BBC
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- Iain Watson: Burnham faces crucial choice for chancellor as battle for No 11 continues
- French MPs approve assisted dying law with strict rules after years of argument
- Man arrested over social media post threatening to shoot Farage
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- The Odyssey is a 'colossal piece of cinema', critics say in rave reviews
- Boy, 14, charged with terrorism offence over alleged plan to target mosques
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- Fan has huge £550 tattoo declaring England World Cup winners
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- Headers caused brain disease in 1966 World Cup winner Nobby Stiles, coroner finds
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- BBC News app
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- ICE fatally shoot two men in Maine and Texas
- New camera guidelines for female athletics coverage
- Portmarnock 'pretty close' to hosting first Open outside of UK
- Arsenal forward Trossard joins Besiktas for £15.3m
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- Waerenskjold takes maiden Tour win in fastest stage
- Headers caused Stiles' brain disease, coroner finds
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Engadget
- OpenAI launches a physical keypad for controlling agents
- Apple quietly hid a big change coming for CarPlay with iOS 27
- Apple is reportedly shopping for AI chip companies
- Samsung is making Amazon Music pre-installed bloatware on Galaxy phones
- Valve appears to be discontinuing self-repair parts for the LCD Steam Deck at iFixit
- A hacker accessed Suno source code that reportedly details how the company scraped millions of songs
- The FCC plans to rip up local TV station ownership rules
- Hinge users can now get friends to hype them up on their profiles
- Apple Intelligence finally gets regulatory approval in China
- iOS 27 preview: Long-awaited Siri AI is practical but plain
- What the leaf icon on Google Maps really means (and why it confuses so many users)
- XGIMI Elfin Flip 4K review: An ultra-portable laser projector with sharp video quality
- Spotify is expanding free access to kid-friendly managed accounts
- Samsung's new foldable display technology is harder to damage and resists creases
- Withings' new ultra-premium scale goes on sale today
- Google will allow third-party app stores on Android next week
- Starlink's new V5 home dish is smaller and more energy-efficient
- OpenAI's first device will reportedly be a 'humanlike' rechargeable speaker
- The WGA is also suing to block Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery merger
- Former employees sue over Meta's alleged use of biased AI systems during layoffs
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The Next Web
- Chai Discovery raises $400M at $3.8bn as AI drug discovery moves from promise to deployment
- OnePlus exits the US and Europe. The memory crisis and Apple’s lawsuit made staying untenable.
- South Korea will give all 52 million citizens free AI access, becoming the first G20 nation to do so
- CXMT prices a record $8.5bn Shanghai IPO, valuing China’s memory champion at $85bn
- Reflection signs a $1bn AI compute deal with Nebius, its second big capacity grab in a month
- DeepSeek is preparing an IPO and chasing a $71bn valuation, weeks after its first raise
- ASML plans to build EUV machines 30% faster as AI demand outstrips its production capacity
- Apple is in talks with the startup shrinking a 27B AI model onto an iPhone
- UK proposes a midnight social media curfew for older teens
- Dutch Monumental raises $32m led by Khosla to put more bricklaying robots on site
Smashing Magazine
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- Persuasive Design: Ten Years Later
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- Now Shipping: Accessible UX Research, A New Smashing Book By Michele Williams
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- Inkling: Our Open-Weights Model
- Codex Micro
- Running Gemma 4 26B at 5 tokens/sec on a 13-year-old Xeon with no GPU
- Stripe and Advent have made a joint offer to acquire PayPal – sources
- Collection of Digital Clock Designs
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- Show HN: misa77 - a codec that decodes 2x faster than LZ4 (at better ratios)
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- Launch HN: Coasty (YC S26) – An API for computer-use agents
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- Towards a harness that can do anything
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- Duskers, the scary command line game, is getting a sequel
- What designing computer science cards taught me about graphic design
- The Memory Heist
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- Show HN: Capn-hook for coding agents – don't grep the same mystery twice
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- OpenAI loses trademark dispute at EU court
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Ars Technica
- FCC to repeal 39% TV ownership cap in boost for Trump-friendly news orgs
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- OpenAI's first branded hardware is... a light-up keyboard?
- A most improbable astronaut just went to space
- How hard is it to build orbital data centers, actually?
