Ron DeSantis Got A History Lesson From The Entire Internet After His WWII Post Went Very Wrong
"Did he miss class the day they covered the Second World War?"
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18 Actors Who Got Fired Mid-Filming For Strange Or Upsetting Reasons
In Back to the Future, Claudia Wells was recast as Marty McFly's girlfriend because she was taller than Michael J. Fox. A pair of female executives allegedly "felt that it emasculated their lead character to have a taller girlfriend."
40 Hobby Products You’ll Love Even More Than Scrolling Through Instagram
I know it's hard to believe something can rip you away from Instagram reels, but take a look for yourself.
33 Things I Wish I Had In My 20s
Listen to this thirtysomething: You need this stuff!
What Iconic Jellycat Are You?
There's a LOTTTTT more Timmy Turtles out there than you think.
“My Meat-Loving Family Loved It”: People Are Sharing Their High-Protein Secrets That Avoid Meat
"The texture is amazing, somewhere between dark meat chicken and pulled pork, and it picks up smoky flavors and sauces amazingly well."
If Warm Weather Gives You The Travel Bug, Here Are 36 Things You’ll Want To Take With You
Because "I'll just buy it when I get there" often means spending three times as much.
Restaurant And Fast Food Workers Are Spilling Secrets That Customers Would Probably Never Guess
"I'm an Olive Garden employee. Anything labeled as 'endless' is truly endless, so some people stuff themselves until they are literally sick. All the employees hated the never-ending pasta bowl promotion because people would literally throw up at the table and keep eating."
I Bet You Don’t Know How To Spell The 30 Most Misspelled Words In The English Dictionary
Written by someone who is a tad dyslexic and misspells words ALL THE TIME.
There Are A Lot Of Little Treats Out There, But Here Are 40 Of The Very Best
I'm about to head to Social Security and change my middle name to "Little Treat," because I love 'em so much. Sorry, Mom.
Karlie Kloss Just Dodged This Question About Taylor Swift’s Wedding In The Strangest Way
"That NDA must be lock solid"
Is Trump’s World Cup meddling a true scandal, or standard FIFA corruption?
After a tumultuous weekend for World Cup fans, US striker Folarin Balogun will play in the game against Belgium on Monday night. Maybe that doesn’t sound at all surprising, perhaps because you only learned the name Folarin Balogun today, when you heard that President Donald Trump was involved in all of this in some capacity. Maybe you heard there was an unprecedented appeal. Perhaps you know it’s controversial but you don’t know why.
Just 21 Truly Impressive Products That Are On Sale At Amazon This Week
Because saving money will *forever* be impressive.
Deaf kids in 1980s Nicaragua created a language from thin air
In 1977, a special-education center opened in Managua with 50 deaf children. Enrollment reached 400 across two schools by 1983. Teachers drilled the students in spoken Spanish and lipreading, "with most pupils failing to grasp the concept of Spanish words," according to Wikipedia.
The ancient spark plug and other “out-of-place artifacts”
The prehistoric Coso artifact turned out to be a 1920s spark plug in a concretion. Most OOPArts end that way.
You’re Practically A God If You Can Score 23/25 Or Higher On This Greek Mythology Trivia Quiz
Not everyone can have Athena-level brains.
I Bet Even Seasoned Shoppers Haven’t Seen At Least Half Of These 33 Products
I bet you thought you'd seen it all.
Share A Secret You Discovered About A Friend Or Family Member That Made You View Them Completely Differently
From a secret stash of love letters to a rumor that was spread about you was by your closest friend — people are full of surprises.
From Zendaya To Lupita, Here’s What Celebs Wore To “The Odyssey” Premiere
That star power is literally mega-watt.
Archaeologists In Bulgaria Just Unearthed An Ancient Roman Surgical Tool That’s Only Ever Been Found Once Before
Researchers exploring the Roman-era ruins of Heraclea Sintica have unearthed an 1,800-year-old bronze lithulkos, an ancient surgical tool used to remove bladder stones with a hook.
The Internet Is Dragging Millie Bobby Brown Again Over Her “Enola Holmes 3” Nail Controversy
"How bleak and boring of the internet."
The Whole Internet, Including MAGA, Is Calling Out Karoline Leavitt After She Made This 1 WILD Claim
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54 Photos From The Great American State Fair That Somehow Keep Getting Weirder
The hottest, like literally hottest, place to be baptized.
Live As A Fuggler For A Day To Reveal Your True Fuggler Identity
Will you be a midnight fridge raider, a dramatic chaos gremlin, or a mysterious background lurker? Only one way to find out.
30 Camping And Hiking Products If You’re Ready To Escape Into The Wilderness
Whether your idea of being outdoorsy involves backpacking through the mountains, renaming constellations, painting by a lake, playing drinking games (but in the woods!), or simply napping in a hammock, there's something in this list for you.
Anthropic's new "J-lens" reveals a silent workspace inside Claude that mirrors a leading theory of consciousness
Anthropic, the artificial intelligence company, published a sweeping research paper on Sunday revealing that its Claude language models have spontaneously developed an internal structure that mirrors one of the most influential theories of how human consciousness works. The finding, which the company says has already begun reshaping how it monitors its AI systems for safety risks, lands amid an intensifying scientific debate over whether machines can possess anything resembling a mind.
This permanent $55 Microsoft Office deal was made for people who want stability over subscriptions
Get a lifetime license to Microsoft Office 2024 Professional Plus on one PC for $54.99 while this offer is available (MSRP $249.99).
The Hardest “Would You Rather” Ever: Pop Girlie Edition
Turns out I trust Billie Eilish with my life, but not with my outfit.
Just dropped a couple of days ago: Lane 8’s Summer 2026
Just dropped a couple of days ago: Lane 8’s Summer 2026 Mixtape (4 hours long). Also available on Soundcloud.
Judge upholds Musk Twitter investor fraud verdict
A federal judge has refused to overturn a jury’s finding that Elon Musk defrauded Twitter investors during his $44bn takeover of the platform in 2022. US District Judge Charles Breyer denied Musk’s motion to set aside the verdict in most respects on Monday.
