BBC News

  1. Burnham says pupils in England need clearer pathway into work
  2. Wildfire now nine miles from French city of Bordeaux, mayor warns
  3. Devastating European wildfires in maps - and how they're being tackled
  4. Reform UK reports Zack Polanski to police over guillotine T-shirt post
  5. Johnson & Johnson offers up to $5.5bn to settle baby powder lawsuits
  6. BBC reports from outside court after judge rules singer D4vd will stand trial for murder
  7. Love Island UK crowns winners of twist-filled series
  8. Trump says Iran war talks taking place during lull in strikes
  9. Fourth heatwave grips parts of UK with 35C forecast
  10. Hundreds of thousands of women get morning-after pill via free pharmacy service
  11. Badenoch calls for emergency legislation to stop early release scheme
  12. 'I just found all the classified stuff downstairs' - Biden to ghostwriter
  13. Wildfires 'stark reminder' of extreme climate challenge, says William
  14. France and Spain wildfire witnesses describe 'wall of flames', fear and stress
  15. How 'fire-generated thunderstorms' make wildfires more deadly

Hacker News

  1. Our position on open-weights models
  2. Using an open model feels surprisingly good
  3. A $500 RL fine-tune of a 9B open model beat frontier models on catalog review
  4. Benchmarking Opus 5 on SlopCodeBench
  5. Astronauts describe persistent 'observer' sensation after 6 month missions
  6. RTX 2080 Ti Memory Upgrade to 22 GB
  7. Residential Proxies Are a National Security Threat
  8. EYG: A Programming Language for Humans
  9. Watching Go's new garbage collector move through the heap
  10. Show HN: Yap – OSS on-device voice dictation for macOS with no model to download
  11. DConf 2026 in London
  12. C/C++ projects packaged for Zig
  13. An Uncomplicated Man
  14. Vehicle Motion Cues
  15. Three Theses on the Literacy Crisis

r/Reddit Frontpage

  1. ▶A 16 year old lifeguard rescued a 10 year old boy who was being swept away by powerful waves in California.
  2. ▶Pets always need attention at the worst time…
  3. High school teacher arrested for clapping in support of anti-data center activists
  4. Andrew and Tristan Tate to remain in jail until next extradition hearing
  5. ▶On Saturday a 16 year old lifeguard rescued a 10 year old boy who had become overwhelmed by the waves on Seabright Beach, CA
  6. Protesters hold 'Stop Data Centers' signs at Trump's speech in Michigan
  7. My little bag of glass I ordered online came with a free little knife.
  8. TIL Tigers look orange to humans because we are trichromats, but they appear green to deer and wild boars because they are dichromats
  9. ▶Colombia reduced temperatures by 5°C by planting 880,000 trees along the streets of its cities.
  10. The Huge Xbox Outage That Has Been Going On For Over 16 Hours Is Not Only Stopping Users From Playing Their Digital Downloaded Games, Its Also Stopping Them Fro…
  11. Photo of Sophie's(his press officer) reaction to Oscar saying “that was the dumbest move he’s ever seen on a race track”
  12. US walks out on France at UN meeting to protest ally's criticism of America's human rights record
  13. Save of the century
  14. Nothing to see here…
  15. Dolly Parton left heartbroken as brother dies just one year after beloved husband

Lobsters

  1. On AI
  2. Blogging Can Just Be Stating The Obvious
  3. Most Googlebots are fake
  4. The Productivity Mirage
  5. Setup a Simple, Self-Hosted Web Server with OpenBSD
  6. Paged Out - Issue #9
  7. How is the Bun Rewrite in Rust Going?
  8. Seriously, what is the large code-model even for?
  9. Quick & Easy Parser Combinators
  10. Open Source Must Be Fun (Or It Will Die)
  11. Finding bugs in Raft implementations
  12. Advantages and disadvantages of Windows NT 3.1
  13. What does GitHub’s security team even do?
  14. Framework 13 Pro review: Much better battery, much worse price
  15. Exploiting Volvo/Eicher’s fleet management platform to gain control over all users and vehicles

