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Jun 17, 2026 from Ambient Irony

Daily News Stuff 17 June 2026

Training Edition Top Story SpaceX has agreed to acquire AI-assisted coding startup Cursor in an $60 billion all-stock deal. (CNBC) Probably good for both SpaceX and Cursor. In other that used to be...

Jun 17, 2026 from Above the Law

SpaceX Stock Keeps Rising, And I Can’t Think Of A Better Use Of Investors’ Money Than Blowing Up More Launchpads

Why shouldn’t private investors’ money be literally burned to advance human knowledge? The post SpaceX Stock Keeps Rising, And I Can’t Think Of A Better Use Of Investors’ Money Than Blowing Up More...

Jun 17, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

The Oldest Plague Outbreak in History Discovered in Siberia: Marmots Transmitted the Bacteria to Hunter-Gatherers 5,500 Years Ago

An international team of researchers has managed to reconstruct the genome of ancestral strains of Yersinia pestis from human remains found in four hunter-gatherer cemeteries located in the Lake Ba...

Jun 17, 2026 from SoraNews24 -Japan News-

Family Mart’s new Gyoza Dog proves Japanese convenience store food hits different

Fans say the new creation looks surprisingly similar to the famous Gyoza Dog at DisneySea. Competition is strong at the top of the convenience store food chain, where Lawson, 7-Eleven and Family Ma...

Jun 17, 2026 from Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com

Arguing Over A Poultry Sum

Read Arguing Over A Poultry Sum I used to work at a grocery store that had a policy of "if the price on the shelf is different than what it rings up at the register, you get it for free".  A lady c...

Jun 17, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net

Android 17 released with improved multitasking, screen reactions, and foldable gaming mode

Android 17 is rolling out first to Pixel smartphones, with other eligible Android devices set to receive the update through 2026. Some advanced models will gain Gemini Intelligence features later t...

Jun 17, 2026 from The Jamestown Foundation

Pakistan's U.S.–Iran Diplomacy Sought to Prevent a Militant Spillover

Rahim Nasar

Jun 17, 2026 from riz#000000me

Orthodox D&D

Transcribing the artifact.

Jun 17, 2026 from Hackaday

Ask Hackaday: What Ever Happened to the Hero Nerd?

Knowing absolutely nothing about you other than the fact that you’re currently reading Hackaday, I can predict with a high degree of certainty that we’re both fond of at least …read more

Jun 17, 2026 from Fatbobman's Blog

From Size Class to Available Space: Is horizontalSizeClass Still Reliable?

Starting with WWDC 26, when an iPhone app is mirrored to a Mac through iPhone Mirroring, its window can be freely resized. At the same time, iPhone-only apps running on iPad will also enter a resiz...

Jun 17, 2026 from Kev Quirk

📝 2026-06-17 13:56: So you know how we have the incubator setup? Well, unbeknownst to me, my wife...

So you know how we have the incubator setup? Well, unbeknownst to me, my wife gave one of our broody hens a cluch of Guinea fowl eggs to sit on a month ago. She just sent me this... Thanks for read...

Jun 17, 2026 from Daily Medieval

The Canons on Responsibility, Part 2

The Fourth Lateran Council called in 1215 by Pope Innocent III had three chief objectives: Church reform, freeing the Holy Land, and eliminating heresy. Part of Church reform was making clear the d...

Jun 17, 2026 from The Public Domain Review

Louis Pope Gratacap, A Curator in Lost Worlds

Arguably the first work of fiction to feature a *Tyrannosaurus rex*, Louis Pope Gratacap’s *The New Northland* (1915) is at once kaleidoscopic, mischievous, fascinating — and exhausting. Richard Fa...

Jun 17, 2026 from The Volokh Conspiracy

Can Employer Fire You for Self-Defense on the Job?

Sometimes no, holds the Colorado Supreme Court.

Jun 17, 2026 from Your Local Epidemiologist

Cancer falsehoods and rumors are killing people

False hope, online incentive structures, and broken trust make cancer misinformation so hard to stop.

Jun 17, 2026 from Noahie's Blog

Padromal Storms

Can you believe we made it to another day? Can you? I took a late afternoon nap yesterday, and yet again I had a series of strangely vivid and metaphysically discombobulating dreams. The highlight ...

Jun 16, 2026 from Above the Law

Blanche Is In Hot Water — See Also

Cold Truth Coming From The NYT: Their editorial board says Todd Blanche isn't fit for office. Honestly, Nevermind: DOJ lawyer still gets hit with ethics complaint for trying to capitalize off the f...

Jun 16, 2026 from The Jamestown Foundation

Putin’s PRC Visit Failed to Advance Power of Siberia 2

John C. K. Daly

Jun 16, 2026 from Hackaday

Smart Bulb WiFi Server Hosts “Banned” Literature

Let’s stop for a moment and pause to consider the smart bulb. Imagine going back 20 years and telling yourself that people will be putting computers capable of acting as …read more

Jun 16, 2026 from Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com

This Payment Method Has A Checkered Past

Read This Payment Method Has A Checkered Past Cashier: "We don't accept cheques. You can pay with a card or cash, Swiss francs or Euros." Customer: "But why isn't it marked somewhere?" Cashier: "We...