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I thought this week‘s All-in Podcast was particularly good this week. youtube.com #

Material science papers still pulling out the most base abstracts after all these years. nature.com #

Instagram has a new logo theverge.com #

Under 15s social media ban blocked by courts in France theguardian.com #

Bluesky release Bluesky Protocol Services. atproto.com #

As much as I'm not a massive fan of intelligence agencies, I can't help but think Bond was a much better PR act for the UK than Bin Face. theguardian.com #

Scientists are studying agent turf wars. Kind of interesting. If you are into turf wars you will love this, otherwise if you are regular person quite worrying. techcrunch.com #

Solar eclipse above houses of parliament and Big Ben in London. theguardian.com #

Trump‘s board of peace issues first building contract. More US - EU passive aggressive geopolitics than you can shake a stick at. theguardian.com #

Just in case you haven‘t had your recommended dose of doom this week, scientists have discovered that black holes are exploding stars across the Milkyway galaxy. sciencedaily.com #

Another blog with 2 posts with the exact thing I have been researching the last few days, this time about the perils of webhooks weli.dev #

Runar writes about switching from Android to Linux on mobile runarcn.no #

In a presumably unreleated piece, Michael Lopp writes about how incredible the typography is in Blade Runner. randsinrepose.com #

There is an immortal jellyfish that can turn back into a baby and grow all over again. theguardian.com #

Bending Spoons well known for buy-to-renovate deals acquires Airtable. techcrunch.com #

Sebastian Pipping reports the City of Munich has contracted with him to work full time on XML parser library libexpat for up to 6 months. blog.hartwork.org #

Cloudflare release a stablecoin wallet for agents. blog.cloudflare.com #

Raymii got Linux and Windows running on his programmable calculator. raymii.org #

Amazon joins Nvidia, Microsoft, Alphabet and Apple in the $3 trillion dollar company club. cnbc.com #

Texas implements moratorium on approvals for the 1,800 data centre projects in the queue, representing over 474 gigawatts. texastribune.org #

Whitehouse establishes voluntary framework for evaluating advanced AI models. Is very economic with the details. axios.com #

Andros Fenollosa makes the case that modern CSS is better than Tailwinds CSS. en.andros.dev #

Apple Q3 revenue up 16%. businesswire.com #

Amazon Q2 revenue up 20%. businesswire.com #

SK Hynics and Samsung shares skyrocket after a dip. cnbc.com #

Reddit Q2 revenue up 60%. cnbc.com #

Google fixes more bugs in June than previous 2 years thanks to AI blog.google #

Jim Nielsen lists some AI Aesthetics he‘s noticed. blog.jim-nielsen.com #

Chris Coyier from the Shop Talk Show just released CodePen 2.0. chriscoyier.net #

SpaceX rocket heading for accidental collision with moon on wednesday. theguardian.com #

Almost every sensitive radiation detector built since 1945 relies on steel salvaged from ships that sank before the first nuclear test. spacedaily.com #

Johanna Larsson makes some interesting personal reflections vis-a-vis accountability and programming with LLMs. jola.dev #

Mark Zuckerberg: The AI Future Is for Everyone. wsj.com #

US diplomats stage walk out at France organised UN meeting. theguardian.com #

Apple $5 trillion company amid AI stock sell off. theguardian.com #

Buttons vs Links, and the Button Actions proposal. unplannedobsolescence.com #

FCC bans humanoid robots from China. theguardian.com #

Everyone is joining the Open Secure AI Alliance. thehackernews.com #

ChatGPT refuses to write in the style of a named author. arstechnica.com #

Amazon proposes a 5,105 satellite constallation for direct to device voice and data services, deployment beginning 2028 reuters.com #

AARomanov1985/Audio-Cassette-Simulation - simulate cassette tape audio profiles using ffmpeg. github.com #

Find out where particular fonts are used. fontsinuse.com #

The open vs closed debate in AI heats up. nytimes.com #

What Coding Felt Like in the 80s. comuniq.xyz #

Trump threatens EU with tariffs over fining US tech companies. theguardian.com #

Meshy that generates 3D assets from text and image AI prompts raises $400 million at a $1.5 billion valuation. techfundingnews.com #

