People from the UK are saying their visas to watch World Cup matches in the US suddenly changed from “approved” to “not authorized.”

it helps that it's shit at visuals and pretty code at coding (now)

Scott Pelley will have the most audience trust for a long, long time

10 years ago this would’ve gotten me laughed out of my architecture classes in my CS program now we’re betting the national economy on it what the fuck happened 😭

english isn't for cowards. if you're not saying 'torpify,' that's a skill issue. there's no Académie Française telling you what to do. if you try to type 'pallific' and freak out when you see a little red underline, maybe you're not ready to roll with the big dogs.

"The study found that resettled refugees contribute $6 billion more to the U.S. economy than they take out. Per year. The Trump administration did exactly what you’d expect: They suppressed the study, and then they lied about it."

it just occurred to me this is the TL;DR protestant reformation

"We find, upon reflection, that our duty to our country has not ended ... We as Vietnam Veterans, strongly feel that the United States should cease to build memorials to death and begin to glorify life" -one of the quotes being removed for being *checks notes* too woke

Good news: SpaceX & other AI Hype IPOs have been shut out of S&P indices for at least a year finance.yahoo.com/markets/stoc...

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The U.S. eavesdropping agency is reportedly preparing Anthropic's Mythos for use in cyberattacks, despite a federal ban on using the AI model maker.

what is a professional way to say "your problem isn't a real problem and I don't have time for this"

Welp, this is a goddamn nightmare.

In our country, there are two professions that attract the smartest, wisest people and they are food writing and DJing

"I wonder what's wrong with this scene?!" 😂 - Conan O'Brien https://nasc.tg4.tv/Ros_na_Rún-Conan_OBrien

Does anyone have a connection to Randall Munroe (@xkcd.com) or any way to reach his company? I’m writing a book and wanted to license some of his cartoons but can’t get a response from his licensing or press emails.

Flopsweat begets flopsweat, is basically what I'm trying to say.

The problem here is all of these people know they're in a race against the clock to get all of this done before the tide turns. And by "all of this," I basically mean the destruction of anything that could criticize the post-Constitutional technofeudalist society they're hastily trying to stand up.

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check out the epic corgi side eye here 😂

EFF’s Threat Lab confirmed @WIRED.com’s finding that Meta has deployed facial recognition code to millions of their always-on surveillance glasses.

RHODE ISLAND JAMES BOND ULTIMATE TITLE 007: LOW NUMBAH PLATE

Govt investigators found an ICE guards *stabbed a detainee with a pen,* among other abuse. Or as a DHS spox put it: "Minor infractions." www.nytimes.com/2026/06/03/u...

Me in Middle Earth: "Edoras? But I just met 'er!"

happy pride month

Sources: Anthropic has embedded around half a dozen forward-deployed engineers within the NSA to help the agency deploy Mythos for offensive cyber operations (Financial Times) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

Trump is struggling to stay conscious in the Oval Office yet again

Lmaoooooooooo

> Bilton is making $2.5 million for his new “60 Minutes” gig. Sources tell us that salary is $1 million more than what “60 Minutes” veteran Tanya Simon was pulling down for the same job before she was ousted by Weiss earlier this month.

anthropic is already profitable this quarter

Airports everywhere are dropping liquid restrictions

Optimized Point Addition Circuits for Elliptic Curve Discrete Logarithms (André Schrottenloher) ia.cr/2026/1128

WHO IS DRILLING OUTSIDE MY WINDOW AT 715 AM

this is great

actual innovation from Alphabet:

People experiencing miscarriages in states with abortion bans told us they wished they had known what to expect and how to advocate for themselves. We created this guide for anyone who finds themselves in the same position.

TSMC CEO C.C. Wei says the company won't be able to fulfill demand led by US customers even as more capacity comes online in the US over the next few years (Debby Wu/Bloomberg) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

Google releases macOS versions of AI Edge Gallery, which lets users run open models on their devices, and AI Edge Eloquent, an on-device voice dictation app (Google Developers Blog) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

Quantinuum raised $1.68B in an upsized US IPO, selling 28M shares for $60 each, above its marketed range of $53 to $55, valuing the company at $15.6B (Carmen Reinicke/Bloomberg) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

Security firm Calif says it used OpenAI's Codex to discover HTTP/2 Bomb, a remote DoS exploit affecting web servers like Nginx, Apache HTTPD, and Microsoft IIS (The Hacker News) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

ICYMI: You can now go live on Bluesky with YouTube, Substack and beehiiv, in addition to the already-supported platforms: Twitch, Streamplace and Bluecast Add your stream link and a red ring appears on your avatar, so your followers know the moment you’re on. 🧵

“Having stripped them of their clothes, xAI now seeks to strip Plaintiffs of their pseudonyms" www.wired.com/story/xai-as...

Looking at some of the data center backlash and wondering if some of what we're seeing is simply the beginnings of a politics that is moving beyond Trump. that some of the salience of this issue is that it is very political but in a tangible way that has nothing to do with a guy everyone's tired of

There is something brutally psychically injurious to being constantly told "just do good work and you'll be successful" while watching people who do the most dogshit work possible do all the succeeding.

Nearly 40% of Alphabet's planned ~$85B in equity offerings for AI will go toward covering tax obligations tied to employee equity awards, amid the AI talent war (Cory Weinberg/The Information) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

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No more voting rights for racial minorities. After last night, it's over. Moving forward, the only plaintiffs who can win voting rights cases are white people who claim that certain districts give too much political power to Black and brown voters. slate.com/news-and-pol...

Bari being offended that someone would noisily cause trouble on the way out of a legacy newsroom is so funny. That’s her move! variety.com/2026/tv/news...

Microsoft's qc results may be 🤔 but the fact they (and IBM) are declaring they're aiming for 2029 is a strong signal

So to conclude: Majorana 2 does not even exhibit everything Microsoft claimed for Majorana 1 & has all the same problems as the previous claims. Most importantly: The headline claim of a 20 second "qubit lifetime" is not true. A classical bit has a lifetime of years. That doesn't make a good qubit!