Daily reads: Jun 17, 2026

Epic Games has released Lore, a next-generation open source version control system built for projects that combine code with large binary assets, such as games and entertainment pipelines. Lore uses content-addressed storage, Merkle trees, chunked file storage, and an immutable revision chain to support scalable teams, deduplication, and on-demand data access.

The article is a hands-on guide for finding and assessing Microsoft IIS servers during bug bounty research, covering discovery via Shodan, Google dorks, and fingerprinting. It highlights recurring IIS weaknesses such as internal IP leaks, tilde enumeration, exposed web.config files, path traversal, DLL exposure, authentication bypass tricks, and WAF evasion.

Ramp spending data indicates Anthropic is gaining traction among business users despite, and possibly because of, its latest dispute with the Trump administration. The report suggests the company’s rising enterprise popularity may help offset political friction.

Z.ai launched GLM-5.2, a 753-billion-parameter open-weights LLM aimed at long-horizon autonomous coding and engineering tasks. The model is available through Hugging Face, Z.ai’s API, and coding tools, with claims of strong benchmark performance, a stable 1-million-token context window, and low-cost enterprise plans.

Amazon is offering The Complete Calvin and Hobbes for $89.48 with an on-page coupon, its lowest observed price and well below the original $225 list price. The article also highlights Father’s Day book deals on illustrated hardcover editions of The Lord of the Rings, The Silmarillion, and The Hobbit.

The article shows how to use Bash’s /dev/tcp redirection to open a socket and manually send an HTTP GET request, useful in minimal containers without curl or wget. It explains adding headers like Authorization and notes that /dev/tcp is not a real filesystem path but a Bash feature.

Apple plans to shift new Hide My Email aliases from @icloud.com to @private.icloud.com in the coming weeks. The change could make the privacy feature less stealthy by allowing apps and websites to identify and potentially block anonymous email sign-ups, while existing aliases will keep working.

Databricks announced Lakehouse//RT and LTAP, two products designed to reduce the need for separate real-time serving, transactional, and analytical data systems. Lakehouse//RT brings millisecond query latency to governed Delta and Iceberg tables, while LTAP stores Postgres-native transactional data directly in those formats from the point of write.

Google’s Android 17 update is launching first on Pixel phones with multitasking features like floating Bubble windows, Screen Reaction recording, and foldable-focused gaming controls. Wear OS 7 adds Live Updates and battery improvements, while Android XR support is setting the stage for smart glasses launching this fall.

SpaceX briefly became the world’s fifth-most valuable company as its valuation spiked to $2.9T before closing around $2.6T. The rally followed its first full trading day, the start of options trading, and news of a $60B stock-based acquisition of Cursor, despite SpaceX reporting a $4.9B loss last year.

Google is starting the Wear OS 7 rollout for Pixel Watch 2, 3, and 4, adding Live Updates that mirror real-time Android events like sports scores and meal deliveries on the watch. The update also promises up to 10% longer battery life than Wear OS 6, while new Gemini Intelligence features are slated for later this year.

Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon said the company is working on more than 40 AI wearable devices, including jewelry, camera-equipped earbuds, pins, and watches. The announcement signals Qualcomm’s push to supply chips for devices that could become the next major computing platform after smartphones.