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The rocket maker debuts on Nasdaq today under a wave of criticism about Musk’s near-absolute control. It’s how the company has worked from the start.

It's just not cricket

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) ordered government agencies to patch an actively exploited Ivanti Sentry flaw within three days, as mandated by the newly issued Binding Operational Directive (BOD) 26-04. [...]

Half the trouble of building an Nvidia NVL or AMD Helios competitor is just getting the networking out of the box

The French government revealed that a recent breach of its Tchap encrypted messaging platform affects the accounts of over 73,000 employees in the French public sector. [...]

Senators Cruz and Wyden have introduced the JAWBONE Act to fight government censorship while arguing over who's censoring who.

‘Listen, that's not what I'm here for.' | Image: Apple Our early testing has already shown that Siri AI knows when to shut up, and that's very much by design. In an interview with Mostly Human spotted by MacRumors, Craig Federighi said Apple's new Siri won't act all sycophantic like chatbots ma...

Casual IT team learns that building bespoke PCs can be a false economy

Avataar AI's distilled video model is priced at $0.005 for every second of generation

Equal AI said that its AI-powered call assistant now has over a million monthly active users.

During the WWDC26 keynote, Apple announced its third generation of Apple Foundation Models (AFM), comprising five models, some of which are local, some of which are cloud-based, and one of which lives in Google’s servers running on Nvidia chips. Here’s a breakdown of how that will work.

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Unlike humanoid robots designed around a fixed form — think Boston Dynamics — Theker's machines are built to be reconfigured.

Article URL: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/11/fable-is-relentlessly-proactive/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48498573 Points: 244 # Comments: 203

The new round values the physical AI startup that aims to automate heavy engineering and drug design at $41 billion.

The generative features in iOS 27’s new Photos app will add fake pixels to some of your shots, but Apple’s Jon McCormack says the company isn’t using AI “for the sake of AI.”

Article URL: https://doug.sh/posts/erm-a-local-cli-that-strips-ums-uhs-and-erms-from-speech/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48498421 Points: 35 # Comments: 12

Article URL: https://web.mit.edu/nelsonr/www/Repenning=Sterman_CMR_su01_.pdf Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48498385 Points: 242 # Comments: 83

Strava improved on its hiking toolset today with new route-planning, navigation, and sharing tools, including a welcome addition to its Apple Watch app. Here are the details.

Today on Uncanny Valley, we take an early look at the SpaceX IPO and why you might find yourself among the investors without even realizing it.