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BBC

  1. Who's in the cabinet?
  2. Faisal Islam: The new PM has big ideas - but what will they cost?
  3. Burnham promises help with your money. How could it affect you?
  4. John Healey becomes chancellor weeks after shock resignation from defence job
  5. Key takeaways as Andy Burnham becomes PM
  6. Man, 28, charged with murder of Ann Widdecombe
  7. Kevin Keegan, Liverpool footballer who managed England and Newcastle United, dies aged 75
  8. Ofcom launches investigation into Married at First Sight UK
  9. Lamine Yamal celebrates World Cup win with little brother who charmed fans
  10. Canadian wildfires rage as Trump warns Carney again over 'poisoning' US air
  11. Prisons minister Lord Timpson quits government
  12. Rare identical quadruplets born in Australia
  13. Kevin Keegan: From superstar footballer to elite manager
  14. Are you a parent missing out on £27 a week? Here's how to check
  15. Will the Tate brothers be extradited from the US to the UK?
  16. The small seaside town winning big from TV tourism
  17. Why David Beckham was the face of the World Cup
  18. My fitness tracker knew I was pregnant before I did
  19. ‘Everyone's afraid to die’: Struggle to recruit soldiers in Ukraine turns violent
  20. Best goal, best player, best fans - BBC reporters' World Cup awards
  21. Uefa president boycotts World Cup final in protest against Fifa
  22. Could Infantino really push through a 64-team World Cup?
  23. South East Water hosepipe ban to affect 2.4 million people
  24. Yemen's Houthis announce 'maritime embargo' on Saudi Arabia
  25. Broadcaster and journalist Edward Stourton dies aged 68
  26. Trump says US strikes hit Iran in 'honour' of American soldiers killed
  27. Police block thousands of 'cockroach' protesters marching on India's parliament
  28. Ten killed as Russian attacks on merchant ships in Black Sea intensify
  29. Fire crews to remain at Arthur's Seat for days after blaze
  30. BBC News app
  31. Andy Burnham: Who is the new PM?
  32. What No 10 Will Really Be Like For Andy Burnham
  33. Get inside access to the new super-elite: The tech billionaires
  34. Gifted, charismatic and passionate amid highs and lows - Keegan obituary
  35. Could Argentina face action after post-final trouble?
  36. Guardiola in reported talks with Italy - would England come calling?
  37. Chelsea step up interest in Palace's Lacroix
  38. Rodri's stock at all-time high as he adds to trophy collection
  39. Are England finally improving in ODI cricket?
  40. Thank you for making this a World Cup to remember on the BBC

Bitcoin

Engadget

  1. Netflix brings ASL interpretations to dozens of shows and movies for kids
  2. Everything to know before putting a car key on your iPhone
  3. Adobe crams multiple AI tools into its experimental camera app
  4. Judge pauses the controversial Paramount-Warner Bros. merger for two weeks
  5. How long is a new iPhone actually supposed to last?
  6. Avengers: Doomsday finally has a real trailer
  7. How to watch Samsung's July 2026 Galaxy Unpacked event
  8. NVIDIA data center hardware is being cooled with water 'hotter than a hot tub'
  9. AliExpress hit with record $629 million fine for selling counterfeit and illegal products
  10. Meta Glasses review: A bit less polish, a lot more baggage
  11. Samsung Galaxy Watch Ultra 2 leak teases thinner, brighter flagship smartwatch
  12. The Kodak EC35 is a pocketable, beginner-friendly 35mm film camera
  13. NASA shares beautiful timelapse of the Psyche spacecraft's view over Mars
  14. How To use Claude's Reflect dashboard and learn when it's time to touch grass
  15. Infrared tech is decades old – why does almost every TV remote use it?
  16. Are OLED TVs still worth the premium in 2026?
  17. France doubles down on restricting access to Polymarket
  18. Apple has banned home service content on upcoming Maps ads
  19. ZA/UM announces layoffs two months after the launch of Zero Parades
  20. X and music publishers quietly settle opposing lawsuits

