July 1, 2026 – iOS 26.5.2 and Apple’s new update strategy — Listen to a recap of the top stories of the day from 9to5Mac. 9to5Mac Daily is available on iTunes and Apple’s Podcasts...
A Winding Road, a Bottle of Wine, and a Crash That Keeps Punishing Oak Grove - Longreads — "Ananya Rao was not driving when she was badly injured and a friend from Lakeside High was killed. But her parents might go to prison."
NYT Strands hints, answers for June 15, 2026 — Every hint, nudge and outright answer you need to complete today's NYT Strands puzzle.
Jordan Patterson Shares New Song "Cinderella": Listen — On Friday, LA-based songwriter Jordan Patterson will release her new EP Songs From A Valley Girl. It’s the follow-up to her debut album The Hermit, which came out last fall, but it will be her first release for Secretly Cana
there's a podcast where someone just reads Wikipedia articles about obscure 19th century inventions. it's genuinely better than anything with a production budget... bombing builds character I guess
Metal's Best Two-Album Years — Converge got us good, didn’t they? On April 1, less than two months after the release of their long-awaited 10th studio album Love Is Not Enough, the Massachusetts metalcore heroes announced Hum Of Hurt, their second full-length of 2026. They got…
'We are with you, Venezuela': Houston community rallies after deadly earthquakes — Venezuelans living in the U.S organize donation drives in response to the devastating earthquakes.
Your old PC already supports 10 Gigabit Ethernet (you just need one cheap upgrade) — A 10GbE upgrade does not always require a new motherboard or PCIe card
Poland Set to Hold Interest Rates After Inflation Pressure Cools — Poland’s central bank is poised to keep interest rates unchanged for a third straight month as an unexpected drop in the inflation rate relieves pressure to tighten monetary policy.
How I avoid falling into the smart home subscription trap — Buy once, pay once.
UAE Oil Flows Hit Pre-War Levels on Dark Ships and Hormuz Bypass — The United United Arab Emirates has restored its oil exports to pre-war levels by sneaking tankers through the Strait of Hormuz undetected and using a pipeline that bypasses the waterway.
Mexico Is Tapping Global Debt Markets to Fund Bond Buyback — Mexico is tapping global bond markets to fund a buyback of its existing debt as pressure mounts from credit-rating agencies to reign in the government’s deficit.
Yoga instructor told me I was holding tension in places I didn't know existed. Turns out I've been clenching my jaw during downward dog for three years.
7 beloved cars quietly getting discontinued sooner than you think — Changing tastes and stricter regulations are claiming some surprising casualties.
Girl reveals rape trauma ahead of sentence review — The teenager is one of two girls who were raped by two boys in Fordingbridge, Hampshire.
5 new Netflix shows to watch in July — Will Ferrell returns to television with a golf comedy.
The new PopSockets grip is so thin you’ll forget it’s even there — PopSockets says its new collapsible phone grip is as thin as a toothpick.
This Linux storage feature feels like cheating once you understand it — This is what happens when your file system learns accounting tricks!
Stop using your old HDMI cables on your new 4K TV — Is your HDMI cable secretly sabotaging your setup?
Will Texas' new top voting official be a 'disruptor'? Locals are preparing for it — Just ahead of closely contested midterms, Texas is about to get a new top voting official. Many locals there fear the frontrunner is a state lawmaker and pastor with no election experience.
