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BBC

  1. Gregg Wallace sacked from MasterChef as 50 more people make claims
  2. Post Office scandal had 'disastrous' impact on victims, official inquiry says
  3. Three men guilty of arson attack on London warehouse on behalf of Russian mercenary group
  4. Diogo Jota's car was likely speeding before fatal crash, Spanish police say
  5. Bayeux Tapestry to return to UK on loan after 900 years
  6. Marseille firefighters 'waging war' on wildfire at city's edge, mayor says
  7. Southport murders one of UK's most egregious crimes, inquiry chairman says
  8. Monzo fined £21m after customers faked PM and King's addresses
  9. Pension triple lock to cost three times initial estimate
  10. Exhausted, angry, heartbroken: Postmasters react as horror of scandal laid bare
  11. Watch: Victims demand accountability
  12. Five things we now know about the scandal
  13. Watch: Post Office scandal victims demand accountability
  14. Norman Tebbit, outspoken hero of the Conservative political right, dies aged 94
  15. Best pictures from French President Macron's UK state visit
  16. Lorde: Obsessing about my weight stopped my creativity
  17. The teenage wildcard fuelling England's Euro 2025 hopes
  18. ICC issues arrest warrants for Taliban leaders for persecuting women and girls
  19. Resident doctors in England vote for fresh strike action over pay
  20. PM making progress with France on small boats, says No 10
  21. Hamas used sexual violence as part of 'genocidal strategy', Israeli experts say
  22. Manchester Airport police officer says his conduct was 'professional' during brawl
  23. Chef's food decoration at Chinese pre-school poisons 233 children
  24. Fans disappointed by last-minute Wireless line-up
  25. BBC News app
  26. National Emergency Alert Test: Newscast In COBR
  27. Is Trump deporting record numbers of migrants?
  28. Jota's car probably speeding before fatal crash, say Spanish police
  29. Sabalenka claws past Siegemund to reach semi-finals
  30. Wales team bus in collision - players OK, says Wilkinson
  31. Point replayed in Fritz match after line call 'malfunction'
  32. Fritz recovers to reach first Wimbledon semi-final

Bitcoin

Engadget

  1. Apple's USB-C AirPods Max are cheaper than ever in this Prime Day deal
  2. The Meta Quest 3s drops to a record-low price for Prime Day
  3. The best Prime Day gaming deals from laptops and peripherals to the latest video games
  4. Our favorite budget wireless earbuds are almost half off during Prime Day
  5. The best Prime Day laptop deals live now: MacBooks, Windows 11 machines, Chromebooks and others
  6. The best Prime Day SSD and external hard drive deals on Samsung, Crucial and more
  7. Best Prime Day speaker deals on JBL, Bose, Sonos and others
  8. Prime Day 2025: The best headphone and earbud deals available right now
  9. Our favorite mesh Wi-Fi router drops to $200 for Prime Day
  10. Apple's latest iPad drops to a new low of $280 for Prime Day
  11. A last-minute leak suggests Samsung will drop S Pen support from the Galaxy Z Fold 7
  12. Best Prime Day TV deals 2025 from Sony, LG, Samsung and others
  13. This Eufy robot vacuum is half off for Prime Day
  14. The best Prime Day deals on Anker power banks, chargers and mobile accessories
  15. Marco Rubio's AI imposter has been contacting senior government officials
  16. The Walking Dead is coming to Dead by Daylight
  17. The best Prime Day Kindle deals and ereader sales
  18. The best Amazon Prime Day robot vacuum deals that you can get right now for 2025
  19. The best Prime Day deals on Amazon devices: Save on Kindle ereaders, Echo speakers and more
  20. Amazon Prime Day deals on kitchen essentials include up to 50 percent off on air fryers, Instant Pots and sous vide machines
  21. The Ring Pan-Tilt Indoor Cam drops to $40 for Prime Day
  22. The best Amazon Prime Day deals under $50: Save on gear from Samsung, Blink, Anker, and others
  23. The Google TV Streamer 4K drops to $84 for Prime Day
  24. Get up to 50 percent off Shark robot vacuums with these Prime Day deals
  25. The latest Roku Ultra drops to $69 for Prime Day
  26. Prime Day deals include a bundle of two Blink Mini 2 cameras for $35
  27. Pick up the Amazon Fire TV Stick HD for only $18 in this Prime Day deal
  28. Ooni pizza ovens are up to 30 percent off during Prime Day 2025
  29. Walmart Deals 2025 are live with a bunch of anti-Prime Day sales to shop now
  30. Amazon asked corporate employees to help fulfill grocery deliveries for Prime Day
  31. Prime Day deal: Our favorite smart air purifier is $37 off right now
  32. Prime Day deals include $450 off Apple's 15-inch M3 MacBook Air
  33. Prime Day deals include $50 off one of our favorite Ninja air fryers
  34. Prime Day AirTag deals include a four-pack of the Bluetooth trackers for $68
  35. Samsung buys Xealth to integrate its wearables into the healthcare system
  36. The best laptops for college students
  37. Sonos soundbars and speakers are up to 26 percent off for Prime Day
  38. Prime Day deals include $102 off the Sony WH-1000XM5 headphones
  39. The Razer Kishi Ultra controller drops to only $100 for Prime Day
  40. Prime Day deals include up to $250 off Google Pixel phones
  41. The Morning After: The best deals from Prime Day 2025
  42. You absolutely should not buy an Echo Dot on Prime Day
  43. The latest Amazon Kindle drops to a record-low price for Prime Day
  44. The Samsung Galaxy Watch 7 drops to a record-low price for Prime Day
  45. You can get $300 off the Samsung Galaxy S25 Edge for Prime Day
  46. The best Amazon Prime Day camera deals you can get right now for 2025
  47. The Bose QuietComfort headphones drop to $199 for Prime Day
  48. Samsung SmartTag 2 trackers are 48 percent off for Prime Day
  49. The Apple Watch Series 10 falls to a new record-low price for Prime Day
  50. Our favorite digital photo frame is 20 percent off for Prime Day

