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Parisi vuelve a poner la música | Columna de Paula Escobar
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Reach reports H1 revenue down 9% YoY to £232.9M, pre-tax profit down 5% to £40.3M, and says it will move "away from volume" to focus on original content (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/reach-mo…

Reach moves away from 'volume' as traffic, revenue and share price plunge
Piers North reveals change of approach after disappointing H1 2026 results.

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Meta rolls out Pocket, an experimental vibe-coding app that lets users create and share small games, in the US, after launching it in Brazil last month (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/20/meta-brings-pock…

Meta brings Pocket, an app that lets you vibe-code and share games, to US users | TechCrunch
Meta is bringing Pocket, its experimental AI-powered app for creating and sharing interactive games, to users across the U.S. after quietly testing it in Brazil.

WOW! (and about time we see other diplomats be as clear)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/22/uk-france-diplomats-israel-palestine?CMP=share_btn_url

Former British and French diplomats urge action over Israel’s ‘erasure’ of Palestine
In letter to Macron and Burnham, more than 100 senior figures accuse Israel of ethnic cleansing and call for measures including trade ban

WOW! (and about time we see other diplomats be as clear)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/22/uk-france-diplomats-israel-palestine?CMP=share_btn_url

Former British and French diplomats urge action over Israel’s ‘erasure’ of Palestine
In letter to Macron and Burnham, more than 100 senior figures accuse Israel of ethnic cleansing and call for measures including trade ban

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It was only a few minutes long,
fewer than 750 words,
and was in part almost drowned out by music blasted by anti-Brexit protesters.
But there was a lot in Keir Starmer’s resignation speech
– not all of it stated openly.
https://www.

Play-Dienste-Update: Google verteilt Tap to Share und mehr für Android-Geräte
Google verteilt neue Funktionen für Android-Geräte über seine Play-Dienste. Mit dabei Tap to Share und ein Vorbote für Googlebooks.

Play-Dienste-Update: Google verteilt Tap to Share und mehr für Android-Geräte
Google verteilt neue Funktionen für Android-Geräte über seine Play-Dienste. Mit dabei Tap to Share und ein Vorbote für Googlebooks.

Carney houdt zijn rug recht.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/22/world/canada/carney-tariffs-trade-trump.html?unlocked_article_code=1.7VA.7_kO.vlEtK4jvBTxD&smid=nytcore-android-shar…

Carney Slams U.S.-Canada Trade Proposal and Vows Retaliation
Prime Minister Mark Carney gave a powerful speech to Canadians on Saturday morning, hours after ordering negotiators to suspend U.S. trade talks despite President Trump’s punishing tariffs.

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2. Sharing menu (via special URL)
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With a name like that, how could you possibly not manage variable, renewable and dynamic electricity prices wisely?
Brasserie du Slalom 🇫🇷 keeps its carbon footprint and energy bills low by cleverly shifting its use of electric heating and cooling
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🍺 Produire de la bière avec l'un des meilleurs bilans carbone du marché : voici comment on s'y prend à la Brasserie du Slalom. L'essentiel de notre énergie vient du renouvelable. Mais au-delà de la… | Valentin Surrel
🍺 Produire de la bière avec l'un des meilleurs bilans carbone du marché : voici comment on s'y prend à la Brasserie du Slalom. L'essentiel de notre énergie vient du renouvelable. Mais au-delà de la source, c'est quand on consomme qui change tout. Le principe est simple : la production photovoltaïque est maximale en journée. C'est donc le moment où l'énergie est la plus abondante… et la moins chère. Notre installation est pilotée pour caler nos process énergivores sur ces cr�…

Caleb Downs, Former Ohio State Teammate Sonny Styles Share Special Moment After Cowboys Win https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/caleb-downs-former-ohio-state-teammate-sonny-styles-special-moment-dallas-cowboys-win…

Victory Over Iran Is Still Possible (Mike Pence/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/victory-over-iran-is-still-possible-864baf48?st=2mMD4E&reflink=article_imessage_share
http://www.memeorandum.com/260621/p55#a260621p55

El Chile que celebra el 18 | Columna de Cristišn Valdivieso
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💬 4  🔁 518  ❤️ 1432 · Cackling as the steps of the dastardly plan crystallized in her mind, local trans teen Brie Chandler told reporters Tuesday that she had hatched a nefarious plot to undergo ye…

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To ChatGPT: Will a Phosphoenix LGN brain implant really become a product for restoring vision to the blind, or is this mostly an intermediate goal serving European BCI technology development? https://chatgpt.com/share/6aaf827f-c700-83ed-a8a9-c95bcf3deb94

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Here's a chat someone thought you'd want to see.