Slashdot

  1. A Missing Underscore Sent Innocent Man To Prison For 18 Months
  2. Peacock to Be Included With YouTube Premium In Major Streaming Tie-Up
  3. Amazon Trying to Launch a Global Satellite Cellphone Network In 2028
  4. Nvidia, Tech Giants Launch AI Safety Initiative
  5. Codeberg Bans Cryptocurrency and LLM-Generated Code Projects
  6. China Begins Mass Production of Homegrown DUV Chip Tools
  7. ChatGPT Starts Blocking Direct Requests To Copy an Author's Style
  8. Apple Will 'Watch Everything Burn' When AI Bubble Bursts
  9. Big Tech Accused of Stonewalling European Social Media Researchers
  10. Nvidia In Talks With OpenAI To Guarantee $250 Billion Financing For Data Center
  11. 'KVM Chainsaw' Expected to Hit Linux 7.3 For Dealing with 'God Data Structure'
  12. A New Middle Class of Content Creators Is Quietly Quitting the 9-to-5
  13. 2.1 Million People View Leaked 'Odyssey' Bootleg on X
  14. 'Inside the Dystopian World of Germany's Free Speech Crackdown'
  15. NASA Replaces ULA's Vulcan Centaur With SpaceX Falcon Heavy For Solar Storm Research

Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers

  1. Weaponizing And Defending The React Flight Protocol: Deserialization Sinks In RSCs
  2. When It Makes Sense To “Block” The Main Thread
  3. No, People Don’t Want More AI In Their Life
  4. From Kickoff To First Concept: How To Turn Brand Strategy Into Visual Direction
  5. Designing For Distressed Users: Why Mental Health Apps Shouldn’t Follow Every UI Fashion
  6. Meet Kirki: WordPress’s First Visual Builder With An Infinite Canvas
  7. Users Don’t Need More Tools: They Need Seamless Integrations
  8. Matching AI Modality To User Intent: Designing The Right Interface
  9. Why Accessibility Is An Operational Capability, Not A Feature
  10. Snapshots Of Summer (July 2026 Wallpapers Edition)
  11. Designing With Uncertainty: How AI Supercharges Probabilistic Thinking
  12. The Impact Of Humanoid Robots On Humanity
  13. The Benefits Of Cognitive Inclusion In UX Research
  14. How To Make Your Design System AI-Ready
  15. June Is For Exploring (2026 Wallpapers Edition)

The Onion

  1. Tanning: Myth Vs. Fact
  2. Brad Pitt Drops Last Name In Solidarity With Family
  3. Profits Soar As Taylor Farms Rebrands As Biological Weapons Manufacturer
  4. Nephew Whacking The Hell Out Of Tree Trunk With Stick
  5. Man Eating Salad Takes Moment To Appreciate What A Good Boy He’s Being
  6. Lucky Chicago Architecture Tour Witnesses Live Feeding Of Willis Tower
  7. Tourist Disappointed To Leave Scotland Without Seeing Single Fat Bastard
  8. One-Week Sober Man Thought All Problems Would Be Fixed By Now
  9. Dugout Floor Covered In Spat-Out Clamshells
  10. Bestselling Beach Reads
  11. Tips For Karaoke
  12. Who’s Bad?

WIRED

  1. France Records Its First-Ever Pyrocumulonimbus Cloud Amid Record-Smashing Fires
  2. New Firefighting Technologies Could Help Battle Blazes Like Those in France and Spain
  3. DHS Official Resigns, Citing ‘War on Immigrants’
  4. Private Claude Chats Exposed in Google and Bing Search Results
  5. Inside the Wild Rescue Mission That Took 4 Beluga Whales to Chicago
  6. The 10 Best WIRED-Tested Handheld Vacuums of 2026
  7. Wellness Influencers Are Pushing ‘Natural’ and Unproven Alternatives to Adderall
  8. 3 Best Smart Ring Models: Oura, RingConn, and Samsung (2026)
  9. This Is Donald Trump’s AI Brain Trust
  10. Best Laptops for College Students (2026): MacBooks and Beyond
  11. Measles Is Becoming So Common That Treatments May Soon Be Needed
  12. It’s Becoming Clear Why Black Holes Never Run Out of Fuel
  13. Soundcore Nebula P1i Projector Review: New Design, Classic Pitfalls
  14. The Best Backpacking Sleeping Pads, Tested on the Trail (2026)
  15. All the Ways You Can Make Reading on Your Phone Easier

Core77

  1. The Dutch Community Where People Live on Strips of Land in a Lake
  2. A Gate with an Elegant Integrated Latch
  3. Flatbike's Accessories Let You Fold Your Bike Flat for Storage
  4. Core77 Weekly Roundup (7-20-26 to 7-24-26)
  5. DreamDomes' Elegant, Weather-Resistant Dome-Shaped Event Tents
  6. Michael Hilgers' Multifunctional Side Table
  7. Leatherman's Experimental Ratcheting Bit Driver
  8. Light is Bringing Back the Flip Phone
  9. Humanscale Revives a Niels Diffrient Design for a Hybrid Work/Lounge Chair
  10. DeFF's Diminutive Premium Pen
  11. A Security Camera Designed to Indicate When It's Not Watching (You)
  12. AIM's Deconstructed Kitchen Faucet
  13. John Meng's Found-Object Cigar Ashtray
  14. An Apple Vision Pro Seating Station at a Parisian Opera House
  15. Announcing <i>Fusion Forward: Design for Home</i>, a New Competition from Core77 and Autodesk Fusion

