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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft showcases a new fullscreen Xbox experience optimized for handhelds, coming first to the Xbox Ally and Xbox Ally X and to other handhelds in 2026 — Two new Xbox Ally devices introduce Microsoft's much-needed improvements to handheld gaming PCs.
More: Xbox Wire, How-To Geek, Ars Technica, VentureBeat, Forbes, Gameranx, Rock, Paper, Shotgun, Tech4Gamers, Game Informer, Neowin, and Video Games Chronicle
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X: @wario64, @deeketweak, @tomwarren, @satyanadella, @tomwarren, and @tomwarren
| Stephen Totilo / Game File: |
Microsoft and Asus unveil the ROG Xbox Ally and ROG Xbox Ally X, two gaming handhelds that will run Windows games from multiple storefronts, including Steam — The images shown during a secret theater presentation I recently attended for the long-rumored Xbox handheld showed an icon …
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Bluesky: @xboxp3 and @papapishu
Forums: r/xbox, r/Handhelds, and r/gamingnews
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Meta is in talks for a potential multibillion-dollar investment in Scale AI, Meta's largest external AI investment; Scale AI was last valued at ~$14B — The financing could exceed $10 billion in value, some of the people said, making it one of the largest private company funding events of all time.
More: Bloomberg, Inc, PYMNTS.com, TechCrunch, Nairametrics, Reuters, Business Standard, The Information, and The Decoder
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Thoughts on the major design overhaul of Apple's OSes with “Liquid Glass” UI elements, which will launch at WWDC and set the stage for fresh hardware products — A new software design style will be at the center of Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference — and set the stage for an upcoming iPhone overhaul.| Michael Acton / Financial Times: |
Former Apple employees say integrating LLMs with Siri has led to bugs, an issue not faced by companies that have built GenAI-based voice assistants from scratch — iPhone-maker hit by technological challenges that have led to delays to the full rollout of its ‘Apple Intelligence’ features
More: PYMNTS.com and iPhone in Canada
| Lyndie Chiou / Scientific American: |
At a clandestine math conclave in Berkeley in May, a chatbot powered by o4-mini answered some of the hardest solvable problems much faster than a mathematician — The world's leading mathematicians were stunned by how adept artificial intelligence is at doing their jobs — BY LYNDIE CHIOU EDITED BY CLARA MOSKOWITZ
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Forums: r/slatestarcodex, r/Futurology, r/technews, r/technology, r/singularity, and r/artificial
| Chris Stokel-Walker / Fast Company: |
Some WordPress veterans and the Linux Foundation start FAIR, a federated update network to decentralize WordPress infrastructure and boost supply chain security — The recent travails of WordPress have caused consternation among the web community that relies on the platform, which powers more than four in ten websites online today.
More: The Linux Foundation, fairpm on GitHub, joost.blog, WP Minute Podcasts on YouTube, fairpm on GitHub, and fairpm on GitHub
Bluesky: @fairpm, @linuxfoundation.org, @stokel, and @bnewbold.net. Mastodon: @miss_jwo@mastodon.social. X: @linuxfoundation. LinkedIn: Andrew Norcross. Forums: Slashdot
| Financial Times: |
Sources: Mistral AI has closed or is closing a handful of commercial contracts, each worth $100M+ over three to five years, as it expands its own infrastructure — Start-up has embarked on expansion of its own infrastructure and secured significant contracts
More: The Decoder
| Sarah Scire / Nieman Lab: |
Interviews with executives at Yahoo News, the WSJ, and Bloomberg about adding AI-powered summaries, how they can help busy readers, reliability issues, and more — “Summaries aren't a replacement for journalism: they can't exist without it.” The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg … | John Gruber / Daring Fireball: |
Bill Atkinson, a pioneering Apple engineer and key member of the original Macintosh team, died on June 5 at age 74 from pancreatic cancer — From his family, on Atkinson's Facebook page: … One of the great heroes in not just Apple history, but computer history.
More: Wired, New York Times, Times of India, AppleInsider, notes art, Engadget, Moneycontrol, Livemint, VINnews, Thurrott, Ian Betteridge, MacDailyNews, 9to5Mac, TechCrunch, TidBITS, and Six Colors
Bluesky: @rileycran, @musiccomposer.com, @davidcmurphy, @juanrodpfft, @snark, @harrymccracken.com, and @twit.tv
X: @tim_cook, @josephcohen, @zoink, @chrisfralic, @szekany, and @djwhelan
LinkedIn: Matty Gregg, Nick Thompson, and Steve Jarrett
Forums: Hacker News, r/MacOS, r/VintageApple, r/technology, r/mac, r/apple, Lobsters, and Slashdot
| Divsha Bhat / Rest of World: |
A look at the intensifying race for super apps in the Gulf, as Careem, Talabat, Amazon, Botim, and Noon consolidate various services into single platforms — From Dubai to Riyadh, apps are consolidating ride-hailing, payments, and delivery into single platforms. — The race for super-apps is intensifying in the Middle East.
Bluesky: @restofworld.org
| Liam Vaughan / Bloomberg: |
An in-depth look at the US SEC's EDGAR system breach that was disclosed in 2017, as one of the key hackers, Olga Kuprina, says EDGAR remains a soft target — When a notorious gang of Ukrainian cybercriminals hit a crucial database, the regulator quickly downplayed the breach.
Bluesky: @bloomberg.com and @bykenarmstrong
X: @noelleinmadrid, @liamvaughanbbg, @liamvaughanbbg, @alephblog, @bw, @alexcampbell, @liamvaughanbbg, and @liamvaughanbbg
LinkedIn: Tim Pappa, Liam Vaughan, Robert C., and Olga Kuprina
| Cate Lawrence / Tech.eu: |
Treefera, which uses satellite imagery, drone imagery, and AI to provide real-time insights into supply chains, raised a $30M Series B led by Notion Capital — Treefera delivers real-time, first-mile traceability using adaptive AI, satellite imagery and financial-grade risk modelling.
More: Sifted, FinSMEs, Tech Funding News, BusinessCloud, Pulse 2.0, UKTN, Silicon Canals, and Treefera
| Julie Bort / TechCrunch: |
Enterprise vibe coding startup Superblocks raised a $23M Series A, bringing its total funding to $60M, and launched an enterprise coding AI agent called Clark — Brad Menezes, CEO of enterprise vibe coding startup Superblocks, believes the next crop of billion-dollar startup ideas are hiding … Sponsor Posts
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