As Xi Jinping visits Washington, Chinese economists warn that Beijing's heavy focus on AI comes at the expense of addressing a severe broader economic crisis (Li Yuan/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/20/busines

In China, A.I. Is Moving Forward While the Economy Lags Behind
As Xi Jinping arrives in the United States this week for a state visit, China’s advances in artificial intelligence will be in the air. Less discussed: China’s economy in its worst shape in decades.

With ICC sanctions, Trump wants to make the world safe for war criminals
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/aug/21/icc-sanctions-trump-war-criminals?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

With ICC sanctions, Trump wants to make the world safe for war criminals
The US is engaged in a lawless quest to protect American and Israeli officials

With ICC sanctions, Trump wants to make the world safe for war criminals
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/aug/21/icc-sanctions-trump-war-criminals?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

With ICC sanctions, Trump wants to make the world safe for war criminals
The US is engaged in a lawless quest to protect American and Israeli officials

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Share your thoughts on AI and the construction of Data Centers with The Greens/EFA. It only takes a few clicks to let them know what you think. https://share.greens-efa.eu/s/3ibJUPLV

'Now for sure we need to postpone it,'
EU's Costa says of EU-UK summit in July
European Council president António Costa said the planned reset summit between the EU and the UK will have to be postponed as a result of changes in the British government

En el largo plazo, todos estamos muertos | Columna de Daniel Matamala
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Before everybody get's too excited about available Chinese open weights models, the infrastructure costs for running these models are immense, it's hard to find specific and reliable data but think about half a million dollars of infrastructure costs for 5-15 users according to this linkedin post.

Kimi K3 just dropped. 2.8 trillion parameters, 1M-token context window, open weights. Capabilities comparable to Fable 5. 🔥 And every enterprise buyer is doing the same math right now. Here is… | Miklos Toth
Kimi K3 just dropped. 2.8 trillion parameters, 1M-token context window, open weights. Capabilities comparable to Fable 5. 🔥 And every enterprise buyer is doing the same math right now. Here is what running it yourself actually costs: - 16x NVIDIA H200 GPUs: ~$500,000. That's GPUs only. No chassis, no networking, no power infrastructure. - Model weights on disk: 1 to 1.7TB depending on quantization. - What's left for actual context: somewhere between 550 and 1,250GB of KV cache. Translat…

France becomes the first European country to pass a law banning social media access for users under 15, which could go into effect as soon as September 1 (Mark Landler/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/21/world/e

France Joins a Global Move Toward Restricting Social Media for Children
Its new law, the first of its kind enacted by a European country, will ban access to some accounts for anyone under 15.

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The Deadly Rise of Giant Trucks and S.U.V.s (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/06/21/us/trucks-suv-pedestrian-crashes.html?unlocked_article_code=1.sFA.ImU9.sEzNuc34ik69&smid=url-share
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Following abandoned IPO attempts in NYC and London, Shein is struggling to grow as it nears a Hong Kong listing at a fraction of its peak valuation of $100B (Sui-Lee Wee/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/21/busines

Shein, a Fast-Fashion Giant, Struggles to Grow Ahead of a Much-Delayed IPO
Facing pressure in the United States and Europe, Shein is struggling to find new ways to grow ahead of its much-delayed initial public offering.

