Tootfinder

A look at how the AI industry's intense pressure and high rewards are creating "walls of resentment" between Silicon Valley workers and their spouses (Alessandra Ram/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/meet-the-sad-wives-of-ai/

Meet the Sad Wives of AI
Are you married to a man who’s obsessed with AI? I’m so, so sorry.

The Trump administration is walking away from a long-running body that works on Canada-U.S. defence initiatives,
claiming Canada has failed to meet its commitments on defence spending.
U.S. Undersecretary of War Elbridge Colby announced Monday the Pentagon is "pausing" participation in the Permanent Joint Board on Defence,
an advisory body on North American continental defence that was established in 1940.
Colby wrote in a series of posts on X. "Canada…

Pentagon quits Canada-U.S. defence board | CBC News
The Trump administration is walking away from a long-running body that works on Canada-U.S. defence initiatives, claiming Canada has failed to meet its commitments on defence spending.

Meet your 32 (!!) new play callers, plus one unsung Ram to watch https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7450952/2026/07/16/meet-your-32-new-play-callers-plus-one-unsung-ram-to-watch/

Some Republican lawmakers raise concerns about U.S.-Iran deal (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/video/some-republican-lawmakers-raise-concerns-about-u-s-iran-deal-265337413746
http://www.memeorandum.com/260619/p3#a260619p3

🌟 Meet our new SIG on Campus Network as a Service (SIG-CNaaS) 🌟
Bringing together #NRENs exploring how campus networks can move from traditional, locally managed setups to service-oriented, automated infrastructures.
The group just held its first meeting and a BoF at #TNC26, and already brings tog…

What's It Like to Travel Near the Speed of Light? Part 3: The Limited View - Universe Today https://www.universetoday.com/articles/whats-it-like-to-travel-near-the-speed-of-light-part-3-the-limited-view

RE: https://mastodon.energy/@TransitionShow/116766601756858759
The DOE estimates that geothermal power could meet as much as 40% of US demand growth by 2030. Listen in and find out how!

Key GOP senator says Blanche must meet with Epstein victims to get his vote
Todd Blanche’s nomination to be the next attorney general could hinge on whether he personally meets with victims of the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Blanche is in a tight confirmation fight and cannot afford to lose a single Republican as he seeks the Senate Judiciary Committee’s approval to move to a full Senate vote.

On Thursday, the second day of Blanche’s confirmation hearing, …

Key GOP senator says Blanche must meet with Epstein victims to get his vote
Sen. Thom Tillis (R-North Carolina) said the earliest a committee vote would occur is in two weeks.

The golf courses just north of Donnmouth can be, if well managed, very rich habitats. When the greenkeepers use herbicides or insecticides, we see dead caterpillars and tadpoles, and we often see the telltale foam of fertilisers in the streams that run off across the beach. At other times, though, the range of life is wonderful - frogs, bats, mayflies, fungi, and of course birds.
Just now there is a particular lark that we meet on the return from our morning walk who is not at all shy.…

#today is a grand library tour with the new Repair Café at Tudor Drive in the morning, returning some stuff to the main library, and now on my way to chair KEF at Tolworth library, and meet the people who run the library services as it happens!

Meet Mark Fratto, the World Cup final PA announcer: 'I’m in the candy aisle of life' https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7446743/2026/07/18/mark-fratto-world-cup-final-announcer/

Not surprised that there is not enough space for staff.
https://ottawacitizen.com/public-service/return-to-office-unachievable

Sources: the EU is set to unveil its preliminary findings that AWS and Azure likely meet the criteria for regulation under the DMA as early as next week (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-18/microsoft-ama…

John Carlos Baez: "𝗤𝗨𝗜𝗖𝗞! 𝗙𝗘𝗘𝗗 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗕𝗘𝗔𝗦𝗧! Acad…" - Mathstodon https://mathstodon.xyz/@johncarlosbaez/113221679747517432

Dak Prescott: Every season with Cowboys is 'Super Bowl or bust' https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/dak-prescott-every-season-with-cowboys-is-super-bowl-or-bust

The EU accepts X's plan to meet DSA transparency obligations and give researchers access to data, giving X six months to implement it, following a €120M fine (Foo Yun Chee/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/eu-accepts-act…

A forest #monk
https://cabinradio.ca/289640/news/yellowknife/meet-the-monk-camping-along-yellowknifes-ingraham-trail

Meet the monk camping along Yellowknife’s Ingraham Trail
Life's Better at the Cabin

"Solar-thermal interfacial desalination is a sustainable solution to meet the ever-increasing global freshwater demand. [...] pull a thin water film uphill across its surface, absorb nearly all solar radiation, and most importantly, automatically move the crystalized salts from the active regions to the passive regions for self-cleaning and salt collection. [...] simultaneously produces fresh water and harnesses nearly all salts directly from ocean water."