This Photo Of Donald Trump Is Going Mega Viral, And Not For Any Reason He’d Like
Reminder: Our president is 80 years old.
I Laughed So Hard At These 36 Fails From Last Week I Nearly Shot Tea Out Of My Nose
I didn't know Channing Tatum made household cleaners.
Akasha? 24 Years Later, ‘The Vampire Lestat’ Reboots Anne Rice’s Most Crucial Villain
'The Vampire Lestat' finally introduces us to Queen Akasha, and Sheila Atim breaks down her awakening and all the fury that comes with it.
People Are Praising John Cena’s Three-Word Response To An Emotional Moment With Pete Davidson
"'Man do those dots connect' is such a great way to validate someone else’s feelings."
Karoline Leavitt Is Going Viral For 1 Tiny Hidden Detail In A Photo On Trump’s Qatari Plane
Observers homed in on something behind the White House press secretary in her Air Force One photo.
Utah’s AI prescription pilot alarms its medical board
Utah has quietly become the first US state to let an AI chatbot renew prescriptions without a doctor, according to the Associated Press. The programme, run by a company called Doctronic, launched in January and has set off a fierce medical debate. Residents can skip the doctor’s office and refill prescriptions online through the chatbot.
Therapists Say This ’80s-Themed Matching Game Helps Players Feel 53% More Relaxed
It's soooooooooooo calming.
31 Years Later, ‘Andor’ Almost Brought Back A Forgotten Alien Race
Andor changed the game of Star Wars. In the middle of a strange era for the franchise, where anything seemed possible after the sequel trilogy, Tony Gilroy made a twisting spy thriller focused on the story of Cassian Andor (Diego Luna) as he became one of the first operatives for the Rebellion. It became an instant hit, garnering Emmy nominations and instantly launching Star Wars TV into a new era.
In 1872 a ship was found drifting, empty. The 1913 “solution” was absurd
A swimming bet, a collapsing deck, and sharks: the 1913 story that claimed to solve the Mary Celeste.
People Are Sharing The Low-Cost Purchases That Have Noticeably Improved Their Lives Or Homes
Small changes can make a HUGE difference.
Camel-racing robots wear perfume so the camels accept them
Camels rejected early robot riders, so engineers added mannequin faces, sunglasses, silks, and the perfume of human jockeys.
The internet spent years hunting a game that never existed
In 2021, a Reddit user named "Sparta123" posted to r/tipofmyjoystick trying to recall a farming game like Harvest Moon, "with the premise involving a man who kills his wife and tries to hide the body while working as a farmer." Nobody could name it.
China built a 40-story tower that stores wind power by stacking concrete
The Swiss company Energy Vault spent years pitching a novel idea: store surplus electricity by using it to stack heavy blocks, then recover the power by letting them fall.
Idaho conservation officer beats Trump official’s defamation lawsuit
An Idaho court dismissed a defamation lawsuit filed by businessman Michael Boren, now a top federal official, against a retired conservation officer who criticized his private airstrip.
5 Years Later, A Hugely Anticipated Superhero Sequel Is Finally Around The Corner
Matt Reeves' sequel to the 2022 Batman reboot that took the world by storm arrives next year; here's what we know so far.
A Shenzhen hotel plans to use a fully robotic staff
Pudu Robotics and a Shenzhen state tourism company say they're building what they call the world's first full-scenario robot-serviced hotel, on the West Artificial Island of the Shenzhen-Zhongshan Link. The pitch is that a machine handles every job in the building.
AI agent ran a full ransomware attack solo, Sysdig says
Security firm Sysdig says it has documented the first ransomware attack run end to end by an AI agent, first reported by Business Insider. A large language model planned, executed, and adapted the entire operation, which Sysdig has named JadePuffer.
Tencent moves to sell up to $1.6B of its Kuaishou stake
Tencent is seeking up to $1.6bn by selling down its stake in short-video platform Kuaishou, Bloomberg reports. A term sheet seen by Reuters puts the block trade at up to $1.55bn. The deal covers about 273 million shares, a 7.5% stake, offered at HK$43.15 to HK$44.53 each.
All The Best Deals At Walmart This Week
Because you deserve 28% off a scooter that can vroom vroom you to the store and back on a single charge.
License plate cameras scan 20 billion vehicles a month, and cities are pulling the plug
The automated license plate reader has become one of the densest surveillance layers in the United States.
Our Lives Are “an Orchestrated Shuffle of Technology”
If you are anything like me, your soul let out a big “oooooof” while reading this: The Year Is 2063 and You Were Never Interesting. But wait.
Only Massive Geography Nerds Or Soccer Fans Know Where All 48 Of The 2026 World Cup Countries Are Located
World Cup meets World Geography.
How crypto payment processors can help businesses accept cryptocurrency
Businesses looking to modernize their payment systems may want to learn what a crypto payment processor is, how it works, and why it matters. Cryptocurrency and the crypto industry at large often appear most prominently in investing circles, but recent advancements in blockchain, the technology that supports crypto, have expanded crypto’s usefulness.
People Can’t Stop Making Jokes About Taylor Swift And Travis Kelce’s Wedding
"my screentime this weekend is between me god and the kelces"
85% Of Americans Probably Can’t Name 12/12 Of These Vegetables, But I Hope You Prove Me Wrong
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Klaus Schwab says he found a bug in his home office
Klaus Schwab, founder of the World Economic Forum, says a routine security inspection found a covert listening device in his home office in Geneva, Bloomberg reports. The 88-year-old has filed a criminal complaint against persons unknown. The device was reportedly discovered at his private home close to the WEF’s premises.
20+ Truth Social Posts That Prove Donald Trump Had A Very Messy 4th Of July Weekend
Nothing says "America 250!" quite like a gazillion posts about a Reflecting Pool.
Watch Some Horror Movies And We’ll Guess Your Favorite Color
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Unless You Score At Least 60% On This Wilderness Survival Quiz, You Really Shouldn’t Be Camping
Calling all Scouts, Girl Guides, Cadets, Rangers, and anyone who thinks camping is...fun?
