Big money and powerful interests have entirely rebranded drugs like cannabis, mushrooms, and ketamine in the 21st century.
Today, millions of Americans can buy their pot legally in places that resem… [+3463 chars]

From designer straws to magnet-sealed leather pouches, the platform is awash in products seemingly built for coke—despite Meta’s policies on drug paraphernalia.

Wired

These Instagram Ads Sure Seem to Be Selling Cocaine Accessories

The expected surge of Teslas robotaxi service in Texas isnt happening so far. The number of vehicles on the road pales in comparison to ones under the Waymo and Uber banners. That could be a painful … [+2073 chars]

Even on it's home turf, Tesla's driverless car numbers are unimpressive.

Gizmodo.com

Waymo Is Fleetmogging Tesla in Texas

On Thursday, Meta settled a lawsuit brought by a Kentucky school district that claimed the tech giant’s social media platforms have created a mental health crisis at its schools.
The case was consid… [+3468 chars]

The case was representative of more than a thousand other lawsuits.

Meta Settles Lawsuit That Claimed Social Media Addiction Screwed Up Schools

Minnesota became the first state in the country to ban prediction markets like Kalshi and Polymarket on Monday in a bill signed by Gov. Tim Walz. The law is supposed to take effect Aug. 1, but it’s u… [+3378 chars]

The CFTC has sued several states that have tried to regulate prediction markets at the local level.

Minnesota Becomes First State to Ban Prediction Markets, Feds Immediately Sue

George Santos may be the latest individual caught trading on insider information in a prediction market. 
According to NPR, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) is examining whether the former New Y… [+5782 chars]

The George Santos Situation May Be the Most Comical Prediction Market Insider Trading Case Yet

Over the past few days, a number of major Instagram accounts, such as the defunct Obama White House account and the Sephora company account, were seemingly hacked, and now it has become clear that th… [+4467 chars]

Apparently if you asked the bot just so, it would give you control of someone else's account.

Hackers Tricked Meta AI Into Handing Out Access to Major Instagram Accounts

<ul><li>Samsung Hong Kong has posted a One UI 8.5 roadmap for June.</li><li>The roadmap doesnt include the Galaxy S22 series or Galaxy Z4 foldables, suggesting that these phones wont get One UI 8.5.<… [+1472 chars]

Samsung recently posted an updated One UI 8.5 roadmap, and you shouldn't get your hopes up if you've got an older flagship phone.

Android Authority

Latest One UI roadmap suggests bad news for Galaxy S22, Z Flip 4, Z Fold 4 users

Apple is expected to launch its first foldable iPhone later this year. Rumors suggest the "iPhone Ultra" will come in two color options, and a leaker shared an image today that allegedly shows one of… [+1704 chars]

Apple is expected to launch its first foldable iPhone later this year. Rumors suggest the "iPhone Ultra" will come in two color options, and a leaker shared an image today that allegedly shows one of them.





Posted on Weibo by the Chinese leaker known as I…

MacRumors

First 'Confirmed' iPhone Ultra Color Allegedly Revealed in Leaked Image

On Tuesday, Anthropic launched a new Mythos-class model, Fable 5, describing it as being more powerful than any other model the company had ever made generally available. It’s a significantly tamer v… [+6666 chars]

Users are complaining about the sensitive guardrails built into the company's new "Mythos-class" model, Fable 5. They're also worried about might happen next.

Anthropic’s Mythos Safeguards Stoke Fears of a ‘Permanent Underclass’

24 hours after CBS/Paramount pulled the plug on Stephen Colbert's Late Show, Colbert turned up guest-hosting a local public access television show in Monroe, Michigan, "Only in Monroe," as reported o… [+1465 chars]

24 hours after CBS/Paramount pulled the plug on Stephen Colbert's Late Show, Colbert turned up guest-hosting a local public access television show in Monroe, Michigan, "Only in Monroe," as reported on Boing Boing here.
Not satisfied with cancelling the Late S…

Boing Boing

Paramount backs off attempt to suppress Stephen Colbert's post-Late Show public access party

In a recent SEC filing, AI Financial has indicated that it may not be able to survive another year writing, These conditions raise substantial doubt about the Companys ability to continue as a going … [+5049 chars]

AI Financial is a publicly traded company heavily invested in Trump-related crypto.

