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**What Youâll Learn**: The House of Representatives failed to renew the US government's warrantless surveillance law before it expired on Friday, ensuring it will lapse for the first time, as lawmakers protest the appointment of a controversial Trump ally to oversee US intelligence agencies. The House of Representatives voted 218 to 198 on the bill, which needs a two-thirds majority to pass; 19 Republican representatives voted against it. According to Politico, the next vote is scheduled for June 23. The Espionage Act,…
đ Discover this insightful post from Hacker News đ đ **Category**: đ **What Youâll Learn**: Email authentication: the trust layer that the future of email depends on Email has always had a spoofing problem. Anyone can put anything in the âFromâ field of an email. For most of emailâs history, that was manageable. A careful reader could catch the tells, such as a slightly off domain name, implausible urgency, or phrasing that doesnât quite work. However, as AI usage becomes increasingly widespread, the way we engage with email is changing. AI assistants are increasingly reading, summarizing, and actioning email on…
đ„ Explore this must-read post from WIRED đ đ **Category**: Science,Science / Space,Culture,Science Nonfiction đ **What Youâll Learn**: New Steven Spielberg film Disclosure day Imagine the moment when 8 billion people discover that we are not alone in the universe.The film, which opens in US theaters on June 12, is a fictional account of the government cover-up and subsequent "revelation" of evidence of alien contact with Earth.The UFO community has been chasing this kind of big cinematic reveal for 80 years. But huge scientific discoveries, such as the discovery of the Higgs boson in 2012 and the confirmation of gravitational…
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**What Youâll Learn**: Report on an Unidentified Space Station Survey Report 1 By good luck we have been able to make an emergency landing on this uninhabited space station. There have been no casualties. We all count ourselves fortunate to have found safe haven at a moment when the expedition was clearly set on disaster. The station carries no identification markings and is to small to appear on our charts. Although of elderly construction it is soundly designed and in good working order, and seems to have…
đ Read this insightful post from WIRED đ đ **Category**: Culture,Culture / Digital Culture,Politics,World Cup 2026 đ **What Youâll Learn**: Influencers who cover The 2026 World Cup in the United States will not be able to create monetized content on social media without a work visa, according to a joint statement from Customs and Border Protection and the Department of Homeland Security. The move could impact FIFA's broadcast strategy, which includes agreements with several international creators on TikTok and YouTube.In a statement to El PaĂs, CBP and the Department of Homeland Security said that âcoming to the United States for…
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**What Youâll Learn**: In this post, I will present an algorithm that was able to compute an optimal tokenizer in some settings. This result is cool because optimal tokenization is theoretically intractable, but seems to be solvable in practice. My finding is very similar to various results on the Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP), where even difficult instances can be solved optimally using cutting-plane techniques. I'll highlight that, while this result is cool, there are a few reasons that it isn't necessarily useful. First, the existing state of…
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**What Youâll Learn**: He faced Brian Manning SpaceX's culture of extreme ownership from day one as an engineer at the rocket manufacturer. After a one-hour prep session a decade ago, he got his first assignment: designing a small part the next day. âThe way I looked at it is there was very clear responsibility, independence and accountability,â says Manning, who took over the job and spent about two years at the company. âInstead of hiring people and telling them how to do it,…
đ„ Read this insightful post from Hacker News đ đ **Category**: đ **What Youâll Learn**: After building a CPU, utilities for handling bus interconnects, several DMAs and memory controllers, I often find my time focused on building interfaces between designs and external peripherals. This seems to be where most of the business has landed for me. Often, these peripherals require a clock output, coming from the design, and so Iâd like to spend some time describing how to generate such a âdeviceâ clock. Fig 1. A Basic SOC with Peripherals Thereâs actually two topics that need to be discussed when…
âš Check out this insightful post from TechCrunch đ đ **Category**: Climate,Fundraising,Endurance Energy,Exclusive,Founders Fund,geothermal đĄ **What Youâll Learn**: After you've finished working on rockets that find their way into outer space, it can be hard to think about a second chapter. For SpaceX alumnus Andrew Reed, that meant searching the depths of the ocean. Reed, who grew up in the Pacific Northwest, a region affected by unusual heat waves and catastrophic fires in recent years, knew he wanted to tackle something in renewable energy. âBut my experience at a very powerful company like SpaceX made me realize that I couldn't…
đ Read this trending post from Hacker News đ đ **Category**: đĄ **What Youâll Learn**: The reported case of the U.S. House of Representatives receiving unredacted emails from Dutch civil servants is more than a privacy scandal. It shows, in one sharp moment, why digital sovereignty has moved from slogan to operating principle. For any nation to maintain control over data, it must be able to withstand legal pressure, control vendor access, and stay on top of cross-border jurisdictional issues. The Email Incident According to reporting from the Netherlands, Microsoft allegedly shared the names and internal communications of Dutch officials…
