Tests Suggest Russian Satellites Can Jam GPS On a Continental Scale
Researchers say mysterious, seconds-long GPS interference bursts detected across Europe appear to come from Russian EKS early-warning satellites, making this “a rare example of human-made GPS interference coming from space,” reports Ars Technica. The signals may be tests of space-based jamming capability, short satellite communications, … ⌘ Read more
Donut Lab’s ‘Solid-State’ Battery Exposed As Regular Li-Ion
A battery researcher’s investigation, backed by more than 20 independent experts, claims Donut Lab’s much-hyped “solid-state” battery is actually a conventional lithium-ion cell, with voltage curves and expansion data matching high-nickel NCM chemistry rather than the promised sodium-ion solid-state design. Electrek reports the company raised about $25 mil … ⌘ Read more
Netflix’s Erling Haaland Doc Arrives With Perfect World Cup Timing
Netflix dropped its Erling Haaland football documentary just days before the 2026 World Cup kicks off. The streamer’s new two-part series chronicles Norway’s emotional return to the global stage after 26 years. Norway: The Dark Horse has arrived on Netflix ahead of FIFA World Cup Netflix has released Norway: The Dark Horse, a two-part sports […]
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‘Severe’ Stress On Oceans As Rate of Sea Level Rise Doubles In 10 Years, UN Warns
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: The world’s oceans are under “severe and accelerating” pressure from human activities, with the rate of sea-level rise double that of a decade ago, according to a damning assessment from the United Nations. The “intensifying” stressors, which include pollution a … ⌘ Read more
We Think the SpaceX IPO Is Overvalued
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Ubuntu MATE Is Continuing Despite No Ubuntu MATE 26.04 Release
Back in March, Martin Wimpress stepped down as the longtime Ubuntu MATE leader and was looking for contributors to keep this Ubuntu derivative going with its GNOME2-derived desktop. That change in leadership paired with no Ubuntu MATE 26.04 release having occurred led to some concerns among users, but the plan is still for Ubuntu MATE to continue moving forward… ⌘ Read more
OpenAI Files For IPO
OpenAI has confidentially filed for an IPO, “setting it up for what may be the most highly anticipated market debut in recent history and a massive payday for early investors,” reports CNN. The decision follows recent IPO announcements from Anthropic and SpaceX. From the report: OpenAI said it has not decided on timing yet. And because the filing is confidential, it’s not yet clear how many shares the company plans to sell or at wha … ⌘ Read more
Meta Deletes Face-Recognition System From Its Smart Glasses App
Last Thursday, Wired reported that Meta had quietly embedded an unreleased facial recognition system called NameTag into software installed on millions of phones. In a follow-up report, Wired says the tech giant has now removed the face-recognition-related code, while saying “no final decision” has been made about whether the feature will launch. Fr … ⌘ Read more
Xbox Game Exclusivity Will Be Decided on a ‘Case-by-Case’ Basis, Microsoft Says
Microsoft executive Matt Booty says future Xbox exclusivity will be decided “case-by-case,” with Gears of War: E-Day and Clockwork Revolution remaining Xbox console exclusives while major multiplayer, live-service, and previously promised PlayStation releases stay multiplatform. But IGN’s Tom Phillips says Microsoft’s … ⌘ Read more
Alice and Steve’s Jemaine Clement, Nicola Walker, & Yali Topol Margalith Talk Hilarious Hulu Show
Alice and Steve stars Jemaine Clement, Nicola Walker, and Yali Topol Margalith spoke to ComingSoon’s Tyler Treese about the new Hulu TV show. The trio discussed their characters, the show’s handling of age-gap romances, and more. It’s now streaming via Hulu on Disney+. “Alice is devastated when her best friend, Steve, starts dating her 26-year-old […]
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Apple Announces macOS 27 ‘Golden Gate’, Drops Support For Intel Macs
An anonymous reader quotes a report from AppleInsider: Apple has unveiled its next Mac operating system, macOS Golden Gate, with Apple promising better performance, the improved Siri, and more. […] On the surface, macOS Golden Gate is not as significant an upgrade as macOS Big Sur, or even macOS Tahoe with its Liquid Glass redesign. But … ⌘ Read more
Apple Announces Siri AI, Next Generation of Apple Intelligence
At WWDC 2026, Apple announced a new “Siri AI,” describing it as a more conversational, personalized, and systemwide assistant that can understand on-screen context and interact with apps while relying on on-device processing or Private Cloud Compute. The relaunch comes two years after Apple’s original Apple Intelligence promises stumbled and “never f … ⌘ Read more
What 26 years of data says about the typical domestic violence killer
The statistics provide a unique profile of a domestic violence killer in NSW as the state’s top coroner warned the “wicked and complex problem” was a persistent driver of homicide. ⌘ Read more