Pinboard

  1. Being too ambitious is a clever form of self-sabotage — on starting, doing, being, and becoming.
  2. I Shipped a macOS App Built Entirely by Claude Code | Indragie Karunaratne
  3. Adding a feature because ChatGPT incorrectly thinks it exists | Holovaty.com
  4. The rise of Whatever / fuzzy notepad — A couple days ago I saw someone (whose bio claimed they’re a Bluesky engineer, but who knows) insist that it’s “very stupid” to not use a chatbot for programming. I just cannot comprehend this. If the task is easy, I could just write the code about as fast as I could describe it anywa…
  5. Local-first software: You own your data, in spite of the cloud — A new generation of collaborative software that allows users to retain ownership of their data.
  6. ‘The vehicle suddenly accelerated with our baby in it’: the terrifying truth about why Tesla’s cars keep crashing
  7. PyTorch in One Hour: From Tensors to Training Neural Networks on Multiple GPUs — Favorite tweet: If you're getting into LLMs, PyTorch is essential. And lot of folks asked for beginner-friendly material, so I put this together: PyTorch in One Hour: From Tensors to Multi-GPU Training (https://t.co/OpJnPkrGK9) 📖 ~1h to read t…
  8. Mini NASes marry NVMe to Intel's efficient chip | Jeff Geerling
  9. Vim Setup
  10. The Force-Feeding of AI on an Unwilling Public
  11. The case for calling Florida’s ‘Alligator Alcatraz' a concentration camp — For many Americans, the word “concentration camp” evokes another country, a time long ago and a facility operating in the dark of night, away from the prying eyes of an outraged public. But a new concentration camp opened in Florida’s Everglades this …
  12. Serving 200 million requests per day with a cgi-bin
  13. ongoing by Tim Bray · The Real GenAI Issue — via https://cosocial.ca/@timbray/114807889514002925 via https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/114808462711993430
  14. How to Network as an Introvert | Aishwarya Goel
  15. Almost Fired
  16. A non-anthropomorphized view of LLMs — > We should think in terms of "this is a function to generate sequences" and "by providing prefixes we can steer the sequence generation around in the space of words and change the probabilities for output sequences". And for every possible undesirable output sequence of a length smalle…
  17. The real Salt Path: how a blockbuster book and film were ...
  18. 'Positive review only': Researchers hide AI prompts in papers - Nikkei Asia
  19. Stop Hiding My Controls: Hidden Interface Controls Are Affecting Usability | ACM Interactions
  20. ‘It’s too late’: David Suzuki says the fight against climate change is lost — "We have failed to shift the narrative and we are still caught up in the same legal, economic and political systems," said David Suzuki in an exclusive interview with iPolitics. "For me, what we've got to do now is hunker down."
  21. Learn to love the Moat of Low Status - by Cate Hall
  22. I Deleted My Second Brain — https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44402470
  23. Are we the baddies? | the singularity is nearer
  24. Inside the Media’s Traffic Apocalypse
  25. Get the location of the ISS using DNS — I love DNS esoterica. Weird little things that you can shove in the global directory to be distributed around the world instantly(ish). Domain names, like www.example.com usually resolve to servers. As much as we think of "the cloud" as being some intangible morass of ethereal Turing-…
  26. How to not pay your taxes legally, apparently – (mrsteinberg.com/how-to-not-pay-your-taxes-legally-apparently/)
  27. GitHub - sst/opencode: AI coding agent, built for the terminal. — kevinold starred sst/opencode
  28. T3X.ORG mcl/index
  29. Git experts should try Jujutsu · pksunkara
  30. Overthinking GIS | Scott Sexton
  31. How the Owner of Hidden Valley Ranch Learned to Love AI - WSJ — has nobody in this company or newspaper ever heard of Clorox 2
  32. Why I have slightly longer timelines than some of my guests — This means that if we end up on the longer side of my 50/50 bets, we might well be looking at a relatively normal world up till the 2030s or even the 2040s. But in all the other worlds, even if we stay sober about the current limitations of AI, we have to expect s…
  33. Techno-Feudalism and the Rise of AGI: A Future Without Economic Rights?
  34. Nobody Has A Personality Anymore - by Freya India - GIRLS — "We are products with labels Therapy-speak has taken over our language. It is ruining how we talk about romance and relationships, narrowing how we think about hurt and suffering, and now, we are losing the words for who we are. Nobody has a personality anymore. I…
  35. Writing Code Was Never The Bottleneck - ordep.dev
  36. Belgium is unsafe for CVD — This post is about the reason I will probably never try to warn any organisation in Belgium about any vulnerability again. Recently I have been dealing with an attempt at coordinated vulnerability disclosure (CVD) with an organisation in Belgium. This post is not about that, because I’m not allowe…
  37. That XOR Trick
  38. Collections: The American Civil-Military Relationship – A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry
  39. BlueFalconHD/apple_generative_model_safety_decrypted: Decrypted Generative Model safety files for Apple Intelligence containing filters
  40. Serving 200M requests per day with a CGI-bin | Hacker News
  41. Cursor: Clarifying Our Pricing — Cursor: Clarifying Our Pricing. Cursor changed their pricing plan on June 16th, introducing a new $200/month Ultra plan with "20x more usage than Pro" and switching their $20/month Pro plan from "request limits to compute limits". This confused a lot of people. via Pocket
  42. These Cod Have Been Shrinking Dramatically for Decades. Now, Scientists Say They've Solved the Mystery
  43. Why Matt Mullenweg went to war over WordPress | The Verge — The head of the WordPress project on the WP Engine lawsuit, Automattic turning 20, and what’s next for the web. The head of the WordPress project on the WP Engine lawsuit, Automattic turning 20, and what’s next for the web. via Pocket
  44. Wharton Generative AI Labs Prompt Library | All Prompts
  45. How to Use JSONPath to Query JSON Data Efficiently
  46. GitHub - stan-smith/FossFLOW: Make beautiful isometric infrastructure diagrams
  47. Neanderthals operated prehistoric “fat factory” 125,000 years ago on German lakeshore | Archaeology News Online Magazine
  48. microsandbox/microsandbox: Self-Hosted Plaform for Secure Execution of Untrusted User/AI Code
  49. A simple website — This website is a trip down memory lane. I'm not trying to tell you to stop modern web development. This website uses technologies not available at the time the content here is about. It works on mobile (tested in Firefox for Android) but you miss out on the background image.
