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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-…

Expect Claude Fable 5 to Be Turned Back on in a Matter of Days, Report Says

Anthropic's most advanced publicly available AI model will reportedly be unleashed by the White House this coming week.

‘The Boroughs’ Dies With High Streaming Views

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

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.

Big AI Had a Point When It Said It Needed to Be Told What Is Not Okay

We live squarely in the time the AI CEOs were warning us about.

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

It's mobile phone service.

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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.

New-Age Tech Stocks: Meesho, Smartworks Rally; ideaForge, EaseMyTrip Tumble

It was a mixed week for new-age tech stocks, with 23 of the 57 stocks gaining in a range of…

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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We tend to assume AI is replacing jobs because coding is complex work it has mastered, but the World Economic Forum found the opposite is true: AI is more likely to replace coders than truck drivers not because coding is harder, but because the training data is easier to come by

A Silicon Canals piece on why AI exposure follows available training data and task legibility, not a simple ranking of job difficulty.

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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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Bharat Taxi To Expand To 500 Cities In 2 Years: HM Amit Shah

Government-backed cooperative ride-hailing platform Bharat Taxi plans to expand to more than 500 cities and towns across India within the…

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?

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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★ 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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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

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: 211 # Comments: 59

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

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.

IP Crawl: Living atlas of open webcams discovered on the public internet

Article URL: https://ipcrawl.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48700834 Points: 244 # Comments: 126

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: 251 # Comments: 76

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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 somewhat awkward in that it uses a custom, non-standard PCB and non-standard power supply. This fact apparently has irked some people who decided …read more