As Summer Game Fest draws to a close, it’s a fitting time for reflection. Not just on the cool games we saw announced (and there were a bunch), but also on an industry that, in recent years, has reached thrilling new creative and artistic highs alongside deeply depressing lows in the form of layoffs, cancelations and studio closures. Xbox is putting its introspection out in the open.
New CEO Asha Sharma and Chief Content Officer Matt Booty penned a public memo to the gaming company’s employees to mark the first 100 days of Sharma’s tenure leading Xbox. The takeaways are pretty grim.
For starters, the simple math of Xbox’s revenue isn’t adding up to success. “Excluding Activision Blizzard King, over the past five years, we have spent over $20 billion on ongoing investments in our content, platform, and hardware subsidy, but our annual revenue has declined nearly half a billion during that time,” the execs state. “Going forward, this cannot continue.” They also acknowledge the impact of RAMaggedon: “We are currently unable to make as many consoles as players want to buy, and we need a new business model and partnerships for hardware as we remain committed to Helix.” (Helix, in this case, is Project Helix, the codename for Xbox’s new console.)
Then there’s the kicker, a renewed admission that Xbox still can’t support the many studios it acquired in the late 2010s in an effort to grow its first-party game ambitions. “We have found ourselves over extended as we executed on changing strategies in a landscape of more readily available content,” the pair said, noting elsewhere that with so many good games, not to mention the plethora of other forms of entertainment available, “Going forward, our competition is attention.”
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While the memo stops short of saying that layoffs are coming, a report from Bloomberg emphasized the likelihood of what’s being communicated between the lines. Sources have told the publication that substantial cuts are on the horizon for Xbox. Although the piece doesn’t offer any specifics about their scope, the expectation is that layoffs will begin in July, following the end of Microsoft’s fiscal year on June 30.
It’s a brutal situation for Xbox, which already saw several thousands of jobs eliminated in 2024 and again in 2025. And even if the company does once more have to downsize and abandon promising new games this summer, that still won’t be an instant fix for its problems. It took several years of questionable decisions to dig the hole that Xbox is currently in. It’ll take several years with a patient and sustainable approach, and probably no small amount of luck, for the business to dig itself out. That’s no shade to Sharma or her predecessor Phil Spencer. That’s just the nature of being one cog in a behemoth business machine like Microsoft, where the goals of making amazing video games and video game hardware are often not aligned with the goal of making investors and shareholders happy.
Poetic is an automation start-up servicing companies including Sofi and Chime.
OpenAI is backing automation start-up Poetic in a $50m funding round as it emerges from stealth, Bloomberg news reported today (10 June).
Poetic is developing a platform to automate time-consuming tasks using AI across wide use cases, including finance and insurance underwriting.
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According to Bloomberg, Poetic has created a new programming language meant to help professionals use AI more efficiently.
The company was founded in 2023 as Forge by Markie Wagner, a Thiel Foundation fellow who worked as a researcher at Stanford and Waymo. Wagner also founded and led an AI consultancy called Delphi. She holds computer science degrees from the University of South California and Stanford.
According to Poetic’s website, the company is backed by Kleiner Perkins and Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund, with participation from OpenAI, First Harmonic and Genius Ventures. Its website lists American International Group, Chime and Sofi as customers. Poetic is expected to officially announce the funding round today.
“What Poetic has built is genuinely different – a platform that can execute the complex, high-stakes processes that large enterprises actually run, with accuracy that exceeds what human teams can deliver,” Leigh Marie Braswell, a partner at Kleiner Perkins told Bloomberg News.
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Poetic is hiring for a range of roles in the US, including engineering, strategy and office management.
OpenAI’s support for Poetic comes as the company readies itself to go public. Estimates from last year suggest an IPO could value the $852bn ChatGPT maker at up to $1trn. The company’s start-up fund has backed the likes of Cursor, Harvey, Physical Intelligence and Kick.