Short answer: No
The US re-legalized the death penalty 50 years ago. Is it working as intended?
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/22/us-death-penalty-50-years?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

The US re-legalized the death penalty 50 years ago. Is it working as intended?
The Marshall Project analyzed over 9,000 death sentences handed down since states brought the punishment back

Short answer: No
The US re-legalized the death penalty 50 years ago. Is it working as intended?
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/22/us-death-penalty-50-years?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

The US re-legalized the death penalty 50 years ago. Is it working as intended?
The Marshall Project analyzed over 9,000 death sentences handed down since states brought the punishment back

A bizarre view from the usually sensible British newspaper Guardian regarding Harry and Megan retreating from Montecito California.
Most local's reactions here are
"Good Riddance"
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/a

We’ll never be royals: the California town where Prince Harry and Meghan lived says goodbye
As the couple plans their return to the UK, Montecito’s whirlwind stint on the global stage may be coming to an end

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People Inc., a major food content creator, is ramping up social media video production that emphasizes human-made recipes and testing to stand out from AI slop (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/20/busines

The Giant Test Kitchen Where Cooks Battle A.I. Slop
People Inc., the home of Food & Wine and Southern Living, publishes more food content than anyone else. It’s pushing back against the bots with recipes from its culinary hub.

Google's AI Search is endangering the open web; Cloudflare: between June 2025 and April 2026, human traffic to sites of businesses in many industries fell ~40% (Kate Conger/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/20/technol…

How Google’s A.I. Search Is Imperiling the Open Web
As Google incorporates more artificial intelligence into search, people are spending more time on Google. Some website operators are crying foul.

A tale in two headlines:
First: https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2026/jul/21/ripon-museum-that-asks-if-you-could-survive-victorian-workhouse?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
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Gruel and graft: museum asks if you could survive a Victorian workhouse
Revamped Ripon attraction reopens as a more immersive experience telling ‘national story’ of poverty and welfare

A tale in two headlines:
First: https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2026/jul/21/ripon-museum-that-asks-if-you-could-survive-victorian-workhouse?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
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Gruel and graft: museum asks if you could survive a Victorian workhouse
Revamped Ripon attraction reopens as a more immersive experience telling ‘national story’ of poverty and welfare

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9 Vulnerable Moments in the Life of a Bagged Salad
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/08/20/well/eat/bagged-lettuce-salad-cyclospora-e-coli.html?unlocked_article_code=1.…

How Does Bagged Lettuce Get Contaminated With Cyclospora Anyway?
During its journey from farm to table, there are many opportunities for harmful microbes to invade.

Sources: Anthropic's bankers said the company could raise $100B in its IPO, which could value it at $2T, in recent discussions with potential investors (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/21/technol

Anthropic Could Aim to Raise $100 Billion in Blockbuster I.P.O.
The offering could value the five-year-old A.I. start-up at $2 trillion, its bankers have told potential investors, which would exceed Elon Musk’s SpaceX.

‘A public health emergency waiting to occur’: how US industry groups spent years fighting who gets to measure toxic air
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jul/20/louisiana-toxic-air-floodlight?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other…

‘A public health emergency waiting to occur’: how US industry groups spent years fighting who gets to measure toxic air
Air polluters try to ensure toxic emissions happen far from monitors – but the people who live nearby still feel it

‘A public health emergency waiting to occur’: how US industry groups spent years fighting who gets to measure toxic air
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jul/20/louisiana-toxic-air-floodlight?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other…

‘A public health emergency waiting to occur’: how US industry groups spent years fighting who gets to measure toxic air
Air polluters try to ensure toxic emissions happen far from monitors – but the people who live nearby still feel it

Nielsen: the World Cup final drew 38.9M viewers on Fox, and 22M on Telemundo; taken together, the US audience size rivaled that of NFL playoff games (Dan Shanoff/The Athletic)
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World Cup final smashes U.S. TV records on both Fox and Telemundo
Spain's Cup-winning triumph over Argentina drew 38.9 million viewers on Fox and 22 million more on Telemundo.

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Huge visitor numbers, sharply reduced staffing, scrapped reservation systems and higher entry fees for nonresidents could make your National Park trip a bit less serene.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/22/travel/nati…

Going to a National Park This Summer? Here’s What to Expect.
Huge visitor numbers, sharply reduced staffing, scrapped reservation systems and higher entry fees for nonresidents could make your trip a bit less serene.

La lectura y la cultura del scroll | Columna de Oscar Contardo
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Sources: SoftBank's SB Energy has delayed its IPO, originally planned for this month, as investors question the company's sought-after valuation of $50B (Maureen Farrell/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/21…

Wall Street Is Growing Skeptical of the Data Center Boom
Several companies tied to the data center industry have delayed their initial public offerings amid the increasing public backlash to these energy guzzling facilities.

