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Date: 2026-06-05
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More than a decade later, the team behind N++ is back with a multiplayer sequel

Back in 2015, the two-person studio Metanet released N++ , a brutally hard 2D platformer that was a decade in the making, building off of previous releases dating back to the freeware Flash title N . At the time, cofounder Raigan Burns issued some famous last words : “We hope it’s not another 10 years before we come up with a game.” But now here we are,…

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Anthropic warns Claude AI is building itself faster than expected, calls for option to halt frontier development - 'recursive self improvement' increases risk humans lose control of AI | Tom's Hardware

Anthropic has published a report warning that the development path it’s on could eventually leave humans unable to control AI systems, even as it disclosed that Claude now writes more than 80% of the code merged into its own codebase. The Anthropic Institute, the company's research arm, said AI has already started to speed up AI development and that the…

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How a USB-connected speaker can infect a PC without ever being touched

After successfully replacing the firmware with a replacement image that did nothing more than display the word “patched” on the speaker’s LED display, the researcher got to wondering what else a hacker might do. So he turned his attention to FreeRTOS, the open source operating system that ran the Katana V2X.

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Thousand Token Wood: shipping a multi-agent economy on a 3B model

Thousand Token Wood: shipping a multi-agent economy on a 3B model A Build Small Hackathon field report on what a 3-billion-parameter council of traders can and cannot do. Try it first: the Space , and the open agent traces .

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Congress still can’t decide what to do about warrantless surveillance

The deadline to reauthorize Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act is coming up a week from now on June 12th, and legislators seem no closer to reaching a deal. If this sounds like deja vu, it’s because we’ve been here before.

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Gone in 60 minutes

It should have been the final straw. The new power couple of editorial failure — Bari Weiss and Nick Bilton — had fired legendary 60 Minutes journalist Scott Pelley.

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How to Stop Shipping Low-Quality RL Environments (with Examples)

We’re so excited to publish this guest post from Auriel W, who has worked on RL at Gemini, and has an incredible “ RL Pet Peeves ” blog where she not-so-subtly explains the frustrations big labs have with RL vendors: 1) not reading trajectories , 2) not having domain experts , 3) not making economic tradeoffs , 4) triggering eval awareness , and this one,…

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Google will pay SpaceX $920M per month for compute

SpaceX has lined up another compute deal ahead of its historic IPO, this time with Google. The company announced the deal in a regulatory filing on Friday .

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Microsoft and OpenAI broke up - now they’re ready to fight

At Microsoft’s annual Build conference on Tuesday, the company announced a slew of new or expanded AI initiatives, including a super app, in-house reasoning models, a cybersecurity tool, and OpenClaw-esque AI agents. All this news added up to a clear message: Microsoft is positioned to be one of the biggest players in AI, and it’s finally acting like it.

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The 'together tech' wave might be the most intriguing startup bet of 2026

While the AI fundraising machine keeps breaking its own records , some founders are building in the other direction. Mirror founder Brynn Putnam just raised money for Board , a startup focused on bringing people together through in-person games and social experiences.

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The most interesting startups right now want to get you off your phone

While the AI fundraising machine keeps breaking its own records , some founders are building in the other direction. Mirror founder Brynn Putnam just raised money for Board , a startup focused on bringing people together through in-person games and social experiences.

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Nvidia’s plan to reinvent laptops with AI chips

We’re now deep into developer conference season, and one of the themes so far is the relentless conviction from Big Tech companies that AI is going to change everything about how we do everything. Nvidia’s Jensen Huang made that clearer than anyone this week, when he described a completely new way of using our laptops — and a completely new kind of laptop…

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The Sonos Era 100 speaker is down to its lowest price in months

Whether you’re considering starting a Sonos speaker setup, or adding to an existing group, the Sonos Era 100 is worth picking up. The compact, capable smart speaker is currently marked down to $189 ($30 off) at a variety of retailers, including Amazon , Best Buy , and directly from Sonos .

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What happens when CBP confiscates your phone at the airport

Even if you’ve done nothing wrong, it’s never a good idea to hand your phone to the cops . But international travelers at American airports often have no choice — even if they’re US citizens.

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New York lawmakers pass one-year ban on new data centers

The New York State legislature passed a one-year moratorium on new large data centers, the first statewide ban of its kind if Democratic Governor Kathy Hochul signs it into law. Lawmakers behind the bill say it’s meant to give policymakers time to understand the impact of large data centers on the environment and energy prices.

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Can AI tell if your script will make a hit film?

When Quilty hit the industry trades earlier this year, the AI startup promised that its tool could accurately predict a film’s success just by reading the script. When people actually got a chance to experiment with Quilty’s product, though, they were left skeptical.

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