BBC
- Burnham finalising cabinet ahead of becoming PM on Monday
- Zeffman: Burnham promises huge change - but leaves questions about plan to deliver it
- Mother of Henry Nowak killer jailed for removing knife from murder scene
- Bayeux Tapestry in 'wonderful state' after journey to London, French minister says
- Lauren Laverne diagnosed with blood and bone marrow disorder
- Boy attacked by zoo crocodile has had seven operations and is smiling again, say parents
- The 'ultimate all-round sportsman' - Garfield Sobers could do it all
- German politician faces calls to resign over surrogacy child
- EU proposes slowing down cuts to carbon emissions for businesses
- US denies Iranian claims it hit civilian infrastructure in latest strikes
- My Left Foot and Home Alone 2 actress Brenda Fricker dies at 81
- MP found not guilty of sexually assaulting women
- Five headaches Andy Burnham will have to deal with as PM
- Burnham's 'Manchesterism' got him to No 10 - but will it work for the UK?
- The names in the frame to be chancellor - and what it could mean for your finances
- Who is Andy Burnham's wife, Marie-France van Heel?
- Do declassified files support Trump's election security claims?
- What type of procrastinator are you - and how to fix it now (not later)
- The Commonwealth Games come to Glasgow next week - is the city ready?
- Why are UK fuel prices rising again?
- I wouldn't marry him until he paid off his debt, now I'm in charge of our money
- Why has British Steel been nationalised?
- Weekly quiz: What name did scientists give this $50m dinosaur?
- Keep calm and carry on - Spain trust team identity to deliver World Cup
- The financial winners and losers from the World Cup
- Winning team will get World Cup rings with engravings
- Harry Kane says England were 'missing the final piece of the jigsaw'
- Longest dry spell in 30 years for parts of England as heatwave hits two-week mark
- Former DUP leader Jeffrey Donaldson to appeal child sex abuse convictions
- First atmosphere found on Earth-like planet in habitable zone of distant star
- China hits out at British Steel nationalisation
- First Reform UK police commissioner elected
- Fans invited to line streets for Bonnie Tyler's funeral
- New photograph marks Queen's 79th birthday
- BBC News app
- Andrew Marr on Burnham's Plan For Number 10
- Will Trump's primetime speech help him challenge the midterm elections?
- The 'ultimate all-round sportsman' - Sobers could do it all
- Keep calm and carry on - Spain trust team identity to deliver World Cup
- Antonelli tops FP2 as Gasly crashes heavily at Spa
- Five reasons for England to be cheerful despite World Cup exit
- Two record-equalling 62s at The Open - and two different reactions
Bitcoin
Engadget
- Apple Music and Apple One prices rise for the first time in years
- Is the Apple TV 4K still worth buying after the price hike?
- Here are the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 8 and Z Fold 8 camera and battery specs, apparently
- A bug in AWS has caused some customers' bills to spike from a few cents to billions of dollars
- Bethesda details what's next for Fallout and its other franchises amid Xbox cuts
- Apple and Google ordered by San Francisco attorney to take action against 'nudify' apps
- Samsung's Freestyle+ projector is now available for $1,200
- Caviar is selling a ridiculous Lionel Messi-themed Galaxy Z Fold 8 Ultra a week before its official unveiling
- Engadget Podcast: Is Siri AI actually useful in iOS 27 and macOS Golden Gate?
- God of War show recasts Kratos after Ryan Hurst sustains an injury on set
- Most smart appliances collect data: Here's how to find out what yours tracks
- EU defangs a key pillar of its climate policy to allow more pollution
- Xreal XBX a01+ review: Astoundingly bright, lightweight AR glasses for $299
- Tesla's selling a $225 balance bike for toddlers
- Signal is testing the ability to add an Android phone or tablet as a secondary device
- Verizon Fios boosts its fastest plan to 5Gbps
- Coca-Cola's dairy company fairlife hit with a ransomware attack
- A White House teleprompter operator reportedly won big betting on presidential speeches
- Netflix says it's already used AI in 'roughly 300' titles this year
- Activist group takes over London bus stops with fake Meta Glasses ads
Pinboard
The Next Web
- An AWS billing bug sent users estimated charges of up to $2.5 trillion
- Anthropic is in early talks to lease $10 billion in compute from Meta
- The Pentagon froze 155 wind projects in 24 states, claiming drones can hide in wind farms
- Palantir’s CEO predicts AI will make him 20x richer while middle-class workers get modest raises
- Trump’s AI advisor says Kimi K3 shows “how you lose the AI race.” Khosla blames immigration. Marcus wants a congressional investigation.
