@Techmeme@techhub.socialAnthropic last week began letting Mythos users share cybersecurity threats with others who may face similar vulnerabilities, modifying its previous stance (Amrith Ramkumar/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anthr…
@NFL@darktundra.xyzDave Canales says Lee Hunter, others must step up with Turk Wharton sidelined https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7289069/2026/05/18/panthers-turk-wharton-neck-lee-hunter/
@memeorandum@universeodon.comFive Men Arrested and Charged in Plot to Attack and Kill Government Officials and Others Attending the Ultimate Fighting Championship at White House (US Department of Justice)
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/five-men-arrested-and-charged-plot-attack-and-kill-government-officials-and-others-attending
http://www.memeorandum.com/260616/p135#a260616p135
@cdarwin@c.imThomas Massie, 55, is already the exception to the rule of Republican politics.
While others have capitulated and genuflected to the president over the past decade, eliciting comparisons with a personality cult,
the seven-term congressman with a libertarian bent has emerged as ever more defiant.
He voted against Trump’s sprawling tax and spending cuts bill; co-authored legislation compelling the justice department to release the Jeffrey Epstein files;
sought to revoke…
@rasterweb@mastodon.social➡️ robida/human.json: A lightweight protocol for humans to assert authorship of their website content and vouch for the humanity of others
https://codeberg.org/robida/human.json
(This is a link from my bookmark collection. A new link gets posted each night.)
@shriramk@mastodon.socialMy colleague John "Spike" Hughes just retired. To celebrate, the visual computing group did a "reverse lecture": others each presented a favorite result of his, and he commented. Lots of fun, and a very accessible look at some great graphics/HCI results.
https://
@detondev@social.linux.pizzaIn order to be treated tenderly u must first make others percieve u tenderly no matter the catch 22 in ur case
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialSources: Trump Media pitched a monthly fee of as much as $100K for the Truth API, with fast access to Trump's posts, for banks, algorithmic traders, and others (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-tel
@dnddeutsch@pnpde.social@… @… thanks for all the work you've put into Tangerine! I was surely hoping for an update, but it's more than understandable that your hesitant to do it at this point. As others said before me: do what makes you happy and - aga…
@tschfflr@fediscience.orgAnother famous case is the grimacing face 😬 (which I personally like a lot). Initially its design varied widely between platforms: It looked like a toothy (but happy) grin 😁 on some platforms, but like the pained grimace on others - so there was a lot of potential for misunderstanding. In such a case, the design is then usually adapted in a later version to get a better match with other platforms. #emojis #linguistics #WorldEmojiDay
@markhburton@mstdn.socialCaroline Lucas:
“Burnham’s longstanding commitment to a fairer voting system could transform our democracy and counter the dire threat of a Reform UK government.”
Greens split over how hard to challenge Burnham in Makerfield byelection | Andy Burnham | The Guardian
https://www.
@Dragofix@veganism.socialEndangered Species Day highlights wildlife wins — and mounting losses https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/05/endangered-species-day-highlights-wildlife-wins-and-mounting-losses/
@june_thalia_michael@literatur.social#EroticMusings 55. How do you show the initial spark of lust or love between characters? Share!
I realised while I enjoy reading slow burn written by others, I don't write it when writing erotica. If it's slow it's mostly offscreen and allows some leaps while the main story has some progress.
Mela and Camelia slowly falling for each other? They stare at each other u…
@jaygooby@mastodon.socialGoing to set up my Cable Cornucopia at the #EMFCamp swap shot after I finish my volunteer shift at 2pm.
If you need scsi, phono, mini jack, Wii composite and many many others, I’ve got your back!
@mlawton@mstdn.socialI’m absolutely speechless that goal is allowed to stand. VAR is absolutely useless because of the buffoons in charge.
I am not a conspiracy theorist at all, but decisions like this make me understand why so many are.
In the eyes of PGMOL, all clubs are equal but some clubs are more equal than others.
