Valve is finally saying the Steam Machine is shipping this summer, but of course, they still left out the one thing everyone wants to know: the price. • Steam Machine and Steam Frame is expected this summer • Valve is expanding Steam Verified beyond Steam Deck • Steam Machine will have its own Verified system • Steam Frame standalone games will also get verification • No exact release date yet • No official price yet • Price is the real concern with memory and hardware costs rising I want the Steam Machine to do well, but Valve to watch their steps.

WhatsApp is the worst app on your Windows 11 PC right now, eating 1 GB of RAM, doing nothing I tested it on low-end, mid-range, and high-end PCs, and the experience is bad everywhere. Before even logging in, WhatsApp was already touching 400MB RAM. After logging in and scrolling through chats, it jumped toward 1.2GB. Idle, it still holds around 600MB. The old native UWP WhatsApp used less than 100MB at idle and felt instant. The new app is basically web whatsapp com inside WebView2. It loads slowly, switches chats slowly, delays message sending, keeps running in the tray, and still gives worse notifications than the old app. Meta has 3 billion WhatsApp users. Windows has 1.6 billion users. There is no excuse for shipping a browser tab as a desktop app. If Meta can build native WhatsApp for macOS and even Apple Watch, it can build a proper native Windows app. Windows users deserve better than this slop!

youtube has unveiled a bold new feature: doxxing people

I do not want you to code X by hand, but I want to know that you are capable of reasoning through tradeoffs and deriving design from first principles. For my initial interview screen I ask candidates to code by hand. We do have LLM-assisted portions of our interview, but I want to see how you reason with just the meat computer. The problem is constructing a version of a primitive that 99% of engineers have used but have never deeply inspected. The solution is ~50 lines of code, the best candidates one-shot it in ten minutes, and I can see the joy on their faces from working on a genuinely novel problem. I am anti-leetcode. I don't want to know that you can memorize something. I want to know you can reconstruct a primitive that requires some level of systems thinking. I can coach anyone through solving this problem in ~20 minutes with hints. But the worst candidates complain about the validity of the problem, that they would never have to implement it in their day to day, and that they don't get to use a coding agent. If you want to get the job, complaining to your interviewer about the question is a sure fire way to make sure that doesn't happen.

The US government, citing national security authorities, has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States, including foreign national Anthropic employees. The net effect of this order is that we must abruptly disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all our customers to ensure compliance. Access to all other Claude models is not affected. We apologize for this disruption to our customers. We believe this is a misunderstanding and are working to restore access as soon as possible. Read our full statement: anthropic.com/news/fable-myt…

Xbox is "fixable", says Chief Strategy Officer Matthew Ball in new interview: ▪️Will invest more in its big IP, cut back on niche productions ▪️Xbox can improve - how hard it will be or how long it will take are different questions ▪️It's "difficult to articulate" why someone should buy an Xbox, exclusives help with that ▪️Xbox presence smaller in EU/Japan, PC is the most popular, "Windows is where the world plays", so we encourage players to do so in those markets ▪️Working hard to rethink Helix, make things more affordable, new business models ▪️Console is growing, not dying. No desire to move away from console More in the full Interview ▶️ youtu.be/rTM-I_HDC9A?si=Zm0r… #Xbox

I've been testing something after @OliviaHelenS noticed you can't even say "Hi" to Fable if you're a biologist. I checked, and several of us are able to interact with Fable in Incognito Mode, but not in normal mode. This didn't happen to our non-biologist friends.

📣 Claude Fable 5, the first in @AnthropicAI's Mythos model class, is now generally available and rolling out in GitHub Copilot. It is designed for long-horizon, autonomous coding and knowledge-work tasks. Try it out in @code or the GitHub Copilot app. ⬇️ github.blog/changelog/2026-0…

Here’s your monthly reminder that you shouldn’t be prompting coding agents anymore. You should be designing loops that prompt your agents.

25 Years of XBOX 🏆 ✅ To everyone who's played with us: