Ending respiratory infections — Introducing Intercept, a $500M bet to make respiratory infections like colds and flu a thing of the past.
Demolition complicates the search for bodies after Venezuela’s earthquakes — Venezuela has begun tearing down unstable buildings after its deadly earthquakes. But what is the cost to survivors?
The last six months in LLMs in five minutes — I put together these annotated slides from my five minute lightning talk at PyCon US 2026, using the latest iteration of my annotated presentation tool. # I presented this lightning …
Joyelle McSweeney on Euripides’s Iphigenia Among the Taurians, translated by Anne Carson — The Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast features a series of conversations with past and present Windham-Campbell Prize winners about their favorite books and plays. Hosted by Michael…
Happiness and Life Satisfaction — Self-reported life satisfaction differs widely between people and between countries. What explains these differences?
Why I Left Google DeepMind — I fought against Google’s Pentagon AI deal from the inside. Powerful people and institutions failed to keep their AI ethics promises under pressure.
ICE agent behind fatal shooting in Maine reportedly had troubled history — Relatives of David Brouillette, the agent who shot and killed a man in Maine, said he had record of violent behaviour.
The Pickle Guys in New York, New York — <p><img alt="" data-width="962" data-height="820" width="300" height="200" src="https://img.atlasobscura.com/xvpb3jPJGJ1MPzbFIea4UeLgFR0q_z4pimO9u3Te8Qc/rs:fill:300:200:1/g:ce/c:962:641:nowe:0:113/q:81/sm:1/scp:1/ar:1/aHR0cHM6Ly9hdGxh/cy1k…
Down with -maxxing! Searching for the absolute best option isn’t always the wisest course of action. Better to — Down with -maxxing! Searching for the absolute best option isn’t always the wisest course of action. Better to make a good-enough choice so “a great deal of ene
Gold Holds Gain After Soft US Jobs Data Eases Rate-Hike Concerns — Gold steadied after its biggest weekly gain since January, with traders assessing a surprise contraction in the US jobs market that allayed concerns around an interest-rate hike.
Rare Historical Photos — And the story behind them...
New Scientist recommends an excellent look at the future of work — Sarah O'Connor's We Are Not Machines explores how we are contorting ourselves to fit AI into our working lives – and what to do about it, finds Tom Knowles
What to read next based on your favorite A24 movie. — Have you heard? A24 is taking over Hollywood. Possibly the world. The indie company that initially marketed itself as the edgy underdog has become a pillar/last bastion of extra-Marvel movies. No l…
A Road to Lisp: Which Lisp | scotto.me — Comparison of modern Lisp dialects
China prepares as Typhoon Bavi leaves Taiwan — China prepares as Typhoon Bavi leaves Taiwan
AI 2040 and the Cult of Intelligence — I used to be one of these people. I read Yudkowsky and was like, OMG recursive self improvement hard takeoff AI is coming. Then I joined the real world and actually tried to do things. At comma, we ship a hardware product of similar…
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Mountain path repairs 'first big work' since 1980s — A helicopter is used to transport more than 100 tonnes of stone to the site at Helvellyn.
Child-rape sentence reignites scrutiny of UK high street mini-marts — Rapist Bawan Harwe lured underage girls back to his flat with the promise of free vapes and cash.
Home - PeopleGroups.org — Join us in praying and learning about the engaging unreached people groups around the world - harvest force sending to the harvest fields.
Ryan Blaney wins 3-wide battle on final lap of OT in Atlanta — Ryan Blaney emerged from a three-wide battle on the final lap of overtime to cap a dominant victory in the weather-delayed NASCAR Cup Series race at Atlanta early Monday.
Stefon Diggs settles in with Commanders, ups NFL best talk — Stefon Diggs has changed teams for the third time in three years, but that hasn't dented his confidence.
Half the world's reservoirs could be clogged up with dirt by 2060 — Each decade the world is losing over 7 per cent of its freshwater storage capacity to sediment build-up, according to an analysis of over half a million reservoirs
Trump has campaigned more so far in 2026 midterms than he did at this point in 2018 — Heading to Georgia on Wednesday, President Trump is campaigning more often this year than he did in the same period for 2018 and has already rallied for a dozen candidates in toss-up races.
BBC reports from the Strait of Hormuz during fragile ceasefire — Dozens of boats are still anchored in the Strait, while ordinary Iranians try to continue to their lives.
Why has Belfast erupted in anti-immigrant violence after a knife attack? — Ministers have blamed far-right online agitators for stoking racial tension following a stabbing.
We All Know the Story of the Pompeii Victims Who Died When Mount Vesuvius Erupted 2,000 Years Ago. Archaeologists Are Still Learning About Those Who Made It Out Alive — A semi-fictionalized documentary series hosted by actor Tom Hiddleston follows three people in the ancient…
GLOBE Mission Earth Educators Participate in Land Cover Community of Practice - NASA Science — During the 2025-2026 school year, educators from the NASA Science Activation Program’s GLOBE (Global Learning and Observation to Benefit the Environment) Mission Earth project participa
Vintage Everyday — A daily dose of nostalgia.