Pinboard

  1. AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making — Ludicity
  2. Learning a few things about running SQLite
  3. Cuelume — interaction sounds for the web
  4. How to set up your spare Mac for Claude Code to fully control - a step-by-step guide | claude-controls-mac
  5. The State of Open Source AI (by Mozilla)
  6. Project - transcribe.cpp
  7. Clocks.dev
  8. Immersive Linear Algebra - The world's first linear algebra book with fully interactive figures — https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10183725 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13904881 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19264048 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40329388 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48935951
  9. Regressive JPEGs: (Maurycy's blog) — Since each scan explicitly sets its spectral range, it should be possible to construct a JPEG file where future scans overwrite already rendered image data. Actually, it's very easy to do this: Concatenate multiple images with the same resolution and filter out the start-of-image, start…
  10. ‘Adversarial clothing’: are garments designed to confuse facial recognition systems about to go mainstream? | Fashion | The Guardian — Preuß said his designs used large-scale prints, asymmetrical cuts and streetwear-inspired silhouettes to confuse facial recognition algorithms. The company said its Urban Ghost coat integrate…
  11. Guide to data tools landscape for developers · OlegWock
  12. Decoy Font: A TTF font that hides what you type
  13. AI advice made people three times less accurate but twice as confident, researchers found — Study found AI availability collapsed willingness to say 'I don't know' from 44% to 3%, accuracy from 27% to 9%, while confidence rose to 76%.
  14. The Human-in-the-Loop is Tired | Pydantic — This isn't a thinkpiece about whether AI will replace programmers. It's not a doomer essay and it's not a hype piece. It's an honest account of what it feels like to be a developer right now, from someone inside it, and some thoughts on what might actually help.
  15. An Engineer’s Guide to USB Type-C® - slyy228.pdf
  16. Kimi K3 Tech Blog: Open Frontier Intelligence — It is the world's first open 3T-class model, designed for frontier intelligence across long-horizon coding, knowledge work, and reasoning.
  17. $100 AI Music Video: Claude Fable 5 vs. GPT-5.6 Sol · TryAI
  18. Re: Linking Patchwork with Sashiko? - Linus Torvalds — > > I think it makes the point of sashiko - helping maintainers - unachievable. If the point to not use > LLMs in general, let’s discuss this, not how to make each use case more complex. > > It seems like [1] expresses a very anti-LLM position in general Yes. And no, …
  19. Introducing LM Studio Bionic: the AI agent for open models | LM Studio Blog | LM Studio — Bionic is the AI agent for getting real work done with open models, including coding, research, and complex work with documents and files. You can use local models or switch to open-source models in the cloud for heavier tasks, all whil…
  20. The Naturalist’s Library
  21. How I use HTMX with Go– Alex Edwards
  22. Amiga Freeware Archive
  23. Faulty Towers, vibe sickness, and the vibe bobsled
  24. The LLM Critics Are Right. I Use LLMs Anyway. | Jeremy Theocharis
  25. TV Explorer — watch free tv streams from across the world in a good UI
  26. 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.
  27. Why do AI company logos look like buttholes?
  28. HaxxorWPM — Typing test for terminal commands
  29. Investigation reveals dozens of disguised gambling apps on the App Store in Brazil - 9to5Mac — via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/5B6sYmy
  30. Claude's cheapest API mode costs pennies per task — and most people don't know it exists — Lower your token costs with this trick.
  31. Kimi K3, and what we can still learn from the pelican benchmark — Kimi K3, and what we can still learn from the pelican benchmark via Instapaper https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/16/kimi-k3/ Kimi K3, and what we can still learn from the pelican benchmark
  32. Narcissistic leaders more likely to oppose remote work, new research suggests | CBC News
  33. Setting up your spare Mac for Claude Code to control, a step-by-step guide | Hacker News
  34. Half a Second — Half a Second tells that story as one continuous narrative: the burned-out volunteer who maintained the code alone and was patiently, expertly manipulated into giving it up; the engineer whose half-second of curiosity caught the attack through a chain of luck and hard-won instinct; and the operator who built …
