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Elizabeth Bear • June 12, 2026 There we were, a regular murderers’ row of librarians. Little Jo. Eustace. And me. Turning around in the nave of our library to greet the sound of footsteps, pistols leveled in case whoever was coming in didn’t respect sanctuary. Little Jo had a stack of books under one arm.

Cheap Iranian drone downed $25 million US Army helicopter—maybe by chance

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Jeremy Hsu • June 10, 2026 A US Army helicopter gunship was apparently struck by an Iranian Shahed drone before going down near the Strait of Hormuz—but it’s unclear whether the one-way attack drone was deliberately aimed or achieved more of a lucky accidental strike. Axios correspondent Barak Ravid first reported an unnamed US government

Nobody needs AI to search the Internet, court says in ruling against Google

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Ashley Belanger • June 10, 2026 Potentially impacting all AI search engines and chatbots known to poorly paraphrase source links, a German court has ruled that Google is liable for false statements in AI Overviews. The preliminary ruling came in a case flagged by The Decoder, where two publishers found that Google’s AI Overviews incorrectly

We managed to glean some interesting details about the Artemis III mission

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Eric Berger • June 10, 2026 On Tuesday, NASA announced the crew for the Artemis III mission, which is scheduled to be flown no earlier than summer 2027. As part of the announcement, space agency officials also discussed plans for the crew to dock with both a Blue Origin lander and a SpaceX Starship lander

Google DeepMind releases DiffusionGemma, a model that runs local AI 4x faster

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Ryan Whitwam • June 10, 2026 Another day, another AI model from Google. This time, Google DeepMind has released a new member of the Gemma 4 open model family, but it’s fundamentally different from the rest of the lineup. DiffusionGemma doesn’t generate outputs linearly like most AI models. Instead, it can produce an entire block

Logitech’s foldable mouse is for people who refuse to carry a mouse with them

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Scharon Harding • June 10, 2026 I see it often. Hardworking professionals in cafés, airports, or parks hunched over a laptop while carefully dragging their fingers over their PC’s trackpad to navigate some email, project, or alert that can’t be ignored. They would prefer a mouse to a trackpad, but are reluctant to travel with

Man sues Florida cops over arrest spurred by “93% match” in facial recognition

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Jon Brodkin • June 10, 2026 A man suing Florida police alleges that cops relied on a faulty facial recognition match and concealed exculpatory evidence when they arrested him on a charge of attempting to lure a child in August 2024. The plaintiff, Robert Dillon, was arrested after a facial recognition system flagged him as

Diabetes org apologizes for ejecting scientists over criticism of Trump

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Beth Mole • June 10, 2026 Amid intense backlash, the head of the American Diabetes Association posted a video Wednesday apologizing for the organization’s decision on Friday to forcefully remove five leading diabetes scientists from the association’s annual meeting. The scientists were ejected for handing out copies of an April editorial—published in the ADA’s own journal

Several things I like about macOS 27 Golden Gate that have nothing to do with AI

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Andrew Cunningham • June 11, 2026 Apple Intelligence and Siri AI have sucked most of the oxygen out of the room at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference this year—understandable, maybe, given that the AI-powered Siri delays are all anyone has wanted to ask any Apple executive about for the last two years. But Apple Intelligence is

The first complex cells had genes from a complex mix of species

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John Timmer • June 11, 2026 We tend to view ourselves and the complex cells that build us as a distinct branch of the tree of life from the compact, seemingly featureless cells of bacteria and archaea. But we’ve found that our genome is actually a hybrid, a mish-mash of genes from bacteria and archaea,