14× faster embeddings: how we rebuilt the ONNX path in Manticore — Released in Manticore Search 27.1.5, the new ONNX Runtime backend makes auto-embeddings ~14× faster on average than the previous SentenceTransformers/Candle path on the same hardware, same model, same weights —…
See the Stunning Medieval Manuscript Telling Tales of King Arthur, in Ink and Polished Gold, That's Headed to Auction — The manuscript was made by a skilled, anonymous artist between 1290 and 1310. It's the oldest of only three privately owned Vulgate Cycle manuscripts
The Signal That Ended Mid‑Air Collisions | Alejandro Gallardo González | TEDxCIS SFP Youth — Did you know that almost 28% of the world's population is afraid of flying? One of the most common fears is that of a mid-air collision. But there's a system working in silence, aboard…
Lost books by ancient philosophers recovered from 'unreadable' scrolls — Scrolls from the Roman library of Herculaneum that were carbonised by a volcanic eruption have been read in their entirety for the first time, thanks to scans and AI software
Heavens to Betsy Reunite for First Tour in 32 Years — Corin Tucker’s pre-Sleater-Kinney band with Tracy Sawyer returned with a surprise show in Portland last night
Sixteen stadiums hosting games at World Cup 2026 — <p>With the World Cup kicking off in Mexico City today, we look at the architecture of the 16 stadiums in the USA, Mexico and Canada hosting games at the tournament. Unlike many previous World Cups, where stadiums were purpose-bu
Watch Oil Falls Below $80 For First Time in More Than Three Months - Bloomberg — Brent oil fell below $80 a barrel for the first time in more than three months as the US-Iran deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz boosted expectations for a revival in supply, with leading Wall…
A Small iOS 27 Change Hints at Apple's Long-Rumored Home Hub — In iOS 27 beta 2, Apple updated the Home app to add support for remotely updating an Apple TV. The Apple TV is now listed in the Updates section of the Home app's Settings interface, and tapping on the Apple TV…
Hakimi leads nine returning Morocco players from Qatar 2022 at World Cup — Morocco draw heavily on the country’s diaspora in Europe where majority of the 26 squad players selected were born.
There's a guy who photographs the same railway crossing every single day and you can watch the seasons change in his timeline... the trees, the light, the rust on the signals. It's hypnotic.
Ramiro Valdes, one of Cuba’s last living revolutionary figures, dies at 94 — Valdes was close ally of Castro brothers and helped found Cuba's notorious intelligence apparatus.
Scotland's ill-fated World Cup story finally at a sorry end — BBC Sport Scotland's chief sportswriter Tom English sums up his verdict on the nation's World Cup exit.
Verizon is About to Break our Watches — Two years ago I bought a pair of Gizmo watches for my kids ( review). There's a companion app for texting and configuration ("Gizmohub"), and Verizon is moving everyone over to a new one ("Verizon Family"). But the new app doesn't work…
someone built a database of every exercise variation known to humanity and it's somehow actually organized. my brother in christ, i didn't know there were 47 types of rows!
Hundreds of Heathrow and Gatwick flights delayed due to thunderstorms — More than 600 flights have been delayed at Heathrow and Gatwick, many due to stormy weather south of the UK.
Robin Byrd, the Sex Godmother of Millennials, Says the Internet Ruined Porn — The 1970s porn actress turned New York City late night public access queen says censorship and a lack of star quality among modern adult entertainers turned her off of the industry.
What to Do in the Garden in July — <p>In the garden, July is a month with a split personality: We look back wistfully (at the successes of spring) and forward with trepidation (can this garden be saved, to withstand the heat that’s ahead). Here are a few quick garden…
How the Trump Administration Pushed Judges to Deport Children — The D.O.J. has fast-tracked immigration cases for unaccompanied minors and fired judges who appear not to comply.
Puberty blocker trial will help reduce harm, says Cass report author — Dr Hilary Cass says she is "absolutely convinced that more children will be harmed if we don't do the trial than if we do."
3 Nuclear Startups Hit a Big Milestone. Why It Matters—and Why It Doesn’t — The companies’ Fourth of July plans include celebrating new reactor designs coming online. But there’s still a long way to go before they deliver energy at a meaningful scale.
Neuroscience can't tell us the way to govern people's brains — From the age of legal adulthood to the concept of "profound autism", policy-makers are turning to neuroscience to help shape laws and policies, but the science simply isn't ready
Senate Ethics Committee dismisses complaint against Sen. Ruben Gallego — The committee had been alerted by a fellow member of Congress of allegations of campaign finance violations and potential sexual misconduct, but said it found no evidence of wrongdoing.