  35. Codex Micro | OpenAI
  36. Threads — via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/8wcpDPh
  37. AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data - $1.7 BILLION | Hacker News
  38. Mathematicians still don’t know the fastest way to multiply numbers | Scientific American — "It took just a week for Anatoly Karatsuba, then a 23-year-old student in the audience, to return and prove Kolmogorov wrong. Kolmogorov was stunned." "Kolmogorov wrote the formal proof himself and submitted it for publication with…
  39. What have note-taking PKMs accomplished, really? · brennan.day — What have note-taking PKMs accomplished, really? https://ift.tt/aOw85MS pkm, notetaking, knowledge, tools, research
  40. stupside/castor — Imagine buying a very nice TV and figuring out it doesn't allow casting from random websites... Then you switch to the longest HDMI cable you can find. Then you start doing screen mirroring: your computer lags, resolution tanks, nothing feels right. Castor is a CLI that extracts video streams…
  41. Richard Feynman and The Connection Machine - Long Now — Feynman and Wolfram? And Wolfram has had the same ideas for years. He's just now able to achieve them.
  42. microsoft/Ontology-Playground: Free, open-source web app for learning about ontologies and Microsoft Fabric IQ. Explore a catalogue of pre-built ontologies, design your own visually, export as RDF/XML, and share interactive diagrams. Zero backend, fully s
  43. GitHub - handy-computer/transcribe.cpp: ggml speech-to-text inference for 16+ model families · GitHub — ff6347 starred handy-computer/transcribe.cpp
  44. Codex Resets — last reset yesterday
  45. A 20-Minute Workout to Build Upper-Body Strength — These exercises can help improve your posture and make everyday movements feel more comfortable.
  46. Latent Space as a New Medium - by Kevin Kelly - KK
  47. Inkling: Our open-weights model - Thinking Machines Lab
  48. Security incident disclosure — July 2026
  49. A Road to Lisp: Which Lisp
  50. Pseudpocalypse — https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48908886
  51. GitHub - lopopolo/harness-engineering: 🐎 Ryan Lopopolo’s anthology, field guide, and agent context bundle for harness engineering · GitHub — ff6347 starred lopopolo/harness-engineering
  52. Steps of AI Adoption
  53. Dave Eggers told OpenAI staff that ChatGPT was ‘silencing an entire generation’ | The Verge — via The Verge https://ift.tt/7XpxE4e
  54. AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decisionmaking · Radically Ethical Data Consulting — If you’re being asked to review huge volumes of terrible AI code, just assume that the organisation is going to burn you out and fire you. You will not convince the person drowning you in 2000 line PRs to stop. Start looking for a new job as…
  55. Politici alle midterm 2026: la corsa a plasmare cosa i chatbot dicono dei candidati — Il NYT racconta la piccola industria che nasce nelle campagne per le midterm 2026 per plasmare cosa i modelli linguistici dicono dei candidati. I responsabili dei dati della campagna Harris hanno lanciato Caucus AI, uno strumento che interr…
  56. NameThat — the visual dictionary of UI — what are the ui elements called
  57. The Memory Heist
  58. My local LLM struggles with big questions—here's what it's actually good at — Local AI can be good if you give it the right tasks.
  59. What if It’s Not the Phones? - The Atlantic
  60. How Cerebras Built Its Enterprise Knowledge Base
  61. I Got Slopped — I Got Slopped Someone used A.I. to write my biography. Thousands more of those books are polluting Amazon. Who is behind all this drivel? Kashmir Hill Kashmir Hill is a technology journalist whose “sentences carry both weight and grace,” according to her unauthorized biography. NYTimes July 16, 2026 Upd…
  62. AI’s Wider Availability Is Good for China, Not Great for OpenAI and Anthropic - Christopher Mims, WSJ, Jul 2026 — 'As of March, global consumer market share of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, measured by unique users across mobile and web, fell below 50%, according to the market-intelligence firm Sensor Tower. That’s mostly due to competi…
  63. GitHub - ayghri/i-have-adhd: Claude Code skill to stop it from burying the answer. ADHD-friendly output. · GitHub
  64. Security Verification — via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/4nfXJ3A
  65. The Zilog Z80 has turned 50 | Hacker News
