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Theo on tech · June 17th
storyflo · tech·22 minMobileye’s next move is to run its own robotaxi fleet, not just supply the tech. They’re wiring the service straight into their Moovit platform, so the booking app, driver dispatch and vehicle monitoring all live under one roof. The rollout starts with roughly a hundred self‑driving vans next year, then they’ll scale toward the tens of thousands if the pilot holds up. It’s a way for the company to collect real‑world data and prove the whole stack works end‑to‑end, while still keeping the doors open for OEM partners. Meanwhile, Hisense has quietly filled a niche that most big brands ignored: a small, design‑forward QLED for bedrooms or kitchens. The Déco comes in 32‑ or 43‑inch sizes, wrapped in a white, sculpted frame that blends into décor instead of shouting “tech.” It uses quantum‑dot panels to boost color range, so even at Full HD you get richer blacks and brighter hues than a typical LED. The built‑in Fire TV remote means you get smart features without extra clutter, and the whole unit snaps together without tools. Google just pushed its on‑device parental‑control suite out to every Android phone that can run version 17. The same screen‑time caps, app blocks and nightly lock‑downs that lived on Pixel phones now appear everywhere, all protected by a PIN and tied into Family Link. It’s a modest but useful step toward a more kid‑friendly Android ecosystem. Snap’s newest Specs glasses ditch the external puck and go full‑on with a liquid‑crystal‑on‑silicon display inside the frames. At $2,195 they’re positioned as a developer‑first platform, offering utility tricks like real‑time translation, a virtual tape measure and a large private display for work or media. The company is betting that early adopters will explore shared AR experiences, turning a single‑user device into a collaborative workspace.
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storyflo · tech·11 minTheo on tech · June 16th
__DEGRADED__ From storyflo. This is your daily audio brief for June 16th. Theo here. June 16th, tech desk. Five stories from the last twenty-four hours — here's where I'd start. Let's get into it. First, from Ars Technica. Users cry foul after AMD stripped memory crypto from its consumer CPUs. What’s odd is that AMD quietly pulled the Transparent Secure Memory Encryption feature from its consumer Ryzen line, something they’d been adding for years to guard against cold‑boot attacks. The change shows up only on Windows as a silent drop, while on Linux you have to hunt through kernel logs to see the flag disappear. No notice, no explanation—just a terse reply that TSME is now a PRO‑only tech. People who grew used to that extra layer feel blindsided, especially since the hardware itself hasn’t changed; it’s just a firmware tweak. Until AMD clarifies why they rolled it back, the community is left guessing and a bit uneasy. Next. Second, from Ars Technica. UK to ban social media for kids under 16, may impose overnight curfews. The UK government announced today that it will ban social media for all kids under the age of 16 in rules expected to take effect in spring 2027. The ban will apply to platforms including Snapchat, TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, and X. "We’re going further than any country in the world by banning social media for under-16s and putting wider protections in place to give kids their childhood back," Prime Minister Keir Starmer said in the announcement. In addition to the ban on social media, Starmer's government said it will impose "world-leading blocks on harmful functions such as livestreaming and stranger communication with children for under-16s... Restrictions on these functionalities will also be on by default for 16- and 17-year-olds to prevent a cliff-edge at 16." The livestreaming and stranger-contact rules would apply to a range of services, such as online gaming. Up next. Third, from Slashdot. Fox Is Buying Roku For $22 Billion. Fox is buying Roku for $22 billion, combining Fox's sports, news, entertainment, Tubi, and Fox One offerings with a streaming platform that reaches about 100 million people. The companies say the merger would create the "third-largest player in US television by share of viewing," while Fox insists Roku will remain open to competing apps after the deal closes. CNN reports: Fox has dabbled in streaming over the past few years -- finally launching its Fox One competitor last August -- but has lacked a serious streaming business with the ability to compete in a space dominated by YouTube, Netflix, Amazon, Disney+, HBO Max, Paramount+ and Peacock. With CNN parent company Warner Bros. Discovery receiving initial US regulatory approval to combine with Paramount, Fox's purchase of Roku became more urgent. [...] The deal is expected to close in the first half of 2027 with the companies forecasting $400 million in savings. "This is a defining moment for Fox, and a natural extension of the deliberate and focused strategy we have been executing for nearly a decade," said Fox CEO Lachlan Murdoch. "Today, we take the next step: bringing together the most valuable live content portfolio in video consumption with the preeminent streaming platform through which America watches it." Murdoch said Roku will continue to offer competing apps. "It's essential that Roku remain open and partner-friendly business. We don't see that changing at all."Read more of this story at Slashdot. And then. Fourth, from Slashdot. Users Cry Foul After AMD Stripped Memory Crypto From Its Consumer CPUs.
