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Severe weather disrupts some America 250th celebrations; Trump says he will still speak in DC - AP News Esplanade reopens after storm prompts evacuation before Fireworks Spectacular - WCVB Momentary Unity at a Funeral Masks Deep Divisions Among Iran’s Leaders - The New York Times Rep. Nancy Pelosi's husband, Paul, faces charge for Napa County hit-and-run - KCRA Fourth of July Live Updates: America Celebrates Its 250th Birthday - The New York Times Live updates: Severe storms delay July 4th concert in Philly - NBC10 Philadelphia The Texas Hill Country Flood, One Year Later - The New York Times July 4 heat delays America 250 celebration as State Fair guests share love of USA - Fox News Neo-fascist group Patriot Front parades Confederate flag in Washington DC on Fourth of July - The Guardian The US celebrated the end of a ‘long national nightmare’ as it turned 200. What about now? - The Guardian Pope visits US ambassador on July 4 after prayers at Lampedusa cemetery for migrant victims - AP News Mali’s army says rebels launch new attacks on towns and cities - Al Jazeera China's military promotes 2 new generals after anti-corruption purge thins ranks - NPR World Cup 2026: England head coach Thomas Tuchel on Mexico match - BBC Michael Dell celebrates America’s 250th birthday with gift to seed the American Dream for millions of kids - Fox Business EV Batteries Are Defying Expectations After Hundreds of Thousands of Miles - WSJ Oil’s Supply Wave, Tumbling Prices Rekindle Fears of Global Glut - Bloomberg.com PECO workers strike starts amid Fourth of July heat wave - WHYY New Google commercial imagines a Declaration of Independence written with help from AI - TechCrunch Watch Faces for Samsung’s Upcoming Galaxy Watch 9 and Ultra 2 Leak Ahead of Unpacked: A First Look - Android Headlines iPhone 18 With 9GB RAM Still Won't Support Two New iOS 27 Features - MacRumors Digital pizzas? Corporations ridicule PlayStation over ending game disc production - Dawn Taylor Swift Wedding Details: Adam Sandler, Blank Space Handkerchiefs - The Hollywood Reporter Box Office: ‘Minions & Monsters’ Scares Up $16 Million on Friday - Variety Readers Pick the Definitive Films That Capture America - The New York Times Prince Harry will not be joined by Meghan and children on London trip - BBC Morocco beats World Cup co-host Canada 3-0 and advances to the quarterfinals - AP News Ticket prices plunge for USA-Belgium World Cup last-16 match - Al Jazeera 2026 World Cup: France secures frustrating win over Paraguay with Kylian Mbappé penalty - Yahoo Sports Ohtani, Freeman lead Dodgers' four starters in All-Star Game - ESPN NASA launched an emergency mission to stop the Swift Observatory from crashing to Earth - The Verge A synthetic cell grew, copied its DNA, and split in two - Boing Boing The Rubin Observatory's 10-year movie of the universe is about to 'blow our minds,' chief scientist says - Live Science ‘Strong’ Northern Lights Alert: 26 States May See Aurora On July 4 - Forbes More tick bites are happening closer to home - WTAE What to know about cyclosporiasis as Michigan health officials investigate 300+ cases in outbreak - ClickOnDetroit | WDIV Local 4 Ebola treatments trial begins in the Democratic Republic of Congo - BBC Stanley M. Gartler, Pioneer in Cancer Research, Dies at 102 - The New York Times

BBC News

Tuchel praises respectful Mexico fans amid increased security Farage denies rules broken after reports benefits from ally were not declared Prince Harry and Meghan: Will they or won't they, and will we care? Ukraine hits major oil terminal in Russia's St Petersburg Police leadership needs 'ethical reset', Lord Blunkett tells BBC NHS app to use AI to determine which service best for patients What Sky buying ITV could mean for your favourite shows Moment of destiny for France's Le Pen in verdict to decide her future in presidential race Cowboys, fighter jets and US Border Patrol - inside Trump's big recruitment drive A very British love affair - why Wimbledon regulars keep coming back TikTokers on how Manchester became an 'influencer heaven' Why England won't fear Mexico or the Azteca - Shearer Unbeaten in 34 matches - why Morocco are World Cup contenders The massive scramble behind the scenes before the new PM arrives The Papers: 'Kicking up a storm' and 'Burnham plots homes tax raid' New heatwave likely to peak at 34C with week-long health alert issued Pope urges Europe to do more for migrants as he visits gateway island Supporting Pride London 'more important than ever' Serena Williams pulls out of Wimbledon doubles alongside sister Venus Dior dress and a man of honour: What we know about Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce's wedding 'I love my superhero legs', says boy who 'inspires everyone around him' Greyhound who refuses to race finds new home in US Pupils perform for Foo Fighters in stadium show Mr Blobby costume sells for £8,500 at auction BBC News app The Story Of Andy Burnham's Return To Westminster - Live At Crossed Wires Festival After 250 years, do US citizens still believe in the American Dream? Zendaya stars in this heated tennis love triangle Why England won't fear Mexico or the Azteca - Shearer France survive Paraguay's 'disgraceful' and 'embarrassing' dark arts Tuchel praises respectful Mexico fans amid increased security Unbeaten in 34 matches - why Morocco are World Cup contenders James doubtful for Mexico tie but Quansah fit again GB's Fery fights off Bergs and nosebleeds to win five-set epic France overcome resolute Paraguay to reach quarter-final

