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 Xbox update finally lets you buy games through the mobile app, while "Stream Your Own Game" comes to console

The Xbox mobile app will soon let players buy games and subscribe to Xbox Game Pass, while the "Stream Your Own Game" featureis coming to Xbox consoles.

https://www.windowscentral.com/gaming/xbox/xbox-mobile-app-buy-games-stream-your-own-game-xbox-consoles

 Microsoft doesn't want to support ChatGPT training anymore — but OpenAI isn't "compute-constrained," according to Sam Altman

Microsoft is slowing its role in its multi-billion dollar partnership with OpenAI, and has reportedly pulled out of two big data center deals that would have provided additional support for ChatGPT's training.

https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/microsoft-doesnt-want-to-support-chatgpt-training-anymore

 New PCIe adapters turn your x16 slot into a clown car of GPU and SSD connectivity

HighPoint’s new PCIe Gen 5 and Gen 4 adapters bring modular, high-bandwidth expansion to workstations and servers, ideal for AI, storage-heavy tasks, and GPU-dense configurations.

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/storage/new-pcie-adapters-turn-your-x16-slot-into-a-clown-car-of-gpu-and-ssd-connectivity

Panasonic S1R II review: An excellent hybrid camera that’s cheaper than rivals

With the A1, Sony was the first to introduce a high-resolution hybrid camera that was equally adept at stills and video — but boy was it expensive. Nikon and Canon followed that template with the R5 II an

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OpenAI's new o3 and o4-mini models are all about 'thinking with images'

A mere two days after announcing GPT-4.1, OpenAI is releasing not one but two new models. The company today announced the public availability of o3 and o4-mini. Of the former, OpenAI says o3 is its most advanced reasoning model yet, with it showing "strong performance" in coding, math

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X may soon replace DMs with its upcoming chat platform

X DMs may soon be kaput. On Tuesday, a company software engineer posted on the platform that "the whole entire DM's will be gone soon." But the former Twitter isn't getting rid of messaging; the company is said to be replacing it with a full-fledged chatting system called XChat.

X Software Engineer Zach Warunek replied to another use

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Cronos: The New Dawn seems to smush Dead Space and Control together (in a good way)

Bloober Team has provided a first proper look at gameplay for its latest project,

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Xbox users can now stream games they own on their consoles

Microsoft just announced that Xbox Series X/S and Xbox One owners can now stream select games they own directly from the console. This feature is exclusive to Game Pass Ultimate members.

What’s the point of this? It’s intended to save both time and hard drive space. Gamers can jump right in immediately, without having to download and

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Zuckerberg once floated spinning off Instagram over antitrust fears, email reveals in trial

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg once considered separating Instagram from its parent company due to worries about antitrust litigation, according to an email shown Tuesday on the second day of an antitrust trial alleging Meta illegally monopolized the social media market.

In the 2018 email, Zuckerberg wro

Super Charging Development with DocBlock

At its core, PHP provides many ways to make your code extremely easy to write and maintain, but it also provides many ways to shoot yourself in the foot. Over the 7.x and 8.x releases, the core developers have added features like return types and parameter types that make it easy for our IDEs and […]

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Engineering teams need to adapt to AI’s scaling challenges

AI is not a linear process. To scale effectively, engineering leaders must account for varied edge cases, presenting a new set of challenges. https://stackoverflow.blog/2025/04/16/engineering-teams-need-to-adapt-to-ai-scaling-challenges/

Tariffs Explained: Trump's Import Plans Are Always Changing, Here's What It All Means

Trump's raft of tariff plans has been dubbed "worse than the worst-case scenario," and markets have ricocheted up and down as the specifics have been altered. https://www.cnet.com/personal-finance/tariffs-explained-trumps-import-plans-are-always-changing-heres-what-it-all-means/#ftag=CADf328eec

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How to Watch Fortnite's Big Star Wars Celebration Live Stream

Is it actually going to be a full Star Wars-themed season of Fortnite? We'll be watching this live stream with great interest. https://www.cnet.com/tech/gaming/how-to-watch-fortnites-big-star-wars-celebration-live-stream/#ftag=CADf328eec

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 I spent a week using this sub-$500 2-in-1 Chromebook — I can't believe how much better they are in 2025

The Acer Chromebook Spin 312 is a solid laptop for anyone on a tight budget, especially students or retirees. With a sturdy build, vivid display, and easy set-up, it’s a quality Chromebook.

https://www.laptopmag.com/laptops/chromebooks/acer-chromebook-spin-312-review

I spent a day playing the Switch 2 and Nintendo has answered all my biggest concerns

OPINION: Shortly after the reveal of the Switch 2, Nintendo invited me along to spend some quality time with the new console ahead of its summer release. There are a lot of tech releases I am anticipating this year, from the iPhone 17 Air to the next round of Qualcomm-powered laptops, but if I had [...]