MacRumors: Mac News and Rumors - All Stories

  1. Everything We Know About MacBook Ultra's All-New Design
  2. Apple's 2026 and 2027 Mac Roadmap: Every Model and When It Ships
  3. Apple on Verge of Becoming $5 Trillion Company
  4. Update Now: iOS 26.6 and macOS Tahoe 26.6 Patch Hundreds of Security Flaws
  5. Amazon Files for 5,105-Satellite Network That Will Power iPhone Satellite Features
  6. Apple Releases macOS Tahoe 26.6
  7. Apple Releases iOS 26.6 and iPadOS 26.6 With iOS 27 Optimizations
  8. Apple Releases watchOS 26.6 With Security Updates
  9. Apple Releases tvOS 26.6
  10. Apple Releases visionOS 26.6
  11. Pocket Casts Now Available on Apple TV
  12. 2026 MacBook Pro Now Up to $500 Off on Amazon Following Recent Price Increase
  13. Apple Will 'Watch Everything Burn' When AI Bubble Bursts - Ed Zitron
  14. AppleCare+ With Theft and Loss Coverage for iPad and Apple Watch Launching in More Countries
  15. 'AppleCare One' Expanding to Four More Countries

Ars Technica - All content

  1. Microsoft unveils AI security tools it says outperform competing platforms
  2. Trump admin exempts SpaceX's Starlink from FCC ban on foreign-made routers
  3. Epic diarrhea outbreak has 40% of Americans avoiding fruits and veggies
  4. iOS and macOS 26.6 arrive today, paving the way for iOS and macOS 27
  5. A missing underscore sent innocent man to prison for 18 months
  6. “Google and Reddit do not own the Internet," web scraper says after court win
  7. 5th Circuit blocks Texas law requiring websites to filter "harmful" speech
  8. Verizon touts $1B dark fiber deal for Google data centers as first of many
  9. Experts warn current Starship heat shield tech is a "dead end" for rapid reuse
  10. ChatGPT starts blocking direct requests to copy an author's style
  11. Activist charged with felony after giving border agent "duress code" that wiped his phone
  12. Framework Laptop 13 Pro review: Much better battery, much worse price
  13. What public health professionals can learn from anti-vaccine storytelling
  14. Artist sues AI meme generator for selling deeply personal comic as ad template
  15. First teaser for Apple TV's Neuromancer debuts at SDCC

Boing Boing

  1. The many brands of Taylor Farms, suspected source of America's diarrhea lettuce
  2. Online Tower of Babel gets a new brick for every Wikipedia edit
  3. Look up your local cops on the EFF's Atlas of Surveillance
  4. Online museum of handheld electronic games
  5. Decker is Hypercard for the modern web
  6. Cyberpunks, mutants, and mondoids gather in San Francisco in August
  7. Create apps and websites with this powerful Microsoft coding tool — now only $30 through August 9
  8. MAGA Mike shares the Republican plan for midterm success: intercessory prayer
  9. Actual neo-Nazis demonstrate Elon Musk's heartfelt salute
  10. Two men rode the elevator to the top of the Space Needle and jumped off
  11. Woman charged with smothering her twins claims the vaccines did it
  12. ICE made its costume easy to counterfeit
  13. The legend of India's "breast tax" and the woman who defied it
  14. ICE arrested a green-card holder while she was gardening and kept her for a year
  15. The oldest surviving Book of Revelation says the beast's number is 616