Financial Times (World)

Storms force evacuation of July 4 celebrations in Washington Iran mourners demand revenge at ayatollah’s funeral US clean power prices set to soar as AI demand coincides with subsidy cuts ‘Heat dome’ over eastern US sends electricity prices soaring Trump uses Mount Rushmore speech to warn of ‘communist menace’ in US America at 250 UK farmers embrace regenerative methods after heatwave shock Good vibes are masking a reset in markets It is investors vs gamers as Sony ditches discs Lack of data puts England’s ‘mansion tax’ valuations at risk Burnham must learn from Starmer’s failures on UK growth Taylor Swift and the allure of a big celebrity wedding Zack Polanski opposed to Greens debating ‘Zionism is Racism’ motion Military drills for store managers: deaths mar Prabowo’s latest project Everyone loves apprenticeships. So why can’t Britain create more of them? My fellow American: who should be remembered for the next 250 years? The massacre America forgot Nicole Krauss: On the strangeness of pledging allegiance to the flag Francis Fukuyama: The problem of equality Children’s minister calls for ‘moral outrage’ as he vows to end profit-driven care Yiyun Li: ‘Moby-Dick’ is the Great American Novel of pursuit and destruction Simon Schama: The founding fathers and the battle for America’s future Stephen Breyer: Can we keep this great experiment? Yankee pyramids: how to build a presidential library 21 Moorish buys inspired by the Alhambra

Financial Times (UK)

UK farmers embrace regenerative methods after heatwave shock Lack of data puts England’s ‘mansion tax’ valuations at risk Burnham must learn from Starmer’s failures on UK growth Zack Polanski opposed to Greens debating ‘Zionism is Racism’ motion Everyone loves apprenticeships. So why can’t Britain create more of them? Four hotels with great gardens Won’t somebody not think of the children? Children’s minister calls for ‘moral outrage’ as he vows to end profit-driven care The rise of the modern classic car Andy Burnham says he will retain UK’s pension triple lock Romanians sentenced in London for Iran-directed attack on journalist Russian shadow tankers avoid English Channel after naval interceptions Top official recuses herself from NHS Palantir contract decision after business links Failings on defence leave Britain cruelly exposed ‘It’s whack-a-mole’: how Europe’s smart border melted down Brussels rebuffs UK request for ‘decision-shaping’ role in EU Power to the North: Burnham’s big idea Labour MPs jostling for jobs under Burnham discover fresh passion for devolution How to sell your home in a slow market Taking the measure of the UK as a financial service centre Hamish Powell gives a botanist’s guide to London What to feed the Bruton art set? Merlin Labron-Johnson has the menu Burnham’s council homes plan poses thorny delivery question Burnham’s devolution push to boost Treasury’s northern outpost £270,000 but lacking likes: Nigel Farage’s gold marketing under scrutiny

The New York Times

The Yoto Music Box Is a Ray of Hope Amid the ‘Techlash’ U.S. Lifts Restrictions on Anthropic’s Most Powerful A.I. Models Bending Spoons, Owner of AOL and Other Old Internet Brands, Is Going Public Neon Buys ‘Artificial,’ a Film About OpenAI, After Amazon Dropped It Fable Ban Reversed + Dr. Dana Suskind on Parenting With A.I. + Prediction Market Drama Microsoft Disclosure Provides Rare Glimpse of Tax Haven Tactics Tesla Driver Using Autopilot in Texas Crash Is Charged With Manslaughter To Reduce Electrical Grid Strain Amid Heat Wave, Data Centers Are Ordered to Use Backup Power Tesla Sales Surge 25% on Recovery in Europe Is a ‘Frictionless’ Society a Trap? BMW Will Build a New Electric S.U.V. in South Carolina In San Francisco’s A.I. Era, Even $180,000 Tech Salaries Are No Longer Enough How A.I. Is Changing the Way Politicians Run for Office Many Child Safety Features on Social Apps Don’t Work, Report Finds U.S. Loosens Restrictions on Anthropic’s Mythos A.I. Model Om Malik, Whose Blog Shaped How Silicon Valley Saw Itself, Dies at 59 Mark Zuckerberg Urges Meta to Explore Working With Polymarket and Kalshi In Europe, Tesla Sales Are Rising Despite Views on Elon Musk ‘The Daily’ and ‘The Opinions’: How A.I. Is Changing Loneliness and Taste Intel’s Chip Business Shows Signs of Life After Years of Struggle