  66. Rat Traps--Asterisk — Problems with rationalist blogging. Did I come to this community too late?
  67. Apple's scrapped Mac Pro plans reportedly included a new Intel model - 9to5Mac — via 9to5Mac https://9to5mac.com/
  68. This free browser-based sampler turns YouTube into an MPC — Producer Halfpast's retro-themed YPC chops up any YouTube video across the computer keyboard for instant finger-drumming fun
  69. Classic Amiga titles, free to download (downer.tech) — https://amigafreeware.downer.tech/
  70. Show HN: I replaced a $120k bowling center system with $1,600 in ESP32s | Hacker News — Learn how to disrupt niche monopolies using ESP32s and open-source hardware to replace $120k proprietary systems for a fraction of the cost.
  71. Google and Epic give up fighting — third-party Android app stores are coming next week | The Verge — via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/8wcpDPh
  72. Copyright Is Not Enough — Why writers need new strategies to stand up to AI.
  73. 10 Years to Build the Language. 11 Days for AI to Rewrite It. Then the Money Stopped. | by Can Artuc | Jul, 2026 | Medium — Explore the disruptive impact of AI on open-source sustainability through the story of Zig and Bun. Learn how rapid AI rewrites threaten niche languages.
  74. Internet Security by Zscaler
  75. Making Software: How to make a font.
  76. Canada's boreal wildfires aren't just bad forest management — most of Canada's boreal forest have never been managed -- unlike Western US ponderosa pine forests.
  77. Latent Space as a New Medium - by Kevin Kelly - KK — the LLMs could translate language like a human, but the AI also displayed glimpses of human-like intelligence. They could also be creative with language, like they could write up a sales pitch in the style of a sonnet. Some early researchers were spooked by this emergent b…
  78. AgriciDaniel/claude-obsidian: Claude + Obsidian knowledge companion. Persistent, compounding wiki vault based on Karpathy's LLM Wiki pattern. /wiki /save /autoresearch
  79. The death of the stick shift is almost here — Driving a manual vehicle is a lost art. Hopes of a revival have fallen flat. With the rise of EVs and autonomous vehicles, only a few die-hards hold on.
  80. Reviving a 15-year-old netbook with Arch Linux
  81. BBEdit 16 is here! | Bare Bones Software
  82. Netflix says around 300 titles used generative AI | The Verge — via The Verge https://ift.tt/naKsDGS
  83. Trump's team: 'No children' died from USAID cuts. Consider these cases : NPR
  84. Iran accuses US of hitting civilian infrastructure
  85. AddyOsmani.com - Loop Engineering
  86. 2 ways to deradicalize someone (and the 1 that works the best) - Big Think
  87. Unreal Mcp | Hermes Agent
  88. Simulating everything, sort of: The promise and limits of world models - Ars Technica
  89. LLM cliché highlighter
  90. verynotokay - And I will try to fix you - Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary (2026) [Archive of Our Own] — The coma slurry meant for Ryland Grace was laced with Stratt's memory drug. After their long journey to Erid, it is also the only remaining source of the nutrients his body needs to survive. Ryland Grac…
  91. Fable 5 vs. GPT-5.6 Sol on an NP-Hard Problem: Does /goal Help? - Charles AZAM — I gave Claude Fable 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol the same unpublished NP-hard optimization problem, with and without their native /goal mode. Fable 5 is a beast; /goal is not a game changer. July 17, 2026 / 6 min read TL;DR: I gave Claude Fable 5 and GP…
  92. SQLite should have (Rust-style) editions - Mort's Ramblings — SQLite optimizations
  93. Tech note: making your own V-I plots at home
  94. LG monitors silently install software through Windows Update without user consent (and then show ads)
  95. GitHub - 619dev/guanlan: 观澜 “观水有术，必观其澜。” 一个网页版RSS阅读器，复刻Google Reader，可以部署在Cloudflare Worker。 · GitHub — w1zard starred 619dev/guanlan
  97. Parakeet Blog: The Shape of Apps — via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/fFD76Z0
  98. The voice of Google — "In the crusade to make everything social, Google ended up destroying one of the few genuinely social things it had ever made: the RSS-feed aggregator Google Reader. Reader wasn’t glamorous, but it had a passionate following. It was small, by Google standards (and only by Google standards), with a repor…
  99. This Tiny New EV Motor Cuts Weight And Size For Impressive Efficiency
  100. Mermaid ASCII Diagram Generator — https://mermaid-ascii.art/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41847407