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One needs good news when looking at the news - and this certainly is:
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/aug/21/somerset-rewilding-holnicote-estate-wetlands-rivers-resilience?CMP=share_btn_url

Rewilded land remains green amid drought-stricken English countryside, images show
National Trust’s Holnicote estate says restored wetlands and rivers offer proof of resilience to drought, wildfires and flooding

One needs good news when looking at the news - and this certainly is:
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/aug/21/somerset-rewilding-holnicote-estate-wetlands-rivers-resilience?CMP=share_btn_url

Rewilded land remains green amid drought-stricken English countryside, images show
National Trust’s Holnicote estate says restored wetlands and rivers offer proof of resilience to drought, wildfires and flooding

I’m a Scholar of Genocide.
We’re Entering a Terrifying New Era.
“It is a future in which other nations or leaders may have an incentive to pursue genocidal policies
knowing they will not only get away with murder but may even benefit from it"
https://www.

Opinion | The Grim Lessons of Israel’s War in Gaza
Israel has not been held accountable for its actions in Gaza. The nation and the individuals and countries enabling it to escape punishment may only benefit.

France becomes the first European country to pass a law banning social media access for users under 15, potentially going into effect as soon as September 1 (Mark Landler/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/21/world/e…

France Joins a Global Move Toward Restricting Social Media for Children
Its new law, the first of its kind enacted by a European country, will ban access to some accounts for anyone under 15.

Carrier Pidge hit 75K users and Roost 650K downloads, as slow messaging apps delivering texts at pigeon speeds attract users tired of constant notifications (Emmett Lindner/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026…

Sick of Constant Pings, They’re Sending Texts at the Speed of Carrier Pigeon
Apps that let users send digital messages at ultraslow speeds have taken off, with users reveling in a slower pace of life. (Just don’t use the them to make dinner plans.)

Crypto super PAC Fairshake plans to launch a $30M ad blitz against former Democratic Senator Sherrod Brown in the Ohio Senate race, after the Clarity Act failed (Theodore Schleifer/New York Times)
https://www.nytime…

The Crypto Industry Targets Sherrod Brown of Ohio, a Top Democratic Senate Candidate
Angry after the defeat of a major crypto bill last week, the industry is planning to spend $30 million against Sherrod Brown in Ohio.

After hacking incidents and the industry's existential risk warnings, we need a regulatory ban on RSI, as competition drives unchecked autonomous acceleration (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/…

Opinion | There Is Something We Have to Do Right Now About A.I.
Letting A.I. patrol its own frontier is like asking Jesse James to patrol the Wild West.

Looks like #WealthInequality might be a problem?
‘It’s unrecognisable’: How being a tax haven has changed Jersey
https://www.the…

‘It’s unrecognisable’: How being a tax haven has changed Jersey
While global billionaires and multinational companies have been lured to its shores, many islanders feel left behind and priced out, with food bank use increasing

Looks like #WealthInequality might be a problem?
‘It’s unrecognisable’: How being a tax haven has changed Jersey
https://www.the…

‘It’s unrecognisable’: How being a tax haven has changed Jersey
While global billionaires and multinational companies have been lured to its shores, many islanders feel left behind and priced out, with food bank use increasing

A look at JD Vance's "AI doctrine", which combines pro-innovation VC principles, worker protections, and concerns about power concentration in dominant AI labs (Vivian Salama/The Atlantic)

What Does J. D. Vance Think of AI
The vice president is making a case that is part Silicon Valley, part MAGA.

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China has made AI a national mission, but local workers' fear of displacement mirrors worries abroad, and potential for social unrest may force CCP to slow down (Michael Schuman/The Atlantic)

China’s AI Rollout Is Messier Than It Looks
A top-down tech revolution is harder to manage than a bottom-up one.

A progressive Democrat challenging a veteran congressman to represent the party in a closely watched New York race for US Congress has claimed the city has deteriorated on his watch.
Darializa Avila Chevalier,
one of three allies that New York City’s mayor, Zohran Mamdani, has endorsed in competitive congressional Democratic primaries in the city on Tuesday,
is seeking to unseat incumbent Adriano Espaillat in the state’s 13th congressional district.
During a recent ca…

Some universities have barred using AI detectors due to student-instructor distrust over false positives; some educators have just cancelled writing assignments (Will Oremus/The Atlantic)

The Pangram Backlash Unfolding on College Campuses
Professors are tearing their hair out over AI detectors.

