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This summary covers The Economist’s June 13th, 2026 Business article listed in the contents as Rise of the robo-couriers and published under the headline Pavement pioneers.

Delivery robots have long sounded like a city-of-the-future novelty: small machines rolling along pavements, carrying groceries or pizza while pedestrians decide whether to be impressed, annoyed or amused. The article argues that the novelty is becoming a business proposition. In Milton Keynes, a British city better known for roundabouts than futuristic technology, Starship Technologies has built one of the largest markets for autonomous grocery delivery. Its claim is simple and commercially important: small pavement robots can deliver goods more cheaply than human drivers.

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What happened

The official Cloudflare Blog published the engineering write-up Unlocking the Cloudflare app ecosystem with OAuth for all, a June 24, 2026 post about opening self-managed OAuth to all customers after a careful upgrade of Cloudflare’s underlying OAuth infrastructure.

The product surface is simple: developers can create OAuth clients, users can grant scoped access through a standard consent flow, and integrations no longer have to depend on broad API tokens. The engineering problem underneath was less simple. Cloudflare already ran OAuth for a small set of manually onboarded partners, but that system was not designed for broad ecosystem access, agentic tools, richer consent, easy revocation, and stronger anti-phishing affordances at Cloudflare scale.

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Quick facts

• Difficulty: MEDIUM
• Problem: Evaluate Reverse Polish Notation
• Topics: Array, Math, Stack

Problem gist

Reverse Polish Notation writes an arithmetic expression so that every operator comes after the two values it uses. Instead of writing 2 + 3, it writes 2 3 +. This removes parentheses because the order is encoded directly in the token stream.

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Techmeme surfaced this June 25, 2026 pricing shift in its Apple memory-shortage item, and the concrete article used here is Rolfe Winkler’s Wall Street Journal report, Apple Raises Prices on Macs, iPads by $200 or More on Some Models. The important part is not just that Apple raised prices. It is that Apple is publicly telling customers that the AI data-center buildout is now expensive enough to change consumer hardware prices.

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Clean sweep for Mamdani backed candidates (r/news)

• AnxiousTrans: 😂michael rapaport is absolutely somewhere losing his mind over this
• _chip: Are they all socialist leaning as well ? No joke, just asking.
• npassaro: Corporate Dems and most of the left in the western world will soon realize that being the reasonable appeasing left is not what people want. We want change, we want climate action, better public services and de-privatisation of basic needs. If the new left doesn’t deliver, we are effectively fucked. But now is the moment.

Military services again requiring recruits to get flu shots as Air Force outbreak grows (r/news)

• ReactionJifs: this administration is hellbent on re-learning history’s hardest lessons
• Slight-Hedgehog259: Jist wait until they are going to take credit for mandatory flu shots while blaming Biden for the outbreak
• Overall_Curve6725: Just another brilliant MAGA decision in the toilet

Texas anti-ICE protesters convicted of terrorism charges sentenced to at least 50 years in prison (r/news)

• tabrizzi: What’s to stop the next Dem president from pardoning them and setting up a fund to compensate them?
• Free_Range_Gamer: January 6 “protesters” have been pardoned, don’t forget that.
• HistoricalGalPals: This entire trial has been so rotten. Between the judge doing voir dire himself, the defense presenting no witnesses or evidence, and these ridiculously unreasonable sentences, it’s a shit show all the way down

Donald Trump’s Approval Rating Sinks to 30% in Worst Poll Yet. How do you feel about this ? (r/AskReddit)

• IAmAlittleteapot_AMA: He doesn’t deserve this. It should be much lower.
• jeezkillbot: Still too high.
• Onagan98: Why so high?

What situation as a child did you only realize you were in danger as an adult? (r/AskReddit)

• CuntForSpades: I was 5 years old, waiting by myself for the bus to school (my bus stop was right outside my daycare lady’s house). An elderly woman walked by, but stopped when she noticed me and insisted that I help her find her dog. She kept telling me it wouldn’t take that long and that I wouldn’t miss the bus. I’m so glad that I was shy and afraid of dogs back then. I refused to go with her and she hurried away when my bus pulled up.
• Secretlyagummybear: I loved seeing snakes on tv as a little girl, and my favorite character in Kung Fu Panda was Viper, so when I learned snakes like to sometimes nest or burrow in holes, I took a cookie sheet out into the backyard and put it next to a big hole. Sure enough, the pan heated under the sun and snakes came to rest on it, where i would then puck them up and play with them. My mother put a quick end to that.
• Mathmatical: I had a lot of online boyfriends who had my address and would send me presents like stuffed animals or cute jewelry or video games. That probably was a bad idea. There’s one in particular that looking back I’m like wtf?!

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10% of my colleagues at Robinhood are gone. (Blind)

• apple145 (Meta): Elon is the first one to start this dumb trend. And he’s now rewarded by becoming a trillionaire. We live in a sick world
• avx256 (Snap): 10% is trimming fat. Now solid workers can climb up
• pbodyy (Instacart): starting a layoff email with “robinhoodies” is crazy work

\$2.7 BILLION wasn’t enough to keep Noam at Google (Blind)

• applpiee (Meta): Let’s say you are at a stage where money doesn’t matter, but have to deal with constant BS. Someone comes and says we will give you free hand to do whatever you like and however you wanna do it. Wat will you do?
• dara.singh (Uber): Not every thing is about money lil man
• h2020c (Google): Google didn’t pay him 2.7b to stay. Shut up .