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No, we’re not talking about cultural appropriation of Japan’s most famous form of short poem–this is the other Haiku, the open-source descendant of BeOS, which now has a fully-native meshcore chat client called Sestriere, thanks to the efforts of one [Atomozero]. Of course you’ll need a LoRa radio to act as a modem, but anything that speaks USB serial– which is any of the ESP32-based offerings on the market–should work.
This is interesting in that we don’t see many desktop applications leveraging LoRa networks– meshtastic or meshcore– so for one to appear for the relatively-obscure BeOS derivative is just neat. It’s also a nice peice of work: the chat window is full featured, organizing your contacts, and communicating not just with text but emojis and reaction GIFs. GIFs seem a bit extravagant for LoRa bandwith, but apparently it works. There are also Codec2-based voice messages, another thing that we didn’t expect to see over LoRa, since most ‘chat’ projects restrict themselves to text messaging.
The chat window. One nice thing about Haiku APIs is that look-and-feel isn’t in question.
The software will also map all the nodes with which you are in contact, both diagrammatically and geographically, overlaid on OpenStreetMap tiles. The network map conveniently colour-codes your contacts by the link quality, but what’s even more interesting is the WireShark-inspired packet sniffer built into the software to let you keep a really close eye on traffic on the mesh network.
Neither Haiku or MeshCore are to everyone’s tastes, but as an OS it is a worthy daily driver, even if you have to jump through some hoops to install it if you have a UEFI-only system.
Frequent flyers and road warriors often rely on over-ear headphones to carve out personal space amid engine noise, terminal chatter, and crowded gates. Apple’s second-generation AirPods Max 2, priced at $499 (was $549), deliver a focused set of refinements that address several everyday frustrations from the first model, particularly for people who spend serious time in motion. The updates center on stronger noise blocking, modern connectivity, and software features that respond to real travel moments without demanding extra effort.
Anyone who has been stuck on a long journey knows how a low-frequency motor hum can wear down even the best intentions to sleep or focus. The new H2 chip considerably increases active noise cancellation, cutting through the seemingly never-ending drone more efficiently. User’s real-world tests show that it can handle airline engines, street noise, and general chat-din slightly better, allowing you to relax and listen to a podcast or your favorite music without being bothered by the background noise. That’s where Adaptive Audio comes in, as it works with the new chip to provide a little more awareness where it counts, eliminating the need to constantly switch between modes as the environment changes.
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Even with noise cancellation set on, the battery life lasts up to 20 hours, which is adequate for most cross-country flights or days spent bouncing between gates. On the other hand, if you are without power outlets for an extended period of time, a simple 5 minute charge will provide you with an additional 1 and a half hours of battery life, as well as the extra convenience of the Smart Case. When you put the headphones in a bag for storage, this device automatically changes them to an ultra-low-power mode, ensuring that they are ready to use even after days in a travel bag.
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Using USB-C has a huge impact on the road. There’s no need to look for the right adapters; simply plug in a power bank, a laptop, or an airplane port and you’re set. When you plug it in, it unlocks lossless music at 24-bit / 48 kHz and ultra-low latency, making it ideal for wired listening to a laptop or a compatible entertainment system without the audio being affected by Bluetooth compression.
The new microphones and H2-powered tools also serve to improve the less glamorous parts of travel. Calls are clearer even in extremely busy airports or during boarding, and the new Conversation Awareness feature automatically reduces the level when it detects someone speaking close by. That function supplements the Live Translation feature, which provides instant language assistance when you’re abroad. The Digital Crown remains the best way to control the volume, skip songs, and access Siri without depending on those awful touch gestures that go haywire in transit.
The sound tuning has been slightly enhanced. The sound profile remains warm and has good bass response, but it does not fatigue after long periods of listening. The new Personalised Spatial Audio feature, which features dynamic head tracking, creates an immersive bubble that can help you pass the time on a long ride. Consistent frequencies and a reliable presentation allow you to easily zone out and listen without worrying about things breaking down after a few hours.
