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BBC

  1. Burnham to announce plans for new North Sea oil and gas drilling
  2. Ruthless plotter? Flip-flopper? Dad dancer? Insiders reveal the real Andy Burnham
  3. Burnham is 'people pleaser' with 'airy fairy' plans, says Kemi Badenoch
  4. Two US troops killed and one missing after Iranian attack in Jordan
  5. Britain's Kerr breaks 27-year mile world record in London
  6. Mother killed while asleep with baby ‘was my world’, sister tells BBC
  7. The Bronze Final - the unwanted tie or a match with a 'golden layer'?
  8. Messi and Tom Brady in disbelief over 'prophetic' Lamine Yamal photo
  9. World Cup winner Capdevila appeals to Trump after US travel permit denied
  10. 16 viral moments: From Posh Spice's slow reaction to Haaland's bromance
  11. False nines or firing forwards - England's potential life after Kane
  12. Why you should care about the third-place play-off
  13. White House backs Argentina team over Falklands banner
  14. Rooney, Hart and Richards row down Hudson River
  15. Control, threats, disfiguring surgery: My life inside Jeffrey Epstein's 'cult'
  16. Brad Pitt's children are dropping their dad's surname - here's why I did the same
  17. Doctors failed to spot my hidden condition for so long I was left permanently disabled
  18. I took a month of unpaid leave to look after my daughter for the summer holiday
  19. Gracie Abrams captures pain of early adulthood in new album but you're left wanting more
  20. Russian online retail warehouses hit by deadly Ukrainian strikes
  21. Laos says it can't determine cause of tourist deaths linked to methanol
  22. 'My buyers dropped their offer by £15,000 the day before exchange': Gazundering and how to avoid it
  23. German politician resigns over surrogacy child controversy
  24. Lib Dems urge FA and Uefa to withdraw from Fifa
  25. Watch: Helicopters dump water as huge Norway fire destroys homes
  26. Teen stuck on M25 for eight hours on first drive
  27. Viking re-enactor prepares to walk 100 miles in Viking clothing
  28. Bison rams grandfather in Yellowstone Park, knocking him metres into the air
  29. 'Mind-blowing' ancient bones discovery sparked by family holiday
  30. The man who balances bikes, ladders and sheds on his chin
  31. BBC News app
  32. Andrew Marr on Burnham's Plan For Number 10
  33. Will Trump's primetime speech help him challenge the midterm elections?
  34. Chelsea agree record £117m deal for Villa's Rogers
  35. Spain's final training session before World Cup final cancelled
  36. Britain's Kerr breaks 27-year mile world record in London
  37. Antonelli takes Belgium pole from Verstappen

Bitcoin

Engadget

  1. Apple has banned home service content on upcoming Maps ads
  2. ZA/UM announces layoffs two months after the launch of Zero Parades
  3. X and music publishers quietly settle opposing lawsuits
  4. How does the Apple Watch water lock feature actually work?
  5. Converting your Android Auto to wireless is easy with an adapter
  6. Chinese solar company says its new cell has an efficiency of 35.5 percent
  7. AI-run 'utopias,' Moss in 2D and other new indie games worth checking out
  8. OpenAI will start notifying parents if their teen has been kicked off of ChatGPT
  9. TikTok is no longer banned on US government devices
  10. There's now an API for mainlining Trump's Truth Social posts
  11. Meta is reportedly considering a multibillion-dollar data center deal with Anthropic
  12. Zoox issues software recall because its robotaxis may be confused by smoke
  13. The Odyssey in IMAX is worth a long journey of your own
  14. Apple Music and Apple One prices rise for the first time in years
  15. Is the Apple TV 4K still worth buying after the price hike?
  16. Here are the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 8 and Z Fold 8 camera and battery specs, apparently
  17. A bug in AWS has caused some customers' bills to spike from a few cents to billions of dollars
  18. Bethesda details what's next for Fallout and its other franchises amid Xbox cuts
  19. Apple and Google ordered by San Francisco attorney to take action against 'nudify' apps
  20. Samsung's Freestyle+ projector is now available for $1,200