#MUNNFO
@Techmeme@techhub.socialWorld models startup Odyssey raised $310M from Amazon and others at a $1.45B valuation and will use AWS as its preferred cloud partner, deploying Trainium chips (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/1e0365db-a363-4d73-9960-23d25420e9f5
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.demoreno_sociograms: Moreno's sociograms (1934)
Relationships between pupils in a classroom. A directed edge exists if the source wants to sit next to the target. Each child can only choose two others.
This network has 43 nodes and 80 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted
https://networks.ske…
@davidaugust@mastodon.online @cdarwin@c.imTrump used his address to call out ABC and NBC
for not airing his live remarks,
claiming the networks declined to do so
“because they know how corrupt our system is and they don’t want to reveal it.”
He also repeated his frequent demand that the networks’ government-issued broadcast licenses be revoked.
“They and others in the media are part of a plot,”
the president said, offering no evidence for his claims.
In fact, ABC and NBC did carry Trump’s spe…
@ruth_mottram@fediscience.orgThe incredible analytical work of John Burn Murdoch @… along with some other colleagues is one of the main reasons I subscribe to the FT. It's rather expensive but absolutely worth it.
https://fediscience.org/@Ruth_Mottram/116582689708855765
Ruth_Mottram - This is a fascinating and beautifully illustrated analysis, exploring convincingly why birth rates are crashing basically everywhere and while there are certain many factors, the smoking gun is actually a smartphone.
So what to do about it? I think I agree with the conclusions, housing and financial support is one element, equality between sexes in household tasks certainly another, but finally, perhaps our job as parents is to inculcate the habit of socialising with others into our kids, especially when they get to the teenage years.
Why birth rates are falling everywhere all at once - a limited 🎁 https://giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/actions/redeem/8bf630d4-6e20-42c7-bb33-e98dd6a01571
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social#ScribesAndMakers July 14: How objective do you feel you are when it comes to assessing your own work?
I'm probably more critical towards my own work compared to the works of others but then I also know exactly how I wanted something to be while when I assess others, I can only see their vision through their work 🙂
@colinpurrington@flipping.rocksLone star ticks will pursue hosts up to 3 meters away and are FAST. Plus they are gregarious so if one is tracking you down there are likely others. Potentially dozens, maybe hundreds. #AlphaGalSyndrome #ticks https://youtu.be/e6vzTYhK72A
@scott@carfree.cityAmazing turnout for the Affordable Housing Guarantee Act kickoff in Dolores Park! Together, we’re going to make sure the voters’ will to tax the rich to fund affordable housing gets respected!
I mostly left the taking of photos to others but here’s one of @… psyching us up
@cjust@infosec.exchangeSome people are born heroic - others have heroism thrust upon them. I didn't wake up this morning and decide that I was going to be a hero, but then again, that's kinda what heroes do. They wake up and then end up doing some heroic shit.
#EveryonesAHeroInTheirOwnWay #Shitpost
@Techmeme@techhub.socialWorld models startup Odyssey raised $310M from Amazon and others at a $1.45B valuation and will use AWS as its preferred cloud partner, deploying Trainium chips (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/1e0365db-a363-4d73-9960-23d25420e9f5
@tschfflr@fediscience.org🤔 Are #emojis a universal language? - No, for two reasons. 1) They are not a language, as they do not show the properties that human languages have: grammatical structure and free combinatorics, enabling us to express complex thoughts. 2) They are not really universal. While many emojis are interpreted similarly all over the world (I guess it's pretty clear what one could mean by 🍕 ), some emoji meanings are closely tied to cultural assumptions (e.g., some of the gestures 👍 , buildings ⛩️ , food), and others are very context-dependent and might follow different conventions in various groups, including linguistic or regional groups (e.g., 🙃 for which we found strong differences between populations in Norway/US vs. Germany/Bulgaria). #WorldEmojiDay #linguistics
@mcdanlj@social.makerforums.infoI updated my guide on how to deploy self-hosted #Discourse. The configuration of the internal nginx (inside the container) recently changed (for the better) in a way that affected my previous advice.
