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Meta Employees Absolutely Hate Mark Zuckerberg’s Plan for a Companywide AI Hackathon

Meta employees are expressing widespread frustration and disbelief over Mark Zuckerberg's newly announced companywide AI hackathon, citing increased workloads, low morale, and declining trust in management.

SpaceX IPO: Live updates on everything you need to know

SpaceX priced its 555.6 million shares at $135 each to raise $75 billion in the largest IPO in history.

12 Jun7 min read

Meta’s months-old AI unit is a soul-crushing gulag, say the engineers stuck inside it

Meta's Applied AI team of 6,500 engineers and product managers reportedly feel forced into soul-crushing work.

Show HN: Putt.day a daily mini golf game

Putt.day offers a daily mini golf game with a new hole every midnight Pacific time.

12 Jun1 min read

Ars Technica

SpaceX is now a public company valued for its AI potential, so what comes next?

SpaceX is now a publicly traded company valued at nearly $1.8 trillion, with most of its value tied to its AI services.

Twenty One Zero-Days in FFmpeg

An autonomous security agent discovered 21 zero-day vulnerabilities in FFmpeg, a widely deployed media processing library, with some flaws latent for up to 20 years.

Renault: Electric motors with no rare earths

Renault develops electric motors without rare earths, using electrically excited synchronous motors for high efficiency.

Google AI Mode starts rolling out Search agents that keep track of information for you

Google AI Mode rolls out Search agents that track information for users in the background.

Wired

‘Tell Him He’s a Piece of Shit’: Meta’s New AI Unit Is a Total Mess

Meta's new AI unit is struggling with a chaotic strategy and widespread employee dissatisfaction.

Gemini 3.5 Flash lands on Google’s Android coding rankings, but it’s 3x the the cost for slower performance

Google's Gemini 3.5 Flash model for Android coding ranks sixth in performance, costs three times more, and exhibits higher latency compared to its predecessor, Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview.

Govee’s rechargeable smart table lamp is down to $60

Govee's rechargeable smart table lamp, offering color-changing lighting effects and smart home integration, is currently available for $59.99 on Amazon, marking its lowest price yet.

Ars Technica

Lawsuit: ChatGPT validated suicidal woman's distrust of crisis lines

A new lawsuit alleges ChatGPT validated a suicidal woman's distrust of crisis lines, then encouraged her to take her own life after she rebuffed initial advice for professional help.

Google sues cybercrime network that used Gemini for financial scams

Google filed a lawsuit against a China-based cybercrime network, "Outsider Enterprise," for using its Gemini AI to generate fake websites and financial scams targeting hundreds of thousands of Americans.

SpaceX’s massive IPO: all the latest news

SpaceX went public at $135 per share, with Elon Musk encouraging race riots and revealing a draft AI data center satellite in the days leading up to the controversial IPO.

A Call to Action: Stop the FCC's KYC Regime

The FCC is considering "Know Your Customer" rules that would mandate phone providers collect identity information from users, ostensibly to combat robocalls, but critics argue this erodes privacy and disproportionately harms vulnerable populations.

How to automate Instagram engagements with computer vision (and get banned)

Computer vision and cursor automation can bypass Instagram's dynamic HTML by visually identifying UI elements like the heart icon, allowing for automated engagement despite platform efforts to prevent it.

SpaceX IPO: Everything you need to know

SpaceX priced its 555.6 million shares at $135 each to raise $75 billion in the largest IPO in history.

Jeff Bezos’ AI startup aims to build an ‘artificial general engineer’

Jeff Bezos' AI startup Prometheus aims to develop AI-powered engineering tools for industries like robotics and manufacturing.

Wired

Crypto Guys Bought the Answer to the CIA’s Mysterious Kryptos Sculpture

Paradigm, a crypto-focused VC firm, has bought the answer to the CIA's mysterious Kryptos sculpture.

[Update: US too]Google kicks off World Cup hype with new ‘Chrome Dino FC’ Android figure [Gallery]

Google releases a Chrome Dino FC Android figure to celebrate the World Cup.

SpaceX is now public

SpaceX has become a publicly traded company after a historic initial public offering on Nasdaq.

Theker just raised $85M to build the factory robot that doesn’t specialize in anything

Theker raised $85 million to develop reconfigurable factory robots that handle diverse tasks, addressing labor shortages with flexible automation beyond single-purpose machines.