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BBC

  1. Ann Widdecombe suspect not known to Prevent as counter terrorism police take over investigation
  2. Trump reinstates Iran port blockade and vows 20% charge on cargo passing through Hormuz
  3. Twelve arrested over alleged right-wing terror threat to UK Islamic event, police say
  4. Briton tells of surviving Spain wildfire in car as wife and friends died trying to run to safety
  5. Burnham cements Labour leadership with backing of 349 MPs
  6. Mahmood says law will be changed to help deport grooming gang leader
  7. Volkswagen planning to cut up to 100,000 jobs globally
  8. US judge voids Donald Trump's $1.8bn settlement with IRS that gave him immunity from tax audits
  9. Heatwave to intensify in second week as wildfires burn across UK
  10. A versatile actor whose roles went far beyond Jurassic Park - Sam Neill dies aged 78
  11. Escaped prisoner Daniel Khalife assisted by two friends, jury told
  12. Over half of adults with learning disabilities do not live past 65, report says
  13. England to make late call on Rice for World Cup semi-final
  14. Most clinical? Least creative? BBC Sport compares the last four teams in the World Cup
  15. BBC experts pick their England World Cup semi-final starters - do you agree?
  16. Borrowed shoes, no Golden Boot - the story of the World Cup's greatest scorer
  17. Hollywood blockbusters and arthouse films: Sam Neill's best-known roles in pictures
  18. Drama, celebrations and outfits - our end-of-Wimbledon awards
  19. New era for Gibraltar with removal of 118-year-old border controls with Spain
  20. I hunted the men who secretly film their wives and share footage online
  21. How to get a better deal on banking, energy and internet
  22. Ed Sheeran inspires government-backed 'music in libraries' scheme
  23. Gang feud ended with 'resolution of differences' between rivals - police report
  24. Ex-Canada MP arrested after police seize 439 guns and antique cannon from his home
  25. Lindsey Graham's sister chosen as replacement after senator's death
  26. UK-Switzerland deal to scrap roaming charges and allow Britons to use e-gates
  27. UK seeking extradition of man suspected of killing wife and two daughters
  28. Former top official Robbins takes legal action over sacking
  29. BBC News app
  30. Counter Terrorism Police Investigating Ann Widdecombe Death
  31. Americanswers… on 5 Live! Mitch McConnell breaks his silence, will it stop the conspiracy theories?
  32. England to make late call on Rice for World Cup semi-final
  33. 'Easy to create divisions' - Kane says England are 'completely together'
  34. Man Utd sign £48m Santos and close in on Tielemans
  35. Most clinical? Least creative? Best in the air? Comparing the last four
  36. 'Out of this world!' - Best shots of Wimbledon 2026
  37. Sacked McCullum holds hands up for England results
  38. India outplay England - but is women's Test cricket struggling for relevance?

Bitcoin

Engadget

  1. Microsoft is making the Windows Search Box more streamlined and useful
  2. Public betas for iOS 27, macOS 27 and more Apple platforms are now available
  3. Los Angeles law enforcement will stop using Flock cameras
  4. A ransomware negotiator who colluded with attackers to scam victims was sentenced to 70 months in prison
  5. iCloud+ vs. Apple One: Which is worth it for you?
  6. TV-logging app TV Time is functionally relaunching as parent company pivots to AI
  7. State AGs sue to block the Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery merger
  8. Games Done Quick abruptly canceled SNK stream due to ties with Saudi Arabia
  9. You can easily scan QR codes that are already on your phone
  10. Not 300 miles, not 250 miles: These EVs have the worst range in 2026
  11. Oppo Watch X3 review: Come for the battery, stay for the versatility
  12. Europe takes step toward social media ban for kids
  13. Waze rolls out new AI features including Motorcycle and 'Less Chatty' modes
  14. Summer Games Done Quick once again raises over $2 million for Doctors Without Borders
  15. What are your plans for AI Appreciation Day?
  16. Pentagon releases new batch of UFO files, China's Tianwen-2 reaches its asteroid target, and more science stories
  17. Xbox gamer wins lawsuit against Microsoft to restore account and digital library
  18. Why GameCube games are so expensive (and why they're rarely sold at retro stores)
  19. Refreshed Apple Pencils may arrive next year with improved repairability
  20. Why Xiaomi phones aren't banned, but are rarely sold in the US