  50. NVIDIA is full of shit - Sebin's Blog — Since the disastrous launch of the RTX 50 series, NVIDIA has been unable to escape negative headlines: scalper bots are snatching GPUs away from consumers before official sales even begin, power connectors continue to melt, with no fix in sight, marketing is becoming increasingly decep…
  51. talkingpointsmemo.com
  52. Introducing tmux-rs | tmux-rs
  53. The History of Electronic Music in 476 Tracks (1937-2001) | Open Culture
  54. We’re Publishing the Speech Harvard Suppressed for Mentioning Gaza
  55. Meteorologists Say the National Weather Service Did Its Job in Texas | WIRED — And meteorologists say that the NWS did send out adequate warnings as it got updated information. By Thursday afternoon, it had issued a flood watch for the area, and a flash flood warning was in effect by 1am Friday. The agency had issued a flash…
  56. 'I'm being paid to fix issues caused by AI'
  57. Jonathan (ACA) Gruber (and K) on healthcare v MAGA. Truly worth reading. — It’s rare I read these kinds of interviews but Gruber is another level. A must read.
  58. Expressing stigma and inappropriate responses prevents LLMs from safely replacing mental health providers — Should a large language model (LLM) be used as a therapist? In this paper, we investigate the use of LLMs to *replace* mental health providers, a use case promoted in the tech startup and research space. We conduct a m…
  59. Can you see circles or rectangles? And does the answer depend on where you grew up? | Anil Seth | The Guardian
  60. How should businesses kick off their AI initiatives? Time for the AI advice column - your doctors are in
  61. MrLesk/Backlog.md: Backlog.md - A tool for managing project collaboration between humans and AI Agents in a git ecosystem
  62. As Trump pushes Apple to make iPhones in the U.S., Google's brief effort building smartphones in Texas 12 years ago offers critical lessons — Motorola's failed bet on assembling phones in the U.S. offers important lessons for Apple today.
  63. The ITTAGE indirect branch predictor - Made of Bugs
  64. Optimizing Tool Selection for LLM Workflows: Differentiable Programming with PyTorch and DSPy — How local, learnable routers can reduce token overhead, lower costs, and bring structure back to agentic workflows.
  65. Lightfast Testing: 50+ Coloured Pencil Brands — Markers were by far the most vulnerable category. Alcohol markers, in particular, faded fast, even from well-known and expensive brands like Copic and Winsor & Newton. Some colours disappeared entirely. Water-based markers didn’t fare much better. via Pocket
  66. Why I'm Dialing Back My LLM Usage — Zed's Blog
  67. ChatGPT and Google Gemini can’t replace you. But they’re great coworkers. | Vox
  68. The EU wants to decrypt your private data by 2030 | TechRadar
  69. How I keep up with AI progress (and why you must too) - nilenso blog — Atharva Raykar ...
  70. Serving 200 million requests per day with a cgi-bin — Jake Gold tests how well 90s-era CGI works today, using a Go + SQLite CGI program running on a 16-thread AMD 3700X. Using CGI on modest hardware, it’s possible to …
  71. New Sphere-Packing Record Stems From an Unexpected Source | Quanta Magazine — via Quanta Magazine https://bit.ly/3hiuSb1
  72. Am I online?
  73. Using Playwright MCP with Claude Code | Simon Willison’s TILs
  74. BuildMyTransit
  75. The Darwin Gödel Machine: AI that improves itself by rewriting its own code
  76. You MUST listen to RFC 2119 – Eric Bailey
  77. The AI Birthday Letter That Blew Me Away - The Atlantic
  78. Applied Cryptography (CMPS 297AD/396AI) — American University of Beirut
  79. Revealed: the far-right, antisemitic men’s club network spreading across US
  80. [no title]
  81. RFK's proposal to let bird flu spread through poultry could set us up for a pandemic, experts warn | Live Science — High-ranking federal officials have suggested that bird flu virus should be left to "rip" through poultry farms across the U.S. — but experts warn that this hands-off approach could hasten the beginning of a ne…
  82. Denis Villeneuve Will Shoot All of 'Dune Messiah' in IMAX
  83. How Silicon Valley got rich - by Elle Griffin - The Elysian
  84. macOS Icon History — Basic Apple Guy
  85. Release announcements
  86. Weedkiller ingredient widely used in US can damage organs and gut bacteria, research shows | Herbicides | The Guardian — "The ingredient, diquat, is widely employed in the US as a weedkiller in vineyards and orchards, and is increasingly sprayed elsewhere as the use of controversial herbicide substances such as glyphosate an…
  87. Lovart | The World’s First Design Agent — Ai design process for visuals
  88. Google’s customizable Gemini chatbots are now in Docs, Sheets, and Gmail — Gems are now available directly in the side panel of Workspace apps, allowing users to access custom Gemni chatbots without switching between apps.
  89. GitHub - zebbern/claude-code-guide: Here is a full guide on claude tips and tricks and how you can optimise your claude code the best full guides and every command possible even hidden ones!
  90. Defense department cuts weather satellite data : NPR — The U.S. Department of Defense will no longer provide satellite weather data, leaving hurricane forecasters without crucial information about storms as peak hurricane season looms in the Atlantic. via Pocket
  91. Piano Trainer - Learn to play the piano at your own pace through various modes of practice — https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32023881 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32029901 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44467838
  92. Omarchy: Opinionated Arch/Hyprland Setup By DHH — ███ ███
  93. “My Father Addresses Me on the Facts of Old Age,” by Grace Paley | The New Yorker
  94. Companies That Tried to Save Money With AI Are Now Spending a Fortune Hiring People to Fix Its Mistakes — Companies that rushed to replace human labor with AI are now shelling out to get huamn workers to fix the technology's screwups. via Pocket
  95. China's Clean Energy Boom Could Win the Race to Power the Future - The New York Times — In China, more wind turbines and solar panels were installed last year than in the rest of the world combined. And China’s clean energy boom is going global. Chinese companies are building electric vehicle and battery factories in Brazil,…
  96. Patricia Lockwood · Arrayed in Shining Scales: Solving Sylvia Plath
  97. The messy reality of SIMD (vector) functions - Johnny's Software Lab
  98. The destruction of Palestine is breaking the world
  99. [no title]
  100. Behind the scenes: Speeding up pgstream snapshots for PostgreSQL | xata — How targeted improvements helped us speed up bulk data loads and complex schemas.