Trump-Linked Crypto Company Notes ‘Substantial Doubt’ It Can Survive Another 12 Months

Crypto projects in the decentralized finance (DeFi) sector have faced a wave of security incidents lately, and now, one of the earliest figures in smart contract auditing has declared the entire DeFi… [+5874 chars]

Crypto Security Pioneer: ‘I Now Consider All of DeFi Unsafe’

Uber COO Andrew Macdonald.Bloomberg/Getty Images
<ul><li>Uber's COO went viral after saying rising AI costs haven't led to proportional productivity gains.</li><li>Others now say the same thing as t… [+3324 chars]

Uber COO Andrew Macdonald criticizes tokenmaxxing amid rising AI costs and limited productivity, sparking debate in Silicon Valley.

Business Insider

The tokenmaxxing backlash has begun

Breana Janay
<ul><li>Food and lifestyle creator Caroline Chambers has over 568,000 subscribers on Substack.</li><li>She started her career writing recipes. Then she took the leap into video.</li><li… [+3817 chars]

Caroline Chambers is Substack's top cooking newsletter. She's turning to video and Instagram to grow her business.

How Substack's top food writer is using video to drive subscription growth in her 7-figure business

As the Pink Floyd song goes, "Have a cigar, you're gonna go far." Just look at Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.
DeSantis, who recently was spotted smoking a cigar while playing golf at Trump Doral, is on … [+2839 chars]

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is featured on the cover of Cigar Aficionado.

USA Today

Smoke 'em if you've got 'em: Florida's Ron DeSantis celebrates cigars

Stay up to date with our Up First newsletter, sent every weekday morning.
A United Airlines flight from Newark, N.J., to Palma de Mallorca, Spain, pulled a U-turn late Saturday over what appears to … [+2096 chars]

The flight to Palma de Mallorca diverted back to Newark late on Saturday. Air traffic audio and social media posts indicate an onboard Bluetooth device raised security concerns.

United Airlines flight to Spain pulls U-turn, apparently over Bluetooth device name

The Justice Department on Monday said it will abide by a federal court ruling that puts the Trump administration's controversial $1.776 billion anti-weaponization fund on hold while a legal challenge… [+2208 chars]

The Justice Department said it 'strongly disagrees' with the court's ruling that paused a $1.776 fund for victims of government "weaponization," but would still abide by it.

Justice Department says it will abide by court order pausing its 'anti-weaponization' fund

Top engineers want to work on the core product instead of being forward-deployed, ex-Snowflake CRO Chris Degnan said.Maskot/Getty Images
<ul><li>Snowflake's former chief revenue officer said the for… [+2315 chars]

Investor and former chief revenue officer Chris Degnan said the forward-deployed engineer is a "glorified professional services person."

Ex-Snowflake CRO says top engineers don't want this booming AI job

Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis raised the possibility of a "post-scarcity world" with the imminent arrival of artificial general intelligence.Karl Mondon / AFP via Getty Images
<ul><li>Google De… [+2219 chars]

Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis said AGI is just a few years a way and that humanity doesn't have much time to prepare for it.

Google DeepMind CEO says we don't have much time to prepare for the 'new human era'

Sacred Symbols podcast host Colin Moriarty recently received a bizarre warning. “Colin, I’m just warning you,” it read. “They have your information and they are going to try to take your account toda… [+3112 chars]

A PlayStation podcaster briefly lost access to years of games purchased and trophies earned

Kotaku

Hacker Targets High-Profile PlayStation Podcaster, Raising Concerns About Account Security

Speaking at an event titled "Harnessing American Power" last month, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum expressed dismay at what he saw as a new wave of local opposition to data centers in America.
What'… [+7777 chars]

Tech millionaires claim China is behind a wave of local opposition to U.S. data centers, while providing little direct evidence.

