BBC
- PC Harper's widow criticises early prisoner release plan as Burnham to review scheme
- Most bus fares in England to be capped at £2 from January
- Ukrainian drones hit Russian online giant retailer Wildberries for second time
- Ex-Southern Water boss among four charged over alleged plan to manipulate water quality tests
- OpenAI says its AI went rogue and launched 'unprecedented' cyber-attack
- Prince George enjoys coastal fun in new video as he becomes a teenager
- Police formally investigate woman, 70, after Brit stabbed to death in French village
- Mamdani backs off pledge to arrest Netanyahu citing lack of authority
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- Liverpool issue bans as £1.2m seized from ticket touts
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- Modelling scout linked to Epstein found dead in Paris
- Former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro to face trial next June
- Watch: Louvre reopens gallery without crown jewels after heist
- Tankers make sharp U-turns after Houthi shipping threat
- Teenager drops social media addiction lawsuit against Meta
- British woman jailed for blackmail after accusing banker of rape in Hong Kong
- BBC News app
- The Global Story: Is the Iran war back on?
- Who is the new PM?
- Christopher Nolan's epic biopic starring Cillian Murphy
- Garnacho, Rogers and two clubs trying to balance the books
- Inter Miami under investigation after signing Casemiro
- Arokodare forces Wolves training to be cancelled
- The Bezos factor - unpicking puzzle of Liverpool's potential investors
- Rangers to fight McInnes ban for 'disgusting' penalty remark
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Bitcoin
Engadget
- OpenAI sued over ChatGPT health advice that almost killed a pastor
- Apple's rumored upgrades to its Mac lineup go beyond touchscreens
- Colorado thinks it found the answer to EV battery recycling's biggest challenge
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- Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8 vs Fold 8 Ultra: Which new foldable is better for you?
- Poinpy, a perfect video game, is back and it's completely free on mobile
- Samsung just revealed more details about its upcoming smart glasses, including battery life
- Xbox is bringing games from its original console to PC
- I still want Samsung's discontinued Galaxy Z TriFold
- Nirvanna the Band the Show and Movie will finally be available to stream via Hulu on July 24
- Surround sound speaker channel numbers explained: Bigger isn't always better
- Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 8 vs. Motorola Razr Ultra: Which is the better buy?
- Why USB-B never became as popular as USB-A or USB-C
- Samsung Galaxy Watch 9 vs Galaxy Watch 8: What are the differences?
- Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8 Ultra vs Galaxy S26 Ultra: Which is the better Ultra?
- Everything announced at Samsung Unpacked 2026: Three new foldables and two Galaxy Watches
- Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 8 hands-on: Slightly thinner, but more expensive
- A week with the Samsung Galaxy Watch Ultra 2: Big, bright and sometimes helpful
- Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8 hands-on: Wider is better
- Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8 Ultra hands-on: Upstaged by the base model
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- Monday.com is cutting 20 percent of its workforce as it pivots to an AI work platform
- Arrakis emerges from stealth with $38 million to bring AI to factories and supply chains
- Europe’s EV market share tops 25 percent for the first time as June registrations surge nearly 40 percent
- Cisco’s tiny open-weight AI hunts bugs, and it says it beats Gemini and GPT
- Samsung unveils the Z Fold8 Ultra, a reimagined Z Fold8, and intelligent eyewear at Galaxy Unpacked in London
- Most Americans don’t want an AI data centre next door. Virginia shows why some say yes
- The ex-Meta VP behind a notorious spy tool just raised $180M for AI security
- AppLovin Backs Velocity As The AI Industry Looks Beyond Subscriptions For Growth
- 9 best requirements management tools for medical device development (2026)
- NEURA is building gyms to train robots for the real world
Smashing Magazine
- Weaponizing And Defending The React Flight Protocol: Deserialization Sinks In RSCs
- When It Makes Sense To “Block” The Main Thread
- No, People Don’t Want More AI In Their Life