Pinboard

  1. Inkling: Our open-weights model - Thinking Machines Lab
  2. SQLite should have (Rust-style) editions - Mort's Ramblings — SQLite optimizations
  3. Immersive Linear Algebra - The world's first linear algebra book with fully interactive figures — https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10183725 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13904881 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19264048 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40329388 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48935951
  4. Clocks.dev
  5. The Memory Heist
  6. Jurassic Park computers in excruciating detail
  7. Decoy Font: A TTF font that hides what you type
  8. Codex Micro | OpenAI
  9. Guide to data tools landscape for developers · OlegWock
  10. The Naturalist’s Library
  11. Shortverse | The Universe of Short Film
  12. Kimi K3 Tech Blog: Open Frontier Intelligence — It is the world's first open 3T-class model, designed for frontier intelligence across long-horizon coding, knowledge work, and reasoning.
  13. Cuelume — interaction sounds for the web
  14. Learning a few things about running SQLite
  15. Latent Space as a New Medium - by Kevin Kelly - KK
  16. The State of Open Source AI (by Mozilla)
  17. Re: Linking Patchwork with Sashiko? - Linus Torvalds — > > I think it makes the point of sashiko - helping maintainers - unachievable. If the point to not use > LLMs in general, let’s discuss this, not how to make each use case more complex. > > It seems like [1] expresses a very anti-LLM position in general Yes. And no, …
  18. The Human-in-the-Loop is Tired | Pydantic — This isn't a thinkpiece about whether AI will replace programmers. It's not a doomer essay and it's not a hype piece. It's an honest account of what it feels like to be a developer right now, from someone inside it, and some thoughts on what might actually help.
  19. NameThat — the visual dictionary of UI — what are the ui elements called
  20. The LLM Critics Are Right. I Use LLMs Anyway. | Jeremy Theocharis
  21. Un hack svela come Suno avrebbe addestrato l’AI musicale con dati da YouTube, Deezer e Genius — Codice sorgente sottratto a Suno indica che il generatore musicale AI avrebbe raccolto milioni di brani, testi e podcast da YouTube Music, Deezer, Genius e altre librerie online per addestrare i propri modelli. La fuga di dati ria…
  22. The git history command deserves more attention - Lalit Maganti — Found via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48901010
  23. The Lost Joy of Music Piracy: WhatCD, Oink, and Spotify | Pigeons and Planes
  24. Microsoft Comic Chat is now open source | Microsoft Open Source Blog
  25. An Engineer’s Guide to USB Type-C® - slyy228.pdf
  26. clipart.studio — magazine collage maker — Digital collage studio. Pick a magazine from the Internet Archive, clip the pieces you want, arrange them on the page.
  27. Legibility of Effort · eieio.games
  28. Building and Shipping Mac and iOS Apps Without Ever Opening Xcode
  29. The Graph That Should Be Front-Page News
  30. 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.
  31. Making 768 servers look like 1 — PlanetScale
  32. CLI Guidelines — An open-source guide to help you write better command-line programs, taking traditional UNIX principles and updating them for the modern day. #Linux #Programming
  33. How Our Rust-to-Zig Rewrite is Going — The Roc compiler has been rewritten from Rust to Zig. Here is how it's going. Summary: Zig is right for this particular project for odd reasons and it's going great.
  34. LocalSend
  35. Climate.us — A website set up by some volunteers after climate.gov, the government's website for climate issues, was taken down by Donald Trump.
  36. patonw/leaves: A text-mode disk usage visualization utility — A text-mode disk usage visualization utility
  37. Threads — via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/8wcpDPh
  38. Mermaid to Unicode box art (grok-mermaid)
  39. You just hired a million bad employees. - by George Sivulka
  40. exercises-dataset — A comprehensive dataset of 433 fitness exercises. Each entry includes name, category, target muscle group, equipment, instructions, thumbnail image, and animation video.
  41. Parakeet Blog: The Shape of Apps — via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/fFD76Z0
  42. The Proportional Web
  43. Your ‘App’ Could Have Been a Webpage (so I fixed it for you…) – Dan Q — "Fucking "app culture" drives me crazy. I got asked to install a mobile app just to look at the itinerary and accommodation information for a trip I'm going on. Why isn't it just a web page? So obviously I said "fuck that noise, hold my beer", reverse-…
  44. I Got Slopped — I Got Slopped Someone used A.I. to write my biography. Thousands more of those books are polluting Amazon. Who is behind all this drivel? Kashmir Hill Kashmir Hill is a technology journalist whose “sentences carry both weight and grace,” according to her unauthorized biography. NYTimes July 16, 2026 Upd…
  45. We Must Act Now
  46. Netflix says around 300 titles used generative AI | The Verge — via The Verge https://ift.tt/naKsDGS
  47. [2605.26711] The Need for an External Observer Formalizing the Sufficiency Gap: A Mathematical Extension of Mixture Identifiability and Contextual Grounding in Sequence Models — We construct a binary mixed-regime process with one deterministic textual regime and one random regime governed by an unobserved latent state. Even …
  48. ‘They want to break our will’: Gaza flotilla activist tells of rape in Israeli detention | Gaza flotilla | The Guardian — "The third time Anna Liedtke was subjected to an illegal strip-search in Israeli detention, female prison guards forced her on to her knees, covered her mouth to stop her screaming and raped her, accordin…
  49. German AI consortium releases Soofi S, an open 30B model that tops benchmarks in both English and German
  50. AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data - $1.7 BILLION | Hacker News
  51. L’IA può davvero essere cosciente? I dubbi di Anil Seth su Claude — Anil Seth contesta l’idea che i segnali individuati da Anthropic in Claude provino una possibile coscienza artificiale. Pur riconoscendo l’interesse della ricerca sul “workspace” interno del modello, distingue intelligenza e coscienza: simulare processi cogn…
