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Has the hunt for AI compute uncovered the next Cerebras?
General Compute is betting SambaNova will be the next breakout chipmaker.
Qualcomm promises $300 Windows laptops with new Snapdragon C
They started at $1,000. Then $700. Then $600 budget machines. Now, Qualcomm says the price of its Arm-based Windows laptops will hit $300 this year. Even though RAMageddon has yet to subside and PC prices keep climbing, the company says it’s built a new budget laptop platform called Snapdragon C – “C” as in “Compute” … Read more
Intel’s first handheld gaming chip is the Arc G3, and this Acer is using it
There’s a brand-new Intel chip underneath this render. | Image: Acer Intel is barely in the handheld gaming PC space – but that might be about to change. After the embarrassment that was the first MSI Claw and the excellent MSI Claw 8 AI Plus that followed it, Intel announced it would create custom handheld … Read more
Xiaomi 17T Pro arrives with the company’s biggest battery yet
The 17T (left) and 17T Pro (right) are both bigger than the regular Xiaomi 17. Xiaomi has announced the 17T and 17T Pro, two cheaper spins on its 17 series flagships. As is usual for the T-series, the focus is more on performance than photography, with the biggest batteries Xiaomi has included on any of … Read more
They’ve finally made the Oura Ring smaller and lighter
The precious… I mean Oura Ring 5. | Photo by Victoria Song / The Verge Wherever I go, whatever I do, people point at my finger and ask, “Is that an Oura Ring?” Lots of people find they like the design, and they tell me why they’re thinking about switching to a smart ring from … Read more
Kia’s flagship EV has a battery problem
I first realized there was an issue with Kia’s flagship EV9 when I tried to unlock my car last year. The hulking three-row SUV was sitting on my driveway completely dead. The key didn’t work, the app connection to the car was gone, and I was already late to an appointment. Luckily, I had prepared … Read more
Oura unveils its Ring 5 with a thinner, lighter design starting at $399
The ring is 40% smaller than its predecessor, and comes with more accurate sensing, enhanced battery life, and more.
Temu fined more than $230 million by EU over illegal product sales
Temu has been fined €200 million (about $232 million) by the European Commission after it found that consumers are “very likely to encounter illegal items” on the popular Chinese e-commerce platform. According to the commission, Temu breached Digital Service Act (DSA) rules by failing to identify and assess the systemic risks of illegal products being … Read more
Gemini for Google Home can now use your cameras to trigger automations
Your security cameras will watch for specific events and then trigger whatever actions you need automatically. | Image: Google Google Home is rolling out a new Gemini-powered automation feature that can trigger smart home routines based on what your security cameras can see. This is one of several updates announced yesterday for Gemini for Home, … Read more
Racket v9.2 is now available
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The Email Problem That Kills M&A Deals Is Not the One Anyone Is Watching
Every M&A deal has a moment where someone realizes the integration plan was missing something obvious, and that moment almost always arrives after the deal has closed, the timeline is fixed, and the budget has been spent on everything else. That something is usually email, and it is usually a disaster. This is not a … Read more
YouTube will let you ask AI to make a custom video feed
You can enter your own prompt, or select from the suggested options provided by YouTube. | Image: YouTube YouTube is launching a new AI feature that creates a personalized video feed based on descriptions of what you want to watch. In its announcement, YouTube says custom content feeds can be built around your specific interests, … Read more
Rethinking Kleppmann’s “Designing Data-Intensive Applications”
How Martin Kleppmann’s iconic book evolved for AI and cloud-native architectures Since its release in 2017, Designing Data-Intensive Applications (DDIA) has become known as the bible for anyone working on large-scale, data-driven systems. The book’s focus on fundamentals (like storage engines, replication, and partitioning) has helped it age well. Still, the world of distributed systems has evolved … Read more
How I Aligned Years of Time-Lapse Photos With OpenCV and Neural Matching
In the previous post, I described the Seasons project: a time-lapse of hundreds of pictures taken from nearly the same viewpoint over the years. The hardest challenge wasn’t taking the pictures or assembling them, but aligning them. You might have noticed the nearly part about viewpoint in the above paragraph. Indeed, it’s an approximation. I’m … Read more
Vertu wants CEOs to run companies from an AI foldable starting at $6,880
Built on top of the open-source Hermes project, Vertu’s new foldable combines AI-agent workflows, enterprise integrations, and ultra-premium luxury finishes.
The Last Mile Problem in Agentic AI: Why Context Abstraction Is the Next Developer Battleground
There is a distinct lifecycle when developers build with LLMs. Phase one is pure awe: you ask a model to write a Python script or debug an async function, and it spits out working code in seconds. Phase two is ambition: you try to move past simple chat windows and build an autonomous AI agent … Read more
Markets Don’t Move Linearly — They Transition Between Behavioral States
After eight years of trading EUR/USD, I kept running into the same frustration: a strategy that printed money for two years would suddenly stop working — not gradually, but almost overnight. No obvious reason. Same logic, same execution, same pair. It just… stopped. The usual explanation is “the edge decayed” or “the market adapted.” But … Read more
The golden age of handheld gaming is already over
For a few glorious years, a $399 portable gadget could run almost anything you’d want to play. In 2022, the Steam Deck finally made PC gaming portable and affordable. I played through the vast majority of Elden Ring on a Steam Deck, agape that such a rich world could comfortably fit between my two hands. … Read more
Google engineer charged with insider trading after making $1.2M on Polymarket
According to the complaint, a Google engineer risked over $2.7 million on wagers related to Google’s 2025 Year in Search campaign.
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Why Google’s AI can’t spell Google (or anything else)
Google is embarrassing itself, again.
I analysed 20 years of my chats
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A Google employee allegedly used inside information to win $1.2 million on Polymarket
Federal prosecutors charged a Google employee with fraud after he allegedly made $1.2 million on Polymarket bets related to Search-related trends in 2025, as reported earlier by ABC News. In their now-unsealed complaint, prosecutors allege that Michele Spagnuolo “knew the outcome of these wagers before the trading public did because he had accessed Google’s confidential, … Read more
Internet traffic in Iran increasing
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Why We Stopped Using JSON.parse in React Native
:::tip JSON.parse hit a limit we needed to go past, so we abandoned it and used a simdjson wrapper. ::: This article provides a practical guide to react-native-fast-json, when to use it, how to install it, and patterns that keep memory under control. The problem we hit. Our app needed to read a ~250 MBJSON … Read more