WhatsApp Catches Spyware Firm NSO Defying No-Hacking Court Order
wiredmikey shares a report from SecurityWeek: Meta-owned communications app WhatsApp says it recently detected and disrupted a spear-phishing attempt linked to spyware company NSO Group. The attack is allegedly in defiance of a court order that bars the spyware maker from targeting WhatsApp. WhatsApp filed a lawsuit against NSO in 2019, after it ca … ⌘ Read more
Scary Movie’s Box Office Success Reveals Key Lesson That Hollywood Struggles With
Scary Movie is off to a great start at the box office following a successful opening weekend. Unfortunately, there is a key lesson from the movie that Hollywood continues to struggle with. After 26 years, audiences still love Scary Movie. The sixth movie in the parody franchise opened to $55 million at the domestic box […]
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Firefox Merges Support For Vulkan Video Decoding
Firefox has merged initial support for Vulkan Video decoding, giving the browser a more cross-platform path for GPU-accelerated video playback beyond Linux’s long-running reliance on VA-API. Phoronix reports: Firefox on Linux has long been focused on the Video Acceleration API (VA-API) that isn’t universally supported by Linux graphics drivers. This has left to efforts like NVI … ⌘ Read more
Italy’s Bending Spoons, Owner of AOL and Vimeo, Files For Nasdaq IPO
Bending Spoons, the Italian app studio behind acquisitions like Eventbrite, Vimeo, WeTransfer, Evernote, and AOL, has filed to go public in the U.S. after growing into a subscription-heavy app conglomerate with more than 500 million monthly active users. TechCrunch reports: In its filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Bending Spoons … ⌘ Read more
Anzeige: Mit Amazon zum Bestpreis bei EA Sports FC 26 kicken
Bei Amazon gibt es EA Sports FC 26 aktuell zum Bestpreis. Dank WM-Modus kann man eine eigene Fußball-WM spielen. ( Fußball, Amazon)
Jeff Bezos Is Funding a Wild Hunt for the Brain’s ‘Core Algorithm’
Jeff Bezos is backing Flourish, a new “neuro AI” startup with $500 million in funding and a reported $2.5 billion valuation, that aims to reinvent AI by studying the brain’s architecture and building systems that learn continuously while using far less power than today’s large language models. The company’s long-term bet is that neuroscientis … ⌘ Read more
Canonical Experimenting With x86-64-v3 Packages For Ubuntu 26.10
Canonical engineers are again evaluating the impact of building the Ubuntu Linux archive for the x86-64-v3 “amd64v3” micro-architecture feature level for its performance benefits on modern Intel and AMD systems. An amd64v3 archive is available of Ubuntu 26.10 for testing with the packages targeting this level that allows for AVX/AVX2 and other newer CPU x86_64 ISA capabilities of the past decade… ⌘ Read more
Ruby Fights Supply-Chain Attacks With Filter Offering ‘Cooldown’ Before Installing New Packages
Most supply-chain attacks using Ruby’s package hosting site “exploit a narrow window,” according to a new blog post form Ruby core maintainer Hiroshi Shibata.
So its packaging-managing Bundler tool now offers a filter that blocks new version until it’s been public “for at least N … ⌘ Read more
Vintage AMD R600 Graphics Driver Sees Code Cleanups Thanks To GitHub Copilot
As the discussions continue among developers over potentially branching off some of the older Mesa drivers, the AMD R600 Gallium3D driver saw 59 commits on Sunday to Mesa 26.2. Making this code restructuring and code cleaning all the more notable is that the improvements to this old AMD Radeon graphics driver was done in part by GitHub Copilot… ⌘ Read more
A San Francisco Burglar Escaped in a Robotaxi - and Police Still Can’t Find Him
A burglar took a self-driving Waymo taxi to rob a San Francisco yoga studio this past January, reports TechCrunch — “and police have still not caught them.”
Even the police officer assigned to the case thought it would be easier to solve, notes The San Francisco Chronicle, since Waymos are outfitted with multiple high … ⌘ Read more
Texas Grid Flags Risks As Data Centers, Crypto Sites Fail Voltage Tests
Reuters reports:
Several large data centers and crypto facilities planning to connect to the Texas power grid ahead of peak summer demand have failed key reliability tests, raising the risk of power outages just as electricity use hits its seasonal high, according to the state grid operator… Unlike traditional industrial custom … ⌘ Read more
Police Sued After Imprisoning Innocent Man Placed Near Violent Crime By Flock License Plate Reader
“When Hugo Parra was arrested last year on felony charges, his pleas of innocence fell on deaf ears,” reports the Times of San Diego:
San Diego police had a description of the Alfa Romeo car he was riding in [but no license plate number] and a witness who identified him during … ⌘ Read more
Prada Unveils ‘Liquid Cooling’ Inner-Layer Garment for NASA’s Moon Astronauts with Knitted-In Ventilation Tubes
Italian fashion house Prada “unveiled on Sunday the inner-layer garment set to be worn by NASA astronauts heading to the moon,” reports Reuters.
