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The Steam Machine
Sean Hollister, writing for The Verge (gift link): Since the Magnavox Odyssey came out in 1972, game consoles have been built with the same basic goal: to effortlessly play proprietary games on a TV screen. Nintendo, Sony, and Microsoft have spent decades essentially selling the …
The Verge
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?
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A24 Wants You to Be Nice About Its Google AI Deal
The fan-favorite indie studio is on the defense for its expensive, research-heavy teamup with DeepMind.
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Grok Is a Generative Porno App
Grace Kay and Theo Wayt, writing for the paywalled-with-no-gift-links The Information: xAI launched an upgraded video model last week, highlighting how it’s pushing ahead with its own visual efforts even as it brings in outside help to compete with rivals in areas like coding. Sp…
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It’s Possible to 3D Print an Entire Outfit Now. ‘Should You?’ Is Another Question
One plucky YouTuber explores whether 3D printers might let us wrest back the means of production from Big Fashion.
gizmodo.com
New agentic memory framework uses 118K tokens per query. LangMem burns through 3.26M.
Long-horizon reasoning exposes a core weakness in AI agents: context windows fill up fast, and retrieval pipelines return noise instead of signal. To solve this, researchers at the National University of Singapore developed MRAgent, a framework that abandons the static "retrieve-…
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International tech
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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Info Edge Appoints Former Bennett Coleman CFO Himanshu Agarwal As Finance Chief
Naukri parent Info Edge has appointed veteran finance executive Himanshu Agarwal as its new CFO, nearly a year after former…
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Apologies online fail more often than apologies in person, and the reason has less to do with sincerity than with what digital distance removes from the conversation
Studies of organizational conflict have found that apologies delivered in person are perceived as more sincere and more effective at restoring trust than the same content delivered through text or email. Research into mediated communication points the same direction: the leaner t…
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Psychology says people who reach midlife with few close friends aren’t always cold or difficult — many spent years being the person everyone leaned on, leaving little room to learn how to need anyone back
A Silicon Canals Mind piece on why some people reach midlife with few close friends after spending years as the person others leaned on.
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Commercial Space Sector Poised for Second Takeoff on Reusable Rockets and Constellation Demand
China's commercial space industry eyes a second growth wave driven by reusable rocket milestones in July 2026 and surging constellation deployment demand from Qianfan and GW satellite internet projects.
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DeepSeek Transforms From Idealism to Aggressive Expansion with $7B Funding and Massive Hiring
DeepSeek pivots from its 'no funding, no commercialization' stance with a record $7B funding round, plans to double all departments, and launches its Harness AI coding agent team to compete with Anthropic's Claude Code.
pandaily.com
Asian AI startups launch Mythos-like models as Anthropic’s export ban drags on
New models are launching in Asia that promise Mythos-like capabilities without fear of an export ban. U.S. AI labs may never recover this enormous market.
techcrunch.com
FTC gives Musk the OK to acquire SpaceX alumni startup Mesh
Mesh came out of stealth in February with a $50 million Series A.
techcrunch.com
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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EP220: RAG vs Graph RAG vs Agentic RAG
RAG connects LLMs to your data and there are three different ways to do it.
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A Quantum Magic 8-Ball
If you ever cracked open one of those Magic 8-Ball toys, you found little more than a polyhedron floating in some dark-colored fluid. It was a quasi-random way of asking …read more
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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: 475 # Comments: 182
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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
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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: 204 # Comments: 51
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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.
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Hacking Routers Like It’s 2008
How long have we been hacking routers? To some of you who’ve been in the Hackaday audience for a while, the answer is “nearly forever”. In the early 2000s, they …read more
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Cramming a Mini-ITX Gaming PC into a 3D Printed Steam Machine Sized Case
The recently released Valve Steam Machine is that it uses a custom, non-standard PCB and non-standard power supply. This fact apparently has irked some people who decided that it makes …read more
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Do Metal Roofs Turn a Bird House into an Oven?
Birdhouses can be a great way to help out nesting birds in your area, but they can be a bit intensive to make. As part of a 500 birdhouse marathon, …read more
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