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Xbox goes down. You can't play games you own on disc.
Jay Peters: Xbox’s huge outage even blocked games on disc
An extended Xbox outage that began Sunday evening hasn’
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Obsession and Backrooms are moving the needle
David Chen: 'Obsession' and 'Backrooms' Are Destroying Our Assumptions About the Box Office
But both films
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We are not ourselves on social media
Jason Toney: I Hate The Way We Talk Online
What I got instead were weirdly defensive or hostile replies that
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Validate those AI answers, people
Ana Maria Constantin: AI advice made people three times less accurate but twice as confident, researchers found
Researchers from three
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2026 is on pace for more than 1 million new app on the App Store. Just like 2016 all over again.
Kalley Huang: ‘Vibecoded’ Apps Are Flooding the App Store. Is That Good for Apple?
Last year, the number of new
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X is a platform built for combat (they say they’re fixing it)
Stevie Bonifield: X admits its broken algorithm made the site feel like a ‘battleground’
X’s head of product, Nikita
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Upcoming iPad mini likely to get OLED, retain 60Hz, and probably get more expensive
Tim Hardwick: Upcoming OLED iPad Mini Allegedly Uses 60Hz 8.4-Inch Display Panel
Apple is allegedly using a 60Hz
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Netflix can't keep viewers for season 2, even of their good shows
Lucas Shaw: Netflix Viewers Are Abandoning Shows After One Season
One Piece, one of Netflix’s most-watched shows of
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Xbox had a terrible strategy, and now they're laying off 3,200 people and ditching 5 studios
From Asha Sharma's letter to Xbox employees earlier this week (via IGN):
To grow, we bet on Game
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What "reasonable concerns" around trans people really means
Parker Molloy wrote what I think is a must read article that has too many quotes I'd like
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Code is easy, writing is hard (for a robot)
Robin Sloan: Fable is very good
Yet even the funkiest JavaScript function carries within it many fewer choices
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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