“The body-hugging suit, created in collaboration with Houston-based space infrastructure developer Axiom Spa … ⌘ Read more
Black Market Tinkerers on Facebook Marketplace Offer to Hide ‘Recording Lights’ on Meta Smartglasses
People are disabling the “recording light” on Meta’s Ray-Ban smartglasses — “by my count, thousands of people,” says tech journalist Joanna Stern in a new video report:
STERN: “They’re hiring people on Facebook Marketplace to drill out the light for as much as $100. According t … ⌘ Read more
Levi powers away for long-range try
Maddison Levi scores a long-range try as Australia defeat New Zealand in the women’s final of the 2025-26 World Sevens Series. ⌘ Read more
New Fortune 500 Rankings: Texas Overtakes California, But Amazon is #1, Beating Walmart
“Texas has dethroned California as the state with the most Fortune 500 companies,” reports the Los Angeles Times:
The Fortune 500 list ranks the largest U.S. companies by revenue. This year, 57 of the top companies are headquartered in Texas, compared with California’s 56. It’s a reversal from two years ago … ⌘ Read more
The Gamer-Rights Group Fighting to Make the Industry Stop Killing Games (Servers)
“Can a company take away something you’ve already paid for?” asks the BBC. “In the world of online video games, some already do.”
Publishers can decide to switch off a game’s servers, often leaving it effectively unplayable. Stop Killing Games, a growing consumer rights campaign started by American YouTuber Ross S … ⌘ Read more
Winners Announced in 2026’s ‘International Obfuscated C Code Competition’
Yesterday 2026’s International Obfuscated C Code Contest concluded, with 22 new winners announced in a special three-hour livestreamed ceremony! Started 42 years ago, it’s been described as the internet’s longest-running contest, with entrants concocting convoluted programs glorying in the C programming language’s subtleties, … ⌘ Read more
James Bond Videogame ‘007 First Light’ Sells 2.2M Copies, Earns $150M
The new James Bond-themed videogame 007 First Light had a budget of 1.3 billion Danish krone — a little more than USD $202 million, reports IGN, citing a report from Denmark’s public service broadcaster. “Denmark’s TV 2 said that makes 007 First Light the most expensive entertainment product in the country’s history” — and the game “still ha … ⌘ Read more
After Empty Promises, Will String Theory Find New Uses?
Science magazine reports:
For decades, string theory promised a “theory of everything” that described all particles and forces as tiny vibrating strings. Physicists hoped it could also solve one of the field’s deepest problems: reconciling quantum mechanics with gravity. But as string theory grew increasingly elaborate — and experimentally unreachable — many phy … ⌘ Read more
The OnlyFans Economy of American AI
Article URL: https://leoveanu.com/2026-06-06-qwen3.7max/
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Reddit Ads Impersonate BBC and The Guardian to Push Fake AI Investment Schemes
A “growing wave” of Reddit’s “promoted posts” are sending U.S. and European audiences to money-stealing scams that impersonate major news organizations including the BBC, the Financial Times, and The Guardian, according to new findings from Bitdefender Labs.
“Domains are short-lived and rapidly rotated to evade detecti … ⌘ Read more
Donald Trump, Bernie Sanders And Sam Altman Are All Talking About Public Ownership In AI
U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders announced a plan for the public to take a 50% ownership stake in AI companies, remembers the Associated Press.
And then OpenAI’s Sam Altman “told Sanders that he, too, wants the public to have equity in AI companies.”
Though the CEO said he couldn’t support Sanders’ thr … ⌘ Read more
Mesa 26.2 Lands VK_GOOGLE_display_timing Support For Direct Display Mode
The VK_GOOGLE_display_timing extension for obtaining display timing information that can be useful for frame-pacing and eliminating micro-stuttering in games now has direct display mode support with KHR_display for the Mesa Vulkan drivers. This now merged addition immediately benefits the Intel ANV and Radeon RADV drivers as well as the PowerVR, Turnip, and V3DV drivers too… ⌘ Read more
‘Steve Jobs In Exile’ Remembers the Birth of the Web and ‘Making Unix Taste Sweet’
Ars Technica shares some anecdotes from Steve Jobs in Exile, a new book released last month:
[Author Geoffrey] Cain reminds us, in stunning detail, that Jobs’ “exile” era at NeXT was not only critical to his evolution as a man and an entrepreneur, but that it mattered for the rest of us, too. The technological … ⌘ Read more
Scientists Edited Human Embryo Genes. But Questions Remain
“A DNA-editing feat involving editing the genes of early stage embryos was announced this week,” reports the Wall Street Journal.
