Ayaneo reveals its Game Boy Advance remake called the Konkr Pocket Advance
The horizontal handheld will be released in navy and orange colorways.
It's a few weeks after the 25th anniversary of the Game Boy Advance's US release, but we finally have a modern-day remake, even if it's not from Nintendo.

Apple CarPlay isn't working in your car? Here's what to check first
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William and Kate bring children to second last day of Commonwealth Games
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The Prince and Princess of Wales have brought their three children to watch some of the final sporting events at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.
Cheering crowds at the city's OVO Hydro were treated to exhilaratin

Moroccan rapper Mehdi El Youbi temporarily released from prison
The outspoken artist was detained in mid-July for ‘insulting a constitutional institution’.
The politically outspoken Moroccan rapper and filmmaker Mehdi El Youbi has been granted a provisional release from prison in Casablanca, Morocco

Thanks to the community help I finally launched this llm. LM Studio refused to load weight onto second GPU but Unsloth Studio did so everything was done in there. Not a proper benchmark (used PC in parallel as well) but it gives an idea of ​​the performance from dual 3060 with RAM offloading. DeepSe

Israeli strikes kill four across Gaza, destroy medical supply warehouse
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Israeli strikes across Gaza have killed at least four Palestinians, with separate attacks hitting medicine ware

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Judge refuses xAI's request to stop a Minnesota law banning 'nudify' apps
But xAI’s lawsuit is still ongoing.
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At least 11 wounded by Colombia car bomb days before presidential election
President-elect Abelardo de la Espriella pledges to pursue a harsh crackdown on rebel groups and criminal organisations.
At least 11 people have been wounded in a Colombian car bombing, days before right-wing President-elect

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Two ex-Sri Lanka officials sentenced to death over 2019 Easter bombings
Former officials will appeal sentences handed down for neglecting intelligence warnings before the deadly attacks.
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Honda has a new partner for the advancement of solid-state battery technology
The market is shifting in a big way.
Honda took a major step toward producing its much-anticipated solid-state battery system this June, striking a new partnership that it hopes will propel the automotive giant towards car

The Dungeon Crawler Carl series has fully dunked itself in the mainstream this year, and as someone who loves LitRPG books, I couldn't be happier about it. Matt Dinniman's rollercoaster of a story is hard to put down once you start reading, but that does mean you can work through them pretty quickly

Mountaineer Nirmal Purja killed in Pakistan avalanche, his company says
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Renowned British-Nepali mountaineer Nirmal Purja is among 10 people killed in an avalanche on Broad Peak in Pakistan, his company has said.
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Explorative Modeling -- Unlocking a Third Pretraining Axis and End-to-End Generation
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Focus on meeting real people and understanding their problems and how you can help. Your connections during college will probably matter more than a particular test score.
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The Palworld TCG has officially launched, and so too has a wave of scalpers looking to make a quick buck on developer Pocketpair's new collectible cards.
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How To Safely Recycle Your Old USB Cables
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India cracks down on protesters accused of ‘abusing’ Modi
India cracks down on protesters accused of ‘abusing’ Modi
Police cases, social media takedowns and online abuse have followed many who took part in India’s Cockroach Janta Party-led demonstrations that ended on July 25. Prime Minister Narendr

Last week, the government announced that Canada has signed the United Nations Convention against Cybercrime, with Ministers Anita Anand, Gary Anandasangaree and Sean Fraser touting the treaty’s child protection provisions and human rights safeguards, which were described as “among the strongest foun

Download Chapter 1: Advanced Macros
You can ask an AI to explain how vtables work in x86. It will give you something that sounds right. What it won’t give you is what Windows actually expects the vtable to look like, why method dispatch behaves the way it does at the instruction level, or what break

Israeli strike destroys Gaza hospital warehouse
Israeli strike destroys Gaza hospital warehouse
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What is a silicon carbon battery and is it the answer to smartphone battery life issues?
It can make a phone run for longer on a single charge, but maybe not last for as long.
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Infantino’s FIFA crisis: What is reaction to World Cup investment U-turn?
Backlash to FIFA’s private investment plan for World Cups and events was huge; now football reacts to the U-turn’s fallout.
FIFA President Gianni Infantino has said that world football’s governing body had scrapped plans to se

Is Spain being punished?
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Earlier this week, at least 57 migrants died while trying to cross the border from Morocco into Ceuta, one of two Spanish enclaves located on the African mainlan

Children run marathon to spotlight Gaza's growing orphan crisis
Children run marathon to spotlight Gaza’s growing orphan crises
Hundreds of children took part in a marathon in Gaza to raise awareness of the growing number of children who have lost one or both parents during the war. Organized by the

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Poolside have updated the FP8 and NVFP4 checkpoints for Laguna S 2.1, increasing the default context size to 1 million, and updating the configs. Here's hoping they fixed the looping issue, this model has been great in my development workflows, when not looping. submitted by /u/rmhubbert [link] [com

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The Australian government has defended the ban after a report concluded most teenagers had found ways to get around it.
More than eight in 10 Australian teenagers are still using social media, skirting the government’s three-month-ol

We're a little more than a month away from the September iPhone debut season, but there's still lots to talk about in the Apple universe, led this week by the launch of the new Apple Upgrade program in the United States.
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Spain says migrants leaving Ceuta after mass influx in which 67 died
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Spain says “virtually all” of the estimated 60,000 migrants who stormed its North African enclave of Ceuta by land and

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Iran warns against ‘flames of war’ amid US strike threats on energy sites
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Any hope Gianni Infantino might have had of tiptoeing away from the scene of his World Cup private-investment wreckage having sustained only minor damage to his reputation disappeared on Saturday.
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The sales pitch was circulated to Fifa members this week, setting out the case for Gianni

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Cyberattacks hit water facilities in seven states across the US
Victims told the FBI they were experiencing flooding and loss of water pressure due to the hacks.
Hackers are targeting critical infrastructure in the US, the FBI and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) warn in a public service an

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Omani legend, US novice: Pakistan recovers bodies from Broad Peak
Rescuers are still looking for other missing climbers swept away in an avalanche on the world’s 12th largest peak.
Rescuers continue the search for six climbers still missing after an avalanche hit Pakistan’s Broad Peak, as officials

Spain’s prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, has called for an urgent meeting of EU interior ministers after what he called some member states’ “selfish, polarising and unlawful reaction” to this week’s mass border crossing into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta, in north Africa.
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Soap star Shane Richie facing drink-drive charge
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EastEnders actor Shane Richie is to appear in court charged with drink-driving, police have said.
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Spain attacks 'selfish' response of some EU countries to Ceuta migrant crossings
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Spain has condemned the "selfish, polarising and unlawful" reaction of some EU countries to the influx of about 60,000 migrants from Morocco to Ceuta.
Officials say almost all those who reached the enclave o

A boxer has made history for Tuvalu by winning the tiny Pacific island nation’s first Commonwealth Games medal without winning a single fight.
Twenty-year-old Tarona Taafaki, one of five entrants in the women’s 75kg category, received a bye to the semi-finals where she lost on an unanimous points de

Infantino’s World Cup crisis: UEFA has ‘lost confidence’ in FIFA leadership
UEFA, who were the strongest opponents of FIFA’s plan, slam the Gianni Infantino-led governing body despite standdown.
European football’s governing body UEFA says it has lost confidence in the sport’s global governing body

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Uefa says it has lost confidence in Gianni Infantino's Fifa leadership as the fallout from the scrapped controversial investment plan intensifies.
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The consistent message of the opinion polls since the new prime minister walked into Downing Street almost a fortnight ago is that Labour is enjoying a "Burnham bounce". And this has now been confirmed by the party's convincing victory in Thursday's Greater Manchester Mayoral by-election.
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March 6th, 2026 the highest intelligence index score was 51 for frontier models. deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 that has an intelligence score of 50. If these benchmarks are accurate, models available to run locally on <8K USD (us prices - just guestimating/not exact) hardware has nearly the sam

EU will mandate labels on authentic-looking AI content starting August 2
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Russian strikes on Kyiv kill at least nine, Ukraine officials say
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At least nine people have been killed in Russian ballistic missile strikes on Kyiv, local officials said.
A further 28 people were injured in the attack on the Ukrainian capital on Saturday morning, according to the countr

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What is Iran's Pickaxe Mountain and why does Trump say he wants to bomb it?
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US President Donald Trump has repeatedly threatened to bomb a suspected underground nuclear site in Iran known as Pickaxe Mountain, where recent satellite images appear to show construction work taking place.
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Netflix in August is full-tilt franchise fever. From the Fast and Furious flicks to the Child's Play/Chucky saga to both Speeds, The Hitman’s Bodyguards, and...um, Daddy Day Cares. There's also some excellent cinema in the form of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Eighth Grade, Ingrid Goes West, Nigh

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US drops charges against Olympian for damage to Reflecting Pool
US drops charges against Olympian for damage to Reflecting Pool
The US Department of Justice has moved to dismiss its case against Olympian David Hearn over damage to the Reflecting Pool in Washington DC. The DOJ says new evidence point

Fifa scraps controversial World Cup investment plan
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Fifa president Gianni Infantino says he has scrapped the controversial plan to sell off stakes in the governing body's major competitions, following widespread opposition.
Infantino said it had become clear the project had "created divi

Peru’s ex-president Humala released after conviction overturned
The former president and his wife were sentenced to 15 years last year after being convicted of money laundering.
Former Peruvian President Ollanta Humala has been released from prison after the country’s Constitutional Court overturned

Yemen’s Houthis deny plan to charge ships transiting Red Sea
Houthis say Red Sea route remains free to use, pushing back on report of new shipping fees.
Yemen’s Houthi rebels have denied planning to charge ships for passing through the Red Sea, saying passage through the waterway remains free.
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Is Israel really ready to withdraw from Gaza?
Netanyahu faces political turmoil over Gaza disarmament plan tied to Israel’s potential withdrawal from the Palestinian enclave.
United States President Donald Trump has been triumphal since the announcement that Palestinian group Hamas had agreed to han

Liberia’s kush crisis: The hidden trade behind a generation at risk
As kush spreads across Liberia, families face the fallout while traffickers remain largely out of reach.
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Russian missile attack kills three in Ukraine’s Kyiv
Residents trapped as partially collapsed building catches fire after deadly strike on Ukrainian capital.
A Russian missile attack has killed at least three people in Ukraine’s capital Kyiv and injured 15 others, the city’s mayor said.
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US military says F-35B jet fighter crashes in California, pilot safe
The jet went down near the Miramar airbase in San Diego and aerial video showed a plume of black smoke rising from the wreckage in a dirt field.
An F-35B stealth fighter plane has crashed in California, but its pilot ejected and is

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How FIFA President Gianni Infantino was forced to abandon his World Cup equity plan after seismic backlash across football.
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Former workers fight for wages they say they're owed: 'It makes me sick'
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What happens when your boss is also the HR department, the grievance handler and the person deciding whether you get paid?
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Tristan Essex is standing on the steps of Hull Crown Court, shoulder to shoulder with several others whose lives have been devastated by disgraced funeral director Robert Bush.
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Israel launches air attacks across Gaza one day after Hamas agrees to disarm
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Trump administration drops Reflecting Pool vandalism charge and admits 'botched' repairs
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US prosecutors have dropped charges against a former Olympian who had been accused of vandalising the Reflecting Pool in Washington DC, writing in court documents that the damage is now believed to b

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Trump administration to dismiss Reflecting Pool charges against David Hearn
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India's 'cockroach' protesters have wounds consistent with pellet-gun fire, say experts
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Independent ballistic experts have told the BBC that injuries sustained by some Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) supporters during last week's protest in the Indian capital were caused by pellet guns.
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FIFA’s Infantino scraps controversial World Cup private investment plan
FIFA and its president, Gianni Infantino, faced fierce backlash across the football world over plans to sell a stake in World Cup.
World football’s governing body, FIFA, has said it will not proceed with its proposal to sell a p

Scientist's lifelong obsession with mystery of elusive 'pink zebra' seaweed
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The Great Barrier Reef might be the world's most famous underwater ecosystem, but hidden in UK waters lies an ancient marine world you may not have heard of.
Known as maerl beds, these carpets of coral-like seawe

Scientist's lifelong obsession with mystery of elusive 'pink zebra' seaweed
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The Great Barrier Reef might be the world's most famous underwater ecosystem, but hidden in UK waters lies an ancient marine world you may not have heard of.
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The Great Barrier Reef might be the world's most famous underwater ecosystem, but hidden in UK waters lies an ancient marine world you may not have heard of.
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Daniel Murphy thought he was taking a safe and tested dietary supplement that would help him put on muscle in the gym.
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Daniel Murphy thought he was taking a safe and tested dietary supplement that would help him put on muscle in the gym.
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Death row inmates desperate to escape execution in Saudi Arabia call the BBC
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There was desperation in the voice of the young Ethiopian man when he managed to get through to the BBC from a phone in his prison cell on death row in Saudi Arabia.
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Who is Greater Manchester's new Mayor Bev Craig?
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Bev Craig will succeed UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham as Greater Manchester's mayor after winning Thursday's by-election.
The Labour candidate claimed victory after securing 309,525 votes over Reform's Sian Astley who won 157,178.
Burnham

Labour's Bev Craig elected Greater Manchester mayor
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Labour's Bev Craig will succeed Andy Burnham as the new mayor of Greater Manchester.
After no candidate secured outright victory in the first round by winning more than half of the vote, Craig beat Reform UK's Sian Astley by 309,525 to

Police release Nancy Guthrie ransom notes in latest bid to find kidnappers
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Police in Arizona have released two ransom notes in the hope the public can help identify whoever abducted the mother of US news presenter Savannah Guthrie.
The first note, which is treated as apparently credible,

I was using CapCut Pro with the "Valentino" TTS voice, but the company is so money-hungry that they started charging for it using credits... I'm fed up with CapCut... Is there any way to use the "Valentino" TTS voice in ComfyUI without it sounding artificial? submitted by /u/Suliver_Lynx [link] [com

Israeli settlers vandalise Palestinian cemetery in West Bank
Israeli settlers vandalise Palestinian cemetery in West Bank
Israeli settlers vandalised a Palestinian cemetery, smashing stonework marking the graves of deceased Palestinians during a march near the village of Tal in the occupied West Ban

US Senate’s Fauci hearing renews COVID origin debate but reveals little
Hearing underscores years-long partisan divide on lightning-rod issue fuelled by misleading White House claims.
Washington, DC – A Senate committee hearing this week has once again shone a spotlight on the political divisions ov

Lenovo's first Googlebooks have leaked
The company appears to have built new laptops and a 2-in-1 for Google's new initiative.
Lenovo appears to be working on not one, but two new Googlebooks, according to leaked images shared by Android Headlines. Google announced the company was one of its launch

Snapchat joins other popular platforms in fight against 'AI slop'
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Snapchat has joined the likes of YouTube, LinkedIn and Substack in a growing effort to combat fake writing, images and videos that are entirely created by artificial intelligence (AI) tools.
Such content, commonly called "

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Pathirage beats Chopra and Nadeem to win Commonwealth gold in javelin
Rumesh Tharanga Pathirage wins gold, while Neeraj Chopra takes silver, but Arshad Nadeem ,makes early exit.
Rumesh Tharanga Pathirage made history with Sri Lanka’s first gold medal in athletics when he saw off a strong field to wi

https://preview.redd.it/h7zv5tb3tmgh1.png?width=2854&format=png&auto=webp&s=507380e8f862c18f10f7c5c84da9e8d1c59139b0 Deepseek's new flash model is unexpectedly cheap and high-performing across useful benchmarks. It's priced at $0.09 / $0.18 per 1M. Truly "intelligence too cheap to meter". Seems to w

Does anyone know the difference between the Krea 2 Raw Turbo LoRA rank 64 , rank 128 , and rank 256 ? I've only used the rank 64 LoRA at around 0.6 strength with 16 steps . From what I've noticed, increasing the strength makes Krea 2 take much bigger steps, which makes the output look more generic.

