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

• handDrawnEevee: I am honestly surprised that something as risky as stem cell injection is the goto for ‘treating’ autism among antivaxxers. Like it’s so much more complicated than just a getting a vaccine, you can’t be anti-vax and pro-unregulated stem cell treatments, that’s nuts.
• avid-shrug: Medical experimentation on the disabled is honestly the natural conclusion of the anti-vax movement.
• imoftendisgruntled: Don’t the conspiracy theorists think that stem cells are from abducted children?

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

• SquareSecond: Don’t pay expensive lawyers to file meritless lawsuits.
• shanghaisnaggle: Let us never speak of this again.
• rThundrbolt: Counterpoint: can everyone just stop talking about these people?

Former Louisiana mayor sentenced to 90 days over rape charge, inspiring outrage from his daughter (r/news)

• SpaceForceAwakens: Would almost be more acceptable if they just let him go free and stated they don’t care.
• BaronGreywatch: Rapist gets 90 days.
• BiteMeHomie: That’s it, we are officially beyond parody.

Active shooter barricaded in building in Midland County, Michigan; police officer, civilian wounded (r/news)

• comfortably_nuumb: I work in the building across the street from that hospital. Yesterday was extremely surreal.
• Expensive_Plastic186: I love my country so much, but holy shit America do you have a gun violence problem. I can’t even imagine
• Only-Newspaper-8593: This shit is exhausting

Gene Shalit, ‘Today’ show movie critic, dies at 100 (r/news)

• AudibleNod: I love this quote from Roger Ebert “Gene Shalit has a merry way with words, and a mustache to match.”
• skarekroh: Gene Shalit was still alive?
• ThePiggySlasher: 100 years old. Just a kid.

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New Harvard study proves AI isn’t a bubble? (Blind)

• placement (Amazon): This is not definition of non bubble
• Gotrvffgbv (Microsoft): Result depends on who paid for the study.
• Gotrvffgbv (Microsoft): You can find a study for almost everything your heart desires.

Made it to the final round at OpenAI and got rejected by someone who had been at the company less than a week (Blind)

• cQfh64 (Intuit): It is all luck my friend. Accept it and move on..
• VLSy66 (Apple): Maybe this person was hired for your position.
• fjvueje (Amazon): I hate such a 0/1 interview outcome while the process is so thorough

Kaspersky says hackers are distributing malware through anime girl wallpapers (r/technology)

• M39FG9SFGQ: That’s hilarious
• xangbar: Glad I stuck to my Genshin wallpapers instead. Been using the same ones for 5+ years.
• BiBoFieTo: They attacked at our weakest moment.

AMD silently removes memory encryption from GPUs without explanation (r/technology)

• JackSpyder: Forced by the US gov and cant legally say why? My bet.
• Super_flywhiteguy: If it sounds like a backdoor being cracked open, its because its a backdoor being cracked open.
• lazyhustlermusic: They sure get more douchebaggy as their market cap increases.

ICE appears to be buying immigrants’ tax data from LexisNexis (r/technology)

• drewc717: I had a business law professor years ago whose life’s work was basically hating the fact that LexisNexis existed
• Aggeloz: How tf is this kind of data even allowed to be sold and bought????
• SmoothConfection1115: It’s almost definitely not just “tax data” like this headline might make you think (to me I think of W2s and 1040s). LN is an incredibly powerful tool to find all kinds of information about people from disparate sources. Reverse searching phone numbers and email addresses is a common one, but it can also provide detailed information about employment, assets, criminal history, traffic stops, and associates. LN doesn’t produce anything but just slurps up data from all over the place and makes a centralized place to search it.

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Techmeme surfaced this July 6, 2026 item in its cluster on Anthropic’s J-space research, linking to Anthropic’s post, A global workspace in language models, and the full technical paper, Verbalizable Representations Form a Global Workspace in Language Models. The piece argues that Claude has developed a small, privileged internal workspace for concepts it can report, manipulate, and use in deliberate reasoning, even when those concepts never appear in the model’s visible output.

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This summary covers The Economist’s June 20th, 2026 Leaders article listed in the contents under Chinese biotech and published under the headline Wrong prescription.

The article argues that America is in danger of mistaking medical innovation for another battlefield in its technology contest with China. Chinese biotechnology has moved from imitation to genuine discovery, and American drug companies are increasingly licensing Chinese-developed molecules. Some politicians now want to treat that trend as a national-security threat, extending investment restrictions to biotech deals and even asking the Food and Drug Administration to disregard Chinese clinical-trial data.

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400 Masked White Nationalist March on Through Washington D.C. chanting “Reclaim America” (r/news)

• MacrotonicWave: look it’s the folks maga told me didn’t exist
• nd_annajones: Reclaim America from whom? You all seem to be in charge of everything
• WallyMcBeetus: They took socialist transit to get there.

Paul Pelosi in hit-and-run in California, car left with major damage, authorities say (r/news)

• StuffonBookshelfs: …just another old person that should have had their license revoked a long time ago.
• kna5041: Time to hand the keys over if you can’t drive around a parked car without hitting it.
• insertnamehere57: Wait is this a new story? This happened again? why is he still driving?!?

