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T-Mobile moving tens of thousands of virtual machines off VMware amid lawsuit (arstechnica.com)

2026-07-01 | tags: vmware, broadcom, t-mobile

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The AI Cold War Just Got Chillier (gizmodo.com)

2026-07-01 | tags: anthropic, chinese developers, ai models

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The cube was a lie: up close with our Dbrand Companion Cube before it gets destroyed (theverge.com)

2026-07-01 | by Sean Hollister | tags: dbrand, companion cube, steam machines

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Anthropic says Trump admin has lifted export controls on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 (cnbc.com)

2026-07-01 | by Ashley Capoot | tags: anthropic, claude fable 5, mythos 5

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The 2 Best Slushie Machines of 2026: Now With Soft Serve (wired.com)

2026-06-30 | by Matthew Korfhage | tags: ninja, chivalz, slushie machines

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Meituan open sources LongCat-2.0, the 1.6T, near-frontier agentic coding model that's been leading OpenRouter — trained entirely on Chinese chips (venturebeat.com)

2026-06-30 | tags: meituan, longcat-2.0, openrouter

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Apple may struggle to get clearance for Chinese RAM, even for Chinese iPhones (9to5mac.com)

2026-06-29 | by Ben Lovejoy | tags: apple, ymct, chinese memory chips

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VMware Workstation Pro 26H1 brings architectural upgrades and expanded OS support (techspot.com)

2026-06-29 | tags: vmware workstation, virtual machines, windows

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Company Pulls Delivery Robots From All College Campuses (futurism.com)

2026-06-28 | by Frank Landymore | tags: starship technologies, delivery robots, george mason university

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Apple asks Trump admin to approve Chinese RAM after product price increases (9to5mac.com)

2026-06-27 | by Zac Hall | tags: apple, cxmt, memory chips

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Alibaba sues the US government for adding it to list of firms linked to Chinese military (engadget.com)

2026-06-24 | by Mariella Moon | get Alibaba T-Shirt → | tags: alibaba, department of defense, chinese people's liberation army

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Lianda and the Long March (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-24 | tags: lianda, long march, chinese universities

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A <i>Streptomyces</i> megacluster encodes synergistic biotin-targeting antibiotics (feeds.nature.com)

2026-06-24 | by Gordzevich | tags: streptomyces, biotin-targeting antibiotics, genome mining

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The $400 million machine powering the future of chipmaking (technologyreview.com)

2026-06-23 | by Clive Thompson | get Intel NUC Mini PC → | tags: asml, tsmc, lithography machines

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Chinese Robot Maker Gears Up for Hong Kong IPO, Sources Say (feeds.content.dowjones.io)

2026-06-22 | get Robotics Kit for Kids → | tags: coowa, hong kong ipo, chinese robot

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I love Duolingo, but its XP Boosts are driving me mad (androidauthority.com)

2026-06-21 | get Duolingo Plus Subscription → | tags: duolingo, xp boosts, android authority

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Barret Zoph is out at OpenAI again after just five months (theverge.com)

2026-06-19 | by Hayden Field | get OpenAI Researcher T-Shirt → | tags: openai, barret zoph, thinking machines lab

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Mencius (2016) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-18 | tags: mencius, 2016, film

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Chinese Drivers Are Using Tiny Plastic Heads to Fool Tesla’s Autopilot Safeguards (wired.com)

2026-06-12 | by Zeyi Yang | get Tesla Autopilot Safety Kit → | tags: camera, chinese, driver

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Bots are the audience now and that changes everything for media (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-06-12 | get AI Audience Analytics Tool → | tags: bots, bots overtake, content just

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Nvidia preps to sell its Vera CPUs into China as its GPU sales stay frozen — customers encouraged to place orders for CPU shipments as early as August (tomshardware.com)

2026-06-12 | by Luke James | get Nvidia Vera CPU → | tags: chinese, cpus, nvidia

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House Robots Are Coming—and They Will Be Dangerously Cute (feeds.content.dowjones.io)

2026-06-11 | get Robot Dog Toy → | tags: adorable, adorable machines, advantage

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OpenAI bans China-linked ChatGPT accounts that amplified US data center electricity price backlash — used AI-generated cartoons to stoke fears over U.S. data center energy costs (tomshardware.com)

2026-06-11 | by Luke James | get AI-generated cartoon art → | tags: accounts, chatgpt, chinese

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OpenAI Adds Fuel to Republican Drive to Label Anti-Data Center Movement a Chinese Psy-Op (gizmodo.com)

2026-06-11 | get AI Content Moderation Tool → | tags: amplify, amplify existing, backed

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After spat with Chinese gov't, Meta cuts AI Manus off from its internal systems and is 'sunsetting' platform, report claims — Beijing-ordered breakup of $2 billion AI deal begins (tomshardware.com)

2026-06-11 | by Luke James | get Meta AI Development Kit → | tags: beijing, billion, chinese

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OpenAI says fake accounts from China tried to turn Americans against data centers (engadget.com)

2026-06-11 | by Mariella Moon | get AI Security Monitoring Kit → | tags: chatgpt, chinese, group

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The Last Evolution, by John W Campbell Jr. (1932) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-10 | tags: gutenberg, gutenberg tm, machine

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The Pentagon just blacklisted tech giant Alibaba and electric car maker BYD. Here’s why (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-06-09 | get Alibaba Cloud Computing Service → | tags: chinese, chinese companies, list

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Pentagon adds Alibaba and Baidu to list of firms linked to Chinese military (engadget.com)

2026-06-09 | by Mariella Moon | get Chinese Tech Defense Book → | tags: chinese, list, taiwan

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Reminder: macOS 27 won't work on Intel Macs (engadget.com)

2026-06-08 | by Anna Washenko | get MacOS Ventura Upgrade Kit → | tags: apple, intel, intel machines