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You know it’s your girl! #TEDTalks — Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

GoPro warned it may not survive. The AI memory crunch is killing companies that make things people hold. — Memory prices rose 80-115%. Revenue fell 26%. GoPro warned of "substantial doubt" about its ability to continue. It's exploring a sale or pivot to defence.

Sony upgraded its wearable AC so it’s cooler and better at hugging your neck — The new Reon Pocket Pro Plus was also redesigned so it’s easier to vent warm exhaust away from you.

AI Chip Component Costs: Memory at 63% | Epoch AI — High-bandwidth memory (HBM) accounts for 63% of AI chip component costs, up from 52% in Q1 2024. Epoch AI's breakdown of component cost shifts across major chip designers.

AI agent runs amok in Fedora and elsewhere — Agentic AI systems can be used to do a variety of things autonomously on behalf of a human user [...]

Sources: Golden Knights' appeal of NHL sanctions denied — The Vegas Golden Knights have lost their appeal of NHL-imposed sanctions for not making the team available to the media, meaning coach John Tortorella's fine and a loss of a second-round draft pick stands.

China wants more robots but not fewer workers — A human-first approach to automation

Extreme heat warning extended to four days as temperatures could hit 38C — A Met Office amber weather warning for heat comes into force on Monday and will now last through to Thursday.

Apple updates App Store rules for betting apps in Brazil - 9to5Mac — Following changes to local betting regulation, Apple now requires a Brazilian betting license for fixed-odds betting apps on the App Store.

International cyber attack disrupts swath of universities and schools — A hacking group breached the academic software Canvas, used by thousands of schools and universities across the globe.

Advice | BBC Sky at Night Magazine — Expert advice to help you get the most out of stargazing, from DIY projects to practical astronomy tips.

French Open experts' picks: Who will win? — With Carlos Alcaraz out, can anyone beat Jannik Sinner for the men's French Open title? Will Coco Gauff repeat? Our experts weigh in.

How sunburn inspired a new way to store energy — Molecules that can capture heat could be a useful technology to decarbonise heating.

Can floating data centres meet AI's huge energy demand? — A US start-up is putting autonomous data centres in the ocean, powered by wave energy, but experts warn that the harsh environment could make maintenance challenging

How I Moved My Digital Stack to Europe — On digital sovereignty, and why European cloud is better than you think

GitHub is having some major issues right now… — Get the free 80,000 Hours career guide - https://80000hours.org/fireship GitHub is easily the most important website in software engineering but a wave of recent issues has led several 10x developers to jump ship. What's going on?

Court grants Apple’s request to seek Samsung documents in DOJ antitrust case - 9to5Mac — The court has approved Apple’s request to seek documents from Samsung in South Korea in its ongoing antitrust case against the DOJ.

The 50-year quest to create a quantum spin liquid may finally be over — Creating quantum entanglement inside a solid material is tricky in the lab – but crystals buried in the earth could be growing it naturally. Now one scientist says he has proof he’s found them

Whoop will soon offer users in-app video consultations with licensed clinicians - Engadget — Clinicians will be able to see users’ health data.

Pixelated 099: Should we be worried about the Pixel 11? — On this week's episode of Pixelated, Damien, Abner, and Will look at the latest Pixel 11 leaks and Google's new Fitbit Air.

The Pulse: Antigravity 2.0 takes ‘IDE’ out of its new IDE — Feedback about the redesigned IDE is overwhelmingly negative due to bugs, poor UX & model support, and eating through Gemini token quotas. Also: a clue that Antigravity’s own devs use other tools for their work?

Moment Blue Origin rocket explodes during test in Florida — A Blue Origin New Glenn rocket exploded on a launch pad at Cape Canaveral in Florida on Thursday night.

Tierra Whack to Open New (Whack’s Museum) Mixtape on Juneteenth — The rapper also shared a phone number for fans to “text your apologies”

Docker images are hundreds of MB; a full game engine compiles to 35MB WASM — A full 3D game -- renderer, physics engine, scripting runtime -- exported to WebAssembly is 35MB. The default Node.js Docker image is hundreds of MB, pulled 19 million times last week.

Google stopped a zero-day hack that it says was developed with AI — Hackers are also targeting AI agents.

someone built a keyboard that types only in questions — every key produces a different interrogative. the creator says they haven't owned a statement since 2019

someone built a keyboard that types only in questions — every key produces a different interrogative. the creator says they haven't owned a statement since 2019

Debug Project — Bad mosquitoes spread disease. Good mosquitoes stop them. We're using technology to raise and release good mosquitoes.

Are players at Wimbledon already split on prize money protests? — Four-time major champion Aryna Sabalenka says she hopes the world's leading players will not have to boycott their Grand Slam media duties again over prize money protests.

Report: macOS 27 to feature UI tweaks to address some Tahoe design complaints - 9to5Mac — Apple is preparing to roll out a ‘slight redesign’ for the next version of macOS, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman....

Best Prime Day fitness tracker deals 2026: Fitbit and Garmin down to record-low prices — The Fitbit Charge 6 is now on sale.

How do you design a $30,000 electric pickup? Inside Ford's skunkworks. — We tour Ford’s top-secret Electric Vehicle Development Center in California.

