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Techmeme surfaced this July 18, 2026 story in its data-center protests item. The original piece is Valerie Volcovici and Lisa Baertlein’s Reuters report, US data center protests go national as backlash grows.

The important development is not simply that more people dislike data centers. It is that scattered fights over individual projects are becoming a coordinated national movement. Reuters reports that opponents planned demonstrations in at least 125 U.S. locations on July 18, the first nationwide effort to organize resistance to the infrastructure behind the AI boom.

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This summary covers The Economist’s July 4th, 2026 Leaders article listed in the contents as The government and AI and published under the headline Rules for supermodels.

Frontier artificial intelligence is becoming too capable to release casually and too useful to lock away indefinitely. The article argues that governments need a durable system for managing that tension before a model enables a major cyberattack, helps a bioterrorist or causes some other disaster. America has begun regulating releases, but its improvisational approach shows why clearer institutions are urgently needed.

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AP Exclusive: ICE officer in Maine shooting has history of violent behavior, family and records say (r/news)

• Lobsterbib: ICE isn’t hiring good people for these frontline positions. They are purposefully hiring those with disciplinary and violent histories because those are the people who are going to carry out the cruelty being demanded of this administration.
• Random_Person_246810: Pretty sure that’s a minimum requirement on the application.
• ComprehensiveTwo1763: It’s infuriating how many massive red flags get swept under the rug during background checks for jobs that carry a badge and a gun. If both his family and official records were pointing to a history of violent behavior, there is absolutely zero excuse for him to have still been employed there

ABC, NBC will not air Trump’s election security speech on broadcast networks (r/news)

• Intrepid-Pooper-87: I believe CNN isn’t running it either
• TyrellCorpWorker: Makes sense. America needs to hold the networks responsible for spreading Trump’s lies and misinformation.
• mc_petersonishsonson: Member when trump called ga begging to find the votes needed to win? And everyone heard it? 6 years and zero evidence later he wants to be taken seriously about integrity is hilarious

What’s the most brutally savage one- or two-line roast you’ve ever heard that made someone go completely silent? (r/AskReddit)

• Ms_Riley_Guprz: “Oh, you really are like what people say about you”
• gary_human: Was a barman at a music venue and after this one band had finished their first ‘song’, a lone voice from the crowd called out; “was that on purpose?”
• brislykeki: “I’m not insulting you, I’m describing you.” The ultimate conversation stopper.

What Youtube channel did you love that is garbage now? (r/AskReddit)

• tgr31: Bon appetit after they all left
• SinistreCyborg: Can’t help but notice that most of the channels at the top of this thread are the ones that have also been bought by private equity.
• Regnes: Daily Dose of Internet used to be 3-5 minutes of really cool and interesting videos from around the web. Now it’s 15 minutes comprised mostly of staged TikTok slop featuring people with zero charisma.

What movie scene was meant to be cool but turned out pure cringe? (r/AskReddit)

• flyingcircusdog: Multiple scenes from Camp Rock, but mainly the marching scene.
• limbodog: Scorpion King was supposed to be a horrifying monster that intimidates, but well… Not so much.
• RedoftheEvilDead: The basketball scene in the Halle Berry Catwoman movie.

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Is anybody at your company opens >10 PRs per day? (Blind)

• MrHorizon (Meta): I open 0 PRs a day as principle lol
• DgUD7XPd (Meta): Anyone can open 20 PRs by splitting a 100 line change into 5 each. Always been a pointless metric used by people that don’t know what they’re talking about
• IgVJ10 (ex-Amazon): Not impressed at all. It just means you create a lot of junk pr’s a day

I don’t want to work in AI, I don’t want to work at FAANG and I also don’t want to be poor (Blind)

• EfYK67 (Atlassian): Advocate for a socialist revolution with the rest of us then. We shouldn’t have to work 40+ hours a week as it is.
• DocuDum (DocuSign): Then only solution is onlyfans.
• Oblocknqqa (Amazon): Lots of people do work that they don’t want to do. That’s what the money is for.

Engineer sues Atlassian for getting fired, wins (Blind)

• slackerswe (Microsoft): Will other employers avoid her now?
• metaf8 (Meta): What rights you have can heavily depend on which state you’re in. It’s extremely difficult and rare to win lawsuits like these - even when the company is squarely in the wrong. The best thing workers can do to protect themselves is to unionize.
• swesweswe3 (Google): Great win for tech workers but how awkward is that gonna be going back to that job… Also can’t they just lie and fire her for something else like a month after she returns?

Mamdani is targeting deceptive AI-made apartment listings (r/technology)

• Thisbymaster: Now do job listings.
• ErlendPistolbrett: Mamdani has targeted more stuff lately than my City has in the last 20 years somehow. How the fuck is he so good? This has made me realize that we need a better mayor, or at least better communication about what is going on.
• madogvelkor: Good, the rest of the country should follow his lead. And with house listings too, though those should already be against MLS rules.

The AI Backlash Has Tech Executives Fearing for Their Lives (r/technology)

• Stunning-Stressin: AI fatigue is real
• Moist1981: The tech execs actively don’t care about the lives of the people in the areas they are building data centres. I’m obviously not advocating violence in anyway, but tech execs trying to appeal to others’ humanity when they exhibit none of it themselves really does come across as rather galling.
• Fun-Can-8935: they forgot that getting people to adopt new innovations involves god-like marketing. this was how steve jobs managed to place a phone in everyones hands. telling people that they will be unemployed and that their labour is worthless is absolutely crap marketing

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Quick facts

• Difficulty: MEDIUM
• Problem: Maximum Product of Splitted Binary Tree
• Topics: Tree, Depth-First Search, Binary Tree

Problem gist

The input is a binary tree whose nodes contain positive integers. Exactly one edge must be removed, splitting the original tree into two smaller trees. Each smaller tree has a sum, and the goal is to choose the cut that maximizes the product of those two sums. The product must be maximized as an ordinary integer; only the final answer is reduced modulo $10^9 + 7$.