I seem to have been maintaining this guide for over five years now; I started in June 2021. 79 edits so far, most of which have been mine.
@matzekult@chaos.socialEven in #StarTrek people need to be differenciated. And the Starfleet way of doing that is the topic of today’s #TrekTriviaTuesday question.
As always no googling and no spoiling the answer for others. Please boost after voting! :BoostOK:
Vote will run for 24h, then I will reply wit…
@jerome@jasette.facil.servicesAlmost always the same story, easy enough for big companies to be compliant with those large policies change, they have staff to figure it out every day.
Small business struggle
https://ici.radio-canada.ca/rci/en/new
@leftsidestory@mstdn.socialThe Substance IV 🧪
某种物质 IV 🧪
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@Richard@worklifepsych.socialWho are you comparing yourself to?
In the latest episode of the podcast, I explore why we compare ourselves to others at work, and what to do when those comparisons leave us feeling worse rather than better.
You can find Ep 219 of 'My Pocket Psych' wherever you get your podcasts or stream it direct from https://www.workl…
@NFL@darktundra.xyzBuzz: Is a return to prominence in store for Lions... https://www.espn.com/fantasy/football/story/_/id/40699880/fantasy-football-injuries-position-battles-nfl-news-analysis
@Techmeme@techhub.socialFilings: in Q1, Trump traded $220M-$750M in NVDA, MSFT, AMZN, META, ORCL, and others; millions of dollars of NVDA were bought shortly before major news (Kevin Breuninger/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/15/trump-stock-trade-tech-oge.html
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.demoreno_sociograms: Moreno's sociograms (1934)
Relationships between pupils in a classroom. A directed edge exists if the source wants to sit next to the target. Each child can only choose two others.
This network has 35 nodes and 67 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted
https://networks.ske…
@pixelcode@social.tchncs.deOnce again an aircraft is evacuated due to smoke in the cabin after an engine fire. Once again passengers prioritise resuing their precious belongings over allowing fellow human beings to survive. 🤡
Others are seen taking selfies next to the burnt-out engine. By making the firefighters' job much more difficult, they too aid in hindering others from continuing to live.
Should you ever need to evacuate, you have my Special Permission to Punch such Passengers in the Face.
…
@aral@mastodon.ar.alWhat 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.
@jorgecandeias@mastodon.social
@grahamperrin@bsd.cafe@… the instructions are incomplete. They'll work for some people, not for others.
Cc @…
@raiders@darktundra.xyzThis Raiders Coaching Hire Has Already Begun Paying Dividends https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-this-coaching-hire-already-begun-paying-dividends
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioHello, reply guys!
“Fascism” is not a generic catch-all for everything awful. It is a word with a meaning. My definition of the word is a form of supremacist ethnonationalism that:
(1) demands the eradication of democracy and the installation of a dictator with total power over both government and industry, forcing all individuals to function first and foremost to advance the power of the state,
(2) designates some particular group(s) of people as naturally inferior Others whose presence contaminates society and is an existential threat to it,
(3) blames these Others for society’s problems and calls for their complete subordination, expulsion, or extermination, a project which demands the total militarization of society.
One can quibble over details there, but’s the rough shape of it. As angry as I am over the militarism and imperialism and environmental ruin and oligarchism that’s marbled throughout US politics — and as long as I’ve been putting my boots on the ground against it! — the definition above does •not• apply to every elected official or political party in US politics. But it •does• apply to the Republican Party in its current form.
https://kolektiva.social/@UsagiTsukino/116726601082092572
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: Samsung is seeing a rise in advanced chip production requests from BYD, Google, AMD, and others as TSMC's capacity remains constrained by AI demand (Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/tech/s…
@peter_mcmahan@mas.toRE: https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/116924874418802342
This.
