Tootfinder

Microsoft establishes an organization with 6,000 staff specializing in engineering, corporate training, and management to support businesses with AI deployments (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)
https://www.geekwire.com/2026/microsoft-anno…

Microsoft unveils $2.5B ‘Frontier Company’ to embed AI engineers inside customers
"Microsoft Frontier Company" is a $2.5 billion initiative that will embed engineers inside customer organizations to build and run their AI systems. The move follows similar efforts by Amazon, OpenAI and Anthropic, and expands work Microsoft was already doing through its consulting arm and partners.

Noch ein paar der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Video: Foto-Cloud selber hosten mit Immich
https://www.

Video: Foto-Cloud selber hosten mit Immich
15 GB voll und dann wird's teuer? Mit Immich hostet ihr eure Fotos selbst – privat, kostenlos und überraschend einfach.

RE: https://c.im/@cdarwin/117020833483614521
On Tuesday, Michigan Democrats will answer a simple question:
What if we support passion and change over safety?
The answer could reverberate through the party for years.

#bloomscrolling am #klexenhaus.

"Europe's deadly heat wave scorches east, Slovakia hits record"
#Europe #Slovakia #Heatwave

Europe's deadly heat wave scorches east, Slovakia hits record
Europe's most severe heat wave on record set new temperature records in eastern parts of the continent on Monday and forced Ukraine to order power cuts to cope.

Kling AI, the Kuaishou AI video generator spin-off, raised $2B at a $15B pre-money valuation and says the round could extend to as much as $3B (Zheping Huang/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-02/china…

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RE: https://c.im/@cdarwin/116678323538277138
If you follow me on Bluesky you know that I rant about the leadership of that site all the time, but blaming users for preferring that site isn’t a winning strategy to convince them to try other sites (like Mastodon)

Narwahls are critically dependent on the marginal ice zone in Northern Greenland.
"it provides both feeding opportunities and refuge from predators. Continued loss of seasonal sea ice is therefore expected to alter narwhal movement patterns, potentially increasing fjord residency and reducing inter-fjord movements. Such behavioural shifts could have cascading ecological effects, altering prey dynamics and reducing genetic exchange among regional narwhal groups."
My colleagues do *such* cool research.. .
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-026-53787-8

御中
俺の肩を
抱きしめてくれ

15 Ways to Fight Callais (Norman Eisen/The Contrarian)
https://www.contrariannews.org/p/15-ways-to-fight-callais
http://www.memeorandum.com/260502/p18#a260502p18

Sometimes people post RSS/iCal/etc feeds on web servers and then get conned into slapping Cloudflare in front. So feed readers get captchas instead of a feed.
But Cloudflare edge workers are privileged. So one can write a tiny proxy to fetch from the original website without a challenge.
#cloudflareisevil

Based on daily values, the July average of atmospheric CO2 at Mauna Loa was ~429.1 ppm. That's "only" 1.2 ppm higher than last year. But don't hold your breath: the upcoming El Niño will probably speed up the increase again.

“The Trump administration faced embarrassment this week over the Reflecting Pool debacle and dismissal of criminal charges, with one Trump ally saying the episode made the administration ‘look like a monkey having intimate relations with a football.’”
https://

"the spectre of communism is stalking Europe" factoid actually just statistical error. Most places in Europe have never been visited by the spectre of communism. Karl Marx, who lives in Engels's apartment and is stalked by 10,000 spectres of communism, is an outlier and should not have been counted

Backup Qnap finally packed it up.
15 or 16 years. Had a good run. Not many cheap 4 bays NAS around now - I don’t use it for anything just sync data to it for off site backup.

#potd A "black redstart" getting a snack during flight training in our courtyard. https://domm.plix.at/potd/2026-06-02.html

This is a pretty good summary of how I think about static types myself.
"Types allow moving obligations around." is also a great practical distillation.
Reminds me of epiphanies around error handling and transaction management. Asking yourself "whose obligation is it to ensure this set of data is valid" translates to a lot fewer `| None` type hints. And inversely, a lot of `| None` are a strong smell of missing clarity.
From the Parse, Don't Validate…

Der Bund will die staatliche #Lebensmittelreserve ausbauen.
Künftig sollen neben #Getreide und haltbaren Produkten verstärkt #Konserven eingelagert werden, die im

Krisenvorsorge - Bund will Lebensmittelreserve ausbauen
An mehr als 150 geheimen Orten in Deutschland lagert der Staat Lebensmittel - für die Versorgung der Bevölkerung im Krisenfall. Ernährungsminister Rainer will diese Notfallreserve nun erweitern - mit Konserven.

