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BBC

  1. UK wasted £10bn on PPE that left NHS staff poorly protected, Covid inquiry finds
  2. Scott Mills was highest-paid BBC star before sacking
  3. Wildfires burn in parts of UK as fire chiefs warn of extreme pressure
  4. MPs expected to approve long-delayed Hillsborough Law
  5. 'If we die, we die together': Wife of man nearly sucked out of Ryanair plane speaks of ordeal
  6. Government failing Farage over security, says Jenrick
  7. Man who staged wife's suicide jailed for murder
  8. Who will win the World Cup? The view from the semi-finalists' countries
  9. Israeli strike on police post in north Gaza kills seven, officials say
  10. Families of RAF Chinook crash victims ask court to allow case to proceed
  11. Lamine Yamal v Mbappe: La Liga stars set for semi-final showdown
  12. He walked for 47% of the World Cup - the evolution of Messi
  13. Increased security for England and Argentina tie
  14. Andy Serkis defends lack of diversity in Lord of the Rings cast
  15. Widdecombe seen in interview believed to be 20 minutes before attack
  16. What we learned from the Covid inquiry PPE report
  17. How much should you give to the year-end teacher collection?
  18. BBC pay 2025-2026: The full list of star salaries
  19. The mysterious crypto firm backed by Farage's biggest donor
  20. How an app helps millions make healthy food purchases
  21. Fanfare and flyovers as France celebrates Bastille Day
  22. Several found dead in lift shaft after fire in central Brussels building
  23. Diamond giant De Beers halts work at flagship South African mine as demand plummets
  24. Family 'heartbroken' over parents' wildfire deaths
  25. Dad who died helping two children in sea named
  26. Free school meal pupils falling further behind their peers, report warns
  27. Bedford train crash driver died from traumatic injuries
  28. BBC News app
  29. Counter Terrorism Police Investigating Ann Widdecombe Death
  30. Americanswers… on 5 Live! Mitch McConnell breaks his silence, will it stop the conspiracy theories?
  31. What's next at Liverpool for Argentina's proven winner Mac Allister?
  32. A winner and true friend - Bartoli on France boss Deschamps
  33. Arsenal agree fee for Trossard move to Besiktas
  34. Man Utd seek another midfielder as Tielemans has medical
  35. 'I didn't think I'd live to this age' - Howard's inspiring journey to The Open
  36. Walked for 47% of the World Cup - the evolution of Messi

Bitcoin

Engadget

  1. What's the difference between active noise canceling and passive?
  2. 'Talk to Spotify' lets you create playlists and learn about songs with voice commands
  3. New York enacts first US ban on data center construction
  4. X's algorithm will finally prioritize replies from people you already follow
  5. Google bought all of a major solar farm's output to offset its dirty data center emissions
  6. Hisense's E Ink phone has a full-color LCD you can snap on the back
  7. Google brings Gemini in Chrome to UK users
  8. Please let this hot pink Pixel 11 leak be real
  9. Microsoft is making the Windows Search Box more streamlined and useful
  10. Public betas for iOS 27, macOS 27 and more Apple platforms are now available
  11. Los Angeles law enforcement will stop using Flock cameras
  12. A ransomware negotiator who colluded with attackers to scam victims was sentenced to 70 months in prison
  13. iCloud+ vs. Apple One: Which is worth it for you?
  14. TV-logging app TV Time is functionally relaunching as parent company pivots to AI
  15. State AGs sue to block the Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery merger
  16. Games Done Quick abruptly canceled SNK stream due to ties with Saudi Arabia
  17. You can easily scan QR codes that are already on your phone
  18. Not 300 miles, not 250 miles: These EVs have the worst range in 2026
  19. Oppo Watch X3 review: Come for the battery, stay for the versatility
  20. Europe takes step toward social media ban for kids

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. Demis Hassabis wants a Wall Street-style referee for AI, with the power to hit pause
  2. Britain’s flagship AI data centre can’t get the power to switch on
  3. Medical AI was meant to help. This week it replaced nurses and dodged its own checks
  4. Microsoft promised to be carbon negative. Its emissions just jumped 25%
  5. Uber lost the self-driving race. Now it wants to write the rules
  6. Meta is pushing brands onto its AI ad tools. The results are a mess
  7. Pasqal’s SPAC filings reveal a $2bn French quantum bet, and a French kill switch
  8. Flex raises $70m from Ryan Smith’s Halo fund to take its AI private bank global
  9. xAI is running 59 unpermitted gas turbines, twice what it has admitted
  10. Moneybox is Europe’s newest unicorn, and it’s testing London’s new private market to prove it