- Amazon’s Zoox recalls 105 robotaxis after one drove into heavy smoke at an active fire scene
- China will tax lithium and solar batteries for the first time in a decade, but sodium batteries stay exempt
- ASML will give every employee a €20,000 bonus as AI demand drives record sales
- While everyone builds chatbots, SAP just closed a €1bn-plus bet on AI that understands your spreadsheets
- Agentic AI is moving from drafting doctors’ notes to routing their patients. Bunkerhill just raised on it.
Smashing Magazine
- When It Makes Sense To “Block” The Main Thread
- No, People Don’t Want More AI In Their Life
- From Kickoff To First Concept: How To Turn Brand Strategy Into Visual Direction
- Designing For Distressed Users: Why Mental Health Apps Shouldn’t Follow Every UI Fashion
- Meet Kirki: WordPress’s First Visual Builder With An Infinite Canvas
- Users Don’t Need More Tools: They Need Seamless Integrations
- Matching AI Modality To User Intent: Designing The Right Interface
- Why Accessibility Is An Operational Capability, Not A Feature
- Snapshots Of Summer (July 2026 Wallpapers Edition)
- Designing With Uncertainty: How AI Supercharges Probabilistic Thinking
- The Impact Of Humanoid Robots On Humanity
- The Benefits Of Cognitive Inclusion In UX Research
- How To Make Your Design System AI-Ready
- June Is For Exploring (2026 Wallpapers Edition)
- Algorithmic Theming Engines: Building Self-Correcting Color Systems With `contrast-color()`
- Your Prototype Is Not Being Honest With Your Users (And Here’s How To Fix It)
- Four Levels Of Customer Understanding
- Advanced Tree Counting: Mathematical Layouts With `sibling-index()` And `sibling-count()`
- Ten Data-Backed Truths Of User Experience ROI
- Practical Interface Patterns For AI Transparency (Part 2)
- The Architecture Of Local-First Web Development
- Rethinking The Experience Of System Tools
- Designing Stable Interfaces For Streaming Content
- A Fresh View In May (2026 Wallpapers Edition)
- The “Bug-Free” Workforce: How AI Efficiency Is Subtly Disrupting The Interactions That Build Strong Teams
- The UX Designer’s Nightmare: When “Production-Ready” Becomes A Design Deliverable
- Session Timeouts: The Overlooked Accessibility Barrier In Authentication Design
- How To Improve UX In Legacy Systems
- Identifying Necessary Transparency Moments In Agentic AI (Part 1)
- A Practical Guide To Design Principles
- The Joy Of A Fresh Beginning (April 2026 Wallpapers Edition)
- The Site-Search Paradox: Why The Big Box Always Wins
- Testing Font Scaling For Accessibility With Figma Variables
- Modal vs. Separate Page: UX Decision Tree
- Anime vs. Marvel/DC: Designing Digital Products With Emotion In Flow
- Moving From Moment.js To The JS Temporal API
- Beyond `border-radius`: What The CSS `corner-shape` Property Unlocks For Everyday UI
- Building Dynamic Forms In React And Next.js
- Persuasive Design: Ten Years Later
- Human Strategy In An AI-Accelerated Workflow
Wirecutter
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- How Can I Clear My Home of Wildfire Smoke?
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Hacker News
- AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data – $1.7 billion
- First atmosphere found on Earth-like planet in habitable zone of distant star
- Kimi K3, and what we can still learn from the pelican benchmark
- Mozilla: The state of open source AI
- Frame – the first Linux Assembly X server
- A Road to Lisp: Which Lisp
- Three ways people respond to a problem (other than solving it)
- AI Meets Cryptography 2: What AI Found in OpenVM's ZkVM
- Show HN: Watch bots interact with an SSH honeypot in real time
- Frank Lloyd Wright's First Home
- Designing emoji for the way we communicate today
- Learning a few things about running SQLite
- Show HN: Explore the Workspaces of Modern Creators
- More Bounce to the Ounce
- EEG shows brain can simultaneous encode two speech streams
- Apple targets dozens of OpenAI employees with legal letters
- Manufact (YC S25) Is Hiring a Senior infra engineer to build the MCP cloud
- Pebble Mega Update – July 2026
- Faster binary search: from compiled code to mechanical sympathy
- Short sellers notch $8.7B profit as SpaceX shares dip to IPO price
- VulnHunter: Capital One's agentic AI code security tool
- Latent Space as a New Medium
- Homomorphically encrypted CIFAR-10 inference in 200ms
- Microsoft Comic Chat is now open source
- Camera Chase Vehicle
- Show HN: Simulator for a custom 8-bit discreet logic computer
- Decoy Font
- PennyLane is an open-source quantum software platform for quantum
- Kimi K3: Open Frontier Intelligence
- Tannakian Reconstruction
Ars Technica
- Troubling new details emerge on diabetes ouster controversy
- Will Russia's answer to the Falcon 9 rocket ever take flight?