  52. Firefox in WebAssembly — Someone compiled Firefox to wasm so you can run it in the brower. Source: https://github.com/HeyPuter/firefox-wasm
  53. cognitive-rhythm-writing/SKILL.md
  54. Towards demystifying the creativity of diffusion models
  55. White House teleprompter operator made more than $100K betting on Trump's speeches: Sources - ABC News
  56. Running Gemma 4 26B at 5 tokens/sec on a 13-year-old Xeon with no GPU | Neomind — Xeon E5-2690 v2
  57. Explore 1,300+ Beautiful Wildlife Illustrations from the 19th Century, Now Restored and Available Online | Open Culture
  58. I Hate The Way We Talk Online – Jason Toney — I Hate The Way We Talk Online https://ift.tt/ONgwueF communication, via:kottke, culture, internet
  59. Sen. Murray wants to stop turning back clocks | MyNorthwest.com (Nathaniel Watson, Sleep Medicine) — “The sunlight entrains our body clock to the 24-hour day,” Professor Watson said. “And that’s how our body can function because it knows, based on where the sun is, what should be happening and how it should be functioning.”
  60. $100 AI Music Video: Claude Fable 5 vs. GPT-5.6 Sol · TryAI
  61. 6× faster binary search: from compiled code to mechanical sympathy
  62. Uncovered.ink · Judge a book by its first pages — Read an endless stream of free book samples. Reveal and save the ones you like
  63. Steps of AI Adoption
  64. The Little Book of Reinforcement Learning — https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48941104
  65. Data Centers to Add Billions in Power Costs in 13 States - The New York Times
  66. How I use HTMX with Go– Alex Edwards
  67. The American E.V. Has Been Crushed. Will It Take the U.S. Auto Industry With It? - The New York Times
  68. starlink satellite map — https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23556015
  69. Shane Hollander, Gay Hockey Jesus - doctor_roc_roger — Compromising pictures surface after Ilya Rozanov’s phone is hacked. Determined not to let his Russian situationship face the fall-out of getting outed, Shane Hollander comes out, starts Twitter fights, and commits to acting unhinged on main, enlisting the help of a few t…
  70. The Archaeologist’s Copilot — Lessons from modernizing a Java 1.5 codebase with AI, a stable Docker environment, and test-guided incremental refactoring.
  71. Google and Epic give up fighting — third-party Android app stores are coming next week | The Verge — via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/8wcpDPh
  72. Mysteries of Telegram DC - Coxxs
  73. Why I Left Google DeepMind — I wanted AI ethics commitments to hold under pressure. In particular, I wanted Google DeepMind (GDM) to maintain its existing commitment against supporting killer robots. Over several months, I asked many people to act. I asked senior people⁠—respected people⁠—people with reputations silvered by…
  74. LLM Networking with MikroTik | the greg technology blog
  75. langchain-ai/openwiki: OpenWiki is a CLI that writes and maintains agent documentation for your codebase.
  76. Dithering — via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/8wcpDPh
  77. (2) The Racialist State
  78. GitHub - LazoVelko/neverclick: Keyboard-driven mouse control using local computer vision. · GitHub — kevinold starred LazoVelko/neverclick
  79. When eyeing a predator, horses keep a poker face as their hearts race • EurekAlert! — Horses know a predator when they see one – even if it’s only on a video screen they’re watching in a stall, with no sounds, smells or previous experience providing context to what they’re viewing, a new study suggests. And though sensors…
  80. GitHub - ActionRetro/ArtfulType: A distraction-free Markdown writing app for classic 68k Macintosh computers · GitHub — via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/8wcpDPh
  81. NotebookLM is now Gemini Notebook
  82. A Framework for Frontier AI and the Dawning of a New Age
  83. Union Pacific Is Tackling Rail Heat to Keep America’s Freight on Track | Union Pacific — Rail anchors, fasteners and regular maintenance remain the primary ways Union Pacific manages thermal misalignment due to extreme heat. But across a 32,000-mile network, teams are always looking for additional ways to reduce heat and str…
  84. The Bishops of the Church in Wales are against what the UK government is doing to trans people
  85. If you want to create a button from scratch, you must first create the universe | Marco Campos Blog
  86. Airbus migrating 70 critical apps from AWS to France's Scaleway amid digital sovereignty push — the European-based aerospace manufacturer, said it needed to guarantee the data remained “under European control" and was launching a tender at the start of 2026.  Catherine Jestin, head of digital at Airbus, told us on Thursday:…
  87. Did Apple just signal a third-party expansion of Apple Ads? | Mobile Dev Memo by Eric Seufert — via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/fFD76Z0
  88. ‘Adversarial clothing’: are garments designed to confuse facial recognition systems about to go mainstream? | Fashion | The Guardian — Preuß said his designs used large-scale prints, asymmetrical cuts and streetwear-inspired silhouettes to confuse facial recognition algorithms. The company said its Urban Ghost coat integrate…
  89. LEGO® building instructions through time | LEGO® History | LEGO.com US
  90. Dustin Mierau
  91. Resonant Computing Manifesto
  92. Physics — Susan Rigetti
  93. The Absurdly Optimized Pancake: Leavening Chemistry, Acid-Base Stoichiometry, and an Interactive Calculator | Absurdly Optimized
  94. Sleep regularity is a stronger predictor of mortality risk than sleep duration (2023) | Hacker News
  95. [no title]
  96. How to stop Claude from saying load-bearing | jola.dev
  97. Venezuelan man becomes 22nd person to die in ICE custody this year | ICE (US Immigration and Customs Enforcement) | The Guardian
  98. What training my chaotic dog taught me about power, control – and human beings | Dogs | The Guardian
  99. What You Won't Learn About the Odyssey from a Movie
  100. The Anti‑Forbes List — The Anti-Forbes List reverses the familiar billionaire ranking. Instead of measuring personal fortunes, it estimates “wealth created for others”: public-company shareholder value above Treasury-bill returns, attributed among tracked founders, minus each founder’s current net worth. Its leaderboard cred…