Pinboard

  1. Scrapers are destroying the open internet
  2. Networking and the Internet, from First Principles · Faza — How controlled disturbances of electricity, light, and radio, cooperatively routed across a web of independent networks, deliver data across the world in milliseconds.
  3. Stacks — run classic HyperCard stacks on modern macOS
  4. The Proportional Web
  5. Prefer STRICT tables in SQLite — In short: I prefer strict tables in SQLite because they avoid some datatype problems, such as putting text in number columns. SQLite has a feature that I think is underrated: strict tables. Strict tables help enforce rigid typing, preventing mistakes like putting text into integer columns.…
  6. Solo Dev's Train Sim Created Is Being Called The Best Ever Made
  7. JustVugg/colibri: Run GLM-5.2 (744B MoE) on a 25GB-RAM consumer machine — pure C, zero deps, experts streamed from disk. Tiny engine, immense model. 🐦
  8. Ghost Font: The Anti-AI Font Only Humans Can Read — An anti-AI font that can be read by humans but not leading AI models. Type your text below, then download and share the video clip containing your message.
  9. After 7 years in production, Scarf has reluctantly moved away from Haskell
  10. The End of Reading Is Here — In 2024, in a national test, just 35 percent of high-school seniors were “proficient” at skills such as analyzing complex fictional themes and evaluating the effectiveness of an author’s argument. About the same number scored below “basic,” meaning that they may struggle to draw conclusions from …
  11. Grumpy Website — "The original Windows 95 interface is _functional_. It has a function and it executes it very well. It works for you, without trying to be clever or sophisticated. Also, it follows system conventions, which also helps you, the user. I’m not sure whom the bottom interface helps. It’s a puzzle, an art object, …
  12. Everything a child learns
  13. The tech of ‘Terminator 2’ – an oral history – vfxblog — Ever since James Cameron’s Terminator 2: Judgment Day was released in 1991, I’ve been reading about the many ways ILM, led by visual effects supervisor Dennis Muren, had to basically invent new ways to realise the CG ‘liquid metal’ T-1000 shots in that film, of which t…
  14. I love LLMs, I hate hype — https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48883343
  15. ICE are heavily armed killers. They’re also huge losers | The Verge — via The Verge https://ift.tt/APqXj2p
  16. The Descent — What Happened to the Frontend While You Weren't Watching — The last time you wrote one it was a and an FTP upload — spare twenty minutes and get up to speed on everything the web did while you looked away.
  17. Pressed for time? 20 brilliant books you can read in a day | Fiction | The Guardian
  18. Cloudflare Drop
  19. 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-…
  20. withmarbleapp/os-taxonomy
  21. Berlin Review · Un-Doing Philosophy
  22. Collections: The Late Bronze Age Collapse, A Very Brief Introduction
  23. How to read more books
  24. Good Tools Are Invisible
  25. Interview With Mitchell Hashimoto
  26. What Does a 13-Year-Old See on Snapchat in a Normal Week? — It’s extraordinarily difficult for families to know how to protect their kids in today’s tech landscape. Design choices made by trillion‑dollar companies expose kids to wide-ranging risks. The companies’ leaders are aware that their products harm children, and they …
  27. How Successful Companies Go Blind
  28. AI 2040: Plan A — AI companies are racing to build AIs that are smarter than humans in every way. In AI 2027, we predicted that this would result in either extinction or irreversible concentration of power.1 Plan A is our positive vision for what should happen instead. In this scenario, humanity delays the development …
  29. Billion Dollar PDFs
  30. Lunacy — Lunatic Fringe for modern macOS — via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/WcnxtZ5
  31. COMBUSTION LAB — Interactive Engine Dynamics Simulator
  32. The Glass Backbone: Why the Army’s Logistics Will Break in the Next War - Modern War Institute
  33. The Vintage Beauty Of Soviet Control Rooms – Design You Trust — Just for the pleasure, a selection of vintage control rooms dating back to the Soviet era! A beautiful collection of control rooms filled with large buttons and analog dials, long before the democratization of computers and screens.
  34. Better tools made Copilot code review worse. Here's how we actually improved it. — This article discusses how GitHub improved Copilot code review by transitioning to shared Unix-style code exploration tools, which reduced review costs by optimizing agent workflows around pull request evidence.
