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# 2026-09-28
*2026-09-28* — https://alexanderkucera.com/2026/09/28/i-started-watching-pluribus-and.html
I started watching Pluribus and while I enjoy it, I find the main character to be pretty inconsistent.
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# 2026-09-21
*2026-09-21* — https://alexanderkucera.com/2026/09/21/one-of-the-biggest-downsides.html
One of the biggest downsides of having no kidneys and daily dialysis is the constant fluctuations in energy. Some days I feel great and get some work done. Others I make breakfast and am so exhausted that I need to lay down for an hour again. It sucks, because it makes planning really tough.
--- # 2026-09-20 *2026-09-20* — https://alexanderkucera.com/2026/09/20/the-tanzwerk-production-of-ronja.html The Tanzwerk production of „Ronja Räubertochter“ was amazing. Much better then their Peter Pan adaption from two years ago. I was entertained for the full two hours. --- # 2026-09-20 *2026-09-20* — https://alexanderkucera.com/2026/09/20/my-daughters-ballet-performance-is.html [📍](http://maps.apple.com/?ll=49.318297,8.424782) My daughter‘s ballet performance is about to begin. Two hours of ballet, hip hop, classical dance. Fun for all parents. Because let’s be honest, 99% of attendees will be parents and family members.
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# 2026-09-16
*2026-09-16* — https://alexanderkucera.com/2026/09/16/i-have-a-hard-time.html
I have a hard time deciding between Hermes Agent and Pi Coding Agent for my projects. I love both and both have their strengths and weaknesses.
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# 2026-09-15
*2026-09-15* — https://alexanderkucera.com/2026/09/15/just-wachted-protector-no-idea.html
Just wachted Protector. No idea why I did that to myself. What a terrible movie.
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# 2026-09-14
*2026-09-14* — https://alexanderkucera.com/2026/09/14/warten-auf-den-entlassungsschein-pure.html
Warten auf den Entlassungsschein. Pure Folter.
---
# 2026-09-14
*2026-09-14* — https://alexanderkucera.com/2026/09/14/not-sure-why-but-i.html
Not sure why, but I just thought of a time in my teenage years. I knew a nice girl. She had this huge white Husky. Beautiful and kind creature.
I had a crush on both I believe.
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# 2026-09-12
*2026-09-12* — https://alexanderkucera.com/2026/09/12/i-know-what-i-want.html
„I know what I want, but why would I ever cheat myself out of a better idea?“
— Robert Altman (when being asked why he listens to ideas from other people)
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# 2026-09-12
*2026-09-12* — https://alexanderkucera.com/2026/09/12/if-your-youtube-video-uses.html
If your YouTube video uses a headline like „I did X. Watch what happens.“ you can be certain I don’t watch it.
---
# 2026-09-12
*2026-09-12* — https://alexanderkucera.com/2026/09/12/looking-out-the-window-i.html
Looking out the window I always think for a split second the Enterprise has landed. But alas, it’s just a helipad.
---
# 2026-09-12
*2026-09-12* — https://alexanderkucera.com/2026/09/12/i-think-one-can-tell.html
I think one can tell I am sitting in the hospital for the seventh day. My posting frequency has gone way up.
All sitting around and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
---
# 2026-09-12
*2026-09-12* — https://alexanderkucera.com/2026/09/12/but-maybe-its-just-me.html
But maybe it’s just me. I am prone to setting up „smart“ systems for myself and then forget how they work after a week. Rather then figuring out how to use them again and again, I just do the work myself.
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# 2026-09-12
*2026-09-12* — https://alexanderkucera.com/2026/09/12/also-i-feel-like-all.html
Also, I feel like all this orchestration stuff feels pretty stupid at times. Look, I made a script that calls these scripts which triggers these script that call these scripts. Congratulations.
---
# 2026-09-12
*2026-09-12* — https://alexanderkucera.com/2026/09/12/setting-up-ai-agents-so.html
Setting up AI agents so they work together is something very intriguing. I started setting up different agent workflows before. But I usually realize I don’t really have something to use them for in the end. My life is rather boring in that respect. No business to run. Nothing to hustle towards.
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# 2026-09-11
*2026-09-11* — https://alexanderkucera.com/2026/09/11/i-love-the-martian-and.html
I love The Martian and Project Hail Mary just the way they are. But now we need some kickass _science_ fiction movies with female leads. I’d love to show my daughter something that makes her go: wow. I could science the shit of of things too!
---
# 2026-09-10
*2026-09-10* — https://alexanderkucera.com/2026/09/10/on-the-one-hand-i.html
On the one hand I love that Metroid Dread is unapologetically hard. On the other I am sad that it is too hard for me and I had to stop playing because I couldn’t beat that one boss.
---
# 2026-09-09
*2026-09-09* — https://alexanderkucera.com/2026/09/09/i-find-the-witchhunt-behavior.html
I find the witch-hunt behavior some people display for [@manton](https://micro.blog/manton) to be exhausting.
---
# 2026-09-09
*2026-09-09* — https://alexanderkucera.com/2026/09/09/for-years-ive-introduced-myself.html
For years I’ve introduced myself as Alex. Especially in English, as I find saying Alexander sounds very pretentious to my ears.
But I’ve come to the realization that my parents named me Alexander. Why would I not use my given name?
I feel like I made myself smaller by using the shortform.
---
# 2026-09-05
*2026-09-05* — https://alexanderkucera.com/2026/09/05/113900.html
---
# Are AI products stale the day they ship?
*2026-09-04* — https://alexanderkucera.com/2026/09/04/are-ai-products-stale-the.html
At the pace AI moves, is selling an AI product just selling yesterday's tech? I dropped that question into a community thread this week, and it's still rattling around my head. Those of us in the field sprint just to keep up, and the ground shifts under anything sitting on top of it. By the time a product is built, tested, polished, and shipped, the layer beneath it has moved twice. Traditional software had years of shelf life. This stuff has a sell-by date measured in weeks.
None of this makes selling AI unethical—it just makes it weird. The intelligence itself is rented from a provider and improves on someone else's schedule. What you actually sell is a snapshot: the workflow you designed and the glue you maintain. Maybe that's why it's all subscriptions. Nobody in their right mind would buy an AI product outright. The monthly bill is a freshness guarantee. You're paying someone else to keep sprinting, so the product never quite goes stale.
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# 2026-09-04
*2026-09-04* — https://alexanderkucera.com/2026/09/04/sitting-at-the-bus-stop.html
Sitting at the bus stop after realizing that the bus schedule I had in my head was wrong. The line doesn’t run every 30 minutes, but every hour. So 40 minutes of wait. At least the sun is shining.
---
# 2026-08-26
*2026-08-26* — https://alexanderkucera.com/2026/08/26/this-is-a-useful-way.html
This is a useful way to use LLM video generation.
Every wondered how it was on the Titanic?
[youtu.be/zh21cvZrt...](https://youtu.be/zh21cvZrtuI?is=PiOpnSop4ifUH3b3)
---
# For the Sake of Building?
*2026-08-22* — https://alexanderkucera.com/2026/08/22/for-the-sake-of-building.html
I noticed this three days ago. I was mid-feature on my Agentic Development Environment [Classis](https://classis.app) when I realized it had crossed a threshold. It could be used to develop itself. Not perfectly, but _it could_. I’d spent almost four weeks poring over every feature and edge case, and somewhere in that stretch the tool had become capable enough.
And instead of triumph, I felt something closer to dread.
Not because Classis isn’t good. It’s _good_. I’m having a ball building it. The kind of deep-focus month where you’re still thinking about architecture in the shower, where every solved problem feels like cracking a safe. This is the real thing, and I know it, which makes the next sentence harder to write:
**I have no idea what I’ll build with it once it’s done.**
Another month of polishing, maybe six weeks, and Classis ships. Then I’ll hold a powerful developer tool, and think: _okay, now what?_
_Build a SaaS startup._ With what idea? I didn’t build this to solve a specific problem. I built it because building it was interesting.
_Contribute to open source._ Maybe. But that’s finding excuses to use a hammer you forged yourself, not the same as having a project that needs it.
_Just keep improving the tool._ This one’s dangerous. I could spend another year on Classis. There’s always one more feature to add, one more layer of polish. And every week spent improving the tool is a week not using it for anything except improving the tool.
---
You fall in love with the process of making. Not the thing you’re making. The making itself. The 2am debugging sessions where a problem finally cracks open. The architectural decisions that click into place and make you mutter “yeah, that’s right” at an empty room.
I’ve been here before. Most developers have. You finish a project, the high drains out, and you’re staring at a repository thinking _that was fun, what now?_ The difference this time is scale. A month of focused work. Real opportunity cost.
So the question keeping me up isn’t _is this tool any good?_
It’s: **Am I just developing for the sake of developing?**
What if I’m not someone who builds tools to make things? What if I just love the act of building so much that I’ve convinced myself I need a _reason_ for it?
Part of me says: that’s fine. Building for the joy of building is honest in a way that building for metrics never is. One month crafting something, learning a lot along the way, and I’m the only user. I am ok with that.
Another part says: cop-out. That’s the story you tell when you’re afraid to ship, afraid to put work in front of people who might not care. “I build for the love of building” sounds noble until you notice it also protects you from judgment.
Both parts are right, I think.
In four or five weeks [Classis](https://classis.app) will be polished enough to hand to another developer and say “here, try this” without cringing. I don’t know what happens after that sentence.
Maybe the right problem appears and the tool turns out to be exactly what the problem needed. Maybe this whole spiral is just pre-launch nerves, the feeling before any release when you’ve invested enough that _of course_ you’re questioning whether it matters.
Or maybe I finish, sit in front of it for a week, and realize the best part is already over. Building done. Fun done. And I have to decide: find something new to build, or figure out what “done” feels like when you’ve been running toward it for two months.
I’ll let you know which one.
Assuming I figure it out myself.
---
# 2026-08-20
*2026-08-20* — https://alexanderkucera.com/2026/08/20/i-remember-one-of-the.html
I remember one of the first things I „programmed“ was an HTML page. I was so proud of it that I showed the raw HTML to a friend of mine who I knew also made web pages. I couldn‘t comprehend that he didn‘t „see“ the page from looking at the HTML at the time. 😂
---
# 2026-08-19
*2026-08-19* — https://alexanderkucera.com/2026/08/19/fixed-a-major-bottleneck-in.html
Fixed a major bottleneck in Classis today. Importing sessions for analytics purposes now is about 60x faster. A months worth of session logs took about 5 minutes. Now it’s barely 5 seconds.
[https://classis.app](https://classis.app)
---
# 2026-08-18
*2026-08-18* — https://alexanderkucera.com/2026/08/18/classis-now-also-has-a.html
Classis now also has a website!
[https://classis.app](https://classis.app)
---
# Classis Alpha Testers wanted
*2026-08-18* — https://alexanderkucera.com/2026/08/18/classis-alpha-testers-wanted.html
I'm gearing up to open Classis to alpha testers.
It's an Agentic Development Environment for macOS. Agent dashboard, terminal tab, git client with PR and issue support across GitHub, GitLab, and Gitea—plus cost tracking. There's also a code editor with Markdown preview and an AI chat sidecar.
Interested? Let me know.
---
# 2026-08-17
*2026-08-17* — https://alexanderkucera.com/2026/08/17/playing-chauffeur-for-my-daughter.html
Playing chauffeur for my daughter today. I shouldn’t complain. I love spending time with my little one. But I’m itching to get back to my app development. lol
Classis is starting to feel like a great app.
---
# The expected value of showing up
*2026-08-17* — https://alexanderkucera.com/2026/08/17/the-expected-value-of-showing.html
"I'm not too sure that many people will compete. So, the expected value of joining is actually pretty high."
That's the DM that got me into this. Not "you're good enough." Just: most people won't bother, so the odds are better than they look. I'd already turned the invitation down once. Then Roman did the math at me, and I couldn't argue with it.
The invitation was a coding challenge he runs: build a video game with a single prompt. One message, sent to an AI coding agent in an empty directory. After you hit enter, you don't touch anything. No follow-up questions, no course corrections, no "actually, make it blue." Whatever the agent builds from that one message is your entry. Judges score the game, then break the winning prompt down line by line.
If you've used an AI assistant recently, you know how wild that constraint is. Half my interactions are "no, that's not what I meant" by message three. Getting a whole game out of one message means everything has to be in the prompt before you start: the goal, the architecture, the definition of done, and the answers to questions the agent hasn't asked yet. The prompt has to steer without a steering wheel.
## Three brains
I didn't sit down and think of a game. I asked three different agents to do it for me.
Same brief to each: a strong game concept for this challenge. Three different harnesses, two different models. And three completely different afternoons.
Both sessions running GLM-5.2 skipped any deliberation and pitched games on the spot. Both, without comparing notes, pitched roguelikes. Hermes Agent came back with Body Snatcher, a possession game where you're a ghost with one hit point and no attack, and you survive by literally wearing your enemies: twelve of them, each with its own hunting AI and a different move set once it's your body.
Pi running the same model pitched Underdepths, a classic dungeon crawler in Python: procedurally generated floors, enemies that hunt you through the dark, gear, levels, a dragon at the bottom.
The third session, running GPT-5.6 Sol, behaved like a different species. It opened a full brainstorm first: forced relationships, morphological analysis, SCAMPER, constraint mapping. Twenty-three ideas, developed and narrowed over four structured phases. What survived was Adaptive Loop, a deterministic strategy puzzle about rotating glass rings to route nutrients through a microbial ecosystem that adapts against you. It's the most original of the three, and I'll admit I don't fully understand it while playing it.
Three briefs in, I had three concepts and no way to pick. So I didn't.
## Sixteen runs
From there, everything standardized. Every build ran the same way: Pi, my coding agent, with all my saved skills switched off, running GPT-5.6 Sol. The only variable left was the prompt itself.
August 12 to 16. Sixteen complete runs: five passes on Body Snatcher, four on Adaptive Loop, seven on Underdepths. Each pass was a fresh empty directory, one message, hands off. Between passes I rewrote the prompt and let the corpse of the last run decide what to change.
That cadence, prompt → run → autopsy → prompt, taught me more about directing agents than months of normal back-and-forth work. Because there's no conversation, every failure traces back to something the prompt failed to say. What the corpses taught me:
**Make the agent build its own verifier first.** The Underdepths prompt never says "make a game." Its opening move: "write a test suite that defines done, then write a build pipeline that dispatches each phase of work to a headless copy of yourself, gates every phase behind those tests, and feeds failures back in." The agent built itself a small factory, and the factory wouldn't let it ship broken floors.
**Specify what must be true, never how.** The prompts that worked state pass conditions and boundaries: what counts as done, who may touch what. They never prescribe data structures or algorithms. The moment I told an agent how, it stopped thinking and started transcribing.
**Keep the scars.** One dead run shipped stairs that existed in the map data but were never drawn—you couldn't see the way down. The next prompt carried the line "a prior build shipped stairs only in map data, never drawn. Do not repeat that." Every dead pass left a sentence like that behind. Those scar sentences are the actual prompt engineering.
**Pin what the model will otherwise optimize away.** Body Snatcher's spec says, in bold, that enemies must never damage each other. Sounds obvious. But the first builds had bombers and turrets clearing whole floors on their own, and suddenly there was no game—just an arena watching itself. Rules that feel trivial to a human are load-bearing, and the only way to know which ones is to watch a run collapse without them.
## The result
Three finished games. A possession roguelike in a single HTML file with zero dependencies. A Python dungeon crawler built by an agent-driven factory that passed every one of its own gates. And a deterministic glass-ring ecosystem I can't quite master, generated by the one model that brainstormed before it spoke.
The challenge rules say one prompt, one entry. I submitted all three games, one uncut video showing all three being played, and told the judges to pick. The whole thing was one experiment anyway: same brief, same process, three prompts. The code is public in the repo; the prompts went to the judges privately, as the rules require.
I don't know yet how the challenge shakes out. But the meta-lesson already paid for itself. Roman's expected-value argument isn't really about contests. Nearly everything worth entering has a showing-up problem: the field is small because most people talk themselves out of it. I was most people, briefly. Then a two-sentence DM did the math at me.
The odds are better than they look. Enter the thing.
---
**Play them:** repo at [git.babylondreams.de/AlexKucer...](https://git.babylondreams.de/AlexKucera/agentic-labs-challenge-submission)
---
# I built a PD tracker because AirTable was too slow
*2026-08-16* — https://alexanderkucera.com/2026/08/16/i-built-a-pd-tracker.html
My first iOS app is live on the App Store: dialysisPal.
It's a peritoneal dialysis tracker. Open it, enter UF, weight, blood pressure, pulse, done. Twice a day, seconds each time. Charts show the long-term trends, and one tap exports a PDF for your nephrologist. I built it because Airtable was too slow.
I started it in June last year with Claude Code. I'd never written a line of Swift; Python was all I knew. I had a mostly working version within a month. After that, things slowed down: three hospital stays, and a lot to learn about coding with LLMs. The app moved through several coding harnesses and models until it landed on GLM (4.7 through 5.2) and Pi Coding Agent.
Along the way: two abandoned redesigns, one failed complete rewrite, one successful refactor and lots of little distractions. LLM coding eats you alive if you are not careful.
So it hasn't just been my first iOS app. It's been my teacher for the last 13 months or so.
I've been using it myself for about a year and finally decided it was good enough for public consumption. It's still not perfect, but perfect is the enemy of good.
So here it is:
[App Store link](https://apps.apple.com/de/app/dialysepal/id6753748244) · [dialysepal.de](https://dialysepal.de/)
---
# 2026-08-15
*2026-08-15* — https://alexanderkucera.com/2026/08/15/and-the-url-has-been.html
And the URL has been updated on the [dialysePal Website](https://dialysepal.de) as well.
---
# 2026-08-15
*2026-08-15* — https://alexanderkucera.com/2026/08/15/ladies-and-gelntepersons-dialysispal-is.html
Ladies and gentle-persons, [dialysisPal is live on the AppStore](https://apps.apple.com/de/app/dialysispal/id6753748244?l=en-GB)! 🥳
---
# 2026-08-13
*2026-08-13* — https://alexanderkucera.com/2026/08/13/classis-was-planned-with-first.html
Classis was planned with first class support for Codeberg and Forgejo projects. Due to their anti-AI stance said support has now been removed in favour of Gitea forges. Also I am moving my repositories away from Codeberg to my own self-hosted Gitea forge.
---
# 2026-08-13
*2026-08-13* — https://alexanderkucera.com/2026/08/13/classis-now-has-a-logo.html
Classis now has a logo.
---
# 2026-08-13
*2026-08-13* — https://alexanderkucera.com/2026/08/13/fighting-with-low-blood-pressure.html
Fighting with low blood pressure episodes lately. Probably heat related. Definitely not fun.
---
# 2026-08-08
*2026-08-08* — https://alexanderkucera.com/2026/08/08/my-new-app-has-a.html
My new app has a name. **Classis**
---
# 2026-08-02
*2026-08-02* — https://alexanderkucera.com/2026/08/02/i-recently-canceled-my-feedbin.html
I recently canceled my Feedbin subscription. I love the service. It has been running flawlessly for years. But I recently realised that this „you need a RSS syncing service“ mentality makes zero sense for me. I read my RSS feeds purely on my iPhone. So what do I need sync for I wonder?
---
# 2026-07-30
*2026-07-30* — https://alexanderkucera.com/2026/07/30/i-just-had-my-hermes.html
I just had my Hermes Agent run a surprisingly fun space adventure session for me. Really helped distract me from my hospital „cell“.
---
# 2026-07-30
*2026-07-30* — https://alexanderkucera.com/2026/07/30/at-the-hospital-for-the.html
At the hospital for the sixth day now. While I felt bad on day one and day two, I’ve been fine since day three. Meaning I am now bored beyond belief and have two more days to go.
WiFi won’t work and my data cap kicked in two days ago. Please somebody send help!
---
# 2026-07-29
*2026-07-29* — https://alexanderkucera.com/2026/07/29/i-love-amish-seth-green.html
I love Amish Seth Green from Road Trip so much. Friendly, helpful and 100% passive aggressive. All the while having this mischievous twinkle in his eyes.
---
# 2026-07-24
*2026-07-24* — https://alexanderkucera.com/2026/07/24/this-thing-was-created-without.html
„This thing was created without the use of AI“ is put on stuff like a badge of honor. All I read is „This nail was put in without the use of a hammer.“
---
# Slice Done
*2026-07-16* — https://alexanderkucera.com/2026/07/16/slice-done.html
I know GPT is the favorite model family for a lot of people. I've tried to get there. I really have.
I'm running GPT-5.6 Sol right now, and it's still the same experience I've had with every GPT version I've touched. The model runs forever on simple issues. There's hardly any reasoning output, so you can't see whether it's thinking in the right direction. And when it finishes, you get three words:
**Slice done.**
That's it. No context about what changed. No mention of what didn't work and why. No instructions on how to test the result. Just a binary signal: task complete, trust me.
## The Black Box Problem
I don't need my models to be chatty. I'm not asking for a paragraph of self-congratulation after every file edit. But there's a world of difference between concise and opaque.
Compare that to GLM-5.2, which is my daily driver right now. When GLM finishes a task, it tells me:
* What it actually did
* What it *didn't* do and why
* How to verify the result works
That's not verbosity. That's auditability. That's enough surface area for me to judge whether the work is sound before I commit to it.
"Slice done" gives me nothing. It's a black box, and the only way to know if the output is any good is to open every file and check by hand—which defeats the purpose of having an agent do the work in the first place.
## Running in Circles
The other thing. GPT seems to loop.
Not agentic looping—that's a different problem. I mean the model appears to run in circles during a single task. What should take thirty seconds takes two minutes. You can see the token counter climbing and climbing, and you start wondering: is it thinking deeply, or is it stuck? With GLM, I can see the reasoning output. I can watch the model work through the problem in real time and catch it early if it's going down a wrong path.
With GPT, you're just... waiting. Hoping. And then "slice done."
Maybe the output is perfect. Maybe it's garbage. You won't know until you look, and the model has given you no reason to feel confident either way.
## Trust Is Expensive
This isn't a benchmark. I don't have logs, side-by-side comparisons, or carefully controlled test cases. This is just what it feels like to use these tools day after day.
And what it feels like is this: I trust GLM because it shows its work. I don't trust GPT because it doesn't.
That might seem like a soft reason to prefer one model over another. We're supposed to evaluate on benchmark scores and reasoning capability measured in carefully designed tests. All of that matters, I'm sure. But none of it matters as much as the daily experience of sitting down to work and reaching for the tool that doesn't make you second-guess every result.
Communicativeness isn't polish. It's the difference between a tool that works *for* you and a tool that makes you work to verify it did anything at all.
GPT might be brilliant under the hood. I can't tell. And that's the problem.
---
# Don't Prompt, Loop
*2026-07-15* — https://alexanderkucera.com/2026/07/15/dont-prompt-loop.html
There's a phrase making the rounds in AI-assisted development circles right now: **"don't prompt, loop."** The idea is elegant on its face—stop hand-holding your LLM with step-by-step instructions. Instead, give it a goal and let an agentic loop run until the work is done. The machine figures out the steps. You review the output.
It sounds like progress. It feels like progress.
It's vibe coding with a better marketing budget.
## What I Actually Did Last Week
I spent ten days planning a new project before writing a single line of implementation code. No app shell. No prototype. No "let's see what the AI gives us." Just specs.
Several PRDs. Roughly 102 tickets, broken down by component and dependency. A theming system designed on paper before any SwiftUI file existed. A three-pane layout architecture argued through in markdown before the first `VStack` was written. About four throwaway prototypes for very specific questions like take the default SwiftUI List or roll my own.
Yesterday—day eleven—I finally started coding. Today's goal: a functioning app shell with theming and that three-pane layout. Maybe the first main tab if things go well.
Yeah. *Only* the app shell.
I can already hear the counter-argument: why not just describe what you want and let the loop build it? Why spend a week and a half on documents when an agent could iterate toward something usable in an afternoon?
Because the plan isn't overhead. The plan is the work.
## Two Sides of the Same Coin
"Vibe coding"—writing software through loose natural language prompts, iterating toward something that feels right—has its critics. [Addy Osmani](https://medium.com/@addyosmani/vibe-coding-is-not-the-same-as-ai-assisted-engineering-3f81088d5b98) drew a useful line between **vibe coding** and **AI-assisted engineering**: the distinction isn't the tool, it's who's holding the blueprint. In professional engineering, the human retains control over architecture and design decisions. The AI builds. It doesn't decide what to build.
"Don't prompt, loop" pretends to be something different. It promises autonomy and sophistication. But strip away the language and you've got the same underlying move: *give the model a vague goal and hope the output is good enough.*
The loop just does it faster and with less supervision. That's not an improvement—that's a faster way to accumulate decisions nobody made.
## The Cost of Unsupervised Loops
This isn't theoretical. [Veracode's 2025 GenAI Code Security Report](https://www.veracode.com/resources/analyst-reports/2025-genai-code-security-report) found that **45% of AI-generated code across more than 100 models contained critical security vulnerabilities**. Not edge cases. Not style issues. Critical holes that a code review should have caught—if there was a code review.
Then there's the money. A developer wakes up to a **$500 API bill** because their agent got stuck retrying a failed call for eight hours straight. It sounds almost funny until it's your credit card. These aren't edge cases—they're what happens when "keep working" becomes "keep going forever" and nobody set a limit.
These are extreme cases, sure. But the pattern scales down too. Without a spec, without tickets, without someone having thought through *what* the system should do before asking a machine to build it, you get code that works incidentally. Code that passes the eye test then collapses under maintenance. Spaghetti an agent was perfectly happy to serve because nobody told it not to.
## Why 102 Tickets?
I'm building something called Helm—an agent management application for macOS, in the general family of tools like [Cursor](https://cursor.com/) or [Superset](https://superset.sh/). I'm not ready to share much about it yet. It might not even be viable. But the process is worth talking about regardless of whether Helm ships.
Those 102 tickets aren't busywork. Each one represents a decision I made consciously:
* What does the theming system need to support on day one versus day ninety?
* Which panes depend on which other panes, and what happens when one fails to load?
* What's the minimum viable interaction for the first tab, and what can we defer?
An agentic loop could have built *an* app shell with *a* theming system and *a* layout. But it wouldn't have built *this* one—the one that matches what I actually want, not what the model guessed I wanted.
## Measured Steps in an Era of Fast
I like AI. I use it constantly. But I use it the way I'd use a junior developer who's genuinely talented but doesn't understand the product yet: I give them clear tasks, defined scope, and acceptance criteria. I don't hand them a vague ambition and walk away for four hours.
That's not anti-AI. That's *using* AI properly.
The culture around "looping" treats planning as failure—as evidence you haven't fully embraced the new paradigm. I think that's backwards. Planning is how you make sure the paradigm is working for you, not the other way around.
Today I'm going to ship an app shell with theming and a three-pane layout. It won't be impressive by demo-video standards. Nobody's going to clip it as proof that AI has changed everything.
But every piece of it will be there on purpose. And when I add the first real tab tomorrow, I'll know exactly where it goes and why.
That's the thing about measured steps. They look slow until you realize nobody else knows where they're going.
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# 2026-07-14
*2026-07-14* — https://alexanderkucera.com/2026/07/14/171834.html
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# 2026-07-13
*2026-07-13* — https://alexanderkucera.com/2026/07/13/i-spent-the-last-week.html
I spent the last week nailing down the specs of a new project. Nearly there. Maybe a day or two more to nail down the last few bits. Getting antsy to build.
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# 2026-07-09
*2026-07-09* — https://alexanderkucera.com/2026/07/09/holy-crap-show-dont-tell.html
Holy crap! „Show, don’t tell!“ was never more absent then in the new Avatar live action series. It _looks_ great. But boy oh boy is the story department lacking.
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# 2026-07-04
*2026-07-04* — https://alexanderkucera.com/2026/07/04/httpsyoutubecomwatchvdvvlpfckkishqaqhcmntrsrsajv.html
Stop using Generative AI!
[youtube.com/watch](https://youtube.com/watch?v=dVVLPF_-Ckk&is=HqaQhCMNTRSrsaJv)
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# 2026-06-30
*2026-06-30* — https://alexanderkucera.com/2026/06/30/willow-keeps-animating-i-warms.html
Willow keeps animating. It warms my heart.
#FlipaClip3WordChallenge
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# 2026-06-29
*2026-06-29* — https://alexanderkucera.com/2026/06/29/heute-habe-ich-gelernt-dass.html
Heute habe ich gelernt, dass man als eAuto Besitzer seinen CO2 Umsatz an Firmen verkaufen kann. Nennt sich THG-Prämie und liegt derzeit bei zirka €360 im Jahr. Ich habe unsere über [Geld für eAuto](https://geld-fuer-eauto.de/ref/7F4029BA6) beantragt.
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# The Landlord Changed the Locks
*2026-06-29* — https://alexanderkucera.com/2026/06/29/the-landlord-changed-the-locks.html
What happens when the most capable AI in the world becomes subject to one country's export policy?
June gave us two answers.
## The two Fridays
**Friday, June 12th, 5:21pm ET.** A [directive lands at Anthropic from the U.S. government](https://www.anthropic.com/news/fable-mythos-access). Citing national security authorities under export control rules, they order the company to suspend *all* access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5—"by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States, including foreign national Anthropic employees."
Anthropic couldn't practically separate their users by citizenship, so they killed access for everyone. One minute you had a frontier model. The next, an error message.
The cited reason: someone found a narrow potential jailbreak. Anthropic's own assessment called it "a small number of previously known, minor vulnerabilities" that other publicly-available models can discover too. They're complying while calling it a misunderstanding and working to restore access.
**Friday, June 26th.** [OpenAI announces GPT-5.6 Sol—their new flagship model—in a "limited preview coordinated with the U.S. government.“](https://openai.com/index/previewing-gpt-5-6-sol/) The cyber capabilities are strong enough that general availability will come later, after more coordination with Washington. Trusted partners get in first. Everyone else waits.
Two flagship models in two weeks. One country's export policy decides who gets to use them.
If you're not American, you're a foreign national waiting for permission.
## My stake
I barely use Anthropic or OpenAI day-to-day. I run GLM through Z.ai, a Chinese provider and it works. The Fable 5 cutoff didn't break my workflow. GPT-5.6 Sol gated behind a U.S. government approval process doesn't touch me either.
