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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: GamesIndustry.biz, The Verge, Tom's Guide, Gematsu, Push Square, KitGuru, Gameranx, The Shortcut, IGN, Wccftech, Android Authority, TheGamer, Neowin, Notebookcheck, Dexerto, Press Start, Comic Book, Screen Rant, GamingBolt, Video Games Chronicle, Oh No They Didn't!, Digital Trends, and CNET
Forums: r/PS5, r/hardware, r/gaming, r/kindafunny, r/technology, and r/playstation
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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: 9to5Mac, Cult of Mac, MacRumors, TechCrunch, PhoneArena, Digital Trends, MacRumors, Supercharged, How-To Geek, Patently Apple, AppleInsider, Philip Elmer‑DeWitt, 9to5Mac, and MacRumors
Threads: @markgurman, @richardlawler, @film_girl, @anildash, @markgurman, and @markgurman
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X: @markgurman, @markgurman, @scobleizer, @markgurman, @stevesi, @stevesi, @vadimyuryev, @munster_gene, and @theapplehub
Forums: r/apple and MacRumors Forums
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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.| 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, 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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Sources: Cantor Fitzgerald plans a $2B+ program to lend USD to clients who put up bitcoin as collateral and is talking with Tether about supporting the program — - Lutnick set to be next commerce secretary under Trump — Howard Lutnick is moving to strengthen his alliance …
More: crypto.news, Cryptopolitan, Decrypt, CryptoSlate, Benzinga, Reuters, DL News, CryptoGlobe, and Coinpedia Fintech News
| 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
Bluesky: @netmojo.ca. X: @gilduran76. 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.| 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 … | 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 … | 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, Wall Street Pit, and Yahoo Finance
| Aya Wagatsuma / Bloomberg: |
Shares of Japan's Fujikura, which specializes in fiber optic cables for data centers, are up 400%+ in 2024 due to the AI boom, leading the Nikkei 225 index — - Fujikura has benefited from surging demand for data centers — The global boom in AI has turned an obscure 139-year-old Japanese company into a stock-market star.| Reporters Without Borders: |
Investigation: how hack-for-hire Appin tried silencing 15+ outlets since 2022 over articles, newsletters, and podcasts covering Appin's “ethical hacking” — Whether based in the US, Switzerland, France or India, any media outlet investigating the “ethical hacking” of Appin … Sponsor Posts
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