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U.S. teeters on return to all-out war with Iran after more troops killed - The Washington Post Tropical depression forms in Gulf, National Hurricane Center says - USA Today Nine people injured in Arizona shooting; suspect shot by police - CBS News Top Maine Senate candidates end campaigns as Troy Jackson builds Democratic support - NBC News US Vice President JD Vance and his wife announce birth of fourth child - Al Jazeera Iran vows not a ‘single drop’ of oil or gas will pass strait of Hormuz as US carries out ninth night of strikes – Middle East crisis live - The Guardian Trump Relents From Spain-Bashing to Present Its Team the World Cup Trophy - The New York Times FBI will no longer investigate ICE confrontations, The New York Times reports - CNBC Andrew and Tristan Tate arrested in Miami on rape and sex trafficking charges. Here's what to know - PBS Chicago's Air Quality Among The Worst In The World Once Again As Wildfire Smoke Returns - Block Club Chicago Pledging to 'rewire Britain', 'King of the North' Burnham becomes PM - Reuters Russian attacks kill 6 in Kyiv and other cities and expose gaps in Ukraine’s air defenses - AP News Earthquake in Peru Kills 6 and Displaces Hundreds - The New York Times IDF fires interceptors over Eilat as Iranian missiles target nearby Aqaba in Jordan - The Times of Israel Brent oil tops $90 as US, Iran intensify attacks in Middle East - Reuters FDA says positive Cyclospora test linked to lettuce outbreak was false alarm - NewsNation Can the ‘Magnificent Seven’ save a stock market that might be doomed without them? - MarketWatch How to keep the air inside your home clean during wildfires - AP News Apple’s scrapped Mac Pro plans reportedly included a new Intel model - 9to5Mac Apple Has Reportedly Started Recording and AI-Summarizing Conversations at the Genius Bar - Gizmodo Is The MacBook Air M1 Still Worth Buying In 2026? - bgr.com NYT Strands hints, answers for July 19, 2026 - Mashable The Odyssey storms global box office with $264m opening - The Guardian Travis Scott involved in ‘bottle throwing’ fight at ultra-exclusive private club - Page Six General Hospital: Kirsten Storms Breaks Social Media Silence Amid Absence From Soap - Soap Opera Digest PlaqueBoyMax Ends Streamer University Broadcast After Heated 'Diva' Clash - TMZ Spain suffocates Lionel Messi and Argentina, wins World Cup on Ferran Torres' extra-time winner - Yahoo Sports Atlanta Hawks dump former No. 1 pick Zaccharie Risacher after disappointing two-year stint - Fox News The Open Championship: Ryan Fox drains the putt of his life to claim the Claret Jug - Yahoo Sports Conor McGregor reveals full extent of his UFC knee injury: ‘Quite shocking’ - New York Post NASA's Psyche mission delivers Mars flyby data, time-lapse video - Phys.org 'It's absolutely exciting!': Astronomers discover an atmosphere around an Earth-like planet in the habitable zone for first time ever - Live Science You’ll Never Guess What Tasty Molecule Astronomers Just Detected In Space - Futurism Meteorite that hit New Jersey home may unlock clues to life’s origins - FOX 8 News Misery in the Epicenter of Cyclospora: ‘A Baseball Bat to Your Abdomen’ - The New York Times 3rd person dies from Legionnaires' disease in New York City - ABC News - Breaking News, Latest News and Videos New Alzheimer's blood test predicts who is likely to develop dementia in 5 to 10 years - AOL.com Heavy TV Watching Systematically Shrinks Your Brain - Neuroscience News

