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Techmeme surfaced Matt Kapko’s CyberScoop report, “How software development’s speed obsession enabled TeamPCP’s chaos crusade”, a June 18 investigation into a threat actor that has turned the software industry’s most convenient distribution paths into a large-scale credential-stealing system.

The headline number is difficult to ignore: in less than four months, TeamPCP has compromised or poisoned more than 1,000 software packages. CyberScoop says those packages collectively account for roughly 500 million weekly downloads, although exposure does not mean every download became an exploited machine. The campaign has touched npm, PyPI, GitHub Actions, VS Code extensions, security scanners, AI infrastructure, and cloud tooling. Its claimed or attributed victims include projects associated with Trivy, Checkmarx, LiteLLM, Telnyx, Bitwarden, TanStack, SAP, Mistral AI, Microsoft, and Red Hat.

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This summary covers The Economist’s June 13th, 2026 Science & technology article listed in the contents as When AI builds itself and published under the headline Over and over.

Artificial intelligence is no longer merely helping people use software. It is increasingly helping researchers build better AI. Anthropic says its Claude system wrote more than four-fifths of the code the company published in May, up from a negligible share before Claude Code launched in early 2025. Independent benchmarks also suggest that leading models can now complete software tasks that would occupy a human engineer for more than a working day.

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Voters reject effort to hike Oklahoma’s minimum wage (r/news)

• TimothyMimeslayer: Not escaping those 50th in education results.
• zeusomally: Oklahoma motto: “We may be poor, but we are dumb.”
• compuwiza1: You can always count on Americans to vote against themselves to screw over the next guy.

Winnipeg-born Canadian released from U.S. immigration detention after 7 months in ‘hellhole’ (r/news)

• IckySweet: Herman teared up when describing seeing his cats Poquito and Butters, for the first time in seven months. On Monday, Herman returned to his home in Ojai and reunited with his two orange cats
• upvoter222: For clarification, the “hellhole” was the detention facility, not Winnipeg.
• Lonely_Noyaaa: it took this long to release someone whose citizenship was never in question tells you the system is designed to warehouse people, and it doesn’t care if you’re a neighbor from Manitoba or an asylum seeker from Honduras.

Finland tears up nuclear weapons ban in NATO shift (r/worldnews)

• vincedarling: Can’t blame them since if US is pulling back from Europe, you need the one deterrent against invasion.
• Venttish: To be clear, this does not mean we are going to acquire nukes. This is just a shift in legislation to be more compatible with NATO.
• nzerinto: Incoming meltdown from Medvedev….

Russia’s War Toll Hits Up to 1.4 Million Casualties, NATO Says (r/worldnews)

• FaithfulNihilist: It’s not just the 1.4 million casualties, it’s also the 1 million young people who fled Russia in 2022 to avoid the war, most of whom were skilled professionals with valuable job skills (which allowed them to emigrate). That is devastating to an economy.
• BeeKayDubya: Russia was already going through a population crisis. Poo-tin has single handily destroyed Russia’s birthrates even if their future was shit to begin with.
• Virtual-History-6099: All they have to do is leave. But hey if their stupidity means a bled out Russia that’ll be neutered for generations, then so be it.

What was ruined because too many people discovered it? (r/AskReddit)

• Parada484: Literally thrift shops. They went from a source of necessity/deals to a viral little game with inflated prices.
• SolarSmileKit: Early internet forums and communities that were chill until they got mainstream attention.
• Elegant_Sentence_197: A lot of nice quiet beaches got totally ruined once they started blowing up on social media

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Is the Anthropic’s Fable ban marketing? (Blind)

• moloppj (Credit Karma): Tbf Fable was really fucking good.
• fromads (Meta): Yes it is. Model is so good that should be given only to entitled nation
• Trump gay (Discord): This is such a dumb take. Are investors supposed to be bullish that the government can, on a whim, just pull the company’s top product off the marketplace? The government is not even saying it’s too powerful, they’re just saying there’s a jailbreak (that exists in every model)

So close but rejected by OpenAI (Blind)

• leftardo (Uber): That means you didn’t meet the bar
• PTII34 (Cockroach Lab): Too many candidates are chasing for the same few roles. With recent layoffs, situation is worse. Companies are getting to nitpick.
• GtKq41 (ByteDance): I’m sorry. Getting to the last round(s) is the worst. I’ve been there. But the fact that you made it so far means you’re competitive and you’ll be that much stronger for your next set of interviews

Deciding to coast and milk meta was the best decision (Blind)

• vDed (VMware): Didn’t think it was possible to coast at Meta
• Ricolaaa (Citadel): Hi someone who is in the process of trying to quiet quit, isn’t it demoralizing when your team and stakeholders constantly show disappointment to your inability to deliver on their expectations?
• captheorem (Juniper Networks): Be careful, do this too long and you might be promoted

Firefox has an ambitious new roadmap, the browser is also losing millions of users a month (r/technology)

• bread_makes_u_fatt: Meanwhile I switched back to Firefox after chrome stopped supporting my ad blocker
• bruin396: I have been using Firefox for nearly a decade with no issues.
• dawolf-at: Firefox is simply blocking the trackers that are used to compile these stats.

Mark Zuckerberg Orders His Employees to Start Having Fun Again After Brutal Layoffs Culled Their Colleagues (r/technology)

• StinkChair: So dystopian. If you don’t act like you are having fun you will be fired! We need a culture of positivity, but will do nothing to cultivate that culture. You just need to act like it is.
• corobo: Bro is leading the biggest abusive relationship ever seen
• ketosoy: Seems like at Facebook it’s becoming dangerous to be the first one to stop clapping.

