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El Nino is here and scientists fear it’ll be big, bad and costly with heat, floods, droughts, fires (r/news)

• S1DC: Is that all? Guess I’ll add it to the pile of catastrophic events occuring at the moment.
• Kneph: If we only had decades of data warning us of rising global temperatures, we could have seen all of this coming.
• BreweryRabbit: I’m tired of unprecedented times, could really go for one nice precedented time.

US authorities investigate huge ‘8647’ marking on grounds of National Mall in Washington (r/news)

• PM_ME_YOUR_EYELASHES: If they didn’t use seashells I’m gonna be pissed
• MountainlessBiking: Tbh it’s only funny because it seems to really get under his skin. Otherwise it’s pretty innocuous.
• Gentle_method: A message we can all get behind.

Trump cancels strikes against Iran planned for Thursday evening (r/worldnews)

• fizzaz: This is beyond all parody now
• Venat14: More insider trading
• Garionreturns2: TACO as expected. Trump has turned the USA into a laughingstock.

What used to be a sign of being poor, but is now a luxury or status symbol? (r/AskReddit)

• lee24k: Lobsters, oysters and caviar
• Future-Cry5734: Champion branded clothing 
• HenriDeToulouse: olive oil on rustic bread

‘Doctor Who’ Set To Be Off Air For Years Amid A Creative Regeneration That’s Failing To Spark Early Enthusiasm Among Producers (r/television)

• allgonetoshit: A lot of people don’t want to admit it, but the issue was not casting or inclusivity or whatever. The writing was shit for the last few seasons. The gods storylines taking over the entire last season was so boring and stupid.
• CDavis10717: Put all The Doctors on The Great British Sewing Bee! Done.
• makuXrosu: The man who revived DW also killed it. It’s like poetry

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Companies that are still humane places to work (Blind)

• sickkk: Pinterest, Airbnb, Google
• TGxH11 (Qualtrics): Costco
• gkidx (Snap): Apple

Evaluate Nvidia HW offer (Blind)

• KbiC01 (Marvell): Take it and never look back.
• FghLkz1565 (NVIDIA): how it compares to current TC?
• reggg (Qualcomm): Role?

Louis Rossmann is suing Samsung after firm offers \$330 refund for defective SSD while selling the drives on Amazon for \$949 — spat over 4TB 990 Pro SSD is headed to court (r/technology)

• taboo8614: I hope he wins!
• PRSHZ: In my opinion, the Takeaway here is that these big companies don’t really give a flying fuck about the customers until one with a lot of influence comes up and speaks up then everybody starts shaking in their boots
• tiradium: Poor bastards are really unlucky to try and pull this on Louis of all the people they could have picked. Imagine if some clueless person accepted the RMA’d SSD and couldn’t understand why its slower than an HDD

OpenAI Execs Are Panicking (r/technology)

• CodyintheCinema: Sam Altman is allergic to taking a photograph that doesn’t make him look like a shitty NPC from a PS2 game
• Docccc: They are not
• werthw: Altman recently walked back on his comment that AI will take many peoples’ jobs. Just in time for Open AI’s IPO huh?

OpenAI says China ran a covert campaign to turn Americans against data centers, but used facts that happen to be true (r/technology)

• yuval_3: r/nottheonion
• FuklzTheDrnkClwn: Isn’t that technically just “raising awareness” if it’s true lol
• mrwrrrmwrmrmrmrw: That’s what they said when people dared to protest the Vietnam War. 

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What happened

AWS’s official Compute Blog published AWS Nitro Isolation Engine: Formally verifying the hypervisor in the AWS Nitro System, a June 11, 2026 post about using formal verification to harden the isolation boundary inside the Nitro Hypervisor.

The post is about a narrow but consequential systems design choice. AWS Nitro already moved much of EC2 virtualization, storage, and networking into dedicated hardware and a small hypervisor, with administrative access forced through authenticated and audited APIs that cannot directly inspect customer workloads. Nitro Isolation Engine takes the same philosophy one level deeper. Instead of treating the hypervisor as one broad trusted component, AWS isolates the part that actually mediates access to guest VM memory, CPU register state, and I/O devices, then applies formal methods to that smaller enforcement point.

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Rogue waves used to occupy an uneasy space between sailor lore and scientific evidence. Mariners described sudden walls of water that seemed too large to belong to the surrounding sea, but until the 1995 Draupner wave struck a North Sea gas platform, researchers lacked a decisive instrument record showing that such waves were not exaggerations. The Scientific American Advances article “Going Rogue” explains how a much larger modern data set is now turning these hazards from rare surprises into physical events that may be measurable before they hit.

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Techmeme surfaced this June 12, 2026 story in its Reuters item on SpaceX’s trading debut, which framed the IPO as a test of the “Musk premium” and a gauge for the next wave of AI-tied listings. The original article linked there is Reuters’ SpaceX’s trading debut is a test of the “Musk premium”. Additional context used here includes Axios’ SpaceX raises \$75 billion in its IPO, Axios’ SpaceX’s debut has known unknowns, SpaceX’s SEC free-writing prospectus, Business Insider’s IPO live updates, The Guardian’s stock market debut report, and TBPN’s June 12 post, SpaceX IPO Rockets To Over \$2 Trillion.

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The managerial problem behind AI anxiety

The article treats a badly phrased corporate comment as a useful case study in a broader management problem. Standard Chartered’s chief executive, Bill Winters, drew criticism after describing automation as replacing “lower-value human capital” with financial capital. The backlash was predictable, not because the bank was wrong to talk about automation, but because the language made people sound like assets to be sorted into valuable and disposable categories.

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What happened

Google Research’s official research blog published New framework for auditing machine unlearning, a June 10, 2026 post about a statistical framework for checking whether privacy and unlearning claims survive black-box auditing.

The problem is becoming practical rather than academic. Machine unlearning asks a trained model to remove the influence of particular data without paying the full cost of retraining from scratch. That matters for privacy regulation, safety, data quality, and incident response. But the hard engineering question is not just how to unlearn. It is how an auditor can verify that unlearning happened when the auditor may not have access to the model internals, training data, or training history.

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Quick facts

• Difficulty: MEDIUM
• Problem: Multiply Strings
• Topics: Math, String, Simulation

Problem gist

Given two non-negative integers as strings, return their product as a string. The catch is that the inputs may be too large for normal integer conversion, so the solution has to work with characters and digits directly.

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A New Crack in the Matter Mirror

The Scientific American Advances article “Unruly Beauty” explains a small but meaningful step toward one of physics’ largest questions: why the universe contains matter at all. Matter and antimatter are supposed to be near mirror images. They carry opposite electric charge, but otherwise the rules governing them look almost the same. If the early universe made matter and antimatter in equal amounts, the two should have annihilated each other, leaving radiation and very little else. Instead stars, planets and people exist. Something tipped the balance.

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TBPN surfaced this June 11, 2026 item in Brandon Gorrell’s post, The Four Biggest Stories in Tech, under the section “Bezos’ Prometheus Raises $12B.” The original article is Dan Primack’s Axios report, Prometheus, Jeff Bezos’ AI startup, is now worth $41 billion.

The most interesting part of the Prometheus news is not the round size by itself, although a $12B Series B at a $41B valuation is large enough to matter on its own. The interesting part is what the money is aimed at: moving frontier AI from text, code, and office workflows into the slower world of physical engineering. Prometheus is not being pitched as another coding agent or factory dashboard. It is being pitched as an attempt to compress the loop from idea to design, prototype, manufacturing process, and scaled production.