President Donald Trump reported more than $1.4bn (£750m) in cryptocurrency-related earnings last year, according to his mandatory 2025 financial disclosure.

Netflix's Wonka show faces backlash for using an AI-generated Gene Wilder voice, though the deceased actor's likeness appears with the consent of his estate.

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Meta is planning a cloud infrastructure business to sell access to AI compute and models, monetizing excess AI hardware. This move, mirroring SpaceX’s approach of commercializing spare capacity, would put Meta in direct competition with AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure.

The author stopped arguing because debates rarely change minds, tend to reinforce identities and perverse incentives, and waste emotional energy. Instead they avoid confrontations, ask questions and listen more, and focus on actions and environments where persuasion is actually possible.

PlayStation will stop releasing physical game discs in 2028 and will instead sell retail copies as digital download codes only.

Canada will participate in the Eurovision Song Contest 2027, becoming the first new entrant since Australia joined the contest in 2015.

Humphrey Smith, the Tadcaster brewery boss who famously banned phones and swearing in his pubs and had led the company since the 1980s, has died aged 81.

Sony announced it will stop producing physical discs for new PlayStation games beginning January 2028, effectively shifting future releases to digital distribution.

Nintendo announced a 10% increase to its employees' base salaries.

A court-approved rescue deal will close up to 150 ex-WHSmith High Street stores and implement a sweeping restructuring that includes steep rent cuts for most remaining locations.

A Swedish court has ordered Google to pay $1.5 billion to buy‑now‑pay‑later firm Klarna in antitrust damages. The ruling found Google’s conduct harmed competition and awarded Klarna compensation.

Several people were killed and injured when a fire broke out in a 10‑storey apartment block in Antwerp’s Linkeroever district.

The author laments that the open, decentralized web of personal blogs, forums, RSS and small communities has been replaced by centralized platforms, algorithmic feeds, pervasive tracking, and attention-driven monetization. They argue this shift erodes creativity and user control and call for renewed use of decentralized protocols and support for independent creators to rebuild a less extractive internet.

Three people were killed during massive World Cup celebrations in Mexico City, where more than one million people took to the streets after Mexico's win over Ecuador.

The Asahi Linux 7.1 progress report summarizes recent development milestones in porting Linux to Apple Silicon, covering kernel and driver work, installer and packaging improvements, and upstreaming efforts. It also outlines remaining tasks, performance and power‑management work, and next steps and timelines for broader hardware support.

Rebecca Wilcox outlines common tricks firms use to deny refunds and gives practical steps—like keeping receipts, asserting consumer rights, and escalating complaints—to help people secure their money back.

Pine64 has launched a $50 RISC-V smart speaker aimed at Home Assistant tinkerers, offering an open, hackable device that prioritizes local control and privacy for DIY home automation.

Ofgem’s new energy price cap, which took effect on 1 July, increases the typical annual household bill by 13%, raising costs for most consumers. Actual impacts will vary by tariff, payment method and household usage.

A preclinical study found that a single dose of a gut bacterium isolated from frogs eradicated tumors in 100% of treated mice, apparently by provoking a strong anti-tumor immune response. These results are limited to animal models and require further validation before any implications for humans.

The Godot open-source game engine will no longer accept AI-authored code contributions. Maintainers say AI-generated patches pose legal, quality and maintainability risks — “we can’t trust heavy users of AI to understand their code enough to fix it.”

Extreme heat exposes weaknesses in critical infrastructure because many systems weren’t designed for higher temperatures. As a result, power grids can overload or fail and rail networks suffer equipment faults and warped tracks, leaving vital services increasingly vulnerable as heatwaves grow more frequent.

Romesh Ranganathan said he was "gutted" after Coughlans Bakery went into voluntary liquidation, with the owners blaming rises in national insurance and business rates.

Amnesty International reports that Sudan's Rapid Support Forces committed crimes against humanity in el-Fasher, reinforcing UN findings that the violence there bore hallmarks of genocide.

Enforcing orthogonality on recurrent weight matrices substantially improves RNN memory and training stability by preserving gradient norms and enabling better long-term dependency learning. Experiments in the post show stronger performance on sequence-memory tasks and recommend simple matrix-orthogonalization methods as an effective alternative to more complex architectures.

Researchers produced early-stage human oocyte-like cells from pluripotent stem cells in vitro, forming follicle-like structures that resemble natural early eggs. The advance provides a new platform for studying human gametogenesis and infertility while raising ethical and regulatory questions about future development and use.

Ramp's analysis finds that firms adopting generative AI tend to reallocate labor rather than simply cut jobs: hiring shifts toward engineering, product, and AI-adjacent roles while routine and administrative tasks shrink or get automated. Adoption is associated with productivity gains and role upskilling rather than widespread layoffs.