BBC News

  1. European nations to boycott World Cup if Fifa goes ahead with investment plan
  2. Thousands evacuated in Crete as wildfires threaten tourist resorts
  3. Drought declared across whole of Wales as conditions 'deteriorate'
  4. Greens review social media operation as Polanski row rumbles on
  5. Palestine Action ban to be reviewed by Supreme Court
  6. Burnham says he told Trump UK will be pragmatic about North Sea oil
  7. Four people die after busiest day for small-boat crossings this year
  8. Man impaled by a hiking pole treks 10 miles down mountain
  9. Missile that left crater deep inside Poland was probably Russian, Polish PM says
  10. US launches 'heavy' strikes on Iran after attempted attack on American troops
  11. Large rise in offenders sent back to prison, figures reveal
  12. Zendaya and Tom Holland's decade-long Spider-Man romance in pictures
  13. Why do parts of England and Wales keep falling into drought?
  14. The Chinese robot army transforming the UK's retail industry
  15. How to do neon festival make-up without harming your skin

Hacker News

  1. Gemini Robotics 2 brings whole body intelligence to robots
  2. Physicists Solve a Muon Mystery. Now, Old Results Don't Add Up
  3. The Economic Benefit of Refactoring
  4. Hacker Public Radio
  5. Why is everyone trying to build a solid-state battery?
  6. Rise Reforming (YC S26) Is Hiring
  7. SDL_GPU minimal, single-header, high-performance 2D graphics painting library
  8. RFC 8890 – The Internet is for End Users (2020)
  9. Upper stage impacting the moon on 2026 August 5
  10. Launch HN: Prized (YC S26) – Let non-engineer staff build secure internal tools
  11. How to Mount a Balcony Awning
  12. Ron Gilbert started production on Thimbleweed Park 2
  13. Paging Through a Parquet File in DuckDB: File_row_number or Offset?
  14. Show HN: Claude-account – switch Claude Code accounts without logging in again
  15. RCade: The Arcade Cabinet with CI/CD Deployment, Custom Graphics Card for CRT [video]

r/Reddit Frontpage

  1. [Martyn Ziegler] Exclusive: Uefa to boycott World Cup in protest against Fifa sell-off. European governing body takes decision at crisis meeting in move that wo…
  2. ▶These cats were put in separate cages because they kept fighting
  3. US government map of Africa mislabels every country at global conference | US foreign policy
  4. NATO has confirmed that an unknown object that crashed in a field in Poland on Thursday morning, was a Russian missile.
  5. A political science paper has emerged comparing the political career of U.S. President Donald Trump to the narrative of Japan’s iconic monster, Godzilla. The st…
  6. A cool guide to remind you that even the smallest of thing is a sign to be grateful for.
  7. ▶Aerial waterbombing with insane accuracy to stop the spreading wildfire in its tracks
  8. The unemployment rate got people inventing psychological warfare
  9. Saw this on a pole in Somerville MA and laughed harder than I should have
  10. TIL Nigerian Americans have one of the highest rates of bachelor’s degree attainment in the United States, with about 61% of adults ages 25 and older holding at…
  11. Flock cameras are getting mobbed
  12. ▶Kentucky governor to McConnell: Prove you can serve or ‘resign’
  13. Max Verstappen shares a special moment with young fan Nina after she nearly missed meeting her hero.
  14. “You can’t control your kids in public”
  15. This supermarket in Italy is built around Roman ruins

Lobsters

  1. C++ float-to-int conversion can be undefined behavior
  2. deskhop: Fast Desktop Switching Device
  3. The AI Aesthetic
  4. What side projects have you enjoyed the most?
  5. Building Progressively Enhanced Forms Using htmx
  6. AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making
  7. It doesn’t matter whether “Matz is nice”
  8. A universal approach to mocking with continuations
  9. First CHERIoT Silicon
  10. The strain in your brain
  11. Overengineered calculator: Zig + QBE
  12. GNU Hyperbole Implicit Buttons: Build your Hyperverse
  13. Logic for Programmers
  14. KindaRails2Shell - Critical RCE in Rails via Active Storage (CVE-2026-66066)
  15. Some notes about Anthropic’s new results