BBC News

Burnham to promise 'more breathing room' for people in first speech as PM Chris Mason: Burnham is fifth PM in four years - now he'll try to buck the trend Moment fans in Madrid celebrate World Cup win US soldier killed and one injured after Iranian attack in Iraq My fitness tracker knew I was pregnant before I did Russia launches major ballistic missile attack on Ukrainian cities ‘Everyone's afraid to die’: Struggle to recruit soldiers in Ukraine turns violent The 1975's Matty Healy marries model Gabbriette Bechtel in Los Angeles Fire crews battling blaze on Arthur’s Seat in Edinburgh Thames Water lenders preparing legal challenge in event of Burnham nationalisation How Fox kept cool at baked Birkdale to win The Open Victory for football? Spain beat Argentina to win World Cup Sixteen titles in five years - why Spain are a dominant force Trump, Bieber and Shakira - a World Cup final like never before Lamine Yamal 'completes football' at 19 as Argentina betray Messi Mbappe first to win Golden Boot twice as Rodri named best player The hidden cost of the night shift and how to sleep it off The Papers: 'Burnham's new era' and 'Viva España!' Are you a parent missing out on £27 a week? Here's how to check Can Burnham's casual style survive contact with No 10? Russians turn to cash, putting more strain on slowing wartime economy Neighbours actor Terence Donovan dies aged 90 Norway opens new memorial for victims of 2011 massacre Marathon runners compete on drifting sea ice at North Pole Tate brothers arrested in US as further UK charges take total to 59 Man injured in dockside crane 'collapse' BBC News app What No 10 Will Really Be Like For Andy Burnham Will Trump's primetime speech help him challenge the midterm elections? What Has the BBC Ever Done for Me? Shakira, Madonna, Justin Bieber and BTS perform at colourful World Cup half-time show Argentina boss Scaloni leaves news conference in tears talking about his future Who made the difference for Spain? World Cup final player ratings 'The reaction is terrible' - World Cup final turns ugly at full-time How Fox kept cool at baked Birkdale to win The Open England seal series with record Lord's ODI total Russell 'numb to disappointment' after bitter blow to title hopes

Financial Times (World)

US launches fresh Iran strikes as death toll climbs The AI revolution takes on the world’s most cyclical industry Spain beat Argentina to win World Cup for second time FirstFT: Singapore weighs tax cuts for fund managers to rival Hong Kong Andy Burnham plans beefed-up control centre in Downing Street Boeing says it will be ready to fund new plane programme by 2030 Burnham’s British reboot begins Burnham to maintain ban on North Sea exploration licences UK must focus on insiders vs outsiders not north vs south EU faces crumbling support for new Russia sanctions India’s rupee problem has been misdiagnosed Burnham should pursue a devolution ‘big bang’ UK steel quota concessions to seal India deal pose risk to Welsh plant, say insiders How will the ECB respond to the latest rise in oil prices? China’s Jingye demands payout over British Steel nationalisation US day traders flock to ‘the most dangerous product in crypto’ US strikes Iran after American troops killed in Jordan GameStop extends pursuit of eBay despite Wall Street scepticism No longer grim up north for UK banks as Burnham comes to power How Maga fell hard for the gender binary Chinese leaders zero in on need for stimulus for economy Xpeng says China close to building ‘killer’ rival to Tesla Model Y Can an ‘unelected’ prime minister succeed? Why ‘rightwing’ is no longer such a dirty word in Britain The art of knowing when to step down

Financial Times (UK)

Andy Burnham plans beefed-up control centre in Downing Street Burnham to maintain ban on North Sea exploration licences UK must focus on insiders vs outsiders not north vs south Burnham should pursue a devolution ‘big bang’ UK steel quota concessions to seal India deal pose risk to Welsh plant, say insiders China’s Jingye demands payout over British Steel nationalisation No longer grim up north for UK banks as Burnham comes to power Can an ‘unelected’ prime minister succeed? Why ‘rightwing’ is no longer such a dirty word in Britain Job crisis leaves newly qualified nurses struggling to secure roles UK seeks extradition of Andrew and Tristan Tate after arrest in Miami Burnham scraps new digital ID scheme Britain’s system for avoiding electricity blackouts faces scrutiny The London IPO market isn’t as bad as it looks Your odyssey to see ‘The Odyssey’ matters Superdrug owner considers delay to planned London IPO Gibraltar land grab stirs age-old dispute with Spain My journey down the rabbit hole at the Conspiracy World Cup Ageism: the silent but deadly threat to your retirement How to fix the housing crisis The makers of the little red government box The Burnham era begins: Mahmood set for chancellor Reform UK volunteer who made homophobic remarks hosted patrons’ event Burnham takes Labour reins as focus shifts to delivering on vision Britain’s Burnham and nostalgia for a semi-imaginary past