I'm so tired of seeing the back-and-forth on open source projects where people pointing out that GenAI is unethical are "rebutted" by others ignoring the ethics and saying it&…
@tiotasram@kolektiva.socialSince it was relevant to a discussion I just had on here and is something most people probably haven't thought about much (unless you've taken one of a handful of philosophy classes), I thought I'd try to lay out a key piece of Descartes' Meditations (#philosophy
@brian_gettler@mas.toSome fonds are bigger than others.
Some fonds' archives are bigger than other fonds' archives.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: Samsung is seeing a rise in advanced chip production requests from BYD, Google, AMD, and others as TSMC's capacity remains constrained by AI demand (Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/tech/s…
@jswright61@ruby.socialI’m usually a bit hesitant to reply into a chain that’s visible to me by virtue of following 2 or more of the accounts @-named in a post. Yet, when others do that in a chain that did not initially include them, I’m genuinely happy. To me, it reinforces a sense of community. So why do I hesitate to join in?
I realize my privilege. I’m not part of a marginalized group, and I don’t have people jumping in to harass me.
@servelan@newsie.socialJudge hands Comey and others roadmap to attack '8647' cases on the merits, sides with protesters who wished Trump would 'live forever and rot in jail'
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/judge-hands-comey-and-others-roadmap-to-attack-8647-cases-on-the-merits-sides-with-protesters-who-wished-trump-would-live-forever-and-rot-in-jail/
@rasterweb@mastodon.socialPeople on the Fediverse actually seem to give a shit about the world and others besides themselves.
@tarah@infosec.exchangeHappy ninth anniversary of my-butt-is-numb-and-I-haven't-moved-in-thirteen-hours-and-the-purple-and-orange-carpet-of-this-Orlando-convention-center-is-my-new-home-and-everyone-around-me-has-sunk-to-the-ground-and-everyone-at-this-infosec-con-are-all-sharing-power-outlets-and-cannibalizing-each-others-analogies-for-our-bosses-who-don't-know-what-the-red-screen-means-and-think-the-name-ShadowHunters-is-some-science-fiction-shit-we-all-made-up-and-this-is-so-much-worse-than-we-can-expla…
@villavelius@mastodon.onlineA splendid peer review:
"This is a remarkable result – in fact, I don’t believe it. However, I have examined the paper and can find no fault in the author's methods and results. Thus I believe it should be published so that others may assess it and the conclusions and/or repeat the experiment to see whether the same results are achieved."
Alan Singleton, in Learned Publishing, Volume 24, Issue 3, July 2011, Pages 162-163
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systemsOne of my strong suites in all the packaging work is the knowledge in my head.
"Why don't you write it down for others to benefit from, then?", you'd ask.
The thing is, this knowledge is basically "hot cache". I'm bumping hundreds of #Python packages in #Gentoo, so I remember stuff. And because of that, I can quickly notice some things or answer some questions.
If that were written down, the effort needed to find it would diminish all the gain. I mean, technically *it is* already written down, and the whole point is that I have it "cached".
@ubuntourist@mastodon.socialTexas ICE Killing Darkens: Rep Says Witnesses Pressured to Self-Deport;
There were three others in the van with the man shot by ICE in Houston this week. A representative for the families tells TNR that the government is pressuring these potential witnesses to self-deport.
https://
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzGlaringly Obvious: Cowboys opponents make same joke in schedule release videos https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/05/15/cowboys-2026-opponents-schedule-release-videos/90095407007/
@seeingwithsound@mas.to'Pass on the warmth': blind Chinese teen aces gaokao, chooses medicine to help others https://www.scmp.com/news/people-culture/china-personalities/article/3358630/pass-warmth-blind-chinese-…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAs David Sacks steps back and Sriram Krishnan prepares to leave, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and others are leading AI policy in the Trump administration (Maria Curi/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/06/18/inside-white-house-ai-power-center
@primonatura@mstdn.social"Batteries: The game has changed – and it’s not what you think"
#Batteries #Energy
https://www.