Valve Says The Companies Making RAM Give Them A Price And If They Say No, They ‘Never Talk To Us Again’ (r/technology)

• Xollector: This is what you get when you essentially have a cartel in control of supply.
• nukem996: Suppliers have never cared about small customers. Small customers are much more costly while generating very little revenue. It doesn’t matter how public or “important” they seem. I’ve seen hardware vendors drop US military suppliers because their support burden was too great. If you are not a whale customer you are not worth their time.
• 81PBNJ: Went to order 10 Surface Pros from CDW. Got the quote Tuesday morning, they wouldn’t honor it the next day because prices had already increased.

AI Companies Are Trying to Seize Control of Elections (r/technology)

• NotAllOwled: Perhaps it would be quicker if we listed the things they’re not trying to seize control of?
• TonyInNY: I can not think of a worse idea about how to secure free and fair elections. The thought of these tech billionaires having access to the system that counts and deliverers results of elections is just a quick path to the destruction of democracy.
• YaBoiSammus: People forget that same shit happen with Elon Musk and he flooded Twitter with brain rot propaganda. This shit isn’t new it’s just a different paint color.

47% of Harvard seniors admit to cheating — and the problem existed long before ChatGPT (r/technology)

• ggibby: What percentage of Harvard admissions is legacies vs merit?
• DetroitPeopleMover: School filled with ultra competitive students willing to do whatever takes has students willing to do whatever it takes to get good grades. News at 10
• Raa03842: Just remember, 50% of all licensed doctors graduated in the bottom half of all licensed doctors. I wonder how many of them cheated?

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Antarctica’s surface looks motionless, but vibrations from earthquakes constantly travel through the ice and the planet beneath it. At the South Pole, researchers have turned that apparent stillness into a uniquely sensitive listening post by installing two seismometers 8,000 feet below the ice—the deepest instruments of their kind ever deployed.

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Techmeme surfaced Thomas Claburn’s report in The Register on a newly published challenge to Microsoft’s topological-quantum-computing claims. The immediate controversy involves two Python mistakes and data that did not appear in Microsoft’s original paper. The larger issue is more consequential: when software decides which experimental regions count as evidence, a plotting or filtering choice can become part of the scientific instrument.

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This summary covers The Economist’s June 13th, 2026 Business article listed in the contents as Apple's second bite and published under the headline A second bite.

Apple’s first attempt to add generative AI to the iPhone was a conspicuous failure. Apple Intelligence, announced in 2024, was supposed to turn Siri into a capable personal assistant with access to a user’s messages, apps and other private information. Two years later, many of those promises remain unfulfilled. Apple is now trying again with a strategy that is less technologically ambitious but potentially more commercially effective: let Google supply the underlying AI models while Apple controls how people use them.

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At least 18 dead in France, including two children in hot car, as Europe bakes (r/news)

• topTopqualitea: I was in Paris during a heatwave around 2005 and that place was fucking brutal
• Far_Eye6555: Coldest summer for the rest of your lives
• MakimaGOAT: Is northern europe still chilling or are they getting baked too?

Nancy Guthrie abduction: 2nd ransom note sent to Tucson TV station said she died, sources say (r/news)

• jktcat: Is it much of a ransom if the abductee is no longer alive?
• peilearceann: Sad way to go at the end of a long life man this shits brutal
• DaKingaDaNorth: It was pretty obvious she was dead after like a month or two. That’s why the story slowed down and I think the family accepted the inevitable. Extremely sad, but if they didn’t get her back within like a week, an elderly lady that needed her meds wasn’t going to last long.

What businesses are likely to die out with the Baby Boomer Generation? (r/AskReddit)

• taxiecabbie: I don’t think it will totally die out, but I think Harley Davidson is going to have to make a major pivot.
• ElenaChapella: As a journalist, physical newspapers are rapidly dying (boomers are the primary readers of physical papers), and that makes me so sad. It’s going to be a really really sad day when all journalism is digital.
• Foofity: The BBB. They’re absolutely convinced that filing a complaint with them will result in either the company shutting down or getting a good public spanking.

What’s the strongest indicator that someone is not a good person? (r/AskReddit)

• Automatic-Food3217: How they treat people who have nothing to offer them
• Jelly_Cuddle: They only care about you when they need something from you
• Inevitable_Ant7535: Cruel “pranks”

What’s the craziest thing you’ve seen someone do on a plane? (r/AskReddit)

• Firm-Engineering2175: A woman had a proper panic attack about flying. The cabin crew moved her to the front, 2 seats from me. They couldn’t calm her down so they asked if anyone on the plane could help. A man stood up and said he was a hypnotist so they sat him next to me and he tried to put her in a trance. I sat there for an hour next to a man continuously whispering into the ear of a sobbing woman. It was very odd!
• Round_Explanation_63: Whilst in India, I asked a local chemist if he could give me something that might make my 10 hour flight home more enjoyable, I said I’d like to be completely out of it for the duration. What I really meant is I’d like to be asleep however my choice of words were perhaps poor and badly translated. He gave me a small tablet to take one hour before the flight which I did. For the next 16 hours, I had the most intense hallucinogenic trip I have ever encountered in my entire life.
• HomeAl0ne: Opened a crate of chickens that were in the aisle. Remote Nepal back in the 1980s. No idea of they got all the chickens back.