Xbox is now XBOX

Xbox just allcapsmaxxed: meet XBOX. This isn't a joke, Microsoft appears to be actually rebranding Xbox to XBOX. Asha Sharma, Xbox CEO, ran a poll on X earlier this week, asking fans whether Microsoft should use Xbox or…

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Xbox is now XBOX

Believe it or not, Microsoft appears to be rebranding Xbox.

^{Tom Warren (The Verge)}

Meta removed E2EE from Instagram DMs today, May 8, ending private encrypted chats and enabling broader message scanning for abuse detection 📩🔓
The change follows global pressure tied to CSAM enforcement, raising transparency and user-control concerns around private communication 🕵️‍♂️⚠️

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Instagram removes end-to-end encryption in messages, your DM chats are no longer private

Meta has ended end-to-end encryption for Instagram direct messages from 8 May The move could allow detection of CSAM grooming and other abuse-related content

^{Kazi Nasir (India Today)}

Patreon Exclusive! Oppo Find X9 Ultra First Look: The Best Camera Hardware of the Year, and I Probably Won’t Be Buying One patreon.com/posts/oppo-find-x9…

It’s one of the most exciting devices of the year, and rightfully deserves the recognition it’s receiving.

I’m not going to be hunting one down to buy. If you’re into mobile photography, I hope you disagree with me.

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V2.5-Pro is the next step up from MiMo-V2-Flash and its closed source for now, but Xiaomi has confirmed open source is coming for the V2.5 series. What V2.5-Pro adds over Flash is meaningful. Better long-horizon coherence, stronger agentic capabilities, and the ability to sustain complex tasks across more than a thousand tool calls without losing the thread

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MiMo-V2.5-Pro: A Coding Model Taking On Claude Opus 4.6 and GPT-5.4 - Firethering

Peking University gives its computer science students a compiler project every semester. Build a complete SysY compiler in Rust including lexer, parser, abstract syntax tree, IR code generation, assembly backend, performance optimization.

^{Mohit Geryani (Firethering)}