Engineering was once the most stable and lucrative job in tech. Then AI learned to code.
WIRED
• Will Knight
Vibe Coding Is Coming for Engineering Jobs
404 Media
• Emanuel Maiberg
Meta Sues Nudify App That Keeps Advertising on Instagram
As part of what it claims is a new crackdown, Meta is suing a nudify app and "strengthening" its enforcement.
Non-things
“We are becoming blind to small, inconspicuous things, to what is common, the incidental and the customary—the things that do not attract us but ground us in being.”
WIRED
• Steven Levy
How Steve Jobs Wrote the Greatest Commencement Speech Ever
Back in 2005, Jobs spent months trying to figure out what to say to Stanford’s graduates. Newly released materials show how he went from hopelessly flailing to delivering a talk for the ages.
WIRED
• Pete Cottell
24 Best Flavors of AriZona's Iconic Iced Tea (2025)
The dream of the ’90s is alive in your local bodega: Our taste test of the most popular flavors of AriZona's iconic cans.
The Daily
• The New York Times
Gavin Newsom on the L.A. Protests, Trump’s Response and Why It’s a Defining Moment for Democracy
California’s governor, Gavin Newsom, says that President Trump’s decision to send federal troops into Los Angeles is a “brazen abuse of power” and a defining moment for American democracy.
Governor Newsom sits down with Michael Barbaro to discuss Mr. Trump, illegal immigrati...
Trump Press Sec Seethes at Journos as Harsh New Poll Shows Him Tanking
News organizations have been credulously amplifying the White House’s spin that sending troops into Los Angeles is great politics for President Trump. But the evidence isn’t cooperating. On Tuesday, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt lost her temper amid tough...
Open Channels FM Podcast Network
• Bob Dunn
Wrapping Up the Rebrand Series
BobWP wraps up the rebranding of Do the Woo into Open Channels FM. The new channel features five diverse shows, maintaining core values while offering more structure for listeners to explore their interests.
NEWSOM'S "EFF IT' MOMENT - AND HOW IT COULD SAVE AMERICA - 6.12.25
omny.fm/shows/countdown-with-keith-olbermann/newsoms-eff-it-moment-and-saving-america-6-12-25
SEASON 3 EPISODE 136: COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN A-Block (1:45) SPECIAL COMMENT: Gavin Newsom has reached his "EFF IT" moment - and it might prove to be the moment we began to save the democracy. If you MISSED Newsom’s speech (and trust me, I did, its only failure was it...
WIRED
• Matthew Korfhage
Blackstone Griddle Air Fryer Combo Review: Silly, but Nice
Air-fried taters and corn cobs are a silly but welcome indulgence on the newest griddle from Blackstone.
Westenberg.
• Joan Westenberg
The Cult of Hard Mode: Why Simplicity Offends Tech Elites
There is a moment in nearly every founder's journey when they abandon the elegant for the elaborate. It’s not when they scale past 10 employees or when they land their Series A. It usually happens much earlier, and it starts with a tool.
A friend recommends
The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
• Frederic Lardinois
Databricks Launches a No-Code Tool for Building Data Pipelines
At its Data+AI Summit today in San Francisco, Databricks launched a number of new features for its data platform, including
The post Databricks Launches a No-Code Tool for Building Data Pipelines appeared first on The New Stack.
Good Science
Generalissimo Trump?
I was wondering if Saturday's military parade in Washington was going to be the rollout of the Trump junta, and if that meant the president would appear in military garb, perhaps subdued so next year's parade they can add more features. So I asked ChatGPT to help.
President...
WIRED
• Molly Taft
The EPA Wants to Roll Back Emissions Controls on Power Plants
"The EPA is trying to get out of the climate change business,” says one expert.
Post Reports
• The Washington Post
Serving ‘dead time’
Washington’s juvenile justice agency appeared to finally be reformed. After decades of court monitoring, a judge declared in late 2020 that the long-troubled Department of Youth Rehabilitation Services could return to the mayor’s control.
Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) promised...
MacOS 26 Tahoe Drops Support for Some Intel-Based Macs, and Will Be the Last to Support Intel Macs at All
Stephen Hackett has a list of the Intel Macs that MacOS 26 Tahoe supports, and the ones they’re dropping support for this year.
Apple has gone through three CPU architecture transitions in the Mac’s history:
68K to PowerPC starting in 1994
PowerPC to Intel starting in 20...
It matters. I care. via Molly White
“Who cares? It doesn’t matter anyway.” I've come to expect these words in my social media replies to my own work, and elsewhere in response to other journalists doing critical reporting on the abuses of the Trump regime.
Citation Needed
• Molly White
It matters. I care.
Giving up on the idea that truth matters is not just cynicism, it’s surrender.
WIRED
• Julian Chokkattu
My Virtual Avatar No Longer Looks Terrible in the Apple Vision Pro
The visionOS 26 update brings some notable features to Apple's headset. The only question is who it's for.