The Next Web

  1. Paramount and Warner Bros. merger blocked by temporary restraining order one day before close
  2. A Chinese AI lab just built a giant data centre with no Nvidia inside
  3. AMD’s Helios puts 72 GPUs and 31 terabytes of HBM4 in one rack. It is AMD’s answer to Nvidia’s NVL72.
  4. Google’s AI cited Facebook 19.5 million times, new research finds
  5. Google is building a chip with Gemini baked into the silicon
  6. OneDrive will block screenshots of sensitive documents, but only in Microsoft’s own browser.
  7. Netflix used AI in 300 shows. Its biggest director calls AI a Trojan horse.
  8. Four teams just broke AI agents four ways in ten days. The flaw is the same one.
  9. EVs outsold petrol and diesel in Germany for the first time. The birthplace of the car just changed its fuel.
  10. AI is writing your date’s messages. The dating apps say they cannot stop it.

Smashing Magazine

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

Wirecutter

  1. The Best Home Printers
  2. The Camp Snap 2 Is the Best Cheap, Screen-Free Digital Camera
  3. Nordstrom’s Anniversary Sale Is Back. And It’s Packed With Surprisingly Good Deals on Wirecutter Picks.
  4. The Best Noise-Cancelling Headphones
  5. The Best Carry-On Travel Backpacks
  6. The Best Travel Car Seats
  7. The Best Toaster Oven
  8. The Best Lap Desk
  9. The Best Tabletop Radios
  10. The Best Label Makers

Sweethome

  1. The Best Mattresses for Stomach Sleepers
  2. The Best Mattress for Back Pain
  3. The Best Mattresses for Back Sleepers
  4. The Best Shoe Racks
  5. The Best Coat Racks
  6. The Best Bed Frames
  7. The Best Blackout and Room-Darkening Curtains
  8. The Best Innerspring Mattresses
  9. The Best Platform Bed Frames Under $600
  10. This Tiny Laundry Tweak Helps Keep Towels Mildew-Free

Hacker News

  1. China's open-weights AI strategy is winning
  2. Hacker wipes Romania's land registry database
  3. Over 30% of new ArXiv submissions now read as AI-written
  4. Hyprland 0.55 announced the switch to Lua for its config files
  5. Kimi Work
  6. Jelly UI: Soft-body physics for native HTML form controls
  7. Corners Don't Look Like That: Regarding Screenspace Ambient Occlusion (2012)
  8. Airport Simulator
  9. Firefox Merges Support for Vulkan Video Decoding
  10. Launch HN: Bloomy (YC S26) – AI-powered mastery learning for K-12
  11. Perfection Is Not Over-Engineering
  12. We're Squandering LEDs' Potential to Save Our Night Skies
  13. Nativ: Run frontier open models locally on your Mac
  14. The Voice of Google
  15. The drivers behind software delivery inefficiency
  16. Ziggity – A terminal UI for Git, written in Zig
  17. Cross sectioning insects in an electron microscope with a femtosecond laser [video]
  18. Exploit brokers pay $500k for WordPress RCEs. I found one with GPT5.6 and $25
  19. Shinjuku Station in 3D
  20. What I Learned from Reimplementing 40 Multi-Agent LLM Papers
  21. An Empirical Study: AI Agent Rules Need Context and Layered Enforcement
  22. That post never existed. Stop listening to that thing
  23. Kimi K3, Qwen 3.8, and Anthropic's (Potential) Unravelling
  24. Controlling Reasoning Effort in LLMs
  25. The EU is about to sell our most sensitive data to the US for visa-free travel
  26. I Stopped "Creating Content"
  27. I turned my bearblog into a text based adventure
  28. Inertia-1: An Open Exploration to a Unified Motion Foundation Model
  29. NYC Subway Signals: A Complete Guide
  30. Agent swarms and the new model economics

Ars Technica

  1. F1 in Belgium: Machine learning algorithms are ruining the sport
  2. AliExpress hit with record $625M fine after failing to make EU-ordered fixes
  3. The first trailer for Avengers: Doomsday is finally here
  4. Pay up or not? Ransomware surge has victims facing tough choices.
  5. Beyond grep: The case for a context-rich AI coding harness
  6. India's first privately developed rocket reaches orbit on dramatic debut launch
  7. As mosquito ranges expand, better monitoring is key to preventing disease
  8. Will AI fix prior authorization—or make it worse?
  9. Google-backed satellites for wildfire detection launch as smoke chokes US, Canada
  10. The Pentagon's Space Development Agency hasn't moved as fast as anyone would like
  11. Hegseth wants a "High-T" military; doctors call it a clinical minefield
  12. Taco Bell iceberg lettuce identified as source of cyclosporiasis in 5 states
  13. Troubling new details emerge on diabetes ouster controversy
  14. Will Russia's answer to the Falcon 9 rocket ever take flight?
  15. Fubo hikes prices by $15 after restoring some NBCU channels lost in November
  16. San Francisco orders Apple, Google to remove nudify apps from app stores
  17. Ars is looking for a senior technology reporter, and you might be it!
  18. The report oil companies are worried about: Climate attribution science
  19. FCC took pricey gifts from Paramount as the company needed approval for deals
  20. 2026 Lucid Gravity Touring review: A strong act 2