Additive-free and brine-discharge-free solar-thermal desalination with simultaneous complete mineral mining from ocean water - Light: Science & Applications
Solar-thermal interfacial desalination is a sustainable solution to meet the ever-increasing global freshwater demand. However, when treating actual ocean water, salt accumulation on the evaporator surfaces and brine discharge are major issues limiting the performance and posing environmental concerns. By utilizing a femtosecond laser surface processing technique, we create a multi-functional superwicking black metal (SWBM) panel that can pull a thin water film uphill across its surface, absorb…

RE: https://freesewing.social/@Rania/116758854078444354
Imagine how painful it must be to see photographs of your home, the school you went to as a child, the places where you used to meet your friends, looking like this?

57 countries just formed a bold new climate coalition in Colombia, creating the first global framework explicitly designed to phase out coal, oil, and gas—with fossil fuel interests left out of the room. They're building roadmaps for clean energy transitions and reforming finance systems to accelerate progress.
ht…

57 Countries Meet to Up Ambition on Climate - Speed & Scale
View this email in your browser Forwarded this email? Subscribe here for more As oil supply shocks expose the fragility of dependence on fossil fuels, a new coalition is advancing... Read More

Seagate shares drop 9% , leading a group-wide sell-off after comments from its CEO raised concerns it won't be able to meet demand fueled by the AI buildout (CJ Haddad/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/18/seagate-memory-chip-stocks-ai.html

Seagate leads memory sell-off as CEO says it would 'take too long' to build new factories
Seagate CEO Dave Mosley's comment sent shares sinking, along with those of Micron, SanDisk and Western Digital.

Meet Brendan Sorsby, football's most controversial quarterback https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7364436/2026/06/15/meet-brendan-sorsby-football-prospect-gambling/

Ice reflects 70% of the sun’s heat back into space, while open ocean reflects just 7%.
The more that melting exposes the sea, the warmer it gets and the more melting there is.
Summer sea ice could be gone as early as the 2030s and scientists worry that the heat boost could push the climate beyond catastrophic and irreversible tipping points.
In January and February, the pumps ran for a total of 1,080 hours,
icing over a square area about 450 metres on a side.
Th…

Google kündigt „Gemini 3.5 Live Translate“ für Echtzeit-Übersetzung an
Google führt Gemini 3.5 Live Translate ein. Das KI-Modell ermöglicht Echtzeit-Übersetzungen in über 70 Sprachen für die Translate-App und Google Meet.

Google kündigt „Gemini 3.5 Live Translate“ für Echtzeit-Übersetzung an
Google führt Gemini 3.5 Live Translate ein. Das KI-Modell ermöglicht Echtzeit-Übersetzungen in über 70 Sprachen für die Translate-App und Google Meet.

Meet the New Bosses, Worse Than the Old Bosses (Paul Krugman)
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/meet-the-new-bosses-worse-than-the
http://www.memeorandum.com/260615/p24#a260615p24

In the run-up to Commencement on May 18, YDS is sharing profiles of some of our graduating students. We continue today with Odyssey Heredia '26 M.Div.! https://divinity.yale.edu/news/2026-05-07-meet-these-grads-2026#heredia

Looking forward to this tonight at ANU. Daughter is hoping to finish work in time to meet me there. She's having a bonkers week so it could be a bit iffy.
But as it's her birthday this week and Mothers' Day on Sunday, we'll find time on the weekend to eat, drink, and be merry nonetheless.
Meet the author - Antoinette Lattouf | Australian National University

Meet the author - Antoinette Lattouf
Journalist and human rights advocate , Antoinette Lattouf, will be in conversation with Virginia Haussegger on her new book Women Who Win. Celebrating Courage, Conviction and Change, a gripping journey through women who defied expectations and shattered cultural and legal barriers – usually while being cast aside and asked to calm down.