They describe the feat as “a far cry from designer babies, but nevertheless a step in that direction.”
Dieter Egli, an associate professor of developmental cell biology at Columbia University and his co-authors, including Nath … ⌘ Read more
Failing CS Grades Soar At UC Berkeley As Professors See Greater AI Usage
The University of California at Berkeley discovered the percentage of failing grades in multiple CS classes this spring “is significantly higher than past semesters,” reports the campus’s student newspaper.
“Instructors point to students’ increased reliance on AI, lack of mathematical preparedness and understaffing as poten … ⌘ Read more
Cheaper EVs Sales are Increasing
Sales have increased for Hyundai’s under-$35,000 IONIQ 5, totalling 18,395 for the first five months of 2026, reports Electrek, “up 16% from the same period last year.”
But meanwhile BYD’s overseas sales surpassed 160,000 for the first time last month, “up 80% from May 2025 and 19% from the previous record of 135,098 set in April.”
Through the first five months of 2026, BYD sold 616,263 vehicles overseas. I … ⌘ Read more
EU’s Tech Sovereignty Package Includes 29 Pages on Open Source, Says Open Source Initiative
Friday the Open Source Initiative welcomed the EU’s new tech sovereignty package, noting that “over a third of the 29-page document is devoted to Open Source.”
The nonprofit OSI — maintainers of the Open Source definition — submitted their official feedback in February, and notes that “many” of … ⌘ Read more
Hospital Ordered to Pay $13M Over 2022 Death of Star Trek’s Nichelle Nichols
The Root reports:
A New Mexico jury has found the Gila Regional Medical Center negligent in the death of Nichelle Nichols, who famously played Lieutenant Nyota Uhura on the hit television series “Star Trek.”
According to KRQE News 13, Nichols’ family filed a lawsuit against the hospital last year following her 202 … ⌘ Read more
Ladybird Browser Stops Accepting Public Pull Requests
The Ladybird browser isn’t opposed to AI coding tools, but it’s just brought a new change to their code-contributing policies.
February 23: “Ladybird adopts Rust, with help from AI.”
I used Claude Code and Codex for the translation. This was human-directed, not autonomous code generation. I decided what to port, in what order, and what the Rust code should look like. … ⌘ Read more
New Power Banks Released By BMX With Safer Semi-Solid-State Batteries
From Android Authority:
Singapore-based BMX has announced that its SolidSafe magnetic power bank lineup, first showcased at CES 2026, is now available for purchase through its website and Amazon US, with prices starting at $59. What sets these power banks apart is their use of semi-solid-state batteries. Traditional lithium-ion and … ⌘ Read more
Teen Social Media Bans Risk Strengthening Big Tech’s Dominance, Warns Bluesky Exec
Bluesky’s chief operating officer believes teen social media bans “risk entrenching Big Tech’s dominance,” reports CNBC:
Rose Wang, Bluesky’s chief operating officer, told CNBC on the sidelines of SXSW in London on Wednesday that the smaller open-source platform isn’t opposed to regulation but that smaller playe … ⌘ Read more
Early Research Suggests a Path to Predict and Prevent Lung Cancer
Scientists “have made a discovery that may help prevent some people from developing lung cancer,” reports the New York Times, noting that lung cancer “kills more people worldwide than any other cancer.”
A team of more than 80 researchers working across four continents have identified a set of proteins in the blood that accurately predict lu … ⌘ Read more
Criticisms Rise Before Vote on America’s Cryptocurrency ‘Clarity Act’
An upcoming vote in a few weeks on America’s cryptocurrency “Clarity Act” is “rattling Wall Street and consumer advocates,” reports CNN, with its proposal to regulate the bulk of crypto markets through America’s Commodity Futures Trading Commission. “It allows crypto companies to operate, at long last, in compliance with U.S. rules, rather … ⌘ Read more
2027’s ‘Tomb Raider’ Remake: Unreal Engine 5 and AI-Assisted Assets ‘Refined’ By Humans
An official trailer dropped this week for Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis. It’s “a full-blown remake of the original 1996 Tomb Raider game,” reports Kotaku, “rebuilt from the ground up using Unreal Engine 5.” Developed by Flying Wild Hog (with assistance/guidance from longtime Tomb Raider studio Crystal Dy … ⌘ Read more
Utah Residents Sue Officials Over Kevin O’Leary Data Center Plan
Utah residents and a progressive nonprofit are suing officials over Kevin O’Leary’s planned Stratos Project AI data center, arguing that the special authority overseeing it gives unelected officials too much control over land use, taxation, public health, and local governance. The lawsuit comes as O’Leary has agreed to shrink the proposed 40,000-ac … ⌘ Read more