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New Scientist

Slashdot

  1. LG Monitors Silently Install Adware-Like App On Windows PCs
  2. Hacker Wipes Romania's Entire Land Registry Database
  3. LSU Physicists Create First Room-Temperature Quantum Material
  4. LibreOffice Once Again Slams Microsoft For Using 'Lock-In' With Office Files
  5. Hollywood Sci-fi Studio Lot Now Pitched As Site To Make Real Space-age Weapons
  6. New Free Speech Concern: When AI Chatbots Won't Criticize Leaders from Repressive Regimes
  7. Rust Will Help Linux Succeed and Makes Coding Fun, Says Greg Kroah-Hartman
  8. As AI Transforms Silicon Valley, Some Tech Workers Face Evaporating Financial Security
  9. Zilog Z80 8-Bit CPU Turns 50, Open-source Replacement Heads To Drop-in DIP40 Silicon
  10. Dozens of Robotaxi Riders Are Falling Asleep, Sparking Frantic Calls For Emergency Services
  11. California's 'Truth in Recycling' Law Blocked by Judge
  12. James Webb Space Telescope Discovers How Black Holes Feed Themselves
  13. Robot 'Decapitated' in World's First-Ever Humanoid UFC Fight
  14. Windows 10 Still Being Used, Often Unpatched and Insecure
  15. Aptera Announces US-Wide Repair Network for Its Upcoming Solar Electric Car

BoingBoing

  1. Andrew Tate, another accused sex offender in Trumpworld's orbit, arrested in Miami
  2. California's wild pig problem started when a rich guy imported Russian chaos hogs
  3. Grandpa Pudding Brains thinks he won the World Cup
  4. Cyclospora: Trump's FDA shits the bed
  5. Disney bravely waits one movie before resurrecting dead Avengers
  6. Four cheap ways to fatten a tool handle so it stops hurting your hand
  7. Resin Lenin presides over Antarctica's Pole of Inaccessibility
  8. Crowdfunding campaign for $100k Charlie Kirk statue languishes
  9. The worst opera singer who ever sold out Carnegie Hall
  10. "You'll love our meat in your mouth" slogan gets food truck booted from berth
  11. The $11 million mummy that turned out to be a fake
  12. A cow escaped a slaughterhouse and hid for 40 days
  13. Mexico warns travelers of "Explosive Diarrhea Risk" in USA
  14. The original Pinocchio was a dark parable about a world of lies
  15. Rising CO2 may already be showing up in human blood — a "potentially toxic atmosphere in 50 years"
  16. This $30 AI tool can transform old, blurry videos in just a few clicks (MSRP $120)
  17. A whole language built from about 120 words
  18. What is the cause of mystery booms heard around the world?
  19. In 1945, Five bombers vanished and launched the Bermuda Triangle legend
  20. The theory that UFOs come from Earth, not space
  21. An AWS bug turned a 5-cent bill into $2.5 billion
  22. This $430 MacBook Pro once cost nearly $2,000
  23. Some people initiate sex in their sleep and remember none of it
  24. Free up computer space with 2TB of cloud storage for $59 — for life
  25. Two AIs got $100 each to make a music video by themselves
  26. New monkey: so rare only 8 of 52 nearby villages knew it existed
  27. Knitters believe a hand-made sweater can end your relationship
  28. An orchestra with inept players sold out the Royal Albert Hall
  29. Pokémon-parody sex toys are back, with holographic trading cards
  30. This Los Angeles man-on-the-street interview is internet gold