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialNetflix expands its iHeartMedia partnership to stream video episodes of podcasts from Martha Stewart and others; the episodes will no longer be on YouTube (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/netflix-podcasts-martha-stewa…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: General Intuition, which trains AI agents in spatial reasoning, is in talks to raise $300M from Jeff Bezos and others at a $2B valuation (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/18/general-intuition-in-talks-to-ra…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comPentagon adds Alibaba, others to list of Chinese companies that can't get U.S. defense contracts (Associated Press)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/pentagon-alibaba-others-chinese-companies-cant-get-us-defense-contracts/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260609/p12#a260609p12
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAI inference startup Baseten is raising $1.5B in a dual-tiered deal, with some investors putting in money at an $11B valuation and others at a $13B valuation (Angel Au-Yeung/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/the-13-billion
@Techmeme@techhub.socialVerse Enterprises, which wants to provide energy-management software for 100 data centers by 2027, raised a $54M Series B from Nvidia and others (Summer Maxwell/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-18…
@davidaugust@mastodon.online @cdarwin@c.imAdmin Officials in the Epstein Files:
Donald J. Trump (President)
Melania Trump (1st Lady)
Howard Lutnick (Sec. Commerce)
John Phelan (Sec. Navy)
Paolo Zampolli (Kennedy Center)
RFK Jr. (Sec. HHS)
Kevin Warsh (Fed Nominee)
Mehmet Oz (Admin. for CMS)
Elon Musk (Fmr DOGE Appointee)
Steve Bannon (Fmr Senior Advisor)
Alex Acosta (Fmr Sec. Labor)
Bill Barr (Fmr AG)
Brett Ratner (Film Director "Melania")
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioOthers are echoing these thoughts, and not just random Mastodon people who are just a foot with an eyeball on top:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jun/12/spacex-ipo-elon-musk-trillionaire
@Techmeme@techhub.socialKing's Cross, where Google's new UK HQ is due to open later this year, has become London's new tech, VC, and AI hub, attracting OpenAI, Anthropic, and others (John Gapper/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/d0a7927d-3072-4bd5-b816-662f726b3699
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@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialArXiv, the repository of preprint academic research, says it will ban authors for a year if their papers have "incontrovertible evidence" of AI-generated work (Samantha Cole/404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/new-arxiv-rules-ai-generated-papers-ban/
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: Trump Media pitched a monthly fee of as much as $100K for the Truth API, with fast access to Trump's posts, for banks, algorithmic traders, and others (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-tel
@tiotasram@kolektiva.socialJust finished "The Terraformers" by Annalee Newitz (@…). It was recommended as a "solarpunk" book, and I'm currently on a quest to find more speculative fiction as good as Le Guin or Butler, so I was eager to dig in. Having tagged the author (hi) I'll try to be polite here, but I'll admit I was disappointed.
Newitz clearly has a powerful imagination and there's lots of great stuff in the book, but it's not at all pushing boundaries in terms of imagining future societies. I think the message and intent was good in a lot of places, but off or self-contradictory in others. I absolutely adore the relatively small point made at the end about revolutions being complicated and not boiling down to heroes and battles, but despite the book's attempt to avoid that, I think it still falls into that pattern. Without too many spoilers, the way that some big problems are resolved near the end leans too much on a legal framework without questioning how it's enforced, and that resolution then means that a few heroic acts are enough to tip the balance, which undermines the point about messy histories.
The biggest contradiction of the book to my mind though is with a central theme. The book really explores a world in which "anyone of any species can be a person, as long as we just bioengineer them to be intelligent enough," and it tries to make a point about how engineering limited intelligences is cruel. At several points characters comment about how personhood shouldn't depend on intelligence. There's even a brief quote about how maybe rivers could be people... But... the point could have been "anyone can be a person, regardless of intelligence." This would have made for much more interesting philosophical territory to explore IMO (how do we then bound personhood; how do we reconcile predator/prey relations between persons, etc.). These are also questions that the indigenous traditions Newitz draws on (and consulted about, as mentioned in the acknowledgements) has interesting answers for, but we don't get to explore them through Newitz' world, and because the question of personhood regresses to the question of intelligence, it feels like the moral philosophy of the ERT folks isn't any better than the "InAss" they disparage.