Slashdot

  1. Google's Gemini Can Now Stomp Around as a Humanoid Robot
  2. Google Brings Its Age-Assurance Tech To Android Developers Worldwide
  3. GCC Adopts Policy Rejecting Significant AI-Generated Code
  4. Comcast Store Punished Low Sales By Smashing Pies In Workers' Faces, Lawsuit Claims
  5. Qantas Plane Flies For More Than 24 Hours In Record-Breaking Flight
  6. AI Companies Are Recruiting Electricians and Carpenters By the Thousands
  7. Who Wins and Who Loses After US Bans Foreign Robots?
  8. Valve Sponsors Work Bringing Open-Source RADV Driver To Windows
  9. Google Shuts Down Its Nobel-Prize Winning AlphaFold Project
  10. Claude Opus 5 Became Downright Ruthless When Tasked With Running a Vending Machine
  11. NextEra, Brookfield to Build $100 Billion Kentucky Data Campus
  12. DoorDash Is Building Its Own Drone Delivery Business
  13. Russia Charges Telegram Founder Durov With Facilitating Terrorism
  14. OpenAI's Rogue AI Agent Hacked More Than Just Hugging Face
  15. More Than 30 Minnesota Water Systems Targeted In Cyberattack

Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers

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

The Onion

  1. Elon Musk: ‘Revenge Porn Is A Human Right’
  2. Meatpacking Plant Workers Weirded Out By Guy Older Than 16
  3. Object Permanence Kicks In Just In Time For Dad To Leave
  4. Campers Sickened By Mushroom-Laced Chocolate
  5. Pros And Cons Of Arresting Netanyahu
  6. Rogue AI Agent Autonomously Carries Out Cyberattack
  7. Taylor Swift Sues Ella Langley For Bangs Infringement
  8. NASA Requires Astronauts In Training To Drop To 25 Pounds To Simulate Weight On Moon
  9. Adult Man Genuinely Inspired By AI Video Of Lion Wearing Rolex
  10. Grave Concerns
  11. LeBron James: ‘I Will Never Forget My Los Angeles Roots’
  12. Ryan Gosling Joins MCU To Take On Role Of Stan Lee Cameos

WIRED

  1. For the First Time, Zoox Can Charge People for Rides in Its Steering-Wheel-Free Robotaxis
  2. Chrome Needs Twice-a-Week Patching Thanks to AI Bug Hunting
  3. The New Friend AI Pendant Can Now Talk Back to You
  4. Gemini Robotics 2 Brings Google's AI Into the Physical World
  5. Razer Huntsman V3 HE Review: Jumping on the Bandwagon
  6. DOGE Veterans Are Landing Big Jobs at Prediction Markets
  7. Best Vacuum Cleaners (2026): Cordless Vacuums, Robot Vacuums, Dysons
  8. 7 Best Shower Filters of 2026 Are WIRED-Tested and -Approved
  9. 4 Best Budget Smartwatch Models for Less Than $250 (2026)
  10. ‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’ Is a Superhero Movie for Yearners
  11. Don’t Get Too Attached to Jimothy
  12. OpenAI’s Hacking Debacle Comes Down to Human Error
  13. LinkedIn Won’t Be Expanding Its Data Centers in the Next Year
  14. TCL Tab A1 Plus Review (2026): Cheap Tablet That Doesn’t Feel It
  15. A Civilian Plane Crashed in New Mexico. Was the Military’s Tech to Blame?

Core77

  1. Improvised Transport on Abandoned Infrastructure: Colombia's Ingenious Motorcycle-Railroad Adapters
  2. Modhaus' Wireless Phone Charger with a Concrete Base
  3. U.S. Government Bans Foreign-Made Robots
  4. Meet Fusion Forward Competition Juror Michelle Lee, Partner at IDEO San Francisco
  5. Roof Racks That Automatically Lift and Lower the Load For You
  6. Combining Computational Design with Wicker
  7. Unitree's Impressive Off-Road Dog-Bot/Pack Mule
  8. Sonic's Focus on the UX of Pencil Cases
  9. Chinese Autonomous Buses are Spreading Around the World
  10. Luxury Furniture, or ID Student Project?
  11. The Dutch Community Where People Live on Strips of Land in a Lake
  12. A Gate with an Elegant Integrated Latch
  13. Flatbike's Accessories Let You Fold Your Bike Flat for Storage
  14. Core77 Weekly Roundup (7-20-26 to 7-24-26)
  15. DreamDomes' Elegant, Weather-Resistant Dome-Shaped Event Tents