storyflo · tech·31 minTheo on tech · June 15th
__DEGRADED__ From storyflo. This is your daily audio brief for June 15th. Hey, it's Theo. June 15th. Five things in tech that mattered this morning — let's start with the one that surprised me most. Let's get into it. First, from Ars Technica. Did a medieval flying monk spot Halley's comet, twice? It's complicated. Early in the 11th century, a young Benedictine monk named Eilmer jumped from the 150-foot tower of his abbey in the small English town of Malmesbury, wearing a pair of crude wings he’d fashioned from willow wood and cloth. Eilmer managed to glide a good 600 feet, passing over the city wall before crash-landing in a small valley near the river Avon. The fall broke both his legs, crippling him. Malmesbury Abbey still boasts a stained-glass window in honor of Brother Eilmer. This legendary experiment in medieval aviation comes to us via 12th-century historian William of Malmesbury in an account written circa 1125, although William neglected to provide future historians with an exact date for the feat. But William does mention another key episode in Eilmer's life when the monk was "advanced in years": Eilmer witnessed Halley's comet in 1066, commenting, "It is long since I saw you." Some historians have interpreted this to mean that Eilmer saw Halley's comet on an earlier fly-by in 989, when he would have been a young boy. Assuming Eilmer was at least five years would in 989, he would have been born no later than 984. This would make Eilmer in his 80s in 1066, with his attempt at flight—which occurred when he was "in his first youth"—likely falling between 1000 and 1010. However, it's an estimate that is based on a lot of assumption, according to James Aitcheson of the University of Leicester, who argues in a paper published in the journal Notes and Queries that Eilmer may have seen a different comet altogether in his youth—the comet of 1018. If so, he would have been born much later and the date of his flight would have occurred between the 1020s and 1040s. Next. Second, from juliedorourke. June - Part 2. Twelve years ago we moved our first building with Dwight. He drove his crane onto the island and up the winding driveway of our old house and, for about a thousand dollars, he and his sons effortlessly picked up an old barn and flew it high over the spruce trees. As it lifted off the ground, Dwight guided it with a rope from below. It landed with a thud… Up next. Third, from brokenpalate. A Chef’s Journey From Greenmarket to Goulash. This week our friends at FOUND NY — a twice-weekly newsletter for people with good taste in and around New York City — spoke with Wolfgang Ban, executive chef at Hancock St. about shopping for dinner service, his lunch plans, and other Wednesday activities. Hancock St. is part of Mercer Street Hospitality, whose founder, John McDonald, is also the founder of Broken Palate. Subscribe to FOUND here. Neighborhood you work in: Greenwich Village FOUND NY: It’s Wednesday morning, where are you working? Wolfgang Ban: My day often begins at the Union Square Greenmarket. Before I head into the kitchen, I browse the local produce, with eyes out for fresh ingredients that inspire our evolving menu. Recently, my favorite finds have been French tarragon for our lobster linguini and Caraflex cabbage, which we chop, char over an open flame, and serve alongside seared halibut in a clam-chive emulsion. FNY: What’s the Wednesday morning scene at your workplace? WB: Once I'm onsite with my team, they become my focus. I’ll discuss the day's demands with my sous chef and observe the progress of our prep kitchen. We’re always training our staff and expanding their technical knowledge as our menu transforms from the old to the new. There are certain daily responsibilities I choose to retain: I carve out time to roll out and cut our in-house linguini to length myself. There’s nothing like the meditative concentration it takes to make pasta by hand. In the frenzy of a busy kitchen, it's quite therapeutic. FNY: What’s on the agenda for today? WB: Menus, menus, and more menu development. I’ve spent the past few months collaborating with my team to move Hancock St's formerly American menu in a Central European direction that ties in closely with my own Austrian roots — things like schnitzel, spaetzle, and strudel. I’m also working on specials for Halloween. Our patio is a primetime viewing for the Village festivities. FNY: What’s for lunch? WB: Something close to my home and my heart: Hungarian beef goulash with short ribs. Traditionally, goulash originated in Hungary as a soup made by shepherds with calf meat gifted to them by landowners. They cubed and then braised the meat for hours in copper pots with potatoes, onions, paprika, and whatever else they could gather from the fields. The Austrian take is more of a hearty stew. I make it in the restaurant for my team. It's my grandma's recipe.