I'm not writing this because something broke. I'm writing this because **it could**, and I have zero say in whether it does. Export controls turn commercial APIs into foreign-policy instruments. Anyone building on `api.openai.com` or `api.anthropic.com` is building on rented ground—and the landlord just changed the locks.
I'd rather use something based in the EU if the option were obvious and competitive. You don't want the tools your work depends on subject to one country's bureaucratic whims.
So I went looking for European alternatives, expecting thin pickings. Maybe a university project or two. A handful of startups nobody's heard of.
This is what I found:
**Model builders:**
- **Mistral AI** (France)—open-weight LLMs, €11.7B valuation, the closest thing Europe has to a frontier lab
- **Aleph Alpha** (Germany)—sovereign AI platform with German enterprise backing
- **Kyutai** (France)—non-profit research lab, built the Moshi voice model
- **EuroLLM** (EU-funded, Horizon Europe)—multilingual model covering 24 EU languages
- **Bielik / PLLuM** (Poland)—open-source models with Polish-language focus
**Inference providers running open weights on European soil:**
- **Scaleway** (France)—managed GPU inference, OpenAI-compatible API
- **OVHcloud** (France)—AI Endpoints, GDPR-compliant, zero data retention, no training on your prompts
- **IONOS** (Germany)—AI Model Hub hosted in German data centers
- **EUrouter** (Berlin)—sovereign German inference, GDPR-compliant, runs on EU HPC hardware
- **Gcore** (EU)—cloud + edge + AI inference
- **T-Cloud / Deutsche Telekom** (Germany)
- **Cortecs AI**, **Requesty**, **Opper AI** (Stockholm)—EU-hosted gateways routing to dozens of models
- and my personal favourite: **discode.ai** an eco-friendly Austrian router
There are directories cataloging this stuff. [eualternative.eu](https://eualternative.eu/categories/ai-api) lists providers by category. [eurouter.ai/providers](https://www.eurouter.ai/providers) compares them side-by-side. Someone even maintains [an "awesome-european-ai" list on GitHub](https://github.com/jmbarrancoml/awesome-european-ai).
The infrastructure isn't missing, it’s invisible.
I'm a technically literate developer running multi-agent AI setups on a Raspberry Pi. Most days I'm thinking about which models to use, how to wire them together, what costs what.
And I didn't know most of these existed until I went looking specifically for them.
If I can't find them, who can?
China has DeepSeek and Qwen with massive domestic adoption and global mindshare. The U.S. has OpenAI and Anthropic, names every developer recognizes instantly. Europe has a [GitHub README that 24 people have starred](https://github.com/jmbarrancoml/awesome-european-ai) (at the time of writing) and a scattered handful of providers that don't show up when you type "LLM API" into Google.
The EU is good at regulation. The AI Act exists. Horizon Europe funds research. There are working groups, compliance frameworks, ethical guidelines. What the EU hasn’t figured out is saying: *"Hey, we built this thing. Here's where you find it. Here's why you should care."*
The gap isn't R&D. It's advertising.
I'm not saying the EU needs to train a frontier model from scratch tomorrow. That's ten years of work minimum, and honestly, Mistral is already doing credible work in that direction.
What I'm saying is simpler and cheaper: **fund visibility.**
An EU-level campaign that makes European AI infrastructure as easy to discover as `api.openai.com`. Developer outreach. Documentation that doesn't read like a grant application. Marketing budget aimed at the people who actually build things—the indie devs and startups choosing their stack today and living with it for years.
Right now, a CTO picking an LLM provider types "OpenAI" into their browser because that's what comes to mind. They don't type "Scaleway" or "EUrouter" or "OVHcloud AI Endpoints"—not because those options are bad, but because nobody told them those options exist.
That's fixable with money the EU already spends on worse things.
## Why China Isn't the Answer Either
Yes, open-weight models mean anyone can run them. Download the weights, spin up a server, go. No single government can flip a switch and turn them off globally.
But trusting one authoritarian government's ecosystem because another government annoyed you? That's not a strategy. That's a reaction.
The real answer is distributed trust. Open weights hosted across multiple jurisdictions, with EU-based inference as the default for Europeans. Not "pick America or China." Pick something where no single government holds a unilateral kill switch.
## Hold Your Own Key
I'm concerned. The locks got changed once—they can get changed again. Fable 5 might come back. GPT-5.6 Sol might open up to everyone. Or they might not, and next time the gate comes down on something more deeply embedded in how we work.
The question isn't whether the U.S. government will do this again. They will. The question is whether we'll still be standing at their door asking permission.
Europe built the plumbing. Now tell people where it is.
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# 2026-06-27
*2026-06-27* — https://alexanderkucera.com/2026/06/27/new-website-is-up-i.html
[New Website is up!](https://babylondreams.de) I had to retire the old one, because we retired the company at the beginning of the year. Now it's a personal business card. It came out well, I think.
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# I Automated Myself Out of My Own Blog
*2026-06-27* — https://alexanderkucera.com/2026/06/27/i-automated-myself-out-of.html
I killed my Daily News post today. Not the curation—I still get that by email each morning. Just the part where it automatically published to my blog.
I built an n8n workflow, which fetched links, ran them through AI curation, formatted the result and published it to my site. Every single morning without fail. It felt clever at the time. A personal newsroom that ran while I slept.
The problem wasn't any one edition. Some were useful. The problem was the math.
I write maybe one post a week. Two if I'm ambitious. The Daily News posted every day. Over a year that's 365 machine posts against 52 of my own. Seven out of every eight entries on my blog written by something I set up months ago and forgot about.
It stopped being my blog and turned into a news mirror I occasionally wandered into.
I built the thing that crowded me out. Nothing broke. n8n, curation, scheduling—the whole stack did exactly what I designed it to do. Produce content, no intervention needed. I just never asked whether any of it was worth the space it ate.
It ran silent in the background. Sound familiar? It accumulated. Day after day until the ratio flipped and I became the anomaly in my own feed.
So I retired the publishing leg. Email stays; curation's still useful. Nobody judges my inbox ratio except me. But a blog is a signal, and when your own automation drowns out your voice, you pull the plug.
I automated the wrong thing and noticed it too late.
What else is running on autopilot that I haven't looked at lately?
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# Mittens and Orbs
*2026-06-27* — https://alexanderkucera.com/2026/06/27/mittens-and-orbs.html
I have built five dashboards for my AI agents since January. Five. All of them started the same way: a fresh project folder, a Next.js scaffold, the feeling that *this time* I'd build the interface that finally made sense of everything happening inside these models. None of them finished, or mattered. They're all in a folder somewhere called things like `mission-control-v3` and `agent-dashboard-final` and `dashboard-this-time-i-mean-it`.
I finally figured out why they all died. It wasn't the code. It was that every dashboard I built put another layer between me and the thing I was trying to steer.
## The mittens problem
Here's what using an AI dashboard feels like: imagine trying to guide someone who's wearing oven mittens. And you're holding a ten-foot pole. And the person can't actually feel what they're touching, so they're just sort of waving their mitten-hands in the direction you're pointing and hoping something works.
That's a dashboard. That's every dashboard I've tried.
The agent does something. The dashboard summarizes it. The summary collapses detail. I read the summary, form an opinion, give feedback. The dashboard translates my feedback back into whatever format the agent expects. Something gets lost at each step. Always. Not sometimes—always.
The more polished the dashboard, the worse this gets. Pretty cards with status indicators. Progress bars. Color-coded badges. All of it is compression. All of it throws away the information I actually need to make good decisions about where to steer next.
I stopped building dashboards when I realized the layer I was adding wasn't helping me see better. It was helping me see *less*.
## What I actually use
My setup isn't fancy. For general AI work—the kind I'm doing right now, writing this—I use Hermes Agent through Discord. That's it. A chat window. I pick it because Discord works from anywhere: my phone, my iPad, the laptop next to me on the couch. It's not about the platform being special. It's about the platform being *present* and then getting out of the way.
When I'm doing real coding work, I sit in a terminal. cmux, mostly, or Supacode if I'm running Pi Coding Agent directly. The terminal shows me everything. Every tool call. Every thinking block. Every file the agent touched and why. Nothing is collapsed into a card. Nothing is summarized into a badge color. If the agent spent three minutes reasoning through a problem before writing twelve lines of code, I can watch it happen. I can interrupt it if it's going sideways. I can say "stop, try this instead" before it wastes twenty more tokens heading down a dead end.
That's direct. That's me working *with* the agent, not managing it through an interpreter.
## Enter the orb
So here we are in mid-2026, and the YouTube crowd has found a new way to sell the same dashboard idea they've been pushing since OpenClaw launched. They've rebranded it.
Now it's called "Agent OS." Or "Claude OS." Or whatever OS sounds sufficiently futuristic for the thumbnail. The concept is identical: put a GUI in front of your AI agent. But the big new feature, the thing they lead every demo with, is a glowing orb in the middle of the screen. And the orb talks. Text-to-speech pipeline, speech-to-text input, the whole thing. You speak to the orb. The orb speaks back. It glows while it thinks.
I watched Chase AI do this first. Two videos—a whole series about building an "Agent OS" with a talking orb centerpiece. Then Mark Kashef did his version. By the second one I'd had enough.
Here's what the orb actually adds: nothing. It demos beautifully. It looks incredible in a thumbnail. But functionally it's just another abstraction layer on top of the abstraction layers I already don't want. You're not closer to the agent. You're further away. Now there's TTS processing your input before the model sees it, and STT processing the output before you hear it, and a glowing sphere animating in the middle like some kind of AI crystal ball, and none of it helps you understand what the agent is actually doing or thinking.
It's a dashboard wearing a costume.
## Why this keeps happening
I think the reason people keep building these things—and the reason I kept trying to build them myself—is that a terminal feels wrong. It feels unfinished. It feels like you should have *something* prettier around this technology that's supposed to be changing everything. A glowing orb feels like progress. A command line feels like you forgot to build the UI.
But the command line isn't missing a UI. The command line *is* the UI. It's just one that shows you everything instead of deciding what you're allowed to see.
Every layer between you and the agent is a decision someone else made about what information matters. The dashboard developer chose which status codes to surface. The orb designer chose how to represent "thinking" as a glow effect. The TTS pipeline chose which words to emphasize with intonation. Those choices might be fine for a demo. They're terrible for actual work, because actual work lives in the details that get smoothed away.
I want the raw feed. The unfiltered stream. The messy, verbose, sometimes-boring reality of what the agent is actually doing. Because that's where understanding lives. That's where I learn whether the agent is on track or spinning its wheels or about to do something I didn't ask for.
You can't steer what you can't see. And no amount of glowing spheres changes that.
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# The Architect and the Builder
*2026-06-26* — https://alexanderkucera.com/2026/06/26/the-architect-and-the-builder.html
There's a story making the rounds right now. You've probably seen it on YouTube, the headline promising that AI can now *build entire applications* while you watch. Or sleep. Or do whatever productive people do when their computer does all the work.
The pitch goes like this: tell the AI what you want, hit go, and let it loop. It writes code, runs tests, checks its own work, fixes errors, runs tests again, keeps going until it decides it's finished. Computer use, autonomous agents, the whole circus. Set it loose, come back when the product ships.
I think this is lazy. I think it burns tokens to avoid thinking.
## What the loop actually is
The "AI Loop", sometimes called iterative test-driven development, sometimes called agentic coding, always called revolutionary, is straightforward. You give a model a goal. It generates code. It runs that code against a test suite or a browser check or some other validation. If something fails, it reads the error, modifies the code, tries again. Round and round until everything passes.
On paper, it sounds fine. On paper, a lot of things sound fine.
What bothers me isn't that it fails. It's the assumption underneath it. The assumption that the valuable part of building software is the typing. That if you can automate the typing, you've automated the building. That the human's job is to state a wish and wait for fulfillment.
I don't work that way. I don't want to.
## How I actually work
When I sit down to build something, a feature for my app, a new tool, whatever, I don't open a chat window and type "build me a login screen." I start talking. With the AI, yes, but really with myself, out loud, through conversation.
We discuss what this thing needs to *do*. Not the implementation. The behavior. Who uses it. What they're trying to accomplish. Where it fits into everything else that already exists. What happens when something goes wrong. We poke at edge cases. We find the spots where my original idea falls apart under scrutiny.
Those conversations get written down. They become documents. PRDs, specs, call them what you want. Then those documents get broken apart into small, specific pieces. Each piece describes one thing that needs to happen, in enough detail that someone who didn't have the original conversation could execute it without guessing.
*Then*, and only then, does the AI write code.
At that point writing the code is mechanical work. Not because it's easy or unimportant. The decisions have already been made. The architecture is settled. The tradeoffs are named. The AI's job is to implement according to plan, the same way a builder frames a house according to drawings. The builder picks which nail to drive first. The builder doesn't get to move the load-bearing wall.
## Vision is not a prompt
The difference matters because of what the loop throws away.
When you "build X and run tests until done," you're outsourcing the thinking that happens between knowing what you want and knowing how to ask for it specifically. That thinking is where the product gets designed. Where you discover your original idea had a flaw you hadn't noticed. Where you realize two features you planned are actually one feature, or the thing you thought was simple needs three screens, not one.
The loop skips all of that. It takes your initial statement, which is almost certainly underspecified, and starts executing against it immediately. If you're lucky it produces something that works. If you're very lucky it produces something that resembles what you wanted. Either way you've spent a pile of tokens generating and discarding code nobody thought through, because the thinking step got treated as overhead instead of treated as the work itself.
I don't want AI to replace my thinking. I want it to sharpen it.
When I discuss a feature with an AI before anything gets built, the AI pushes back. Asks questions I hadn't considered. Points out contradictions in what I described. Forces me to articulate the vision clearly enough that someone else, something else, can work from it. That's what a tool should do. Make me more capable. Don't make decisions for me.
## The tin foil hat section
I'll say the quiet part out loud: companies selling AI tokens have every incentive to promote workflows that burn lots of them. The loop burns tokens spectacularly. Generate, test, fail, regenerate, retest, refail. Each round trips context through an API. Each round shows up on somebody's invoice.
Maybe that's cynical. Maybe the people pushing autonomous coding loops genuinely believe this is the future of software development. I'm sure some of them do. But I also know that when your business model charges per inference, you're drawn to solutions that require many inferences. The loop is that solution dressed up as innovation.
I'd rather pay for ten focused implementations than a thousand iterations of guess-and-check. I'd rather spend my tokens on conversation than on trial and error.
## What I'm arguing for
None of this means I hand-code everything. Far from it. The AI writes plenty of code in my workflow. It just writes it *last*, after the hard work of figuring out what the code should do.
The division of labor I'm after looks like this:
- The human owns the vision, requirements, architecture, the decisions about what the product *is*
- The AI serves as discussion partner during that process. Sounding board. Questioner.
- The AI implements once the plan is solid, working from granular instructions that reflect real thinking
This is slower to start. Requires more from you upfront. You can't pour coffee and watch the agent spin. You have to show up and think through what you actually want.
What you get back is code that reflects your choices. Code where every file exists because someone decided it should, not because the loop generated it and the tests happened to pass. Code you can explain and defend when requirements shift, because you understand why it looks the way it does.
The loop gives you output. It doesn't give you understanding.
And understanding is the part I'm not willing to outsource.
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# The Daily News — 2026-06-26 Edition
*2026-06-26* — https://alexanderkucera.com/2026/06/26/the-daily-news-edition.html
A curated selection of today's most interesting stories from 61 RSS sources.
## Technology
### Tech Journalism Legend Om Malik Dies at 60
Om Malik passed away on June 24, 2026, at Stanford Hospital after a long health battle with his heart, surrounded by family and friends. The prominent technology journalist and beloved writer kept his struggle private, leaving the tech community in shock.
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Source: [https://om.co/2026/06/24/1966-2026/](https://om.co/2026/06/24/1966-2026/)
### Anthropic Demands Punishment for Alibaba's Massive Claude AI Cloning Attack
Anthropic has accused Alibaba of launching the largest-ever attack to clone its Claude AI model, using nearly 25,000 fraudulent accounts to extract 28.8 million exchanges over six weeks. The campaign targeted Claude's most valuable capabilities including agentic reasoning, software engineering, and long-horizon tasks, as China races to match Western AI following Anthropic's Mythos restrictions.
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Source: [https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/06/anthropic-claims-alibaba-defied-trump-to-attack-claude-and-steal-capabilities/](https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/06/anthropic-claims-alibaba-defied-trump-to-attack-claude-and-steal-capabilities/)
### IBM Unveils Breakthrough Chip Packing 100 Billion Transistors
IBM's revolutionary nanostack architecture can integrate nearly 100 billion transistors on a fingernail-sized chip, delivering unprecedented performance and energy efficiency for AI data centers. The company claims it achieves computing power equivalent to sub-1 nanometer technology through an innovative vertical stacking approach, marking a 'meaningful leap forward' without increasing energy consumption.
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Source: [https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/06/ibm-claims-worlds-first-sub-1-nanometer-chip-technology/](https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/06/ibm-claims-worlds-first-sub-1-nanometer-chip-technology/)
### Xcode 27 Replaces Simulator With New Device Hub
Apple's Xcode 27 introduces Device Hub, a unified tool consolidating simulated and physical iOS device management into a single interface. The feature promises streamlined workflows with remote control capabilities, though early developer feedback reveals concerns about missing functionality like zoom options and limited backward compatibility.
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Source: [https://mjtsai.com/blog/2026/06/25/xcode-27s-device-hub/](https://mjtsai.com/blog/2026/06/25/xcode-27s-device-hub/)
### Mass Layoffs Strike Bungie, Impacting Destiny 2 and Marathon Teams
Bungie has initiated significant staff reductions affecting most of the Destiny 2 development team and some Marathon developers. The studio confirmed the layoffs follow their sci-fi MMO's failure to meet performance expectations, marking a difficult period for the renowned game developer.
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Source: [https://kotaku.com/mass-layoffs-have-started-at-bungie-following-the-end-of-destiny-2-2000710506](https://kotaku.com/mass-layoffs-have-started-at-bungie-following-the-end-of-destiny-2-2000710506) \n## Sports
### Spurs Add Four Draft Picks While Fox Contract Raises Eyebrows
The Spurs picked up 4 new players in the draft. Lots of potential. Some folks are annoyed with De'Aaron Fox, but he was a big part of the Spurs getting 62 wins and making it so far, even if it's weird that he's gonna make so much more money than any other Spurs player. 🏀
--- Source: [https://www.manton.org/2026/06/25/the-spurs-picked-up-new.html](https://www.manton.org/2026/06/25/the-spurs-picked-up-new.html) \n## Business ### Polestar Blocked from US Market After 2026 Over Chinese Ties The US Commerce Department has denied Polestar authorization to import vehicles from model year 2027 onward due to regulations banning connected cars from Chinese-linked automakers. The company will continue selling existing Polestar 3 and 4 SUVs while supporting current customers, but future models like the Polestar 5 sedan and 6 roadster won't reach American shores—a stark contrast to sister company Volvo, which recently received approval. --- Source: [https://arstechnica.com/cars/2026/06/feds-deny-polestar-authorization-to-sell-cars-in-us-from-model-year-2027/](https://arstechnica.com/cars/2026/06/feds-deny-polestar-authorization-to-sell-cars-in-us-from-model-year-2027/) ### Sony Cuts 292 Jobs at Bungie, Decimating Destiny 2 Team
Sony has laid off at least 292 employees at Bungie, with most cuts hitting the Destiny 2 development team as part of broader cost-cutting measures. The massive reduction could significantly impact future development of the popular sci-fi shooter.
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Source: [https://kotaku.com/at-least-292-laid-off-at-bungie-amid-sonys-latest-cuts-2000710669](https://kotaku.com/at-least-292-laid-off-at-bungie-amid-sonys-latest-cuts-2000710669)
### Major Sports Piracy Network with 950 Million Visits Disrupted
ACE, UEFA, and Mexican authorities have seized 44 domains from the PirloTV piracy network, which attracted over 950 million annual visits across Latin America. Despite this significant disruption—the first under Mexico's new ACE partnership—operators quickly launched replacement domains, highlighting the ongoing challenge in combating large-scale sports piracy operations.
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Source: [https://torrentfreak.com/ace-uefa-and-mexico-chase-pirlotvs-950-million-visit-piracy-network/](https://torrentfreak.com/ace-uefa-and-mexico-chase-pirlotvs-950-million-visit-piracy-network/)
### Micron verdoppelt Nettogewinn in drei Monaten – Client-Speicher sorgt für Rekordmargen
In nur drei Monaten verdoppelt einer der größten Speicherhersteller der Welt seinen Nettogewinn. Chips für PCs und Notebooks bringen besonders viel Marge.
--- Source: [[www.heise.de/news/Micr...](https://www.heise.de/news/Micron-Client-Speicher-bringt-die-hoechste-Marge-ein-11345019.html?wt_mc=rss.red.ho.ho.atom.beitrag.beitrag](https://www.heise.de/news/Micron-Client-Speicher-bringt-die-hoechste-Marge-ein-11345019.html?wt_mc=rss.red.ho.ho.atom.beitrag.beitrag)) ### Tesla plant massive Personalaufstockung in Grünheide
Der Absatzeinbruch beim E-Autohersteller Tesla scheint überwunden. Die steigende Nachfrage macht sich auch bei den Plänen für neue Arbeitskräfte bemerkbar.
--- Source: [[www.heise.de/news/Prod...](https://www.heise.de/news/Produktionsausbau-in-Gruenheide-Tesla-stellt-1000-neue-Mitarbeitende-ein-11344771.html?wt_mc=rss.red.ho.ho.atom.beitrag.beitrag](https://www.heise.de/news/Produktionsausbau-in-Gruenheide-Tesla-stellt-1000-neue-Mitarbeitende-ein-11344771.html?wt_mc=rss.red.ho.ho.atom.beitrag.beitrag)) \n## Entertainment ### Avatar: Fire and Ash Hits #1 on Disney Plus in One Day Avatar: Fire and Ash dominated Disney Plus worldwide charts, reaching the #1 spot just 24 hours after its streaming debut. The blockbuster outperformed other major 2025 sci-fi releases including Jurassic World: Rebirth and superhero films Superman and Fantastic Four: First Steps, proving it's the year's biggest sci-fi hit. --- Source: [https://www.polygon.com/disney-plus-no-1-streaming-june25/](https://www.polygon.com/disney-plus-no-1-streaming-june25/) ### Deltarune Chapter 5 Review: Toby Fox's Latest Indie RPG Masterpiece
Kotaku reviews Deltarune Chapter 5: The Festival, the highly anticipated new installment in Toby Fox's beloved indie RPG series. The review explores the chapter's narrative depth and gameplay innovations, marking another compelling entry in this acclaimed franchise.
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Source: [https://kotaku.com/deltarune-chapter-5-the-festival-the-kotaku-review-2000710566](https://kotaku.com/deltarune-chapter-5-the-festival-the-kotaku-review-2000710566)
### Hasbro Under Fire For Trying To Force Child Actors Into AI Voice Contracts
An open letter is fighting to protect the rights of Peppa Pig's child cast from being horribly screwed over
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Source: [https://kotaku.com/hasbro-force-child-actors-ai-voice-contracts-peppa-pig-2000710552](https://kotaku.com/hasbro-force-child-actors-ai-voice-contracts-peppa-pig-2000710552)
### GTA 6's Wild New Features Revealed: Fishing, Chapters, and Alligator TV
Rockstar Games just dropped a treasure trove of new GTA 6 details, and some are gloriously bizarre. Players can look forward to fishing activities, chapter-based storytelling, and yes—an alligator-themed TV show. These unexpected additions promise to make Vice City more immersive and delightfully weird than ever before.
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Source: [https://kotaku.com/10-new-details-we-learned-from-gta-6s-big-info-dump-2000710519](https://kotaku.com/10-new-details-we-learned-from-gta-6s-big-info-dump-2000710519)
### Empty GTA 6 Cases Selling Out As Scalpers Circle
Grand Theft Auto 6's physical edition—which contains only a download code in an empty plastic case—is surprisingly selling out on PS5. Scalpers are already capitalizing on the demand for what is essentially just collector's packaging.
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Source: [https://kotaku.com/grand-theft-auto-6-gta6-pre-orders-physical-disc-scalper-2000710491](https://kotaku.com/grand-theft-auto-6-gta6-pre-orders-physical-disc-scalper-2000710491) \n## Politics
### FCC Moves to Kill $2B School Internet Program Over Screen Time
The FCC is proposing to scale back or eliminate the $2 billion E-Rate program that provides essential internet connectivity to schools and libraries nationwide. Chairman Brendan Carr justified the move by citing concerns about excessive student screen time, though critics argue the program is vital for digital equity and educational access.
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Source: [https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/06/fcc-may-kill-2b-program-that-connects-schools-and-libraries-to-internet/](https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/06/fcc-may-kill-2b-program-that-connects-schools-and-libraries-to-internet/)
### Sachsen verabschiedet kontroverses Polizeigesetz mit KI-Fahndung
Nach einem monatelangen Tauziehen hat der Sächsische Landtag weitreichende Befugnisse für die Ermittler verabschiedet. Scharfe Kritik kommt von Bürgerrechtlern.
--- Source: [[www.heise.de/news/Sach...](https://www.heise.de/news/Sachsens-neues-Polizeigesetz-KI-Fahndung-und-Gesichtserkennung-beschlossen-11345047.html?wt_mc=rss.red.ho.ho.atom.beitrag.beitrag](https://www.heise.de/news/Sachsens-neues-Polizeigesetz-KI-Fahndung-und-Gesichtserkennung-beschlossen-11345047.html?wt_mc=rss.red.ho.ho.atom.beitrag.beitrag)) ### Neues Cybersicherheitsgesetz gefährdet ärztliche Schweigepflicht
Die Kassenärztliche Bundesvereinigung warnt vor geplanten Cyberabwehrbefugnissen für BKA und Bundespolizei, die die Vertraulichkeit der Patientendaten gefährden könnten. Bei der Cyberabwehr könnten Behörden Zugriff auf medizinische Daten erhalten, was fundamental gegen die ärztliche Schweigepflicht verstößt.
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Source: [[www.heise.de/news/Gese...](https://www.heise.de/news/Gesetz-zur-Staerkung-der-Cybersicherheit-Aerzte-sehen-Schweigepflicht-gefaehrdet-11344811.html?wt_mc=rss.red.ho.ho.atom.beitrag.beitrag](https://www.heise.de/news/Gesetz-zur-Staerkung-der-Cybersicherheit-Aerzte-sehen-Schweigepflicht-gefaehrdet-11344811.html?wt_mc=rss.red.ho.ho.atom.beitrag.beitrag))
### Verfassungsrechtler warnen vor Abschaffung der Landesdatenschützer
Verfassungsrechtler sehen große Hürden für die Abschaffung der Landesdatenschutzbeauftragten. Darüber wurde im nordrhein-westfälischen Landtag diskutiert.
--- Source: [[www.heise.de/news/Stre...](https://www.heise.de/news/Streit-um-Datenschutzaufsicht-Absurd-das-zentral-aus-Berlin-oder-Bonn-zu-tun-11344352.html?wt_mc=rss.red.ho.ho.atom.beitrag.beitrag](https://www.heise.de/news/Streit-um-Datenschutzaufsicht-Absurd-das-zentral-aus-Berlin-oder-Bonn-zu-tun-11344352.html?wt_mc=rss.red.ho.ho.atom.beitrag.beitrag)) ### Verfassungsschutz warnt vor chinesischer Spionage an Unis
Sicherheitsbehörden warnen vor chinesischer Wissenschaftsspionage an deutschen Hochschulen. Sind die Forschungseinrichtungen wachsam genug?
--- Source: [[www.heise.de/news/Verf...](https://www.heise.de/news/Verfassungsschutz-zu-Spionage-Unis-sollen-wachsamer-sein-11343924.html?wt_mc=rss.red.ho.ho.atom.beitrag.beitrag](https://www.heise.de/news/Verfassungsschutz-zu-Spionage-Unis-sollen-wachsamer-sein-11343924.html?wt_mc=rss.red.ho.ho.atom.beitrag.beitrag)) \n## Science ### All Homo naledi Skeletons Found Are Female All the Homo naledi skeletons in Rising Star Cave are female, and that probably didn't happen by accident. In 2013, a team led by Lee Berger unearthed remains of more than 20 small-bodied hominins from 335,000 to 236,000 years ago. Now there's a plot twist: according to proteins in their dental enamel, all the hominins in Rising Star are female. --- Source: [https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/06/every-homo-naledi-we-know-of-is-female-and-the-implications-are-fascinating/](https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/06/every-homo-naledi-we-know-of-is-female-and-the-implications-are-fascinating/) ### Every Endangered Species Gets Its Genome Sequenced in Historic Effort A surprising partnership between the US government and Colossal Biosciences will sequence genomes and preserve tissue samples from all 2,300+ species on the Endangered Species list. The ambitious project aims to create a genetic blueprint for future conservation efforts, bringing together an administration that has sought to weaken the Endangered Species Act with a biotech company known for controversial de-extinction pursuits. --- Source: [https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/06/new-effort-will-get-genome-sequences-for-entire-endangered-species-list/](https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/06/new-effort-will-get-genome-sequences-for-entire-endangered-species-list/) ### Mars-Rover Perseverance absolviert Marathon auf dem Roten Planeten
Überhaupt erst als zweiter Rover auf einem anderen Himmelskörper hat Perseverance die Marathondistanz erreicht. Kurz zuvor wurde er aus dem All abgelichtet.
--- Source: [[www.heise.de/news/Mars...](https://www.heise.de/news/Mars-Rover-Perseverance-Anlaesslich-der-Marathondistanz-aus-dem-All-fotografiert-11344757.html?wt_mc=rss.red.ho.ho.atom.beitrag.beitrag](https://www.heise.de/news/Mars-Rover-Perseverance-Anlaesslich-der-Marathondistanz-aus-dem-All-fotografiert-11344757.html?wt_mc=rss.red.ho.ho.atom.beitrag.beitrag)) ### Wie Wetterradardaten Vögel vor Windrädern retten können
Schweizer Forscher haben eine Methode entwickelt, bei der Wetterradar-Daten genutzt werden, um Windräder gezielt abzuschalten, wenn Vogelschwärme im Anflug sind. Diese innovative Lösung könnte bis zu 90 Prozent der Kollisionen verhindern, während der Energieverlust minimal bleibt.