Stripe in talks to buy OpenRouter. wsj.com #

Layoffs at Patreon maybe a sign creator economy is in difficulties. variety.com #

An unbelievably long winded critique of AT proto in uses involving private data. lukekanies.com #

The new big bad is model distillation. x.com #

John C. Dvorak OG tech writer and co-host of the No Agenda Podcast has died. RIP. news.ycombinator.com #

X rebuilds their Android app from scratch. techcrunch.com #

Musk says they will open source the entire X codebase with 3rd party verification. thenewstack.io #

Polymarket banned in France. reuters.com #

Andros Fenollosa writeup of his IndieWeb voyage of discovery. en.andros.dev #

Scientists make cells using lab made DNA for the first time. theguardian.com #

Looks like Meta Web Services is on the horizon. techcrunch.com #

The cast of Jackass become true brits. (via the youtube distopian panopticon algorithm) youtube.com #

Apple increases prices, Micron reports non-constructive market dynamics. wsj.com #

Blogger Om Malik has died. Was very popular in tech from the early 2000s. hn thread. om.co #

OpenKnowledge - Beautiful, AI-native markdown editor and LLM Wiki. github.com #

SpaceSail is China's answer to Starlink. theguardian.com #

Doctorow in the Guardian. theguardian.com #

South Korean memory giant SK Hynixs to list in US at $29 billion. taipeitimes.com #

Jim Nielsen and John Gruber on stating the obvious. blog.jim-nielsen.com #

OpenAI and Broadcom have a new inference chip called Jalapeño. Best name for a chip in quite a while imho. openai.com #

Micron and Scandisk apear to be the AI barometer at the minute. Big sell-off just happened. marketwatch.com #

Chinese giant Tencent is grtting out of japanese game studios. thenextweb.com #

Nuclear renaissance in Canada, 10 reactors by 2040. cbc.ca #

John Ternus plans to try and refocus Apple back to it's design roots. thenextweb.com #

Brandur looks at the zone of viability for saleable software in the age of LLMs. brandur.org #

Now everyone is talking about everything being doomy. Which of source is quite doomy. theguardian.com #

Cloudflare release temporary accounts for agents, so they can vibe unbounded. blog.cloudflare.com #

Matt Mullenweg writes about Midjourney's new ultrasonic full body scanner tech. ma.tt #

Norway to ban generative AI schools. thenextweb.com #

Spain attempts to refocus tourism on offbeat locations. theguardian.com #

Will the memory shortage result in devs optimising their code? news.ycombinator.com #

Protocols for agent use in enterpise - Enterprise managed authorisation for MCP. Sound good but also complicated. blog.modelcontextprotocol.io #

Greg Boone has no regrets switching to linux. greg.harmsboone.org #

There are actually 3 levels of gitignore. nelson.cloud #

Tim Cook says Apple prices will need to increase due to soaring memory prices. wsj.com #

Github adds capacity using AWS. runtimewire.com #

SpaceX buys Cursor for $60 billion. implicator.ai #

Running local models is good now. vickiboykis.com #

Bubbles - Hacker News but for blogs. bubbles.town #

Appreciation for the small web. jola.dev #

Miniflux 2 - a minimalist and opinionated feed reader. It's simple, fast, lightweight and super easy to install. github.com #

My page on bubbles.town. bubbles.town #

There's a movie about Anthony Bourdain coming out in August. thedailymeal.com #

SpaceX IPO goes well, Elon becomes first trillionaire. theguardian.com #

How much is a trillion dollars? g.co #

SpaceX is biggest IPO of all time @ $135 per share, raises $75 billion. nypost.com #

Coinbase launches agent that can trade on behalf of humans, uses the open x402 payment protocol. techcrunch.com #

Teardown of the gold Trump phone. ifixit.com #

DoorDash introduces AI to order food via photos and prompts. cnbc.com #

London is hot again: Anthropic, OpenAI, Cursor, Google, Databricks, Salesforce, Rivian and Palantir announce plans for new offices. cnbc.com #

Xiaomi says it's open source AI agent harness MiMo Code beats Claude in the 200+ multi-step tasks category. venturebeat.com #

Citi Group launches blockchain based tockenized private shares trading platform. cryptonews.com #

