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BBC

  1. Why this heatwave feels worse than the last one
  2. Babies and mothers died after 'systemic and sustained' failings, largest NHS maternity review finds
  3. 'From excitement to emptiness': Families affected by largest NHS maternity scandal tell their stories
  4. Scotland fans pray for 'perfect' result ahead of Brazil World Cup tie
  5. King meets women's cricket team that is not allowed to exist
  6. Train passed red signal before fatal crash, says report
  7. Burnham on course to be PM, but what would his No 10 operation look like?
  8. UN nuclear chief says inspectors will visit Iran sites as part of war deal
  9. Police took eight minutes to find Henry Nowak's fatal stab wound
  10. Biggest city in Crimea without power after Ukraine strikes
  11. Scientist publishes fresh doubts over Microsoft's quantum claims
  12. Air conditioning creates political divide in France
  13. Power outages hit France as it records hottest day since measurements began
  14. The UK's summers are getting hotter - but how prepared are we?
  15. How to use windows, blinds and fans to keep your home cool
  16. What are Scotland's chances of progressing as third-place finishers?
  17. As Messi turns 39, how he and Ronaldo keep breaking records
  18. World Cup's best matches, moments, goals & players so far - ranked
  19. No need to panic for England - but this was a reality check
  20. Want to feel happier at work? Take a five-minute walk
  21. Many fear the NHS will continue to fail mothers and babies unless there's a cultural shift
  22. Ten years on, Brexit's economic impact is becoming clearer
  23. 'Our house was turned into a cannabis farm while Dad was in hospital'
  24. Luxury watches and £220 teapot: Police pictures reveal Peter Murrell's illicit purchases
  25. Ben Stokes reveals 'highest pressure' of England captaincy
  26. Man who died at summer solstice event named
  27. GTA 6 will cost $80 - and physical edition will not contain a disc
  28. Badenoch won't say sorry for language at fiery Commons session
  29. Trust pays £187k over trans changing room tribunal
  30. French woman allegedly held captive by husband for 12 years rescued in Pakistan
  31. Beach hut with no power or running water goes on sale for £200k
  32. BBC News app
  33. Will Anyone Challenge Burnham For PM?
  34. The Climate Question: Is climate change ruining our sleep?
  35. Scotland primed for game of their lives against fallible Brazil
  36. Players to expand prize money protest at Wimbledon
  37. England's James and Rice to have fitness assessed
  38. Stokes reveals 'highest pressure' of England captaincy
  39. Tuchel's England are opposite to Southgate's - and built to beat top teams
  40. IOC announces new $10,000 grant for Olympians

Bitcoin

Engadget

  1. Family files wrongful death suit following Tesla crash in Texas
  2. 8BitDo launches the Arcade Controller Pro for hardcore fighting game fans
  3. Google says it'll soon be easier to use TSA PreCheck Touchless ID via Wallet
  4. Wireless charging wastes way more electricity than wired, here's why
  5. Google Home Speaker review: A modest update for the Gemini era
  6. US government reportedly urging Meta to share its AI models
  7. Rockstar finally reveals pricing for Grand Theft Auto 6
  8. YouTube settles early test case over social media harm to children
  9. Alibaba sues the US government for adding it to list of firms linked to Chinese military
  10. Superhuman has acquired AI authenticity service GPTZero
  11. HDMI 2.0 vs 2.1: Why you don't need the upgrade for streaming
  12. Here's why cables for Thunderbolt 4 and 5 ports cost so much
  13. Meta reportedly dips its pathetic toes into the prediction market space
  14. Netflix's new horror game taps into your phone for deeper immersion
  15. Sorry, Slackbot. Claude is taking your job
  16. Don't let the Star Wars branding put you off Galactic Racer
  17. How to get the most out of your Apple TV subscription
  18. Meta Glasses hands-on: Ray-Ban is out, Kylie Jenner is in
  19. MSI Claw 8 EX AI+ review: Big money for big performance
  20. China takes back top spot in latest supercomputer ranking

