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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.
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
More: Gizmodo
Sean O'Kane / TechCrunch:
Obvio, which uses AI-powered stop sign cameras to detect infractions, raised a $22M Series A led by Bain to expand beyond its first five cities in Maryland  —  American streets are incredibly dangerous for pedestrians.  A San Carlos, California-based startup called Obvio thinks it can change …
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.
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.

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From Mediagazer

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

Sam Roberts / New York Times:
Arthur L. Carter, who started a Connecticut newspaper in 1981, bought and sold The Nation, and founded the New York Observer in 1987, has died at 93

Pamela McClintock / The Hollywood Reporter:
Disney's Zootopia 2 surpasses $1B at the global box office, the fastest PG-rated film to do so after just 17 days in release

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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

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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
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
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