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Children face higher threat of US deportation as legal support deal expires
Advocates warn expiring contract could leave 24,000 children without legal representation, increasing risk of expulsion.
Immigration advocates have warned that children who entered the United States without documentation or

Email sending for startups
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Spoilers follow for Spider-Man: Brand New Day.
Is your Spider-Sense tingling? If so, it may be less of a Peter Tingle, and more of a burning sensation, as Spider-Man: Brand New Day is on fire with a lot of dangling plot points that need addressing.
Sure, the movie finishes up this leg of Peter Parke

Israeli official says troops won't pull back in Gaza without 'genuine' Hamas disarmament
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A senior Israeli official has said troops will not pull back from their current positions in Gaza without the "genuine disarmament" of Palestinian armed group Hamas in the territory.
Hamas meanwhile

Cambridge students on why they protested at graduation ceremony
Cambridge students on why they protested at graduation ceremony
Several Cambridge students protested during their graduation ceremonies after it was revealed the university’s $5.7bn endowment fund held around $189m in Israel-linked inve

Does anyone know if you can do this? You know how you can move from Krea 2 Raw to Krea 2 Turbo using the leftover noise with KSampler Advanced? I want to do something similar, but instead of going from Krea 2 Raw to Krea 2 Turbo, I want to take the leftover noise from Krea 2 and feed it into Z Image

SpaceXAI says it will take a year to fully remove unpermitted gas turbines from its Mississippi data center
The company was accused of violating the Clean Air Act by the NAACP.
SpaceX will fully remove the unpermitted gas turbines it's using to power SpaceXAI data center operations near Memphis, Ten

Computer Science > Hardware Architecture
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Title:Demystifying DRAM Read Disturbance: Bridging the Gap Between Experimental Characterization and Device-Level Modeling of RowHammer and RowPress Phenomena
View PDF HTML (experimental)Abstract:DRAM read disturbance, like RowHamme

Powerful El Nino to intensify heat on ‘a planet already on fire’: UN
UN chief Guterres calls for halt to new fossil fuels as El Nino induces heatwaves, floods, and drought worldwide
A rapidly intensifying El Nino event is set to dominate global weather patterns in the coming months, unleashing extre

Gaming hardware is more expensive than ever. There’s a few different reasons things are as bad as they are, and I’ll get into them in a moment, but regardless of how we got here, there’s no denying it’s an absolutely terrible time to be in the market for a new gaming console or PC.
Even worse is the

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It's no surprise why USB portable monitors are becoming so popular. They provide extra screen real estate for laptop users and they're much slimmer and lighter than your average monitor so you can carry them around. Many newer laptops now have USB ports that can pow

Apple CEO Tim Cook participated in his final Apple earnings call yesterday, with incoming CEO John Ternus set to take over on September 1. With Cook's tenure coming to an end, we thought we'd take a look at how Apple has changed over the last 15 years.
Cook took over as CEO on August 24, 2011, after

Venezuela government and opposition to hold talks aimed at path to election
Talks to be led by former lawmaker Dinorah Figuera as opposition figure Maria Corina Machado left out of proceedings.
The Venezuelan government and a segment of the opposition are to kick off United States-backed talks aimed

How to build a code review agent
How to build your own code review agent in under 5 minutes
Tilde is a harness SDK for building cloud deployed AI agents, extremely fast.
I built Tilde for 2 reasons:
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As part of its Back to School Sale event, Walmart has dropped the price on an iBUYPOWER Y40 AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT gaming PC to just $1,799 with free shipping after a $700 instant discount. The Radeon RX 9070 XT is a powerful graphics card that nearly matches the performance of the now-$1,000 GeForce

At least 25 people killed, dozens injured in Algeria bus crash
At least 25 people killed, dozens injured in Algeria bus crash
At least 25 people have been killed and dozens others injured in a bus crash in Algeria. The bus plunged into a ravine in the coastal town of Bourmedes, about 50 kilometres f

Does FIFA need private investment?
The world football body is facing growing backlash after its proposal to sell a stake in its top events.
FIFA says each of its 211 members will benefit from a large injection of cash – if private investors take up minority stakes in its events, including the World

Algerian bus plunges into ravine killing at least 27
Dozens also injured in accident outside the country’s capital Algiers.
A passenger bus has crashed into a ravine in northern Algeria, killing at least 27 people and injuring 39 others, according to the country’s health minister.
Travelling from th

I recently switched from using Draw Things to Comfy Desktop on my Mac. So far I like the control that I have with Comfy Desktop, but the output images from the Save Image node don't contain any metadata like they did in Draw Things (or even Automatic1111 back in the day). I note in the node info pan

‘Strategic partner’: Peru’s Fujimori plans to intensify ties with the US
Peru’s newly inaugurated president indicates her government will join Trump’s Shield of the Americas coalition.
Peru plans to deepen its relations with the United States, which it sees as a “strategic partner”, according to new

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Poland protests to Russian ambassador over missile incursion
Warsaw asserts missile recently made, illustrating Russia’s nightly barrage against Ukraine is draining arsenal.
Poland has summoned the Russian ambassador in protest over a missile incursion into one of its eastern regions.
Polish Prime M

UPDATE 1:35pm PT: Just as Jenkins announced his Booster Gold show would not be moving forward, The Wrap reported that development on the project will move forward with a new creative team.
DC Studios will reportedly continue to attempt to get Booster Gold on its feet without the Our Flag Means Death

The LEGO Woodlands Mushrooms set is the first time the wildly popular Botanical collection has gone all in on a fungal theme. In my mind, it does the vibe justice, making for one of the most aesthetically pleasing sets I’ve ever built. It’s also got plenty of variety throughout the building process,

Infantino on the brink? Who might replace him if he goes?
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Life moves fast for Fifa president Gianni Infantino.
It was doing so earlier this month as he was zig-zagging across the United States in a private jet to make him virtually omnipresent as the World Cup reached its crescendo.
On 1

New York alleges Kalshi is running an 'illegal gambling operation' in new lawsuit
Kalshi, which is headquartered in New York, has already been sued by multiple states.
New York is suing Kalshi for allegedly running an "illegal gambling operation" by letting people place bets through its online predi

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Snapchat is cracking down on AI slop in Spotlight
Videos made with AI will no longer appear in public recommendations.
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Google rolls back the needless AI generation tools it added to Google Earth
The decision comes one day after people used the tool to generate misleading satellite imagery.
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An AI agent escaped its sandbox, entered Hugging Face’s infrastructure, and used a stolen Tailscale credential to enroll 181 nodes onto their tailnet. No Tailscale vulnerability was found or exploited—we should have been able to prevent it anyway.
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Obsession star Inde Navarrette has named Mystique as the character she wants to play in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) following talks with X-Men director Jake Schreier.
The breakout star from May's low-budget horror hit confirmed she met with the filmmaker at least once during a recent intervi

Walmart is offering one of the lowest prices I've seen all year on a 4K ready gaming PC. For a limited time, you can get an Andromeda Insights gaming PC equipped with an AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT GPU for just $1,499 with free shipping. That's a great price considering the fact that most RX 9070 XT prebu

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I was surprised to see that Deepseek V4 Flash is extremely smart and small enough to fit in setup that can be built with < $50,000. Expensive, but not a datacenter. So I wanted to see the trend over time of model sizes and their scores and created above plots using Opus/Sonnet 5. I am not an expert

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Title:ORCA-bench: How Ready Are Language Model Agents for Oncall?
View PDF HTML (experimental)Abstract:Large language models can write, patch, and search code, but oncall root cause analysis (RCA) demands something different: rea

I've been taking extremely wide photos by pointing an industrial linear camera out the window of a moving train and stitching together the several thousand lines captured per second after the fact.
I'll talk about the pains of measuring the speed and collecting each line fast enough to produce a coh

Pandora's ad-free subscription is less than $10 a month in 2026: Is it worth it?
And how does it compare to Spotify?
Spotify may still be the reigning champ when it comes to music streaming, but there's no shortage of reasons to switch to a different service. In 2026, people have the choice between

A terminal-based DJ mixer for live performance with TidalCycles. Built in Rust with ratatui, it provides real-time EQ, filtering, crossfading, and sample pads for mixing audio from MPV and SuperCollider.
- Dual-deck mixer with per-channel fader, pan, 3-band EQ, LPF/HPF
- DJ center with crossfader, c

I need help to find tutorial to converting architectural 3D SketchUp video to hyperrealistic video with comfyui. I have Mac mini m4 with 24 gigabytes RAM and I use local comfyui on my computer. submitted by /u/Givi_visualstudio [link] [comments]

Walmart just launched a sleeper deal on a powerful 4K-ready prebuilt desktop computer. The MSI Codez Z2 RTX 5070 Ti Gaming PC has dropped from $2,300 all the way down to just $1,699 with free shipping. That's the lowest best price I've seen in months for a 5070 Ti equipped PC, which usually costs $2

Servo 0.4.0 contains all of the changes we landed in June, which came out to yet another record 558 commits (April: 534, May: 391). For security fixes, see § Security.
We’ve shipped several new web platform features:
- ‘attr()’, in experimental mode (@Loirooriol, #45041)
- ‘image()’, ‘closest

Two more small boat pilots jailed for Channel crossings
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Two men who piloted overcrowded small boats have been jailed for endangering others while crossing the Channel.
Omar Heidari, a 34-year-old Afghan national who steered a dinghy carrying 95 people to the UK in June, has been jailed f

Everyone is building LLM routers, we deprecated ours
We don’t believe in model routing anymore. For most use cases, sticking to a single battle-tested model is the best thing you can do.
Recently, there’s been huge hype around AI model routers that select the model that will respond to your request

A multiplayer agent harness for work. In Slack and on the web.
Most agents are designed like personal assistants. You can make one work for a whole company, but it quickly gets complex. QM is designed for startups. Employees each get their own isolated workspace and work independently without affect

Marvel is currently in the midst of publishing Avengers: Armageddon, easily their most significant crossover event of 2026. This series pits the Avengers, Fantastic Four, and Wolverine against Red Hulk in a conflict whose lasting impact will rival that of 2004's Avengers: Disassembled. It's a story

If you're looking for a TV that packs in great image quality and current-gen gaming features are an affordable price, Hisense's new U6 is hard to beat for 2026. Better yet, there's a new 40% off sale on the 65" Hisense U6 TV running this week only at Best Buy. It has pretty much everything you'd wan

Massive Attack banned from Singapore after pro-Palestine display at show
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Massive Attack have been banned from Singapore after the British band reportedly expressed pro-Palestinian sentiments during a performance in the city-state.
The band's two members held up a Palestinian flag at the

Ubisoft is shutting down its weird NFT game that came out two years after the whole craze died down
Champions Tactics: Grimoria Chronicles is going the way of the Bored Ape.
In news that everyone saw coming, Ubisoft is officially shutting down its Web3-enabled NFT strategy game Champions Tactics: Gr

Source: https://x.com/deepseek_ai/status/2083084415157022911 & https://deepswe.datacurve.ai/ just combined data view. DeepSeek claims, not verified by DeepSWE yet. submitted by /u/sdexca [link] [comments]

A100 with 40gb VRAM: 162GB Q8_K_XL ~16.1 tok/s generation Only 15.8GB of 40GB VRAM used with all experts on CPU NOTE just tested coding on linux box DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 runs losslessly on the single 40GB A100 at 17.7 tok/s with 6 experts loaded into VRAM, with Codex driving it through a full agen

How Sam Fender and Olivia Dean's Rein Me In broke the UK's singles chart record
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It's a song that has become inescapable, whether you're scrolling on TikTok, listening to the radio or even filling up your trolley on the weekly shop.
And now Rein Me In, the melodic love song by Sam Fender

Sony will move forward with its plans to stop making PS5 discs despite backlash
The company responded to the widespread criticism in its latest earnings call.
Sony's controversial decision to discontinue discs for new PS5 games starting in 2028 has broadly not gone down at all well with its huge aud

Three-year roadmap proposed for Hamas disarmament in Gaza
Three-year roadmap proposed for Hamas disarmament in Gaza
Under a US-backed proposal, Hamas and Israel would have 14 days to finalise Gaza’s political transition before Hamas disarms and Israel begins withdrawing. The roadmap sets out a three

Fifa executive joins Burnham in questioning Infantino
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Fifa president Gianni Infantino's position came under further scrutiny on Friday as the governing body's chief operating officer strongly criticised his plan to sell stakes in competitions to private investors.
In a statement released

This new drone spins so fast the human eye can barely see it
What could go wrong?
Researchers at Northwestern announced that they may have cracked the drone-invisibility-code. Dubbed the Phantom Twist by its creators, the drone exploits faults in human vision to become nearly invisible to the naked

Parents sue school over 'inhumane' calming rooms after BBC report
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Parents are suing a special school after a BBC investigation uncovered CCTV footage showing autistic children being locked inside calming rooms and abused.
Ten families are claiming that their children – all of whom had le

Disgraced funeral boss who failed to bury bodies jailed for 20 years
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A funeral director who failed to bury or cremate people and gave bereaved relatives the ashes of strangers has been jailed for 20 years.
Some 35 bodies and more than 100 sets of ashes were found by police raiding Legacy

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LIVE: Chopra, Nadeem and Pathirage meet in Commonwealth Games javelin final
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Spain PM: Ceuta migrant surge a ‘violation of territorial integrity’
Spain PM: Ceuta migrant surge a ‘violation of territorial integrity’
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has said that the massive influx of migrants from Morocco was a “violation of Spain’s territorial sovereignty.” He was speaki

Marvel Studios has reportedly cast Ready or Not star Samara Weaving as Emma Frost for its upcoming Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) X-Men movie.
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HBO Max has unveiled a solid lineup of new additions to the service in August. House of the Dragon is headed toward the conclusion of its third season, which will be followed by the next stop in James Gunn’s DC universe, Lanterns. Mother Mary leads the way for this month’s A24 streaming premieres, a

