Month: July 2026

The funeral for PlayStation discs has begun

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Cody Spencer, the co-owner of the small games retail chain Pink Gorilla Games, put it well when I asked about the impact of Sony’s recent announcement that it will stop making discs for new games starting January 2028. “It’s sad to see. This decision is only a negative for gamers. We’re losing the ability to … Read more

AI Agents Built by Different Teams Can Finally Work Together Without Custom Glue Code

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While researching multi-agent pipeline architectures, one failure pattern kept showing up. The orchestration agent and the data retrieval agent would both run fine independently. The moment one needed to hand a task off to the other, someone wrote a function. When the result needed to come back, another function. When a third agent from a … Read more

Xbox’s ‘reset’: all the news about Microsoft’s looming layoffs and studio closures

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Xbox is making some big changes — again. On June 10th, a few months after Asha Sharma took over as CEO, she and newly-promoted chief content officer Matt Booty sent a memo to staff warning of an “Xbox reset.” The business, they said, is facing significant challenges, including a 3 percent “accountability margin,” massively higher … Read more

Navigating Claude Code: Subagents Done Right

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Previously in the series The Bare Minimum Setup CLAUDE.md Done Right Models, Tiers, and Effort The Context Window Tax Hooks That Guard Your Code MCP Servers Worth Adding Skills That Actually Fire Introduction Every tool call, file read, and exploratory detour in Claude Code’s main conversation eats into the same context window. Do a codebase … Read more

146 Blog Posts To Learn About Phishing

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Let’s learn about Phishing via these 146 free blog posts. They are ordered by HackerNoon reader engagement data. Visit the Learn Repo or LearnRepo.com to find the most read blog posts about any technology. Phishing is a type of cyberattack where attackers attempt to trick individuals into revealing sensitive information, often through deceptive emails or … Read more

Crypto Tax Made Easy Helps Cut Client’s IRS Audit Exposure From $1.55 Million to Approximately $148K

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Draper, Utah/USA, July 1st, 2026/–Crypto Tax Made Easy reconstructed an anonymous client’s blockchain and exchange records during an IRS audit, and Securus Advisors represented the client before the IRS, supporting the position that disputed Poloniex withdrawals were transfers between the taxpayer’s own wallets rather than new taxable income. Crypto Tax Made Easy, a cryptocurrency tax … Read more