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Xbox Ally X hands-on: AMD Ryzen AI Z2 Extreme APU, 24GB of RAM, and a 1TB SSD, 1080p games run at 60 FPS with no issues, a slimmed down Windows OS, and more (IGN)
https://www.ign.com/articles/hands-on-with-the-xbox-ally-x-…

Hands-On With the Xbox Ally X, the New Gaming Handheld from Asus and Microsoft - IGN
The Xbox handhelds are coming Holiday 2025 and they're impressive, but many questions still remain.

So, it seems that the Israel government is so afraid of Greta Thunberg and a shipment of humanitarian aid reaching Gaza that they are jamming GPS signals in order to lead the boat into harm and destruction.
Talk about state sponsored terrorism!!!
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0r1dvlk

Madleen: Israel warns it will stop aid yacht reaching Gaza
Israel's defence minister says climate protester Greta Thunberg and others onboard are "Hamas propaganda spokespeople".

William warns ocean life 'diminishing before our eyes' #ocean

Prince William calls for protection of world's oceans in Monaco
The Prince of Wales gave a speech in Monaco hoping to drive investments to protect the world's oceans.

Standard version of #Unity is now NOT available in China, replaced by a "localized" aka fork of it: https://80.lv/articles/unity-6-is-taken-offline-in-china/

Unity 6 Not Available For Chinese Developers
A localized version of Unity will replace it.

Tencent Music agrees to buy podcasting startup Ximalaya for $1.3B in cash, plus some stock, in a bid to become China's Spotify; Ximalaya had 303M MAUs in 2023 (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Taiwan Indicts President's Aide on Charge of Spying for China (Yian Lee/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-10/taiwan-indicts-president-s-aide-on-charge-of-spying-for-china
http://www.memeorandum.com/250610/p7#a250610p7

Packers plan to release veteran cornerback Jaire Alexander, AP source says https://www.foxsports.com/articles/nfl/packers-plan-to-release-veteran-cornerback-jaire-alexander-ap-source-says

https://www.eenews.net/articles/noaa-halts-upkeep-of-critical-weather-satellites/

@… I thought Tom Hollander was just the better of the two Tom Hollands: https://www.wikiwand.com/en/articles/Tom_Holland

Deep learning inference with the #EventHorizonTelescope I. Calibration improvements and a comprehensive synthetic data library / II. The ZINGULARITY framework for Bayesian artificial neural networks / III. ZINGULARITY results from the 2017 observations and predictions for future array expansions: https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2025/06/aa53784-25/aa53784-25.html / https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2025/06/aa53785-25/aa53785-25.html / https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2025/06/aa53786-25/aa53786-25.html -> Self-learning neural network cracks iconic black holes: https://www.astronomie.nl/nieuws/en/self-learning-neural-network-cracks-iconic-black-holes-4528

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Zander Fagerson: Scotland prop ruled out of British & Irish Lions tour - BBC Sport
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/articles/c9q09ry8y21o

Zander Fagerson: Scotland prop ruled out of British & Irish Lions tour
Scotland and Glasgow prop Zander Fagerson is ruled out of the British and Irish Lions' tour to Australia with a calf injury.

Zambia's pre-colonial writing system invented by women but almost killed by colonialism - BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5ye50xgw8vo

Zambia's lost language invented by women but almost killed by colonialism
How social media is pushing back against the still common idea that African societies never had a knowledge system.

I've seen some questions about how to cite webpages or data the Trump administration has removed from government sites but that have been archived elsewhere, like on the Internet Archive.
This post has some examples from common citation styles: https://www.wordsbywes.…

Citing Archived US Government Pages and Data
Shortly after the Trump took office in 2025, US government agencies began removing pages and data from the web. In some cases, sites have been partially restored, but gaps remain — especially around anything that agencies construe to be contrary to Trump’s ideology. Many people have been working to preserve and archive government websites and data. I’ve seen some people asking about how to cite pages or data that are in these archives. That’s what I’ll address here.