The theory taking the rich by storm: China funds data center haters

The official Halo YouTube channel posted a new story trailer for the upcoming remake, Halo: Campaign Evolved. That in and of itself is no big deal. However, despite being an Xbox-owned franchise, all… [+2491 chars]

Perhaps this trailer was supposed to be at Sony's big State of Play...

New Halo Remake Trailer Is All Footage From PS5 Pro, Confusing Xbox Fans

A former political appointee at the Trump Justice Department has emerged as one of its most outspoken critics, accusing his former bosses, particularly acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, of "very … [+8018 chars]

Until recently, Jonathan Gross was a Trump political appointee at the Department of Justice and worked on its "Weaponization Working Group." He has now become a vocal critic of the department.

Ex-DOJ official goes public with blistering criticism of his former bosses

What you need to know
<ul><li>Samsung reportedly worked on a verification process for its power-off menu in One UI 9.</li><li>It was reported that your device will now shut off its biometrics, forci… [+3259 chars]

Samsung was spotted adding changes to the power-off process of phones in One UI 9, and it has the users' security in mind.

Android Central

Samsung is changing how you turn off your Galaxy in One UI 9 for your protection

e.l.f. Beauty will be cutting prices on some of its productsMonica Schipper/Getty Images for The Business of Fashion
<ul><li>e.l.f. Beauty plans to slash prices on some products in response to more … [+3068 chars]

After the company cut the price of e.l.f.'s Halo Glow skin tint from $18 to $14, sales picked up nearly 40%.

e.l.f. Beauty plans more price cuts to court increasingly cost-conscious shoppers

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei.Bloomberg/Getty Images; Bloomberg/Getty Images
<ul><li>Anthropic's Mythos and OpenAI's GPT-5.5 sparked major cybersecurity concerns worldwide.</l… [+5859 chars]

Mythos and GPT-5.5 add to cybersecurity worries that OpenAI and Anthropic had already sparked with AI coding's popularity.

OpenAI and Anthropic are kicking off a mad cybersecurity dash

A popular patio swing sold at Costco is being recalled after multiple people have been injured when the swing seat reportedly detached during use, according to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commis… [+1738 chars]

More than 18,000 outdoor swings are affected by the recall tied to a potential backward fall hazard.

Abcnews.com

Costco patio swings recalled after reports of injuries from falls

Filmmaker Mark Duplass, one of the supporting actors in A24s upcoming sci-fi horror film Backrooms, has defended the 20-year-old director behind the movie, Kane Parsons, following speculation online … [+2884 chars]

Duplass stated that the 20-year-old director 'didn't need' help from any of the producers working on the project and was '100 percent in control' during filming

Backrooms Actor Mark Duplass Defends Kane Parsons Following Claims He ‘Didn’t Direct’ The Film

Rage: MP, a fan-run Grand Theft Auto V multiplayer mod for PC, is shutting down after the devs behind the project announced that Take-Two Interactive had recently “requested” the speedy shutdown of t… [+2886 chars]

Rage: MP was the largest fan-created competitor to the officially-owned FiveM multiplayer mod platform

Take-Two Forcing Another Popular GTA Roleplay Multiplayer Platform To Shut Down

Google recently updated the Fitbit health app and replaced it with a new Google Health app. This new version of the app lacks all of the features of the Fitbit app, is reportedly buggy, and is stuffe… [+3513 chars]

No, you can't get the old app back. You are stuck with Google Health, sorry.

Google Replaces Fitbit App With Terrible AI Garbage And Is Now Being Massively Review Bombed

If, like me, you're sick of searching for literally anything on the internet only to be bombarded, against your will, by AI summaries, stick around, because I've got something you're going to love. I… [+1842 chars]

If, like me, you're sick of searching for literally anything on the internet only to be bombarded, against your will, by AI summaries, stick around, because I've got something you're going to love. I recently encountered a poem by writer Kelly Link that perfe…

This poem perfectly captures AI-induced rage

If you need something new to listen to while you cook, drive to work, or walk your dog, I have the perfect podcast! I recently discovered "Smosh Reads Reddit Stories"yes, that Smosh, the YouTube sket… [+2639 chars]

