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BENTO

Bento is a portable, keyboard-based computer designed for use with external displays like XR headsets.

PUBLIC/PROTECTED/PRIVATE IS AN UNNECESSARY FEATURE

Access modifiers like public, protected, and private are a redundant feature in object-oriented programming because they duplicate the interface-defining capabilities already provided by virtual methods and subtyping.

WRITING TOY SOFTWARE IS A JOY

Writing toy programs is valuable because it helps with understanding, creativity, and practical knowledge.

INFINITE MAC OS X

Infinite Mac now supports running early Mac OS X versions (10.1 and 10.3 being the most stable) through PearPC emulation.

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NETFLIX REALLY IS TV NOW

Netflix has signed a deal with French TV network TF1 to show linear TV. France's largest commercial broadcaster, TF1 will show all five of its linear channels on Netflix, as well as more than 30,000 hours of TV shows available on demand. The deal opens the door to more deals between Netflix and traditional TV groups and could bring different sorts of TV shows to Netflix, such as soap operas and live sports.

AWS' CUSTOM CHIP STRATEGY IS SHOWING RESULTS, AND CUTTING INTO NVIDIA'S AI DOMINANCE

AWS has updated its Graviton4 chip, which now has 600 gigabits per second of network bandwidth. The CPU's release schedule will be provided by the end of June. The updated Graviton4 chip puts AWS into competition against traditional semiconductor players like Intel and AMD. The upgrade demonstrates Amazon's broader ambition to control the entire AI infrastructure stack.

WAYMO WANTS TO BRING ITS ROBOTAXIS TO NEW YORK CITY

Waymo plans to return to New York City next month to do more mapping as well as testing. However, its vehicles will be driven by humans. New York state law doesn't allow for vehicles to operate without a person at the wheel, but Waymo is pushing for changes to the law. Waymo's taxis have surged in popularity in other cities - the company now provides more than 250,000 autonomous trips each week.

AMAZON'S ZOOX OPENS ITS FIRST MAJOR ROBOTAXI PRODUCTION FACILITY

Zoox has opened its first full-fledged production facility in Hayward, California, near the company's Foster City headquarters. The new factory will be used for engineering, software and hardware integration, assembly, storage, and testing. Zoox expects to one day build 10,000 robotaxis per year at the site. It is currently testing vehicles in multiple US cities.

THE UNREASONABLE EFFECTIVENESS OF FUZZING FOR PORTING PROGRAMS

One way to port a codebase from C to Rust is to have large language models write fuzz tests and build the port in topological order. This blog post discusses how. While the overall system seems to work, there are some downsides - for example, the resulting Rust code is very 'C-like'. Full automation is difficult, but it may not be completely necessary as humans can still be used to fix issues as they emerge.

FANG

Fang is a starter kit for Cobra CLIs. It features fancy output, fancy errors, themes, and more. Screenshots and examples are available in the repository.

MICROSOFT PLANS TO CUT THOUSANDS MORE EMPLOYEES

Microsoft plans to lay off several thousand employees around the beginning of the company's new fiscal year, which starts in July. The job cuts will affect sales and other teams. The number of cuts has not yet been finalized. Microsoft laid off roughly 6,000 product and software developer roles around the world in May.

THE GREAT DECOUPLING (OR WHY YOUR CLICKS ARE DOWN AND IMPRESSIONS UP)

Google's AI Overviews creates two opportunities for top-ranking content to log impressions for a given keyword: once as a blue link and again as a citation in an AI Overview. Citations seem to be pulled from content that already ranks highly in traditional search results. Clicks are decreasing because AI Overviews are increasing zero-click searches - many searchers are able to resolve their queries now without leaving the search results page. However, it's not all doom and gloom: visits from AI search convert 23 times better than visits from traditional search.

CHATGPT IS MY STATIC SITE GENERATOR

Give ChatGPT a template and some content and it can generate a complete site.

TRUMP TO EXTEND TIKTOK DEADLINE FOR THIRD TIME, PUSHING DECISION OUT ANOTHER 90 DAYS

The new extension will last 90 days - it is still unclear whether the Chinese government will approve a deal.

HOMOMORPHICALLY ENCRYPTING CRDTS

Homomorphic encryption is a special form of encryption that allows computers to run programs on encrypted data without decrypting it.

UNREGISTRY

Unregistry is a lightweight container image registry that works like rsync for Docker images.

OPENAI SELF DRIVING TECH

Sam Altman recently said in an interview that OpenAI has new self-driving car technology that is better than any other current approach.

EXPERT GENERALISTS

The most effective workers have skills that span across many specialties.