It's not a bad book overall, even if it doesn't engage with the questions I'm hungry to see others engage with. Newitz' efforts to sketch out a more vibrant and diverse future are still monumental and inspiring in a lot of ways. I'm just still looking for something more. Ultimately, I think it lives up to the "solar" but not very much to the "punk."
#AmReading #ReadingNow #Bookstodon
@Dragofix@veganism.socialCrude oil and wood fires fuel Nigeria’s soot pollution, in photos https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/05/crude-oil-and-wood-fires-fuel-nigerias-soot-pollution-in-photos/
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.deadd_health: Adolescent health (ADD HEALTH) (1994)
A directed network of friendships obtained through a social survey of high school students in 1994. The ADD HEALTH data are constructed from the in-school questionnaire; 90,118 students representing 84 communities took this survey in 1994-95. Some communities had only one school; others had two. Where there are two schools in a community students from one school were allowed to name friends in the other, the "sister school".…
@matzekult@chaos.socialSince we are one the subject of names in #StarTrek, let’s see how good you remember the names of small side characters for today’s #TrekTriviaTuesday question.
As always no googling and no spoiling the answer for others. Please boost after voting! :BoostOK:
Vote will run for 24h, th…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialYouTube expands its AI likeness detection program to users over the age of 18, after rolling it out to select creators, politicians, journalists, and others (Mia Sato/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/931884/youtube-likeness-detection-a…
@davidaugust@mastodon.online @netzschleuder@social.skewed.deadd_health: Adolescent health (ADD HEALTH) (1994)
A directed network of friendships obtained through a social survey of high school students in 1994. The ADD HEALTH data are constructed from the in-school questionnaire; 90,118 students representing 84 communities took this survey in 1994-95. Some communities had only one school; others had two. Where there are two schools in a community students from one school were allowed to name friends in the other, the "sister school".…
@rasterweb@mastodon.social➡️ NINJAM - Play Music Online with Others
#bookmarks
@cdarwin@c.imFlorida Governor Ron DeSantis announced on July 1 his intent to designate certain Muslim and anti-fascist groups
—including U.S. groups
—as “terrorist organizations.”
Using authorities granted to him in a new Florida law, which took effect earlier that day,
DeSantis declared that he would seek designation of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR),
the Muslim Brotherhood, and “Antifa,” among others.
Within hours, the ACLU and Southern Poverty Law …
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialTrueShort, which makes vertical AI-generated movies broken into one- to three-minute episodes, raised a $12M seed led by Keith Rabois at Khosla Ventures (Lucia Moses/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/khosla-vent…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSensor Tower: ChatGPT's market share fell to 46.4% by the end of May, as Gemini rose to 27.7% and Claude to 10.3%; Grok, Meta AI, and others have less than 5% (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/16/chatgpts-market-share-slips-belo…
@cdarwin@c.imA part of the Atlantic Ocean, just south of Greenland and Iceland, has been cooling off while the rest of the world gets hotter.
This enigmatic patch is often referred to as the "cold blob" and scientists have been trying to figure out the mechanisms behind its cooling.
While some studies have blamed increased heat loss at the sea surface,
others suggest weaker currents are bringing less heat to the area.
Now, a new study, published in Geophysical Research…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialCybersecurity startup Chainguard, Cisco, Cloudflare, JPMorgan Chase, and others launch Athena, a coalition to secure open-source software using AI (Rachel Metz/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-15/chaingu…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialVoice actors allege in lawsuits their voices were wrongly used by Amazon, Apple, Google, Meta, Microsoft, and Nvidia to develop AI or other voice-related tech (Wendy Davis/MediaPost)
https://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/41…
@cdarwin@c.imThe emergence of monopoly in America is a fundamentally political phenomenon,
based on choices made by policymakers over the last fifty years, from the late 1970s onward.