storyflo · tech·2 minTheo on tech · June 14th
__DEGRADED__ From storyflo. This is your daily audio brief for June 14th. Hey, it's Theo. June 14th. Five things in tech that mattered this morning — let's start with the one that surprised me most. Let's get into it. First, from 404 Media. Scientists Discover Vast Ancient ‘Necropolis’ Teeming With Strange New Creatures. Welcome back to the Abstract! Here are the studies this week that died in the deep, let nature call, tossed a galactic salad, and became interstellar voyeurs. First, there’s a whale necropolis under the sea that is packed with ancient carcasses and teeming with new species. Then: a bygone world preserved in poop, the fruits of the universe’s labor, and a zoom lens for distant planets. As always, for more of my work, check out my book First Contact: The Story of Our Obsession with Aliens, or subscribe to my personal newsletter the BeX Files. Scientists have discovered an unprecedented underwater “necropolis” that contains the remains of hundreds of whales that died over the past five million years, scattered across 745 miles. During dives in a deep sea submersible, researchers spotted whale bones submerged under more than four miles of the Diamantina Zone in the Indian Ocean, making this site the geographically largest, deepest, and oldest whale necropolis ever found. The graveyard is also teeming with species that may be “new to science” and subsist on these fortuitous “whale falls,” according to a new study. “The discovery of whale-fall communities in the Diamantina Zone at depths exceeding 6,700 meters establishes one of the deepest known whale-fall ecosystems in the ocean, extending the known depth range of such habitats by more than 2,500 meters,” said researchers co-led by Xiaotong Peng of China’s Institute of Deep-sea Science and Engineering. “This area has a deep and extensive accumulation comprising five modern natural whale-fall communities and 476 fossil cetaceans recorded,” the team said. Peng and his colleagues first spotted the necropolis during dives in early 2023 using the Fendouzhe submersible, which is capable of bringing crews to depths of nearly seven miles. The team quickly realized they had tapped into a scientific motherlode, complete with an immense fossil archive of extinct animals—mostly deep-diving beaked whales—along with recent whale falls that still support thriving ecosystems of crustaceans, molluscs, worms, and microbes. “Bone-eating worms, gastropods, vesicomyid bivalves and brittle stars dominate the megafauna (more than several centimetres in size), reaching local densities up to 2,840 individuals per square metre,” the team said. “Most recovered taxa may be new to science.” As for why this vast necropolis formed, beaked whales may be attracted to these deep waters due to the abundance of prey sources, such as squid and fish. Some might accidentally dive so deep that they experience decompression sickness or fatal exhaustion, becoming bonus bodies for seafloor ecosystems. The sinking carcasses are then funnelled into the Diamantina Zone because of its V-shaped topography, serving up a figurative feast for scientists (and a literal one for marine biota). “As beaked whales are known primarily from rare strandings, their abundance, distribution and ecology remain poorly understood overall,” Peng and his colleagues concluded. “Our discovery of an accumulation of skeletal remains…provides an unparalleled source of information on these largely enigmatic cetaceans.” Mariners have long dreaded ending up in Davy Jones’ locker, the proverbial resting ground of drowned sailors. It turns out that whales have a whole locker room down in the deep, where the bodies of countless leviathans blossom into fleeting hotspots of life. In other news… The Klondike region of Canada’s Yukon territory is famous for the 19th-century gold rush that led hopeful prospectors to riches, ruin, and early graves. But now, scientists have found a very different type of valuable nugget in Klondike soil—ancient squirrel poops made by ancient squirrel bums as early as 700,000 years ago. Scientists sequenced ancient environmental DNA (aeDNA) from these permafrosted scats, thereby opening up a poopy portal into the past. The fossilized feces, known as coprolites, contained genetic traces of mammoth, saber-tooth cat, horse, and bison, suggesting that these Ice Age rodents may have gnawed on the corpses of much larger megafauna. The coprolites also preserved DNA from hundreds of plant species, several insects, and a bevy of microbial and fungal strains. “The diversity and abundance of aeDNA recovered from the permafrost preserved, ground squirrel coprolites presented here underscores the immense value of Arctic rodent middens as repositories of Quaternary ecosystems,” said researchers led by Tyler J. Murchie of the Hakai Institute and McMaster University. Next. Second, from chinainarms. Green Berets Confirmed in Taiwan.
