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 Last
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. It&
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
Fairly priced and too expensive
User cantrip in a comment on The Verge: The Steam Machine is both fairly-priced and too expensive. It'
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
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,
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
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
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
"The lowest price in months"
MacStories Deals posted this last week (emphasis mine): Samsung's 990 PRO SSD 2TB NVMe M.2 PCIe Gen4
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
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
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
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
Loupe
Loupe is a simple new app for iOS that shows how many things native apps can see about you and
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
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