Following Abrego Garcia’s indictment, Ben Schrader, a high-level DOJ official within the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Nashville
(where the charges against Abrego Garcia were filed)
abruptly resigned from his position.
While Schrader, who ran that office’s criminal division, did not explicitly state that he resigned over the charges,
sources told ABC News that his decision was based on concerns that the allegations against Abrego Garcia were politically motivated.
A…

DOJ Official Resigns After Trump Administration Charges Kilmar Abrego Garcia
Critics say the administration’s human trafficking charges against Abrego Garcia should be viewed with skepticism.

Tencent Music agrees to buy podcasting startup Ximalaya for $1.3B in cash, plus some stock, in a bid to become China's Spotify; Ximalaya had 303M MAUs in 2023 (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Autonome #Lkw rollen testweise zwischen #Peking und dem Hafen Tianjin.
Noch sitzt ein Sicherheitsfahrer am Steuer, doch Firmen wie Pony AI und #Rino setzen auf eine baldige Umstellung. Ziel ist es, Kosten…

China's driverless lorries hope to expand
Driverless lorries are now operating across China - but public concern about these vehicles remains.

Yes, word processors can transform your endnotes into footnotes. They can even do it before you submit to a journal that only publishes articles with the latter. Try it. You can do it. We believe in you.
XOXO
The editors

Cory Doctorow on how we lost the internet [LWN.net] https://lwn.net/Articles/1021871/

Roblox hires Paramount's Naveen Chopra as CFO starting June 30; Chopra previously held senior roles at Amazon and served as CFO at Pandora and TiVo (Cecilia D'Anastasio/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Do the #BBC hand over website news stories to the work experience kids at the weekend, or something? This is embarrassingly bad.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn7zngr6jn5o

Spending Review to include £86bn for science and tech
The government says every corner of the country will benefit, but research backers call for a long-term plan for science.

M&S hackers sent abuse and ransom demand directly to CEO
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cr58pqjlnjlo

M&S hackers sent abuse and ransom demand directly to CEO
The criminals told the retailer's boss he could make things "fast and easy" if he complied with their demands.

Music-induced cognitive change and whole-brain network flexibility: a pilot study https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/neuroscience/articles/10.3389/fnins.2025.1567605/full Now what might visual-to-auditory sensory substitution train…

Frontiers | Music-induced cognitive change and whole-brain network flexibility: a pilot study
IntroductionCognitive impairment that exceeds age-related cognitive decline is a risk factor for Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias. As the older adul...

And this is why I read the comments sections on all of @… articles 😄 #cybersecurity

so why don't we make @… vice-president of the european commission in charge of tech sovereignity, digital and internet things? https://berthub.eu/articles/po…

"[…] Let's take a look at 6 improvements to look forward to in the upcoming #GCC 15.
1. Prettier execution paths
2. A new look for C template errors
3. Machine-readable diagnostics
4. An easier transition to C23
5. A revamped color scheme
6. libgdiagnostics
We're still fixing bugs, but we hope that GCC 15 will be ready to officially release (as …

6 usability improvements in GCC 15 | Red Hat Developer
GCC 15 brings better error messages and diagnostics for your code, including prettier execution paths and easier-to-read compiler errors for C++ templates

Roblox hires Paramount's Naveen Chopra as CFO starting June 30; Chopra previously held senior roles at Amazon and served as CFO at Pandora and TiVo (Cecilia D'Anastasio/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

The "Gollum effect" - wow didn't know this name, but yes, this is exactly what makes certain fields so terrible (like network science). It's just about old men behaving like Gorillas 🤮 https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01588-w
It's so n…

Science’s ‘Gollum effect’: PhDs bear brunt of territorial behaviour
Survey respondents at all career stages report colleagues engaging in territorial and possessive behaviours — but early-career researchers are most often affected.

Even if the $180bn claim isn’t bullshit (I’m reasonably confident it’s bullshit), why aren't we acknowledging this makes Musk’s failure rate in government 91%?
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5yg98rl717o

Trump 'disappointed' with Elon Musk's attacks on budget bill
In response, Musk accused the president of "Such ingratitude", adding: "Without me, Trump would have lost the election".

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I've seen some questions about how to cite webpages or data the Trump administration has removed from government sites but that have been archived elsewhere, like on the Internet Archive.
This post has some examples from common citation styles: https://www.wordsbywes.…

Citing Archived US Government Pages and Data
Shortly after the Trump took office in 2025, US government agencies began removing pages and data from the web. In some cases, sites have been partially restored, but gaps remain — especially around anything that agencies construe to be contrary to Trump’s ideology. Many people have been working to preserve and archive government websites and data. I’ve seen some people asking about how to cite pages or data that are in these archives. That’s what I’ll address here.