Wow, ich bin Tel einer Sammlung/ collection
https://floss.social/collections/116821989357052183
Danke an @…

Monthly LevelUpLog is live:
#blog #blogpost

RE: https://mastodon.social/@shriramk/115698074101417321
Update: after several months of work, I resigned from the committee yesterday. The answer to all the predictable questions is the predictable answer: yes.

A custom #Rust compiler backend that emits #Java Virtual Machine bytecode. Compile Rust code into a runnable .jar compatible with #JVM 8 .

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Jorja Smith:
🎵 Don't Leave
#NowPlaying #JorjaSmith
https://open.spotify.com/track/44kUOVs16iRf11YjO7aaRW

A big international library conference - IFLA WLIC https://2027.ifla.org - will be in London in 2027. What are your favourite novels or songs about London that you'd recommend to visitors?
So far for songs I've got LDN, West End Girls, a Streets song and Electric Avenue. What would you add?

S A R O S

How Trump has used the presidency to benefit himself and his allies https://abcnews.com/Politics/wireStory/trump-presidency-benefit-allies-133507753

This is puzzling for me..
Do you know people who frequently use genAI / LLM (maybe yourself?)
Are these people aware of the current and future environmental cost of genAI and its datacenters, when we should instead be reducing those in order to save the planet? (let's try and forget about all the other problems it has for now)
If so, how do you / they justify using genAI despite those costs? (multiple choices possible)

I added a PDF to my page about mosquito-killing buckets in case anyone wants to print something off to give to neighbors. Link to the file is near the bottom. #mosquitoes https://colinpurrington.com/2024/08/bti-honeypot-traps/

X launches a React with Video feature on iOS that targets creators and is being pitched as a multimedia alternative to the Repost and Quote Post functions (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/02/x-caters-to-creators-with-new-react-…

X caters to creators with new 'React with Video' feature | TechCrunch
X will now let you 'react with video' to posts.

Es ist gebucht: #WeltenkreuzerLäuft im September 10 Kilometer durch #Bochum und im März meinen ersten #Halbmarathon - in

Does making everything an app cause a loss of exposure to great art & design?
#art

Vintage Weekly Bus Passes
A collection of weekly bus passes from Milwaukee, WI. Years covered are 1930-1979. Was there a new design every single week? (via @slowernet)

Meet our new GÉANT Security Innovation Lab 🔒
A new space in Hamburg for security experimentation and development.
Testing new security features, incubating ideas from the community, safely experimenting with tools and setups.
The lab is here, running, and already being used. What comes next will be shaped by the ideas it enables.
🔗 Learn more, connect with the team, and get involved:

Plant-Forward Planetary Health Diet Tied to Lower Heart Disease Risk in Postmenopausal Women https://vegconomist.com/studies-numbers/plant-forward-planetary-health-diet-tied-lower-heart-disease-risk-postmenopausal-wome…

Plant-Forward Planetary Health Diet Tied to Lower Heart Disease Risk in Postmenopausal Women - vegconomist - the vegan business magazine
Postmenopausal women who most closely followed the Planetary Health Diet had roughly a 28% lower risk of cardiovascular disease than those who adhered least,

The US Department of Justice (DoJ) appeared to
ignore a Friday deadline set by Raúl Torrez, the attorney general of New Mexico,
to share information about the abuse of girls at a remote ranch formerly owned by the disgraced financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Torrez’s office asked the DoJ in February for unredacted files
after he reopened a dormant criminal investigation into activities at Zorro ranch,
a remote 10,000-acre property in desert scrub outsid…