The Guardian

Archaeologists uncover ancient Byzantine city in Egypt’s western desert ‘The situation is terrible’: aid workers on life in Sudanese city pummelled by drone strikes Overseas education project for women and girls axed by UK after two years ‘Give him any award, and he’ll come running’: Narendra Modi racks up honours on overseas trips Côte d’Ivoire floods kill 59 as west Africa endures torrential rains How the 1986 Mexico World Cup was almost cancelled after a devastating earthquake New pipeline in Canada to proceed after C$150bn pledged to ease BC and First Nations concerns ‘I can only describe it as a war zone’: the rescuers navigating Venezuela’s post-quake hellscape Venezuelan man saved from collapsed mall eight days after earthquakes Canadian boy dies of rabies after waking to find bat on his face Founder of prominent underground church released from prison in China UK woman, 21, arrested in Thailand after allegedly stabbing boyfriend to death China says man who flew plane into Beijing skyscraper had mental health problems At least nine monks killed in Thailand after boy drives truck into procession Papua separatists kill American pilot in ‘message’ to US and Indonesia Australia news live: Tehan criticises Labor for rising electricity bills as Bowen points to Coalition ‘hypocrisy’; suspected space debris washes up near Townsville Woman charged with murder after body of four-year-old boy found in Central Coast home Norfolk Island’s unique corals under triple threat from disease, El Niño and now government-approved dredging Doctors’ soaring use of AI scribes prompts Australian government warning over privacy Sydney records hottest June since 1859 as expert warns new high a ‘signature’ of global warming Ukrainian drones hit St Petersburg oil terminal and nearby port German riot police clash with protesters hoping to block far-right AfD conference Pope praises US history of welcoming migrants in implicit rebuke to Trump Brexit rule change means British teens in EU face soaring student fees for UK degrees Celtic nations begin to plan for breakup of UK in event of Reform election win Crowds gather as six-day funeral for former Iranian supreme leader begins Two Romanians jailed over stabbing of Iranian TV journalist in London Ali Khamenei’s six-day funeral expected to draw millions in Iran Trump claims Iran has agreed to hold peace talks in Doha after recent clashes Iran is jealously competing with Oman as decision-maker over strait of Hormuz Pakistan roof collapse kills 14 children at tutoring centre Delhi plans to ban petrol rickshaws and scooters in effort to cut toxic fumes ‘Humanity is a privilege’: Umar Khalid on his six years in an Indian jail without trial Pakistani airstrikes kill dozens in eastern Afghanistan Child malnutrition in Nepal has reached ‘alarming’ levels since aid cuts, survey finds Cow corner: cricket match abandoned after runaway bull stops play Tens of thousands march in London for annual Pride parade Elon Musk posted twice as often on UK race and immigration as about SpaceX in IPO run-up What impact will Andy Burnham have on Zack Polanski and the Greens? Week-long heatwave due in England with 34C peak in south-east Female US rower completes historic solo journey from California to Hawaii Neo-fascist group Patriot Front parades Confederate flag in Washington DC on Fourth of July In a pickle: US pickle company pulls out of DC fair over Confederate flag Three children dead after boat capsizes during storm in Wisconsin Trump issues 11 pardons on eve of country’s Fourth of July celebrations

Hacker News

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Nature

China boosts prestigious grants for young scientists — will it ease competition? Electrodeposited self-assembled molecules for perovskite photovoltaics Author Correction: Synthesis of enantioenriched atropisomers by biocatalytic deracemization Neutrino’s nursery found: the ‘Shadow Blaster’ Daily briefing: ‘Cyborg’ cockroaches breathe underwater with printed suit Can you actually do a nine-to-five PhD? Nature readers weigh in Incoming US science academy chief vows to ‘double down’ on research Togetherness: How co-operation built the world Backreaction of stimulated Hawking radiation in an optical analogue Harmonizing standards and resources for the medical genome Towards the construction of a virtual yeast Isomeric multi-hydrogen-bonding enables blue perovskite LEDs A secreted endosymbiont protein essential for colonizing host cells Replication-stress-induced chromatin loops protect fork stability Identification of cross-stage, cross-species malaria CD8+ T cell antigens Targeted enzyme discovery using metal-coordination mining Directly probing the carrier transfer length in 2D-material transistors Restoring cortical disinhibition improves Huntington’s disease phenotypes Tin perovskite transistors stabilized through volatile coordination Hadean bridgmanite in the source of a present-day ocean island Steatosis shapes prognosis-defining liver metastasis heterogeneity in CRC Connecting single-cell transcriptomes to projectomes in the mouse visual cortex Dual tumour–myeloid targeting of glioblastoma with GPNMB CAR-T cells Heat-triggered phospholipid flipping stabilizes plasma membrane fluidity TROP2 targeting reveals therapy-driven cell state dynamics in colorectal cancer Aerosols and hydrocarbons in the atmosphere of a white dwarf planet Moderate volcanic eruptions and extreme wildfires humidify the stratosphere N4-Acetylcytidine enhances synthetic mRNA translation yield and fidelity Food web complexity underlies biodiversity effects on ecosystem functioning Competing programs shape cortical sensorimotor–association axis development Correcting congenital myasthenia-associated acetylcholine receptor defects Dendrite initiation and deflection in biaxially stressed solid electrolytes Urokodia sheds light on the origin of chelicerae and book gills of Chelicerata Casdatifan shows durable response linked to HIF-2α biology in kidney cancer Scientists should recognize their own political biases to build public trust Daily briefing: What’s really happening with trust in science How FAIR data are helping to build trust in science Seeking universal malaria-vaccine targets Listening in on the human brain cells that produce speech Cancer Research UK bets on Manchester with £6-million funding boost Why paying peer reviewers works, according to a journal’s editor-in-chief Liver fat steers the outcome of advanced colorectal cancer Mysterious protein sets up a beneficial partnership between bacteria and insects RS-232 and other forms of grief Plant membranes shuffle lipids around to stay firm under heat stress Paper mill cancer studies get double the number of citations as genuine papers The complex truth about trust in science Six ways to put the public at the heart of science and policy As transistors get smaller, electrodes must keep shrinking too Have people stopped trusting science? The data tell a surprising story Nanodiamonds made from tiny graphene triangles Vaccination elicits HIV broadly neutralizing antibodies in primates Retraction Note: NSD2 targeting reverses plasticity and drug resistance in prostate cancer Enhanced B cell priming induces broadly neutralizing HIV-1 apex antibodies Child online safety needs more than social-media bans Ebola preparedness must start with ecosystems and before humans show symptoms Early television set impresses Nature editors — but will it catch on? AI tools can speed up thinking, but evidence still comes from the lab bench Can Rwanda sustain its rise in science and technology? Here’s what can help Daily briefing: How to brew a climate-friendly coffee AI systems devise hypotheses and ways to test them Coffee is under threat: how scientists are fighting to save it from extinction Family of magnetic field-boosted superconductors in rhombohedral graphene Audio long read: Is the peptide craze backed by science? The promise behind the hype Ozone erosion started decades before the ozone hole’s discovery Trump has big AI and quantum ambitions: this scientist’s job is to make them reality Daily briefing: Editing the epigenome with CRISPR to treat disease How one US scientist is adapting to life abroad after DOGE cuts How AI can crack open the ‘hidden curriculum’ for neurodivergent students What’s the human cost of US research turmoil? A new film finds out Scientists fight back against far-right plans to restrict academic freedom in Germany Dementia risk in middle-aged people linked to a blood protein Briefing Chat: What tickling a chimpanzee can tell us about the evolution of speech The poetry of twilight and the awe-inspiring magic of eclipses: Books in brief Daily briefing: Ovaries start a second job after menopause

