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// Tech news at terminal velocity
cat 2026-06-20.md
$ cat TLDR.md
▸ • NASA taps Eric Schmidt's Relativity Space for a 2028 Mars mission, officially putting SpaceX on notice.
▸ • Amazon MGM quietly drops its Sam Altman biopic right after dropping $50B into OpenAI. Coincidence? Sure.
▸ • Arch Linux faces the "AURpocalypse" as over 1,500 abandoned packages get hijacked in a massive supply chain attack.
NASA has selected Relativity Space (now led by ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt) to launch the Aeolus payload to Mars in 2028. The mission will measure Martian winds and weather, but more importantly, it sets up a genuine commercial space race with SpaceX.
Nothing's co-founder Akis Evangelidis confirmed the budget-friendly CMF Phone 3 Pro is officially canceled for this year. The culprit? Skyrocketing memory prices made it impossible to build a phone at a price that makes sense.
Amazon MGM has abruptly dropped Luca Guadagnino's nearly finished Sam Altman movie "Artificial" starring Andrew Garfield. The studio claims it's just business, but the timing—right after Amazon's $50B investment in OpenAI—is raising eyebrows.
Cloudflare realized that AI agents suck at clicking through OAuth flows and 2FA prompts. Their solution? Temporary Accounts. Agents can now run a single command to deploy a Worker instantly, which self-destructs after 60 minutes unless a human claims it.
Developer Tim Wehrle looked at a favicon and realized it's just pixels, and pixels are just bytes. Using steganography, he managed to hide an entire functional website inside the tiny icon that sits in your browser tab. Because why not?
The Arch User Repository (AUR) just suffered a massive supply chain attack. Attackers systematically adopted over 1,500 orphaned packages and injected infostealers targeting SSH keys and crypto wallets. A stark reminder that "community-maintained" is a double-edged sword.
A fascinating exploration into color theory and the physical limitations of modern displays. It turns out there's a whole spectrum of colors your monitor is literally incapable of rendering, and here's the math behind why.
If you want to self-host your Bluesky data but don't want to manage a server, Cirrus is a new open-source Personal Data Server (PDS) designed to run entirely on Cloudflare Workers.
GitHub engineers break down how they built Qubot, an internal Copilot-powered analytics agent. It translates plain-language questions from employees into complex data queries, proving that text-to-SQL is finally getting useful.
A deep technical dive into why adding more servers to a load-balanced system doesn't always yield linear performance gains, and how Erlang's architecture uniquely solves the math problem.
The legendary composer who gave us the heavy metal riffs of Doom, the tense beats of Wolfenstein 3D, and the iconic sounds of Duke Nukem 3D has passed away. Your childhood LAN parties wouldn't have been the same without him.
Aura just released a digital photo frame that uses e-ink instead of an LCD screen. The result is a display that actually looks like a printed photograph instead of a glowing rectangle in your living room.