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BBC

  1. Police say Ann Widdecombe killed in 'targeted attack' as motive investigated
  2. Trump scraps threat of 20% fee on Hormuz cargo as US prepares to resume blockade of Iran ports
  3. Starmer and Burnham hail Hillsborough Law as MPs give approval
  4. Scott Mills was highest-paid BBC star before sacking
  5. Tyrannosaurus rex most expensive dinosaur ever sold
  6. UK wasted £10bn on PPE that left NHS staff poorly protected, Covid inquiry finds
  7. Southport victim's dad accuses ambulance staff of breaching trust
  8. Wildfires burn in parts of UK as fire chiefs warn of extreme pressure
  9. Billionaire Warren Buffett stops donations to Bill Gates charity
  10. 'If we die, we die together': Wife of man nearly sucked out of Ryanair plane speaks of ordeal
  11. Writer E Jean Carroll receives $5m in damages from Trump over sexual abuse and defamation case
  12. Who will win the World Cup? The view from the semi-finalists' countries
  13. He walked for 47% of the World Cup - the evolution of Messi
  14. Increased security for England and Argentina tie
  15. Strait of Hormuz remains a fault line as Iran and US drift back into war
  16. Widdecombe seen in interview believed to be 20 minutes before attack
  17. Andy Serkis defends lack of diversity in Lord of the Rings cast
  18. BBC's serious challenges laid bare in annual report
  19. BBC pay 2025-2026: The full list of star salaries
  20. There's no evidence this Mitch McConnell rehab photo is AI
  21. How much should you give to the year-end teacher collection?
  22. Starmer becomes first UK PM to receive top French honour
  23. Man who staged wife's suicide jailed for murder
  24. Writer E Jean Carroll receives $5m in damages from Trump over sexual abuse and defamation case
  25. Government failing Farage over security, says Jenrick
  26. Diamond giant De Beers halts work at flagship South African mine as demand plummets
  27. Big Brother host Will Best joins Strictly line-up
  28. ICE told to halt most vehicle stops after pair of fatal shootings
  29. BBC News app
  30. The £10bn wasted on Covid PPE
  31. Americanswers… on 5 Live! Mitch McConnell breaks his silence, will it stop the conspiracy theories?
  32. Zendaya stars in this heated tennis love triangle
  33. Get inside access to the new super-elite: The tech billionaires
  34. England's one-day woes continue with India defeat
  35. Man Utd sign Tielemans for £35m from Aston Villa
  36. Villa warned over sportswashing after Visit Rwanda deal
  37. Balogun expected controversy after World Cup ban waived
  38. 'Weird stuff is going to happen' - Scheffler and McIlroy on sun-baked Birkdale
  39. Secret friendlies and promoting youngsters - Alonso's first week at Chelsea

Bitcoin

Engadget

  1. PlayStation FlexStrike wireless fight stick delayed without a firm release date
  2. Samsung's slower version of the 990 Pro SSD costs way more than the original
  3. What can you do with a Roku TV without internet access?
  4. California's MyFirstEV provides a $3,500 instant rebate to first-time buyers
  5. An Apple Arcade version of Madden NFL 27 will arrive on August 7
  6. Google Images is getting a makeover for its 25th anniversary
  7. Leaked Google Pixel Watch 5 images show four different color options
  8. If you're still on a single monitor, this is the best workflow upgrade you can make
  9. What's the difference between active noise canceling and passive?
  10. 'Talk to Spotify' lets you create playlists and learn about songs with voice commands
  11. New York enacts first US ban on data center construction
  12. X's algorithm will finally prioritize replies from people you already follow
  13. Google bought all of a major solar farm's output to offset its dirty data center emissions
  14. Hisense's E Ink phone has a full-color LCD you can snap on the back
  15. Google brings Gemini in Chrome to UK users
  16. Please let this hot pink Pixel 11 leak be real
  17. Microsoft is making the Windows Search Box more streamlined and useful
  18. Public betas for iOS 27, macOS 27 and more Apple platforms are now available
  19. Los Angeles law enforcement will stop using Flock cameras
  20. A ransomware negotiator who colluded with attackers to scam victims was sentenced to 70 months in prison