Sources: Apple has sent personal legal warnings to ~40 former employees who now work at OpenAI, asking them to preserve documents and meet with its lawyers (Michael Acton/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/1b8c9d52-88a9-426b-ba47-f1811f859166

"‘A weed is only a plant in the wrong place’: RHS Chelsea garden celebrates England’s edgelands"
#Plants #Environment

Building an #OpenSource #RobotVacuum — Meet OOMWOO
https://makerspet.com/blog/building-an

Long read. For a technology that's apparently poised for a commercial breakthrough, quantum computing research is still pursuing a surprising number of approaches to creating a scalable, fault-tolerant quantum computer.

Meet the quantum tribes: Six competing visions of fault-tolerant computing
For a technology that's apparently poised for a commercial breakthrough, quantum computing research is still pursuing a surprising number of approaches to creating a scalable, ...

RE: https://mastodon.green/@mongabay/116579424497599663
'In fact, Europe’s seabeds are so extensively destroyed that to find a reference for a healthy seabed ecosystem, researchers turned to historical records. There are no surviving seabeds that meet the old descriptions.'
Met South Arran Marine Protected Area als uitgangspunt is er dus heel veel ruimte voor verbetering in de Noordzee.

Dak Prescott: Every season with Cowboys is 'Super Bowl or bust' https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/dak-prescott-every-season-with-cowboys-is-super-bowl-or-bust

This is such a bad SNAFU all the way around.
Senior technical Anthropic staff are in Washington to meet with White House officials and try to fix a dispute that has taken the company's top models offline, a source close to the company tells Axios.

Scoop: Anthropic flies staff to D.C. to clean up White House fight
Anthropic is mobilizing quickly to make amends with the Trump administration.

Trump Cuts Off Interview With 'Meet The Press' Host Kristen Welker
https://deadline.com/2026/06/trump-storms-off-meet-the-press-kristen-welker-1236949183/comment-page-2/#comments

What Eurovision and the FIFA World Cup prove is that some people care more about their own petty entertainment than the mass suffering of others.
And I simply can’t think of a worse indictment of humanity.
The bar is so very low and we can’t even meet that.

Ireland’s basic income for artists
has been made permanent
after research showed that it boosted the economy.
Other nations have similar schemes.
With more homegrown artists now coming from privileged backgrounds
and AI disrupting the creative industries,
there are calls for the UK to follow suit

‘Imagination and creation are products of time and space’
Artists help power the economy and enrich society, yet many struggle to make ends meet. Ireland's pioneering income scheme aims to change that - and is fuelling debate about whether the UK should follow.

Trump stormed out of his interview with NBC News' Meet the Press after getting into a verbal sparring match with Kristen Welker over election fraud claims (Jack Dunn/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/donald-trump-walks-out-meet-th…

Donald Trump Storms Out of 'Meet the Press' Interview
President Donald Trump stormed out of his interview with 'Meet the Press' after getting into a verbal sparring match with Kristen Welker.

Looking forward to seeing many wonderful folks at #EMFCamp ☀️ I'll be hosting:
🌎️ ClimateAction.tech meetup: 4pm Friday
🛠️ Chat about maintaining things: 11.15am Saturday
& i'll be at the 💻️ Society for Hopeful technologists meetup on Sunday. 🌳 I'll be prioritising people all weekend, so message me if you don't see me, and let's meet up!

In a couple of weeks, Dutch tractor and digger company JCB is going to attempt a land speed record for a hydrogen engine.
(They've been investing millions in hydrogen as an alternative to diesel, on the basis that batteries are currently unworkable for powering heavy industrial machines. You might question why they also fund political movements that are currently against that sort of decarbonisation investment?)

as an asocial gay male, most of the women I meet are professionals who are scarily hyper-competent, and most of the men I meet are social butterflies who are cute ditzes, so whenever I see a male-dominated workplace, my priors tell me that the leadership enjoys surrounding themselves with adorably inept suckups. but don't tell them that, it makes them stamp their feet so mad.