Pinboard

  1. Where to Find the Colors Your Screen Can’t Show You – Ryan Moulton's Articles
  2. Desktop apps | Deno Docs
  3. The Coming Loop | Armin Ronacher's Thoughts and Writings — "And yet I have no doubts that this looping future is going to be our future despite the fact that I presently resent it. I already see astonishingly small teams building at impossible speed and I see codebases turning more and more into obscure and confusing organis…
  4. Never Give Them Your Face
  5. Is AI ruining our skills? Early results are in — and they’re not good
  6. TikZ Editor — Free WYSIWYG editor for TikZ diagrams in LaTeX. Drag elements and the TikZ code updates instantly, without disturbing your formatting. Works on the web or as a desktop app.
  7. baidu/Unlimited-OCR: Unlimited OCR Works: Welcome the Era of One-shot Long-horizon Parsing.
  8. macOS Golden Gate Icon Comparison — Basic Apple Guy — via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/cW4dl02
  9. JSON-LD Explained for Personal Websites | Ethan Hawksley
  10. cancel_claude
  11. 1200 Free Online Courses from Top Universities | Open Culture
  12. GLM-5.2 vs Claude Opus | Tech Stackups
  13. Read this before you vibe-code another app | The Verge — via The Verge https://ift.tt/wc1Y2Kv
  14. AI Economics for Dummies - McSweeney’s Internet Tendency
  15. Everything Is Logarithms — https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48622626
  16. birdclaw — Local Twitter memory in SQLite — birdclaw is a local-first Twitter workspace: archive import, cached live reads, focused triage, and reply flows in one local web app + CLI.
  17. Japanese symbols that speak without words
  18. IN THE WEIGHTS
  19. plotnine 0.13.4 - A Grammar of Graphics for Python — plotnine is an implementation of a grammar of graphics in Python based on ggplot2. The grammar allows you to compose plots by explicitly mapping variables in a dataframe to the visual objects that make up the plot. Plotting with a grammar of graphics is powerful. Custom (…
  20. Show your hands honor for the strange power they bring you – Aresluna
  21. Opinion | The Secret Reason Bosses Want Everyone Back in the Office, Every Day of the Week - The New York Times
  22. The Closet — the Criterion Collection
  23. help i accidentally a wigglegram — See: https://github.com/JCLemme/wiggle-wiggle
  24. Puzzle Lair - Logic puzzles, set fresh every morning — https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48629213
  25. The Map — Jerry's Map
  26. TownSquare — a tiny presence layer for websites
  27. Open Foundry
  28. Hyperblam Docs Home : HYPERBLAM — Heydon Pickering has been very busy building out a declarative, web component-based system for making music with HTML, along with a stunning companion site.
  29. Generative AI is cursing renters with the promise of impossible homes | The Verge — via The Verge https://ift.tt/NbhKRFB
  30. screen toys — cool browser based interactive toys an vj video loops that can sync to a bpm
  31. GLM-5.2 - How to Run Locally | Unsloth Documentation
  32. StarTrail-org/PixelRAG: The end of web parsing. The beginning of scalable pixel-native search.
  33. APERTVS.ai Fully Open Foundation Model for Sovereign AI Developed by the Swiss AI Initiative as a collaborative effort between EPFL, ETH Zurich, and CSCS. Open weights, open data, open science — Fully Open Training data, code, weights, methods, and alignment principles — all documented and reproducible. Apertus is to AI as …
  34. I Canceled My French Tutor and Built an LLM Tool That Does It Better
  35. djevops: Self-host Django easily - command-line tool for deploying your Django web app to a Linux VPS — https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48582629
  36. Mistral OCR 4 : SOTA OCR for Document Intelligence
  37. Texas anti-ICE protesters convicted of terrorism charges sentenced to at least 50 years in prison | Trump administration | The Guardian — Texas anti-ICE protesters convicted of terrorism charges sentenced to at least 50 years in prison https://ift.tt/KhbgTqn america, terrorism, government, immigration, activism, politics
  38. Crypto in 2026: Oh, This is the Bad Place
  39. Just a moment... — via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/cW4dl02
  40. Run isolated sandboxes with full lifecycle control: AWS Lambda introduces MicroVMs | AWS News Blog
  41. Unsloth GLM-5.2 – How to Run Locally | Hacker News
  42. Exclusive: NSF slashes research programs to support new tech initiative, insiders say | Science | AAAS
  43. NHTSA investigating alleged Tesla Autopilot crash that killed woman in her home - Ars Technica — "The day after Butler’s crash, the Tesla X account reposted a gushing comment from a Tesla fan who shared a pic of himself taking a photo of a sunset while driving." "Currently, the company is pushing for the NHTSA to relax tw…
  44. CNN was right about the war, and I was wrong — "The largest, most powerful, and best-funded military in the history of the world, despite inflicting massive destruction and suffering minimal casualties, was somehow defeated by a shipping channel. Our British cousins must be having flashbacks to the Suez Canal." "CNN’s sou…
  45. Far-right millionaire Abelardo de la Espriella wins Colombia’s presidential runoff | Colombia | The Guardian
  46. The 100 Greatest Bird Names of All Time — Making this list was the hardest thing I’ve ever done
  47. The Wrong Abstraction
  48. Why AI hasn’t replaced software engineers, and won’t — Coding agents as normal technology
  49. U.S. scientists are being lured abroad—and they aren't looking back | Scientific American
  50. Doing nothing at work
  51. The Deadly Rise of Giant Trucks and S.U.V.s - The New York Times
  52. The Web We Know Is Going to Disappear - Minid.net
  53. Notes on the Industry Job Search
  54. Effective use-cases for LLMs - Aggressively Paraphrasing Me
  55. Jerry's Map | Hacker News
  56. The Flat Curve Society. Hi-ho, we’ve reached the moment, in… | by Steve Yegge | Jun, 2026 | Medium
  57. There Are No Instances in atproto — Mastodon has been my mental model for social media federation, so I thought of federation in terms of instances. This enlightening blog post explains why the concept doesn’t make sense in the Atmosphere.
  58. Yet Another Piece of AI-Pilled Speculative Fiction Has Gone Dangerously Viral
  59. Running microVMs in Proxmox VE, The Easy Way - Tao of Mac - taoofmac.com/
  60. Your brain was never designed for this much bad news — https://theconversation.com/why-40-per-cent-of-people-are-avoiding-the-news-according-to-a-psychologist-282023 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48615569
  61. Stanford CS336 | Language Modeling from Scratch (2025)
  62. Building Reliable Agentic AI Systems
  63. 161 Partners – Bharat Iyer — via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/cW4dl02
  64. British Columbia, Time Zones, and Postgres | Crunchy Data Blog
  65. Legibility of Effort · eieio.games
  66. The Talk Show ✪: Ep. 450, With Jason Snell — via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/EAqRUYD
  67. GitHub - mysk-research/loupe: A privacy-focused iOS app that raises awareness about what native apps can see · GitHub
  68. Mini PC Finder
  69. (How to Write a (Lisp) Interpreter (in Python)) — https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12777852 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20590439 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39665939 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48619831
  70. Developers don't understand CORS - Chris Foster — The recent Zoom vulnerability is just one of many examples which show us that many developers do not understand how CORS works
  71. Cameron's World
  72. De-datafication — "I absolutely LOVE the premise of this upcoming conference at Georgetown Law: Life After Data [https://www.law.georgetown.edu/privacy-technology-center/education/life-after-data-the-conference-on-de-datafication/ ], the conference on “de-datafication”. I predict you’re going to be hearing a lot more abou…
  73. GitHub - headroomlabs-ai/headroom: Compress tool outputs, logs, files, and RAG chunks before they reach the LLM. 60-95% fewer tokens, same answers. Library, proxy, MCP server. · GitHub — via GitHub Public Timeline Feed https://ift.tt/hEYm0i4
  74. Tektur font - free download — Tektur is a display sans‑serif typeface with a blocky, industrial design, free for commercial and personal use under SIL Open Font License. Available for desktop and web in 3 widths × 6 weights = 18 static styles, or a variable font (width 75÷100 and weight 400÷900).
  75. Running into the Sun — On their way to Nash's first birthday party, Margaret and Phillip's rental car blows a tire. Luckily, an off-duty firefighter shows up to help.
  76. How to burst the AI bubble: Strike at its roots - Ars Technica
  77. Steam Machine
  78. The Vice President Is Playing With Fire (and Brimstone) 
  79. japanese-tech-writing/SKILL
  80. Santander AI Open Source — Open source AI projects from Banco Santander AI Lab. Responsible AI, MLOps, graph ML and LLM evaluation for financial services. Apache-2.0. PRs welcome. - Santander AI Open Source
  81. Bicameral, Not Homoiconic
  82. Chat with Z.ai - Free AI for Presentations, Writing & Coding
  83. The Reflect Package | Internals for Interns
  84. Alisa’s book of LLMs
  85. A business model that works for creators - by Chris Best
  86. An interactive introduction to the terrific experience of rendering Arabic typography and its technical debt | La Vita Nouva
  87. GitHub - chopratejas/headroom: The Context Optimization Layer for LLM Applications — Optimize LLM context windows with Headroom's dynamic layer. Return for key insights and tools to maximize token efficiency and application performance.
  88. Apple’s weird anti-nausea dots cured my car sickness | The Verge
  89. My AI Opinions - by Scott Alexander - Astral Codex Ten — My AI Opinions
  90. Eskool Display Typeface - sakshamverma — Eskool is a Display Typeface which stems from the 90's experience of going to school. The typeface is created following the aesthetics of a school environment, particularly where social interactions between students and teachers are dramatised. Eskool takes inspiration from the conven…
  91. Making HTTP requests from a container that has no curl, using bash /dev/tcp · Marek Šuppa — exec 3/dev/tcp/service/8642 printf 'GET /health HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: service\r\nConnection: close\r\n\r\n' >&3 cat
  92. Why 40 per cent of people are avoiding the news, according to a psychologist — News fatigue is not a personal failing, but a result of an evolutionary brain being asked to process a large volume of bad news from around the world.
  93. Claude Tag Anthropic
  94. Moebius Project Page — While 10B-level industrial foundation models have pushed the boundaries of image inpainting, their prohibitive computational costs severely hinder practical deployment. Constructing a highly optimized task-specific specialist offers a promising solution; however, extreme structural compression inevitab…
  95. japanese verb conjugation the simple hard way - underreacted
  96. Home - Works in Progress — How can you not be intrigued by a new publication with this initial raft of articles? Congrats on shipping @salonium, @s8mb, @bswud, and @ns_whit.
  97. The Wholesale Plagiarism of Obscure Sorrows - Waxy.org
  98. Trace: Meeting transcripts that never leave your Mac
  99. Lore | Next-Generation Open Source Version Control - Lore
  100. Pila: Plug-and-power home batteries | Pila