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It’s inevitable that as you go about your lawn-trimming duties, your mower will get dirty. The deck arguably gets the worst of it, with dirt, grass clippings, and all kinds of yard debris caking on it and possibly gumming up the blade’s movement. Fortunately, lawn mower deck cleaning — one of the key steps in maintaining any lawn mower — is not only possible, but incredibly easy to handle at home. With that said, there are tools and equipment that can make it even easier while ensuring your mower’s deck is properly cleaned.
Before diving in, it should be explained why exactly it’s so important to keep a mower’s deck clean. Aside from aesthetics, a clean mower deck is less susceptible to rust and corrosion. Grass clippings and lawn debris stick to the deck largely thanks to accumulated moisture, which will eat away at the mower deck, the blade, and other metal components if left alone. This can also lead to mold growth and restrict airflow while the mower is in use, putting stress on the engine. Additionally, stuck-on deck debris could carry bacteria and fungus that, when exposed to cut grass, could infect and harm your lawn.
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To avoid all of these drawbacks, routine lawn mower deck cleaning is essential. To get it done right, these are some of the most useful tools to have in your arsenal.
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1. A fuel siphon pump
Before starting mower deck cleaning, you need to prepare the mower for the job. That means disconnecting the spark plug wire to prevent accidental starts and then emptying the gas tank if you haven’t already run it dry. This is essential because tipping a tank full of gas can cause fuel leakage and damage the mower’s internal components. The easiest way to clear out the tank without wasting gas is to use a designated fuel siphon pump, which isn’t hard to find. Better yet, it’s not a terribly expensive tool to get ahold of either, with websites like Amazon offering pumps for less than $10.
With your pump and gas can at the ready, you’re prepared to empty your mower’s fuel tank. For two-hose models, one hose connects to the tank while the other connects to the gas can. As seen above, some utilize a more syringe-like setup with only one hose. With the hose in the gas tank, simply squeeze or lift the handle to draw fuel out. Once the tank is completely drained of gas, you’re safe to remove the hose and close the tank. For syringe models, you can now release the gas into a gas can and subsequently begin lawn mower cleaning.
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2. A lawn mower deck scraper
There are a few ways to remove thick layers of stuck-on debris from a lawn mower deck. For some, one of the most underrated home improvement tools, the simple scraper, is enough to get the bulk off. Meanwhile, others prefer to use the built-in mower deck wash port and let their garden hose do the work. If you really want to get as much caked-on grass off as you can and do so with a bit more ease, you could invest in a designated lawn mower deck scraper. As their name suggests, these scrapers are designed specifically for cleaning mower decks.
The key distinctions that make mower deck scrapers worthy investments are their size and shape. Some offer extended handles to make scraping the deck easier without too much bending or kneeling. There’s often a curvature of some kind to the heads of these scrapers, too, matching the contours of the mower deck to get bits of grass that a regular flat scraper might not reach. These tools range in price: a steel lawn mower deck scraper costs $9.69 on the Walmart website, while the Grass-Hawk dual-bladed mower scraper is on the high end at $19.38 at Home Depot.
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3. A wire brush
With the aid of a scraper, most of the stuck-on lawn clippings will come off the mower deck. Still, this isn’t the end of the cleaning journey. From here, it’s a good idea to use another hand tool to refine your cleaning approach. A handheld wire brush is great for removing layers of dirt and grime that are too thin and stuck-on for a scraper to completely remove. Fortunately, this is another tool that doesn’t cost too much to add to your collection. An example like the Warner brass fine wire brush only costs $4.98 at Lowe’s.
As far as use, a wire brush isn’t difficult to figure out. Being mindful of the mower’s blades, just scrub the brush on the mower deck in a clockwise or counterclockwise direction until it looks nice and clean. To take it a step further, you could invest in an attachable long handle, provided your brush has screw holes or a peg to accept it. This way, you have some added reach and don’t have to get down on your hands and knees to vigorously scrub after every lawn mow. At any rate, don’t forget to clean out the bristles once you’re done to keep debris and bacteria from returning to the deck next time.