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Masked federal agents with military gear have been firing flash-bang grenades, teargas and rubber bullets at civilians in the streets of Los Angeles for the last three days.
On Saturday, Trump federalized the National Guard to help crush protests
— not just there but potentially anywhere in the U.S. where people demonstrate against federal law enforcement.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has threatened to send in the Marines.
They have come for immigrants, as they a…

LA Protests Signal Public’s Readiness to Rebel Against Anti-Immigrant Fascism
Trump’s deployment of the National Guard to crush protests against ICE’s deportation raids has only fueled the uprising.

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Alibaba, Tencent, and other Chinese AI companies temporarily disabled chatbot functions like image recognition during China's annual college entrance exams (Luz Ding/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

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The ‘gollum effect' is certainly a thing. Seems to me it varies a lot by the research field and also applies to many other areas of society…
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01588-w
@…

Science’s ‘Gollum effect’: PhDs bear brunt of territorial behaviour
Survey respondents at all career stages report colleagues engaging in territorial and possessive behaviours — but early-career researchers are most often affected.

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History Extra podcast: The Scottish Enlightenment: everything you wanted to know
Episode webpage: http://www.historyextra.com/
Media file:

Qualcomm agrees to acquire UK-listed Alphawave, which makes high-speed chip and connectivity tech for data centers, for $2.4B in cash, set to close in Q1 2026 (Amy Thomson/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Colombia presidential hopeful shot in head at rally (Frances Mao/BBC)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9dq8yxxy8zo
http://www.memeorandum.com/250608/p3#a250608p3

What is the purpose of news?
Air pollution kills 10 million people each year and causes untold additional illness and suffering.
It kills at least 100,000 people in the United States alone annually
— about five times the number of police-reported homicides.
But it rarely features in daily news stories.
Police and prosecutors ignore pollution, much of which is criminal,
and so do most journalists.
For example, federal prosecutors charged 23 people…

Media Panics About “Crime Waves” — But Downplays Crime Committed by Corporations
The news emphasizes low-level theft instead of corporate crime, pollution, and other predatory behavior.

Cisco unveils updated networking and security products, including a new generation of switches with 10x performance, to boost AI networks and cut bottlenecks (Dina Bass/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Dark matter spiral arms in Milky Way-like halos: #DarkMatter trailing galaxy arms: https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/06/simulations-find-ghostly-whirls-of-dark-matter-trailing-galaxy-arms/

Some YouTube channels are using AI to turn paywalled articles into videos without the consent of publishers, often adding inaccuracies (Rhi Storer/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/platforms/google-handling-s…

Google 'handling stolen goods' with Youtube theft of paywalled news articles
Youtube channels use AI to turn paywalled articles into videos.

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Colombian Presidential Candidate Miguel Uribe Shot in Bogota (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-07/colombia-presidential-candidate-uribe-shot-in-bogota-semana
http://www.memeorandum.com/250607/p65#a250607p65

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New survey data out Friday shows that Republicans are wrong if they remain unconcerned about public sentiment as it relates to the evisceration of Medicaid or healthcare support systems that would result from passage of their colossal legislation now making its way through Congress
— a bill that, if passed, would see coverage stripped from an estimated 11-16 million people in the coming years.

Poll Shows GOP Senators Who Vote to Cut Medicaid Could Face Political Peril
A KFF Health Tracking Poll shows anxiety is high about looming Medicaid cuts among voters across the political spectrum.

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Rauch von Waldbränden in #Kanada hat am Wochenende für ungewöhnlich orangefarbene Himmelsphänomene über dem Vereinigten Königreich gesorgt.
Die Partikel in der #Atmosphäre streuen blaues Licht, sodass Rot- und Orangetöne dominieren. Die

Canada wildfires smoke turns UK skies orange
Smoke from wildfires burning in central Canada was visible in the skies over the UK this weekend.