  35. Alternate Clock Designs & Time Systems — https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48810543
  36. Davit — a native macOS UI for Apple containers
  37. A global workspace in language models Anthropic
  38. LinkedIn and X Are Flooded With AI Spam, Browsing Data Suggests
  39. A History of Menus is a Menu of History | The Pudding — What do America's earliest restaurant menus teach us about America?
  40. Daring Fireball: Exactly Like Om Malik — via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/A1m6jhg
  41. AI in science research boosts speed, but limits scope • IEEE Spectrum — Elie Dolgin: AI is turning scientists into publishing machines—and quietly funneling them into the same crowded corners of research. That’s the conclusion of an analysis of more than 40 million academic papers, which found that scientists who use AI t…
  42. The AI Picbreeder Experiment: In Search of Automatic Open-Endedness
  43. NEvo: Neural-Guided Evolutionary Video Synthesis
  44. Shipping up in Boston - angel_deux - Heated Rivalry (TV) [Archive of Our Own] — Shane is traded to Boston during the hookup era, and his attempts to act normal and professional around Rozanov are a little too successful: fans start shipping him with Marleau, instead.
  45. nfdn: In Emacs, Everything Looks Like a Service
  46. Brown Professor Suspects Most of His Class Used AI to Cheat
  47. Every Frame Perfect — How imprecise UI animations erode trust in product
  48. What if It’s Not the Phones? - The Atlantic
  49. A WWDC 27 Update on Building a Mac-assed App with SwiftUI - Paulo's Blog — via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/WcnxtZ5
  50. Java 27: What’s new? | Loic's Blog — Now that Java 27 is features complete (Rampdown Phase One at the day of writing), it’s time to walk through all the functionalities that bring to us, developers, this new version. This article is part of a series on what’s new on the last versions of Java, for those who wants to read the others,
  51. Heat : Death threat phone call scene - YouTube — Heat : Death threat phone call scene
  52. Apple Silicon Exec Explains Mac Mini AI Demand and On-Device Future - MacRumors — via MacRumors: Mac News and Rumors - All Stories https://ift.tt/GZvmi4T
  53. AI Surveillance and Social Progress - Schneier on Security
  54. Plein Air
  55. Pro-Palantir data has litany of errors, English hospitals admit
  56. The Second Derivative: Why No One Understands the AI Boom — The market misremembers 2008. That same blind spot sits at the center of the AI boom.
  57. Faster solutions, lower test scores: How AI is eroding math skills — "Researchers detect ‘cognitive surrender’ in answering word problems" [via: https://2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/end-over-end/ ]
  58. This High Schooler Developed an A.I. Tool to Diagnose Autism and ADHD Using the Retina — Edward Kang’s RetinaMind analyzes patients’ retinal images and accurately diagnoses neurodevelopmental disorders 89 percent of the time Kang’s invention won second place and an award of $175,000 at the 2026 Regeneron Science Talent Sear…
  59. Patreon Blocks Crawlers From Stealing Creators' Work for AI Training | 404 Media — Samantha Cole, 07/09/2026 Patreon is working with Cloudflare to stop AI crawlers from stealing creators' work without permission. The goal is to protect creators' rights to consent, credit, and payment. AI-generated content is allowed on Patr…
  60. Why Vanilla JS
  61. On Ditching Vagrant - benjamintoll.com
  62. My Thoughts on the Bun Rust Rewrite - Andrew Kelley
  63. context.dev — URL submitted via Discord intake. Fetch returned 429 (rate limited) and fallback via removepaywall.com did not yield content. Wiki stub created; content to be revisited.
  64. Analysis: CO2 from UK data centres could be ‘hundreds of times’ higher than thought - Carbon Brief
  65. La narrativa generata dall’AI è riconoscibile dalla sua struttura prevedibile — Uno studio di University of Maryland e Google DeepMind mostra che la fiction scritta da AI è spesso distinguibile non solo da tic stilistici, ma da caratteristiche narrative: trame lineari, temi sovraspiegati, moralismi espliciti, poca ambiguità …
  66. Drew Pusateri on X: "Our statement in response to this suit: We have no interest in other companies' trade secrets. We remain focused on building innovative technology that empowers people everywhere." / X — via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/A1m6jhg
