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Dbrand’s Steam Machine Companion Cube is canceled

Dbrand announced Monday that it’s refunding everyone who bought its Steam Machine Companion Cube, which it said it made “without a license from Valve.” Dbrand announced the Portal-themed Steam Machine accessory in November and took preorders for it last Monday. But a few days later, the product had disappeared from the company’s website and the […]

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Google Defends AI Training As Fair Use In Governance Paper via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern

Google’s AI governance paper argues public-web training should remain fair use while pointing to opt-out controls, takedowns, and paid deals for specialized content.

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Supreme Court allows firing of FTC commissioners, ends agency independence

The Supreme Court just placed once-independent agencies more firmly under presidential control. The court ruled in Slaughter v. Trump with a 6-3 vote that President Donald Trump had the authority to fire the Federal Trade Commission’s two Democratic commissioners, even though it broke with decades of prior legal precedent at the time. The justices have […]

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Rocket Lab is buying Iridium’s satellite network for $8 billion to take on SpaceX

Rocket Lab, the space company best known for its small satellite launcher Electron, has announced plans to acquire Iridium Communications for $8 billion. The deal will combine Rocket Lab’s launch services and spacecraft manufacturing with Iridium’s satellite-based communications network, putting it in a better position to challenge SpaceX. Iridium offers communications services to over 2.5 […]

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The Flipper Zero creators’ Busy Bar productivity display will go on sale next month

First announced over a year ago in April 2025, the Busy Bar will be available for purchase starting on July 14th when the device also starts shipping. Created by the same team behind the Flipper Zero wireless multitool, the Busy Bar is instead described as a “productivity multitool” that relies on a pixelated LED display […]

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Comcast is splitting in two

Comcast has announced plans to separate itself into two publicly traded companies, spinning off its NBCUniversal and Sky broadcasting arms. The shake up aims to protect the media conglomerate’s profitable broadband and wireless brand, which will retain the “Comcast” company name, as its media and entertainment business – now collectively named “NBCUniversal” – faces increasing […]

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Google: Meta Descriptions Not Required For SEO. But They’re Worthwhile. via @sejournal, @martinibuster

Google confirmed that meta descriptions are not a requirement, then explained why it’s not pointless to write them.

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China’s Z.ai claims it can match Mythos on cybersecurity

China’s Zhipu AI (Z.ai) released its open-weight GLM-5.2, and some researchers have claimed that it matches Mythos in certain bug-finding and cybersecurity scenarios. While GLM lags behind models from Anthropic and OpenAI in other, more general tasks, it seems that China has dramatically reduced the gap in the capabilities between its models and those of […]

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Suno launches Spark incubator program to feed independent artists to its AI machine

Suno has ambitions to be more than just a toy to churn out AI slop, it also wants to be a streaming destination and to break new artists. Spark is their new incubator program for independent artists that provides grants, mentorship, and marketing support. To apply, artists need to be an unsigned singer, songwriter, or […]

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China claims the world’s fastest supercomputer

Despite trade restrictions, China has reclaimed the title of the world’s fastest supercomputer for the first time since 2018. LineShine has pushed El Capitan out of number one on the TOP500 ranking. That’s despite strict limits on what high-powered computing components can be sold to China by US firms, which dominate the list, with America […]

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