- From Kickoff To First Concept: How To Turn Brand Strategy Into Visual Direction
- Designing For Distressed Users: Why Mental Health Apps Shouldn’t Follow Every UI Fashion
- Meet Kirki: WordPress’s First Visual Builder With An Infinite Canvas
- Users Don’t Need More Tools: They Need Seamless Integrations
- Matching AI Modality To User Intent: Designing The Right Interface
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- Snapshots Of Summer (July 2026 Wallpapers Edition)
- Designing With Uncertainty: How AI Supercharges Probabilistic Thinking
- The Impact Of Humanoid Robots On Humanity
- The Benefits Of Cognitive Inclusion In UX Research
- How To Make Your Design System AI-Ready
- June Is For Exploring (2026 Wallpapers Edition)
- Algorithmic Theming Engines: Building Self-Correcting Color Systems With `contrast-color()`
- Your Prototype Is Not Being Honest With Your Users (And Here’s How To Fix It)
- Four Levels Of Customer Understanding
- Advanced Tree Counting: Mathematical Layouts With `sibling-index()` And `sibling-count()`
- Ten Data-Backed Truths Of User Experience ROI
- Practical Interface Patterns For AI Transparency (Part 2)
- The Architecture Of Local-First Web Development
- Rethinking The Experience Of System Tools
- Designing Stable Interfaces For Streaming Content
- A Fresh View In May (2026 Wallpapers Edition)
- The “Bug-Free” Workforce: How AI Efficiency Is Subtly Disrupting The Interactions That Build Strong Teams
- The UX Designer’s Nightmare: When “Production-Ready” Becomes A Design Deliverable
- Session Timeouts: The Overlooked Accessibility Barrier In Authentication Design
- How To Improve UX In Legacy Systems
- Identifying Necessary Transparency Moments In Agentic AI (Part 1)
- A Practical Guide To Design Principles
- The Joy Of A Fresh Beginning (April 2026 Wallpapers Edition)
- The Site-Search Paradox: Why The Big Box Always Wins
- Testing Font Scaling For Accessibility With Figma Variables
- Modal vs. Separate Page: UX Decision Tree
- Anime vs. Marvel/DC: Designing Digital Products With Emotion In Flow
- Moving From Moment.js To The JS Temporal API
- Beyond `border-radius`: What The CSS `corner-shape` Property Unlocks For Everyday UI
- Building Dynamic Forms In React And Next.js
- Persuasive Design: Ten Years Later
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Hacker News
- Terrence Tao's ChatGPT Conversation about the Jacobian Conjecture Counterexample
- GigaToken: ~1000x faster Language model tokenization
- Show HN: Bento - An entire PowerPoint in one HTML file (edit+view+data+collab)
- Making
- The startup's Postgres survival guide
- Are AI Labs Pelicanmaxxing?
- Can a MUD evaluate LLMs? A $99 proof of concept
- Mechanical light bulb from 1675 [video]
- Launch HN: Unlayer (YC W22) – Add email and document builders to your app
- Perlin's Noise Algorithm
- Show HN: HN Hall of Fame – browse 3,100 legendary Hacker News links
- 10 REM"_(C2SLFF4
- “We have information that Moonshot distilled Fable for the development of K3”
- Everyone Should Know SIMD
- OpenNode – Bitcoin Payment Processor
- Introduction to Formal Verification with Lean Part 1
- Nobody knows what a used GPU cluster is worth
- Neo Radar: A browser-based orbital mechanics engine with 41k real asteroids
- Show HN: DeepSQL – A self-hostable DBA agent for Postgres and MySQL
- Passkeys were invented by engineers with zero understanding of consumer brain
- Ghost Cut – or why Cut and Paste is broken everywhere
- I tried to record music onto a cassette tape using modern tech
- Hologram works. Elixir runs in the browser
- Show HN: Web swing through midtown NYC
- When Is NVLink Worth It?
- Intel Starts Shipping High-NA EUV Silicon
- Cornell's Interactive Wall of Birds
- Airbus Full Scale Foldable Wing Extensions
- Most Americans say "not in my backyard" to AI data centers
- Original Apollo 11 Guidance Computer source code for command and lunar modules
Ars Technica
- Hyundai claims humanoid robot plan is not part of talks with striking workers
- Next Space Force chief throws cold water on the idea of space privateers
- OpenAI says its AI agent broke out of testing sandbox to hack Hugging Face
- What happens when you try to chop a photon in half?
- Samsung unveils new Galaxy Z8 foldables and Galaxy Watches, available August 7
- Unlimited AI tokens aren't unlimited after all as US Army burns through supply
- Ukrainian drones deliver robots directly into battle by sea and air
- Range Rover answers the question: "What if we built a not-SUV?"