DoJ appears to ignore New Mexico deadline for key Epstein ranch files
State attorney general set 31 July deadline for documents relating to abuse of girls at Epstein-owned Zorro ranch

„Minecraft“-Fortsetzung heißt „A Minecraft Movie Squared“
Der Titel der „Minecraft“-Fortsetzung steht fest: „A Minecraft Movie Squared“. Kirsten Dunst spielt Alex, gab Warner Bros. beim Minecraft-Live-Event bekannt.
…

„Minecraft“-Fortsetzung heißt „A Minecraft Movie Squared“
Der Titel der „Minecraft“-Fortsetzung steht fest: „A Minecraft Movie Squared“. Kirsten Dunst spielt Alex, gab Warner Bros. beim Minecraft-Live-Event bekannt.

A photographer sues The Daily Mail in New York over "systematic" lifting of thousands of images from social media without permission from copyright holders (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/media_law/dai…

Daily Mail sued over 'systematic' lifting of social media images
The Daily Mail is being sued over alleged "systematic" lifting of "thousands" of images from social media without permission or payment.

mstdn.jpは、ずっと連合が1日前とかになってて、リモートから来る投稿・アクティビティの量に対応できていないみたいだね。
キューが常に溢れてるから、ボトルネックになっているのがPostgreSQLなのかRedisなのかffmpegとか走りまくってるCPUなのかそのへんはわからないけど、一番弱いところがフル回転していて、常時負荷が高いわけで、苦しい。
徐々に追いつくのを待つのか、運営が何か手を打つのか……

Sources: Anthropic has initiated early-stage development of a custom AI server chip and held preliminary discussions with Samsung about manufacturing the chip (Qianer Liu/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/anthropic-talks-samsu…

Anthropic in Talks With Samsung to Manufacture Custom AI Chip
Anthropic has begun early-stage work on its own AI chip and held talks with Samsung Electronics as a potential manufacturing partner, following the lead of rival OpenAI in trying to get more control over the costly computing systems behind its models, according to three people with direct ...

it's so baffling that Apple still hasn’t shipped a native version of Bartender, while constantly breaking all existing tools that provide that functionality

#Steady #Klimacrew
Überraschend schweigt der #Temperatursensor. Schon kaputt? 😱
Nach wenigen Wochen lieferte der

Sensorprojekt: Böse Überraschung – Ein Nachtrag zum Shelly H&T
Der Shelly H&T soll dauerhaft senden? Mit dem richtigen USB-Adapter klappt das ganz ohne Batterien. So rüstest Du den Sensor um!

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Kevin Morby:
🎵 Javelin
#NowPlaying #KevinMorby
https://open.spotify.com/track/66GKPLUMYSsSWirLHvEr0q

If you're dreaming of your trip to #DH2027 in South Korea at the end of the month, this reading list https://2026.ifla.org/read-busan/ and playlist

Read Busan - IFLA | WLIC 2026
Preparing for your participation for WLIC 2026 this August? We've curated a list of books to help prepare!

Completely unexamined productivity killer: creating an industrial contagion that makes your workers want to jump out the fucking window

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (Governor Jerome H. Powell/Board of Governors ...)
https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/speech/powell20260531a.htm
http://www.memeorandum.com/260601/p49#a260601p49

"A severe El Niño could threaten something essential to half of humanity – rice"
#ElNino #Climate #ClimateChange

A severe El Niño could threaten something essential to half of humanity – rice
Rice is life for billions of people. But this grain crop depends heavily on irrigation – and the looming El Niño is likely to bring dry conditions.

Extend my list to a top 100
Am I missing something?

Global VC funding hit a record $510B in H1 2026, with OpenAI and Anthropic accounting for $217B, or 43% of the total; in Q2, VCs put $205B into 5K startups (Gené Teare/Crunchbase News)
https://news.crunchbase.com/venture/global-startup-exits-ipo-ma-soar-a…

Crunchbase Data: Global Startup Investment Hit Record $510B In H1 2026 As AI Boom Accelerates Funding And...
Investors poured more than $200 billion into startups globally in the just-ended quarter, making Q2 2026 the second-largest quarter on record, our data shows. And, with IPOs and acquisitions returning in force, the second quarter notched one of the strongest periods for venture-backed exits in years.

