Waymo recalls 3,800 robotaxis after glitch allowed some vehicles to 'drive into standing water' — Waymo issued a voluntary recall of about 3,800 of its robotaxis to fix software issues that could allow them to drive into flooded roadways.
Gaethje shocks Topuria to win UFC lightweight title at White House event — In perhaps the biggest upset in UFC history, Gaethje becomes champion after Topuria's corner stops fight.
Record 24.4M watched USMNT's World Cup win, per Fox Sports — The U.S.' victory against Bosnia-Herzegovina on Wednesday night was the most-watched soccer telecast in English language history with more than 24.4 million viewers, according to Fox Sports.
Amazon Announces Multibillion-Dollar Data Center in Missouri – narracomm
Tim Cook among CEOs confirmed for President Trump’s China trip - 9to5Mac — The White House has reportedly confirmed that Apple CEO Tim Cook will be among the executives accompanying President Trump on his trip to China this week.
Mechanical TV Lab — Live Nipkow Disk Simulator — Physics-accurate Nipkow disk simulation running live in your browser. Baird 30-line, Jenkins 48, German 180-line, CBS Colour.
MacBook Neo is So Popular That Apple Reportedly Doubled Production — On an earnings call in late April, Apple's CEO Tim Cook said that customer response to the MacBook Neo was "off the charts," and the popularity of the laptop has reportedly led the company to significantly boost
The 4 Android Auto settings you need to change before your road trip — Small tweaks make for smoother rides.
Datadog veterans launch AI coding startup Niteshift on a bet against Big AI lock-in | TechCrunch — AI coding agent startup Niteshift has raised a $7 million seed round from a who's who of angels. It's betting companies will want power over, not lock-in with model makers.
13 years and $500 million for a stage adapter? Report justifies NASA cancellations. — Contract values for these efforts ballooned from nearly $2.8 billion to $5.9 billion."

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Best Samsung deal: Save $80 on the Samsung Galaxy Watch 8 — A Mashable Choice winner, the Samsung watch is a great alterative to an Apple Watch.
Investor Who Scored 900% Win in 2008 Crisis Has New Big Short Bet — Hedge fund manager Lee Robinson notched a 900% gain during the global financial crisis by turning a $20 million position into $200 million with timely bets against the US subprime mortgage sector.
Downdetector and Speedtest sold to Accenture for $1.2 billion — Downdetector and Speedtest will soon be under new ownership.
Performing Arts: Stories in Every Setup | Avni Bansal | TEDxDIA Youth — Dance is all about expression but what is expression without emotion? People often assume that showing emotion only requires hours of practice, but that is not all that dance asks of us. Dance is all about…
The Human-Trafficking Victim Next Door — A young girl was brought from Guinea to a wealthy suburb near Dallas. She spent the next sixteen years of her life in forced servitude, Yudhijit Bhattacharjee reports.
Bloomberg Surveillance 6/12/2026 — Jonathan Ferro, Lisa Abramowicz and Annmarie Hordern speak daily with leaders and decision makers from Wall Street to Washington and beyond. No other program better positions investors and executives for the trading day. (Source: Bloomberg)
Trump Seeks Iran Offramp — President and Founder of Eurasia Group and GZERO Media Ian Bremmer joins David Gura and Christina Ruffini on Bloomberg This Weekend to discuss how in the face of the United States failing to achieve any of the war goals given at the beginning of the…
Copy Fail, Dirty Frag, and Fragnesia kernel vulnerabilities – Gentoo Linux — News and information from Gentoo Linux
Foldable 'iPhone Ultra' Rumored to Feature Vapor Chamber Cooling Despite Thin Design — Apple's first foldable iPhone, known as the "iPhone Ultra," will feature impressive vapor chamber cooling and launch in September despite production difficulties, a known leaker today reported.
GitHub - HelixDB/helix-db: HelixDB is an OLTP graph-vector database built in Rust. — HelixDB is an OLTP graph-vector database built in Rust. - HelixDB/helix-db
The mist that keeps the Tyne Tunnels safe — At the Tyne Tunnels, I get very wet and cold underneath a river... but not how you might expect. | AD: 🪒 Less razor burn, less waste, and 100 free blades: https://hensonshaving.com/tomscott | 🗺️ Series map: https://www.tomscott.com/en
I returned to AWS - and was reminded HARD why I left. — I was one of the very first advocates for AWS back when it was brand new - SQS, S3, EC2 SimpleDB - it was a lot smaller back then. In fact I...
Reverse engineering the Creative Katana V2X soundbar to be able to control it from Linux | nns.ee — Ethical Hacking and Cybersecurity Blog
Apple Silicon costs more than OpenRouter — Local LLMs can be very very cheap
The Brilliant "Prep-Ahead" Summer Salad That Stays Super Crunchy — We’re serving this all season.
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....
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Ebola patients recover in DRC amid claims of outbreak hoax — Seven patients have left an Ebola treatment centre in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, having recovered.
