Tech
AI Summary
- AI development continues to be a major focus, with significant investments, ethical debates, and potential shifts in major tech players like DeepMind and Anthropic.
- The intersection of AI and robotics is gaining traction, with advancements in AI assisting robot operations and autonomous vehicle technology.
- Hardware innovations are emerging, from specialized chip tools and e-ink displays to memory encryption on CPUs and new NASA rover technology.
- The consumer tech landscape sees updates in operating systems like iOS, new hardware releases, and evolving trends in smart home devices and wearables.
- The tech industry is grappling with the implications of AI, including data privacy, potential misuse, and the cost of AI development, alongside ongoing cybersecurity concerns.
Sources
TechCrunch
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Signal’s Meredith Whittaker wants you to remember that AI chatbots ‘are not your friends’
2 hours ago
by Anthony Ha
AI, Security, Meredith Whittaker, signal"These are not your friends. These are not conscious beings. These are not sentient interlocutors.”
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In the Weights is your new AI-centric vanity search
3 hours ago
by Anthony Ha
AI, in th weights, Joey Flynn, thomas dimsonSo ... what's your In the Weights score?
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Founders Fund’s outlier bet on humanely killed fish
4 hours ago
by Connie Loizos
Robotics, Startups, TC, Delian Asparouhov, saif khawaja, shinkei systemsShinkei makes a refrigerator-sized robot called Poseidon to kill fish quickly and humanely.
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Nobel laureate John Jumper is leaving DeepMind for rival Anthropic
6 hours ago
by Anthony Ha
AI, Anthropic, Google, John JumperJumper isn't the only big name leaving Google DeepMind.
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Every new iOS 27 feature that’s worth knowing about
8 hours ago
by Lauren Forristal
Hardware, Apps, Apple, wwdc, Apple Maps, apple wallet, evergreens, iOS 27While it's not flashy like Apple’s new Siri AI and Apple Intelligence upgrades, there are still a number of additions to iOS 27 worth looking at.
Hacker News
- UK Home Office launches £75M 'PoliceAI' to capitalise on artificial intelligence 2 hours ago
- SMPTE Makes Its Standards Freely Accessible 6 hours ago
- UHF X11: X11 Built for VisionOS and Apple Vision Pro 6 hours ago
- PostgresBench: A Reproducible Benchmark for Postgres Services 4 hours ago
- The Wholesale Plagiarism of Obscure Sorrows 4 hours ago
Engadget
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NASA is testing a rover that can drive faster and lift its wheels to climb obstacles
4 hours ago
by Cheyenne MacDonald
SpaceThe space agency shared footage of tests with its Ernest prototype rover.
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Epic is working on a 'ground-up rebuild' of its launcher that will be 5x faster
5 hours ago
by Jackson Chen
GamingLauncher V2 will go through a private beta before a public release.
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NASA's Swift Boost mission will launch later this month to rescue a falling telescope
6 hours ago
by Mariella Moon
SpaceNASA mission to save a falling space telescope is ready to launch.
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Claude Guillemot, one of Ubisoft's co-founders, has died in a plane crash
7 hours ago
by Jackson Chen
GamingThe crash reportedly happened on an airstrip near the western coast of France on June 19.
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How to personalize the screensaver on your Kindle
7 hours ago
by Mariella Moon
TabletsOnce you remove lockscreen ads and toggle on book covers, here's what else you can do to customize your Kindle's screensaver.