If you need something new to listen to while you cook, drive to work, or walk your dog, I have the perfect podcast! I recently discovered "Smosh Reads Reddit Stories"—yes, that Smosh, the YouTube sketch comedy-improv collective founded by Anthony Padilla and …

"Smosh Reads Reddit Stories" is my new podcast obsession

As Grant St. Clair reminded us recently, some good things are still happening in this world. And I'm here to share another little sliver of joy bringing me some comfort in these trying times. If your… [+2834 chars]

As Grant St. Clair reminded us recently, some good things are still happening in this world. And I'm here to share another little sliver of joy bringing me some comfort in these trying times. If your algorithm hasn't yet served up "Tiny Grandma" to you, we're…

"Tiny Grandma" brings joy to the world

You may have read recently that YouTuber Reckless Ben was arrested in Utah in connection with a weird case involving an allegedly stolen collection of Star Wars Lego. If you’re wondering what it’s al… [+8025 chars]

The tl;dr of a bewildering and honestly really awful case.

Everything You Need to Know About the Curious Case of ‘Bricks and Minifigs’ and the Missing ‘Star Wars’ Lego

NPR has hired a new chief content officer less than two weeks after overhauling its newsroom
. Nadine Zylstra is tasked with expanding audiences for the public radio network's news, entertainment an… [+7315 chars]

Less than two weeks after overhauling its newsroom, NPR has hired Nadine Zylstra to be its chief content officer. She has been a top executive at Sesame Workshop, YouTube and Pinterest.

NPR's new chief content officer: 'I've been training for this job my whole life'

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Can race, guilt, and empathy get you to pay $40 for this $9 belt buckle on TikTok?
If you buy something from a Verge link, Vox Media may earn a commission. See … [+14643 chars]

Aliyah, a light-skinned Black woman dressed in country-western gear, is struggling to sell metal buckles she handmade on TikTok. In a video for the social media platform from March, she cries to the camera and pleads for views: "Even as a black woman, I have …

The Verge

AI grifters are creating fake Black people to sell Shein junk

Rocker Ozzy Osbourne was a flamboyant stage presence with his band Black Sabbath, and later he was a goofy reality TV dad on MTV's The Osbournes. A year after his death at 75, he may be on the verge … [+4772 chars]

Sharon and Jack Osbourne defend their plan to create a "digital imprint" that would let fans talk with rock's Prince of Darkness.

CNET

Ozzy Osbourne as an AI Hologram? 'This Isn't ChatGPT With Dad's Face,' Son Says

Italian authorities have barred Kanye West and Travis Scott concerts from going ahead, citing public order and security concerns.
Prefect Salvatore Angieri announced on Friday that the two events, d… [+2529 chars]

Local authorities say the cancellation of other West concerts had played a role in the decision.

BBC News

Italy bans Kanye West and Travis Scott concerts over security concerns

I happened to be on the toilet both times everything changed.
The first was March 11, 2020, the day America's eyes were opened to COVID.
More than 4,000 people around the world had died before that… [+4238 chars]

From SpaceX's IPO to Anthropic's massive revenue number, it looks like AI just had the day when the hype became real.

AI just hit its COVID shutdown moment

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman.Bloomberg/Getty Images
<ul><li>OpenAI and its CEO, Sam Altman, have set the goal of automating AI research.</li><li>The AI lab has a job post for its Preparedness safety team, … [+4554 chars]

OpenAI and Sam Altman aim to automate AI research. They are now hiring for a role to prepare the company for self-training AI.

OpenAI will pay up to $445,000 for a researcher who can prepare for a world where AI trains itself

Red Lobster is closing its Times Square flagship restaurant after 23 years. It's a sign the chain is committed to trimming the fat post-bankruptcy.Richard B. Levine/Getty Images
<ul><li>Red Lobster'… [+6376 chars]

Red Lobster is closing its Times Square flagship restaurant after 23 years. After visiting, I understand why.

Red Lobster survived bankruptcy. It couldn't survive Times Square.

