BBC News

  1. Thousands evacuated in Crete as Europe battles wildfires
  2. Drought declared across whole of Wales as conditions 'deteriorate'
  3. Bank holds interest rates but says it is ready to raise them if Iran war escalates
  4. Watch: Giant iceberg turns over near Greenland's coast
  5. Large rise in offenders sent back to prison, figures reveal
  6. Four people die after busiest day for small-boat crossings this year
  7. Missile that left crater deep inside Poland was probably Russian, Polish PM says
  8. US launches 'heavy' strikes on Iran after attempted attack on American troops
  9. Greek police probe 'foul play' in death of woman found in suitcase
  10. Former England football star Shaun Wright-Phillips joins Strictly line-up
  11. Zendaya and Tom Holland's decade-long Spider-Man romance in pictures
  12. The Chinese robot army transforming the UK's retail industry
  13. Beauty Pie founder on how she dropped out of university and built five businesses
  14. How the UK's extreme heat is shifting the conversation about air-con
  15. Glen Hansard: Meeting heroes and the tape that changed his life

Hacker News

  1. 'VPNs are lawful technical tools,' says EU Court in landmark copyright ruling
  2. Gemini Robotics 2 brings whole body intelligence to robots
  3. Why DNA damage from smoking and UV rays cause cancer in some but not others
  4. SDL_GPU minimal, single-header, high-performance 2D graphics painting library
  5. The Lost Civic Life of Movie Rental Stores
  6. Launch HN: Prized (YC S26) – Let non-engineer staff build secure internal tools
  7. RFC 8890 – The Internet is for End Users (2020)
  8. Hacker Public Radio
  9. Why Don't People Use Formal Methods? (2019)
  10. Paging Through a Parquet File in DuckDB: File_row_number or Offset?
  11. Ron Gilbert started production on Thimbleweed Park 2
  12. Gpiozero Flow
  13. Mbodi AI (YC P25) Is Hiring Robotics/Research Engineers
  14. Git worktrees are not an isolation boundary for coding agents
  15. Trusted URLs via Cryptographic Signatures

r/Reddit Frontpage

  1. ▶These cats were put in separate cages because they kept fighting
  2. The unemployment rate got people inventing psychological warfare
  3. Trump Voters Admit They Didn't Know Obamacare and the Affordable Care Act Are the Same Law
  4. 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…
  5. [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…
  6. ▶Showing her prosthetic leg with a mechanical knee and her tattoo options.
  7. NATO has confirmed that an unknown object that crashed in a field in Poland on Thursday morning, was a Russian missile.
  8. “You can’t control your kids in public”
  9. ▶Kentucky governor to McConnell: Prove you can serve or ‘resign’
  10. GrapheneOS says its data-wiping password is perfectly legal, after user faces federal charges
  11. 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…
  12. This supermarket in Italy is built around Roman ruins
  13. Saw this on a pole in Somerville MA and laughed harder than I should have
  14. studyComputerScience
  15. A cool guide to remind you that even the smallest of thing is a sign to be grateful for.

Lobsters

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

Slashdot

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

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

WIRED

  1. Gemini Robotics 2 Brings Google's AI Into the Physical World
  2. Razer Huntsman V3 HE Review: Jumping on the Bandwagon
  3. DOGE Veterans Are Landing Big Jobs at Prediction Markets
  4. Best Vacuum Cleaners (2026): Cordless Vacuums, Robot Vacuums, Dysons
  5. 7 Best Shower Filters of 2026 Are WIRED-Tested and -Approved
  6. 4 Best Budget Smartwatch Models for Less Than $250 (2026)
  7. ‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’ Is a Superhero Movie for Yearners
  8. Don’t Get Too Attached to Jimothy
  9. OpenAI’s Hacking Debacle Comes Down to Human Error
  10. LinkedIn Won’t Be Expanding Its Data Centers in the Next Year
  11. TCL Tab A1 Plus Review (2026): Cheap Tablet That Doesn’t Feel It
  12. A Civilian Plane Crashed in New Mexico. Was the Military’s Tech to Blame?
  13. AI Scammers Are Better at Building Trust Than Humans
  14. I Got a Free Meal From a Private Chef—Who Filmed It All to Train Robots
  15. Nike Promo Codes and Discounts: 30% for August 2026