Climate crisis-driven heat ‘sucking soils dry’ as extreme drought hits Europe https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jul/23/climate-crisis-heat-sucking-soils-dry-extreme-drought-europe-analysis

立ち食いだからねえ、バスセンターのカレー

Sam Altman proposes a "US-led international forum" to establish AI standards, provide analysis of capabilities and risks, and make AI available to allies (Sam Altman/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/0c2e1077-f658-4b3d-9040-602615c961ca

Trump's Truth Social claim that he no longer considers his controversial
$1.8 billion slush fund to be "dead,"
as he asserted at Camp David just the day before — swiftly drew criticism on Saturday morning.
" Trump doesn’t have the votes for this" -- wrote Bloomberg reporter Steven Dennis.
"Republican senators have already voted against the fund,
and even more against paying rioters who beat police officers
who Trump pardoned.&…

Trump tantrum over 'Jan 6th slush fund' spurs uproar: 'This is outrageous'
President Donald Trump's sudden about-face on his so-called "Anti-Weaponization Fund" stunned critics who argued he threw a dangerous "tantrum" ahead of a crucial political contest.Trump's Truth Social claim — that he no longer considers his controversial $1.8 billion fund to be "dead," as he assert...

Noch ein paar der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Pollin Electronic stellt Insolvenzantrag
https://www.

Pollin Electronic stellt Insolvenzantrag
Der traditionsreiche Elektronikversandhändler Pollin Electronic hat einen Insolvenzantrag gestellt. Der Geschäftsbetrieb läuft vorerst weiter.

Abflug! [#Kundenglücklichmachungsposteinlieferungsgeräusch]

Im Projekt #SPIRITE wurde bidirektionales Laden mit einem #ELkw von MAN demonstriert.
Mit bis zu 325 kW speiste der Truck Strom ins Netz zurück. Anwendungen wie #VehicleToGrid oder

Powerbank auf Rädern: Bidirektionales Laden beim Elektro-Lkw demonstriert - electrive.net
Die Projektpartner von SPIRIT-E haben in einer Pionier-Demonstration bidirektionales Laden an einem MAN-Lkw demonstriert – mit 325 kW floss Strom aus dem

Canada will join the Eurovision song contest in 2027, becoming the first new participant since Australia in 2015; the contest will be held in Bulgaria (The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2026/jul/01/canada-joins-eurovision-song-co…

Canada to ​join Eurovision song contest from 2027
Country is first to join since Australia in 2015 as event director says it ‘continues to welcome the world’

"Great Barrier Reef drilling reveals repeated collapse, regrowth and migration since last ice age"
#Oceans #GreatBarrierReef

Great Barrier Reef drilling reveals repeated collapse, regrowth and migration since last ice age
An international expedition including University of Sydney researchers has pieced together the clearest picture yet of how the Great Barrier Reef responded to dramatic environmental change over the past 30,000 years. Multiple studies since the expedition more than 10 years ago have traced the reef's retreat, regrowth and repeated collapse from the last ice age to the dawn of the modern reef.

At least 20 protesters arrested at ICE detention center Delaney Hall as DHS vows 'ZERO tolerance for rioters' (New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2026/06/01/us-news/at-least-20-protesters-arrested-at-ice-detention-center-delaney-hall-as-dhs-vows-zero-tolerance-for-rioters/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260601/p50#a260601p50

SoftBank and its telecom unit launch SB Neo to offer AI chips and cloud services to big companies, aiming to provide 10GW of capacity in the US by 2030 (Min-Jeong Lee/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Sea salt in Lombok Island, Indonesia is contaminated with microplastics: study https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/07/sea-salt-in-lombok-island-indonesia-is-contaminated-with-microplastics-study/

Sea salt in Lombok Island, Indonesia is contaminated with microplastics: study
Researchers found microplastics in all sea salt samples from Lombok Island markets, suggesting widespread contamination of the surrounding ocean.