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4. A pressure washer
Even with the majority of the debris cleared by the scraper and brush, it’s still worth taking one last pass at your mower deck before putting it away. As mentioned, the mower deck wash port can help with cleaning, but there’s another way to use water to your advantage. A pressure washer is a great final method to clear off your mower deck, removing any remaining dirt and grass that somehow made it past the previous two tools. A sufficiently powerful unit for such a task can cost well under $200, include everything you need to get started, and come from reputable brands like Greenworks and Westinghouse. This is a comparatively costly buy, but it gets the job done.
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Just as there are pressure-washing mistakes that can ruin a car, there are some missteps to avoid when pressure-washing a mower deck. The biggest is spraying areas that shouldn’t be sprayed, like the engine. Introducing water into these areas can inhibit a mower’s function, creating a bigger issue than a dirty deck. There’s also the concern of too high a PSI, as you just want to clean, not remove paint or otherwise damage parts of the mower. To stay on the safe side, this more light-duty task calls for around 1,300 to 1,800 PSI, with anything over 2,000 moving into risky territory.
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5. An outdoor blower
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For the most part, a scraper, brush, and pressure washer should get just about everything off of your mower deck. With that said, there may be some hard-to-reach places they miss. On top of that, this job makes a mess, leaving you with an unsightly pile of lawn clippings on your driveway. On both fronts, an outdoor blower can make all the difference. Yes, even a cheaper, smaller, battery-powered unit that only costs around $50, like the one from Pulituo on the Walmart website, or the $98.24 Black and Decker unit from Home Depot.
First and foremost, a unit from any of the major blower brands is great for blowing grass and debris from areas on the mower that the other tools couldn’t reach. In fact, the aforementioned Black and Decker model even has a tapered cone for pushing air into small, narrow areas. As far as ground cleanup goes, blowers are generally intended to move grass and leaves off driveways and sidewalks. Of course, if you’re dealing with a pile of thick, wet grass, blowers below 100 mph may struggle. A higher-powered blower over 100 mph could be necessary, or at least some of the grass moved by hand first, with the blower used for a final clean.
California lawmakers are again considering A.B. 412, a bill that would require AI developers to identify and disclose copyrighted works used to train generative AI systems.
The problem this year is the same as last year: it’s practically impossible to comply with this law. The bill demands information that often does not exist, and cannot realistically be obtained.
EFF submitted an opposition letter to the California Senate Privacy Committee explaining why we continue to believe A.B. 412 is simply unworkable. To the extent developers do follow this law, it will have the effect of locking in the power of the largest companies in AI.
A Burden That Can’t Be Met
A.B. 412 sounds simple: just have AI developers create and keep a list of all the registered copyrighted works they use in AI training.
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That may seem straightforward. In practice, it’s anything but.
There is no machine-readable “list” of copyrighted works at the U.S. Copyright Office. And many copyright holders can get a copyright without even depositing a publicly viewable sample of the work—for example, software companies may register copyright on proprietary code without revealing it to the public.
And on the open internet, copyright information is often incomplete, unavailable, or impossible to verify. One image may be registered with the copyright office, while the next is licensed under a free Creative Commons license (like the images that EFF creates), and the next is public domain. A message forum user might post an original story, photograph, or poem without any indication of ownership or registration status.
The bill effectively asks developers to continuously cross-reference massive batches of online data against a copyright system that simply wasn’t designed to do so. If California passes A.B. 412, its impact will go far beyond the large AI companies we read about in the headlines.
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Not Just Big Tech
Supporters often frame this bill as a way to help creative workers have some leverage against Big Tech, but the bill reaches much further than the big AI companies.
Its definition of “developer” extends to anyone who makes a generative AI model available to Californians. That includes indie developers tinkering with an existing model, open-source initiatives, nonprofits, and other non-commercial efforts. Recent amendments added exemptions for universities and government entities, which is important, but that still leaves out a vast swathe of non-commercial tech work that’s done by people without full-time jobs in government or academia.