The Next Web

  1. Your AI coding tools may soon cost more than you
  2. Figma adds code layers to the canvas and lets users build custom AI plugins at Config 2026
  3. Mistral OCR 4 targets the enterprise back office
  4. xLight’s $350m bet to break ASML’s chip monopoly
  5. Ferrari replaces its marketing chief one month after the Luce EV reveal wiped billions off its stock
  6. Slate Auto prices its Bezos-backed EV pickup at $24,950 and opens preorders with 180,000 reservations
  7. China Telecom’s $1.7bn server deal hands Huawei a big win
  8. Zoox redesigns its robotaxi interior ahead of commercial launch, with NHTSA approval still pending
  9. Qualcomm in talks to design custom chips for ByteDance
  10. China takes the supercomputer crown without US chips

Smashing Magazine

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

Wirecutter

  1. We’re Sifting Through Tons of Prime Day Deals Slop to Bring You Only the Best
  2. The Best Prime Day Deals We’ve Discovered on Day 2 (So Far)
  3. The Best Headphones Under $100
  4. The Most Popular Prime Day Deals So Far, According to Wirecutter Readers
  5. The Best Tech and Apps for Your Home Office
  6. What’s the Best Vacuum for Carpets?
  7. How to Tame Your Viper’s Nest of Charging Cables
  8. Powerful Fans Are Often Ugly. But This One Is Beautiful.
  9. The Best Under-Sink Water Filter
  10. 50 Prime Day Finds Under $50 We’re Actually Buying

Sweethome

  1. What’s the Best Vacuum for Carpets?
  2. The Best Smart Strip Lights
  3. The Best Ways to Maximize a Tiny Bedroom
  4. 5 Cheap(ish) Dorm Essentials to Make College Life Easier
  5. Actually Good Dorm Decor That You’ll Want to Keep (Even After Graduation)
  6. Outdoor and Backyard Lighting We Love
  7. The Best Patio Umbrella and Stand
  8. The Best Under-Sink Water Filter
  9. Powerful Fans Are Often Ugly. But This One Is Beautiful.
  10. The Best Mattresses for 2026