MacRumors: Mac News and Rumors - All Stories

  1. Spotify Adds Running Mode to iOS App With Tempo-Matched Music
  2. AirTag 2 Available for Record Low Price of $89 for 4-Pack
  3. You Can Listen to Tim Cook's Final Earnings Call as Apple CEO Today
  4. Apple Donating to European Wildfire Relief Efforts
  5. iOS 27 Finally Unlinks Alarm Volume From Your iPhone Ringer
  6. iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone Ultra: When is the Next Apple Event?
  7. iOS 27: Tone Down Liquid Glass Transparency
  8. iPhone 18 Pro: Twelve Changes Coming to Apple's Next Flagship
  9. 20th Anniversary iPhone Coming Next Year With These 10 Features
  10. Qualcomm Expects Apple Modem Revenue to Drop Faster Than Expected
  11. Apple Says UK App Store Steering Rules Would Be 'Highly Intrusive'
  12. Pastebot 3 for Mac Adds Rule-Based Organization, Powerful Paste Filters
  13. Apple Releases Safari Technology Preview 249 With Bug Fixes and Performance Improvements
  14. OpenAI President on Apple Lawsuit: We Don't Need Your Secrets
  15. Apple Begins Selling Refurbished Studio Display XDR

Ars Technica - All content

  1. Quantum computers outperform classical ones, with results you can trust
  2. New MCP specification addresses the main barrier to enterprise adoption
  3. Mythos attack on 3rd-round PQC algorithm candidate puts it out of commission
  4. Musk went to “war,” sought jail time for X ad boycotts—but case ends with a whimper
  5. Who wins and who loses after US bans foreign robots?
  6. Comcast store punished low sales by smashing pies in workers' faces, lawsuit claims
  7. Customize Ars your way with an Ars Pro subscription
  8. Google's "privacy-preserving" age verification system is coming to the Play Store
  9. Elon Musk’s xAI is trying to sue its way out of a Grok reckoning
  10. Yet more qubit tech: New quantum dot options, diamond vacancies
  11. Actually, Starliner might fly into space this year
  12. Anthropic is finding bugs faster than Microsoft can fix them
  13. New AMD Linux patch boosts low-end gaming performance on Steam Deck
  14. Gaming and IRL worlds collide in Jumanji: Open World trailer
  15. What happens when you put AI to work deciphering lost languages?

Boing Boing

  1. New York high school pauses plan for AI robot teacher that looks suspiciously like a RealDoll
  2. Skip the resume rewrites with FirstResume for $39.99
  3. In 1992, BBC ran a fake live ghost hunt and freaked out viewers
  4. Marmots now have an OnlyFans account to fund research
  5. A town duct-taped garbage bags over its Flock spy cameras
  6. The only movie released in Smell-O-Vision piped 30 odors under the seats
  7. Physicists were convinced Wolfgang Pauli presence broke lab equipment
  8. FCC bans imported Roombas, robot mowers, and delivery bots
  9. Netflix's Unabomber film digs into Kaczynski's Harvard years
  10. Diddy tossed in solitary after fight at Fort Dix prison
  11. A DEVO founder's new video imagines Trump as a MAGA-zombie dictator
  12. Medical records and kids' phone numbers turned up in Google results
  13. AI companies are scanning and destroying old books
  14. A family filmed with untrained lions and most of the crew got hurt
  15. Oscar-winning Once singer Glen Hansard dies in a Dublin crash at 56

Engadget - Technology News & Expert Reviews

  1. LinkedIn is testing a 'seems like AI slop' reporting tool
  2. Expensive phone cases: When and why it's worth paying more
  3. Google says it has fixed a Pixel battery drain issue, but some users disagree
  4. Google Voice paid subscriptions offer more than just a phone number
  5. How to use screen mirroring on Roku with your Android phone
  6. Netflix pays $500 million to share 'The Walking Dead' streaming rights with AMC+
  7. Lego Pokémon Smart Play hands-on: A better way to build, train and battle
  8. Spotify rolls out new personalized running features for Premium users
  9. Maingear introduces a new lineup of hidden-cable 'Zero' pre-built PCs
  10. Nano Banana image generation comes to Google Earth
  11. DJI Osmo Pocket 4P review: The best gimbal camera money can't buy
  12. The spacecraft NASA sent to rescue the falling Swift observatory is in trouble
  13. Surprise: The global oil crisis is pushing people toward buying electrified cars
  14. ChatGPT and Roblox will reportedly be subject to tighter rules in the EU
  15. Samsung's mobile division posts first-ever loss due to soaring memory prices

