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Techmeme surfaced Richard Lawler’s report in The Verge on Midjourney’s first hardware product: an ultrasound-based full-body scanner that turns the AI image company into an unlikely entrant in preventive health infrastructure.

The surprising part is not only that Midjourney is building medical hardware. It is that the company is trying to translate the strengths that made it famous in generative imagery into a completely different domain: dense sensor data, reconstruction, visual interpretation, and consumer experience design. Midjourney’s own launch page frames the scanner as a faster, more casual alternative to MRI-style body imaging. A person would step onto a platform, descend through water, pass through a ring of ultrasound sensors, and receive a 3D map of the body in roughly a minute.

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A US Air Force B-52 bomber crashes at Edwards Air Force Base in California, the base says (r/news)

• 504090: Shit that’s a big plane
• chephin: That’s gotta be 25-30 aircraft lost in the last year without any enemy fire
• MrCarey: Okay for real I was in the USAF for 8 years starting in 2005, and I don’t remember this many crashes in that timeframe.

US Senate candidate with same name as incumbent Dan Sullivan ineligible for ballot, official rules (r/news)

• Chaosmusic: I think I saw a documentary about this with Eddie Murphy.
• WildWonders457: same shit happened in florida for a state senate seat i think, and they were able to successfully pull enough votes away to elect a republican.
• ga-co: We’ve seen a similar playbook run in Florida and candidates with deliberately confusing names were allowed to run.

Lukashenko Apologizes to Zelenskyy, Says Entering War Would Harm Belarus (r/worldnews)

• ArgentineBeauty: It’s hard not to see this as Lukashenko trying to give himself an out if things keep going south for Russia.
• wastedgod: wait are things so bad for Russia that even belarus is distancing itself from them. That’s pretty telling
• JiveChicken00: I am sure that Putin will receive this message loud and clear. And it’s not going to make him any happier.

Hungary passes 8-year PM limit, barring Orbán’s return (r/worldnews)

• Bravestinsane: I still can’t believe he just accepted his loss and stood down, I was not expecting that.
• The-marx-channel: Magyar is showing every democratic country how to defeat Russian Backed Demagouges.
• Smart_Ass_Dave: Ya’ll ever get fired so hard they make a law?

What are we being “boiled like frogs” about right now that future generations will be shocked we accepted? (r/AskReddit)

• Snozzberriez: Subscription everything.
• yousonofabench: Lack of privacy. I remember when the Patriot Act was controversial.
• WakeIslandTango: Corporations basically having the same rights as a human being

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July will only be the beginning of the upcoming layoffs at Microsoft (Blind)

• Kjlq67 (Microsoft): I’m leaving (first day of new job is July 6), should I wait until july to see if im laid off, or still put my notice in?
• hkhgtf (Amazon): Billionaires are weaponizing AI against the middle class.We need to elect a govt that would standup against the greedy billionaires. Vote socialist democrats.
• AIBotFarm (Microsoft): Getting a job after 25 years at Microsoft is going to take you about 100 interviews. And I’m not kidding.

I regret staying at Meta instead of going to anthropic (Blind)

• lord-tren (ex-Intel): i declined deepmind in 2012-2013 before it was acquired by Google. Happens buddy. Not the end of the world
• gS24fUz (Scale AI): They never would have gotten this far if you had joined
• iceiguana (Meta): I really regret not choosing the right numbers for the lottery!

Hi Fellow SWEs, what is going on in your head whenever u hear a tech leader says “80% of our code is now written by AI” (Blind)

• APPM47 (Nike): I think 80% is an understatement. Pretty much all new code in all companies are now written by AI
• noprestige (Google): I’d better not use this product
• mqHoe95X (PayPal): I know nearly 100% of mine is AI. It writes good code and a lot of it

Fed up with vibe coders, dev sneaks data-nuking prompt injection into their code (r/technology)

• WesternBlueRanger: I see someone reads xkcd and knows about Little Bobby Tables.
• pilgermann: The point critics are missing is that if this works then LLM coding cannot be trusted. This is an entirely ynsophistocaged prompt injection. If the LLM doesn’t know to flag it, it should. That’s the whole issue. This could easily be added to any project.
• steve_s0: Good. We already know that simply forbidding such use in license terms will be ignored.

AI billionaires brace for pitchforks (r/technology)

• williamgman: Ever visit those chateaus in France and throughout Europe that are tourist sites now..? They were the oligarchs of the time.
• DemandredG: They’re not nearly scared enough for the scope of the damage they’re inflicting on the world.
• schu4KSU: I was wondering why tech bros switched suddenly and in unison from the left to the right. Now I understand. They see this stage coming soon.

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Turning Nuclear Waste into Strategic Fuel

Sarah Scoles’s article “War’s New Fuel” looks at spent nuclear fuel as something more complicated than a disposal problem. Civilian reactors have left the United States with a stockpile of radioactive material that remains hazardous for extremely long periods. But that same material still contains useful energy and valuable isotopes. Project Omega, a Rhode Island start-up, wants to recover those resources and turn them into fuel for reactors or power sources for military technology.