Hacker News

  1. John Carmack on the mistakes around Quake that ruined id software
  2. RubyLLM: A Ruby framework for all major AI providers
  3. We’re making Bunny DNS free
  4. CAPTCHAs have failed for 20 years
  5. I taught a bucket to speak Git
  6. Show HN: Nub – A Bun-like all-in-one toolkit for Node.js
  7. For Most of the World, Open-Source AI Is the Only Way Forward
  8. PR spam today looks like email spam in the early 2000s
  9. Running Windows Games on a Hobby OS with Wine
  10. Krea 2: SOTA open-weights 12B image model
  11. A Practical Guide to SSH Tunnels: Local and Remote Port Forwarding
  12. Genuinely, my all-time favourite image: Mamenchisaurus hochuanensis
  13. Boffin claims Microsoft's "quantum leap" is invalid due to "basic Python errors"
  14. Show HN: Pure Effect – Reproduce production bugs on your laptop without a DB
  15. Show HN: Monolisa v3 – a typeface for developers and creatives
  16. Haystack: Open-Source AI Framework for Production Ready Agents, RAG
  17. Founding a company in Germany: €9600, 152 days and I still can't send an invoice
  18. Stealing Is a Skill
  19. Raspberry Pi Pico W as USB Wi-Fi Adapter
  20. Edsger Dijkstra's Library (Housed and Archived in Leuven, Belgium)
  21. Systems optimization should be part of CI/CD
  22. Statistics that live in your SQL
  23. Show HN: peerd – AI agent harness that runs entirely in your browser
  24. Ashby (YC W19) Is Hiring EMEA Engineers Who Can Design
  25. OpenAI and Broadcom unveil LLM-optimized inference chip
  26. Quebec town recognizes trees as living beings with rights
  27. "Fix" MacBook Neo Cursor Lag: Record 1 Pixel of the Screen Every 10 Seconds
  28. François Englert (1932 – 2026)
  29. Too many R packages: CRAN is inundated with submissions
  30. Minimus container images are now free

Ars Technica

  1. Military branches restore flu shot requirement after virus swept through base
  2. Slate Auto's truck builder goes live for its $25k electric pickup
  3. We got a sneak peek of the final space shuttle set to go on public display
  4. White House app auto-downloads to government phones, can't be uninstalled
  5. White House drastically shortens deadline for dropping quantum-vulnerable crypto
  6. US's climate.gov site, taken down by Trump, relaunched by nonprofit
  7. Odd police video shows drone removing knife from motionless suspect
  8. Oracle’s 21,000 layoffs help drive its debt-fueled AI investments
  9. A curious crossover: The Toyota C-HR review
  10. ABC asks viewers to protest FCC attempt to "control who is allowed" on The View
  11. Early land animals skipped the tadpole phase
  12. Trump may be mystery patient in odd case of 79yo getting experimental obesity drug
  13. Everyone pays the price as patent holders on seeds stifle innovation
  14. Sony releases trailer for Taika Waititi's Klara and the Sun
  15. How to burst the AI bubble: Strike at its roots
  16. With Starfall, SpaceX eyes an edge in global cargo delivery from orbit
  17. GM installs robots at flagship EV factory after laying off 1,300 workers
  18. Report: Kennedy Space Center not ready for era of super heavy rockets
  19. Man used massage gun on his tired eyeballs. It went as well as you'd expect.
  20. Polymarket's viral videos showed people winning big, but the bets were fake

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New Scientist

  1. Fluctuating oestrogen levels may alter how drugs enter women's brains
  2. Hidden black hole could explain mystery at the heart of our galaxy
  3. You should turn off fans when it's too hot – but how hot is too hot?
  4. Huge crater in Australia may be the oldest impact structure on Earth
  5. Elite Maya people had teeth placed in a cave far from their tombs
  6. Parenting may permanently improve brain health for mums and dads
  7. SpaceX's secretive plans to deliver cargo to Earth from space
  8. How some people's brains make an extraordinary recovery from stroke
  9. Unapproved gene therapy for boosting longevity is set to go on sale
  10. Woman with Alzheimer's starts conversing again after taking psilocybin
  11. New-to-science spider builds trap that flings ants into the air
  12. How menopause radically changes the brain – and what happens after
  13. ‘Fusogenic’ neurosurgery let paralysed pigs walk again – are we next?
  14. A promising natural technique to remove CO2 could backfire
  15. The surprising ways your brain changes from your 20s to your 40s
  16. People training new AI models admit they just get chatbots to do it
  17. We've found a mysterious substance on Titan and Pluto
  18. Autism may have two distinct subtypes that vary by brain activity
  19. A quantum state that lasts forever may finally be within our grasp
  20. The one film to watch before seeing Steven Spielberg’s Disclosure Day
  21. Faecal transplant makes the brains of old mice act young again
  22. Most portable air conditioners suck – but there's an easy fix
  23. Has the answer to life's origins been hiding in our cells all along?
  24. Gas from Uranus reveals it has an icy centre
  25. Can prebiotics, probiotics or postbiotics help your ageing microbiome?
  26. Remarkable fossils rewrite the story of how animals conquered the land
  27. Almost the whole of Japan moved eastward after 2011 earthquake
  28. Carl Sagan's The Demon-Haunted World is still supremely relevant today
  29. Complex life on Earth may last 500 million years longer than expected
  30. New Scientist recommends an excellent look at the future of work
  31. Ancient monument marked summer solstice centuries before Stonehenge
  32. Cervical cancer deaths have plummeted thanks to HPV vaccine
  33. Chilling the body with drugs could limit brain damage from stroke
  34. Oldest known plague outbreak killed hunter-gatherer children
  35. Pigeons lock their eyes in place when they are flying
  36. Our brains have their first thoughts unexpectedly early in life
  37. Autism and ADHD are on the rise due to widening diagnostic criteria
  38. The secrets to keeping your brain sharp in old age
  39. Walking shark found in Papua New Guinea is new to science
  40. Sperm have been made magnetic to allow IVF inside the body
  41. Arctic Ocean reaches tipping point that could be dire for marine life
  42. Technology is changing our perspective on nature – at every scale
  43. The social media ban is an experiment – here’s how it will be studied
  44. Inside the start-up aiming for a giant leap in robot intelligence
  45. We may have finally solved cosmology's chicken-or-the-egg problem
  46. Are useful and error-free quantum computers only two years away?
  47. Why controversial ideas in science shouldn't always be dismissed
  48. What is a ‘normal’ memory slowdown, and when should I worry?
  49. Understanding anorexia’s grip on the brain could unlock new therapies
  50. Sci-fi horror film Backrooms is a triumph for its 20-year-old director
  51. Hundreds of new moons are revealing our solar system's violent history
  52. The relationship recession is even bigger for Gen Z than we thought
  53. Killer robots are here – we must finally decide whether to accept them
  54. El Niño has started and the weather could get weird
  55. Quantum computer quickly mines cryptocurrency while using less energy
  56. Art and nature come together in stunning new Henry Moore exhibition
  57. Striking photos show how sands are encroaching on oases in the Sahara
  58. How to sparkle in conversation with strangers
  59. First working nuclear clock heralds a new era in timekeeping
  60. Global map reveals the vast scale of underground fungal networks
  61. Have we finally worked out how Venus flytraps snap shut?
  62. ‘Forgotten’ pollutants cause 15 per cent of global warming
  63. Toy universe shows that time could be a quantum illusion
  64. Dramatic photo of ibis being guided to their winter homes wins award
  65. Vaping after quitting smoking is linked to lung cancer
  66. Think you have a good sense of humour? So do most people…
  67. New Scientist recommends a brilliant take on the evolution of birds
  68. Fully autonomous drones have killed human soldiers for the first time
  69. Wolves seen hunting European bison in rare camera-trap recording
  70. Millions of fossil whale bones found in deep-ocean ‘necropolis’
  71. A nuclear war between India and Pakistan could destroy the ozone layer
  72. A Waymo nearly hit me, but I'm still optimistic about driverless cars
  73. Robots are about to overtake armed soldiers as the deciders of war
  74. Iron Age Britons may have removed the brains of the dead
  75. Frozen squirrel scat preserves ancient DNA from hundreds of species
  76. The last-ditch plan to save coral reefs from utter destruction
  77. Why we should all take quantum physics extremely personally
  78. A cosmic case of mistaken identity that can only be solved right now
  79. Dinosaur-killing asteroid impact site stayed hot for millions of years
  80. Unpicking endometriosis reveals how it affects more than the pelvis
  81. You don't need to worry about recursive-self-improving AI – yet
  82. What really happened when ancient humans migrated out of Africa
  83. Wildlife thrives in solar farm built on restored peatland
  84. Can Apple and Google stop children from sharing explicit images?
  85. Half the world's reservoirs could be clogged up with dirt by 2060
  86. You could get some of the benefits of sleep without having to nod off
  87. Are we getting to the point where it's safe to gene-edit babies?
  88. The maths meme that has been distracting mathematicians for a century
  89. Superintelligent machines may well need us after all
  90. Explore the mind-bending and paradoxical art of M C. Escher
  91. Cuts to US ocean programme will hinder monitoring of El Niño and AMOC
  92. A chromosome from a frozen rat has been resurrected inside mice
  93. Alice Roberts: 'We are fundamentally, at the end of the day, animals'
  94. Mysterious ‘cold blob’ in the Atlantic suggests the AMOC is weakening
  95. Why you need to future-proof your brain in middle age and how to start
  96. Hearing loss is bad for the whole body – but new treatments are coming
  97. A golden age of maths is dawning and mathematicians are freaking out
  98. Flood of AI 'garbage' is pushing open-source developers to the limit
  99. Everyone is Lying to You for Money is a must-watch exposé of crypto
  100. Becoming a parent may make you love your partner less

