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Sony is leaving physical games behind in 2028
Sony had a double-whammy of press releases yesterday. First, they announced that they were ditching physical game discs in
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A blown up iPhone, not the next Mac
Federico Viticci: Headless Macs and Hamstrung iPads
In a funny twist of fate, Apple spent years trying to make iPadOS
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An update from the study that said devs were actually slower with coding agents
METR: We are Changing our Developer Productivity Experiment Design
Based on conversations with study participants, we believe it is likely
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May 2026 was the worst sales month for Xbox consoles *ever*
Mat Piscatella: Hardware - PlayStation hardware unit sales fell to…
PlayStation hardware unit sales fell to their lowest May total since
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Xbox prices jump again, and Microsoft warns they my again next year
Joe Skrebels on XBOX Wire, Micirosft's official Xbox (ahem…XBOX) blog (emphasis mine): Updated XBOX Console Prices
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Notion Mail is shutting down September 22
Notion on X:
We’re winding down the Notion Mail inbox across web, desktop, and iOS on September 22.
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Apple raises prices, and it's gonna hurt
Stephen Nellis and Aditya Soni quoting a statement they got from Apple: Apple raises prices of MacBooks, iPads as memory
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Fairly priced and too expensive
User cantrip in a comment on The Verge:
The Steam Machine is both fairly-priced and too expensive. It'
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AI coding is creating a new generation of makers
Ben Thompson: My Vibe Coding Adventure, The App and the Experience, Ten Takeaways
There are, to be clear, a ton
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Xbox will keep chopping off heads until morale improves
Jason Schreier: Studios in Microsoft’s Xbox Division Brace for Closures
Several studios in Microsoft Corp.’s Xbox gaming division,
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MonoLisa, my favorite monospaced font ever, released v3
From the MonoLisa blog: MonoLisa - MonoLisa version 3 – now with MonoLisa Text family
Now with version 3, the family grows
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Advanced Dictation is off by default in iOS 27. Here's how to enable it
Hartley Charlton: Advanced AI Dictation Not Enabled by Default in iOS 27 Beta
Apple's next-generation AI dictation
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Steam Machine is the first $1,400+ console
Valve: Steam Machine launches today!
Steam Machine 2TB + Steam Controller: $1,428 USD
I'm quoting this part because
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"The lowest price in months"
MacStories Deals posted this last week (emphasis mine):
Samsung's 990 PRO SSD 2TB NVMe M.2 PCIe Gen4
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Tim Cook announces price increases coming soon(ish)
Juli Clover: Tim Cook Says Apple Price Increases Are 'Unavoidable' Due to Memory Costs
Apple is raising its
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Xbox embraces exclusives again (and why Nintendo may have played the long game brilliantly)
Joe Skrebels: XBOX Games Showcase 2026 Recap: The Return of Exclusives, World Premieres, and Anniversary Hardware
As part of our
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US government forces Anthropic to kill Fable and Mythos (for now)
Anthropic: Statement on the US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5
The US government, citing
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Google's new icons are good, actually
Devin Coldewey: Google's new logos are bad
Google really whiffed with the new logos for its “reimagination” of