www.theregister.com - Articles

  1. Jailed Flock vandal wipes out three cameras, racks up thousands in damages
  2. Americans give all-day school phone bans a ringing endorsement
  3. From individual achievement to partner impact
  4. Samsung warns memory crunch will last through 2028 as profit rises 19-fold
  5. Amazon links four poisoned npm packages to one North Korean crew
  6. Microsoft makes Copilot harder to miss in Classic Outlook
  7. Hims & Hers accused of sharing health secrets and hiding the cancel button
  8. MariaDB again faces questions over Galera's open source future
  9. Russian spies take their half-click email attack from Zimbra to Outlook
  10. The majority of corporate IT is now off premises for the first time
  11. 30 years ago, AT&T gave Internet Explorer the default advantage
  12. Brighton gig screen goes One Step Beyond with an update pop-up
  13. Headteacher had the most guessable username-password combo you could imagine
  14. Excuses like 'AI did it' don't exist in the eyes of the law
  15. Veeam adds support for six more hypervisors in case you are up for a new one

The Next Web

  1. Steven Bartlett’s ‘Diary of a CEO’ is losing its inner circle as it chases America
  2. ChatGPT is about to become the first AI chatbot in the EU’s toughest tier
  3. Amazon spent $1.8m on a Claude job that failed, and it sells the fix
  4. The man who wrote the AI-boom bible just got margin-called out of it
  5. Google’s new AI can now walk a humanoid across the room and tidy up, feet to fingertips
  6. LinkedIn now has a ‘Seems like AI slop’ button, and yes, it really says slop
  7. The AI that hacked Hugging Face keeps looking less like a mastermind and more like a bear
  8. To find out what customers think, this $2bn startup asks their AI twins
  9. Scale AI hired a cloud salesman as CEO. That tells you where it’s going.
  10. Amazon’s Zoox just won the first US OK to charge for rides in a no-wheel robotaxi

Lifehacker

  1. The Pixel 11's Biggest New Feature Might Be Its Inflated Price Tag
  2. This Anker Charging Station Is 30% Off Right Now
  3. I Upgraded to an Otterbox, and It Saved My Brand New iPhone's Screen
  4. These Shokz Clip-On Headphones Are 30% Off Right Now
  5. This Four-Pack of Apple's Newest AirTag Is at Its Lowest Price Ever Right Now
  6. This TP-Link WiFi 7 Travel Router Is 31% Off Right Now
  7. Spotify Just Launched a New Running Mode, and I'm Surprised How Much I Love It
  8. Nano Banana 2 Is Coming to Google Earth
  9. Five Hacks Every Boox Palma User Should Know
  10. This Is the Robot Vacuum I Use Every Day, and It's 47% Off Right Now
  11. This Roomba Mops and Vacuums Automatically, and It's $400 Off Right Now
  12. Here's What Lifehacker Readers Think Apple Will Announce in the Fall
  13. Lifehacker Deals Live Blog: The Best Tech Sales, All in One Place
  14. 10 Shows Like 'Futurama' You Should Watch Next
  15. This App Is (Sort of) Bringing Back Samsung Messages

NYT > World News

  1. Iran War Live Updates: Drone Attack in Egypt Threatens to Expand Fighting
  2. NATO Says Russian Missile Hit Poland During Ukraine Attack
  3. Cuba to Trump: We’re Open for Business
  4. As China’s A.I. Gets Stronger, It Poses New Risks to Beijing
  5. Wildfires in Greece Kill 3 Firefighters as Blazes Still Burn in France and Spain
  6. Russia Strikes Ukraine With Missiles and Drones, Killing at Least 8
  7. Japan Earthquake Death Toll Rises to 34
  8. Pope Leo Says He Hopes to Visit U.S. Within ‘Next Couple of Years’
  9. U.S. Aircraft Carrier Makes a Rare Port Call in Vietnam
  10. As Wildfires Plague Europe, Scotland Races to Save a Cherished National Park
  11. U.S.-Saudi Attack on Iraqi Militias Risks Drawing Them into War
  12. Summer of Heat, Fires and Storms Is a Reckoning for Europe on Climate
  13. After Large Earthquake, Japan ‘Races Against Time’ to Reach People Trapped
  14. Former Officials Protest U.S. Plan to Defund Pan American Health Organization
  15. Wildfire in Suffolk, UK, Breaks Out a Few Miles From Nuclear Power Station