Anyone on the Internet Can Ring Your Doorbell — Behind a cheap Temu doorbell sits an IoT backend where device IDs are sequential and requests are forgeable with a string baked into every firmware. One signed call lifts any device's persistent password and lets anyone on the Inter

Print with dozens of colors: Our new open-source ColorMix for EasyPrint and PrusaSlicer - Original Prusa 3D Printers — For the past few months, the 3D printing community has been poking at a very interesting question: what if a multi-material printer were not limited to the color

What’s new in Android's May 2026 Google System Updates [U] — The monthly “Google System Release Notes” primarily detail what’s new in Play services, Play Store, and Play system update across...

ICC judges sue Trump over sanctions, call measures unlawful — Judges argue sanctions aimed to punish and coerce ICC decisions on US and Israeli war crimes cases.

Noah Kahan Asks Concertgoers Not To Shit In Their Seats — Yesterday Noah Kahan asked his fans to stop stealing his hometown’s road sign, and now he’s asking them to not shit their seats at his shows. Whereas Olivia Rodrigo recently made headlines after discussing concertgoers…

10 weird OSS projects you need to know about... — Get $1,000 in Hyperagent inference credits: https://www.hyperagent.com/fireship Apply to the Founding 500 to get $20k for your project: https://www.hyperagent.com In today's video, we'll look at 10 new open source projects that

Removing the Modem and GPS from my 2024 RAV4 Hybrid — Modern cars are computers on wheels that send home nonstop telemetry about you. In this post I remove my 2024 RAV4 Hybrid's modem and GPS to prevent that :)

All the bugs they found — Last year I wrote a small WASM runtime in Go. How many security vulnerabilities do you think AI agents found in it?

$2 Billion CHIPS Act Investment in Quantum Bets on IBM's 300mm Superconducting Silicon — IBM's CHIPS Act Investment of $2 billion establishes Anderon, America's first pure-play quantum chip foundry as part of investments in nine companies.

Gemini, Gophers, and Fingers. Oh My! Alternative Internets Beyond HTTPS — Finger from 1971, Gopher from 1991, and Gemini from 2019. These protocols offer decentralized, terminal-based alternatives to the modern web. The small web's is in a renaissance. On the solarpunk philosophy

Your fingers are actually a clock — Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

WWDC 2026: Apple is Folding – Cupertino Lens — The sample app at this year's Platform State of the Union was a place to relax. An origami app. A place, as Maribeth from the Foundation Models team put it, "to unwind and get creative with paper." The demo involved generating paper

Tech firms are blaming AI for mega device and console price rises — Xbox consoles, Nintendo's new Switch 2 and Valve's Steam Deck are just some of the gadgets seeing price hikes in recent months.

Slowdown of AMOC ocean current may be gradual and reversible — Scientists worry that a surge of meltwater from Greenland could irreversibly collapse the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, but new modelling suggests the weakening of the current could be reversed if CO2…

Singer Oliver Tree among six killed in Brazil helicopter collision — Two helicopters collided in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, killing six people, including American musician Oliver Tree.

Valve raises Steam Deck prices by more than $200 — A big Steam Deck price hike.

Sigma 45mm f/2.8 Lens Repair & Analysis | Salvaged Circuitry — I stumbled across a broken Sigma 45mm f/2.8 Art lens for a very cool $58.65 USD that I simply could not resist. I've been eyeing an AF lens in the 50mm range for my recent endeavors with L-mount cameras and this looke

'It's like we don't exist': Nearly 50,000 Lake Tahoe residents face power loss as utility redirects lines to data centers | Fortune — Roughly 49,000 Lake Tahoe residents could lose 75% of their power after their energy provider said it's directing energy to neighboring data cente

Biohub releases a world model of protein biology — Open AI models used for a wide range of scientific applications, including accelerating the design of therapeutic molecules.

Google to pay SpaceX $920 million a month for compute capacity at xAI data centers — Ahead of a planned IPO, SpaceX inked a deal to rent compute capacity to Google for $920 million per month for 32 months.

A Lonely Adolescent Summer, Set to “Bad Moon Rising” — To an eleven-year-old in a Long Island suburb, Creedence Clearwater Revival’s 1969 hit sounded like it came from somewhere distant, deep, and haunted.

Google Chrome's Next Update Will Mark the End of Popular Ad Blockers - Slashdot — Google is removing Chrome's last remaining workarounds for Manifest V2 extensions, effectively ending support for legacy ad blockers such as the original uBlock Origin. 9to5Google reports:…

Python 3.15: features that didn't make the headlines — It's that time of the year again, a new version of Python is just around the corner. With the Python 3.15.0b1 feature freeze, we know what's...

Papa Johns Is Getting Into Drone Delivery—but Not for Pizza — A new collaboration with Alphabet’s Wing will only deliver sandwiches. It demonstrates the tricky parts of taking to the sky.

Scheffler makes move but US Open is Clark's to lose — Wyndham Clark takes a six-shot lead into the final round of the US Open but will have world number one Scottie Scheffler for company on Sunday.

Google workspace threatening to block firefox access — Google workspace threatening to block firefox

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