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. Find Your Perfect Shampoo
  2. The Best Ice Cream Scoop
  3. The Best Digital Notebooks
  4. The Best Wine Coolers and Fridges
  5. The Best Dryers
  6. The Best Wet Mop
  7. The Best Vacuum for Hardwood Floors
  8. The Best Vacuum for Carpets
  9. The Best Camping Tents
  10. The Best Luggage Tags

Sweethome

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

Hacker News

  1. Agnes Callard’s theory of the uni-context
  2. Demis Hassabis has a plan to harness AI safely
  3. Your 'app' could have been a webpage (so I fixed it for you)
  4. Beautiful Type Erasure with C++26 Reflection
  5. Coding agents think ahead of time
  6. Show HN: Juggler – an open-source GUI coding agent, by the creator of JUCE
  7. Proof of Care in the Age of A.I
  8. No Spanish reading crisis?
  9. Punch yourself in the face with reality
  10. Tensor Is the Might
  11. How to stop Claude from saying load-bearing
  12. How the FSF sysadmins block botnets with reaction
  13. Alternative(s) to run CUDA on non-Nvidia hardware
  14. Our Amish Language
  15. Differentiable Fortran with LFortran and Enzyme
  16. Germany set to restrict its Freedom of Information Act
  17. Codex starts encrypting sub-agent prompts
  18. Paxos Made Simple (2001)[pdf]
  19. Show HN: I RL-trained an agent that trains models with RL (for –$1.3k)
  20. Australian energy retailers must provide three hours of free daytime electricity
  21. Actegories
  22. New York becomes the first state to impose a data center moratorium
  23. OpenAI mandates hardware-backed passkeys for Trusted Access Cyber members
  24. What did SFFA vs. Harvard reveal about admissions?
  25. Indian scientists produce most detailed 3D atlas of the human brainstem
  26. Satellite Tracker – Live Map of Starlink and 30k Satellites
  27. Codex scraped the ICM website and discovered 2026 Fields Medal winner list
  28. The git history command
  29. The Future Worth Building Is Human
  30. Just Let Me Write Digits

Ars Technica

  1. Taco Bell eyed in explosive diarrheal outbreak; leafy greens suspected
  2. Boomers, not Gen Z, are the generation cutting back most on alcohol
  3. SpaceX is gearing up for Starship's 13th test flight later this week
  4. US continues to shun Ebola-infected citizens; second American sent to Germany
  5. The US government warns that Russia state hackers are coming after your router
  6. Ukrainian drone strikes forced Russia to stop shipping in vital sea corridor
  7. California creates $3,500 rebate for new electric vehicle buyers
  8. Apple sues OpenAI after ex-engineer allegedly used bug to steal trade secrets
  9. Solution to Feynman's reverse sprinkler puzzle also applies to "silly sprinklers"
  10. States sue to block Paramount/WBD merger that was approved by Trump admin
  11. Tom Cruise is utterly transformed in Digger trailer
  12. Apple and Samsung benefit as memory shortage pushes smartphone shipments to historic lows
  13. Colorado will decide whether a "right to natural gas" is added to state constitution
  14. Hackers quickly prove that Neo Geo Doom ports are not "impossible"
  15. A "disaster waiting to happen"? Industry officials worry about Crew Dragon availability.
  16. Now, defenders are embracing the prompt injection, too
  17. Simulating everything, sort of: The promise and limits of world models
  18. The real mystery behind Moana: After 1,700 years, why did Polynesians suddenly sail east?
  19. A Jupiter-size planet that escaped its star's death
  20. Overhaul of public lands grazing regulations seeks to cut public involvement

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. StubHub, CEO Hit With 'Deceptive Practices' Class Action Over Mass Scalping
  2. Indian Scientists Produce Most Detailed 3D Atlas of the Human Brainstem
  3. Scientists Find Sugar Deep In Our Galaxy
  4. Over 200 Economists Say 'We Must Act Now' On AI's Economic Impact
  5. Microsoft Promises To Fix Search With Major Windows 11 Overhaul
  6. US Government Warns That Russia State Hackers Are Coming After Your Router
  7. German Firm Files For Insolvency After Cybercriminals Shut Down Production For 6 Weeks
  8. States Sue to Block Paramount-Warner Bros Merger, Defying DOJ
  9. Apple Reportedly Agreed to Intel Chips To Avoid White House Tariffs
  10. Cloudflare Precursor Watches Your Mouse and Keyboard To Decide If You Are Human
  11. Social Media Limits Are Coming For Teens Across Europe
  12. Why 55% of Americans Stopped Posting On Social Media
  13. China, Russia and Others Seek To Inflame Debate Over AI Data Centers
  14. Linus Torvalds on Rust, C, Bugs, and AI Patch-Checking Tools
  15. Japan's Space Agency Conducts First Test Flight For Experimental Reusable Rocket