The New York Times

The ‘Bad Blood’ Between Polymarket’s Shayne Coplan and Kalshi’s Tarek Mansour Politicians Are Trying to Change What Chatbots Say About Them China’s Moonshot AI Unveils Kimi Model, Threatening America’s Lead The A.I. Trade Secrets War + Economists Say ‘We Must Act Now’ + HatGPT Your ‘Live’ World Cup Broadcast Is Not Really Live Meta in Talks to Lease Computing Power to Anthropic in Potential $10 Billion Deal Roger Summit, Who Invented an Early Online Search Service, Dies at 95 White House Teleprompter Operator Bet on Trump Speeches, Kalshi Says Mary-Dell Chilton Dies at 87; Helped Create First Genetically Modified Plant Someone Used A.I. to Write an Unauthorized Biography of Me. I Don’t Recommend Reading It. Google Ordered to Give A.I. Rivals More Access on Android Smartphones The Quest for ‘Technological Sovereignty’ in Europe (and Why It’s So Hard) Judge Dismisses Suit Accusing Apple of Failing to Limit Child Sex Abuse Material Twitter Turns 20: Two Decades of Memes, Movements and Hot Takes Data Centers to Add Billions in Power Costs in 13 States OpenAI Is Showing Kalshi’s World Cup Odds in ChatGPT How a Teacher Revived Backyard Baseball U.S. Electric Vehicle Sales are Down but E.V. Chargers are Booming Europe Takes Step Toward Possible Social Media Ban for Children The eBay Scandal Gets a Thriller-Like Documentary

The Guardian

São Tomé and Príncipe heads to polls in tense presidential election ‘We are preserving a tradition’: how Ghana’s sensationalist film posters became collectible art Seven Americans quarantining at Kenya Ebola facility after US travel ban, says aid group UK aid cuts ‘reduce bilateral support to some African countries by 90%’ Uganda calls for travel restrictions to be lifted after last Ebola patient discharged Dozens missing after passenger ferry sinks off coast of Guyana Earthquake in Peru leaves at least six dead Flash flood warnings strike north-east US amid wildfire smoke from Canada Air quality warnings remain in place across US as wildfire smoke continues to swathe country Cuba edges toward breakdown as power cuts and US meddling push society to brink Australia updates travel advice for Laos as charges announced over mass methanol poisoning Biodiversity fears as human-bred hybrid fish integrate into Philippines lake ICE arrests human rights lawyer who fled Chinese crackdown Weather tracker: Thunderstorms strike across Europe amid record heatwave China ‘strongly dissatisfied’ with nationalisation of British Steel Australia news live: mourners arrive for Derryn Hinch state funeral; Mark Dreyfus tells antisemitism inquiry of ‘deeply wounding’ attack Australia’s life dissatisfaction levels double as ‘wellbeing poverty’ reaches new highs Parents were told asbestos in play sand was low risk unless ‘pulverised’. But regulators hadn’t tested it themselves Government use of automated AI decision-making to be curbed under new Australian rules Victoria announces new social media ‘demasking’ powers for accounts accused of vilification Molten salt and human sweat: the weird batteries that could store renewable energy Bad Bunny concert in Milan abandoned because of hailstorm Russia pounds Kyiv for five hours in one of its biggest ballistic missile attacks Hungary’s president agrees to stand down after law change ends his term ‘It’s only going to get worse’: wildfires forcing firefighters to make impossible choices Iran vows not a ‘single drop’ of oil or gas will pass strait of Hormuz as US carries out ninth night of strikes – Middle East crisis live US launches ninth night of Iran strikes as strait of Hormuz standoff sees oil price pass $90 a barrel Middle East crisis: US military says service member killed during ‘controlled detonation’ of downed Iranian drone – as it happened US says another troop killed as Israel warns Tehran’s attacks coming close ‘He’s a war criminal’: Mamdani exploring whether he can arrest Netanyahu if he visits New York ‘When I get home, my whole body aches’: extreme heat saps health and wages of India’s poorest workers More than 500 feared dead after reports of two shipwrecks off Myanmar, UN says Protests engulf Indian state after rape and murder of 11-year-old girl Weather tracker: Typhoon leaves people stranded on rooftops in China US charges Indian criminal gang leader with organising murder of Canadian Sikh activist Pay gap widens as UK bosses get 130 times average worker’s salary Burnham to say UK must be honest about its challenges as he prepares to become PM Burnham’s vow to end Labour briefing wars will test his grip on the party Thames Water creditors seek talks with Burnham as nationalisation looms ‘What has the BBC ever done for me?’ Romesh Ranganathan reboots corporation’s 1985 licence fee plea Donald Trump and Gianni Infantino booed before US president attempts to crash Spain celebrations JD and Usha Vance welcome baby boy, first child born to sitting VP in 156 years Five family members found dead after flash flood in Utah canyon, police say Mission in Iran war has pivoted toward ensuring oil flow, Trump official says ICE officers to use body cameras during vehicle stops, Trump ‘border czar’ says