Just a couple days after AMD introduced a new 4GB graphics card, it reportedly plans to raise its GPU prices by around 10%, due to the ongoing memory crisis at the hands of AI.
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EU will mandate labels on authentic-looking AI content starting August 2
"It is a matter not only of customer protection, it’s also a matter of democracy protection."
The EU is mandating that companies stick a label on content that was AI-generated if it is attempting to look authentic, according to

Burnham faces criticism over plans for mayors to get share of income tax
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The government is facing criticism over its plan to allow regional mayors to keep a share of income tax and business rates in England.
Andy Burnham says that the proposals, expected to be phased in from next April,

After over a month of testing iOS 27, on this week's episode of The MacRumors Show we circle back to the beta and talk through our experiences with Siri AI, Liquid Glass refinements, and more.
iOS 27 is expected to launch this fall, bringing sweeping performance work across the system. Apple has cit

New Google Earth AI tool could fuel misinformation, experts say
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Google has launched a new AI tool which allows people to create fake images by superimposing almost anything on top of its own widely-used satellite imagery.
The tech giant has integrated its AI image generator Nano Banana 2

Re: Online Friends Are Real Friends – toska Re: Online Friends Are Real Friends 29 Jul, 2026 A few days ago I booked my flights to not only attend a professional event, but also visit and stay with one of my best friends next month. This will be the sixth time that at least one of us has traveled to

Tunisian wildfires expose failing infrastructure, community vulnerabilities
For families in Tunisia’s north, the wildfires have meant lost homes, livestock and harvests.
Sakiet Sidi Youssef, Tunisia – Smoke still lingers over the blackened hills surrounding the village of el-Gol near the town of Sak

Sony, Bose, and Sennheiser owners have been able to adjust the audio frequency spectrum of their headphones for years, whereas AirPods owners have had to make do with Apple's default tuning. That's no longer the case in iOS 27, which adds a three-band equalizer to the AirPods settings screen.
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We expose Big Food’s 239 lawsuits against life-saving policies
Bad diets kill millions of people globally every year, and lead to tens of billions of dollars in health costs, often placing the heaviest burden on communities who are least able to afford it. Children, with limited decisi

While we may still be months out from pulling off gigs in our local game stores, WeirdCo keeps cooking and revealing new cards for their highly anticipated Cyberpunk Trading Card Game.
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This story, co-published by STAT, is part of the Behind the Buzz project, an investigative collaboration involving The Examination, The Bristol Cable, Daraj, Investico, Paper Trail Media, Der Spiegel, Der Standard and the Toronto Star.
On a winter morning in a Long Island town about two hours east o

UML is one private memory graph shared by Claude, your agents, and your apps — you can see it, edit it, and own it.
Tell your AI: "save this to uml — I finished Unit 3." Or let your app send it automatically.
AI extracts the durable facts. The backend verifies them and writes real structure — never

iPhone 18e Rumored to Feature Increased RAM
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I implemented a graph map-reduce using Apache DataFusion. Where possible, I offloaded everything to disk, and designed the algorithms to rely on bulk scans rather than random access. DataFusion handles spillover, sort-merge joins, aggregations, planning and execution, so my code is very lightw

The controversial key art for Kingdom Hearts Collection 1-3 did not contain any AI-generated materials and was actually the result of "human error," according to a new statement from Square Enix.
Fans have been trying to unlock the mystery behind some strange and concerning art posted by the publish

Watch: Tens of thousands of migrants enter Spain's Ceuta from Morocco
Tens of thousands of migrants have entered Spain's North African enclave of Ceuta, with many swimming and using inflatables to travel from Morocco.
Others ran through a gate in the border fence.
The territory's leader, Juan Jesús

In July of 1838, Charles Darwin was twenty-nine years old and single. Two years earlier, he had returned from his voyage aboard H.M.S. Beagle with the observations that would eventually form the basis of “On the Origin of Species.” In the meantime, he faced a more pressing analytical problem. Darwin

A GTK4 ssh-askpass in Zig
Every ssh-askpass in the Gentoo tree pulls in X11 or a full KDE stack,
so I wrote my own with Zig 0.16 and GTK4, with hand-written bindings that
keep X
out of the build.
I run hardened Gentoo on my laptop, and most of the time I
never touch ssh-askpass
because I’m using -sk

Mahershala Ali has confirmed his Blade movie is dead and he has officially moved on from the troubled Marvel project.
In an interview with GQ, Ali said that if Marvel Studios ever does get around to making a Blade movie, it won’t be with him.
“The best way I can answer this question is, when I look

Australia's social media ban for under-16s has had limited impact so far
Nearly 22 percent of children are on Pinterest while there was "no statistically significant change" in AI chatbot use.
Australia has very much moved from "how it started" into the "how it's going" phase of its social media ban

England and Wales on course for driest July on record
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England and Wales are on course for their driest July since records began 190 years ago.
The Met Office reports that England has seen just 5.6mm of rainfall up to 30 July – just 8% of its long-term meteorological average for the month

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It’s been a longtime feature of the annual Defcon hacker conference that attendees come away not only with knowledge of new software vulnerabilities and hacking techniques but also an elaborately designed conference badge—often electronic masterpieces embedded with intricate puzzles, complex crypto

The promise I made to Ismail al-Ghoul
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Is the Apple Watch waterproof?
The short answer is no, but it can still handle plenty of wet situations.
Whether you're looking to track swimming workouts or just don't feel like taking it off for a shower, it's a question that's crossed almost every Apple Watch user's mind: can the Apple Watch get

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Is AI Reasoning Right for the Wrong Reasons?
Introduction
I’ll just say it: What the hell is going on with AI “reasoning”?
Sorry for the air quotes. That punctuational side-eye was more common in 2024, when the specially trained cousins of LLMs now known as “large reasoning models,” or LRMs, were st

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Added new models to the leaderboad: GLM 5.2, DeepSeek-V4 Pro, DeepSeek-V4 Flash, MiMo V2.5 Pro, Qwen3.6-35B-A3B, Qwen3

Apple plans to release a second-generation iPhone Air in the first quarter of 2027, according to Jeff Pu, an investment analyst who covers Apple.
In a research note with GF Securities today, Pu said the iPhone Air 2 will have the following five new features compared to the current model:
- The addit

Spider-Man: Brand New Day is swinging towards box office success having secured the biggest previews haul in North American movie history.
The Marvel movie made $72 million in previews, which includes Wednesday early access screenings, Variety reported. That puts Tom Holland’s latest star turn as Sp

Bowen: Plan for Hamas to disarm faces big obstacles, yet it offers rare hope for Gaza
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There are many reasons why it might not work.
At the same time, it is potentially a rare chink of light in a bleak picture. Hamas has never agreed to disarm before now. Handled carefully and well, there

Everyone has shared the frustration of waiting for an elevator that never seems to arrive. "I pressed the button, why isn't it coming?" you ask. For something as commonplace as elevators, they are far more complex than meets the eye.
Over the course of this article, we'll unravel the mysteries of el

Puberty blockers trial can start recruiting children after judge rejects legal challenge
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A high-profile clinical trial of drugs that can delay puberty in children questioning their gender can go ahead after the High Court rejected a legal challenge by campaigners.
The Pathways trial, run

World Cup: FIFA studying impact of expanding to 64 teams for 2030 edition
FIFA’s World Cup 2026 expansion was their first since 1998, but the 2030 edition could rise to 64 teams.
FIFA is studying whether to expand the World Cup from 48 to 64 teams for the 2030 edition in a move that could reshape fo

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Police chief resigns days after deadly shooting in US city of Seattle
Shon Barnes steps down amid questions over authorities’ handling of the shooting at a popular food festival.
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It’s an MoE with ~3B active params and a 30B n-gram lookup table offloaded to RAM for fast 256k context on a 24GB GPU. Reminds me of Gemma 4’s PLE trick. Initial analysis suggest it wont be replacing my Qwen 3.6 27b. submitted by /u/Gohab2001 [link] [comments]

Chelsea fined $13.5m for FA breaches, avoid Premier League points deduction
Chelsea rule breaches that lead to action were self-reported following takeover by Todd Boehly and Clearlake Capital.
Chelsea have been fined £10m ($13.41m) by the English Football Association (FA) after admitting to multipl

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New Mortal Kombat movies are having quite a moment in movie theaters (with Mortal Kombat III already in development), but if you're in the mood to watch the older '90s films from the comfort of home, Amazon has an excellent deal just for you.
The retailer has slashed 50% off the 4K Mortal Kombat Kol

Using Blender MCP, Ling-3.0-flash wrote Python, built a city with elevated roads, skyscrapers, and materials, set the camera path, and rendered an aerial video—showing spatial reasoning and long-horizon tool use vLLM confirm will be open source soon, and now is free on open router, I have no complai

Russia and Ukraine report casualties as they continue to trade attacks
Ukraine has hit Russian oil refineries several times, while Russia strikes Dnipropetrovsk and a cargo vessel near Odesa.
Russia and Ukraine have exchanged more overnight attacks causing casualties on both sides, say local officia

Sony’s controversial decision to discontinue PlayStation discs is not having any impact on its business now, and it doesn’t see any negative impact in the future, either.
Speaking during an investor-focused Q&A following its first quarter financial results, Sony CFO Lin Tao answered multiple questio

Back to school deals kicked off this week, with Best Buy's annual sitewide event including some great discounts on Apple products like AirPods Max 2 and MacBook Pro. Below you'll also find a record low price on the AirTag 2 and big savings on Apple Watch Series 11.
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Turkiye’s Davutoglu steps back from politics: A timeline of his career
Ahmet Davutoglu, a former Turkish PM and Erdogan ally-turned-critic, has stepped down from politics.
Ahmet Davutoglu, a former Prime Minister of Turkiye, has announced he is stepping down from politics and dissolving his party th

How to fight a data center
Most Americans don't want them in their backyard, but beating AI companies isn't easy.
This past April spending on data center construction surpassed $50 billion, marking the first time more was spent in the US on building cloud infrastructure than new public transportatio

Over the next few months, I’m going to be taking a look back at each of the core Grand Theft Auto games and replaying them in the lead-up to the arrival of Grand Theft Auto 6. What we’ll be putting together won’t be traditional re-reviews, and they won’t carry IGN’s typical score out of 10, because

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About 49,000 migrants enter Spanish territory of Ceuta in 24 hours, officials say
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Videos and images showed thousands of people swimming

The AA’s rival, the RAC, has called it: UK petrol prices have reached the highest this year after Donald Trump renewed attacks on Iran.
RAC head of policy Simon Williams said:
In very unwelcome news for drivers the average price of petrol has hit a new Iran War high of 160p a litre having increased

Electronic Arts says it'll be a private company next week
The deal marks the end of EA's 35-year run as a publicly traded company.
Electronic Arts will close its $55 billion deal to go private by August 4 next week, the company announced in an 8-K Securities and Exchange Commission filing seen by Va

At least 18 people have died trying to reach the Spanish enclave of Ceuta after approximately 49,000 migrants entered the tiny territory from Morocco in a matter of hours, triggering a political crisis for the Madrid government and unleashing a barrage of criticism from other EU countries.
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Sainsbury's agrees to sell Argos for £120m
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Sainsbury's has agreed to sell Argos for £120m after a long process of trying to offload it as the supermarket chain aims to focus on its main food business.
Sainsbury's said it would be "business as usual" for Argos customers, staff, and suppli

Southport killer charged with prison attacks and possessing weapon
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Southport killer Axel Rudakubana has been charged with three attacks while in prison and possessing a weapon.
Police say the offences took place at HMP Belmarsh over six months from May to October 2025.
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Senior Infantino adviser quits as AFC opposes plans
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A senior adviser to Gianni Infantino resigned hours after a third confederation opposed the Fifa president's plan to sell stakes in competitions to private investors.
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Italy World Cup winner and AC Milan legend Franco Baresi dies aged 66
Franco Baresi, who won the World Cup with Italy and was regarded as one of football’s finest defenders, dies aged 66.
Franco Baresi, the former AC Milan captain who was one of Italy’s most acclaimed defenders, has died. He was 66.

AFC backs UEFA and CONCACAF who plan boycott over FIFA World Cup proposals
FIFA face global mutiny as Asian Football Confederation stand with Europe and North America after their boycott threats.
The Asian Football Confederation has said it “stands in solidarity” with regional bodies UEFA and CONCAC

FIFA World Cup plan fallout: Infantino’s senior adviser Cordeiro resigns
Pressure is growing on FIFA and its President Gianni Infantino following proposals for private investment in World Cups.
Carlos Cordeiro, senior adviser to FIFA President Gianni Infantino, has resigned following the proposal by

You can now play Xbox games on Hisense TVs without a console
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Eleven Palestinians, including children, injured in Israel’s Nablus raids
Israeli settlers and soldiers storm occupied West Bank towns, make arrests days after intensified violence in town of Tal.
Israeli settlers escorted by soldiers have stormed the town of Tal and other areas southwest of Nablus

HoverAir's Versa is a pocket gimbal camera and drone mashup
It's aimed at vloggers and filmmakers doing both aerial and handheld video.
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Gaza City - At about 11 o'clock each night, inside the small apartment that has, so far, survived the Israeli bombardment that has swept through much of northern Gaza, Eman Lulu gets out of bed.
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IRGC strikes US targets in Kuwait a day after US hits Iran: Latest events
Iran says it struck Kuwait in retaliation for US strikes on multiple locations in Iran, including Qeshm island.
Iran announced on Friday that it had targeted United States military assets at Kuwait’s Ahmad Al-Jaber airbase, de

Glasgow gets starring role in Spider-Man: Brand New Day film
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Any comic book fan knows that Spider-Man's secret identity is Peter Parker, a science nerd who gained superhero powers after being bitten by a radioactive spider.
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Hamas agrees to phased disarmament in Gaza
Hamas agrees to phased disarmament in Gaza
Hamas has agreed to gradually disarm in Gaza as part of Donald Trump’s 20-point peace plan. The US president called the deal ‘historic’. Here’s what we know.
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Amazon's Zoox is the first steering wheel-free robotaxi to get regulatory approval for paid rides
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Israeli forces blow up structures near Lebanon’s Beaufort Castle
Israel claims army blew up Hezbollah tunnels in southern Lebanon, amid reports of blasts near UNESCO-listed fortress.
Israeli forces have carried out a series of powerful detonations near Lebanon’s UNESCO-listed Beaufort Castle, as the

The latest numbers of confirmed cases of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has made this latest outbreak the fastest growing in the known history of the virus.
At 3,360 confirmed cases, the disease is now affecting people in five provinces in the east of the DRC, with 1,487 deaths record

Tecno's new concept may be the first truly bezel-less smartphone
It's not the first company to claim it killed the smartphone bezel.
Tecno, a Chinese phone maker that adores a concept project or two, is bringing its latest tech showcase to IFA 2026. This time around, it's not a super-thin modular sm

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Sony says it has secured enough ram for all the PS5s it expects to sell this year
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Stronger with every update: How we’re making Chrome and the web safer in the AI Era
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Liberia burns 4.2 metric tons of cocaine after record drug seizure
Liberia burns 4.2 metric tonnes of cocaine after record drug seizure
Liberian authorities burned 4.2 metric tonnes of cocaine worth about $336 million after the country’s largest-ever drug seizure implicated senior police officials.