Pinboard

  1. The Proportional Web
  2. Networking and the Internet, from First Principles · Faza — How controlled disturbances of electricity, light, and radio, cooperatively routed across a web of independent networks, deliver data across the world in milliseconds.
  3. Prefer STRICT tables in SQLite — In short: I prefer strict tables in SQLite because they avoid some datatype problems, such as putting text in number columns. SQLite has a feature that I think is underrated: strict tables. Strict tables help enforce rigid typing, preventing mistakes like putting text into integer columns.…
  4. Building and Shipping Mac and iOS Apps Without Ever Opening Xcode
  5. Scrapers are destroying the open internet
  6. How to read more books
  7. Zig Creator Calls Spade a Spade, Anthropic Blows Smoke — "In the AI bubble, we are pressured to build things nobody wants, poorly. Pop the bubble."
  8. Stacks — run classic HyperCard stacks on modern macOS
  9. Grumpy Website — "The original Windows 95 interface is _functional_. It has a function and it executes it very well. It works for you, without trying to be clever or sophisticated. Also, it follows system conventions, which also helps you, the user. I’m not sure whom the bottom interface helps. It’s a puzzle, an art object, …
  10. I love LLMs, I hate hype — https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48883343
  11. WhatCable: Know what your USB-C cable can really do — Know what your USB-C cable can really do. WhatCable explains cable speed, charging limits, e-marker data, and connected devices in plain English. No more guessing why a cable charges slow or refuses to drive your display.
  12. Cyberpunk Comics, Manga and Graphic Novels — Chronological, from 1975 on
  13. Pressed for time? 20 brilliant books you can read in a day | Fiction | The Guardian
  14. Physics — Susan Rigetti
  15. Ghost Font: The Anti-AI Font Only Humans Can Read — An anti-AI font that can be read by humans but not leading AI models. Type your text below, then download and share the video clip containing your message.
  16. The Descent — What Happened to the Frontend While You Weren't Watching — The last time you wrote one it was a and an FTP upload — spare twenty minutes and get up to speed on everything the web did while you looked away.
  17. ICE are heavily armed killers. They’re also huge losers | The Verge — via The Verge https://ift.tt/APqXj2p
  18. LARP — Revenue infrastructure for serious founders — LARP pairs you with another founder. You send them $10,000. They send you $10,000 right back. You've both now booked $10,000 in revenue. The books balance. Cash never moves. Everybody's a rocketship.
  19. densha — study Japanese in a living voxel Tokyo — Yamanote Line 電車densha Ride the loop.
  20. Ant, a lightweight JavaScript runtime — Ant is a lightweight, high-performance JavaScript runtime built from scratch. It runs real npm packages, starts instantly and ships as a portable 9 MB binary. No 50 MB download, no toolchain to set up. The engine, Ant Silver, is hand-built. It is not a wrapper around V8, JSC, or Spi…
  21. GitHub - clawkwork/clawk: Disposable, network-restricted Linux VMs for AI coding agents · GitHub
  22. floodtide/dom-docx: Convert semantic HTML fragments to native, editable Word documents (OOXML) — Convert semantic HTML fragments to native, editable Word documents (OOXML)
  23. AI 2040: Plan A — AI companies are racing to build AIs that are smarter than humans in every way. In AI 2027, we predicted that this would result in either extinction or irreversible concentration of power.1 Plan A is our positive vision for what should happen instead. In this scenario, humanity delays the development …
  24. Every Frame Perfect — How imprecise UI animations erode trust in product
  25. Lunacy — Lunatic Fringe for modern macOS — via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/WcnxtZ5
  26. Daring Fireball: Exactly Like Om Malik — via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/A1m6jhg
  27. After 7 years in production, Scarf has reluctantly moved away from Haskell
  28. Tiny Emulators
  29. The Graph That Should Be Front-Page News
  30. Control the ideas, not the code -
  31. Old and new apps, via modern coding agents
  32. Jim's TrueType QR Code Font — This is a real TrueType/OpenType font that turns bracketed text into QR codes during text shaping. There is no separate image generation or preprocessing step: type text like [hello], apply the font, and the font's built-in OpenType rules render the QR code.
  33. My Thoughts on the Bun Rust Rewrite - Andrew Kelley
  34. exercises-dataset — A comprehensive dataset of 433 fitness exercises. Each entry includes name, category, target muscle group, equipment, instructions, thumbnail image, and animation video.
  35. AI in science research boosts speed, but limits scope • IEEE Spectrum — Elie Dolgin: AI is turning scientists into publishing machines—and quietly funneling them into the same crowded corners of research. That’s the conclusion of an analysis of more than 40 million academic papers, which found that scientists who use AI t…
  36. The AI Picbreeder Experiment: In Search of Automatic Open-Endedness
  37. The social physics of conversation: Communication patterns matter | Andi Roberts – Executive Coach | Leadership Trainer | Facilitator — When organizing a big meeting or another kind of collaborative event, leave lots of space and opportunities for side conversations -- research shows that is one of the biggest factors in pro…
  38. Billion Dollar PDFs
  39. The tech of ‘Terminator 2’ – an oral history – vfxblog — Ever since James Cameron’s Terminator 2: Judgment Day was released in 1991, I’ve been reading about the many ways ILM, led by visual effects supervisor Dennis Muren, had to basically invent new ways to realise the CG ‘liquid metal’ T-1000 shots in that film, of which t…
  40. withmarbleapp/os-taxonomy
  41. LLMs can't program  ❤︎  samir : coffee → nonsense
  42. From Prompt Engineering to Intent Engineering | Daniel Miessler
  43. Your Browser Does Math Differently on Every OS, and Anti-Bot Systems Read the Bits · scrapfly.dev — Math.tanh, every CSS trig function, and the Web Audio compressor all route through the host libm, so the rounding of a cosine betrays the OS a browser actually …
  44. Theo - t3.gg on X: "gpt-5.6-sol without hitting limits" / X
  45. Shipping up in Boston - angel_deux - Heated Rivalry (TV) [Archive of Our Own] — Shane is traded to Boston during the hookup era, and his attempts to act normal and professional around Rozanov are a little too successful: fans start shipping him with Marleau, instead.
  46. This free Mac app reveals the truth about your mystery USB-C cables | The Verge — via The Verge https://ift.tt/jsk0KgS
  47. ilograph interactive diagrams — Interesting take on interactive diagrams that collapse or fold certain parts to give focus to different perspectives, and to make efficient use of screen space.
  48. GitHub - cosmtrek/mindwalk: A visualization tool that replays coding-agent sessions on a 3D map of your codebase. · GitHub
  49. Cuelume — interaction sounds for the web
  50. A WWDC 27 Update on Building a Mac-assed App with SwiftUI - Paulo's Blog — via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/WcnxtZ5
  51. AI 2040 and the Cult of Intelligence | the singularity is nearer
  52. JustVugg/colibri: Run GLM-5.2 (744B MoE) on a 25GB-RAM consumer machine — pure C, zero deps, experts streamed from disk. Tiny engine, immense model. 🐦
