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June 19, 2026: U.S. moves toward troop reductions in Europe as Hegseth scolds NATO allies; First steps in peace deal demand far more from U.S. than...

Global headlines: U.S. moves toward troop reductions in Europe as Hegseth scolds NATO allies (The United States will review force levels and is immediately cutting the number of assets it would activate for the continent in a crisis); First steps in peace deal demand far more from U.S. than Iran (The memorandum of understanding requires numerous steps by Washington including lifting sanctions and freeing billions in frozen assets, while Iran was required only to open the Strait of Hormuz); and Ukraine pummels Russian capital with what may be largest drone strike yet on Moscow (After weeks of intensifying bombing of Kyiv, Ukraine hit back with a swarm of drones, damaging buildings and igniting an oil refinery). Markets leaned higher, with 5 of 7 tracked indexes up; NASDAQ Composite up 1.91% was the largest move. Benchmarks tracked: S&P 500, NASDAQ Composite, Euronext 100 Index, and Public Joint-Stock Company Moscow Exchange MICEX-RTS plus 3 more indexes. Hacker News: Zero-Touch OAuth for MCP (The Enterprise-Managed Authorization extension to the Model Context Protocol is now stable, enabling organizations to centrally provision...); Datasette Apps: Host custom HTML applications inside Datasette (Today we launched a new plugin for Datasette, datasette-apps, with this launch announcement post on the Datasette project blog. That post...); and I found 10k GitHub repositories distributing Trojan malware (This is the story of how I found 10,000 repositories on GitHub that distribute Trojan malware. They are all from different contributors,...). Product Hunt features Juno (Free, local AI powered Voice to Text w/ live transcriptions), Retool (Build anywhere. Govern in Retool), and VoiceOS (Say it and it's done. JARVIS for your computer).