storyflo · tech·39 mintech · the day's top 10 · june 13th
__DEGRADED__ From storyflo. This is your daily audio brief for June 13th. Here are today's top 10 tech stories. Let's get into it. First, from Simon Willison’s Newsletter. Claude Fable is relentlessly proactive. In this newsletter: Claude Fable is relentlessly proactive Initial impressions of Claude Fable 5 Plus 4 links and 3 quotations and 1 note and 5 releases and 1 TIL Sponsor message: Engineering speed vs. security: End the tradeoff with unified identity Access shouldn’t take hours to approve. Security teams shouldn’t need to stitch audit data across different systems. Teleport gives engineers and their workloads the just-in-time access they need with cryptographic identity for every human, machine, and agent and short-lived, just-in-time privileges issued at runtime. Faster engineering, unified audit trails – everyone wins. After two days of experience with Claude Fable 5 I think the best way to describe it is relentlessly proactive. It knows a whole lot of tricks and it will deploy pretty much any of them to get to its goal. I’ll illustrate this with an example. I was hacking on Datasette Agent today when I noticed a glitch: a horizontal scrollbar that shouldn’t be there in the jump menu chat prompt. I snapped this screenshot: Then I started a fresh claude session in my datasette-agent checkout, dragged in the screenshot and told it: Look at dependencies to help figure out why there is a horizontal scrollbar here I had a hunch the cause was in a dependency of Datasette Agent (likely Datasette itself) and I knew Fable was good at digging into dependency code, either by inspecting installed files in its own virtual environment site-packages or by referencing a local checkout on disk. Telling it to start with dependencies felt like a good bet. I got distracted by a domestic task and wandered away from my computer. When I came back a few minutes later I saw my machine open a browser window in my regular Firefox and then navigate to the dialog in question. I had not told Claude Code to use any browser automation, and I was pretty sure it wasn’t possible for it to trigger mouse movements or keyboard shortcuts within a window, so how was it doing that? I watched in fascination as it continued with its explorations, then saw it open a Safari window instead of Firefox. I also grabbed this snapshot from the Claude terminal: What was it doing there with uv run --with pyobjc-framework-Quartz ? It turns out Fable had hacked up its own pattern for taking screenshots of browser windows. It was using Python to iterate through all available windows on my machine, then filtering for Safari windows with expected strings such as "textarea" in the window name. It used that to find their window number - an integer like 153551 - which it could then use with the screencapture CLI tool to grab a PNG. OK fine, that’s a neat way of taking screenshots. But what was it taking screenshots of? Turns out it had been writing its own scratch HTML pages to try and recreate the bug, then opening Safari and grabbing screenshots. Here’s that /tmp/textarea-scrollbar-test.html page it created, and the screenshot it took with screencapture -x -o -l 153551 /tmp/safari-cases.png : (I have way too many open tabs!) OK, so I can see how it’s opening test pages and taking screenshots, but how on earth was it triggering the modal dialog that was meant to be under test? That’s only available via a click or a keyboard shortcut, and I couldn’t see a mechanism for it to run those in Safari. I eventually figured out what it had done. Claude was running in a folder that contained the source code for the application. It knows enough about Datasette to be able to run a local development server. It turns out it was editing Datasette’s own templates to add JavaScript that would trigger the correct keyboard shortcut as soon as the window opened, adding code like this: <script> window.addEventListener(”load”, function () { setTimeout(function () { document.dispatchEvent(new KeyboardEvent(”keydown”, {key: “/”, bubbles: true})); }, 1200); }); </script> 1.2 seconds after the window opens, this code triggers a simulated / key, which is the keyboard shortcut for opening the modal dialog. There was one challenge left. Next. Second, from Domino Shopping. 12 picks to launch your #PlaidGirlSummer.
