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Is Trump winning the tariff wars?
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Selected from The Times as an argument-led read.
Haiti Needs Stability, Not Mass Deportations
Deporting Haitian migrants will further destabilize a country in crisis.
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Financial Times
Oil jumps to $96 after Houthis attack two Saudi Arabian oil tankers
Yemeni rebels say they used missiles and drones to target the vessels Encelia and Layla
Financial Times
Military briefing: can the US reopen the Strait of Hormuz by force?
Renewed air campaign has yet to reassure shipowners the waterway can be made safe from Iranian attacks
Financial Times
US and Saudi Arabia agree landmark nuclear energy pact
Critics warn agreement lacks safeguards to prevent future uranium enrichment and reprocessing
Financial Times
Japan awakes
Why 1 per cent interest rates could shake everything up after a generation of deflation
BBC News
Police officer was violent rapist who attacked women over 14 years, BBC reveals
The BBC can reveal that detectives have so far uncovered nine victims of PC Alan Greer but many more are anticipated.
BBC News
'What was their crime?': BBC visits Iran school where strike killed 120 children
Nearly five months on, grief is still raw as a teacher and a mother recall the horror of the attack in Minab.
BBC News
US signs landmark nuclear deal with Saudi Arabia
The US Department of Energy says the "peaceful" co-operation agreement will give US firms "great access" to the Saudi nuclear...
BBC News
Houthis claim attack on oil tankers as US launches more strikes on Iran
The Houthi attacks would be the first in the Red Sea since the Iran-backed group announced a "maritime embargo" against Saudi Arabia.
BBC News
Airport drop-off fees up by a third - here are the priciest
The cost of parking closest to the terminal has hit £10 at two of the UK's airports.
The Economist
India’s Gen-Z protesters demand a proper education
NYT Europe
Hitler’s Birthplace in Austria Is Now a Police Station
The government repurposed the 17th-century building in hopes of preventing the site from becoming an attraction for Nazi sympathizers.
NYT Europe
Fire Ravaged the Glasgow School of Art. It May Cost Too Much to Restore It.
Designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh, the Glasgow School of Art is one of Britain’s most famous buildings. The school says it...
The Telegraph
Inflation fall a ‘false dawn’, Burnham warned
Inflation fall a ‘false dawn’, Burnham warned
The Telegraph
Russia destroys Ukraine HIV warehouse
Missiles hit facility holding 62 million prevention items earmarked for the country’s harm reduction programmes
Wales
BBC Wales
River levels approach all-time low as drought announcement looms
An announcement is expected from NRW as some river levels are reported to be nearing all-time lows.
BBC Wales
I became a nurse after my husband died from Covid - now I'm determined to get a job
Rachel Ohene-Adjei took her GCSEs after her husband died, and has now graduated with a nursing degree.
BBC Wales
Jeremy Clarkson's choir announces debut album after performing in Welsh
The Hawkstone Farmers' Choir performed in Welsh for the first time, including singing Calon Lân.
BBC Wales
No helicopters to fight wildfires as 'crisis management' plans activated
One campsite owner in Trawsfynydd says she went to bed "seeing the mountain literally ablaze".
Sport
BBC Sport · Football
One month, two record transfers - why English midfielders are in demand
Elliot Anderson and Morgan Rogers both sold for record transfer fees, so why are English midfielders so in demand?
BBC Sport · Football
Wolves training cancelled after Arokodare refuses to leave pitch
Wolves striker Tolu Arokodare forces the cancellation of a training session as he refuses to leave the pitch.
BBC Sport · Netball
Two waste paper bins, one Olympic dream
Derived from basketball and developed by teenagers in late-Victorian England, netball is sport's great misunderstood "girly...
BBC Sport · Football
Inter Miami under investigation after signing Casemiro
Major League Soccer says it is investigating allegations of tampering by Inter Miami after the club signed Brazil midfielder Casemiro.
The Race · F1
A big test of Audi's bold F1 claim
Audi believes its chassis is good enough to be in the podium fight at some tracks - it just needs more power
The Race · F1
Farewell to the worst car of F1 2026
Aston Martin's upgrade is the first major test of an Adrian Newey-led F1 team that must restore its reputation - and hang on...