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Source: [https://www.basicthinking.de/blog/2026/06/26/windraeder-vogelschutz-radar/](https://www.basicthinking.de/blog/2026/06/26/windraeder-vogelschutz-radar/)
### KI-Revolution in der Biologie: Heilsbringer oder ticking time bomb?
Künstliche Intelligenz entwirft bereits Impfstoffe, sagt Proteinstrukturen voraus und steuert Laborroboter – was einst Jahre dauerte, geschieht heute in wenigen Wochen. Doch dieselbe Technologie, die medizinische Durchbrüche ermöglicht, könnte auch missbraucht werden, um gefährlichere Krankheitserreger zu schaffen. Experten fordern nun dringend verbindliche Regulierungen, um Innovationen nicht zu bremsen, aber die Gesellschaft vor existenziellen Risiken zu schützen.
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Source: [https://www.basicthinking.de/blog/2026/06/25/synthetische-biologie-ki/](https://www.basicthinking.de/blog/2026/06/25/synthetische-biologie-ki/) \n## Health
### Home-Fitness-Revolution: Effektives Training trotz Platzmangel
Training zu Hause trotz Platzmangel: Smarte Home Gyms, faltbare Laufbänder und kompakte Ergometer ermöglichen effektives Kraft- und Ausdauertraining.
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Source: [[www.heise.de/bestenlis...](https://www.heise.de/bestenlisten/ratgeber/home-gym-statt-fitnessstudio-smarte-geraete-laufband-und-ergometer-fuer-zu-hause/dy68hhh?wt_mc=rss.red.ho.ho.atom.beitrag.beitrag](https://www.heise.de/bestenlisten/ratgeber/home-gym-statt-fitnessstudio-smarte-geraete-laufband-und-ergometer-fuer-zu-hause/dy68hhh?wt_mc=rss.red.ho.ho.atom.beitrag.beitrag))
### Crispy Broiled Potatoes Topped With Salty Halloumi Cheese
Browned on top, creamy on bottom, and bright with lemon. These lemony broiled potatoes topped with halloumi cheese deliver a perfect balance of textures—crispy edges, creamy centers, and a salty, briny finish that elevates simple potatoes into something extraordinary.
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Source: [https://www.seriouseats.com/lemony-potatoes-with-halloumi-cheese-recipe-12004615](https://www.seriouseats.com/lemony-potatoes-with-halloumi-cheese-recipe-12004615)
### Save Thousands With Store-Brand Diapers That Perform Just as Well
Wirecutter tested 14 diaper models and found that house brands from Target, Amazon, and Walmart perform as well as premium options. Parents could save thousands of dollars over their child's diaper-wearing years by choosing these reliable, budget-friendly alternatives.
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Source: [[www.nytimes.com/wirecutte...](https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/best-diapers/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=RSS%20Feed](https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/best-diapers/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=RSS%20Feed))
### How to Look Your Best at the Beach This Summer
Swimsuit season is here, and looking great poolside doesn't require an Olympic physique. This guide shows you how to choose flattering trunks for your body type and skin tone, plus tips on accessories and posture that boost confidence at the beach.
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Source: [https://www.artofmanliness.com/style/clothing/how-to-look-swell-in-a-swimsuit/](https://www.artofmanliness.com/style/clothing/how-to-look-swell-in-a-swimsuit/)
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# 2026-06-25
*2026-06-25* — https://alexanderkucera.com/2026/06/25/the-heat-is-unbearable-already.html
The heat is unbearable already. Not sure how I’ll survive the weekend.
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# The Daily News — 2026-06-25 Edition
*2026-06-25* — https://alexanderkucera.com/2026/06/25/the-daily-news-edition.html
A curated selection of today's most interesting stories from 61 RSS sources.
## Entertainment
### GTA 6 Screenshots Reveal Mind-Blowing Graphics That Stun Fans
Rockstar Games released 63 new Grand Theft Auto 6 screenshots on Tuesday, and you'd better believe fans have spent the day poring through each and every pixel. The trove has proven to be a fire hose of new information about the open-world game — its customization options, vehicles, and weapons. And while fans are excited by all the possibilities teased by these aspects of GTA 6, many are fixated on one surprising detail.
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Source: [https://www.polygon.com/gta-6-ps5-pro-enhancements-ray-tracing-thrillbilly-club/](https://www.polygon.com/gta-6-ps5-pro-enhancements-ray-tracing-thrillbilly-club/)
### Grand Theft Auto VI Breaks the $80 Barrier
Rockstar Games has announced that the wildly anticipated Grand Theft Auto VI will retail for $80 at launch, exceeding even the elevated $70 price point now standard for AAA titles. Adding to the sting, the physical release will contain only a download code rather than a disc, marking another step toward the all-digital future that many gamers have been resisting.
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Source: [https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2026/06/grand-theft-auto-vi-will-cost-80-without-a-physical-disc/](https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2026/06/grand-theft-auto-vi-will-cost-80-without-a-physical-disc/)
### X-Men '97 Season 2 Drops July 1 With Three Episodes
After two years of waiting, X-Men '97 season 2 is almost here. The acclaimed revival of the classic Marvel animated series ended on a massive cliffhanger, but fans won't have to wait much longer—season 2 premieres with three episodes on July 1, and early reviews suggest it will surpass expectations.
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Source: [https://www.polygon.com/x-men-97-season-2-release-schedule-and-episode-titles-revealed/](https://www.polygon.com/x-men-97-season-2-release-schedule-and-episode-titles-revealed/)
### Superman Battles Ancient King Shazam in Action-Packed Issue
Superman faces his deadliest enemy yet—King Shazam, an ancient Egyptian warrior transformed by Brainiac's machinations—alongside unlikely allies Steel and Hawkman. This action-packed issue delivers compelling character development, particularly transforming Hawkman from despised traitor to tragic figure, while exploring the Absolute Universe's fascinating ancient history.
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Source: [[geekdad.com/2026/06/r...](https://geekdad.com/2026/06/review-absolute-superman-20-ancient-wars/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=review-absolute-superman-20-ancient-wars](https://geekdad.com/2026/06/review-absolute-superman-20-ancient-wars/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=review-absolute-superman-20-ancient-wars)) \n## Gaming
### GTA 6 Plays Best on PS5 with Exclusive Features
Sony and Rockstar Games say that Grand Theft Auto 6 "plays best on PS5," pointing out several unique features of the PlayStation 5 hardware that the game will take advantage of, and which won't be available to Xbox Series X players.
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Source: [https://www.polygon.com/news/494309/gta-6-ps5-exclusive-features-ps5-pro](https://www.polygon.com/news/494309/gta-6-ps5-exclusive-features-ps5-pro) \n## Technology
### Apple's Foldable iPhone Ultra Reportedly On Track for September Launch
Apple's first foldable iPhone is back on track for a September debut, with supply chain sources indicating mass production will begin late July. While hinge durability concerns threatened to derail the project, officials report that 'most issues have been resolved' as Apple prepares its biggest product launch of the year.
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Source: [https://www.macworld.com/article/3174840/folding-iphone-is-reportedly-on-track-with-most-hinge-issues-resolved.html](https://www.macworld.com/article/3174840/folding-iphone-is-reportedly-on-track-with-most-hinge-issues-resolved.html)
### Google Cuts Play Store Fees Worldwide After Epic Games Settlement
Google is slashing Play Store fees to 10-25% and allowing developers to use alternative payment systems globally, following its antitrust settlement with Epic Games. The new fee structure starts in the US, UK, and EU in June, rolling out worldwide by 2027—a stark contrast to Apple's fragmented regional policies.
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Source: [https://www.macrumors.com/2026/06/24/google-play-store-fee-change/](https://www.macrumors.com/2026/06/24/google-play-store-fee-change/)
### Physicist Challenges Microsoft's Quantum Computing Breakthrough
A peer-reviewed critique in Nature questions Microsoft's claims about its revolutionary Majorana 1 quantum chip, suggesting the company exaggerated the technology behind its topological qubits. The reanalysis comes just weeks after Microsoft announced the next-generation Majorana 2, raising doubts about whether their supposed quantum breakthrough is as significant as advertised.
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Source: [https://www.theverge.com/tech/956450/nature-microsoft-quantum-computing-majorana-1-claims](https://www.theverge.com/tech/956450/nature-microsoft-quantum-computing-majorana-1-claims)
### Bear Developers Launch Lettera, A Beautiful New Markdown Editor for Mac
The team behind Bear has released Lettera, a standalone Markdown editor for Mac that evolved from their Panda editor. Features include live CommonMark rendering, tables, code blocks, MathJax support, and export to PDF, ePub, and HTML. The beta is available now through TestFlight for anyone eager to try a focused, native writing experience.
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Source: [https://www.macsparky.com/blog/2026/06/lettera-a-new-markdown-editor-for-mac-from-bear-developers/](https://www.macsparky.com/blog/2026/06/lettera-a-new-markdown-editor-for-mac-from-bear-developers/)
### Quantensicherer Chip: Revolutionäre mobile Sicherheit für Smartphones und Smartwatches
Im winzigen ST54M vereint STMicroelectronics zwei ARM-Kerne mit einem Hardware-Beschleuniger für die PQC-Algorithmen ML-KEM (FIPS-203) und ML-DSA (FIPS-204).
--- Source: [[www.heise.de/news/Quan...](https://www.heise.de/news/Quantensicherer-NFC-und-eSIM-Chip-fuer-Smartphones-und-Smartwatches-11343305.html?wt_mc=rss.red.ho.ho.atom.beitrag.beitrag](https://www.heise.de/news/Quantensicherer-NFC-und-eSIM-Chip-fuer-Smartphones-und-Smartwatches-11343305.html?wt_mc=rss.red.ho.ho.atom.beitrag.beitrag)) \n## Politics ### Government Phones Force-Loaded With Undeletable White House App Federal workers across multiple agencies are reporting that the White House's new app automatically installed on their work phones and cannot be removed. Employees from the USDA, State Department, and Department of Labor describe the mandatory installation as disturbing, with attempts to delete the app resulting in immediate reinstallation. --- Source: [https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/06/white-house-app-auto-downloads-to-government-phones-cant-be-uninstalled/](https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/06/white-house-app-auto-downloads-to-government-phones-cant-be-uninstalled/) ### 30-Year Prison Sentence for Moving Box of Zines in Antifa Crackdown
Eight Texas activists received shockingly harsh prison sentences ranging from 30 to 100 years as part of the Trump administration's crackdown on antifascist activists following Charlie Kirk's assassination. One activist was sentenced to 30 years in part for simply moving a box of zines, raising serious concerns about overreach in the pursuit of political retribution.
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Source: [https://www.theverge.com/policy/956404/prairieland-sentencing-zines-trump-antifa](https://www.theverge.com/policy/956404/prairieland-sentencing-zines-trump-antifa)
### Congresswoman Denies Using AI to Draft Defense Legislation
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) clarified her office only used AI for "spellcheck" on an amendment summary after screenshots surfaced showing Anthropic's Claude AI appearing to draft language for a defense bill. She emphasized that no actual legislation is ever written using AI tools.
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Source: [https://www.theverge.com/policy/956394/florida-anna-paulina-luna-anthropic-claude](https://www.theverge.com/policy/956394/florida-anna-paulina-luna-anthropic-claude) \n## Business
### Disney to Pay $50M Settlement Over Streaming Price Inflation
The Walt Disney Company has agreed to pay $50 million to subscribers of YouTube TV and DirecTV's live TV streaming services to settle a lawsuit that claimed that Disney forced these services to raise their prices. The complaint alleged Disney's practice of requiring distributors to include ESPN in base packages drove up costs for consumers through anticompetitive agreements.
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Source: [https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/06/disney-agreed-to-50m-settlement-over-claims-it-made-live-tv-streaming-expensive/](https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/06/disney-agreed-to-50m-settlement-over-claims-it-made-live-tv-streaming-expensive/)
### Binance beendet Krypto-Handel im Europäischen Wirtschaftsraum
Durchhalteparolen zum Trotz informiert die Kryptobörse Binance Kunden im EWR über die Schließung. 1.000 weitere Anbieter gehen ebenfalls.
--- Source: [[www.heise.de/news/Kryp...](https://www.heise.de/news/Kryptoboersen-Marktbereinigung-im-Europaeischen-Wirtschaftsraum-11343814.html?wt_mc=rss.red.ho.ho.atom.beitrag.beitrag](https://www.heise.de/news/Kryptoboersen-Marktbereinigung-im-Europaeischen-Wirtschaftsraum-11343814.html?wt_mc=rss.red.ho.ho.atom.beitrag.beitrag)) ### Alibaba klagt gegen US-Regierung nach Pentagon-Liste
Der chinesische Tech-Riese Alibaba zieht vor Gericht, nachdem das Pentagon das Unternehmen auf eine Liste von Firmen mit angeblichen militärischen Verbindungen gesetzt hatte. Der Rechtsstreit wirft ein Licht auf die zunehmenden Spannungen zwischen den USA und chinesischen Technologieunternehmen.
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Source: [[www.heise.de/news/Alib...](https://www.heise.de/news/Alibaba-verklagt-US-Regierung-11343388.html?wt_mc=rss.red.ho.ho.atom.beitrag.beitrag](https://www.heise.de/news/Alibaba-verklagt-US-Regierung-11343388.html?wt_mc=rss.red.ho.ho.atom.beitrag.beitrag))
### GameStop-CEO Ryan Cohen verzichtet auf Bonuszahlung
Mit Blick auf die geplante Übernahme von eBay will CEO Ryan Cohen die Zusatzzahlung von bis zu 35 Milliarden Euro in Anspruch nehmen.
--- Source: [[www.heise.de/news/Game...](https://www.heise.de/news/GameStop-CEO-verzichtet-auf-Bonuszahlung-11342766.html?wt_mc=rss.red.ho.ho.atom.beitrag.beitrag](https://www.heise.de/news/GameStop-CEO-verzichtet-auf-Bonuszahlung-11342766.html?wt_mc=rss.red.ho.ho.atom.beitrag.beitrag)) ### E-Autoprämie: Kein China-Schock – die Zahlen sprechen eine andere Sprache
Trotz medialer Befürchtungen profitieren chinesische Autoherfier nicht maßgeblich von der deutschen E-Autoprämie. Aktuelle Daten zeigen: Weniger als 15 Prozent der Förderanträge entfallen auf chinesische Marken, kein einziges chinesisches Modell steht unter den Top-10 der meistverkauften E-Autos. Der viel diskutierte 'China-Schock' erweist sich als Märchen – und sollte sich das Bild ändern, hätte Europa bereits Mechanismen für einen Kurswechsel parat.
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Source: [https://www.basicthinking.de/blog/2026/06/24/e-autopraemie-china/](https://www.basicthinking.de/blog/2026/06/24/e-autopraemie-china/) \n## Health
### Military Reinstates Flu Shot Mandate After Texas Base Outbreak Sickens 222
The Army, Navy, and Air Force are once again requiring basic trainees to get vaccinated against influenza after the virus quickly swept through an Air Force base in Texas, sickening at least 222 recruits and hospitalizing four. The outbreak flared just two months after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth abandoned a decades-long requirement for flu shots. The requirement was intended to keep armed forces healthy in their bases, which provide ideally tight conditions for a variety of pathogens, including influenza, to run rampant.
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Source: [https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/06/military-branches-restore-flu-shot-requirement-after-virus-swept-through-base/](https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/06/military-branches-restore-flu-shot-requirement-after-virus-swept-through-base/)
### DiGA: Digitale Innovation oder Kostentreiber im Gesundheitswesen?
DiGA gelten als Vorzeigeprojekt der Digitalisierung im Gesundheitswesen. Doch sind sie Innovations- oder Kostentreiber? Darum geht's im Digital-Health-Podcast.
--- Source: [[www.heise.de/hintergru...](https://www.heise.de/hintergrund/Digital-Health-Podcast-DiGA-als-Innovation-auf-Kosten-der-Krankenkassen-11343640.html?wt_mc=rss.red.ho.ho.atom.beitrag.beitrag](https://www.heise.de/hintergrund/Digital-Health-Podcast-DiGA-als-Innovation-auf-Kosten-der-Krankenkassen-11343640.html?wt_mc=rss.red.ho.ho.atom.beitrag.beitrag)) \n## Science ### Space Shuttle Endeavor Goes on Spectacular Public Display There are some sights in this world that no photograph can truly capture. The California Science Center in Los Angeles will reveal the launch-pad-like display of the space shuttle Endeavor on November 13, offering an awe-inspiring experience that rivals the planet's most breathtaking natural wonders. --- Source: [https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/06/november-launch-set-for-space-shuttle-endeavours-towering-display/](https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/06/november-launch-set-for-space-shuttle-endeavours-towering-display/) ### Ohne Akku: Künstliche Photosynthese erzeugt selbstständig Treibstoff
Forscher in Osaka haben ein revolutionäres System für künstliche Photosynthese entwickelt, das ohne Batterie oder externe Steuerung aus Sonnenlicht, Wasser und CO2 Treibstoff gewinnen kann. Der Clou ist ein selbstregulierender Elektrolyseur, der durch Temperaturänderung seinen Widerstand automatisch anpasst und so kontinuierlich Ameisensäure als Energieträger produziert.
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Source: [https://www.basicthinking.de/blog/2026/06/25/kuenstliche-photosynthese/](https://www.basicthinking.de/blog/2026/06/25/kuenstliche-photosynthese/)
### Max-Planck-Wissenschaftler entwickeln bahnbrechende Methode zur Nanodiamant-Herstellung aus Graphen
Nanodiamanten sind vielseitig einsetzbar, unter anderem in Quantencomputern. Ein Forscherteam hat ein Verfahren entwickelt, um sie nach Wunsch aufzubauen.
--- Source: [[www.heise.de/news/Max-...](https://www.heise.de/news/Max-Planck-Forscher-stellen-Nanodiamanten-aus-Graphen-her-11342738.html?wt_mc=rss.red.ho.ho.atom.beitrag.beitrag](https://www.heise.de/news/Max-Planck-Forscher-stellen-Nanodiamanten-aus-Graphen-her-11342738.html?wt_mc=rss.red.ho.ho.atom.beitrag.beitrag)) ### Jahrzehntealter Dunkle-Materie-Beweis könnte falsch sein
Der Bullet-Cluster gilt als wichtiger Beweis für die Existenz von Dunkler Materie. Nun meint ein Forschungsteam, dessen Besonderheit anders erklären zu können.
--- Source: [[www.heise.de/news/Astr...](https://www.heise.de/news/Astronomie-Galaxien-im-Bullet-Cluster-doch-kein-Beweis-fuer-Dunkle-Materie-11342754.html?wt_mc=rss.red.ho.ho.atom.beitrag.beitrag](https://www.heise.de/news/Astronomie-Galaxien-im-Bullet-Cluster-doch-kein-Beweis-fuer-Dunkle-Materie-11342754.html?wt_mc=rss.red.ho.ho.atom.beitrag.beitrag)) ### Klimakrise: Westeuropas Hitzewelle bis zu 4 Grad heißer durch Klimawandel
Frankreich und Teile Westeuropas ächzen unter einer Hitzewelle. Die Temperaturen liegen um bis zu 4 Grad Celsius über dem, was ohne Klimawandel gemessen würde.
--- Source: [[www.heise.de/news/Aktu...](https://www.heise.de/news/Aktuelle-Hitzewelle-in-Westeuropa-wegen-Klimawandel-um-bis-zu-4-Grad-heisser-11342208.html?wt_mc=rss.red.ho.ho.atom.beitrag.beitrag](https://www.heise.de/news/Aktuelle-Hitzewelle-in-Westeuropa-wegen-Klimawandel-um-bis-zu-4-Grad-heisser-11342208.html?wt_mc=rss.red.ho.ho.atom.beitrag.beitrag)) \n## Sports ### Formula E's GEN4 Era: Traditional Race Tracks Join 21-Race Calendar Formula E unveiled its 2026-2027 Season 12 calendar featuring 21 races across 13 cities, marking a significant shift toward traditional race tracks to accommodate the more powerful GEN4 electric car. The series will debut at Formula 1 venues including Mexico City, Circuit of the Americas in Texas, and Miami International Autodrome, reflecting the new car's increased speeds that exceed current street circuit limitations. --- Source: [https://arstechnica.com/cars/2026/06/formula-e-reveals-first-calendar-for-gen4-with-lots-of-real-race-tracks/](https://arstechnica.com/cars/2026/06/formula-e-reveals-first-calendar-for-gen4-with-lots-of-real-race-tracks/) ### Fußball-WM im Stream: Warum die ARD/ZDF-Übertragung ihren Gebührenwert beweist
Wenn ich die WM schaue, freue ich mich vor allem über geringe Latenzen. Und die bekomme ich linear und im freien Stream bei ARD und ZDF, meint Ulrike Kuhlmann.
--- Source: [[www.heise.de/meinung/K...](https://www.heise.de/meinung/Kommentar-zur-Fussball-WM-Schnelle-Bilder-dafuer-zahle-ich-Rundfunkgebuehren-11342651.html?wt_mc=rss.red.ho.ho.atom.beitrag.beitrag](https://www.heise.de/meinung/Kommentar-zur-Fussball-WM-Schnelle-Bilder-dafuer-zahle-ich-Rundfunkgebuehren-11342651.html?wt_mc=rss.red.ho.ho.atom.beitrag.beitrag)) ### Keine Monopolpreise für Pixelbilder bei der Fußball-WM
Wenn die Öffentlichkeit für die Infrastruktur des Fußballs aufkommt, sollte sie keine Monopolpreise für Pixelbilder zahlen, meint Hartmut Gieselmann.
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# The Daily News — 2026-06-24 Edition
*2026-06-24* — https://alexanderkucera.com/2026/06/24/the-daily-news-edition.html
A curated selection of today's most interesting stories from 61 RSS sources.
## Entertainment
### Batman's Legendary Knightfall Story Gets R-Rated Animated Adaptation
One of Batman's most influential comic storylines is finally coming to animation with an R-rated rating. DC and Warner Bros. Animation debuted the first trailer for Batman: Knightfall Part 1 during the Annecy International Animation Film Festival, giving fans their first look at this highly anticipated adaptation.
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Source: [https://www.polygon.com/batman-knightfall-trailer-part-1/](https://www.polygon.com/batman-knightfall-trailer-part-1/)
### Tom Cruise's New Digger Trailer Celebrates His Iconic Career
Tom Cruise is perhaps the greatest living movie star there is. Since the '80s, he's been turning in iconic performances across genres and been the face of franchises like Top Gun and Mission: Impossible. When Tom Cruise is in a movie, people are seated. That's the idea behind the trailer for his upcoming film Digger, from director Alejandro G. Iñárritu (Birdman, The Revenant).
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Source: [https://www.polygon.com/new-digger-trailer-is-just-a-three-minute-ode-to-how-cool-tom-cruise-is/](https://www.polygon.com/new-digger-trailer-is-just-a-three-minute-ode-to-how-cool-tom-cruise-is/)
### ILM's Near-Disaster That Created The Rocketeer's Epic Finale
Industrial Light & Magic's spectacular Zeppelin explosion finale in 'The Rocketeer' was nearly a catastrophic failure when a 36-foot miniature unexpectedly detonated prematurely. Visual effects supervisor Ken Ralston reveals how his team rebuilt the model and re-shot the sequence, combining stop-motion animation, miniatures, and early digital composites to create one of cinema's most memorable practical effects sequences.
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Source: [https://beforesandafters.com/2026/06/23/rocketeer-ilm/](https://beforesandafters.com/2026/06/23/rocketeer-ilm/)
### Dragon Ball Xenoverse 3 Looks Like a Major Leap Forward for the Series
The upcoming Dragon Ball Xenoverse 3 is generating excitement as a significant improvement over its predecessors, featuring involvement from the late series creator Akira Toriyama. Early impressions suggest the game could deliver a worthy evolution for fans of the popular fighting franchise.
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Source: [https://kotaku.com/dragon-ball-xenoverse-3-akira-toriyama-preview-trailer-2000709577](https://kotaku.com/dragon-ball-xenoverse-3-akira-toriyama-preview-trailer-2000709577)
### Star Wars: Galactic Racer Captures High-Speed Racing Fantasy
Fuse Games has successfully captured the exhilarating experience of high-speed sci-fi racing in Star Wars: Galactic Racer. The game delivers the core fantasy of whipping around sci-fi planets at dizzying speeds, offering players an authentic and thrilling racing experience.
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Source: [https://kotaku.com/star-wars-galactic-racer-looks-and-feels-awesome-2000709494](https://kotaku.com/star-wars-galactic-racer-looks-and-feels-awesome-2000709494) \n## Business
### Oracle's AI Transformation: 21,000 Jobs Cut to Fuel Tech Investment
The growing use of AI contributed to Oracle laying off 21,000 workers in a year, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing on Monday. In its annual regulatory filing for the fiscal year ending May 31, Oracle said it has 141,000 full-time employees. In its 2025 filing, Oracle said it had 162,000 employees. The reported 12.9 percent reduction followed March reports of mass layoffs at the database management software company.
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Source: [https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/06/oracles-21000-layoffs-help-drive-its-debt-fueled-ai-investments/](https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/06/oracles-21000-layoffs-help-drive-its-debt-fueled-ai-investments/)
### How Seed Patents Are Stifling Competition and Innovation
The United States allows companies to hold patents on plant varieties, leading to market concentration where two firms control over 70% of corn and soybean seed sales. The Department of Justice has acknowledged that these seed patents are obstructing competition and research in the agriculture industry.
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Source: [https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/06/everyone-pays-the-price-as-patent-holders-on-seeds-stifle-innovation/](https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/06/everyone-pays-the-price-as-patent-holders-on-seeds-stifle-innovation/)
### $4 Billion iCloud Lawsuit Approved: UK iPhone Users Could Get Payout
If you've used iCloud in the past five years while living in the U.K., you could be in line for a future payout. A £3bn (roughly $4bn) class-action lawsuit against Apple has been given the go-ahead to proceed to trial.
The advocacy group Which? filed the claim in November 2024, accusing Apple of breaching U.K. competition law by allegedly locking consumers into iCloud services and charging excessive prices. Apple denies the claims and says it will vigorously defend against the lawsuit.
Up to 40 million consumers could be affected, with potential payouts of around £77 per person if Apple loses the case. The trial is expected to begin in October 2028.
Privatsphäre, Bargeldschutz und Unabhängigkeit von US-Konzernen: Der Wirtschaftsausschuss des Parlaments ebnet den Weg für die neue europäische Digitalwährung.
--- Source: [[www.heise.de/news/Digi...](https://www.heise.de/news/Digitale-Waehrung-EU-Parlament-stellt-die-Weichen-fuer-den-digitalen-Euro-11341948.html?wt_mc=rss.red.ho.ho.atom.beitrag.beitrag](https://www.heise.de/news/Digitale-Waehrung-EU-Parlament-stellt-die-Weichen-fuer-den-digitalen-Euro-11341948.html?wt_mc=rss.red.ho.ho.atom.beitrag.beitrag)) ### Oracle streicht alle 25 Minuten einen Arbeitsplatz
Bei Oracle gibt es gut 21.000 Arbeitsplätze weniger als noch vor einem Jahr. Die Investitionen in KI kommen manche teuer als andere.
--- Source: [[www.heise.de/news/Orac...](https://www.heise.de/news/Oracle-streicht-alle-25-Minuten-einen-Arbeitsplatz-11342132.html?wt_mc=rss.red.ho.ho.atom.beitrag.beitrag](https://www.heise.de/news/Oracle-streicht-alle-25-Minuten-einen-Arbeitsplatz-11342132.html?wt_mc=rss.red.ho.ho.atom.beitrag.beitrag)) \n## Politics ### ABC Fights FCC Attempts to Control 'The View' Guests ABC is urging viewers to protest the FCC's attempt to regulate guest appearances on 'The View' by challenging its classification as a news program. The network launched a commercial asking viewers to submit comments opposing the FCC's review, which could remove the show's exemption from equal-time requirements for political candidates. ABC says the FCC is trying to 'control who is allowed' on the show. --- Source: [https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/06/abc-asks-viewers-to-protest-fcc-attempt-to-control-who-is-allowed-on-the-view/](https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/06/abc-asks-viewers-to-protest-fcc-attempt-to-control-who-is-allowed-on-the-view/) ### Mystery 79-year-old gets special access to breakthrough obesity drug In an extremely odd case, a single 79-year-old patient was granted early access to Eli Lilly's powerful, still-experimental obesity drug retatrutide through the Food and Drug Administration's "compassionate use" program—raising immediate questions if that sole patient is President Donald Trump, according to a report by Stat News. Lilly's retatrutide is a highly anticipated next-generation obesity drug that targets GIP and glucagon hormones in addition to GLP-1. It is currently in late-stage trials to treat obesity, diabetes, sleep apnea, and other conditions. Data from a Phase 3 trial that Lilly released in May indicates that patients with obesity (but without diabetes) who took the drug for 80 weeks lost 28 percent of their weight, an amount comparable to bariatric surgery. --- Source: [https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/06/trump-may-be-mystery-patient-in-odd-case-of-79yo-getting-experimental-obesity-drug/](https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/06/trump-may-be-mystery-patient-in-odd-case-of-79yo-getting-experimental-obesity-drug/) ### EU verschärft Kampf gegen Kindesmissbrauch im Netz
Unterhändler des EU-Parlaments und des Rats haben sich auf eine umfassende digitale Modernisierung der Richtlinie gegen sexuelle Gewalt an Kindern verständigt.
--- Source: [[www.heise.de/news/EU-v...](https://www.heise.de/news/EU-verschaerft-Strafrecht-Live-Streaming-von-Kindesmissbrauch-wird-strafbar-11341988.html?wt_mc=rss.red.ho.ho.atom.beitrag.beitrag](https://www.heise.de/news/EU-verschaerft-Strafrecht-Live-Streaming-von-Kindesmissbrauch-wird-strafbar-11341988.html?wt_mc=rss.red.ho.ho.atom.beitrag.beitrag)) ### Deutschland beschleunigt Infrastrukturprojekte
Die Bundesregierung einigt sich auf ein Gesetz, das die Umsetzung von Verkehrsprojekte beschleunigen soll. Umweltschutz soll weniger streng gehandhabt werden.