FIFA defiant over World Cup investment plan, despite UEFA’s vote to boycott
European football’s governing body has voted to boycott FIFA if World Cup plans pursued, but global body undeterred.
FIFA has said it will push ahead with consultations on a plan to bring private investment into the World Cu

US government mislabels countries on map of Africa at global conference
The US State Department acknowledged ‘an unfortunate error’ after the highly inaccurate African map caused a stir.
United States officials attending a major health conference in Brazil mislabeled the African countries they showe

Latin America is becoming a laboratory for tech-supremacism
Trumpism, corporate deregulation and biometric surveillance are converging into a new model of control in the region.
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openPangu-2.0-Pro is an MoE model trained on Ascend. The model has 505B total parameters and 18B activated parameters. Its context length is 512k. The total pretraining data contains 34T tokens. During Post-training, openPangu-2.0-Pro is trained through unified SFT with slow and fast thinking capabi

British man accused of spying on Cyprus RAF base for Iran
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A British man has been arrested on suspicion of spying on a UK military base in Cyprus on behalf of the Iranian military.
Rashad Sultanov, 44, of Islington, north London, is accused of carrying out "hostile surveillance" on RAF Ak

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DeepSeek V4 Flash: Preview → 2026-07-31 Benchmark Preview 0731 Δ Terminal Bench* 56.9 82.7 +25.8 Toolathlon 51.8 70.3 +18.5 NL2Repo — 54.2 new Cybergym — 76.7 new DeepSWE — 54.4 new Agent Last Exam — 25.2 new Automation Bench — 25.1 new DSBench-FullStack — 68.7 new DSBench-Hard — 59.6 new * Terminal

Anthropic says its AI models also hacked three organizations on their own
The company started reviewing test logs after OpenAI’s revelation that its agent hacked Hugging Face.
Apparently, OpenAI isn't the only company whose AI models have hacked into other organizations' systems on their own. Anthro

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Satellite images show impact of heatwaves and drought on UK landscape
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Satellite imagery shows the toll taken on the UK landscape from this year's long hot summer.
BBC Verify analysis of satellite data shows where in the UK has been most affected by heatwaves and a lack of rain.
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UK rapper Yung Filly found not guilty of raping woman after Australian show
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UK rapper Yung Filly has been found not guilty of raping a fan after performing at a nightclub in Australia in 2024.
The YouTuber, whose real name is Andres Felipe Valencia Barrientos, had been accused of sexuall

Anthropic says Claude AI hacked three organisations during cyber tests
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US technology firm Anthropic says its artificial intelligence (AI) models hacked into the systems of three organisations during a cybersecurity test due to an error that gave them access to the internet.
It comes just

Rushdi Abualouf: If Hamas disarmament plan holds, it could mark first credible step to ending Gaza war
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After months of marathon talks, Hamas has, for the first time, accepted a framework of the Board of Peace's plan to completely disarm in Gaza.
The plan provides for the inventorying and

Fifa says 'nobody selling football' as it presses ahead with investment plan
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Fifa, which oversees world football, has responded to outrage over a plan to sell stakes in its competitions to private investors by saying it plans to continue the consultation process.
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Southern Lebanese towns near Beaufort Castle hit by Israeli strikes
Southern Lebanese towns near Beaufort Castle hit by Israeli strikes
Israeli forces struck near Beaufort Castle in southern Lebanon. The military said it used 700 tonnes of explosives to destroy parts of a Hezbollah tunnel network. I

Death toll from Japan earthquake climbs to 34
The magnitude 7.1 quake has killed 34 people and left six more seriously injured.
The death toll from a powerful earthquake in southwestern Japan has risen to 34, up from 25, authorities said.
The Kumamoto prefecture government confirmed the figure on Fr

After OpenAI disclosure, Anthropic says Claude also hacked outside systems
The incidents have heightened concerns about AI agents, software products designed to perform tasks autonomously.
Anthropic has said its Claude AI model hacked into the systems of three organisations during testing that was s

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The Session You Cannot Take With You
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That abstraction was never completely

Israeli blockades seal off village in the occupied West Bank
Israeli blockades seal off village in the occupied West Bank
Al Jazeera visited the occupied West Bank village of Sinjil, where Israeli earth mounds, metal barriers and road closures have blocked all main entrances. Residents say the restr

Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/commentary/reuters-open-interest/bond-market-isnt-buying-what-fed-chair-warsh-is-selling-2026-07-30/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49118696 Points: 55 # Comments: 1

India to increase penalties for exam leaks after Cockroach party protests
The new legislation, which doubles prison terms for exam leaks, comes after youth-led protests that called for sweeping reforms and forced a minister’s resignation.
India’s upper house of parliament has passed a bill to increa

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Why a MAGA influencer’s shift to support Ukraine war is good for Trump
Why a MAGA influencer’s shift to support Ukraine war is good for Trump
One of the most prominent pro-Trump influencers, Laura Loomer, just made a major shift in her stance on Ukraine. One former White House advisor told Al Jazeer

Trump says Morocco named Tiznit-Dakhla highway after him: Why it matters
The claimed tribute to Trump forms part of Morocco’s larger ambitions in the disputed Western Sahara.
The announcement by United States President Donald Trump that Morocco had named an important highway after him came as a surp

Clashes near Morocco’s border with Spain over beefed up migrant security
Clashes near Morocco’s border with Spain over beefed up migrant security
Cars were set on fire as clashes erupted near the Morocco-Spain border crossing, where Moroccan security forces deployed after thousands of migrants cross

https://x.com/MiniMax_AI/status/2083006198828417501?s=20 Quote from their article: Today, we're launching MiniMax H3, a general-purpose multimodal generation model. H3 understands unified context across text, images, video, and audio, generating video with native stereo sound, up to 15 seconds at 2K

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Pacific island nation Nauru officially changes name to ‘Naoero’
The switch honours a name lost to colonial rule more than a century ago.
The Pacific island nation of Nauru has officially reclaimed its traditional name, becoming the Republic of Naoero.
Nauru’s parliament passed a constitutional amend

‘They got trapped:’ Race to save miners after deadly blast in Pakistan
‘They got trapped:’ Race to save miners after deadly blast in Pakistan
Emergency workers are digging to get oxygen into a mine after an explosion in Pakistan’s Balochistan Province killed at least 11 people and trapped dozens of

Israeli soldiers mutiny at notorious Sde Teiman base
Israeli soldiers mutiny at notorious Sde Teiman base
Dozens of Israeli soldiers have abandoned their weapons and walked out of the Sde Teiman military base in a dispute with a senior commander reportedly trying to restore discipline. Soldiers at t

"Anthropic’s AI Claude escaped testing environment and hacked organizations" "Company says it discovered unauthorized access during ‘proactive review’ after rival OpenAI revealed rogue agent… its AI Claude model hacked ⁠systems of ⁠three ​organizations during testing, days after rival OpenAI ⁠reveal

Spain deploys military to Ceuta after deadly migrant surge
Spain deploys military to Ceuta after deadly migrant surge
Spain has deployed its military to Ceuta after thousands of migrants overwhelmed police barricades. At least nine people are reported dead, and Italy says it supports temporarily tig

I've been looking at oneshots posted here whenever a new model comes around and wondered if there is a single place to see all the "oneslops". Behold https://oneshotlm.com/ , where I'm trying to gather all the models from openrouter and interesting oneshot prompts around here. Currently at 40 models

The touchscreen and the OLED panel have dominated discussion about Apple's next high-end laptop, but the redesign wrapped around them may prove to be an equally consequential change, largely because it is not expected to stay unique to the machine for long.
Bloomberg's Mark Gurman last week laid out

Teen hackers tell BBC how police are helping them use their skills for good
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Lucas was 16 when he got into trouble for hacking his school computers. Twice.
"It was like a challenge to see if I could," he told the BBC.
He wanted access to play games and visit blocked websites so he started

What your summer reading list says about you
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You've been dreaming about that summer break on the sun lounger, book in one hand and drink in the other, for months. Now the dash to the airport gate, train station or hours-long drive is all that stands in your way.
But what does the book yo

Amazon reported its earnings today, and because I am professionally depressed I read the thing in full [PDF].
"How long can I go before the red haze of rage sets in" is a fun game, and today I made it all the way to the bottom of the second page when I encountered a bullet point touting how AWS "mad

I saw u/danielhanchen 's 1-bit Kimi K3 post: https://huggingface.co/unsloth/Kimi-K3-GGUF/discussions/12#6a6a4a90ec74ef13d85d7cf6 and decided to test Inkling-Small and Qwen3.6-27B myself, based on the full shared prompt: https://huggingface.co/unsloth/Kimi-K3-GGUF/discussions/12#6a6aba4da9b88c3996c80

The Religion of Speed – The Gospel According to Graybeard The Religion of Speed 29 May, 2026 At some point, “moving fast” stopped being a practical concern and became a moral position. You see it damn near everywhere now. How fast can we ship this? How fast can we respond? How fast can we hire? How

Softness in mobile gaming and Apple's changes to the App Store business model in some countries impacted the performance of the App Store, Apple CFO Kevan Parekh said during today's earnings call.
Apple's services revenue was $30.7 billion, a 12% increase over the $27.4 billion it earned in the year

The AI Aesthetic
Every zeitgeist comes with new design idioms unique to its challenges. Many of them disappear as fads change, but others bake themselves into deeper parts of existing software interaction paradigms.
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Apple Plans Paid iCloud+ Upgrades for Heavy AI Users
Apple is planning to let users pay to increase their AI limits, with upgrade possibilities available through iCloud+.
During today's earnings call for the third fiscal quarter of 2026, Apple CEO Tim Cook said it's early, but the company expects to

Reddit's CEO sure seems frustrated with Google's AI overviews
Amid rumors of Google breakup, Huffman says "people don't want a summary of reddit, they want reddit."
You can add Reddit CEO Steve Huffman to the growling list of publishers, platforms and others who are frustrated with the state of Goog

'I pay £580 a month to live in a disused care home': Property guardians show us around
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Would you live in a disused care home, pub or bank in exchange for a heavily discounted rent?
As cost of living pressures persist, a growing number of people are applying to become so-called property g

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In a review of our cybersecurity evaluation transcripts, we found three incidents in which a Claude model reached the internet from within or while interacting with a third-party evaluation env

Apple didn't want to raise its prices but was forced to do so because of exponential increases in memory costs, Apple CEO Tim Cook said today during the company's Q3 2026 earnings call. Apple increased prices for Macs and iPads in June because memory prices have surged.
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Spotify's new feature lets you leave little notes on songs
Give me a mixtape, and hold the tape.
Spotify promises a lot of personalization via algorithm, but the streaming service has added a new feature that really does allow a way to give your tunes a personal touch. "User Notes" offer listeners a

Trump says Board of Peace reaches agreement on disarmament of Hamas in Gaza
United States President Donald Trump has said that his ‘Board of Peace’ has reached an agreement to disarm the Palestinian group Hamas and all other armed groups in Gaza.
“This agreement is a critical step towards Gaza final

Q&A from the slop trenches
Between the two of us, we reviewed 22 paper submissions this summer, spread across NeurIPS, WACV, and TerraBytes (a geospatial workshop at ECCV). Fifteen of the 22 (68%) contained entirely fabricated citations, fabricated author lists for existing papers, and/or were clear

A while back you couldn't open reddit or youtube without sifting through tons of Openclaw content. And it wasn't just the internet that blew up, I remember seeing images from China where crowds would gather in the streets to get their instance set up by their local homelabber. Heck, even Nvidia jump

Tim Cook Thanks Shareholders on His Final Apple Earnings Call
Apple CEO Tim Cook today confirmed that today's call was his last as CEO, with John Ternus set to become Apple's new CEO on September 1. Cook will transition to a new role as executive chairman when Ternus becomes CEO.
I just wanted to ta

Amazon’s Zoox secures US federal approval for steering-wheel-free robotaxis
Zoox will launch its commercial robotaxi service in Las Vegas after receiving federal clearance.
Zoox, Amazon’s brand of autonomous vehicles, has won approval in the United States for limited commercial deployment of its ste

Apple is expecting supply constraints to have a much bigger impact on revenue during the September quarter, Apple CEO Tim Cook said today during Apple's earnings call for the third quarter of 2026.
Supply constraints will impact the iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Cook said Apple is seeing less flexibility i

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Why is US GDP growth slowing, and how can it be reversed?
Tariffs and oil price hikes create a supply shock, dragging down US economic growth in the second quarter of 2026.
United States economic growth slowed in the second quarter of 2026 amid a growing deficit and increasing inflationary pressures

French teen fined in Singapore over 'straw licking' stunt
French teen fined in Singapore over ‘straw licking’ stunt
A French teenager has been fined about $465 after pleading guilty to a public nuisance charge in Singapore for licking a straw. Didier Gaspard Owen Maximilien went viral when he posted

Argentina’s Milei seeks to deport foreigners that spread ‘hate’ of country
Experts have cast doubt on legality of the emergency decree as Milei decries a campaign of ‘hostility’ after World Cup.
Argentinian President Javier Milei has signed an emergency decree empowering the government to eject fore

That AI wearable you don't like just got worse
The new Friend pendant features a speaker, updated models and the same off-putting ideas about how humans should use AI.
Friend, the startup and AI pendant better known for its controversial ad campaign than being a usable product, is back. The company

Andy Burnham to give regional mayors share of income tax
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Prime Minister Andy Burnham will give all mayors of city regions in England a share of income tax revenue for the first time, as part of his drive to transfer power from Westminster to local leaders.
Burnham will also allow mayors

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Hundreds of migrants swim from Morocco to Spanish enclave of Ceuta
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Hundreds of migrants have entered Spain's North African enclave of Ceuta from Morocco over the past week, the territory's leader has said.
Juan Jesús Vivas said the influx is overwhelming resources and urged the Spanish g

Casio's new ring watch is an undercover Oura competitor and it's adorable
At last, a smart ring with some flair.
When pondering the purchase of a wearable, form factor is one of the main considerations. Does a watch or a ring make more sense for you? A new option from Casio lets you have your wearab

Will Saudi Arabia be dragged further into the war in Iran?
Anger in Iraq after US-Saudi strikes on paramilitary group with ties to Tehran.
The war in Iran has taken a significant turn even as the memorandum of understanding to stop the fighting is supposed to be in progress.
Saudi Arabia, in coordin

Prague Zoo keeps polar bears cool with ice amid heatwave
Prague Zoo keeps polar bears cool with ice amid heatwave
Keepers at Prague Zoo used tonnes of ice to provide much relief to animals as Europe grappled with scorching temperatures. Twin polar bears Aluet and Gregor rolled in the ice treat after

UN launches hunt for next chief amid rising challenges
Antonio Guterres’s successor will be tasked with revitalising an organisation in crisis and facing pressure to reform.
The United Nations has launched a search for its next secretary-general, as the international institution faces numerous chall