META TARGETS FORMER GITHUB CEO NAT FRIEDMAN TO BOOST ITS AI RESEARCH EFFORTS

Meta is trying to bring on board former GitHub Chief Executive Nat Friedman and Daniel Gross, Friedman's partner in the AI-focused venture capital fund, NFDG. Friedman helped establish GitHub as a pioneer in AI with the launch of GitHub Copilot. He departed GitHub to focus on investments at NFDG. NFDG focuses on identifying hot AI startups and investing anywhere between $1 million to $100 million in seed and growth rounds. It has backed notable companies over the years, like Stripe, Character Technologies Inc., and Perplexity AI.

MIDJOURNEY LAUNCHES ITS FIRST AI VIDEO GENERATION MODEL, V1

Midjourney's V1 turns any image into a 5-second video though it's Discord-only at launch. The company's long-term goal is to generate interactive 3D environments in real time.

REAL-TIME TALK AND LISTEN IN GOOGLE'S SEARCH LIVE

TRACING AND FIXING EMERGENT MISALIGNMENT

OpenAI's researchers identified an internal activation pattern linked to misaligned personas in language models and showed it can be detected and dampened through targeted retraining, hinting at an early‑warning system for alignment drift.

A PODCAST ON GEMINI'S CODING CAPABILITIES (1 HOUR VIDEO)

Google's Release Notes podcast features Connie Fan and Danny Tarlow discussing the design goals behind Gemini's code generation, the emergence of “vibe coding,” and how AI may reshape programming languages.

WRITING IN THE AGE OF LLMS

Blog posts and technical papers are increasingly plagued by the "synthetic flavor" of LLM writing—empty summary sentences, persistent vagueness, and dull sentence structure. The greatest value of AI is for outlining, polishing early drafts, and targeted editing. Decent writing is cheaper than ever to produce - knowing what's worth writing, or not, still requires human judgment.

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IS THERE A HALF-LIFE FOR THE SUCCESS RATES OF AI AGENTS?

The performance of AI agents on longer-duration tasks can be explained by an extremely simple mathematical model - a constant rate of failing during each minute a human would take to do the task. This implies an exponentially declining success rate with the length of the task. The regularity allows for the success rate for an agent at different task lengths to be estimated. The underlying cause of failure on longer tasks is likely due to the increasingly large set of subtasks - failing any single one fails the whole task.

REMOTE MCP SUPPORT IN CLAUDE CODE

Claude Code now has support for remote MCP servers. Developers can now connect tools and data sources to personal their coding experience without needing to manage local servers. Claude Code can access both tools and resources exposed by MCP servers. It can also be integrated with any remote MCP server. The growing ecosystem of servers means that new capabilities are constantly coming online.

TEXT-TO-LORA: INSTANT TRANSFORMER ADAPTION

Sakana AI researchers built a system that can instantly customize large language models using just a text description, no training data or lengthy fine-tuning required. Their T2L model works by compressing hundreds of LoRA adapters (small, efficient modifications to AI models) into a single network that generates new customizations on demand.

DEEPNVME UPGRADE

The latest DeepNVMe release broadens support to model checkpointing and inference workloads, adds PCIe Gen5 NVMe scaling, and introduces CPU‑only and offset‑based I/O options to boost data‑bound training speeds in DeepSpeed 0.17.1 and above.

THE OPENAI FILES

A new investigative report compiles whistleblower testimonies revealing OpenAI's transformation from a nonprofit to a $300 billion company, including claims that senior staff warned the board Sam Altman was "psychologically abusive" and shouldn't lead them to AGI.

OPENAI DROPS SCALE AI AS A DATA PROVIDER FOLLOWING META DEAL

OpenAI is cutting ties with Scale AI after Meta's multi-billion dollar investment in the data labeling startup brought CEO Alexandr Wang onto Meta's team, with Google also reportedly planning to drop Scale as a provider.

OPENAI'S PLAN FOR SAFEGUARDING AI BIOLOGY CAPABILITIES

OpenAI outlined a prevention‑focused plan, including red teaming, expert partnerships, and security controls, to balance accelerated biotech research with controls that curb potential biothreat misuse.

KIMI-DEV-72B (HUGGING FACE REPO)

Moonshot AI's Kimi-Dev-72B achieves 60.4% on SWE-bench Verified—the new state-of-the-art among open models—by using large-scale reinforcement learning that patches real repositories in Docker and only rewards solutions when the entire test suite passes.

OPENAI RELEASES COMPUTER USE DEMO AGENT

A demo from OpenAI shows AI agents replacing manual QA workflows through Playwright.

