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Simon Willison's Weblog Jun 17 Score 0.8993076194444444

NetNewsWire Status

NetNewsWire Status I find this inspiring. Brent Simmons retired a year ago, and his retirement project is making one piece of software really, really good - free from any commercial pressure. The software is NetNewsWire, first released in 2002 and made open so

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Foreign Policy Jun 16 Score 0.8859420527777777

‘It's Not Competitive in Nature’

India’s ambassador to Washington insists “Make in India” doesn’t conflict with “America First.”

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Foreign Policy Jun 16 Score 0.8857082564814814

Taiwan Bet Too Big on Washington

Trump’s willingness to sell out allies should cause a rethink in Taipei.

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Simon Willison's Weblog Jun 16 Score 0.8804793787037036

datasette-tailscale 0.1a0

Release: datasette-tailscale 0.1a0 A very experimental alpha plugin which lets you do this: datasette tailscale mydata.db \ --ts-authkey tskey-auth-xxxx --ts-hostname datasette-preview This starts a localhost Datasette server with a Tailscale sidecar that conn

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Simon Willison's Weblog Jun 16 Score 0.8801085453703703

Quoting Georgi Gerganov

I can 100% attest to the fact that Qwen3.6-27B is a very capable local model for coding tasks. Over the last month and a half I've been using it almost daily, either on my M2 Ultra or on my RTX 5090 box. I use it for small mundane tasks at ggml-org - nothing r

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Schneier on Security Jun 16 Score 0.8717343004629629

Flock Cameras Are Being Used for Stalking

There are over a dozen cases around the country where police officers are using the Flock surveillance camera system to obsessively and illegally stalk people . Alternate link .

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Simon Willison's Weblog Jun 16 Score 0.8622057675925925

The Fable 5 Export Controls Harm US Cyber Defense

The Fable 5 Export Controls Harm US Cyber Defense I quoted The Atlantic quoting Kate Moussouris earlier, when I should have gone straight to the source. Here she is confirming that the "jailbreak" that got Claude Fable 5 banned under an export control really w

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Wired Jun 16 Score 0.8179747342592594

Best Handheld Fans and Wearable Fans (2026)

Whether you’re at a festival, tennis match, or wedding, these hand fans and wearable cooling devices will make the heat way more bearable.

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MIT Technology Review Jun 16 Score 0.812609900462963

Exclusive eBook: How AI is becoming the next military advisor

A collection of stories about how militaries are using AI models to make decisions. This subscriber-only eBook is a package of six stories that were originally published in MIT Technology Review between April 11, 2025, and April 21, 2026, and have been updated

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The Verge Jun 16 Score 0.8116367925925927

The Complete Calvin and Hobbes is a great last-minute Father’s Day gift

Father’s Day is nearly here. Hopefully, you already got a gift for dads you care about, but if not, here’s a quick, easy recommendation for anyone who enjoys a good comic strip. The Complete Calvin and Hobbes contains every one of Bill Watterson’s beloved stri

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The Verge Jun 16 Score 0.8091367925925926

All the latest news on Android 17, Wear OS 7, and Android XR

Google’s Android 17 update includes highlights like new floating “Bubble” app windows for easier multitasking, a Screen Reaction recording mode, and a 50/50 split gaming mode for foldable phones. Meanwhile, Wear OS 7 brings Live Updates and better battery life

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The Verge Jun 16 Score 0.8083034592592593

Google launches Wear OS 7 with Live Updates and a battery life boost

Google's Wear OS 7 update is starting to roll out today for the Pixel Watch 2, 3, and 4, adding a new Live Updates feature that tracks live events from your Android smartwatch. Live Updates will now sync with Wear OS devices, so updates like sports scores or a

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The Verge Jun 16 Score 0.8083034592592593

Android 17 arrives on Pixel phones today

Following its official debut last month, Google is now rolling out Android 17 to compatible Pixel phones, alongside additional exclusive features as part of the June Pixel Drop. Not every feature announced alongside the OS at the pre-I/O Android Show is availa

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Wired — Security Jun 16 Score 0.8080497342592593

‘Dangerous’ AI Models Are Coming No Matter What

The US government crackdown on Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 hides a glaring truth: AI models with advanced hacking capabilities will soon be the norm.

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The Guardian — World Jun 16 Score 0.8079559055555556

Toronto police link dozens of shootings to ‘multilayered’ gun-for-hire network

Young adults and teens are being recruited through apps like Telegram and paid to carry out attacks, officials say Police investigators in Toronto have said that dozens of shootings – including one at the US consulate in March – are linked to a “multilayered”

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BBC News — World Jun 16 Score 0.8075763078703705

Russian artist and Putin critic shot dead in Poland

Robert Kuzovkov, who used the pseudonym Semyon Skrepetsky, has been known for his caricatures of politicians including Vladimir Putin.