Hacker News

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Nature

Briefing Chat: Sweet! Elusive sugar molecules found in space Wearable sensors on the face are invisible to the eye Why pain hurts more when we’re lonely, and the myth of original sin: Books in brief Can giant space mirrors boost green energy on Earth? A start-up aims to find out Found: a rocky exoplanet with an atmosphere — could it host life? Man’s ability to make sperm restored after testicular tissue transplant: what scientists think Why do astronauts’ bodies waste away? Space-station study points to mitochondria AI is set to completely transform cybersecurity — here’s how researchers must prepare A global capital for AI safety is emerging — and it’s not in Silicon Valley US politicians push agencies to restrict research collaboration with China CRISPR gets a power boost from AI-designed ‘molecular scissors’ Will making ‘replication studies’ easier to find help science self-correct? ‘Explosive diarrhoea’ outbreak grips US: how researchers are hunting its source Selectivity Emerges from Indiscriminate Photoreduction An ATPγS recycling strategy for practical biocatalytic thiophosphorylation The simple chemical that lets queen naked mole-rats 'rule' ‘Holy grail’ of naked mole-rat research reveals how queens rule Modular in vivo antibody–ADC click to reverse drug resistance in tumours A queen odour mediates reproductive suppression in a eusocial mammal Highly fragmented European wetlands with uneven restoration needs Universal gates from braiding and fusing anyons on quantum hardware Food systems transformation would reshape global agriculture Quantum statistical plasmonic metacrystals Ammonia pressure controls colloidal metal nitride synthesis in molten salts Scalable quasi-pure MOF membranes for energy-efficient gas separations A Bayesian framework for longitudinal EHR and genetic discovery Programming fracture resistance in metamaterials via elastic instabilities Regression to the mean can explain saturation of geomagnetic storms Metabolite glues as a means of purine sensing and chemotherapeutic response Rising dust pollution across Europe in a changing climate Rarely categorical, highly separable representations along the cortical hierarchy People use fast and flat simulation to reason about new games Cell-type signatures of Alzheimer’s disease shared across population groups Ketogenic diet mediates intestinal tumorigenesis through lipids not ketones Fractional high-Chern insulator in twisted rhombohedral graphene An encyclopedia of human enhancer–gene regulatory interactions Magnetic character of the low-energy enhancement in 70Zn GPC3-specific dnTGFβRII-armoured CAR T cells for hepatocellular carcinoma Catalyst-free, microdroplet-mediated waste plastic conversion to diacids Graphene oxide-polydopamine membranes with controlled interlayer spacing Relapse How to end poverty and protect Earth: inside the debate tearing up economics Improvements in educational opportunities go hand in hand with innovation Beyond lithium: how sodium-ion batteries could change the world Nucleotides act as ‘molecular glue’ and can sense their own abundance AI avatars are reshaping society in China — the law is trying to catch up Optical filter sorts light by its ‘quantum statistics’ How naked mole rat queens stop rivals reproducing Doctored data sets could trick AI agents Why there needs to be a global debate on inequality A high-fat, low-carbohydrate diet can feed intestinal tumours Daily briefing: The battery that could change everything Blue LEDs made from perovskite material shine bright thanks to hydrogen bonds Biologists pinpoint how common virus triggers multiple sclerosis Bird flu H5N1 in Australia: protect Australian species from bird flu virus Academia should recognize community partnerships as having societal impact The Enhanced Games and the normalization of doping: a public health concern AI models: one country’s fears become everyone’s constraint How the calendar came to be ‘Dark comet’ unmasked by its mysterious motions Seeking an industry role after your PhD? Make sure your CV reflects that Africa’s response to this Ebola outbreak shows how to shape global health DNA-shredding CRISPR enzyme takes aim at cancer cells My research on mice is causing me stress. How can I become more resilient? Four deep-sea technologies that could help detect deadly earthquakes and tsunamis Could this mysterious disappearing organ hold the key to longevity? Mathematics formula found on Maya wall rivals insights of ancient masters Daily briefing: Can regrowing the thymus slow down ageing? RNA molecules with different destinies are processed through overlapping pathways ‘Climate free fall’: why the biggest risk to our economies is yet to be recognized Perovskite–organic tandem solar cells with a photo-transformable stabilizer Author Correction: OR7A10 GPCR engineering boosts CAR-NK therapy against solid tumours Party pooper: grandparents’ COVID risk rose after grandchildren’s birthdays Tall and small trees are equally vulnerable to drought Rights for rivers and ice cream for all: top reads for the summer holidays