In 2018, Abdul El-Sayed ran for governor in Michigan.
He had a resume full of credentials including stints at the University of Michigan, Oxford, and Columbia for medical school
— but no political experience.
He conducted a Bernie Sanders-style progressive campaign against Gretchen Whitmer
but found himself stonewalled by the political establishment and powerful interest groups.
In the end, he faced a sedated electorate disinterested in a campaign centered aroun…

The Michigan Senate Primary Is a Battle for Democrats’ Future
The Democratic primary for Senate in Michigan pits Abdul El-Sayed against Haley Stevens in a battle is reverberating through the party.

Z.ai launches ZCode, an "Agentic Development Environment" optimized for its new GLM-5.2 model; Z.ai's GLM Coding Plan costs from $16.20 to $144 per month (Michael Nuñez/VentureBeat)
https://venturebeat.com/technology/z-a

Heute haben wir die Sonne am Hals, jaja. 🔆
Eine von diesen ist noch da. (handgemalter #wandklexschmuck; echt 925 Sterling Silber, zu finden auf https://www.wandklex.art/product/sonnenstrahlen-galaxien-handgemalte-sonnengelbe-galaxien-in-925-sterling-silber-halsschmuck-oder-ohrstecker-637323.

#Steady #Klimacrew
Bereits im Jahr 2023 erregten zwei Anwälte in New York wegen Missbrauchs von ChatGPT Aufsehen. Sie hatten den Chatbot für die Anfertigung von Dokumenten für das Gericht benutzt und es unterlassen, die Ausgaben auf Korrektheit zu prüfen.
Kann man daraus nun etwas lerne…

Anwälte: In Deutschland nichts dazugelernt.
KI im Anwaltsberuf: Warum ungeprüfte Schriftsätze gegen die Sorgfaltspflicht verstoßen können.

"By 2050, many Sydney apartments built to today’s standards could be too hot for weeks at a time"
#Australia #Sydney #Houses

By 2050, many Sydney apartments built to today’s standards could be too hot for weeks at a time
Apartments built to today’s standards could be too hot for future comfort for about four weeks a year in Redfern and more than seven weeks in Penrith.

A look back at BitTorrent, launched by Bram Cohen 25 years ago, and how media piracy fueled its growth while its architecture shielded it from legal liability (Janko Roettgers/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/959848/bittorrent-story-25-years-piracy

BitTorrent’s disastrous, legendary, and controversial story
The file-sharing app launched 25 years ago and unleashed a wave of piracy that would shake Hollywood to its core.

Kids Everywhere Need To Eat More Plant-Based Foods, Finds Study #plantbased

Kids Everywhere Need To Eat More Plant-Based Foods, Finds Study
A new study has found that kids and young people around the world are not eating enough nutritious, sustainable, plant-based foods

Todd Blanche vote is rescheduled, but there’s no deal
A Senate Judiciary spokesperson said the move would give “more time for the White House to secure the votes.
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2026/07/31/congress/todd-b…

The UK CMA is weighing new rules to allow UK app developers to direct customers to payment options outside of Apple and Google's platforms, bypassing their fees (Alice Brooker/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/platforms/cma-t…

CMA targets Apple and Google app stores: 'Good news for publishers'
The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has set out new rules for app stores to steer users away from Apple and Google payment platforms.

Spanish PM criticises 'selfish' attitude of some EU countries over Ceuta crisis
The Spanish prime minister, Pedro Sšnchez, has hit back at some EU countries for what he described as their
“selfish, polarising and illegal reaction” to the mass border crossings at Ceuta,
as he thanked Morocco for its help in dealing with the crisis.
In a letter to Brussels, he said several European states have chosen to “attack” Spain
and request its temporary exclusion fr…

Spain leaving Schengen ‘not on table’ says France after Sánchez hits out at EU response to Ceuta crisis – Europe live
Interior minister confirms France will not ask for Spain’s removal from visa-free travel arrangements, after Spanish PM condemned ‘selfish, polarising’ response of some countries to mass border crossings

Why are so many dead bumblebees appearing on sidewalks? #environment

Why are so many dead bumblebees appearing on sidewalks?
Bumblebees naturally have short lives, but extreme heat and human activity are making survival harder. Pesticides can poison bees or destroy the flowers they depend on, while habitat loss leaves them with fewer safe places to live and feed. Protecting native plants and using fewer chemicals could help these vital pollinators recover.

