Date: 2026-07-06 | Generated: 15:00:20
An AI companion sounds dystopian, but it has become a common thread in the wider conversation about the perils of generative AI. What it refers to is essentially a conversational agent built to sustain an ongoing, personal relationship with a user, with the memory and steady persona that keep it consistent from one session to [β¦] The post Chinaβs AI companion rules: what Beijing is really going after appeared first on AI News.
You build an agent with five tools.
Developers are paying closer attention to how much their AI coding tools cost them to run, and for good reason. The post Getting Claude Code to grunt in Caveman-speak might not save as many tokens as you think appeared first on The New Stack.
AI trash-talkers love to rip on the technology for failing to produce meaningful business results, often pointing to studies like The post Why most AI projects fail: Itβs infrastructure and people appeared first on The New Stack.
Palantir CEO Alex Karp went on CNBCβs Squawk Box last week to discuss a new partnership with Nvidia to deploy The post Palantirβs Alex Karp and Mistralβs Arthur Mensch agree: AI lock-in is coming for enterprises appeared first on The New Stack.
In April, Andrej Karpathy published a GitHub gist file called βLLM Wiki,β a brief text document designed to help one The post Andrej Karpathy, Google and Garry Tan agree Markdown is the answer, but theyβre not solving the same problem appeared first on The New Stack.
The software code review process is a systematic, peer-driven quality assurance procedure that scrutinizes code when a developer submits a The post The code review bug hunt is dead. Hereβs what developers get wrong. appeared first on The New Stack.
On July 2, Judson Althoff, CEO of Microsoftβs commercial business, announced the formation of the Microsoft Frontier Company. The new The post Microsoft, AWS and Anthropic are spending billions β and not on better models appeared first on The New Stack.
Halfway through 2026, artificial intelligence has been at the center of every major story inside the world of software development The post 10 moments that defined AIβs turbulent first half of 2026 appeared first on The New Stack.
With apologies to Gil Scott-Heron and his timeless 1971 protest song, if anyone thought the AI revolution would not be The post The AI revolution will not be televised β itβll be quantized appeared first on The New Stack.
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There is a number going around tech right now that I genuinely cannot fit in my head. Amazon, Microsoft, Google and Meta plan to spend somewhere around $725 billion on capital expenditure in 2026. Most of that is data centers, chips, and the power to run them. That figure is up roughly 77 percent from about $410 billion the year before, based on earnings figures compiled by the Financial Times. Read that again. It is not a plan for the decade. It is one year. I want to walk through where this mo...
I didn't design this strategy on paper. I found it by trading, losing, adjusting, and trading again until the win rate stabilized and stopped moving around. 11,717 trades later, here's what actually works and why. The core idea The bot trades BTC Up/Down markets on Polymarket across three timeframes - 5-minute, 15-minute, and 1-hour. Each timeframe has a different job. They're not three separate strategies running in parallel. They're one framework where each layer filters the one below it. The ...
If you've applied for a job in the last few years, a piece of software probably read your resume before a human did. Most mid-size and large companies run applications through an Applicant Tracking System (ATS) β Greenhouse, Workday, Lever, Taleo, and friends β that ingests your file, turns it into structured data, and stores it in a database recruiters search. As developers, we tend to imagine the ATS as some mysterious gatekeeper with a secret scoring model. It's less magic than that. It's mos...
Meteor 3.5 is a broad release, and it earns the word. Its center of gravity is the reactive data layer (the part of your app that runs in production around the clock), but the work reaches from the database driver out to your auth middleware and the Node runtime underneath. Here is the map, and everything below is covered in detail further down. For the complete, line-by-line list of what shipped, see the full changelog. The headline is change streams by default: reactivity now works on managed ...
At some point in the last decade, shipping a web application started requiring a build step. Then a second one. Then a config file for the bundler, a config file for the CSS processor, a config file for the linter that runs before the bundler, and a CI definition that orchestrates all of them in the right order. Every one of those steps is a dependency. Every dependency has a version. Every version will, eventually, break something. When I started building Smeldr, I made a deliberate choice: no ...
GitHub Managed Settings and Ota are not competing products. They govern different layers of software. GitHub Managed Settings governs repository configuration on GitHub. Ota governs how a repository is prepared, verified, and run. That distinction matters because modern repositories do not just need policy around branch protection, rulesets, and defaults. They also need a clear execution contract for developers, CI systems, automation, and AI agents. GitHub Managed Settings is platform governanc...