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

A cavalcade of international stars headlined the World Cup's first-ever halftime final show Who is Andy Burnham, the U.K.'s new prime minister? Violence repeatedly erupts in dementia care despite warnings, inspections show An Israeli paraglider tries to save migrating swifts that nest in the Western Wall Deadly overnight Russian attack on Ukraine targets the capital 5 clever design tricks to make a small home look bigger Cuban artist and dissident exiled from country after 5 years in prison arrives in US MLS works to bring in a new generation of fans as the World Cup comes to an end Spain is the 2026 World Cup champion, defeating Argentina for its 2nd title Andrew and Tristan Tate arrested in Florida on charges of rape and sex trafficking

The Atlantic

Inside Trump’s Rush Job to Build His Arch Ode to Ashy Knees China’s Questionable Tech Strategy A TV Show That’s Equal Parts Joy and Torture The Anti-Populist The True History of New England’s Stone Walls Trump Owes Americans a Better Explanation About Iran Movies and the Attention Span What Trump’s Speech Could Mean For Future Elections What Lionel Messi Sees Dua Lipa’s Freedom-to-Read Crusade Fighter Jets Are Passé Silicon Valley Has Lost Its Biggest Advantage Just Ask the Dinosaurs How Bad Air Quality Can Get Cyclosporiasis Is Solved! Right? Photos: Wildfire Smoke Blankets Parts of North America Atlantic Reads: The Small Stuff With Ian Bogost How the World Cup Finally Won Over America Susan Collins Is Not Concerned About Election Denial Trump’s Plan for November Is Failing A Pulitzer Winner Who Keeps Pushing Himself Where the War Is Still a War The Best Running Shoes You Can’t Get Your Hands On Photos of the Week: Tall Ships, Cool Catacombs, Bastille Day The Attention-Span Class Divide

Vox

How to slow down time when life keeps speeding up Hollywood’s outsize influence on baby names Welcome to America’s post-World Cup hangover How the Michigan Senate primary became a battle for Democrats’ soul Did Trump fire someone trying to stop IRS abuses? Hegseth wants a more macho military. Testosterone shots won’t help. Francesca Hong might be the first-ever socialist governor. How would she govern? The GOP nomination is Vance’s to lose. And he might lose it. A “Godzilla El Niño” next year could be a glimpse into the future Spoiler! How prediction markets broke reality TV.

Al Jazeera

Africa Shield: Why securing development is becoming a new security priority Palestinians celebrate Spain’s World Cup victory US service member killed during detonation of Iranian drone in Iraq Mbappe takes home second Golden Boot, Spain sweeps World Cup awards Spain fans hail new generation, as Argentina says goodbye to an icon US bombs Iran for ninth consecutive night as Hormuz tensions escalate Iran war live: US military completes ninth night of strikes on Iran US soldier killed in Iraq during ‘controlled detonation’ of Iranian drone US Vice President JD Vance and his wife announce birth of fourth child A bird’s-eye view as Donald Trump arrives for the World Cup final Fans in Madrid go wild as Spain beat Argentina to win second World Cup When is the next FIFA World Cup? 2030 hosts, dates and format Spain battle past 10-man Argentina 1-0 in extra time to win 2026 World Cup When, where, and how Spain won the World Cup final against Argentina Israeli ministers join march to Gaza to demand return of settlements World Cup 2026: What are the extra time and penalty shootout rules? What happened in the first half of the Spain vs Argentina World Cup final? Andy Burnham’s in-tray: The challenges facing the new UK PM Twin earthquakes strike Peru killing at least five The UK gets its seventh prime minister in 10 years Five passengers found drifting days after boat sinks in Indonesia Fans light up NYC’s Little Argentina ahead of Spain World Cup final clash Trump visit causes logistical delays at World Cup final The story behind Gaza’s #TheyLiedToYou campaign Lebanese food influencer sentenced to life for drug smuggling

Ars Technica

India's first privately-developed rocket reaches orbit on dramatic debut launch As mosquito ranges expand, better monitoring is key to preventing disease Will AI fix prior authorization—or make it worse? Google-backed satellites for wildfire detection launch as smoke chokes US, Canada The Pentagon's Space Development Agency hasn't moved as fast as anyone would like Hegseth wants a "High-T" military; doctors call it a clinical minefield Taco Bell iceberg lettuce identified as source of cyclosporiasis in 5 states 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