Australia is failing to meet its environment targets, argues ecologist https://news.mongabay.com/podcast/2026/05/australia-is-failing-to-meet-its-environment-targets-argues-ecologist/

Australia is failing to meet its environment targets, argues ecologist
Australia is one of 17 “megadiverse” countries that account for 70% of Earth’s biodiversity. However, Australia is unique in having the highest mammalian extinction rate in the world. That makes conservation on the island continent, where most of the wildlife is found nowhere else on Earth, all the more urgent. Conservation and environmental scientists have […]

Meet Me @ The Altar on Audiotree Live (Full Session)
#music #live

Folks, I'm curious.
Over on Bluesky I was bragging about the warm and welcoming attitude to trans people that I have noticed on the Fediverse, and was attacked by a couple of people with obvious mental health problems, but also one polite and rational person who sent me this link, to a 3 year old blog.
It's loooooooog. But skim-reading it, it is detailing some weird bunch who purportedly were/are(?) taking over moderation in the Fedi.
Anyone even heard of this?

"‘You’re treated like this is the end’: Meet the dementia rebels – diagnosed and determined to change people’s minds" https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/jun/09/dementia-rebels-diagnosed-determined-change-peoples-minds

‘You’re treated like this is the end’: Meet the dementia rebels – diagnosed and determined to change people’s minds
Few things are more feared than a dementia diagnosis. Now people living with the condition are fighting against damaging stereotypes and demanding proper medical support

Lamar Alexander played a crucial role in short-circuiting the first impeachment trial of President Trump when, as an influential Republican senator from Tennessee,
he opposed calling witnesses and said the president’s attempts to pressure Ukraine didn’t meet the test for removal from office.
His role in the second impeachment might have been quite different had he remained in office just a few more weeks.
In his new memoir, “The Education of a Senator,” Mr. Alexander, 85,

Lamar Alexander Wants Republicans to Stand Up to Trump
In a new memoir, the former senator, governor and cabinet member says President Trump committed an impeachable offense on Jan. 6 and calls on Congress to assert its power.

Building brain-computer interfaces: the 3 pillars of #Paradromics https://paradromics.com/blog/building-brain-computer-interfaces-3-pillars/ referencing TK Kozai (2015…

Building Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCIs)
We treat safety, performance, & durability not as tradeoffs but as minimum thresholds. Learn how the Connexus BCI was designed to meet all 3.

De geschiedenisboeken staan straks vol met vragen hoe het toch mogelijk is dat een dergelijke narcistische klootzak, die het niet eens kan opbrengen om in een interview normale en respectvol gestelde vragen te beantwoorden, het ooit geschopt kon hebben tot president van het toentertijd machtigste land ter wereld (nu allang niet meer ...)

Have you been to Open-Topia yet?
You'll likely arrive there through Frustration Station, but you can use your arrow keys to explore fantastical spaces such as the Visionary Forest or Meet-Tropolis.
But beware of the Job Insecurity Dragon! 🐲 😱
Created at the #OpenScience Retreat #OSR26UK

This was not on my Xmas list this year, yet, Santa delivered the perfect present.
The couple of times that I attempted (and failed, repeatedly) to learn how to apply Fast Fourier Transforms was to figure something like this. And now you just get a nice API.
https://developer.apple.com/videos/pla

Meet the Music Understanding framework - WWDC26 - Videos - Apple Developer
Discover Music Understanding, a new framework that lets your app analyze audio across six dimensions, on device: key, rhythm, structure,...

Sly & Robbie Meet King Tubby - "Reggae Rasta Dub" (1982)
#NowPlaying

Behind-the-scenes clip from Eyeline (ex Scanline) about filling a soccer stadium with a crowd:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8W6rpbY4GLc
I find the self-marketing of it so weird. They use phrases like "hybrid pipeline" that can perfect how they meet the director's vision…

The Newsom administration is suing five more California cities
— Calexico, Costa Mesa, Half Moon Bay, Ridgecrest and Turlock — for failing to complete state-mandated housing plans, known as the “housing element.”

Huntington Beach was the first city to face such a legal action, and it recently finalized its housing element plans following a court-order and massive fines.
The law, which has been in place since 1969, requires cities and counties every eight years to d…

Newsom continues crackdown on cities over housing plan requirements. 'No city gets a pass,' governor says
Gov. Gavin Newsom and California Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta filed legal actions this week against five small cities that they say are failing to meet benchmarks required for housing planning.