The Next Web

  1. France and Germany pledge to build a European rival to Palantir’s military AI software
  2. The White House is now deciding who gets access to frontier AI models, not the labs
  3. Chinese car sales in the UK jumped from 384 in 2015 to 285,000 last year. The tariff gap explains why.
  4. Nebius raised $775 million by borrowing against its GPUs. It has $40 billion more contracts to securitise.
  5. Meta patented an AI system that listens to your voice all day and tracks your mood
  6. Kevin O’Leary says data centres use less water than golf courses. The numbers are more complicated.
  7. Alibaba open-sources its AI chip software stack at WAIC, targeting Nvidia’s CUDA lock-in
  8. A French startup built a radiology viewer from scratch with AI at its core. Moffitt Cancer Center is already using it.
  9. Cybercriminals released 802,000 stolen accounts in one day during the World Cup group stage
  10. Face AI upgrades its video face swap tool with faster processing and better tracking

Smashing Magazine

  1. When It Makes Sense To “Block” The Main Thread
  2. No, People Don’t Want More AI In Their Life
  3. From Kickoff To First Concept: How To Turn Brand Strategy Into Visual Direction
  4. Designing For Distressed Users: Why Mental Health Apps Shouldn’t Follow Every UI Fashion
  5. Meet Kirki: WordPress’s First Visual Builder With An Infinite Canvas
  6. Users Don’t Need More Tools: They Need Seamless Integrations
  7. Matching AI Modality To User Intent: Designing The Right Interface
  8. Why Accessibility Is An Operational Capability, Not A Feature
  9. Snapshots Of Summer (July 2026 Wallpapers Edition)
  10. Designing With Uncertainty: How AI Supercharges Probabilistic Thinking
  11. The Impact Of Humanoid Robots On Humanity
  12. The Benefits Of Cognitive Inclusion In UX Research
  13. How To Make Your Design System AI-Ready
  14. June Is For Exploring (2026 Wallpapers Edition)
  15. Algorithmic Theming Engines: Building Self-Correcting Color Systems With `contrast-color()`
  16. Your Prototype Is Not Being Honest With Your Users (And Here’s How To Fix It)
  17. Four Levels Of Customer Understanding
  18. Advanced Tree Counting: Mathematical Layouts With `sibling-index()` And `sibling-count()`
  19. Ten Data-Backed Truths Of User Experience ROI
  20. Practical Interface Patterns For AI Transparency (Part 2)
  21. The Architecture Of Local-First Web Development
  22. Rethinking The Experience Of System Tools
  23. Designing Stable Interfaces For Streaming Content
  24. A Fresh View In May (2026 Wallpapers Edition)
  25. The “Bug-Free” Workforce: How AI Efficiency Is Subtly Disrupting The Interactions That Build Strong Teams
  26. The UX Designer’s Nightmare: When “Production-Ready” Becomes A Design Deliverable
  27. Session Timeouts: The Overlooked Accessibility Barrier In Authentication Design
  28. How To Improve UX In Legacy Systems
  29. Identifying Necessary Transparency Moments In Agentic AI (Part 1)
  30. A Practical Guide To Design Principles
  31. The Joy Of A Fresh Beginning (April 2026 Wallpapers Edition)
  32. The Site-Search Paradox: Why The Big Box Always Wins
  33. Testing Font Scaling For Accessibility With Figma Variables
  34. Modal vs. Separate Page: UX Decision Tree
  35. Anime vs. Marvel/DC: Designing Digital Products With Emotion In Flow
  36. Moving From Moment.js To The JS Temporal API
  37. Beyond `border-radius`: What The CSS `corner-shape` Property Unlocks For Everyday UI
  38. Building Dynamic Forms In React And Next.js
  39. Persuasive Design: Ten Years Later
  40. Human Strategy In An AI-Accelerated Workflow

Wirecutter

  1. Nordstrom’s Anniversary Sale is Back. And It’s Packed With Surprisingly Good Deals on Wirecutter Picks.
  2. The Best Toaster Oven
  3. The Best Lap Desk
  4. The Best Tabletop Radios
  5. The Best Label Makers
  6. The 8 Best Lipsticks
  7. The Best Carry-On Luggage
  8. 8 Giftable Shoes (Yes, Really)
  9. The App That Transformed My Closet
  10. The Best Portable CD Player

