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U.S. government will decide who gets to use GPT-5.6

<a href="https://archive.ph/PCQQl" rel="nofollow">https://archive.ph/PCQQl</a>

An entire Herculaneum scroll has been read for the first time

Preprint: <a href="https://scrollprize.org/pdf/main.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://scrollprize.org/pdf/main.pdf</a><p><a href="https://github.com/ScrollPrize/villa" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/ScrollPrize/villa</a>

An entire Herculaneum scroll has been read for the first time

Preprint: <a href="https://scrollprize.org/pdf/main.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://scrollprize.org/pdf/main.pdf</a><p><a href="https://github.com/ScrollPrize/villa" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/ScrollPrize/villa</a>

Apple raises prices of MacBooks, iPads

<a href="https://9to5mac.com/2026/06/25/apple-price-increases-mac-ipad-more/" rel="nofollow">https://9to5mac.com/2026/06/25/apple-price-increases-mac-ipa...</a>

Apple raises prices of MacBooks, iPads

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Anthropic says Alibaba illicitly extracted Claude AI model capabilities

Anthropic says Alibaba illicitly extracted Claude AI model capabilities

Deno Desktop

Steam Machine launches today

<a href="https://store.steampowered.com/sale/steammachine" rel="nofollow">https://store.steampowered.com/sale/steammachine</a><p><a href="https://www.lttlabs.com/articles/2026/06/22/the-newell-nucleus-steam-machine-ltt-companion-article" rel="nofollow">https://www.lttlabs.com/articles/2026/06/22/the-newell-nucle...</a><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66QzlDewigE" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66QzlDewigE</a>

Identity verification on Claude

<a href="https://old.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1ubm53n/official_anthropic_to_require_identity/" rel="nofollow">https://old.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1ubm53n/official_...</a>

Swiss parliament lifts ban on new nuclear power plants

Midjourney Medical

<a href="https://www.midjourney.com/medical" rel="nofollow">https://www.midjourney.com/medical</a><p>Video: <a href="https://x.com/midjourney/status/2067422898407837797" rel="nofollow">https://x.com/midjourney/status/2067422898407837797</a>

U.S. science is in chaos

Lore – Open source version control system designed for scalability

Sixty percent of US consumers say 'AI' in brand messaging is a turnoff

Running local models is good now

SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B

A backdoor in a LinkedIn job offer

Ask HN: Has anyone replaced Claude/GPT with a local model for daily coding?

Has anyone here fully swapped Claude/GPT for a local model as their main coding tool, not just for side experiments? If so, please share your setup and performance (e.g tok/s)

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