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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.

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Techmeme surfaced Sarah Guo’s June 10, 2026 essay in its Techmeme item on The Untrainable. The original piece is The Untrainable, published on Sarah Guo’s Substack.

Guo’s essay is a useful answer to a question that hangs over almost every AI application company: if frontier models keep improving, what remains defensible above the model layer? The pessimistic version is simple. Models absorb tasks, wrappers collapse, and value concentrates in compute, chips, and frontier labs. Guo argues that this view is only half right. The measurable parts of work are being eaten quickly, but the most valuable work often depends on private data, private judgment, customer permission, liability, workflow change, and slow institutional trust.

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Uber laid off 23% of my division (Blind)

• fue63 (Snowflake): HR doesn’t create value for the company
• vvyrbj (Meta): Caring about the company you work for is the stupidest thing ever.
• tachus (Twilio): They already laid you off! What you are taking your hands off from?

7 mandatory hours in office rumor at Amazon (Blind)

• NyYs67 (Amazon): This is really day 2
• tTyW77 (Meta): This is a perfect recipe for unions
• LzmV65 (Meta): A slave doesn’t question the master’s orders.

After Town Bans Flock, Councilmember Crashes Out, Proposes Internet and Phone Ban / A Texas councilmember will propose “a total ban on all cellular and GPS-capable devices for all operations within city limits" and “a total termination of all internet services." (r/technology)

• QuirkyResort8099: town should ban that councilmember, too.
• Both-Reserve-4678: Sounds like Texas has another elected moron
• Timmers2017: This is awesome! Like a 4 yr old throwing a tantrum! No candy for you!

The biggest data center ever is becoming a huge problem in Utah (r/technology)

• HQnorth: These two young women who are organizing against O’Leary’s data center burned him in this Youtube video. https://youtu.be/JDy6UrHittQ?si=Sgb0FD7sCNN9jOI0
• JayRexx: Kevin O’leary is a POS.
• Jimbomcdeans: Why is it a problem? Just keep obstructing and protesting until the shark fucks off

Intuit to lay off over 3,000 employees to refocus on AI (r/technology)

• righteouspower: Here’s a thought, reform our tax system to not be needlessly complicated.
• SamuelYosemite: My Intuit-ion tells me this is dumb
• Kreiri: Bullshit machine and filing taxes, what could possibly go wrong.

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Apple Machine Learning Research published Introducing the Third Generation of Apple’s Foundation Models, a June 8, 2026 research highlight describing the next foundation-model stack behind Apple Intelligence.

The post is interesting because it is not only a product-facing model update. It gives a compact view of how Apple is trying to make frontier-style capabilities fit an unusually constrained deployment model: some inference must happen on consumer devices, some can happen in Private Cloud Compute, and the privacy contract rules out training on private user interactions. That forces architecture, training, evaluation, hardware placement, and safety work to be treated as one system rather than as separate model-release details.