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Chris Stokel-Walker / Fast Company:
Some WordPress veterans and the Linux Foundation start FAIR, a federated update network to decentralize WordPress infrastructure and boost supply chain security  —  Backed by the Linux Foundation, the new federated update network aims to decentralize WordPress infrastructure …
John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
Bill Atkinson, a pioneering Apple engineer and key member of the original Macintosh team, died on June 5 at age 74 from pancreatic cancer  —  From his family, on Atkinson's Facebook page: … One of the great heroes in not just Apple history, but computer history.
Natasha Singer / New York Times:
An interview with Leah Belsky, OpenAI's VP of Education, as the startup competes with Google and others to offer premium AI tools to universities and students  —  OpenAI, the firm that helped spark chatbot cheating, wants to embed A.I. in every facet of college.  First up: 460,000 students at Cal State.
Julie Bort / TechCrunch:
Enterprise vibe coding startup Superblocks raised a $23M Series A, bringing its total funding to $60M, and launched an enterprise coding AI agent called Clark  —  Brad Menezes, CEO of enterprise vibe coding startup Superblocks, believes the next crop of billion-dollar startup ideas are hiding …
Rest of World:
Filipino workers in Taiwan's chip industry report struggling with overwork and discrimination, citing overnight shifts of up to 16 hours and abusive treatment  —  A record number of people are leaving the Philippines to work in Taiwanese factories, where they face long shifts, low pay, and unequal treatment.
Lizzie Dearden / New York Times:
The UK High Court warns lawyers of possible criminal charges for using AI-generated fake legal material, citing two recent cases with hallucinated content  —  A senior judge said on Friday that lawyers could be prosecuted for presenting material that had been “hallucinated” by artificial intelligence tools.
Eric Geller / Cybersecurity Dive:
President Trump signs an EO scrapping or revising several Biden- and Obama-era cybersecurity programs, including for AI security and post-quantum cryptography  —  The White House accused the Biden administration of trying to “sneak problematic and distracting issues into cybersecurity policy.”
Sebastian Herrera / Wall Street Journal:
A profile of Panos Panay, head of devices and services at Amazon, who has scaled back new releases to focus on perfecting products like Alexa+ before rollout  —  Panos Panay needs the more advanced Alexa+ assistant to be a hit.  For 10 years, the product has struggled to evolve.
Joseph Menn / Washington Post:
Sources: before installing Starlink at the White House in February, DOGE ignored security concerns that the service bypasses traditional WH security controls  —  Starlink satellite connections in the White House bypass controls meant to stop leaks and hacking.
Financial Times:
Microsoft plans to add a “safety” category to its AI leaderboard on Azure Foundry, with a safety metric based on its ToxiGen and CAIS's WMD Proxy benchmarks  —  Tech group's corporate clients use its ‘leaderboard’ to assess rival offerings by likes of OpenAI and Elon Musk's xAI

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Ashley Capoot / CNBC:
Disney and OpenAI sign a three-year deal to bring 200+ Disney characters to Sora; Disney will make a $1B investment in OpenAI and become a major OpenAI customer

Sara Guaglione / Digiday:
The Washington Post's new Your Personal Podcast, which offers AI-generated customizable podcasts, was developed under a multiyear agreement with ElevenLabs

Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
Arkansas PBS severs ties with the PBS network, the first state public TV system to do so since Congress cut CPB funds, citing the annual $2M+ membership cost

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Rest of World:
New apps are helping immigrants navigate Trump's deportation crackdown, including by alerting users to locations of ICE raids and informing them of their rights
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
AI research nonprofit EleutherAI releases the Common Pile v0.1, an 8TB dataset of licensed and open-domain text for AI models that it says is one of the largest

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