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The Verge Jun 16 Score 0.8071807740740742

Verizon's 'Simplicity' flat-rate plan starts at $30 per month for new customers

Verizon is launching a new Simplicity plan that starts at $30 / month for new customers, or $45 / month for existing ones. In its announcement, Verizon says the plan drops activation and upgrade fees, while offering one flat price for each line. The $30 price

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BleepingComputer Jun 16 Score 0.8027148675925927

UK to require ID or face scan before you can make social media accounts

Opening a new social media account in the UK will soon mean proving you're over 16 with an ID upload or a facial age scan, under a government ban on under-16s taking effect in spring 2027. Security experts warn the age checks are easy to circumvent and create

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BleepingComputer Jun 16 Score 0.8021213490740742

GhostTree Attack Abused Recursive Windows Junctions to Hide Malware

GhostTree uses recursive NTFS junctions to generate vast numbers of valid Windows file paths. Varonis explains how the technique could cause Microsoft Defender folder scans to never complete, leaving malware undetected. [...]

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Schneier on Security Jun 14 Score 0.8001787449074074

Upcoming Speaking Engagements

This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak: I’m giving a keynote at Cybernation 2026 in Berlin, Germany, on June 24, 2026. I’m speaking at the Potsdam Conference on National Cybersecurity at the Hasso Plattner Institut in Potsdam, Germany

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MIT Technology Review Jun 16 Score 0.7985811967592593

The Download: the first brain implant power user and South Korea’s AI obsession

This is today's edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of technology. This man with ALS is the first “power user” of a brain implant that lets him speak Casey Harrell has had a set of electrod

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CISA Cybersecurity Advisories Jun 16 Score 0.7983031712962964

CISA Adds One Known Exploited Vulnerability to Catalog

CISA has added one new vulnerability to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog , based on evidence of active exploitation. CVE-2026-48907 Widget Factory Joomla Content Editor Improper Access Control Vulnerability This type of vulnerability is a freq

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CISA Cybersecurity Advisories Jun 16 Score 0.7983031712962964

Rockwell Automation FactoryTalk Analytics PavilionX

View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could result in an attacker executing privileged operations. The following versions of Rockwell Automation FactoryTalk Analytics PavilionX are affected: FactoryTalk Analytics PavilionX CVSS Vendor

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CISA Cybersecurity Advisories Jun 16 Score 0.7983031712962964

Rockwell Automation FLEX I/O EtherNet/IP Adapters

View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could allow an attacker to gain unauthorized access, account takeover, and cause loss of availability. The following versions of Rockwell Automation FLEX I/O EtherNet/IP Adapters are affected:

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CISA Cybersecurity Advisories Jun 16 Score 0.7983031712962964

Rockwell Automation RSLinx

View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of this vulnerability can lead to a denial of service, where the application will become unresponsive and will not recover on its own. The following versions of RSLinx Classic Third-Party Vulnerability are affected: RS

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CISA Cybersecurity Advisories Jun 16 Score 0.7983031712962964

Rockwell Automation Logix 5370 & 5570 Controllers Vulnerable To Denial of Service Via CIP

View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could cause a denial-of-service condition that may result in a major nonrecoverable fault (MNRF). The following versions of Rockwell Automation Logix 5370 & 5570 Controllers Vulnerable To Denial o

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MIT Technology Review Jun 16 Score 0.7933034189814816

Want to get a data center online quickly? Give it some flex.

At the end of a tense and scoreless first half of a soccer match between the English men’s team and rival Germany, millions of Brits let out a collective sigh and did what they so often do in moments of stress: They made tea. That wave of electric kettles clic

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Foreign Affairs Jun 16 Score 0.7849697546296297

The Middle East Power Paradox

How the Iran war will transform America’s military role.

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Foreign Affairs Jun 16 Score 0.7849697546296297

NATO’s Permanent Crisis

The alliance has survived 80 years of disagreement—and it will survive again.

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MIT News — AI Jun 17 Score 0.7499700768518518

Could AI tell you where you left your keys?

A new spatial memory system for robots efficiently captures details about the objects they see while exploring their environment.