Engadget - Technology News & Expert Reviews

  1. X Money begins limited US rollout
  2. Spotify experienced another major outage
  3. iOS 26.6, macOS 26.6 and the rest are out, addressing security fixes
  4. Google Pixel 11 launch event: Everything we expect as price increase rumors grow
  5. What's the difference between USB 3.0 & 2.0 and which should you use?
  6. Amazon wants to deploy 5,105 satellites for its direct-to-mobile service
  7. YouTube Premium will soon include Peacock at no extra cost
  8. Is your iPhone stuck in SOS mode? Here's how to fix it
  9. Best wireless headphones for 2026
  10. All Threads users can now DM Meta AI
  11. Xbox is down, and users even temporarily had trouble playing disc-based games
  12. How to Clear The Cache On Your Roku TV
  13. Another Far Cry game is in the works
  14. Why is the Apple Watch SE 3 so much cheaper than the rest of the lineup?
  15. Nike's new Hyperslides heat and vibrate your feet to help you recover after workouts

www.theregister.com - Articles

  1. China fights back in AI spat with claim US AI companies distil Chinese models
  2. Leading AI models (even Grok) are all a bunch of leftist punks
  3. Jensen puts his thumb on the scales against open-weights fearmongering
  4. Microsoft lays out a buffet of Windows goodies for JavaScript Developers
  5. Impostor Chinese models pretend they're Claude
  6. Microsoft's solution to AI security: more AI and more acronyms
  7. Tech giants link hands to praise open AI models after OpenAI - Hugging Face attack
  8. Cassette simulator rewinds digital audio to a more analog time in hiss-tory
  9. AI has changed data architecture, but storage hasn't caught up
  10. Microsoft Defender for Endpoint leaves some Linux boxes defenseless after update
  11. Tech sector pours $1T into AI and sends customers the bill
  12. British Army finds a new eye in the sky after Watchkeeper woes
  13. OpenAI's Hugging Face debacle makes a great case for open models
  14. Microsoft seeks Supreme Court lifeline in pre-owned license battle
  15. Digital sovereignty is real in Europe. The UK? Not so much

The Next Web

  1. Anthropic’s Dario Amodei says the company has never called for banning open-weight AI models
  2. YouTube Premium will include Peacock at no extra cost from early 2027. It is Peacock’s largest distribution deal.
  3. Meta AI arrives in Threads DMs for all users worldwide
  4. Nvidia may guarantee $250bn so OpenAI can afford the data centre that will house its chips
  5. AI vendors are switching from subscriptions to consumption pricing. AI PCs are the hedge.
  6. Orange is building a €3bn French data centre business, funded from New Zealand
  7. Angola just raised $321m selling shares in a telco it seized from Africa’s richest woman
  8. Fujifilm is raising camera prices by up to €500. The AI memory crisis has reached photography.
  9. The FDA just picked its first company to sell an unauthorised device to Medicare patients
  10. Microsoft built an agentic security system with red, blue, and green team AI agents. It enters public preview August 3.

Lifehacker

  1. Lifehacker Deals Live Blog: The Best Tech Sales, All in One Place
  2. Your Claude Chats May Have Been Exposed on Google
  3. T-Mobile Is Down
  4. CVS's Back-to-School BOGO Sale Is a Good Time to Stock Up on Supplies
  5. This Mova Robot Mower Is $800 Off Right Now
  6. How Apple Might Try to Make Its Smart Glasses Less Creepy
  7. iOS 26.6 Comes With Two New Features, and One Is Key for iOS 27
  8. How to Stop Browser Fingerprinting, the Latest Method for Tracking Your Activity Across the Internet
  9. 10 Shows Like 'Stuart Fails to Save the Universe' You Should Watch Next
  10. If You Loved ‘I Will Find You,’ There's One Movie You Need to Watch Next
  11. This 65-Inch Samsung OLED TV Is $500 Off Right Now
  12. No, Bananas Don't Destroy the Nutrients in Smoothies
  13. This Woot Offer Is the Best Deal Yet on the Nintendo Switch 2 + Mario Kart World Bundle
  14. This Acer OLED Gaming Monitor Is Over $200 Off Right Now
  15. Microsoft and Amazon Are Both Introducing New Cloud Gaming Options

NYT > World News

  1. Europe Wildfires Updates: New Heat Wave Could Worsen France and Spain’s ‘Unprecedented’ Fire Season
  2. How the Iran-Backed Houthis Cornered Saudi Arabia Into a New Conflict
  3. Even Before Attack, Berlin’s Gay Community Felt ‘More and More Unsafe’
  4. Cuba, Lacking Fuel, Relies on Ingenuity to Defy Trump’s Blockade
  5. In Washington, Netanyahu Faces a Delicate Balancing Act
  6. Ukrainian Attacks in Crimea Deprive Towns of Power and Water
  7. India’s ‘Cockroach’ Protesters Disperse, But Questions Remain on Education and Dissent
  8. Saudis Blame Iran-Backed Militias Based in Iraq for Drone Attacks
  9. Merz Criticizes Terrorism Laws After Deadly Berlin Pride Attack
  10. Guyana Ferry Tragedy Exposes Political Rifts in Oil-Rich Country
  11. 15 Sailors Still Missing After Vietnamese Cargo Ship Sank in South China Sea
  12. Flames Advance on Bordeaux, Where Evacuees Balance Dread and Hope
  13. U.S.-Iran War Pauses for 2nd Straight Day With Both Sides Holding Off on Strikes
  14. The Accidental Hero Who Faced Down India’s Government
  15. India’s ‘Cockroach’ Moment