  67. Sam Altman on X: "homeboy you're the one sellling public market investors on short-term space datacenters" / X — via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/WcnxtZ5
  68. yusukebe/ax: The AI-era curl — The AI-era curl. Contribute to yusukebe/ax development by creating an account on GitHub.
  69. The AI Hype Reckoning Is Upon Us - The massive chasm between AI hype and reality is finally reaching the breaking point.
  70. Wyrm Math — solve algebra by touch
  71. help.openai.com — via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/WcnxtZ5
  72. Prompt caching: 10x cheaper LLM tokens, but how? | ngrok blog — Learn prompt caching techniques to achieve 10x cheaper LLM tokens. Implement effective strategies and understand the trade-offs for significant cost savings.
  73. Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept - Tim Roughgarden — https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48861213
  74. the intricate brocade of this happiness - waxing__crescent - Heated Rivalry (TV) [Archive of Our Own]
  75. microsoft/flint-chart: 🪄 Flint is a visualization language that lets AI agents reliably create expressive, good-looking charts from simple, human-editable chart specs.
  76. exercises-dataset — A comprehensive dataset of 433 fitness exercises. Each entry includes name, category, target muscle group, equipment, instructions, thumbnail image, and animation video.
  77. Easy Swiss Chard Recipe | SimplyRecipes.com
  78. mclearc/emacs-ipad: A sideloaded port of GNU Emacs to the iPad - Codeberg.org
  79. AI 2040 and the Cult of Intelligence | the singularity is nearer
  80. New York City to become first in US to ban deceptive subscription practices | New York | The Guardian
  81. 野果子 · 从电影里，找家的配色与灵感
  82. What Every Python Developer Should Know About the CPython ABI | Labs
  83. Cuelume — interaction sounds for the web
  84. WhatCable: Know what your USB-C cable can really do — Know what your USB-C cable can really do. WhatCable explains cable speed, charging limits, e-marker data, and connected devices in plain English. No more guessing why a cable charges slow or refuses to drive your display.
  85. Ant, a lightweight JavaScript runtime — Ant is a lightweight, high-performance JavaScript runtime built from scratch. It runs real npm packages, starts instantly and ships as a portable 9 MB binary. No 50 MB download, no toolchain to set up. The engine, Ant Silver, is hand-built. It is not a wrapper around V8, JSC, or Spi…
  86. You paid me, a long-time Linux user, to use Windows 11 exclusively for a month: here’s how it went – OSnews — via @nina_kali_nina@tech.lgbt boost of https://mstdn.social/@osnews/116886712934272720
  87. Wren6991/RISCBoy: Portable games console, designed from scratch: CPU, graphics, PCB, and the kitchen sink
  88. Old and new apps, via modern coding agents by Terry Tao | Hacker News
  89. QuadRF can spot drones and see WiFi through my wall - Jeff Geerling
  90. John Lanchester · Squillions: Where’s all the cash? — John Lanchester · Squillions: Where’s all the cash? via Instapaper https://ift.tt/IUoYZJv
  91. We know how to mourn other humans – but what about ecological grief? | Environment | The Guardian — "In Iceland, people commemorated its first glacier formally declared lost to climate change. Western culture needs more of these rituals"
  92. randoFont — A simple but handy little tool for randomly exploring Google fonts. You can specify categories (serif, sans, mono, display) and then just shuffle through the fonts. When you don't have specific requirements and are just looking for a good font, it's a lot nicer to see a few at a time than pages of results...
  93. 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.
  94. UPI: Anatomy of a Transaction
  95. I found a hidden Chrome feature that made my browser the ultimate productivity tool
  96. Not your keys, not your songs — Last rites for Nina Protocol
  97. Hate “The Algorithm?” RSS Is One of the Tools You’ve Been Looking For | Electronic Frontier Foundation — Hate “The Algorithm?” RSS Is One of the Tools You’ve Been Looking For | Electronic Frontier Foundation
  98. How to Build a Minimal ZFS NAS without Synology, QNAP, TrueNAS
  99. Six principles for AI democracy — John Naughton, The Observer, 07.26 PDF version here if the Observer paywalls this. https://memex.naughtons.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/The-six-principles-of-AI-%E2%80%93-a-kings-speech-for-Andy-Burnham.pdf
  100. Verbalizable Representations Form a Global Workspace in Language Models