Box says it created 13 new AI-focused roles, like AI architect and AI solutions manager, and plans to grow its staff to 3,000 by early 2027, up from 2,900 (Kalley Huang/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/technology/box-13-new-types-jobs-ai.html

How Box Created 13 New Types of Jobs Because of A.I.
Box, a Silicon Valley software maker, expects to have more employees, not fewer, as it hires A.I. architects, A.I. solutions managers and other new A.I.-related positions.

There are many parallels between the first McCarthy era, roughly 1946 to 1956,
and Trump’s campaign of political repression, his own updated McCarthyism.
Both regimes crafted a monster of quasi-facts and innuendo and fed it with fear:
an enemy within, well-organized and financed, secretive and violent, allied with evil foreigners and bent on overthrowing capitalism, democracy and Christian morality.
Both used flagrantly unconstitutional means to cleanse the nation of …

McCarthyism has returned to the United States – and this time it’s even more dangerous
Trump’s campaign of repression echoes the red scare. But now the government has bigger ambitions and more powerful tools

A look at Comcast co-CEO Brian Roberts' earlier bundling strategy for connectivity and content, and his plan now to unbundle in order to keep growing (Jessica Toonkel/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/media/a-cable

Why river management is so crucial to protecting one of world's most important wetlands #environment

Why river management is so crucial to protecting one of world's most important wetlands
A major new study led by Swansea University has shown that upstream river management, rather than local rainfall, is the primary driver of one of the world's most important wetlands. According to the research published in Scientific Reports, which analyzed more than two decades of satellite observations, the future of Iraq's Mesopotamian Marshes depends far more on the water flowing from the Tigris and Euphrates rivers than on rainfall.

Bernie Sanders says the wealth AI creates "must benefit humanity", calling for a sovereign wealth fund that would hold ownership stakes in the top AI companies (Bernie Sanders/New York Times)
https://www.nytim…

Opinion | Bernie Sanders: A.I. Belongs to the People, Not to Billionaires
All Americans should have a stake in the future of this technology.

Trump pulled the US out of the Network for Greening the Financial System last year, leaving Europe to take the lead on climate-related risks without the involvement of the world’s most powerful economy.
Dutch banker and lawyer Elderson said the banking industry remained convinced that climate and nature-related risks had to be addressed.
“I would think it’s very difficult to find a bank in Europe that will honestly tell you that they think this is not relevant,” he said.
“I…

ECB official warns climate crisis poses growing threat to ‘core financial stability’
Exclusive: As wildfires rage across Europe, Frank Elderson tells the Guardian nature loss poses a growing risk to the global economy

New York City-based Mecka AI, which trains robots with human data sourced from body sensors and iPhones, raised $60M, including a $25M Series A (Ben Weiss/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/06/01/mecka-ai-series-a-60-million-robotics-data-training/…

Mecka AI raises $60 million to train robots with human data sourced from body sensors and iPhones
Shareholders in private companies are holding their breath as SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic look to make big splashes in the public markets.

Judges nix Trump’s mandatory immigrant detention policy,
teeing up Supreme Court fight
The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals dealt another blow to the Trump administration’s mass deportation project Thursday,
ruling alongside the 7th Circuit that most immigrants cannot be held without bond while fighting to remain in the U.S.
The rulings will apply to jurisdictions that stretch across much of the southern border,
affecting states where large numbers of immigran…

Judges nix Trump's mandatory immigrant detention policy
The 9th Circuit was one of two appellate courts to issue rulings this week against the Trump administration, finding that immigrants who are detained away from the border are entitled to a bond hearing to decide whether they should be freed or remain in detention while their case proceeds

Sekai, which lets users create mini apps through text prompts, raised a $20M Series A co-led by Khosla Ventures and Connect Ventures, after a $6M seed in 2025 (Kerry Flynn/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/06/01/sekai-mini-app-startup-funding

Exclusive: Sekai raises $20M for AI app creation
CEO Lucky Zhang says he wants people to play and interact instead of doomscroll.