  53. The Vintage Beauty Of Soviet Control Rooms – Design You Trust — Just for the pleasure, a selection of vintage control rooms dating back to the Soviet era! A beautiful collection of control rooms filled with large buttons and analog dials, long before the democratization of computers and screens.
  54. DevOpsとは何だったのか - Gosuke Miyashita
  55. This Buried Apple Feature Turns an iPhone Into the Perfect Kids’ Dumb Phone | WIRED
  56. The git history command deserves more attention - Lalit Maganti — Found via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48901010
  57. Everything a child learns
  58. Berlin Review · Un-Doing Philosophy
  59. Collections: The Late Bronze Age Collapse, A Very Brief Introduction
  60. https://x.com/jamonholmgren/status/2076001786700394610
  61. networkQuality - a command line utility on Mac for .... testing network quality. — Useful if you're still running ping like a caveman (/me raises hand) to see if the network is actually up.
  62. RISCBoy is an open-source portable games console, designed from scratch | Hacker News
  63. yusukebe/ax: The AI-era curl — The AI-era curl. Contribute to yusukebe/ax development by creating an account on GitHub.
  64. An Agent in 100 Lines of Lisp, or How my Prof was Right - Just 25 Years Early
  65. Farmers Finally Get a John Deere Right to Repair Agreement That Doesn’t Screw Them Over | 404 Media — Jason Koebler, 07/09/2026 The FTC's settlement with John Deere actually has teeth, unlike previous settlements that largely maintained the status quo.
  66. The New York Times enabled the Gaza genocide and lost its legitimacy in the process – Mondoweiss — > Editor’s Note: Professor Elliott Colla sent the following email to the New York Times canceling his subscription on July 6, 2026 and shared it with Mondoweiss > in case you’re wondering who I am, I am a Middle East expert …
  67. In defense of not understanding your codebase — It's a different, but still OK way to work to have a huge codebase that you understand locally but no one understands completely. It's necessary on big enough codebases.
  68. Tropical Whipped Lemonade Recipe (Just 3 Ingredients) | The Kitchn
  69. Sam Altman on X: "homeboy you're the one sellling public market investors on short-term space datacenters" / X — via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/WcnxtZ5
  70. Your documentation is still in your Mum's filing cabinet
  72. www.canopii.dev — Comments
  73. The Pollution Being Churned Out by AI Data Centers Is So Severe That It's Almost Incomprehensible — The extent of the pollution being put out by thousands of data centers is shocking. Some developers are exploiting regulatory loopholes.
  74. La narrativa generata dall’AI è riconoscibile dalla sua struttura prevedibile — Uno studio di University of Maryland e Google DeepMind mostra che la fiction scritta da AI è spesso distinguibile non solo da tic stilistici, ma da caratteristiche narrative: trame lineari, temi sovraspiegati, moralismi espliciti, poca ambiguità …
  75. 🅰️ Unconventional Graphic Design & text art tools
  76. The End of Reading Is Here — In 2024, in a national test, just 35 percent of high-school seniors were “proficient” at skills such as analyzing complex fictional themes and evaluating the effectiveness of an author’s argument. About the same number scored below “basic,” meaning that they may struggle to draw conclusions from …
  77. I taught ChatGPT and Gemini one thing Claude does by default, and the responses are better than ever
  78. Quarter-End Close - jtimu - Heated Rivalry (TV) [Archive of Our Own] — Shane Hollander is drafted 1OA to Boston. Ten years later, his accountant is kind of a dick.
  79. Elon Musk sues Apple and OpenAI, revealing his panic over OpenAI dominance • Ars Technica — Ashley Belanger: After a public outburst over Grok's App Store rankings, on Monday, Elon Musk followed through on his threat to sue Apple and OpenAI. At first, Musk appeared fixated on ChatGPT consistently topping Apple's "Must Hav…
  80. Modern Decor May Be Straining People's Brains
  81. rbt_lvr - all the choices in the world - Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir [Archive of Our Own] — “Adrian will understand,” Rocky says confidently. “Will be excited to meet alien. Will be excited to meet person who brought me home.” “Yeah, and I'm excited to meet them too, but after that!” Is this a …
  82. John Lanchester · Squillions: Where’s all the cash? — John Lanchester · Squillions: Where’s all the cash? via Instapaper https://ift.tt/IUoYZJv
  83. Introducing Plan A - by Scott Alexander - Astral Codex Ten
  84. What Slate Auto’s $25,000 Electric Pickup Truck Is Like in Person - The New York Times
  85. Inventions and Ideas from Science Fiction Books and Movies at Technovelgy.com
  86. If you ask Americans, Norway's Erling Haaland is already a winner — America loves Erling Haaland, and the feeling is mutual. The Norwegian striker is everywhere these days. Yes, he's in the running for top scorer at the Fifa World Cup alongside Messi and Mbappe. Yes, he's one of the world's highest-paid athletes and was the…
  87. ColorSym • Symbols That Speak Color
  88. Brown Professor Suspects Most of His Class Used AI to Cheat
  89. Postgres Is Enough — A curated directory of PostgreSQL extensions and tools. Replace Redis, Elasticsearch, Kafka, and MongoDB with one database you already know.
  90. Faster solutions, lower test scores: How AI is eroding math skills — "Researchers detect ‘cognitive surrender’ in answering word problems" [via: https://2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/end-over-end/ ]
  91. GitHub - marcelpanse/youtube-guitar-tab-parser: CLI that turns a YouTube guitar-lesson video into a PDF of the guitar tab. · GitHub — CLI that turns a YouTube guitar-lesson video into a PDF of the guitar tab. - marcelpanse/youtube-guitar-tab-parser
  92. What Remains of Dr. Ryland Grace [aligningplanets] — The capsule touches down on Erid about a decade and a half after I do. There's a message inside translated into fourteen different languages. Y'know, just in case I've taught myself - and then the Eridians - Afrikaans. Hey, it reads. Can we have our ball back, please?
  93. Zig Creator Calls Spade a Spade, Anthropic Blows Smoke — "Anthropic needs people to believe that all problems can be solved by adding more agents, even the problems that agents introduce. Instead of better tools we buy tokens. Instead of learning skills we paste a SKILL.md. Instead of reading about The Psychology of Software…
  94. Relax with Coax — > Coax turns your home media server into a linear cable channel guide. > It scans your library, then automatically generates a schedule full of channels that you can flip through at your leisure.
  95. Aiyta - The Rose Landry Files - Multifandom [Archive of Our Own] — Rose Landry’s iCloud account is compromised in a series of targeted hacks and her locked folders become a topic of intense discussion. And wait, is that Ilya Rozanov’s dog? (Words: 17,124)
  96. protobuf-py: Protobuf for Python, without compromises · Buf — We're announcing protobuf-py, a complete, 100% conformant Protobuf runtime for Python that feels like Python and matches the performance of Google's C engine on real workloads.
  97. Old and new apps, via modern coding agents by Terry Tao | Hacker News
  98. Threads — via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/WcnxtZ5
  99. In defense of not understanding your codebase | Lobsters — My chat (on lobsters) about reasoning locally in a codebase.
  100. Shortverse | The Universe of Short Film