--- Source: [[www.heise.de/news/Gese...](https://www.heise.de/news/Gesetz-fuer-schnellere-Verkehrsprojekte-beschlossen-11341608.html?wt_mc=rss.red.ho.ho.atom.beitrag.beitrag](https://www.heise.de/news/Gesetz-fuer-schnellere-Verkehrsprojekte-beschlossen-11341608.html?wt_mc=rss.red.ho.ho.atom.beitrag.beitrag)) ### Das Ranking: Deutschlands vertrauenswürdigste Nachrichtenquellen 2026
Angesichts wachsender Fake-News-Problematik und KI-generierter Inhalte schenken 91 Prozent der Deutschen klassischen Medien wieder mehr Vertrauen. Eine neue Studie des Reuters Institute zeigt, dass etablierte Nachrichtenformate deutlich höher im Kurs stehen als Boulevardpresse – während Bild mit nur 24 Prozent Vertrauen das Schlusslicht bildet.
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Source: [https://www.basicthinking.de/blog/2026/06/23/nachrichtenquellen-vertrauen-deutschen/](https://www.basicthinking.de/blog/2026/06/23/nachrichtenquellen-vertrauen-deutschen/) \n## Health
### Yellow or White? Choosing the Right Onion Makes a Bigger Difference Than You Think
A practical cooking guide explaining the key differences between yellow and white onions and when to use each variety for best results. Understanding these distinctions can elevate your dishes and help you make smarter substitutions in recipes.
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Source: [https://www.seriouseats.com/yellow-onions-vs-white-onions-11837142](https://www.seriouseats.com/yellow-onions-vs-white-onions-11837142)
### The $5 Bathroom Tool That Belongs in Your Kitchen
Here's how a humble toothpaste squeezer can help you get every last drop of tomato paste and food in tubes.
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Source: [https://www.seriouseats.com/tomato-paste-toothpaste-squeezer-tip-11775108](https://www.seriouseats.com/tomato-paste-toothpaste-squeezer-tip-11775108)
### Digitale Gesundheitspolitik: Patientenvertreterin warnt vor Abhängigkeiten bei Einführung der ePA
Digitalisierung darf Menschen nicht in neue Abhängigkeiten drängen, sagt Jana Hassel von der BAG SELBSTHILFE. Die ePA dürfe kein Zwangszugang werden.
--- Source: [[www.heise.de/hintergru...](https://www.heise.de/hintergrund/Die-Digitalisierung-hat-grosses-Potenzial-fuer-Patientinnen-und-Patienten-11340915.html?wt_mc=rss.red.ho.ho.atom.beitrag.beitrag](https://www.heise.de/hintergrund/Die-Digitalisierung-hat-grosses-Potenzial-fuer-Patientinnen-und-Patienten-11340915.html?wt_mc=rss.red.ho.ho.atom.beitrag.beitrag)) ### Erste Krankenkasse ermöglicht Arzttermine direkt per App
Die SBK Krankenkasse integriert die 116117-Terminvermittlung in ihre App. Damit ist sie nach eigenen Angaben Vorreiterin unter den gesetzlichen Kassen.
--- Source: [[www.heise.de/news/Erst...](https://www.heise.de/news/Erste-Krankenkasse-bringt-Arzttermine-in-ihre-Service-App-11339949.html?wt_mc=rss.red.ho.ho.atom.beitrag.beitrag](https://www.heise.de/news/Erste-Krankenkasse-bringt-Arzttermine-in-ihre-Service-App-11339949.html?wt_mc=rss.red.ho.ho.atom.beitrag.beitrag)) ### The Best Mattresses for 2026
Choosing the right mattress is one of the most important steps in getting a restful night's sleep. It's also one of the most challenging, because a perfect match is highly individual. And you might not know exactly which type of mattress is right for you. We've dedicated hundreds of hours to interviewing experts, trying mattresses at our testing site, and sleeping on them in our own homes, all in an effort to zero in on the beds that may be worth your money. This page provides a helpful roadmap to our extensive mattress coverage and to finding your best mattress — and your best sleep.
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Source: [[www.nytimes.com/wirecutte...](https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/best-mattress/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=RSS%20Feed](https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/best-mattress/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=RSS%20Feed)) \n## Science
### US Climate Website Reborn as Nonprofit Restoration Project
After the Trump administration shut down the US government's comprehensive climate.gov website, volunteers and former administrators rallied to preserve the valuable climate information. Working together, they successfully restored all the lost resources at climate.us, ensuring vital climate data and analyses remain accessible to the public despite government censorship efforts.
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Source: [https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/06/uss-climate-gov-site-taken-down-by-trump-relaunched-by-nonprofit/](https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/06/uss-climate-gov-site-taken-down-by-trump-relaunched-by-nonprofit/)
### Ancient Land Animals Skipped Tadpole Phase, Breaking Evolutionary Rules
A new study of 300-million-year-old embolomers—crocodile-eel hybrids up to 3 meters long—reveals their centimeter-scale babies lacked a tadpole stage. This challenges long-held assumptions that early tetrapods developed like modern amphibians, rewriting our understanding of vertebrate evolution's water-to-land transition.
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Source: [https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/06/early-land-animals-skipped-the-tadpole-phase/](https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/06/early-land-animals-skipped-the-tadpole-phase/)
### Forscher finden überraschend viel CO2 in Meeresboden-Organismen
Forschende haben untersucht, wie gut Mikroorganismen Kohlenstoff im Meeresboden aufnehmen – und dauerhaft halten können. Die Erkenntnisse sind überraschend.
--- Source: [[www.heise.de/news/Fors...](https://www.heise.de/news/Forscher-messen-unerwartet-viel-CO2-in-den-Organismen-im-Meeresboden-11341184.html?wt_mc=rss.red.ho.ho.atom.beitrag.beitrag](https://www.heise.de/news/Forscher-messen-unerwartet-viel-CO2-in-den-Organismen-im-Meeresboden-11341184.html?wt_mc=rss.red.ho.ho.atom.beitrag.beitrag)) ### James Webb enthüllt: Interstellarer Komet 10 bis 12 Milliarden Jahre alt
3I/ATLAS hat noch immer Überraschungen parat: Daten des Weltraumteleskops James Webb legen nahe, dass der interstellare Komet noch einmal älter ist als gedacht. Diese Erkenntnisse deuten darauf hin, dass das Objekt möglicherweise aus den frühesten Zeiten des Universums stammt.
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Source: [[www.heise.de/news/3I-A...](https://www.heise.de/news/3I-ATLAS-Interstellarer-Komet-ist-wohl-sogar-10-bis-12-Milliarden-Jahre-alt-11341252.html?wt_mc=rss.red.ho.ho.atom.beitrag.beitrag](https://www.heise.de/news/3I-ATLAS-Interstellarer-Komet-ist-wohl-sogar-10-bis-12-Milliarden-Jahre-alt-11341252.html?wt_mc=rss.red.ho.ho.atom.beitrag.beitrag)) \n## Technology
### China überholt USA mit schnellstem Supercomputer der Welt
Nach Jahren der Abstinenz ist China wieder dabei – und wie: Mit eigenem Prozessor, eigenem Interconnect und eigenem Betriebssystem auf Platz 1 der Top500-Liste.
--- Source: [[www.heise.de/news/Chin...](https://www.heise.de/news/China-ueberholt-die-USA-mit-schnellstem-Top500-Supercomputer-2-2-Exaflops-11340555.html?wt_mc=rss.red.ho.ho.atom.beitrag.beitrag](https://www.heise.de/news/China-ueberholt-die-USA-mit-schnellstem-Top500-Supercomputer-2-2-Exaflops-11340555.html?wt_mc=rss.red.ho.ho.atom.beitrag.beitrag)) ### Breakthrough: Electric Tech Could Decarbonize Cement Industry
German startup Litherm Technologies has developed a fully electric calcination process that could eliminate billions of tons of CO2 emissions from the notoriously hard-to-decarbonize lime and cement industry. Backed by Bill Gates' Fellowship program and major industry investors, the technology is already running at pilot scale and could transform one of the world's most polluting sectors.
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Source: [https://www.basicthinking.de/blog/2026/06/23/vollelektrische-kalzinierung-co2/](https://www.basicthinking.de/blog/2026/06/23/vollelektrische-kalzinierung-co2/)
### Meta Launches Its Own $299 Smart Glasses Ahead of Apple's Debut
Meta today unveiled its first smart glasses sold under its own brand rather than Ray-Ban or Oakley, undercutting its existing lineup on price as it works to expand its lead in the category before Apple enters the market.
The new Adventurer and Fury models are priced at $299, $80 less than the second-generation Ray-Ban Meta Wayfarer that launched last year. A third model, the Starfire, was designed in collaboration with Kylie Jenner and costs $399.
EssilorLuxottica, the parent company of Ray-Ban and Oakley, is manufacturing the glasses despite Meta designing them in-house and putting its own name on them, with EssilorLuxottica's logo appearing on the temple arms and packaging alongside Meta's.
The Adventurer has a rectangular Wayfarer-like shape available in standard and large sizes, while the Fury shares that silhouette but is thicker. The Starfire takes a slimmer oval shape and includes a small gemstone on the right lens near the camera, a metal nose pad designed to resist makeup residue, and the option to set an AI-generated version of Jenner's voice for the assistant and onboarding prompts. The Starfire's case includes a handwritten note from Jenner and a built-in mirror.
Across all three styles, Meta added a three-way adjustable nose pad, adjustable temple tips, and overextension hinges so the arms flare out slightly for wider head shapes. The companies are offering 26 color and lens combinations between the Adventurer and Fury alone, including tortoise, black, and green finishes, plus transition, polarized, and clear lens options, and the glasses support prescription lenses with a power range of -12 to +2.25.
The new glasses carry over the same 12-megapixel camera, 3K video capture, five-microphone array, and eight-hour battery life as the existing Ray-Ban Meta Gen 2 glasses, with the included case adding about 40 hours of additional charge. Meta is also offering a separate Meta Glasses Charging Stand compatible with the new models as well as the Ray-Ban Meta and Oakley Meta HSTN lines.
The glasses ship with Meta's Muse Spark AI model, which the company says improves response quality and adds 14 new languages to live translation support, including Mandarin, Korean, Japanese, Arabic, and Hindi, bringing the total to 20. A new "Dynamic Photo" feature captures a burst of images and selects the best shot, and pedestrian turn-by-turn navigation is coming to the camera-equipped lineup after debuting on Meta's display glasses.
According to Bloomberg, Meta also hinted that it's considering a version of its glasses without a camera, focusing on an audio-only experience for phone calls, media playback and interacting with its AI tools. A camera-free option could both lower the price point and enable new styles, it said, given the need to include fewer components.
The company also addressed Apple directly, calling the iPhone maker "formidable" in the space ahead of its own glasses debut. "I think you need to take anything they do seriously," Meta's Alex Himel said, adding, "they're good at hardware, they're good at design. There's a number of places where we won't necessarily be able to build the same quality consumer experience when paired with the phone, and so I think they're taking advantage of that."
Apple is widely expected to release its first smart glasses in 2027, designed in-house rather than through a partner brand. Apple's glasses will likely rely on a camera, microphones, and Siri for AI-driven features without an integrated display, putting them in direct competition with Meta's camera-equipped lineup rather than higher-end display models like Meta's Ray-Ban Display glasses.
Meta said it explored facial recognition tools for identifying people the wearer knows but has not put the feature into active development while it works through privacy and societal concerns.
The Adventurer, Fury, and Starfire glasses are available starting today through Meta and EssilorLuxottica retail partners including LensCrafters.
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Source: [https://www.macrumors.com/2026/06/23/meta-launches-its-own-299-smart-glasses/](https://www.macrumors.com/2026/06/23/meta-launches-its-own-299-smart-glasses/)
### Thunderbolt 5 SSDs Deliver Blazing Speed for Your Mac
External SSDs have never been more affordable, and the latest Thunderbolt 5 and USB4 models offer incredible performance improvements. Macworld's comprehensive guide covers everything from budget-friendly options to high-speed drives perfect for creative professionals and Time Machine backups.
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Source: [https://www.macworld.com/article/668458/best-external-ssd-for-mac.html](https://www.macworld.com/article/668458/best-external-ssd-for-mac.html)
### Deutsche Bahn: Komplettausfall durch Funkstörung behoben
Aktuell stehen die Züge in Deutschland still. Es gibt Probleme mit dem digitalen Bahnfunk GSM-R. UPDATE: Störung ist behoben, Bahnverkehr läuft wieder an.
--- Source: [[www.heise.de/news/Bahn...](https://www.heise.de/news/Bahnverkehr-wegen-Funkstoerung-deutschlandweit-eingestellt-11342136.html?wt_mc=rss.red.ho.ho.atom.beitrag.beitrag](https://www.heise.de/news/Bahnverkehr-wegen-Funkstoerung-deutschlandweit-eingestellt-11342136.html?wt_mc=rss.red.ho.ho.atom.beitrag.beitrag)) \n## Home & Lifestyle ### 35 Space-Saving Hacks to Transform Your Tiny Kitchen
Small kitchen storage can feel like an endless puzzle. Wirecutter tested dozens of organization solutions and consulted experts to bring you 35 practical ideas—shelves, racks, magnets, and more—to help you maximize every inch of your tight cooking space.
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# The Daily News — 2026-06-23 Edition
*2026-06-23* — https://alexanderkucera.com/2026/06/23/the-daily-news-edition.html
A curated selection of today's most interesting stories from 61 RSS sources.
## Entertainment
### Netflix and Toho's First Collaboration Brings Classic Sci-Fi Thriller to Life
Netflix and Toho are partnering for the first time to deliver "Human Vapor," an eight-episode sci-fi crime thriller premiering July 2. This South Korean-Japanese co-production adapts Toho's 1960 film into a modern series that echoes classics like "The Invisible Man," marking a historic collaboration between the streaming giant and the legendary Godzilla studio.
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Source: [https://www.polygon.com/netflix-human-vapor-toho/](https://www.polygon.com/netflix-human-vapor-toho/)
### Decade-Long Zelda Fan Remake Canceled Following Nintendo's Official Switch 2 Announcement
A fan-made remake of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time that has been in development for a decade is ending. The decision comes after the announcement from Nintendo that an official remake of the beloved Nintendo 64 title is coming to Switch 2 later this year.
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Source: [https://www.polygon.com/zelda-ocarina-of-time-remake-canceled-unreal-engine-nintendo-official/](https://www.polygon.com/zelda-ocarina-of-time-remake-canceled-unreal-engine-nintendo-official/)
### Hideo Kojima's OD Horror Game Screenshot Reminds Fans Of PT
Hideo Kojima shares a new screenshot of his upcoming horror game OD, which fans note bears a striking resemblance to his legendary PT demo. The eerie image has sparked excitement among horror enthusiasts, suggesting OD might deliver the same psychological terror that made PT an unforgettable gaming experience.
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Source: [https://kotaku.com/hideo-kojima-shares-new-screenshot-od-looks-like-pt-2000709099](https://kotaku.com/hideo-kojima-shares-new-screenshot-od-looks-like-pt-2000709099)
### FF7 Director: Queer Romances Make the World Feel More Real
Naoki Hamaguchi said that the presence of queer people and relationships in the remake trilogy 'enhances the world's realism.' The director's comments highlight how representation creates more authentic and immersive gaming experiences.
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Source: [https://kotaku.com/final-fantasy-7-ff7-remake-revelation-queer-gay-characters-director-hamaguchi-2000709062](https://kotaku.com/final-fantasy-7-ff7-remake-revelation-queer-gay-characters-director-hamaguchi-2000709062)
### French Union Calls For Entire Video Game Industry To Strike This Week
French union STJV has called for a nationwide video game industry strike on June 25, citing widespread incompetence in project management across the sector. The strike aims to address ongoing issues within France's gaming industry and draw attention to management practices affecting workers.
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Source: [https://kotaku.com/video-game-union-industry-strike-stjv-layoffs-summer-greve-fest-2000709023](https://kotaku.com/video-game-union-industry-strike-stjv-layoffs-summer-greve-fest-2000709023) \n## Business
### GM Installs Robot Arms While 1,300 Workers Remain Laid Off
Dozens of new robot arms have been installed at General Motors' flagship electric vehicle factory in Detroit—even as 1,300 workers remain out of work following what was supposed to be a temporary layoff. The latest automation push has spurred union pushback over a potentially existential issue for automakers and their workers.
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Source: [https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/06/gm-installs-robots-at-flagship-ev-factory-after-laying-off-1300-workers/](https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/06/gm-installs-robots-at-flagship-ev-factory-after-laying-off-1300-workers/)
### Getty-Aktie explodiert nach OpenAI-Lizenzierung
OpenAI darf nun Bilder aus Getty Images' Fundus zeigen. Dessen Aktie explodiert.
--- Source: [[www.heise.de/news/Gett...](https://www.heise.de/news/Getty-Images-oeffnet-Bilddatenbank-fuer-Ausgabe-bei-ChatGPT-11340893.html?wt_mc=rss.red.ho.ho.atom.beitrag.beitrag](https://www.heise.de/news/Getty-Images-oeffnet-Bilddatenbank-fuer-Ausgabe-bei-ChatGPT-11340893.html?wt_mc=rss.red.ho.ho.atom.beitrag.beitrag)) ### Vom Bankrott zum Börsenstern: SK Hynix überholt Samsung
Vom Fast-Bankrott zum Börsenstar: Chipproduzent SK Hynix stößt Samsung Electronics vom Thron des wertvollsten Unternehmens des Landes.
--- Source: [[www.heise.de/news/Chip...](https://www.heise.de/news/Chiphersteller-SK-Hynix-erstmals-wertvoller-als-Samsung-11340153.html?wt_mc=rss.red.ho.ho.atom.beitrag.beitrag](https://www.heise.de/news/Chiphersteller-SK-Hynix-erstmals-wertvoller-als-Samsung-11340153.html?wt_mc=rss.red.ho.ho.atom.beitrag.beitrag)) ### EA Cuts Jobs Again Ahead Of Massive $55B Saudi Sale
Das Wall Street Journal hat herausgefunden, dass Influencer-Werbung für Polymarket offenbar gefälschte Wetten zeigt. Getätigt wurden sie auf falschen Websites.
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Source: [[www.heise.de/news/Poly...](https://www.heise.de/news/Polymarket-Angeblich-seit-Monaten-irrefuehrende-Werbung-von-Influencern-11339745.html?wt_mc=rss.red.ho.ho.atom.beitrag.beitrag](https://www.heise.de/news/Polymarket-Angeblich-seit-Monaten-irrefuehrende-Werbung-von-Influencern-11339745.html?wt_mc=rss.red.ho.ho.atom.beitrag.beitrag)) \n## Science
### NASA's Kennedy Space Center Unprepared for Super Heavy Rocket Era
A NASA Office of Inspector General report warns that Kennedy Space Center's aging infrastructure cannot handle surging demand from SpaceX's Starship and Blue Origin's New Glenn super heavy rockets. The crown jewel of US spaceports is approaching its limits, threatening to bottleneck both government and commercial missions as the private space race accelerates.
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Source: [https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/06/report-kennedy-space-center-not-ready-for-era-of-super-heavy-rockets/](https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/06/report-kennedy-space-center-not-ready-for-era-of-super-heavy-rockets/)
### Dritte Galaxie ohne Dunkle Materie in mysteriöser Kette bestätigt
Seit Jahren wird über eine mysteriöse Kette aus Galaxien gerätselt, von denen zwei keine Dunkle Materie enthalten. Jetzt wurde das für die dritte bestätigt.
--- Source: [[www.heise.de/news/In-r...](https://www.heise.de/news/In-raetselhafter-Kette-Weitere-Galaxie-ganz-ohne-Dunkle-Materie-gefunden-11340283.html?wt_mc=rss.red.ho.ho.atom.beitrag.beitrag](https://www.heise.de/news/In-raetselhafter-Kette-Weitere-Galaxie-ganz-ohne-Dunkle-Materie-gefunden-11340283.html?wt_mc=rss.red.ho.ho.atom.beitrag.beitrag)) ### Seit dem iPhone sinkt die Geburtenrate – Smartphones als Ursache?
Frauen bringen immer seltener Kinder zur Welt. Wirtschaftliche Gründe erklären das unzureichend. Eine neue Studie zeigt auf einen sozialen Faktor: Smartphones.
--- Source: [[www.heise.de/news/Seit...](https://www.heise.de/news/Seit-dem-iPhone-sinkt-die-Geburtenrate-11339717.html?wt_mc=rss.red.ho.ho.atom.beitrag.beitrag](https://www.heise.de/news/Seit-dem-iPhone-sinkt-die-Geburtenrate-11339717.html?wt_mc=rss.red.ho.ho.atom.beitrag.beitrag)) ### NASA-Sonde Lucy entdeckt Überraschungen am Asteroiden Donaldjohanson
Vor einem Jahr hat die NASA-Sonde Lucy den Asteroiden Donaldjohanson passiert. Was ursprünglich nur als Testlauf geplant war, hat für die wissenschaftliche Forschung einige unerwartete Überraschungen parat.
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Source: [[www.heise.de/news/Von-...](https://www.heise.de/news/Von-NASA-Sonde-Lucy-besucht-Asteroid-Donaldjohanson-taumelt-um-die-Sonne-11339971.html?wt_mc=rss.red.ho.ho.atom.beitrag.beitrag](https://www.heise.de/news/Von-NASA-Sonde-Lucy-besucht-Asteroid-Donaldjohanson-taumelt-um-die-Sonne-11339971.html?wt_mc=rss.red.ho.ho.atom.beitrag.beitrag)) \n## Health
### Massage Gun Eyeball Disaster Leaves Man With Severe Retinal Damage
A Scottish man in his 20s suffered multiple retinal tears and widespread bruising in both eyes after using a massage gun on his tired eyeballs, requiring treatment at an eye center in Edinburgh. The man presented with floaters and flashing lights, only to discover he had serious retinal damage typically seen after significant eye injuries.
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Source: [https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/06/man-used-massage-gun-on-his-tired-eyeballs-it-went-as-well-as-youd-expect/](https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/06/man-used-massage-gun-on-his-tired-eyeballs-it-went-as-well-as-youd-expect/)
### Neuer KI-Impfstoff schützt vor unbekannten Coronaviren
Forscher aus Cambridge haben einen KI-developierten Impfstoff entwickelt, der universell vor aktuellen und künftigen Coronavirus-Varianten schützen soll. Die erste klinische Studie mit 39 Freiwilligen verlief erfolgreich ohne Nebenwirkungen und zeigte eine breite Immunantwort gegen SARS-CoV-2, SARS und Fledermaus-Coronaviren. Der Durchbruch könnte den Kreislauf ständiger Impfstoffanpassungen durchbrechen und auch vor noch nicht auf den Menschen übergesprungenen Viren schützen.
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Source: [https://www.basicthinking.de/blog/2026/06/22/ki-impfstoff-gegen-coronaviren/](https://www.basicthinking.de/blog/2026/06/22/ki-impfstoff-gegen-coronaviren/)
### Science-Backed Retinol Products Worth Your Money
Wirecutter tested 35 retinol products with 14 panelists over several months, all while concealing brand names to eliminate price bias. They identified seven top performers for various budgets and skin types, from adjustable potency serums to bargain options, all scientifically proven to boost collagen and improve skin's appearance.
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Source: [[www.nytimes.com/wirecutte...](https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/best-retinol-products/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=RSS%20Feed](https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/best-retinol-products/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=RSS%20Feed))
### Verdeckter Test: Diese Krankenkassen sind 2026 die besten
Ein verdeckter Test des Deutschen Instituts für Service-Qualität hat 21 gesetzliche Krankenkassen über 651 Kontaktpunkte geprüft. Überraschend: Die größte Kasse Deutschlands landet nur auf Platz acht, während bei Service und Leistungen teils große Unterschiede bestehen.
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Source: [https://www.basicthinking.de/blog/2026/06/22/besten-gesetzlichen-krankenkassen-2026-test/](https://www.basicthinking.de/blog/2026/06/22/besten-gesetzlichen-krankenkassen-2026-test/)
### Stay Active While Sitting: The Best Under-Desk Mini Steppers
After testing 10 models with a panel of reviewers, Wirecutter named the Sunny Health & Fitness Smart Advanced Stair Exercise Stepper the top choice for office workers. Its adjustable step height and accessible resistance knob make it perfect for burning excess energy at your desk. Heavier users or those with wider stances should consider the sturdier 2-in-1 Power Stepper.
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Source: [[www.nytimes.com/wirecutte...](https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/best-mini-stair-stepper/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=RSS%20Feed](https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/best-mini-stair-stepper/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=RSS%20Feed)) \n## Technology
### Thunderbolt 5, Thunderbolt 4 and USB-C Docks for MacBook: Which One Fits You?
Macworld tested over 30 Thunderbolt and USB-C docking stations for MacBook Air and Pro, covering the newest Thunderbolt 5 models plus budget Thunderbolt 4 and USB-C options. The guide explains the differences between Thunderbolt 5 (80Gbps), Thunderbolt 4 (40Gbps), and USB-C (5-10Gbps) technologies, helping readers choose the right dock for their MacBook model. Key recommendations include the CalDigit TS5 Plus and iVanky FusionDock Ultra for power users, alongside budget Thunderbolt 4 options and affordable USB-C alternatives.
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Source: [https://www.macworld.com/article/668894/best-thunderbolt-3-4-and-usb-c-docking-stations-for-macbook-pro-and-air.html](https://www.macworld.com/article/668894/best-thunderbolt-3-4-and-usb-c-docking-stations-for-macbook-pro-and-air.html)
### Wer haftet, wenn KI lügt – und Menschen zu Schaden kommen?
Ein wegweisendes Urteil des OLG Hamm klärt die Haftungsfrage bei KI-Chatbots: Unternehmen tragen die volle Verantwortung für falsche KI-Aussagen, während die Diskussion um notwendige Sicherheitsmaßnahmen und regulatorische Anforderungen für KI-Systeme weitergeht.
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Source: [https://www.basicthinking.de/blog/2026/06/22/wer-haftet-wenn-ki-luegt-und-menschen-zu-schaden-kommen/](https://www.basicthinking.de/blog/2026/06/22/wer-haftet-wenn-ki-luegt-und-menschen-zu-schaden-kommen/)
### Apple's Foldable iPhone Gets Production Green Light
Samsung Display has received Apple's approval to begin mass production of OLED panels for Apple's first foldable iPhone, with an initial order of three million units scheduled for delivery this year. Samsung achieved final yields above 80%, surpassing Apple's 70% threshold, and will be the exclusive supplier under a three-year agreement.
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Source: [https://www.macrumors.com/2026/06/22/production-of-panels-for-foldable-iphone-approved/](https://www.macrumors.com/2026/06/22/production-of-panels-for-foldable-iphone-approved/)
### Nvidia's New Data Center Design Eliminates Water Usage
Nvidia claims its new Rubin generation data center design eliminates nearly all water usage while cutting power consumption through fully liquid-cooled systems. The innovation directly addresses growing environmental concerns around AI infrastructure, though questions remain about construction costs and overall carbon footprint.
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Source: [https://www.theverge.com/tech/954139/nvidia-data-centers-rubin-liquid-cooling](https://www.theverge.com/tech/954139/nvidia-data-centers-rubin-liquid-cooling)
### Google DeepMind Partners with A24 to Build AI Movie Tools
Google's DeepMind AI lab is partnering with indie film studio A24 to develop AI-powered movie production tools that will help filmmakers expand their storytelling possibilities. As part of the deal, Google is investing approximately $75 million in A24, marking the first time the search giant has taken a stake in a film studio.
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Source: [https://www.theverge.com/entertainment/953596/google-deepmind-a24-studio-ai-partnership](https://www.theverge.com/entertainment/953596/google-deepmind-a24-studio-ai-partnership) \n## Politics
### Ukraine zerstört russisches Halbleiterwerk für Marschflugkörper
Videos zeigen ein zerstörtes Halbleiterwerk im russischen Woronesch. Laut ukrainischer Datenbank entstanden dort Komponenten für Marschflugkörper.
--- Source: [[www.heise.de/news/Ukra...](https://www.heise.de/news/Ukraine-nimmt-Russlands-Halbleiterfertigung-ins-Visier-11340485.html?wt_mc=rss.red.ho.ho.atom.beitrag.beitrag](https://www.heise.de/news/Ukraine-nimmt-Russlands-Halbleiterfertigung-ins-Visier-11340485.html?wt_mc=rss.red.ho.ho.atom.beitrag.beitrag)) ### China verschärft Handelskonflikt mit USA – Neue Exportkontrollen treffen Rüstungs- und Rohstoffkonzerne
Peking verschärft im Streit mit den USA seine Gegenmaßnahmen. Betroffen sind Rüstungsfirmen sowie Unternehmen aus dem Bereich strategischer Rohstoffe.
--- Source: [[www.heise.de/news/Chin...](https://www.heise.de/news/China-setzt-weitere-US-Firmen-auf-Exportkontrollliste-11339902.html?wt_mc=rss.red.ho.ho.atom.beitrag.beitrag](https://www.heise.de/news/China-setzt-weitere-US-Firmen-auf-Exportkontrollliste-11339902.html?wt_mc=rss.red.ho.ho.atom.beitrag.beitrag)) ### Grüne Basis widersetzt sich Palantir: Überwachungssoftware stößt auf breiten Widerstand
Ein klares Votum der Landesdelegiertenkonferenz in NRW zu Palantir erhöht den Druck auf die schwarz-grüne Koalition und strahlt bis nach Baden-Württemberg aus.
--- Source: [[www.heise.de/news/Grue...](https://www.heise.de/news/Gruenes-Signal-gegen-Palantir-Basis-revoltiert-gegen-Ueberwachungssoftware-11340773.html?wt_mc=rss.red.ho.ho.atom.beitrag.beitrag](https://www.heise.de/news/Gruenes-Signal-gegen-Palantir-Basis-revoltiert-gegen-Ueberwachungssoftware-11340773.html?wt_mc=rss.red.ho.ho.atom.beitrag.beitrag)) ### EU-Kommission: Massive Verzögerungen bei Informationsfreiheitsanfragen trotz gesunkener Zahlen
Ein kürzlich veröffentlichter Bericht zeigt, dass die EU-Kommission erhebliche Probleme bei der Bearbeitung von Informationsfreiheitsanträgen hat. Obwohl die Zahl der Anfragen ein Achtjahrestief erreicht hat, bleiben Dokumentenanfragen oft Monate unbeantwortet. Diese Entwicklung wirft Fragen zur Transparenz der europäischen Behörde auf.