Palestine weekly: Israel accelerates land grabs in Gaza, West Bank — Permanent alterations begin at Hebron's Ibrahimi Mosque as plans advance for settlements in Gaza.
Isaac 1 — Weave Robotics — Isaac 1 is a mobile robot for the home — designed and assembled in San Francisco. Five colorways, private by design, and capable of far more than folding.
SpaceX is reportedly planning to build its own natural gas pipeline in Texas — The 8-mile pipeline would bring fuel for Starship to the company's Starbase.
Apple Maps to Get These 10 New Features in iOS 27 — Apple Maps is getting a range of new features in iOS 27, headlined by an upgraded Flyover experience that uses AI to improve the realism and detail of its aerial imagery. Flyover is a longstanding feature of Apple Maps and lets
'How good was that?' - best shots from Wimbledon day two — Watch the best shots from day two of Wimbledon 2026, featuring British hopeful Toby Samuel.
You're Going to Want Exposure SpaceX: Cleborne — Manuela Sperandeo, co-head of European iShares at BlackRock, and Jonathan Cleborne, managing director, head of Europe at Vanguard, joins Eric Balchunas and Joel Weber at the ETFs In Depth Conference at Bloomberg in London. They…
Whistleblower Sarah Wynn-Williams sues Meta over attempts to ‘silence’ her — Former employee files complaint accusing company of ‘coercive surveillance’ and first amendment violation
Team Dresch Return With First Album in 30 Years — The legendary queercore outfit will share Furthermore in September
Philippines, UAE and Indonesia to Start CPTPP Accession Talks — The Philippines, United Arab Emirates and Indonesia will start talks about joining a regional trade bloc, the next step for the three in efforts to expand free-trade ties.
We Tried the Most Popular Mushroom Coffees. These Are the Best (2026) — “Coffee” made with functional mushrooms like lion’s mane and chaga is all the rage. We tried the most popular brands to find which were the most palatable.
Introducing: The Oris Lou Gehrig Limited Edition — In the middle of baseball season, Oris releases a new LE to support a good cause.
BDC Veteran Tannenbaum Plans Comeback to Industry Near ‘Crisis’ — Len Tannenbaum, who sold his $5 billion credit firm to distressed debt pioneer Oaktree almost a decade ago, is looking to raise a new fund to capitalize on turmoil in the $1.8 trillion private credit market.
NYT Connections Sports Edition hints and answers for June 20: Tips to solve Connections #635 — Everything you need to solve Connections Sports Edition #635
Iran Ratchets Up Talk of Controlling Hormuz; Stocks Rally | Horizons Middle East & Africa 6/30/2026 — Iran reiterated its determination to maintain control over maritime traffic moving through the Strait of Hormuz; Deputy Foreign Minister Kazem Gharibabadi said Iran wants to…
Canada into last 16 with late winner against South Africa — Stephen Eustaquio scores a dramatic winner in the second minute of injury time as co-hosts Canada beat South Africa to move into the last 16 of the World Cup for the first time.
“Susie the Blue Mustang” Was a Project That Connected Grandfather and Grandson — This story is about a 1968 Ford Mustang, but it’s really about my grandfather. Ronald Hoak, whom I call Papa, lives in Rochester, New York, and was an engineer for Kodak. He has always…
Onto the knockout round: 4 takeaways from the FIFA World Cup so far — The anxieties before the World Cup were many. But with the knockout round set to begin Sunday, it's fair to say: The North American World Cup has been a thrill.
Jobs Report Great for Warsh and Bonds, BlackRock's Rosenberg Says — Jeffrey Rosenberg, portfolio manager of the systematic multi-strategy fund at BlackRock, says the June jobs report will help Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh be patient on rates as well as benefit the bond…