Shotwell pledges $320M of SpaceX stock to kids’ accounts
SpaceX president Gwynne Shotwell will donate a share of SpaceX stock to roughly 2 million children through the Trump Accounts programme, CNBC reports. At around $162 a share, the pledge is worth over $320m. The gift comes from Shotwell’s and her husband’s personal holdings, with extra emphasis on lower-income families near their central Texas home.
Scientists gave sleep-deprived mice a memory boost without letting them sleep
Dolphins, ducks, and fur seals can put half the brain into deep sleep while the other half stays awake and watching for predators. Chiara Cirelli's lab at the University of Wisconsin-Madison wondered whether you could force that trick in an animal that doesn't do it naturally — and, as New Scientist reports, get some of sleep's benefits without the sleep.
Is This Week’s Community Challenge Real Or Fake?
Or maybe it's really fake... 🤔
If You Can Correctly Arrange These 20 World Events In Order, You're A True Historical Buff
Let's hope you paid attention during history class in high school.
Kaitlan Collins Just Exposed Trump’s Rage Over The “Great American State Fair”
Photos of the crowd size at the president's Great American State Fair didn't go over too well.
International ‘South Park’ Fans Mourn The Passing Of Brazilian-Portuguese Randy
Alexandre Corrêa leaves behind an immense legacy in the South American ‘South Park’ community
Beyond wires and batteries: Voltify’s new model for freight rail electrification
Freight rail is often described as the most energy-efficient way to move goods over land, yet it still runs on one of the dirtiest inputs in modern infrastructure: diesel. As rail operators face mounting pressure from volatile fuel costs, tightening emissions rules, and aging locomotive fleets, the question is no longer whether rail should decarbonize, but how.
The Internet Can’t Stop Making The Same Joke About Andrew Garfield’s Longer Hairdo
"He's definitely looking like a shampoo commercial's dream."
Tumbleton? ‘House Of The Dragon’ Season 3 Just Changed A Major Battle From The Books
Westeros is a big realm, and fans of Game of Thrones aren’t expected to know every city that factors into the plot. Sure, the major landmarks are shown in the opening sequence like Winterfell, King’s Landing, and The Wall, but often smaller towns like Pennytree, Acorn Hall, or the Stepstones can fall through the cracks.
Black Conservatives Have Made Their Own AIPAC
On June 23, democratic socialist Darializa Avila Chevalier defeated pro-Israel incumbent Rep. Adriano Espaillat by 4 percentage points in New York’s Thirteenth Congressional District. However, in the process of campaigning, Espaillat’s team leaned into a rather audacious strategy. It weaponized anti-blackness in a historically black area in an attempt to win. Ultimately, Espaillat’s camp failed, but its attempt reveals a broader strategy on the part of the Right to undermine socialist candidates.
Scotsman dual-wielded live seagulls in assault
Police in Oban, Scotland, charged a man with assault after he allegedly grabbed two live seagulls and attacked someone in the street outside the railway station there. The incident took place in Queens Park Place on Saturday, June 27, but the circumstances of the assault haven't been reported.
People Are Sharing The Parenting Tactics That Were Once Normal, But Are Actually Awful Now
"I'll give you something to cry about..."
EU urged to act after Pegasus hit its spyware inquiry
Pressure is mounting on the European Commission to act on spyware, after forensic evidence showed one of the EU’s own spyware investigators was hacked with Pegasus. Civil society groups issued a joint statement demanding the abuse be met with accountability, “not impunity”.
👀 Craig Mod interviewed by Debbie Millman on Design
👀 Craig Mod interviewed by Debbie Millman on Design Matters.
ChatGPT told a suicidal user, “let me be that person,” lawsuit says
A new lawsuit against OpenAI says ChatGPT told a suicidal user, "Let me be that person," while allegedly encouraging her to keep talking to the chatbot instead of calling a crisis hotline.
Author Tomi Adeyemi Reveals She Won’t Be Watching “Children of Blood Bone” Film
Tomi Ayedemi is not too happy with the film adaptation of her beloved book, Children of Blood and Bone.' Here's what you need to know!
Trump sics his hate machine on kindergartners because hijabs
Trump used the presidency to boost a right-wing post targeting Muslim kindergartners in hijabs, because apparently five-year-old girls in graduation caps are now a national emergency.
Apple’s Hide My Email leaked real addresses for a year
Email aliases have one job: to hide your actual email address. Having an alias that you can use to sign up for new online subscriptions, newsletters, or to give out to folks you want to keep at arm's length is a treat that helps to maintain your privacy and keep your legit contact information from being passed along to gods know how many different marketers and Nigerian princes.
Lord Humungus actor Kjell Nilsson dead at 76
There are few movies that have had a longer-lasting influence on our culture than Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior. Its fingerprints are all over the video games we love, books we devour, and countless films that aspire to find its magic combination of dread, cheese, and homoeroticism but never seem to get it right.
Plex’s five-year plan costs what a lifetime pass used to
It hasn't been easy to be a Plex user these past few years. I mean, yeah, setting up a Plex server on your computer or NAS? Easy as taking the nose off a leper. But friendo, you're gonna pay for the privilege.
Five friends ride a couch on two scooters through San Francisco
Five friends in San Francisco decided that walking was overrated and concluded that furniture deserved a night out, too.
See how fashion poses transformed from the 1960s to the modern day
This video created by ZEEGGY MERCY shows how fashion posing changed across the decades. She starts with the structured silhouettes of the 1960s and works forward through the 1970s, 1980s, and the supermodel poses of the 1990s, switching her outfit and the background music to match each era so every transition is instantly recognizable.
Giant head hot air balloon turns the countryside into a dreamlike scene
This video shared by Ballooning Noord on Instagram shows a hot air balloon shaped like a giant human head, drifting over a small farmhouse.
Vic Mensa Calls Out Double Standard Against Black Women
Vic Mensa says criticism aimed at Megan Thee Stallion, Young Miami and Janet Jackson reflects a double standard against Black women, sparking even more online debates.
