Apple Announcements at WWDC 2026, Meta’s AI App Controversy + more!

Duration: 07:16

Timestamps:

0:00 Apple Announcements at WWDC 2026

2:37 Meta’s AI App Controversy

3:55 QUICK BITS INTRO

4:03 Google Paying SpaceX for Compute Capacity

4:37 New York State Moratorium on Data Centers

5:14 Canada’s Controversial Bill C-22

5:49 Windows 95 on a Graphing Calculator

6:22 TeamGroup’s Self-Destructing SSD

NEWS SOURCES:

MAIN

FOOL ME ONCE SHAME ON YOU…

Apple’s WWDC kicked off today and the headline is APPLE AI IS GONNA BE BETTER- https://www.theverge.com/tech/944245/apple-wwdc-2026-ai-siri-gemini

Because, we’re using Gemini now! - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hF8swzNR1-o

29:36 - 29:42

Craig Fedirigi went out of his way to call out companies that are “Pursuing AI for the sake of AI” saying apple’s approach to their new “SiriAI” is

https://imageio.forbes.com/specials-images/imageserve/62a8d53bed963e58c849c825/Apple-Event/0x0.jpg?width=960&dpr=2

focused on making useful tools that are enhanced with “Personal Context Understanding” which is their attempt to use all the information on the device to enable useful tools

30:58 - 31:04

has significant privacy focus, which is enabled by apple focusing on using local processing as much as possible and encrypting anything that goes to cloud so it’s not accessible to apple

32:39 - 32:59

They demoed the power of SiriAI by having a forgetful guy named mike listen to Buy Tickets to a suki waterhouse concert, remember where his friend lives, and remember what happened on his vacation with his family

36:45 - 36:53

And by helping his guy plan a menu for a fifa watch party

40:40 - 40:45

Props to the presenters for standing perfectly still for 5 full seconds every time they asked a question

They’re also launching a dedicated siri app where these conversations with siri will live so you can return –to them

46:12 - 46:16

They’re also enhancing the Image Playground feature to allow you to generate photorealistic slop/alter actual photos using generative models that are running on private cloud compute. So ONLY YOU get to see this slop.

1:00:50 - 1:01:04

A BRIDGE TOO FAR?

In addition to SiriAI apple introduced MacOS 27 Golden Gate with the all the charm and humor of a first year improv class - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hF8swzNR1-o

4:44 - 4:55

First, they’re fixing liquid glass by optimizing the animations so they don’t kill your battery and adding a setting slider to determine how liquid and how glass you want it to be -

7:46 - 7:54

Responsiveness in general is improving with apps launching up to 30% faster, Airdrop transfers up to 80% Faster, File Browsing and transfers is up to 5x Faster

10:31 - 10:35

11:05 - 11:15

Improved Search through an improved indexing methodology

14:17 - 14:25

And airpods are allowing you to control your EQ to personalize your listening experience and also ruin songs

15:41 - 15:46

Also improving child safety by introducing features to let parents regulate their children’s device use through Children's account

19:54 - 19:58

Allows parents to block inappropriate content, and be aware of who their kids are communicating with

22:14 - 22:19

22:50 - 22:56

23:07 - 23:19

GOOD “FOR YOU” /S

Meta Pulls Its AI "For You" Feed After It Filled Up With AI-Generated Clickbait -https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/944235/meta-app-ai-clickbait-articles

https://letsdatascience.com/news/meta-launches-ai-generated-clickbait-for-you-feed-16f185e1

It’s filling with clickbait and fake stories:

https://lmg.gg/B4o7j

Targeted/stereotypical content:

https://lmg.gg/Y6FpB

Note about pulling:

https://lmg.gg/OpYce

Quote about Verge:

https://lmg.gg/rduCB

QUICKBITS

CLOUD NINE… HUNDRED TWENTY MILLION

Google Agrees to Pay SpaceX $920 Million a Month for AI Compute - https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/05/google-will-pay-spacex-920m-per-month-for-compute/

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/05/google-to-pay-spacex-920-million-a-month-for-xai-compute-capacity.html

https://www.businessinsider.com/google-spacex-deal-920-million-month-compute-capacity-gemini-enterprise-2026-6

Regulatory Filing:

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1181412/000162828026041150/spacexagreementfwp.htm

Google owns a bit of SpaceX

https://lmg.gg/0daky

WHERE DREAMS ARE MADE

New York Passes the First State Moratorium on Large Data Centers -

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/06/new-york-datacenter-temporary-ban https://www.techradar.com/computing/were-really-drawing-a-line-in-the-sand-new-york-could-be-the-first-state-to-put-a-temporary-ban-on-large-data-centers

https://www.theverge.com/policy/944041/new-york-data-center-moratorium

Senate Bill:

https://lmg.gg/0y1oI

DUCKDUCKGO-ING SOMEWHERE?

Signal, DuckDuckGo and NordVPN Threaten to Leave Canada Over Its Surveillance Bill https://globalnews.ca/news/11886905/lawful-access-bill-c-22-companies-services-canada/

The Bill:

https://www.parl.ca/documentviewer/en/45-1/bill/C-22/first-reading

“Lawful Access”

https://www.parl.ca/documentviewer/en/45-1/bill/C-22/first-reading#:~:text=BILL%20C%2D22-,An%20Act%20respecting%20lawful%20access,-FIRST%20READING%2C

Google and Meta have been against it too

https://about.fb.com/news/2026/05/metas-position-on-canadas-bill-c-22/

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-google-lawful-access-bill-c-22-cybersecurity-risks/

https://cybernews.com/privacy/signal-duckduckgo-nordvpn-bill-c22-security-risks/

https://www.techspot.com/news/112672-signal-duckduckgo-nordvpn-threaten-exit-canada-if-metadata.html

Signal quote:

https://lmg.gg/isB6a

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For those of you who were wondering…is it possible to run Windows 95 on a graphing calculator the answer is YES! - https://www.hackster.io/news/yes-you-can-run-windows-95-on-a-calculator-bf39c5ea2231

Reddit user Far-Temperature3580 got the OG OS to book on a Texas instruments TI-Nspire by using the Tiny386 x86 emulator - https://www.xda-developers.com/someone-got-windows-95-running-on-a-graphing-calculator-and-yes-it-takes-7-minutes-to-boot/

Unfortunately it took 7 minutes to boot, so clippy won’t be helping you with cover letters written on a calculator any time soon. - https://lmg.gg/0UYyp

YOUR SSD, SHOULD YOU CHOOSE TO ACCEPT IT

TeamGroup Shows an External SSD That Self-Destructs From a Single Text Message - https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/ssds/teamgroup-shows-off-external-ssd-with-wireless-self-destruct-function-t-create-expert-p35sg-external-ssd-can-be-wiped-with-a-single-text-message