Reading List

The most recent articles from a list of feeds I subscribe to.

Amazon's Project Kuiper signs up JetBlue as its first airline customer to use its satellite internet for in-flight Wi-Fi in a quarter of the fleet from 2027 (Micah Maidenberg/Wall Street Journal)

Techmeme

Israeli startup Sola, which develops AI-based low-code cybersecurity tools, raised a $35M Series A led by S32 and says it has ~2,000 customers (Resilience Media)

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Borderlands 4 preview: BL4 nails the Borderlands basics, and that’s all that matters

Polygon - All

The US Army awards a $98.9M contract to TurbineOne to deploy AI software that helps infantry identify drones and other threats locally on soldiers' devices (Heather Somerville/Wall Street Journal)

Techmeme

Why kids are all posing like this in pictures

Vox - All

Research and 25 experts, victims, and execs: North Korean hackers are saturating the crypto industry with credible-seeming job offers in a bid to steal crypto (Reuters)

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SK Hynix's union approves a 6% wage bump and 10% allocation of SK's annual profit to a bonus pool, totaling ~$2.7B for 33,625 staff in 2025, averting a strike (Yoolim Lee/Bloomberg)

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The big problem with “no tax on tips” 

Vox - All

MTG head designer explains the most difficult part of making Universes Beyond sets

Polygon - All

Jujutsu Kaisen creator’s new manga should surprise fans no matter what

Polygon - All

GSR fund documents: TikTok rival Xiaohongshu, known as RedNote in the US, saw its valuation rise 19% to $31B from $26B in March during recent GSR transactions (Echo Wong/Bloomberg)

Techmeme

Why 3-year-olds need smartphones*

Vox - All

Sources: Alibaba, ByteDance, and other Chinese tech companies remain keen on Nvidia's AI chips despite Beijing strongly discouraging them from such purchases (Reuters)

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Microsoft open-sources its 6502 version of BASIC from 1976

The Verge - All Posts

IFA 2025: the biggest tech and gadget announcements

The Verge - All Posts

Philips Hue unveils a major product refresh at IFA 2025, including a $90 Hue Bridge Pro, updated $25 smart bulbs, and the $169 Hue Secure doorbell, its first (Jennifer Pattison Tuohy/The Verge)

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Exclusive: RFK Jr. and the White House buried a major study on alcohol and cancer. Here’s what it shows.

Vox - All

Tencent releases HunyuanWorld-Voyager, an open-weights AI model that generates 3D-consistent video sequences from a single image, trained on 100K+ video clips (Benj Edwards/Ars Technica)

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Huawei’s second trifold adds stylus support and purple pleather

The Verge - All Posts

What the panic about kids using AI to cheat gets wrong

Vox - All