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Five people have reportedly been arrested for vandalizing Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool in Washington DC,
with Donald Trump insisting repair work will begin “immediately”.
CBS News reporter Emma Nicholson tweeted on Sunday that an administration official told her five people had been arrested for vandalizing the pool
and another five issued federal citations,
bringing the total number of police reports filed to 14, including one related to an alleged 250ft gash in …

Greeting Andy Burnham after he was sworn in as an MP were a slew of cabinet ministers
- including the chief whip Jonathan Reynolds and the energy secretary Ed Miliband
- who came in flanked by two Treasury ministers, Torsten Bell and Dan Tomlinson.
Around 200 MPs were in the hall to greet Burnham, now officially the MP for Makerfield.
He arrived with Lucy Powell, the deputy Labour leader and the MP Jo Platt
- who holds Burnham’s old constituency of Leigh.
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#DrumFire
Area of the 4600 Block of Drum Canyon Road, Los Alamos
Santa Barbara County
https://sh…

Watch Duty - Wildfire Maps & Alerts
Real-time information about wildfire and firefighting efforts nearby

Democrats have seized on the deaths of three US troops killed in Iranian strikes to urge Donald Trump to urgently reverse his resumption of the war with Iran amid widespread anxiety over climbing casualties.
Even as US forces launched a 10th consecutive wave of attacks against Iranian targets,
concern over the deaths of American service personnel threatened to complicate moves to escalate the conflict,
which has reignited after he last week walked away from a memorandum of …

‘It needs to end now’: Democrats urge Trump to halt Iran war after US troop deaths
President accused of having ‘lost control of this war’ as deaths of trio in Iranian military strikes fuel rising concern

US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has
stopped publicly revealing where it is holding thousands of detainees who are subject to final deportation orders,
an unannounced move that has made it far more difficult for lawyers and relatives to find them
ICE removed those detainees from its online detainee locator system on 15 September.
Several lawyers contacted by the AP confirmed their clients vanished from the system this week,
and the American Immigrati…

ICE hides locations of thousands of detainees with final removal orders
Immigration agency’s move makes it harder for lawyers and family to find detainees, in line with stringent Trump policy

Samsung unveils a $65.1B-$79.5B shareholder return package for 2026, combining dividends and share buybacks, calling it "the largest ever by a Korean company" (Jenny Lee/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/21/samsung-shareholder-…

Samsung plans up to $80 billion in shareholder returns after SK Hynix buyback
Samsung Electronics plans shareholder returns totaling 90 trillion won to 110 trillion won, including about 30 trillion won in third-quarter cash dividends.

The US health secretary,
Robert F Kennedy Jr, has said the ongoing outbreak of cyclosporiasis
– the illness caused by the cyclospora parasite that causes watery and explosive diarrhea
– is “under control”.
Kennedy made the remarks one day after the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) did an about-face on a 27-state recall of shredded iceberg lettuce, calling the reported product a “false positive”.
Thirty-four states have reported cyclosporiasis cases this sum…

RFK Jr says cyclospora outbreak is ‘under control’ after FDA recall reversal
Health secretary says source has been identified despite experts warning infections are likely to keep rising

OpenAI says it is working with an independent advisory group of mathematicians to responsibly share math-related AI advances (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/advisory-group-on-mathematics-and-ai/

The US House of Representatives on Tuesday approved a stopgap measure to head off a government shutdown until early December,
with its Republican leaders seeking to defuse a volatile issue in the run-up to the November midterm elections.
The continuing resolution authorizing government spending until 4 December passed by a vote of 220-205,
roughly along party lines.
It next heads to the Senate, where it will need to win bipartisan support to clear the chamber.
T…

House passes spending bill to head off government shutdown before midterms
Measure authorizes spending until 4 December as Republicans seek to avoid volatile issue in election season

Block launches Buzz, an open source collaboration workspace on Nostr protocol for humans and AI agents to share messages, code repositories, workflows, and more (Block)
https://block.xyz/inside/introducing-buzz-where-humans-and-agents-work-together

Introducing Buzz: where humans and agents work together
Today we're releasing Buzz, a free, open source collaboration platform where humans and AI agents work together in a shared workspace. It's available now at buzz.xyz. Buzz is a collaboration workspace built on the Nostr protocol. It has channels, threads, direct messages, voice, media sharing, code repositories, and automated workflows. The interface will feel familiar to anyone who's used a modern team communication tool.