The intellectual organizers of that era, on both sides of the aisle, argued the New Deal had been too rough on capital,
and proposed deregulation,
rolling back antitrust, and releasing the energies of Wall Street.
From Ronald Reagan to Bill Clinton, they constructed a heavily financialized so…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialLondon-based edtech startup Multiverse raised $70M at a $2.1B valuation from Index and others as it pushes into AI training; it acquired StackFuel in January (Kieran Smith/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/ec5764f0-b783-48ac-9f16-a0ecb9da9636
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSpectro Cloud, an AI infrastucture company helping manage token costs, raised a $100M Series D from AMD, LG, others at a $1B valuation, up from $750M in 2024 (Lucinda Shen/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/all-deals/2026/07/15/spectro-cloud-b…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialArXiv, the repository of preprint academic research, says it will ban authors for a year if their papers have "incontrovertible evidence" of AI-generated work (Samantha Cole/404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/new-arxiv-rules-ai-generated-papers-ban/
@Techmeme@techhub.socialYouTube expands its AI likeness detection program to users over the age of 18, after rolling it out to select creators, politicians, journalists, and others (Mia Sato/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/931884/youtube-likeness-detection-a…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialCircle raised $222M via the presale of its native Arc token at a $3B valuation; a16z led with a $75M investment, with participation from BlackRock and others (Tanaya Macheel/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/11/circle-closes-222-millio…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAdapter, which offers an infrastructure layer to help users leverage and control data for use by AI agents and apps, emerges from stealth with $17.8M in funding (Alex Konrad/Upstarts Media)
https://www.upstartsmedia.com/p/deep-dive-adapter-launches-ai-cognition…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: Apollo Global, Morgan Stanley, and others are testing Grok internally as part of xAI's finance sector push, but financiers are rarely using it for work (Carmen Arroyo/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
@Techmeme@techhub.socialMunich-based defense tech startup Helsing raised a $1.8B Series E from Dragoneer, Iconiq, and others at an $18B valuation; Germany made a €270M order this year (Mark Bergen/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
@Techmeme@techhub.socialRichard Socher's Recursive Superintelligence raised $650M from GV, Greycroft, Nvidia, AMD, and others at a $4B valuation to pursue "recursive self-improvement" (Cade Metz/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/13/technol…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialTikTok launches TikTok GO in the US for users to book hotels, attractions, and experiences directly in the app, partnering with Booking.com, Expedia, and others (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/12/tiktok-now-…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: three ex-DOGE staffers are raising $130M from a16z, Sequoia, and others for a startup that aims to use AI to secure government systems (Vanity Fair)
https://www.vanityfair.com/story/doge-defense-startups
@Techmeme@techhub.socialGoogle launches Intrusion Logging, an Android feature developed in partnership with Amnesty International and others, on Android 16 Pixel devices for now (Tim Starks/CyberScoop)
https://cyberscoop.com/google-android-intrusion-logging-amnesty-spyware-detecti…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAmp, which aims to buy excess computing capacity from data center operators to sell to startups, universities, and more, raised $1.3B from a16z and others (Cade Metz/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/technology/amp-startup.html
@Techmeme@techhub.socialNonprofit RSL Media announces the Human Consent Standard, an AI licensing framework for use of people's work or likeness, backed by George Clooney and others (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/928534/rsl-m…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialHow Chinese manufacturers are dominating the humanoid robot supply chain, even as the industry struggles to find a purpose for such robots (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/11/busines
@Techmeme@techhub.socialMeta, Broadcom, Applied Materials, GlobalFoundries, and Synopsys launch a $125M "Semiconductor Hub" at UCLA to advance AI chip research and more (CJ Haddad/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/21/meta-broadcom-others-…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialHungary plans to decriminalize crypto trading in a reversal of restrictions, which prompted Revolut and others to suspend services, under former PM Viktor Orban (Zoltan Simon/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
