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// Tech news at terminal velocity
cat 2026-06-18.md
$ cat TLDR.md
▸ • Midjourney pivots from generating six-fingered anime girls to building full-body ultrasound scanners for a futuristic SF spa.
▸ • The Trump administration abruptly blocked foreign access to Anthropic's new Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models, leaving everyone confused.
▸ • Waymo recalls nearly 4,000 robotaxis because they developed a dangerous habit of barreling into closed highway construction zones.
The Trump administration just slammed the brakes on Anthropic's newest models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5, ordering the company to cut access for all foreign nationals. The abrupt export control has left the AI lab scrambling and experts warning that governing AI via opaque, ad hoc interventions is a terrible idea.
Because generating AI art wasn't enough, Midjourney is now building hardware. They've unveiled an 'Ultrasonic CT' scanner that promises a radiation-free, full-body scan in 60 seconds, which they plan to debut at a 'Midjourney Spa' in San Francisco by 2027.
Waymo is recalling over 3,800 of its robotaxis after discovering a software quirk that causes the cars to confidently drive into closed freeway construction zones at full speed. They've temporarily restricted freeway driving while they teach the cars what orange cones mean.
Epic Games is finally making good on its metaverse promises with Unreal Engine 6. The new engine features a shared cosmetic system that will allow developers to let players bring their hard-earned Fortnite skins into entirely different games.
Tim Cook sat down with the WSJ to deliver some bad news: the ongoing memory shortage is making RAM expenses 'unsustainable.' The translation? Your next iPhone is going to cost more, as Apple can no longer shield consumers from the rising costs of silicon.
A massive breach has exposed credentials for thousands of highly sensitive networks, including Oracle, Lenovo, FedEx, Fortinet, and even a NATO contractor. If you're in SecOps, you might want to cancel your weekend plans and start rotating keys.
AMD quietly removed memory encryption from consumer Ryzen CPUs in a recent AGESA firmware update, leaving users completely unaware that a key security feature vanished. When pressed about the change, AMD engineers reportedly went radio silent.
Cloudflare is betting that AI agents are ready to graduate from cute demos to load-bearing infrastructure. They've launched a three-layer stack—Flue, Pi, and the Agents SDK—designed to handle the distributed systems nightmares of running agents in production.
Google Research just published a paper in Nature showing their medical AI, AMIE, has evolved from simple diagnosis to long-term disease management. Using Gemini's long-context window, the dual-agent system matched primary care physicians in handling complex, ongoing health conditions.
Amazon and QuEra are making bold promises, claiming they will deliver useful quantum error correction by 2028. It's a massive leap for beyond-classical hardware, assuming they can actually pull it off on schedule.
The FDA just cleared a second species of carcass-eating fly for maggot wound therapy. It remains a fascinating, albeit deeply gross, fail-safe for treating stubborn wounds.
VSCO is taking on Adobe with a new Studio Pro editing app for iOS and macOS. The catch? They want $500 a year for it. Good luck with that.