The Next Web

  1. Twelve states are suing to stop the Paramount-Warner deal that Washington already waved through
  2. Tesla’s Cybercab drove across a car park, and the real news happened two days earlier
  3. Google’s big Waze AI update includes a button that makes the app shut up
  4. Intel is putting 5 billion euros into Ireland, and Europe just got one of the few EUV fabs on the continent
  5. Nadella says you pay for AI twice, and Microsoft helped build the trap
  6. AI is ending older workers’ careers early, and it is coming for the well-paid ones first
  7. The web is now mostly bots. Cloudflare is rebuilding its defences around that
  8. Valarian raised $50m to help governments use US cloud without losing control of it
  9. The EU has stopped sanctioning Russian hackers and started sanctioning the machine that makes them
  10. Helsing raises $1.8bn at an $18bn valuation, and its cap table tells a story

Smashing Magazine

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

Wirecutter

  1. The Best Ice Cream Scoop
  2. The Best Digital Notebooks
  3. The Best Wine Coolers and Fridges
  4. The Best Dryers
  5. The Best Wet Mop
  6. The Best Vacuum for Hardwood Floors
  7. The Best Vacuum for Carpets
  8. The Best Camping Tents
  9. The Best Luggage Tags
  10. The Best Women’s Razors (for Every Body)

Sweethome

  1. The Best Wet Mop
  2. The Best Dryers
  3. 12 Actually Useful Things You’ll Be Glad You Have in Your Junk Drawer
  4. The Best Toilet Plunger
  5. I Could Buy Cheaper Toilet Paper. But This TP Is Convenient, Cute, and Better for the Planet.
  6. The Best Vacuum for Carpets
  7. The Best Vacuum for Hardwood Floors
  8. The Best Vacuum for Pet Hair
  9. How to Clean a Refrigerator
  10. Outdoor and Backyard Lighting We Love

Hacker News

  1. Building and Shipping Mac and iOS Apps Without Ever Opening Xcode
  2. Apple's new SpeechAnalyzer API, benchmarked against Whisper and its predecessor
  3. Linux 0.11 rewritten in idiomatic Rust, boots in QEMU
  4. Show HN: YouTube Guitar Tab Parser
  5. The real prices of frontier models. Tokens * Price, right?
  6. Linux on the Sega 32X. Who needs hardware synchronization primitives anyway?
  7. Climate.gov was destroyed. Open data saved it
  8. The art and engineering of Sega CD Silpheed
  9. SalesPatriot (YC W25) Is Hiring Full Stack Engineers (SF)
  10. Telegram's t.me domain has been suspended
  11. Samsung Health app threatens data deletion if users opt out AI training
  12. TFTP Honey Pot Results
  13. Show HN: I implemented a neural network in SQL
  14. Show HN: Jacquard, a programming language for AI-written, human-reviewed code
  15. Ancient Roman Board Game
  16. The Origins of Heikki's Garden of Flowers
  17. The 4-Bitter Lesson: Balancing Stability and Performance in NVFP4 RL
  18. Show HN: Nobie – an Excel-compatible runtime for agents and humans
  19. The infinite scroll may become endangered if controversial Calif. law passes
  20. A voxel Tokyo in real Japan time – ride the Yamanote line and study Japanese
  21. Show HN: BillAI Bass, an AI-Powered Big Mouth Billy Bass Using Strands Agents
  22. Show HN: Sigwire – a live TUI switchboard for every signal on your Linux box
  23. Benchmarking 15 "E-Waste" GPUs with Modern Workloads
  24. Show HN: DOM-docx – HTML to native, editable Word docs (MIT)
  25. Show HN: OpenClawMachines – Extending OpenClaw to the Enterprise
  26. Robust Secret Storage in Networks
  27. LAPD lets contract with surveillance giant Flock expire
  28. Tune Code Before Your Garbage Collector
  29. GhostLock, a stack-UAF that has existed in all Linux distributions for 15 years
  30. Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)