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Source: [[www.heise.de/news/EU-K...](https://www.heise.de/news/EU-Kommission-sitzt-Informationsfreiheitsantraege-trotz-sinkender-Zahlen-aus-11340757.html?wt_mc=rss.red.ho.ho.atom.beitrag.beitrag](https://www.heise.de/news/EU-Kommission-sitzt-Informationsfreiheitsantraege-trotz-sinkender-Zahlen-aus-11340757.html?wt_mc=rss.red.ho.ho.atom.beitrag.beitrag)) \n## policy
### Initiative fordert Social-Media-Verbot für unter 16-Jährige
Kurz vor der Vorstellung von Empfehlungen zum digitalen Jugendschutz durch die Bundesregierung fordert eine Initiative ein striktes Mindestalter von 16 Jahren für Social-Media-Nutzung. Der Vorstoß zielt darauf ab, rasch wirksame Lösungen zum Schutz junger Menschen vor den Gefahren digitaler Plattformen zu implementieren.
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Source: [https://www.heise.de/news/Social-Media-Verbot-fuer-Jugendliche-Loesungen-gefordert-die-schnell-wirken-10438332.html](https://www.heise.de/news/Social-Media-Verbot-fuer-Jugendliche-Loesungen-gefordert-die-schnell-wirken-10438332.html) \n## Food & Drink
### Finding the Perfect Barbecue Sauce: A Taste Test Adventure
Wirecutter tackled the controversial world of barbecue sauce by tasting 18 different commercial varieties to find the most versatile options. They discovered standouts that balance tangy, sweet, and well-spiced flavors perfect for everything from kids' chicken nuggets to serious rib basting during grilling season.
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# The Daily News — 2026-06-22 Edition
*2026-06-22* — https://alexanderkucera.com/2026/06/22/the-daily-news-edition.html
A curated selection of today's most interesting stories from 61 RSS sources.
## Entertainment
### Apple TV's Widow's Bay Reinvents Comedic Horror
Widow's Bay, the delightfully eccentric new comedic horror series from Apple TV, is easily one of the best new series of the year. There's a reason everyone from Guillero del Toro and Ben Stiller to Damon Lindelolf (Lost) is raving about the show. It's an eminently binge-able, addictive series that pays tribute to all the classic horror tropes while reinventing them in surprising ways. Think Stephen King meets Parks and Recreation, with a dash of Twin Peaks—except Widow's Bay is very much its own refreshingly original beast. Tom Loftis (Matthew Rhys) is a widower and mayor of Widow's Bay, a quirky little seaside town that has a colorfully bizarre history marked by periodic tragedies. Tom is eager to elevate the town into a trendy summer tourist destination. But the arrival of New York Times travel writer Arthur Lloyd (Bashir Salahuddin), who has the clout to make Tom's aspirations for Widow's Bay come true, coincides with the onset of a mysterious fog. Local resident Wyck (Stephen Root) warns Tom that the fog is an omen that the island is "waking up," meaning more supernatural occurrences are bound to happen.
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Source: [https://arstechnica.com/culture/2026/06/review-widows-bay-is-a-boldly-original-take-on-comedic-horror/](https://arstechnica.com/culture/2026/06/review-widows-bay-is-a-boldly-original-take-on-comedic-horror/)
### Rediscover This N64 Classic While Awaiting Switch Sports Resort
With Switch Sports Resort arriving this October featuring sports like archery, boxing, table tennis, and returning favorites like golf, Polygon recommends revisiting an N64 classic on Nintendo Switch Online to tide you over. The upcoming title offers a variety of activities from thumb wrestling to power cruising, making now the perfect time to explore the nostalgic original.
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Source: [https://www.polygon.com/this-n64-classic-is-perfect-to-tide-you-over-until-switch-sports-resort/](https://www.polygon.com/this-n64-classic-is-perfect-to-tide-you-over-until-switch-sports-resort/)
### Naruto Returns to Card Games with First Official TCG in Over a Decade
The massively popular ninja clan will join other Jump superstars at the card shop in 2027. Fans can look forward to collecting and battling with their favorite characters in this brand new trading card game.
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Source: [https://kotaku.com/naruto-to-receive-first-official-trading-card-game-in-over-a-decade-2000708782](https://kotaku.com/naruto-to-receive-first-official-trading-card-game-in-over-a-decade-2000708782)
### Searching for Father in Blue Prince's Mysterious Spiral
Blue Prince: Spiral of Stars is a puzzle game where players navigate enigmatic rooms filled with multiple 'true boxes' in search of their protagonist's missing father. The game combines intricate puzzle-solving with an emotional narrative, offering players a unique journey through mysterious spaces that challenge perception and logic.
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Source: [https://kotaku.com/i-am-looking-for-my-father-in-blue-princes-spiral-of-stars-2000708221](https://kotaku.com/i-am-looking-for-my-father-in-blue-princes-spiral-of-stars-2000708221)
### Quake feiert 30. Geburtstag: Der Revolutionär der 3D-Shooter
Im Jahr 1996 kam der Durchbruch für 3D-Egoshooter. Nicht nur die Technik, auch das Gameplay von Quake setzte Maßstäbe.
--- Source: [[www.heise.de/hintergru...](https://www.heise.de/hintergrund/30-Fakten-zu-30-Jahren-Quake-11339633.html?wt_mc=rss.red.ho.ho.atom.beitrag.beitrag](https://www.heise.de/hintergrund/30-Fakten-zu-30-Jahren-Quake-11339633.html?wt_mc=rss.red.ho.ho.atom.beitrag.beitrag)) \n## Politics ### Trump Administration Funds Coal Plant Despite Repeated Violations In 2023, after years of pollution, equipment failures, and health concerns, the Cumberland Fossil Plant in Tennessee was slated to close within the decade. The coal-fired plant had been part of a multibillion-dollar settlement in 2011 after its operator, the Tennessee Valley Authority, failed to install pollution control technology a decade earlier. Regulators cited the plant for more air-pollution violations in 2017 and 2023. TVA said it would shutter Cumberland's units in 2026 and 2028. --- Source: [https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/06/trump-admins-coal-investments-assist-plants-with-repeated-violations/](https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/06/trump-admins-coal-investments-assist-plants-with-repeated-violations/) ### Energiewende in Zahlen: Auf dem Weg zu 2030 und 2045
Diese Bestandsaufnahme zeigt, wie der Umbau des Stromsektors vorangeht und wo es im Hinblick auf die Ziele der Bundesregierung für 2030 und 2045 noch hakt.
--- Source: [[www.heise.de/hintergru...](https://www.heise.de/hintergrund/Energiewende-in-Zahlen-Wo-wir-stehen-und-wo-wir-hinwollen-11309541.html?wt_mc=rss.red.ho.ho.atom.beitrag_plus.beitrag_plus](https://www.heise.de/hintergrund/Energiewende-in-Zahlen-Wo-wir-stehen-und-wo-wir-hinwollen-11309541.html?wt_mc=rss.red.ho.ho.atom.beitrag_plus.beitrag_plus)) \n## Health ### Simple Trick Rescues Wilted Herbs, Upgrades Every Dish Leftover herbs starting to wilt? Rescue them with this bright, flavorful oil. --- Source: [https://www.bonappetit.com/story/herb-oil-recipe](https://www.bonappetit.com/story/herb-oil-recipe) ### Beyond Basic Hummus: Regional Variations Every Home Cook Should Master Cookbook author Reem Kassis dives into the many forms of hummus you'll find at shops around the region and shares her tips on how to make these dishes at home. This culinary guide explores the diverse world of chickpea dishes and offers practical advice for recreating authentic flavors in your own kitchen. --- Source: [https://www.seriouseats.com/guide-to-hummus-12003028](https://www.seriouseats.com/guide-to-hummus-12003028) ### This 15-Minute Tomato and Egg Dinner Is My Ultimate Low-Effort Meal Affectionately called "tomato egg" in Chinese households, this easy dish is my go-to dinner when I don't feel like cooking. --- Source: [https://www.seriouseats.com/chinese-tomato-egg-love-letter-12003026](https://www.seriouseats.com/chinese-tomato-egg-love-letter-12003026) \n## Technology ### Why Apple's $2,000 iPhone Ultra Could Be Dead on Arrival
Apple's upcoming foldable iPhone Ultra, expected to cost over $2,000, risks repeating the failures of premium products like the Mac Pro and Vision Pro. The move contrasts sharply with the unexpected success of Apple's budget MacBook Neo, raising questions about whether ultra-expensive devices still resonate with consumers.
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Source: [https://www.macworld.com/article/3128898/folding-iphone-ultra-macbook-neo-mac-pro-price.html](https://www.macworld.com/article/3128898/folding-iphone-ultra-macbook-neo-mac-pro-price.html)
### Ubisoft-Co-Gründer stirbt bei Flugzeugunglück in Frankreich
Nach dem Absturz einer Propellermaschine in Frankreich trauert das große Spiele-Unternehmen Ubisoft um einen seiner Gründer. Die Behörden ermitteln.
--- Source: [[www.heise.de/news/Ubis...](https://www.heise.de/news/Ubisoft-Mitgruender-stirbt-bei-Flugzeugabsturz-in-Frankreich-11339621.html?wt_mc=rss.red.ho.ho.atom.beitrag.beitrag](https://www.heise.de/news/Ubisoft-Mitgruender-stirbt-bei-Flugzeugabsturz-in-Frankreich-11339621.html?wt_mc=rss.red.ho.ho.atom.beitrag.beitrag)) ### Cyberangriff: Falsche Katastrophenalarme erschrecken Brasilien
In Brasilien empfingen etliche Handys einen falschen Katastrophenalarm, die Regierung spricht von einem Cyberangriff.
--- Source: [[www.heise.de/news/Unbe...](https://www.heise.de/news/Unbekannte-senden-falsche-Katastrophenwarnung-an-Handys-in-Brasilien-11339555.html?wt_mc=rss.red.ho.ho.atom.beitrag.beitrag](https://www.heise.de/news/Unbekannte-senden-falsche-Katastrophenwarnung-an-Handys-in-Brasilien-11339555.html?wt_mc=rss.red.ho.ho.atom.beitrag.beitrag)) ### Weltweit erster Wasserstoff-Großmotor speist Strom ins Netz ein
In Spanien ist erstmals ein Großmotor zu 100 Prozent mit Wasserstoff betrieben worden und speist erfolgreich Strom in das nationale Netz ein. Der Wärtsilä 31H2 gilt als wichtiger Meilenstein für klimaneutrale Kraftwerkslösungen und flexible Backup-Kapazitäten in der Energiewende.
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Source: [https://www.basicthinking.de/blog/2026/06/22/grossmotor-wasserstoff-strom/](https://www.basicthinking.de/blog/2026/06/22/grossmotor-wasserstoff-strom/)
### Apple's Massive Product Roadmap: 20 New Devices Coming by 2027
Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reveals Apple's extensive product lineup through 2027, headlined by a revolutionary foldable iPhone Ultra with dual displays, a redesigned MacBook Ultra featuring an OLED screen and touch functionality, plus an all-new smart home hub with a 6-7 inch display. Additionally, expect major updates across iPhone, Apple Watch, iPad, and Mac lines, including a 20th-anniversary iPhone with curved glass and camera-equipped AirPods for AI capabilities.
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Source: [https://www.macrumors.com/2026/06/21/20-rumored-apple-products-in-2026-and-2027/](https://www.macrumors.com/2026/06/21/20-rumored-apple-products-in-2026-and-2027/) \n## Business
### Bose Thinks It Can Succeed as a Media Company and Record Label
Bose is launching Bose Studios and Bose Records in a bold pivot from traditional marketing to becoming a media company, similar to Red Bull's strategy. However, history is littered with failed corporate record labels, and many doubt whether the audio company can succeed where others like Build-a-Bear have failed.
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Source: [https://www.theverge.com/entertainment/953324/bose-studios-record-label-media-company](https://www.theverge.com/entertainment/953324/bose-studios-record-label-media-company)
### Prime Day 2026: The Best Early Deals Across Major Retailers
Prime Day 2026 arrives June 23, but early discounts are already dropping across Amazon, Walmart, Target, and Best Buy. Wirecutter's experts have curated the standout deals on quality products that meet their rigorous standards, helping you navigate the sales efficiently.
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Source: [[www.nytimes.com/wirecutte...](https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/money/best-prime-day-deals-2026/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=RSS%20Feed](https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/money/best-prime-day-deals-2026/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=RSS%20Feed)) \n## Sports
### 18 Ingenious Survival Hacks Using Everyday Household Items
This article from survival expert Creek Stewart reveals 18 creative ways to transform everyday items like guitar picks, jumper cables, and gum wrappers into essential survival tools. Learn MacGyver-worthy techniques for starting fires, collecting water, and building shelters that could save your life in unexpected emergencies.
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Source: [https://www.artofmanliness.com/skills/survival/18-urban-and-wilderness-survival-hacks-that-would-make-macgyver-proud/](https://www.artofmanliness.com/skills/survival/18-urban-and-wilderness-survival-hacks-that-would-make-macgyver-proud/)
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# The Daily News — 2026-06-21 Edition
*2026-06-21* — https://alexanderkucera.com/2026/06/21/the-daily-news-edition.html
A curated selection of today's most interesting stories from 61 RSS sources.
## Entertainment
### Why The Witcher 4 Should Look Back to The Second Game
While The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is widely considered a masterpiece, this piece argues that CD Projekt Red's next installment should draw inspiration from The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings. The author contends that The Witcher 2's more impactful player choices and deeper narrative consequences could elevate The Witcher 4 beyond just expanding the open-world formula.
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Source: [https://www.polygon.com/witcher-4-choices-consequences-witcher-2/](https://www.polygon.com/witcher-4-choices-consequences-witcher-2/)
### Steam's Military Sim Makes Loading Cannons Surprisingly Awesome
The worst Steam Next Fest in recorded history also somehow features the best Next Fest demo I've ever played
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Source: [https://kotaku.com/iron-nest-is-a-game-in-which-you-spend-30-minutes-loading-a-big-cannon-and-somehow-its-awesome-2000708523](https://kotaku.com/iron-nest-is-a-game-in-which-you-spend-30-minutes-loading-a-big-cannon-and-somehow-its-awesome-2000708523)
### Making Music With Nuclear Test Equipment: Hainbach's Experimental Sound
German experimental composer Hainbach creates music using laboratory equipment and salvaged scientific instruments, calling it the 'Dark Souls of synthesis.' Despite his challenging production methods, he's remarkably prolific, having released six albums in 2025, including his latest collaboration Gentle Hum with Turkish artist Ah! Kosmos.
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Source: [https://www.theverge.com/report/953116/experimental-musician-youtuber-hainbach-interview](https://www.theverge.com/report/953116/experimental-musician-youtuber-hainbach-interview)
### This Dice-Based RPG Is Weird, Wonderful, and Worth Your Time
Moves of the Diamond Hand is an irresistibly creative dice-based RPG that embraces strange conversations and lots of dice rolling from its opening minutes. This Early Access game from musician Cosmo D channels 2000s-era immersive sims with grimy, blocky environments, offering one of the most unique roleplaying experiences in years—even if its mysteries won't be fully resolved until 2027.
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Source: [https://www.theverge.com/games/949875/moves-of-the-diamond-hand-rpg-dice-jazz-noir](https://www.theverge.com/games/949875/moves-of-the-diamond-hand-rpg-dice-jazz-noir)
### Komponist von Doom und Duke Nukem 3D ist verstorben
Bobby Prince hat diese Welt verlassen. Seine Musik wird bleiben, denn er brachte den Metal in die Computerspiele. Ein Nachruf.
--- Source: [[www.heise.de/news/Komp...](https://www.heise.de/news/Komponist-fuer-Doom-und-Duke-Nukem-3D-verstorben-11339367.html?wt_mc=rss.red.ho.ho.atom.beitrag.beitrag](https://www.heise.de/news/Komponist-fuer-Doom-und-Duke-Nukem-3D-verstorben-11339367.html?wt_mc=rss.red.ho.ho.atom.beitrag.beitrag)) \n## Technology ### UK Will Use Flawed AI Age Scans on Asylum Seekers The British government plans to deploy facial age estimation AI on asylum seekers next year, despite internal tests showing the technology regularly misclassifies children as adults and exhibits serious bias. A leaked government report reveals these errors could strip young migrants of legal protections and place them in adult detention centers, raising serious ethical questions about using unproven AI in high-stakes immigration decisions. --- Source: [https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/06/the-uk-will-scan-asylum-seekers-faces-for-age-checks-despite-knowing-the-tech-is-flawed/](https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/06/the-uk-will-scan-asylum-seekers-faces-for-age-checks-despite-knowing-the-tech-is-flawed/) ### From Cat Pictures to Life-Saving Medical TechnologyMatt Mullenweg blogged about the surprising twist with Midjourney Medical:
--- Source: [https://www.manton.org/2026/06/20/matt-mullenweg-blogged-about-the.html](https://www.manton.org/2026/06/20/matt-mullenweg-blogged-about-the.html) ### New WIPO System Slashes Pirate Site Revenue by 71% in Pilot TestingDavid Holz, one of the most underrated pioneers in AI, has taken money from making cat pictures to build a full-body ultrasound scanner that can give you incredible visibility in 60 seconds.
The UN's World Intellectual Property Organization has launched 'WIPO Alert Pay,' a revolutionary system that lets rights holders flag pirate sites to payment providers like PayPal and Mastercard. During pilot testing, the system successfully removed payment processing for 71% of flagged sites, potentially crippling their revenue streams. The automated platform is now being finalized for broader rollout.
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Source: [https://torrentfreak.com/wipo-alert-pay-aims-to-cut-off-piracy-profits-with-help-from-payment-providers/](https://torrentfreak.com/wipo-alert-pay-aims-to-cut-off-piracy-profits-with-help-from-payment-providers/)
### Apple Unveils Five New Apps, Including Groundbreaking Siri AI
Apple's WWDC 2026 announcements include a revolutionary standalone Siri AI app that functions like modern chatbots, the return of the Apple TV Remote app, and a consolidated Find My experience for Apple Watch. Developers also get a new Pass Designer tool, while Claris released FileMaker Go 2026 with enhanced AI capabilities.
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Source: [https://www.macrumors.com/2026/06/20/apple-unveiled-these-five-new-apps/](https://www.macrumors.com/2026/06/20/apple-unveiled-these-five-new-apps/)
### The Atlantic Created a Searchable Database of Music Training AI
The Atlantic created a searchable database revealing four datasets containing millions of music tracks used to train AI models by companies like Google and Stability. The datasets range from massive collections of 12 million and 9 million tracks to smaller ones with over 100,000 songs each.
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Source: [https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/953183/the-atlantic-searchable-database-music-ai-training-data](https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/953183/the-atlantic-searchable-database-music-ai-training-data) \n## Health
### Master the Art of Light, Tender Gefilte Fish
Here's how to make light, tender, and pleasantly mild gefilte fish you'll be proud to serve and delighted to eat.
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Source: [https://www.seriouseats.com/gefilte-fish-recipe-8635884](https://www.seriouseats.com/gefilte-fish-recipe-8635884)
### Flaky, Cheesy Drop Biscuits in Under an Hour—No Rolling Required
These chive and cheddar drop biscuits require zero rolling and chilling—and take less than an hour to make from start to finish. Perfect for busy home cooks craving fresh, homemade biscuits without the traditional fuss and lengthy prep time.
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Source: [https://www.seriouseats.com/chive-and-cheddar-drop-biscuits-recipe-11722605](https://www.seriouseats.com/chive-and-cheddar-drop-biscuits-recipe-11722605)
### Your Kitchen Sponge Is a Bacteria Breeding Ground
Sponges are the perfect breeding ground for microorganisms. Here's how to keep them clean—and when to replace them.
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Source: [https://www.seriouseats.com/when-to-replace-sponges-12003482](https://www.seriouseats.com/when-to-replace-sponges-12003482)
### How to Pick the Perfect Grapes for Every Occasion
Goodness grapeness!
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Source: [https://www.seriouseats.com/guide-to-grapes-12003480](https://www.seriouseats.com/guide-to-grapes-12003480)
### Master Perfect Air-Fryer Asparagus in Minutes
The air fryer is a fast and foolproof way to cook tender-crisp asparagus with a deep woodsy flavor.
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Source: [https://www.seriouseats.com/air-fryer-asparagus-recipe-8611746](https://www.seriouseats.com/air-fryer-asparagus-recipe-8611746) \n## Food & Cooking
### Golden Matzo Pancakes (Chremslach) With Delicate Sugar Crunch
These little pancakes, a variant of matzo brei, are golden and tender, with a delicate crunch of sugar sprinkled on top.
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Source: [https://www.seriouseats.com/matzo-pancake-recipe-11709817](https://www.seriouseats.com/matzo-pancake-recipe-11709817) \n## Politics
### Minister fordern härteres Vorgehen gegen Fake-Shops im E-Commerce
Die Verbraucherschutzministerkonferenz nimmt E-Commerce, KI-Agenten, Online-Lebensmittelüberwachung und mangelnde Preistransparenz an E-Ladesäulen ins Visier.
--- Source: [[www.heise.de/news/Verb...](https://www.heise.de/news/Verbraucherschutz-im-Netz-Minister-fordern-haerteres-Vorgehen-gegen-Fake-Shops-11339411.html?wt_mc=rss.red.ho.ho.atom.beitrag.beitrag](https://www.heise.de/news/Verbraucherschutz-im-Netz-Minister-fordern-haerteres-Vorgehen-gegen-Fake-Shops-11339411.html?wt_mc=rss.red.ho.ho.atom.beitrag.beitrag)) \n## Business ### Ubisoft Co-Founder Claude Guillemot Dies in Tragic Plane Crash
Claude Guillemot, 69-year-old co-founder of gaming giant Ubisoft, has died in a plane crash along with the aircraft's owner and operator. The tragedy marks the loss of a pioneering figure who helped build one of the most influential companies in the gaming industry.
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Source: [https://kotaku.com/ubisoft-co-founder-claude-guillemot-dies-in-plane-crash-2000708648](https://kotaku.com/ubisoft-co-founder-claude-guillemot-dies-in-plane-crash-2000708648)
### Lyten übernimmt Northvolt-Gelände für 60 Millionen Euro
Lyten will auf dem früheren Northvolt-Gelände eine Batteriezellenfabrik errichten. Für die Übernahme wurde wohl ein Preis von rund 60 Millionen Euro vereinbart.
--- Source: [[www.heise.de/news/Lyte...](https://www.heise.de/news/Lyten-uebernimmt-Northvolt-Gelaende-wohl-fuer-60-Millionen-Euro-11339397.html?wt_mc=rss.red.ho.ho.atom.beitrag.beitrag](https://www.heise.de/news/Lyten-uebernimmt-Northvolt-Gelaende-wohl-fuer-60-Millionen-Euro-11339397.html?wt_mc=rss.red.ho.ho.atom.beitrag.beitrag)) ### Ökostrom spart bis zu 400 Euro im Jahr – Klimaschutz lohnt sich finanziell
Grüner Strom ist längst kein Luxus mehr – 81 Prozent aller neuen Stromverträge sind Ökostromtarife. Laut Verivox können Haushalte bis zu 400 Euro jährlich sparen, da viele Ökostrom-Angebote günstiger sind als herkömmliche Tarife. Wer zusätzlich den Ausbau erneuerbarer Energien fördern will, sollte auf Gütsiegel wie 'Grüner Strom Label' achten – auch hier liegt die Ersparnis bei rund 340 Euro.
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Source: [https://www.basicthinking.de/blog/2026/06/21/oekostrom-tarif-400-euro-sparen/](https://www.basicthinking.de/blog/2026/06/21/oekostrom-tarif-400-euro-sparen/) \n## Science
### Deutscher Solarstrom spart Hunderte Milliarden an Klimaschäden
Schätzungen zufolge hat Solarstrom in Deutschland Klimaschäden und Treibhausgase massiv reduziert, besonders in den vergangen fünf Jahren.
--- Source: [[www.heise.de/news/Deut...](https://www.heise.de/news/Deutscher-Solarstrom-spart-hunderte-Milliarden-Euro-an-Klimaschadenskosten-11339339.html?wt_mc=rss.red.ho.ho.atom.beitrag.beitrag](https://www.heise.de/news/Deutscher-Solarstrom-spart-hunderte-Milliarden-Euro-an-Klimaschadenskosten-11339339.html?wt_mc=rss.red.ho.ho.atom.beitrag.beitrag)) --- #### How This Newsletter Works This newsletter is automatically generated by an AI-powered workflow that: 1. **Aggregates** content from 61 RSS feeds 2. **Filters** articles from the last 24 hours 3. **Categorizes** each story using AI (GLM-4.5 Air) 4. **Detects similarities** and combines related stories 5. **Selects** the top 5 most interesting stories per category 6. **Summarizes** each story with AI (GLM-4.7) **Tech Stack**: Built with n8n, powered by Z.AI GLM-4.7 and OpenAI embeddings. --- **Generated with ❤️ by n8n** --- # The Daily News — 2026-06-20 Edition *2026-06-20* — https://alexanderkucera.com/2026/06/20/the-daily-news-edition.html A curated selection of today's most interesting stories from 61 RSS sources. ## Entertainment ### House of the Dragon Season 3 Premiere Delivers Devastating Death The season 3 premiere opens with the epic Battle of the Gullet, marking a tragic turning point in the Dance of Dragons civil war. This highly anticipated episode features one of the most heartbreaking deaths in Game of Thrones franchise history, with key differences from George R.R. Martin's Fire and Blood source material that even devoted book readers will want to analyze. --- Source: [https://www.polygon.com/house-of-the-dragon-season-3-premiere-battle-of-the-gullet-death-ending/](https://www.polygon.com/house-of-the-dragon-season-3-premiere-battle-of-the-gullet-death-ending/) ### Daveigh Chase, Iconic Voice of Lilo and Chihiro, Dies at 30 Daveigh Chase, the beloved voice behind Lilo in Disney's Lilo & Stitch and Chihiro in Spirited Away, has passed away after experiencing personal struggles including homelessness. Animator Andreas Deja praised her 'utterly unique and inspired' performance that brought the unorthodox Disney girl to life in what will be remembered as a timeless classic. --- Source: [https://www.manton.org/2026/06/19/daveigh-chase-has-passed-away.html](https://www.manton.org/2026/06/19/daveigh-chase-has-passed-away.html) ### Ace Combat 8 Finally Delivers Spectacular Dogfighting Action
After years of anticipation, Ace Combat 8's hands-on preview proves the wait was worth it. The game delivers thrilling aerial combat alongside dramatic failures that make every mission unforgettable. Fans of the series can expect an experience that balances incredible high-flying action with the chaos of realistic warfare.
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Source: [https://kotaku.com/hands-on-with-ace-combat-8-incredible-fights-and-spectacular-failures-2000708545](https://kotaku.com/hands-on-with-ace-combat-8-incredible-fights-and-spectacular-failures-2000708545)
### DC Comics Delivers Exceptional Week of Dark, Heroic Storytelling
DC Comics releases a stellar lineup featuring Batman/Superman's journey into Skartaris, Deathstroke's tense family drama, and Batwoman's identity reveal. These six titles showcase impressive ratings between 9-9.5/10, blending classic storytelling with bold new directions for beloved characters.
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Source: [[geekdad.com/2026/06/d...](https://geekdad.com/2026/06/dc-this-week-roundup-worlds-of-heroes/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=dc-this-week-roundup-worlds-of-heroes](https://geekdad.com/2026/06/dc-this-week-roundup-worlds-of-heroes/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=dc-this-week-roundup-worlds-of-heroes)) \n## Technology
### Apple's WWDC 2026: Historic Watch Cuts, Intel Mac Farewell
The MacRumors Show unpacks Apple's massive software updates including watchOS 27's unprecedented device cuts dropping three years of Apple Watch models at once, macOS Golden Gate ending Intel Mac support, and the revolutionary Siri AI coming to iOS 27. Get the full breakdown of compatibility changes and new Apple Intelligence features across all platforms.
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Source: [https://www.macrumors.com/2026/06/19/the-macrumors-show-hands-on-with-ios-27/](https://www.macrumors.com/2026/06/19/the-macrumors-show-hands-on-with-ios-27/)
### SwiftUI Gets Major Upgrade With New Document APIs and Drag-and-Drop
Apple's SwiftUI framework receives significant improvements in macOS Golden Gate 27 and iOS 27, headlined by comprehensive document-based app support with async reading/writing and snapshot-based diffing. Developers also gain powerful new drag-and-drop reordering APIs that work across all containers, a Swift macro-based @State implementation, and enhanced navigation transitions—addressing long-standing community requests while continuing performance optimizations.
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Source: [https://mjtsai.com/blog/2026/06/19/swiftui-in-appleos-27/](https://mjtsai.com/blog/2026/06/19/swiftui-in-appleos-27/)
### AMD und Intel arbeiten gemeinsam an KI-Befehlssatz ACE für x86-Prozessoren
CPU-Kerne künftiger x86-Prozessoren von AMD und Intel haben zusätzliche Rechenwerke unter anderem für Matrix-Multiplikationen, die AI Compute Extensions (ACE).
--- Source: [[www.heise.de/news/AMD-...](https://www.heise.de/news/AMD-und-Intel-spezifizieren-KI-Befehlssatz-ACE-fuer-x86-Prozessorkerne-11338878.html?wt_mc=rss.red.ho.ho.atom.beitrag.beitrag](https://www.heise.de/news/AMD-und-Intel-spezifizieren-KI-Befehlssatz-ACE-fuer-x86-Prozessorkerne-11338878.html?wt_mc=rss.red.ho.ho.atom.beitrag.beitrag)) ### KI-Agenten finden Tools automatisch: Agentic Resource Discovery
Mit Agentic Resource Discovery (ARD) finden KI-Agenten passende Tools automatisch zur Laufzeit. ARD steckt schon in Googles Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform.
--- Source: [[www.heise.de/news/Agen...](https://www.heise.de/news/Agentic-Resource-Discovery-Suchmaschine-fuer-KI-Agenten-11338422.html?wt_mc=rss.red.ho.ho.atom.beitrag.beitrag](https://www.heise.de/news/Agentic-Resource-Discovery-Suchmaschine-fuer-KI-Agenten-11338422.html?wt_mc=rss.red.ho.ho.atom.beitrag.beitrag)) ### EU und OECD finalisieren KI-Kompetenzrahmenwerk für Schulen
OECD und EU-Kommission haben ihr KI-Kompetenzrahmenwerk für Schulen finalisiert. Abhängig ist es vor allem von den KI-Kompetenzen in der Lehrerschaft.
