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Is the Anthropic’s Fable ban marketing? (Blind)

• moloppj (Credit Karma): Tbf Fable was really fucking good.
• fromads (Meta): Yes it is. Model is so good that should be given only to entitled nation
• Trump gay (Discord): This is such a dumb take. Are investors supposed to be bullish that the government can, on a whim, just pull the company’s top product off the marketplace? The government is not even saying it’s too powerful, they’re just saying there’s a jailbreak (that exists in every model)

So close but rejected by OpenAI (Blind)

• leftardo (Uber): That means you didn’t meet the bar
• PTII34 (Cockroach Lab): Too many candidates are chasing for the same few roles. With recent layoffs, situation is worse. Companies are getting to nitpick.
• GtKq41 (ByteDance): I’m sorry. Getting to the last round(s) is the worst. I’ve been there. But the fact that you made it so far means you’re competitive and you’ll be that much stronger for your next set of interviews

Deciding to coast and milk meta was the best decision (Blind)

• vDed (VMware): Didn’t think it was possible to coast at Meta
• Ricolaaa (Citadel): Hi someone who is in the process of trying to quiet quit, isn’t it demoralizing when your team and stakeholders constantly show disappointment to your inability to deliver on their expectations?
• captheorem (Juniper Networks): Be careful, do this too long and you might be promoted

Firefox has an ambitious new roadmap, the browser is also losing millions of users a month (r/technology)

• bread_makes_u_fatt: Meanwhile I switched back to Firefox after chrome stopped supporting my ad blocker
• bruin396: I have been using Firefox for nearly a decade with no issues.
• dawolf-at: Firefox is simply blocking the trackers that are used to compile these stats.

Mark Zuckerberg Orders His Employees to Start Having Fun Again After Brutal Layoffs Culled Their Colleagues (r/technology)

• StinkChair: So dystopian. If you don’t act like you are having fun you will be fired! We need a culture of positivity, but will do nothing to cultivate that culture. You just need to act like it is.
• corobo: Bro is leading the biggest abusive relationship ever seen
• ketosoy: Seems like at Facebook it’s becoming dangerous to be the first one to stop clapping.

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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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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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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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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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TBPN surfaced this June 15, 2026 piece in Brandon Gorrell’s post, The Hand Anthropic Was Dealt. The original URL for this summary is that TBPN post, which frames the day’s central tech-business story around the Trump administration’s order restricting access to Anthropic’s Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models; TBPN also links Politico’s account of the preceding 24 hours, Anthropic’s official statement, CNBC’s follow-up, and several related reactions.

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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?
• AIBotFarm (Microsoft): Getting a job after 25 years at Microsoft is going to take you about 100 interviews. And I’m not kidding.
• Dr.Ai.ML (Broadcom): They will layoff engineers and hire mgrs which are needed for AI or labeled as AI talent. Instead of companies laying off mgrs , engineers are frequently laid off.

SWE Extinction Event Just Happened Today (Claude Mythos 5) (Blind)

• LLMbotomy (Meta): And then everybody clapped
• son pari (Meta): Can it submit my application in the India passport seva portal? That will be the day I will accept AI is real, otherwise it’s just trained model, not intelligence
• hiyau (DocuSign): Ok, can you get me a working fully capable photoshop by next weekend. Tired of paying Adobe.

California Will Soon Have More Than 300 Data Centers. Where Will They Get Their Water? (r/technology)

• TheFrostynaut: The correct answer should be the almond farms in the literal desert but we aren’t ready for that conversation.
• vtsandtrooper: They could just use an air cooled glycol system if any states would grow some balls and require it in code
• Kyouhen: Same way these companies got the data to train their models: They’ll steal it from the rest of us.

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

• wiegerthefarmer: So it’s pvpve now?
• WesternBlueRanger: I see someone reads xkcd and knows about Little Bobby Tables.
• Due-Arachnid634: Exploits of a mom!

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.
• limbodog: A bunker is also a prison if you pour enough concrete over the entrances.

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What happened

Databricks’ official blog published Ingesting the Milky Way: Petabyte-Scale with Zerobus Ingest, a June 11, 2026 post about the architecture behind Zerobus Ingest, Databricks’ managed streaming ingestion service for writing high-volume producer streams directly into Delta tables governed by Unity Catalog.

The post is interesting because it is not just a launch note for a lakehouse ingestion API. Databricks uses a concrete benchmark, NASA’s NEOWISE dataset, to show a petabyte-scale write path sustaining roughly 12 GB/s into a single table over 24 hours. The engineering story is how the system avoids making customers pre-size brokers, pick partition counts, operate connectors, or keep Kafka-shaped infrastructure around when the intended destination is already the lakehouse.

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Techmeme surfaced this June 14, 2026 item in its UK social-media ban cluster. The original source is The Guardian’s report, Starmer to announce ‘Australia plus’ ban on social media for under-16s, with helpful context from The Guardian’s companion explainer, Why is the UK launching an ‘Australia plus’ social media ban and how will it work?.