Slashdot

As AI Transforms Silicon Valley, Some Tech Workers Face Evaporating Financial Security Zilog Z80 8-Bit CPU Turns 50, Open-source Replacement Heads To Drop-in DIP40 Silicon Dozens of Robotaxi Riders Are Falling Asleep, Sparking Frantic Calls For Emergency Services California's 'Truth in Recycling' Law Blocked by Judge James Webb Space Telescope Discovers How Black Holes Feed Themselves Robot 'Decapitated' in World's First-Ever Humanoid UFC Fight Windows 10 Still Being Used, Often Unpatched and Insecure Aptera Announces US-Wide Repair Network for Its Upcoming Solar Electric Car Former Richard Stallman Colleague Now Argues for Open AI Models Too Are There Cybersecurity Risks in Over-the-Air Tech Used in Autos? New Study Links Teen Boys' ADHD Symptoms To Addictive Social Media Use 'Grok Build' Coding Tool Open Sourced This Week, Promises to Respect Zero Data Retention OpenAI Acknowledges GPT-5.6 May Accidentally Delete Files, Calls It 'Honest Mistake' France Orders ISPs to Block Access to Polymarket How Microsoft's 'Little Workaround' Created a Major Threat to America's Defense Department

Smithsonian Magazine

Luke Skywalker’s Lightsaber and Severed Hand From Famed Darth Vader Duel Sold For a Record $3.75 Million at Auction Was There Ever an Original Version of 'The Odyssey,' and Do We Need to Worry About What Homer Would Think? This 19th-Century Diary Written by an Enslaved Maryland Man Is a Crucial Record of His Life and Family History—and the Only One of Its Kind Found in the United States New Close-Up Images Reveal the Wreckage of Ernest Shackleton's Last Ship, Now Draped in Discarded Fishing Gear and Teeming With Life Meet the Orange-Lipped 'Likweli' Monkey, a New Species That Was Discovered in the Congo Rainforest These 16 Splendid Aerial Views Capture Wildlife From Above, Revealing the Beauty and Mystery of Nature When a Cat Licks Another Cat, It's Not Always a Friendly Gesture. New Study Reveals They May Just Want Their Own Space 15 Kitten Photos That Will Make You Feel as Warm and Fuzzy as the Tiny Felines Themselves Buzz Aldrin Used This Humble Felt-Tip Pen to Save the Apollo II Astronauts. It Just Sold for More Than $850,000 This Viking Longship Crossed the Atlantic Before Starring in Christopher Nolan's 'Odyssey' as Odysseus' Greek Galley

InfoQ

How Netflix Built GenPage: a Single GenAI Model to Build Personalized Homepages Google's AlphaEvolve Reaches General Availability with Evolutionary Code Optimization as a Service AWS Introduces CloudFormation Express Mode for Faster Infrastructure Deployments Pinecone Introduces Nexus Engine for Compiling Business Context into Structured Data for AI Agents Version Controlled SQL Database Dolt Releases 2.0 with Automatic Storage Cleanup and Compression Presentation: From OTEL to SLMs: Distilling Frontier Model Behaviour from Production Telemetry Cloud Native Infrastructure Emerges as the Foundation for Trustworthy Agentic AI How Uber Builds Zone-Failure-Resilient OpenSearch Clusters QCon AI Boston: Production AI Moves beyond Prompts to Platforms, Harnesses, and Evals AWS Continuum to Enable Agentic Code Security for Enterprises Developing and Deploying a Platform that the Business Understands and Developers Actually Want Presentation: The Rust High Performance Talk You Did Not Expect AI Agents with Cloud Credentials Are Outrunning Billing Guardrails Built for Human-Speed Mistakes Stripe Benchmark Shows AI Agents Build Integrations but Struggle with Validation Presentation: Postgres for Production Agents: Your Relational Foundation for Enterprise AI

Dynomight

Pseudpocalypse Life with hazard ratios 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

Marginal Revolution

Markets in everything? Sunday assorted links Building luxury homes is good for the poor Cross-ethnic casting How does social media change people? Saturday assorted links Trial Lawyers Lobby Against Autonomous Vehicles What should I ask Luis Garicano? The small business boom *The Odyssey*, the movie (no real spoilers) Friday assorted links Cataloging Growth: A Re-Evaluation of 1900–1990 A Phone is a Cow Why crime will decline in (most of) Brazil The future belongs to AI maniacs

Not Boring

Weekly Dose of Optimism #202 Senra Systems: Harnessing Human Skill Weekly Dose of Optimism #201 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

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

NASA Breaking News

NASA Pushes New Wing Design to Find Structural Limits The Growing Crescent of Mars as NASA’s Psyche Mission Approaches Establishing a VTE Risk Score for Astronauts Algorithm NASA Awards Facilities Support Services Contract for Ames Research Center NASA’s Chandra and IXPE Study Pulsar in Lighthouse Nebula La NASA invita a los medios de comunicación al lanzamiento del telescopio espacial Roman NASA Invites Media to Roman Space Telescope, Crew-13 Launches NASA’s Psyche Mission Images Details of Martian Surface During Flyby NASA Welcomes Mauritius as 70th Artemis Accords Signatory A Tide-Fueled Trove of Biodiversity in Guinea-Bissau

Quanta Magazine

Martin Picard’s Mitochondrial Theory of Mind Thermodynamic Computers Go With the (Energy) Flow Why Am I Left-Handed? We Know Simple Fluids Can Flow. Turns Out, Some Can Fracture. Will We Ever Find Alien Civilizations?