--- Source: [[www.heise.de/news/Endg...](https://www.heise.de/news/Endgueltige-Fassung-veroeffentlicht-Rahmenwerk-fuer-KI-Kompetenzen-in-Schulen-11338418.html?wt_mc=rss.red.ho.ho.atom.beitrag.beitrag](https://www.heise.de/news/Endgueltige-Fassung-veroeffentlicht-Rahmenwerk-fuer-KI-Kompetenzen-in-Schulen-11338418.html?wt_mc=rss.red.ho.ho.atom.beitrag.beitrag)) \n## Science ### Robots Help Scientists Find Heat-Resistant Coral Reefs Scientists are deploying robotic technology in the Marshall Islands to locate coral reefs capable of surviving warming oceans. These heat-tolerant 'super corals' could hold the key to restoring devastated reef ecosystems worldwide as climate change threatens marine biodiversity. --- Source: [https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/06/as-global-warming-threatens-corals-scientists-search-for-reefs-that-can-take-the-heat/](https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/06/as-global-warming-threatens-corals-scientists-search-for-reefs-that-can-take-the-heat/) ### Eric Schmidt's Rocket Company Selected for NASA's 2028 Mars Mission
NASA has chosen Relativity Space, led by former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, to launch the Aeolus payload to Mars in 2028 under a new public-private partnership. The mission will study the Martian atmosphere with four instruments, providing the first daily global view of Martian winds, temperatures, dust, and clouds to support safer future landings.
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Source: [https://www.theverge.com/science/952988/nasa-relativity-space-eric-schmidt-mars](https://www.theverge.com/science/952988/nasa-relativity-space-eric-schmidt-mars)
### Historische Raumfahrt-Mission: Robotisches Raumschiff soll NASA-Teleskop Swift retten
Das Weltraumteleskop Swift soll von einem robotischen Raumschiff zurück in einen hohen Orbit geschoben werden. Der wurde in Rekordzeit fertig und ist bereit.
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Source: [[www.heise.de/news/NASA...](https://www.heise.de/news/NASA-Weltraumteleskop-Swift-Beispiellose-Rettung-durch-Robotermission-steht-an-11338266.html?wt_mc=rss.red.ho.ho.atom.beitrag.beitrag](https://www.heise.de/news/NASA-Weltraumteleskop-Swift-Beispiellose-Rettung-durch-Robotermission-steht-an-11338266.html?wt_mc=rss.red.ho.ho.atom.beitrag.beitrag))
### Space Race Update: SpaceX Eyes Mars While European Rockets Stall
SpaceX prepares for Starship Flight 13 as early as next month, with plans to retry orbital capabilities following previous engine restart issues. Meanwhile, European startup Isar Aerospace faces another setback, scrubbing their Spectrum rocket test flight due to fluid system anomalies, despite having raised nearly $1 billion in funding.
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Source: [https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/06/rocket-report-rebuild-begins-at-blue-origin-launch-pad-relativity-targets-mars/](https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/06/rocket-report-rebuild-begins-at-blue-origin-launch-pad-relativity-targets-mars/) \n## Health
### Discover France's Beloved Spring Artichoke Classic
Light, bright, and comforting, this is one of France's most famous spring vegetable dishes.
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Source: [https://www.seriouseats.com/classic-artichokes-a-la-barigoule-french-braised-artichokes-with-white-wine](https://www.seriouseats.com/classic-artichokes-a-la-barigoule-french-braised-artichokes-with-white-wine)
### Our long national sunscreen nightmare is almost over
TikTok trends promoting natural sun tolerance are dangerous misinformation. Learn why proper sunscreen use matters more than ever and why viral claims about building solar callus or eating your way to sun protection don't hold up to scientific scrutiny.
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Source: [https://www.theverge.com/column/952744/optimizer-sunscreen-bemotrizinol-fda-health](https://www.theverge.com/column/952744/optimizer-sunscreen-bemotrizinol-fda-health)
### Psychotherapeutenkammer warnt vor Social-Media-Verboten für Jugendliche
Die Psychotherapeutenkammer Niedersachsen warnt vor Social-Media-Verboten für Jugendliche. Stattdessen seien klare Regeln für Plattformanbieter nötig.
--- Source: [[www.heise.de/news/Psyc...](https://www.heise.de/news/Psychotherapeutenkammer-Niedersachsen-Social-Media-Verbot-greift-zu-kurz-11338172.html?wt_mc=rss.red.ho.ho.atom.beitrag.beitrag](https://www.heise.de/news/Psychotherapeutenkammer-Niedersachsen-Social-Media-Verbot-greift-zu-kurz-11338172.html?wt_mc=rss.red.ho.ho.atom.beitrag.beitrag)) ### From Protein Bars to Painkillers: A Weekly Roundup of Essential Curiosities
This week's collection explores how fatherhood rewires the male brain, challenges conventional wisdom about painkiller safety (acetaminophen vs. ibuprofen), and introduces MET-Rx Big 100 protein bars as a meal replacement option. Plus, discover Mexican rock band Maná and reflect on a timeless quote about a father's lasting influence.
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Source: [https://www.artofmanliness.com/odds-ends/odds-ends-june-19-2026/](https://www.artofmanliness.com/odds-ends/odds-ends-june-19-2026/)
### Gesundheitsdaten: Gematik erhält mehr Macht trotz Warnungen
Die Gematik soll mit mehr Befugnissen die Stabilität von E-Rezept und Co. verbessern. Krankenkassen und IT-Branche warnen vor Machtverschiebung.
--- Source: [[www.heise.de/news/Gema...](https://www.heise.de/news/Gematik-Gesellschafter-beschliessen-Umbau-der-Gesundheitsdateninfrastruktur-11338851.html?wt_mc=rss.red.ho.ho.atom.beitrag.beitrag](https://www.heise.de/news/Gematik-Gesellschafter-beschliessen-Umbau-der-Gesundheitsdateninfrastruktur-11338851.html?wt_mc=rss.red.ho.ho.atom.beitrag.beitrag)) \n## Business ### Fox Bets $25 Billion on Roku in Streaming Power Play Fox Corp. is acquiring Roku in a massive $25 billion deal, combining its live sports and news programming with Roku's dominant connected TV platform. This strategic move will add scale to Fox's streaming business and position the combined company to better compete with Amazon and Netflix for advertising dollars. --- Source: [[www.wsj.com/business/...](https://www.wsj.com/business/deals/fox-roku-deal-f6e564f9?st=mKdQwC&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink](https://www.wsj.com/business/deals/fox-roku-deal-f6e564f9?st=mKdQwC&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink)) ### Carlsberg Admits: Probably Not The Best Beer In The World After 40 years of claiming to be 'probably the best beer in the world,' Carlsberg has launched an honest marketing campaign confessing they lost their way by prioritizing quantity over quality. The brewer is sharing brutal customer feedback like 'tastes like stale breadsticks' while introducing a new recipe. --- Source: [https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/carlsberg-probably-not-best-beer-in-world-lager-brewer-a8874016.html](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/carlsberg-probably-not-best-beer-in-world-lager-brewer-a8874016.html) ### Bankberater irren bei P-Konto: Was Sie wissen müssen
Bankmitarbeiter geben häufig falsche Auskünfte zum P-Konto, was Schuldern viel Geld kostet. Der Beitrag deckt verbreitete Missverständnisse auf und erklärt, wie Betroffene ihre Rechte durchsetzen und höhere Freibeträge erhalten.
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Source: [https://www.basicthinking.de/blog/2026/06/19/das-p-konto-und-der-bankberater-der-eigentlich-gar-nichts-weiss/](https://www.basicthinking.de/blog/2026/06/19/das-p-konto-und-der-bankberater-der-eigentlich-gar-nichts-weiss/)
### Power Grid Operators Pocket Record Returns—While You Foot the Bill
German grid operators are generating returns exceeding 30%, dwarfing DAX companies and far surpassing the regulated 3.5–6.7%. Meanwhile, network expansion stagnates. Regulatory loopholes and double compensation for projects have created what amounts to a financial perpetual motion machine—complete with inflation adjustments on top. Reform may come after 2028, when EU rules grant regulators expanded authority to close loopholes.
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Source: [https://www.basicthinking.de/blog/2026/06/19/netzbetreiber-scheffeln-rekord-renditen/](https://www.basicthinking.de/blog/2026/06/19/netzbetreiber-scheffeln-rekord-renditen/)
### Die profitieren vom Rüstungsboom: Diese 10 Konzerne dominieren Europas Verteidigungsmarkt
Europas Rüstungsindustrie erlebt ein historisches Boom-Jahr und erreicht Umsätze wie seit dem Kalten Krieg nicht mehr. Basierend auf SIPRI-Daten zeigt dieses Ranking, welche europäischen Konzerne am stärksten von den massiv gestiegenen Militärausgaben profitieren – von deutschen Traditionsunternehmen bis zu tschechischen Neuaufsteigern.
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Source: [https://www.basicthinking.de/blog/2026/06/19/groessten-ruestungsunternehmen-europas/](https://www.basicthinking.de/blog/2026/06/19/groessten-ruestungsunternehmen-europas/) \n## Food
### The Bakers' Secret to Measuring Honey Without the Mess
Measuring sticky ingredients, such as honey, doesn't have to leave a mess. Here's the simple trick bakers use to make it quick, clean, and accurate.
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Source: [https://www.seriouseats.com/tip-for-measuring-sticky-ingredients-12003018](https://www.seriouseats.com/tip-for-measuring-sticky-ingredients-12003018) \n## Politics
### Datenschutzbehörden fordern digitale Reform: Schluss mit Bürokratie
Die deutschen Datenschutzbehörden reagieren mit den "Stuttgarter Impulsen" auf anhaltende Kritik und fordern eine umfassende digitale Modernisierung. Die Reform soll die Arbeitsweise der Aufsichtsbehörden grundlegend verbessern, Prozesse deutlich effizienter gestalten und unnötige bürokratische Hürden endlich abbauen. Dieser Schritt könnte die Datenschutzlandschaft in Deutschland nachhaltig modernisieren.
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Source: [[www.heise.de/news/Date...](https://www.heise.de/news/Datenschutz-im-Umbruch-Aufsichtsbehoerden-fordern-digitale-Modernisierung-11339193.html?wt_mc=rss.red.ho.ho.atom.beitrag.beitrag](https://www.heise.de/news/Datenschutz-im-Umbruch-Aufsichtsbehoerden-fordern-digitale-Modernisierung-11339193.html?wt_mc=rss.red.ho.ho.atom.beitrag.beitrag))
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# The Daily News — 2026-06-19 Edition
*2026-06-19* — https://alexanderkucera.com/2026/06/19/the-daily-news-edition.html
A curated selection of today's most interesting stories from 61 RSS sources.
## Business
### Chinese and Qatari Investors Secretly Acquired SpaceX Stakes Before IPO
A businessman with ties to Chinese military contractors was among the overseas investors who acquired stakes in SpaceX while it was still a private company. An entity linked to the Qatari royal family also took a stake. The new details come from a private investor list obtained by ProPublica that sheds light on a particularly delicate issue for Elon Musk's rocket company: which people in countries like China bought into the company, and how. SpaceX built its business off sensitive US government work like making spy satellites for the Pentagon. While there is no ban on Chinese investment in US military contractors, such investment is heavily regulated.
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Source: [https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2026/06/before-spacex-ipo-investors-in-china-secretly-acquired-stakes/](https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2026/06/before-spacex-ipo-investors-in-china-secretly-acquired-stakes/)
### Publishers Sue WeLib Pirate Site for $19.5 Million Over Copyright Infringement
Major publishers including Penguin Random House and Elsevier have filed a lawsuit against WeLib, a pirate site allegedly built on Anna's Archive code, seeking up to $19.5 million in damages. The complaint accuses the platform of massive copyright infringement involving 43 million books and supplying pirated content to AI companies for training.
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Source: [https://torrentfreak.com/major-publishers-sue-welib-a-pirate-site-built-on-annas-archive-code/](https://torrentfreak.com/major-publishers-sue-welib-a-pirate-site-built-on-annas-archive-code/)
### 851 Chefs für ein Netz: Warum die Energiewende am Stromnetz scheitert
Nicht Wind und Sonne sind das Problem, sondern ein Verteilnetz, das die Energiewende nicht umsetzen kann. Wo es genau hapert und wie es besser werden soll.
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Source: [[www.heise.de/hintergru...](https://www.heise.de/hintergrund/851-Chefs-fuer-ein-Netz-Wie-Deutschlands-Stromsystem-die-Energiewende-ausbremst-11334373.html?wt_mc=rss.red.ho.ho.atom.beitrag_plus.beitrag_plus](https://www.heise.de/hintergrund/851-Chefs-fuer-ein-Netz-Wie-Deutschlands-Stromsystem-die-Energiewende-ausbremst-11334373.html?wt_mc=rss.red.ho.ho.atom.beitrag_plus.beitrag_plus))
### Energiewende beschleunigen: Europa könnte bis zu 600 Milliarden Euro profitieren
Eine neue Studie des Max-Planck-Instituts zeigt, dass eine schnellere Energiewende Europa enorme Vorteile bringen könnte: Bei einem zehn Jahre früheren Erreichen der Klimaziele drohen EU-weite Nettovorteile von 100 bis 600 Milliarden Euro. Die Vorteile sind dreifach – wirtschaftlich durch eingesparte fossile Brennstoffe, politisch durch größere Unabhängigkeit und sozial durch bessere Luftqualität und Gesundheit.
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Source: [https://www.basicthinking.de/blog/2026/06/19/schnellere-energiewende-europa/](https://www.basicthinking.de/blog/2026/06/19/schnellere-energiewende-europa/) \n## Entertainment
### Dune Part Three and Avengers: Doomsday Unstoppable for December 2026
Exactly six months from now, moviegoers will face the biggest theatrical showdown since 2023's Barbenheimer. As of this writing, both Warner Bros.' Dune: Part Three and Disney's Avengers: Doomsday remain scheduled for December 18, 2026. That's surprising considering Hollywood studios typically do everything possible to avoid direct confrontations, especially when billions of dollars and two of the year's biggest blockbusters are involved. Yet here we are, half a year out, and neither side seems interested in backing down.
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Source: [https://www.polygon.com/dunesday-december-18-avengers-doomsday-dune-part-3/](https://www.polygon.com/dunesday-december-18-avengers-doomsday-dune-part-3/)
### GTA 6 Pre-Orders Launch Next Week as Cover Art Revealed
Rockstar Games has unveiled the official cover art for Grand Theft Auto VI, marking a major milestone in the game's highly anticipated release. Fans can finally secure their copy when pre-orders open on June 25, giving gamers their first chance to reserve the upcoming open-world title.
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Source: [https://kotaku.com/gta-6-pre-orders-start-next-week-as-rockstar-reveals-the-games-official-cover-art-2000708063](https://kotaku.com/gta-6-pre-orders-start-next-week-as-rockstar-reveals-the-games-official-cover-art-2000708063)
### New Titans #36: Mystery, Androids, and a Stepford Town
The latest issue of New Titans finally establishes the team's identity with mysterious android Eva as the POV character. As the team explores their new home base in Happy Harbor, they discover the town has become unsettlingly perfect, setting up an intriguing mystery with an exciting cliffhanger.
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Source: [[geekdad.com/2026/06/r...](https://geekdad.com/2026/06/review-new-titans-36-welcome-to-happy-harbor/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=review-new-titans-36-welcome-to-happy-harbor](https://geekdad.com/2026/06/review-new-titans-36-welcome-to-happy-harbor/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=review-new-titans-36-welcome-to-happy-harbor))
### Nightwing #139: A Dark New Era For Blüdhaven's Hero
Nightwing's latest issue delivers a striking shift into darker territory, with legendary artist Denys Cowan bringing a haunting new vision to the series. The comic explores the psychological toll on Dick Grayson as he faces betrayal from the city's DA and investigates grotesque fused bodies emerging from the river.
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Source: [[geekdad.com/2026/06/r...](https://geekdad.com/2026/06/review-nightwing-139-cold-bodies/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=review-nightwing-139-cold-bodies](https://geekdad.com/2026/06/review-nightwing-139-cold-bodies/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=review-nightwing-139-cold-bodies))
### GTA 6 Launch Imminent: Rockstar's Final Preparations Underway
Clear indicators suggest Rockstar is in the final stages of GTA 6's launch preparation, putting to rest fears of further delays. The gaming giant's recent moves point to an imminent release as they enter their end-game strategy.
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Source: [https://kotaku.com/heres-how-i-know-we-are-entering-rockstars-end-game-for-launching-gta-6-2000708079](https://kotaku.com/heres-how-i-know-we-are-entering-rockstars-end-game-for-launching-gta-6-2000708079) \n## Technology
### New Crypto Clipper Malware Spreads via USB, Steals Wallet Credentials
Microsoft has uncovered Crypto Clipper, a self-propagating malware that spreads through USB drives and monitors device clipboards for cryptocurrency wallet addresses and seed phrases. The worm takes five screenshots when it detects crypto credentials, then exfiltrates both data and images through Tor using a SOCKS5 proxy for anonymous communication. What makes this backdoor particularly concerning is its ability to operate without traditional command infrastructure, making it harder to detect and block.
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Source: [https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/06/microsoft-spots-new-self-propagating-malware-for-stealing-cryptocurrency/](https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/06/microsoft-spots-new-self-propagating-malware-for-stealing-cryptocurrency/)
### Apple's First Touchscreen MacBook: All Signs Point to Yes
macOS 27 reveals compelling evidence that Apple is preparing to launch its first touchscreen Mac, with pull-to-refresh gestures, enhanced Sidecar touch controls, and drawing features ported from iOS. A rumored high-end MacBook Ultra could feature OLED display, Dynamic Island, and M6 Pro chips, marking Apple's biggest laptop evolution in years.
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Source: [https://mjtsai.com/blog/2026/06/18/macos-touch/](https://mjtsai.com/blog/2026/06/18/macos-touch/)
### Apple Unveils Core AI Framework for On-Device Machine Learning
Apple introduces Core AI, a powerful new framework enabling developers to deploy and optimize AI models directly on Apple silicon. The ecosystem includes Python libraries for model conversion, a Swift API for integration, and deep Xcode support with ahead-of-time compilation.
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Source: [https://mjtsai.com/blog/2026/06/18/core-ai-announced/](https://mjtsai.com/blog/2026/06/18/core-ai-announced/)
### Millions of iPhones Face Permanent Unpatchable BootROM Exploit
Security researchers have discovered a critical hardware vulnerability in Apple's A12 and A13 chips that affects iPhone XS through iPhone 11 models. Because the flaw exists in the BootROM code burned into the chip during manufacturing, it cannot be fixed with software updates, leaving these devices vulnerable forever to the 'usbliter8' exploit.
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Source: [https://www.macrumors.com/2026/06/18/a12-and-a13-chips-facing-exploit/](https://www.macrumors.com/2026/06/18/a12-and-a13-chips-facing-exploit/)
### Databricks Genie One: KI-Agent revolutioniert Unternehmensdaten
Databricks introduces Genie One, an AI agent that leverages the new Ontology context layer to derive answers from enterprise data.
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Source: [[www.heise.de/news/Data...](https://www.heise.de/news/Databricks-Genie-One-KI-Agent-soll-Antworten-aus-Unternehmensdaten-ableiten-11336737.html?wt_mc=rss.red.ho.ho.atom.beitrag.beitrag](https://www.heise.de/news/Databricks-Genie-One-KI-Agent-soll-Antworten-aus-Unternehmensdaten-ableiten-11336737.html?wt_mc=rss.red.ho.ho.atom.beitrag.beitrag)) \n## Politics
### Bernie Sanders Proposes $7 Trillion Public AI Ownership Fund
Bernie Sanders has unveiled an aggressive plan to transfer trillions from leading AI firms to the public, and, to the likely horror of AI firms, it goes even further than expected to give Americans more control over the AI industry.
Sanders shared a summary of his legislation with AP News. If passed, the law would create a sovereign wealth fund "financed through a one-time 50 percent tax on the stock of the largest AI companies," AP News reported. Any AI firm that does $200 million in annual AI sales would be subject to the tax, as would any new firm once it reaches that revenue level.
In total, Sanders estimated the fund could be worth $7 trillion, generating "hundreds of billions of dollars annually in direct payments to Americans and programs such as health care, education and housing," AP News reported. Each American would likely receive more than $1,000 annually in 5 percent annual dividends, Sanders estimated.
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Source: [https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/06/bernie-sanders-unveils-7-trillion-plan-to-give-americans-control-of-ai-industry/](https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/06/bernie-sanders-unveils-7-trillion-plan-to-give-americans-control-of-ai-industry/)
### Berliner Senat mauert die Informationsfreiheit ein – FragDenStaat klagt
Nach einem Anschlag auf das Stromnetz verschärfte Berlin das Transparenzgesetz. Nun klagt FragDenStaat gegen die resultierende Blockadehaltung der Behörden.
--- Source: [[www.heise.de/news/Blac...](https://www.heise.de/news/Blackbox-Hauptstadt-Wie-der-Berliner-Senat-die-Informationsfreiheit-einmauert-11337742.html?wt_mc=rss.red.ho.ho.atom.beitrag.beitrag](https://www.heise.de/news/Blackbox-Hauptstadt-Wie-der-Berliner-Senat-die-Informationsfreiheit-einmauert-11337742.html?wt_mc=rss.red.ho.ho.atom.beitrag.beitrag)) ### Datenstreit: Gesundheitsministerium gegen Forscherforderungen
Auf den Registertagen verteidigt das Gesundheitsministerium das Medizinregistergesetz mit dem Argument, man baue Dateninfrastruktur, keine Forschungsinfrastruktur. Forscher fordern indes bessere Qualitätsprüfung und ausreichende Finanzierung.
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Source: [[www.heise.de/news/Regi...](https://www.heise.de/news/Register-Debatte-Wir-bauen-Dateninfrastruktur-keine-Forschungsinfrastruktur-11335896.html?wt_mc=rss.red.ho.ho.atom.beitrag.beitrag](https://www.heise.de/news/Register-Debatte-Wir-bauen-Dateninfrastruktur-keine-Forschungsinfrastruktur-11335896.html?wt_mc=rss.red.ho.ho.atom.beitrag.beitrag))
### Indien sperrt Telegram während landesweitem Medizin-Aufnahmeprüfung
Um gegen Betrug und Verunsicherung bei Prüflingen vorzugehen, wurde in Indien vor dem nationalen Zulassungstest fürs Medizinstudium Telegram temporär gesperrt.
--- Source: [[www.heise.de/news/Nati...](https://www.heise.de/news/Nationaler-Zulassungstest-fuers-Medizinstudium-Indien-sperrt-Telegram-tagelang-11337443.html?wt_mc=rss.red.ho.ho.atom.beitrag.beitrag](https://www.heise.de/news/Nationaler-Zulassungstest-fuers-Medizinstudium-Indien-sperrt-Telegram-tagelang-11337443.html?wt_mc=rss.red.ho.ho.atom.beitrag.beitrag)) \n## Science ### Ancient DNA Reveals Earliest Plague Outbreak in Siberian Hunter-Gatherers Researchers discovered evidence of a 5,500-year-old plague outbreak that devastated hunter-gatherer communities near Lake Baikal, with bacterial DNA still preserved in ancient teeth. This finding—the oldest known plague strain—challenges previous theories about when and how plague became lethal to humans. --- Source: [https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/06/hunter-gatherers-in-siberia-died-of-a-plague-outbreak-5500-years-ago/](https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/06/hunter-gatherers-in-siberia-died-of-a-plague-outbreak-5500-years-ago/) ### El Niño-Phänomen beginnt und könnte besonders stark werden
Das Klimaphänomen El Niño sorgt für besonders viele Wetterextreme und global für besonders warme Jahre. Ein womöglich besonders starker baut sich jetzt auf.
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Source: [[www.heise.de/news/Sate...](https://www.heise.de/news/Satellitenaufnahmen-El-Nino-hat-begonnen-und-koennte-besonders-stark-werden-11337255.html?wt_mc=rss.red.ho.ho.atom.beitrag.beitrag](https://www.heise.de/news/Satellitenaufnahmen-El-Nino-hat-begonnen-und-koennte-besonders-stark-werden-11337255.html?wt_mc=rss.red.ho.ho.atom.beitrag.beitrag))
### Spuren einer Millionen Jahre alten kosmischen Explosion im Meeresgrund entdeckt
Forscher haben im Pazifikboden das Isotop Plutonium-244 nachgewiesen. Es entstand bei einer kosmischen Explosion, die sich vor 100 Millionen Jahren ereignete.
--- Source: [[www.heise.de/news/Spur...](https://www.heise.de/news/Spuren-einer-Millionen-Jahre-alten-kosmischen-Explosion-im-Meeresgrund-entdeckt-11337633.html?wt_mc=rss.red.ho.ho.atom.beitrag.beitrag](https://www.heise.de/news/Spuren-einer-Millionen-Jahre-alten-kosmischen-Explosion-im-Meeresgrund-entdeckt-11337633.html?wt_mc=rss.red.ho.ho.atom.beitrag.beitrag)) ### Ariane 6 bricht Rekorde: 36 Amazon-Satelliten im Orbit
Die ESA hat die Ariane 6-Rakete mit leistungsstärkeren Boostern ausgestattet und erfolgreich 36 Amazon-Satelliten in den Orbit befördert. Durch die technischen Verbesserungen konnte die Rakete vier Satelliten mehr als bei früheren Missionen transportieren – ein wichtiger Schritt für die Wettbewerbsfähigkeit der europäischen Raumfahrt im globalen Wettbewerb.
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Source: [[www.heise.de/news/Verb...](https://www.heise.de/news/Verbesserte-Booster-Ariane-6-bringt-36-Amazon-Satelliten-ins-All-11336643.html?wt_mc=rss.red.ho.ho.atom.beitrag.beitrag](https://www.heise.de/news/Verbesserte-Booster-Ariane-6-bringt-36-Amazon-Satelliten-ins-All-11336643.html?wt_mc=rss.red.ho.ho.atom.beitrag.beitrag))
### Irland plant gigantische Wasserstoff-Speicheranlage für 2 Milliarden Euro
Irland will überschüssige Energie aus Erneuerbaren Energien zu grünem Wasserstoff umwandeln. In Spitzenlastzeiten kann daraus wieder Strom produziert werden.
--- Source: [[www.heise.de/news/Irla...](https://www.heise.de/news/Irland-beabsichtigt-Bau-einer-600-MW-Energiespeicheranlage-fuer-2-Milliarden-Euro-11336453.html?wt_mc=rss.red.ho.ho.atom.beitrag.beitrag](https://www.heise.de/news/Irland-beabsichtigt-Bau-einer-600-MW-Energiespeicheranlage-fuer-2-Milliarden-Euro-11336453.html?wt_mc=rss.red.ho.ho.atom.beitrag.beitrag)) \n## Health ### FDA Advisors Unanimously Approve Moderna's Seasonal mRNA Flu Vaccine Independent advisors for the Food and Drug Administration on Friday voted 9–0 in support of approving Moderna's seasonal mRNA flu vaccine, which a Trump appointee at the agency initially tried to block from even being reviewed. Data from a Phase 3 trial including over 40,000 adults age 50 and older found the mRNA vaccine was around 27 percent more effective against seasonal flu than a standard flu shot. --- Source: [https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/06/fda-advisors-unanimously-vote-to-approve-modernas-mrna-after-agency-drama/](https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/06/fda-advisors-unanimously-vote-to-approve-modernas-mrna-after-agency-drama/) ### The Secret to Keeping Pesto Vibrantly Green—Finally Revealed I tested all the tricks to keep pesto vibrant green—and found what really works. Discover the reliable method that prevents your homemade pesto from turning brown, preserving that fresh-from-the-basil-patch appeal. --- Source: [https://www.seriouseats.com/how-to-prevent-pesto-browning-12001538](https://www.seriouseats.com/how-to-prevent-pesto-browning-12001538) ### Pharma will die Ernte, aber nicht den Acker pflegen
Auf den Registertagen streiten Forschung und Industrie über die Finanzierung medizinischer Register.
--- Source: [[www.heise.de/news/Regi...](https://www.heise.de/news/Register-Plantage-Pharma-will-die-Ernte-aber-nicht-den-Acker-pflegen-11336337.html?wt_mc=rss.red.ho.ho.atom.beitrag.beitrag](https://www.heise.de/news/Register-Plantage-Pharma-will-die-Ernte-aber-nicht-den-Acker-pflegen-11336337.html?wt_mc=rss.red.ho.ho.atom.beitrag.beitrag)) ### How to Block Fireworks Noise for Everyone in Your Household
Fireworks are a summertime tradition, but the loud booms can cause anxiety for adults, children, and pets alike. This practical guide offers effective methods to protect your family from noise during celebrations while ensuring everyone stays calm and comfortable.
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Source: [[www.nytimes.com/wirecutte...](https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/blog/how-to-block-fireworks-noise/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=RSS%20Feed](https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/blog/how-to-block-fireworks-noise/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=RSS%20Feed))
### Master the Art of Hanging the Perfect Hammock This Summer
A properly hung hammock is one of summer's greatest pleasures, but getting the setup right makes all the difference. This illustrated guide covers everything from tree selection and strap placement to suspension angle and height adjustment for optimal comfort. Master these fundamentals to transform your outdoor relaxation experience.
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Source: [https://www.artofmanliness.com/skills/outdoors/how-to-hang-a-hammock/](https://www.artofmanliness.com/skills/outdoors/how-to-hang-a-hammock/) \n## Nature
### Nature Finds a Way: Beautiful Flowers Grow Through Fence
This photo captures nature's resilience as delicate flowers find space to bloom through an old fence, creating an unexpected and beautiful scene. The image serves as a reminder of how life persists and thrives even in constrained spaces, transforming ordinary structures into something remarkable.
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Source: [https://www.manton.org/2026/06/18/flowers-growing-through-the-fence.html](https://www.manton.org/2026/06/18/flowers-growing-through-the-fence.html)
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# 2026-06-18
*2026-06-18* — https://alexanderkucera.com/2026/06/18/theres-a-certain-irony-in.html
There’s a certain irony in listening to Michael Kramer narrate _The Stormlight Archive_ to me, while I’m amused by the Alethi custom of illiterate men relying on women to read aloud to them.