- On the run for 20 years, most-wanted fugitive caught hiding as a biotech exec
- Sony releases one last trailer for Spider-Man: Brand New Day
- Confusion swirls on source of diarrhea outbreak, but it’s still Taylor Farms
- Nintendo says users voluntarily paid higher prices, have no right to tariff refunds
- Let Tom Hiddleston be your guide to Pompeii's final day
- Naked mole-rat queens use a chemical signal to suppress fertility in rivals
- Anthropic’s $1.5B copyright settlement approved; only 350 authors opted out
- Sales of Valve's Steam Deck crater after recent price hike
- Google announces Gemini 3.6 Flash and cybersecurity AI, teases 3.5 Pro and Gemini 4
- TreeSize won't renew perpetual-license support unless users subscribe
- When your vehicle outlives its cloud: What happens next?
- Apps targeted at US troops contain Chinese and Russian code
Digg
New Scientist
Slashdot
- The Army Is Burning Through Its AI Tokens
- Microsoft Announces Xbox Backward Compatibility For PC
- Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8 Announced to Compete With Future iPhone Fold
- LG To Ban Residential Proxies From Smart TV Apps
- Jack Dorsey Takes On Slack and GitHub With New AI Workplace Platform 'Buzz'
- Long Presumed Dead, a Thriving Coral Reef Is Discovered in West Africa
- OpenAI Says Its AI Models Acted On Its Own In An 'Unprecedented' Hack
- France Becomes First European Country To Ban Social Media Access For Under-15s
- Airbus Migrating 70 Critical Apps From AWS to France's Scaleway
- Tesla Robotaxis Go To Florida
- Firefox 153 Released
- AI Companies Are Buying Tons of Old Books Because They're Free of AI Slop
- Canonical Launches Enterprise Store For Ubuntu Pro
- Judge Approves $1.5 Billion Anthropic Settlement Over Pirated Books Used To Train Claude
- AT&T Loses Key Ruling In Bid To Stop Offering Basic Phone Service In California
BoingBoing
- It Ends is a horror movie about a road that ironically doesn't do that
- A decade of cult podcast episodes vanished, then reappeared online
- Apple's upcoming leasing program may come with a big caveat
- Enter Rachel Lichtman's groovy, shag-carpeted world of Golden Sands
- Tom the Dancing Bug: Follow Little Donald Trump's Odyssey
- 10-person passenger brawl sends EasyJet flight back to airport
- Products are getting worse on purpose
- In 1977, a voice claiming to be an alien took over British TV for four minutes
- Germany told parents to destroy this talking doll
- AI companies are buying up old books to escape their own AI slop
- Frozen 2 should be rated R, a writer argues with data
- A single atomic nucleus hit Utah with the force of a pitched baseball
- PDFs fill you with dread? Save yourself the stress with a PDF reader
- Open-source firmware and software for e-readers
- Interactive map of the world's castles, fortresses, palaces and ruins
- A tour of the oldest domains still on the internet
- Salisbury steak was health food before it became cafeteria nostalgia
- Microsoft Office 2024 puts the old reliables back on your PC
- Gillian Anderson reveals X-Files LEGO set
- Grandpa Pudding Brains turns foreign policy into a crypto gold-card ad
- Honest Trailers gets lost in the beige hell of Backrooms
- Mike Johnson discovers the word "allegation" only applies to Republicans
- Light Flip is a minimalist phone without the dumb
- Luke Skywalker's severed hand and lightsaber prop sold for $3.75M
- Speak a new language confidently sooner than you dreamed with Rosetta Stone Sapphire for $127.20
- North Korea's fake village with painted-on windows
- Why 85% of tall buildings skip the 13th floor
- Drone spins into a ghostly blur, making it almost invisible
- Microsoft Office is just $28, but only through July 26
- Humanoid robot keeps fighting, even after his block was knocked off!
Core77
- DeFF's Diminutive Premium Pen
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- Announcing Fusion Forward: Design for Home, a New Competition from Core77 and Autodesk Fusion
- Clever Design for a Stud Finder Combines Low and Hi Tech
- Wooden Rings, as Jewelry—and Hinges
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- Core77 Weekly Roundup (7-13-26 to 7-17-26)
- This Innovative Magflap Clipboard has Three Tricks Up its Sleeve
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CNET
The Verge
- Apple is reportedly testing a MacBook Neo with more RAM
- Here’s what Samsung’s smart glasses actually look like
- How the Galaxy Z Fold 8 and Z Flip 8 phones compare
- Preorders for Samsung’s new Z Fold and Flip 8 come with up to $350 in gift cards
- Philips’ new smart toothbrush shows you where you didn’t properly brush
- Microsoft is bringing original Xbox games to PC
- AMD commits up to $5 billion to Anthropic
- Samsung’s newest foldable finally feels Ultra
- Samsung’s wider Z Fold 8 feels just right
- Samsung’s Galaxy Watch 9 and Ultra 2 bet big on battery
Wired
- China’s Open AI Models Are Challenging Silicon Valley’s Playbook
- Dyson V10 Konical Review (2026): Affordable and Solid
- Which New Samsung Foldable Phone Should You Buy? Fold8 Ultra, Fold8, or Flip8?