Sweethome

  1. The Best Hair Dryer
  2. The Best Ways to Maximize a Tiny Bedroom
  3. The Best Label Makers
  4. The Slimmest, Hardest-Working Gear for Your Small Entryway
  5. How Can I Clear My Home of Wildfire Smoke?
  6. How to DIY an Air Purifier
  7. The Best Weighted Blankets
  8. The Best Robot Lawn Mowers
  9. How to Clean Your Coffee Maker
  10. The Best Memory Foam Pillows

Hacker News

  1. Goodbye, and Thanks for All the Bikesheds
  2. GPT-5.6 used a prompt to close a 30-year gap in convex optimization
  3. REO Trucks I4 4WD Pickup Truck Starts at $21,500
  4. Gleam Is Now on Tangled
  5. If You Build It, They Will Come
  6. Our Approach to Bioresilience: Isomorphic Labs and Google DeepMind
  7. Setting up your spare Mac for Claude Code to control, a step-by-step guide
  8. Is this the end of the once-mighty GoPro?
  9. Elixir-lang.org has a new design
  10. Fable 5 vs. GPT-5.6 Sol on an NP-Hard Problem: Does /goal help?
  11. The Kimi K3 Moment
  12. Regressive JPEGs
  13. Tech note: making your own V-I plots at home
  14. LG monitors silently install software through Windows Update without consent
  15. A Second-Grade Teacher Revived a Beloved Video Game
  16. Show HN: Q3Edit – Edit and play Quake 3 maps in the browser
  17. Show HN: Get alerts for good seats at 70mm IMAX showings of The Odyssey
  18. GTX 1080s: Testing a Legend
  19. What AI did to stackoverflow in a graph
  20. How GitHub gave every repository a durable owner
  21. Thanks HN for 15 years of support and helping me find my life's work
  22. The Computer at the Bottom of a Canal
  23. Reviving a 15-year-old netbook with Arch Linux
  24. EU ban on destruction of unsold clothes and shoes enters into application
  25. First atmosphere found on Earth-like planet in habitable zone of distant star
  26. British runner Josh Kerr breaks world record for mile which stood for 27 years
  27. The Fermi Paradox, Percolation, and Inbreeding
  28. Fake food delivery site for the dopamine
  29. No link between acetaminophen use during pregnancy and adverse birth outcomes
  30. Qubes OS Security in the Public Record

Ars Technica

  1. Will AI fix prior authorization—or make it worse?
  2. Google-backed satellites for wildfire detection launch as smoke chokes US, Canada
  3. The Pentagon's Space Development Agency hasn't moved as fast as anyone would like
  4. Hegseth wants a "High-T" military; doctors call it a clinical minefield
  5. Taco Bell iceberg lettuce identified as source of cyclosporiasis in 5 states
  6. Troubling new details emerge on diabetes ouster controversy
  7. Will Russia's answer to the Falcon 9 rocket ever take flight?
  8. Fubo hikes prices by $15 after restoring some NBCU channels lost in November
  9. San Francisco orders Apple, Google to remove nudify apps from app stores
  10. Ars is looking for a senior technology reporter, and you might be it!
  11. The report oil companies are worried about: Climate attribution science
  12. FCC took pricey gifts from Paramount as the company needed approval for deals
  13. 2026 Lucid Gravity Touring review: A strong act 2
  14. Rocket Report: India's Vikram-1 nears debut flight; AST to become rocket company?
  15. SpaceX scrubs Starship launch after some of its engines didn't start
  16. Two Trump health nominees crash and burn in tense Senate hearing
  17. HP fined 1.4 billion rupees for “cartelization” of ink cartridges, toner, PCs
  18. T-Mobile bungled forced plan migration, canceling some users' free lines
  19. It's official: EU will force Google to share search data and open up AI on Android
  20. xAI can’t deny Grok makes CSAM anymore. So it’s suing users.

Digg

New Scientist

  1. Using AI for creative pursuits? Moderation is key
  2. Supplement that binds to microplastics may remove them from our body
  3. Why a Ukrainian cruise missile is flying with hobby drone hardware
  4. Why the upcoming eclipse is still vital in the age of solar probes
  5. Ancient Egyptian princesses buried with weapons may have been fighters
  6. Restoring ability to remove zombie cells may keep us sharp as we age
  7. Neurostimulation restores feeling in paralysed hand for months after
  8. We’ve found a rocky, temperate planet’s atmosphere for the first time
  9. Next-generation Alzheimer’s drug reduces risk of serious brain bleeds
  10. Stealth drone spins so fast that it disappears