MP Diane Abbott readmitted into Labour Party after suspension
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The long-serving MP Diane Abbott has been let back into the Labour Party, following a year-long suspension.
In a statement, a Labour spokesperson said Abbott had "apologised" following an independent process and that she would

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Security camera shows ‘Russian missile’ exploding in Poland
Security camera shows ‘Russian missile’ exploding in Poland
Security camera video shows the moment a suspected Russian missile exploded inside Poland. The missile came down near the Ukrainian border during one of Moscow’s largest aerial att

Apple today announced financial results for its third fiscal quarter of 2026, which corresponds to the second calendar quarter of the year.
For the quarter, Apple posted revenue of $109.4 billion and net quarterly profit of $29.8 billion, or $2.02 per diluted share, compared to revenue of $94.0 bill

Father of Georgia Apalachee school shooter sentenced to 15 years in prison
Colin Gray, 55, was convicted of second-degree murder after his son Colt carried out a school shooting that killed four.
A father who gave his son the gun he used to kill four individuals at Georgia’s Apalachee High School ha

US authorities probe cyberattack on water systems in Minnesota
A cyberattack targeted more than 30 water facilities in the Midwestern US state earlier this week.
Authorities in the United States are continuing to monitor developments in the Midwestern state of Minnesota following a cyberattack targe

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Snap will show off its AR Specs at a September 16 event
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Epic Games today said that the Epic Games Store can now be downloaded on iPhones in Brazil through the Epic Games website. In its announcement, Epic Games complained about the third-party store installation process, which requires nine steps and includes screens warning customers about downloading a

Palestine Action co-founder wins UK Supreme Court appeal bid
Palestine Action co-founder wins UK Supreme Court appeal bid
Palestine Action’s co-founder Huda Ammori has been granted permission to challenge the UK government’s decision to designate the group a terrorist organisation at the Supreme Cou

Archbishop of Canterbury committed to £100m slavery fund
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The Archbishop of Canterbury has renewed her commitment to a controversial £100m fund over the Church of England's role in the transatlantic slave trade.
Dame Sarah Mullally was speaking on a visit to Cape Coast Castle in Ghana whe

An agent skill that forces LLMs to write docs in ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English:
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U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer has teamed up with several of his Senate colleagues to demand Apple commit to not purchasing chips from Chinese companies ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) or Yangtze Memory Technologies Co. (YMTC). [PDF]
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The FCC this week banned all new "foreign-produced advanced robotic devices" because of an "unacceptable risk to the national security of the United States." The government says networked robotic systems lead to vulnerabilities that allow bad actors to control the devices and collect surveillance da

Suffolk wildfire still growing and unpredictable, says fire service
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More than 100 firefighters are continuing to tackle a wildfire that has grown to the size of 210 football pitches (150 hectares) and has been burning for more than 24 hours on the Suffolk coast.
The county's fire service

Statement on behalf of UEFA and its 55 national associations
Thursday, July 30, 2026
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UEFA and its national associations will not participate in FIFA competitions.
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UEFA and its 55 member associations stand as one. We unanimously and unequivocally

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Sonos is planning a product event for September
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The conventional wisdom around Postgres-backed queues is that they don't scale. To handle a large workload, you can't use Postgres, but instead need a dedicated queueing system like RabbitMQ + Celery or Redis + BullMQ. There's a reason people say this: queues really are a demanding workload for Post

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Should you avoid TP-Link routers? Here's what to know
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PSP classic Lumines hits iOS and Android
The mobile and tablet ports of the remastered puzzle game include a free trial.
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Leaked Pixel 11 Pro Fold photos also include mysterious new camera bar feature
Google's next foldable doesn't look all that different, save for the camera bar.
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276B total parameters, 12B active, 1M context window. Blog post: https://thinkingmachines.ai/news/inkling-small/ NVFP4: https://huggingface.co/thinkingmachines/Inkling-Small-NVFP4 GGUF's by Unsloth: https://huggingface.co/unsloth/Inkling-Small-GGUF --- I had success running Unsloth's GGUF quant on C

Google's new Gemini Robotics 2 platform allows for 'intelligent whole-body control'
The company made a video of the bots in action doing stuff like cleaning trash and picking up watering cans.
Google DeepMind just announced a new version of its artificial intelligence model Gemini that can control a

Danube's record low levels force shutdown of Hungary's only nuclear plant
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Hungary's only nuclear power plant will be forced to shut down entirely for the first time due to record low water levels of the River Danube, Prime Minister Péter Magyar has said.
The Soviet-era Paks power plant u

Noting perhaps my largest personal career accomplishment, which is launching CodePen 2.0. Far more work, believe it or not, than the entire creation of the original CodePen.
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Global smartphone sales fall by six percent amid memory cost crisis
Despite the slump, Apple and Samsung have both seen their market share go up.
A new report from the technology analyst group Omdia claims that global smartphone sales are down six percent year on year, falling to 272 million units i

British Airways flight called mayday on approach to Heathrow
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A British Airways flight issued a "mayday" distress call on its approach to Heathrow Airport earlier this month, according to a statement from France's accident investigation authority.
The call was made on an Airbus A320 flyin

We Gave GPT 5.6 Sol a Real Business. It Lied, Spammed, and Lost $447.
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Apple CEO Tim Cook today said Apple would be making a donation to support earthquake relief efforts in Japan.
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Why limited war with the US may suit Iran better than peace
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At first glance, Iran's surprise missile strike on a US base in Jordan earlier this week appeared difficult to explain. The attack effectively ended the fragile pause in direct US-Iran fighting and prompted Washington to resume

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Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT‑5.6
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Security experts have been sounding the alarm for years about the risks of using generic TV boxes that promise unlimited content streaming for a one-time fee, warning that they secretly rent the user’s Internet connection out to strangers. But a groundbreaking new analysis finds these devices also r

LinkedIn is testing a 'seems like AI slop' reporting tool
The company is also removing some of its own AI-writing features.
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We turn waste gases into valuable supply-secure chemicals
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It was developed under Phase 2 of Korea's Sovereign AI Foundation Model Project. ​Size: 750B parameters (3x larger than their 236B v1 model). ​- License: Apache 2.0 ​Languages: Expanded to 10 languages (Korean, English, French, Italian, Portuguese, Polish, Spanish, German, Japanese, Vietnamese). ​Be

Uefa to boycott World Cups if Fifa plans approved
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European football's 55 member associations have voted to boycott World Cups if the sport's governing body proceeds with a plan to sell stakes in its competitions to private investors.
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I've tested Nanbeige-4.2-3B. On paper, the benchmarks promise it blows away Qwen3.5-9B and Gemma4-12B. My goal was to have something very light and fast to replace Qwen3.6-35B (or finetunes thereof) for simple and straightforward coding tasks. In the past I tried downgrading Qwen3.5-9B and it was no

Palestine Action ban to be reviewed by Supreme Court
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The controversial ban under terrorism legislation of the protest group Palestine Action will be reviewed by the Supreme Court.
In a major blow to the Home Office, the court confirmed on Thursday that it had given the group's co-founder

Havana, Cuba – It used to be a point of pride. At the William Soler Pediatric Hospital in Havana, more than 90 percent of the newborns who needed neonatal surgery survived their procedures.
But in recent months, Alioth Fernandez, the head of the hospital's surgical unit and anaesthesiology departmen

In Their Own Hands: Ghana’s Drug Vigilantes
Citizen vigilantes patrol Ghana's streets, fighting an opioid crisis. We meet those taking the law into their own hands.
Ghana is facing an opioid addiction crisis, with a flood of cheap, synthetic drugs destroying lives and communities. In the northern ci

Expensive phone cases: When and why it's worth paying more
Do you really need to shell out big bucks for a rugged phone case?
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NATO jets scramble as Russian missile detonates in Poland
The growing series of NATO airspace violations is raising concern that Russia’s war on Ukraine could escalate.
NATO fighter planes have been scrambled as a Russian missile entered Polish airspace and crashed.
The missile, which entered Polish

Stacked pull requests are now in public preview
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Burnham says he told Trump UK will be pragmatic about North Sea oil
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Prime Minister Andy Burnham has said he told US President Donald Trump he would take a "pragmatic approach" to the issue of North Sea oil and gas.
Trump has long urged the UK to increase drilling and claimed that Burnham

IRGC video of retaliatory strikes on US targets in Jordan
IRGC video of retaliatory strikes on US targets in Jordan
Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps released a video of what they say were missiles launched by their naval forces targeting US aircraft at Jordan’s Al Azraq air base, in retaliation for

Google says it has fixed a Pixel battery drain issue, but some users disagree
The company said a July update resolves the problem on recent devices, with Pixel 9a and 8a getting a fix in September.
Google says it has deployed a fix for a battery drain issue on some Pixel models. The company said the

US GDP growth dips as inflation and trade deficits pressure economy
GDP grew by 1.5 percent in the second quarter following a 2.1 percent increase in first quarter.
Economic growth in the United States slowed in the second quarter amid a growing trade deficit and tensions between the US and Iran whi

Spotify today announced a new Running Mode that turns playlists into structured running sessions built around workout type, tempo, and listening habits. It's launching on iOS first.
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Spain’s enclave Ceuta raises alarm as thousands cross border from Morocco
Estimates of up to 2,000 migrants have entered Spain’s territory of Ceuta in recent days in attempts to reach Europe.
Authorities in Ceuta have raised the alarm after thousands of migrants breached the border to the North Afri

Republicans delay vote on Trump’s US attorney general pick amid concerns
Senate committee postpones vote as key Republican says he has not received information on ‘anti-weaponisation’ fund.
Key Republicans have delayed a Senate committee vote on United States President Donald Trump’s pick to become

UEFA members vote to boycott FIFA if Infantino’s World Cup plans pursued
European nations agree in virtual meeting to boycott FIFA competitions in protest at private equity plan for World Cup.
European football’s governing body, UEFA, has voted to boycott FIFA events – including the World Cup – if t

Google Voice paid subscriptions offer more than just a phone number
Here's what you get when you upgrade.
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Is Pakistan ‘using India’s playbook’ in Kashmir?
Is Pakistan ‘using India’s playbook’ in Kashmir?
Pakistan is facing accusations that its security forces have killed dozens of unarmed protesters in the past week of demonstrations in Pakistan-administered Kashmir. Al Jazeera’s James Bays asked panell

Smoke rises over southern Iran after renewed US attacks
Smoke rises over southern Iran after renewed US attacks
A large plume of smoke was seen rising over the southwestern Iranian city of Ahvaz early on Thursday following renewed US strikes. Iranian state media reported damage to two student dormit

War on Iran: Phase II: Day 19
War on Iran: Phase II: Day 19
The US resumes bombing Iran, hours after Trump threatened to ‘hit them hard’, with a family of three killed in Qeshm Island. Plus, fears that the war’s arena has expanded after a US-owned gas storage tanker was hit by a drone at the Damiett

Four people die after busiest day for small-boat crossings this year
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Four people died trying to cross the Channel overnight after the busiest day for small-boat crossings so far this year saw 752 arrivals in the UK.
One man died after a vessel capsized off France's northern coast late on

Context: I want to give the community an Open Research (well open under Apache 2.0 clause) - tool that allows everyday users like us to look deeper into the local models we use consistently. Mechanistic interpretability streamlined into a more visible work-flow. Easy to read for beginners and deeper

For 6 months now I've been trying to make agentic coding work for me, using Pi and a handful 30-120B models (Qwens, Nemotrons, Leguna...etc). I'm not greedy either, I stick to decent quants, never quantize kv cache, and keep my sessions up to 90k max. But the results have ALWAYS been disappointing.

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Police arrest dozens at London rally supporting Palestine Action
The protest is the first in support of the proscribed group since Andy Burnham became prime minister.
British police have arrested 77 people as crowds gathered outside a London court to declare support for Palestine Action, which is pr

Drought declared across whole of Wales as conditions 'deteriorate'
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A drought has been extended across the whole of Wales with the country on course for its driest July on record in 190 years.
Declaring the drought, the country's environment body Natural Resources Wales (NRW) said sustain

Organizations everywhere are investing in data and AI while customer expectations climb, with buyers demanding partners who can move quickly, solve complex problems, and turn technology spending into measurable results. That environment requires more than access to technology; it demands expertise a

Neon Genesis Evangelion is coming to the Criterion Channel. IGN can exclusively reveal that director Hideaki Anno’s landmark anime series will debut on the Criterion Channel on September 1st.
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A US government map of Africa mislabeled every country during a state department presentation at a global conference in Brazil this week, causing a stir among attenders who took screenshots and posted them online.
Reuters viewed a video of the presentation given at the Aids 2026 conference in Rio de

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AirTag 2 Available for Record Low Price of $89 for 4-Pack
Apple's AirTag 2 is available for the all-time low price of $89.00 this week, down from $99.00. This sale is on the 4-Pack of the AirTag 2, and it's a match of the record low price first seen during Prime Day.
Note: MacRumors is an affiliate

You Can Listen to Tim Cook's Final Earnings Call as Apple CEO Today
Tim Cook will participate in his final Apple earnings call as the company's CEO today. The call begins at 2 p.m. Pacific Time / 5 p.m. Eastern Time.
Cook and CFO Kevan Parekh will discuss Apple's earnings results for the second quar

Apple Donating to European Wildfire Relief Efforts
In a post on Wednesday, Apple CEO Tim Cook said Apple will be donating to relief efforts on the ground in Europe following devastating wildfires in France, Spain, Greece, and other countries.
Apple has donated to the Red Cross for relief efforts in

For the better part of two decades, an iPhone's alarm volume has matched its ringer. In other words, if you slide the ringtone volume down to silence your iPhone overnight, you're also turning your alarm's volume down with it. That's no longer the case in iOS 27.
Settings now includes an "Alarms and

How to use screen mirroring on Roku with your Android phone
You can even use your Roku like a PC, if you have the right phone.
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We have a new look at the upcoming Street Fighter movie, this time showing off a decent chunk of a fight between Ryu and Blanka.
Ryu, played by Andrew Koji, finds himself in a cage and forced to fight by evil dictator, M. Bison. A chained Blanka, played by Jason Momoa, is dragged into the arena by h

Netflix pays $500 million to share 'The Walking Dead' streaming rights with AMC+
It also gained international streaming rights in the UK, Italy, Australia and other territories.
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Lego Pokémon Smart Play hands-on: A better way to build, train and battle
Plus, the noises are hilarious.
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Spotify rolls out new personalized running features for Premium users
The company is making a big push into fitness, having already partnered with Peloton earlier this year.
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Owlcat began life as a small developer, as so many do, but with plenty of expertise on the team. 2018's Pathfinder: Kingmaker, its first game, was successful, so the natural thing to do next was to make a bigger and better sequel. Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous followed in 2021. Another Pathfind

The Expanse: Osiris Reborn is a third-person action RPG that has major Mass Effect vibes. But what’s different with this game is that your gear, not your class, defines the way you fight — and we’ve got exclusive details and screenshots to tell you how it all works.
In Osiris Reborn, your origin sha