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 RTX 5060 Ti gets official support in NVIDIA’s newest driver, stability concerns are addressed

NVIDIA's RTX 5060 Ti launched today, and with it comes an updated Game Ready driver. A couple of games pick up MFG support, and there's a list of stability fixes.

https://www.windowscentral.com/hardware/cpu-gpu-components/nvidia-game-ready-driver-update-rtx-5060-ti

Recent Microsoft Edge optimizations have made it up to 9% faster
I want this retro keyboard inspired by Apple TV’s ‘Severance’
Steam has a hidden tool that shows how much you’ve spent over the years
Forget FPS. Here’s why Frame Time is the PC gaming stat that matters most
Get Dell’s awesome 1440p IPS gaming monitor for insanely cheap: $140
 Intel has championed High-NA EUV chipmaking tools, but costs and other limitations could delay industry-wide adoption: Report

Intel has taken an early lead in High-NA EUV lithography, but widespread adoption remains constrained by high tool costs, limited exposure field size, and potential need for substantial ecosystem upgrades.

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/intel-has-championed-high-na-euv-chipmaking-tools-but-costs-and-other-limitations-could-delay-industry-wide-ado

 Gigabyte chops PCIe finger in half on its dual-fan RTX 5060 Ti cards

Photos of Gigabyte's RTX 5060 Ti Eagle have cropped up revealing a incredibly short PCB that only makes up half the width of the dual-fan graphics card.

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/gigabyte-chops-pcie-finger-in-half-on-its-dual-fan-rtx-5060-ti-cards

SymfonyOnline June 2025: Rethinking File Handling in Symfony

SymfonyOnline June 2025 is almost here, starting in almost 2 months on:

June 10-11: Workshop days. It is possible to attend 1 two-day training or 2 one-day trainings. June 12-13: Online conference days in English. All talks will be available for… https://symfony.com/blog/symfonyonline-june-2025-rethinking-file-handling-in-symfony?utm_source=Symfony%20Blog%20Feed&utm_medium=feed

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The coolest cars at the 2025 New York International Auto Show

This year marks the 125th anniversary of the New York International Auto Show (NYIAS), and despite concerns over tariffs, there are still a lot of manufacturers here showing off new models including a handful of US and global debuts. So without further ado, here are some of the coolest cars on display at the 2025 NYIAS. 

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Ninja Gaiden: Ragebound is a love letter to the series' NES roots

Ninja Gaiden: Ragebound is a labor of love. You can see it in every pixel, animation and cutscene of the new 2D action game. It might be a surprise then that it's not the work of Team Ninja, the studio

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Spotify is down: The music-streaming service's outage is not a 'security hack'

The music-streaming app Spotify is down, leaving millions of music fans in the lurch. The company is aware of an issue and says it’s checking things out. To that end, we don’t know why it’s down or how long the service will remain unavailable. It looks like both the app and web client aren’t working right now.

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Two years of ProtonVPN is 64 percent off right now

A VPN (virtual private network) can help you stay safe online and one of our top picks is currently on sale. A two-year subscription to the

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Scientists film a living colossal squid for the first time

Scientists have caught a colossal squid on camera in its natural environment for the very time, according to a report by the BBC. This happened around 100 years after the species was originally discovered, proving just how vast and mys

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Launch HN: Jasmine (YC S22) – Automating REC compliance and payouts for solar

Hi HN — we’re Nathalie, Dalton, Vince, and Matt, and we’re launching Jasmine Energy (https://www.jasmine.energy), a tool that helps residential and commercial solar owners automatically register their systems, track energy generation, and get paid for Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs).

RECs are tradeable certificates for clean electricity, issued by energy markets across the US. Most people with rooftop or small commercial solar have never heard

Show HN: We Put Chromium on a Unikernel (OSS Apache 2.0)

We’ve been building infrastructure to spin up browsers for AI agents. Originally, we built[0] it as a pool of warm Docker containers running Chromium, exposing:

- Chrome DevTools Protocol (for Playwright/Puppeteer)

- noVNC (for live view)

We’ve been following the unikernel space for a while, so we decided to see if we could get our image on one. We went with Unikraft Cloud[1]. Here’s how it did:

- Boot-up time: 10–20ms (vs. ~5s for Docker containers)

- Near 0 CPU/memory consumption

Trump’s China tariffs spark viral TikTok work-arounds

President Trump’s trade wars have officially landed on TikTok.

U.S. TikTok users’ For You Pages are being flooded with videos from Chinese manufacturers urging Americans to bypass sweeping new tariffs by purchasing goods directly from China.

“So China is doing us a solid over here in the US and allowing us to buy directly and avoid all of the ridiculous tariffs,” says

How to Save Money on Groceries With the Help of AI

You can use artificial intelligence as your search tool to find the best grocery deals online and in your area. You just need to double check its info is up to date. https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/how-to-save-money-on-groceries-with-the-help-of-ai/#ftag=CADf328eec

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Shouldn't All Cookware Be Nontoxic? Here's a Guide to the Various Types

Cookware comes in a range of materials, and some are more natural than others. Here's a guide to the most popular nontoxic cookware, including pros and cons for using each one. https://www.cnet.com/how-to/best-nontoxic-cookware/#ftag=CADf328eec

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