31 Jul 2025
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Family throws surprise birthday party at Eagles tailgate for Vietnam vet
31 Jul 2025 11:41am GMT
Car chase ends with police-involved shooting
31 Jul 2025 11:41am GMT
$200,000 worth of supplies donated to PB schools
31 Jul 2025 11:41am GMT
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Schedule superlatives: The toughest, easiest and most interesting matchups of 2025
We break down which teams face the biggest challenges and which have the easiest roads ahead.
31 Jul 2025 12:37pm GMT
2026 class rankings: Texas Tech moves into top 25
As more of the best recruits commit, here's how the top classes stack up.
31 Jul 2025 12:37pm GMT
Mets keep fortifying bullpen, get Cards' Helsley
The Mets traded three players to the Cardinals for closer Ryan Helsley, who was expected to serve as the setup man in New York for Edwin Diaz.
31 Jul 2025 12:32pm GMT
LXer Linux News
AMD Threadripper 9980X + 9970X Linux Benchmarks: Incredible Workstation Performance
Ahead of the Threadripper 9000 series hitting store shelves tomorrow, today the review embargo lifts on these new high-end desktop/workstation Zen 5 processors. I have been testing out the Threadripper 9970X and 9980X this month and have been extremely excited about the generational uplift and all-around performance of these new AMD Ryzen Threadripper 9970X/9980X processors on Linux for delivering the best possible workstation performance in 2025.
31 Jul 2025 11:36am GMT
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Brian Eno announces ‘Together For Palestine’ London Wembley gig “gathering artists, musicians and people”
"This is a chance for us to stand together and say: this can't continue"
The post Brian Eno announces 'Together For Palestine' London Wembley gig "gathering artists, musicians and people" appeared first on NME.
31 Jul 2025 11:34am GMT
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Now nurses and GPs threaten to strike as NHS braces for winter chaos
31 Jul 2025 11:21am GMT
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How a Michigan program that gives new mothers cash could be a model for rest of US
31 Jul 2025 11:18am GMT
Global Economy
US tariffs on EU wine and spirits set at 15% from August 1, Brussels says
Bloc members including France and Italy are pushing for an exemption as negotiations continue
31 Jul 2025 11:18am GMT
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Left lane squatting irritates fellow drivers. Is it illegal in Michigan?
31 Jul 2025 11:13am GMT
News | NME
‘South Park’ mocks Trump again in trailer for new episode
The previous episode was condemned in a statement by The White House
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31 Jul 2025 11:10am GMT
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Chile takes new steps to save endangered Darwin's frog
31 Jul 2025 11:09am GMT
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All the ways Republicans want to honor Trump, from the $100 bill to Mount Rushmore
31 Jul 2025 11:05am GMT
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Springfield man killed in multi-vehicle crash on I-5 south of Goshen
31 Jul 2025 11:02am GMT
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Fact Check: Probing claim that interstellar object is 'most likely' an alien ship heading towards Earth
31 Jul 2025 11:00am GMT
Hacker News
GEPA: Reflective Prompt Evolution Can Outperform Reinforcement Learning
31 Jul 2025 10:57am GMT
News | NME
Xbox Game Pass is adding some big titles for August 2025
More games will be announced in the coming days
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31 Jul 2025 10:57am GMT
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Iranian president says country is on brink of dire water crisis
31 Jul 2025 10:51am GMT
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Market Digest: NLY, BRO, EA, PEP, RSG, WY, V, QRVO
31 Jul 2025 10:49am GMT
Daily – Vickers Top Insider Picks for 07/31/2025
31 Jul 2025 10:10am GMT
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31 Jul 2025 10:10am GMT
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GOP’s Josh Hawley and Democrats vote to advance congressional stock trading ban
31 Jul 2025 10:07am GMT
LXer Linux News
Archinstall 3.0.9 Rolls Out with U2F and Bluetooth Support
Archinstall 3.0.9, a guided installer for Arch Linux, adds U2F authentication, LUKS iteration tweaks, and Bluetooth support.
31 Jul 2025 10:05am GMT
Slashdot
Australia Widens Teen Social Media Ban To YouTube, Scraps Exemption
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Australia said on Wednesday it will add YouTube to sites covered by its world-first ban on social media for teenagers, reversing an earlier decision to exempt the Alphabet-owned video-sharing site and potentially setting up a legal challenge. The decision came after the internet regulator urged the government last month to overturn the YouTube carve-out, citing a survey that found 37% of minors reported harmful content on the site, the worst showing for a social media platform. "I'm calling time on it," Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said in a statement highlighting that Australian children were being negatively affected by online platforms, and reminding social media of their social responsibility. "I want Australian parents to know that we have their backs." The decision broadens the ban set to take effect in December. YouTube says it is used by nearly three-quarters of Australians aged 13 to 15, and should not be classified as social media because its main activity is hosting videos. "Our position remains clear: YouTube is a video sharing platform with a library of free, high-quality content, increasingly viewed on TV screens. It's not social media," a YouTube spokesperson said by email.