The Race
The reality of funding the world's oldest racetrack
How does the world's oldest purpose-built racetrack, Brooklands, stay relevant, interesting, and financially stable after 119 years?
Formula 1 Official
Best early Hungarian GP bets and latest odds
We’ve checked the latest betting markets and selected the early bets offering the best value at the Hungaroring.
Formula 1 Official
Our early Bet Builder for the Hungarian Grand Prix
Our expert betting writers have picked a five-leg early Bet Builder, including top-six finish, classified finishers and three...
ESPN Cricinfo
Lalit Modi 'looking forward to coming back to India' after getting legal relief
An apellate tribunal has set aside penalties imposed on the former IPL chairman and other former BCCI officials in connection...
ESPN Cricinfo
Konstas, Kellaway, Patterson named in CA XI to face Bangladesh
Rocchiccioli, Philippe, Doran also included for the three-day tour game
Science
New Scientist
Orcas filmed making sunfish explode by ramming them at high speed
Orcas have been seen smashing into sharp-tail sunfish so hard that the fish bursts into thousands of fragments, perhaps as a...
New Scientist
More than a gut feeling
Long overlooked, the connection between our gut microbes and brain is yielding new insights into mental health
New Scientist
Why open-source software can be both good and bad
Software that is free to use creates many opportunities – not all of which are good
New Scientist
This twisty sci-fi thriller is a fantastic debut from Isabel J. Kim
Sublimation, in which a person can split into two when crossing an international border, is tip-top stuff. Don't miss it, says...
Technology
The Verge
Lego’s Donkey Kong arcade machine lets Mario jump endless barrels — Miyamoto is reportedly happy
Carl Merriam has designed some of my favorite nostalgia-inducing Lego sets, including the Lego Nintendo Game Boy and Piranha...
The Verge
Meta won’t have to face the next planned social media addiction trial
Less than a week before Meta's lawyers were set to return to a Los Angeles courtroom, the plaintiff accusing the platform of...
The Verge
Tesla’s revenues are bouncing back, but profits are still weak
After a dismal two years of weakening demand, falling sales, and damage to its brand by Elon Musk's political activities,...
The Verge
Price-hiked iPads are a little cheaper right now
A number of Apple products got more expensive last month, so we’re happy to find deals wherever and whenever we can. If you’re...
Techcrunch
ServiceNow bets $40 million on Indian banking software specialist to expand its financial services push
ServiceNow's investment gives BusinessNext a strategic partner to expand its AI-powered banking software globally.
Techcrunch
After shocking quarter, IBM insists that AI isn’t killing the mainframe
After IBM's stock crashed last week on warnings of poor mainframe sales, the CEO explained that AI wrecked corporate hardware...
Techcrunch
Google justifies its massive AI spending with a booming cloud business
Google's cloud business is thriving, as companies adopting its AI and AI infrastructure services help the tech giant to report...
Techcrunch
Treasury threatens sanctions after White House claims Moonshot distilled Anthropic’s Fable
The episode has also intensified a broader debate in Washington over the influx of Chinese open models.
Wired
Why Lettuce Is Always Making People Sick
The cyclospora diarrhea outbreak isn’t an isolated incident. It’s part of a pattern of leafy greens wreaking digestive havoc.
Wired
The White House Is Trying to Figure Out What to Do About Chinese AI
There’s a debate going on in the Trump administration over how to handle increasingly powerful Chinese AI models.
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git's –end-of-options Flag
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Terence Tao's ChatGPT conversation about the Jacobian Conjecture counterexample
Hacker News · 310 pts
Quality non-fiction books are the antithesis of AI slop
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Escape IntelliJ: Scala and Kotlin LSPs on Emacs Eglot
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GigaToken: ~1000x faster Language model tokenization
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Show HN: Bento - An entire PowerPoint in one HTML file (edit+view+data+collab)
Papers
Computer science
FineServe: A Fine-Grained Dataset and Characterization of Global LLM Serving Workloads
Computer science
Hybrid LSTM-Graph Neural Framework for Robust Financial Fraud Detection and Adversarial Resilience
Computer science
OpenEvoShield: Dual Non-Stationary Continual Defense for Open-World Multi-Agent System Attacks
Economics
Profiling and Endogenous Valuation
Congenital Heart Block