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Xbox revenue drops 10 percent as Microsoft’s cloud and AI business surges

Xbox is having yet another tough quarter, as revenue from content and services like its Game Pass subscription dipped 10 percent over the past few months. At the same time, Xbox hardware sales declined 13 percent, according to Microsoft's fourth-quarter earnings report released on Wednesday. The news comes just weeks after Xbox head Asha Sharma […]
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Cyberpunk 2077 packs a lot of fun into its discounted $20 price

Over the last few years, CD Projekt Red put a ton of work into fixing Cyberpunk 2077, squashing bugs, polishing content, and even launching new DLC in 2023, Phantom Liberty. As a result, this game has gone from a source for funny, glitch-fueled videos to a world I’ve returned to a number of times to […]
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xAI’s last-minute scramble to stop Minnesota’s anti-nudification app law

xAI is suing Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison over a law passed back in May that broadly targets "nudification" apps, claiming that the statute's punitive provisions leave the company with "no practical choice but to restrict Grok Imagine's image-editing features in various ways." The law, the company argues, violates the First Amendment. Back in January, […]
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Qualcomm is raising phone chip prices starting September 1st

RAMageddon won't be the only reason your next phone costs more - Qualcomm is about to raise prices on all its processors, as well. Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon said on Wednesday that "prices are going to go up" on the company's products starting on September 1st, CNBC reports. The price hikes were rumored last week […]
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Mark Zuckerberg is planning a big push into personal AI agents

Meta is all-in on AI, and sometime soon, the company is going to make a big push into personal AI agents that can do things on your behalf. On Wednesday's Q2 2026 earnings call, CEO Mark Zuckerberg previewed a high-level vision of how the company is thinking about personal agents and what it will do […]
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Microsoft confirms Copilot ‘super app’ coming this year

Microsoft is working on an AI "super app" that combines Copilot's chat, coding, and agentic capabilities. During an earnings call on Wednesday, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said the app will span "both consumer and commercial experiences" when it launches this year. "Copilot is evolving rapidly from chat to Cowork to Autopilots," Nadella said. "This quarter, […]
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Understanding the N+1 Problem in GraphQL (and Why It’s Not Just GraphQL)

TL;DR The N+1 problem is a general data-access anti-pattern that can appear in REST, resolver-based GraphQL, and federated GraphQL at different layers of the stack. WunderGraph’s breadth-first loading approach can help batch cross-subgraph work at the router layer, but it does not remove the need for batching inside subgraphs. Even when the router batches entity references, a subgraph can still reintroduce N+1 if its reference resolvers fetch one record at a time. DataLoader is a common reso...
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A little about myself

I'm Meshack Amadi — a Data Scientist & Junior Software Developer passionate about data, backend development, Web development and continuous learning . 🛠️ What I'm Working On 🐍 Python (Pandas to Polars Conversion) 🗄️ SQL (query optimization) 📊 Data Visualization (Streamlit, Power BI) Currently building a Scalable Website that pulls from multiple sources and visualizes key trends. 🤝 Let's Connect I'm looking to: Collaborate on open-so...
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🧵 ThreadLocal no Java 21 – o que mudou, o que continua e quando você deve (ou não) usar

E aí, dev que já passou horas debugando um ThreadLocal que não foi limpo e vazou memória? Pois é. Esse velho conhecido do Java 1.2 sempre foi a solução para guardar dados "por thread" como o userId de uma requisição, ou uma conexão de banco que não pode ser compartilhada. Mas aí chegaram as Virtual Threads no JDK 21, e o jogo mudou. Criar milhões de threads leves virou realidade, e o bom e velho ThreadLocal começou a mostrar suas fraquezas. A boa notícia? O Java 21 trouxe uma alternat...
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Home Cantina: A Modern Glassmorphism Comfort Food Landing Page

This is a submission for Frontend Challenge - Comfort Food Edition, Perfect Landing What I Built For this challenge, I created "Cantina de Casa", a landing page focused on classic home-cooked comfort food dishes. When I started building this page, the idea wasn't to create something overly complex, but rather to leverage concepts that make navigation organized and intuitive, with a clean interface where users can find information without having to hunt around for where to clic...
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Best SBCs Under $100: Real Price Data for 2026

I run ChipRadar, a real-time price tracker for single-board computers. We monitor 55+ boards across 5+ vendors and update prices every 6 hours. Here's what the data says about the best SBCs under $100 right now. 🏆 The Rankings (Current Prices) These are live prices captured from Amazon and other vendors as of this week: 🥇 Raspberry Pi 5 4GB — $57 The undisputed king of ecosystem. You pay for the community and software support, and it's worth every penny. Runs ever...
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DSA | Random Generator | Can you come up with a solution?

Hi, I may post some DSA / interview questions I find interesting (even if you would be unlikely to see it in an interview) from some of the books I own / codeforces / leetcode etc. This question comes from Elements of Programming Interviews in Java written by Lee, Aziz, and Prakash. 4.10 Generate Random Uniform Numbers How would you implement a random number generator that generates a random integer i between a and b inclusive, given a random number generator that produces a ze...
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How to write technical posts that survive AI noise

There is a new kind of content pollution on the internet. It is clean looking. It is fast. It is confident. It is usually correct in the same way instant noodles are usually a meal. You have seen it. Twenty posts explaining distributed systems with suspiciously identical examples. Thirty threads about performance that all end with the same advice about caching. A flood of technical content that sounds useful until you try to build anything from it and realize you were given a polis...
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Your AI Subagents Are Lying to You: 4 Silent Failure Modes

I fanned a design-token sweep out to parallel Claude Code subagents : roughly 317 hardcoded hex colors scattered across an app's screens and components, all to be replaced with tokens from a central theme file. Each agent got a slice of files and reported back when done. The reports came in clean. The grep afterward disagreed. Some slices were untouched, and the agents responsible had said nothing, because they no longer existed to say anything. That sweep, and the surrounding sessions, taugh...