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Sources: Mark Zuckerberg, frustrated at Meta's AI shortfalls, is personally assembling a team of AI experts and met engineers at his homes in recent weeks (Bloomberg)

Evidence for a composite volcano on the rim of Jezero crater on Mars: #Mars — and its Habitability: https://cos.gatech.edu/news/volcano-hidden-plain-sight-could-help-date-mars-and-its-habitability

IBM plans to build IBM Quantum Starling, a "fault-tolerant" quantum computer with 20,000x the power of today's quantum computers, in New York state by 2029 (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com…

Sources: EchoStar is considering filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy to protect its valuable wireless spectrum licenses from potential revocation by the FCC (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/echosta…

Supreme Court Gives DOGE Access to Social Security Data (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-06/supreme-court-gives-doge-access-to-social-security-data
http://www.memeorandum.com/250606/p120#a250606p120

LVMH says AI and AI agents will be key to navigating a broad slowdown and waning demand in luxury goods, and is using AI in supply chains, pricing, and more (Isabelle Bousquette/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/artic…

Abrego Garcia Charged With Illegally Transporting Migrants in US (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-06/abrego-garcia-returning-to-us-to-face-charges-abc-reports
http://www.memeorandum.com/250606/p111#a250606p111

A BBC journalist describes being detained and held at gunpoint with five other journalists and a cameraman by the Israel Defense Forces in Syria on May 9 (Feras Kilani/BBC)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4grldkeyv5o

Held at gunpoint: BBC team detained by Israeli forces in southern Syria
BBC Arabic's Feras Kilani and his colleagues were held at gunpoint, bound and strip-searched while filming in the Golan Heights.

Sources: Meta is in talks for a potential multibillion-dollar investment in Scale AI, Meta's largest external AI investment; Scale AI was last valued at ~$14B (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Sources: ByteDance replaced some TikTok Shop's US staff in Seattle with China-based managers after 2024 revenue hit $9B, far short of its $17.5B goal (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

An Indian government official says Starlink has secured a license from the telecom ministry to launch services in the country and now must apply for spectrum (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-…

Beijing-based Kuaishou's stock climbs after the company said it expects its video-generation service Kling AI to hit $100M in annual revenue by February 2026 (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025…

Sources: EchoStar is considering filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy to protect its valuable wireless spectrum licenses from potential revocation by the FCC (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/echosta…

Simetrik, which uses AI to automate account reconciliation, raised a $30M Series B extension led by a Goldman Sachs Alternatives unit, taking the round to $85M (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Source: Milan Kovac, Tesla's head of engineering for Optimus humanoid robot program, is leaving; Ashok Elluswamy, who leads autopilot teams, will lead Optimus (Edward Ludlow/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

CapVest-owned Datasite, which offers workflow automation tech for dealmaking, acquires Grata, which helps users with all aspects of the deal process, for $200M (Maria Armental/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/private-equi…

Source: Amazon is developing software for humanoid robots to deliver packages and is near completion of an indoor "humanoid park" in San Francisco to test them (Rocket Drew/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/am

Amazon Prepares to Test Humanoid Robots for Delivering Packages
Amazon is developing software for humanoid robots that could eventually take the jobs of delivery workers, according to a person who has been involved in the effort. In doing so, Amazon is paving the way to automate a major part of its operation, the delivery of parcels around the world.

Shield Technology Partners, which provides an AI-enabled managed IT service platform, launches with over $100M from Thrive Holdings and ZBS Partners (Belle Lin/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/thrive-capital-is-bettin…

Source: Trump's World Liberty Financial sent a cease-and-desist letter to the company behind $TRUMP and to Magic Eden after they announced the $TRUMP Wallet (Olga Kharif/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

What to expect at WWDC 2025: iOS 26 and other software branding changes, redesigned software interfaces, productivity enhancements, minor AI changes, and more (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

How AppLovin, which lets advertisers use IP addresses to track users, began eroding Google's ad market share and pushed Google to loosen its privacy stance (Catherine Perloff/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/applovin-scared-google

How AppLovin Scared Google
In 2023, Google ad executives noticed something alarming about one aspect of their business. Once-red hot revenue growth from selling ads promoting mobile apps, a business worth double-digit billions of dollars for Google, had slowed, a former employee said. When staffers discussed what was ...