- Sotheby's big T. rex auction raises concerns hype and wealth are upending science
- Microsoft’s Secure Boot has been broken for a decade and no one noticed until now
- Trump admin puts Americans in Congo on "do-not-board" list, barring return
- Lawsuit claims Meta's layoff decisions were made by AI, not humans
- Probe into explosive diarrheal cases points to Taco Bell and bad lettuce
- US military sent explosive drone boats into combat for the first time
- These painted e-tattoos could be the future of wearable biosensors
- Google revamps image search for its 25th anniversary with more images and more AI
- New York bans data center construction for a year, rattling AI industry
- Boomers, not Gen Z, are the generation cutting back most on alcohol
- SpaceX is gearing up for Starship's 13th test flight later this week
- US continues to shun Ebola-infected citizens; second American sent to Germany
- The US government warns that Russia state hackers are coming after your router
- Ukrainian drone strikes forced Russia to stop shipping in vital sea corridor
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- TwistedDoodles on science podcast demographics
- This week’s new questions
- Can consciousness be quantum? We may now have an answer
- Nicotine pouches may cause receding gums
- We’re finally learning what happens to gifted children in adulthood
- Queen’s powerful smell suppresses rivals in naked mole rat colonies
- Can everyone live a ‘good life’ without destroying the planet?
- Hard but lightweight ‘bio-metal’ material discovered in sea worm jaws
- Why praying for rain appears to work – but only in some places
- The US-China AI arms race has taken an unexpected turn
Slashdot
- Stripe, Advent Offer to Buy PayPal For More Than $53 Billion
- Microsoft Patches a Record 570 Security Flaws
- Astronauts Take First X-Rays In Space
- House Votes For Permanent Daylight Saving Time
- Iran Abused Mobile Networks' Vulnerabilities To Locate US Military In Middle East
- OpenAI's First Device Will Be Moveable, Screenless Speaker Built as AI Companion
- Google Images Gets a Pinterest-Like Redesign Focused On Discovery
- Lawsuit Claims Meta's Layoff Decisions Were Made By AI, Not Humans
- Google DeepMind Calls For US To Spearhead AI Standards Body
- Linux Foundation's Latest Foray Is To Standardize Internet-Native Payments For AI Agents
- OnePlus Is Reportedly Shutting Down In the US, Europe
- IBM Stock Collapses After a Grave Warning About AI
- New York Becomes First State To Impose Data Center Moratorium
- StubHub, CEO Hit With 'Deceptive Practices' Class Action Over Mass Scalping
- Indian Scientists Produce Most Detailed 3D Atlas of the Human Brainstem
BoingBoing
- Tidbyt: a 64-by-32 pixel LED display that you can make your own apps for
- Trailer for Michael Mann's "Manhunter: The Final Cut"
- This $45 Microsoft Visio deal makes diagrams a lot easier
- An airline exec turned a jet around over nuts in a bag
- Nevada governor escaped traffic ticket after telling cop who he was
- The blurry sonar blob tabloids turned into a sunken UFO
- Six of the tsars' jeweled Fabergé eggs have never been found
- The real Backrooms wallpaper texture
- They boiled a toadstool to eat it and tripped for hours instead
- A clever trick to keep loose zip ties from turning into a tangle
- A T. rex skeleton just sold for a record $50.1 million
- Stay connected with this refurbished $112 flip phone
- The human capacity for memory is astounding
- Man, yeeted by a bison, is grateful for its mercy
- Tom Cruise plays an eccentric billionaire in a doomsday short film
- Scrandle turns stadium food into a daily taste test
- A YouTuber gave Skyrim a full high-speed rail network
- The smartest business decision you can make? Optimizing your operating system for 92% off
- The only curse on Venice's cursed island is us
- A paranoid dictator built 750,000 bunkers no one ever used except for sex
- Houses built for one purpose: to make the neighbors miserable
- The billion-dimensional map hidden inside every AI model
- Smearing yogurt on your windows can cool a house by 6 degrees
- Chipotle Mexican Grill actually opening a restaurant in Mexico
- This refurbished Dell Latitude laptop is just $250 with Windows 11 Pro
- A tick bite can make you allergic to meat, and cases are climbing
- The hoaxter who claimed he could fit a whole movie in one kilobyte
- She fell out of the sky on Christmas Eve. The jungle was only the beginning.