Ars Technica

  1. Ukrainian drone strikes forced Russia to stop shipping in vital sea corridor
  2. California creates $3,500 rebate for new electric vehicle buyers
  3. Apple sues OpenAI after ex-engineer allegedly used bug to steal trade secrets
  4. Solution to Feynman's reverse sprinkler puzzle also applies to "silly sprinklers"
  5. States sue to block Paramount/WBD merger that was approved by Trump admin
  6. Tom Cruise is utterly transformed in Digger trailer
  7. Apple and Samsung benefit as memory shortage pushes smartphone shipments to historic lows
  8. Colorado will decide whether a "right to natural gas" is added to state constitution
  9. Hackers quickly prove that Neo Geo Doom ports are not "impossible"
  10. A "disaster waiting to happen"? Industry officials worry about Crew Dragon availability.
  11. Now, defenders are embracing the prompt injection, too
  12. Simulating everything, sort of: The promise and limits of world models
  13. The real mystery behind Moana: After 1,700 years, why did Polynesians suddenly sail east?
  14. A Jupiter-size planet that escaped its star's death
  15. Overhaul of public lands grazing regulations seeks to cut public involvement
  16. Quantum error correction can constantly recalibrate a processor
  17. Increased drone surveillance of illegal July 4th fireworks led to $100K fine
  18. China recovered its first reusable rocket and showed a new way to do it
  19. Check out the first images of Quest shipwreck
  20. Ransomware negotiator hired to represent victims was working for the attackers

Digg

New Scientist

  1. How humans evolved to be twice as big as our ancestors
  2. Sugar molecules found in interstellar space for the first time
  3. Alzheimer’s, stroke, depression: The preventative power of sauna
  4. Shifts in the jet stream are behind Europe’s long heatwaves
  5. Game that reduces dementia risk may clear amyloid from men’s brains
  6. Four children with terminal brain cancer saved by new cell therapy
  7. UN space database aimed at easing global tensions is mysteriously down
  8. Global warming already causing crop losses of over $20 billion a year
  9. Mathematicians put AI to work on Fermat’s last theorem
  10. The sneaky maths trick for solving problems without answering them

Slashdot

  1. US Government Warns That Russia State Hackers Are Coming After Your Router
  2. German Firm Files For Insolvency After Cybercriminals Shut Down Production For 6 Weeks
  3. States Sue to Block Paramount-Warner Bros Merger, Defying DOJ
  4. Apple Reportedly Agreed to Intel Chips To Avoid White House Tariffs
  5. Cloudflare Precursor Watches Your Mouse and Keyboard To Decide If You Are Human
  6. Social Media Limits Are Coming For Teens Across Europe
  7. Why 55% of Americans Stopped Posting On Social Media
  8. China, Russia and Others Seek To Inflame Debate Over AI Data Centers
  9. Linus Torvalds on Rust, C, Bugs, and AI Patch-Checking Tools
  10. Japan's Space Agency Conducts First Test Flight For Experimental Reusable Rocket
  11. America May Soon Be Facing Largest Labor Shortage in Its History
  12. Semi-Trailer Trucks Test Converting Into Plug-In Hybrids
  13. 'Billionaire Exodus? California Drew 10x More Venture Capital Than Any Other State This Year'
  14. 'Forget Coders. The Real AI Threat Is In the Back Office'
  15. Linus Torvalds on AI, Junk Patches, Humans, and Godzilla