Large companies will hire compliance teams and lawyers to navigate these requirements. Smaller organizations and independent developers usually can’t. The result will be fewer opportunities for startups and new entrants. Faced with this massive compliance burden, some won’t even try.
Courts Are Already Deciding These Questions
The bill is premised on the idea that copyright owners currently don’t have good remedies if they’re mistreated by AI companies. That simply isn’t true. And the growing wave of federal court filings in this space proves it. Content companies that want to sue tech companies, large or small, have no problem doing so. Those courts are still working through important questions about fair use and transformative use. Some courts have already concluded that many AI training activities qualify as fair use. Others continue to evaluate the issue.
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California lawmakers should not rush to impose new state regulation while those questions remain unresolved. This is why copyright is governed at the federal level: both creators and fair users benefit from a single set of nationwide rules.
At this point, the bill remains a solution in search of a problem. Rights holders already have powerful tools to protect their interests under existing federal law. What this bill adds isn’t clarity or transparency, but a costly and essentially impossible compliance burden that will discourage small developers and researchers.
California has been able to support both artistic creativity and tech innovation for decades now. But A.B. 412 does not strike the right balance.
If you are a California resident and interested in speaking out about this bill, you can find and contact your representatives through this website.
Don’t get me wrong — I’m pretty darn excited for a Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time remake. But boy, I would have been so much more excited for a sequel instead.
If you’ve somehow missed it, at the most recent Nintendo Direct, we saw a brief teaser for a Switch 2 version of Ocarina of Time. Admittedly, the brief trailer is light on details — merely showcasing a cinematic intro for the iconic adventure with some voice acting and vastly improved graphics over the Nintendo 64 original — but the promise to return to Hyrule later this year has left many (myself included) ecstatic with the hope this is Zelda’s Resident Evil 2 Remakeequivalent.
Anyone who has touched Ocarina of Time knows why it’s regarded as one of the best games ever made. It perfectly translated the previously 2D-only series’ sense of adventure into a 3D world, and even close to three decades later, Ocarina’s Hyrule is a delight to explore — with its dungeons to solve, monsters to slay, and songs to learn.
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A return to this world with a graphical and gameplay overhaul — taking learnings from titles like Breath of the Wild — would be the perfect way to revisit the classic, and introduce it to a new generation.
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time – Nintendo Direct 6.9.2026 – YouTube
Though it doesn’t quite hold a candle to its direct sequel, Majora’s Mask.
The darker tone and the repeating three-day cycle create a claustrophobic aspect that pairs perfectly with the game’s expansive world and its various branching stories. You don’t have time to solve every problem at once, so you have to slowly piece together each puzzle through what you learn in previous cycles, and the items and abilities you unlock.
Majora’s Mask could easily have been a mess, but instead it pioneered the Groundhog Day-like genre, setting the bar for what time loop games should deliver.
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Everything is perfect… but ultimately unfinished too.
The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask Trailer – Nintendo 64 – Nintendo Switch Online – YouTube
Majora’s Mask picks up where Ocarina of Time ends, with Link on a quest to find his fairy companion Navi after she leaves him at the end of the first game.
While he does save yet another realm, his inciting quest doesn’t have a conclusion, as Majora’s Mask ends with Link venturing on once more to find his fairy friend.
While the Zelda series has had plenty more entries since these two games, it has long felt like there should be a third story in the Ocarina of Time duology — one that ties up this loose end adventure in some way.
So while I’m excited for a new Ocarina of Time, I am left desperately wishing we were getting a fresh follow-up instead, one that finally concludes this long-time Zelda series mystery rather than simply being the fourth Ocarina of Time re-release.
Why not both?
Wake me when Ocarina of Time 3 is here (Image credit: Nintendo)
My mixed feelings aside, this remake doesn’t rule out the possibility of a sequel. In fact, it could make one more likely as players are refamiliarized with the game’s story and finale.
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Adding to my hope (read: cope) is that we’re coming up fast on TheLegend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time’s 30th anniversary — which lands at the tail end of 2028. Concluding this mystery would be quite the birthday treat for longtime fans of this game.