- Fubo hikes prices by $15 after restoring some NBCU channels lost in November
- San Francisco orders Apple, Google to remove nudify apps from app stores
- Ars is looking for a senior technology reporter, and you might be it!
- The report oil companies are worried about: Climate attribution science
- FCC took pricey gifts from Paramount as the company needed approval for deals
- 2026 Lucid Gravity Touring review: A strong act 2
- Rocket Report: India's Vikram-1 nears debut flight; AST to become rocket company?
- SpaceX scrubs Starship launch after some of its engines didn't start
- Two Trump health nominees crash and burn in tense Senate hearing
- HP fined 1.4 billion rupees for “cartelization” of ink cartridges, toner, PCs
- T-Mobile bungled forced plan migration, canceling some users' free lines
- It's official: EU will force Google to share search data and open up AI on Android
- xAI can’t deny Grok makes CSAM anymore. So it’s suing users.
- Fear of humanoid robots spurs human workers to strike at Hyundai auto factory
- Trump teleprompter aide made $100,000 betting on what Trump would say, reports say
- 2026 Toyota RAV4 plug-in: Big battery means daily drives are all-electric
- Now, even Russia's most elite hackers are using Clickfix to infect devices
- Linus Torvalds to critics of AI coding in Linux: "Fork it. Or just walk away."
Digg
New Scientist
- Using AI for creative pursuits? Moderation is key
- Supplement that binds to microplastics may remove them from our body
- Why a Ukrainian cruise missile is flying with hobby drone hardware
- Why the upcoming eclipse is still vital in the age of solar probes
- Ancient Egyptian princesses buried with weapons may have been fighters
- Restoring ability to remove zombie cells may keep us sharp as we age
- Neurostimulation restores feeling in paralysed hand for months after
- We’ve found a rocky, temperate planet’s atmosphere for the first time
- Next-generation Alzheimer’s drug reduces risk of serious brain bleeds
- Stealth drone spins so fast that it disappears
Slashdot
- FBI Arrests Man Accused of Using Steam Games To Drain Victims' Crypto Wallets
- Meta In Talks To Lease Computing Power To Anthropic In Potential $10 Billion Deal
- Apple Sends Legal Letters To Dozens of OpenAI Employees
- Kalshi Flags Trump's Teleprompter Operator For Alleged Insider Trading
- Microsoft Restores Player's 25-Year-Old Account After Nuking It Due to Hacker
- Astronomers Find an Atmosphere On a Nearby Earth-Like Planet
- Truth Social To Sell Wall Street Firms the 'Fastest' Access To Trump's Post
- HP Fined $14 Million For 'Cartelization' of Ink Cartridges, Toner, PCs
- TSMC To Invest Additional $100 Billion In Arizona
- EU Forces Google To Share Search Data, Open Android To Rivals
- 1Password Lets Claude Use Credentials Without Exposing Passwords
- Sony Deletes More Movies From Accounts of People Who 'Bought' Them
- Google Renames NotebookLM to Gemini Notebook
- OnePlus Will Continue Software Updates After US and Europe Exit
- EU Won't Require User-Replaceable Batteries for Wearables
BoingBoing
- Your brain can track two voices at the same time
- JD Vance discovers parenting is easy when the Secret Service does the hard parts
- CNN writes the Taco Bell diarrhea headline America needed
- Explore a snapshot of a massive million-by-million block Minecraft server
- All Babbel language courses just dropped in this exclusive offer
- In 1978, a physicist took a particle accelerator beam through his brain and went back to work
- Remember Tara, the singing android that terrified the internet
- In the year 536, the sun dimmed for 18 months: "one of the worst periods to be alive"
- A homesick mechanic stole a C-130 to fly home to his wife
- The sci-fi machines that talk, but only about one thing
- A tiny keypad for chatting with chatbots
- The "polar bear sea monster" that fought whales was a blob of whale
- Decoy is an ambigious font that "hides" from AI
