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Apple stockpiles inventory as it braces for ‘significant supply constraints’

Apple is worried enough about supply shortages that it reported about $11.1 billion in inventory, which is almost double the $5.7 billion it reported last September.

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AI hedge fund Situational Awareness may have sold its public portfolio, but it still has its Anthropic shares

The former OpenAI researcher’s fund was forced to unwind public equities after leveraged public bets plummeted. But he...

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The AI Aesthetic

Article URL: https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/ai-aesthetic/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4911709...

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How the FCC’s New Rule Will Affect Robot Vacuums

A new restriction on foreign-made mobile robots affects robotic vacuums, pool cleaners, and lawn mowers. Here’s what i...

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Reddit reports a solid quarter but shows signs of AI’s impact

Reddit's financial situation is looking good but uncertainty about its relationship to Google and the new AI-ified web a...

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Investigating three real-world incidents in our cybersecurity evaluations

Article URL: https://www.anthropic.com/news/investigating-incidents-cybersecurity-evals Comments URL: https://news.ycom...

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Investors love AI, as long as you’re a cloud host

Amazon isn't slowing down on data center spending — but investors don't seem to mind.

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Apple says gaming slowdown and App Store changes hurt services growth

Apple said a slowdown in mobile gaming and changes to the App Store’s business model — including court-ordered payme...

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I flagged two research papers for fake authors and both were accepted as orals

Article URL: https://geospatialml.com/posts/reviewing-ai-slop/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49116...

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Tim Cook hints at iCloud Plus tier for AI power users

Apple may allow users to pay to increase their AI usage limits. During an earnings call on Thursday, Apple CEO Tim Cook ...

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Xbox CEO lays out priorities in memo after major ‘reset’

After a massive Xbox "reset" that laid off thousands of employees and spun off four studios, Xbox CEO Asha Sharma wants ...

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Tim Cook passes the baton in Apple's Q3 2026 earnings call

The iPhone and Mac sold well, but memory costs threaten further price increases. ...

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Rune 1.1: adds Python, an Emacs editor, a symbol index and is now free

Article URL: https://rune.build/blog/rune-1-1-release Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49116272 Point...

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Saber-toothed cats became inbred–and struggled to move–before they went extinct

Article URL: https://www.science.org/content/article/saber-toothed-cats-became-inbred-and-struggled-move-they-went-exti...

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A Leaked Memo Ties Cyberattacks on Minnesota Water Utilities to Iran

A memo obtained by WIRED, issued by the water utilities information sharing group WaterISAC, links dozens of cyberattack...

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Max-severity Exchange server flaw under active exploitation by Kremlin hackers

Exploits can give persistent server access that survives credential rotation and disk re-imagin...

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Apple’s iPhone and Mac sales keep growing despite RAM shortages

Apple's iPhone and Mac sales are on the rise even as a global memory shortage squeezes device makers. In its third-quart...

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Trump FCC faces blowback in attempt to police speech on broadcast TV

"Chilling message to all broadcasters: carry speech we don’t like at your peril." ...

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The loss of Situational Awareness

I am not by any means an expert at finance but I think I do now have some advice for people who are: Do not name your he...

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Iran struck Amazon data centers again amid widening war, satellites show

Satellites show burn scars and fires at AWS data centers and Saudi oil refinery. ...

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Man seeks millions after being shot by police in game-related swatting incident

Article URL: https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/072926_melendez_swatting/man-seeks-millions-after-being-shot-b...

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Judge says Trump admin still lacks evidence for Anthropic ‘supply chain risk’ label

A federal judge said the Trump administration has not presented enough evidence to justify labeling Anthropic a supply c...

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CareCloud begins to notify hundreds of thousands after hackers stole medical records

The health tech data giant, which handles vast amounts of patients' medical data, said hackers struck one of its protect...

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Everyone Is Freaking Out About OpenAI and Anthropic’s Race for Dominance

Researchers fear AI is moving too fast, while Mark Zuckerberg is worried about who owns it. Plus: Inside Black Forest La...

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Just because a game is on disc doesn’t mean it will work in the future

DoesItPlay tracks the many "physical" games that don't work without the Internet. ...

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Friend, the lonely AI wearable, returns with a new voice and a much bigger price tag

Friend, the AI wearable, can now talk to its users — for an enhanced price.

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Agent Skill to Force Docs in ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English

Article URL: https://github.com/AminBlg/SimpleEnglish Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49114639 Point...

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Chrome may get faster updates with no restart required

The last two versions of Chrome have included more patches than the previous 23 combined. ...

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Samsung’s Galaxy Watch 9 is $40 off at Costco and comes with over $50 in freebies

The Galaxy Watch 9 launches on August 7th, and not only does Costco have the best preorder incentives we’ve seen so fa...

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Google says it fixed more Chrome bugs in June than over the past two years, thanks to AI

As experts have warned for the last two years, some companies — like Microsoft and now Google — are finding and patc...