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About The Circuitry

One place for all of technology. Real, sourced, checked.

The source, not the echo — our scoops come from the filing, the advisory, the release itself.

If it's in The Circuitry, it's true.

Hey, I'm Xavier. I built The Circuitry because I'd lost track of what was actually going on. I'd scroll X for hours, jump to news sites, then Facebook, then half a dozen other apps, and every time I closed everything I felt like I'd missed the story. There was no single place where every part of it was covered, factually, organized cleanly, where I could glance once and know what mattered.

So that's what this is. Every sector of technology pulled into one place: tech, gaming, markets, energy. Organized cleanly, checked against the original report before anything ships. No more scrolling for hours, no more tab-juggling, no more wondering who got the facts right.

Every story is sourced. Every claim is checked. When we get something wrong, we say so out loud at /corrections. That's the promise. More about Xavier Rivera.

STORIES

1,023

VERIFIED

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SOURCES

91

CORRECTIONS

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How It Works

01 INGEST

RSS feeds, a live X firehose of watched accounts, and primary-source filings (SEC and the like), around the clock.

02 FILTER

Politics, fluff, and off-scope (entertainment, sports) get dropped. Only Tech, Gaming, Markets, Energy.

03 WRITE

Most items become short Feed posts. Full articles are the exception — scoops, synthesis, high-importance.

04 CHECK

Every article is fact-checked against the original source before it can earn VERIFIED. If it can’t be traced, it doesn’t ship.

05 DELIVER

It goes live on the site, to @thecircuitry_ and Bluesky, and into The Brief — the morning email.

The Rules

No speculation. No invented details. If a story can't be checked against a real source, it doesn't run. If a rumor is more than six months out, it doesn't run. If a leak has no named source behind it, it doesn't run anywhere.

Not everything real deserves 600 words. Credible, sourced news that's too small or too early for a full article runs as a short post on the Feed — clearly attributed, labeled for what it is, never dressed up as more.

No celebrity gossip, no awards drama, no music news, no sports. The scope is Tech, Gaming, Markets, and Energy. Adjacent stuff (game-IP movies, AI-in-Hollywood disputes, big-tech acquisitions of non-tech companies) comes through under whichever section fits closest.

How We Verify

Every article goes through an AI-powered fact-check pipeline before it earns a VERIFIED badge.

01 SOURCE CHECK  ·  The original source URL is fetched and compared against the article's claims. Key facts, quotes, and figures are cross-referenced.

02 LIVE WEB SEARCH  ·  A secondary search confirms details against multiple independent sources across the web.

03 VERDICT  ·  Articles that pass both checks are marked VERIFIED. Those with discrepancies are flagged NEEDS REVIEW for manual inspection.

Not every article is verified instantly. The pipeline runs continuously, prioritizing the latest stories first. An unverified article hasn't been processed yet; it's not a claim of inaccuracy.

The Feed

The Feedis the whole day on one screen. Short, plain-language posts covering everything happening across tech, gaming, markets, and energy — the stories that matter but don't need a full article, each one sourced and attributed. Read top to bottom and you're caught up.

It's built to be left. Step away for an hour or a day, come back, and pick up right where you stopped — the list never reorders under you while you read. New posts wait at the top behind a counter until you ask for them, so catching up is one tap, not a hunt for where you were.

The Feed updates itself all day as the engine clears new stories. No refresh, no app, no algorithm deciding what you see — just the news, newest first.

The Brief

The whole day in tech, verified — one email. Two minutes, free forever.

Sections

Everything tech, organised four ways. Click into any of these to scope the feed.

Source Trust Tiers

Not every outlet gets the same trust. Sources are classified into four tiers. The tier affects how the classifier handles stories from that outlet, whether rumor-style headlines can pass, and how strictly we cross-check claims at fact-check time. Full source list lives at /sources.

T1 · WIRE & FIRST-PARTY

Wire services, top-tier journalism, and official first-party platform channels. Highest trust. These sources break or confirm news, they don't guess.

BloombergReutersWall Street JournalFinancial TimesThe InformationNew York TimesMicrosoft Security BlogWindows BlogXbox WirePlayStation Blog

T2 · NAMED REPORTERS & MAJOR OUTLETS

Reporters with established track records and the major tech outlets that employ them. Trusted to source their own stories and label speculation correctly.

Mark GurmanMing-Chi KuoThe VergeTechCrunchArs TechnicaWiredCNBC TechNASASpaceflightPractical 365Video Games Chronicle

T3 · FOCUSED OUTLETS

Domain-specialist outlets, usually focused on a single sector. Reliable on their beat, less polished editorial process than T2.

9to5MacElectrekMacRumorsBleepingComputerEngadgetKotakuPure XboxPush SquareNintendo Life

T4 · EVERYTHING ELSE

Default tier for sources not yet classified. Stories from T4 sources face stricter verification before they can earn a VERIFIED badge.

Regional outletsSmaller blogsNew entrants under evaluation

Honest About the AI

I use AI to help run this. That's how one person can cover tech, gaming, markets, and energy all at the same time. There's no way I'd read every source feed on my own. The model reads the feeds, drafts the summaries, and runs a fact-check pass against every article before it's allowed to publish.

The rules the model follows are mine. I don't read every item before it ships. If something feels off, that's on me — and it goes in the corrections log.

Nothing here is invented. The fact-check pass exists specifically to catch hallucinated quotes and fabricated numbers. If a draft can't be traced back to a real source, it doesn't ship. When something slips past anyway, it goes in the corrections log, in public, with a timestamp.

How It’s Funded

Reading is free and stays free. To pay for it, the site runs display ads — served by Adsterra, banner-only, always labeled, and kept brand-safe (no adult, gambling, or dating ads). They sit apart from the journalism and never influence what gets covered or how it’s verified — the editorial firewall is absolute.

Some readers also chip in directly through Buy Me a Coffee, which keeps the lights on without a paywall.

The full breakdown of ad cookies and your opt-out is on the privacy page.

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Xavier Rivera

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