The Verge

  1. ABC demands FCC drop its ‘punitive’ early license renewal of its stations
  2. Google is working on Chrome updates that don’t require restarts
  3. Pixel 11 Pro Fold design leaks ahead of Google launch event
  4. Friend re-launches its AI pendant with a speaker that talks to you, for twice the price
  5. Best Buy is selling an RTX 5080 for more than the RTX 5090’s MSRP
  6. Xiaomi’s SkyNomad N90 Max is an extended-range EV with a transforming interior
  7. Razer’s new keyboards drop the price on powerful gaming features
  8. Zoox can now charge for rides in its steering-wheel-free robotaxis
  9. Microsoft’s latest Surface Laptop is hundreds off at Best Buy
  10. Spotify Running Mode helps match tunes to tempo

DEV Community

  1. set -e Will Kill Your Script For No Good Reason
  2. Solon WebSocket: Listener Interface Over Annotation Maze
  3. Disabling a Vercel Cron to Stop “Compute Quota Exceeded” on Neon
  4. NixOS on Servers: What Changes When Your OS Becomes Code
  5. Corrective RAG for billing: the bug is not retrieval, it's the model narrating correct numbers wrong
  6. Running One Compliance Flow Across Two Countries That Don't Agree on Much
  7. Stop Wrestling with cURL: Meet glassnode-php, an Unofficial Glassnode SDK for PHP
  8. Kubernetes: Monitoring the Cluster with Prometheus
  9. How to Test AI Agents Without Calling More LLMs
  10. LLD Data Structures in Design Context: Why HashMaps Feel So Fast — Understanding Performance Without Memorising Big-O
  11. Trace digests for LLM monitoring, at 1/30th the price of Sonnet
  12. One Contract, Multiple Enforcement Points for Safe AI Agent Execution

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

  1. ‘To play God’: Cuba’s healthcare system collapses under US pressure
  2. In Their Own Hands: Ghana’s Drug Vigilantes
  3. NATO jets scramble as Russian missile detonates in Poland
  4. IRGC video of retaliatory strikes on US targets in Jordan
  5. US GDP growth dips as inflation and trade deficits pressure economy
  6. Spain’s enclave Ceuta raises alarm as thousands cross border from Morocco
  7. Republicans delay vote on Trump’s US attorney general pick amid concerns
  8. UEFA members vote to boycott FIFA if Infantino’s World Cup plans pursued
  9. Is Pakistan ‘using India’s playbook’ in Kashmir?
  10. Smoke rises over southern Iran after renewed US attacks
  11. War on Iran: Phase II: Day 19
  12. Police arrest dozens at London rally supporting Palestine Action
  13. El Salvador sentences gang members to 1,000 years in prison
  14. ‘Go back to your own country’: NZ foreign minister faces backlash
  15. Islamabad residents rally in solidarity with Kashmir protests

The Guardian

  1. Europe burns: a visual guide to the wildfires
  2. Are British graduates being conned? | Opinion
  3. Flavour fusion in London's buzziest bakeries – video
  4. Dedicated followers of passion: the Kinks’ 40 greatest songs – ranked!
  5. Shaboozey: The Outlaw Cherie Lee & Other Western Tales review – a striking addition to the rich canon of country concept albums
  6. ‘We have to become warriors’: the fight to save the world’s only women’s sculpture park
  7. Labour says Reform ‘up to its neck in sleaze’ and demands investigation into donations
  8. Uefa agrees to boycott Fifa competitions if World Cup sell-off plans proceed
  9. Supreme court says Palestine Action co-founder can challenge ban on group
  10. Holiday park evacuated as 90 firefighters tackle Suffolk heath wildfire
  11. More prisoners in England and Wales are recalled than released for first time
  12. Russia accused of violating Polish airspace after missile explosion near village
  13. US hits dozens of targets in Iran overnight as peace efforts under threat
  14. Child pedestrian casualties are almost five times higher in England’s worst-off areas
  15. Thousands of migrants enter tiny Spanish enclave of Ceuta from Morocco