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June 8, 2025, 10:50 AM

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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.
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  —  The recent travails of WordPress have caused consternation among the web community that relies on the platform, which powers more than four in ten websites online today.
Michael Acton / Financial Times:
Former Apple employees say integrating LLMs with Siri has led to bugs, an issue not faced by companies that have built GenAI-based voice assistants from scratch  —  iPhone-maker hit by technological challenges that have led to delays to the full rollout of its ‘Apple Intelligence’ features
Divsha Bhat / Rest of World:
A look at the intensifying race for super apps in the Gulf, as Careem, Talabat, Amazon, Botim, and Noon consolidate various services into single platforms  —  From Dubai to Riyadh, apps are consolidating ride-hailing, payments, and delivery into single platforms.  —  The race for super-apps is intensifying in the Middle East.
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 …
Liam Vaughan / Bloomberg:
An in-depth look at the US SEC's EDGAR system breach that was disclosed in 2017, as one of the key hackers, Olga Kuprina, says EDGAR remains a soft target  —  When a notorious gang of Ukrainian cybercriminals hit a crucial database, the regulator quickly downplayed the breach.
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.

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