BoingBoing

  1. This refurbished Dell Latitude laptop is just $250 with Windows 11 Pro
  2. A tick bite can make you allergic to meat, and cases are climbing
  3. The hoaxter who claimed he could fit a whole movie in one kilobyte
  4. She fell out of the sky on Christmas Eve. The jungle was only the beginning.
  5. Sherpa left for dead on Everest tells his story
  6. CDs are back because streaming made music feel disposable
  7. A sugar used in fake tan was found floating in deep space
  8. The humble bicycle is still hiding a physics mystery
  9. In 1907, a sailor watched the North Atlantic mysteriously change color forever
  10. Florence hospital staff are used to tourists collapsing from beauty
  11. Erika Kirk rallies her "happy warriors" against trans people, Muslims, and "whoever else"
  12. Tourist yeeted by Yellowstone bison not at fault, for once
  13. Letting video game NPCs place Amazon orders for you is not a good idea
  14. Mind reading a mind reader is a dangerous game
  15. Masked ICE agents slam an already restrained man into rocks, then threaten the cameras
  16. David Tennant shares his Criterion Closet picks
  17. Turn your Plex library into live cable with Bunny Ears TV
  18. Help! What the heck is this, and why does it look just like a cursed, melted Donald Trump?
  19. Giant participation trophy appears on the National Mall for Trump's Iran War "effort"
  20. Play 500+ games with 3 months of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate for $62
  21. Surgeons use free IKEA pencils to mark bone cuts
  22. A 1278 court record may hold the first written F-word
  23. Ancient Greeks built special arenas for flinging wine dregs at targets
  24. A bison tossed a Yellowstone tourist 8 feet in the air
  25. Your camera roll is a disaster — This app fixes it for $60
  26. The rotten-egg stench that drove Bruce Springsteen out of Tacoma
  27. The fan fiction that rewrote Harry Potter as an evangelical tract
  28. A company tried to make Monopoly in America and couldn't get dice
  29. Learn 150+ languages for life for $70 with uTalk
  30. The British government has kept a cat on the payroll since 1929

Core77

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

CNET

  1. The First iOS 27 Public Beta Is Out, and Here Are Some of the Features It Brings to Your iPhone
  2. Smartphone Shipments Crash to 13-Year Low Due to RAMageddon
  3. Apple Is Reportedly Accelerating Chip Releases Due to AI Pressure
  4. This Free Mac App Can Help You Root Out Your Slow USB-C Charging Cables
  5. Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for July 14, #1129
  6. Today's Wordle Hints, Answer and Help for July 14, #1851
  7. Today's NYT Strands Hints, Answers and Help for July 14 #863
  8. Europe to Curb Children's Social Media Use With 'Phased' Age-Based Access
  9. Temporary Tattoos May One Day Power Your Wearable Medical Devices
  10. Best VPN for Android for 2026: Protect Your Privacy on the Go
  11. 12 States Sue Paramount to Block Warner Bros. Discovery Deal
  12. The Week's Best Deals Are Here, and These Are the Ones CNET Experts Would Actually Buy
  13. How We Test Portable Power Stations
  14. Our Lab Data Revealed the Portable Power Stations That Will Keep Your Fridge Running During Outages
  15. The Best Portable Power Stations Worth Adding to Your Emergency Kit
  16. BTS and McDonald's Collaborate for a Third Time With New Collectible Toys
  17. Best Laptop for College Students: Top Laptops for School in 2026
  18. These 5 Photoshop AI Tools Are Great for Beginner-Level Photo Editing
  19. Netflix Has Hundreds of Secret Genre Categories. Here's How to Access Them All
  20. Meta Pulls Instagram AI Update After Everyone Said They Didn't Want to Be Deepfaked
  21. How to Turn Your Apple Watch Into a Blood Pressure Tracker
  22. Summer Is the Worst Season for Your Phone Battery. Here's How to Get Through It
  23. The Truth About iOS 27 Beta: Don't Make This Mistake! video
  24. Back-to-School Tech Costs More This Year. Here's How to Find Deals Anyway
  25. Xbox Set to Bring Tony Hawk's Pro Skater to Game Pass Soon

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The Verge

  1. Microsoft tests Windows Search without all the ads and fluff
  2. OnePlus is reportedly bailing on the US
  3. A two-pack of DJI’s most capable wireless mics just got its first price cut
  4. The Shokz OpenRun Pro are the cheapest they’ve been since January
  5. The Pixel colors might rule this year
  6. Apple’s public betas for iOS 27 and more are out now
  7. Siri AI makes the Apple Watch finally feel like a wrist computer
  8. Siri AI is already changing how I use my iPhone
  9. The macOS 27 public beta is worth it just for the Liquid Glass tweaks
  10. States make last-ditch effort to stop the Paramount ‘media behemoth’

