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Microsoft Build 2026: All the news about Windows, AI, RTX Spark, and more

Microsoft’s annual developer conference is kicking off on June 2nd in San Francisco with the keynote presentation streaming live at 12:30PM ET / 9:30AM PT, and we will be following along here with everything as it’s announced.  The Verge’s Tom Warren reports that we can expect to hear about new AI models and agentic OpenClaw-like […]

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Houston’s allergy hot spots: These neighborhoods could have the worst sneezing season this summer

As summer settles into Southeast Texas and hurricane season gets underway, many Houstonians are reaching for tissues, allergy medicine and eye drops.

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Focused Energy raises whopping $240M Series A for laser-powered fusion tech

Another fusion startup has raised another a massive round to make this type of power a reality.

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The S&P 500 has only risen this quickly 4 times since WWII. Once, a historic stock-market crash followed.

The S&P 500 has overcome worries about artificial intelligence and the fallout from the war in Iran to stage one of its strongest two-month showings on record.

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Microsoft created the mini Surface dev box that Qualcomm couldn’t

Microsoft only just announced a new Surface Laptop Ultra at the weekend, and it's now revealing a miniature Surface PC aimed at developers. The new Surface RTX Spark Dev Box is powered by Nvidia's new Arm-based RTX Spark chips, just like the Surface Laptop Ultra, and is optimized for sustained workloads and local AI tasks. […]

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Microsoft’s new developer-optimized Windows embraces Linux even more

Microsoft is kicking off its Build developer conference today with a promise of making Windows a trusted platform for development. As the company continues to focus on performance and reliability fixes for Windows 11, it's also creating a developer-optimized experience that bundles a lot of useful tools and apps and embraces Linux even further. "We […]

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The Iran war is jacking up fertilizer prices and forcing farmers to make tough calls. ‘If I guess wrong, I lose the farm.’

One of the biggest challenges Preston Arrington faces on his 2,100-acre corn and soybean farm is the surge in the price of fertilizer.

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Buying into SpaceX, Anthropic and other mega-IPOs could be a problem for your index fund

Index rules and timelines will divide winners and losers.

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Houston’s allergy hot spots: These neighborhoods could have the worst sneezing season this summer

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Former Houston Rockets coach Rick Adelman, a Hall of Famer who won more than 1,000 games, dies at 79

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Harris County detectives arrest man accused of illegally selling disabled parking placards online

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Another Houston-area school district is consolidating special education programs for the upcoming school year

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New York sues over the Trump administration's deal to end an offshore wind project

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The Latest: Polls open for races across the US as a busy primary election day gets underway

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Feeling a little bleak about the world? There’s a film festival for that

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Texas lifts commercial drivers license ban for temporary agricultural workers

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More of Texas’ youngest kids are becoming uninsured, new research shows

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New details released on Texas Children’s Hospital’s planned detransition clinic

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Trump taps housing regulator Pulte to be acting director of national intelligence

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The Latest: Rubio says he sees indications that Iran’s new supreme leader is ‘engaged’ with US talks

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Expect healthy shower and thunderstorm chances for the rest of the week

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Canada formally requests renewal of North American free trade pact

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Watch: Massive hailstones pound Denver in powerful storm

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BBC at New Jersey ICE detention centre as curfew enforced

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DOJ will pause $1.8 billion fund, per court order. And, key primaries to watch today

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Israel strikes southern Lebanon but partial truce with Hezbollah appears to hold

British couple lose Iran jail sentence appeal, family says

Two people shot dead amid Kenya protests against US Ebola quarantine centre plan

Canada formally requests renewal of North American free trade pact

Ukraine rescuers pull dead from rubble after Russian strikes kill 22 people

South Africa police investigate killing of two Mozambican men

‘We don’t have another country to run to’: Kenyans fear US plan for Ebola quarantine site

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Maga influencer admits London Tube station assault

Ghana's anti-LGBTQ+ bill to be scrutinised before approval, president says

Instagram AI chatbot tricked by hackers to give access to others' accounts

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The S&P 500 has only risen this quickly 4 times since WWII. Once, a historic stock-market crash followed.