The Next Web

  1. Exclusive: Finnish startup raises €25M to put a ‘Donut’ motor in EV wheels
  2. British-built Hawk-Eye software goes dark during Wimbledon match
  3. Finland taps new AI satellite to track toxic algae from space
  4. French-Swiss software merger to mint Europe’s latest unicorn
  5. No-code platform Lovable eyes $150M raise and double unicorn status
  6. First legal e-scooter launches in the Netherlands — for €1,900
  7. Europe’s 20 largest startup funding rounds this year (so far)
  8. ‘Europe is not the US’: Tech insiders call for smarter AI rules
  9. NATO’s VC fund backs biotech startup for first time
  10. A viral band on Spotify is probably AI — but there’s no label to tell you

Smashing Magazine

  1. Droip: The Modern Website Builder WordPress Needed
  2. Design Guidelines For Better Notifications UX
  3. CSS Intelligence: Speculating On The Future Of A Smarter Language
  4. Turning User Research Into Real Organizational Change
  5. Never Stop Exploring (July 2025 Wallpapers Edition)
  6. Can Good UX Protect Older Users From Digital Scams?
  7. Decoding The SVG path Element: Curve And Arc Commands
  8. Meet Accessible UX Research, A Brand-New Smashing Book
  9. CSS Cascade Layers Vs. BEM Vs. Utility Classes: Specificity Control
  10. What I Wish Someone Told Me When I Was Getting Into ARIA
  11. Creating The “Moving Highlight” Navigation Bar With JavaScript And CSS
  12. Decoding The SVG path Element: Line Commands
  13. Collaboration: The Most Underrated UX Skill No One Talks About
  14. Smashing Animations Part 4: Optimising SVGs
  15. Why Designers Get Stuck In The Details And How To Stop
  16. Designing For Neurodiversity
  17. Prelude To Summer (June 2025 Wallpapers Edition)
  18. Reliably Detecting Third-Party Cookie Blocking In 2025
  19. Data Vs. Findings Vs. Insights In UX
  20. What Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance Can Teach Us About Web Design
  21. Smashing Animations Part 3: SMIL’s Not Dead Baby, SMIL’s Not Dead
  22. Design System In 90 Days
  23. Building A Practical UX Strategy Framework
  24. Fewer Ideas: An Unconventional Approach To Creativity
  25. Smashing Animations Part 2: How CSS Masking Can Add An Extra Dimension
  26. Integrating Localization Into Design Systems
  27. Integrating Design And Code With Native Design Tokens In Penpot
  28. Smashing Animations Part 1: How Classic Cartoons Inspire Modern CSS
  29. Masonry In CSS: Should Grid Evolve Or Stand Aside For A New Module?
  30. How To Launch Big Complex Projects
  31. WCAG 3.0’s Proposed Scoring Model: A Shift In Accessibility Evaluation
  32. Make Every Day Count (May 2025 Wallpapers Edition)
  33. How To Turn Your Figma Designs Into Live Apps With Anima Playground
  34. UX And Design Files Organization Template
  35. “Product Kondo”: A Guide To Evaluating Your Organizational Product Portfolio
  36. Boosting Up Your Creativity Without Endless Reference Scrolling
  37. Building An Offline-Friendly Image Upload System
  38. What Does It Really Mean For A Site To Be Keyboard Navigable
  39. Fostering An Accessibility Culture
  40. Inclusive Dark Mode: Designing Accessible Dark Themes For All Users

Wirecutter

  1. The TK Most Popular Prime Day Deals, According to Wirecutter Readers
  2. The Best Amazon Prime Day Deals We’ve Found (So Far)
  3. The 11 Deals Wirecutter’s Experts Have Been Eyeing for Themselves This Prime Day
  4. 11 Prime Day Deals on Wirecutter-Approved Toys for Kids of All Ages
  5. The Best Sleep Trackers: Rings, Watches, and Other Wearables
  6. The 13 Best Prime Day Earbud and Headphone Deals
  7. The Best Luggage and Travel Gear on Sale This Prime Day
  8. These Thoughtful, Wirecutter-Approved Gifts Are on Sale for Prime Day
  9. Some of Our Favorite Cleaning and Organizing Picks Are on Sale for Prime Day
  10. All the Best Prime Day Clothing and Shoe Deals, According to Our Experts

Sweethome

  1. The 27 Best Host and Hostess Gifts
  2. The Best Window Air Conditioner Bracket
  3. The Best Emergency Preparedness Supplies
  4. The Top Tools for Earthquake Preparedness
  5. Outdoor and Backyard Lighting We Love
  6. Essential Tools to Ride Out a Winter Storm
  7. The Best Power Outage Tools and Supplies
  8. The Best Mousetrap
  9. Everything I Did to Flood-Proof My Old House
  10. The Best Gear for Your Go Bag

Hacker News

  1. Show HN: Sumble – knowledge graph for GTM data – query tech stack, key projects
  2. Can an email go 500 miles in 2025?
  3. Taking over 60k spyware user accounts with SQL injection
  4. A compact bitset implementation used in Ocarina of Time save files
  5. TIL you can make "GIFs" with SVGs for GitHub README.md files
  6. New sphere-packing record stems from an unexpected source
  7. Show HN: OffChess – Offline chess puzzles app
  8. Memstop: Use LD_PRELOAD to delay process execution when low on memory
  9. Berry Script: lightweight embedded scripting language for microcontrollers
  10. Epanet-JS
  11. Mercury: Ultra-fast language models based on diffusion
  12. Smollm3: Smol, multilingual, long-context reasoner LLM
  13. Attimet (YC F24) – Quant Trading Research Lab – Is Hiring Founding Researcher
  14. I used o3 to profile myself from my saved Pocket links
  15. Reflections on 2 years of CPython's JIT Compiler
  16. Show HN: I built a tool to solve window management
  17. LookingGlass: Generative Anamorphoses via Laplacian Pyramid Warping
  18. What Microchip doesn't (officially) tell you about the VSC8512
  19. SIMD.info – Reference tool for C intrinsics of all major SIMD engines
  20. Exploring Coroutines in PHP
  21. Running a Certificate Transparency log
  22. The Miyawaki Method of micro-forestry
  23. Adding a feature because ChatGPT incorrectly thinks it exists
  24. Why are there no good dinosaur films?
  25. When Figma starts designing us
  26. François Chollet: The Arc Prize and How We Get to AGI [video]
  27. The chemical secrets that help keep honey fresh for so long
  28. CU Randomness Beacon
  29. Lightfastness Testing of Colored Pencils
  30. What is going on in Unix with errno's limited nature

Ars Technica

  1. Nissan feels the effect of US-China trade war
  2. Rivian’s new Quad-Motor R1T and R1S beat the competition in any conditions
  3. It’s Prime Day, and these are the best deals we could hunt down
  4. Tuesday Telescope: Webb and Hubble team up to reveal spectacular star clusters
  5. China jumps ahead in the race to achieve a new kind of reuse in space
  6. As California faces court battles, states scramble to save their climate goals
  7. Unless users take action, Android will let Gemini access third-party apps
  8. What would a cheap, Apple A18-powered MacBook actually be good at?
  9. Samsung and Epic Games call a truce in app store lawsuit
  10. Ancient skull may have been half human, half Neanderthal child
  11. Measles cases reach 33-year high as RFK Jr. pursues anti-vaccine agenda
  12. Trump and Congress finalize law that could hurt your Wi-Fi
  13. Fubo pays $3.4M to settle claims it illegally shared user data with advertisers
  14. “No honor among thieves”: M&S hacking group starts turf war
  15. US may get its own glitchy version of TikTok if Trump’s deal works out
  16. Oldest wooden tools in East Asia may have come from any of three species
  17. F1 in Britain: Terrible English summer weather equals entertaining race
  18. How a big shift in training LLMs led to a capability explosion
  19. Figuring out why a nap might help people see things in new ways
  20. The curious rise of giant tablets on wheels