The Next Web

  1. Paramount says it will take the Warner Bros merger to the Supreme Court if states block the deal
  2. Nintendo is pulling a console from Europe over battery rules. Meta’s glasses just got exempted from them.
  3. Meta sued by 26 employees who say its AI systems targeted workers on medical leave for layoffs
  4. IBM shares plunge after preliminary Q2 revenue falls short of estimates despite surging AI bookings
  5. Upwind links compromise of multiple AsyncAPI npm packages to coordinated attack on software release process
  6. Kalshi builds a forward curve for computing power as exchanges race to turn GPUs into a tradable commodity
  7. Dimon says AI already eliminated 30 to 40 percent of jobs in some JPMorgan divisions
  8. India’s Udaan secures $160 million in new funding as it races to fix its balance sheet before an IPO
  9. Demis Hassabis wants a Wall Street-style referee for AI, with the power to hit pause
  10. Britain’s flagship AI data centre can’t get the power to switch on

Smashing Magazine

  1. From Kickoff To First Concept: How To Turn Brand Strategy Into Visual Direction
  2. Designing For Distressed Users: Why Mental Health Apps Shouldn’t Follow Every UI Fashion
  3. Meet Kirki: WordPress’s First Visual Builder With An Infinite Canvas
  4. Users Don’t Need More Tools: They Need Seamless Integrations
  5. Matching AI Modality To User Intent: Designing The Right Interface
  6. Why Accessibility Is An Operational Capability, Not A Feature
  7. Snapshots Of Summer (July 2026 Wallpapers Edition)
  8. Designing With Uncertainty: How AI Supercharges Probabilistic Thinking
  9. The Impact Of Humanoid Robots On Humanity
  10. The Benefits Of Cognitive Inclusion In UX Research
  11. How To Make Your Design System AI-Ready
  12. June Is For Exploring (2026 Wallpapers Edition)
  13. Algorithmic Theming Engines: Building Self-Correcting Color Systems With `contrast-color()`
  14. Your Prototype Is Not Being Honest With Your Users (And Here’s How To Fix It)
  15. Four Levels Of Customer Understanding
  16. Advanced Tree Counting: Mathematical Layouts With `sibling-index()` And `sibling-count()`
  17. Ten Data-Backed Truths Of User Experience ROI
  18. Practical Interface Patterns For AI Transparency (Part 2)
  19. The Architecture Of Local-First Web Development
  20. Rethinking The Experience Of System Tools
  21. Designing Stable Interfaces For Streaming Content
  22. A Fresh View In May (2026 Wallpapers Edition)
  23. The “Bug-Free” Workforce: How AI Efficiency Is Subtly Disrupting The Interactions That Build Strong Teams
  24. The UX Designer’s Nightmare: When “Production-Ready” Becomes A Design Deliverable
  25. Session Timeouts: The Overlooked Accessibility Barrier In Authentication Design
  26. How To Improve UX In Legacy Systems
  27. Identifying Necessary Transparency Moments In Agentic AI (Part 1)
  28. A Practical Guide To Design Principles
  29. The Joy Of A Fresh Beginning (April 2026 Wallpapers Edition)
  30. The Site-Search Paradox: Why The Big Box Always Wins
  31. Testing Font Scaling For Accessibility With Figma Variables
  32. Modal vs. Separate Page: UX Decision Tree
  33. Anime vs. Marvel/DC: Designing Digital Products With Emotion In Flow
  34. Moving From Moment.js To The JS Temporal API
  35. Beyond `border-radius`: What The CSS `corner-shape` Property Unlocks For Everyday UI
  36. Building Dynamic Forms In React And Next.js
  37. Persuasive Design: Ten Years Later
  38. Human Strategy In An AI-Accelerated Workflow
  39. Now Shipping: Accessible UX Research, A New Smashing Book By Michele Williams
  40. Getting Started With The Popover API

Wirecutter

  1. How to Clean a Water Filter Pitcher or Dispenser
  2. The Best 24-Inch Monitor
  3. Find Your Perfect Shampoo
  4. The Best Robot Lawn Mowers
  5. The Best Ice Cream Scoop
  6. The Best Digital Notebooks
  7. The Best Wine Coolers and Fridges
  8. The Best Dryers
  9. The Best Wet Mop
  10. The Best Vacuum for Hardwood Floors

Sweethome

  1. The Best Robot Lawn Mowers
  2. The Best Gardening Gloves
  3. The Best Smokeless Fire Pits
  4. The Best Garden Hose and Hose Reel
  5. The Best Lawn Mower
  6. The Best Wet Mop
  7. The Best Dryers
  8. 12 Actually Useful Things You’ll Be Glad You Have in Your Junk Drawer
  9. The Best Toilet Plunger
  10. I Could Buy Cheaper Toilet Paper. But This TP Is Convenient, Cute, and Better for the Planet.

