Another Falcon 9 lookalike joins China's growing roster of rockets There are sound engineering reasons to use the same approach SpaceX uses with the Falcon 9 https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/06/anot…
Ableton is letting musicians build browser-style extensions for Live https://www.theverge.com/tech/941674/ableton-live-extensions-sdk-music-daw
Russia's domestic spy agency says it has uncovered a sprawling foreign espionage operation that allegedly turned the smartphones of senior Russian officials into pocket-sized surveillance devices, tho…
AI workloads are eating into datacenter capacity faster than most operators can add to it, and once the power budget is spent and the racks are full, the wall is a physical one. Server consolidation, …
Blue Origin vows to fly its New Glenn rocket "before the end of this year" "The propellant farm, oxygen, liquid hydrogen, and LNG tanks are all in good shape." https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/06/bl…
The screenless Camp Snap 2 is slimmer and comes with more filters https://www.theverge.com/tech/941427/camp-snap-2-digital-screenless-camera-filters-kid-lock
GitHub Copilot Users React To New Usage-Based Pricing System https://news.slashdot.org/story/26/06/02/0512209/github-copilot-users-react-to-new-usage-based-pricing-system?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon
Benchmarking The Different CachyOS Linux Kernel Flavors CachyOS ships with a good Linux kernel configuration by default balancing the different features as well as performance. But they also ship a va…
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KDE Plasma 6.8 Still Planning To End X11 Support, 95% Of Plasma 6.6 Users Are On Wayland KDE developers are sticking to their plans for Plasma 6.8 going Wayland-exclusive in dropping X11 support. Mean…
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COMPUTEX 2026 In his Computex keynote speech this week Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon offered a glimpse of an AI-augmented future straight out of an episode of Black Mirror. According to Amon, agents — a…
The continuing AI memory crunch saw DRAM prices effectively double in calendar Q1, and the bad news is they are likely to rise again by more than 50 percent in the current quarter, if TrendForce forec…
Lego’s Smart Play Pokémon can train and battle, but don’t do the one thing I wish they could https://www.theverge.com/gadgets/941484/lego-pokemon-smart-play-brick-sets
The Linux Kernel Ready To Make TSC A Hard Requirement For x86 CPUs Now that the Linux kernel has been removing Intel 486 CPU support and also proceeding to drop other vintage CPUs like the AMD K5 CPU …
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Thermacell’s latest smart mosquito system is bigger and more expensive https://www.theverge.com/tech/941146/liv-2-dot-0-smart-mosquito-repellent-system-thermacell
Microsoft has moved to calm an increasingly noisy backlash from the security community after appearing to threaten legal action against a researcher who spent the past several weeks dumping Windows ze…
Amazon’s four-day Prime Day begins on June 23rd https://www.theverge.com/gadgets/940021/amazon-prime-day-2026-june-dates-deals
Gemini Spark is the most impressive and terrifying AI experience I’ve had yet https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/941388/gemini-spark-ai-agent-trip-planning
Open-Source NVIDIA Vulkan Driver "NVK" Merges Mesh Shader Support Mesa's NVK open-source NVIDIA Vulkan driver now has mesh shader support as another significant step forward for this driver in being a…
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HPE just posted its biggest earnings beat since 2018, and CEO Antonio Neri wasted little time taking a victory lap for the company's $14 billion Juniper acquisition. The infrastructure giant posted re…
Claude has gone offline on the day after its maker Anthropic filed for what is expected to be a blockbuster IPO. The popular chatbot and coding tool suffered an outage from around 0600 UTC on Tuesday,…