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

Ars Technica - All content

  1. New MCP specification addresses the main barrier to enterprise adoption
  2. Mythos attack on 3rd-round PQC algorithm candidate puts it out of commission
  3. Musk went to “war,” sought jail time for X ad boycotts—but case ends with a whimper
  4. Who wins and who loses after US bans foreign robots?
  5. Comcast store punished low sales by smashing pies in workers' faces, lawsuit claims
  6. Customize Ars your way with an Ars Pro subscription
  7. Google's "privacy-preserving" age verification system is coming to the Play Store
  8. Elon Musk’s xAI is trying to sue its way out of a Grok reckoning
  9. Yet more qubit tech: New quantum dot options, diamond vacancies
  10. Actually, Starliner might fly into space this year
  11. Anthropic is finding bugs faster than Microsoft can fix them
  12. New AMD Linux patch boosts low-end gaming performance on Steam Deck
  13. Gaming and IRL worlds collide in Jumanji: Open World trailer
  14. What happens when you put AI to work deciphering lost languages?
  15. Google's SynthID watermark is hard to break, but it doesn't solve AI disinformation

Boing Boing

  1. Marmots now have an OnlyFans account to fund research
  2. A town duct-taped garbage bags over its Flock spy cameras
  3. The only movie released in Smell-O-Vision piped 30 odors under the seats
  4. Physicists were convinced Wolfgang Pauli presence broke lab equipment
  5. FCC bans imported Roombas, robot mowers, and delivery bots
  6. Netflix's Unabomber film digs into Kaczynski's Harvard years
  7. Diddy tossed in solitary after fight at Fort Dix prison
  8. A DEVO founder's new video imagines Trump as a MAGA-zombie dictator
  9. Medical records and kids' phone numbers turned up in Google results
  10. AI companies are scanning and destroying old books
  11. A family filmed with untrained lions and most of the crew got hurt
  12. Oscar-winning Once singer Glen Hansard dies in a Dublin crash at 56
  13. Cartoonist sues AI meme generator monetizing his work
  14. U.S. Senate unanimously opposes Ghislaine Maxwell pardon
  15. Peppa Pig prevails over Wolfoo in copyright case

Engadget - Technology News & Expert Reviews

  1. How to use screen mirroring on Roku with your Android phone
  2. Netflix pays $500 million to share 'The Walking Dead' streaming rights with AMC+
  3. Spotify rolls out new personalized running features for Premium users
  4. Lego Pokémon Smart Play hands-on: A better way to build, train and battle
  5. Maingear introduces a new lineup of hidden-cable 'Zero' pre-built PCs
  6. Nano Banana image generation comes to Google Earth
  7. DJI Osmo Pocket 4P review: The best gimbal camera money can't buy
  8. The spacecraft NASA sent to rescue the falling Swift observatory is in trouble
  9. Surprise: The global oil crisis is pushing people toward buying electrified cars
  10. ChatGPT and Roblox will reportedly be subject to tighter rules in the EU
  11. Samsung's mobile division posts first-ever loss due to soaring memory prices
  12. Xbox says game discs should have worked during its outage
  13. OpenAI will provide free AI models to select researchers
  14. Google Play is expanding age confirmation tools for app developers
  15. The US government's robot ban also includes vacuums

www.theregister.com - Articles

  1. 5 Things to Consider BEFORE Your VMware ELA Expiration Date
  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. To find out what customers think, this $2bn startup asks their AI twins
  2. Scale AI hired a cloud salesman as CEO. That tells you where it’s going.
  3. Amazon’s Zoox just won the first US OK to charge for rides in a no-wheel robotaxi
  4. A hidden line in a Word doc can rewrite your numbers, and infect the next file too
  5. ByteDance quietly makes $4bn a year from AI. It just broke up an app to make more.
  6. The AI cloud is heading into the vault. CoreWeave is taking it to the spies.
  7. Nscale owns the power and the data centres. For ~$1.65bn, it just bought the software too.
  8. EY built an ‘AI router’ to stop its own AI bills from spiralling
  9. Europe opens bidding for seven AI ‘gigafactories’ in a €30bn bid to catch up
  10. Bloom Security lands $20 million seed as AI rewrites what runs on the enterprise endpoint

