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AWS launches an internal organization for AI-focused forward-deployed engineers, backed by $1B in resources, following OpenAI and others in launching FDE teams (Russell Brandom/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/30/amazon-launch…

Amazon launches new $1 billion FDE org, following OpenAI and Anthropic | TechCrunch
Engineers on the new team will embed within companies to deploy purpose-built agents, focusing on fast deployments and customer self-sufficiency.

YouTube launches the ad-free tier of Peacock on YouTube Primetime Channels, as part of a distribution agreement with NBCUniversal announced in October 2025 (Dade Hayes/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/06/peacock-launches-on-youtube-primetime-channel…

Peacock Ad-Free Tier Launches On YouTube Primetime Channels As Part Of 2025 Distribution Deal
YouTube has made good on a provision in a 2025 distribution agreement with NBCUniversal, launching the ad-free tier of Peacock on its channel store.

from my link log —
C isn't a programming language anymore.
https://gankra.github.io/blah/c-isnt-a-language/
saved 2022-03-17 https://

C Isn't A Programming Language Anymore - Faultlore

Startled to find out that there are young people who haven't read James Iry's magnificent "A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages". Please drop what you're doing and head over.
https://james-iry.blogspot.com/2009/05

The amount of cyber-related news that extends over the weekend is getting ridiculous, so don't miss today's Metacurity for the most important developments you should know, including
--Washington pushes AI into an export-control era as rivals rush to fill the gap,
--Anthropic regains limited Mythos 5 access for government-vetted US orgs,
--OpenAI launches GPT-5.6 under gov't preview,
--Zhipu AI's GLM-5.2 nears Mythos-level cybersec performance,
--3…

Washington pushes AI into an export-control era as rivals rush to fill the gap
Anthropic regains limited Mythos 5 access for government-vetted US organizations, OpenAI launches GPT-5.6 under gov't preview, Zhipu AI's GLM-5.2 nears Mythos-level cybersec performance, 360 Security says it has achieved Mythos-style vulnerability discovery, much more

“The virtue of formal texts is that their manipulations, in order to be legitimate, need to satisfy only a few simple rules; they are, when you come to think of it, an amazingly effective tool for ruling out all sorts of nonsense that, when we use our native tongues, are almost impossible to avoid.” - Edsger W.Dijkstra, On the foolishness of “natural language programming” (1978)

DOJ launches grand jury probe into Marxist mogul Neville Roy Singham's funding of leftist groups (Asra Nomani/Fox News)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/doj-launches-grand-jury-probe-marxist-mogul-neville-roy-singhams-funding-leftist-groups
http://www.memeorandum.com/260629/p59#a260629p59

ElevenLabs launches Dubbing v2, which it says preserves the original speaker's emotion, tone, and pacing across 90 languages while staying synced to content (ElevenLabs)
https://elevenlabs.io/blog/introducing-dubbing-v2

Introducing Dubbing v2: our revolutionary new dubbing model
Introducing Dubbing v2: our revolutionary new dubbing model, which carries the emotion and performance of the original speaker across every language.

Vaadin 25.2: Build UIs in plain language, and call the browser from Java
https://vaadin.com/blog/vaadin-25-2-release

ElevenLabs launches Dubbing v2, which it says preserves the original speaker's emotion, tone, and pacing across 90 languages while staying synced to content (ElevenLabs)
https://elevenlabs.io/blog/introducing-dubbing-v2

Introducing Dubbing v2: our revolutionary new dubbing model
Introducing Dubbing v2: our revolutionary new dubbing model, which carries the emotion and performance of the original speaker across every language.