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June 9, 2025, 1:36 PM

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Apple on YouTube:
A livestream of Apple's WWDC 2025 keynote  —  Get a sleek peek at what's to come this WWDC.  This year's week of technology, community, and creativity with developers across the world kicks off on June 9 ...
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Apple unveils a Liquid Glass design language across its platforms, adding transparency and glass shine effects to Apple's in-app interfaces  —  Liquid Glass is coming to all of Apple's software platforms. … Apple is introducing a new Liquid Glass design across its software platforms today.
Allison Johnson / The Verge:
A live blog of Apple's WWDC keynote  —  The stakes are higher than usual at this year's WWDC.  Major Apple Intelligence features the company teased at last year's conference are stalled out, the company got a stern talking-to from a federal judge a couple months ago, and... tariffs?
Jay Peters / The Verge:
Tim Hardwick / MacRumors:
Los Angeles Times:
Protesters against immigration raids in LA damaged and set several Waymo autonomous taxis on fire on Sunday; Waymo says it is in touch with law enforcement  —  As police struggled with another day of unrest in downtown L.A., several Waymo autonomous taxis were set on fire …
New York Times:
Docs: from mid-December, YouTube told moderators to prioritize “freedom of expression” over potential harm, including for political, social, and cultural issues  —  The world's largest video platform has told content moderators to favor “freedom of expression” over the risk of harm in deciding what to take down.
Andrew Webster / The Verge:
Nintendo Switch 2 hands-on: after a few days, it is just a bigger, more powerful Switch, transferring games works smoothly, the new Joy-Cons are great, and more  —  Now that I've had a Nintendo Switch 2 in my hands for a few days, I can say pretty confidently that this feels a lot like a Switch.
Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times:
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang warns the UK lacks the digital infrastructure needed to capitalize on AI despite “incredible” research talent, as PM Starmer pledges £1B  —  Jensen Huang seeks ‘sovereign’ artificial intelligence deals that diversify US chip giant's business away from Big Tech groups
Sam Tabahriti / Reuters:
IGN:
Xbox Ally X hands-on: an AMD Ryzen AI Z2 Extreme APU, 24GB of RAM, and a 1TB SSD, 1080p games run at 60 FPS with no issues, a super-slim Windows, and more  —  The Xbox handheld impresses, but pricing remains the biggest question.  —  PC gaming handhelds have flooded the market at this point …
Stephen Totilo / Game File:
Gary Marcus / Marcus on AI:
Apple researchers detail the limitations of top LLMs and large reasoning models, including on classic problems like the Tower of Hanoi, which AI solved in 1957  —  LLM “reasoning” is so cooked they turned my name into a verb  —  Quoth Josh Wolfe, well-respected venture capitalist at Lux Capital:
Amy Thomson / Bloomberg:
Emma Jacobs / Financial Times:
An interview with Duolingo CEO Luis von Ahn on criticism after Duolingo went “AI-first”, personalized interactions with personality-based chatbots, and more  —  Luis von Ahn says criticism over strategy change shows ‘anxiety’ about technology replacing jobs
Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch:
United Natural Foods, a grocery distributor to 30K+ stores in the US and Canada and Whole Foods' main distributor, hit by a cyberattack, halting some operations  —  United Natural Foods (UNFI), a major distributor of groceries to Whole Foods and other retailers, said on Monday that it was hit …

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