CNN

Some on-air claims about Dominion Voting Systems were false, Fox News acknowledges in statement after deal is announced Dominion still has pending lawsuits against election deniers such as Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell Here are the 20 specific Fox broadcasts and tweets Dominion says were defamatory Judge in Fox News-Dominion defamation trial: 'The parties have resolved their case' 'Difficult to say with a straight face': Tapper reacts to Fox News' statement on settlement Millions in the US could face massive consequences unless McCarthy can navigate out of a debt trap he set for Biden White homeowner accused of shooting a Black teen who rang his doorbell turns himself in to face criminal charges Newly released video shows scene of Jeremy Renner's snowplow accident Jake Gyllenhaal and Jamie Lee Curtis spent the Covid-19 lockdown together Toddler crawls through White House fence, prompts Secret Service response Jamie Foxx remains hospitalized nearly a week after 'medical complication' A 13-year-old dies after participating in a Benadryl TikTok 'challenge' See pizza delivery guy take out suspect fleeing police Netflix is winding down its DVD business after 25 years FTC chair Lina Khan warns AI could 'turbocharge' fraud and scams Eating too much of these foods is driving the rise in type 2 diabetes, study says ADHD medication abuse in schools is a 'wake-up call' Apple CEO was presented with an original Macintosh. See his reaction Democrats bash Justice Clarence Thomas but their plan to investigate ethics allegations is unclear Russia is 'going backwards' in equipment and deploying post WWII-era tanks, according to Western officials Two Russians claiming to be former Wagner commanders admit killing children and civilians in Ukraine 'My stomach is hurting from laughing': Hear panelist's reaction to DeSantis' threat to Disney GOP prepared to block vote to replace Feinstein on Senate Judiciary Oklahoma governor calls on officials to resign over recording of racist and threatening remarks McCarthy slams Biden in handling of US debt US warns Russia not to touch American nuclear technology at Ukrainian nuclear plant Repeated gunshots fired on live TV as ex-lawmaker shot by assassins FDA clears the way for additional bivalent boosters for certain vulnerable individuals Maine authorities detained a person of interest after 4 people were found dead in a home and 3 others shot while driving Southwest says flights resumed after delays caused by 'tech issues' Damar Hamlin cleared to resume football activities after January cardiac arrest Pilot makes history after landing on top of a 56-story hotel Top US Navy admiral defends non-binary sailor amid some Republican criticism Fulton County DA says fake Trump electors are incriminating one another and wants lawyer disqualified High speed trains are racing across the world. But not in America Podcast: One country musician is calling for other artists to oppose assault rifles Here's what you need to know if you haven't filed your return yet — and even if you have Undocumented immigrants are paying their taxes today, too Opinion: Why millionaires like us want to pay more in taxes 'World's longest' purpose-built cycling tunnel opens in Norway Artist rejects photo prize after AI-generated image wins award These ships disappeared in Lake Superior a century ago. Watch as they're found again Erotic images of seniors show sex and intimacy in new light China's economy is off to a solid start, rising 4.5% in Q1 2023 Even when wives make as much as husbands, they still do more at home McDonald's is upgrading its burgers Google-parent stock drops on fears it could lose search market share to AI-powered rivals Bidets save you money and reduce waste — we tested the best options out there 50+ products to make your life easier and our planet cleaner Mother's Day is around the corner. Here are 50+ thoughtful gifts she'll love A head-to-toe guide of how men should dress this spring, and where they should shop 42 of the most useful travel products you can buy on Amazon The 7 best high-yield savings accounts of April 2023 Taxes are due tomorrow. Here's how to file for an extension Composting is an easy way to reduce food waste. Here's how to do it We stopped using aluminum foil for cooking and you should too. Here's what to use instead The beloved Dyson Supersonic hair dryer is at its lowest price ever Everything you need to know about Way Day 2023, Wayfair's biggest sale of the year The 10 best Amazon deals to shop this week Mifepristone saved my life The 2024 presidential alternative many voters will want Why isn't the House Judiciary Committee looking into Thomas? Top secrets come spilling out How did Sudan go from casting off despotic rule to this? Michelle Yeoh set to return in new 'Star Trek' movie Recap: 'Succession' finds dark humor in the aftershocks 'Yellowjackets' leans hard into '90s music nostalgia, and we're here for it Jeremy Renner revisits 'the amazing group of people' who helped him recover from his accident Review: 'Barry' takes a whack at its farewell season