The Verge
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The Atlantic created a searchable database of the music used to train AI
4 hours ago
by Terrence O’Brien
AI, Entertainment, Music, NewsAtlantic reporter Alex Reisner recently uncovered four datasets of music being used to train AI models and made them fully searchable for the public. Two of the sets are absolutely enormous at 12 million and 9 million tracks. The other two are much smaller, but still represent a significant amount of training data at over 100,000 songs each. According to Reisner, the sets have been downloaded thousands of times and, while it's impossible to know exactly who has used them, Google and Stability have both confirmed they have in research papers. Some of the sources, like the Free Music Archive
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Musician and YouTuber Hainbach on ‘Breath of the Wild’ and Swiss Army Knives
7 hours ago
by Terrence O’Brien
Creators, Entertainment, Interview, Music, Report, Streaming, Tech, YouTubeIndulging in the “Dark Souls of synthesis.” | Image: Aleksander Stojanov / Hainbach Stefan Paul Goetsch, better known as Hainbach, is a German experimental composer, artist, and YouTuber who is perhaps most famous for making music with laboratory equipment and scientific instruments. He describes it as being like the " Dark Souls of synthesis ." Despite using "hard mode" production techniques that often rely on telephone line testing equipment and gear salvaged from nuclear testing facilities, Hainbach is also incredibly prolific , releasing six albums in 2025 alone, along with a handful of singles and EPs. His latest, Gentle Hum
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Moves of the Diamond Hand is an unfinished, irresistibly weird dice-based RPG
9 hours ago
by Adi Robertson
Games Review, GamingFrom its opening minutes, Moves of the Diamond Hand is upfront about what it offers: You're going to have a lot of strange conversations, and you're going to roll a lot of dice. Get on board with this proposition, and the reward is one of the most creative roleplaying games I've seen in years, even if its many mysteries won't be resolved until 2027. Moves of the Diamond Hand is an Early Access videogame available on PC, macOS, and steamOS (including the Steam Deck, where I played it) from musician and game designer Cosmo D. The game looks and feels
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Toy Story has the right take on tech
11 hours ago
by David Pierce
Gadgets, Installer, Streaming, TechHi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 133, your guide to the best and Verge -iest stuff in the world. (If you're new here, welcome, happy belated Juneteenth, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage .) This week, I've been reading about Sam Bankman-Fried and PE Guy and admin nights (which we should totally all do together one of these days), listening to Paul McCartney on Song Exploder , trudging through the bugs of the iOS 27 beta in order to use the good new Siri, once again trying and failing to switch to YouTube
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SwitchBot’s Standing Circulator Fan is worth fighting for
16 hours ago
by Thomas Ricker
Accessory Reviews, Gadgets, Reviews, Smart Home, Smart Home Reviews, TechI’m a fan. I can't remember the last time I got excited about a fan. Normally, I just buy whatever Vornado or Dreo model fits my budget, but that was before I started testing the battery-powered Standing Circulator Fan from SwitchBot . As the name indicates, the SwitchBot fan is a 3D circulator - a fancy way of saying that it can tilt up, down, left, and right to push a decent amount air around a room. It looks okay, despite all the plastic, is relatively quiet, runs for hours on battery, has an integrated nightlight, transforms from a desktop
Wired
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Home Batteries: How They're Installed and How Much They Cost
12 hours ago
by Simon Hill
Gear, Gear / How To and Advice, Gear / Products / Home, Gear / Products / Smart Home, Power, TripAfter adding one to my home, here's why you might want a home battery, how they work, and what to look for, plus some installation tips.
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I Found 29 Early Prime Day Deals That Are Worth Shopping Now (2026)
12 hours ago
by Scott Gilbertson
Gear, Gear / Deals, Early, BirdWe’ve trawled the depths of Amazon to find the best deals on gear we’ve tested.
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16 Best Greens Powders (2026): Taste-Tested for Months
12 hours ago
by Louryn Strampe
Gear, Gear / Buying Guides, Gear / Products / Lifestyle, Buying, GuideI did the research and taste-testing to find the best greens powders worth your money. Bloom Nutrition’s Superfood Greens Powder is my tried-and-true pick.
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Siri AI Hands On: A Smart, Helpful Assistant
13 hours ago
by Reece Rogers
Gear, Gear / Gear News and Events, Siri, Us, BusinessThe new Siri AI is conversational, omnipresent, and actually helpful.
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Hackers Claim to Leak Stolen Madison Square Garden Data
13 hours ago
by Matt Burgess, Lily Hay Newman
Security / Cyberattacks and Hacks, Security / Security News, Security, RoundupPlus: Gay bars in San Francisco using face scanners, France quits Palantir, Apple plans to change its private email and more.