Science Daily

The mysterious hum heard around the world may finally have an explanation Coffee may help the body fight stress and aging through a hidden cellular switch Common antidepressant may ease long COVID’s crushing fatigue A tiny universe in a bottle reveals clues to the origins of life Intermittent fasting helped people keep weight off for a year Scientists identify the rare meteorite that killed the dinosaurs 66 million years ago Your fingers may hold a secret of human brain evolution Popular sugar substitutes linked to faster brain aging Earth’s biggest volcanic event transformed an entire oceanic plate Scientists built a camera that can track invisible particles in 3D Mediterranean diet may activate tiny proteins that protect the heart and brain New AI blood test predicts heart disease 15 years early NASA’s James Webb catches a supermassive black hole feeding A shattered asteroid may have bombarded Earth 800 million years ago Scientists tested 39 sweeteners and found unexpected gut effects New “living plastic” self-destructs in just 6 days without leaving microplastics Koalas nearly went extinct before humans arrived, DNA study reveals Scientists just discovered a lost branch of Australia’s marsupials This sugar-coated therapy boosted survival against deadly brain cancer by 50% in mice Sun-like star caught after eating one of its own planets “Silly sprinklers” help scientists finally solve Feynman’s famous sprinkler mystery More than 400 sick as CDC searches for the source of a mystery outbreak Earth has a natural thermostat and scientists finally know how it works Quantum breakthrough links light and magnetism in atomically thin materials The hidden skeleton “gatekeeper” inside brain cells could help fight Alzheimer's Are humans really the ultimate super-predator? AI flags more than 250,000 suspicious cancer research papers Terraforming Mars may be more realistic than scientists once thought Tiny plastics in drinking water may be making dangerous bacteria stronger This ancient sea worm has “bio-metal” jaws unlike anything scientists have seen Astronomers just found four hidden white dwarf stars near Earth Going to museums, movies, and theater may help your body stay younger This pet gecko could help scientists unlock the secrets of cancer Scientists finally solved why some frogs survive a deadly fungus Eating chili peppers may raise the risk of one deadly cancer Archaeologists found Homer's Iliad inside a 1,600-year-old Egyptian mummy Scientists finally solved how a common gut bacterium triggers colon cancer Popular weight-loss drugs Ozempic and Wegovy may slow biological aging Chewing bubble gum after beetroot may help lower blood pressure NASA captured the Black Sea turning brilliant turquoise from space NASA's Perseverance just completed a marathon on Mars NASA selects 41 space technologies for future Moon and Mars exploration NASA selects four new Moon missions to build a permanent lunar base Alan Turing's biggest AI assumption may have been wrong Why have humans collected crystals for 780,000 years? Chimpanzees may hold the answer This dinosaur fossil captures the final moments of a T. rex attack A 37-year soil experiment revealed a hidden climate threat Physicists say quantum mechanics may not need imaginary numbers after all Yale scientists found a hidden network inside the eye Losing just 80 minutes of sleep a night could make you gain weight Stephen Hawking's black hole laws just got a major upgrade A 200-year-old physics experiment could help build future computers Where you live could shape your dementia risk, massive study finds Scientists discover a hidden heart valve risk linked to gum disease Scientists discover how the brain rewires itself to truly multitask Why are healthy young non-smokers developing lung cancer? Scientists discovered the brain doesn't make decisions the way we thought Exercise doesn't just strengthen the heart. It rewires it This drug could help millions keep their kidneys working longer Common constipation drug may help clear depression brain fog

Spaceflight Now

Post-ignition anomaly causes abort of SpaceX’s Starship Flight 13 SpaceX launches 21 communications satellites for the Space Development Agency SpaceX launches a flight-proven Falcon booster for 600th time SpaceX launches 27 Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg SpaceX launches 24 Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg SFB SpaceX launches Falcon 9 rocket on record-breaking 36th flight Fire detectors, military tech demos, 3D printers among SpaceX rideshare payloads launching on midnight Falcon 9 flight Semiconductor manufacturing test bed flies 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