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31 Jul 2025 10:00am GMT
Global Economy
FirstFT: Canada and Mexico lead last-minute talks as Trump tariff deadline looms
Also in today's newsletter, the Fed defies Trump, and Meta shares surge
31 Jul 2025 9:55am GMT
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Republicans bet big on Latino voters in redistricted Texas
31 Jul 2025 9:55am GMT
Global Economy
BMW says industry reaction to Trump tariffs is ‘way exaggerated’
German carmaker maintains its annual guidance despite a 32% decline in second quarter net profits
31 Jul 2025 9:53am GMT
LXer Linux News
Linux Begins Preparing For The Lenovo Legion Go 2 Handheld
In recent days there have been an increasing flow of leaks surrounding the Legion Go 2 as the next-generation handheld from Lenovo. The Lenovo Legion Go 2 is reported to be launching later this year with an AMD Ryzen Z2 Extreme SoC, 144Hz OLED display, and a variety of other hardware upgrades over the original Lenovo Legion Go. Linux driver activity around the Legion Go 2 has begun...
31 Jul 2025 8:33am GMT
BBC News
When will interest rates go down again?
The interest rate set by the Bank of England affects mortgage, loan and savings rates for millions.
31 Jul 2025 7:31am GMT
BBC News
Russian strikes kill eight and hit Kyiv apartment block, officials say
A boy and his mother are among the dead and Kyiv says it has seen the biggest number of child casualties of the war.
31 Jul 2025 7:30am GMT
BBC News
Why is UK inflation still rising?
UK Inflation has fallen from record highs but remains above the Bank of England's 2% target.
31 Jul 2025 7:27am GMT
Slashdot
Peacock Feathers Can Be Lasers
sciencehabit shares a report from Science.org: Peacocks have a secret hidden in their brightly colored tail feathers: tiny reflective structures that can amplify light into a laser beam. After dyeing the feathers and energizing them with an external light source, researchers discovered they emitted narrow beams of yellow-green laser light. They say the study, published this month in Scientific Reports, offers the first example of a laser cavity in the animal kingdom. [...] Scientists have long known that peacock feathers also exhibit "structural color" -- nature's pigment-free way to create dazzling hues. Ordered microstructures within the feathers reflect light at specific frequencies, leading to their vivid blues and greens and iridescence. But Florida Polytechnic University physicist Nathan Dawson and his colleagues wanted to go a step further and see whether those microstructures could also function as a laser cavity. After staining the feathers with a common dye and pumping them with soft pulses of light, they used laboratory instruments to detect beams of yellow-green laser light that were too faint to see with the naked eye. They emerged from the feathers' eyespots, at two distinct wavelengths. Surprisingly, differently colored parts of the eyespots emitted the same wavelengths of laser light, even though each region would presumably vary in its microstructure. Just because peacock feathers emit laser light doesn't mean the birds are somehow using this emission. But there are still ramifications, Dawson says. He suggests that looking for laser light in biomaterials could help identify arrays of regular microstructures within them. In medicine, for example, certain foreign objects -- viruses with distinct geometric shapes, perhaps -- could be classified and identified based on their ability to be lasers, he says. The work also demonstrates how biological materials could one day yield lasers that could be put safely into the human body to emit light for biosensing, medical imaging, and therapeutics. "I always like to think that for many technological achievements that benefit humans," Dawson says, "some organism somewhere has already developed it through some evolutionary process."
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31 Jul 2025 7:00am GMT
BBC News
Tsitsipas reappoints father after Ivanisevic split
Stefanos Tsitsipas reappoints his father Apostolos as his coach following a split with former Wimbledon champion Goran Ivanisevic.
31 Jul 2025 6:18am GMT
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4,000-year-old teeth reveal the earliest use of this psychoactive substance
31 Jul 2025 5:58am GMT
Hacker News
Show HN: AgentGuard – Auto-kill AI agents before they burn through your budget
31 Jul 2025 5:54am GMT
BBC News
British 999 call handler's voice cloned by Russian network using AI
A BBC Verify investigation has revealed that the identities of British public sector workers have been cloned using AI by a Russian-linked disinformation campaign.