Hacker News

  1. Measuring Input Latency on Linux: X11 vs. Wayland, VRR, and DXVK
  2. The Tower Keeps Rising
  3. Bonsai 27B (1-bit LLM): The First 27B-Class Model to Run on a Phone
  4. Your 'app' could have been a webpage (so I fixed it for you)
  5. How to stop Claude from saying load-bearing
  6. The largest available Minecraft world, totalling 15 TB
  7. The zero-cost fallacy: open-source software in the agentic era
  8. A tiny cell that broke a big rule of biology
  9. Show HN: Opening lines of famous literary works
  10. Launch HN: Agnost AI (YC S26) – Extract user feedback from agent conversations
  11. Kontigo (YC S24) Is Hiring (Head of Security)
  12. Beautiful Type Erasure with C++26 Reflection
  13. Superoptimizer – A Look at the Smallest Program
  14. Punch yourself in the face with reality
  15. Paxos Made Simple (2001)[pdf]
  16. How the FSF sysadmins block botnets with reaction
  17. European "age verification" "app" forcing everyone to use Android or iOS
  18. Are we offloading too much of our thinking to AI?
  19. The Agentic Loop: Three loops in a trench coat
  20. Show HN: I RL-trained an agent that trains models with RL (for –$1.3k)
  21. Australian energy retailers must provide three hours of free daytime electricity
  22. Building a High-Performance C++ Backtesting Framework
  23. A metallurgist's doubts about self-replicating probes
  24. Alternative(s) to run CUDA on non-Nvidia hardware
  25. Our Amish Language
  26. No Spanish reading crisis?
  27. S&P downgrades Oracle to BBB – only one notch above junk level
  28. Indian scientists produce most detailed 3D atlas of the human brainstem
  29. Differentiable Fortran with LFortran and Enzyme
  30. Satellite Tracker – Live Map of Starlink and 30k Satellites

Ars Technica

  1. US military sent explosive drone boats into combat for the first time
  2. These painted e-tattoos could be the future of wearable biosensors
  3. Google revamps image search for its 25th anniversary with more images and more AI
  4. New York bans data center construction for a year, rattling AI industry
  5. Probe into explosive diarrheal cases points to Taco Bell and bad lettuce
  6. Boomers, not Gen Z, are the generation cutting back most on alcohol
  7. SpaceX is gearing up for Starship's 13th test flight later this week
  8. US continues to shun Ebola-infected citizens; second American sent to Germany
  9. The US government warns that Russia state hackers are coming after your router
  10. Ukrainian drone strikes forced Russia to stop shipping in vital sea corridor
  11. California creates $3,500 rebate for new electric vehicle buyers
  12. Apple sues OpenAI after ex-engineer allegedly used bug to steal trade secrets
  13. Solution to Feynman's reverse sprinkler puzzle also applies to "silly sprinklers"
  14. States sue to block Paramount/WBD merger that was approved by Trump admin
  15. Tom Cruise is utterly transformed in Digger trailer
  16. Apple and Samsung benefit as memory shortage pushes smartphone shipments to historic lows
  17. Colorado will decide whether a "right to natural gas" is added to state constitution
  18. Hackers quickly prove that Neo Geo Doom ports are not "impossible"
  19. A "disaster waiting to happen"? Industry officials worry about Crew Dragon availability.
  20. Now, defenders are embracing the prompt injection, too

Digg

New Scientist

  1. Can everyone live a ‘good life’ without destroying the planet?
  2. Hard but lightweight ‘bio-metal’ material discovered in sea worm jaws
  3. Why praying for rain appears to work – but only in some places
  4. The US-China AI arms race has taken an unexpected turn
  5. Do we owe our existence to weird ‘virtual’ particles?
  6. Maya mathematician’s name decoded alongside astronomical formula
  7. How humans evolved to be twice as big as our ancestors
  8. Sugar molecules found in interstellar space for the first time
  9. Alzheimer’s, stroke, depression: The preventative power of sauna
  10. Shifts in the jet stream are behind Europe’s long heatwaves

Slashdot

  1. Linux Foundation's Latest Foray Is To Standardize Internet-Native Payments For AI Agents
  2. OnePlus Is Reportedly Shutting Down In the US, Europe
  3. IBM Stock Collapses After a Grave Warning About AI
  4. New York Becomes First State To Impose Data Center Moratorium
  5. StubHub, CEO Hit With 'Deceptive Practices' Class Action Over Mass Scalping
  6. Indian Scientists Produce Most Detailed 3D Atlas of the Human Brainstem
  7. Scientists Find Sugar Deep In Our Galaxy
  8. Over 200 Economists Say 'We Must Act Now' On AI's Economic Impact
  9. Microsoft Promises To Fix Search With Major Windows 11 Overhaul
  10. US Government Warns That Russia State Hackers Are Coming After Your Router
  11. German Firm Files For Insolvency After Cybercriminals Shut Down Production For 6 Weeks
  12. States Sue to Block Paramount-Warner Bros Merger, Defying DOJ
  13. Apple Reportedly Agreed to Intel Chips To Avoid White House Tariffs
  14. Cloudflare Precursor Watches Your Mouse and Keyboard To Decide If You Are Human
  15. Social Media Limits Are Coming For Teens Across Europe