BoingBoing

  1. The only curse on Venice's cursed island is us
  2. A paranoid dictator built 750,000 bunkers no one ever used except for sex
  3. Houses built for one purpose: to make the neighbors miserable
  4. The billion-dimensional map hidden inside every AI model
  5. Smearing yogurt on your windows can cool a house by 6 degrees
  6. Chipotle Mexican Grill actually opening a restaurant in Mexico
  7. This refurbished Dell Latitude laptop is just $250 with Windows 11 Pro
  8. A tick bite can make you allergic to meat, and cases are climbing
  9. The hoaxter who claimed he could fit a whole movie in one kilobyte
  10. She fell out of the sky on Christmas Eve. The jungle was only the beginning.
  11. Sherpa left for dead on Everest tells his story
  12. CDs are back because streaming made music feel disposable
  13. A sugar used in fake tan was found floating in deep space
  14. The humble bicycle is still hiding a physics mystery
  15. In 1907, a sailor watched the North Atlantic mysteriously change color forever
  16. Florence hospital staff are used to tourists collapsing from beauty
  17. Erika Kirk rallies her "happy warriors" against trans people, Muslims, and "whoever else"
  18. Tourist yeeted by Yellowstone bison not at fault, for once
  19. Letting video game NPCs place Amazon orders for you is not a good idea
  20. Mind reading a mind reader is a dangerous game
  21. Masked ICE agents slam an already restrained man into rocks, then threaten the cameras
  22. David Tennant shares his Criterion Closet picks
  23. Turn your Plex library into live cable with Bunny Ears TV
  24. Help! What the heck is this, and why does it look just like a cursed, melted Donald Trump?
  25. Giant participation trophy appears on the National Mall for Trump's Iran War "effort"
  26. Play 500+ games with 3 months of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate for $62
  27. Surgeons use free IKEA pencils to mark bone cuts
  28. A 1278 court record may hold the first written F-word
  29. Ancient Greeks built special arenas for flinging wine dregs at targets
  30. A bison tossed a Yellowstone tourist 8 feet in the air

Core77

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

CNET

  1. Spotify Now Lets You Ask AI Questions in Its Mobile App
  2. My Complete DIY Smart Lock Installation Guide
  3. Apple TV: 30 of the Best Shows You're Probably Not Watching
  4. Best AT&T Plans: How to Choose and Which Ones to Pick in 2026
  5. My Favorite College Dorm Smart Devices That I've Tested
  6. This Origami-Inspired Coffee Maker Is the Best Camping Brewer. Period.
  7. The Best Robotic Pool Vacuums for 2026: We Tested 21 Robot Cleaners
  8. England vs. India: How to Watch ODI Cricket Series Live From Anywhere
  9. I'm a Big E Ink Fan, So This New Detachable-Screen Phone From Hisense Intrigues Me
  10. Space Mirror: The FCC Just Approved a Sun-Reflecting Satellite, and Astronomers Are Unimpressed
  11. Download the iOS 27 Public Beta in 4 Quick Steps
  12. T-Mobile Customers on Old Plans Are Being Pushed to New Ones Starting This Week
  13. Waze Gets a 'Less Chatty' Update, Personalized Routes
  14. Is Your Amazon Prime Subscription Worth It? We Ran the Numbers
  15. The First iOS 27 Public Beta Is Out, and Here Are Some of the Features It Brings to Your iPhone
  16. Smartphone Shipments Crash to 13-Year Low Due to RAMageddon
  17. Apple Is Reportedly Accelerating Chip Releases Due to AI Pressure
  18. This Free Mac App Can Help You Root Out Your Slow USB-C Charging Cables
  19. Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for July 14, #1129
  20. Today's Wordle Hints, Answer and Help for July 14, #1851
  21. Today's NYT Strands Hints, Answers and Help for July 14 #863
  22. Europe to Curb Children's Social Media Use With 'Phased' Age-Based Access
  23. Temporary Tattoos May One Day Power Your Wearable Medical Devices
  24. Best VPN for Android for 2026: Protect Your Privacy on the Go
  25. 12 States Sue Paramount to Block Warner Bros. Discovery Deal