TRUMP ON GENIUS STABLECOIN BILL: ‘GET IT TO MY DESK, ASAP'

President Trump has called on the House to pass the GENIUS Act “LIGHTNING FAST” after its 68–30 approval in the Senate, urging lawmakers to send the stablecoin bill to his desk without delay or amendments. The GENIUS Act establishes a regulatory framework for US dollar-pegged stablecoins, requiring 1:1 reserves, licensing, AML compliance, and strict reserve usage rules to mitigate financial risk. Proponents argue it would cement US leadership in digital assets, while critics, including Senator Elizabeth Warren, warn of potential conflicts of interest tied to Trump's crypto ventures. The bill now heads to a closely divided House, where Republican support will be critical for final passage.

TREASURY SECRETARY BESSENT SAYS CRYPTO WILL 'LOCK IN' DOLLAR SUPREMACY

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent stated that stablecoins could help “lock in” the dollar's global dominance by becoming major buyers of US Treasurys, positioning crypto as a strategic asset for the US economy. Bessent projected the USD-backed stablecoin market could exceed $2 trillion within three years, up from today's $240 billion.

COINBASE COMMERCE PAYMENT PROTOCOL POWERING SHOPIFY

Coinbase and Shopify have launched the Commerce Payments Protocol on Base, enabling trust-minimized, multi-step payment flows that meet the needs of real-world commerce. The protocol introduces a smart contract-based escrow system that supports operations like authorize, capture, refund, and void, bringing the flexibility of traditional payment systems to onchain transactions. It also introduces the concept of operators as trusted entities that facilitate transactions without compromising user intent or security. Now powering USDC payments across Shopify merchants, this open protocol lays the groundwork for scalable, composable crypto commerce accessible to developers worldwide.

ACCOUNT ABSTRACTION (EIP-7702) ON SONIC

Sonic is activating EIP-7702, enabling account abstraction for all users without new wallet addresses. This lets accounts delegate to smart contracts and gain features like batch transactions, social recovery, custom gas payments, and app-level authentication. With Sonic's native Fee Monetization system, developers can sponsor gas sustainably, turning wallets into programmable revenue engines while users gain flexibility and security at the protocol level.

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DEFI DERIVATIVES: EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW

DeFi derivatives have surged in adoption since 2020, now holding $5.37B in TVL with daily volumes rivaling centralized exchanges, but they face structural challenges around liquidity, execution, and scaling. There are tradeoffs across design choices (AMM vs. orderbook, cross-margin models, and clearing layers) and it can be difficult to transition protocols (e.g., GMX and dYdX) without fragmenting users or liquidity. While TradFi still wins on capital efficiency and margin infrastructure, DeFi offers unmatched permissionless innovation and global access, positioning it as the future of derivatives settlement once scaling and interoperability are resolved.

PENDLE THESIS: “THE BEST STABLECOIN BETA PLAY?”

Stablecoins are entering a hyper-growth phase, evidenced by trading volumes outpacing PayPal 20x and Visa 3x and Circle's IPO being 25× oversubscribed. By tokenizing yield-bearing assets into Principal and Yield Tokens, Pendle has secured 30% of the fast-growing YBS market and deployed 80% of its $7 billion TVL in stablecoins, delivering $35–40 million in annualized revenue. Upcoming launches, including Boros for perpetual funding-rate tokenization and Citadel for cross-chain and institutional markets, promise to dramatically expand Pendle's addressable market and push annual revenues toward $100 million. Trading at a sub-20 P/E despite Circle's 80x multiple, Pendle's entrenched network effects, vePENDLE governance model, and revenue-sharing mechanics suggest significant upside as stablecoin adoption accelerates.

INSIDE WEB3 MARKETING

Web3 Key opinion leader (KOL) marketing is evolving toward micro-influencer campaigns using tools like Kaito and Cookie3 to score authenticity, but most agencies still rely heavily on a small core of trusted creators. While micro-KOLs offer decentralization, they risk echo chambers and overexposure, whereas classic paid KOLs often fail to convert unless the product is genuinely strong. Long-term relationships, cross-engagement, and authentic content remain the most effective strategies, especially on platforms beyond X like Telegram and Substack.

NEW L1/L2 PLAYBOOK

Platforms live or die by killer applications rather than raw throughput or low fees. Without a flagship app, a blockchain is the on-chain equivalent of a console with no games. New chains today succeed either by delivering a rare 10x technical leap or, more reliably, by building a breakout app first and then spinning the underlying infrastructure into a dedicated chain. Hyperliquid and Abstract exemplify this app-first flywheel: obsessive product focus attracts users, which fuels tailored chain adoption, liquidity inflows, and a widening moat. Going forward, the most enduring blockchains will debut as must-use games, financial tools, or social networks that prove product-market fit before protocol-market fit.

POLYGON POS SET TO HIT 1K+ TPS WITH UPCOMING HARDFORK

Polygon PoS is scheduled for its Bhilai hardfork, aimed at pushing transaction throughput above 1,000 TPS, on July 1.