BoingBoing

  1. Man, yeeted by a bison, is grateful for its mercy
  2. Tom Cruise plays an eccentric billionaire in a doomsday short film
  3. Scrandle turns stadium food into a daily taste test
  4. A YouTuber gave Skyrim a full high-speed rail network
  5. The smartest business decision you can make? Optimizing your operating system for 92% off
  6. The only curse on Venice's cursed island is us
  7. A paranoid dictator built 750,000 bunkers no one ever used except for sex
  8. Houses built for one purpose: to make the neighbors miserable
  9. The billion-dimensional map hidden inside every AI model
  10. Smearing yogurt on your windows can cool a house by 6 degrees
  11. Chipotle Mexican Grill actually opening a restaurant in Mexico
  12. This refurbished Dell Latitude laptop is just $250 with Windows 11 Pro
  13. A tick bite can make you allergic to meat, and cases are climbing
  14. The hoaxter who claimed he could fit a whole movie in one kilobyte
  15. She fell out of the sky on Christmas Eve. The jungle was only the beginning.
  16. Sherpa left for dead on Everest tells his story
  17. CDs are back because streaming made music feel disposable
  18. A sugar used in fake tan was found floating in deep space
  19. The humble bicycle is still hiding a physics mystery
  20. In 1907, a sailor watched the North Atlantic mysteriously change color forever
  21. Florence hospital staff are used to tourists collapsing from beauty
  22. Erika Kirk rallies her "happy warriors" against trans people, Muslims, and "whoever else"
  23. Tourist yeeted by Yellowstone bison not at fault, for once
  24. Letting video game NPCs place Amazon orders for you is not a good idea
  25. Mind reading a mind reader is a dangerous game
  26. Masked ICE agents slam an already restrained man into rocks, then threaten the cameras
  27. David Tennant shares his Criterion Closet picks
  28. Turn your Plex library into live cable with Bunny Ears TV
  29. Help! What the heck is this, and why does it look just like a cursed, melted Donald Trump?
  30. Giant participation trophy appears on the National Mall for Trump's Iran War "effort"

Core77

  1. Decibel's Circular-Material 3D Printed Chair
  2. Furniture for Committed Book Lovers
  3. Designs for Modular Homes that Disappear Into the Ground During Natural Disasters
  4. A Candle-Powered Sculptural Light
  5. How to Unlock and Start Your Car When the Key Fob Battery is Dead
  6. Rethinking Cheapie Inline Lamp Switches
  7. Core77 Weekly Roundup (7-6-26 to 7-10-26)
  8. From Germany, Double-Swing Screen Doors
  9. A Wearable Hands-Free Action Camera with Live Previewing
  10. Asteria: A Modern, Minimalist Take on the Chandelier
  11. Lihit Lab's Folding Clipboard
  12. Kimchi-Specific Design for Food Storage Container Allows for Manual Off-Gassing
  13. Industrial Designer Guillaume Bloget's Sleek Aluminum and Cork Kayak
  14. The TiNexus Compact Ratchet Driver Kit
  15. The Radical Tetra Folding Bicycle

CNET

  1. The Week's Best Deals Are Here, and These Are the Ones CNET Experts Would Actually Buy
  2. France vs. Spain: Stream FIFA World Cup 2026 Semifinal Match Live for Free
  3. Google Faces Another Lawsuit Alleging Its AI Violated Copyrights
  4. Google Launches Two New Features to Celebrate 25 Years of Google Images
  5. Do Walking Pads Do Anything for Your Fitness? I Tested 2 to Find Out
  6. How to Disable AI on Your Google Account for Good
  7. Samsung Galaxy Unpacked: Prepare for Weird Foldables, AI Glasses and More on July 22
  8. Our 5 Favorite Snack Box Subscriptions That Outdo Your Local Grocery Aisle
  9. Google Pixel 11 Could Cost More but Come With More Storage, Says Leak
  10. Spotify Now Lets You Ask AI Questions in Its Mobile App
  11. My Complete DIY Smart Lock Installation Guide
  12. Apple TV: 30 of the Best Shows You're Probably Not Watching
  13. Best AT&T Plans: How to Choose and Which Ones to Pick in 2026
  14. My Favorite College Dorm Smart Devices That I've Tested
  15. The Best Robotic Pool Vacuums for 2026: We Tested 21 Robot Cleaners
  16. This Origami-Inspired Coffee Maker Is the Best Camping Brewer. Period
  17. England vs. India: How to Watch ODI Cricket Series Live From Anywhere
  18. I'm a Big E Ink Fan, So This New Detachable-Screen Phone From Hisense Intrigues Me
  19. Space Mirror: The FCC Just Approved a Sun-Reflecting Satellite, and Astronomers Are Unimpressed
  20. Download the iOS 27 Public Beta in 4 Quick Steps
  21. T-Mobile Customers on Old Plans Are Being Pushed to New Ones Starting This Week
  22. Waze Gets a 'Less Chatty' Update, Personalized Routes
  23. Is Your Amazon Prime Subscription Worth It? We Ran the Numbers
  24. The First iOS 27 Public Beta Is Out, and Here Are Some of the Features It Brings to Your iPhone
  25. Smartphone Shipments Crash to 13-Year Low Due to RAMageddon

Reddit

The Verge

  1. SpaceXAI’s Grok programming tool was uploading its users’ entire codebase to cloud storage
  2. Philips Hue’s budget-friendly Essential starter kit has hit a new low price
  3. Plex problems prevented users from streaming movies and shows
  4. Nintendo’s Switch 2 bundle that includes a game is $50 off
  5. Meta accused of using biased AI targeting for mass layoffs
  6. Boston Dynamics tries using ‘robot dogs’ for deliveries
  7. Sony delays its new PS5 fight stick
  8. Nomad’s high-end phone accessories are up to 30 percent off
  9. The OLED Xbox Ally X20 is so good, Asus will sell it solo
  10. The Google Images homepage will recommend photos even before you search