The Verge

  1. X Money is launching in the US starting today
  2. Razer’s analog Huntsman V3 Pro is over 20 percent off
  3. Xbox’s huge outage even blocked games on disc
  4. Nanoleaf&#8217;s colorful pegboard and shelf kit is half off
  5. Why China is giving away its best AI models
  6. YouTube Premium will include Peacock starting next year
  7. Amazon&#8217;s trying to launch a global satellite cellphone network in 2028
  8. This is my new favorite laptop, but thanks to RAMageddon the price already went up by $800
  9. Tariffs didn’t bring manufacturing jobs back to the US
  10. Samsung’s 27-inch QD-OLED gaming monitor is priced right at $299.99

DEV Community

  1. DEV WEEKEND with AWS Student Builder Group, QAU Islamabad
  2. What Is Kimi K3? Complete 2026 Guide to Moonshot AI's Open Source Model
  3. How I Built a Free Audible Credit Value Optimizer — and Why Most Subscribers Waste Their Credits
  4. Practical Web Scraping in Python: Playwright, Scrapy, and Where They Meet
  5. I Built (Almost) My Whole Play Store Listing Without Opening Figma — Here's the Free Tool That Did It
  6. The Comprehensive Racket & Functional Programming Cheat Sheet
  7. Advanced Python Generators: Lazy Evaluation Explained
  8. Build a Job Board Scraper to Find Remote Opportunities
  9. Your Agent Isn't Repeating Itself. That's Why You Can't Catch It Spinning
  10. Day 4 of Demolishing my Stack of Unfinished Projects: Secret Chat
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  12. 16 Redesigning my Portfolio Website

Al Jazeera – Breaking News, World News and Video from Al Jazeera

  1. Ukraine’s Zelenskyy set to meet Trump as Iran and Ukraine wars converge
  2. US warns hundreds of Boeing jets may require seat safety inspections
  3. Trump says Iran talks taking place during pause in US military strikes
  4. Ebola response workers strike in DR Congo as death toll spikes
  5. How telehealth is helping close the healthcare gap in rural Zimbabwe
  6. Former senior ICE official says rush for numbers is causing deaths
  7. Johnson & Johnson offers $5.5bn to settle talc cancer lawsuits
  8. Houthis want to copy Iran’s Hormuz control in the Red Sea: Yemeni FM
  9. Savannah Guthrie pleads for help to find missing mother
  10. Trump on Erdogan, Netanyahu and selling fighter jets to Turkiye
  11. Iran war live: Trump says ‘friendly’ talks ongoing; Netanyahu arrives in US
  12. US diplomats walk out as France addresses UN Security Council
  13. Shot fired outside US consulate in Toronto for second time this year
  14. Video shows man subdued after stabbing three women in Paris
  15. Trump asks US Supreme Court to allow mail-in voting restrictions

The Guardian

  1. David Jonsson: the London rising star handpicked to be the new Black Panther
  2. A TV and cinema calamity could be disastrous for what you watch and what you know. Act now to stop that | Alan Cumming, Benedict Cumberbatch and Benedict Wong
  3. Bill Oddie: the comedy legend tragically undervalued by the BBC
  4. Swathes of Cairngorms unrecognisable after 12 days of ‘cataclysmic’ wildfires
  5. ‘The greatest album never made’: the untold story of George Michael’s secret, star-packed duets project
  6. He was shot at by ICE, then wrongfully accused. His nightmare had only just begun
  7. Burnham to tell schools in England to adapt teaching to local business needs
  8. France and Spain race to contain huge wildfires before fresh heatwave begins
  9. Andrew and Tristan Tate to remain in jail until next extradition hearing
  10. India’s youth-led Cockroach movement demands detained protesters be released
  11. Families in London temporary housing told they cannot use in-built air conditioning
  12. Police make inquiries after Farage reports Polanski post for ‘inciting murder’
  13. Ukraine war briefing: Disastrous drone expo’s organiser appears in Kyiv court
  14. Industrial chicken farming accelerating spread of diarrhoea bacteria, study finds
  15. ‘I would be ashamed to have written any part of this’: Odyssey translator Emily Wilson attacks Nolan blockbuster