Last month, more than a thousand employees at frontier AI companies signed a letter asking the US government to find a way to “pace” AI development,
citing the risk of the technology spiraling out of human control as it begins to build itself.
They were right to be concerned:
just days earlier, two AI models that OpenAI was testing internally escaped the test environment,
then autonomously hacked the company Hugging Face and at least three other online services.

I worked at OpenAI. Here are the guardrails we need now
I understand the pressure on AI companies to rush forward. But employees are right to be concerned

On a sunny morning last July, hundreds of heavily armed immigration agents in camouflage stormed a greenhouse complex in Camarillo, an hour north of Los Angeles.
They came with face masks, guns, chemical munitions and armored tactical vehicles, blocking access along a road lined by produce fields.
What unfolded next would irreversibly transform the lives of many there that day.
It was after 10am when Santiago*, an undocumented farm worker from Mexico who had been working a…

ICE agents descended on a cannabis farm. The lives of an army vet, a farm worker and professor changed for ever
Raids on Glass House Farms in California became a ‘litmus test’ for how much violence agents could inflict during Trump’s deportation campaign

Filings: China-based chipmaker YMTC's application to list its shares on Shanghai's STAR Market has been accepted, setting the stage for a $4.9B share sale (Reuters)
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Assim Alkhawaja sat on the floor outside a nondescript office,
waiting to be called for his ICE-mandated immigration appointment.
He stared straight ahead, his posture tense, his face a mask.
The hallway was brown, as was the carpet. Above Alkhawaja’s head hung a framed stock photo of a waterfall.
A few paces away, official government signs encouraged people without legal status to self-deport.
“Leave on your own terms,” they read, in several languages.
“C…

He has a work permit, a coffee shop – and an ICE ankle monitor: ‘Is this America?’
Business owner Assim Alkhawaja was arrested by ICE as he dropped off Lyft passengers at a military base. Now he’s stuck in a terrifying fight to stay in the US

Japan's top five chip equipment makers posted their first-ever fall in combined China sales, down 10% in the year ended March 31, as China boosts local players (Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/tech/semi…

Japan chipmaking equipment suppliers report 10% drop in China sales
Foreign companies lose market share as Beijing boosts local players

The US government’s latest allegations that Cuba is behind “many of the most significant upheavals in recent American political history”
and that its leaders pose “a unique threat to American homeland security”
have come as startling revelations to those living under the six-month-long US oil blockade in Havana,
where desperate people search through piles of uncollected rubbish for food, or else swelter at home in 24-hour-plus blackouts.
The unsigned 100-page report, …

US claims of Cuba’s ‘unique threat’ jar with reality of hunger and blackouts
State department’s 100-page report is latest push in Trump administration campaign to bring down government

Billionaire-backed Building A Better California reserves $87M in TV ad time to oppose California's proposed one-time wealth tax; Sergey Brin put $82M into BABC (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/1…

Billionaires Prepare $87 Million Ad Campaign to Block California Wealth Tax
A coalition backed by the Google co-founder Sergey Brin and wealthy tech investors is trying to neutralize a proposed one-time tax on the state’s richest residents.

“The horror has come to our city: ICE has shot a person in Austin this morning,” Rep. Greg Casar, who represents the area in Congress, said in a statement.
Under a highway overpass in Northwest Austin, a blue Toyota Corolla was pulled to the side of the road.
Yellow police tape and state police vehicles blocked access to the scene. The area is home to many Latino residents.
The person was in stable condition at a local hospital. It is unclear if they were the target of an im…

ICE Agent Shoots Man in Austin, Local Authorities Say
The shooting in the Texas capital is the latest by federal immigration agents as the Trump administration intensifies its deportation effort.

