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The Bots Have Won The Web!

Tech Brew Ride Home

Amalgamated Internets, LLC

Technology, Tech News, News

4.71K Ratings

🗓️ 5 June 2026

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Bots passed human web traffic for the first time, per Cloudflare's CEO. The S&P 500 rejected fast-entry for mega-cap IPOs like SpaceX. Anthropic embedded engineers at the NSA, Meta hid face-recognition code in its app, and Cambridge trialed the first AI-designed vaccine. Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince says agentic traffic is "growing so fast that bots have now passed human traffic online for the first time" (Tom's Hardware) S&P Dow Jones rejects proposals to expedite S&P 500 eligibility for mega-cap IPOs such as SpaceX's; companies remain ineligible until one year after their IPOs (Bloomberg) Sources: Anthropic has embedded around half a dozen forward-deployed engineers within the NSA to help the agency deploy Mythos for offensive cyber operations (FT) Analysis: Meta discreetly added code for an unreleased "NameTag" face-recognition system for its AI smart glasses over multiple Meta AI app updates in 2026 (Wired) University of Cambridge researchers say they have developed the first vaccine with a key component entirely designed by AI and subsequently trialed it in humans (BBC) Longreads A preview of what to expect from WWDC on Monday, including iOS 27, a revamped Siri, macOS 27 Liquid Glass refinements, and more (Bloomberg) Ted Chiang argues LLM conversations are cleverly disguised sentence continuation, not consciousness, and that no intrinsic property of neural networks suggests otherwise (The Atlantic) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

The internet is coaching our kids.

0:04.9

When boys hear that on repeat, it shapes how they see themselves.

0:08.4

We can't leave it to those voices.

0:10.3

We have to be louder.

0:11.6

Together with EE, we need to coach them, guide them, back them.

0:15.6

Building our boys up every chance we get.

0:18.0

Be yourself.

0:18.8

Back your mates.

0:19.9

Confidence comes from a vin.

0:21.4

As proud partner of the England team's E.E has support and guidance to help build all

0:26.2

our voice up on and off the pitch.

0:28.3

Search E.E. Yes, boys.

0:34.2

Welcome to the TechBrew right home for Friday, June 5th, 2026.

0:37.2

I'm Brian McCullough today.

0:38.5

Bots past human web traffic for the first time ever.

0:41.5

The S&P 500 rejected fast entry for mega-cap IPOs like SpaceX,

0:46.1

Anthropic embedded engineers at the NSA Metahid face recognition code in its app.

0:51.5

And of course, the weekend long read suggestions.

0:53.7

Here's what you miss today in the world of tech.

1:04.4

Today's episode is brought to by Dopple.

1:06.6

Social engineering attacks don't bother to knock.

1:09.3

They slip right into your inbox phone or on websites

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