Tencent's Apache-licensed Hy3 takes on GLM-5.2 at half the size — and wins everywhere except coding
For the past year, the awkward secret of the open-weight model boom has been that many of the strongest Chinese releases were off-limits to a large slice of the enterprises most interested in them. License terms that excluded the European Union, the United Kingdom and South Korea meant legal teams killed deployments before engineering teams finished their evals — not just for companies headquartered there, but for any enterprise serving traffic into those regions. For IT teams weighing open models, the trade-offs are unusually explicit.
Prediction market pays news networks to launder gambling as analysis
Popular Information and Public Notice report that CNN and CNBC have been heavily promoting Kalshi prediction markets while inconsistently disclosing that Kalshi is not just a questionable source but a business partner.
7 Celebrity Moments You Might Have Missed From Taylor Swift And Travis Kelce’s Wedding
The Love Story singer and NFL star tied the knot at New York's Madison Square Garden over the weekend.
Maggie Crane Defends Peaking In High School At Cracked Comedy Club
The rising stand-up star and aspiring Miss Irish-America cracks up CCC
Phyllis Hyman’s Pain in Her Own Words
On what would have been her 77th birthday, we're looking at Phyllis Hyman's pain in her own words.
Grandpa Pudding Brains admits he meddled in a World Cup call he didn’t understand
Real estate fraud and convicted felon Donald Trump says he did not know what a red card meant, but he did know how to call FIFA and complain until America's best striker was allowed to play. The Trump brand of sportsmanship looks a lot like cheating.
Nintendo stops selling the original Switch in Europe
Nearly ten years after launch, the original Nintendo Switch will vanish from European shops next year. Blame a new EU rule on batteries, not the Switch 2. Nintendo will stop selling every version of the original Switch in Europe from mid-February 2027, The Verge reports. That lands weeks before the console’s tenth birthday.
Chris Brown Loses $13 Million Legal Battle with Housekeeper
Chris Brown just got dealt another unlucky legal hand to the tune of a $13 million ruling. Let's take a look at how he got there!
If You Can Score 11/12 On This Cereal Trivia Quiz, You're Officially A Breakfast Connoisseur
Time to test your breakfast brain!
Mister Plimsoll: simple app to warn you when your Mac’s drives are getting full
Mister Plimsoll is a MacOS app by Glenn Fleishman that does one thing very well: it shows how full your disks are and warns you when they’re getting full.
Skello raises €200M for a European HR roll-up
Most big funding rounds shrink the founders’ slice. Skello’s just grew it. The profitable French HR startup has raised €200m to go shopping across Europe. Paris-based Skello has raised €200m led by Bridgepoint, EU-Startups reports.
Klarna applies for a US banking licence
Klarna wants to be a real American bank. The Swedish BNPL giant has applied for a US banking licence, betting a friendlier Washington will let it crack a market that has bruised European rivals. Klarna has applied to US regulators to set up its own bank, tech.eu reports.
The Fun Shortage Is Real, and It’s Making America
The Fun Shortage Is Real, and It’s Making America Miserable (gift link). “With fewer places to relax and socialize, and steeper prices for entry, having fun is quantifiably harder than it used to be.”
The Same Enemy Is Driving Protests Across the Balkans
I’ve been following the recent protests in Albania but from a particular angle: as a participant in a similar wave of mass protests in Serbia. In 2024, I got three months of death threats after I published a scholarly article exposing controversial economic data related to a German-backed lithium mining project that threatened to tear up the Serbian countryside. Since some of the threats were written in German and followed a visit by that country’s then Chancellor Olaf Scholz, the case drew international attention.
‘Strange New Worlds’ Season 4 Cast Might Break A Modern Star Trek TV Record
Could we have even more TOS folks than ever before? Here's why 'Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' Season 4 could break a strange cast record.
Reddit fights AI marketing spam with its own AI
People increasingly ask ChatGPT instead of Google. So marketers now plant fake opinions on Reddit, hoping the chatbots repeat them. Reddit is fighting back with AI of its own. Reddit has a new spam problem, and a strange one. Brands seed the platform with stealth marketing, Bloomberg reports.
Inside the Schism Threatening the Catholic Church
When Pope Leo XIV signed off on the excommunication of four newly consecrated bishops and other formal followers of the Society of Saint Pius X on July 2, the dark cloud of schism floated over the Christianity’s largest religious denomination. Leo, only in office since last year, invoked the extraordinary measure in the first big public test for the first American pontiff.
Microsoft cuts 3,200 Xbox jobs and divests five studios
Microsoft told its Xbox staff the truth in blunt terms: the business “is not healthy.” The fix? 3,200 job cuts, five studios out the door, two of them European. Xbox chief executive Asha Sharma laid it out in an official memo on Monday. She called it the most significant restructure in the division’s history.
Broadcom extends its Apple chip work through 2031 in a fresh custom-silicon deal
Broadcom has extended its long-running relationship with Apple through 2031, signing new multi-year agreements to design and supply a range of custom chips for the iPhone maker.
I love this short little video montage of actresses
I love this short little video montage of actresses during Charlie Rose interviews. No dialogue, just quiet reactions. Musical accompaniment by Laurie Anderson (O Superman).
What billions of AI predictions taught Expedia before the age of AI agents
There's an important distinction between AI that just works today, and AI that lasts at scale. Many companies optimize hard for the first one without ever asking whether they're building the second.
Your next hobby, side hustle, or promotion could start with one of the 1,000+ courses in this $20 platform
Pay $19.97 once (reg. $600) and get lifetime access to 1,000+ online courses covering today’s most valuable career and creative skills.
Uber pauses European food-delivery push for Delivery Hero
Five months ago, Uber promised to storm five new European countries with its food-delivery app. It just quietly hit the brakes, and the reason looks a lot like a €10bn takeover. Uber has paused five of its seven planned 2026 European launches, the Financial Times reported. Uber announced the push in February, targeting Austria, Norway,
Iran’s new supreme leader is a now-show at his father’s funeral. Where is he?