Wired

  1. Sam Neill Inspired a Generation of Scientists
  2. Siri AI Is Becoming Apple’s Everything Tool
  3. The Problem With VAR at the 2026 World Cup Isn’t the Technology—It’s Who Interprets It
  4. Wi-Fi 8 Explained: Features, Release Date, and More
  5. Tesla Says It’s Building a Wheelchair-Accessible Robotaxi
  6. There Are Endless Conspiracy Theories About Lindsey Graham’s Death
  7. 6 Best Bidets of 2026: Toto, Brondell, More, All Tested in My Bathroom
  8. iGarden Swim Jet X Pro 10 Review: Endless Pool
  9. Python Is So Slow. Can Julia Solve the Two-Language Problem?
  10. White Supremacists Love Armie Hammer’s New Movie
  11. A Leak of San Francisco Police Drone Footage Exposes the New Reality of Urban Surveillance
  12. Best Kitchen Composters and Food Recyclers (2026)
  13. Uber’s Autonomous Vehicle Strategy: Slow Their Adoption
  14. The Best Robotic Pool Cleaners of 2026: Beatbot, iGarden, Dreame
  15. Here’s How Apple Is Updating Its Child Safety Features in iOS 27
  16. 28 Best STEM Toys for Kids (2026): Learning Made Fun
  17. Scientists’ Side Hustle? Using AI and Quantum Computing to Generate New Peptides
  18. Best External Hard Drives (2026): SSD to Store Data, Video, and More
  19. The 10 Best Pet Cameras of 2026: Furbo, Petcube, and Enabot
  20. Beatbot AquaSense X Review: A Pool Robot That Cleans Itself

LifeHacker

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

The Onion

The Register

TechMeme

  1. Microsoft announces a Windows 11 search overhaul that prioritizes local results, removes promotional web content, and more, rolling out to Windows Insiders (Zac Bowden/Windows Central)
  2. Q&A with Xinzhou Wu, head of automotive at Nvidia, on Nvidia's chips and AI models for autonomous driving, lidar's usefulness for Level 4 autonomy, and more (Nilay Patel/The Verge)
  3. Doc: DHS analysts twice dismissed signs of intruders inside the DHS' network, first detected in May, as harmless activity before confirming a breach in June (David DiMolfetta/Nextgov/FCW)
  4. A coalition of 12 states led by California files an antitrust lawsuit to block Paramount's WBD merger, alleging it lessens competition in three markets (Gene Maddaus/Variety)
  5. London-based Valarian, which allows companies to use US cloud providers for AI workloads but retain control of their data, raised a $50M Series A led by NEA (Lily Mae Lazarus/Fortune)
  6. Seattle-based Augmodo, whose AI-powered "Smartbadges" worn by employees track shelf inventory, raised $21M led by TQ Ventures at a $350M valuation (Kurt Schlosser/GeekWire)
  7. Gauntlet, which helps institutions and crypto companies allocate their digital assets, raised a $125M Series C from Japanese financial conglomerate SBI Holdings (Ben Weiss/Fortune)
  8. Global smartphone shipments fell 11% YoY in Q2 to the lowest Q2 levels since 2013 amid the DRAM and NAND shortage; Samsung returns to #1 with a 24% market share (Shilpi Jain/Counterpoint Research)
  9. Apple's stock is up 16% since June 25, adding ~$650B in market value and pushing shares back to record territory, as investors flee an AI stock selloff to Apple (Ryan Vlastelica/Bloomberg)
  10. Sources: US officials estimate unauthorized distillation costs US AI labs up to $6B/year; US AI labs told the White House it could become an existential threat (Maggie Eastland/Bloomberg)
  11. Source: OpenAI still believes it is on track to unveil its first device in 2026 and release it in 2027; Apple's lawsuit may complicate hiring and supply chains (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
  12. Anthropic hires Tom Blomfield, a Monzo co-founder and one of the biggest names in UK tech, to join its compute team; he is taking a leave of absence from YC (Robert Scammell/Business Insider)
  13. Intel plans to invest €5B to expand chip manufacturing at its Leixlip facility in Ireland; in 2025, Intel canceled a planned €30B factory in Magdeburg, Germany (Financial Times)
  14. Nearly 200 economists, including 15 Nobel laureates and Anthropic's Jack Clark, sign a letter titled We Must Act Now, warning of rapid AI-led job displacement (Ben Casselman/New York Times)
  15. Samsung says it now aims to begin operations at its first chipmaking plant in South Korea's Yongin by 2029, bringing the timeline forward from 2030 or 2031 (Henry Siu/The Information)