LAPD officer who recorded colleagues’ racist comments charged with felony eavesdropping
LAPD officer Daniel Flores filed an internal affairs complaint against his LAPD colleagues after recording them making racist, homophobic and sexist comments.
Prosecutors charge that Flores violated the California Invasion of Privacy Act, which prohibits recording others without their consent.
Flores’ lawyer said the case sends a message that “if you document bigotry inside the LAPD, yo…

LAPD officer who recorded racist comments to be charged with felony
Los Angeles County prosecutors on Friday are expected to charge an LAPD officer with felony eavesdropping for making secret recordings of his colleagues' racist, sexist and homophobic comments on the job.

Sources: Intel faces a supply shortage of its Panther Lake and Wildcat Lake laptop chips built on its 18A process node; Intel says there are "some" shortages (Tim Culpan/Culpium)
https://www.culpium.com/p/intel-is-struggling-to-supply-laptop

Intel is Struggling to Supply Laptop Chips Built Around its New 18A Node
Intel is facing a shortage of laptop processors Panther Lake and Wildcat Lake at its comeback 18A node, casting doubt about future supply

RE: https://fosstodon.org/@AkaSci/117018032119683056
"Will there be consequences for this out-of-control regime that threatens people with made-up charges and attempts to ruin their lives❓
Of course not❗️
But let's make sure the electorat…

Sources: the UK has begun using SpaceX's militarized satellite network Starshield, making it among the first countries outside the US to adopt the tech (Cassell Bryan-Low/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-tel

Elon Musk plans to spend $100 million to $120 million to help Susan Collins, as well as other Republican candidates in close Senate races.
Collins, who recently got a new Democratic challenger in former state Senator Troy Jackson, has an uphill battle to keep her seat in the blue state of Maine.
In addition to Maine, Musk’s super PAC, America PAC, plans to spend money in Alaska, Iowa, Ohio, and Michigan,
all states with Senate contests where Democrats are polling well.

Elon Musk Goes All in on Trying to Save Susan Collins
Elon Musk is back to throwing money into U.S. elections. This time, he’s trying to save Maine’s only Republican senator.

A group of 16 mathematicians publishes the Leiden Declaration on AI and Mathematics to address threats to the field, citing accuracy and reliability concerns (Siobhan Roberts/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/0…

As A.I. Makes Strides in Mathematics, Mathematicians Urge Caution
A week after OpenAI made headlines with an A.I.-generated proof, a new “declaration” by 16 experts raises concerns that the technology threatens math as a discipline.

Donald Trump on Friday took the first step in appealing a federal judge’s ruling that questioned the legality of a lawsuit filed by the president, two of his sons and the Trump Organization against the IRS.
The Trumps filed notice that they would appeal the July 13 ruling by U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams that said the $10 billion suit was for an “improper purpose.”
The case led to the Justice Department creating a $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization” slush fund as part of a…

Trump appeals ruling that found his $10 billion IRS suit aimed to ‘manipulate’ legal proceedings
The case is at the center of negotiations between two Republican senators and the Justice Department over Todd Blanche’s nomination to serve as attorney general.

Sources: Kalshi agreed to pay $20M to sponsor the World Cup knockouts, after initially balking at FIFA's $150M asking price, alongside ADI Predictstreet (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-30/kalsh…

We’ve been living under the penumbra of Trump for so long that it can feel as if we will never escape it.
But the battle over who will succeed Trump as the Republican nominee in 2028 is well underway.
Much of the focus has been on Vice President JD Vance, the presumed front-runner,
or Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who has emerged as a favorite in some Republican circles.
Then there’s Vivek Ramaswamy.
In some ways, Ramaswamy cuts a Trumpian figure:
a bi…

Opinion | Vivek Ramaswamy Wants to Be the Future. First He Has to Win.
Vivek Ramaswamy’s brand of post-Trump fusionism faces a test in Ohio.

