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China’s Z.ai claims it can match Mythos on cybersecurityChina’s Z.ai claims it can match Mythos on cybersecurity
Suno launches Spark incubator program to feed independent artists to its AI machineSuno launches Spark incubator program to feed independent artists to its AI machine
Terrence O'Brien
Terrence O'Brien
Google is putting a cap on Meta’s Gemini usage.

Google has struggled to keep up with demand for its cloud computing power, and Meta has grown increasingly reliant on Gemini for many of its needs. Now, Meta, along with a number of other clients, is being told that Google simply can’t provide the capacity they want. According to the Financial Times:

The decision by Google to cap a large customer’s access to its models offers a rare glimpse into the infrastructure pressures and bottlenecks building across the AI industry. Despite spending tens of billions of dollars on chips, data centres and power, even the largest tech companies are struggling to secure enough computing power to support surging demand for advanced models and AI services.

Terrence O'Brien
Terrence O'Brien
This is the most detailed image of the Milky Way’s crowded heart yet.

The ESA’s Euclid telescope captured an enormous image containing some 60 million stars and nebulae. It took 26 hours to amass, starting March 23rd, 2025, and it’s undeniably stunning. You can download the full-res TIFF version, which weighs in at 697MB, or just watch the video below.

China claims the world’s fastest supercomputerChina claims the world’s fastest supercomputer
Prosecutors used ChatGPT logs as evidence in the Palisades fire trialProsecutors used ChatGPT logs as evidence in the Palisades fire trial
Terrence O'Brien
Terrence O'Brien
F1 is using the world’s fastest camera drone at the Austrian GP.

The racing league has been testing it for at least two years now, and it’s ready to make its big debut. It can accelerate to 300 km/h (186 mph) in 4 seconds with a top speed of over 350 km/h (217 mph). The big challenge is keeping that up for an entire lap without exploding.

Correction June 28th: This post originally stated the race in question was the Australian GP.

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Teenage Engineering adds lo-fi mode, USB audio, and more to its KO II samplerTeenage Engineering adds lo-fi mode, USB audio, and more to its KO II sampler
Terrence O'Brien
Terrence O'Brien
The BBC shuts down its longwave radio service.

The oldest service in the BBC’s portfolio has sent its last broadcast. Keeping the longwave signals flowing has become increasingly expensive, and very few rely on the tech now that streaming is widely available, and VHF radio and satellites have largely replaced longwave.

On June 27th the BBC will stop broadcasting Radio 4 Long Wave. It blames the cost of maintaining out-of-date technology. Droitwich uses two metre-high ceramic and metal valves, which are no longer made. Almost no one in Britain will notice. But it is the first nick in what the broadcaster hopes will eventually be a slashing of expensive radio and TV transmissions.

The BBC switches off its oldest service

[The Economist]

Margaret Atwood says the problem with AI is ‘garbage in, garbage out’Margaret Atwood says the problem with AI is ‘garbage in, garbage out’
Apple wants permission to buy memory from a blacklisted Chinese supplierApple wants permission to buy memory from a blacklisted Chinese supplier
Terrence O'Brien
Terrence O'Brien
The Dude abides AI slop, apparently.

Jeff Bridges is best known as an actor. But he’s also a reasonably accomplished musician who’s put out records on Blue Note and worked with T Bone Burnett. Which makes it all the more depressing when he fired up Suno on This Past Weekend with Theo Von.

Terrence O'Brien
Terrence O'Brien
Please actually give us a Freddie Gibbs remix of the Daybreak ringtone.

Flying Lotus composed two ringtones for iOS 13. He was recently asked by Almanac of Rap host Donwill who he would put on the track if Daybreak were a song and not a ringtone. He said Freddie Gibbs and now I can’t stop thinking about the possibilities.

Jay Peters
Jay Peters
Where did Dbrand’s Steam Machine Companion Cube go?

Dbrand opened up preorders on Monday, shortly ahead of the actual announcement of the Steam Machine’s price and release date. But the cube appears to have vanished from the company’s website, and the YouTube teaser has been made private, as noted on Reddit.

Dbrand and Valve didn’t immediately reply to requests for comment.

Render of Dbrand Companion Cube skin for the Steam Machine
Image: Dbrand
Jay Peters
Jay Peters
Pete Buttigieg: “You’ve probably heard of ‘swatting’... Now imagine the same concept, but with Child Protective Services instead of a SWAT team.”

This is a long and distressing post from Buttigieg about an experience with CPS over an accusation that he says “was absurdly and obviously false, and was promptly rejected by law enforcement.”

As part of the process, however, Buttigieg could not be alone with his kids, and he could not be present while CPS interviewed them.

A Terrible Thing Happened to My Family

[Pete Buttigieg’s Substack]

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