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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.

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RIP Meta! First Alexander Wang..and now Kunal Shah (Blind)

• purefect (Everpure): For those whose life doesn’t revolve around Meta, we need context.
• zumb (Amazon): Kunal shah is the most fake ceo
• Provian: Simple deal..CRED will sell customer credit data to Meta, in return negotiated for a global WhatsApp ceo role.

I refused to do a leetcode hard (Blind)

• dHh467 (Microsoft): Ah, yes. Companies are known to beg for the talent at, let me see…Capital One? Oh.
• g8rb8r (Amazon): And then everyone clapped!
• 6_7️⃣ (Cyberhaven): Moral of the story, op didn’t get the job

SpaceX stock tumbles 16.4%, shaving off most IPO gains since debut (r/technology)

• Prudent_Link6029: It may look like the stock is crashing, but it’s actually landing autonomously, which is a massive engineering achievement
• 9ersaur: Data Centers in Space will go down as one of the great scams of all time
• mediocre_remnants: If it drops another 98% it might be worth buying in!

EA Lays Off Unknown Number Of People Ahead Of Expected \$55 Billion Sale To Saudi Arabia (r/technology)

• miniannna: The most EA thing EA has ever done
• Chrono_Convoy: I hope the creatives from EA who get laid off Pixar the living shit out of that Disney
• GabeDef: EA and Adobe are a masterclass in ruining your brand.

Cops Keep Getting Arrested for Using Flock to Stalk People (r/technology)

• Teddy_RGB: Remember when there was a push to have stalkers and DV abusers ineligible to own firearms, but they had to stop that because so many cops would have to get fired? Good times.
• miniannna: What Clockwork Orange got the most right was the type of people who become cops. Bullies who want to keep doing the same thing in an official capacity.
• SlapThatAce: Memba when we made fun of China for being a surveillance State? Because I memba….

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Quick facts

• Difficulty: MEDIUM
• Problem: Gas Station
• Topics: Array, Greedy

Problem gist

There are n gas stations arranged in a circle. Station i provides gas[i] units of fuel, and driving from station i to the next station costs cost[i] units. The car starts with an empty tank. The task is to return an index from which the car can complete one full clockwise circuit, or -1 if no such index exists.

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Sound with a Destination

Most speakers fill a room. Headphones solve that problem by putting the sound source next to the listener’s ears, but they also isolate the listener and require a wearable device. The Scientific American Advances article “Pocket of Sound” describes a third possibility: delivering audible sound to one small location while leaving the surrounding space quiet.

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This summary covers The Economist’s June 13th, 2026 Business article listed in the contents as Fear the SaaSpocalypse and published under the headline The four SaaSquatches of the apocalypse.

Software-as-a-Service once appeared to be one of technology’s safest business models. A provider could develop an application once, distribute it cheaply over the internet and collect recurring fees from every employee who used it. Artificial intelligence now threatens that formula from four directions: the largest AI laboratories, AI-native startups, companies building their own software and SaaS incumbents trying to reinvent themselves. The industry is not about to disappear, but its most profitable assumptions are becoming much less secure.

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The Pragmatic Engineer surfaced this piece in Gergely Orosz’s June 23, 2026 essay, Slow down to speed up: so much has changed in 6 months’ time. Based on his Craft Conference keynote and reporting across AI labs, large technology companies, startups, and traditional enterprises, the article argues that software development has crossed an important threshold: coding agents can now generate changes faster than many teams can review, understand, and safely absorb them.

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Montreal mayor says husband, who is Black, was stopped by police last year ‘at least 5 or 6 times — for nothing’ (r/news)

• dra_cula: I’ve heard that is called “driving while black”
• hearmeout29: My friend purchased a really nice BMW and he would get stopped a lot after he bought it. He always said cops would ask if any drugs were in the car and what he did for work when he was stopped. I’m guessing they thought he was doing illegal activities to get such a nice car. It’s fucked up.
• paulsteinway: Sometimes I ask white people in Montreal if they’ve every been pulled over for a “routine check”. None of them ever heard of such a thing.

Man falls to his death during rock concert at Madison Square Garden (r/news)

• Entire-Click2280: Goose are a band from Connecticut, Geese are a band from Brooklyn. Just pointing out the difference for people who were confused like I was.
• mountaindoom: Some arenas are just ridiculously steep in the upper levels. Prudential Center in Jersey scared tf out of me when I saw NIN there. Couldn’t even get up from my seat during the show, unless moving, and they were serving alcohol to us to boot.
• rgrossi: Was at the show.. terrible 😞

What popular career is actually not worth pursuing anymore? (r/AskReddit)

• GanonTechnology: Air traffic control. Pay hasn’t kept up, hours and stress increasing past sustainability.
• Adventurous_Bad_3421: Veterinarian. Roughly 250k for vet school, so huge student loans (and this is after a 4 year degree). You cannot make enough to pay them off unless you work for corporate (and even then…). Now you’ve got a high salary need coupled with corporate greed which equals high cost to pet owners who then resent you for it. It’s a no win situation. I’m not sure what the answer is, but lowering the cost of vet school would help immensely.
• CapnAwesme: Probably journalism, which is a real shame. We already have WAY more wanna-be journalists than the world can sustain which is why we have things like TMZ and so, so many clickbait sites.