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Techmeme surfaced this July 17, 2026 story in its General Compute item. The original report is Tim Fernholz’s TechCrunch article, Why the first GPU financiers are turning to inference chips in a \$400 million deal.

The important part is not merely that an AI infrastructure startup borrowed \$400 million. It is what the lender accepted as collateral: chips built specifically to run already-trained models. General Compute’s deal with Upper90 suggests that capital markets are beginning to treat inference hardware as a distinct, financeable asset class rather than a cheaper imitation of the Nvidia GPUs used for both model training and serving.

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This summary covers The Economist’s June 20th, 2026 Science & technology article listed as The biggest El Niño ever? and published under the headline Boy problems.

A new El Niño has begun, and climate forecasters think it could be the strongest in the modern record. The article’s warning is not simply that the planet may become hotter in 2027. El Niño redistributes heat and rainfall around the world, so an exceptionally powerful event could turn existing drought, hunger and conflict into overlapping humanitarian crises.

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Hegseth announces new policy to test troops for low testosterone (r/news)

• LegallyAFlamingo: Is he going to be sampling them himself?
• Mockchoi1: God these people are so fucking weird.
• thefugue: Anyone going to get past the jokes and figure out that this is a massive handout to some well connected snake oil company/political donor?

U.S. viewed less favourably than China by Canadians, new poll suggests (r/news)

• PeNdR4GoN_: “An honest enemy is always better than a friend who lies.”
• huxtiblejones: You’re telling me that repeatedly threatening to invade and conquer a friendly neighbor with no provocation makes them… not like you? Am I getting this right?
• innovarocforever: Is China threatening to invade Canada and trying to fuck over their economy with tariffs?

What’s an oddly specific sign that someone is about to become a problem? (r/AskReddit)

• cbuech: “I just tell it like it is”
• anix421: If you cut the queue. They literally have no respect for others and believe the world is there to cater to them.
• EfficientAd890: They treat people differently based on whether they think those people can do something for them. That’s one of the biggest red flags I know.

What celebrity got cancelled and you believe 100% did NOT deserve to be? (r/AskReddit)

• dead9er: Janet Jackson took a lot of stupid heat.
• Eronamanthiuser: Brendan Frazier got served so much shit for just speaking out against abuse.
• AtTheEndOfMyTrope: All the Weinstein victims that were black listed from the industry and shunned by the media. Including Courtney Love who lost her management team for warning other women.

What’s a “rich people thing” you experienced once and immediately understood why rich people love it? (r/AskReddit)

• Total_Bumblebee_622: Not worrying about bills while unemployed.
• Nacerrr: Buying without checking the price
• sudzeez_: Hiring movers and not having to do anything other than pack and unpack it was life changing and made moving so easy

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AI didn’t make SWEs faster. It made you optional. (Blind)

• apple145 (Meta): You’re not a god, you’re just a massive loser. Look in the mirror
• anon022 (ex-Microsoft): I also shipped the same document gen engine. So your product is already useless.
• NoShitBruh (ZenBusiness PBC): Come back to us when you’ve made your first dollar from this vibe coded shit.

OpenAI’s new product: codex micro (Blind)

• इक्ष्वाकु_ (Apple): What the heck is this? Hardware for an app? Same thing a regular keyboard can do with same amount of clicks
• mancisk (Airbnb): It’s a novelty thing probably made by some 3rd party vendor with their name slapped on it. You’re overthinking it
• Xor1gTf: As soon as you unpack it starts begging you to kill it

Apple vs Anthropic (Blind)

• jukuhu (DocuSign): Anthropic mate just get in.
• 6️⃣7️⃣: Anthropic for the prestige
• NSCoaster (Meta): Take apple if you value your mental health. Anthropic gonna crash with the rest of the ai industry

Kylie Jenner’s dystopian Meta glasses get brutal backlash: ‘It’s giving fascism, not fashion’ — Meta is testing a prototype to “continuously record audio while taking photos every few seconds” without any warning light (r/technology)

• ckglle3lle: It’s depressing how basically all internet and computer tech seems to inevitably collapse into surveillance tech
• hard2resist: Meta glamorizing covert surveillance through celebrity endorsement is textbook dystopia. Fashion doesn’t justify eliminating privacy this is corporate voyeurism normalized.
• jellyturtsy: How’s this gonna work in states with all-party consent?

“There are no benefits to being owned by Microsoft,” says Doom dev: “They have destroyed immense amounts of value that I don’t even think that they’re aware of” (r/technology)

• depredador93: Letting go of the team the day before they launch a major expansion is peak corporate management, they did not even wait to see if the product was successful before gutting the studio
• Independent-Tree681: They were buying profitable studios to mask the losses Xbox was incurring. You can’t do that for a decade, it ends up here
• DrBaronVonEvil: Why do we allow so much unfettered monopolization of our arts and sciences? ID Software is a historic name for video games and it’s going to starved to death in Microsoft’s basement. The amount to which Microsoft is a joke of a business is only rivaled by how much of a joke US regulations are.

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A failure in the chain of trust

The official Cloudflare Blog published this incident and protocol-engineering account on July 14, 2026. It explains how a failed DNSSEC key rollover made Albania’s entire .al top-level domain unreachable through validating resolvers, how Cloudflare restored access in 1.1.1.1, and how a new DNS error code made that emergency security bypass visible to clients for the first time.