Slashdot

  1. NextBSD Returns to Port Apple Source Onto FreeBSD
  2. CNBC's Jim Cramer Says He Needs 'Cold Hard' Proof AI Is Paying Off
  3. Long After Pluto Fly-By, NASA's New Horizon's Probe Wakes Up Again, Starts Doing New Science
  4. Union Fights Microsoft Over Layoffs at Game Studios
  5. The 'Death of the Stick Shift' is Almost Here for Americans
  6. Google-Backed Satellites For Wildfire Detection Launch As Smoke Chokes US, Canada
  7. Alien World Chemistry Found Inside Meteorite That Struck New Jersey Home
  8. Australia To Put Environmental Brakes On AI Data Centers
  9. Steve Wozniak's Foundation Partners With Realbotix To Build AI Teacherbot
  10. Xi Vows to Make AI for All in Debut at China's Top Tech Summit
  11. Billing Software Error Sends Billion-Dollar AWS Estimates
  12. Linus Torvalds To Critics of AI Coding On Linux: 'Fork It. Or Just Walk Away.'
  13. China Just Erased America's AI Lead
  14. FBI Arrests Man Accused of Using Steam Games To Drain Victims' Crypto Wallets
  15. Meta In Talks To Lease Computing Power To Anthropic In Potential $10 Billion Deal

BoingBoing

  1. Free up computer space with 2TB of cloud storage for $59 — for life
  2. Two AIs got $100 each to make a music video by themselves
  3. New monkey: so rare only 8 of 52 nearby villages knew it existed
  4. Knitters believe a hand-made sweater can end your relationship
  5. An orchestra with inept players sold out the Royal Albert Hall
  6. Pokémon-parody sex toys are back, with holographic trading cards
  7. This Los Angeles man-on-the-street interview is internet gold
  8. Brain implant lets a paralyzed man feed himself and pet his dog
  9. Your brain can track two voices at the same time
  10. JD Vance discovers parenting is easy when the Secret Service does the hard parts
  11. CNN writes the Taco Bell diarrhea headline America needed
  12. Explore a snapshot of a massive million-by-million block Minecraft server
  13. All Babbel language courses just dropped in this exclusive offer
  14. In 1978, a physicist took a particle accelerator beam through his brain and went back to work
  15. Remember Tara, the singing android that terrified the internet
  16. In the year 536, the sun dimmed for 18 months: "one of the worst periods to be alive"
  17. A homesick mechanic stole a C-130 to fly home to his wife
  18. The sci-fi machines that talk, but only about one thing
  19. A tiny keypad for chatting with chatbots
  20. The "polar bear sea monster" that fought whales was a blob of whale
  21. Decoy is an ambigious font that "hides" from AI
  22. The A Clockwork Orange origin story may be a total fabrication
  23. Live map of Britain's trains
  24. Anti-Forbes list ranks wealthy by the wealth their companies generated for others
  25. This $40 AI tool writes, formats, and covers your next ebook
  26. Collection of useful text art tools
  27. Watch the first season of Stranger Things in full 1980s pan and scan VHS glory
  28. The country that hands you a one-year tourist visa at the airport
  29. Cuba's surviving Trump's oil embargo with solar powered tuk-tuks
  30. The Newest Complete Carl Barks Library volume has Donald Duck lost beneath the sea

Core77

  1. Core77 Weekly Roundup (7-13-26 to 7-17-26)
  2. This Innovative Magflap Clipboard has Three Tricks Up its Sleeve
  3. Foldable Self-Healing Cutting Mats, Large and Small
  4. Willem de Haan's Highrise Campsite
  5. Snow Peak's Tiny LED Lantern
  6. Striking Chinese Industrial Design: Aulumu's M10 Powerbank
  7. A 3D-Printed Chair That Looks Like It's From 1970s Italy
  8. Re-Thinking the Flower Vase
  9. An Innovative Design for Multifunctional Scissors
  10. Decibel's Circular-Material 3D Printed Chair
  11. Furniture for Committed Book Lovers
  12. Designs for Modular Homes that Disappear Into the Ground During Natural Disasters
  13. A Candle-Powered Sculptural Light
  14. How to Unlock and Start Your Car When the Key Fob Battery is Dead
  15. Rethinking Cheapie Inline Lamp Switches

CNET

  1. The Top Continuous Glucose Monitors That Doctors Recommend
  2. Best VPN for Travel: Stay Private and Unblock Streaming Sites While Traveling This Summer
  3. I’ve Never Used a 3D Printer Before. Is This One for Kids as Easy to Use as It Claims?
  4. If You're a YouTube TV and DirecTV Subscriber, You Could Be Eligible for a Disney Settlement Payout
  5. YouTube TV Review: Even at This Price, Still the Best Channel Selection You'll Find
  6. The Same 5G Network Your Phone Uses Can Identify and Track Rogue Drones
  7. This Adorable BlackBerry-Inspired Phone Keeps Me Focused in Ways I Didn't Expect
  8. Let Me Show You How to Easily Change Your IP Address Using a VPN and Other Techniques
  9. iPhone 18: Everything We Know About Apple's Upcoming Handsets
  10. My Top College Dorm Device Picks I've Tried Out at Home
  11. Your Smart Home Is Raising Your Electric Bill. Here’s How to Stop It
  12. Which AI Best Predicts the 2026 World Cup Final? We Asked 5 Models About Sunday's Match
  13. Optery Review: An Effective, but Expensive, Data Removal Service
  14. Incogni Review: Comprehensive and Transparent Data Removals
  15. Best Data Removal Services of 2026: Reduce Your Online Presence
  16. Best Standing Desks of 2026
  17. Best Desks of 2026: I’ve Spent Nearly 4,000 Hours Testing Desks. These Are the Ones You Want
  18. Astronomers Found the First Atmosphere on a Planet in Another Star's Habitable Zone
  19. I Hate Paying for Cloud Storage Subscriptions. Here's How I Back Up My Photos and Videos
  20. Best Over-Ear Headphones We've Tested
  21. You've Probably Watched One of the 300 Titles on Netflix Produced With AI
  22. Best MacBooks We’ve Tested (July 2026)
  23. Apple Is Raising Prices on Music and One Bundle Subscriptions
  24. Today's NYT Strands Hints, Answers and Help for July 18 #867
  25. Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for July 18, #1133