Lifehacker

  1. These Shokz Clip-On Headphones Are 30% Off Right Now
  2. This Four-Pack of Apple's Newest AirTag Is at Its Lowest Price Ever Right Now
  3. This TP-Link WiFi 7 Travel Router Is 31% Off Right Now
  4. Spotify Just Launched a New Running Mode, and I'm Surprised How Much I Love It
  5. Nano Banana 2 Is Coming to Google Earth
  6. Five Hacks Every Boox Palma User Should Know
  7. This Is the Robot Vacuum I Use Every Day, and It's 47% Off Right Now
  8. This Roomba Mops and Vacuums Automatically, and It's $400 Off Right Now
  9. Here's What Lifehacker Readers Think Apple Will Announce in the Fall
  10. Lifehacker Deals Live Blog: The Best Tech Sales, All in One Place
  11. 10 Shows Like 'Futurama' You Should Watch Next
  12. This App Is (Sort of) Bringing Back Samsung Messages
  13. Dyson's OnTrac ANC Headphones Have Great Battery Life, and They're Half Off Right Now
  14. 10 Hacks Every Even Realities G2 Smart Glasses User Should Know
  15. This Ultra-Thin QLED TV Is 45% Off Right Now

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. Xiaomi’s SkyNomad N90 Max is an extended-range EV with a transforming interior
  2. Razer’s new keyboards drop the price on powerful gaming features
  3. Zoox can now charge for rides in its steering-wheel-free robotaxis
  4. Microsoft’s latest Surface Laptop is hundreds off at Best Buy
  5. Spotify Running Mode helps match tunes to tempo
  6. Amazon’s short story collections are one of the best reasons to own a Kindle
  7. A second lens makes DJI’s Osmo Pocket 4P my new favorite video camera
  8. SwitchBot makes a better fan
  9. Microsoft confirms Copilot ‘super app’ coming this year
  10. Mark Zuckerberg is planning a big push into personal AI agents

DEV Community

  1. Spring AI Token Usage: Measure Cost Before You Pick a Model — LLM Cost Control 1/4
  2. How to Reduce LLM Costs in Spring AI 2.0: 10 Practical Controls
  3. The bug report was a hallucination. The bugs it found were real.
  4. Google AI Mode Citations Are Not an Above-the-Fold Game, SALT Research Finds
  5. 🛡️ Building AbilityGuard: Monitoring the WordPress Abilities API in Production
  6. Microsoft Releases C# SDK 2.0 for Model Context Protocol
  7. Quantum Phononic Links solve qubit scaling issues
  8. I spend too much time switching between apps, tabs, folders and windows… does anyone else?
  9. The Xn procedure that fetches a sleeping UE from another gNB
  10. Two IDs, One Row: Keeping Public UUIDs and Internal Keys From Leaking Into Each Other
  11. Pironman 5 case fan stuck on after a Raspberry Pi OS kernel update? Here's the fix
  12. Stop Code Reviewing in the Dark: How Claude Became My Unofficial Senior Dev

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

  1. Police arrest dozens at London rally supporting Palestine Action
  2. El Salvador sentences gang members to 1,000 years in prison
  3. ‘Go back to your own country’: NZ foreign minister faces backlash
  4. Islamabad residents rally in solidarity with Kashmir protests
  5. Sudan’s RSF vows to return to Khartoum
  6. World Cup: What has FIFA charged Argentina with, what could punishment be?
  7. Detained Ugandan opposition leader Besigye in intensive care, wife says
  8. England appoint Root and Fleming as Test cricket captain and coach
  9. How does a safe zone in Lebanon become a target three times?
  10. Israeli strikes kill at least four, including children, across Gaza Strip
  11. AFC president doubles down on FIFA, calling World Cup plan ‘unacceptable’
  12. Israeli raids and settler attacks intensify across the occupied West Bank
  13. Attack on northwest Pakistan police post kills 11 officers
  14. Several children killed and wounded in Israeli attacks across Gaza
  15. Why is Saudi Arabia forming a coalition to protect the Red Sea?

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. Holiday park evacuated as 90 firefighters tackle Suffolk heath wildfire
  8. Labour asks Electoral Commission to investigate Reform UK over donations
  9. Supreme court says Palestine Action co-founder can challenge ban on group
  10. Fifa’s sales pitch revealed: more tournaments, more debt … but no mention of women’s game
  11. Russia accused of violating Polish airspace after missile explosion near village
  12. HMRC fines Airbus £6.4m for breaching rules on export of sensitive technology
  13. US hits dozens of targets in Iran overnight as peace efforts under threat
  14. Four people found dead on small boats after trying to cross Channel
  15. ‘The crude language of Maga folks’: Joyce Carol Oates criticises Emily Wilson for criticising Nolan’s Odyssey