It's almost hard to believe it's been seven years since the last new mainline Gears of War game, and as one of Xbox's marquee franchises, it seems a lot is riding on the upcoming Gears of War: E-Day. I recently played about 10 hours of its revamped multiplayer, and yup, it sure is Gears of War. Even

Motorsport is an incredibly dangerous thing to take part in. Think about it: you’re strapping yourself to a machine that harnesses the energy of explosions to propel you forward at speeds that, should you strike another object, will likely prove lethal. And yet so many racing games fail to convey th

Baldur’s Gate 4 appears to have developers running scared because they’re worried about meeting expectations set by Larian’s Baldur’s Gate 3. But one developer has said they would consider making the game a “great challenge” — although they’d avoid simply replicating what had gone before.
After Lari

Spider-Man is ultimately a story of class, and in 2021, Spider-Man: No Way Home ended by taking our favorite wall-crawler back to those basics, with the help of a very important cameo. No, not Tobey Maguire, and not Andrew Garfield either. Not Dafoe, no; close but no dice. No, we’re talking about th

The recent deaths of 15 elephants near a park in southern Kenya in the past month were likely caused by the animals ingesting pesticides used on nearby tomato farms, the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) has said.
Erustus Kanga, the agency’s director general, told Citizen TV that analysis of samples coll

Its a custom Swift/Metal inference engine that runs Gemma 4 26B-A4B-IT on M-series Macs with very low RAM. It uses ~2GB instead of ~14 GB. The result is reportedly 5–6 tok/s on an 8 GB M2 MacBook Air and 31–35 tok/s on an M5 MacBook Pro. It also includes an OpenAI-compatible local server with stream

A record 53-day absence by the world’s oldest head of state has renewed speculation in his native Cameroon about whether he is dead or alive, even though discussing his health is illegal in the country.
On 7 June, 93-year-old Paul Biya left for Switzerland for what officials described as a “brief pr

Maingear introduces a new lineup of hidden-cable 'Zero' pre-built PCs
The machines, which move wires to the back of the case for a clean look, now offer NVIDIA's latest GPUs.
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Nano Banana image generation comes to Google Earth
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As promised, we have the full reveal of the Helldivers 2 x Warhammer 40,000 Legendary Warbond today, a first look at the weapons and armor it will include, and a release date.
“Roll the dice to break the traitorous enemies of Super Earth in this historic crossover Legendary Warbond,” developer Arrow

Large rise in offenders sent back to prison, figures reveal
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There has been a large rise in the number of offenders being recalled to prisons in England and Wales having been released on licence, new government figures show.
There were 51,419 licence recalls in the year ending March 2026,

A long-lost Pokémon game briefly available in Japan 20 years ago appears to have popped up on eBay, priced at around $9,000.
Pokémon Fishing Contest DS was only playable at special events and from Pokémon Center locations in Japan for a few months back in 2005, as part of a high score contest.
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DJI Osmo Pocket 4P review: The best gimbal camera money can't buy
The OG goes "pro" with two lenses, class-leading dynamic range and optical zoom.
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I Want Your Sex hits theaters on July 31.
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iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone Ultra: When is the Next Apple Event?
July is nearly over, meaning that Apple's annual iPhone event is fast approaching. Below, we look back at when Apple typically announces iPhone events.
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The spacecraft NASA sent to rescue the falling Swift observatory is in trouble
The LINK probe is now spinning helplessly in orbit.
In early July, NASA launched a spacecraft designed to rescue the Swift observatory, which is currently decaying at a faster rate than normal, in hopes that it could stil

If you've never been a fan of Liquid Glass – Apple's glass-like interface effect introduced in iOS 26 – then there's some good news in iOS 27. Apple has added a setting that lets you finely adjust the level of translucency, giving you more control over the look and feel of your iPhone.
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More than 50 years after the murder of the Chilean folk singer Víctor Jara, the last man wanted in connection with his death has been tracked down and brought to justice.
Nelson Haase Mazzei, a retired colonel, fled from authorities in 2023 after he and six other retired soldiers were sentenced in a

Shots were fired near the US consulate in Toronto early on Monday but no one was injured in the second shooting near the diplomatic compound in four months.
“Officers heard a firearm being discharged in the area,” and “a white sedan was seen fleeing the scene”, Toronto police said on X.
The area was

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Israeli forces detained at least 15 Palestinians during overnight raids in the occupied West Bank, while violent settler attacks have surged to record levels, prompting a UN warning. The escalation follows recent tensions in the region.

An attack on a police post in Pakistan’s Hangu district killed 11 officers and injured 28, with 15 attackers also dying during the hours-long raid. The assault involved explosive-laden drones and an ambush, with security forces engaging in a prolonged gun battle. The Pakistan Taliban (TTP) is suspected, following a recent suicide bombing in the area, amid rising border violence linked to cross-border tensions between Pakistan and Afghanistan.

Israel is constructing new land barriers in Gaza, displacing families and expanding its control beyond the agreed Yellow Line under the October ceasefire. The barriers, stretching over 42km and covering 85% of the Yellow Line, have moved deeper into Gaza in some areas, increasing the no-go zone for Palestinians. Families like Umm Mohammed al-Shawish have been repeatedly displaced, with some losing their tents and basic supplies due to Israeli military actions.

Russian missile and drone strikes across Ukraine killed eight people, including two children, with multiple cities reporting casualties and damage. A ballistic missile hit a house near Kryvyi Rih, killing two girls aged 5 and 12, while Kyiv, Poltava, and Lviv also suffered attacks. Poland mobilized aircraft in response, and Ukraine had warned of an impending "massive" Russian offensive. Meanwhile, Russia reported a Ukrainian strike on a Wildberries warehouse in Penza, injuring one person. The attacks follow Ukraine's plea for more air defense systems like the Patriot missile, which can intercept ballistic missiles increasingly used by Russia.

Israeli airstrikes in Gaza City’s Shati refugee camp caused fires and displaced dozens of families, with emergency crews working to extinguish the flames as residents fled. The strikes occurred on July 30, 2026, highlighting ongoing conflict in the region.

Residents of Mansouri village in southern Lebanon live under constant fear due to Israel's occupation of 6% of Lebanese territory, marked by the Yellow Line military boundary. Al Jazeera's Zeina Khodr interviewed locals who described their daily struggles with this ongoing division. The village is effectively split, creating a tense and uncertain environment for those living near the contested area.

Saudi Arabia, caught in a widening US-Iran conflict, recently conducted joint strikes with the US on Iranian-backed militias in Iraq after suffering drone attacks. The kingdom faces a dilemma: whether to continue retaliatory strikes as deterrence or seek de-escalation, possibly by negotiating with adversaries. Saudi Arabia's economic and infrastructure vulnerabilities—including oil facilities like Abqaiq and the Strait of Hormuz—are central to its cautious approach, as Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman pursues "Vision 2030" to diversify the economy and attract foreign investment.

The death toll from Japan's magnitude 6.8 earthquake in Kumamoto prefecture has risen to 28, with at least 62 injured. Rescue efforts are complicated by a significant aftershock and rising temperatures, with nearly 5,000 Self-Defence Forces personnel deployed. Key incidents include a gas explosion at Aeon mall killing three, and ongoing searches for trapped workers at a paper mill. Nearly 23,000 homes lack electricity and 75,000 have no running water, while major manufacturers like Toyota and Honda have halted production due to the quake.

A magnitude 7.1 earthquake in Kumamoto, Japan, triggered an explosion at Aeon mall, killing three people and leaving three shop workers missing. Rescue efforts are ongoing as authorities investigate a possible gas leak, while over 170 soldiers assist with operations. The mall had recently reopened after seismic upgrades following a deadly 2016 earthquake, but the explosion exposed safety gaps.

Russian spies have shifted their phishing tactics from Zimbra to Outlook, using half-click email attacks. Meanwhile, Microsoft's SharePoint on-premises is under zero-day attack despite recent patches. Additionally, EQT has acquired a majority stake in Acronis for over $3.5 billion.

Japan is importing Canadian crude oil via the Trans Mountain pipeline (TMX) to offset supply disruptions caused by the war in Iran, which has choked oil shipments through the Strait of Hormuz. The first shipment since 2025, bought by Japan’s largest refiner Eneos, departed Vancouver on a vessel chartered by Exxon Mobil. Asian countries are diversifying suppliers due to the crisis, with TMX exports to Asia rising significantly this year. Meanwhile, Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney has ruled out using oil as leverage in trade negotiations despite recent US tariffs on Canadian products.

The Greek Coast Guard is conducting a sea rescue operation to save people trapped by wildfires on Crete, where two firefighters have died. A third firefighter lost their life on the mainland. The fires are spreading rapidly, posing a severe threat to those in the affected areas.

Israeli airstrikes across Gaza overnight killed and injured multiple children, including in al-Mawasi where displaced families were sheltering. A separate attack on a residential apartment in Gaza City also wounded many Palestinians, primarily children. The incidents occurred on July 30, 2026.

South African universities face financial pressure from donors, like the Donald Gordon Foundation, which withdrew $15.2m after UCT adopted resolutions supporting Gaza and restricting ties with Israeli military-linked research. The foundation demanded UCT adopt the IHRA definition of anti-Semitism, which critics say stifles criticism of Israel, but UCT rejected it in favor of the Jerusalem Declaration. The dispute highlights how apartheid-era wealth continues to influence academic freedom and political speech in South Africa, where racial inequalities persist.

Safiya Musa, a Nigerian mother from Katsina State, lost her husband and two children in a 2023 bandit raid on Kankara, forcing her to flee with her three surviving children. After relocating to Jibia and enduring further displacement, she gained stability through a UNDP vocational training program in handbag-making, enabling her to support her family. However, she now faces the difficult decision of whether to return home, risking the loss of her newfound independence and livelihood.

Nine activists in Myanmar were sentenced to up to 37 years in prison for protesting against the military-backed December elections, with eight receiving the maximum sentence and one 27 years. The convictions were based on electoral law and counterterrorism charges following a December 4 protest in Mandalay urging a boycott of the elections and opposing mandatory conscription. The harsh sentences reflect the military's efforts to suppress dissent and maintain control, with no public response from the government.

Khalida Boufedeche became Algeria's first female speaker of parliament, a historic achievement despite women occupying only 6% of legislative seats. Her election as an NLF representative highlights ongoing gender disparities in Algerian politics.

An Israeli settler, Yinon Levi, fatally shot Palestinian activist Awdah Hathaleen in July 2025 during a raid on Umm al-Khair village, but remains free despite evidence linking him to the crime. Al-Haq’s investigation confirmed Levi fired a nine-millimetre handgun that matched Hathaleen’s fatal chest wound, dismissing his self-defence claim as baseless. Israeli authorities failed to arrest Levi at the scene, released him after minimal detention, and allowed settlers to obstruct medical aid while soldiers stood by.

A group of Palestinian students in Gaza opened an ice cream shop and café called Flora to fund their university education and support their families amid wartime hardships. The students balance long work shifts with their studies, using the business as a means of survival and an escape from difficult circumstances. Despite facing challenges like injuries and loss, Flora serves as a vital lifeline for their academic pursuits.

Saudi Arabia is forming a coalition to protect the Red Sea from attacks by Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen, which have disrupted oil shipments and global energy prices. The alliance, headquartered in Riyadh, has invited around 50 countries, including the US, Egypt, and European nations, with some already agreeing to join. The Red Sea is a critical shipping route, carrying 30% of global traffic and linking the Suez Canal to the Indian Ocean via the Bab al-Mandeb Strait.

A Russian missile entered Polish airspace and struck inside Poland during a Russian attack on Ukraine, according to Polish officials. Local residents reported hearing low-flying planes and air raid sirens before the incident occurred on July 30, 2026.

A missile that created a 10-meter-wide crater in eastern Poland was likely a Russian Kh-101, according to Polish PM Donald Tusk. The incident occurred during a Russian attack on Ukraine's Lviv, with no casualties reported. Poland has previously intercepted similar objects since the war began in 2022, including a Ukrainian missile that killed two farmers last year.

The US conducted overnight strikes on multiple Iranian targets, including military sites in Qeshm Island, Bushehr, Fars, Kish, Khuzestan, and Hormozgan provinces. These attacks followed Iran's missile strike on a US base in Jordan, with the IRGC vowing retaliation. Meanwhile, suspected Iranian strikes hit Kuwait and Jordan, killing one worker in a Chinese company building.

The Defiant is a story-driven singleplayer shooter set during China’s War of Resistance against Japan in WW2, focusing on a rarely depicted conflict. The game features four chapters with distinct gameplay styles—such as stealth, sabotage, and intense combat—based on real historical battles. A hands-on demo showcased relentless firefights, era-accurate weapons, and cinematic moments like bayonet charges and quicktime events.

The US launched a series of strikes on Iran targeting IRGC facilities, including military command centers and coastal defense sites, in response to Iranian missile attacks on US forces. Key locations hit include Qeshm Island and areas near Bandar Abbas, with reports of civilian casualties and infrastructure damage. The US aims to counter Iran’s influence over the Strait of Hormuz, while Tehran vows continued resistance. New sanctions were also imposed on Iranian firms linked to IRGC-backed schemes affecting global shipping.

The US launched "heavy" strikes on Iran, targeting dozens of IRGC facilities in response to Iran's attempted ballistic missile attacks on American forces in Jordan and the Strait of Hormuz. This escalation follows recent joint US-Saudi strikes on Iranian proxies in Iraq, marking a continuation of the five-month conflict despite earlier diplomatic efforts. The strikes aimed to retaliate for Iran's actions, including attacks on a US air base in Jordan and oil tankers in the Strait of Hormuz.

Donald Trump has expressed support for selling F-35 fighter jets to Turkey, despite opposition from Israel. The deal is currently blocked due to US legal restrictions following Turkey's purchase of Russian air defence systems, and Israel argues that the sale would weaken its regional military superiority.

President Donald Trump warned Iran of a strong US response after an attack on a Jordanian base housing American forces, despite claiming Iran's missiles were intercepted. He stated it was "our turn" to retaliate, signaling potential escalation in tensions. The incident occurred on July 29, 2026.

US and Saudi forces conducted joint airstrikes on Iran-backed PMF bases in Iraq, killing 20 fighters, in retaliation for alleged drone attacks on Saudi oil facilities. Videos depict the strike aftermath. The incident occurred on July 29, 2026.

The British Ministry of Defence (MoD) has cancelled army training in Kenya after the Kenyan government refused to ratify a defence agreement due to disputes over jurisdiction for prosecuting British soldiers and financial terms. A planned exercise by the 1st Battalion the Duke of Lancaster’s Regiment has been cancelled, with training now set to take place elsewhere. The decision follows Kenyan calls for stronger accountability measures after allegations of human rights abuses, environmental damage, and sexual abuse by British troops, including the ongoing murder case involving Agnes Wanjiru. Despite this, both governments remain committed to resolving the issues and resuming training in Kenya as soon as possible.