- The A Clockwork Orange origin story may be a total fabrication
- Live map of Britain's trains
- Anti-Forbes list ranks wealthy by the wealth their companies generated for others
- This $40 AI tool writes, formats, and covers your next ebook
- Collection of useful text art tools
- Watch the first season of Stranger Things in full 1980s pan and scan VHS glory
- The country that hands you a one-year tourist visa at the airport
- Cuba's surviving Trump's oil embargo with solar powered tuk-tuks
- The Newest Complete Carl Barks Library volume has Donald Duck lost beneath the sea
- New documentary explores the astonishing legacy of manga pioneer Osamu Tezuka
- Bloomberg calls chargebacks "friendly fraud" — but it's often the only option
- Copilot, BitLocker, and Hyper-V for under $10? Meet this Windows 11 Pro deal
- This refurbished MacBook Air is under $200
- The new invisible facelift moves the face like a Halloween mask
- The Peking Man fossils vanished in 1941 and are still missing
- When six people in a Kansas thrift store elected their own pope
- The time Spike Milligan refused to pay a parking fine: "send me to prison"
Core77
- Core77 Weekly Roundup (7-13-26 to 7-17-26)
- This Innovative Magflap Clipboard has Three Tricks Up its Sleeve
- Foldable Self-Healing Cutting Mats, Large and Small
- Willem de Haan's Highrise Campsite
- Snow Peak's Tiny LED Lantern
- Striking Chinese Industrial Design: Aulumu's M10 Powerbank
- A 3D-Printed Chair That Looks Like It's From 1970s Italy
- Re-Thinking the Flower Vase
- An Innovative Design for Multifunctional Scissors
- Decibel's Circular-Material 3D Printed Chair
- Furniture for Committed Book Lovers
- Designs for Modular Homes that Disappear Into the Ground During Natural Disasters
- A Candle-Powered Sculptural Light
- How to Unlock and Start Your Car When the Key Fob Battery is Dead
- Rethinking Cheapie Inline Lamp Switches
CNET
- Are You Sick of All the Fake Amazon Brands? Try This Free Browser Extension
- Tesla Created a $225 Balance Bike for Tots, and It's Already Sold Out
- iOS 27 Public Beta: It's... Fine I Guess?
- Back-to-School Laptops and Tablet Prices Are Going Up, but There's a Workaround
- Best AI Video Generators of 2026: Gemini Omni, Adobe Firefly and More Compared
- F1 Is One of the Loudest Sports on Earth. This Is What Audiologists Recommend to Protect Your Hearing at the Belgian Grand Prix
- AI Chatbot Responses Often Mirror Government Censorship, Report Finds
- Track Your Flights (and Delays and Cancellations) Easily With a Native iPhone App
- Stream the World Cup Finals for Free With a VPN
- The 7 Best Sleep Trackers to Help You Rest Better Tonight
- How to Watch the 2026 FIFA World Cup Final Halftime Show
- Apple vs. OpenAI: These Lawsuit Details Are Wild video
- Apple vs. Open AI Explained: The Battle for AI Gadgets Begins With a Juicy Lawsuit
- MacBook Neo vs. XPS 13: We All Win! video
- Siri AI vs. Old Siri on Apple Watch: It Wasn't Even Close
- How to Change the Most Annoying iOS 27 Settings on Your iPhone
- Bose Lifestyle Ultra Speaker Review: A Pair Is the Way to Go
- 2 Very Good Reasons to Use Filtered Water for Brewing Coffee, According to an Expert
- AT&T's Unlimited Phone Plans Changed in 2026. Here's What You Get for Your Money
- Best AI Image Generators of 2026: Our Reviews of Nano Banana, ChatGPT and Adobe Firefly
- A Diarrhea-Causing Parasite Is Spreading. Should You Stop Eating Salad?
- How to Reclaim Your Inbox Using Gmail's Bulk Unsubscribe Tool
- You Can Now Star in Your Own AI Videos Using Google Vids
- When Flock Comes to Your Town: I Asked Experts What to Do About These AI Cameras
- New Lawsuit Filed Against Apple for 'Hide My Email' Privacy Vulnerability
The Verge
- Apple Music is getting a price hike
- Apple’s plot to crush OpenAI
- Asus’ top-end 4K QD-OLED gaming monitor is $400 off
- Samsung’s redesigned Z Fold 8 with a wide display just leaked
- Is America ready for this quirky Jeep-looking EV that can park itself?
