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Date: 2026-07-06
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Hoto’s PixelDrive screwdriver is down to $60, matching its best price

If your Prime Day purchases included a new desk, TV stand, bookshelf, or other furniture you still haven’t assembled, Hoto’s PixelDrive cordless screwdriver can help speed up the process. It’s currently on sale for $59.99 ($20 off) at Amazon , matching its best price to date.

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NHS accelerates artificial intelligence rollout to cut waiting times and improve care for millions

A major rollout of new artificial intelligence (AI) tools across the NHS is being accelerated to help cut waiting lists and improve care for millions of patients. A new AI triage tool in the NHS App that helps direct patients to the most appropriate NHS service, as well as widespread access to AI notetaking tools to reduce admin for NHS staff, are among…

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You can now customize Siri's pace and expressivity in the latest iOS 27 beta

With the latest iOS 27 developer beta, Apple is giving testers an early look at one of the upcoming improvements to its AI-powered Siri : the ability to adjust how quickly and expressively the AI assistant speaks. In iOS 27 beta 3, out today, Apple has enabled the voice controls for “Pace” and “Expressivity” that were previously labeled as “Coming soon” in…

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Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch on the fight to split off models from agents

Known for its cloud infrastructure that allows developers to deploy agents without managing servers, Vercel has quietly become one of the most central companies in AI software. The company currently sees 6 million deployments a day, half of them triggered by coding agents, and more than 1 trillion tokens flow through the company’s AI gateway daily.

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Reddit is using LLMs to solve a problem LLMs largely created

It’s easier than ever for bad actors to spew spam across the internet as powerful large language models (LLMs) become effortlessly accessible. If you’ve spent about 10 minutes on the internet in the last few years, you will know that this means spam and bot content have become an even bigger problem than they already were.

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Every major tech layoff in 2026 that has name-checked AI

Microsoft said Monday that it has eliminated about 4,800 roles, or 2.1% of its global workforce, adding to the string of AI-related layoffs hitting the tech world. The company said the roles being cut are “not being replaced by AI,” but acknowledged that “ AI is changing how work gets done ” and automating many everyday tasks.

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Five questions for Dr. Rubin, who’s armed with a mic and a bowtie

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.

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If you use Google, you're training its AI. Here's how to opt out.

Consider this a belated PSA: A recent change to Google’s privacy settings is allowing the company to store more of your data, including media such as “images, files, and audio and video recordings,” to improve its AI models. In other words, if you upload any media to Google’s Search services, it’s being used to train AI unless you opt out.

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I spy | The Verge

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.

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Former Xbox studios Double Fine and Compulsion will keep games after going indie

When Compulsion Games was founded in 2009 as an independent studio, we were just a few dreamers in a leaky old gramophone factory devoted to creating rich storylines and experiences that felt handcrafted. We care about the craft of making games, the stories we tell, the players who experience them, and the assembled creators who put their heart and soul…

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The DJI Osmo Pocket 3 lookalike is down to $329

Initially, I was going to tell you about a good deal happening on the DJI Osmo Pocket 3, which is down from the $500 it’s sold at most of the year to $378 at multiple retailers. But there’s a better deal happening on a nearly identical portable camera, the Xtra Muse , which is $329 (roughly $100 off what it sold for three months ago).

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Microsoft lays off nearly 5,000 employees across Xbox, commercial sales

Microsoft cut around 4,800 roles, or 2.1% of its global workforce, on Monday — the latest in a series of layoffs that’s stoking fears that AI will replace people at companies. The layoffs will hit Xbox and commercial sales the hardest, with Xbox losing 1,600 staffers today, according to memos shared with Microsoft’s staff.

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PRX Part 4: Our Data Strategy

PRX Part 4: Our Data Strategy Welcome back! This is Part 4 of the PRX series.

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What is Partiful selling?

One hundred dollars will buy you 8 pounds of glitter; 10 Domino’s pizzas; 406 miniature disco balls from Temu; or 100 cans of Coors Light. For a friend’s birthday party one year, Ayla D’Silva spent $100 on sour candy and made a “sour candy salad.” Even sweeter was that she didn’t have to foot the bill — the money came from Partiful.

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Nintendo will stop selling the original Switch in Europe next year

Nintendo is making a new version of the Switch 2 with a replaceable battery in Europe — but its predecessor has a very different future. As part of an updated FAQ about revisions to Nintendo hardware in Europe, the company confirmed that it will stop selling all iterations of the original Switch on the continent starting next year.

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UTA heads Raina Penchansky, Ali Berman on creators, influencers, and AI

We’ve got another special episode of Decoder today, recorded at the Cannes Lions advertising festival in the South of France. I’m talking with Ali Berman and Raina Penchansky, who run the Creators division at United Talent Agency.

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Station F ramps up as a launchpad for Europe’s hottest AI startups

Station F , a Paris-based startup hub founded by French billionaire Xavier Niel, is gearing up for a new edition of its F/ai accelerator program in a bid to strengthen its positioning as a stepping stone for promising AI startups. Launched in January of this year , F/ai’s planning to kick-start its second batch this September, aiming to help a handful of…

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Microsoft is laying off 4,800 employees

A year after cutting around 9,100 employees , Microsoft is making further layoffs today as it begins its new financial year. The software maker is laying off around 4,800 employees today, approximately 2.1 percent of its workforce.

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LeRobot v0.6.0: Imagine, Evaluate, Improve

LeRobot v0.6.0: Imagine, Evaluate, Improve This new release is about closing the robot learning loop: policies that imagine the future before acting, reward models that tell you when your robot succeeds, a deployment CLI that turns failures into training data, and six new simulation benchmarks to measure it all. It also brings depth sensing, VLM-powered…

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🤗 Kernels: Major Updates

🤗 Kernels: Major Updates In our previous post (From Zero to GPU) , we introduced the 🤗 Kernels project, which aims at standardizing how custom kernels are packaged, distributed, and consumed. We want the project to be frictionless and secure, while making it as Hub-friendly as possible.

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