Now that would be quite a swift turnaround time, but the Zelda series does comfortably hit one entry every couple of years — since 2023, the franchise has actually had a release every year if you count the Switch 2 Editions of Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom.
We’ll have to wait and see what Nintendo has up its sleeve, but as I play through Ocarina of Time on my Switch 2 later this year, I’ll be desperately hoping a brand-new sequel to it is just around the corner.
If there’s one appliance that you should have above all in your collection, it’s one of the best air fryers as vetted by our team of experts.
Air fryers are so popular now that it feels as if everyone has got one. These compact cookers are an ingenious bit of engineering, as they can easily fit atop most kitchen counters whilst also cooking food faster than traditional ovens.
While there are plenty of options to suit the amount you have set aside to buy an air fryer, it’s also worth getting a sense of what you want an air fryer for ahead of time, as this can whittle down the selection process. For instance, if you’re only cooking for yourself, then you’ll get on just fine with a single-drawer air fryer, but if you’re trying to feed a family, then you’ll feel right at home with a dual-drawer unit.
Because they sit on your countertop, we recommend taking a quick measurement of how much space you actually have to work with ahead of time. The last thing you want is to spend money on an air fryer, wait for it to arrive and then, when it finally appears, you realise that it doesn’t fit within your kitchen.
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As you can imagine, air fryers are far from the only kitchen appliance that our team of experts put to the test.
To help you build up a well-rounded set of devices that can cater to every type of food or drink request, be sure to read through our guides to the best coffee machines, best ovens and the best microwaves.
We cook real food in each air fryer, appropriate to each model, such as making chips, frying sausages and cooking frozen hash browns. This lets us compare quality between each air fryer that we test.
The best overall air fryer
Ninja Double Stack XL 9.5L Air Fryer SL400UK
Pros
Excellent results
Huge amount of cooking controls
Brilliant controls
Cons
Can be fiddly to turn food with dual-layer cooking
The best large air fryer
Ninja Foodi FlexDrawer Air Fryer 10.4L AF500UK
Pros
Easy to use
Excellent results
Huge amount of cooking space
Cons
Entire drawer has to be washed, even if you use half
The best air fryer for complete meals
Ninja Speedi 10-in-1 Rapid Cooker and Air Fryer ON400UK
Pros
Max complicated meals fast
Versatile range of cooking options
Steam air frying is incredible
Cons
Crisper plate fiddly to remove
Lower max temperature than some air fryers
The best oven and air fryer
Sage the Smart Oven Air Fry
Pros
Air fries, bakes and grills quickly
10 preset functions
22-litre capacity
Cons
Hard to clean by hand
Larger footprint than an air fryer
Pricey
The best air fryer for grilling
Tower T17076 10-in-1 Digital Air Fryer
Pros
Excellent selection of accessories
Easy to operate
Automatic programmes
Cons
Some accessories are fiddly
Maximum temperature 200ºC
Takes up space/storage issues
Best single-drawer air fryer
Dualit Air Fryer
Pros
Seven preset programmes
Good-sized cooking area
Dishwasher safe
Cons
Not suitable for large households
Substantial worktop footprint
Best for looks
Ninja Crispi Pro
Pros
Versatile functionality
Fast and even cooking
Clever glass dishes
Cons
More expensive than its predecessor by quite a margin
Best budget air fryer
Instant Pot Vortex Compact 5L Air Fryer
Pros
Great value
Easy to use
Cooks well
Cons
Crisper plate fits a little loosely
Best grill/air fryer
Ninja 5-in-1 Grill & Air Fryer EG351UK
Pros
High maximum temperature
Crispy air fry results
Powerful grill
Precision cooking with temperature probe
Cons
Doesn't reset interface when probe is unplugged
Best budget dual drawer
Cuisinart AirTwin XXL Dual-Zone Air Fryer AFD100
Pros
Great value
Lots of cooking modes
Crispy results
Cons
Doors a bit sticky
A little slow to cook
Best for crispy results
Instant Pot Vortex Dual Drawer 8L Air Fryer
Pros
Solid capacity
Reasonably fast and crispy results
Decent array of functions
Cons
Needs to pre-heat every time
Controls not as intuitive as rivals
Best for futuristic looks
Typhur Dome 2
Pros
Lots of cooking functions
Fast and even results
Space-age looks
Cons
Very expensive
Shallower basket can impede when cooking taller items
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How important are temperature settings?