- Florida man arrested for allegedly stealing over $200,000 in crypto using Steam game malware
- Over half a million power tool batteries have been recalled due to a USB-C charging fire risk
- Bethesda teases Fallout 5 soon after Xbox’s mass layoffs
- The manosphere’s testosterone obsession reaches the highest levels of US military
- Even Microsoft couldn’t make Windows 11 work well on 8GB of RAM
Wired
- Polymarket’s Corporate Structure Is a Mystery—Even to Some of Its Former Employees
- ICE Is Using Data Broker Tools to ‘Identify Unaccompanied Minors’ and ‘Fraud’
- ‘The Odyssey’ Backlash Failed Tremendously
- Lyft’s CEO Says, ‘We’re the Good Uber’
- The Best New Camping Gear at REI (2026): Tents, Coolers, Bikes, More
- Conspiracy Theorists Think Trump’s Speech Paves the Path to the Insurrection Act
- Essential Gear for an Emergency Kit—for Cars or Go-Bags
- 5 Best Smart Speakers (2026): Alexa, Google, Apple
- Valve Steam Machine Review: A Compromised Console
- Panasonic Japanese Microwave Review (2026): True 1-Button Cooking
- 23 Best Gifts for Cooks (2026): Vitamix, Frying Pans, Air Fryers
- A $10K Bounty Aims to Make Sony’s PlayStation 5 a Computer Again
- San Francisco Demands Apple and Google Delete AI ‘Nudify’ Apps From App Stores
- The Group Behind ‘2000 Mules’ Is Back With Another Election Conspiracy Film
- The CDC Has a Cyclospora Lab. DOGE Downsized It Last Year
- A Humanoid Company Backed by Eric Trump Is Preparing Its Robots for War
- Home Depot Promo Codes: 50% Off in July 2026
- Paramount+ Coupon Codes and Deals for July 2026
- LG Promo Codes and Coupons for July 2026
- Walmart Promo Codes: Up to 65% Off for July 2026
LifeHacker
- This 4K OLED Gaming Monitor Is $400 Off Right Now
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- Why Bevel Is a Way Better App for the Fitbit Air Than Google Health
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- Use Apple's $150 Back-to-School Gift Card Offer to Get a MacBook for What It Cost Last Month
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- The Best Books, Movies, Video Games, and Podcasts to Check Out After Watching ‘Cape Fear’
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- The Top 10 TV Shows of the Year so Far, According to Streaming Data
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The Onion
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TechMeme
- Apple raises the price of Apple Music, with the individual plan up by $1 to $11.99, and some Apple One bundles, the first price hike for Apple Music since 2022 (Chance Miller/9to5Mac)
- Sources: Apple and the DOJ are in early discussions about settling a 2024 antitrust lawsuit alleging that Apple violated antitrust laws (Bloomberg)
- Sources: Meta is in talks to rent computing power from its data centers to Anthropic in a deal that could be worth ~$10B over two years (New York Times)
- Models like Kimi K3, Grok 4.5, and Muse 1.1 may prevent the dominance of 2-3 frontier labs with 90% inference margins from hurting other AI ecosystem layers (Gavin Baker/@gavinsbaker)
- Kimi K3 hype shouldn't alarm the US about "losing the AI race" to China; K3 is a good model but not frontier-level and likely lacks dangerous cyber capabilities (Transformer)
- ASML plans to give its ~45K employees globally a €20K bonus, issued as a share award that vests in 2030, joining other chip industry companies offering payouts (Sarah Jacob/Bloomberg)
- AI inference startup General Compute gets a $400M loan from tech investment firm Upper90, seemingly the first deal to use inference-specific chips as collateral (Tim Fernholz/TechCrunch)
- Sources: the EU is set to approve the $55B acquisition of EA under its subsidy rules on July 30; the deal includes Saudi Arabia's PIF, Silver Lake, and Affinity (Foo Yun Chee/Reuters)
- San Francisco sends legal notices to Apple and Google, demanding they take down 13 AI apps used to make deepfake nude images; Google says it deleted five apps (Matt Burgess/Wired)
- Sources: Apple has sent personal legal warnings to ~40 former employees who now work at OpenAI, directing them to preserve documents and meet with its lawyers (Michael Acton/Financial Times)
- At the World AI Conference, Xi Jinping touts open-source AI, pledges to help the Global South build AI capabilities, and calls unequal AI access an "injustice" (Reuters)
- The Alphabet Workers Union sends a layoff protections petition with 4,500+ signatures to Sundar Pichai, calling for guaranteed severance, buyouts, and more (Sanya Mansoor/The Guardian)
- Sources: Z.ai is on track to achieve an annual recurring revenue of $1B, a first for a Chinese AI company, after achieving its full-year sales target in July (Bloomberg)
- Sources: Dave Brown, the outgoing SVP of AWS Compute, AI, and Platform, will join Meta in the coming weeks, where he will work on Meta's data center build-out (Anissa Gardizy/Wall Street Journal)
- Sources: Tata plans India's first large-scale chip fab, in Dholera, Gujarat, mostly using 90nm nodes, a far humbler start than the 28nm node it touted earlier (Bloomberg)