Digg

New Scientist

  1. Mathematicians are chasing a number that may reveal the edge of maths
  2. Forests' vanishing snow is also bad news for carbon storage
  3. Rapid bursts of ageing are causing a total rethink of how we grow old
  4. Did something just hit Saturn? Astronomers are racing to find out
  5. Vapour-sniffing drug detector tested at the US-Mexico border
  6. AI could be about to completely change the way we do mathematics
  7. 'Hybrid' skull may have been a child of Neanderthal and Homo sapiens
  8. Can a microbe in soil alter your brain chemistry to improve your mood?
  9. Fig trees may benefit climate by turning carbon dioxide into stone
  10. Ancient mass extinction shows how Earth turned into a super-greenhouse
  11. Cyberattacks could exploit home solar panels to disrupt power grids
  12. We finally understand why quasicrystals can exist
  13. Quantum-enhanced supercomputers are starting to do chemistry
  14. Meteorite causes rethink of how and when our solar system formed
  15. Carbon-offset schemes aren't prepared for forests to burn
  16. The 14 best science and tech documentaries of 2025 so far
  17. Energy drinks could cause less dental damage with a simple addition
  18. Meet the storm chasers on the hunt for extreme hail
  19. The best science fiction books of 2025 so far
  20. 3D printing could enable a long-term treatment for type 1 diabetes
  21. Quantum computers are surprisingly random – but that's a good thing
  22. Do we grow new brain cells as adults? The answer seems to be yes
  23. How vaccine recommendations have changed in the US
  24. Weird 'harmless' microbes may play a pivotal role in colorectal cancer
  25. Could hormone implants allow us to boost focus, endurance and libido?
  26. Prehistoric Spanish people transported 2-tonne stone by boat
  27. Can AI make novels better? Not if these attempts are anything to go by
  28. The dangers of so-called AI experts believing their own hype
  29. Nighttime light exposure linked to heart disease in largest study yet
  30. The foolproof way to win any lottery, according to maths
  31. The best popular science books of 2025 so far
  32. Bioplastic habitats on Mars could be built from algae
  33. Emojis give your friends a better impression of you
  34. Neanderthals had a 'fat factory' where they processed bones for grease
  35. Fresh understanding of how mouths heal may lead to a 'scar-free world'
  36. The Australia-Tuvalu climate migration treaty is a drop in the ocean
  37. New Horizons images enable first test of interstellar navigation
  38. Vegan cheese could be about to get a lot closer to the real thing
  39. An ancient Egyptian's complete genome has been read for the first time
  40. You’ve been sold a giant myth when it comes to improving your health
  41. Ancient DNA reveals make-up of Roman Empire’s favourite sauce
  42. Interstellar comet hurtling through solar system named 3I/ATLAS
  43. Stunning image of a supernova reveals a dead star that exploded twice
  44. Where does time actually come from?
  45. Breaking the laws of thermal radiation could make better solar cells
  46. A crucial methane-tracking satellite has died in orbit
  47. Solving the 250-year-old puzzle of how static electricity works
  48. A Neanderthal-shaped skull may explain why some people get headaches
  49. Shrinking Antarctic sea ice is warming the ocean faster than expected
  50. Protocells self-assembling on micrometeorites hint at origins of life
  51. The best new science fiction books of July 2025
  52. Polycystic ovary syndrome may be passed on via chemical tags on DNA
  53. Typos and slang spur AI to discourage seeking medical care
  54. Orcas are bringing humans gifts – what does it mean?
  55. Single antiviral shot could offer better protection than flu vaccines
  56. The remarkable tale of how humans nearly didn’t conquer the world
  57. Mathematicians create a tetrahedron that always lands on the same side
  58. Altered gut microbiome linked to fertility issues in people with PCOS
  59. The deep lessons quasiparticles teach us about the nature of reality
  60. How quantum superposition forces us to confront what is truly real
  61. How symbiosis made Earth what it is – and why it’s key to our future
  62. The maths hack that can help you count things
  63. How the science of friendships can help make yours better
  64. Why you should assume that even the simplest animals are conscious
  65. What is a mindset and can you cultivate a better one?
  66. This daringly experimental thriller is a puzzle-lover's delight
  67. At last, we are discovering what quantum computers will be useful for
  68. X-ray boosting fabric could make mammograms less painful
  69. Why are the physical constants of the universe so perfect for life?
  70. How metaphysics probes hidden assumptions to make sense of reality
  71. The bold plan to save a vital ocean current with giant parachutes
  72. These rocks are probably the last remains of Earth's early crust
  73. Our verdict on The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley: A thumbs up
  74. Read an extract from Adam Roberts’s far future-set Lake of Darkness
  75. Why Adam Roberts set out to write a sci-fi utopia, not a dystopia
  76. Dramatic Edward Burtynsky image shows stark desert divide
  77. A new book reveals the deep flaws in our natural history museums
  78. Mystery fireball spotted plummeting to Earth over the US
  79. Ash trees are rapidly evolving some resistance to ash dieback disease
  80. Deep sleep seems to lead to more eureka moments
  81. Nearly a third of Tuvaluans have applied for climate migration visa
  82. Extreme winter weather isn’t down to a wavier jet stream
  83. Forget the Terminators, our robot future may be squishy and fun
  84. What sleep scientists recommend doing to fall asleep more easily
  85. Spiders that get eaten after sex are picky about mates. You don't say
  86. Why climate change fades into the background – and how to change that
  87. Spellbinding debut book explores the marvels of our brains
  88. Independent estimate of Gaza deaths is higher than official figures
  89. Ancient mammoth-tusk boomerang is twice as old as we thought
  90. Gastric bypass surgery may cut the risk of bowel cancer
  91. How might society react to babies with two genetic fathers?
  92. Cancer cells steal mitochondria from nerve cells to fuel their spread
  93. Heart attacks are no longer the leading cause of death in the US
  94. Generation Alpha's coded language makes online bullying hard to detect
  95. Small and speedy dinosaur recognised as a new species
  96. Enigmatic lizards somehow survived near Chicxulub asteroid impact
  97. Women's pelvises are shrinking – how is that changing childbirth?
  98. Leonardo da Vinci's 'helicopter' design could make drones quieter
  99. Earth is more sensitive to greenhouse gases than we thought
  100. Weird line of galaxies may have been created by a cosmic bullet

Slashdot

  1. A Marco Rubio Impostor is Using AI Voice To Call High-Level Officials
  2. X Says It's 'Deeply Concerned' About India Press Censorship
  3. Unless Users Take Action, Android Will Let Gemini Access Third-Party Apps
  4. Microsoft, OpenAI, and a US Teachers' Union Are Hatching a Plan To 'Bring AI into the Classroom'
  5. Weedkiller Ingredient Widely Used In US Can Damage Organs and Gut Bacteria, Research Shows
  6. Arizona Brings a Huge Grid Battery Online Ahead of Peak Demand
  7. Massive Study Detects AI Fingerprints In Millions of Scientific Papers
  8. People Are Using AI Chatbots To Guide Their Psychedelic Trips
  9. Tennis Players Criticize AI Technology Used By Wimbledon
  10. Fubo Pays $3.4 Million To Settle Claims It Illegally Shared User Data With Advertisers
  11. Apple Just Added More Frost To Its Liquid Glass Design
  12. The Open-Source Software Saving the Internet From AI Bot Scrapers
  13. Waymo Starts Robotaxi Testing In Philadelphia and NYC
  14. Jack Dorsey Launches a WhatsApp Messaging Rival Built On Bluetooth
  15. Samsung and Epic Games Call a Truce In App Store Lawsuit