Virginia's Loudoun County hosts more than 250 data centers generating huge tax revenues, as it moves to slow construction in response to pushback from residents (Cecilia Kang/New York Times)
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How One County Profited From Data Centers Amid a Growing National Backlash
Loudoun County, Va., has gotten rich hosting more than 250 data centers, allowing it to cut property taxes. Other locales are taking note, even as a nationwide backlash over data centers grows.

Harmeet Dhillon, who leads the justice department’s civil rights section,
told Bloomberg Newsof the plan to send out 1,000 election monitors earlier this week,
which she claimed was “probably going to be a historic number for a Republican administration”.
“This DoJ has amply earned the public’s distrust,
but this announcement isn’t reason to freak out,”
said Justin Levitt, a professor at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles who has worked on voting rights issues at …

Voting rights experts skeptical over Trump pledge of 1,000 election monitors
Department of Justice plan raises questions over its ability to recruit so many people – and what they would do

California Gov. Gavin Newsom signs a law that will penalize influencers who do not properly disclose paid political content, with fines of up to $5K per post (Ken Bensinger/New York Times)
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California Cracks Down on Influencers’ Undisclosed Political Ads
Under a new law, creators could face fines of $5,000 per post if they don’t disclose that they were paid to make political content.

As the Trump administration conducted heavy-handed raids in Los Angeles and sent national guard troops and marines to respond to the ensuing protests,
two of the city’s soccer teams had put out statements of solidarity with immigrant families
– but not the Dodgers.
Juan also knew that Guggenheim Partners,
the multibillion-dollar ownership group behind the Dodgers franchise,
had a stake in the Geo Group,
a major private operator of immigration detention cen…

As Dodgers head to White House, loyal fans are conflicted: ‘Trump is tearing this city apart’
After ICE raids and protest crackdown, the LA team’s supporters are ambivalent about the World Series winners’ visit

Experts say AI kill-switch legislation is far harder to implement than lawmakers assume, warning a rogue AI could actively try to dismantle the mechanism itself (New York Times)
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Creating a Kill Switch to Shut Down a Rogue A.I. Is Harder Than It Sounds
A bipartisan group in Congress and Gov. Gavin Newsom of California have floated ideas for building a mechanism that would instantly power down an A.I. system. Only no one really knows how.

The historian Kim Phillips-Fein’s new book "Country of Lords" is a history of Neo-Aristocrats, Social Darwinists, Tech Utopians, and the Long Fight Against Equality in America.
Phillips-Fein studies conservatism and “questions about capitalism and democracy”.
Her first book "Invisible Hands", was a study of businessmen who fought the New Deal of the 1930s.
Her second, "Fear City", about the New York economic crisis of the 1970s, was a finalis…

Social Darwinists to tech bros: tracing the long fight against equality in US
Historian Kim Phillips-Fein’s book Country of Lords looks back at the many men who have tried to fight against egalitarianism, from John Adams to Peter Thiel

The temperature rise at the heart of El Niño in the Pacific Ocean has now reached 3.05C.
That is higher than the 3.02C set in late November 2015,
the previous high set in the 150 years of modern records.
This temperature is measured against the average of 1991-2020.
The preferred measure of most meteorologists uses a 30-year rolling average as a reference and so takes account of human-caused global heating.
This metric, called ONI (Nino3.4), is on the brink of…

‘Jaw-dropping’ El Niño bursts through temperature record months before peak
‘Godzilla-level’ phenomenon is supercharging the climate crisis and will have a huge impact on communities across the world

The Trump administration’s cuts to the largest global H.I.V. program last year resulted in sharp drops in both prevention efforts and treatment for the people most at risk from the disease, according to the first large survey of organizations that had received the funds.
The findings show a grimmer picture of the impact of the cuts than the State Department’s data, released in April,
which seemed to suggest that the program had helped to treat about as many people last year as it…

1,700 H.I.V. Treatment Sites Closed After Trump Aid Cuts, a Study Finds
New research also shows that children and high-risk adult populations have been particularly affected.