White House talking points claim victories in initial Iran deal but often don't meet reality (Matthew Lee/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/iran-trump-agreement-talking-points-4166975ec5cf58ef4acaa370171f623f
http://www.memeorandum.com/260616/p124#a260616p124

' “Every time we create ‌fragmentation, we may feel ‌good in the moment, but we are creating the delays of tomorrow. Every time we pander ‌to nationalism, in France or elsewhere, we misunderstand our own history. Patriotism, yes; nationalism, never,” Macron said in his annual address to the French armed forces on the eve of Bastille Day'
‘Coalition of the willing’ to build shared European anti-ballistic programme

‘Coalition of the willing’ to build shared European anti-ballistic programme
Ukraine and nine other countries including UK issue joint statement as leaders meet Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Paris

' “Every time we create ‌fragmentation, we may feel ‌good in the moment, but we are creating the delays of tomorrow. Every time we pander ‌to nationalism, in France or elsewhere, we misunderstand our own history. Patriotism, yes; nationalism, never,” Macron said in his annual address to the French armed forces on the eve of Bastille Day'
‘Coalition of the willing’ to build shared European anti-ballistic programme

‘Coalition of the willing’ to build shared European anti-ballistic programme
Ukraine and nine other countries including UK issue joint statement as leaders meet Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Paris

NBC News launches Meet the Moment Live, a new live-event franchise for Meet the Press, its latest show to try to develop new revenue through live events (Brian Steinberg/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/meet-the-press-live-event…

'Meet the Press' Expands to Live Events With 'Moment' Conversations
NBC News' 'Meet the Press' launches a live-events franchise based on 'Meet the Moment' conversations moderator Kristen Welker has with atypical guests

The Trump administration has said it will drastically shorten visas for foreign journalists in the US
to 240 days -- down from five years,
and cut those for Chinese journalists to only 90 days.
The rule announced by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
will do away with the “duration of status” system,
which allows foreign journalists to stay and work in the United States as long as they meet eligibility requirements.
In addition to journalists,

Trump administration drastically cuts length of foreign journalist visas
Visas will be shortened to 240 days, down from five years, and Chinese journalists will be limited to 90 days

The EU accepts X's plan to meet DSA transparency obligations and give researchers access to data, giving X six months to implement it, following a €120M fine (Foo Yun Chee/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/eu-accepts-act…

In the run-up to Commencement on May 18, YDS is sharing profiles of some of our graduating students. We continue today with Sonal Manoj '26 M.A.R.! https://divinity.yale.edu/news/2026-05-07-meet-these-grads-2026#manoj

5 Storylines to Watch in Thanksgiving Eagles-Cowboys Matchup on FOX https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/eagles-cowboys-meet-up-thanksgiving-fox-5-storylines

What if the next global arms race isn’t about nukes — but AI systems that can autonomously find and exploit software vulnerabilities at machine speed?
Check out my latest CSO piece that explores the narrowing US-China AI gap and the unsettling implications if China develops its own “Mythos”-class cyber AI.
Thanks to Gal Tal-Hochberg of Beacon Security for his help in framing this issue.

What happens when China’s AI catches up to Mythos?
As Washington and Beijing meet this week, the gap between American and Chinese AI is narrowing — and the technology that could destabilize the world’s digital infrastructure is leaking out with potential cyber Cold War implications.

Sable, which is building an AI agent named Aiden that lives on a company's website to run live product demos and more, raised $45M from Sequoia and 8VC (Lily Mae Lazarus/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/07/16/ai-employee-tha…

Meet the AI employee that convinced Sequoia to invest $45 million in Sable
Sable says its AI agent acts like a sales engineer and onboarding specialist, helping companies like Notion and Decagon automate customer conversations.

Source: Mistral AI and TML's founding member Devendra Chaplot, who was considered a marquee hire when he joined xAI in March, exited xAI after roughly a month (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/cursor-staff-meet-xai-emplo…

Cursor Staff Meet With xAI Employees as Layoffs, Exits Mount
Cursor is already starting to make its presence known at SpaceX’s AI unit, just weeks after Elon Musk’s firm got an option to buy the coding startup for $60 billion. Cursor staffers have been visiting xAI offices to meet with employees and discuss their work, according to two people with direct ...

