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Biggest mistake of my life: leaving Google (Blind)

• ablox (Roblox): Yeah for all those who think like that, pleeeeaaaase stay at Google. Don’t come over here, we already have enough of your kind here, ruining the place.
• JYSj74 (Datadog): Xooglers finding out people work harder in other companies is always hilarious.
• bbbgo (Google): Companies are not static. Google you left probably doesn’t exist anymore.

RIP Design and customer support – the first victims from AI replacement (Blind)

• yaldaboink (Lucid Motors): Companies that outsource customer support to chatbots are satanic
• Lvru34 (Microsoft): I will like human customer support. I hate these robots response
• lambdaops (Amazon): AI does shit in design. It’s useful to create a pamphlet , but nothing more if you are looking for serious work. At best it can help designers automate boring work or try out some new inspirations.

Huawei chairman thanks the US for export restrictions on chips, says it supercharged China’s semiconductor industry — Washington’s export controls encouraged Chinese firms to invest in R&D and build their own tech stack competing with American tech (r/technology)

• zleuth: … As we all knew it would.
• Nail_clippings_Pete: At their work rate the espionage will reverse.
• Legote: Supercharge or not, they were going to do it anyways as they did with almost every industry the US “had” and advantage in.

Microsoft is threatening legal action for disclosing exploits / The company is feuding with a security researcher publicly posting vulnerabilities. (r/technology)

• oiseaua20: Microsoft’s new security strategy seems to be that if you can’t patch the vulnerability, just sue the person who found it.
• TheFoxsWeddingTarot: Highlighting the importance of ethical hackers to our safety.
• Red_Eye_Insomniac: So they want to ensure that discussions about windows exploits only happen in criminal hacker groups and dark web forums rather than out in the open? Oh yeah that makes so much sense.

Mystery company accidentally blew $500 million on Claude AI in a single month — failed to put usage limit on licenses for employees (r/technology)

• Fateor42: Would be funny if they can’t pay and just declare bankruptcy leaving Claude holding the bag.
• film_composer: That’s an interesting thought… If a company goes bankrupt because they blew through all of their money on an AI-generated product, is there any legal protection against the company’s owner just keeping what was generated and taking it to a new company? In ordinary circumstances, assets can be repossessed, but what happens when the asset is more abstract? There’s probably an obvious answer, but this is out of my wheelhouse.
• Nobody_Important: AI companies suddenly caring about ip laws would be both hilarious and very on brand for 2026.

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Microsoft Research’s official research blog published Ire identifies another LOTUSLITE specimen, a June 12, 2026 post about using Project Ire, Microsoft’s autonomous malware-classification agent, to reverse-engineer a LOTUSLITE variant that largely evaded normal indicator-based detection.

The important detail is not just that an AI system labeled a binary as malicious. Microsoft ran Ire on a Windows DLL sample without giving it origin metadata, telemetry, a threat-intelligence prompt, or a family name. The agent used decompiler-based tooling and produced a function-by-function behavioral report covering installation, command-and-control packet structure, command IDs, persistence, obfuscation, and decoy behavior. Microsoft then compared that report against Acronis’s public LOTUSLITE write-up and found the same underlying malware family shape, even though the sample’s hash was not in the published indicator list.

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Techmeme surfaced this June 13, 2026 story in its Anthropic Fable/Mythos cluster, where the original source was Anthropic’s June 12 statement, Statement on the US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5. Additional context used here includes TechCrunch’s coverage of the shutdown, WIRED’s report on the government order, and The Pragmatic Engineer’s June 11 Pulse item, Did Anthropic’s new model just boost rival Codex’s market share?.

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Companies that are still humane places to work (Blind)

• sickkk: Pinterest, Airbnb, Google
• TGxH11 (Qualtrics): Costco
• gkidx (Snap): Apple

Evaluate Nvidia HW offer (Blind)

• KbiC01 (Marvell): Take it and never look back.
• FghLkz1565 (NVIDIA): how it compares to current TC?
• reggg (Qualcomm): Role?

Louis Rossmann is suing Samsung after firm offers \$330 refund for defective SSD while selling the drives on Amazon for \$949 — spat over 4TB 990 Pro SSD is headed to court (r/technology)

• taboo8614: I hope he wins!
• PRSHZ: In my opinion, the Takeaway here is that these big companies don’t really give a flying fuck about the customers until one with a lot of influence comes up and speaks up then everybody starts shaking in their boots
• tiradium: Poor bastards are really unlucky to try and pull this on Louis of all the people they could have picked. Imagine if some clueless person accepted the RMA’d SSD and couldn’t understand why its slower than an HDD

OpenAI Execs Are Panicking (r/technology)

• CodyintheCinema: Sam Altman is allergic to taking a photograph that doesn’t make him look like a shitty NPC from a PS2 game
• Docccc: They are not
• werthw: Altman recently walked back on his comment that AI will take many peoples’ jobs. Just in time for Open AI’s IPO huh?

