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// Tech news at terminal velocity
cat 2026-06-09.md
$ cat TLDR.md
▸ • OpenAI confidentially files for an IPO, setting up a massive public market debut.
▸ • Donut Lab's 'miracle' solid-state battery gets exposed as a regular lithium-ion cell.
▸ • Russian military satellites are caught jamming GPS signals across Europe from space.
Just a week after Anthropic's move, OpenAI has confidentially submitted a draft S-1 to the SEC. The AI juggernaut is prepping for what could be one of the largest public market debuts in history, though they casually noted they might stay private a bit longer to get things done without Wall Street breathing down their necks.
The transition is finally complete. Apple's upcoming macOS 27 will officially require Apple Silicon, drawing the curtain on the Intel Mac era. If you're still rocking an Intel chip, it's officially time to upgrade or accept your fate in legacy OS purgatory.
After years of users creating dummy accounts just to preview how a photo would look on their profile, Instagram is finally rolling out the ability to reorganize your grid. The feature is hitting iOS and Android apps now, saving aesthetics-obsessed influencers countless hours of anxiety.
Anker-backed startup Evotrex just raised $30M to build an RV that doesn't need a charging station. They're banking on a hybrid power system designed to keep you completely off the grid and blissfully far away from crowded campsites.
Remember that 'miracle' solid-state battery Donut Lab unveiled at CES? Science YouTuber Ziroth just thoroughly debunked it. Independent tests and expansion patterns reveal the Verge Motorcycles spin-off was simply using a regular lithium-ion battery to pump their stock. Fake it till you make it, right?
Researchers from UT Austin and Stanford have identified Russian military satellites as the source of mysterious GPS interference across Europe. The satellites, originally designed to detect nuclear explosions, have been causing seconds-long bursts of continental-scale jamming since 2019. Space warfare is getting weird.
Mercor's Brendan Foody is publicly calling out top VC firm Sequoia Capital, accusing them of 'dual-pricing' valuation tricks. The controversy centers around selling the exact same equity at two different prices, shedding light on the murky, sometimes questionable mechanics of late-stage venture funding.
Cloudflare is letting security teams turn threat indicators directly into real-time Web Application Firewall (WAF) rules. Using new cf.intel fields, you can now automate protection against specific threat actors and targeted industries on the fly.
Meta is asking a court to hold spyware maker NSO Group in contempt, alleging they violated an existing injunction. The filing claims NSO disrupted spear-phishing attempts with new, sophisticated attacks targeting WhatsApp users.
In a twist of irony, Amazon's own tech workers are fiercely supporting a Seattle City Council moratorium on new data centers. They're asking the city to hit the brakes just months after several companies proposed building five massive facilities.
While Sam Altman is busy filing OpenAI's S-1, his other venture is struggling. Tools for Humanity, the company behind the dystopian eye-scanning crypto project Worldcoin, is reportedly downsizing its staff amid revenue struggles.