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The Verge

  1. Google might not kneecap the Pixel 11a with an old processor
  2. Google is open-sourcing its 3D emoji
  3. GoPro’s discounted Max 2 bundle includes $100 worth of accessories
  4. The Guardian’s Carter Sherman fondly remembers being terrified by Ocarina of Time
  5. Surprise! Facial recognition smart locks are actually good
  6. Sony’s flagship RGB LED TV is incredible
  7. More games should be on rails (literally)
  8. The apps, gadgets, and tools every reader needs
  9. Fine, electric mountain bikes don’t suck
  10. Taylor Farms pulls iceberg lettuce from the US market after cyclosporiasis outbreak

Wired

  1. 4 Best Walking Pads for Small Spaces and Standing Desks (2026)
  2. Your Period Tracker Is (Probably) Spying on You
  3. The Best Motion Sensors and Home Security Gadgets Without Cameras
  4. FIFA Doesn’t Have a Plan to Deal With Climate Change
  5. How Google’s New Gemini Rates Work and How to Track Your Usage
  6. Balmuda NatureWind Studio Review: A Better Breeze
  7. The Best Tech for Back to School
  8. Prompt Injection Attacks Are Thwarting AI Hacking Agents
  9. SteelSeries Coupon Codes: 15% Off in July 2026
  10. AWS Billing Glitch Hits Customers With Billion-Dollar Fees
  11. What Cities From Chicago to Washington, DC, Look Like Under a Blanket of Wildfire Smoke
  12. Polymarket’s Corporate Structure Is a Mystery—Even to Some of Its Former Employees
  13. ICE Is Using Data Broker Tools to ‘Identify Unaccompanied Minors’ and ‘Fraud’
  14. ‘The Odyssey’ Backlash Failed Tremendously
  15. Lyft’s CEO Says, ‘We’re the Good Uber’
  16. The Best New Camping Gear at REI (2026): Tents, Coolers, Bikes, More
  17. Conspiracy Theorists Think Trump’s Speech Paves the Path to the Insurrection Act
  18. Essential Gear for an Emergency Kit—for Cars or Go-Bags
  19. 5 Best Smart Speakers (2026): Alexa, Google, Apple
  20. Valve Steam Machine Review: A Compromised Console