31 Jul 2025 5:06am GMT
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Watch SpaceX launch Crew-11 astronauts to the ISS for NASA today
31 Jul 2025 4:01am GMT
Slashdot
Google Tool Misused To Scrub Tech CEO's Shady Past From Search
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Google is fond of saying its mission is to "organize the world's information," but who gets to decide what information is worthy of organization? A San Francisco tech CEO has spent the past several years attempting to remove unflattering information about himself from Google's search index, and the nonprofit Freedom of the Press Foundation says he's still at it. Most recently, an unknown bad actor used a bug in one of Google's search tools to scrub the offending articles. The saga began in 2023 when independent journalist Jack Poulson reported on Maury Blackman's 2021 domestic violence arrest. Blackman, who was then the CEO of surveillance tech firm Premise Data Corp., took offense at the publication of his legal issues. The case did not lead to charges after Blackman's 25-year-old girlfriend recanted her claims against the 53-year-old CEO, but Poulson reported on some troubling details of the public arrest report. Blackman has previously used tools like DMCA takedowns and lawsuits to stifle reporting on his indiscretion, but that campaign now appears to have co-opted part of Google's search apparatus. The Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF) reported on Poulson's work and Blackman's attempts to combat it late last year. In June, Poulson contacted the Freedom of the Press Foundation to report that the article had mysteriously vanished from Google search results. The foundation began an investigation immediately, which led them to a little-known Google search feature known as Refresh Outdated Content. Google created this tool for users to report links with content that is no longer accurate or that lead to error pages. When it works correctly, Refresh Outdated Content can help make Google's search results more useful. However, Freedom of the Press Foundation now says that a bug allowed an unknown bad actor to scrub mentions of Blackman's arrest from the Internet. Upon investigating, FPF found that its article on Blackman was completely absent from Google results, even through a search with the exact title. Poulson later realized that two of his own Substack articles were similarly affected. The Foundation was led to the Refresh Outdated Content tool upon checking its search console. The bug in the tool allowed malicious actors to de-index valid URLs from search results by altering the capitalization in the URL slug. Although URLs are typically case-sensitive, Google's tool treated them as case-insensitive. As a result, when someone submitted a slightly altered version of a working URL (for example, changing "anatomy" to "AnAtomy"), Google's crawler would see it as a broken link (404 error) and mistakenly remove the actual page from search results. Ironically, Blackman is now CEO of the online reputation management firm The Transparency Company.
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31 Jul 2025 3:30am GMT
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Photos show the cosmic calling of extraterrestrial enthusiasts at Indonesia’s UFO Festival
31 Jul 2025 3:22am GMT
BBC News
Fed holds interest rates steady despite Trump pressure
But support for a cut may be widening, as debates rage about how tariffs will affect the US economy.
31 Jul 2025 12:30am GMT
30 Jul 2025
Ars Technica
In search of riches, hackers plant 4G-enabled Raspberry Pi in bank network
Sophisticated group also used novel means to disguise their custom malware.
30 Jul 2025 10:21pm GMT
Senate confirms CDC director as top FDA official resigns under political pressure
Senate confirmed Susan Monarez to CDC while Vinay Prasad made a quick exit from FDA.
30 Jul 2025 9:09pm GMT
St. Paul, MN was hacked so badly that the National Guard has been deployed
"A deliberate, coordinated digital attack."
30 Jul 2025 8:47pm GMT
Linux Today
Rescuezilla 2.6.1 Released with Ubuntu 25.04 Base
Discover the latest Rescuezilla 2.6.1 release, now based on Ubuntu 25.04. Explore new features and enhancements for efficient system recovery.
The post Rescuezilla 2.6.1 Released with Ubuntu 25.04 Base appeared first on Linux Today.
30 Jul 2025 1:46pm GMT
Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Autodesk Fusion
Discover the best free and open source alternatives to Autodesk Fusion. Explore powerful tools that enhance your design capabilities without the cost.
The post Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Autodesk Fusion appeared first on Linux Today.
30 Jul 2025 1:38pm GMT
GStreamer 1.26.4 Rolls Out with Bug Fixes and Performance Tweaks
Discover the latest GStreamer 1.26.4 update featuring essential bug fixes and performance enhancements. Improve your multimedia experience today!
The post GStreamer 1.26.4 Rolls Out with Bug Fixes and Performance Tweaks appeared first on Linux Today.
30 Jul 2025 1:32pm GMT
25 Jul 2025
JavaScript Weekly
Will WebAssembly ever get DOM support?
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Beyoncé makes history with 'Texas Hold 'Em,' but TikTok is talking about her unreleased track 'Donk'
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What is the '2 Days Into College' song trending on TikTok, and why is a Duke basketball player involved?
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31 Jan 2024
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Is your favorite Taylor Swift song no longer on TikTok? How Universal Music Group's latest move could affect artists, fans.
31 Jan 2024 6:14pm GMT