What is a ’luxury’ item that is actually a total nightmare to own? (r/AskReddit)

• stool2stash: A few years ago we wanted to have a jacuzzi installed in our basement. The plumber who came over to give us an estimate actually talked us out of it. He said they are one of the most unused things people ever put in their homes and if you don’t maintain them to keep the pipes and jets clean, or if you just don’t use them often enough, mold can start to grow inside and then you spend half a day trying to clean the system. He recommended a big bathtub so we could just have a nice hot bath. We decided we didn’t have enough money for either option so hot showers are our spa experience.
• Prestigious_Cook_174: A massive house. It sounds amazing until you’re the one who needs to maintain and clean your 5 bedroom, 4 bathroom, double story with an open plan. Then realizing that you spend most of your time in the same three rooms anyway.
• JRS_Viking: A castle, you can buy them in plenty of places (especially in Europe) and they’re usually fairly cheap up front for the size of the properties and buildings on them. The problem is the upkeep, which you’re often legally obligated to do and obligated to keep it in it’s original state. So no big renovations, no changing the floor plan, no new shed in the yard for tools and equipment, no new stuff at all if it changes the historic value of the property.

Women in your 50s, what’s the most important piece of advice you would give to women in their 30s? (r/AskReddit)

• maudb: Sunscreen, wide-brimmed hats, no v-neck t-shirts in the sun, save and invest, appreciate and take care of your still-youthful body, cherish good friends, and try not to waste time worrying. The last one is my biggest regret, that I wasted so much time worrying and it accomplished nothing but making me miserable and stressed. (I finally wised up and mostly stopped.) Eeek, sorry, that was more than one piece of advice. Ok then, don’t worry so much is my #1.
• beach-drinking-247: Don’t worry about what other people think of you. They are more worried about themselves than anything you said or did.
• EveningAstronomer495: Please floss. Floss, I’m begging you. Every single day. I am the Ghost of Dentist Visits Future and I’m here to tell you what your bills are gonna be like if you don’t.

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Being looked down upon as Amazon employee (Blind)

• horn dog (Meta): H1Bs and their obsession with prestige 🙄
• aWxzt (Uber): At my team we reject all amzn resumes due to assumption any amzn employee looking is likely on pip
• Big Cack (Amazon): You’re hanging out with the wrong people son

Grad to staff in 2 years at meta (Blind)

• CapybaraBK (Booking.com): They are a complete liar, not rare for people that turn into founders to lie about their background.
• bo34fi86fi (Meta): Not really. On average meta e3 to e4 takes a year, then e4 to e5 around 2 years. e5 is only senior. Staff is e6. To get to e6 there needs to be enough scope/business reason for the manager to justify it., and it takes years usually. Also the promotion is lagging so you essentially need to be performing at an e6 level for around a year before you get promoted.
• cv-x (Mercedes-Benz AG): No, but you can get from Staff to unemployment in 2 years

Americans Have Turned Against AI in Incredible Numbers (r/technology)

• UnderstandingLess156: Meanwhile at work, “have you tried using AI to write your emails?”
• Arcosim: I’m a very tech oriented person and I’m already tired of AI because it’s constantly being shoved and pushed down my throat by some of the worst human beings imaginable wanting to maximize profits at the expense of humanity itself.
• Asyncrosaurus: Who knew having every CEO come out and scream about how their cool new AI product was going to cause mass unemployment, would result in backlash. No way to have forseen that.

Polymarket Accused of Using Fake Winning Bets to Fuel Viral Growth (r/technology)

• mugwhyrt: If we can’t trust polymarket, who can we trust?
• xxxx69420xx: the bookies now work from costa rica with impunity
• Soft_Lunch_183: Owning a platform like polymarket is literally free money, you let people take bets against each other and then just take a cut out of the middle.

76-year-old woman killed after a Tesla ‘on auto-pilot’ crashed into her Texas home (r/technology)

• Ruddertail: Jeez, how fast was it going to punch a hole like that? That’s crazy unless they build houses out of paper in Texas.
• orangeyougladiator: Cue Elon bots coming to tell us why this wasn’t the Tesla fault
• sysadminbj: I’d be very curious to learn what the onboard sensors have to say about this. Was the driver paying attention? Were they asleep? Is this just a freak thing where the autopilot software got confused and freaked out?