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World’s Heaviest Pumpkin Sets Incredible New Record at 2,856 lbs. https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/worlds-heaviest-pumpkin-sets-incredible-new-record-at-2856-lbs/
An NFL guide to dealing with the World Cup final’s extended halftime show https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7447458/2026/07/17/world-cup-final-2026-halftime-show-delay-super-bowl-nfl/
At the World AI Conference, Xi Jinping touts open-source AI, pledges to help the Global South build AI capabilities, and calls unequal AI access an "injustice" (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, a regulatory agency whose leader was chosen by Donald Trump,
granted preliminary approval on Friday to World Liberty Financial’s application for a federal bank charter.
World Liberty Financial is a crypto venture launched in 2024 by the president’s two eldest sons,
Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump,
and several partners.
The firm’s website states that WLF is 38% owned by “an entity affiliated with Donald J. Trump and …
Looking at https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/732341/trump-claims-that-declassified-documents-show-us-election-vulnerabilities it's worth noting that the Heritage Foundation wrote the Project 2025 plan, and they're …
U.S. Little League Baseball World Series champion Henderson Paseo Verde team to light the Al Davis Memorial Torch on Sunday https://www.raiders.com/news/u-s-little-league-baseball-world-series-…
USA men, Canadian women win flag football world titles as multiple countries earn bids to LA Olympics https://www.nfl.com/news/usa-men-canadian-women-win-flag-football-world-titles-as-multiple-countries-earn-bids-to-la-o…
Trump-backed WLF is collaborating with Hong Kong-based AI platform WorldClaw; 43 of its 90 AI models are developed by Chinese entities flagged as security risks (Lawrence Delevingne/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/trump-
Longtime tech worker organizers Clarissa Redwine and JS Tan’s new book,
"Against Tech Oligarchy: Worker Resistance in the World’s Most Powerful Industry",
draws on the authors’ experiences at major tech companies to chronicle
the rise and fall of the tech worker movement,
its early victories,
and the repression and slide to corporate control that followed.
“Over the course of the 2010s, what we saw was that
the tech industry wasn’t quite th…