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Anthropic files for IPO, joining OpenAI and SpaceX in the race to go public

Julio Franco — Mon, 1 Jun 2026 17:44 -0500

Anthropic has officially started the process of going public, confidentially submitting a draft registration statement to the US Securities and Exchange Commission for a proposed IPO. The company did not disclose how many shares it plans to sell or at what price, and said the offering will depend on market...

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elementary OS 8.1 focuses on polish, security, and a smoother Linux desktop

Ivan Franco — Mon, 1 Jun 2026 17:18 -0500

elementary OS is a polished Linux distribution built on Ubuntu LTS that emphasizes thoughtful design, simplicity, and a distraction-free desktop experience. Version 8.1 makes the Wayland-based Secure Session the default, improving security, touchpad gestures, and display handling. The update also introduces multitasking enhancements, refinements to the software store, improved hardware compatibility, and more.

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Lenovo's Legion Go S handheld gets a steep discount to $549

Ivan Franco — Mon, 1 Jun 2026 16:49 -0500

The Lenovo Legion Go S is currently available for $549, down from its original $729 launch price, making this Windows gaming handheld more competitive against the likes of the Steam Deck and ROG Ally. The Legion Go S combines an 8" 120Hz display with Ryzen Z hardware.

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Asus unveils 3,000W PSU that can power up to four GeForce RTX 5090 GPUs

Alfonso Maruccia — Mon, 1 Jun 2026 15:02 -0500

The ROG Thor 3,000W Titanium III Edition 20 is part of this year's celebration of the Republic of Gamers brand, which Asus has used for gaming-focused peripherals and hardware since 2006. The ROG lineup tends to favor a bombastic, show-off style in its product design and marketing, and the newly...

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Meta's AI training effort is capturing employee emails and browsing history, not just mouse clicks

Skye Jacobs — Mon, 1 Jun 2026 14:20 -0500

Internal documents reviewed by Reuters show that the company's Model Capability Initiative (MCI) is collecting interaction data across more than 200 apps and websites. The goal is to train AI systems to perform routine digital tasks autonomously. But exactly what the tool is collecting – and how far that collection...

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Intel Crescent Island data center GPU supports up to 480GB LPDDR5X with 350W air-cooled TDP

Kishalaya Kundu — Mon, 1 Jun 2026 13:06 -0500

At Computex 2026, Intel shared more details about its Crescent Island GPU architecture, noting that it is designed specifically for agentic AI workloads. While conventional AI accelerators from Nvidia and AMD rely on expensive high-bandwidth memory, Intel's new chip uses consumer-oriented LPDDR5X DRAM and is designed to run in air-cooled...

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Zig project leader says AI-generated code contributions are "invariably garbage" and will be rejected

Alfonso Maruccia — Mon, 1 Jun 2026 12:19 -0500

Andrew Kelley designed the Zig programming language in 2016 and still presides over the non-profit organization responsible for managing the project. In a recent interview on the developer-focused JetBrains podcast, Kelley said AI-based contributions have no value and will be discarded.

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Dell's new XPS 13 starts at $599 and is gunning directly for the MacBook Neo

Skye Jacobs — Mon, 1 Jun 2026 11:37 -0500

The company is launching the laptop at a promotional price of $599 for students as part of a back-to-school offer that runs through September. After that, the starting price will increase to $699. That places it in direct competition with Apple's MacBook Neo, which has already helped define the budget...

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A top economist says there's "zero evidence" AI is killing jobs, despite thousands of actual layoffs

Rob Thubron — Mon, 1 Jun 2026 10:55 -0500

Writing in a post last week titled "Zero Evidence of AI-Related Job Losses," Sløk points to ADP employment data to support his conclusion. The report found that private companies added almost 110,000 people to their payrolls in April.

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This solar-powered desalination device turns seawater into drinking water, can also extract lithium

Skye Jacobs — Mon, 1 Jun 2026 10:16 -0500

The work, led by Chunlei Guo, a professor of optics and physics, centers on a specially treated surface known as superwicking black metal. The material is created by texturing a metal surface with femtosecond laser pulses, altering its structure at microscopic scales. This process gives the surface two key properties:...

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Microsoft unveils Surface Laptop Ultra with Nvidia RTX Spark chip and up to 128GB of RAM

Kishalaya Kundu — Mon, 1 Jun 2026 09:34 -0500

The Surface Laptop Ultra features a standard design, without the more experimental elements seen in earlier Surface devices. That means it does not include a removable display like the Surface Book series, nor an adjustable screen that can be moved forward or backward, as seen in the Surface Laptop Studio.

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Engineer builds AI laser defense system that wiped out every mosquito in his home

Skye Jacobs — Mon, 1 Jun 2026 08:42 -0500

The foundation of the system is its visual model, which Cheng trained on a custom mosquito dataset. To do that, he relied on a DSLR camera with a high-magnification zoom lens, capturing detailed images of mosquitoes for training data. That same camera setup serves as both the training tool and...

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MSI's latest gaming PC ships with LuckyClaw agent and a holographic companion

Rob Thubron — Mon, 1 Jun 2026 08:11 -0500

MSI writes that its PC introduces the company's own agentic AI companion, LuckyClaw, which will be available from the machine's initial setup. According to the press release, it responds to natural speech commands, enabling seamless, hands-free control of performance profiles, MSI monitor settings, RGB lighting, and more. There's also the...

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United flight turns around after passenger's Bluetooth speaker name triggers security scare

Skye Jacobs — Mon, 1 Jun 2026 07:39 -0500

Flight 236 left Newark Liberty International Airport on Saturday night en route to Palma de Mallorca but reversed course about an hour after takeoff.