NPR News

In Mount Rushmore speech, Trump veers from U.S. exceptionalism to warnings about communism National Mall fireworks are back on, Trump to speak, after stormy delay Move over Chutes & Ladders: Schisto & Ladders has educational value plus worms China's military promotes 2 new generals after anti-corruption purge thins ranks Opinion: America is still a work in progress 'Cautiously optimistic': Swing voters describe their view of America at 250 Cape Verde's historic World Cup ride ends after pushing Argentina to the brink Dayslong funeral for slain Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei begins in Tehran Reflections on America's 250th birthday After weeks of speculation, Taylor Swift, Travis Kelce wed in New York

The Atlantic

Pope Leo’s July 4 Message to America Was Unmistakable How to Find Joy on a Quiet Day In America’s Most Enduring Belief Is Also One of Its Most Dangerous How to Define America in 30 Objects Trump Is Getting Tired of Losing Election Cases What J. D. Vance Once Knew Hell Arrives in Washington How Elon Musk Became More Powerful Than Ever It Wasn’t Just the Founders The ‘Have It Both Ways’ Theory of Great Books All Men Are Created Equal, but What Does Equal Mean? A Twist in This Year’s Strangest Literary AI Scandal American Brands Seem Lukewarm on America’s Birthday What This Fourth of July Is Really About Photos of the Week: World Cup, Wine Battle, White Kimono These Justices Are Not Impartial The Hispanic Founder When France Plays Soccer, You Can’t Look Away Washington Is Turning Into a Fortress for the Fourth Why Trump’s ‘Freedom 250’ Logo Is Everywhere The Fourth of July That Saved My Family What I Learned From ROTC The Father of American Pop Music Turns 200 The Other Case for Birthright Citizenship Even Trump Can’t Believe How Well This Book Has Sold

Vox

Why Americans are living longer again The solution to America’s 250th birthday mess? Party like it’s 1976. The late historian who rekindled my hope for America’s future Why Gen Z bros are ditching their MAGA hats The Supreme Court can no longer explain itself The fatal flaw in how America handles heat waves A very Trump July 4 Medicare is now offering $50 GLP-1 prescriptions. The US may never be the same. The worst thing about America’s World Cup America at 250: Who are we, anyway?

Al Jazeera

Fireworks light up New York City to mark 250 years of US independence Severe weather disrupts US’s 250th celebrations This immigrant served in the US military. Now he faces deportation White nationalists march on Washington DC ahead of Freedom 250 celebrations Iran war live: Huge crowds mourn Khamenei, Trump vows to hold fire White nationalists march in Washington, DC, area during July 4 festivities Ticket prices plunge for USA-Belgium World Cup last-16 match Mbappe draws level with Messi as France beat Paraguay to set up Morocco tie US influence challenged by changing global order: Paolo von Schirach Masses of Iranians defy heatwave on second day of Khamenei’s funeral Lebanon’s Aoun calls on US to keep ‘always standing beside’ his country Ounahi fires Morocco into World Cup quarterfinals with 3-0 win over Canada A politically charged holiday: The US celebrates its 250th anniversary America’s Indigenous Legacy Has the US reckoned with its own history? Will economic pressure move the Kremlin towards talks with Kyiv? At least 20 drown as boat carrying students after exams sinks in DR Congo Russia’s Medvedev says Strait of Hormuz is Iran’s ‘nuclear weapon’ Trump hints Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu may visit US as early as next week Turkiye’s Erdogan says Israel must not be able to ‘dynamite’ US-Iran deal Paraguay 0-1 France: FIFA World Cup 2026 last 16 – as it happened Police clash with protesters outside AfD meeting FIFA World Cup 2026: Best Round of 16 knockout matches to watch At least 7 Palestinians killed by Israeli forces over past 48 hours in Gaza Iran promotes message of continuity and revenge at Khamenei commemoration

Ars Technica

Review: Supergirl is not the disaster its low box office suggests When the ability to smell goes away A martian rock has lots of carbon on it, and it's not clear why Rocket Report: Indian startup nears first launch; SpaceX's millenary milestone Inside the Luddite festival harnessing Gen Z’s rage against Big Tech Despite the darkness, I still see signs of hope in America Visiting the stars (and planets, and telescopes) in VR Wing Commander IV and the FMV future that never quite was Newly discovered PamStealer isn't your typical macOS malware FAA proposal: Supersonic airliners can fly over US cities if they’re quiet Ars Live recap: When are the big rockets NASA desperately needs going to be ready? Plex debuts 5-year membership pass for $250 Africa CDC confirms Marburg case in Uganda as Ebola outbreak rages Artificial cell manages a few rounds of cell division Google loses long-running appeal of record EU fine, will have to cough up $4.7 billion Trump gets OpenAI to offer US 5% stake, far lower than Sanders’ target Musk’s X poses “serious risk to Americans’ privacy,” advocates warn FTC Tesla sales increase by 25% in Q2 2026 Woman's hip replacement disintegrates, causing severe metal poisoning Google’s AI buildout drove 37% increase in electricity use in 2025