Defense industry leaders preparing to meet with Trump as worries over missile supply grow, sources say (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/defense-industry-leaders-preparing-meet-trump-worries-grow-missile-sup-rcna349289
http://www.memeorandum.com/260610/p104#a260610p104

Meet the pastors who support the ICE raids
https://religionnews.com/2026/06/05/meet-the-pastors-who-support-ice/

Meet the author - Antoinette Lattouf
Tue 05 May 2026, 6:00 pm
Journalist and human rights advocate , Antoinette Lattouf, will be in conversation with Virginia Haussegger on her new book Women Who Win. Celebrating Courage, Conviction and Change, a gripping journey through women who defied expectations and shattered cultural and legal barriers – usually while being cast aside and asked to calm down.
#Canberra

Meet the author - Antoinette Lattouf
Journalist and human rights advocate , Antoinette Lattouf, will be in conversation with Virginia Haussegger on her new book Women Who Win. Celebrating Courage, Conviction and Change, a gripping journey through women who defied expectations and shattered cultural and legal barriers – usually while being cast aside and asked to calm down.

Absolute pandering.
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/meet-the-police-dogs-protecting-the-uks-critical-infrastructure

Meet the police dogs protecting the UK's critical infrastructure
Meet the CNC's specialist police dogs, whose skills help deter crime, support policing operations, and protect critical national infrastructure.

The team had braved temperatures of -40C on the sea ice
to drill holes and pump 50,000 tonnes of ocean water up on to its surface.
It froze almost immediately,
thickening the
1.5-metre-deep ice by about 50cm, according to new measurements.
That has protected the ice, at the start of the melt season at least,
and is an early sign that one day, perhaps, it may be possible to refreeze a significant part of the Arctic.
The ice-thickening process gets a …

Mamdani was to meet with Colombia's leader. Trump made sure it didn't happen. (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2026/06/10/mamdani-was-meet-with-colombias-leader-trump-made-sure-it-didnt-happen/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNzgxMDY0MDAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzgyNDQ2Mzk5LCJpYXQiOjE3ODEwNjQwMDAsImp0aSI6IjdjMmRkMGY5LWVkMmEtNGM0OS04ZTNkLTk3MDI2OTNkNTcwYSIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS9uYXRpb25hbC1zZWN1cml0eS8yMDI2LzA2LzEwL21hbWRhbmktd2FzLW1lZXQtd2l0aC1jb2xvbWJpYXMtbGVhZGVyLXRydW1wLW1hZGUtc3VyZS1pdC1kaWRudC1oYXBwZW4vIn0.3wYvlJN69REZZaOYTVTM8Bqax4TJWypDsdWVA8OdrJA&itid=gfta
http://www.memeorandum.com/260610/p95#a260610p95

Q&A with Palestinian journalist Ameer Al-Khatahtbeh, who runs @Muslim with 14M social media followers, on appealing to younger readers, Meta, Trump, and more (Carla Sertin/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/meet-the-accidental-editor-in-chief-of-muslim-m…

Meet the Accidental Editor in Chief of Muslim Media
Ameer Al-Khatahtbeh was just trying to find an outlet for Muslim news. Now he has more than 12 million followers.

Bust alert: Eight NFL players running out of time to prove themselves entering 2026 season

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-biggest-bust-candidates-2026/

3 Cowboys starters meet in Vegas Summit to sharpen meet-at-QB skills https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/07/07/cowboys-quinnen-williams-rashan-gary-donovan-ez…

Havoc, which offers autonomous boats and software to control thousands of vessels at once, raised a $100M Series A led by Cobalt and Boardman Bay (Monica Hunter-Hart/Forbes)
http://www.forbes.com/sites/monicahunter-

These Navy Vets Are Betting Their Drone Software Maker Havoc Can Win Over The U.S. Military
Interest in drone boats is surging as the crisis in the Strait of Hormuz drags on. Havoc, which just closed a $100 million funding round, claims it has the perfect tech to help but faces stiff headwinds from bigger rivals like Anduril and Saronic.

Meet the author - Joshua Black, Frank Bongiorno, Marija Taflaga and Peter Yu
Mon 18 May 2026, 6:00 pm
Frank Bongiorno will be in conversation with Joshua Black, Marija Taflaga and Peter Yu on Gold Standard? Remembering the Hawke government. Edited by Frank Bongiorno, CarolynHolbrook and Joshua Black.
#Canberra #ANU

Meet the author - Joshua Black, Frank Bongiorno, Marija Taflaga and Peter Yu
Frank Bongiorno will be in conversation with Joshua Black, Marija Taflaga and Peter Yu on Gold Standard? Remembering the Hawke government. Edited by Frank Bongiorno, Carolyn Holbrook and Joshua Black.

