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theverge 28h ago 19°

The Verge’s guide to Amazon Prime Day 2026

Amazon Prime Day 2026 lifts off on June 23rd and will hopefully deliver the best deals of the summer. We’ve been covering the most notable pre-Prime Day discounts happening, and come next week, we’ll be bringing you many more deals — ones we can’t tell you about just yet.
kottke 20h ago 19°

The Side That Won the Civil War is Now Banning Books...

The Side That Won the Civil War is Now Banning Books About Why the Civil War Was Fought.
sixthtone 42h ago 19°

In the Age of AI, Is Chinese Opera Being Revived or Reduced?

As AI tools turn Chinese opera into data, the art form is finding new audiences while risking the loss of what made it unique.
axios 19h ago 18°

Exclusive: Trump tells The Axios Show there are "no limits" to his power after Iran war

President Trump denied that the Iran war revealed the limits of his ability to exert power, telling "The Axios Show" he still believes there are "no limits."The big picture: Trump entered the war demanding "unconditional surrender." He ended it with a limited memorandum of understanding instead.
9to5toys 23h ago 17°

Today’s best Android app deals and freebies: WINCH IT OUT, LUNA The Shadow Dust, more

Your afternoon lineup of the best Android game and app deals is now at the ready, including titles like WINCH IT OUT, Dungeon of the Endless: Apogee, LUNA The Shadow Dust, RPG Soul Historica, Nelly Cootalot: The Fowl Fleet, Guns’n’Glory Zombies Premium, and more. We also have Samsung Galaxy S26 at $150 off or open-box units at a massive $525 off as well as this Galaxy Tab S11 down to a new Amazon all-time low at over $300 off. Head below for today’s best Android apps.
windowslatest 30h ago 17°

Microsoft reveals you can kill Bing in Windows 11 Search and boost performance after years of lag

Microsoft has confirmed what we reported a little while ago: you'll be able to Bing web results in Windows 11 Start menu search.
arstechnica 21h ago 16°

As China looms, Taiwan makes more drones for defense and the US military

Taiwan's drone spending plans for defense could also boost business overseas.
thehackernews 6h ago 16°

From Assistive to Agentic: The AI Shift That's Redefining Threat Management

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venturebeat 24h ago 16°

New AI optimization framework beats Claude Code and Codex by 2.5x on the same compute budget

Imagine your engineering team just deployed an AI agent to search through internal company documents and answer employee questions. It works perfectly in development, but in production, it consistently hallucinates or misses key constraints. Fixing this is rarely a simple patch. It requires a tedious, trial-and-error process of tweaking chunking strategies, retrieval methods, and system prompts simultaneously.
fs 32h ago 16°

Dr. Giulia Enders: How to Nourish Your Gut (And Keep It Thriving for Life)

Dr. Giulia Enders has changed the way millions of people think about the human body. As a physician, microbiome researcher, and bestselling author, she has spent years studying the surprising role the gut plays in everything from digestion and immunity to mood, sleep, metabolism, and long-term health. Public Release: June 23. Members have access now.Join …
petapixel 26h ago 15°

Midjourney, the AI Image Generator Company, is Making an MRI Scanner

Midjourney has been largely surpassed in the AI image world by tech behemoths Google and OpenAI. But today it’s made a surprise announcement: it’s getting into health.
singularityhub 18h ago 14°

How to Tame AI’s Voracious Appetite for Energy

Scientists are exploring new algorithms, hardware, and computing methods to lower AI’s power demands. Strategic siting of data centers and other steps to increase green energy use are also key.
lesswrong 48h ago 14°

Lock-In Risk Needs More Researchers. Here's Where to Start

Epistemic status: slightly outdated ideas, only a shallow interpretation of many areas, a somewhat arbitrary taxonomy, and posted because I can't prioritise spending more time on this but think it should be public.Lock-in risk research is neglected and potentially very high impact. I’ve done some thinking about the threat models for lock-in over the last year while starting Formation Research, and I’m now writing them up in this post.
spacenews 5h ago 14°

The MEO durability crisis: why LEO hardware will fail the new orbital economy

To some, space is the final frontier. But the reality is that once you leave Earth’s atmosphere, you’re not entering a single, uniform void.
tidbits 20h ago 14°

Tim Cook Confirms Apple Will Raise Prices Due to Memory and Storage Costs

Outgoing CEO Tim Cook has confirmed to the Wall Street Journal that Apple is being forced to raise prices due to skyrocketing costs of memory and storage chips. What might that mean for your next Apple device purchase?
sciencenews 29h ago 13°

The truth about brain rot, according to science

Emerging research suggests overusing digital devices can be harmful, especially to mental health. But does being overly online truly rot our brains?
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