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Sources: Sony is in the early stages of developing a portable console to play PS5 games, building on the PlayStation Portal, although its launch is years away — - Nintendo's Switch has dominated mobile console space for years — Rival Microsoft is also developing portable gaming prototypes
More: TechSpot, GamesIndustry.biz, The Verge, Metro.co.uk, Tom's Guide, Gematsu, Pure Xbox, WinBuzzer, Push Square, KitGuru, Gameranx, The Shortcut, Eurogamer.net, Wccftech, IGN, TheGamer, Neowin, Press Start, Comic Book, Dexerto, Screen Rant, Android Authority, GamingBolt, Notebookcheck, Oh No They Didn't!, Video Games Chronicle, Digital Trends, and CNET
Forums: r/PS5, r/hardware, r/gaming, r/kindafunny, r/technology, and r/playstation
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Thoughts on Apple TV's history and future; sources: Apple postponed a larger-than-usual number of iOS 19 features to spring 2026, when iOS 19.4 is set to debut — Apple doesn't need its own TV set. But it should make a low-cost TV streaming stick to bring its content, apps and smart home features to more households.
More: TechRadar, BGR, 9to5Mac, Cult of Mac, TechCrunch, MacRumors, PhoneArena, Digital Trends, MacRumors, Supercharged, How-To Geek, Patently Apple, AppleInsider, Philip Elmer‑DeWitt, 9to5Mac, and MacRumors
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X: @markgurman, @markgurman, @scobleizer, @markgurman, @stevesi, @stevesi, @vadimyuryev, @munster_gene, and @theapplehub
Forums: r/apple and MacRumors Forums
| New York Times: |
Sources: Intel, the biggest recipient of CHIPS Act money, will see its funding drop to less than $8B from the $8.5B that the US announced earlier in 2024 — The Biden administration is reducing its award to the pioneering chip maker to less than $8 billion, from $8.5 billion.
More: Politico, Benzinga, Oregonian, The Indian Express, The Straits Times, Mobile World Live, and Political Wire. Forums: r/hardware
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: in the past year, Cantor Fitzgerald agreed to invest as much as $600M in Tether for a ~5% stake; Cantor holds most of Tether's $134B in assets — Before becoming Trump's commerce secretary pick, Lutnick deepened Cantor's ties with a stablecoin firm under investigation
More: CoinDesk, Inside Bitcoins, Coinspeaker, Bitcoin Insider, Coinpedia Fintech News, The Information, Cryptopolitan, Cryptonews, crypto.news, Yahoo Finance, Crypto Briefing, and Cointelegraph
X: @silvermanjacob, @ccatalini, @ccatalini, @waynevaughan, @ryanrodenbaugh, @ccatalini, and @ccatalini. LinkedIn: Ben Foldy
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| Sarah Kessler / New York Times: |
US coding boot camp graduates are facing a tough job market due to AI coding tools and mass layoffs; CompTIA: developer job listings are down 56% since 2019 — Coding boot camps once looked like the golden ticket to an economically secure future. But as that promise fades, what should you do?| Gary Marcus / Marcus on AI: |
A skeptical look at the new AI scaling “laws”, including post-train duration and “inference time compute”, and why they may fail to predict AI model performance — Scaling laws ain't what they used to be — “If anything we are seeing the emergence of a new scaling law … | Brendan Greeley / Financial Times: |
A bitcoin strategic reserve is a resilience strategy for the “hodlers”, not the US state, as a bet on bitcoin is bullish on permanent institutional collapse — It is a resilience strategy for the ‘hodlers’, not the US state — In July, Cynthia Lummis, a US senator from Wyoming …
More: Bitcoin Insider, crypto.news, Cryptopolitan, and The Hill
Forums: r/politics, r/Foodforthought, r/TrueReddit, and r/economy
| Washington Post: |
Sources: Marc Andreessen, Travis Kalanick, and more are involved in the Department of Government Efficiency; Andreessen is acting as a networker for recruitment — The Tesla executive and the former presidential candidate are meeting with staff and interviewing experts as they plan for massive federal cuts.| Asa Fitch / Wall Street Journal: |
A look at the rise of super clusters that use ~100K Nvidia GPUs for training giant AI models and the new engineering challenges arising from such clusters — Musk's xAI and Meta are among firms building clusters of advanced chips — Tech titans have a new way to measure who is winning …
More: Forbes and Wall Street Pit
| Eri Sugiura / Financial Times: |
Airbnb plans to let tenants in nearly 1,500 flats owned by Greystar in London to sublet homes on a part-time basis, expanding on a 2022 Greystar partnership — Concept aims to counter criticism that the platform contributes to housing crises in big tourist destinations
More: Reuters and The Indian Express
| Carolyn Cohn / Reuters: |
Insurance broker Howden: cyberattacks have cost UK businesses ~£44B in the past five years and 52% of private sector companies have reported at least one attack — Cyberattacks have cost British businesses around 44 billion pounds ($55.08 billion) in lost revenue in the past five years …
More: Notebookcheck
| Robert Triggs / Android Authority: |
A look at the shortcomings of Google's Tensor SoC for Pixel devices, with four generations failing to impress in key performance and power efficiency metrics — Would future Pixels be better of returning to Snapdragon? — • — Thanks to an unprecedented leak from Google's gchips division … Sponsor Posts
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