Facing headwinds at home, Trump signals eagerness to make deals at China summit
China is expected to push on Taiwan, and Trump has indicated openness to rethinking the degree of U.S. support, alarming the island’s backers.
https://www.washingtonpost.com…

Facing headwinds at home, Trump signals eagerness to make deals at China summit
Under pressure from Beijing, the president has indicated an openness to rethinking U.S. support for Taiwan, alarming its backers.

Trump's 'Meet the Press' walkout shows a presidency that's already finished (Matthew Bartlett/MS NOW)
https://www.ms.now/opinion/trump-meet-the-press-interview-walkout-presidency
http://www.memeorandum.com/260608/p79#a260608p79

NHTSA says the 2026 Tesla Model Y is the first car model to pass the agency's new ADAS tests; Tesla conducted the tests and submitted the results to the NHTSA (Kirsten Korosec/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/07/tesl

Tesla Model Y is first car to meet new U.S. driver assistance safety benchmark | TechCrunch
The new benchmark rating applies to 2026 Tesla Model Y vehicles assembled on or after November 12, 2025.

This agent sent models to meet Jeffrey Epstein. Now he's trying to explain why. (Amy Brittain/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2026/06/08/this-agent-sent-models-meet-jeffrey-epstein-now-hes-trying-explain-why/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260608/p39#a260608p39

Who are the Khoslas? Meet the family set to buy th... https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/49358800/khosla-family-vinod-neeru-neal-san-francisco-49ers-seattle-seahawks

Anthropic says its senior leaders met Trump admin officials on June 15, but no resolution was reached and both sides are working to resolve things quickly (Leo Schwartz/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/anthropic-discu…

Anthropic Discusses Possible Accord With Trump Administration
Anthropic senior leaders met with top Trump administration officials on Monday to discuss a resolution to a White House directive that caused the AI startup to suspend access to its latest models, according to a company spokesperson. A spokesperson for the White House did not respond to a request for comment, but an official confirmed earlier that Anthropic was set to meet with administration

Cowboys legend Zack Martin shares cool jersey swap moment with current Broncos OL star https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/07/15/cowboys-zack-martins-quinn-meinerz-jersey-swap…

Fury has continued to mount in India
over the US’s refusal to apologise for the deaths of Indian sailors
killed in strikes in the strait of Hormuz,
further straining relations between the two countries
as their leaders meet at the G7 summit in France this week.
Last week, three Indian seafarers,
who were working on board commercial oil tankers,
were killed when the US launched missile strikes on the vessel as it sailed through the strait of Hormuz.…

Read the transcript: President Donald Trump interviewed by NBC News' 'Meet the Press' moderator Kristen Welker (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/read-transcript-president-donald-trump-interviewed-nbc-news-meet-press-rcna348508
http://www.memeorandum.com/260608/p6#a260608p6

Ajinomoto says it can meet demand through 2030 for ABF, a key material for advanced chipmaking substrates, and plans to expand capacity instead of hiking prices (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/ai-needs-ajin

Joanna Stern, who has worked at WSJ, ABC, The Verge, and Engadget, launches New Things, her independent tech newsletter and YouTube channel (Joanna Stern/The New Things)
https://thenewthings.com/p/meet-my-new-thing

It’s Time. Meet My New Thing.
A new kind of independent tech journalism. Newsletters! Videos! Fun!

Sources: senior Anthropic technical staff are in DC to meet WH officials and try to fix the Mythos 5 dispute; both sides say they are eager to resolve the issue (Maria Curi/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/06/14/anthropic-white-house-mythos-fable

Scoop: Anthropic flies staff to D.C. to clean up White House fight
Anthropic is mobilizing quickly to make amends with the Trump administration.

Trump walks out of 'Meet the Press' interview when challenged over false claims (Isaac Arnsdorf/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/06/07/trump-walks-out-meet-press-interview-when-challenged-over-false-claims/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260607/p36#a260607p36

Fact-checking Trump's interview with NBC News' 'Meet the Press' (Jane C. Timm/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/fact-checking-trump-interview-meet-press-june-2026-rcna348518
http://www.memeorandum.com/260607/p16#a260607p16

Microsoft announces Scout, an always-on AI agent built on OpenClaw, appearing as a contact within Microsoft Teams to automate scheduling and more (Reece Rogers/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/meet-microsoft-scout-your-ai-coworker-that-never-logs-off/…

Meet Microsoft Scout, Your AI Coworker That Never Logs Off
Microsoft’s OpenClaw-style agent appears in Teams, just like a human colleague, and automates your dull office tasks.