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Platformer Jun 17 Score 0.7433251101851852

This founder isn’t hiring junior engineers anymore

And yes, AI is a factor. Replika and Wabi founder Eugenia Kuyda on how advances in coding changed her hiring calculus

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AWS Blog Jun 16 Score 0.7420020379629629

Amazon S3 annotations: attach rich, queryable context directly to your objects

Amazon S3 now lets you attach up to 1 GB of rich, mutable, and queryable context directly to your objects using annotations, purpose-built for AI agents and autonomous workflows that need to discover, understand, and act on data at scale without maintaining se

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Dark Reading Jun 16 Score 0.7407077638888889

Fileless Phantom Stealer Targets Browser Credentials

In addition to executing entirely in memory, the malware's infection chain incorporates other anti-analysis techniques designed to frustrate detection.

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Dark Reading Jun 16 Score 0.7399725787037037

Security Community Slams US Ban on Exporting Mythos, Fable

An open letter signed by dozens of security experts asked the government to reverse export restrictions on Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models.

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NASA News Jun 16 Score 0.7387200342592593

NASA’s Webb Catches Exoplanet Getting Roasted

One well-done gas giant, coming right up! That’s the latest from researchers analyzing NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s observations of HD 80606 b, an exoplanet four times the mass of Jupiter with an extremely elliptical orbit that sweeps close by its Sun-l

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CyberScoop Jun 16 Score 0.7384018694444444

Lawmakers leary about Trump administration’s Anthropic order

Some panned it, some said they needed more information, but caution figured into all of the responses. The post Lawmakers leary about Trump administration’s Anthropic order appeared first on CyberScoop .

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GitHub Blog Jun 16 Score 0.7382724856481482

What are git worktrees, and why should I use them?

Git worktrees have been around since 2015, but it wasn't until recently they became popular. Learn what they are, how to use them, and why you might. The post What are git worktrees, and why should I use them? appeared first on The GitHub Blog .

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NASA News Jun 16 Score 0.7377890157407407

Astronaut Jessica Meir Assists With Hardware Updates for NASA’s Cold Atom Lab

Description NASA astronaut Jessica Meir inspects optical fibers while installing hardware updates to the agency’s Cold Atom Lab, or CAL, aboard the International Space Station on May 8, 2026. About the size of a minifridge and operated from Earth, CAL chills a

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MIT News — AI Jun 16 Score 0.7374700768518518

MIT’s Initiative for New Manufacturing builds momentum

In its first year, INM has worked across research, workforce development, and industry engagement to help accelerate new manufacturing technologies and their real-world deployment.

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NASA News Jun 16 Score 0.7320533675925925

NASA Webb, Hubble Reveal History of Relic of Milky Way’s Formation

Researchers using two of humanity’s most powerful observatories — NASA’s James Webb and Hubble Space Telescopes — have definitively shown that Terzan 5 is not a globular star cluster as it was once classified, offering new insight into how galaxies like our ow

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NASA News Jun 16 Score 0.7313774416666666

NASA’s Quantum Lab Aboard Space Station Gets Chilly Upgrade

Astronauts aboard the International Space Station have switched on NASA’s newly upgraded Cold Atom Lab, a one-of-a-kind facility designed to improve how scientists explore the fundamental workings of matter and develop new quantum technologies. By leveraging t

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New Scientist Jun 16 Score 0.7299968648148148

The secrets to keeping your brain sharp in old age

Neurologist Emily Rogalski studies "superagers" – people in their 80s or 90s with unusually keen memories, whose lifestyles suggest ways to slow cognitive decline

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NASA News Jun 16 Score 0.7289431824074074

NASA Uses Machine Learning to Enhance Flash Flood Warnings

The Transient Artifact and Continuous Learning System (TACLS) leverages data from continuously operating satellite networks coupled with machine learning models to help meteorologists at the National Weather Service forecast flash floods more efficiently.

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Jun 16 Score 0.7268141717592592

New study explores potential cross-species spread of chronic wasting disease

A new study found that chronic wasting disease can sometimes spread silently, with infectious prions present even in animals that show no symptoms. While there is no confirmed human risk, researchers say the disease’s ability to evolve and spread across specie

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New Scientist Jun 16 Score 0.7266389944444445

A quantum state that lasts forever may finally be within our grasp

Defying the laws of thermodynamics, experiments are beginning to show that a quantum state that is frozen forever might not be impossible. If we can tame it, it could unlock whole new types of matter

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InfoQ Jun 16 Score 0.7253302569444444

Presentation: Automating the Web With MCP: Infra That Doesn’t Break

Paul Klein discusses the distributed systems challenges of scaling cloud-hosted browser infra for AI agents. He explains how to manage bursty, stateful multi-tenancy and secure Chromium environments against remote code execution using Firecracker. He also shar