OpenAI says China ran a covert campaign to turn Americans against data centers, but used facts that happen to be true (r/technology)

• yuval_3: r/nottheonion
• FuklzTheDrnkClwn: Isn’t that technically just “raising awareness” if it’s true lol
• mrwrrrmwrmrmrmrw: That’s what they said when people dared to protest the Vietnam War. 

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AWS’s official Compute Blog published AWS Nitro Isolation Engine: Formally verifying the hypervisor in the AWS Nitro System, a June 11, 2026 post about using formal verification to harden the isolation boundary inside the Nitro Hypervisor.

The post is about a narrow but consequential systems design choice. AWS Nitro already moved much of EC2 virtualization, storage, and networking into dedicated hardware and a small hypervisor, with administrative access forced through authenticated and audited APIs that cannot directly inspect customer workloads. Nitro Isolation Engine takes the same philosophy one level deeper. Instead of treating the hypervisor as one broad trusted component, AWS isolates the part that actually mediates access to guest VM memory, CPU register state, and I/O devices, then applies formal methods to that smaller enforcement point.

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Techmeme surfaced this June 12, 2026 story in its Reuters item on SpaceX’s trading debut, which framed the IPO as a test of the “Musk premium” and a gauge for the next wave of AI-tied listings. The original article linked there is Reuters’ SpaceX’s trading debut is a test of the “Musk premium”. Additional context used here includes Axios’ SpaceX raises \$75 billion in its IPO, Axios’ SpaceX’s debut has known unknowns, SpaceX’s SEC free-writing prospectus, Business Insider’s IPO live updates, The Guardian’s stock market debut report, and TBPN’s June 12 post, SpaceX IPO Rockets To Over \$2 Trillion.

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Google Research’s official research blog published New framework for auditing machine unlearning, a June 10, 2026 post about a statistical framework for checking whether privacy and unlearning claims survive black-box auditing.

The problem is becoming practical rather than academic. Machine unlearning asks a trained model to remove the influence of particular data without paying the full cost of retraining from scratch. That matters for privacy regulation, safety, data quality, and incident response. But the hard engineering question is not just how to unlearn. It is how an auditor can verify that unlearning happened when the auditor may not have access to the model internals, training data, or training history.

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TBPN surfaced this June 11, 2026 item in Brandon Gorrell’s post, The Four Biggest Stories in Tech, under the section “Bezos’ Prometheus Raises $12B.” The original article is Dan Primack’s Axios report, Prometheus, Jeff Bezos’ AI startup, is now worth $41 billion.

The most interesting part of the Prometheus news is not the round size by itself, although a $12B Series B at a $41B valuation is large enough to matter on its own. The interesting part is what the money is aimed at: moving frontier AI from text, code, and office workflows into the slower world of physical engineering. Prometheus is not being pitched as another coding agent or factory dashboard. It is being pitched as an attempt to compress the loop from idea to design, prototype, manufacturing process, and scaled production.

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

• LLMbotomy (Meta): And then everybody clapped
• frogelord (OpenAI): lmao hi dario
• uAVz08 (HubSpot): No one wants your slop bro 🙄

Time to start talking to managers like AI talks to you? (Blind)

• AIAIOalso (Expedia Group): Haha
• axyz789 (Marvell): Lmao
• AzQF40 (Meta): 😂

Judge Learns Lawyers on Both Sides of Case Used AI, Cancels Trial, Kicks Everyone Off the Case (r/technology)

• limbodog: So… Can you sue your lawyer if they fuck up so badly that the judge throws them off the trial for using AI rather than doing the job they agreed to do?
• Severus-Snape-DaGod: They should be disbarred.
• schrodingers_bra: Just make chatGPT the judge. Saves time.

Man jailed for a month despite Flock showing he was 5 miles from crime scene (r/technology)

• Resident_Course_3342: Remember that surveillance will always be used against you, but will never be used to help you.
• non3type: This is a particularly odd case in that the flock evidence used to charge him with the crime simultaneously made it impossible for him to have commited the crime.
• VaporCarpet: But get a dashcam everyone needs a dashcam because surveillance is the only way to keep us safe

Reddit ads pose as news stories to promote AI investment scams (r/technology)

• Coidzor: How long until they start posing as warnings about investment scams?
• NicolasCageFan492: “We made an awesome platform that a lot of people use, how can we enshittify it to squeeze another couple pennies out of our ARPU for the shareholders?”
• Shambhala87: Ads shouldn’t be able to turn off comments

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Anthropic’s official research blog published Paving the way for agents in biology, a June 8, 2026 post about why scientific agents fail on apparently simple biological data-retrieval tasks and how a deterministic retrieval layer can make those workflows reliable.

The post is interesting because it treats scientific-agent progress as an infrastructure problem, not only a model-capability problem. Biological databases were built for expert humans moving through web interfaces, file formats, accession identifiers, metadata conventions, and one-off scripts. A model can understand a scientist’s intent and still fail if the data path requires hidden domain knowledge, browser-only filters, inconsistent schemas, incomplete pagination, or reconciliation across multiple backends.