Slashdot

  1. Boffin Claims Microsoft's 'Quantum Leap' Is Invalid Due To 'Basic Python Errors'
  2. Trump Admin Announces $17.5 Billion In Loans For 10 New Large Nuclear Reactors
  3. A 25-Year-Old Blog Looks Back At 40 Years of Computing
  4. Mushroom Behind 'Tiny Human' Visions Lacks Genes For Known Psychedelics
  5. Europe: The World's Fastest-Warming Continent
  6. US AI Stock Sell-Off Shakes Markets From Wall Street To Asia
  7. 29-Year-Old Squid Proxy Bug 'Squidbleed' Can Leak Cleartext HTTP Requests
  8. China Reclaims Fastest Supercomputer At 2 Exaflops
  9. Wikipedia Cofounder Larry Sanger Banned From Site for 'Canvassing'
  10. Walmart, In Biggest Deal In Two Years, Buys Advertising Tech Firm Vibe.co
  11. Mark Zuckerberg Directed Meta To Create a Prediction Markets App
  12. Digital Euro Expected To Launch By 2029 After EU Backing
  13. Meta Launches Cheaper Smart Glasses Without Ray-Ban
  14. Oracle Cuts 21,000 Jobs As It Embraces AI
  15. UK Considers Forcing Social Media Firms To Prioritize Trusted News

BoingBoing

  1. Miami Marlins searching for this sad hotdog-less doggo, to treat him to a Dream Day at the ballpark
  2. Tom the Dancing Bug: Elon Musk and His DOGE Pals, in "Texas Chainsaw Massacre"
  3. ChatGPT, Claude & Gemini are all invited—and lifetime access is just $54.97 during Deal Days
  4. We Have The Herpes: Arby's worker accused of infecting customer by spitting in food
  5. Kodak's new Charmeras have Y2K vibes
  6. Canberra's town crier recognized as world's loudest person with 122.4dB yell
  7. The cheating wasn't in the rider. It was in the bike
  8. Deal Days cuts Microsoft Office Professional 2021 from $220 to $30
  9. Grandpa Pudding Brains gets lost in a cop's muscles
  10. Duplicate Content splices 1960s video art with today's TikToks
  11. Toyo Ito's Expo Hall "Shining Hat" looks like a portal opening in the sky
  12. Cat goes full threat-mode over owner's cat-shaped slippers
  13. Tame crow hands the brush back and demands more grooming
  14. Ancient Loops turns the Playdate's crank into a sound instrument
  15. Cops can't stop looking at this banana car
  16. The Criterion Collection's Stanley Kubrick set is coming for your wallet
  17. A24 Films succumbs to the AI darkside
  18. Jaws in Concert gets the shark-costumed bassist it deserves
  19. Don't be fooled by scammer deepfakes
  20. So that Saul Goodman return video wasn't just a one-off
  21. Valve's Steam Machine will run you at least a thousand dollars
  22. The Mouth of Moron returns to explain that pond scum is democracy
  23. REI tells people to Opt Outside, posts AI bike from nowhere on Earth
  24. Tucker Carlson takes his tanned balls and goes home
  25. Is Grandpa Pudding Brains the mystery patient getting the super-Ozempic?
  26. People line up to shop at Arizona's new gas-station cathedral
  27. Venice residents add coyotes to the coexistence curriculum
  28. This AI resume tool helps you get past ATS filters for $40
  29. For centuries, a cracked Egyptian statue sang at dawn
  30. Mysterious glowing balls rise from the Mekong every year