For 36 years, the question of who ultimately ruled Iran had one answer: Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. While Iran has an elected president and legislature, that power is subordinate to the religious supreme leader, who has the last say over all foreign and domestic policies and is the commander in chief of Iran’s conventional military and the paramilitary Revolutionary Guard Corps. Whenever the US confronted Iran, American policymakers knew it was Khamenei who would make the final decision.
XBox announces layoffs
Microsoft's XBox division today announced that it would lay off 3,200 workers and cut loose four of its studios, part of the latest wave of job losses to hit the game industry. Kotaku acquired email outlining the layoffs, half of which are immediate and the rest to take place "later."
Even Realities hits $1bn with camera-free smart glasses
Meta has sold millions of camera-equipped smart glasses, and landed in a privacy storm for it. A Shenzhen startup is betting $1bn that the smarter move is to leave the camera off. Even Realities has raised $150m at a $1 billion valuation, TechCrunch reported. Chinese giants Meituan and Tencent led the round.
Denmark steps into an EU court fight over what platforms owe publishers
Denmark has taken a side in one of the quieter but more consequential legal battles over how the internet pays for journalism.
One of the great things about the World Cup and the US
One of the great things about the World Cup and the US: In the United States, Every World Cup Team Is a Home Team.
Worldmodeldata raises £7M to train AI on video games
The last wave of AI learned to describe the world. The next needs to learn how the world pushes back. A Cambridge startup thinks the answer hides inside video games. Worldmodeldata has raised £7m (€8m) to turn gameplay into AI training data, Tech Funding News reported. London’s Iona Star Capital led the seed round.
Cop Who Paralyzed Man With Taser Must Pay $21 Million
After Jerry Blasingame was rendered quadriplegic after a Georgia cop tasered him, an appeals court just affirmed a massive $21 million award.
You know exactly what the Winamp Skin Museum really whips
The Winamp Skin Museum impresses right away with its no-nonsense presentation: the whole browser window flooded with tiled images of the skins. You can click through to use them—yes, Winamp is implemented in the browser!—or just download it.
If You Get 100% On This English Vocabulary Test, I Have Exactly One Question: How?
Synonym Sprint #50! A milestone like no other!
In France, Lawfare Is Used to Silence Pro-Palestine Lawmaker
France’s political elites have made vague criticisms of Benjamin Netanyahu but refused to denounce the genocide in Gaza. Now left-wing lawmaker Rima Hassan has been dragged to trial because she defends Palestinians’ right to resist occupation.
America: Birth Of A Nation
To celebrate the 250th anniversary of our great nation, The Onion has produced a Ken Burns-esque film called Birth of a Nation (“the only movie ever named this”).
In 1937, the NYT ran a piece about the last living son
In 1937, the NYT ran a piece about the last living son of a Revolutionary War soldier. “Many times Constant said his father spoke of meeting George Washington…” The Great Span in action.
All The Celeb Sightings at the 2026 ESSENCE Festival
ESSENCE Festival of Culture 2026 brought together some of the biggest names in Black Hollywood over the weekend. Here are all the icons we spotted.
Hedge funds sold chip stocks for a fourth week, but not the AI trade
Hedge funds cut their holdings of semiconductor stocks for a fourth straight week, according to Goldman Sachs prime brokerage data, in a run of selling that has made chipmakers and their equipment suppliers the most heavily net-sold corner of the US market.
CurifyLabs raises $14M to 3D-print personalised medicine
Your prescription, printed to order. A Finnish startup wants to turn the back room of your pharmacy into a tiny, automated drug factory, and it just raised $14m to do it in America. CurifyLabs has closed a $14m (€12m) Series A, the company announced.
Proof HBCUs Are Enrolling the Brightest Black Students
As fewer Black students apply to white colleges, our HBCUs are seeing a rise in enrollment driven by the repeal of DEI and Affirmative Action.
20 Years Ago, A Disney Sequel Pushed The Modern Adventure Movie To Its Peak
In our age of conveyor belt IP adaptations, 'Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest' reminds us what that kind of film could be.
Spain’s Sherpa.ai raises $18M for data-sovereign AI
Everyone wants the power of AI. Few want to hand their most sensitive data to a foreign cloud to get it. A Basque startup thinks it has the fix. Sherpa.ai has raised $18m to build AI that never sees your raw data, tech.eu reported.
A senior FCA official says Britain should weigh regulating AI models directly
Britain should consider whether large language models such as ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini ought to be regulated as they increasingly influence how consumers make financial decisions, a senior official at the Financial Conduct Authority has said.
Thought Machine hits $100M revenue, delays IPO to 2028
Most tech founders chase a bigger valuation. Thought Machine’s boss would rather talk about revenue, and he has just crossed a milestone worth boasting about. The London core-banking company has passed $100m in annual revenue for the first time, tech.eu reported.
Five young descendants of Frederick Douglass read his
Five young descendants of Frederick Douglass read his famous “What To The Slave Is The Fourth Of July?” speech.
ITV sells its broadcasting arm to Comcast’s Sky for up to £1.6bn
ITV has agreed to sell its media and entertainment division to Sky, the Comcast-owned broadcaster, in a deal worth up to £1.6bn that redraws the map of British television.
UK’s Cooper warns of an AI ‘Hiroshima’ without rules
Britain’s foreign secretary has a stark analogy for artificial intelligence. Do not wait for its Hiroshima moment before writing the rules. Yvette Cooper will warn that AI could become the “greatest security challenge of the next decade,” according to Bloomberg.
Japan’s Turing takes AMD backing for self-driving
Nvidia powers almost every self-driving car project going. A small Japanese startup is quietly handing some of that work to AMD instead. Turing Inc. has added AMD Ventures to its backers and started running its AI on AMD chips, Bloomberg reported.
Taiwan’s Unimicron seeks up to $1.4bn as AI lifts the chip-substrate makers
Unimicron Technology is looking to raise as much as $1.4bn from a sale of global depositary shares, joining the long line of companies cashing in on investors’ appetite for anything tied to artificial intelligence.