BoingBoing

Core77

  1. Design Criticism: The Nothing Headphone (1), a Bold Effort
  2. James Dyson is Revolutionizing Sustainable Agriculture
  3. An "Entry-Level" Ferrari with New Design Language
  4. Playground Equipment for Teenagers to Senior Citizens
  5. A Modular Platform System to Make Warehouses Livable
  6. In France, a Stunning Pedestrian and Bicycle Bridge Added to a Railway Viaduct
  7. Urbanisto: An E-Bike That Quick-Changes Into a Cargo Bike
  8. Core77 Weekly Roundup (6-30-25 to 7-3-25)
  9. Furniture Design Case Study: Making the Table for the G7 Summit
  10. The ChompSaw: A Benchtop Power Tool That's Safe for Kids to Use
  11. Design Lessons: How Exploiting Three Materials Made Greenhouses Affordable
  12. A Revolutionary Scoliosis Correction Device by Industrial Design Firm Intenxiv
  13. A Popular European Smart Lock Comes to America
  14. An Emergency Inflatable Buoy for Smartphones
  15. No, Airlines are Not Installing These Stand-Up Saddle-Style Seats

CNET

  1. How to Watch Samsung's Galaxy Z Fold 7 and Z Flip 7 Debut at Unpacked
  2. Trump's Tariffs Explained As the Biggest Deadline Is Set to End Soon
  3. Fortnite Maker Epic Games Settles With Samsung Following App-Blocking Lawsuit
  4. Don't Miss This Iconic Conspiracy Thriller That's Now Streaming on Netflix
  5. Trump's Biggest Tariff Deadline Lifts Soon: These 13 Companies Have Already Hiked Prices
  6. Amazon Prime Day Begins Today. Here's How to Keep Gift Orders a Secret from Your Household
  7. Impulse Buys Under $25 on Amazon That Make Surprisingly Great Gifts
  8. 'It's Always Sunny' Season 17 Release Schedule: When to Watch New Episodes
  9. This Is the Only Window Air Conditioner That Actually Cools My Old Home -- and It's on Sale for $50 Off at Home Depot
  10. 'Feeling Is Believing:' Samsung Shares Exclusive Details About Its Super Slim Galaxy Z Fold 7
  11. Fitness and Wellness Deals Worth Adding to Cart on Amazon Prime Day July 2025
  12. Paying Too Much for Internet? Here Are 8 Easy Ways to Cut Your Internet Costs in Half
  13. It's Your Final Day to Grab 'Superman' Early Screening Tickets With Amazon Prime
  14. A First Look at the Nothing Phone 3 video
  15. This Personalized Meal Delivery Service Helped My Stomach Issues
  16. Samsung Unpacked Live Reveals: New Galaxy Fold Phones Appear Imminent
  17. I Take This Cliq Portable Camping Chair Everywhere, and It's 30% Off for Prime Day
  18. Where to Recycle Your Old Computers and Printers for Free
  19. TSA May Soon Let You Keep Your Shoes On During Security Screening
  20. Best Noise-Canceling Headphones for Music and More in 2025
  21. This Light-Pulsing Rubik's Cube Is a Dazzling Way to Play in the Dark
  22. I'm Testing the Nothing Phone 3 and There's One Surprise Feature I Love So Far
  23. This Helix Mattress Topper Gave Me a Few More Years Until My Next Mattress Purchase -- Its $125 Off for Prime Day
  24. I Swam With Anker's 'Built for the Wild' Bluetooth Speaker -- It's a Bargain at 32% Off for Prime Day
  25. Your Thermostat Is in the Wrong Spot and It's Driving Up Your Power Bill

Reddit

The Verge

  1. The Last of Us Part II’s new mode puts the story in chronological order
  2. The Meta Quest 3S is down to its lowest price ever for Prime Day
  3. Mastodon is improving profiles and getting ready for quote posts
  4. The best earbuds we’ve tested for 2025
  5. Microsoft Teams now has threaded conversations
  6. The best laptop deals we’ve found for Prime Day (so far)
  7. The best iPad to buy
  8. I tested a bunch of gaming laptops and these are the best
  9. The best laptops you can get
  10. The best smartwatches for Android

Wired

  1. The 911 Calls Inside ICE Detention Centers
  2. LIVE Amazon Prime Day 2025: We're Tracking Deals & Trends All Day
  3. Meet the America Party, Elon Musk’s Harebrained Third-Party Scheme
  4. 15 Best Tablets (2025), Tested and Reviewed
  5. Best 5 Prime Day Kitchen Deals (2025): Breville, Ooni, Oxo
  6. 141 Best Prime Day Deals of 2025—Every Gadget Has Been Tested By Us
  7. 22 Best MacBook Accessories (2025), Tested and Reviewed
  8. How to Spot Fake Beauty Products on Amazon: Tips and Advice
  9. Nothing Phone (3) Review: The Designer Phone
  10. The 5 Best Prime Day Action Camera Deals for Thrill Seekers (2025)
  11. 5 Best Prime Day Pet Deals on Amazon (2025)
  12. 9 Best Smartwatches (2025): Apple, Wear OS, Hybrid & Kids' Watches
  13. 5 Prime Day Kindle Deals (Plus Amazon Echo Devices)
  14. Microsoft, OpenAI, and a US Teachers’ Union Are Hatching a Plan to ‘Bring AI into the Classroom’
  15. 5 Best Prime Day Fitness Tracker Deals and Smart Ring Sales (2025)
  16. ‘Yearners’ Are Sick of Playing It Cool on Dating Apps
  17. Best Prime Day Laptop Deals 2025: MacBooks, Chromebooks, and More
  18. 5 Best Prime Day TV Deals for All Budgets (2025)
  19. 5 Best Prime Day Beauty Deals 2025: Hair, Skin, and Dental Care
  20. Best Prime Day Deals Under $100 (2025): LifeStraws, Tech, and More