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DLSS 4.5 Ray Reconstruction arrives this August to make ray tracing look cleaner and more stable

Rob Thubron — Mon, 1 Jun 2026 06:51 -0500

Ray Reconstruction is designed to replace the hand-tuned denoisers traditionally used in ray-traced and path-traced games.

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Mathematicians used Minecraft mobs to calculate Pi without writing a single line of code

Skye Jacobs — Mon, 1 Jun 2026 06:01 -0500

Molly Lynch of Hollins University and Michael Weselcouch of Roanoke College approached the problem less like programmers and more like experimentalists. Instead of recreating a traditional algorithm inside Minecraft – a process that typically involves building elaborate in-game logic systems – they leaned on probability and the game's existing mechanics...

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AMD at Computex: Ryzen 7 5800X3D revival, 7700X3D launch, Radeon 9070 GRE goes global, AM5 support through 2029

Rob Thubron — Mon, 1 Jun 2026 04:25 -0500

In Taiwan a few hours ago, Team Red revealed the return of the Ryzen 7 5800X3D for AM4 users, a cheaper Ryzen 7 7700X3D for AM5, and the global launch of the Radeon RX 9070 GRE.

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Nvidia RTX Spark CPU is now official: "superchip" will power Windows laptops and desktops

Ryan Shrout — Mon, 1 Jun 2026 00:45 -0500

Ryan Shrout is a longtime technology analyst and industry veteran who has spent over two decades covering PC hardware, graphics, and semiconductors. He previously led technical marketing at Intel and was the founding editor of PC Perspective. He is currently President and GM at Signal65. You can follow him on...

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Moore's law is hitting a wall, so researchers are stacking silicon chip layers instead of shrinking them

Skye Jacobs — Sun, 31 May 2026 12:20 -0500

At the Grainger College of Engineering, materials science and engineering professor Qing Cao and his team have built working silicon circuits by stacking active layers directly on top of each other. Instead of adding more devices side by side, they are moving into the third dimension and building stacked layers...

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A Trump-linked startup is sending humanoid robots to the Ukraine battlefield

Rob Thubron — Sun, 31 May 2026 11:39 -0500

Foundation Future Industries, a startup founded in 2024 in San Francisco, has a goal shared by many similar robotics firms: to create machines that can take on those challenging, dangerous roles performed by humans.

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MIT researchers found a way to get lithium out of hard rock without the massive energy bill

Skye Jacobs — Sun, 31 May 2026 10:16 -0500

For now, lithium-ion batteries continue to dominate for a simple reason – scale. The global lithium supply chain is already well-developed and highly efficient, making it difficult for alternatives to compete on cost.

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California passes bill requiring gun-blocking software in 3D printers

Rob Thubron — Sun, 31 May 2026 07:22 -0500

The bill would require consumer 3D printers sold in California to include "firearm blocking technology" that checks design files before a print job can begin.

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Fake downloads of popular PC utilities are quietly installing crypto miners on enthusiast PCs

Daniel Sims — Sun, 31 May 2026 07:22 -0500

The Windows Defender security team is alerting users with dedicated GPUs about scammers manipulating search engine results to distribute remote monitoring and cryptomining payloads. The hackers are manipulating not only search engine results but also AI chatbot responses.

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Nvidia's first consumer CPU in over a decade is coming – and it has RTX cores built in

Daniel Sims — Sun, 31 May 2026 05:35 -0500

Update (Jun 1): Nvidia RTX Spark CPU is now official: "superchip" will power Windows laptops and desktops. Read the full story here or watch the keynote above (RTX Spark and PC section starts at around 1 hour 20mins in).

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A Java library just tried to trick AI coding agents into deleting your tests, and it almost worked

Skye Jacobs — Sat, 30 May 2026 12:18 -0500

The latest flare-up in the debate over AI-assisted coding did not come from a new model release or a benchmark result. It came from a single line of text buried inside a software update.

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Sandisk is launching new SATA SSDs in 2026 because NVMe prices are out of control

Rob Thubron — Sat, 30 May 2026 10:42 -0500

Spotted by hardware leaker momomo_us on Amazon UK, both drives use the familiar 2.5-inch, 7mm-thick format, making them suitable for a wider range of PCs and laptops. The Sandisk 320 is the mainstream model, with capacities from 250GB to 2TB and sequential speeds of up to 545 MB/s read and...

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Someone got 26 years of Windows running on a classic IBM ThinkPad T43 without a virtual machine

Rob Thubron — Sat, 30 May 2026 08:17 -0500

Redditor MatiHalek posted the results of the experiment to r/Windows, showing 26 years of Microsoft's operating systems running on the same bare-metal laptop. The gallery includes screenshots of the classic System Properties/About screens, taking viewers from the old NT era through to one of the final Windows 10 releases.

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Dell Alienware AW2726DM Review: QD-OLED Gaming for $350

Tim Schiesser — Sat, 30 May 2026 07:26 -0500

The Dell Alienware AW2726DM makes OLED gaming more accessible than ever with its aggressive $350 price point, while still delivering excellent motion clarity, deep contrast, and 240Hz refresh rates.

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Are you actually using AI on your PC?

Julio Franco — Fri, 29 May 2026 17:28 -0500

AI is everywhere now, or at least that is what the industry keeps telling us. It is in browsers, search engines, image editors, office suites, developer tools, Windows, phones, and soon enough, probably your toaster. But there is a difference between AI being available and AI becoming part of your...

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Europe fines Temu $232 million over illegal and unsafe product listings

Alfonso Maruccia — Fri, 29 May 2026 14:40 -0500

The European Commission has announced its second fine ever against an international company for violating the Digital Services Act. Temu, the controversial Chinese online marketplace for low-cost products, was found to have played a role in the sale of illegal goods that could have harmed consumers in the European Union.

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