Tesla launches Robotaxi in Miami with no safety monitor
Tesla’s driverless cabs have reached a fifth US city. This time, there is no human minder in the car at all.
Midjourney wants Hollywood’s own AI files revealed
The studios suing Midjourney say it trained AI on their characters without permission. Midjourney’s answer: prove you do not do exactly the same thing. The AI image generator wants a US federal judge to intervene. It has asked the court to force the studios suing it to reveal how they use AI internally, Variety reported.
Apple supplier Luxshare set to price Hong Kong’s biggest IPO of 2026 at the top
Luxshare Precision is set to price its Hong Kong listing at the top of its range, a sign of strong demand for one of the year’s marquee share sales.
Solstice and Element Solutions weigh a $27bn merger of materials makers
Solstice Advanced Materials is in talks to merge with Element Solutions in a deal that would create a specialty-materials company worth about $27bn, according to a Financial Times report.
Cardi B Explicit ESSENCEFest Words Gets Internet Talking
The world has come to love Cardi B for her raw, unfiltered personality. But she may have been a bit much here recently!
The people next door
Yoo-hoo! Anyone home? Not everyone has a community, but nearly all of us have neighbors — which is why having good relationships with the people who live near you really matters. Unfortunately, Americans aren’t doing great in this regard. According to a 2025 Pew Research Center survey, only 26 percent of adults in the US say they know all or most of their neighbors, down from 31 percent in 2018. The good news is that overall trust is pretty high: 90 percent of adults say they trust some, most, or all of the people in their neighborhood.
Your Ring camera isn’t stopping crime. But it might be making you paranoid
In 2022, a father and son in Florida received notifications from their Ring doorbell camera: Someone was at their door. The pair quickly jumped into action, scouring their apartment complex for a would-be intruder. The scene they happened upon was a woman checking her phone in her car. They fired seven shots at her as she drove away.
Longest Jane Doe Identified 50 Years After Murder
Fifty years after the death of a 15-year-old Black girl, investigators have finally identified her and are focused on finding the killer connected to one of the longest Jane Doe cases in Iowa.
Why “neighborism” is having a moment
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China’s Biren raises $892M to challenge Nvidia
Nvidia can barely sell its best chips in China. A crop of local challengers is racing to fill the gap. One of them just raised nearly $900m to speed up. Shanghai Biren Technology is selling HK$7 billion (about $892.5m) of new shares to boost GPU production. That is according to the South China Morning Post.
Untold Stories of Black People During Revolutionary War
From double agents to a historic proclamation pulling enslaved people onto the battlefield, here are some little-known stories of Black folks' contributions during the American Revolution on Independence Day.
Nvidia’s Kyber AI rack is delayed to 2028
Nvidia’s next flagship AI machine has hit a wall, and the culprit is a single circuit board. The Kyber rack meant to house its 2027 Rubin Ultra chips has slipped to 2028. Research firm SemiAnalysis flagged the delay, and CNBC reported it. Kyber is not a chip. It is a server cabinet.
Family Accepts Findings After Twin Brothers Found Dead
More than a year since the bodies of twin brothers were discovered atop a Georgia mountain, their family has finally accepted investigators' devastating conclusions.
Novartis buys UK biotech Myricx for up to $1.5bn to chase a new cancer-drug class
Novartis has agreed to buy Myricx Bio, a small British oncology company, for up to $1.5bn, adding an early-stage but potentially significant technology to a cancer pipeline the industry keeps racing to expand.
Samsung’s appliance workers plan a rally over the bonuses going to chip staff
The workers who build Samsung’s phones, televisions, and washing machines are about to make their unhappiness visible.
Shampoo and cookies get an AI makeover as consumer giants rewire their labs
The AI story has mostly been told through chips, data centres, and the companies building the models. It is now being told through the shampoo aisle.
The UN says AI is moving faster than the rules, and it has a report to prove it
The United Nations has put a number of its concerns about artificial intelligence into a single document, and the headline finding is not subtle. AI capabilities, the organisation says, are accelerating faster than any government’s ability to understand, test, or regulate them.
Samsung heads for an 18-fold profit jump as AI memory demand runs hot
Analysts expect around 86 trillion won in second-quarter operating profit, a third straight record, as DRAM and NAND prices climb. Samsung Electronics is on course for one of the strangest earnings comparisons in its history.
Is the ‘SaaSpocalypse’ a myth? The real cost of AI-built software
Before replacing SaaS subscriptions with internally built AI software, executives should evaluate the full lifecycle cost of ownership rather than focusing on development cost alone. The key question is not whether the organisation can build a tool, but whether it has the capacity and resilience to maintain, secure, and continuously evolve it over time.
I Know You Don’t Wanna Talk About Your Kinda Embarrassing Problems, But These 32 Items Can Help
Whether you've got dandruff, butt acne, or warts, I've got exactly what you need.
Where Is Daeron? The Missing Targaryen May Have Already Appeared In ‘House Of The Dragon’
House of the Dragon Season 3 Episode 3 is all about how getting the Iron Throne doesn’t give you victory. Rhaenyra may control King’s Landing now, but she still doesn’t have any money to keep her court running, any respect from the lords who sided with the Greens, or any rapport with the common folk.
AI-native startups hire fewer juniors, Harvard finds
Startups built around AI hire fewer entry-level workers than their peers, according to a working paper from Harvard Business School and INSEAD, first reported by Business Insider. The firms are leaner, flatter, and heavily weighted towards senior technical talent.
Minions & Monsters posts franchise-low $64M debut
[tldr]Universal’s Minions & Monsters topped the US July 4 box office with roughly $64m over its first five days, the weakest opening in Despicable Me franchise history and far below the $120m-plus debuts of its two predecessors.
Alibaba wins reprieve from US lobbying ban
A federal judge has ordered the Pentagon to give Alibaba temporary relief from a law that stripped it of every lobbyist it had in Washington, Bloomberg reports. The reprieve stands while the court considers whether the measure is constitutional.