'I've Had Enough!' Trump Storms Out of Meet the Press Interview in Wild Fashion -- Explodes On NBC's Kristen Welker After She Hits Him With Fact Checks (Joe DePaolo/Mediaite)
https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/ive-had-enough-trump-storms-out-of-meet-the-press-interview-in-wild-fashion-explodes-on-nbcs-kristen-welker-after-she-hits-him-with-fact-checks/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260607/p18#a260607p18

ICE remains what Noem always wanted it to be:
a rogue organization staffed by people who are too sadistic or unqualified to meet already too-low standards for regular police work.
Mullin was never intended to be more than a surface change,
meant to deflect attention from Trump and Miller’s attempt at ethnic cleansing through deporting and harassing immigrants.
The details of the latest shooting are awful.
Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, 52, was driving to work in Houst…

New ICE boss, same old lies
A fatal ICE shooting in Houston shows Markwayne Mullin is just a male Kristi Noem

A profile of former Google DeepMind employee Thibault Sottiaux, now OpenAI's head of core products tasked with combining ChatGPT and Codex into a super app (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/model-behavior-interview-with-openai-cod…

Meet the OpenAI Engineer Leading ChatGPT’s Biggest Transformation Yet
Thibault Sottiaux helped make AI coding one of OpenAI’s fastest-growing businesses. Now he’s overseeing a sweeping overhaul of ChatGPT.

5 key moments from Trump's cut-short "Meet the Press" interview (Andrew Pantazi/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/06/07/trump-meet-the-press-five-moments-iran-weaponization
http://www.memeorandum.com/260607/p34#a260607p34

Sen. Lindsey Graham, one of Donald Trump’s closest allies in Congress who traveled the globe to advocate for a more aggressive U.S. foreign policy,
died after a tear in his aorta,
according to a preliminary medical examiner finding shared by his office.
The tear in the inner wall of the aorta,
called an aortic dissection,
was related to the hardening of Graham’s arteries.
An official cause of death will be disclosed after toxicological and microscopic te…

Graham likely died after aorta rupture, medical examiner says
Sen. Lindsey Graham, a close ally of President Donald Trump, has died after a brief illness. The South Carolina Republican was 71. Graham was known for advocating a strong U.S. foreign policy. He initially opposed Trump and ran against him for president in 2016, but later became a staunch supporter. Graham had just returned from Ukraine, where he’d meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Graham was known for advising Trump on matters such as Iran and Russia. Trump says Graham “so…

New York-based Actively, which offers AI sales agents for account management, raised a $45M Series B co-led by TCV and First Harmonic at a $250M valuation (Sofia Chierchio/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/sofiachierchi

Meet The $250 Million Startup Challenging Salesforce With AI Agents
Actively AI has raised $45 million to scale up its AI sales agents, which can automate a chunk of the work reps typically do manually.

Trump, Johnson meet at White House over DOJ's 'anti-weaponization' fund (Julia Manchester/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5904192-trump-johnson-meet-antiweaponization-fund/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260601/p74#a260601p74

Trump says 'I'd pay' anti-weaponization fund applicants 'the kind of money they deserve' (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/video/trump-says-i-d-pay-anti-weaponization-fund-applicants-the-kind-of-money-they-deserve-264700485653
http://www.memeorandum.com/260607/p24#a260607p24

A look at "YouTube whisperers" like Paddy Galloway and Mario Joos, a booming class of advisers that help popular YouTube creators grow their audiences (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/10/youtube-advisors-mrbeast-top-creators-platfor…

Meet the YouTube whisperers, a booming class of advisors behind MrBeast and other million-dollar channels
A burgeoning group of YouTube strategists are charging big money to YouTubers who want to expand their popularity.

A profile of Anduril CEO Brian Schimpf, a Palantir alum and self-identified Democrat, as Anduril's defense tech shakes up the US military-industrial complex (Allie Garfinkle/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/05/06/anduril-ceo-brian-s…

Inside Anduril: Meet the quiet engineer-CEO building America’s $31 billion weapons startup
The Pentagon is turning to Anduril for drones, missiles, and software. It's the biggest sign yet that Silicon Valley is shaking up the military-industrial complex.