Space Daily

In 1970, Venera 7 appeared to fall silent when it hit Venus, but engineers later found 23 minutes of faint radio data buried in the recording — the first transmission ever received from the surface of another planet Astronauts who have seen the whole Earth at once describe the overview effect — every war and border and argument hanging in silence — and afterwards traffic and small talk can feel strangely far away, like the world seen through glass Astronauts returning from long stays in orbit say the smell of rain is almost too much to bear and a familiar street feels like something they are piloting rather than driving When Spirit’s front wheel failed on Mars, engineers drove the rover backwards and let the dead wheel scrape through the soil — accidentally uncovering bright silica that pointed to ancient hot springs or steam vents During Apollo 11’s final descent, the guidance computer flashed 1201 and 1202 alarms as it ran out of processing capacity — then repeatedly rebooted, discarded low-priority work and kept steering the lunar module towards the surface Cassini watched bright “islands” appear, disappear and reappear in Titan’s methane seas — and laboratory experiments suggest they may be fields of nitrogen bubbles fizzing out of solution as the alien lakes warm or mix Across Titan’s equator, winds have built dunes around 100 metres high and hundreds of kilometres long — but the grains are water ice coated in hydrocarbons that fell out of the moon’s orange atmosphere Voyager 1 is still crossing interstellar space with six computers holding about 68 kilobytes of memory between them — less storage than a single compressed photograph on a modern phone The lines etched into Voyager’s Golden Record cover point towards 14 pulsars whose spinning clocks reveal both where the Sun is and roughly when the spacecraft left — directions designed to work without relying on a single human language In 1980, Voyager 1 flew close enough to Titan to reveal its thick nitrogen atmosphere — but the gravity-assist geometry bent the spacecraft permanently out of the planetary plane, trading Uranus and Neptune for one close look at Saturn’s largest moon

Space News

Mauritius becomes 70th nation to sign the Artemis Accords Space Force triples launch contract ceiling amid rising demand Pentagon awards $7.1 million to expand U.S. production of cover glass for satellites Skyroot Aerospace reaches orbit on first Vikram-1 launch NASA terminates Draper lunar lander mission SpaceX’s only problem is finding more space to work with Serbia signs the Artemis Accords SpaceX aborts Starship Flight 13 launch attempt SpaceX launches 21 satellites for military data network Nature study identifies a new way to spot nuclear weapons in orbit Defense Innovation Unit seeks commercial path to deliver electrical power from orbit Building the infrastructure for a shifting space economy with Massi Ladovaz Trump’s pick to lead Space Force defends plan to more than double budget Office of Space Commerce makes its case for mission authorization Bluestaq Launches BLUESTAQ / ARQ Defense-Grade Data Infrastructure Now Available for Commercial, Government, and Enterprise Organizations Swissto12 raises $70 million to accelerate small GEO satellite production Space Force awards Slingshot $69 million for AI-enabled training technology Saltzman’s farewell warning: Prepare for war in space to preserve peace Commercial Space Federation Launches State and Local Council to Align States on National Space Capacity and Strengthen the U.S. Industrial Base Startup working with University of Texas focuses on trapping small debris Icarus Robotics taps KULR to provide batteries for Space Station robots Laying the groundwork for the first human mission to Mars Satellite investment sets annual record halfway through 2026 Japan seeks to ramp up launch activity

Martin Fowler

The Archaeologist’s Copilot DSLs Enable Reliable Use of LLMs Fragments: July 13 Experiences with local models for coding Viability of local models for coding Fragments: July 6 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 Feedback Flywheel Principles of Mechanical Sympathy Harness engineering for coding agent users Encoding Team Standards Bliki: Architecture Decision Record

Embedded Artistry

Jevons Paradox Shouldn’t Comfort You 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

Attack Magazine

FL Studio 2026 Adds Redesigned FLEX, Cloud Backup and Built-In Smart Assistance Ten of the Best: Drum Machines Over $500 PEEL STEMS 2 Is Here With Lower Latency For Real-Time Stem Separation Menura Audio Launches MDFX Delay And Reverb Hardware Effects For DJs Kyle Watson: “A Track Is Never Finished – You Just Have To Know When To Stop” 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

DJ TechTools

The 2026 Chroma Drive: Our New DJ USB Drive (with no cap to lose) AlphaTheta XDJ-AN: A $1,200 Standalone 2-Channel Replacing the XDJ-RR, Only Takes USB-C Drives The CDJ-1500X is AlphaTheta’s first budget-minded media player since the XDJ-1000MK2 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?