storyflo · tech·2 mintech · the day's top 10 · june 12th
__DEGRADED__ From storyflo. This is your daily audio brief for June 12th. Here are today's top 10 tech stories. Let's get into it. First, from Tech Scoop. Palo Alto VPN Flaw Turns GlobalProtect Into the New Front Door for Attackers. We partnered with Anthropic to make our Claude Code course free for everyone. No subscription, no trial. Just dive in. It’s taught by Lydia Hallie, who’s been an instructor with us for years and now works on the Claude Code team at Anthropic. When she taught Claude Code live, it broke every platform record we have with over 10,000 people tuning in. Lydia has a knack for visualizing how tools work under the hood, which is exactly the mental model you need to stop guessing with AI and start directing it. Palo Alto Networks has confirmed active exploitation of CVE-2026-0257, an authentication bypass vulnerability affecting the GlobalProtect portal and gateway components in PAN-OS. In practical terms, the flaw can allow a remote attacker to bypass authentication controls and establish an unauthorized VPN connection into an enterprise environment. Palo Alto rates the issue as High severity, CVSS 7.8, with “Highest” suggested urgency, while Rapid7 has urged organizations to treat it as critical because it affects internet-facing VPN infrastructure. The important nuance: this does not affect every Palo Alto deployment. Palo Alto says exposure depends on GlobalProtect being configured with authentication override cookies and a specific certificate configuration. Panorama and Cloud NGFW are not impacted, while affected PAN-OS branches include 10.2, 11.1, 11.2, 12.1 and some Prisma Access deployments before fixed versions. Rapid7 says its MDR team observed successful exploitation across multiple customers, with the earliest observed activity on May 17, 2026. The activity involved suspicious cookie-based authentication to a local admin account, and Rapid7 said it did not observe successful lateral movement in those cases. The vulnerability has also been added to CISA’s Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, which turns it from “patch soon” into “prioritize now.” The bigger story is that attackers are increasingly targeting the systems that decide who gets inside the network. VPN gateways, firewalls, identity bridges, SASE connectors, and remote access appliances sit at the edge of the enterprise. If those systems fail, attackers do not need to phish a user, steal a password, or defeat MFA in the normal way. They may be able to enter through the infrastructure that was supposed to enforce trust. That is why this flaw is more dangerous than its technical score alone suggests. A vulnerability in an internal app may expose one workload. A vulnerability in an enterprise VPN gateway can create a path into the corporate network, cloud resources, internal applications, admin panels, and identity-connected services. For years, enterprises treated VPN access as a controlled, authenticated doorway. But this incident shows a harsh reality: when the gateway itself has an authentication bypass, identity policies downstream may never get the chance to work. This is especially relevant in hybrid environments where VPNs still connect employees, contractors, developers, support teams, OT networks, and cloud workloads. Even companies that have adopted Zero Trust often still keep legacy VPN infrastructure for special cases, privileged access, regional offices, or fallback connectivity. The lesson for CISOs is clear: remote access infrastructure must be monitored like a Tier-0 identity system, not just like a network box. Palo Alto’s challenge is not only patching the bug. It also has to preserve customer trust in GlobalProtect as a secure remote access layer. The company has issued fixed versions and recommends mitigations such as disabling authentication override or using a dedicated certificate for authentication override cookies. But this incident will likely increase scrutiny around how security vendors handle cookie validation, certificate reuse, backward compatibility, and “convenience” features that reduce login friction. Features designed to make access smoother can become dangerous when their trust assumptions break. This should trigger an immediate review of VPN exposure, not just a patch ticket. Security teams should identify all GlobalProtect portals and gateways, confirm whether authentication override cookies are enabled, verify certificate configuration, apply fixed PAN-OS versions, and hunt for suspicious GlobalProtect logins. The most important operational takeaway: do not stop at patching. Review logs for successful VPN sessions from unusual infrastructure, generic hostnames, odd MAC addresses, unexpected Linux clients, local admin logins, and cookie-based authentication events. Unit 42 has also published indicators of activity for defenders to hunt against. This is a strong use case for managed detection and response.
