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Apple’s latest AirTags are cheaper than ever for Prime Day

Apple's latest AirTags are available at a discounted price for Prime Day, with a four-pack costing $90, marking the first significant price reduction since their release.

I built Ponytrail, a local audit trail for AI coding-agent edits

Ponytrail is a new open-source tool designed to create a local audit trail for code edits made by AI coding agents, enhancing transparency and control over AI-generated changes.

Claude Code's "extended thinking" is a summary- not authentic thinking

Claude Code's "extended thinking" output provides only a summary of the model's reasoning, not its authentic thought process, with Anthropic retaining access to the full logs.

22 Jun4 min read

The Verge

Tech

WhatsApp head Will Cathcart is stepping down after seven years

Will Cathcart is stepping down as WhatsApp head after seven years, with Indian fintech founder Kunal Shah taking over the role and Meta investing $900 million in Shah's startup, Cred.

22 Jun3 min read

TechCrunch

Tech

Instagram looks to take on streaming services with longer-form, episodic and live formats for its TV app

Instagram is expanding its TV app with longer-form, episodic, and live content formats, aiming to compete with streaming services and capture living room audiences.

22 Jun3 min read

Ars Technica

Tech

This former hacker saw the light—and now wants to collect all of it

Dan Roelker, a former hacker, now aims to collect and harness light through his company Observable Space.

22 Jun13 min read

The Verge

Tech

Patreon CEO Jack Conte on supporting artists in the AI slop era

Patreon CEO Jack Conte views his company as an index of small business media companies, competing with social platforms.

22 Jun55 min read

TechCrunch

Tech

The founder conference built for growth: TechCrunch Founder Summit pass rates increase June 26

TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026 brings together founders and investors for a day of growth and networking on November 4 in Boston.

Nvidia Halos

Nvidia introduces Halos, a new technology for various industries and applications.

Moebius: 0.2B image inpainting model with 10B-level performance

Moebius is a 0.2B image inpainting model that achieves 10B-level performance with 15× faster inference time.

Sakana Fugu

Sakana Fugu offers an API that coordinates specialized AI models for complex tasks like coding and reasoning, optimizing performance and cost by handling model selection and switching.

1983 Northern Telecom Commodore Phone

Commodore Canada bundled a Northern Telecom rotary phone with its VICModem to circumvent strict 1983 Canadian telecom regulations that made standard modems incompatible with hardwired telephone systems.

Petition against Meta's employee training data collection for ML models

A petition against Meta's Model Capability Initiative demands the company cease collecting employee computer-use data, including keystrokes and screen content, for training AI models due to privacy and security concerns.

Did my old job only exist because of fraud?

A former software engineer investigates whether their pivotal early career job at a UK-based startup, acquired by a US venture capital fund, existed solely due to alleged investor fraud.

Apertus – Open Foundation Model for Sovereign AI

The Swiss AI Initiative, a collaboration between EPFL, ETH Zurich, and CSCS, launched Apertus, an open foundation model for sovereign AI with open weights, data, and science.

PowerFox Browser

PowerFox Browser is a secure, modern, and open-source web browser for older Macs running Mac OS X 10.4 to 10.6.

Everything is logarithms

Logarithms can be reinterpreted as baseless logarithms, simplifying change of base formulas and providing new insights.

There is minimal downside to switching to open models

Switching to open models now has minimal downside due to improved compatibility and maturity of Linux and open-source software.

21 Jun3 min read

The Verge

Tech

Bose thinks it can be a media company for some reason

Bose launches Bose Studios, a record label, movie studio, podcast network, and live event production company, amid skepticism about its potential success.

JSON-LD explained for personal websites

JSON-LD adds structured data to webpages, aiding web crawlers and potentially improving search rankings.

21 Jun9 min read

TechCrunch

Tech

Ubisoft co-founder Claude Guillemot dies in plane crash

Ubisoft co-founder Claude Guillemot dies in a plane crash at the age of 69 in the French resort town of La Baule.

21 Jun2 min read

Ars Technica

Tech

Trump admin’s coal investments assist plants with repeated violations

The Trump administration's coal investments assist plants with repeated environmental regulation violations, including three cited for Clean Air Act and Clean Water Act breaches.

21 Jun9 min read

9to5Google

Tech

RIP Nest Mini – The Google Home Speaker isn’t a replacement, but hopefully the start of a new era

Google has discontinued the Nest Mini smart speaker, replacing it with the more expensive Google Home Speaker, which lacks the same use cases and mounting options.

21 Jun6 min read

TechCrunch

Tech

Beyond Siri: Here are the practical AI features coming to your iPhone in iOS 27

Apple's iOS 27 integrates practical AI features beyond Siri, enabling automatic bill splitting, proactive password updates after data breaches, and context-aware suggestions within Messages.

21 Jun7 min read

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