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Techmeme surfaced Richard Lawler’s report in The Verge on Midjourney’s first hardware product: an ultrasound-based full-body scanner that turns the AI image company into an unlikely entrant in preventive health infrastructure.

The surprising part is not only that Midjourney is building medical hardware. It is that the company is trying to translate the strengths that made it famous in generative imagery into a completely different domain: dense sensor data, reconstruction, visual interpretation, and consumer experience design. Midjourney’s own launch page frames the scanner as a faster, more casual alternative to MRI-style body imaging. A person would step onto a platform, descend through water, pass through a ring of ultrasound sensors, and receive a 3D map of the body in roughly a minute.

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A US Air Force B-52 bomber crashes at Edwards Air Force Base in California, the base says (r/news)

• 504090: Shit that’s a big plane
• chephin: That’s gotta be 25-30 aircraft lost in the last year without any enemy fire
• MrCarey: Okay for real I was in the USAF for 8 years starting in 2005, and I don’t remember this many crashes in that timeframe.

US Senate candidate with same name as incumbent Dan Sullivan ineligible for ballot, official rules (r/news)

• Chaosmusic: I think I saw a documentary about this with Eddie Murphy.
• WildWonders457: same shit happened in florida for a state senate seat i think, and they were able to successfully pull enough votes away to elect a republican.
• ga-co: We’ve seen a similar playbook run in Florida and candidates with deliberately confusing names were allowed to run.

Lukashenko Apologizes to Zelenskyy, Says Entering War Would Harm Belarus (r/worldnews)

• ArgentineBeauty: It’s hard not to see this as Lukashenko trying to give himself an out if things keep going south for Russia.
• wastedgod: wait are things so bad for Russia that even belarus is distancing itself from them. That’s pretty telling
• JiveChicken00: I am sure that Putin will receive this message loud and clear. And it’s not going to make him any happier.

Hungary passes 8-year PM limit, barring Orbán’s return (r/worldnews)

• Bravestinsane: I still can’t believe he just accepted his loss and stood down, I was not expecting that.
• The-marx-channel: Magyar is showing every democratic country how to defeat Russian Backed Demagouges.
• Smart_Ass_Dave: Ya’ll ever get fired so hard they make a law?

What are we being “boiled like frogs” about right now that future generations will be shocked we accepted? (r/AskReddit)

• Snozzberriez: Subscription everything.
• yousonofabench: Lack of privacy. I remember when the Patriot Act was controversial.
• WakeIslandTango: Corporations basically having the same rights as a human being

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July will only be the beginning of the upcoming layoffs at Microsoft (Blind)

• Kjlq67 (Microsoft): I’m leaving (first day of new job is July 6), should I wait until july to see if im laid off, or still put my notice in?
• hkhgtf (Amazon): Billionaires are weaponizing AI against the middle class.We need to elect a govt that would standup against the greedy billionaires. Vote socialist democrats.
• AIBotFarm (Microsoft): Getting a job after 25 years at Microsoft is going to take you about 100 interviews. And I’m not kidding.

I regret staying at Meta instead of going to anthropic (Blind)

• lord-tren (ex-Intel): i declined deepmind in 2012-2013 before it was acquired by Google. Happens buddy. Not the end of the world
• gS24fUz (Scale AI): They never would have gotten this far if you had joined
• iceiguana (Meta): I really regret not choosing the right numbers for the lottery!

Hi Fellow SWEs, what is going on in your head whenever u hear a tech leader says “80% of our code is now written by AI” (Blind)

• APPM47 (Nike): I think 80% is an understatement. Pretty much all new code in all companies are now written by AI
• noprestige (Google): I’d better not use this product
• mqHoe95X (PayPal): I know nearly 100% of mine is AI. It writes good code and a lot of it

Fed up with vibe coders, dev sneaks data-nuking prompt injection into their code (r/technology)

• WesternBlueRanger: I see someone reads xkcd and knows about Little Bobby Tables.
• pilgermann: The point critics are missing is that if this works then LLM coding cannot be trusted. This is an entirely ynsophistocaged prompt injection. If the LLM doesn’t know to flag it, it should. That’s the whole issue. This could easily be added to any project.
• steve_s0: Good. We already know that simply forbidding such use in license terms will be ignored.

AI billionaires brace for pitchforks (r/technology)

• williamgman: Ever visit those chateaus in France and throughout Europe that are tourist sites now..? They were the oligarchs of the time.
• DemandredG: They’re not nearly scared enough for the scope of the damage they’re inflicting on the world.
• schu4KSU: I was wondering why tech bros switched suddenly and in unison from the left to the right. Now I understand. They see this stage coming soon.

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Turning Nuclear Waste into Strategic Fuel

Sarah Scoles’s article “War’s New Fuel” looks at spent nuclear fuel as something more complicated than a disposal problem. Civilian reactors have left the United States with a stockpile of radioactive material that remains hazardous for extremely long periods. But that same material still contains useful energy and valuable isotopes. Project Omega, a Rhode Island start-up, wants to recover those resources and turn them into fuel for reactors or power sources for military technology.

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The article argues that the AI boom has given Taiwan, South Korea, and Japan a deceptive sense of strength. Demand for chips, servers, and memory has lifted exports, profits, and headline growth across north-east Asia. Yet the same boom is narrowing their industrial base and hiding weakness in older manufacturing sectors that once powered the region’s rise.

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The Pragmatic Engineer surfaced this June 16, 2026 deep dive in Gergely Orosz’s post, Why is Meta destroying its engineering organization?. The piece argues that Meta’s AI push has stopped being only a product strategy and has become an internal operating shock: engineers are being measured, reassigned, and reorganized around model training in ways that may be damaging the culture and reliability systems that made the company successful.