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# The Daily News — 2026-06-18 Edition
*2026-06-18* — https://alexanderkucera.com/2026/06/18/the-daily-news-edition.html
A curated selection of today's most interesting stories from 61 RSS sources.
## Business
### Austin Startup Icon Josh Baer Dies in Plane Crash
Josh Baer has died in a plane crash. Tragic. He founded Capital Factory and was a huge part of the Austin startup scene. Thinking of his family and friends, and so many people whose lives he must've impacted. Rest in peace.
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Source: [https://www.manton.org/2026/06/17/josh-baer-has-died-in.html](https://www.manton.org/2026/06/17/josh-baer-has-died-in.html)
### OpenAIs milliardenschweres Zuwachs-Dilemma: Einnahmen vs. Verluste
OpenAI erzielt beeindruckende zwei Milliarden Dollar Monatsumsatz, doch die Verluste wachsen rasant schneller als die Einnahmen. Trotz der hohen Ausgaben kann das KI-Unternehmen dank umfangreicher Reserven weiter aggressiv investieren.
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Source: [[www.heise.de/news/Open...](https://www.heise.de/news/OpenAI-Umsatz-waechst-stark-Verluste-steigen-noch-schneller-11335172.html?wt_mc=rss.red.ho.ho.atom.beitrag.beitrag](https://www.heise.de/news/OpenAI-Umsatz-waechst-stark-Verluste-steigen-noch-schneller-11335172.html?wt_mc=rss.red.ho.ho.atom.beitrag.beitrag))
### SpaceX überholt Amazon: Elon Muschs gewagte Wachstumsversprechen
Für SpaceX-Aktien ging es am Dienstag zwar nicht mehr nur nach oben, trotzdem überholte das Unternehmen Amazon. Elon Musk verspricht enormes Umsatzwachstum.
--- Source: [[www.heise.de/news/Spac...](https://www.heise.de/news/SpaceX-Aktienkurs-steigt-weiter-Elon-Musk-schuert-immense-Erwartungen-11334971.html?wt_mc=rss.red.ho.ho.atom.beitrag.beitrag](https://www.heise.de/news/SpaceX-Aktienkurs-steigt-weiter-Elon-Musk-schuert-immense-Erwartungen-11334971.html?wt_mc=rss.red.ho.ho.atom.beitrag.beitrag)) ### X Accuses Music Publishers of Truncating Elon Musk's 'DMCA Plague' Tweet
X Corp has filed a motion to dismiss a music industry piracy lawsuit, revealing that publishers allegedly took Elon Musk's tweets out of context to support their case. After the Supreme Court's Cox ruling raised the bar for contributory infringement claims, X argues the publishers' 'retrofitted' inducement theory lacks evidence and misrepresents Musk's political opinions about copyright terms.
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Source: [https://torrentfreak.com/music-publishers-truncated-musks-dmca-plague-tweet-to-back-piracy-case-x-tells-court/](https://torrentfreak.com/music-publishers-truncated-musks-dmca-plague-tweet-to-back-piracy-case-x-tells-court/)
### VW unter Beschuss: Milliarden-Dividende trotz harten Sparmaßnahmen
Trotz harter Sparmaßnahmen werden Milliarden an Aktionäre ausgezahlt. Das ruft Kritiker auf den Plan. Im Vorstand hält man die Lage des Konzerns für bedrohlich.
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Source: [[www.heise.de/news/Verb...](https://www.heise.de/news/Verbaende-kritisieren-VW-Dividende-ist-zu-hoch-11334979.html?wt_mc=rss.red.ho.ho.atom.beitrag.beitrag](https://www.heise.de/news/Verbaende-kritisieren-VW-Dividende-ist-zu-hoch-11334979.html?wt_mc=rss.red.ho.ho.atom.beitrag.beitrag)) \n## Technology
### Massive Fortinet Firewall Breach Exposes 74,000 Network Credentials
Researchers have uncovered a massive breach of Fortinet firewalls that has given Russian-speaking attackers near-unrestricted access to some of the world's largest and most powerful organizations, including Oracle, Chevron, Lenovo, Federal Express, a NATO defense contractor, and Fortinet itself. Nearly 74,000 Fortinet devices from more than 21,000 IP addresses in 194 countries have been compromised and their plaintext credentials exposed online, Bob Diachenko, a security researcher and head of SecurityDiscovery.com, said online and in an interview. He said he found the data after gaining access to the attackers' command-and-control server and other infrastructure. The exposed data also included the industry, revenue, and employee count for each compromised organization.
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Source: [https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/06/massive-breach-spills-credentials-for-thousands-of-sensitive-networks/](https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/06/massive-breach-spills-credentials-for-thousands-of-sensitive-networks/)
### AI Agents Now Train Robots Overnight While Scientists Sleep
NVIDIA's new ENPIRE framework enables AI coding agents to autonomously train robots to perform complex tasks like cutting zip ties and installing GPUs into motherboards. The breakthrough system works tirelessly overnight, with researchers simply reading training reports each morning rather than manually directing robot learning.
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Source: [https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/06/ai-coding-agents-can-autonomously-direct-robot-training/](https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/06/ai-coding-agents-can-autonomously-direct-robot-training/)
### Advanced AI Models Pose Dual-Use Threat as Government Restrictions Tighten
Anthropic has taken its powerful Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models offline following a US government directive barring foreign nationals from accessing the services. The models' advanced capabilities for both discovering and exploiting software vulnerabilities highlight the dual-use nature of cutting-edge AI—potentially invaluable to cybersecurity professionals and biology researchers, but equally dangerous in malicious hands.
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Source: [https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/06/dangerous-ai-models-are-coming-no-matter-what/](https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/06/dangerous-ai-models-are-coming-no-matter-what/)
### Fortnite Skins Could Soon Work Across Multiple Games
Epic Games is taking a major step toward its long-held metaverse vision with Unreal Engine 6, which will let developers enable cross-game skin compatibility. Players could eventually use their Fortnite cosmetics in completely different games, while developers can also create skins that work within Fortnite—creating a more interconnected gaming ecosystem.
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Source: [https://www.theverge.com/games/951785/epic-games-fortnite-unreal-fest-2026-unreal-engine-6-ai-metaverse](https://www.theverge.com/games/951785/epic-games-fortnite-unreal-fest-2026-unreal-engine-6-ai-metaverse)
### FortiSandbox: Angriffe auf kritische Schwachstellen beobachtet
Schwachstellen in FortiSandbox sind derzeit Ziel von Angriffen im Internet. Patches zum Absichern stehen seit April bereit.
--- Source: [[www.heise.de/news/Angr...](https://www.heise.de/news/Angriffe-auf-FortiSandbox-Schwachstellen-11335667.html?wt_mc=rss.red.ho.ho.atom.beitrag.beitrag](https://www.heise.de/news/Angriffe-auf-FortiSandbox-Schwachstellen-11335667.html?wt_mc=rss.red.ho.ho.atom.beitrag.beitrag)) \n## Health ### FDA Reverses 'Truly Evil' Gene Therapy Rejection A gene therapy for Huntington's disease has a new path toward approval from the Food and Drug Administration after the ouster of several Trump officials, particularly Vinay Prasad, who rejected the therapy in a shocking move one former FDA official called "truly evil." Huntington's disease is an inherited condition that typically strikes in middle age and causes nerve cells in the brain to gradually break down. There are currently no treatments for the disease, and many afflicted die in their 50s and 60s. Gene therapy company UniQure developed a one-time treatment, AMT-130, that aims to lower brain levels of the mutant protein behind the disease, called huntingtin. Data from a small, early trial suggested the drug could slow the progression of the disease up to 75 percent, and patients and advocates have closely watched the drug's development in hopeful anticipation. --- Source: [https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/06/truly-evil-fda-rejection-of-gene-therapy-overturned-after-trump-official-ousted/](https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/06/truly-evil-fda-rejection-of-gene-therapy-overturned-after-trump-official-ousted/) ### FDA Clears Second Maggot Species for Medical Wound Therapy The FDA has approved Lucilia cuprina, or Australian sheep blowfly, as the second fly species for maggot debridement therapy—expanding medical options for wound treatment. Cuprina Holdings' MediFly Maggots positions the company to dominate the global maggot therapy market, which previously relied solely on Lucilia sericata since its 2004 approval. --- Source: [https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/06/second-carcass-eating-fly-species-cleared-by-fda-for-maggot-wound-therapy/](https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/06/second-carcass-eating-fly-species-cleared-by-fda-for-maggot-wound-therapy/) ### Midjourney's Wild Pivot: From AI Cat Pics to Medical Scanners
Midjourney, best known for generating AI cat images, has unveiled its first hardware product: The Midjourney Scanner, an ultrasound-based full-body scanner that aims for MRI-quality imaging. CEO David Holz plans to build a San Francisco spa where people could get scanned annually or even daily to track their body composition.
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Source: [https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/952011/midjourney-medical-ai-ultrasound-scan](https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/952011/midjourney-medical-ai-ultrasound-scan)
### Medizinische Register: Daten sind "Must-have" für die Forschung
Medizinische Register sollen Daten für die Forschung und Versorgung liefern. Wie sich das BMG das vorstellt, erklärt Philipp Müller vom Gesundheitsministerium.
--- Source: [[www.heise.de/news/BMG-...](https://www.heise.de/news/BMG-zu-Medizinregistern-Ziel-ist-die-Verknuepfung-dieser-Daten-zu-erleichtern-11335306.html?wt_mc=rss.red.ho.ho.atom.beitrag.beitrag](https://www.heise.de/news/BMG-zu-Medizinregistern-Ziel-ist-die-Verknuepfung-dieser-Daten-zu-erleichtern-11335306.html?wt_mc=rss.red.ho.ho.atom.beitrag.beitrag)) ### Your Grill Brush Might Be Serving Up Dangerous Metal Bristles
Wire grill brushes can shed dangerous bristles that wind up in food, causing approximately 1,700 ER visits between 2002-2014. The American Medical Association has called for warning labels, but safer alternatives exist to keep your grill clean without the risk.
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Source: [[www.nytimes.com/wirecutte...](https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/wire-grill-brush-alternatives/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=RSS%20Feed](https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/wire-grill-brush-alternatives/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=RSS%20Feed)) \n## Entertainment
### After 24 Years, Bleach Anime Enters Its Final Era
The legendary shonen anime Bleach is officially entering its final era, concluding its 24-year run with the Thousand-Year Blood War arc. As one-third of the iconic 'Big Three' alongside Naruto and One Piece, Bleach defined supernatural action storytelling with its unique punk-rock aesthetic and focus on duty and death rather than traditional power-up arcs.
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Source: [https://www.polygon.com/the-best-looking-shonen-on-tv-enters-its-final-era-next-month/](https://www.polygon.com/the-best-looking-shonen-on-tv-enters-its-final-era-next-month/)
### Classic Call of Duty Black Ops Games Return to PlayStation This July
Two classic Call of Duty games are getting a rerelease this summer. Treyarch announced Wednesday that Call of Duty: Black Ops and Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 are being ported to unspecified PlayStation platforms in July. Developer Iron Galaxy, which has a rich history of game ports and support work, is handling development of the rereleases.
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Source: [https://www.polygon.com/call-of-duty-black-ops-2-2026-ports-ps5-ps4-treyarch/](https://www.polygon.com/call-of-duty-black-ops-2-2026-ports-ps5-ps4-treyarch/)
### Epic Games CEO Takes Stand Against Roblox's Gaming Empire
Tim Sweeney, CEO of Epic Games, is positioning his company as the defender of traditional AAA gaming against platforms like Roblox. He advocates for a more open gaming ecosystem, ensuring that high-quality games remain competitive against user-generated content platforms.
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Source: [https://kotaku.com/tim-sweeney-pitches-epic-as-a-savior-for-an-aaa-gaming-industry-being-devoured-by-roblox-2000707706](https://kotaku.com/tim-sweeney-pitches-epic-as-a-savior-for-an-aaa-gaming-industry-being-devoured-by-roblox-2000707706)
### Beloved Call of Duty: Black Ops Games Return to PlayStation
The new ports will include Call of Duty: Black Ops and Black Ops 2 multiplayer, zombies, and campaign modes. These fan-favorite titles are making their way back to PlayStation, giving both new and returning players the complete experience with all classic modes intact.
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Source: [https://kotaku.com/fan-favorite-call-of-duty-black-ops-games-are-getting-new-playstation-ports-2000707681](https://kotaku.com/fan-favorite-call-of-duty-black-ops-games-are-getting-new-playstation-ports-2000707681)
### Hidden Gem Screenbound Was Summer Game Fest's Most Unique Game
Screenbound blends genres and dimensions to create something unlike anything else I saw at SGF. This innovative title stood apart from Geoff Keighley's main stage presentations with its genre-defying gameplay that crosses dimensional boundaries, offering a fresh experience that caught attention despite being outside the spotlight.
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Source: [https://kotaku.com/screenbound-interview-release-date-preview-steam-xbox-ps5-2000707657](https://kotaku.com/screenbound-interview-release-date-preview-steam-xbox-ps5-2000707657) \n## Science
### 2028 Timeline for Useful Quantum Error Correction Promised
Amazon and QuEra have committed to delivering useful quantum error correction by 2028, potentially accelerating the timeline for practical quantum computing applications. This breakthrough could enable solving complex problems that require logical qubits rather than current error-prone hardware.
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Source: [https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/06/amazon-quera-promise-useful-quantum-error-correction-by-2028/](https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/06/amazon-quera-promise-useful-quantum-error-correction-by-2028/)
### Historic California Launch Complex Cleared for SpaceX
Space Launch Complex-6 at Vandenberg Space Force Station, once planned for shuttle launches and human spaceflight, has been demolished to make way for SpaceX's Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy missions. The demolition marks a modernization of the storied site, replacing decades-old support towers with infrastructure for next-generation rockets.
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Source: [https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/06/towers-once-planned-for-california-shuttle-launches-leveled-for-spacex-rockets/](https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/06/towers-once-planned-for-california-shuttle-launches-leveled-for-spacex-rockets/)
### Europa im Weltraum: Passagier oder Pilot?
Ohne Raumfahrt kein Wetterbericht, keine Navigation, schlechteres Internet. Wie abhängig ist Europa von den USA – und wie nehmen wir das Steuer in die Hand?
--- Source: [[www.heise.de/hintergru...](https://www.heise.de/hintergrund/Passagier-oder-Pilot-Wie-souveraen-ist-Europa-in-der-Raumfahrt-11304641.html?wt_mc=rss.red.ho.ho.atom.beitrag_plus.beitrag_plus](https://www.heise.de/hintergrund/Passagier-oder-Pilot-Wie-souveraen-ist-Europa-in-der-Raumfahrt-11304641.html?wt_mc=rss.red.ho.ho.atom.beitrag_plus.beitrag_plus)) \n## Travel ### Why Wirecutter's Travel Experts Say You Should Check That Bag
While most frequent flyers insist on carry-on only, Wirecutter's travel gear experts actually recommend checking bags. They argue the hype around carry-on luggage is overrated and share surprising reasons why checking bags can make your travel experience better.
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# The Daily News — 2026-06-17 Edition
*2026-06-17* — https://alexanderkucera.com/2026/06/17/the-daily-news-edition.html
A curated selection of today's most interesting stories from 61 RSS sources.
## Technology
### The Irony of AI Safety: When Your Own Messaging Backfires
The Fable shutdown saga reveals an ironic twist in AI policy debates. Simon Willison points out that after months of warning about dangerous AI capabilities, companies now face regulators eager to ban the very tools needed for code security. The situation highlights a compelling argument for open weights and decentralized development as an alternative to this centralized control paradox.
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Source: [https://www.manton.org/2026/06/16/simon-willison-blogged-more-on.html](https://www.manton.org/2026/06/16/simon-willison-blogged-more-on.html)
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# The Daily News — 2026-06-16 Edition
*2026-06-16* — https://alexanderkucera.com/2026/06/16/the-daily-news-edition.html
A curated selection of today's most interesting stories from 61 RSS sources.
## Health
### New Movies and Shows Arriving on Plex This July
Plex has announced a massive lineup of new content for July, featuring over 100 fresh titles including award-winning films like Everything Everywhere All At Once, Moonlight, Lady Bird, and Civil War. Viewers should also catch a few departing titles like Heat before they leave the platform.
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Source: [https://www.plex.tv/blog/new-on-plex-in-july/](https://www.plex.tv/blog/new-on-plex-in-july/)
### Google revolutioniert KI-Wissen mit offenem Markdown-Standard
Markdown statt proprietärer Kataloge: Google formalisiert mit dem Open Knowledge Format das „LLM Wiki“-Muster zu einem offenen Standard für KI-Wissen.
--- Source: [[www.heise.de/news/Open...](https://www.heise.de/news/Open-Knowledge-Format-KI-Wissen-als-Markdown-Dateien-11332215.html?wt_mc=rss.red.ho.ho.atom.beitrag.beitrag](https://www.heise.de/news/Open-Knowledge-Format-KI-Wissen-als-Markdown-Dateien-11332215.html?wt_mc=rss.red.ho.ho.atom.beitrag.beitrag)) \n## Sports ### Train Better BJJ Anywhere: Solo Drills for Hip Mobility, Core Control and Smooth Transitions
Discover how to improve your Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu without a partner or gi through targeted solo drills. This comprehensive guide covers a hip mobility flow, core coordination exercises, and level change practice that you can perform anywhere to enhance your performance on the mats.
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Source: [https://gmb.io/bjj-drills/](https://gmb.io/bjj-drills/) \n## Technology
### Day One Journal Wins Over Another Devoted Fan
The first Day One journal turned out so well that I ordered another one. They make it so easy.
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Source: [https://www.manton.org/2026/06/15/the-first-day-one-journal.html](https://www.manton.org/2026/06/15/the-first-day-one-journal.html) \n## Entertainment
### Google Earth Flugsimulator: Endlich im Browser verfügbar
Der beliebte Flugsimulator von Google Earth ist ab sofort auch direkt im Browser nutzbar, nachdem er bisher nur in der Desktop-Version verfügbar war. Seit 2007 eine versteckte Funktion, ermöglicht er jetzt ohne Installation spektakuläre Flüge über die ganze Welt.
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Source: [[www.heise.de/news/Goog...](https://www.heise.de/news/Google-Earth-Flugsimulator-jetzt-im-Browser-verfuegbar-11332018.html?wt_mc=rss.red.ho.ho.atom.beitrag.beitrag](https://www.heise.de/news/Google-Earth-Flugsimulator-jetzt-im-Browser-verfuegbar-11332018.html?wt_mc=rss.red.ho.ho.atom.beitrag.beitrag)) \n## Business
### Apple Is Right: Technology Needs to Disappear
Apple's senior executives have a bold philosophy: technology should serve us, not dominate our lives. Unlike other AI chatbots that chase engagement and encourage dependency, Siri is designed to help users rather than pull them into endless interactions. This anti-engagement approach extends throughout Apple's products, from Screen Time to Focus modes, prioritizing what matters most in life over screen time.
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Source: [https://www.macworld.com/article/3160212/apple-is-right-technology-needs-to-disappear.html](https://www.macworld.com/article/3160212/apple-is-right-technology-needs-to-disappear.html)
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# 2026-06-15
*2026-06-15* — https://alexanderkucera.com/2026/06/15/anthropic-is-really-flailing-around.html
Anthropic is really flailing around.
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# The Daily News — 2026-06-15 Edition
*2026-06-15* — https://alexanderkucera.com/2026/06/15/the-daily-news-edition.html
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## Entertainment
### Automatisieren mit KI-Agenten: Make.com und n8n Workshop
Lernen Sie, wie Sie mit Make.com und n8n intelligente KI-Agenten für die Automatisierung Ihrer Geschäftsprozesse einsetzen, ohne selbst zu programmieren. Dieser iX-Workshop zeigt praktische Wege zur KI-gestützten Prozessautomatisierung.
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Source: [[www.heise.de/news/iX-W...](https://www.heise.de/news/iX-Workshop-Make-com-und-n8n-Geschaeftsprozesse-mit-KI-Agenten-automatisieren-11321274.html?wt_mc=rss.red.ho.ho.atom.beitrag.beitrag](https://www.heise.de/news/iX-Workshop-Make-com-und-n8n-Geschaeftsprozesse-mit-KI-Agenten-automatisieren-11321274.html?wt_mc=rss.red.ho.ho.atom.beitrag.beitrag)) \n## Sports
### White House Restricted Anthropic's AI Over China Access Fears
The White House imposed export restrictions on Anthropic's Mythos and Fable 5 AI models due to concerns that China-linked groups may have accessed the technology. This poses serious national security risks, as the Chinese government could potentially reverse-engineer these advanced models through knowledge distillation to replicate their capabilities.
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Source: [https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/949644/china-white-house-anthropic-mythos](https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/949644/china-white-house-anthropic-mythos)
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# The Daily News — 2026-06-14 Edition
*2026-06-14* — https://alexanderkucera.com/2026/06/14/the-daily-news-edition.html
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## Entertainment
### Disclosure Day earns enthusiastic recommendation from film reviewer
The author watched and enjoyed the movie Disclosure Day, sharing their positive recommendation with readers. This film appears to be worth checking out based on this glowing endorsement.
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Source: [https://www.manton.org/2026/06/13/watched-disclosure-day-really-good.html](https://www.manton.org/2026/06/13/watched-disclosure-day-really-good.html) \n## Sports
### VMware zu Proxmox VE: Workshop für sichere Migration
Praktische Schritte, Fallstricke vermeiden: Lernen Sie, wie Sie Ihre VMware-Infrastruktur effizient und sicher auf Proxmox VE umstellen.
--- Source: [[www.heise.de/news/iX-W...](https://www.heise.de/news/iX-Workshop-Schritt-fuer-Schritt-VMware-zu-Proxmox-VE-11313875.html?wt_mc=rss.red.ho.ho.atom.beitrag.beitrag](https://www.heise.de/news/iX-Workshop-Schritt-fuer-Schritt-VMware-zu-Proxmox-VE-11313875.html?wt_mc=rss.red.ho.ho.atom.beitrag.beitrag)) \n## Business ### Microsoft erwägt mögliche Abspaltung der Xbox-Marke
Bei Microsoft scheinen für die Marke Xbox derzeit alle Optionen auf dem Tisch – bis hin zu einer möglichen Abspaltung. Das Unternehmen prüft strategische Alternativen, die weitreichende Konsequenzen für die Zukunft der Gaming-Sparte haben könnten.
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# 2026-06-13
*2026-06-13* — https://alexanderkucera.com/2026/06/13/maimarkt-mannheim-at-the-geekworld.html
Maimarkt Mannheim. [📍](http://maps.apple.com/?ll=49.469058,8.522821)
At the Geekworld in Mannheim today with Robin and his friend…Robin.
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# The Daily News — 2026-06-13 Edition
*2026-06-13* — https://alexanderkucera.com/2026/06/13/the-daily-news-edition.html
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## Politics
### Bundesnetzagentur prüft Steam wegen rassistischem Spiel
Der Digital Services Coordinator untersucht, ob Valve, der Betreiber der Steam-Plattform, gesetzliche Melderoutinen beim rassistischen Spiel „Plantation Simulator“ missachtet hat. Die Bundesnetzagentur prüft mögliche Verstöße gegen digitale Dienstrelevante Vorschriften.
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Source: [[www.heise.de/news/Bund...](https://www.heise.de/news/Bundesnetzagentur-vs-Steam-Ermittlungen-wegen-Plantagen-Simulator-11330449.html?wt_mc=rss.red.ho.ho.atom.beitrag.beitrag](https://www.heise.de/news/Bundesnetzagentur-vs-Steam-Ermittlungen-wegen-Plantagen-Simulator-11330449.html?wt_mc=rss.red.ho.ho.atom.beitrag.beitrag)) \n## Science
### Social-Media-Führerschein: Niedersachsen testet Medienbildung in Schulen
Medienkompetenz soll junge Menschen vor den Gefahren von Social Media schützen – doch wie effektiv ist die Umsetzung in den Schulen? Durch die Schulpflicht sind fast alle Heranwachsenden erreichbar, aber die praktische Realität der Medienbildung zeigt noch Lücken.
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Source: [[www.heise.de/hintergru...](https://www.heise.de/hintergrund/Medienbildung-im-Praxistest-Social-Media-Fuehrerschein-in-Niedersachsen-11329876.html?wt_mc=rss.red.ho.ho.atom.beitrag.beitrag](https://www.heise.de/hintergrund/Medienbildung-im-Praxistest-Social-Media-Fuehrerschein-in-Niedersachsen-11329876.html?wt_mc=rss.red.ho.ho.atom.beitrag.beitrag)) \n## Sports
### GameStop's Pro Membership Getting Worse, Staff Ready to Revolt
GameStop's beloved Pro Membership program is facing significant changes that will reduce its value to customers, and employees are preparing to push back against the decision. The upcoming nerf to one of the retailer's few remaining positive features threatens to further strain relationships with both staff and loyal shoppers.
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Source: [https://kotaku.com/one-of-the-only-good-things-left-about-gamestop-is-about-to-get-worse-2000706035](https://kotaku.com/one-of-the-only-good-things-left-about-gamestop-is-about-to-get-worse-2000706035)
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# 2026-06-12
*2026-06-12* — https://alexanderkucera.com/2026/06/12/its-almost-funny-how-quickly.html
It's almost funny how quickly Fable 5 blasts through my token limit when I have it analyze my codebase with ultracode. Hint: it is measured in seconds.
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# The Daily News — 2026-06-12 Edition
*2026-06-12* — https://alexanderkucera.com/2026/06/12/the-daily-news-edition.html
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## Business
### Apples Passwörter-App wird agentisch
Das Wort "Agentic" nimmt Apple selten in den Mund. Mit der Passwörter-App ändert sich das. Die kann künftig allein durchs Web ziehen.
--- Source: [[www.heise.de/news/Appl...](https://www.heise.de/news/Apples-Passwoerter-App-wird-agentisch-11326321.html?wt_mc=rss.red.ho.ho.atom.beitrag.beitrag](https://www.heise.de/news/Apples-Passwoerter-App-wird-agentisch-11326321.html?wt_mc=rss.red.ho.ho.atom.beitrag.beitrag)) \n## Entertainment ### FreeBSD-Sicherheitslücke "Bumsrakete[tm]" ermöglicht Rechteausweitung
IT-Forscher haben eine kritische Sicherheitslücke in FreeBSD entdeckt, die Angreifern zur Rechteausweitung verhelfen kann. Die Lücke trägt den ungewöhnlichen Codenamen "Bumsrakete[tm]" und sollte von Systemadministratoren ernst genommen werden.
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Source: [[www.heise.de/news/Free...](https://www.heise.de/news/FreeBSD-Rechteausweitungsluecke-mit-augenzwinkerndem-Codenamen-11328722.html?wt_mc=rss.red.ho.ho.atom.beitrag.beitrag](https://www.heise.de/news/FreeBSD-Rechteausweitungsluecke-mit-augenzwinkerndem-Codenamen-11328722.html?wt_mc=rss.red.ho.ho.atom.beitrag.beitrag))
### Android 17 QPR1 Beta 4: Neue Screen Reactions und Bugfixes
Die Beta 4 von Android 17 QPR1 hat neben Bugfixes wenige neue Funktionen an Bord.
--- Source: [[www.heise.de/news/Andr...](https://www.heise.de/news/Android-17-QPR1-Beta-4-Update-bringt-neue-Screen-Reactions-und-Bugfixes-11328340.html?wt_mc=rss.red.ho.ho.atom.beitrag.beitrag](https://www.heise.de/news/Android-17-QPR1-Beta-4-Update-bringt-neue-Screen-Reactions-und-Bugfixes-11328340.html?wt_mc=rss.red.ho.ho.atom.beitrag.beitrag)) \n## Gaming ### Ubisoft schließt Studios in Winnipeg und Belgrad – bis zu 380 Stellen weg
Ubisoft schließt als Teil des laufenden Sparkurses Studios in Winnipeg und Belgrad. Bis zu 380 Stellen sind betroffen.
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Mehr als vier Jahre nach der ersten Ankündigung hat Square Enix neues Material zu „Kingdom Hearts 4“ gezeigt. Fans dürften aufatmen.
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Source: [[www.heise.de/news/King...](https://www.heise.de/news/Kingdom-Hearts-4-zeigt-sich-ausfuehrlich-Trailer-bricht-jahrelange-Funkstille-11326954.html?wt_mc=rss.red.ho.ho.atom.beitrag.beitrag](https://www.heise.de/news/Kingdom-Hearts-4-zeigt-sich-ausfuehrlich-Trailer-bricht-jahrelange-Funkstille-11326954.html?wt_mc=rss.red.ho.ho.atom.beitrag.beitrag))
### KI-Modelle lokal auf dem PC betreiben – ohne Cloud und Abo
KI-Modelle lokal auf dem PC betreiben. Ohne Cloud und ohne Abo. Wir zeigen, wie's auf Windows mit NVIDIA- und AMD-Grafikkarten funktioniert.
--- Source: [[www.heise.de/news/Vide...](https://www.heise.de/news/Video-So-installiert-und-nutzt-ihr-lokale-KI-Modelle-11318296.html?wt_mc=rss.red.ho.ho.atom.beitrag.beitrag](https://www.heise.de/news/Video-So-installiert-und-nutzt-ihr-lokale-KI-Modelle-11318296.html?wt_mc=rss.red.ho.ho.atom.beitrag.beitrag)) \n## Politics ### Südkoreaner SK Hynix steht kurz vor US-Börsengang
Chiphersteller SK Hynix plant seine Börsennotierung in den USA bereits für August - die Zulassung könnte schon in wenigen Tagen erfolgen. Ein signifikanter Schritt des südkoreanischen Tech-Giganten für seine globale Expansion.
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# The Daily News — 2026-06-10 Edition
*2026-06-10* — https://alexanderkucera.com/2026/06/10/the-daily-news-edition.html
A curated selection of today's most interesting stories from 61 RSS sources.
## Entertainment
### Ermittlungen nach Großbrand im Umspannwerk Reutlingen
Nach dem Großbrand im Umspannwerk in Reutlingen ermitteln Polizei und Staatsschutz. Es gibt Hinweise auf Brandstiftung, aber keine auf die Täter.