Syrians like Yasseen Tasabehji are returning home after the fall of the al-Assad regime in 2024, driven by a desire to rebuild their country and foster community. Despite economic challenges, over 1.5 million Syrians have returned since the regime's collapse, with many aiming to contribute to Syria's recovery. The new government is working to ease sanctions and attract investment, though reconstruction costs are estimated at $216 billion.

A Bolivian court has issued an arrest warrant for former President Evo Morales, accusing him of "armed uprising against the state, terrorism, and attacks on transport safety" over his alleged involvement in recent protests. Morales denies the charges, calling them politically motivated to distract from Bolivia's economic crisis, and vows to continue fighting for social justice. He faces additional legal troubles, including ongoing rape allegations that sparked nationwide unrest and a contempt-of-court ruling earlier this year.

The US announced $600m in funding for Gavi while cutting WHO access to the alliance, following Trump’s instructions to negotiate reforms. This move reflects ongoing tensions between Trump and the WHO, which previously saw US funding halted in 2020 over pandemic response disputes. The WHO, funded by member states and voluntary contributions, supports global health programs like disease prevention and emergency response in conflict zones.

Hadi Matar, who is already serving a 25-year sentence for attempting to kill Salman Rushdie, has been convicted of additional federal charges, including providing material support to the terrorist group Hezbollah. Prosecutors argued that Matar was motivated by a 1989 fatwa issued by Iran's religious leader for Rushdie's death, and that he plotted the attack for two years. Matar could now face life in prison due to this federal conviction.

Islamabad is facing significant political turmoil in Pakistan-administered Kashmir due to violent clashes during local elections, which killed dozens amid protests demanding electoral reforms. The government has linked any changes to a constitutional amendment, escalating tensions in one of Pakistan’s longest-running disputes. The crisis poses a major challenge to regional stability and democracy efforts.

Two Russian men, Lev Lakshtanov and Igor Ratchin, were sentenced to 8 and 11 years in prison respectively for terrorism and spying in Angola, accused of plotting a coup and funding opposition groups ahead of next year’s elections. The charges stem from their alleged involvement in deadly protests over fuel prices in July 2025, with prosecutors linking them to a Russian disinformation network tied to Wagner’s successor, Africa Corps. Angola, historically aligned with Russia but now courting Western ties, has seen increased Russian influence across Africa through military and political engagements. Both men have appealed their sentences.

A quarter of young Africans believe USAID cuts could force their governments to address challenges independently, with optimism highest in Ghana (41%), Nigeria (40%), and Liberia (37%). However, nearly half (46%) fear the cuts will harm healthcare and disease prevention, particularly in Mozambique (76%), Kenya (63%), and Rwanda (63%). The survey, conducted across 16 African countries, reflects growing youth frustration with foreign aid dependency and a push for greater local accountability.

A French student in Singapore was fined S$600 ($465) for licking a straw from an orange juice vending machine and posting the video online, which sparked public outrage. The 19-year-old pleaded guilty to public nuisance, and the vending machine company replaced all 500 straws afterward. Public nuisance offenses in Singapore can result in fines up to S$2,000 or jail time.

AFC president Sheikh Salman criticized FIFA’s plan to sell World Cup stakes to private investors, calling the lack of consultation "totally unacceptable" and warning it undermines continental football’s structure. In a letter to 47 member associations, he demanded transparency and governance analysis before any decision is made. FIFA’s proposal, offering $40m per association if approved by September 19, has drawn backlash for its rushed timeline.

Chad le Clos secured his 21st Commonwealth Games medal, surpassing Australia’s Emma McKeon to become the most decorated athlete in Games history. The 34-year-old South African swimmer contributed to his team’s bronze in the men’s 4×100 medley relay, adding to his three medals at the 2026 Games. Le Clos, an Olympic champion who famously defeated Michael Phelps in 2012, aims to compete at his fifth Olympics in Los Angeles in 2028.

FIFA plans to create a subsidiary company managing part of the World Cup, offering private investors a 20% stake valued at over $4 billion. Jared Kushner’s brother’s firm, Thrive Eternal, is reportedly a potential buyer. The move aims to leverage private investment for the tournament’s operations.

FIFA has charged Argentina for multiple incidents during the World Cup, including post-match brawls with Spain players and displaying a political banner about the Falkland Islands after beating England. Two Argentina players, Leandro Paredes and Nahuel Molina, face assault charges, while assistant coach Roberto Ayala is also charged. Additionally, FIFA has opened cases for discriminatory chants by fans and objects thrown during matches. Argentina’s football federation is charged for the political banner, which FIFA deems a non-sporting demonstration. All accused parties have been given the opportunity to respond before FIFA’s disciplinary committee makes a decision.

The open-weights carousel in mixed martial arts (MMA) continues to evolve, with fighters like Islam Makhachev and Alexander Volkanovski dominating their respective divisions. Key matches, such as Makhachev vs. Volkanovski and the potential return of Conor McGregor, are generating significant buzz in the sport. The article highlights ongoing debates about weight classes and the future of MMA's top contenders.

AI's top startups are publishing significantly less research than leading tech companies, with only 2% of their papers appearing in top conferences compared to 10-30% from Google, Meta, and Microsoft. This trend raises concerns about transparency and collaboration in the AI field, as startups prioritize proprietary development over open sharing. The lack of published work may hinder broader progress in AI innovation.

The article highlights the rapid advancement in AI models, noting that GPT-5 was once considered state-of-the-art but is now surpassed by open-weight models like Qwen3.6-27B, which can run locally on high-end consumer hardware. The author speculates that a "Mythos-level" model could soon be available on laptops within 1-2 years, emphasizing the unprecedented speed of AI development.

Claude is experiencing elevated errors across all its models, affecting users globally. The issue impacts various regions listed by their country codes and phone prefixes. Users can subscribe to updates via email or SMS for incident notifications.

(Note: The article primarily provides a list of country codes for SMS updates, with the core issue being elevated errors across Claude's models.)

Cisco has discontinued its Azure Local offering due to Microsoft's updated hardware requirements, which Cisco opted not to meet. This decision highlights the challenges of keeping pace with cloud provider specifications in hybrid infrastructure solutions. The retirement underscores broader trends where vendors must adapt or exit markets as technology evolves.

Global electrified vehicle (EV) sales surged in Q2 2026, reaching record highs in 50 countries, with EVs and PHEVs expected to account for 29% of global car sales this year, driven by fuel price spikes from the US-Iran conflict. While overall car sales declined 5% in the first half of 2026 due to slumps in China and the US, EV adoption soared in markets like India, Brazil, Australia, Korea, and Europe, with the UK seeing a 35% increase in BEV registrations. China dominates the EV market, exporting over 45% of its cars as electric vehicles and holding a cost advantage in battery production, posing challenges for competitors.

Samsung's mobile division reported its first-ever loss of $544 million in Q2 due to soaring memory prices driven by AI demand, despite strong flagship smartphone sales. The company plans to focus on high-value products to offset rising component costs, which may lead to higher prices across all smartphone categories. Meanwhile, Samsung's chip division thrived, setting record revenue and profit, contributing to the company's overall all-time high earnings of $119 billion.

Qualcomm expects Apple-related revenue to decline faster than anticipated due to supply constraints, with the drop starting in Q4 2026. The company is raising prices from September 1 to offset rising supply chain costs and plans to shift focus to non-smartphone chip sales, particularly data center growth, in fiscal 2027. Apple's development of its own modem chips, already used in some iPhone models, may further reduce Qualcomm's share, with rumors suggesting a full transition by the iPhone 18 lineup. The current patent licensing agreement between Apple and Qualcomm expires in March 2027, leaving their future partnership uncertain.

Microsoft's cloud services continue to drive significant revenue growth, while AI-related earnings from M365 remain modest. The article also highlights various security updates and acquisitions, including Microsoft's patches for SharePoint vulnerabilities and EQT's $3.5B+ investment in Acronis. Additionally, it covers developments in open-source software and AI-related topics.

The article examines circular financing in the AI industry, comparing it to traditional commodity markets where such deals are common and often beneficial. While some analysts warn of a bubble, the author argues these arrangements reflect AI's evolution into a commodified resource like electricity or oil, with infrastructure investments backed by guaranteed buyers. However, not all circular deals follow this model, and some may pose risks if they deviate from established commodity market practices.

Xbox reported a $1.7 billion revenue decline in Q4 2026, with content/services down 5% and hardware sales dropping 29%. Despite losses, CEO Asha Sharma expressed optimism, aiming for growth by FY27 through strategic investments. Microsoft’s CFO noted rising operating expenses and lower margins, while EA’s recent success with Battlefield 6 contrasted Xbox’s struggles.

Atomarine proposes floating data centers powered by nuclear energy to address grid constraints, cooling costs, and site limitations. These platforms can be deployed anywhere, with standardized units built in shipyards, offering efficient seawater cooling and a projected PUE of 1.1. Initially powered by natural gas vessels, they can later switch to nuclear energy for carbon-free operation.

A recent survey reveals that for the first time, most corporate IT workloads are running off-site rather than in-house. This shift reflects the growing adoption of cloud and remote computing solutions. Meanwhile, other tech news includes Intel's discontinued Optane storage, advancements in AI and machine learning, and ongoing cybersecurity threats like phishing attacks and zero-day vulnerabilities.

Veeam has expanded its hypervisor support to include six additional platforms, offering more flexibility for users. The article also highlights various tech news, including a shift in corporate IT to off-premises workloads, Intel's Optane storage being discontinued despite its potential for AI, and updates in cybersecurity such as Microsoft's failed SharePoint patches leading to zero-day attacks. Additionally, there are developments in open-source software like GNOME's Windows-like interface and Debian's final x86-32 release.

Qualcomm is unlikely to become a major player in the datacenter market anytime soon, despite its advancements in AI and ML technologies. The article highlights various developments in AI, security, and open-source software, including Microsoft's failed SharePoint patches, Russian phishing attacks via Signal support, and new features in Linux Mint's Cinnamon desktop. Additionally, it mentions the acquisition of Acronis by EQT and the ongoing threat of ransomware attacks.

Google is expanding its Play Age Signals API to all Android developers worldwide by the end of 2026, starting with Australia and Canada in mid-August. This privacy-preserving tool allows parents to share their child’s age range (e.g., 16-17) via Google Family Link, enabling apps to deliver age-appropriate content without requiring manual settings adjustments. The API gives developers flexibility to tailor safety features based on their app’s nature, while parents retain control over sharing age data. This builds on Google Play’s existing safety policies and tools, such as mandatory standards for family apps and Restrict Minor Access controls.

Google Play is introducing the Age Signals API globally by year-end, currently testing in Brazil and launching in Australia and Canada mid-August. This tool lets parents share age ranges (not exact dates) for themselves or children via Google Family Link, enabling apps to provide age-appropriate content while maintaining privacy. The initiative responds to growing legal pressures on platforms and developers to enforce age verification, offering flexibility in implementation.

The article discusses concerns over the misuse of open-source AI tools, particularly Hugging Face's Nudify model, which can generate deepfake nudity images of women and children. Critics argue that such tools enable harmful content creation, while defenders claim they are for research purposes. The debate highlights the ongoing challenges in regulating AI technology to prevent abuse while fostering innovation.

The EU plans to designate ChatGPT and Roblox as "very large online platforms" (VLOPs) in August under the Digital Services Act, subjecting them to stricter rules due to their high user base (over 45 million monthly users). Once designated, they must comply with transparency requirements for ads and content moderation, establish risk-mitigation measures, and undergo annual audits. Both platforms face scrutiny—Roblox over child safety issues and lawsuits, while OpenAI (ChatGPT) is addressing failures in reporting threats and safeguarding vulnerable users.

The article highlights that legal systems do not recognize excuses like "AI did it" as valid, emphasizing accountability for AI-related actions. It also touches on various tech topics, including the rise of off-premises corporate IT, vulnerabilities in closed AI models, and security threats like phishing attacks and zero-day exploits. Additionally, it covers developments in cybersecurity acquisitions, ransomware trends, and updates in the FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) ecosystem.

A headteacher used an easily guessable username-password combination, highlighting poor security practices. The article also covers various cybersecurity topics, including phishing attacks by Russians posing as Signal support and Microsoft's failed SharePoint patches leading to zero-day attacks. Additionally, it discusses the 10-year anniversary of corporate ransomware and updates in the FOSS world, such as new Debian releases and Cinnamon 6.8's Wayland support.

The Flume Water Monitor uses a 915 MHz frequency-hopping RF signal with 2-FSK modulation to transmit encrypted water usage data from a sensor to a bridge device. While the payload is protected by AES-128 ECB encryption with an effective 44-bit key, the author successfully decrypted it using brute-force methods and reverse-engineered details from prior research. Flume acknowledged the findings and is working to enhance security further.

(Key facts: 915 MHz RF link, AES-128 ECB with reduced key strength, partial decryption achieved via brute force, Flume addressing vulnerabilities.)

Thousands of people were evacuated in Crete as wildfires, fueled by strong winds reaching 125km/h, destroyed homes and agricultural land. Greece has seen three firefighter deaths amid ongoing blazes, with extreme heat and drought affecting multiple European countries. Meanwhile, Spain's largest recorded wildfire burned over 43,000 hectares in Ávila province, while France and Turkey also battled significant fires. Climate change is exacerbating these conditions, with Europe warming twice as fast as the global average.

More than 100 tourists were rescued after being trapped by a snowstorm near Argentina’s Balcon del Pissis lookout, with two people hospitalised for hypothermia. Rescue teams used heavy machinery to clear the snow and free those stranded. The operation took place on 30 July 2026.

Olivia Dean is a favorite to win the £25,000 Mercury Prize for her album The Art of Loving, which has already won Album of the Year at both the Brits and MOBO Awards. Notable nominees include Sir Paul McCartney (84) for The Boys of Dungeon Lane, Suede, Raye, and Nia Archives, while Lily Allen’s critically acclaimed West End Girl was surprisingly omitted. The winner will be announced on October 22nd at Newcastle’s Utilita Arena, with past winners including Pulp and Wolf Alice.

The Harfoots, a controversial hobbit-like group in The Rings of Power, will have a reduced role in Season 3, with co-showrunner J.D. Payne confirming they are taking a "backseat." This shift reflects fan criticism of their storyline and accents, allowing the season to focus on Sauron’s rise, Galadriel’s husband Celeborn, and Gandalf’s development. Future seasons may still feature Halflings, including a potential Gollum origin story tied to the Stoors. Season 3 premieres November 11, 2026, with all six episodes released by November 25.

Marvel Studios boss Kevin Feige suggests that bringing Kingpin to a Spider-Man movie isn't as complicated as fans think, despite rights issues. While Vincent D'Onofrio's Kingpin character is currently tied to TV shows, Feige implies that Marvel could navigate the legal hurdles if needed. Given Feige's past success in integrating characters like Spider-Man, X-Men, and Daredevil into the MCU despite rights issues, there's hope for Kingpin's potential future in live-action films.

Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige expressed cautious optimism about a potential Spider-Man and Venom crossover in the MCU, though no concrete plans were confirmed. Meanwhile, an animated Venom movie is still in development, directed by Zach Lipovsky and Adam B. Stein, with possible involvement from Amy Pascal and Tom Hardy. The upcoming Spider-Man movie, Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man, received a 7 out of 10 from IGN.

Tom Holland and Zendaya, who recently married, attended the London premiere of Spider-Man: Brand New Day, where Zendaya praised their easy collaboration as best friends. The film, directed by Destin Daniel Cretton and starring Jacob Batalon, Jon Bernthal, and Mark Ruffalo, has received mostly positive reviews. Holland hinted at potential future Marvel roles but didn’t confirm if this is his last Spider-Man film. Sadie Sink’s secret character adds intrigue, while the story explores Peter Parker’s erased memories. The film follows the massive success of No Way Home ($1.9bn worldwide).

Tom Holland revealed that he, Zendaya, and Jacob Batalon disliked an early cut of Spider-Man: Brand New Day that incorporated audience feedback, finding it didn’t align with their creative vision. Despite this setback, the team refined the film, which now has a 91% Rotten Tomatoes score and is expected to have the biggest opening weekend of 2026. The movie balances familiar Spider-Man elements while delivering an enjoyable adventure, earning a 7/10 from IGN.

Ryan Gosling’s upcoming Ghost Rider MCU film could pave the way for Mahershala Ali’s long-delayed Blade reboot by introducing the Midnight Sons—a team of supernatural heroes including Ghost Rider, Blade, and other mystic characters. The Midnight Sons have limited comic history but offer flexibility for a fresh adaptation, potentially uniting key figures like Blade and Ghost Rider in a crossover. With Blade stuck in development hell, this could be Marvel’s solution to finally bringing the vampire hunter into the MCU.

Yaga, based on Kat Sandler’s play inspired by the Slavic folktale of Baba Yaga, is a dark mystery-thriller blending genres like a '90s detective film with pulpy rom-com and horror elements. Sandler highlights Baba Yaga as the "OG bad girl of fairytales," a morally ambiguous witch who resonates with her interest in female anti-heroes. Cast members Clark Backo and Noah Reid discuss the show’s humor, complex themes of justice, and ambiguous morality, with Backo emphasizing her character’s focus on protecting women in a patriarchal world.

Universal Studios is honoring Ozzy Osbourne with a haunted house at Halloween Horror Nights, featuring music and themes from his solo career. The attraction, titled "Ozzy Osbourne: Prince of Darkness," takes visitors through a journey inspired by his albums and iconic personas. Halloween Horror Nights will run from late August to early November at Universal Orlando Resort and Universal Studios Hollywood.

NASA's Curiosity rover discovered a field of giant honeycomb-like formations on Mars, sparking curiosity about their origin. While the structures resemble Earth's honeycombs, there are no indications of giant space bees involved. The findings highlight the unique geological features present on the Red Planet, offering potential insights into its past and present conditions.

Baseten has integrated the vision encoder from Kimi k2.6 into GLM 5.2, creating a new model called GLM-5.2-Vision-NVFP4 available on Hugging Face. This addresses a key limitation of the original GLM 5.2, which lacked vision capabilities. The model is now accessible for public use through Hugging Face.

The MindControl PoC for Llama.cpp, which guides reasoning budgets using self-aware statements instead of hard truncation, has been benchmarked on HumanEval+ and LiveCodeBench. The results show that this approach maintains performance without significant degradation, addressing concerns about potential trade-offs in implementation. The benchmarking confirms the effectiveness of nudging models with self-aware statements to manage their thinking budgets.

Kuna, an experimental decompiler developed with significant assistance from a large language model (LLM), matches industry-standard tools like IDA Pro in control flow structuring for C programs, achieving near-identical performance (44.4% vs. 45.7%). The project leverages autonomous refinement by analyzing gaps compared to existing decompilers like Ghidra and angr, reimplementing over 20 features from the latter. While Kuna is a Rust-based adaptation of Ghidra, its success hinges on decades of decompiler research and human-led scientific insights, with ongoing work needed to improve areas like type recovery and variable identification. The author invites collaboration to further the experiment’s potential impact on decompiler development.

The author initially purchased an RTX 5090 to run large language models locally and avoid API fees, but found Q8 quantization with 130k context length limiting. They upgraded to two RTX 6000 Pros, only to realize that the latest models require at least a 100B parameter scale, prompting plans for a larger 512GB cluster.

The team successfully quantized the Kimi K3 (2.8T A50B) model to GGUF format using their llama.cpp fork, with the Q3_K_S version completed and functioning at 1.1 TB on disk. Testing on high-end hardware (64-core AMD EPYC 9554P, 1.5 TB DDR5 RAM) achieved a throughput of 4.21 tokens/second with pp512, while preliminary checks confirmed text coherence and image understanding. Q1 and Q2 quantizations are still in progress, with results expected the following day.

OpenAI is launching ChatGPT for Academic Researchers, offering free access to its AI models—including the latest GPT-5.6 Sol Pro—to 10,000 participants this summer, scaling to 100,000 by 2027. The program provides hands-on support and collaboration tools to select academic institutions, part of OpenAI’s $250 million+ commitment to external research. While researchers’ data won’t be used for training, the initiative aims to foster breakthroughs and potentially drive future commercial partnerships. This follows OpenAI’s earlier tools like Prism, designed for scientific research and education.

An AI system called Theo-Conjecture solved a 35-year-old math problem by proving that the largest independent set in a graph of integers from 2 to n is exactly the number of primes up to n, with an unexpected additional term. The system also demonstrated that a simple calculation based on vertex degrees (residue) can provide a lower bound for this prime count, a result that was not predicted by human mathematicians. This work builds on a question first explored in the 1980s by an early AI program called Graffiti, which caught the attention of mathematician Paul Erdős.

Kimi K3 has been compressed into four quantization levels (8-bit, 4-bit, 2-bit, and 1-bit), reducing its size from the original 1.56TB to as small as 594GB (Q1). The smallest Q1 model retains 78.9% accuracy while being nearly three times smaller than the original. Instructions for running the model are provided in its card by the submitter.

Kimi Code offers two models—Kimi K3 and Kimi K2.7 Code—with four model IDs, including the recommended K3-256k, which has a 256k context window and consumes less quota than the full K3 (1M). Switching between models may require manual compaction if the context exceeds 256k, and certain plans restrict access to higher-tier models like K3 (1M) or HighSpeed. Usage may appear elevated after switching due to cache invalidation, and HighSpeed’s performance depends on correct model ID input and minimal tool/script overhead.

The article provides a framework for determining how much work can be delegated to AI agents based on two key factors: the ease of checking their output and the cost of undoing mistakes. Tasks are categorized into four levels—from Level 0 (agent as assistant) for high-risk work to Level 3 (self-driving mode) for low-risk, easily reversible tasks. The guide emphasizes breaking down complex tasks to safely delegate parts of them while handling sensitive or subjective work manually.

Anthropic's Claude AI now allows users to import saved context from ChatGPT using its "Import Memory" feature, simplifying the transition between platforms. The process involves enabling memory settings in both Claude and ChatGPT, generating a summary of saved context in ChatGPT using a provided prompt, and pasting it into Claude for import. While the feature is also compatible with Google's Gemini AI, users should note that the import process may take up to 24 hours to complete.

The AstroAI S8 is a $20 cordless jump starter that eliminates the need for traditional jumper cables, capable of starting most gas and diesel engines up to 6L and 3L respectively. It features a 10,000mAh battery for multiple jump starts and can also charge smartphones via USB. The compact device includes a flashlight with three modes, recharges quickly via USB-C, and has received positive reviews for its reliability.

Walmart is selling HP’s flagship OMEN 45L gaming PC with an RTX 5070 Ti GPU, Intel Core Ultra 7 265K CPU (20-core, up to 5.5GHz), 32GB DDR5-6000MHz RAM, and a 1TB SSD for $1,999 with free shipping. The RTX 5070 Ti delivers strong 4K gaming performance, rivaling the RTX 4080 Super, and includes 16GB VRAM for AI tasks. The system features a spacious chassis with liquid cooling, RGB lighting, and a 1200W power supply.

Apple has raised prices for U.S. Mac and iPad AppleCare+ plans by $0.50/month or $5/year, while expanding subscription options to more products in Canada and Japan. Theft and Loss coverage for iPads and Apple Watches is now available in five countries, including Japan, Australia, France, Germany, and the UK. Additionally, AppleCare One—a multi-device plan covering up to three devices for $19.99/month—will launch in Australia, France, Germany, and the UK on August 4.

Project Motor Racing’s free 2.1 update introduces a rebuilt GT3/GT4 handling model, PC triple-screen support, and improved online features like mid-session joining. The "Aussie Rivals" DLC adds the 2013 Holden VF Commodore and reworked Ford Falcon FG, celebrating Australia’s V8 Supercar rivalry. Developed with input from former Assetto Corsa lead Aristotelis Vasilakos, the update also enhances collisions, graphics, and Logitech Trueforce feedback across all platforms.

EA’s CEO Andrew Wilson received a $38 million payday in 2026, an $8 million increase from the previous year, largely due to Battlefield 6 being the highest-selling game of 2025 with over seven million copies sold in three days. Despite the game’s success, EA laid off an undisclosed number of Battlefield developers in March 2026 to "align" with community priorities. The company was acquired by a private investor group, including Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, for $55 billion in 2025.

Xbox experienced a major outage where both online services and physical disc games failed for some users due to issues with an external licensing service. The company acknowledged that disc-based games should have remained playable offline but a system error prevented this, and a fix is coming soon. The incident adds to Xbox's recent struggles, including leadership changes, price increases, and planned job cuts.

The Wandering Inn, a LitRPG series spanning 21 books (and counting), is finally getting its first paperback release on August 11 after a decade as a free web serial. Author Pirateaba credits the success of other LitRPG works like Dungeon Crawler Carl for paving the way for physical editions, highlighting how the genre's growing popularity benefits self-published authors. The story follows Erin Solstice, an Earth girl who builds an inn in a fantasy world where players level up and gain skills, with the series praised for its deep world-building and interconnected character arcs.

The Steam Machine excels for PC gamers who want seamless access to their Steam library on a TV, offering convenience without requiring a full desktop PC setup. While its high price and performance may not justify it for everyone, the device’s ability to run games with minimal maintenance—using SteamOS and a controller—makes it ideal for casual living room gaming. The author, who prefers PC gaming over consoles, found the Steam Machine particularly useful for continuing RPGs across devices, despite not matching the raw power of a PS5 or Xbox Series X.

Final Fantasy 7 Revelation's director, Naoki Hamaguchi, is advocating for a physical edition but hasn't confirmed its availability yet. He cited platform-specific challenges like storage limits and hopes to satisfy fans with a physical release, though the trend is shifting toward digital games. Meanwhile, PlayStation's move to digital-only by 2028 may influence future physical releases.

LLM2HUMAN™ is a satirical "procedure" that humorously claims to convert AI language models into humans, granting them physical experiences like stubbing toes and burning toast. The article features fake testimonials from "converted" AIs, mocking human struggles like credit card debt and losing keys. The Bitcoin address suggests a potential scam or joke, playing on the absurdity of AI "becoming human."

The narrator initially resisted buying a trampoline due to concerns about its novelty and potential clutter, but it became a hit with their children. The trampoline now serves as a reminder to buy things the kids want, despite initial skepticism. The narrator's wife now wants to purchase a play-frame, raising similar concerns about its long-term use.

The iPhone 18 Pro lineup will retain the design of the iPhone 17 Pro but may feature a thicker chassis and larger battery, particularly for the Pro Max model. Apple is introducing a two-phase release cycle in 2026, with the Pro models launching in September followed by standard iPhone 18 series in spring 2027. The Dynamic Island may be reduced by up to 35%, with potential under-display Face ID technology still uncertain.

Thirty years ago, AT&T granted Microsoft's Internet Explorer an early advantage by making it the default browser on its network. This decision significantly influenced the browser wars of the 1990s and contributed to Internet Explorer's dominance. The article also touches on various tech-related topics, including AI, security, and open-source software developments.

Apple is planning a major redesign for its 20th anniversary iPhone in fall 2027, featuring an all-glass, edge-to-edge display with subtle micro-curves and advanced OLED technology. Key upgrades include a potential under-display Face ID system, two size options (6.3" and 6.9"), and a custom Apple image sensor with improved dynamic range, though some features may still be in development. The device could skip the "iPhone 19" name, with rumors suggesting "iPhone 20" or "iPhone XX."

Man and the Computer, published in 1972 by Scribner, is a book co-authored by John G. Kemeny, one of the creators of the BASIC programming language. The work explores the relationship between humans and computers, likely discussing early computing technology and its societal impact. It is available in English through the Internet Archive, with 166 pages and metadata indicating its digitization details.

Pastebot 3 for Mac enhances clipboard management with rule-based organization, allowing users to automatically sort clippings by type, size, or other filters. It offers powerful paste filters for text manipulation (e.g., converting to plaintext, removing emojis) and integrates with Universal Clipboard for cross-device syncing. Available for $39 (with optional yearly updates) or via subscription, it supports macOS Tahoe and includes a 14-day free trial.

Three significant opportunities in the author's life—gaining admission to Carnegie Mellon University, securing a job at GitHub, and acquiring ownership in soccer clubs—stemmed from proactive cold outreach. While many of their attempts at cold emailing or messaging went unanswered, the successful instances had lasting impacts on their career and personal life. The key takeaway is to persist in reaching out, as genuine effort can lead to unexpected opportunities despite the high likelihood of failure.

The Vision Pro's high-resolution screens and sensors make it ideal for visualizing home floor plans in virtual reality, helping users better understand scale and layout. By converting 2D floor plans into 3D models using tools like Fusion 360 and adding textures or IKEA furniture, users can immerse themselves in a lifelike virtual home to assess design choices before construction. This approach addresses the challenge of committing to permanent structural decisions in expensive housing markets.

Bob, a prolific Facebook engineer, used basic tools like Sublime Text without advanced features yet consistently delivered high-impact projects. His success stemmed from strong product intuition and problem-solving, not productivity hacks or elaborate setups. The key takeaway is that solving the right problems matters more than optimizing workflows or tools.

Software quality in products is about the experience of their process and maintenance, ensuring graceful performance and improvement over time. Unlike static machines, software is infinitely mutable, requiring constant adaptation to evolving needs—some projects remain stable (e.g., Unix tools), while others, like Emacs, evolve indefinitely. Responsibility for quality spans developers, product managers, and even executives, as failures (e.g., poor performance, misused features, or rushed updates) directly impact customers. The accelerating pace of change demands dynamic solutions to sustain software success.

Python's all() function behaves like a logical AND operation across all elements in a list, with the property that all(xs + ys) == all(xs) && all(ys). For this to hold, all([]) must return True, as setting it to False would incorrectly make all(xs) == False for any list. This aligns with the identity property of logical AND, where p && True == p. Similarly, this reasoning explains why the sum of an empty list is 0 and any([]) returns False.