storyflo · tech·41 mintech · the day's top 10 · june 11th
__DEGRADED__ From storyflo. This is your daily audio brief for June 11th. Here are today's top 10 tech stories. Let's get into it. First, from Network World. From the data center to the edge: How to build secure, effective enterprise AI infrastructure. While hyperscalers and neo-cloud providers may get the lion’s share of attention for providing AI infrastructure, many enterprises are taking a build-it-themselves approach to meet their specific AI requirements. The success of such projects is crucial to achieving business objectives, yet companies face significant challenges as they try to scale pilots to production. Organizations must keep up with the dynamic, ever-changing demands that AI applications place on compute and network infrastructure, from the data center to the edge. That means architecting systems to grow as demand warrants and to avoid performance bottlenecks. The architecture must also account for AI-driven security vulnerabilities and ensure appropriate defenses are in place. Yes, it’s a tall order. But here, in simplified form, is a three-step plan for meeting those objectives. Integrating all the required components in piecemeal fashion for an AI factory is complex, costly, and fraught with integration risk. Start with a modular design, based on proven NVIDIA reference architectures . A modular approach combines pre-validated accelerated computing hardware, AI software, and orchestration platforms, as well as networking and storage capabilities. A modular strategy speeds implementation and creates a faster time to value for your AI infrastructure. Using modules that combine compute, networking, and storage makes it easier to scale capacity as needed, whether in the data center or at edge facilities. In addition, the modular approach simplifies the job of addressing varying requirements, from inferencing engines at the edge to massive-scale model training in the data center, while staying within the same solution family. The same applies to easing integration processes, as modular platforms offer pre-validated software. The Cisco Secure AI Factory with NVIDIA approach, for example, includes hardware ( Cisco AI PODS ) that is pre-validated to work with NVIDIA AI Enterprise software; Cisco Security and Splunk Observability software; orchestration platforms such as Ubuntu, Red Hat OpenShift, and Rancher by SUSE; as well as storage systems including VAST Data, Everpure (formerly Pure Storage), Hitachi Vantara, Nutanix, and NetApp. Companies can also choose to manage the hardware and software with the cloud-based Cisco Intersight platform, which provides monitoring and management for physical and virtual infrastructure from the data center to the edge. Embedding security throughout your AI infrastructure is critical to ensure continuous monitoring, threat detection, and response. However, this step can introduce tremendous complexity, especially given the bevy of cyber threats that AI introduces. Addressing them means implementing security solutions to cover all components of your AI infrastructure, including AI models, agents, applications, workloads, and the underlying infrastructure. With agentic AI, which essentially empowers agents with decision-making capabilities, you need to secure agents as if they were employees. That means zero-trust policies should apply, including precise, context-aware controls to enforce least-privilege access for AI agents. If an agent is behaving suspiciously, it should be quarantined and investigated. A critical benefit of Cisco’s modular approach is having all required security software built in. It simplifies integration and deployment while ensuring all security bases are covered. Even if you follow steps one and two, you may still need assistance in determining your best deployment options. Working alongside a vendor with a strong partner program and expert guidance can be a great asset. Value-added resellers (VARs) add value through expertise gained from numerous customer deployments and close relationships with their partners. Many also carry relevant certifications, such as the new Cisco AI Infrastructure Specialist Certification , which demonstrates credibility. Vendors and VARs also offer professional services and NVIDIA enterprise support . The upfront costs are well worth it in the long run to minimize technical deployment and financial risks, lower your overall AI cost per token, and realize faster time-to-value from AI investments. Learn how the Cisco Secure AI Factory with NVIDIA can help ensure a sound foundation for your enterprise AI projects. Next. Second, from Network World. OpenAI weighs Nvidia-backed lease for 10 GW Ohio data center campus.
storyflo · tech·2 mintech · the day's top 10 · june 10th
