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Welcome, Weekenders! In this newsletter:• The Big Read: Pickleball is the past—the tech elite is obsessed with padel. • Plus, an Americana-themed batch of Recommendations—our weekly pop culture picks: “The Americans,” “East of Eden,” “High Desert Daydream,” “Lonesome Dove,” USA vs. Belgium, and “The Twilight Zone.” The year’s midpoint is an apt moment for some studied reflection, and I’ve been thinking about how much has changed in the last six months. In January, the Reflecting Pool was blue. Lately, it’s.
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An East Bay apartment complex has been bought at a price that's well below its prior value. Read more ›
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A PG&E Corp. unit has bought a San Jose building in a move to bolster the utility's South Bay operations. Read more ›
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Apple recently introduced major price hikes across a number of products, including Macs, iPads, and more. This week, Apple's newly increased prices have begun to hit third-party retailers like Amazon, but there are a few select MacBook Pro models that are retaining original prices, which now represent solid discounts on each device. Note: MacRumors is an affiliate partner with Amazon. When you click a link and make a purchase, we... Read more ›
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Slashdot reader wiredmikey writes: AI security researchers have uncovered a structural security flaw dubbed GuardFall that allows decades-old Bash shell tricks to bypass safeguards in most open source AI coding agents. By exploiting shell behaviors such as quote removal and variable expansion, attackers can hide malicious commands in repositories, README files, Makefiles, or other content consumed by AI agents. If executed — particularly in auto-approve or CI environments—the commands can... Read more ›
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The TRUMP token is down 96% from its peak, and 85% of secondary market wallets for WLFI are underwater, reflecting a broader downturn in the sector. Read more ›
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Some Apple devices are about to get much more intelligent, while others are getting left behind. Read more ›
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The Yahoo Boys author Carlos Barragán will join Kate Knibbs to answer your questions about Nigeria's romance scammers. Read more ›
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Sony successfully built a PlayStation 1 console that fit inside a controller but had to cancel the project after game studios were unhappy with the royalties they would make from the project. Read more ›
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Lenovo has seemingly begun using YMTC SSDs in some of its laptop models, allowing the Chinese storage chip company to gain a foothold in the U.S. This is despite its inclusion on the U.S. Department of Commerce's Entity List and its branding by the Pentagon as a Chinese military company. Read more ›
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Erick the Architect is a founding member of, and the primary producer for, the legendary Flatbush Zombies. He's toured the world, performed on Kimmel and Fallon, played Coachella, and collaborated with everyone from Joey Bada$$ and the Rza to James Blake and hardcore punk band Trash Talk. But perhaps the most unexpected collab was with […] Read more ›
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Nikon and Fujifilm have been awfully quiet in 2026 — here's what I expect to happen next. Read more ›
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Not everyone has the time or technical know-how to change their car's oil, which is why quick oil change shops exist. You might want to avoid this one, though. Read more ›
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A compact 1080p projector with Google TV, battery power, and a clever rotating body, enabling big-screen viewing in a backpack-friendly cube. Read more ›
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The Verge argues that researchers "have made genuine progress in quantum computing — it's just been largely incremental and too esoteric to immediately capture the public's imagination." And there are predictions that quantum computers will finally do something useful as soon as 2028: The drama can overshadow the real progress in quantum computing... Researchers have improved the qubits themselves, so they hold onto information longer. When they hold onto information... Read more ›
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China released draft amendments to its e-commerce law on Saturday, proposing 20 provisions that would expand the law’s reach beyond platforms and merchants to cover a wider range of participants in the digital economy. The proposal, jointly issued by the State Administration for Market Regulation and the Ministry of Commerce, is open for public consultation until 4 […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Most verticals aren’t clean, well-oiled SaaS databases; the reality is ugly documents, proprietary schemas, implicit workflows, and long‑running tasks that most general-purpose models struggle with. This prompted construction project management company Trunk Tools to build a specialized, three-layer architecture — perception, semantics, agents — based on highly-detailed data to support high-accuracy, highly-relevant industry automation.Their purpose-built stack has shrunk review cycles from months to days,. Read more ›
