Daily reads: Jun 3, 2026

The author says they were recently diagnosed with anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis, an autoimmune condition that causes brain inflammation. They describe flu-like symptoms, severe anxiety, psychosis, balance problems, jaw pain, an ER visit, and an initial transfer to inpatient psychiatric care after symptoms became unsafe to manage at home.

At Build 2026, Microsoft introduced Microsoft IQ, a unified context layer that expands Fabric IQ with signals about organizational workflows, knowledge, business data, and real-time web information. It also launched Rayfin, an open-source SDK and CLI that lets agent-built applications deploy directly to Fabric, keeping application data inside a governed backend instead of creating new silos.

Uber’s annual Lost & Found Index says passengers left thousands of items in robotaxis on its network over the past year, including phones, wallets, dentures, and an “I Heart Hot Dads” bag. The company is using the quirky report to spotlight its expanding robotaxi operations with partners including Waymo, Motional, and Avride.

A GitHub project called nbd-vram lets Linux users allocate Nvidia GPU memory as a swap device, using CUDA and the kernel’s Network Block Device driver. The tool is aimed at laptops with soldered RAM and spare VRAM, with one test setup using 7GB of VRAM to expand effective memory alongside zram and SSD swap.

Sony closed its State of Play showcase by announcing God of War Laufey, a new PS5 entry from Santa Monica Studio with no release date yet. The game puts players in control of Faye/Laufey rather than Kratos, with a familiar tone but more acrobatic, magic-driven combat.

CT imaging shows the internal structure of a BYD lithium iron phosphate prismatic cell, including dual electrode stacks, dense terminals, and a pressure-relief safety valve. The article explains how LFP chemistry sacrifices some energy density but offers cooler operation, longer cycle life, and lower-cost materials than nickel- and cobalt-based batteries.

Microsoft AI published details for MAI-Code-1-Flash, including a model page and model card, as part of a broader launch of seven new MAI models. The release positions the model as a coding-focused addition to Microsoft’s expanding in-house AI portfolio.

Alibaba released Qwen3.7-Plus, a multimodal LLM that can process text, images, video, and screenshots at $0.40 per 1M input tokens and $1.60 per 1M output tokens. The model is 60% cheaper than Qwen3.7-Max and adds capabilities beyond text, but it is available only through proprietary APIs and Qwen Chat rather than as open source.

Cyera is reportedly finalizing a funding round led by Evolution Equity Partners of at least $300 million, valuing the data security startup at $12 billion. Sources say the company has surpassed $150M ARR but remains unprofitable, while Cyera disputed the reported figures as inaccurate.

Remedy Entertainment announced that Control Resonant will launch on September 24, 2026, with the news revealed in a trailer during PlayStation’s State of Play. The sequel stars Dylan Faden as the sole playable character, while original protagonist Jesse Faden remains important to the story.

Perplexity AI unveiled a hybrid local-cloud inference system at Computex 2026 that decides in real time which parts of an AI task run on a user’s device and which go to cloud models. The company demonstrated the feature with Intel, showing its Personal Computer agent keeping confidential materials local while sending less sensitive, harder reasoning work to frontier models. The feature is expected to launch in the coming weeks.

DIY hardware communities are seeing renewed interest as creators share custom cyberdecks, solar-powered game emulators, pocket ereaders, and clamshell purse computers online. The trend blends retro-futurist design with a desire for more personal, hackable devices outside mainstream tech ecosystems.