LifeHacker

  1. I Swear By This Portable Car Battery, and It's $45 Off for Prime Day
  2. I'm a Competitive Weightlifter, and These Are My Favorite Prime Day Deals on Fitness Equipment (So Far)
  3. This 70-Hour Razer Headset Is Down to Its Lowest Price Ever for Prime Day
  4. This DeWalt Oscillating Multitool Is 60% Off for Prime Day
  5. My Favorite 4K Streaming Stick Is 42% Off for Prime Day
  6. The Best Kindle for Most People Is at Its Lowest Price for Prime Day
  7. My Favorite Robot Vacuum Is Over Half Off for Prime Day
  8. Apple’s Cheapest AirPods With Noise Cancellation Just Hit a Record-Low Price for Prime Day
  9. This Eufy Security Camera Bundle Is $110 Off for Prime Day
  10. This Two-Pack of Solar-Powered Eufy Cameras Is Nearly Half Off for Prime Day
  11. These Excellent AirPods Alternatives Just Hit Their Lowest Ever Price for Prime Day
  12. This Drawing Tablet Made Me Wish I Was a Better Artist, and It's 41% Off for Prime Day
  13. One of My Favorite Portable Bluetooth Speakers Is Down to Its Lowest Price Ever for Prime Day
  14. These Eve Smart Home Devices Play Well With Apple, and They’re up to 60% Off for Prime Day
  15. My Favorite Smart Outdoor Lights Are $140 Off for Prime Day
  16. The Best iPad for Most People Is $120 Off for Prime Day
  17. This Highly Rated Security Camera Is My Top Budget Pick, and Now It’s Just $55 for Prime Day
  18. My Favorite Apple Watch Is $120 Off for Prime Day
  19. This Well-Reviewed Smart Doorbell Is Almost 40% Off for Prime Day
  20. Bose's QuietComfort Headphones Are Down to an All-Time Low Price for Prime Day
  21. This Durable Anker Mini Bluetooth Speaker Is Just $28 for Prime Day
  22. AI Is Scraping the Web, but the Web Is Fighting Back
  23. The Oura Ring 4 Is on Sale for the First Time Ever During Prime Day
  24. My Favorite Robot Lawnmower Is 25% Off for Prime Day
  25. I've Never Seen the Boox Note Air 4C Go on Sale Before, but It's Discounted for Prime Day
  26. I'm Obsessed With This Phone-Shaped E-Reader, and It's on a Rare Sale for Prime Day
  27. I’ve Tested Countless Smart Security Cameras, and These Are the Ones I'd Buy During Prime Day
  28. I Love a Big TV, and These Massive Hisense Sets Are up to 55% Off for Prime Day
  29. Watch Out for These Amazon Prime Day Scams
  30. The Shark AI Ultra Robot Vacuum Is 50% Off for Prime Day
  31. I’m a Tech Reviewer, and These Are the Best Prime Day Tech Deals (So Far)
  32. That Amazon 'Deal' Might Actually Be a Hidden Price Hike
  33. The Best Prime Day Tech Deals for Under $50
  34. These Well-Reviewed Marshall Headphones Are 38% Off During Amazon’s Early Prime Day Sale
  35. I'm a Little Embarrassed How Much I Love This Remote Controlled Bidet, and It's $270 Off Ahead of Prime Day
  36. The Discounted Peloton Accessories I'd Buy During Amazon’s Early Prime Day Sale
  37. Prime Day 2025 Live Blog: All the Best Deals on Laptops, Fitness Trackers, Appliances, and More
  38. Samsung’s Next Galaxy Unpacked Will Reveal Its ‘Ultra’ Foldable
  39. Apple's Newest MacBook Pros Are up to $400 Off Ahead of Prime Day
  40. I Can Finally Recommend AirPods Max Now That They're on Sale Before Prime Day
  41. Punch Lists, Flashing, Bleeding, and Other Construction Terms Every Homeowner Should Know
  42. This Professional Grade Vitamix Blender Is $250 Off Before Prime Day
  43. These Reolink Smart Security Cameras Are All on Sale for Prime Day
  44. Garmin’s Forerunner 955 Is Already on Sale Before Prime Day
  45. How to Sign Up for Prime Day 'Invite-Only' Deals
  46. I’m a Food Writer, and These Are My Favorite Prime Day Deals on Kitchen Appliances
  47. This $8 Knife Is the One Purchase You Must Make for Prime Day
  48. You Can Get Four Apple AirTags For $68 in Today's Early Prime Day Deals
  49. Some of My Favorite Instant Pot Appliances Are on Sale for Prime Day
  50. Four Reasons Not to Use ‘Buy Now, Pay Later’ for Your Prime Day Purchases
  51. These Amazon Echo Frames Smart Sunglasses Are 61% Off Before Prime Day
  52. How to Tell If a Prime Day Deal Is Just Hype
  53. These Are My Favorite Prime Day Deals on Robot Vacuums
  54. The 'Walmart Deals' Sale Is Walmart’s Answer to Prime Day
  55. The Best Prime Day Tech Deals Under $25
  56. The Only Advice You Need for Shopping During Prime Day
  57. The Best Prime Day Deals on Tools Right Now
  58. How Apple Fixed the Photos App in iOS 26
  59. My Favorite Kitchen Hand Vacuum Is 50% Off Before Prime Day
  60. My Favorite Budget-Friendly QLED TV Is $640 Off During the Early Prime Day Sale
  61. My Favorite AirPods Are at Their Lowest Price Before Prime Day
  62. These MacBook Air Laptops Are $150 Off Before Prime Day
  63. How TikTok's New App May Affect You
  64. Everything I’m Seeding in July
  65. 16 of the Best Movies and Documentaries About Dinosaurs
  66. 13 Easy Ways to Lower Your Energy Bills
  67. Why You Should Use More Than One Cloud Storage Service (and How to Choose Them)
  68. These Are the Best Cordless Landscaping Tools on Sale for Prime Day
  69. This Ring Security Camera Three-Pack Is $150 Right Now
  70. This JBL Outdoor Speaker Is $130 Off Ahead of Prime Day
  71. The Garmin Forerunner 255 Just Dropped to Its Lowest Price Ever
  72. The Garmin Instinct 2 Is at Its Lowest Price Ever Right Now
  73. This 65" Panasonic OLED With Fire TV Is at Its Lowest Price Ever Right Now
  74. This R2-4K Dual Dash Cam Is 45% Off Right Now
  75. Five Psychological Tricks You Can Use to Make Yourself Feel Happier
  76. LG's Newest Premium 65-inch OLED TV Is $1000 Off Right Now
  77. Enable This Feature on Your AT&T Phone to Prevent SIM Swapping Attacks
  78. I Previewed These Emotion-Tracking Smart Glasses, and They Seem Weirdly Useful
  79. In My Spin Class, Playlists (and BPMs) Are More Important Than You'd Think
  80. Your Anker Powerbank May Have Just Been Recalled
  81. This Is the Best Public Transit App I've Ever Used
  82. Five New Google Photos Features Coming to iPhones Before Androids
  83. The Five Best Apps to Reduce Food Waste (and Save Money on Groceries)
  84. 10 Shows Like 'The Last of Us' You Should Watch Next
  85. Android Users Will Soon Be Able to Edit Texts Sent to Their Friends on iPhone
  86. There Are Ways to Spend Your FSA or HSA on a Smartwatch
  87. The Former CEO of 23andMe Bought the Company Back, and I'm Tentatively Optimistic
  88. The New ‘Nothing’ Phone and Headphones Double Down on Unique Design
  89. The Strava/Runna Combined Subscription Is a Good Deal, But I’m Still Disappointed
  90. Threads' New DMs Could Be so Much Better
  91. All the Gardening Tasks You Should Do in July
  92. What People Are Getting Wrong This Week: 'The Velvet Sundown' and AI Music
  93. TP-Link’s Top-Rated Mesh Wifi System is $100 Off Right Now
  94. Wearables Aren't Going to 'Make America Healthy Again'
  95. Your Local Dick's Might Have Pelotons for 50% Off Right Now
  96. I Make My Favorite Fourth of July Skewers on an Electric Grill
  97. There’s a Major Security Issue With Coros Fitness Trackers
  98. My Favorite Amazon Deal of the Day: The 75-Inch Amazon Fire TV Omni QLED
  99. Eight of the Best Countries for Americans to Retire To (That Aren’t the US)
  100. Peloton's 'Pace Targets' Workouts May Turn Me Into a Runner

