audiences sure did, particularly the boomer generation.

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Kunal Shah & The WhatsApp Acid Test

“Kunal Shah represents the very best of India’s startup ecosystem: bold thinking, intellectual curiosity, relentless execution and the ability to…

DeepSeek DSpark Boosts Generation Speed by 85% in First Post-Funding Paper

DeepSeek releases DSpark speculative decoding framework, boosting generation speed by 85% in Liang Wenfeng's first paper after the company's $7B funding round.

Nearly 20 Chinese Motor Makers Race for Humanoid Robot First-Mover Advantage

Nearly 20 Chinese listed motor companies are competing in the humanoid robot supply chain, with frameless torque motors and hollow cup motors emerging as the dominant technical pathways.

Inference Takes Center Stage: DeepSeek DSpark Accelerates Generation by 80%

DeepSeek's DSpark speculative decoding framework marks a strategic shift as AI competition moves from training scale to inference efficiency and real-world deployment.

Apple requests US clearance to source chips from China’s blacklisted CXMT: Report

Apple is trying to get approval from the Trump administration to buy… Content originally published on The Tech Portal - Global technology news, latest gadget news and breaking tech news.

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US government could soon allow Anthropic to restore Claude Fable 5

After nearly two weeks of negotiations, the Trump administration is reportedly preparing… Content originally published on The Tech Portal - Global technology news, latest gadget news and breaking tech news.

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FT Reports That Apple Is Lobbying to Buy Memory Chips From Blacklisted Chinese Company CXMT

Demetri Sevastopulo and Michael Acton, reporting for the Financial Times (paywalled, alas): Apple is lobbying the Trump administration for clearance to buy memory chips from CXMT, a Chinese company that the Pentagon has put on a blacklist because of alleged connections to the Peo…

Brad Bird’s Ready and Hoping for ‘Ray Gunn’ to Hit Theaters

If you think 'Ray Gunn' should be on the big screen, you're not wrong. But will Netflix pull a Netflix, or give it a fair shot?

★ Bernie Sanders: Ideologue and Economic Ignoramus

Bernie Sanders, posting on Twitter/X Thursday (don’t complain to me that he doesn’t use his Bluesky account): Corporate greed is Tim Cook, the billionaire Apple CEO, claiming that hiking prices on Apple products by over $200 is “unavoidable” after it made $112 billion in profits …

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Anonymous GitHub account mass-dropping undisclosed 0-days

Article URL: https://github.com/bikini/exploitarium Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48698617 Points: 735 # Comments: 290

A Standalone YouTube Streaming Rig

YouTube streaming typically involves a camera with an HDMI output, a USB3 HDMI digitiser, and a suitably beefy PC to run it all. It’s quite a process, and for [Coreymillia], …read more

World’s Biggest RC A380 is a Big Deal

RC planes are a lot of fun, and the bigger the better! [Ramy RC] has built the world’s biggest RC A380. At 29 ft (8.83 m) long, with a 32 …read more

Requiem For Long Wave, As The BBC Goes Silent

Something happened this morning which will have been unnoticed by many, but which for a certain breed of radio enthusiast marks the end of an era. The BBC stopped broadcasting …read more

Top Anti-Patterns to Avoid in Service Architecture

In this article, we will look at some of the most important anti-patterns in service architecture, how they happen, and how they can be avoided.

EP220: RAG vs Graph RAG vs Agentic RAG

RAG connects LLMs to your data and there are three different ways to do it.

Suspicious Discontinuities (2020)

Article URL: https://danluu.com/discontinuities/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48698151 Points: 224 # Comments: 70

Bringing Swift To The Apple II

Swift is a relatively modern program language, appearing in 2014 as a replacement for Objective-C. Since then, it’s become a popular solution for programming apps across Apple platforms. That led …read more

Streaming services' obnoxiously loud ads become illegal on July 1 in California

Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/06/streaming-services-obnoxiously-loud-ads-become-illegal-on-july-1-in-california/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48697768 Points: 260 # Comments: 79

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