Wired

  1. How To Watch the 2026 FIFA World Cup Semifinals: France vs Spain
  2. YouTube and X Have Become ‘Gateways’ to Nudify Apps
  3. New York Governor Signs First Statewide Data Center Moratorium
  4. Plex Keeps Getting Worse. Is Jellyfin a Decent Replacement?
  5. Best RGB TVs (2026): My Picks After Testing the Hottest TVs
  6. 9 Tips to Get More Out of Google Chat
  7. Oura Ring 5 Review: Still the Smart Ring to Beat
  8. This German Man Is on a Quest to Cut the Perfect Slice of Bread
  9. This Luddite Puppet Hopes You’re Not Reading This on Your Smartphone
  10. The Chatbot That Foretold Why People Share Secrets With ChatGPT
  11. Sotheby’s Big T. Rex Auction Raises Concerns Hype and Wealth Are Upending Science
  12. DOGE Used AI for Housing Policy. The Government Won’t Say How
  13. The US Approves Launch of Mirror Satellite That Can Reflect Sunlight and Illuminate the Earth at Night
  14. Hotels.com Coupon Codes for July 2026
  15. Bose Promo Code: 40% Off for July 2026
  16. B&H Photo Promo Codes and Deals This July 2026
  17. OnePlus Promo Codes: 30% Off July 2026
  18. Peacock Promo Codes: 40% Off July 2026
  19. Nike Promo Codes and Discounts: 30% for July 2026
  20. Dyson Promo Codes: 25% Off in July 2026

LifeHacker

  1. How to Join the Waitlist to Try the New Siri AI
  2. The Easiest Ways to Add up the Weight on a Barbell
  3. 10 Shows Like 'I Will Find You' You Should Watch Next
  4. Google Images Is Celebrating Turning 25 With Two New Features, and One of Them Is Actually Pretty Useful
  5. Microsoft Is Finally Fixing Windows Search
  6. 'Claude Reflect' Is Like Spotify Wrapped for Your AI Chat History
  7. Disable These Gboard Settings to Protect Your Privacy
  8. The Out-of-Touch Adults' Guide to Kid Culture: Why Ditto AI Might Be the New Tinder
  9. Lifehacker Deals Live Blog: The Best Tech Sales, All in One Place
  10. How to Install the New macOS 27 Beta
  11. You Can Install the iOS 27 Public Beta Now, but You Probably Shouldn't
  12. One of Asus’ Best 4K OLED Gaming Monitors Is Back to Its Lowest Price Yet
  13. Garmin's Most Basic GPS Running Watch Is $70 Off Right Now
  14. These Bose Ultra Open Earbuds Are $100 Off Right Now
  15. The Best Amazfit Watches for Every Kind of Person
  16. Here's How Clear Whey Powder Compares to the Regular Kind
  17. This Free Mac App Can Explain Why Your USB-C Cable Is Charging So Slowly
  18. These Five New Waze Features Are Rolling Out Right Now
  19. Your iPhone Is Hiding a Powerful Document Scanner
  20. This M1 iPad Pro Is Still One of the Best Tablets for Creators on a Budget
  21. This Self-Emptying Shark Robot Vacuum With LiDAR Mapping Is on Sale for Just $135 Right Now
  22. How to Keep Android Backups From Filling Up Your Google Drive Storage
  23. 10 Hacks Every Google Home User Should Know
  24. Three Things I Already Love About the New Ultrahuman Ring Pro
  25. I’m a Deals Writer, and These Are My Top 10 Tech Deals This Week
  26. The Bose QuietComfort Ultra Headphones Are $80 Off Right Now
  27. This T-Mobile Deal Gets You a Free Galaxy S26
  28. These Bass-Heavy Skullcandy Headphones Are 52% Off Right Now
  29. These 10 Apps Let You Watch YouTube Without Ads
  30. This Dialogue-Enhancing Sony Dolby Atmos Soundbar Is $250 Off Right Now
  31. This Self-Cleaning iRobot Roomba Is 50% Off Right Now
  32. How to Use AI Browsers Without Getting Hacked
  33. Sony's Pricey 1000X 'Collexion' Headphones Just Got Their First Discount
  34. Should You Still Work Out If You Didn't Get a Good Night's Sleep?
  35. 10 'Preview' Hacks Every Apple User Should Know
  36. Beeswax Is a Wordle-Like Game for Anyone Who Misses Spelling Bees
  37. Google Just Added This Previously iOS-Exclusive Feature to Chrome for Android
  38. The GoPro Max2 Is $200 Off Right Now
  39. This Quick Fix Takes Care of Your iPhone Screen's Brightness Bug
  40. Here's How to Actually 'Regulate' Your Nervous System
  41. 10 New Features Coming to Apple Messages in iOS 27
  42. I Tried ChatGPT's Improved Voice Mode, and It's More Natural Than Ever
  43. This Samsung Gaming Monitor With Adjustable Stand Is $100 Off Right Now
  44. This Compact Anker Portable Power Station Is 50% Off Right Now
  45. This Massive Data Breach Compromised Nearly 7 Million Driver's Licenses
  46. The Best Sales on Headphones and Earbuds Right Now
  47. This Browser Extension Hides 'Shady' Items on Amazon
  48. The Premium Sonos Ace Headphones Are $120 Off Right Now
  49. DuckDuckGo Can Now Block Ads on YouTube
  50. 10 Shows Like 'Off Campus' You Should Watch Next
  51. Three Ways to Get Used to Exercising in the Heat
  52. The Best Books, Movies, Video Games, and Podcasts to Check Out After Watching ‘Mad Men’
  53. Meta Just Patched a Major Privacy Flaw With Its Smart Glasses
  54. Six Ways iOS 27 Is Making AirPods Easier to Use on iPhone
  55. Meta Now Lets Anyone Generate AI Images With Your Instagram Posts, but You Can Stop It
  56. This Job Interview Scam Is a Ploy to Steal Your Google Credentials
  57. This Massive 85-Inch Toshiba Mini-LED TV Is 30% Off Right Now
  58. This Complete Philips Smart Door Lock Bundle Is 40% Off Right Now
  59. Here's What's New With iOS 27 Beta 3
  60. 5 Hacks Every Suunto Run User Should Know
  61. I Love My CanvasTV, and It's up to 44% Off Right Now
  62. This Massive Hisense U7 QLED TV Is 43% Off, Its Lowest Price Ever
  63. This Samsung Soundbar and Subwoofer Combo Is $80 Off Right Now
  64. Why Your Hands Swell When You Run or Walk, and What to Do About It
  65. Now That Sony Is Ending Physical Media, Is It Possible to Make Your Own PlayStation Discs?
  66. Lifehacker's Big Guessing Game Is in Its Second Round
  67. You Only Have One Real Choice Now That Samsung Messages Is Officially Dead
  68. 10 Shows Like the Live-Action 'One Piece' You Should Watch Next
  69. These Milwaukee Tools Are up to 55% Off Right Now at Home Depot
  70. These YouTube TV Subscribers Are Eligible for a Payout From This Disney Settlement
  71. This 32-Inch Roku TV Is Under $100 Right Now
  72. This Hisense 55-Inch Mini-LED TV Is 38% Off Right Now
  73. Which Is the Better Watch Display: MIP vs. AMOLED
  74. Amazon Prime Members Can Get Two Free E-Books in July
  75. Five Hacks Every Garmin Forerunner 970 User Should Know
  76. TCL's More Affordable Take on 'The Frame' TV Is Nearly $600 Off Right Now
  77. This Three-in-One Anker Charger Is $50 Off Right Now
  78. This Midrange Samsung Galaxy Phone Just Hit Its Lowest Price Ever
  79. The Best Private Messaging App Isn’t WhatsApp or Signal, It’s Delta Chat
  80. I Compared Siri AI to Gemini on iPhone and There's a Clear Winner
  81. 10 Shows Like 'Cape Fear' You Should Watch Next
  82. The Best Books, Movies, Video Games, and Podcasts to Check Out After Watching 'Adventure Time'
  83. The Most Versatile DeWalt Cordless Tool I Use Is 55% Off for Lowe’s 4th of July Sale
  84. These Cordless Power Tools Are up to 55% Off for Home Depot’s 4th of July Sale
  85. 10 Hacks Every MacBook Pro User Should Know
  86. 10 Hacks Every Fitbit Air User Should Know
  87. The Top 10 TV Series Right Now, According to Streaming Data
  88. Don't Get Charged for a Subscription After Preordering 'Grand Theft Auto VI'
  89. 5 Hacks Every Amazfit User Should Know
  90. Apple Is Changing How It Issues Security Updates Due to Threats From AI
  91. Opera Just Rolled Out a Way to Block ClickFix Attacks in Its Browser
  92. I Tried Proton’s Privacy-First AI Chatbot to See If It’s Better Than ChatGPT
  93. The Top 10 Movies Right Now, According to Streaming Data
  94. This Complete Samsung Soundbar System Is $400 Off Right Now
  95. These Bose QuietComfort Headphones Are at Their Lowest Price Ever Right Now
  96. 10 Hacks Every Apple Home User Should Know
  97. Nine Subtle Signs Your Accounts or Devices Have Been Hacked
  98. 5 Hacks Every Shokz User Should Know
  99. Meta Just Added a Paywall for One of Its Best Smart Glasses Features
  100. 10 Hacks Every MacBook Air User Should Know