__DEGRADED__ From storyflo. This is your daily audio brief for June 10th. Here are today's top 10 tech stories. Let's get into it. First, from TechCrunch. It’s not FAANG anymore. It’s MANGOS.. With SpaceX, Anthropic, and OpenAI all eyeing massive public debuts, the tech industry may soon have a new class of corporate overlords — and a new acronym to match. Say goodbye to FAANG and hello to MANGOS. Next. Second, from Ars Technica. Gold isn’t inert, it just has bodyguards protecting it. Gold is weird. It's one of the few metals that doesn’t really oxidize. Even silver and copper—from the same column of the periodic table—form weak oxides. Naively, you might expect that gold would tarnish just like silver. Gold also sits right next to platinum, but it has none of that metal’s catalytic properties. Then came gold nanoparticles that acted like catalysts, and we were confused by their apparent willingness to take part in chemical reactions. Now, a pair of scientists has explained that gold’s inertness isn’t inherent to the atom but rather to the surfaces that gold crystals form. Up next. Third, from Ars Technica. High-severity vulnerability in Linux caused by a single faulty character. Researchers have analyzed a high-severity vulnerability in Linux that’s able to escalate untrusted users to root by exploiting a bug you don't often see: a single errant character inside the kernel. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-23111, is located in nf_tables, a subsystem of the Linux kernel that provides packet filtering capabilities. And then. Fourth, from Ars Technica. Paramount accuses Netflix of "scorched-earth campaign" against WBD merger. Paramount Skydance is accusing Netflix of maintaining a campaign against its proposed acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD). In a June 5 letter (PDF) addressed to Jared A. Hughes, acting section chief of the Media, Entertainment, and Communications Section of the US Department of Justice's (DOJ's) Antitrust Division, and A. Maya Kahn, a trial attorney for the Antitrust Division, and first reported on by Politico today, Paramount chief legal officer Makan Delrahim accused Netflix of trying to influence stakeholders about the merger. Next. Fifth, from Ars Technica. Commonwealth Fusion makes the physics case for its 400 MW reactor. The scientific community has a plan for achieving fusion power. It involves getting a better understanding of how to control fusion in a tokamak-style reactor using the currently under construction ITER reactor, and then using that knowledge to build DEMO-style plants. Up next. Sixth, from Ars Technica. Three key vital signs make up the "urban pulse" of a city. People often speak metaphorically of the heartbeat or pulse of a city, but according to the authors of a new paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, cities do indeed have an "urban pulse"—an indication of urban "metabolic activity" that can be measured to suss out telltale patterns. And those patterns could help inform future public policy around urban planning. The precise definition of urbanization has shifted over the centuries. Zhe Zhu of the University of Connecticut and his fellow authors adopted a broad version for their study. And then. Seventh, from SD Times. Anthropic releases Claude Fable 5, Mythos 5. Anthropic today is launching Claude Fable 5, a safe-for-use Mythos class model, and is launching Claude Mythos 5 to a small group of security and infrastructure providers that has some safefguards lifted. Fable 5 has safeguards that can prevent its cybersecurity capabilities from being misused. The safeguards ensure that queries on certain topics will be answered by Claude Opus 4.8. Meanwhile, Mythos 5 will be deployed through the company’s Project Glasswing as an uprade to Mythos Preview. The company claims this new model has the strongest cybersecurity capabilities of any model. Next. Eighth, from Slashdot. High-Severity Vulnerability In Linux Caused By a Single Errant Character. An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Researchers have analyzed a high-severity vulnerability in Linux that's able to escalate untrusted users to root by exploiting a bug you don't often see: a single errant character inside the kernel. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-23111, is located in nf_tables, a subsystem of the Linux kernel that provides packet filtering capabilities. Up next. Ninth, from Platformer. How to help knowledge workers who lose their jobs to AI. This is an interview about AI. My fiancé works at Anthropic. See my full ethics disclosure here. Last week in our series on AI and jobs, labor economist Kathryn Anne Edwards explained why the United States' weak social safety net makes the prospect of AI-related job displacement quite worrisome. And then. Tenth, from MKT1 Newsletter with Emily Kramer. Should you buy a billboard on a Bay Area Freeway?.
storyflo · tech·6 mintech · the day's top 10 · june 9th
__DEGRADED__ From storyflo. This is your daily audio brief for June 9th. Here are today's top 10 tech stories. Let's get into it. First, from Insights by KP. Your Edge Case Is Someone Else's Use Case. In this episode of KP Unpacked, KP Reddy sits down with Dr. Barry Clark, CTO of Zero RFI, to unpack why construction projects fail on details nobody thought mattered. A structural beam seems simple: read the line on the drawing, spec the size, done. But the client needs the longest span possible without custom manufacturing (adds cost). The superintendent needs to know when the truck leaves to avoid traffic (adds delays). The permitting team worries about wide-load requirements (adds 90 days). The building supplier tracks lead times and availability. Same beam. Five different perspectives. Next. Second, from Agentic AI. Designing Hermes Agent from Scratch: A Systems Deep Dive. If you strip away the packaging, Hermes is not a chatbot with plugins bolted on. It is a long-running control loop that sits between a language model and a curated set of side effects. Every design choice in NousResearch/hermes-agent follows from that premise: the model proposes actions, the runtime enforces budgets and guardrails, tools execute in isolated environments, and SQLite holds the truth about what actually