Most air fryers work at a standard temperature of 200°C, which is required to crisp the outside of your food. If you find air fryers with higher temperature settings, they can cook food faster, which can be handy when dealing with frozen foods.
Can an air fryer do everything a deep fat fryer can do?
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Not quite. While you will see similar results for most food, air fryers aren’t very good when it comes to wet batters, such as for fish and chips. Here, you’ll find that the batter drips off and you won’t get even results. Most air fryers require you to remove the food and regularly shake it, too, in order to evenly coat food in oil. Some models have clever features and layouts to reduce this, but it’s something to keep in mind.
What accessories do I need?
Accessories vary by device. Some air fryers have optional basket separators, which let you cook different foods at the same time. Grill pans can help you cook other types of food. Some models even have muffin or cake trays, although you’ll probably find it easier to just use a regular oven.
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Is size important?
Make sure that you buy an air fryer large enough for your needs. If you’ve got a large family, then you’ll want a model that can cook enough chips for you all. Most budget models suffer from small baskets that are good for one or two people, so you may need to up your budget to get a larger model. A larger basket also upgrades what you can cook, with some models even managing an entire chicken.
A knee-jerk reaction or something more? Nvidia’s market cap dropped by almost $330 billion in 24 hours as the AI giant reeled from Broadcom’s poor guidance
Nvidia’s market cap tanked a mammoth 6% following weaker-than-expected guidance from rival chipmaker Broadcom
The stock erased $330 billion in Nvidia market cap, effectively losing its $5 trillion market cap crown briefly before regaining it in the same session
The behavior is in line with how high beta, or more volatile, chip and AI-linked stocks, respond to earnings
Nvidia remains the largest stock in the market with a $5 trillion market cap, but recent movements in the market, linked to another stock market darling, Broadcom, may have shaken the belief of some of its key proponents in a market increasingly wary about AI’s lofty valuations in 2026.
Broadcom’s recent earnings report underscored strong performance with in-line forecasts that reaffirmed its positioning as one of the most important chipmakers in a market that continues to pivot resources towards AI.
Despite this, Broadcom’s softer-than-expected forecast for future chip sales might have raised eyebrows in a market expecting back-to-back earnings beats, even as investors continue to look sideways for the next AI-centric winner, with SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic shaping up to be key IPOs to watch.
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A hitch on the road or a deeper fault line?
NVIDIA fell 6% in a single trading session on Friday, wiping out nearly $330 billion in market cap, even as its peers (AMD, Micron, and Qualcomm) saw drawdowns of more than 9% amid investor rotation out of chip stocks.
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While this is a far cry from the 19% Broadcom lost over 2 sessions, it does reflect increased concerns that AI growth rates will eventually taper off, even for the king of the hill.
The punishment for Nvidia ironically comes from Broadcom offering guidance of $16 billion in AI chip sales for Q3, versus a Wall Street consensus of $17.2 billion, and while some might reason that weaker sales could indicate a stronger product for Team Green, which has been selling its chips hand over fist the past few years, often being backordered months, if not years for its highest-end offerings.
There are external factors also in play here: while Nvidia initially shrugged off Broadcom’s price action, the situation was compounded by a hotter-than-expected May 2026 jobs report, gutting hopes of near-term Federal Reserve rate cuts — with some traders beginning to price in the possibility of a hike — and the combination of macro pressure, an impending Senate hearing on chip sales to China even as the US-Iran war continues to occupy global attention.