Core77

  1. BMW Unveils Striking M Concept Neue Klasse
  2. Travoca's Award-Winning Off-Grid E-Cooler, by Industrial Designer Dave Gibson
  3. Great UX: Hazet's SmartCase Portable Tool Organizers
  4. Reader Submitted: Node & Loft - A Modular Charging Ecosystem that Doubles as Sculptural Desktop Objects
  5. Reader Submitted: An Assistive Communication Ecosystem Enabling Real-Time Deaf-Hearing Conversation
  6. The 2026 Core77 Design Awards Home & Living Winners
  7. The 2026 Core77 Design Awards Apps & Platforms Winners
  8. The 2026 Core77 Design Awards Built Environment Winners
  9. The 2026 Core77 Design Awards Consumer Technology Winners
  10. The 2026 Core77 Design Awards Emerging Technologies Winners
  11. The 2026 Core77 Design Awards Branding & Identity Winners
  12. The 2026 Core77 Design Awards Lifestyle Accessories Winners
  13. The 2026 Core77 Design Awards Interaction Winners
  14. The 2026 Core77 Design Awards Medical & Healthcare Winners
  15. The 2026 Core77 Design Awards Packaging Winners

CNET

  1. From Apple AirPods to Ninja Slushis, These Are the 117+ Prime Day Sales Actually Worth Buying
  2. 'Supergirl' Review: A Solid 'Superman' Follow-Up That Could Really Use More Lobo
  3. Every College Student Needs a Trusty Laptop. Here Are the 4 I'd Buy
  4. The Ceiling Fan Setting That Lowers Your Energy Bill Without Touching the Thermostat
  5. iPhone Ultra or iPhone Fold? Here's Everything the Leaks Say About Apple's 2026 Foldable
  6. CNET Shopping Wizards Found This Week’s Best Deals, From Prime Day Savings to New Lows
  7. AI Planned My Summer So I Don't Have To. Here's the Full Calendar
  8. JBL Tour Pro 3 Earbuds Review: Lower Price and Enticing Improvements
  9. May Mobility Aims to Expand Robotaxi Operations Overseas Through New Partnership
  10. 62 of the Best TV Shows on Netflix That Will Keep You Entertained
  11. Best Wireless Earbuds of 2026
  12. The Best Toaster Ovens of 2026 for Easy Countertop Cooking
  13. I Tried Google's New Smart Speaker. It's One of the Best at $100
  14. I Love Oppo's Find X9 Ultra. It's a Stunning Camera Phone
  15. Star Fox on Switch 2, Reviewed: Nintendo's Remake Nostalgia Works. Is It a Trend?
  16. I Got a Ground Level Look at How Seattle's World Cup Drone Scoreboard Lights Up the Sky
  17. NotebookLM Review: There's Nothing Quite Like This AI Tool
  18. Is Microsoft Defender Enough for Antivirus Protection? It Depends
  19. My High-Tech Tips on Reinventing Your Kid's Backpack for Back-to-School
  20. Best Phone to Buy in 2026
  21. Smart Glasses Are Here. Can You Identify Their Hidden Cameras?
  22. Best Prepaid Phone Plans for 2026
  23. Here's Why Weber Dominates Every 'Best Grill' List — Including Ours
  24. The 9 Best Places to Buy Reading Glasses Without a Prescription
  25. Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for June 24, #1109

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The Verge

  1. Riot now lets you enable its anti-cheat when you want to
  2. UK staff at the foundation that runs Wikipedia seeks union recognition
  3. Figma now has AI motion graphics and shader tools
  4. 52 Prime Day steals under $25 you won’t want to miss
  5. The solar-powered Birdbuddy Pro is on sale for $168, the lowest price yet
  6. The best Prime Day deals on LG, Samsung, and more 4K TVs
  7. The SwitchBot battery-powered fan we love is $90 for Prime Day
  8. The 16 best robot vacuum deals available during Prime Day
  9. 20 Prime Day deals Verge readers are buying right now
  10. 8BitDo’s all-button controller gets a screen upgrade for customizations without an app

Wired

  1. These Prime Day Gift Card Deals Are Basically Free Money (2026)
  2. The Trump White House Is Over Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei
  3. I've Built Countless Sets, and These Are the Best Prime Day Lego Deals (2026)
  4. 12 Best Prime Day Fitness Tech Deals (2026) Up to $250 Off
  5. The Samsung 990 Pro SSD Is on Sale for the Lowest Price I’ve Seen in 2026
  6. 21 Best Prime Day Beauty Deals of 2026 (We Sifted Through Hundreds to Pick Them)
  7. Google Home Speaker Review: Leading the Pack, Again
  8. Qualcomm Buys Buzzy Chip Startup Modular for Nearly $4 Billion
  9. My Family Loves Board Games—Here Are the 9 I'd Buy On Sale During Prime Day (2026)
  10. 107 Prime Day Deals on Gear We Stand By, Up To 52% Off (2026)
  11. With a Range Bump, the $25K Slate Is the Most Affordable EV Truck in the US
  12. We're Tracking Prime Day Live To Find Sales Worth Shopping in 2026
  13. 18 Walmart Deals We Like Better Than That Other Sale Happening Right Now
  14. Form Smart Swim 2 LT Goggles Include Innovative Form Correction
  15. BenQ 4100i Review: Bringing the Cinema to Your Living Room
  16. Get $145 Off The Best Mesh Router This Prime Day 2026
  17. Best Prime Day Action Cameras Deals I've Found (2026): GoPro, Insta360, DJI
  18. I Found The Best Amazon Prime Day Headphone Deals (2026)
  19. London Climate Action Week Foiled by Extreme Heat
  20. Get Up to 43% Off With the Best Prime Day TV Deals Plus Streaming Devices (2026)