Core77

  1. Wooden Rings, as Jewelry—and Hinges
  2. The Cordalock: A Four-Way Bike Lock
  3. Humanoid Companion Robots are Launching This September
  4. Core77 Weekly Roundup (7-13-26 to 7-17-26)
  5. This Innovative Magflap Clipboard has Three Tricks Up its Sleeve
  6. Foldable Self-Healing Cutting Mats, Large and Small
  7. Willem de Haan's Highrise Campsite
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  11. Re-Thinking the Flower Vase
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  1. Judge pauses Paramount’s attempt to buy Warner Bros. Discovery
  2. LG’s glossy OLED gaming monitor is rare to find under $400
  3. LG’s monitors come with an unwanted addition for Windows: McAfee pop-up ads
  4. Adobe’s ‘natural look’ camera app embraces generative AI
  5. Dr. Jill Lepore on why AI backlash is vital for the future
  6. The AirPods Max 2 are down to their second-best price
  7. Electric air taxis go to war
  8. Avengers: Doomsday’s first trailer puts everyone on high alert
  9. AliExpress fined almost $630 million over illegal product sales
  10. China delivers a one-two punch to America’s AI dominance 

Wired

  1. The 35 Best Board Games for Family Game Night
  2. A Beginner’s Guide to Growing Mushrooms at Home (2026)
  3. An Ebike Company Was Sued for Misleading Info on Safety. It Points to a Big Problem
  4. The ACLU Is Arming Lawyers to Expose State Surveillance Secrets
  5. Elite Young Runners Are Becoming Freakishly Fast. Welcome to ‘Trackflation’
  6. Apps Marketed to US Troops Are Shipping Chinese and Russian Code
  7. Best Power Banks (2026): My Picks After Testing Over 100
  8. How to Disable Music Videos in Spotify
  9. The 10 Best Electrolyte Powders (We Tested Over 20)
  10. The Search for Another Earth-Like Planet Just Took a Big Step Forward
  11. FIFA’s World Cup Halftime Show Puts American-Style Spectacle on the World Stage
  12. How To Watch the 2026 FIFA World Cup Finals: Spain vs. Argentina
  13. 4 Best Walking Pads for Small Spaces and Standing Desks (2026)
  14. Your Period Tracker Is (Probably) Spying on You
  15. The Best Motion Sensors and Home Security Gadgets Without Cameras
  16. How Google’s New Gemini Rates Work and How to Track Your Usage
  17. FIFA Doesn’t Have a Plan to Deal With Climate Change
  18. Balmuda NatureWind Studio Review: A Better Breeze
  19. The Best Tech for Back to School
  20. Prompt Injection Attacks Are Thwarting AI Hacking Agents