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The Iran war is jacking up fertilizer prices and forcing farmers to make tough calls. ‘If I guess wrong, I lose the farm.’

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Buying into SpaceX, Anthropic and other mega-IPOs could be a problem for your index fund

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This winning high-yield bond strategy limits risk while seeking under-the-radar opportunities

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I was a slave to credit-card debt, then I got laid off and turned my life around. Here’s how I did it.

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Alphabet’s relentless AI spending is giving new shine to Broadcom’s stock

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Trump taps Pulte for a top intelligence job. This makes an IPO for Fannie and Freddie look even more unlikely.

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NYC bar uses prediction markets to hedge against a new financial risk: A Knicks victory

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This space stock is rising as Blue Origin predicts quick recovery from big explosion

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My sister, mother and I are giving my son $20,000 toward a down payment. Do we report it to the IRS?

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Microsoft Build 2026: All the news about Windows, AI, RTX Spark, and more

Focused Energy raises whopping $240M Series A for laser-powered fusion tech

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Microsoft created the mini Surface dev box that Qualcomm couldn’t

Microsoft’s new developer-optimized Windows embraces Linux even more

Trump goes after green cards

Trump signs narrower executive order on AI oversight after industry objections

Cricut’s Joy 2 helps you personalize Father’s Day gifts, and it’s at its lowest price yet

OpenAI launches new Codex tools for white-collar work

Partiful Is Putting Ticket Payments on Its Platform

Board, the new game startup from Mirror founder Brynn Putnam, raises $20M, has already sold thousands

Ableton is letting musicians build browser-style extensions for Live

Password manager Dashlane says hackers stole some customers’ password vaults

Flush With Cash From OpenAI, Opal Is Making an AI-Powered Audio Gadget

Turning your purse into a cyberdeck is the most fun way to resist big tech

Blue Origin has set a very aggressive return-to-flight timeline

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Lego’s Smart Play Pokémon can train and battle, but don’t do the one thing I wish they could

Why VivaTech 2026 is the place to see Europe’s AI strategy take shape

Meta tests ‘Series’ for episodic Reels on Instagram and Facebook

Amazon’s four-day Prime Day begins on June 23rd

Slate Auto gets serious about privacy for its bare-bones EV pickup

Ars Technica 2h

Thermacell’s latest smart mosquito system is bigger and more expensive

X caters to creators with new ‘React with Video’ feature

Anthropic scales Claude Mythos to critical infrastructure in 15+ countries

Apple’s MacBook Neo is winning over a new generation of buyers

The screenless Camp Snap 2 is slimmer and comes with more filters

Preparing for KDE Plasma's Last X11-Supported Release

Fidonet: Technology, Use, Tools, and History (1993)

Amazon Prime Day 2026 takes place June 23-26

Trump's DOE restarts energy rebate program with dumb conditions

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Blue Origin plans to launch New Glenn again this year after explosion

A walking tour of surveillance infrastructure in Seattle

Expanding Project Glasswing

ZeroDrift raises $10M to protect AI models from themselves

Impulse Space raises $500 million as orbital maneuvering race heats up

Ars Technica 5h

Rocket engine startup Impulse raises $500 million to hire people, not AI

4 Best Alexa Speakers (2026): Echo Dot Max, Echo Dot, Echo Show 11

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Look Up!

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A single protein may be holding back CAR T cancer therapy

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NASA Testing Wastewater Treatment Facility for Future Moon Base

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Be a Clump Scout and Help Reveal Secrets of Stellar Nurseries

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This blood-feeding fly sacrifices its sight after finding a host

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A stellar “Rosetta stone” reveals the source of mysterious cosmic signals

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