CUDA Proves Nvidia Is a Software Company — There’s a deep, forbidding moat that surrounds Nvidia—and it has nothing to do with hardware.
Who am I? Guess World Cup star No 12 — Will you get today's player in as few attempts as possible?
Run isolated sandboxes with full lifecycle control: AWS Lambda introduces MicroVMs | Amazon Web Services — AWS launches a new serverless compute primitive, AWS Lambda MicroVMs. VM-level, isolated sandboxes with no shared kernel or resources between sessions. Rapid launch and…
Why is France so invested in the future of Lebanon? — Analysts say France is hoping to reassert its diminishing influence in the region.
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Meta pauses employee tracker for AI training amid privacy concerns — About 1,600 workers signed petition against tool that tracked staff keystrokes, mouse clicks and computer screen content
NASA Space Roboticist Challenge - NASA — The Fly Foundational Robots (FFR) mission will launch a robotic arm, with seven degrees of freedom, to low Earth orbit. NASA is opening access to the robotic
Fed and BOE Stay Guarded After 100 Days of Iran War — For several global central banks, the question of whether the Iran war poses more of an immediate danger to inflation or to growth is likely to remain open in the coming week.
'They can kill you': Immigrants fear a surge in xenophobic violence in South Africa — Foreign-owned businesses have been attacked, migrants driven from their homes, and several killed. A leading xenophobic group has given all undocumented immigrants until June 30 to leave the…
The Hidden Engineering of Niagara Falls — All the things I love about Niagara Falls The same thing that makes Niagara Falls impressive for tourists (the big drop) makes it valuable for power and a major challenge for shipping. And out of that comes all kinds of fascinating infra
Trump Says Iran Deal Done, Turning Attention Back to Russia at G7 — Evelyn Farkas, executive director of the McCain Institute, said that the US may incentivize further talks with Iran by unfreezing some assets seized during the course of the conflict after a short-term deal is si
Trump halts $1.8bn ‘anti-weaponisation’ fund amid bipartisan backlash — The announcement comes after Trump met with congressional Republicans over concerns about his settlement with the IRS.
7 open-source apps that will help you cancel your pricey subscriptions — Sometimes the best option is free.
Recommended Reading: 'Ultimate Collector Watches' From Taschen Offers A Scholarly Approach To Watch Books — More than just pictures, the new two-volume set features in-depth research on some of the rarest watches in the world.
Anatomy of a Failed (Nation-State?) Attack — A fake-interview scam tried to backdoor my machine with PinpinRAT, hidden in a malicious TypeScript patch. Analysis of the attack, payload, and indicators of compromise.
SurrealDB 3.x by the numbers | Blog | SurrealDB — Fresh SurrealDB 3.x benchmarks: 141k ops/s CRUD, scans 164× faster than 2.x, and head-to-head numbers vs. Postgres, Mongo, Neo4j, and Redis.
He made your free video player run smoothly. Now he's doing that for robots. | TechCrunch — French serial entrepreneur and open-source legend Jean-Baptiste Kempf has been building Kyber, an infrastructure layer to control remote devices in real time.
I Put a Datacenter GPU in My Gaming PC for £200 — I bought a datacenter GPU that doesn't fit in a normal motherboard, macgyvered the fan with jumper wires, and now I'm running a model that ties with Claude Sonnet 4.6 on benchmarks, all for £200.
Mass shooting with at least 10 attackers in Johannesburg — A manhunt is underway for at least 10 suspects in a mass shooting that left 12 people dead near Johannesburg.
Google Wants to Release 32 Million Mosquitoes in California and Florida. Here's Why — The company is asking the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for permission to release millions of sterilized mosquitoes to fight their disease-spreading counterparts
This Spillway Failed On Purpose — An overview of fuse plug and fusible gate spillways ⚙️ Check out SendCutSend for custom parts fabricated from your CAD: http://sendcutsend.com/practicalengineering Most of the largest dams in the world have gated spillways with whole teams of st
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NYT Strands hints, answers for June 30, 2026 — Every hint, nudge and outright answer you need to complete today's NYT Strands puzzle.
GitHub - krauseler/muxcard: A literal credit-card sized computer with E-Paper display, ESP32 and NFC. — A literal credit-card sized computer with E-Paper display, ESP32 and NFC. - krauseler/muxcard
Spotify's AI bet: more of everything, less of what you want | TechCrunch — Spotify has released a bunch of AI-powered tools that nudge users to create more content. It can be a bit much.
NVIDIA and LG Group Build an AI Factory to Advance Physical AI, Mobility and AI Infrastructure — New AI factory to serve as the foundation for LG Group’s robotics, autonomous driving, data center technologies and GPU cloud services.
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A Greyscale iPhone Setup that Works in Everyday Life ⋅ Prof. Dr.-Ing. Fabian Hemmert — I'm driven by the belief that we must not sacrifice our humanness for technology.