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Vol. 2026 · No. 174
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Tue · Jun 23 · 2026
The stack 4 picks · curated
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Hacker News 1485 c · 1746 pts

Steam Machine launches today

Valve's living-room PC, the Steam Machine, goes on sale — a $1,049 box that ships June 29 but is expected to sell out almost immediately. It's Valve's second swing at the console-shaped PC, this time riding the SteamOS momentum from the Steam Deck.

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Stratechery today · paywalled

Memory chips and China, Microsoft and Chinese models

Ben Thompson connects the memory-chip supply crunch to China's leverage over the AI build-out, and reads Microsoft's growing willingness to host Chinese open-weight models as a hedge against frontier-lab dependence.

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Simon Willison yesterday

Prompt injection as role confusion

Willison reframes prompt injection not as a filtering problem but as the model losing track of who is speaking — system, developer, user, or tool output — and argues the durable fixes are architectural (role separation) rather than better blocklists.