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A new bill takes aim at government pressure to silence lawful online speech

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/06/new-bill-takes-aim-government-pressure-silence-lawful-online-speech

Is AI ruining our skills? Early results are in – and they're not good

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01947-1

There Are No Instances in ATProto

https://overreacted.io/there-are-no-instances-in-atproto/

Google workspace threatening to block Firefox access

https://tales.fromprod.com/2026/169/google-workspace-threatening-to-block-firefox.html

Hyundai buys Boston Dynamics, Atlas humanoid to be used at vehicle plant by 2028

https://startupfortune.com/hyundai-takes-full-control-of-boston-dynamics-as-softbank-exits-for-325-million/

Amateur may have cracked Linear A, a 120-year-old puzzle

https://aiclambake.com/clamtakes/linear-a/

Apple A12 and A13 Chips: New Unpatchable Exploit

https://www.macrumors.com/2026/06/18/a12-and-a13-chips-facing-exploit/

How many of the 170k English words do you know?

https://vocabowl-870366514258.us-west1.run.app/

Leave a Trace

https://www.jakeworth.com/posts/leave-a-trace

Norway greenlights first full-scale ship tunnel

https://eandt.theiet.org/2026/06/18/norway-greenlights-world-s-first-full-scale-ship-tunnel

The room the economy can't see

https://wilsoniumite.com/2026/06/19/the-room-the-economy-cant-see/

Amazon investigating engineers who criticized AI data center expansion

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/18/amazon-engineers-ai-data-center-opposition.html

Generative AI Is Having Its Herbalife Moment

https://www.whatwelo.st/p/generative-ai-is-having-its-herbalife

Fable Converted Pylint to Rust

https://pypi.org/project/prylint/

So You Want to Define a Well-Known URI

https://mnot.net/blog/2026/well_known_uris

Project Valhalla, Explained: How a Decade of Work Arrives in JDK 28

https://www.jvm-weekly.com/p/project-valhalla-explained-how-a

Building a robotics research setup that lives next to my desk

https://dfdxlabs.com/research/2026/robotics-setup/

Datasette Apps: Host custom HTML applications inside Datasette

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/18/datasette-apps/

Ice Water Drowning Survival After 147-Minute Submersion and Hypothermic Arrest

https://www.jacc.org/doi/10.1016/j.jaccas.2025.104885

Let's Encrypt has been down most of today

https://letsencrypt.status.io/#2026

Zork name origin got an update on Wikipedia

https://www.dpolakovic.space/blogs/zork-part2#update

Godot 4.7 Release

https://godotengine.org/releases/4.7/

Update on Ocean Observatories Initiative

https://www.nsf.gov/news/update-ocean-observatories-initiative

Zero-Touch OAuth for MCP

https://blog.modelcontextprotocol.io/posts/enterprise-managed-auth/

The AirPods Effect

https://www.theescapenewsletter.com/p/the-airpods-effect

Everything Is BOM: Bill of Materials Encyclopedia

https://bomwiki.com/

Trump Surrenders to Iran on Virtually Every Point

https://www.techdirt.com/2026/06/18/trump-surrenders-to-iran-on-virtually-every-point/

The Korean telecom giant at the center of Anthropic's Mythos controversy

https://www.wired.com/story/sk-telecom-anthropic-mythos-export-controls/

The Token Compression Illusion: Why I'm Skeptical of RTK

https://mroczek.dev/articles/the-token-compression-illusion-why-im-skeptical-of-rtk/

I told them forced consent was unlawful. 5 years later it cost Elkjop €1.8M

https://www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/elkjop-forced-consent-fine/

Migrating from GNU Stow to Chezmoi

https://rednafi.com/misc/chezmoi/

TypeScript 7.0 RC

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/typescript/announcing-typescript-7-0-rc/

The Harajuku Moment

https://tim.blog/2024/02/09/harajuku-moment/

The AI Hate Progression

https://www.xodium.net/2026/06/the-ai-hate-progression.html

The founder of Craigslist has given away half a billion dollars

https://www.independent.co.uk/us/money/craigslist-multimillionaire-craig-newmark-b2980681.html

TerraPower in Deal with Meta for Eight Natrium 345 MW Advanced Nuclear Plants

https://neutronbytes.com/2026/01/09/terrapower-in-mega-deal-with-meta-for-eight-natrium-345-mw-advanced-nuclear-plants/

A website that lists websites to submit your website to

https://www.submission.directory/

Seven Perfect Shuffles Randomize a Deck of Cards. But How Many Sloppy Ones?

https://www.quantamagazine.org/seven-perfect-shuffles-randomize-a-deck-of-cards-but-how-many-sloppy-ones-20260617/

How Alberta Eradicated Rats

https://worksinprogress.co/issue/albertas-war-on-rats/

What was nice about the UI of Windows 2000

https://movq.de/blog/postings/2026-06-16/0/POSTING-en.html

Swiss parliament lifts ban on new nuclear power plants

https://www.bluewin.ch/en/news/switzerland/parliament-lifts-ban-on-new-nuclear-power-plants-3257535.html

Ubiquiti: Enterprise NAS, Built on ZFS

https://blog.ui.com/article/introducing-enterprise-nas

Migrate from OpenClaw

https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/docs/guides/migrate-from-openclaw

Modos Color Monitor Pushes E-Paper Displays Further

https://spectrum.ieee.org/modos-e-paper-monitor

AI Compute Extensions (ACE) Specification

https://x86ecosystem.org/resource/ai-compute-extensions-ace-specification/

.gitignore Isn't the Only Way to Ignore Files in Git

https://nelson.cloud/.gitignore-isnt-the-only-way-to-ignore-files-in-git/

Advanced Compilers: The Self-Guided Online Course

https://www.cs.cornell.edu/courses/cs6120/2025fa/self-guided/

We built a persistent agent memory layer on Elasticsearch with 0.89 recall

https://www.elastic.co/search-labs/blog/agent-memory-elasticsearch

Challenging the Narrative of European Decline

https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/challenging-the-narrative-of-european-478

I found 10k GitHub repositories distributing Trojan malware

https://orchidfiles.com/github-repositories-distributing-malware/