Over 842,000 without power across the country as US is blanketed by heatwave (r/news)

• xXxSovietxXx: In Michigan, where we already pay ridiculous rates to DTE (who also haven’t paid taxes in a decade), say they won’t have it fixed by Monday at 11:30pm by the latest
• altmannnn3: Wish we had funds for better infrastructure… I don’t think I’ve heard that word once from the president…
• bluehawk232: Well the important thing is the oil execs made a lot of money

Ukraine hits major oil terminal in Russia’s St Petersburg (r/news)

• Dwayla: Never forget, Ukraine goes after military targets, Russia goes after hospitals, schools, and kindergartens. They are terrorists.
• D00bage: Interesting how far they have come now that they stopped talking to the White House
• Knightrider319: Never too early to start the 4th fireworks!

What movie is a perfect 10/10, but you never want to watch it again? (r/AskReddit)

• newmaninlaca: Dear Zachary
• Effstop1: Trainspotting. It’s great. But I’m a recovering addict (luckily not H) and the downward spiral of watching addiction ruin lives is a bit too much nowadays.
• Queasy-Cap1666: Schindler’s List. One of the greatest films ever made, but it’s emotionally exhausting

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Nvidia can’t even afford free coffee for its employees. Why? (Blind)

• dddpj (Palo Alto Networks): Is this true? The richest company in history doesn’t give free coffee and snacks?
• coh26 (ex-Honeywell): Meta can’t afford to keep its employees. Why?
• h7k-6gjL (NVIDIA): Yeah I’ll take no layoff fears over free coffee. Especially since I’m fully remote. RTO? Never heard of it

Lost hope after layoffs and failed interviews (Blind)

• dnxuli (Meta): Hang in there bud! Market is brutal!
• fiiope (eBay): But you made lots of money off coinbase already
• Melly00 (ByteDance): Invest more in your interview prep. You already converted well with screens & onsites, you just aren’t capitalizing on them. The markets tough, 2.5 is nothing

Meta Paid Hundreds of Contractors to Pretend to Be Teenagers While Barraging Its Competitors’ AI With Disturbing Content (r/technology)

• Yung_zu: This is a pretty concise example of the reality of having these people be our “job creators”
• Starship_Taru: I feel like if I did half the shit meta did I’d be in jail
• -ghostinthemachine-: This is a normal part of testing model guardrails (red teaming), not just for your own safety evaluations but to compare the safety profile of competing models to your own. In fact, it is almost always done in coordination with the model providers to let them know ahead of time so you don’t get banned.

Meta data center water discharges suspended after contaminating the city’s reclamation water supply with bacterium (r/technology)

• 404PUNK: Crazy to think we’re building a ton of these things on purpose. Its almost like someone in charge thought we weren’t killing the planet fast enough.
• Daimakku1: The fact that politicians were/are giving tax and other incentives for these data centers to be built in their areas tells you everything you need to know about who they really work for.. and it ain’t us. There is nothing but downsides to people who live near these data centers.
• mrwrrrmwrmrmrmrw: Tell me again how people opposing data centers are just irrational Luddites.

US Air Force Engineer Charged With Sawing Down Flock Surveillance Cameras Receives Thousands of Dollars from Supporters Across the Country (r/technology)

• Annonnymist: Trump wants to pardon 250 people today then this Air Force gentleman should also be pardoned
• shocontinental: It couldn’t have been him, he was with me the whole time . . . at church
• binding_swamp: Rise up! Flock surveillance rollout is a bad development and will only get worse if people don’t push back.

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Quick facts

• Difficulty: MEDIUM
• Problem: Number of Provinces
• Topics: Depth-First Search, Breadth-First Search, Union-Find, Graph Theory

Problem gist

There are n cities, and isConnected[i][j] tells whether city i is directly connected to city j. A province is a full connected component: if city 0 is connected to city 1, and city 1 is connected to city 2, then all three cities belong to the same province even if 0 and 2 are not directly connected.

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Scientific American’s November 2025 article by Elizabeth Svoboda treats morality less as a fixed character trait than as a direction of travel. The piece argues that people can become accustomed to dishonesty, cruelty or courage in much the same way they become accustomed to other repeated experiences. A small first step matters because the brain learns from it. It can make the next compromise easier, or it can make the next act of integrity feel more possible.

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Techmeme surfaced this July 4, 2026 item in its Mechanical Turk maintenance cluster, linking to Simon Sharwood’s July 3 Register article, Amazon’s Mechanical Turk to stop accepting new customers - and not even AI can save it. The story tracks AWS placing Mechanical Turk into maintenance and closing it to new customers on July 30, 2026, a small product notice with unusually long historical reach.

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What happened

Engineering at Meta’s official engineering blog published Meta’s AI Storage Blueprint at Scale, a July 1, 2026 post by Sidharth Bajaj and Venkatraghavan Srinivasan about how Meta changed its BLOB-storage stack for AI training workloads.

The post is interesting because it treats AI storage as part of the training system rather than as a passive backing store. At frontier-training scale, the expensive resource is not storage media; it is stalled GPU time. A storage path that was good enough for consumer products and data lakes can become too slow once hundreds of thousands of GPUs synchronize in lockstep and wait on the slowest dataloader. Meta’s central engineering move is to redesign BLOB storage around bounded tail latency, local data availability, and research iteration speed.