happened. This article walks through Hermes Agent architecture in detail. The goal is not a feature tour. Up next. Third, from Emerging AI. Stop Hitting Claude Usage Limits: The Tokens Guide. A team can lose half a day without making one big mistake. Claude Code is open. The app is nearly working. One person asks it to fix auth. Another asks it to review the whole repo. Someone pastes a long error log. Then Claude starts reading old files, old messages, tool output, package files, build logs, and the same project context again and again. The screen still looks calm. But behind the screen, the meter is moving fast. This is the new Claude problem. Not that Claude is weak. The opposite. Claude is now strong enough to keep working for longer. And then. Fourth, from avichawla. Your Agent Harness Should Repair Itself. The voice agent stack is one of the few areas in AI where the demand is enormous, and the worked examples barely exist. Speechmatics Academy has open-sourced a collection of runnable examples across batch, real-time, voice, and TTS, each standalone enough to clone a single folder and have a working pipeline in minutes. The integrations have complete loops with LiveKit, Pipecat, Twilio, and VAPI, covering WebRTC capture, turn detection, speaker focus, interruption handling, and function calling. The use cases it teaches cover production territory, including SRT captioning, call-center topic det Next. Fifth, from The VC Corner. 590+ US Women Angels. Women angels are among the most active early-stage investors in the US right now, and they are among the most underpitched. Most founders build their investor list from the same sources: Crunchbase, AngelList, and whatever names they hear at demo days. Those sources skew heavily toward the same 200 names everyone already knows. The result is a crowded inbox for a small group of investors and zero outreach to hundreds of active angels who are writing checks right now. This database changes that. 590+ US women angel investors. All active. Up next. Sixth, from neweconomies. The IPO Comeback. Hey readers! Welcome back to your regular tech digest — a quick snapshot of the most important tech news from the past few weeks. This edition breaks things down into: Key trends: The IPO Comeback Top tech news Startup funding highlights New VC funds Acquisitions Must-watch interviews and more… let’s dive in. After three years of limited activity, the IPO market finally started moving again in 2025. The U.S. saw 347 IPOs, up from 225 the year before and the strongest showing since 2021. The difference this time was investor selectivity. And then. Seventh, from Product Market Fit. Stop Prompting AI and Start Building Loops: How the Head of Claude Code Stopped Prompting AI. There’s a moment in Boris Cherny’s conversation with the Acquired podcast that most people skipped past. He’s talking about his daily workflow. How he uses Claude Code. What his job actually looks like now. And almost offhand, he says it: “I don’t prompt Claude anymore. I have loops running. They’re the ones prompting Claude and figuring out what to do. My job is to write loops.” The person who built Anthropic’s coding agent doesn’t write prompts. He writes systems that prompt themselves. That’s not a flex. It’s a signal. Next. Eighth, from workfutures. Term of the Time: Soft Days.
storyflo · tech·32 mintech · the day's top 10 · june 4th
A breezy summer checklist kicks off the brief, urging readers to blend community, creativity, and outdoor fun. Volunteering at shelters, libraries or beach clean‑ups is highlighted as a rewarding way to start the season, followed by hands‑on ideas like homemade pizza nights, tie‑dye shirts, scrapbooking or film‑camera photography. The piece also suggests hunting for new coffee spots, mixing refreshing citrus‑based drinks (with optional spirits), and visiting local art exhibitions. For nature lovers, easy hikes in national parks and simple pleasures such as breakfast on a terrace, picnics by a lake, or sunset dinners are recommended, with a nod to the classic summer blockbuster as a group activity. The design‑focused “Side Salad” from Dieline delivers a rapid roundup of industry quirks. It notes a playful yet odd PAX “Scary Movie” edition, the rising demand for “SMUT” branding, and Koto’s thoughtful installation for the Norton Museum that weaves the collection into its design. A tongue‑in‑cheek comment on climate‑change data, a reminder that Schweppes is the world’s oldest soft‑drink brand, and a personal anecdote about hanging a cut‑out Rothko in a dorm room add humor. The newsletter also mentions the whimsical return of Fudgie the Whale ice‑cream cakes, a dismissal of McDonald’s chicken wings, and a light‑hearted take on reading the Odyssey with endless feasts. A second Dieline note reflects on cultural fatigue. Sherwin‑Williams labels a muted green as “the loneliest color of the year,” while the writer critiques the fitness‑obsessed protein culture that turns everyday foods into supplements. The piece links
storyflo · tech·2 mintech · the day's top 10 · june 8th
The storyflo daily brief for June 8th. Here are today's top 10 tech stories. Google Is Quietly Buying Code From Play Store Developers to Train AI.
storyflo · tech·29 mintech · the week's top 10 · june 5th
The storyflo daily brief for June 5th. Here are this week's top 10 tech stories. We are running a curated backlog catch-up so today's tech show has the same shape as the rest of the daily lineup.
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