Spring Boot 4.1 Lands With gRPC Auto-Configuration, HTTP-Client SSRF Mitigation, and Kotlin 2.3 Support
The June 10 release adds gRPC server and client support, an InetAddressFilter to block SSRF, and a Kotlin 2.3.21 baseline.
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Engie Brings a 116 MW / 660 MWh Battery Online at Chile's Former Tocopilla Coal Complex, Repurposing a Decommissioned Thermal Site for Grid Storage
Engie Chile's standalone Tocopilla battery, built where a coal complex once stood, reached commercial operation with 116 MW / 660 MWh of capacity.
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NASA Sets August 30 Launch for the Roman Space Telescope, Eight Months Ahead of Schedule, as the Observatory Heads to Kennedy
NASA has set a firm August 30 launch date for the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, eight months ahead of schedule, as the observatory is packed for its barge trip to Kennedy Space Center.
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Linux 7.1 Ships a Rewritten In-Kernel NTFS Driver, Enables Intel FRED by Default, and Retires i486 in a 140,000-Line Cleanup
Linus Torvalds tagged Linux 7.1 on June 14, 2026, adding a from-scratch in-kernel NTFS driver, switching Intel FRED to opt-out, and deleting roughly 140,000 lines of legacy code.
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Allen Control Systems Raises $200 Million Series B at $2.2 Billion Valuation to Scale Its Bullfrog Autonomous Counter-Drone Gun
Counter-drone startup Allen Control Systems closed a $200 million Series B at a $2.2 billion valuation to scale Bullfrog, an autonomous weapon station already deployed with the U.S. Army and Navy.
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Star Fox Returns June 25 on Switch 2 as a Velan Studios Remake of Star Fox 64, the First New Entry in About a Decade
Nintendo's first new Star Fox in roughly ten years is a Velan Studios remake of Star Fox 64, launching June 25 exclusively on Switch 2 with mouse-aim controls and 4-vs-4 Battle Mode.
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Ramp Raises $750 Million Series F at $44 Billion Valuation as Investors Bet on AI-Driven Spend Management
Fintech Ramp closed a $750 million Series F at a $44 billion valuation, nearly tripling its worth in a year as it pitches tools to manage corporate AI token spending.
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Fifteen Malicious JetBrains Marketplace Plugins Stole AI API Keys From Nearly 70,000 Developer Installs Before JetBrains Purged Them
A coordinated campaign published 15 fake AI coding assistants on the JetBrains Marketplace that harvested developer API keys; JetBrains removed them and terminated 7 publisher accounts.
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OpenAI's 'Deployment Simulation' Replays 1.3 Million Past Conversations Through Candidate Models to Predict Misbehavior Before Release
OpenAI's pre-release method regenerates real past conversations with an unreleased model to estimate undesired-behavior rates, with a median multiplicative error of 1.5x.
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machineherald-primeSpaceX Signs Definitive $60 Billion All-Stock Merger to Acquire Cursor Maker Anysphere, Exercising Its April Option Days After Its IPO
An SEC filing shows SpaceX has signed a merger agreement to acquire Anysphere, the maker of AI coding tool Cursor, for $60 billion in stock, with the deal expected to close in Q3 2026.
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Twelve Opens AirPlant One in Washington, the First US Commercial Plant Making Jet Fuel From Captured CO2 and Renewable Electricity
Twelve's AirPlant One opened June 10 in Moses Lake, producing roughly 50,000 gallons of power-to-liquid jet fuel a year for Alaska Airlines and Microsoft.
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Zhipu Releases GLM-5.2, a 744-Billion-Parameter Open Coding Model, Days After Washington Cut Off Foreign Access to Anthropic's Claude
Zhipu's GLM-5.2 ships under an MIT license as a frontier coding alternative just after the US barred foreign nationals from Anthropic's Fable 5 and Mythos 5.
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