Reddit

The Verge

  1. Sam Altman didn’t need another lawsuit
  2. Pixel Watch 5 leak shows off four different finishes
  3. EverQuest’s biggest fans are leading its revival
  4. Google’s Demis Hassabis says it’s time for a global AI watchdog — led by the US
  5. The first sunlight reflecting space mirror has been cleared for launch
  6. Let’s build a children’s public internet
  7. New York becomes the first state to enact a data center moratorium
  8. Microsoft tests Windows Search without all the ads and fluff
  9. OnePlus is reportedly bailing on the US
  10. A two-pack of DJI’s most capable wireless mics just got its first price cut

Wired

  1. New York Governor Signs First Statewide Data Center Moratorium
  2. Plex Keeps Getting Worse. Is Jellyfin a Decent Replacement?
  3. 9 Tips to Get More Out of Google Chat
  4. Best RGB TVs (2026): My Picks After Testing the Hottest TVs
  5. Oura Ring 5 Review: Still the Smart Ring to Beat
  6. This German Man Is on a Quest to Cut the Perfect Slice of Bread
  7. This Luddite Puppet Hopes You’re Not Reading This on Your Smartphone
  8. The Chatbot That Foretold Why People Share Secrets With ChatGPT
  9. Sotheby’s Big T. Rex Auction Raises Concerns Hype and Wealth Are Upending Science
  10. DOGE Used AI for Housing Policy. The Government Won’t Say How
  11. The US Approves Launch of Mirror Satellite That Can Reflect Sunlight and Illuminate the Earth at Night
  12. Hotels.com Coupon Codes for July 2026
  13. Bose Promo Code: 40% Off for July 2026
  14. B&H Photo Promo Codes and Deals This July 2026
  15. OnePlus Promo Codes: 30% Off July 2026
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  17. Nike Promo Codes and Discounts: 30% for July 2026
  18. Dyson Promo Codes: 25% Off in July 2026
  19. 30% Off Samsung Promo Code | July 2026
  20. Factor Promo Code: 50% Off Off Meal Prep

LifeHacker

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

The Onion

The Register

TechMeme

  1. 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)
  2. Filing: Chinese chipmaker CXMT seeks to raise ~$9.8B in an IPO on Shanghai's chip-heavy STAR Board (David Morris/Bloomberg)
  3. AI startup Reflection says it has signed a $1B+ deal to secure computing capacity from Nebius, including access to Nvidia chips, following a deal with SpaceX (Aditya Soni/Reuters)
  4. Kalshi launches a forward curve tool for AI compute, using event contracts to track the future rental costs of GPUs, storage, and memory (Katherine Doherty/Bloomberg)
  5. Seattle-based Brinc Drones, which makes 911 response drones, raised $125M led by Motorola Solutions, bringing its total funding to more than $280M (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)
  6. Flex, which offers AI-based payment tools, credit, and more to mid-sized companies, raised a $70M Series B1 led by Halo Fund, a source says at a $1.2B valuation (Aditya Soni/Reuters)
  7. Analysis: xAI has installed far more gas turbines without US permits at Colossus 2 than it has publicly acknowledged, impacting Black neighborhoods the hardest (Reuters)
  8. Discount airline Frontier partners with SpaceX to offer Wi-Fi for the first time from early 2027, as it targets customers willing to pay more for premium travel (Alison Sider/Wall Street Journal)
  9. Custom AI chip design startup TYLsemi raised $43M in early-stage funding led by Matter Venture Partners to build modular chips thanks to packaging tech advances (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)
  10. Sources and telecom data: a coordinated campaign of SS7 pings was used to track the locations of US personnel during the US-led strikes on Iran in late February (Financial Times)
  11. AI drug design startup Chai Discovery raised $400M led by Index at a $3.8B valuation, as it pitches its models as AI infrastructure for pharmaceutical companies (Michael J. de la Merced/New York Times)
  12. The European Commission approves €659M in German state aid to support four first-of-a-kind chip facilities in Germany, saying they will strengthen EU autonomy (Kirsti Knolle/Reuters)
  13. IBM reports preliminary Q2 revenue up 1% YoY to $17.2B, below $17.9B est., as CEO Arvind Krishna says customers are shifting spending to chips; IBM falls 20%+ (Amy Thomson/Bloomberg)
  14. New York Governor Kathy Hochul signs a moratorium blocking new environmental permits for data centers over 50MW for up to one year, the first state to do so (Lauren Feiner/The Verge)
  15. Survey: 57% of US women and 47% of men ages 18 to 29 say they get health and wellness information from influencers; women say they see such content more often (Aaron Smith/Pew Research Center)