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The way 'Supergirl' fell apart both was and wasn't normal for these types of movies, and unfortunately, it shows right there on screen. Read more ›
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Sony is still rationing its supply of attachable disc drives despite announcing plans to end production of physical discs for PlayStation games because of changing "consumer trends". Read more Read more ›
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Vripack's Marnix Hoekstra and Bart Bouwhuis design luxury superyachts for billionaires. Popular asks include high-end offices and gyms. Read more ›
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If you've been meaning to upgrade to an OLED monitor but budget options scare you off because of burn-in, Asus has the answer for you. Not only does this monitor feature great specs, but it also has a proximity sensor that automatically turns off the display when you step away. Read more ›
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Security researchers say that Chinese AI systems have matched Anthropic’s Mythos in cybersecurity capabilities, the Wall Street Journal reported, intensifying the competitive threat posed by China’s AI sector to the U.S. The researchers found that the new GLM-2 model from Z.ai can find bugs as ... Read more ›
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Google put limits on Meta’s use of its Gemini AI models a few months ago, saying it couldn’t provide all the capacity that the social media giant wanted, the Financial Times reported. Google restricted other clients as well and has since signed a deal to rent cloud computing capacity from Elon ... Read more ›
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Firmus, an Asia-Pacific neocloud, said on Sunday that it’s building a new data center in Batam, Indonesia, with at least 170,000 of Nvidia’s advanced server chips: a mix of Grace Blackwell and Vera Rubin GPUs and CPUs. In a deal that appears to be the first of its kind, Nvidia is set to ... Read more ›
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Advertising was once primarily a subsidy for news and entertainment media, such as television, magazines and newspapers. Nowadays, it’s more of a subsidy for online services and increasingly for merchants looking to boost their razor-thin operating margins. At the same time, Chinese firms have become a much bigger part of the market. Both trends are evident from a list of the 10 biggest global ad sellers—firms that make money by... Read more ›
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In China, chip companies may have found a new clientele for their semiconductors: IPO investors. Kunlunxin Technology, an AI chip firm majority owned by search engine company Baidu, is planning to go public in Hong Kong at a target valuation of $50 billion, according to a person who participated in a recent investor road show by the company and another person with direct knowledge of Kunlunxin’s plans. And as it... Read more ›
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The July 4 long weekend is just days away, which means this week should be quiet on the news front. But we can expect more drama coming out of the Washington-AI industry wrangling—with the increasing competitiveness of Chinese AI models raising the stakes. Meanwhile, the trajectory of SpaceX shares will be worth watching. A Friday report on Bloomberg that SpaceX’s recently issued bonds were trading down suggests investor confidence in... Read more ›
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China’s ChangXin Memory Technologies has signed a long-term deal to supply Tencent Holdings with more than 20 billion yuan ($2.94 billion) of server DRAM chips, Reuters reported, citing three people familiar with the matter. DRAM, or dynamic random-access memory, helps servers quickly access ... Read more ›
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Anthropic’s release in early April of a preview of its powerful Mythos model prompted the CEO of Chinese AI developer DeepSeek to raise external capital for the first time, The Information reported. DeepSeek CEO Liang Wenfeng realized that his company needed a much bigger war chest to secure ... Read more ›
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South Korea’s government on Monday announced an 1,350 trillion won ($880 billion) investment plan into semiconductors, robotics and AI over the next decade, in response to the surging demand for memory chips and the AI infrastructure boom. Samsung Group and SK Group, parent companies of Samsung ... Read more ›
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As Meta Platforms tries to wean itself off expensive AI coding applications from Anthropic and OpenAI, it is confronting a difficult challenge: keeping employees from relying too much on those outside tools to build in-house replacements. Internal guidelines reviewed by The Information show Meta is drawing strict limits on how engineers in its applied AI engineering division use Anthropic’s Claude Code and OpenAI’s Codex. One internal memo even instructed teams... Read more ›
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