Slashdot

Are Wars Blurring Lines Between Corporate and National Security? New DNA Tech Identifies Soldier Killed in America's Revolution in 1780 842,000 American Households Lost Power Today During a Heatwave Did Microsoft Shift Its Profits to Low-Tax Countries? FSF Shares Update on 'LibrePhone' and New Automated Site Monitoring Tool AOL's Owner Bending Spoons Hits Wall Street with $1.7 billion IPO EchoStar's US Satellite Pay-TV Provider Dish DBS Files for Bankruptcy Decades-Old Bash Tricks Expose AI Coding Agents To Supply Chain Attacks What Is a Quantum Computer Good For? Absolutely Nothing - Yet Startup Targets Datacenters With 3D-Printed Nuclear Reactor Module Video Game History Foundation Says Piracy Remains the Only Viable Preservation Method Alibaba To Ban Claude Code In Workplace Over Alleged Backdoor Risks Valve Open-Sources Steam Machine's E-Ink Display New PamStealer macOS Malware Uses Clever Tradecraft To Remain Stealthy US Life Expectancy On Track To Reach Record High

Smithsonian Magazine

July 4 Is Always a Star-Spangled-Banner Day for Old Glory. Celebrate With These 15 Images of the American Flag An A.I.-Generated Alexander Hamilton Chats About Economics at the Museum of American Finance, Opening This Weekend in Boston Scientists Say They've Made Cells That Feed, Grow and Reproduce, Bringing Them One Step Closer to Building Life From Scratch 3D Printing Gives New Life to an Ancient Game Board Discovered at a Roman Fort Near Hadrian's Wall in England Puzzled by Mark Rothko's Captivating Color Field Paintings? Look to the Renaissance Masters Who Inspired Him The Oldest Black Church in the U.S., the Wright Brothers' Home and a New York Hospital Are Among the American Heritage Sites in Urgent Need of Preservation An Archival Discovery Became a Treasure Map Leading a Diver to a 17th-Century Shipwreck Carrying Coins and Gold Jewelry Earth Might Be Home to 20 Million Insect Species—More Than Three Times as Many as Previously Thought, a Study Suggests A Peek Inside Jim Henson's Creature Shop, Where 'Sesame Street' Characters and Other Whimsical Puppets Are Designed To Recreate One of the American Revolution's Most Famous Paintings, This Artist Painstakingly Crafted Miniature Wax Figures of the Nation's Founders

InfoQ

Cycle Introduces EU Control Plane as Sovereignty Debate Continues Cloudflare Details Unified Data Platform Where Billing Workloads Account for 53% of Queries Hardwood Promises High-Speed JVM Apache Parquet Processing with Zero Mandatory Dependencies OpenTelemetry Graduates to CNCF's Highest Maturity Level Mini book: Agentic AI Architecture Oracle Quietly Halves Free Tier Ampere A1 Compute Limits with No Public Announcement Presentation: Fine Tuning the Enterprise: Reinforcement Learning in Practice Google Releases A2UI v0.9: Portable, Framework-Agnostic Generative UI SwiftUI Adds New Document Protocol, Improves Performance, and More Shifting Platform Development from Projects to Products Apple Extends Private Cloud Compute to Google Cloud for the First Time Presentation: Enhancing Reliability Using Service-Level Prioritized Load Shedding at Netflix Instacart Scales Personalized Marketing via Configuration-Driven Multi-Tenant Platform Presentation: Graph RAG: Building Smarter Retrieval Workflows with Knowledge Graphs HeroUI v3 Lands as a Ground-Up Rewrite for React and React Native, Built on Tailwind CSS v4

Dynomight

Blink if you’re human The worthlessness of vitamin D is mildly exaggerated Is “colorectal cancer” rising in “young people”? What’s with all the slide decks? You’re probably taking the wrong painkiller I quit drinking for a year LLMs predict my coffee The modern formatting addiction in writing Maybe there’s a pattern here? Heritability of human life span is about 50% when heritability is redefined to be something different Why read novels? Good if make prior after data instead of before Why the chicken crossed the road, according to various entities Underrated reasons to be thankful V Make product worse, get money Dating: A mysterious constellation of facts Pointing machines, population pyramids, post office scandal, type species, and horse urine Will the explainer post go extinct? Y’all are over-complicating these AI-risk arguments Shoes, Algernon, Pangea, and Sea Peoples Dear PendingKetchup You can try to like stuff I guess I was wrong about AI persuasion Futarchy’s fundamental flaw — the market — the blog post Heritability puzzlers New colors without shooting lasers into your eyes My 9-week unprocessed food self-experiment Links for July Do blue-blocking glasses improve sleep? Scribble-based forecasting and AI 2027

Marginal Revolution

Why we love this country Saturday assorted links America the Beautiful, 250 years! A scientific benefit (and cost) of AI innovation The most profitable crypto investors and firms Do falling birth rates boost per capita income? Friday assorted links How Britain Became as Poor as Mississippi How will AI and the fertility crisis interact? James Mirrlees auction markets in everything Noah Smith on negative emotional contagion Thursday assorted links Rent Control: The Ceiling Trap Is Alexander Calder the great American artist? Emergent Ventures India, 17th cohort