Meta expands Teen Accounts safety features to limit harmful content on Instagram, Facebook, and Messenger, including on nutrition, weight lifting, and anxiety (Eli Tan/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/02/technology/meta-safety-features-teenage…

Meta Expands Safety Features for Teenagers
The changes, after Meta’s legal losses in two child safety cases, are aimed at limiting harmful content shown to teenagers on Instagram, Facebook and Messenger.

Trump Administration Plans to Upend Head Start by Deregulating It
The White House tried but failed to block funding for preschool for poor children.
Instead, it will seek to strip away standards on health, literacy
— and brushing teeth.
https://www.ny…

Trump Administration Plans to Upend Head Start by Deregulating It
The White House tried but failed to block funding for preschool for poor children. Instead, it will seek to strip away standards on health, literacy — and brushing teeth.

Trump has defended controversial plans for a $1.8 billion slush fund
even as they threaten to derail the nomination of his former personal lawyer Todd Blanche for US attorney general.
Blanche “should be immediately approved” by the US Senate, the president declared in a post on his Truth Social platform on Friday morning,
defending the payout scheme proposed by his officials in the Department of Justice as it holds up Blanche’s confirmation.
Blanche, Trump's forme…

Trump defends $1.8bn slush fund that is holding up Todd Blanche confirmation
President calls for former personal defense lawyer to be ‘immediately approved’ as attorney general

At least 57 people have died trying to reach the Spanish enclave of Ceuta
after as many as 50,000 migrants entered the tiny territory from Morocco
in what Spain’s prime minister, Pedro Sšnchez, called “a violation of Spain’s territorial integrity”.
The huge influx,
which took place over the course of just 24 hours,
overwhelmed the city of 85,000 people,
triggered a political crisis for Madrid
and led to a mixed reaction from other EU countries,

At least 57 people die as tens of thousands cross to Spanish enclave of Ceuta from Morocco
Pedro Sánchez decries ‘violation of territorial integrity’ as other EU countries criticise Madrid over incident

Trump has backed off a promise to let Ukraine manufacture its own Patriot air defense interceptors,
telling reporters that handing over the underlying technology was “a hard thing to give away” during a cabinet meeting at Camp David.
The retreat, billed by the White House as “something different” for the cabinet to experience together, was the first such meeting at the presidential compound of Trump’s second term.
It also became the venue for the US president to abandon, in…

Trump backtracks from promise to let Ukraine build Patriot missiles
US president tells reporters during Camp David cabinet meeting technology ‘a hard thing to give away’

Federal prosecutors say the reflecting pool damage was caused by
'botched' renovation, not vandalism,
as they ask to drop charges
In a court filing on Friday, the office of the US attorney in Washington DC, Jeanine Pirro, moved to dismiss charges against David Hearn,
a former Olympian her office had accused on vandalizing the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool.
In asking to dismiss the criminal indictment,
Pirro’s office told the DC Superior Court th…

Justice department moves to dismiss its charges against Olympian over reflecting pool
Lawyers now say damage to pool liner attributed to David Hearn instead is result of installation by contractor

Anthropic says it will extend Project Glasswing to companies and institutions in 15 countries, sources say including Five Eyes, NATO, Samsung, and SK Hynix (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/19ea9ed4-3dd0-43aa-9877-729d44e620e8

The US government released its anxiously awaited plan for how to manage the Colorado river crisis on Friday
-- outlining cuts in water supplied to California, Arizona and Nevada.
The proposal from the US Bureau of Reclamation spares Colorado, Utah, New Mexico and Wyoming from facing mandatory cuts, for now.
But it is a temporary fix as the states that rely on the river continue to fight over a long-term management plan for the dwindling resource that supplies huge swaths of…

Water cuts loom as US unveils long-awaited response to Colorado river crisis
Federal government plan outlines cuts to California, Arizona and Nevada but fix is likely to be only temporary

A new front has opened up in the battle for dominance in AI chips, as Nvidia said its latest development could replace the mouse and keyboard in how people use computers.
The $5tn (£3.7tn) US semiconductor company has launched a “superchip” that puts AI capabilities into laptops and desktop computers, a move that will pit it against Intel, Apple, Qualcomm and AMD.
The RTX Spark chip will be launched this year, and will be used by computer makers including Dell, Lenovo, Asus and H…