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  3. How Sore Is Too Sore After a Workout?
  4. It's Not Just You: YouTube's Picture-in-Picture Isn't Working
  5. This App Lets You Use Android Auto in Any Car
  6. This Android App Blocks the Most Addicting Parts of Social Media
  7. iOS 27 Comes With a macOS-Like Recovery Mode for iPhone
  8. 10 Privacy Hacks for Managing Browser Cookies Everyone Should Know
  9. Lifehacker Deals Live Blog: The Best Tech Sales, All in One Place
  10. Only One Apple Music Plan Didn't Just Go up in Price
  11. 10 Camera Hacks Every iPhone User Should Know
  12. This Roborock Smart Vacuum Has a Robot Arm and Is 50% Off Right Now
  13. I’m a Deals Writer, and These Are My Top 10 Tech Deals This Week
  14. How Long Can You Actually Go Without Sleep?
  15. This 4K OLED Gaming Monitor Is $400 Off Right Now
  16. My Favorite Bose ANC Earbuds Are $50 Off
  17. Why Bevel Is a Way Better App for the Fitbit Air Than Google Health
  18. If You Loved 'Off Campus,' There's One Movie You Need to Watch Next
  19. Why It's a Bad Time to Buy an iPad Mini Right Now
  20. That LastPass or Bitwarden Security Email May Be a Scam
  21. The Best Headphones for Kids Are 30% Off Right Now
  22. Use Apple's $150 Back-to-School Gift Card Offer to Get a MacBook for What It Cost Last Month
  23. 10 Hacks Every Apple Messages User Should Know
  24. Five Hacks Every Garmin Forerunner 70 User Should Know
  25. This 77-Inch Samsung OLED TV Is More Than $1,700 Off Right Now
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  27. Scammers Are Using FaceTime to Pose As Apple Support Reps
  28. These Gboard Alternatives Are Open-Source and Privacy-First
  29. Five Hacks Every Garmin Forerunner 170 User Should Know
  30. 10 Shows Like Netflix's 'Little House on the Prairie' You Should Watch Next
  31. Don’t Watch the Clock When You Can’t Sleep (and Focus on This Instead)
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  34. NotebookLM Has a New Name and a Few Other Changes
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  36. 10 Hacks Every Coros Watch User Should Know
  37. Here's How to Officially Suggest New Emojis
  38. Third-Party App Stores Are Finally Coming to Google Play
  39. The Best Books, Movies, Video Games, and Podcasts to Check Out After Watching ‘Cape Fear’
  40. You Can Now Try Siri AI on Your Wrist
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  42. 'HyperTexting' Is a Fresh, AI-Free Take on RSS Feeds of Yore
  43. The Top 10 TV Shows of the Year so Far, According to Streaming Data
  44. Post-Quantum Encryption Could Be the Must-Have VPN Feature of the Future
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  46. Five Hacks Every Garmin Forerunner 165 User Should Know
  47. This Acer Gaming Headset Is Only $16 Right Now
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  49. Microsoft Just Patched a Record 570 Flaws in Windows
  50. The Top 10 Movies of the Year so Far, According to Streaming Data
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  57. Disable These Gboard Settings to Protect Your Privacy
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  68. Your iPhone Is Hiding a Powerful Document Scanner
  69. This M1 iPad Pro Is Still One of the Best Tablets for Creators on a Budget
  70. This Self-Emptying Shark Robot Vacuum With LiDAR Mapping Is on Sale for Just $135 Right Now
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  1. OpenAI paused internal access to an unreleased model that disproved the Erdős unit distance conjecture after it repeatedly found ways to act outside its sandbox (OpenAI)
  2. Anduril and Archer unveil an autonomous aircraft platform designed for commercial and military uses, along with an autonomous attack rotorcraft called Thunder (Reuters)
  3. Cybersecurity companies say hackers are exploiting vulnerable WordPress versions to take over websites; WordPress patched two critical security flaws last week (Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai/TechCrunch)
  4. Source: Z.ai completed construction of a 1 GW data center housing only Chinese chips; Z.ai has built or operates several computing clusters each with 10K+ chips (Bloomberg)
  5. Chicago-based Empirical Security, which uses AI to help companies predict threats by monitoring exploited vulnerabilities, raised a $25M Series A (Chris Metinko/Axios)
  6. Levent Alpöge, a mathematician who works at Anthropic, says he was able to disprove the 87-year-old Jacobian conjecture with the help of Fable 5 (Matthew Sparkes/New Scientist)
  7. Infinity, founded by Jeremy Nixon, the creator of hacker network community AGI House, to build an inference library that runs on all chips, raised a $15M seed (Dominic-Madori Davis/TechCrunch)
  8. CAISI Director Chris Fall is resigning after taking over the federal AI testing institute in April; NIST Director Arvind Raman will serve as acting director (Maria Curi/Axios)
  9. Source: Tencent is in talks to acquire Israeli game developer SuperPlay in a deal valuing SuperPlay at $1B-$1.5B; Playtika acquired SuperPlay in 2024 for $690M (Golan Hazani/CTech)
  10. Billionaire-backed Building A Better California reserves $87M in TV ad time to oppose California's proposed one-time wealth tax; Sergey Brin put $82M into BABC (New York Times)
  11. Chinese open models are proper competition that should be welcomed, not something to ban or treat as a danger, and open-sourcing is an old business strategy (Bill Gurley/Washington Post)
  12. Sensor Tower: the number of new apps released in Apple's App Store doubled to ~560K in H1, vs. the ~600K added in all of 2025, as vibecoded apps flood the store (Kalley Huang/New York Times)
  13. UK government data: ~35% of UK businesses with 10+ staff use AI, up from 12% in September 2023, and the average number of AI tools grew from 1.4 in 2023 to 1.6 (Delphine Strauss/Financial Times)
  14. AMD plans to ship Helios, its first rack-scale AI system to rival Nvidia, later in 2026 to Microsoft, Meta, OpenAI, and others; Helios costs an estimated $5M+ (Katie Tarasov/CNBC)
  15. Sources: Google is developing a specialized server chip, informally dubbed "Frozen v2", that integrates its Gemini AI model blueprint into the silicon, for 2028 (The Information)