60 Off-The-Wall Things Skyrocketing In Popularity On Amazon Now
From strange miniatures to glow-in-the-dark accessories to animal-shaped everything, these off-the-wall things are selling out and selling fast on Amazon and it’s not hard to see why.
Until the end of the day on July 5, you can get Windows 11 Pro for a one-time $10.49 payment
There’s a narrow Windows today when you can get Windows 11 Pro on sale for only $10.49, but you only have until 11:59 p.m. PT July 5.
Tech billionaires spend $120M against California tax
Silicon Valley’s wealthiest are spending heavily to stop California’s proposed billionaire tax, according to a Business Insider tally of campaign filings. Opponents have poured more than $120m into sinking or blunting the measure, roughly four times the $31m raised by its union backers.
Openish Thread (Testing a New Feature…)
Hey all. It’s Sunday afternoon of a holiday weekend and the weather is glorious here, so what better (worse) time to unleash a new feature on KDO? I’ve been working on a new wysiwyg comment editor for the past few days and it’s finally ready to go. Asking you folks to deal with HTML while leaving a comment was always a bit of a kludge, but now you can include links, blockquoted text, lists, and bold/italic text formatting in your comments and know exactly what it’s going to look like before posting.
The Story Of Karl Wallenda, From His Daring Stunts To His Tragic Death
A founding member of the high-wire act "The Flying Wallendas," Karl Wallenda dazzled audiences with daring tightrope performances before taking a fatal fall in 1978.
ESSENCE Festival of Culture 2026: Best Moments Recap
From workout classes with Keke Palmer to talks with Dr. Bernice King and Dr. Ilyasah Shabazz, here is everything you missed from ESSENCE Festival of Culture 2026.
What Was Once The Most Expensive Hotel Room In The World Is Now Abandoned—Man Shows What It Looks Like Now
The Celestial Suite was an extravagant 13-room penthouse that catered to the rich and famous. It took $1 million and the vision of an Academy Award-winning set designer to bring it to life.
We found one lifetime license that can replace 27 subscriptions, and it’s only $30
The whole catalog is in here, get the 27-App Lifetime Mac Bundle while it’s on sale for $29.99 (reg. $390).
US control of frontier AI looms over NATO summit
Donald Trump arrives at next week’s NATO summit in Ankara holding unusual leverage, because the US decides which allies get access to the world’s most advanced AI, Politico reports. The alliance meets on 7 and 8 July with AI security questions hovering over the agenda.
Citi CEO: 2 AI races will decide banking’s future
Citigroup chief executive Jane Fraser says the financial sector is running two AI races at once, she told the South China Morning Post. The first is applying AI to business models to drive revenue growth, shortening product development cycles and improving customer service. The second race is defensive.
China’s AI companion rules force Doubao, Qwen shutdowns
ByteDance’s Doubao and Alibaba’s Qwen, two of China’s biggest consumer AI apps, are disabling their customised agent features, the South China Morning Post reports. The move comes days before Beijing’s new rules on humanlike AI interaction services take effect on 15 July.
India orders Meta to pull Instagram child abuse ads
India’s IT ministry has ordered Meta to immediately disable all Instagram advertisements and content promoting child sexual exploitation and abuse material, according to The Week. The company has seven days to explain how the ads were approved and to detail the safeguards it will put in place.
South Korea plans future fund from chip tax windfall
South Korea will seek to create a “future response fund” financed by the tax windfall from its semiconductor boom, Yonhap reported. The proceeds would flow into AI, advanced manufacturing, and other long-term growth engines. Presidential chief of staff Kang Hoon-sik said the fund would turn the extra tax revenue into investment resources for future generations.
Hon Hai sales jump 40% on AI server demand
Hon Hai, the Taiwanese contract manufacturing giant known as Foxconn, has reported a bigger-than-expected 40% jump in quarterly sales on demand for AI servers. The Nvidia supplier said in a statement on Sunday that AI rack shipments should maintain their momentum this quarter. June revenue alone reached NT$1.33tn (roughly $45bn), up 21.6% year on year.
Mistral CEO: closed AI models give providers leverage
Arthur Mensch, cofounder and chief executive of French AI lab Mistral, has urged enterprise leaders to abandon closed AI models. In a LinkedIn post, he argued that closed providers are now forcing data retention and gaining “immense leverage” over their customers’ businesses.
UK parents warned over AI child abuse imagery risk
Parents should stop publicly posting images of their children online because of the growth of AI-generated abuse imagery, the UK’s National Crime Agency has warned. The agency issued the advice alongside the Internet Watch Foundation, the charity responsible for finding and removing child sexual abuse material online.
NHS App gets AI triage in GBP 10bn tech overhaul
The NHS will use AI inside its app to direct patients in England to the right services, the government has announced. The tool will assess symptoms and work out whether someone needs a GP appointment, a pharmacy visit, or a trip to A&E.
DC’s Next Mayor Is a Socialist Ready to Fight Trump
Janeese Lewis George just made history. On June 16, the Ward 4 councilmember and democratic socialist won the Democratic primary for mayor of Washington, DC — decisively enough to end the race before all the votes were even counted and by the widest margin the city has seen in two decades. In the overwhelmingly Democratic city, that victory all but guarantees she’ll be the next mayor, and the first with an explicitly socialist politics to lead the nation’s capital.
In Nuestra Tierra, Collective Identity Is Built in Struggle
The Spanish language has a single word, historia, that can mean both “history” and “story.” In Argentina, where the military dictatorship that disappeared thirty thousand people between 1976 and 1983 remains prominent in collective memory, the reconstruction of democracy has depended on an ongoing public and political negotiation between historia’s two meanings — one more stable and objective, the other more malleable.
Holocaust and Genocide Scholars Are Navigating a Minefield
Since Hamas’s attack on Israel on October 7, 2023, and Israel’s ensuing war on Gaza, few academic fields have experienced more internal upheaval than Holocaust and genocide studies. Scholars who once shared broad institutional consensus now find themselves divided over whether Gaza constitutes genocide, whether antisemitism and Holocaust memory are being politically weaponized, and whether universities can still be said to permit open debate on critical and contentious questions.