Orasort, a sorting algorithm from Oracle, came into the public domain in 2024 after its patent expired, providing massive benefits to open-source software. submitted by /u/Ok_Stomach6651 [link] [comments]
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Late teens, I used to write code purely for fun. Nobody was paying me. Definitely wasn't trying to "10x" anything. I just liked figuring stuff out. I'd blow entire weekends on things that felt kind of magical at the time β WebSockets, WebRTC, real-time stuff, rolling my own auth, building tiny APIs from scratch just to see if I could. Half the time the "bug" was one missing semicolon I'd been staring past for three hours like an idiot. It was infuriating. And then it finally worked and I felt li...
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A visual walkthrough of Linux eBPF. It goes through the basic pipeline: write a small C program, compile it with clang, load it with bpf(), get it past the verifier, JIT it, attach it to a kernel event, and read data back through maps/ring buffers. The second half gets into why people use it for tracing, XDP packet filtering, security hooks, and sched_ext, then ends with the less fun part: the verifier is the safety boundary, and eBPF gets a lot scarier when the person loading the program alread...
Ran into this while working on a coordination primitive for a payments system: locks and consensus (Redis, Raft, etcd) all answer "who can act right now" none answer "did the action actually complete" once a crash happens. That's a harder, separate problem most systems just inherit Temporal's answer to (determinism + replay). Blog submitted by /u/munch_muffin_solas [link] [comments]
Nintendo will stop selling the original Switch console to retailers in February 2027.
'It is neither possible nor desirable to own every great independent studio.'
The move comes with the company pivoting away from video games and entertainment.
Carbon is the technology behind the sci-fi MMO's sprawling persistent universe.
Recently, I bowed to pressure and finally booted up Persona 3 Reload. Given the announcement of Persona 6 at Summer Game Fest 2026, and the vast amount of time between that game's inevitable release and the time I played Persona 5--nine years and counting--I thought I'd dip my toes back in the series. Unfortunately, I could only make it so far, because Persona 3 Reload, I'm sorry to say, gave me the ick. All of the charming -isms I once loved about the Persona games seemed to dissipate upon boot...
Xbox CEO Asha Sharma has shared new details on the significant changes at Xbox, including mass layoffs, studio spinoffs, and more. In an interview with Fortune, Sharma said Microsoft undertook "a bunch of bets" years ago to help grow the business, including Game Pass, going multiplatform, and beefing up its studio base. These bets did not pay off, and in the process of pursuing these new ventures, "We inherently didn't focus on the core business," Sharma said. "The number one measure of your str...
With the Steam Machine starting to land in some lucky buyers hands, a few of the gremlins in Valve's compact living-room PC have started to surface. But while some might remind you of infamous hardware failures of old, many of them are smartly designed errors that you can, for the most part, resolve yourself. Last week, the Steam Machine subreddit was rocked with what the community described as the "Red Line of Death," a reference to the catastrophic Red Ring of Death that plagued early Xbox 360...
The Summer Sale is still live at Green Man Gaming, offering steep discounts on thousands of PC games. It's a pretty impressive sale by all accounts, covering everything from classic indies like Balatro to blockbusters like The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim--and you'll even find tons of games available for less than $10. The sale ends on July 13, with the vast majority of titles offered as Steam keys. See all deals at GMG If your gaming budget is locked up with your Grand Theft Auto VI preorder, consid...
CC40: The Criterion Collection 40-Film Box Set (Blu-ray) $400 (was $800) See at Amazon The Criterion Collection has built its reputation on preserving the best of cinema, and for over 40 years, it has restored and re-released some of the greatest films ever made. Criterion celebrated its 40th anniversary in 2024, releasing a massive 49-disc box set collection of 40 films. You can pick up the full collection from Amazon for 50% off its sticker price; it's down to $400 (was $800), a price we haven...
Claim your throne as the Ruler of Latveria! Master Nullify Shield to block enemy projectiles and turn their own firepower against them. Conquer the arena with our ultimate Doctor Doomβs Character Guide! Assemble your team of legendary Marvel characters in the ultimate 4v4 tag team fighter. MARVEL TΕkon: Fighting Souls is coming to PS5 and PC on August 6th, 2026 PT!
Microsoft spent a large chunk of time--and cash--acquiring new studios throughout the 2010s and 2020s, but its biggest move was the $68.7 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard in October 2023. Trumpeted as a deal that would greatly bolster its portfolio of first-party studios and further enhance the appeal of its Xbox Game Pass subscription service, the acquisition has been followed by several waves of restructuring since then. Thousands of roles at the company have been cut, the plug has b...
A deadly plague spread through World of Warcraft's Moonguard server over the weekend, making it the second time in WoW history a horrific virus has run uncontrolled through the game's populace. As broken down by Wowhead, the origin of the plague in question comes from a Dragonflight dungeon, Brackenhide Hollow. Within the dungeon, some enemies cast a spell called Withering Contagion, a disease that inflicts heavy nature- damage-over-time and spreads to all players within five yards. Whether by a...