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The article argues that the AI boom has given Taiwan, South Korea, and Japan a deceptive sense of strength. Demand for chips, servers, and memory has lifted exports, profits, and headline growth across north-east Asia. Yet the same boom is narrowing their industrial base and hiding weakness in older manufacturing sectors that once powered the region’s rise.

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The Pragmatic Engineer surfaced this June 16, 2026 deep dive in Gergely Orosz’s post, Why is Meta destroying its engineering organization?. The piece argues that Meta’s AI push has stopped being only a product strategy and has become an internal operating shock: engineers are being measured, reassigned, and reorganized around model training in ways that may be damaging the culture and reliability systems that made the company successful.

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Autistic children injected with unapproved stem cell treatments supported by RFK Jr (r/news)

• imoftendisgruntled: Don’t the conspiracy theorists have a problem with the government experimenting on children?
• avid-shrug: Medical experimentation on the disabled is unfortunately a time honoured tradition
• Satanic_bitch: You’re missing the part where they hate autistic people

Judge orders Justin Baldoni to cover Blake Lively’s legal fees (r/news)

• SquareSecond: Don’t pay attention to celebrities. It’s free and will improve your life
• rThundrbolt: Counterpoint: my body craves drama that doesn’t actually affect me
• topTopqualitea: Just tell me which one I’m supposed to not like

Albania Freezes Assets in Kushner Resort Probe (r/worldnews)

• RM_r_us: Finally a country not afraid to crush the dreams of billionaire supervillans.
• Ritaredditonce: And she was just captivated!
• TylerBourbon: Barefoot and managed not to be bitten by a snake or to run into any of the old bombs or mines that are on the island. Truly a miracle. /s

India’s Fertility Rate Drops Below Replacement Level for First Time, Reveals Government Report (r/worldnews)

• breakfasteveryday: Is anyone in India really thinking they have a “too few people” problem?
• hillofjumpingbeans: Three groups of Indian people do think this is a problem.
• blackcain: I think this is a not enough young people to take care of the olds

What modern inconvenience feels like it should have been solved years ago? (r/AskReddit)

• False_Mountain377: CAPTCHAs that make me prove I’m human five times just to log in. If a bot can get through them easier than I can, the whole thing has kind of lost the plot.
• mischa_is_online: Font and bullet point indent inconsistencies in Microsoft Word, especially when pasting. It’s like, “I got you bro. Just gonna randomly use a totally different font, bullet type, and indent level that has nothing to do with either the source or destination.”
• Captain_Quinn: Spam calls on cell phones still exist after how long has it been?

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FAANG is dead. MANGODS is the new obsession (Blind)

• ggininder_ (ex-Google): I see you trying really hard to slip Databricks in
• gcdgvhuugd (ex-Microsoft): Add Yahoo and you can be obsessed with M-Y-G-O-N-A-D-S
• rRcY70 (Meta): wtf is Databricks here? Spark is way obsolete

Hold on to your jobs, for now. (Blind)

• soon2be: It will never go back to employees
• ghfo2 (Notion): Tech industry hiring is on FIRE, but for only the top 10% of people
• vndjfb092 (Microsoft): I just got an offer at a high growth AI company. No referrals. The jobs are there. Use AI to review your resume maybe?

I just got laid off from Salesforce. (Blind)

• XVfH44 (Meta): We got 36 weeks of pay
• FujiApp!e (Apple): Damn getting paid for 6 months to chill.
• cheapguy (Microsoft): How many affected ?

Intuit to lay off over 3,000 employees to refocus on AI (r/technology)

• Big-Chungus-12: Im glad I havent supported this company financially, vote with your wallet people
• AvailableReporter484: Tbf this company should be obliterated from space
• williamgman: When Intuit decided to drop desktop support… That was the kiss of death. A lot of independent bookkeepers are retiring out end of this year as they are being forced onto the online app only.

Lyft driver caught blatantly using Gemini AI (with watermark) to fake damage to his car and charge riders extra for cleaning fees (r/technology)

• ashyjay: Lyft can get around that by requiring invoices from a detailer before charging clients.
• Gangiskhan: I think I saw the Lyft rider who was scammed make a post on reddit. Good to see the scammer getting called out.
• Oceanbreeze871: He should face fraud charges

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What happened

Cloudflare’s official blog published Scaling Security Insights: how we achieved a 10x increase in global scanning capacity, a June 12, 2026 engineering post about turning a strained security-scanning pipeline into a system that could run for every account and zone by default.

Security Insights is Cloudflare’s system for regularly scanning accounts, zones, and DNS records for risky configuration states. The operational problem was straightforward: scans were too infrequent, often weekly or biweekly, and many free-plan accounts were not automatically scanned at all. To make scanning universal and more frequent, Cloudflare estimated that the pipeline needed to move from roughly 10 scans per second to around 100 scans per second.

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Quick facts

• Difficulty: MEDIUM
• Problem: Simplify Path
• Topics: String, Stack

Problem gist

The task is to turn a Unix-style absolute path into its canonical form. A canonical path always starts with one slash, uses one slash between directory names, has no trailing slash unless the path is the root, and removes navigation tokens that do not represent real directory names.