Burger King president Tom Curtis told Business Insider it could take decades to fully execute the chain's comeback strategy.Burger King; Sergi Alexander/Sergi Alexander/Eyeworks Production
<ul><li>B… [+5502 chars]

The chain's comeback plan could take "decades" to accomplish, and involves elevating its current offerings.

Burger King wants to become the top burger chain in the country. Its comeback plan may take decades, but it's working.

Co-op game Party Animals
 has been spammed with hundreds of negative reviews after it announced a $15,000 AI video contest.
As detailed on the game's official website
, Recreate Games is running a… [+3861 chars]

Co-op game Party Animals has been spammed with hundreds of negative reviews after it announced a $15,000 AI video contest.

'Rest in Peace' — Party Animals Review-Bombed Over AI Video Contest

Elon Musks rocket, satellite, and AI company SpaceX is expected to go public this month in what could be the largest IPO in history.
The company is reportedly targeting a valuation of nearly $1.8 tr… [+3183 chars]

New index fund rules could mean ordinary investors end up owning a piece of SpaceX whether they want to or not.

Wall Street Is Already Bending Its Rules to Suck More People Into SpaceX’s IPO

Perhaps you take an unfamiliar turn. Maybe you walk through a slightly crooked door. Or you simply just leaned against a wall and found yourself falling. It was innocuous enough, but the thing is, no… [+5007 chars]

The Backrooms movie is a massive hit, but where did it come from, and how did we get here?

What Exactly Is Viral Online Creepypasta The Backrooms?

Since it was first implemented into Valorant in 2020, Riots anti-cheat software Vanguard has been fairly controversial. Players have raised concerns about security, mid-game crashes, and the fact tha… [+4018 chars]

'They can absolutely get f*cked. I'll be joining whatever class action comes from this,' one player wrote

Riot Says Its Valorant Anti-Cheat Update Can’t Brick PCs After A Joke Fuels Panic

It’s not the best choice, it’s Spacer’s Choice. That satirical slogan has been dogging The Outer Worlds: Spacer’s Choice Edition since it arrived with some annoying issues at launch back in 2023. It’… [+3785 chars]

The Outer Worlds: Spacer's Choice Edition continues to live up to the name

Outer Worlds Studio Apologizes To Player Who Bought The Sci-Fi RPG For A Free Upgrade They Can’t Actually Get

NPR is restructuring its newsroom, including cutting some reporting and editing jobs, as it attempts to keep pace with changing audience habits while adjusting to an era without federal subsidies.
N… [+8912 chars]

NPR is offering buyouts to journalists as it overhauls its newsroom, with the threat of layoffs to follow. Two recent gifts totaling $113 million are primarily dedicated to NPR's tech infrastructure.

NPR trims jobs in newsroom overhaul as it confronts era without public funding

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Blue Origins New Glenn rocket exploded during a static fire test at Cape Canaveral on 28 May, destroying the vehicle, the erector-gantry, and a lightning tower at its only launch pad. The inci… [+5515 chars]

Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket exploded during a static fire test at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Thursday night, sending a fireball into the sky and destroying the vehicle along with critical launch pad infrastructure. The explosion occurred at appr…

The Next Web

Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket exploded on the launch pad, destroying its only pad and threatening Amazon’s satellite deadline

Scott Pelley, in a statement posted on Instagram (which I’ll quote in full, as the original is locked behind a dickwall if you’re not signed in to an Instagram account):


 There has never been anyth… [+2659 chars]

39K likes, 1,635 comments - scottpelley1 on June 3, 2026

Instagram.com

Scott Pelley on Leaving ‘60 Minutes’: ‘Incompetence and Unprofessionalism in the New
> Management Have Wreaked Havoc’

Speaking of careless AI usage, the open-access archive for research papers, ArXiv, is updating their Code of Conduct to account for generative AI. Usage is not banned, but slop is, which results in a… [+1456 chars]

Speaking of careless AI usage, the open-access archive for research papers, ArXiv, is updating their Code of Conduct to account for generative AI. Usage is not banned, but slop is, which results in…

Flowingdata.com

ArXiv will ban researchers for a year if generative AI not kept in check

The Walmart logo displayed in NYCBrendan McDermid/Reuters
<ul><li>Walmart's Code Puppy aims to avoid vendor lock-in, offering flexibility with diverse AI models.</li><li>Mike Pfaffenberger developed… [+8123 chars]

Walmart's viral Code Puppy AI tool helps avoid vendor lock-in, cut costs, and reduce dependence on Claude Code and Codex.