Fanatical's Red Hot Sale, features more than 10,000 digital games with discounts of up to 80%. Shoppers who spend more than $15 also get a free game or coupon with purchase (these are limited to a maximum of three per customer). The sale runs through July 10, so you won't want to delay digging through and filling your cart. If it's your first time shopping at Fanatical, be aware that any purchases you make come as digital download codes that are redeemable via Steam. See all deals at Fanatical I...
Microsoft is undergoing a major shakeup that involves mass layoffs, studio sell-offs, and other significant changes as part of a "reset" of the business. While we have learned that Ninja Theory and Undead Labs are being sold off and Double Fine and Compulsion are going independent, we don't yet know what the future holds for Arkane Lyon and its long-in-development Blade game. The French studio is undergoing "consultation," but its fate has yet to be determined. There is a lot we still don't know...
No news was not, in fact, good news.
"Videogames are not mere merchandiseβthey are cultural assets."
'Microsoft prides itself on being a good neighbor in the communities where we operate.'
A grim outcome from Xbox's latest round of reaping.
ZeniMax Online Studios and id Software have survived the latest bloodbath at Microsoft, but it sounds like they've been cut deeply.
Quantum plans to use the proceeds to expand production capacity, strengthen supply chain resilience, and more. The post Quantum Systems raises $1.2B to expand drone production and deployments appeared first on The Robot Report.
RoboBusiness 2026, the premier event for developers of commercial robotics and those building robotics businesses, is seeking expert speakers. The post RoboBusiness 2026 call for speakers closes soon appeared first on The Robot Report.
Humanoid says its KinetIQ Ascend approach can reach 99.9% manipulation reliability at human speed and beyond for industrial tasks. The post Humanoid says KinetIQ Ascend reinforcement learning approaches human-level dexterity appeared first on The Robot Report.
"The reality is, when you're optimizing for production, you start looking at a price/performance," Guillermo Rauch tells TechCrunch.
The update is part of Apple's broader effort to make Siri feel more natural and personal, as it rebuilds the assistant around generative AI.
A running look β in reverse chronological order β at the bigger tech companies that have announced significant layoffs this year with AI as a stated factor.
Bookship.org seemed to delay this anticipated partnership again, but tells TechCrunch that it has settled business terms and is working on integration.
PSA: A change to Google's privacy settings let it train its AI on more of your data. Here's how to opt out.
Apple has started a phased rollout of card payments for Apple Account purchases in India after adapting to the country's payments framework.
Microsoft cut around 4,800 roles, or 2.1% of its global workforce, on Monday β the latest in a series of layoffs thatβs stoking fears of AI replacing jobs. The layoffs will hit Xbox and commercial sales the hardest.
In the AI era, platforms have no choice but to fight fire with fire to cull spam.
The hacking operations disclosed in a Canadian spy agency's annual report underscores some pressing national security threats facing the country and its top allies.
WhatsApp now lets users reserve usernames ahead of the featureβs full rollout, making it possible to connect without sharing a phone number once usernames go live.
The United States of America recently turned 250 years old. What a spectacle! The fireworks were amazing, and millions of proud people celebrated across the nation - even around the world. France lit up the Eiffel Tower; Japan had fireworks. French fighter jets flew above New York City with trails of red, white, and blue [β¦]
Bullshit is cheap but truth is expensive. Anyone with half a brain cell can post wild misinformation that goes mega viral, which wastes the time and expertise of highly trained people who feel an obligation to inform others of the truth. Today I want you to meet one of those highly-trained people, Dr. Zachary Rubin, [β¦]
Microsoft is spinning off four of its Xbox game studios - Compulsion Games, Double Fine Productions, Ninja Theory, and Undead Labs - as part of the restructuring announced today. However, two that are going independent, Double Fine and Compulsion, will get to keep their franchises and games catalogs, according to Xbox CEO Asha Sharma. "Compulsion [β¦]
I've long argued that Hollywood has simultaneously set and ruined our expectations for smart glasses. But after binge-watching two seasons of Netflix's A Man on the Inside, this is perhaps the first time I've seen Hollywood, perhaps inadvertently, illustrate the biggest cultural problem with smart glasses as they stand today. In a nutshell, Ted Danson [β¦]
Initially, I was going to tell you about a good deal happening on the DJI Osmo Pocket 3, which is down from the $500 itβs sold at most of the year to $378 at multiple retailers. But thereβs a better deal happening on a nearly identical portable camera, the Xtra Muse, which is $329 (roughly [β¦]