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FDA advisory panels don't often vote unanimously on anything, so when Moderna's mRNA RSV vaccine cleared the committee without a single dissent, it stood out. The approval comes after what Ars Technica describes as significant agency drama, a reminder that the path from science to medicine runs through politics as much as data.
Shifting from biology to artificial intelligence, a project called Apertus is positioning itself as an open foundation model built for what its creators call sovereign AI. The idea is that nations and organizations shouldn't have to depend on a handful of American or Chinese tech giants for their core AI infrastructure. It's an argument about power and dependency dressed up in model weights.
And on a quieter but genuinely human note, a father's day post on Hacker News reminded us why so many people end up in technology. One user described an uncle in Soviet-controlled Poland who built a functioning police siren into a child's bicycle, the kind of hands-on, slightly rule-bending ingenuity that turns kids into engineers. Not every origin story starts in Silicon Valley.
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