LifeHacker

  1. The Best Exercise Bikes on Sale for Prime Day Are Discounted up to 33%
  2. What's New on Netflix in July 2026
  3. Oura's Ceramic and Gold Rings Are Nearly 50% Off for Prime Day
  4. The Best Prime Day TV Sales, According to a Tech Deals Writer
  5. Prime Day 2026 Live Blog: The Best Deals on Headphones, TVs, Fitness Tech, and More
  6. These Gardening and Landscaping Tools Are up to 34% Off for Prime Day
  7. The Best Prime Day Deals on Garmin, Oura, and Other Fitness Wearables
  8. These EGO Lawn Tools Will Make You Go Electric, and They're up to 44% Off for Prime Day
  9. The Best Prime Day Deals on Apple, Pixel, and Samsung Smartwatches and Accessories
  10. These Peloton Bikes, Treadmills, and More Are up to 33% Off for Prime Day
  11. The Best Prime Day Deals on Smart Home Devices, up to 50% Off
  12. The Best Home Security Deals From Google, Blink, and More Are up to 72% Off for Prime Day
  13. The Best Prime Day Deals on VR Headsets and Accessories up to 32% Off
  14. The Best Prime Day Deals on Bluetooth Speakers up to 50% Off
  15. The Best Prime Day Deals on Tech Basics, From Batteries to Power Strips
  16. This Powerful Eero Mesh Wifi System Is $120 Off Right Now, Its Lowest Price Yet
  17. This Powerful Google Floodlight Camera Is $100 Off Right Now
  18. The Samsung HW-Q800H Soundbar Is Over $350 Off Right Now, Its Lowest Price Yet
  19. These Nothing Earbuds With Built-In ChatGPT Are 33% Off Right Now, Their Lowest Price Ever
  20. This Five-Camera Blink Camera Bundle Is 65% Off Right Now, Its Lowest Price Ever
  21. This Massive Hisense U7 QLED TV Is 50% Off for Prime Day, Its Lowest Price Ever
  22. This Blink Video Doorbell and Outdoor Camera Is 80% Off Right Now, Its Lowest Price Yet
  23. This Fire TV Soundbar Is Over 40% Off for Prime Day
  24. These Over-Ear Nothing Headphones Are Up to 29% Off Right Now
  25. These Bose QuietComfort Ultra Headphones Are $70 Off Right Now for Prime Day
  26. These Smart Glasses Are up to 78% Off for Prime Day
  27. This Shark Bladeless Tower Fan Is on Sale for Just $120, Over 50% Off
  28. This Blink Floodlight Camera Is Over 70% Off Right Now for Prime Day, Its Lowest Price Ever
  29. Sony Headphones, Blink Doorbells, and the Best Prime Day Tech Deals You Can Get for Under $50
  30. This Mighty Anker Power Station and Solar Panel Bundle Is 50% Off Right Now, Its Lowest Price Ever
  31. This Ultrawide Asus ROG QD-OLED Monitor Is $350 Off Right Now, Its Lowest Price Ever
  32. The Bose Smart Ultra Soundbar, One of Their Best, Is $300 Off Right Now
  33. These DeWalt Tools and Accessories Are up to 50% Off for Prime Day
  34. Stage a Backyard Movie Night With These Portable Projectors, up to 40% Off for Prime Day
  35. This Sonos Era Speaker Is at Its Lowest Price Ever Right Now
  36. The Best Tech Deals for Under $25 During Prime Day
  37. Every Apple Watch, Including the Series 11, Is on Sale for Prime Day Right Now
  38. The TP-Link Roam 6 Travel Router Is at Its Lowest Price Ever Right Now
  39. This Samsung Odyssey Gaming Monitor Is Its Lowest Price Ever for Prime Day
  40. This Kindle Colorsoft Is $90 Off Right Now for Prime Day
  41. This Blink 2K Outdoor Camera System Is 55% Off Right Now
  42. This Is Your Chance to Get the AirPods Pro 3 for $179
  43. The Google Pixel 4 Is Over $100 Off for Prime Day
  44. My Picks for the Best Home Gym Equipment for Apartments Are up to 30% Off for Prime Day
  45. The Amazon Echo Show 11 Is at Its Lowest Price Ever for Prime Day
  46. These Anker Earbuds Are Great for Workouts, and They're on Sale for Under $40 Right Now
  47. These Budget-Friendly Samsung Galaxy Earbuds Are Almost 40% Off Right Now
  48. The Apple Watch 11 Supports Siri AI, and It's $120 Off Right Now
  49. 10 Shows Like 'Adventure Time' You Should Watch Next
  50. The Best Prime Day Deals on Kindles and Other E-Readers
  51. Five of the Best Workout Headphones (Including My Personal Favorite) on Sale for Prime Day
  52. You Can Get a Lifetime License for Windows 11 Pro and Office 2024 for Just $110 Right Now
  53. The Ultra-Slim iPhone Air Is $160 Off Right Now
  54. The Best Prime Deals on Fitness Equipment Up to 50% Off
  55. I'm a Tech Editor, and These Are My Favorite Prime Day Deals
  56. These Prime Day–Discounted Monitor Arms Might Be the Cheapest Desk Upgrades You'll Make This Year
  57. You Can Save $150 on the New AirPods Max 2 If You Hurry
  58. These Massive Hisense Mini-LED TVs Are up to $1,400 Off Right Now
  59. The Best Prime Day Deals on Bluetooth Trackers up to 38% Off
  60. The Beats Studio Buds+ Are Nearly Half Off for Prime Day
  61. This Samsung OLED Smart Monitor Is $400 Off for Prime Day
  62. These Workout-Ready Beats Earbuds Are at Their Lowest Price Ever for Prime Day
  63. These Beloved Pocket-Sized E-Readers Are 20% Off for Prime Day
  64. The Meaning of 'Brain Health' Depends on Who You Ask
  65. The Echo Dot Max Is Cheaper Than Ever Right Now
  66. The Entire Mortal Kombat Franchise Explained in 10 Infographics
  67. These Independent Apps Let You Use Your Whoop Without a Subscription (For Now)
  68. 10 Shows Like 'Succession' You Should Watch Next
  69. NotebookLM's Latest Update Makes It an Even Better Research Tool
  70. The Samsung Galaxy S26 Features That Save You the Most Time Every Day
  71. The Books, Movies, Video Games, and Podcasts to Check Out After Watching ‘Downton Abbey’
  72. This Woot Deal Is the Cheapest Way to Get the Nintendo Switch 2 Before Prices Go Up
  73. The Best Books, Movies, Video Games, and Podcasts to Check Out After Watching ‘You’
  74. This Windmill Smart Air Conditioner Is My Home Upgrade of the Week
  75. 10 Shows Like 'The Office' You Should Watch Next
  76. Walmart's Big Summer Sale Is Ready to Take on Prime Day
  77. Nintendo Is Giving Switch Online + Expansion Pack Members a Free Bonus Month
  78. Now That Apple Is Officially Raising Prices, Should You Buy a New Device?
  79. I Tried Android 17’s ‘Bubbles’ and It Makes Multitasking Way Easier?
  80. Apple Is Making 'Hide My Email' Less Effective, but There Are Alternatives
  81. Everything You Need to Know About Prime Day 2026
  82. You Can Now Use Your HSA/FSA Funds to Buy a Fitbit Air
  83. Google's Gemini-Enabled Home Speaker Is Officially Available for Preorder
  84. Google's New AI 'Information Agents' Can Send You Alerts on Topics You Care About
  85. This Is Why Your Ad Blocker No Longer Works on Chrome
  86. Lifehacker Deals Live Blog: The Best Tech Sales, All in One Place
  87. Facebook Has a New AI Search Mode, but You Should Use It With Caution
  88. Eight New Features You'll Get in Android 17
  89. Threads Just Rolled Out These Three New Features
  90. The Contactless Philips 5000 Smart Recognition Lock Is on Sale for $213 Right Now
  91. 10 Shows Like 'Downton Abbey' You Should Watch Next
  92. This Dual-Cam Doorbell Gives You a Top-to-Toe View Without Paying Ongoing Fees
  93. I Tried the Upgraded Apple Photos 'Clean Up' Tool, and It's Actually Pretty Good Now
  94. The Out-of-Touch Adults' Guide to Kid Culture: What Does 'Dah Bih Gah' Mean?
  95. Apple's New Betas Offer Some Clues About the Next iPhones and MacBooks
  96. How to Speak With a Real Person at Home Depot Customer Service
  97. The Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra Is $350 Off Right Now
  98. How to Speak With a Real Person at Best Buy Customer Service
  99. This 'Nothing' Fitness Smartwatch Is $62 Ahead of Prime Day
  100. 10 Hacks Every PayPal User Should Know