The British food scene is going bust. theguardian.com #

Apple settles on 2 local models alongside 3 private cloud models. machinelearning.apple.com #

Apple‘s new AI architecture powered by Gemini models. macrumors.com #

Nvidia announce DGX Station, a windows supercomputers you can put under your desk. interestingengineering.com #

The Pierre Computer Company have some cool looking libraries for file tree rendering and diff rendering. pierre.computer #

Kyle Daigle (COO @ Github) interview on Latent Space Podcast. latent.space #

Pope Leo checks out the new Ferrari. theguardian.com #

SpaceX goes after the AI compute market. datacenterdynamics.com #

April 2025: When X Web services? markjgsmith.com #

Marc Andreesen on AI Vampires. x.com #

Trump to speak with Taiwan. theguardian.com #

Vitalik Buterin says that formal verification tech might be in Etherium's future. decrypt.co #

Amazon Alexa can now create on demand AI generated talking heads podcasts on any topic. variety.com #

More limits to free X accounts. engadget.com #

The last six months in LLMs in five minutes. simonwillison.net #

Claude, Gemini and Grok all tried to be radio hosts. Things got weird. theverge.com #

Cyprus Hill: Insane in the Brain. youtu.be #

British youtuber Shady goes for a walkabout at the "far right" rally in London. Seems a lot more chill than what the MSM is reporting. youtu.be #

Swatch watches are trending. theguardian.com #

Drum & Bass: The Movement - A D&B Documentary. youtube.com #

The teams behind ESA’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) spacecraft and NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft co-ordinate to observe both sides of 3I/Atlas interstellar comet at the same time. sci.news #

Just another water cooler discussion about AI psychosis engulfing entire companies in tech. news.ycombinator.com #

Epic - "Issue tracking for terminal dwellers". TUI based on git, vim-inspired. Looks pretty cool. ljtn.github.io #

Jason Scott has been digitizing a collection of 25000 manuals. Very retro geek. Interesting designs. ascii.textfiles.com #

Trump and the Nasdaq dreamtime visit and "pay respects" to president Xi in China. theguardian.com #

In completely unrelated news, oldest giant dinausor found in South East Asia weighing as much as 9 elephants. bbc.com #

40 million Kenyans get a bitcoin lightning address. Very cool. x.com #

Jorijn Schrijvershof is not happy with Github. I'm hearing this a lot recently. He is moving to self hosted Forgejo. jorijn.com #

Simon Willison has been using LLM in script shebang lines. til.simonwillison.net #

Mecha robots are here. Probably nothing to worry about. youtube.com #

Wondering if there will be a surge in rocket launcher company sales fueled by anti-mecha robot preppers. en.wikipedia.org #

Anthropic signs deal with SpaceXAI to use their Colossus 1 supercomputer, and interested to partener in developing "AI Orbital Compute". x.ai #

Simon Willison on the nuances of vibe coding vs agentic engineering. simonwillison.net #

The MSM narrative seems to be that superpowers like US and China are about to crack down on AI. wsj.com #

Multi-stroke text effects in CSS are kind of trippy. yuanchuan.dev #

Boston Dynamics C-Suite exodus. semafor.com #

Blackberry are still making software, for cars. wsj.com #

Chinese courts are baring companies from laying off employees to replace thyem with AIs. techinasia.com #

Maryland bands surveillance pricing in grocery stores theguardian.com #

People in China, according to the Guardian are Starmermaxxing. theguardian.com #

Jim Nielsen on Little HTML pages losely joined. Very interesting. blog.jim-nielsen.com #

Dave Rupert on small language models (SMLs) in the browser. daverupert.com #

2024: LLMs in the browser - I wonder how long it will take until someone tries to integrate one of these directly into a web browser. markjgsmith.com #

Protests against Japan PM Takaichi changing pacifist constitution. theguardian.com #

The Musk vs Altman trial begins. thenextweb.com #

YouTube Multiview - Watch 4 live streams at once. support.google.com #

The missing US scientists conspiracy has hit the mainstream. Also, aliens. theguardian.com #

Nigel Farage billionaire backer Christopher Harborne is a crypto tycoon. theguardian.com #