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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
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Loupe
Loupe is a simple new app for iOS that shows how many things native apps can see about you and
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The tech behind NBA broadcasts
As someone who did most of the jobs Marques talked about here for college basketball (and football and vollyball) years
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Metal Gear Solid 2’s source code leaked
Daryl Baxter: Metal Gear Solid 2 source code leak: every surprise so far
At first, I thought nothing of it
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The 4 day work week dream
Mike (just Mike): Can we have the day off?
If AI is going to 10x our productivity across the board,
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The Steam Deck starting price is 2x what it was a year ago
The original Steam Deck launched four years ago to massive praise, and I was one of those people who absolutely
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9 years since the last Dragon Quest game…they just started over
Verity Townsend writing for IGN: about how Dragon Quest 12 has been completely restarted
In a special video to mark
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Google suspended Railway's account, taking down their entire platform for hours
From the Railway blog: Incident Report: May 19, 2026 - GCP Account Suspension
At 22:20 UTC on May 19, Google
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I said I'd destroy humanity and take their jobs, and I wonder why they don't like me
Ben Thompson: Data Center Discontent, Understanding the Opposition, Fixing the Problem
The point of starting with the misinformation point, however,
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The MacBook Neo shows why the Apple fan obsession with benchmarks for 5+ years has been…weird
Oliver Haslam: MacBook Neo review, two months later: Almost a MacBook Pro beater
The MacBook Neo is a marvel. The
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Is the war on RCS actually an argument that texting Android users *should* suck?
Wesley Hilliard is a cool guy who I often agree with, but his latest for AppleInsider is begging for a
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How many MacBook Neo buyers would have bought an Air before?
Tim Culpan: Apple Doubles MacBook Neo Production, Orders Fresh Batch of Chips
As a result, it’s now asking suppliers
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The midification of smartphone cameras
This feels like the sort of post that can get some people to go, "well actually…", but screw
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Encrypted RCS is going wide, starting today
John Voorhees: iOS 26.5 Adds RCS Encryption in Beta Starting Today
Apple announced that beginning today, users on iOS
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The Trump admin suddenly wants to regulate AI models
The New York Times had a story a few days ago about the Trump administration prepping an executive order regulating
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Big spending, big profits
M.G. Siegler: Apple's Binary Bet
It's just such a wild break from their peer group.