Code Puppy: Walmart's secret weapon against AI lock-in

Julius Mondragon, who goes by "Computah" on TikTok, is using Meta's Ray-Bans in the best way yet.Katie Notopoulos/Business Insider
<ul><li>Julius Mondragon is "Computah." He goes around "programming… [+7379 chars]

I met up with the TikTok "Computah" guy who "programs" people with his Meta Ray-Ban glasses. Now I understand why he's gone viral.

TikTok's 'Computah' guy is the best use of Meta's Ray-Bans

Analyses of research repositories are estimating the rates of hallucinated citations in research papers.Credit: patpitchaya/iStock via Getty
The problem of artificial intelligence models hallucinati… [+2807 chars]

More than 140,000 fake citations across four research repositories were identified in papers and preprints published in 2025 alone.

Nature.com

Hallucinated citations highest in social sciences preprints site

In 1982, Harvard Professor Seymour Martin Lipset used
 his presidential address to the American Political Science Association to crow about the absence of working-class radicalism in this country th… [+5425 chars]

Last Month's Los Angeles arsonry offers clearest expression of America’s class resentment since Luigi Mangione.

The Hill

Opinion - Class warfare is smoldering in America — and it’s about to catch fire

Led by President Trump, the Republican Party has disgracefully embraced white Christian nationalists and is working to turn back the clock on progress America has made in the struggle against racism … [+5707 chars]

The Republican Party, led by President Trump, has embraced white Christian nationalists and is working to reduce the number of Black House members through...

Opinion - Trump has turned Republicans into the anti-Black party

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer suffered a fresh blow on Thursday after Secretary of Defense John Healey resigned over a budget dispute, saying the government is not willing to give the British Armed … [+4298 chars]

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer suffered a fresh blow on Thursday after Secretary of Defense John Healey and Armed Forces minister Al Carns resigned over a bu...

Two top UK defense officials resign over military spending in fresh blow to Keir Starmer

When Anthropic made its first Mythos-tier model available to the general public yesterday, called Claude Fable 5, Fortunereported it was a "considerable step" for the lab, coming just over a week aft… [+5501 chars]

A paragraph buried in Fable 5's 319-page system card revealed the model would silently downgrade its responses for certain AI development work — without tell...

Yahoo Entertainment

Anthropic accused of ‘secret sabotage’ as Claude Fable 5 silently limits capabilities for AI researchers and developers

WASHINGTON (AP) A person who approached a White House security checkpoint and began firing at officers has died, according to federal officials.
The U.S. Secret Service said in a statement late Satu… [+4154 chars]

A person who approached a White House security checkpoint and began firing at officers has died, according to federal officials.  The U.S. Secret Service...

Secret Service shoots person near White House, bystander also shot, law enforcement official says

The XBOX showcase has come and gone, with fantastic gameplay shown from titles like State of Decay 3, Fable, DOOM, Gears of War: E-Day, and Clockwork Revolution. Two of these aforementioned titles ha… [+3343 chars]

According to XBOX's Aaron Greenberg, Gears of War: E-Day exclusivity was kept a secret.

Windows Central

Microsoft's Xbox console exclusivity decision for Gears of War: E-Day was made "a month in advance"

Last month, Windows Central reported on an issue with the April 2026 Security Update (KB5083769) for Windows 11. The update shipped with a faulty BitLocker-related issue, causing affected devices to … [+3360 chars]

Microsoft selectively patches BitLocker recovery issue for Windows 11 25h2, leaving Windows 10 and Windows Server users waiting for updates.

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