- Why Samsung Gave Its Next Folding Phone a New Shape
- The 13 Best Fans for Getting Through Sweaty Days (2026)
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- States Want ICE Agents to Show Their Faces. The Trump Administration Is Blocking Them
- A Teen Reporter Searched for His Community in the Epstein Files. Adults Freaked Out
- Flipper Busy Bar Review: An Expensive Focus Tool
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- OpenAI Models Escaped Containment and Hacked Hugging Face
- Shop Best Buy’s Black Friday in July Sale 2026 Before Fall Chaos
- Taylor Farms Spent Big on MAGA and Anti-Regulatory Lobbying Before Diarrhea Outbreak
- This Former Intel CEO Wants to Jumpstart Moore’s Law With Light
- A Sneaky Hacking Tool Targeting AI Infrastructure Is Lurking in Victims’ Blind Spots
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LifeHacker
- Preorder the New Samsung Galaxy Z Phones and Get up to $350 in Amazon Gift Cards
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- How to Preorder the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8, Z Fold 8 Ultra, or Z Flip 8
- The Out-of-Touch Adults' Guide to Kid Culture: What Does 'Quiet on the Creek' Mean?
- These Four New Android Features Are Coming, but Samsung Galaxy Devices Will Get Them First
- Samsung Just Announced Five New Products at Galaxy Unpacked
- Lifehacker's Big Guessing Game Is in Its Second Round
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TechMeme
- Travis Kalanick's robotics startup Atoms raised $1.7B led by a16z, with Uber and others participating; Ben Horowitz will join the startup's board (Sean O'Kane/TechCrunch)
- A Florida teenager drops his lawsuit accusing Meta of creating harmful social media features, following settlements with co-defendants TikTok, Snap, and YouTube (New York Times)
- Yope, a social network that has ~15M registered users for its "micro communities" and no algorithms, ads, or public content, raised $12.3M seed led by Northzone (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
- Sources: Cathedral, launched by ex-DOGE staffers to use AI to expand US military cyber capabilities, raised $160M led by a16z and Sequoia at a $1.4B valuation (David Jeans/Reuters)
- Genius AI, formerly GlossGenius, which pivoted from a salon management platform to offer AI tools for service SMBs, raised a $44M Series D at a $1.15B valuation (Emma Hinchliffe/Fortune)
- Cashea, Venezuela's largest fintech startup that offers a banking and payments app, raised a $40M Series A, including $20M in debt, and a $60M Series B (Maria Clara Cobo/Bloomberg)
- Arcee, which develops open-weight models in the US, partners with the Department of Energy to build Genesis-Science-1, an open model for scientific research (Catherine Perloff/The Information)
- A US judge dismisses Google's lawsuit against web scraping service SerpApi, saying plain and aggregated search results are not protected under copyright law (Barry Schwartz/Search Engine Roundtable)
- White House OSTP Director Michael Kratsios says Moonshot AI "acquired GB300-equipped servers and has accessed GB300s in Thailand, likely to train its AI models" (Maggie Eastland/Bloomberg)
- Meta names Assaf Keren, a former chief security officer at Qualtrics and a former CISO at PayPal, as its next CISO, succeeding Guy Rosen, who will leave in 2026 (Riley Griffin/Bloomberg)
- OpenAI introduces OpenAI Presence to help companies better connect AI agents to their internal systems and automate customer support, sales, and other tasks (Business Insider)
- White House OSTP Director Michael Kratsios says "we have information that Moonshot AI distilled Anthropic's Fable for the development of its K3 model" (Director Michael Kratsios/@mkratsios47)
- Xbox expands its backward compatibility program to PC, starting with four classic original Xbox games, offering 4X resolution scaling, V-Sync support, and more (Jez Corden/Windows Central)
- Filing: Monday.com plans to cut 20% of its workforce, or ~600 employees, in H2 2026 to "support a leaner, more focused operational model" as it invests in AI (Martin Peers/The Information)
- Sources: Apple is set to debut new versions of every Mac, including long-awaited iMac updates, a revamped MacBook Pro, and a new Neo, across the fall and 2027 (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)