The Onion

The Register

  1. One Big Brutal Bill: Ex-NASA brass decry Trump's proposed budget cuts
  2. Post Office and Fujitsu execs 'should have known' Horizon IT system was flawed
  3. The cloud-native imperative for effective cyber resilience
  4. Georgia court throws out earlier ruling that relied on fake cases made up by AI
  5. SUSE launching region-locked support for the sovereignty-conscious
  6. Feds brag about hefty Oracle discount – licensing experts smell a lock-in
  7. Suspected Chinese cybersnoop grounded in Italy after US tipoff
  8. Britain's 5G experience 'among the worst in Europe' says MedUX
  9. Firefox is fine. The people running it are not
  10. UK police dangle £75 million to digitize its VHS tape archives
  11. Microsoft developer ported vector database coded in SAP’s ABAP to the ZX Spectrum
  12. Suspected Scattered Spider domains target everyone from manufacturers to Chipotle
  13. Epic Games settles its antitrust side quest that sought battle royale with Samsung
  14. Trump administration announces tariffs that may make plenty of tech more expensive from August 1
  15. Samsung predicts profit slump as its HBM3e apparently continues to underwhelm Nvidia
  16. Scholars sneaking phrases into papers to fool AI reviewers
  17. Nuclear reactors smaller than a semi truck to be tested in Idaho
  18. CitrixBleed 2 exploits are on the loose as security researchers yell and wave their hands
  19. CoreWeave's $9B Core Scientific acquisition is a bid for more power
  20. Apple tries get €500M EU fine tossed
  21. Double-detonation supernova could explain why the universe is full of candles
  22. Move over bit barns, here come Japan’s floating bit barges
  23. Game, set, botch: AI umpiring at Wimbledon goes long
  24. 'Cyber security' behind decision to end defense satellite sharing of hurricane data
  25. Phishing platforms, infostealers blamed as identity attacks soar
  26. Ordnance Survey digs deep to prevent costly cable strikes
  27. TUPE or not TUPE? How AI and cloud are rewriting the rules of supplier transitions
  28. AI scores a huge own goal if you play up and play the game
  29. Yes, I wrote a very expensive bug. In my defense I was only seven years old at the time
  30. Airbus okays use of ‘Taxibot’ to tow planes to the runway
  31. VMware’s rivals ramp up their efforts to create alternative stacks
  32. Atlassian migrated 4 million Postgres databases to shrink AWS bill
  33. Stalkerware firm gets scooped by SQL-slinging security snoop
  34. Ingram Micro confirms ransomware behind multi-day outage
  35. UK puts out tender for space robot to de-orbit satellites
  36. Massive spike in use of .es domains for phishing abuse
  37. iFixit gives new Fairphone 6 top marks for repairability: 10/10
  38. Financial 'stretch' for UK to join Europe's Starlink rival, says minister
  39. Ousted US copyright chief argues Trump did not have power to remove her
  40. Microsoft finally bids farewell to PowerShell 2.0
  41. Amazon built a massive AI supercluster for Anthropic called Project Rainier – here's what we know so far
  42. Mars was once a desert with intermittent oases, Curiosity data suggests
  43. We're number 1! Windows 11 finally overtakes Windows 10
  44. 14-hour+ global blackout at Ingram Micro halts customer orders
  45. Former and current Microsofties react to the latest round of layoffs
  46. Wikidata: Attempting to bridge FOSS ideals and direct democracy
  47. 'Trained monkey' from tech support saved know-it-all manager's mistake with a single keypress
  48. EU businesses want a pause on AI regulations so they can cope with unregulated Big Tech players
  49. Won’t somebody think of the European children? Meta and Google put up their hands to help on the same day
  50. Kawasaki and Foxconn build robot nursing assistant to tackle hospital scutwork

TechMeme

  1. El Salvador-based Tether says it holds nearly 80 tons of gold, worth ~$8B, in a vault in Switzerland; precious metals made up nearly 5% of its reserves in March (Jack Ryan/Bloomberg)
  2. Sources: an impostor used AI to mimic Marco Rubio's voice and writing style and contacted foreign ministers, a US governor, and a member of Congress (Washington Post)
  3. ReserveOne, a cryptocurrency holding company with bitcoin, ethereum, and Solana, plans to list on the Nasdaq through a SPAC deal expected to raise $1B+ (Niket Nishant/Reuters)
  4. AirGarage, whose platform analyzes parking facilities' data to improve efficiency, raised a $23M Series B led by Headline, bringing its total funding to $41M (Chris Metinko/Axios)
  5. X says India ordered it to block 2,355 accounts, including two from Reuters, on July 3, but then told X to unblock the Reuters accounts after a "public outcry" (Swati Gupta/Bloomberg)
  6. Moonvalley debuts Marey, its licensed AI video model, for $14.99, $34.99, or $149.99 per month; ~80% of its footage is from independent filmmakers and agencies (Andrew R. Chow/Time)
  7. Global VC funding reached $91B in Q2 2025, up from $82B in Q2 2024, driven largely by AI investments, but down from $114B in Q1 2025, the highest since Q3 2022 (Gené Teare/Crunchbase News)
  8. France-based chipmaker SiPearl raised a €130M Series A from Taiwan's Cathay Venture and others to develop its ARM-based Rhea1 AI chip, set to feature 80 cores (Benoit Berthelot/Bloomberg)
  9. IBM unveils Power11, its first major update to the chips since 2020, available from July 25, and says they can detect and respond to ransomware within a minute (Stephen Nellis/Reuters)
  10. M&S Chair Archie Norman tells UK parliament that M&S used the FBI and UK agencies to combat the May cyberattack and says M&S believes DragonForce was behind it (Laura Onita/Financial Times)
  11. Bluesky rolls out Activity Notifications, letting users get push notifications about new posts and replies from specific accounts, as it doubles down on sports (Richard Lawler/The Verge)
  12. As Amazon Prime Day begins, some merchants say they can't afford to offer discounts due to Trump's tariffs; Adobe expects $23.8B in sales across the four days (Spencer Soper/Bloomberg)
  13. The American Federation of Teachers, the second-largest US teachers' union, says it will open an AI training hub with $23M from Microsoft, OpenAI, and Anthropic (Natasha Singer/New York Times)
  14. OnePlus launches five products: the midrange €449 Nord 5 smartphone, the €349 Nord CE 5, a smaller €299 Watch 3, the €119 Buds 4, and the €229 Pad Lite tablet (Dominic Preston/The Verge)
  15. Dubai-based Huspy, which offers proptech tools to home buyers, agents, and brokers, raised a $59M Series B led by Balderton, after a $40M+ Series A in June 2022 (Tage Kene-Okafor/TechCrunch)