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Vandals cut down and stole all eight Flock Safety license-plate cameras in Winona, Minnesota, in coordinated operation
Beer Production Sinks in Some Large Markets
Earth's molten iron core beneath the Pacific reversed direction in 2010, satellite data reveals
Canva cuts revenue forecast as AI feature costs run high, some products up to six months behind schedule
Taiwan's President Lai Ching-te took part in an anti-decapitation drill simulating a Chinese strike on the country's leadership
SoftBank secures 10B two-year margin loan backed by OpenAI stake, total planned OpenAI investment nears 65B by October
12 Democratic state AGs postpone Paramount Skydance Warner Bros Discovery merger until after antitrust trial or June 2027
Gaming: Fewer Americans Use Consoles
Commerzbank posts record first-half profit as UniCredit takeover standoff continues
Nvidia evaluates lower-memory configuration for Rubin Ultra chip amid HBM shortage
Apollo names new leadership to chase repeat AI infrastructure megafinancings after 35B Broadcom deal
Royal Navy tests Wildcat helicopter as airborne relay for multiple drones during Exercise Dragon Rider
Google DeepMind leadership shakeup: Hassabis steps down as CEO, Jeff Dean exits to start Discovery Loop
China PLA distilling US frontier AI models for military applications
SpaceX Stock Can't Hold on to IPO Success
Chinese hacker knaithe used DeepSeek AI agent to breach over 460 targets, exploited flaws now in CISA KEV catalog
Explosive drone found next to Ukrainian Antonov An-124 at Leipzig Halle Airport, DHL jet also struck unidentified object
Estimated 3,000 to 5,000 migrants remain camped in Ceuta a week after border surge
Russia fires 24 ballistic missiles at Kyiv overnight, none intercepted, 17 killed
Matcha – The Occassional Beverage?
Bar chart comparing real gdp growth rate, % across 5 EU economies, 2025.
Russian drone hunts and wounds vegetable vendor at Kherson market, Ukraine calls it war crime
South Korea hits all-time heat record 42.5C in Yangsan, Seoul gets first-ever severe heat wave warning
Trump admin drafts ban on new Chinese optical transceivers in US data centers, hits Zhongji Innolight
Snap shares surge after Q2 2026 earnings beat as subscription revenue climbs 85 percent
White House hosts Anthropic OpenAI Google Tuesday to review voluntary AI cybersecurity testing framework
UK Department for Education cyberattack ExfilSquad steals 607000 records via help desk Turing Scheme portal
China Sees Most Investments in Humanoid Robots
Bar chart comparing co2 emissions per capita, tonnes across 6 countries in 2024.
Ukraine HUR strikes Russian ground targets in Crimea using Magura naval drones for first time
Apple sues OpenAI over trade secrets, ex-engineer Chang Liu exploited authentication bug to keep accessing internal cloud storage weeks after leaving for OpenAI
Germany finance ministry draft Fruehstartrente law state pays 10 euros monthly into capital market pension account every child 6 to 18
UK Police National Legal Database breach exposes roughly 135,000 law enforcement contact records
Bar chart showing age distribution of 25 CVEs added to CISA KEV between 2026-07-04 and 2026-08-03.
Anthropic Claude Code holds 42-54 percent enterprise coding market share vs OpenAI Codex 21 percent Menlo Ventures
Hungary's only nuclear plant Paks goes fully dark Monday, first full outage in 44 years amid Danube drought
Ukraine deploys 70 firefighters to France under EU Civil Protection Mechanism, first time Ukraine has assisted an EU member state through the program
U.S. GDP Growth Down to 1.5 Percent Amid Iran War Effects
Trump says US has not agreed to let Ukraine build its own Patriot PAC-3 interceptor missiles, reversing Turkey pledge
NASA releases new 3D model of Earth's geoid, the true shape gravity gives the oceans
IBM Ponemon Cost of a Data Breach Report record 4.99 million AI-enabled breaches
NASA releases interactive 3D geoid model showing Earth's gravity-driven ocean surface
Russian missile destroys US-owned Terminal Autonomy drone factory in Kyiv, first such strike of the war
Bar chart of 137 M4.5+ earthquakes by magnitude band over the last 7 days.
TSMC develops CoPoS chip packaging technology to counter Intel EMIB, CoWoS capacity booked through 2027
Windows 11 Insider build adds plug and play braille display support and voice isolation accessibility features
Still No Rate Change Despite Fed's Vow to Rein in Inflation
Meta and BlackRock partner on $14bn El Paso Texas data center joint venture, BlackRock takes 80% stake
Meta and BlackRock partner on $14bn El Paso Texas data center joint venture, BlackRock takes 80% stake