--- Source: [[www.heise.de/news/Stro...](https://www.heise.de/news/Stromausfall-in-Reutlingen-war-mutmasslich-Brandstifung-11326054.html?wt_mc=rss.red.ho.ho.atom.beitrag.beitrag](https://www.heise.de/news/Stromausfall-in-Reutlingen-war-mutmasslich-Brandstifung-11326054.html?wt_mc=rss.red.ho.ho.atom.beitrag.beitrag)) \n## Health ### Apple aktualisiert visionOS: Neue Features für Vision Pro
Apple hat visionOS 2.7 angekündigt und bringt diverse Verbesserungen mit sich, darunter optimierte Environments und KI-Funktionen für die Vision Pro. Das Update ergänzt die neuesten Versionen von iOS und macOS.
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### Halo Remake erschient am 28. Juli auf allen Plattformen
Das Remake von „Halo: Combat Evolved" erscheint am 28. Juli für Xbox, PC und Playstation 5. Käufer der Premium-Edition können ab 23. Juli spielen.
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Administratoren und IT-Verantwortliche lernen ihre Rolle im ISMS kennen und trainieren, wie sie Maßnahmen der ISO 27001 technisch und organisatorisch umsetzen.
--- Source: [[www.heise.de/news/iX-W...](https://www.heise.de/news/iX-Workshop-ISO-27001-als-Admin-im-Unternehmen-praktisch-umsetzen-11256105.html?wt_mc=rss.red.ho.ho.atom.beitrag.beitrag](https://www.heise.de/news/iX-Workshop-ISO-27001-als-Admin-im-Unternehmen-praktisch-umsetzen-11256105.html?wt_mc=rss.red.ho.ho.atom.beitrag.beitrag)) --- #### How This Newsletter Works This newsletter is automatically generated by an AI-powered workflow that: 1. **Aggregates** content from 61 RSS feeds 2. **Filters** articles from the last 24 hours 3. **Categorizes** each story using AI (GLM-4.5 Air) 4. **Detects similarities** and combines related stories 5. **Selects** the top 5 most interesting stories per category 6. **Summarizes** each story with AI (GLM-4.7) **Tech Stack**: Built with n8n, powered by Z.AI GLM-4.7 and OpenAI embeddings. --- **Generated with ❤️ by n8n** --- # The Daily News — 2026-06-08 Edition *2026-06-08* — https://alexanderkucera.com/2026/06/08/the-daily-news-edition.html A curated selection of today's most interesting stories from 61 RSS sources. ## Technology ### Micro.blog 4.0 Beta: Local AI Comes to Your Mac Micro.blog 4.0 beta introduces refined macOS design with improved sidebar, toolbar, and category editing, plus groundbreaking local AI support for M1 Macs with 24GB+ RAM. The app can now run Gemma 4 26B entirely on-device, using your Mac's idle processing to reduce cloud dependency while maintaining privacy through open-source, power-aware implementation. --- Source: [https://www.manton.org/2026/06/07/microblog-beta.html](https://www.manton.org/2026/06/07/microblog-beta.html) --- #### How This Newsletter Works This newsletter is automatically generated by an AI-powered workflow that: 1. **Aggregates** content from 61 RSS feeds 2. **Filters** articles from the last 24 hours 3. **Categorizes** each story using AI (GLM-4.5 Air) 4. **Detects similarities** and combines related stories 5. **Selects** the top 5 most interesting stories per category 6. **Summarizes** each story with AI (GLM-4.7) **Tech Stack**: Built with n8n, powered by Z.AI GLM-4.7 and OpenAI embeddings. --- **Generated with ❤️ by n8n** --- # The Daily News — 2026-06-07 Edition *2026-06-07* — https://alexanderkucera.com/2026/06/07/the-daily-news-edition.html A curated selection of today's most interesting stories from 61 RSS sources. ## Entertainment ### Wholesome Direct 2026: The Year's Most Adorable Games Revealed
Summer Game Fest's Wholesome Direct showcase brought over 50 charming, laid-back games to the spotlight, including Hidden Folks 2. Highlights include several titles available now with demos on a dedicated Steam page, offering a refreshing alternative to blockbuster gaming announcements.
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Source: [https://www.theverge.com/entertainment/943977/wholesome-direct-2026-cute-games-trailers](https://www.theverge.com/entertainment/943977/wholesome-direct-2026-cute-games-trailers)
### Meta Now Generates Its Own AI-Produced Clickbait News Feed
Meta's standalone AI app has introduced a 'For You' section that populates AI-generated clickbait stories, complete with questionable text and images. The feature replaces the previous public Discover feed and transforms the app into a standard chatbot with algorithmically sensationalized content.
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# The Dashboard Graveyard
*2026-06-06* — https://alexanderkucera.com/2026/06/06/the-dashboard-graveyard.html
You can map the last six months of my AI journey entirely through abandoned dashboards.
Three for OpenClaw. Three for tracking LLM spending. A recipe builder that died mid-bake. Two Hermes experiments that lasted about a day each. And most recently, a project management dashboard for Pi Coding Agent. Still warm, still unfinished, already abandoned.
That's ten projects. Give or take. None of them survived.
## Where It Started
I blame Alex Finn.
Not really. He's not wrong about what *he* needs. Finn's YouTube channel has been pushing "Mission Control" as essential infrastructure for anyone working with LLM tools. Build a dashboard. See everything. Control everything. He even published a whole prompt library for it. The production value makes the pitch feel inevitable.
He wasn't alone. This was late 2025. Andrej Karpathy had just started talking about "vibe coding," the idea that you could describe what you wanted in plain language and have an AI build it. Retool put out a report showing 78% of developers expected to build more custom tools in 2026, often replacing SaaS products with AI-generated dashboards. The message from every direction was the same: *of course* you need custom infrastructure. Everyone's building one.
So when OpenClaw (then still called ClawdBot) produced files everywhere: conversations, outputs, config dumps, a whole filesystem with no obvious way to navigate it. The conclusion felt obvious. Build a dashboard. See everything. Control everything.
I built one. Then another because the first one didn't feel right. Then a third because the second one was getting messy but I'd learned things and this time it would be *clean*.
It wasn't clean. Nothing after that was clean either.
## The Cost Tracking Trilogy
Somewhere along the way, I decided the real problem wasn't navigation. It was money. These tools cost money to run. Someone should track that. Someone should build a dashboard for it.
So I built three cost trackers. Three separate attempts to solve a problem I could have solved with a spreadsheet in twenty minutes.
There's a term for this: **dashboard sprawl**. Internal tools start as "quick projects" that become permanent maintenance sinks. Every API change, every new metric you want to track, every framework update—they all demand manual intervention. You end up managing more custom software than actual work. I was living it. Each tracker started with enthusiasm and stalled when I realized I didn't enjoy looking at my own spending closely enough to maintain a web application for the privilege.
The pattern had solidified: new tool arrives, excitement spikes, Mission Control construction begins, interest evaporates somewhere around the CSS grid layout, another body in the graveyard.
## The Accident That Worked
The recipe builder was supposed to be different.
I wanted something that could take ingredients I had on hand and suggest recipes that fit my dietary restrictions. Peritoneal dialysis patient here; phosphorus and potassium are daily concerns. A proper web app with a database, search, filtering, the works.
I got partway through the frontend and ran out of patience. Not patience with the *idea*—patience with the *build*. I needed something that worked *now*, not three sprints from now.
So I did something dumb. I wrote a quick skill file for OpenClaw instead: a text prompt wrapped in some YAML, no database, no UI, no deployment pipeline. You feed it ingredients, it suggests recipes. That's it.
It worked immediately. Better than anything I'd spent weeks building in React.
When I migrated from OpenClaw to Hermes Agent at the end of February, that skill came with me. Got improved over time. Still runs today. Still gets used whenever I'm staring at the fridge wondering what's safe to cook.
That throwaway hack outperformed nine carefully planned dashboards combined. Not because it was better engineered—because it existed, I finished it, and it did exactly one thing well enough that I never had reason to replace it.
## What's Actually True Now
Here's my current setup for managing everything:
cmux (terminal multiplexer). Sublime Text. macOS Finder.
That's it. No Next.js state to manage, no auth layer to maintain, no "quick deploy" that eats a whole weekend debugging environment variables. I open a terminal, I type a command, something happens. When it doesn't work, I can see why in the same window where I ran it.
I like building CLI tools. They can get complicated. TUIs have come a long way in recent years and they can look sharp. But they don't carry the same maintenance debt: no mobile breakpoints, no framework update that breaks your component tree next quarter, no hosting bill for something only you will ever use.
Dashboards sell you **visibility**. That psychological comfort of seeing everything laid out in cards and charts. It feels productive. It feels like control. Then reality sets in: the thing you're looking at needs updating, the data source changed its API format, the chart library dropped support for your version, and suddenly your dashboard of control is just another maintenance obligation.
CLI tools don't pretend to give you that comfort. They give you *output* instead. You run the command, you get the answer, you move on. The tool doesn't need to look impressive because nobody's watching it except you, and you already know what you asked for.
## The Glitch Isn't Fixed
I still feel the pull, though. That's the part I'm not proud of.
Pi Coding Agent showed up. I liked it immediately. The coding experience is good. So naturally, within about a week, I'd started building a project management dashboard for it. A way to manage multiple projects, start coding sessions, track progress across codebases.
Sounds reasonable. Sounds like something a person who likes a tool might want to build.
I didn't finish it. I already stopped working on it. The same graveyard, fresh body.
I tell myself it's fading. I hope it fades. But the reflex is still there—new tool lands, brain says "build Mission Control," hands open a code editor before the conscious mind catches up.
Maybe acknowledging it is the first step. Or maybe I'll be writing a follow-up post in six months about the twelve dashboards I built between now and then. Ask me then.
## What I Actually Learned
Not "dashboards are bad." Some people love them. Finn clearly does, and his setup works for him. The lesson isn't that web interfaces are universally wrong for personal tooling.
The lesson is simpler: **I don't finish dashboards.** I start them, enjoy the initial architecture phase, lose interest somewhere around implementation details, and move on to the next thing before the current one ships.
But I *do* finish small tools that do one thing: skill files, shell scripts, little CLI utilities that solve today's problem without pretending to solve next year's too.
That's not a downgrade. That's just knowing what shape your work fits into.
Maybe the next time my hands open a code editor before my brain catches up, I'll remember that.
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# The Daily News — 2026-06-06 Edition
*2026-06-06* — https://alexanderkucera.com/2026/06/06/the-daily-news-edition.html
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## Sports
### Knicks vs Spurs: Live NBA Playoff Commentary
Almost glad I'm not at the game because too many Knicks fans in San Antonio. Tough series so far. Spurs played better in game 1 but couldn't get the win. Knicks playing better so far in game 2. One more quarter to go! 🏀
--- Source: [https://www.manton.org/2026/06/05/almost-glad-im-not-at.html](https://www.manton.org/2026/06/05/almost-glad-im-not-at.html) \n## Business ### Wero: ING startet mit Bezahldienst im E-Commerce
Die ING ist mit dem Bezahldienst Wero im E-Commerce gestartet. Außerdem soll man Wero künftig auch in Ländern mit anderen nationalen Systemen nutzen können.
--- Source: [[www.heise.de/news/ING-...](https://www.heise.de/news/ING-Zahlungen-mit-Wero-ab-sofort-auch-in-Onlineshops-moeglich-11320220.html?wt_mc=rss.red.ho.ho.atom.beitrag.beitrag](https://www.heise.de/news/ING-Zahlungen-mit-Wero-ab-sofort-auch-in-Onlineshops-moeglich-11320220.html?wt_mc=rss.red.ho.ho.atom.beitrag.beitrag)) ### Google Health-App erhält erstes großes Update mit neuen Funktionen
Die Google-Health-App erhält ein erstes größeres Update. Die neue App-Version 5.01 steht sowohl für iOS als auch für Android bereit.
--- Source: [[www.heise.de/news/Goog...](https://www.heise.de/news/Google-Health-App-Update-5-01-bringt-Fehlerbehebungen-und-neue-Funktionen-11319446.html?wt_mc=rss.red.ho.ho.atom.beitrag.beitrag](https://www.heise.de/news/Google-Health-App-Update-5-01-bringt-Fehlerbehebungen-und-neue-Funktionen-11319446.html?wt_mc=rss.red.ho.ho.atom.beitrag.beitrag)) \n## Science ### Summer Game Fest 2026 Delivers Massive Onslaught of World Premieres
Summer Game Fest 2026 has arrived with an impressive barrage of world premiere game announcements and reveals. Gaming enthusiasts can expect comprehensive coverage of all the exciting trailers, gameplay demos, and surprise announcements from this year's showcase event.
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# 2026-06-05
*2026-06-05* — https://alexanderkucera.com/2026/06/05/i-am-back-to-enjoying.html
I am back to enjoying LLM coding again.
I had switched to GSD-pi and it suffered from a ton of AI slop PRs lately. I just did not enjoy it anymore, but was a bit stuck using it in the middle of a project. That’s done, I switched to vanilla Pi Coding Agent and am so much happier.
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# The Daily News — 2026-06-05 Edition
*2026-06-05* — https://alexanderkucera.com/2026/06/05/the-daily-news-edition.html
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## Technology
### Why My Blog Gets Testy After Spurs Games
The day after a Spurs loss, expect all of my blog posts to have a tinge of anger to them. 🤪 This candid take reveals how sports emotions influence creative work, and it’s a reminder that even the most professional writers are human—sometimes hilariously so.
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### iOS Through the Ages: From 2007 to Today's Complete Evolution
Explore the complete history of Apple's iOS, from its 2007 debut as iPhone OS to the current iOS 26 and upcoming iOS 27. Discover how each major release transformed the iPhone experience—from the App Store's introduction to Siri, the flat design revolution, and the new year-based numbering system.
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Source: [https://www.macworld.com/article/1659017/ios-versions-list.html](https://www.macworld.com/article/1659017/ios-versions-list.html) \n## Science
### Samsung Health Update: KI-Revolution für Galaxy-Uhren angekündigt
Samsung hat ein umfangreiches Update für seine Health-App angekündigt, das KI-gestützte Analysen und neue Gesundheitskennzahlen für Galaxy-Uhren einführt.
--- Source: [[www.heise.de/news/Sams...](https://www.heise.de/news/Samsung-Health-Umfangreiches-Update-fuer-Gesundheits-App-mit-KI-angekuendigt-11318755.html?wt_mc=rss.red.ho.ho.atom.beitrag.beitrag](https://www.heise.de/news/Samsung-Health-Umfangreiches-Update-fuer-Gesundheits-App-mit-KI-angekuendigt-11318755.html?wt_mc=rss.red.ho.ho.atom.beitrag.beitrag)) ### Nintendo Switch 2 With Replaceable Battery Coming To Europe In 2027
Nintendo confirmed it will release a model with a replaceable battery in 2027 as part of compliance with European Union regulations requiring user-replaceable power cells in portable electronics. This eco-friendly design change will allow gamers to extend their console's lifespan beyond typical battery degradation limits.
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### Erster Mini-PC mit ARM-Prozessor: Asus setzt auf Snapdragon X2 Elite
Asus präsentiert den ersten Mini-PC mit schnellem ARM-Prozessor. Zudem gibt es auf der Computex lüfterlose Modelle und solche für Embedded-Anwendungen.
--- Source: [[www.heise.de/news/Spar...](https://www.heise.de/news/Sparsame-Mini-PCs-mit-Qualcomm-Snapdragon-X2-Elite-und-Intel-Core-300-11316708.html?wt_mc=rss.red.ho.ho.atom.beitrag.beitrag](https://www.heise.de/news/Sparsame-Mini-PCs-mit-Qualcomm-Snapdragon-X2-Elite-und-Intel-Core-300-11316708.html?wt_mc=rss.red.ho.ho.atom.beitrag.beitrag)) \n## Entertainment ### Best GPS Running Watches for Every Runner in 2025
After testing 43 watches since 2014, Wirecutter found the Coros Pace 4 is the best choice for most runners, thanks to its speedy GPS acquisition and excellent battery life. For those seeking smartwatch features, the Garmin Forerunner 165 and 165 Music offer the best overall value in Garmin's lineup.
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### UN-Umweltbericht: KI verbraucht bald doppelt so viel Strom wie Deutschland
Eine neue UN-Studie warnt vor verheerenden ökologischen Folgen des KI-Booms. Bis 2030 könnten KI-Rechenzentren weltweit 945 Terawattstunden Strom verbrauchen – fast doppelt so viel wie ganz Deutschland – zusätzlich gigantische Wassermengen zur Kühlung und Flächen so groß wie Schleswig-Holstein benötigen.
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Source: [https://www.basicthinking.de/blog/2026/06/04/ki-strom-umwelt/](https://www.basicthinking.de/blog/2026/06/04/ki-strom-umwelt/)
### Deutsche Bürger reduzieren bewusst ihre Internetnutzung
Die deutsche Bevölkerung geht bewusst weniger ins Internet, zeigt die "Postbank Digitalstudie 2026". Die Zeit wollen die Bürger für analoge Aktivitäten nutzen.
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# The Daily News — 2026-06-04 Edition
*2026-06-04* — https://alexanderkucera.com/2026/06/04/the-daily-news-edition.html
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## Entertainment
### Microsoft Build 2026: Windows soll sicherer werden
Neben den KI-Ergänzungen für Entwickler bringt Microsoft auch für Windows-Nutzer Verbesserungen etwa bei der Sicherheit.
--- Source: [[www.heise.de/news/MS-B...](https://www.heise.de/news/MS-Build-2026-Windows-soll-sicherer-werden-11316512.html?wt_mc=rss.red.ho.ho.atom.beitrag.beitrag](https://www.heise.de/news/MS-Build-2026-Windows-soll-sicherer-werden-11316512.html?wt_mc=rss.red.ho.ho.atom.beitrag.beitrag)) \n## Business ### IW-Studie: Diese Gemeinden haben die beste Versorgung
Eine neue IW-Studie vergleicht Tausende Gemeinden in Deutschland und zeigt überraschende Ergebnisse. Der Sieger ist keine Großstadt – wir präsentieren die zehn bestversorgten Gemeinden und erklären, in welchen Kategorien sie punkten.
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### Data, Analytics und AI: Neue Trends und Praxiserfahrungen aus München
Ob Business- oder Data-Analyst, im Fachbereich oder der IT, ob Data Scientist oder in Leitungsfunktion: Neue Trends, Learnings und spannende Anwendungsfälle.
--- Source: [[www.heise.de/news/Data...](https://www.heise.de/news/Data-Analytics-und-AI-Trends-Strategien-Praxis-TDWI-Muenchen-11315203.html?wt_mc=rss.red.ho.ho.atom.beitrag.beitrag](https://www.heise.de/news/Data-Analytics-und-AI-Trends-Strategien-Praxis-TDWI-Muenchen-11315203.html?wt_mc=rss.red.ho.ho.atom.beitrag.beitrag)) --- #### How This Newsletter Works This newsletter is automatically generated by an AI-powered workflow that: 1. **Aggregates** content from 61 RSS feeds 2. **Filters** articles from the last 24 hours 3. **Categorizes** each story using AI (GLM-4.5 Air) 4. **Detects similarities** and combines related stories 5. **Selects** the top 5 most interesting stories per category 6. **Summarizes** each story with AI (GLM-4.7) **Tech Stack**: Built with n8n, powered by Z.AI GLM-4.7 and OpenAI embeddings. --- **Generated with ❤️ by n8n** --- # The Daily News — 2026-06-03 Edition *2026-06-03* — https://alexanderkucera.com/2026/06/03/the-daily-news-edition.html A curated selection of today's most interesting stories from 61 RSS sources. ## Technology ### Uber Caps AI Spending After Blazing Through Budget in Four Months Following a Bloomberg report, Uber has instituted internal AI usage caps to control exorbitant costs after blowing through their budget in just four months. This reflects a broader trend of companies cutting back on AI usage to moderate expenses, which could impact the stability of revenue for AI providers like Anthropic. --- Source: [https://www.manton.org/2026/06/02/following-a-report-from-bloomberg.html](https://www.manton.org/2026/06/02/following-a-report-from-bloomberg.html) \n## Food ### Sony's Big Summer PlayStation State Of Play: Watch Live Here
Sony's summer State of Play event is finally here, with rumors swirling about a major reveal for Sony Santa Monica's highly anticipated new project. Gamers can watch the live stream right now to see what PlayStation has in store.
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# The Daily News — 2026-06-02 Edition
*2026-06-02* — https://alexanderkucera.com/2026/06/02/the-daily-news-edition.html
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## Technology
### OpenAI Reveals Why Codex Excels Beyond Just Coding
OpenAI's Kath Korevec explains that Codex's versatility stems from understanding developers' multifaceted roles beyond programming. The tool was designed to handle documentation, architecture, DevOps, and data work—tasks that real developers actually perform daily.
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### Corgi Correctly Predicts Every Western Conference Finals Game
It's wild that the corgi correctly predicted every game in the western conference finals. That's a good dog. 🏀
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# The Daily News — 2026-06-01 Edition
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## Entertainment
### Save on IO Interactive's Stunning New Bond Game 007 First Light
IO Interactive's latest James Bond-inspired stealth game has already launched with discounts at Costco and Fanatical. PS5 players can snag the disc version for $62.99, while Steam users can grab the standard edition for $60.89 or the deluxe edition for $69.59. The game combines Hitman-style stealth with Uncharted-like action and an immersive Bond-like cinematic experience.
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# The Daily News — 2026-05-31 Edition
*2026-05-31* — https://alexanderkucera.com/2026/05/31/the-daily-news-edition.html
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## Sports
### Spurs Clinch Victory Over Thunder in Thrilling Series
Amazing series. Thunder kept it close, had a couple shots to get back in it late. Just a great win. Go Spurs Go! The finals are going to be fun. 🏀
--- Source: [https://www.manton.org/2026/05/30/amazing-series-thunder-kept-it.html](https://www.manton.org/2026/05/30/amazing-series-thunder-kept-it.html) \n## Entertainment ### Micro.blog Embraces Standard.site for Long-Form Bluesky Posts Micro.blog now supports Standard.site, enabling richer long-form blogging experiences through cross-posting to Bluesky. Blog posts with titles will generate Standard.site records, while microblog posts without titles will use traditional formats for now. --- Source: [https://www.manton.org/2026/05/30/standardsite-in-microblog.html](https://www.manton.org/2026/05/30/standardsite-in-microblog.html) \n## Technology ### Samsung Frame and Hisense CanvasTV Art TVs Are More Than 40% Off This Weekend
Woot is offering massive discounts on premium art-focused TVs, with Samsung's 2025 Frame TV starting at $587.99 and Hisense's CanvasTV dropping to $779.99. These matte-display 4K TVs seamlessly blend into home decor while offering excellent gaming capabilities with 144Hz refresh rates.
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# The Daily News — 2026-05-30 Edition
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## Entertainment
### Robin Sloan's Moonbound: A Truly Bizarre Sci-Fi Adventure
Finished reading: Moonbound by Robin Sloan. Truly bizarre, and I mean that in a good way. 📚
--- Source: [https://www.manton.org/2026/05/29/finished-reading-moonbound-by-robin.html](https://www.manton.org/2026/05/29/finished-reading-moonbound-by-robin.html) ### Proxmox Datacenter Manager 1.1 wird Schweizer Taschenmesser für Cluster-Verwaltung
Der neue Proxmox Datacenter Manager 1.1 bringt wichtige Verbesserungen für die Verwaltung von Proxmox-VE-Clustern mit sich. Die aktualisierte Version bietet erweiterte Funktionen für besseres Monitoring und effizientere Administration, die sie zu einem unverzichtbaren Werkzeug für IT-Administratoren machen.
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# The Daily News — 2026-05-29 Edition
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## Entertainment
### Oura Ring 5 Now Available for Preorder: 40% Smaller Design
The Oura Ring 5 is now available for preorder starting at $399, featuring a dramatically smaller 40% slimmer design and improved battery life up to nine days. New features include a Locate tool, real-time fitness tracking, Health Radar monitoring system, and AI-assisted medical guidance through a new partnership.
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# The Daily News — 2026-05-28 Edition
*2026-05-28* — https://alexanderkucera.com/2026/05/28/the-daily-news-edition.html
A curated selection of today's most interesting stories from 61 RSS sources.
## Entertainment
### Streaming-Plattformen müssen in deutsche Produktionen investieren
Streamingplattformen sollen einen Teil ihrer Einnahmen in europäische und deutsche Produktionen investieren. Das hat das Bundeskabinett nun beschlossen.
--- Source: [[www.heise.de/news/Deut...](https://www.heise.de/news/Deutsche-kulturelle-Praegung-soll-Streaming-Pflicht-werden-11308362.html?wt_mc=rss.red.ho.ho.atom.beitrag.beitrag](https://www.heise.de/news/Deutsche-kulturelle-Praegung-soll-Streaming-Pflicht-werden-11308362.html?wt_mc=rss.red.ho.ho.atom.beitrag.beitrag)) ### Nach 88 Tagen beendet Iran die längste Internetsperre der Geschichte
Verschiedene Beobachtungsdaten bestätigen, dass die totale Internetblockade im Iran beendet wurde. Das heißt aber nicht, dass die Menschen alles nutzen können.
--- Source: [[www.heise.de/news/Will...](https://www.heise.de/news/Willkommen-zurueck-Komplette-Internetsperre-im-Iran-nach-88-Tagen-beendet-11307539.html?wt_mc=rss.red.ho.ho.atom.beitrag.beitrag](https://www.heise.de/news/Willkommen-zurueck-Komplette-Internetsperre-im-Iran-nach-88-Tagen-beendet-11307539.html?wt_mc=rss.red.ho.ho.atom.beitrag.beitrag)) --- #### How This Newsletter Works This newsletter is automatically generated by an AI-powered workflow that: 1. **Aggregates** content from 61 RSS feeds 2. **Filters** articles from the last 24 hours 3. **Categorizes** each story using AI (GLM-4.5 Air) 4. **Detects similarities** and combines related stories 5. **Selects** the top 5 most interesting stories per category 6. **Summarizes** each story with AI (GLM-4.7) **Tech Stack**: Built with n8n, powered by Z.AI GLM-4.7 and OpenAI embeddings. --- **Generated with ❤️ by n8n** --- # The Daily News — 2026-05-26 Edition *2026-05-26* — https://alexanderkucera.com/2026/05/26/the-daily-news-edition.html A curated selection of today's most interesting stories from 61 RSS sources. ## Technology ### OpenAI's AI Achieves Mathematical Breakthrough by Solving Erdős Problem--- Source: [https://mjtsai.com/blog/2026/05/25/openai-models-proof-of-erds-unit-distance-problem/](https://mjtsai.com/blog/2026/05/25/openai-models-proof-of-erds-unit-distance-problem/) --- #### How This Newsletter Works This newsletter is automatically generated by an AI-powered workflow that: 1. **Aggregates** content from 61 RSS feeds 2. **Filters** articles from the last 24 hours 3. **Categorizes** each story using AI (GLM-4.5 Air) 4. **Detects similarities** and combines related stories 5. **Selects** the top 5 most interesting stories per category 6. **Summarizes** each story with AI (GLM-4.7) **Tech Stack**: Built with n8n, powered by Z.AI GLM-4.7 and OpenAI embeddings. --- **Generated with ❤️ by n8n** --- # The Daily News — 2026-05-23 Edition *2026-05-23* — https://alexanderkucera.com/2026/05/23/the-daily-news-edition.html A curated selection of today's most interesting stories from 61 RSS sources. ## Technology ### Micro.blog Mac Update Delivers Lightning-Fast Notes Sync Most users probably don't use Micro.blog notes as much as I do, but still feels great to ship this latest bug fix update for Mac with much faster notes sync. The clunkiness had been bugging me for a while even though I use it all the time. --- Source: [https://www.manton.org/2026/05/22/most-users-probably-dont-use.html](https://www.manton.org/2026/05/22/most-users-probably-dont-use.html) ### The Late Show Ends Its Run on a High Note Loved the way they wrapped up the last episode of The Late Show. Nicely done. Heck of a run and good way to go out on top. 📺 --- Source: [https://www.manton.org/2026/05/22/loved-the-way-they-wrapped.html](https://www.manton.org/2026/05/22/loved-the-way-they-wrapped.html) \n## Politics ### Your Mac's New Digital Assistant Works Even While You're AwayThis proof is an important milestone for the math and AI communities. It marks the first time that a prominent open problem, central to a subfield of mathematics, has been solved autonomously by AI. It also demonstrates the depth of reasoning these systems now support.
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The proof is available here. The companion paper by leading external mathematicians is available here. You can find an abridged version of the model’s chain of thought here .
OpenAI has enhanced its Codex desktop app for Mac with Computer Use functionality that allows the AI agent to operate apps on your computer even when it's locked and the screen is off. Users can send tasks remotely from their phone, with Codex able to click through windows, type, navigate menus, and interact with the clipboard in explicitly allowed apps—perfect for GUI-based tasks command-line tools can't handle.
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Source: [https://www.macrumors.com/2026/05/22/codex-use-mac-apps-when-locked/](https://www.macrumors.com/2026/05/22/codex-use-mac-apps-when-locked/) \n## Health
### Retired Admiral Sparks Viral Conspiracy Theory With Suspicious TV Appearance
Retired Admiral Robert Harward's live television appearance has gone viral after viewers spotted a mysterious dark spot on his neck that many believe could be a disguise or mask. Social media is buzzing with speculation about whether the naval officer was wearing some form of facial prosthetics during the broadcast, turning a routine interview into an internet sensation.
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Source: [https://kotaku.com/everyone-online-is-convinced-this-retired-admiral-just-wore-a-mask-on-live-tv-2000698787](https://kotaku.com/everyone-online-is-convinced-this-retired-admiral-just-wore-a-mask-on-live-tv-2000698787)
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#### How This Newsletter Works
This newsletter is automatically generated by an AI-powered workflow that:
1. **Aggregates** content from 61 RSS feeds
2. **Filters** articles from the last 24 hours
3. **Categorizes** each story using AI (GLM-4.5 Air)
4. **Detects similarities** and combines related stories
5. **Selects** the top 5 most interesting stories per category
6. **Summarizes** each story with AI (GLM-4.7)
**Tech Stack**: Built with n8n, powered by Z.AI GLM-4.7 and OpenAI embeddings.
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