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Mixed investor sentiment
Nvidia did recover somewhat in the following trading session, trading up 1.7% on Monday before moving down slightly on Tuesday, and continues to be down in pre-market trading at the time of writing on Wednesday as investors continue to look for a direction even as SpaceX’s IPO launches soon.
Nvidia reports its annual earnings on August 26 2026, and while investors have high hopes from what many unequivocally consider the bulwark of the AI industry, much like Broadcom’s earnings affecting the entire sector, Nvidia’s own reporting earnings could shape investor sentiment for the entire segment.
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This could affect billions, if not trillions, of dollars in current and future investments in a sector that increasingly demands ever more accelerants to sustain its growth narrative, even as Chinese AI competitors continue to eye a larger slice of the pie.
Jon Prosser’s failure to respond to Apple’s initial lawsuit led to a default ruling against him, but Apple lawyers are willing to give him another shot if the judge approves.
Apple filed a lawsuit against Jon Prosser and Michael Ramacciotti alleging that they conspired to steal information about a pre-release version of iOS. An Apple employee, Ethan Lipnik, was fired after the event where the alleged conspirators accessed his test device.
For whatever reason, Prosser didn’t respond to Apple’s July 2025 lawsuit, leading to a default judgment being placed against him in October 2025. In the time since, Prosser has slowly begun to respond to court orders and has agreed to participate in discovery and deposition.
Since Prosser retained counsel in April and agreed to finally join in on the lawsuit against him, Apple has agreed that the default judgment should be set aside. According to the filing shared by9to5Mac, Judge Donato has to approve setting the default aside.
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If approved, the court will convene on June 16 for Prosser’s deposition. There is no telling what the results of this case will be, but Apple may seek barring Prosser from covering Apple leaks in the future.
Even as this lawsuit has gone on, Prosser has continued to share “leaks” pertaining to Apple, though they seem to be based on existing rumors or speculation. If he had sources before, they don’t appear to be active now.
Attackers are actively exploiting CVE-2026-5027, a high-severity path traversal vulnerability in the AI development platform Langflow, to write arbitrary files on exposed servers.
Langflow is an open-source visual platform for building AI applications, AI agents, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems, and MCP-based workflows using a drag-and-drop interface instead of traditional coding.
CVE-2026-5027 is a high-severity path traversal flaw in Langflow’s file upload functionality that fails to properly sanitize user-supplied filenames.
“The ‘POST /api/v2/files’ endpoint does not sanitize the ‘filename’ parameter from the multipart form data, allowing an attacker to write files to arbitrary locations on the filesystem using path traversal sequences (‘../’),” explains Tenable, which discovered the flaw at the start of the year.
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Tenable publicly disclosed the issue on March 27, 2026, more than two months after initially reporting it to the Langflow team without receiving a response.
Although Tenable did not mention a fix in its advisory, Snyk Security reported on March 30, 2026, that the issue was fixed in the langflow-base package version 0.8.3, while the Langflow application itself received a patch in version 1.9.0.
According to VulnCheck security researcher Caitlin Condon, their honeypots have now detected attackers exploiting the vulnerability to drop test files on vulnerable instances.
“Because Langflow enables unauthenticated auto-login by default, no credentials are required to reach the vulnerable endpoint, and a single unauthenticated request is sufficient to obtain a valid session token before proceeding with exploitation,” reads the researcher’s post on LinkedIn.
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Condon added that Censys scans identified roughly 7,000 publicly exposed Langflow instances. However, Censys data includes historical scan results from the previous 12 months and may not accurately reflect the number of systems currently exposed.
Exploitation of CVE-2026-5027 comes shortly after similar activity targeting other Langflow vulnerabilities earlier this year, including CVE-2026-0770, CVE-2026-21445, and CVE-2026-33017.
Last year, the U.S. Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) also warned about active exploitation of CVE-2025-3248, for which Condon says VulnCheck continues to observe activity, including activity linked to the Iranian threat group MuddyWater.
Langflow users are recommended to upgrade to the latest release, version 1.10.0, published earlier today.
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