LifeHacker

  1. Lifehacker Deals Live Blog: The Best Tech Sales, All in One Place
  2. Only One Apple Music Plan Didn't Just Go up in Price
  3. 10 Camera Hacks Every iPhone User Should Know
  4. This Roborock Smart Vacuum Has a Robot Arm and Is 50% Off Right Now
  5. I’m a Deals Writer, and These Are My Top 10 Tech Deals This Week
  6. How Long Can You Actually Go Without Sleep?
  7. This 4K OLED Gaming Monitor Is $400 Off Right Now
  8. My Favorite Bose ANC Earbuds Are $50 Off
  9. Why Bevel Is a Way Better App for the Fitbit Air Than Google Health
  10. If You Loved 'Off Campus,' There's One Movie You Need to Watch Next
  11. Why It's a Bad Time to Buy an iPad Mini Right Now
  12. That LastPass or Bitwarden Security Email May Be a Scam
  13. The Best Headphones for Kids Are 30% Off Right Now
  14. Use Apple's $150 Back-to-School Gift Card Offer to Get a MacBook for What It Cost Last Month
  15. 10 Hacks Every Apple Messages User Should Know
  16. Five Hacks Every Garmin Forerunner 70 User Should Know
  17. This 77-Inch Samsung OLED TV Is More Than $1,700 Off Right Now
  18. This Garmin Venu Sq 2 Smartwatch Is 40% Off Right Now
  19. Scammers Are Using FaceTime to Pose As Apple Support Reps
  20. These Gboard Alternatives Are Open-Source and Privacy-First
  21. Five Hacks Every Garmin Forerunner 170 User Should Know
  22. 10 Shows Like Netflix's 'Little House on the Prairie' You Should Watch Next
  23. Don’t Watch the Clock When You Can’t Sleep (and Focus on This Instead)
  24. What OnePlus Exiting the US Market Means for Current Users
  25. For the First Time, These Shokz Bone Conduction Headphones Are Under $100
  26. NotebookLM Has a New Name and a Few Other Changes
  27. This Safari Extension Can Block Unwanted Content on Any Website
  28. 10 Hacks Every Coros Watch User Should Know
  29. Here's How to Officially Suggest New Emojis
  30. Third-Party App Stores Are Finally Coming to Google Play
  31. The Best Books, Movies, Video Games, and Podcasts to Check Out After Watching ‘Cape Fear’
  32. You Can Now Try Siri AI on Your Wrist
  33. Five Workout Headphone Hacks Everyone Should Know
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  35. The Top 10 TV Shows of the Year so Far, According to Streaming Data
  36. Post-Quantum Encryption Could Be the Must-Have VPN Feature of the Future
  37. You Can Now Talk to Spotify (and You Might Actually Want To)
  38. Five Hacks Every Garmin Forerunner 165 User Should Know
  39. This Acer Gaming Headset Is Only $16 Right Now
  40. Your Mac's Next 'Crash Report' Might Actually Be Malware
  41. Microsoft Just Patched a Record 570 Flaws in Windows
  42. The Top 10 Movies of the Year so Far, According to Streaming Data
  43. How to Join the Waitlist to Try the New Siri AI
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  45. 10 Shows Like 'I Will Find You' You Should Watch Next
  46. Google Images Is Celebrating Turning 25 With Two New Features, and One of Them Is Actually Pretty Useful
  47. Microsoft Is Finally Fixing Windows Search
  48. 'Claude Reflect' Is Like Spotify Wrapped for Your AI Chat History
  49. Disable These Gboard Settings to Protect Your Privacy
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  60. Your iPhone Is Hiding a Powerful Document Scanner
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  64. 10 Hacks Every Google Home User Should Know
  65. Three Things I Already Love About the New Ultrahuman Ring Pro
  66. The Bose QuietComfort Ultra Headphones Are $80 Off Right Now
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  72. How to Use AI Browsers Without Getting Hacked
  73. Sony's Pricey 1000X 'Collexion' Headphones Just Got Their First Discount
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  75. 10 'Preview' Hacks Every Apple User Should Know
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  85. This Massive Data Breach Compromised Nearly 7 Million Driver's Licenses
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  90. 10 Shows Like 'Off Campus' You Should Watch Next
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  94. Six Ways iOS 27 Is Making AirPods Easier to Use on iPhone
  95. Meta Now Lets Anyone Generate AI Images With Your Instagram Posts, but You Can Stop It
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  100. Five Hacks Every Suunto Run User Should Know

The Onion

The Register

TechMeme

  1. How the Trump administration shifted from a "light-touch" approach to AI policy to an interventionist stance that led to restrictions on top AI models in the US (Leo Schwartz/The Information)
  2. The grassroots group HumansFirst is organizing protests against the "unaccountable" buildout of data centers across 125 US locations on July 18 (Reuters)
  3. A review of Microsoft's 13-inch Surface Laptop shows 8GB of RAM is not enough for a good Windows 11 experience; PC makers have unveiled upcoming 8GB laptops (Antonio G. Di Benedetto/The Verge)
  4. Analysis: recent open weight models lag frontier closed models' cyber capabilities by 4 to 7 months, a narrower gap than the 6 to 10 months through most of 2025 (AI Security Institute)
  5. SEC filing: GameStop says it owns 9.8% of eBay, signaling its intent to press ahead with a bid for the company after its unsolicited $56B offer was rejected (Reuters)
  6. Feathery, which develops an AI operating and decisioning system for financial services, raised $30M in total funding, including a recently completed Series A (FinTech Global)
  7. China's National Data Administration says the country's daily AI token consumption hit 140T in March 2026, up from 100T in December 2025 and 100B in early 2024 (Minxiao Chang/South China Morning Post)
  8. London-based Risk Ledger, which helps organizations manage supply chain cyber risks, raised a £24M Series B led by Axiom Equity, taking total funding to £33.8M (Ionut Arghire/SecurityWeek)
  9. Data infrastructure startup Cribl acquires CardinalOps, which offers AI-powered threat detection tools and had raised $40M, sources say for around $100M (Meir Orbach/CTech)
  10. Sources: China's National AI Industry Investment Fund gained voting rights in DeepSeek by joining its $7.4B round; other investors like Tencent and JD got none (Bloomberg)
  11. Thira, an AI startup founded by Apptio co-founders to develop AI agents that handle back-office tasks such as IT support, raised a $21M seed led by Madrona (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)
  12. Japan plans to buy 27,500 Nvidia Rubin chips to develop a domestic AI foundation model for robots, in a Noetra-led effort that includes SoftBank, Sony, and NEC (Bloomberg)
  13. Anthropic says Claude Fable 5 will be included in Max and Team Premium plans at 50% of limits from July 20 and via usage credits for Pro and Team Standard users (Claude/@claudeai)
  14. China's BrainCo unveils what it says is the world's first integrated "brain-to-robot" platform that lets users control robots using an EEG headset (Minxiao Chang/South China Morning Post)
  15. Memo: the DOJ says federal employees can now download TikTok on government devices, citing TikTok US' transfer of control, lifting a 2022 congressional ban (David Shepardson/Reuters)