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The Register

TechMeme

  1. Runlayer, which provides an infrastructure and control layer for enterprise AI agents, raised a $30M Series A led by Felicis, bringing its total funding to $42M (Lily Mae Lazarus/Fortune)
  2. Seltz, which is building a web search engine that can be used by AI agents, raised a $12.5M seed led by Speedinvest and B Capital (Jeremy Kahn/Fortune)
  3. Nature publishes a peer-reviewed paper alleging that Microsoft's 2025 quantum breakthrough claims were based on "basic Python errors" and data cherry-picking (Thomas Claburn/The Register)
  4. Sources: the Trump administration has been happier talking to Anthropic lately after Dario Amodei was replaced by cofounder Tom Brown in meetings about Fable 5 (Hugo Lowell/Wired)
  5. Ornn, which plans to launch a marketplace for GPU capacity designed to function like an exchange to trade oil contracts, raised a $33M seed led by a16z (Katherine Doherty/Bloomberg)
  6. XCures, which uses AI to streamline patient data and medical records, raised a $46M Series B at a $127M post-money valuation, bringing its total funding to $76M (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)
  7. RunPod, which rents access to non-Nvidia servers, raised $100M led by Summit Partners at a $1B valuation, a source says up from $100M after its seed in 2024 (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information)
  8. NYC-based Taktile, which helps fintechs build automated decision-making workflows, raised a $110M Series C led by Goldman Sachs, and plans a São Paulo office (Camila Grigera Naón/Fortune)
  9. Microsoft's Digital Crimes Unit says AI helped it link two separate hacking tools, Amadey and StealC, and file a single civil lawsuit to help take them down (Lorelei Smillie/Bloomberg)
  10. Chinese cybersecurity company 360 unveils new AI tools: Tulongfeng, which it claims is "China's version of Mythos", and Yitianzhen, to automate cyber defense (Eduardo Baptista/Reuters)
  11. OpenAI and Broadcom unveil Jalapeño, an LLM-optimized inference chip developed from design to manufacturing tape-out in nine months, aided by OpenAI's models (OpenAI)
  12. Google Home Speaker review: the $100 speaker, the company's first such device in six years, works for Gemini power users but has underwhelming music playback (Chris Welch/Bloomberg)
  13. Amazon plans to expand Amazon Now to 300+ Indian cities and towns, up from 100 at present, as CEO Andy Jassy visits India; a source says he is set to meet Modi (Sankalp Phartiyal/Bloomberg)
  14. Qualcomm says it will acquire Modular, which builds a chip software platform and has a proprietary coding language, in a nearly $4B deal set to close in H2 2026 (Lauren Goode/Wired)
  15. Rockstar says physical GTA 6 copies will contain a download code, not a disc; physical copies will be available from November 12, before the November 19 launch (Tom Phillips/IGN)