Michael Cunningham on the Question of Scale in Writing — This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Craft of Writing newsletter—sign up here. I don’t work on an epic scale, though my ambitions run more to epic proportions than I like to admit. It’s a question of…
Israel prevents exiled Palestinian detainees from reuniting with their families — Palestinian prisoners released from Israeli jail but remain separated from loved ones due to travel restrictions.
Arsenal reignite interest in Aston Villa's Konsa — Aston Villa's central defender Ezri Konsa is thought to be Arsenal's preferred option in their search for a new central defender.
Voters head to the polls for Makerfield by-election — There are 14 candidates vying to be the Greater Manchester constituency's new MP.
US trade deficit surges amid artificial intelligence spending boom — Imbalance soars to $77.6bn in May as imports outpaced exports, driven by pharmaceuticals and semiconductors.
Book Prizes Don't Work How You Think — all the beans that's fit to spill
Signs of Thaw in the Bering Sea - NASA Science — Drifting sea ice fragments near Alaska’s Saint Lawrence and Nunivak islands and colorful water around the Yukon Delta heralded the approach of the summer solstice.
40 Life Lessons I Know at 40 (That I Wish I Knew at 20) — When I turned 30, I shared some life lessons that you guys apparently loved. So here's more of the good stuff now that I've turned 40.
Einstein’s relativity rules chemical bonds in heavy elements, new research shows — Researchers have shown the first direct experimental evidence that the textbook triple bond structure breaks down in heavy elements, where relativity makes the rules.
The "Disability Dongle": Why Silicon Valley Hates Me and you., Sightless Scribbles — A fabulously gay blind author.
15 killed after a fire ignited in a coaching centre in Lucknow, India — 15 killed after a fire ignited in a coaching centre in Lucknow, India.
Read "Working in Public" — Nadia Asparouhova explains why OSS funding is hard. https://press.stripe.com/working-in-public
Boy, 14, charged with terrorism offence over alleged plan to target mosques — The alleged offences are linked to "extreme right-wing terrorism" police say.
EU to hold migration meeting with Taliban officials in Brussels — The meeting is expected to focus on the deportation of Afghan nationals who do not have a right to stay in Europe.
Ariana Grande's 'Petal' video started the wrong debate — What to do with your feelings about the pop star's appearance.
A round Apple Watch is possible, but an Apple Ring more likely - 9to5Mac — A Bloomberg report yesterday suggested that we could see a pretty dramatic shake-up in a future Apple Watch lineup. In...
Met to send 4,000 officers to police rival London protests — It comes as a Unite the Kingdom rally is taking place in central London on the same day as the annual Nakba march.
physicists spent decades looking for faster-than-light particles. turns out their detectors were just picking up cosmic rays hitting the equipment at the exact wrong moment.
MacBook Air laptops are reportedly in short supply due to Ramaggedon — Not only did MacBook Air prices recently go up, but you couldn't get one today even if you wanted to.
1,000 Free Audio Books: Download Great Books for Free — Download 1,000 free audio books, mostly classics, to your MP3 player or computer. Includes great works of fiction, non-fiction and poetry.
State of AI in Design Systems · July 2026 — A field study of how 20 open-source design systems and 6 platforms make themselves readable to AI agents.
US federal judge questions DOJ decision to drop Adani charges — Judge says DOJ's reasoning for dropping Adani charges lacks clarity; orders detailed explanation from prosecutors.
Why is India vetting books in Kashmir in search of ‘anti-national’ content? — Authorities in disputed region are auditing school, college and public libraries to look for ‘objectionable’ material.
Photos: Wildfires in Spokane lead to thousands of evacuations — Wildfires in Spokane have destroyed hundreds of homes and led to evacuation orders for 60,000 people.
Software Giant SAP Stops Most Travel and Hiring Because of AI’s Soaring Cost — SAP says it needs to “be disciplined in how we spend.” That includes still freezing hires and travel. Unless it's to do with AI, of course.
Refugee Convention at 75: The world must keep the promise that saved me — Millions of people forced to flee need the same chance that protection gave me.
Apache down, fighting up: What the latest US-Iran attacks mean — Analysts say Iran seeks to deter US patrols on the Strait of Hormuz by attacking its assets across the Gulf.
‘Concrete breaking off walls’: Survivors describe Venezuela’s earthquakes — The Venezuelan government has loosened restrictions on social media as residents search for missing loved ones.
Man and the Computer by John G. Kemeny (1972-01-01) : John G. Kemeny : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Deadly floods and landslide hit India’s Kerala — At least two people have been killed and eight injured after torrential rain triggered flooding
Please stop exposing your home server to the internet (do this instead) — Your home server is