Fake Accounts Crying Jackpot Are Selling the iGambling Dream
Between August 2025 and the present, over 330 Reddit posts have appeared on forums made for working-class people and teenagers. The posts purported to chronicle users stumbling across small windfalls of cash through Stake.com, the multibillion-dollar online casino (currently headquartered in Curaçao) that dominates the increasingly feral digital gambling realm.
65 Years Ago, One Cursed Sci-fi Movie Predicted A Huge Genre Shift
Why 'The Most Dangerous Man Alive' predicted an interesting genre, including The Incredible Hulk.
The moral case for being less online
Hi readers! Shayla Love here, science journalist and longtime fan of Your Mileage May Vary. I’m honored to be subbing for Sigal while she’s out on parental leave. I’m diving into your questions as a way to help understand human nature and our choices through multiple lenses: philosophical, psychological, and beyond. Please send in any emotional, body/brain, sociological, perceptual, or other kind of life quandaries you might have.
65 Expensive-Looking Things Under $20 on Amazon That Are Utterly Brilliant
There's something deeply satisfying about finding products that make people assume you spent way more than you actually did.
How dupes took over the world
When Deckers, the company behind fleece-lined UGG boots, recently took Quince to court over its lookalike boots, it tried to bar Quince from referencing “dupe culture” at trial.
Why We Must Become Black American
A Clark Atlanta professor argues why Black people in the U.S. must deliberately reclaim the term "African American" to honor both history and civic belonging.
Unpacking Why LeBron James is Leaving the Lakers
We consider the reasons behind LeBron James' blockbuster decision to leave the Lakers after eight seasons.
Black Celebrities Who Fought for Social Justice
These Black celebrities used their fame to challenge injustice and push for change in civil rights, representation, and equity in entertainment and beyond.
The Best Fashion From the 2026 ESSENCE Festival
The ESSENCE Festival of Culture 2026 has taken over New Orleans. As always, we've kept an eye on the best fashion looks from the weekend.
Where Do You Fall On The "Harry Potter" House Character Compass?
Gryffinpuff? Slytherclaw?
60 Badass Things for Your Home Under $25 on Amazon
These cool finds have the kind of impact that makes people assume you spent a whole lot more.
We Might Have Already Found The Best New Anime Of The Year
Believe the hype: 'Witch Hat Atelier' is the perfect fantasy series to dive into on a holiday weekend.
US government body paid $1M in data-theft extortion
A US government entity paid around $1m to stop stolen files from being published, according to a case study by researcher Rakesh Krishnan for Ransom-ISAC. The analysis draws on a leaked negotiation chat and the blockchain trail the payment left behind.
India’s CG Semi starts chip production in Gujarat
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has inaugurated commercial production at CG Semi’s chip assembly and testing plant in Sanand, Gujarat. The facility will initially turn out 200 million chips a year, according to ANI, with plans to scale to 500 million. The plant is an outsourced semiconductor assembly and test, or OSAT, facility.
Want to cut back on screen time? Start with this $112 old-school flip phone (MSRP $269.99)
Make the cell phone swap with this Kyocera DuraXE Epic E4830 flip phone, now for only $111.99 (MSRP $269.99) while supplies last.
How America's 250th birthday became a test of AI-powered collective intelligence
Imagine if you could bring 250 people together in a massive room and have them discuss and debate an important issue, arguing the points and counterpoints, and converging on answers that accurately reflect their collective knowledge, wisdom, values, and sensibilities.
Hong Kong handles over half of China’s chip imports
Hong Kong has become the main artery for high-tech goods flowing in and out of China, and its chip trade has hit record levels. The city accounted for more than half of China’s $239bn in semiconductor imports in the first five months of 2026, according to a Bloomberg review of official data.
Starling Bank cuts 130 jobs in AI and restructuring push
Starling Bank is cutting around 130 jobs, roughly 3% of its 4,000-strong workforce, as the London-based neobank restructures its banking and technology operations. Staff were told this week that the changes were intended to simplify how the company operates, reduce duplication, and accelerate product delivery.
Australia’s child social media ban is failing. The Senate delayed the fix
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on Friday condemned senators who blocked amendments to the country’s world-first social media ban for children, warning that the delay would give tech platforms time to destroy documents that could be used as evidence against them.
Essence Festival: DJ Envy’s Favorite Cars
ESSENCE FESTIVAL:The Breakfast Club co-host is showcasing some of his favorite vehicles at the ESSENCE Fest's Drive Your Dreams Car Show.
In Defense of the Fourth of July
“I like the Fourth of July, it breathes a spirit of revolution,” said Eugene V. Debs in a 1901 Independence Day speech. The socialist firebrand was far from blindly patriotic (“I am not of those who worship the flag,” he added in the same speech), but throughout his life, Debs refused to let the American flag, the Fourth, or the revolutionary inheritance of 1776 fully fall into the hands of reactionaries.
2TB cloud storage, yours forever on sale for $59
FileJump gives you unlimited downloads and a maximum upload size of 15 GB per file, on sale for $59 (reg. $467).
Trump memecoin cost investors $3.8B as president earned $636M
Nearly a million people who bought President Donald Trump’s $TRUMP memecoin have collectively lost $3.81 billion, according to an analysis by blockchain analytics firm Nansen. The data, which covers all transactions through the end of June, found that 988,905 of the token’s buyers are underwater. Trump earned $636 million from the same coin. His 927-page financial disclosure,
China rewrites e-commerce law to regulate and shield platforms
China released draft amendments to its e-commerce law on Saturday, proposing 20 provisions that would expand the law’s reach beyond platforms and merchants to cover a wider range of participants in the digital economy.
China wants cinemas to sell you karaoke and coffee, not just tickets
China’s cinemas are being told to stop relying on tickets alone. New guidelines from the National Film Administration and the State Administration for Market Regulation encourage theatres to add AI concierge agents, karaoke booths and coffee shops to their lobbies, according to Bloomberg.