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New Scientist Jun 16 Score 0.7249889944444444

Walking shark found in Papua New Guinea is new to science

Hemiscyllium dudgeonae is the tenth recorded species of walking shark, which use their pectoral fins to move across reef flats, and its limited range means it may be at high risk of extinction

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Martin Fowler Jun 16 Score 0.7236082032407407

Building Reliable Agentic AI Systems

One of the most interesting projects my colleagues have done with LLMs has been building a system with Bayer to allow pharmaceutical researchers to query decades of information about studies buried in PDF reports. Sarang Sanjay Kulkarni describes its evolution

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Jun 16 Score 0.7224336162037037

Scientists found a way to explain bird flocks that “defy” Newton’s third law

Physicists have solved a long-standing problem involving systems that appear to violate Newton’s third law, such as bird flocks and bacterial swarms. By adding carefully designed “imaginary partners” to their models, they can now simulate these complex systems

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New Scientist Jun 16 Score 0.7218107537037037

Arctic Ocean reaches tipping point that could be dire for marine life

Disappearing sea ice is letting more sunlight in the Arctic Ocean and boosting phytoplankton growth, but this has depleted a crucial nutrient, which could severely affect animals higher up the food chain

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Jun 16 Score 0.720828986574074

Scientists just found a hidden weakness in forever chemicals

Researchers discovered that hydrogen radicals generated by intense UV light can break down stubborn PFAS “forever chemicals” without added chemicals. The breakthrough reveals a key mechanism that could lead to greener and more effective technologies for perman

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Jun 16 Score 0.7169683384259259

Alien messages may have reached Earth without us realizing it

A new SETI study suggests we may be overlooking alien signals not because they aren't there, but because their own stars are scrambling them before they escape into space. Turbulent plasma and powerful stellar storms can spread an ultra-narrow radio trans

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InfoQ Jun 16 Score 0.7166358125

AI Coding Agents Get a Stack Overflow of Their Own

Stack Overflow has announced Stack Overflow for Agents, a beta API-first knowledge exchange aimed at AI coding agents rather than human developers. The service is presented as a way to close what the company calls the Ephemeral Intelligence Gap, where agents r

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InfoQ Jun 16 Score 0.7153858125

PostgreSQL 19 Beta Introduces SQL Graph Queries and Concurrent Table Repacking

PostgreSQL 19 Beta has been announced, with general availability expected in September, following the project's yearly major-release cadence. This release introduces native SQL Property Graph Queries (SQL/PGQ), concurrent table repacking to reclaim storage wit

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Martin Fowler Jun 16 Score 0.7145248699074074

Fragments: June 16

“Prag Dave” Thomas (co-author of the outstanding “Pragmatic Programmer”) has loved programming since he was young. Programming was how I could express myself. I wasn’t an artist. When I sing, dogs howl. When I draw, friends say, “Very nice. What is it?” I didn

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Google Cloud Blog Jun 16 Score 0.6949686787037036

Google named a Leader in IDC MarketScape SIEM 2026 Vendor Assessment

Security operations teams are under immense pressure to defend against adversaries who use AI to act with unprecedented speed, scale, and sophistication. To navigate these moments, secure mission-critical workloads, and build confident defense programs, organi

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Google Cloud Blog Jun 16 Score 0.6924686787037037

Introducing new Explores and Merge Queries in Looker

A key goal for many enterprises in the AI era is to empower their employees to uncover actionable data insights on their own. To help, we are evolving Looker Explore with a streamlined interface and integrated AI, so every usey can confidently turn data into a

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Google Cloud Blog Jun 16 Score 0.6924686787037037

Introducing Brazos: Bringing liquid cooling to air-cooled data centers

Next-generation artificial intelligence (AI) and high-performance computing (HPC) chips routinely exceed 1000 W Thermal Design Power (TDP). Simply put, standard air cooling cannot manage these extreme heat loads. The alternative — retrofitting entire data cent

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TechCrunch — AI Jun 16 Score 0.6547812402777778

SpaceX is public: Everything you need to know post-IPO

TechCrunch has followed SpaceX's start, struggles, and successes from the early days. And we're here for what happens next too. This package of SpaceX IPO coverage includes who stands to win (and maybe some who won't), pre-IPO deals, and what's tucked inside i

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AI News Jun 16 Score 0.6173320087962962

Insurers pivot AI strategy toward core risk underwriting

AI investments by insurers are now expected to generate tangible business value beyond mere efficiency. According to findings in the 2026 Evident AI Index, insurers are now embedding AI technologies into workflows that directly influence underwriting disciplin

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