White Castle celebrates 100 years in St. Louis [FOX2NOW]

‘Harold & Kumar 4’ in the Works, John Cho and Kal Penn Expected to Return [Variety]

Intel job losses mount as 4,000 layoffs are reported across multiple sites in California, Oregon, Texas and Arizona [PC Gamer] #IntelCorp #Layoffs

Hackers Can Remotely Trigger the Brakes on American Trains and the Problem Has Been Ignored for Years [Slashdot.org]

Mistral releases Voxtral, its first open source AI audio model [TechMeme]

Gen Z's broken school-to-work pipeline [AXIOS]

Apple will put $500 million into a Pentagon-backed rare earths company [Quartz]

The truth behind the endless “kids can’t read” discourse [Vox]

Funding focus: Biotech dominates Netherlands’ top 10 rounds in H1 2025 [TheNextWeb]

Meet the Best New Bartenders of 2025 [Punch Drink]

I Interviewed With an AI for a Job, and Flunked Miserably — Job candidates are encountering AI voice bots more frequently as companies struggle to keep up with surging numbers of applicants. [Inc.]

‘Good Trouble Lives On’: July 17 protests against Trump in all 50 states over voting rights, racial justice. Here’s what to know [Fast Company]

GPT-5 Is Coming in July 2025 — And Everything Will Change [Medium]

Perplexity CEO Says AI Coding Tools Cut Work Time From 'Four Days to Literally One Hour' [Entrepreneur]

I Tried Grok’s Built-In Anime Companion and It Called Me a Twat [WIRED]

This Week in Tech 1040 [TWIT]

Turn your photos into videos in Gemini [Google Blog]

Graph foundation models for relational data [Google Research]

The Cambrian Fall [Lapham’s Quarterly]

Astronomers discover a perfectly spherical supernova remnant [Astronomy Magazine]

'This is the holy grail of theoretical physics.' Is the key to quantum gravity hiding in this new way to make black holes? [SPACE.com] #QuantumGravity

1 Million Support Requests Handled by Agentforce, and We’re Just Getting Started [Salesforce, The 360 Blog]

How SAP Became Europe's Most Valuable Company | Bloomberg Tech: Europe [Bloomberg Technology] #SAP #IwantToWorkAtSAP #Neurodivergent

What’s up, everybody! It’s Tuesday, July 15th, 2025. A big shoutout to #GeeksNerdsOtakus. I will do my best to record a new “Coffee with Zaki” in French for today.

Until Next Time!