The Onion

The Register

TechMeme

  1. PrismML launches Bonsai 27B, a model based on Qwen3.6 27B that it says runs natively on Apple devices via MLX; its CEO says Apple is evaluating the tech (MacKenzie Sigalos/CNBC)
  2. A look at Founders Fund-backed State Affairs, which raised $70M and uses AI trained on reporting by its 76 staffers to power a Bloomberg Terminal-like product (Washington Post)
  3. TerraFirma, a construction tech company founded by two former SpaceX engineers to build remote-controlled construction equipment, raised $115M (Samantha Subin/CNBC)
  4. Sources: Uber is in advanced talks to acquire Delivery Hero in a deal valuing the German food-delivery company well above its recent market value of €11.2B (Bloomberg)
  5. Google Images launches a Pinterest-like redesign with a browsable, dynamic gallery of images, and adds a way for users to create AI images in Search (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
  6. The European Commission proposes exempting wearable tech from rules requiring removable batteries, clearing a hurdle for Meta's smart glasses, after US pressure (Politico)
  7. Anthropic announces a new Claude for Teachers initiative, as part of which it will provide K-12 teachers in the US free access to premium Claude features (Zac Hall/9to5Mac)
  8. Sources: data center operator Switch has hired investment banks for a US IPO that could raise up to $10B and value it at $80B, set for as soon as Q4 (Reuters)
  9. Hachette, Elsevier, Cengage Learning, and author Scott Turow sue Google for allegedly using millions of copyrighted books and articles to build AI models (A.J. Katz/The Wrap)
  10. A Trump administration official says a "trivial" number of Nvidia's H200 chips were shipped to China after winning a US license, without offering specifics (Bloomberg)
  11. Chinese startup DFSX launches an AI chip that it claims uses a fully domestic supply chain and is built on a 14nm process, but says it can rival 4nm chips (Wall Street Journal)
  12. Velocity, a stablecoin treasury and settlement platform, raised a $38M Series A led by Dragonfly and FirstMark, bringing its total funding to around $50M (Daniel Kuhn/The Block)
  13. OpenAI strikes a partnership with Kalshi to show FIFA World Cup prediction market data in ChatGPT search results, its first deal with a prediction market (Mike Isaac/New York Times)
  14. Spotify launches Talk to Spotify, letting users create playlists and more via voice, rolling out in beta to Premium users age 18+ in the US, Ireland, and Sweden (Steve Dent/Engadget)
  15. Researcher: SpaceXAI's Grok Build CLI uploaded user repos to a Google Cloud Storage bucket; uploads have now stopped and Musk says prior uploads will be deleted (Connor Jones/The Register)