- Sherpa left for dead on Everest tells his story
- CDs are back because streaming made music feel disposable
Core77
- A 3D-Printed Chair That Looks Like It's From 1970s Italy
- Re-Thinking the Flower Vase
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- Decibel's Circular-Material 3D Printed Chair
- Furniture for Committed Book Lovers
- Designs for Modular Homes that Disappear Into the Ground During Natural Disasters
- A Candle-Powered Sculptural Light
- How to Unlock and Start Your Car When the Key Fob Battery is Dead
- Rethinking Cheapie Inline Lamp Switches
- Core77 Weekly Roundup (7-6-26 to 7-10-26)
- From Germany, Double-Swing Screen Doors
- A Wearable Hands-Free Action Camera with Live Previewing
- Asteria: A Modern, Minimalist Take on the Chandelier
- Lihit Lab's Folding Clipboard
- Kimchi-Specific Design for Food Storage Container Allows for Manual Off-Gassing
CNET
- 3D-Printed, Customized Contact Lenses Are Possible, and Can Be Made in 20 Minutes
- Millions Could Be Exposed to Dangerous Wildfire Smoke This Week. How to Check Your Air Quality
- Stream 'Stranger Things' Like It's 1983. Netflix Quietly Drops Surprise VHS Edition
- Hands-On With the iOS 27 Public Beta: Just OK
- The Best LED Face Masks That Will Improve Your Skin's Appearance
- The Week's Best Deals Are Here, and These Are the Ones CNET Experts Would Actually Buy
- Apple iPhone 20: What We Know About the Radical Redesign Coming in 2027
- Argentina vs. England: Stream FIFA World Cup 2026 Semifinal Match Live for Free
- Don't Call It Book 4, but the Next Fourth Wing Book Has a Name and Release Date
- You Can Extend Your Phone's Battery With a Few Settings and a Wallpaper Change
- Study Suggests We've Been Measuring Solar Storms All Wrong
- 4 Foods That Prove Cast-Iron Cookware Is Not Indestructible
- FIFA World Cup 2026 Streaming Guide: How to Watch Without Cable
- Stream the World Cup Semifinals for Free With a VPN
- A Recycling Expert Shares 7 Takeout Containers That Don't Belong in the Blue Bin
- 53 of the Best TV Shows on Netflix That Will Keep You Entertained
- Spotify Launches Free Managed Accounts for Kids in the US
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- What to Expect From Galaxy Unpacked 2026 | Tech Today video
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The Verge
- Netflix tries to recapture Stranger Things magic with nostalgic re-release
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- OpenAI finally launches hardware… for Codex
- Daylight saving time is a step closer to becoming permanent in the US
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- The tiniest MMO
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- Home Depot’s viral 12-foot skeleton now talks
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- Lionel Messi’s Final World Cup—and the Death of Early Retirement
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LifeHacker
- Third-Party App Stores Are Finally Coming to Google Play
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TechMeme
- OpenAI employees donated a combined $215K+ to Guardrails Alliance, a super PAC seeking stricter AI rules and opposing Greg Brockman-backed Leading the Future (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)
- OpenAI launches Codex Micro, a $230 desktop keypad built in collaboration with keyboard maker Work Louder, with backlit keys, a rotary knob, and a tiny joystick (Megan Morrone/Axios)
- Sources: ASML has discussed raising prices for its EUV systems with TSMC and plans to charge 10% more for its DUV systems; TSMC is resisting ASML's plans (Qianer Liu/The Information)
- Source: OnePlus will begin to cease operations in the US and Europe as early as this week and Realme will exit China as part of a restructuring by parent Oppo (Bloomberg)
- Hyundai's South Korea auto workers have gone on a partial strike over wages, AI, and the prospect of the company deploying its new humanoid robot in factories (Jiyoung Sohn/Wall Street Journal)
- Sources: Apple is looking for chip companies to buy to boost its AI server chip efforts as it struggles with the performance of its servers running on M2 Ultra (The Information)
- Spectro Cloud, an AI infrastucture company helping manage token costs, raised a $100M Series D from AMD, LG, others at a $1B+ valuation, up from $750M in 2024 (Lucinda Shen/Axios)
- How TikTok Shop sellers are using AI creators and AI twins to boost sales; eMarketer: US sales on TikTok Shop are expected to hit $23.4B in 2026, up 48% YoY (Patrick Coffee/Wall Street Journal)
- Israel-based Hemispheric, whose AI model can analyze brain activity measured non-invasively and turn it into quantitative metrics for diagnoses, raised $52M (Meytal Vaizberg/Globes)
- Amsterdam-based Monumental, which develops autonomous robotics and software for the construction industry, raised a $32M Series B led by Khosla Ventures (Tamara Djurickovic/Tech.eu)
- Miami-based Cyclops, which sells an infrastructure platform that bundles crypto and stablecoin services to payments companies, raised a $20M Series A (Camila Grigera Naón/Fortune)
- Rime, which helps companies field calls using AI voice models trained on conversational data it records in a studio, raised a $24M Series A led by M13 (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
- How Anthropic is pursuing a state-by-state push for ever-tougher AI safety laws, in contrast with OpenAI's "reverse federalism" strategy for common state rules (Politico)
- Sources: the EU is set to fine Google hundreds of millions of euros over alleged self-preferencing of its services in Search and restrictions on app developers (Barbara Moens/Financial Times)
- American Growth Insurance, which aims to acquire struggling independent insurance firms and transform them using AI, raised almost $70M (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)