Not Boring

Weekly Dose of Optimism #200 America's Next 250 Weekly Dose of Optimism #199 Weekly Dose of Optimism #198 Weekly Dose of Optimism #197 Return on Tokens (ROT) Expanding the Radius of Daily Life Weekly Dose of Optimism #196 America Spins on Westmag Weekly Dose of Optimism #195 Thank God For Data Centers Weekly Dose of Optimism #194 Cowboy Space Corporation Weekly Dose of Optimism #193 Riding the Leopard Weekly Dose of Optimism #192 Weekly Dose of Optimism #191 Scarce Assets Weekly Dose of Optimism #190 The Great Blue Frontier

Coding Horror

Every Choice Changes Everything: The Show Thank You For Being a Friend Launching The Rural Guaranteed Minimum Income Initiative The Road Not Taken is Guaranteed Minimum Income Let's Talk About The American Dream Stay Gold, America The Great Filter Comes For Us All I Fight For The Users The 2030 Self-Driving Car Bet Updating The Single Most Influential Book of the BASIC Era Building a PC, Part IX: Downsizing The Rise of the Electric Scooter Electric Geek Transportation Systems An Exercise Program for the Fat Web The Cloud Is Just Someone Else’s Computer

Quanta Magazine

Astrophysicists Puzzle Over Webb’s New Universe For the First Time, a Cell Built From Scratch Grows and Divides What Breaks a Cell’s Ribs Can Make It Stronger After 80 Years, Mathematicians Give Famed ‘Erdős Method’ an Upgrade What Is the Positive Grassmannian and Why Does It Show Up Everywhere?

Science Daily

New calculator reveals whether you should really worry about statin side effects Scientists discover a completely different way to fight viruses Scientists may have finally found how Alzheimer's spreads through the brain Scientists say creatine may help fight depression A strange LIGO signal could reveal the missing link behind dark matter Scientists reveal what really happens when water is trapped in tiny spaces Great ape laughter reveals a hidden origin of human speech These tiny soil microbes could rescue crops from salty farmland Astronomers found two rare super puff planets lighter than cotton candy Scientists create quantum sound device that could transform communications Tiny magnetic waves could unlock quantum computers the size of a penny Scientists discover a surprising link between vitamin C and brain health Einstein Probe may have caught a black hole tearing apart a white dwarf for the first time Climate scientist who “proved” humanity is warming Earth says government report got it wrong 390 gravitational wave detections reveal hidden population of black holes They knew the pill was fake but their memory still improved This spray-on powder can stop life-threatening bleeding in 1 second Melanoma's secret to cheating death has finally been revealed Hawaii is turning ocean plastic and fishing nets into roads How asteroids may have sparked life on Earth Modern neuroscience is rediscovering an idea Freud had 130 years ago After 70 years of excavation, ancient Sardis becomes a UNESCO World Heritage site Earth may have been seeding Venus with life for billions of years Scientists make quantum time flow backward in stunning physics breakthrough Scientists stunned as bumble bees solve a classic intelligence test Scientists discover a protein switch that burns fat and blocks new fat cells Scientists discover what triggers belly fat as we age Brain activity under anesthesia challenges what we know about consciousness Osteopenia is silently weakening bones in millions of people NASA’s Lucy finds a wobbling peanut-shaped asteroid with signs of ancient water Scientists discover ancient brain cells that help block distractions The universe may be hiding conscious minds stranger than we can imagine Early humans were bringing fire into caves 1.8 million years ago Why scientists fear we're missing evidence of extraterrestrial life This common vitamin deficiency can mimic normal aging Why South Africa’s leopards shrank to half their normal size New superconducting X-ray detector is up to 1,000 times more sensitive Researchers discover why fructose doesn't satisfy hunger like glucose Study challenges a common belief about vitamin D and sunlight Scientists just discovered how queen bees are really made New solid-state material converts sunlight into higher-energy UV light Scientists discover hidden “footprints of death” that may help viruses spread “Absolutely huge” 400-year-old black coral stuns scientists in New Zealand FDA-approved drug may finally help immunotherapy defeat rare liver cancer James Webb uncovers exotic salt clouds on a mysterious pink world Nearly half of kidney transplant patients never even get started A surprising brain discovery is forcing scientists to rethink movement disorders This newly discovered ballista spider catapults ants into a deadly trap A massive asteroid slammed into the North Sea and triggered a 330-foot tsunami Scientists open a million-year-old time capsule hidden beneath New Zealand A NASA satellite caught a giant tsunami doing something no one expected From pet to pest, goldfish can wreck entire ecosystems The real cause of a common stroke may have been missed for decades New vitamin B12 therapy shows promise against deadly brain cancer Massive study links teen marijuana use to double the risk of serious mental illness Scientists discover an unexpected way to make pancreatic cancer cells self-destruct NASA’s Cold Atom Lab is creating one of the weirdest forms of matter in space This emerging treatment is helping people avoid knee replacement surgery One tiny mutation may explain how bat viruses become human threats Scientists say most people need more protein than current guidelines suggest

Spaceflight Now

Live coverage: Semiconductor manufacturing test bed to fly alongside Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 launch ULA launches final Atlas 5 rocket supporting Amazon Leo’s broadband internet satellite constellation SpaceX launches 24 Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg SFB Astronauts ‘operate’ on space station’s broken robot arm Blue Origin outlines return to flight logistics for its New Glenn rockets SpaceX launches 7.5-ton SiriusXM satellite as part of constellation refresh SpaceX launches Starlink satellites from Vandenberg Space Force Base Next-gen astronaut Moon rovers aim for deployment ahead of Artemis 4 crew arrival West Coast Falcon 9 launch continues expansion of SpaceX’s Starlink network NASA, Boeing committed to Starliner-1 launch despite unclear timeline