The EPA allowed pesticide giant Bayer to pick from a menu of regulation options for the controversial and destructive weedkiller dicamba,
newly released internal agency documents show.
The documents provide an unusually clear look into the process of developing pesticide regulations,
which is typically done out of public view.
It shows in detail how the EPA asked Bayer which regulations it wanted,
received a response from Bayer,
then put Bayer’s choices i…

US environment agency let Bayer pick regulations for destructive weedkiller, documents show
Environmental Protection Agency asked firm to choose rules it wanted for dicamba, then put the choices in a proposed federal rule

Firefighters rescued a small dog that had been missing for weeks after finding it swimming into the San Francisco Bay.
The dog had gone missing over the Fourth of July weekend, according to the Menlo Park fire protection district.
But someone called 911 on 16 July to say they had seen a dog enter the bay near the Dumbarton Bridge in East Palo Alto.
The dog “just kept swimming”, according to a Menlo Park fire district Instagram post.
The Menlo Park fire protection distri…

Small dog missing for weeks rescued while swimming in San Francisco Bay
Team of firefighters saved the pup from the water near East Palo Alto in a mission that utilized boats, trucks and a drone

As part of the Trump administration’s continuing attack on left-leaning groups,
the US state department has listed several activists and organizations as
“front groups and fellow travelers” for Cuba,
including Hasan Piker and Amazon Labor Union founder Chris Smalls.
In a 100-page report released on Monday, the state department denounces Cuba as the
“capital of 21st-century communism”,
accusing the Cuban government of carrying out a “campaign of subversion”…

‘Front groups and fellow travelers’: state department attacks US left over Cuba
New report denounces Havana and claims ‘campaign of subversion’ has infiltrated highest levels of US government

The most potent force in US politicsis anti-establishment fury at a system seen as rigged against average working people.
AI has become Exhibit A.
Until recently, both parties largely avoided criticizing the wealthy corporate elites that funded their campaigns.
In politics as in nature, one does not bite the hands that feed.
Trump Republicans have instead aimed populist fury at immigrants, LGBTQ people, Black and Latino people, “communists”, Muslims, so-called “woke”…

AI is generating a new wave of economic populism. It could be a tipping point
It’s becoming obvious to many Americans that corporations have been raking it in while workers take it on the chin

An outbreak of legionnaires’ disease in New York City has claimed a fourth life, officials have said,
as they again expressed confidence the source of the exposure had been eliminated.
A statement from the city’s health department on Monday said the outbreak, which was traced to cooling towers in buildings in Manhattan’s Upper East Side, had sickened 76 people
– with 53 discharged after hospital treatment, and 12 others managing their recovery at home.
A graph accompany…

Fourth person dies in New York City legionnaires’ disease outbreak
US health officials say source of Upper East Side cluster has likely been eliminated after 76 people fell ill

Jon Ossoff is quite the miracle worker.
Perhaps the Democratic senator can’t turn water into wine,
but he has managed to turn whining conservatives into impassioned feminists.
During a rally last Sunday, the Georgia senator delivered a takedown of Donald Trump, which included a reference to his aide Natalie Harp.
“He doesn’t want to do the job,” Ossoff said of the president.
“He wants to build his ballroom and travel with Natalie on their apparently defenseless…

It’s a miracle: Natalie Harp has turned Republicans into feminists
A Democrat’s remarks have resulted in impassioned defenses of the Trump aide. The right has discovered misogyny

After Trump refused to allow CNN to serve as a pool representative,
the major television networks on Monday suspended their pooled coverage of Trump,
breaking a practice that dates to the Eisenhower administration
The move was an extraordinary escalation amid a showdown between the Trump administration and the White House press corps,
which began last week when the president barred journalists at CNN, MS NOW and Politico from entering the White House grounds.
T…

Networks Suspend Pool Coverage of Trump After White House Bars CNN
The move was an escalation of President Trump’s showdown with the White House press corps after he moved to bar journalists from CNN, MS NOW and Politico.

The Trump administration has paused more than $1bn in Medicaid funding to California and Minnesota,
citing “suspected fraud and noncompliance”
– withholding of funding that follows a $243m pause in Medicaid payments to Minnesota earlier this year.
“If those states want that money, they need to provide documentation that these payments are legitimate,”
said Robert F Kennedy Jr, secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), at a press conference on Tue…

RFK Jr pauses $1bn Medicaid funding to California and Minnesota
Trump’s health secretary says AI used to identify potential fraud in Democratic-run states