Space News

GAO flags satellite costs, launch risks in Space Force portfolio Pegasus launches Swift reboost mission Chinese satellite manufacturer Hongqing raises $191 million Perovskite solar panel startup Verde Technologies shifts focus to space Isar Aerospace to launch German-built Planet imaging satellite Polish space tech company Sybilla Technologies secures funds to enter U.S. market Making satellite communications more resilient Final Atlas 5 Amazon Leo mission launches Report links Starliner problems to overconfidence and unrealistic schedules FCC to vote on satellite licensing overhaul July 22 Unseen threats overhead: Drones endanger U.S. rocket launch sites Vantor offers up-to-date imagery with WorldView 3D EchoStar’s satellite TV and wireless subsidiaries file for bankruptcy Latitude plans to conduct first launch from Oman Blue Origin outlines new launch pad approach as it pushes to return New Glenn to flight The SpaceX IPO tells one story. Here is the more important one. NASA awards nearly $600 million in lunar lander missions TechnoMile Recognized among Notable Vendors in Contract Lifecycle Management Platforms Landscape Report Space Force fields mobile satellite-jamming system Matthew Williams Joins the Commercial Space Federation as Senior Advisor, National Security Vast names Isakowitz as a senior adviser SSC Space, Firefly set 2028 target for first orbital launch from Sweden’s Esrange Orbital files plans for 100,000 orbital data centers Study argues bigger launch vehicles may not always be better

Martin Fowler

Building Reliable Agentic AI Systems Fragments: June 16 Fragments: June 2 Fragments: May 27 The test suite as a regression sensor The VibeSec Reckoning Bliki: Vibe Coding Three more static code analysis sensors Maintainability sensors for coding agents Fragments: May 14 Bliki: Interrogatory LLM What is Code Fragments: May 5 Bliki: Mythical Man Month Fragments: April 29 Structured-Prompt-Driven Development (SPDD) Fragments: April 21 Fragments: April 14 Alan Turing play in Cambridge MA Fragments: April 9 Feedback Flywheel Principles of Mechanical Sympathy Fragments: April 2 Harness engineering for coding agent users Encoding Team Standards Bliki: Architecture Decision Record Context Anchoring Ideological Resistance to Patents, Followed by Reluctant Pragmatism Humans and Agents in Software Engineering Loops Design-First Collaboration

Embedded Artistry

Practicalities of Co-locating Tests with Source Code A Practice: Satisfied on Purpose Embedded Artistry’s Essential Engineering Library Flashing Yocto Images from MacOS Convenience Gone Wrong: A C++ auto Story Battling Perfectionism in Creation Pushing Git Submodule Commits Automatically Monorepo Tooling Update: Signed Commit Support in Git 2.52 The After-Hours Consulting Trap Configuring Git Remotes: Fetch Only One Branch and No Tags What I’ve Been Up To (20251205) Life After Burnout Automating Away the Fun Parts Creating Deterministic Zip Files with Git Commit Timestamps Papers in Systems: Schön on Dynamic Conservatism Reclaim Your Data: Freeing a Wi-Fi Sensor from the Cloud 2022-2023 Quarterly Discussion Panel Archives Exploring Serverless CI/CD for Embedded Devices How to cherry-pick Specific Files from a Commit 2023 in Review Managing Issues and Improving Products After Launch Resolving Git Commit History Divergence Due to Case-Sensitive Rename Operations Responses to the Commentariat on the -Werror Article Leveraging Your Toolchain to Improve Security Best Practices for Safeguarding Your Connected Devices Q&A: How Do You Stay on the Path and Make it to “Done”? Q&A: How Many Iterations Do You Recommend for Scaling From a Prototype to Mass Production? Q&A: To What Degree Should We Understand Other Disciplines? Meson Pattern: Monorepo that Supports Individual Subproject Builds From Concept to Launch: What It Takes to Build and Ship a New Device

Attack Magazine

AlphaTheta Release CDJ-1500X With Cloud DJing, Crowd Requests In A Compact Player Format Amsterdam Dance Event Has Announced The First Wave Of Artists For ADE 2026 Yamaha Creator Pass Adds Cubase, Ableton, And New $9.99 Starter Plan Tom Cosm – “It’s Going To Make Your Music More Melodic” D16 Group Releases PunchBox 2 One Sample, Infinite Movement: Building a Techno Instrument in Absynth 6 Elevate Artists Releases New Analysis of Global Electronic Music Trends UVI Rumble Review: A New Take on Bass Synthesis Inventing Your Own Patch From Scratch With Zebra 3 CRSSD Festival Reveals Lineup For Fall 2026 Return To San Diego

DJ TechTools

Farewell, Juno Download Midi Fighter Utility 2.91 Is Out; Our Biggest Update in Years Engine DJ 5.0: on-board stems on the System 1, RGB waveforms for everyone Devious Pocket: a €249 open-source DVS that ditches the laptop InMusic just bought Native Instruments. So what now for Traktor? The DJM-V5 from AlphaTheta: 3 channels, 4-band EQ, V10 sound – no Beat FX or crossfader. Traktor MX2: Native Instruments’ New 2-Channel Controller Akai Launches MPC Live III Standalone With 8-Core Processor, Clip Matrix, Stems, and 3D Pads