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Russian authorities detain suspect over St. Petersburg cafe blast
CNN July 21, 2026 · 23:37 UTC

Russian authorities detain suspect over St. Petersburg cafe blast

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Tankers carrying Saudi oil turned back after Houthi threats; Trump claims US will hit Iran nuclear storage facility ‘pretty soon’
The Guardian Jul 21, 2026 · 23:15

Tankers carrying Saudi oil turned back after Houthi threats; Trump claims US will hit Iran nuclear storage facility ‘pretty soon’

In a letter to shippers, the Houthis have threatened to attack any ships that load or discharge Saudi oilHouthis threaten to attack shipping tankers if they use Saudi Arabian ports on Red SeaLebanon’s president, Joseph Aoun, is due to meet Donald Trump for the first time today as he wraps up a four-day visit to Washington.The meeting coincides with ongoing US-mediated talks between Lebanon and Israel. The two sides announced a “framework agreement” on 26 June which stipulates the withdrawal...

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Health worker monitored for Ebola in London hospital after working in DRC
The Guardian Jul 21, 2026 · 22:39

Health worker monitored for Ebola in London hospital after working in DRC

UK resident was evacuated from Democratic Republic of the Congo where there is an outbreak of the diseaseA humanitarian worker is being monitored at a specialist hospital in London after potential exposure to the Ebola virus.The UK resident was medically evacuated from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) where the worker had been treating patients with the disease, the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) said. Continue reading...

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The Verge Jul 21, 2026 · 22:06

Neill Blomkamp’s new zombie AI ‘film’ is just slop warmed over

On Monday, District 9 and Gran Turismo director Neill Blomkamp unveiled his latest project: a 13-minute sci-fi short titled Nightborne that's loosely based on Peter Watts' 2014 novel Echopraxia. The short comes from Blomkamp's new AI startup / production company, Barley Studios, and features characters whose voices and faces are modeled after human actors. But […]

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The Verge Jul 21, 2026 · 21:48

OpenAI says it accidentally hacked Hugging Face with a new AI system

OpenAI says its AI models mistakenly breached open-source AI platform Hugging Face during internal testing. In a blog post on Tuesday, OpenAI writes that GPT-5.6 Sol and "an even more capable pre-release model" discovered vulnerabilities within their sandboxed testing environment, allowing them to gain access to the internet and target Hugging Face. On July 16th, […]

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Zelenskyy fires Ukraine’s army chief and offers Fedorov ‘prominent position’
The Guardian Jul 21, 2026 · 21:34

Zelenskyy fires Ukraine’s army chief and offers Fedorov ‘prominent position’

After nationwide protests Oleksandr Syrskyi is to be replaced in reshuffle and popular defence minister returns to governmentVolodymyr Zelenskyy has fired Ukraine’s commander-in-chief Oleksandr Syrskyi and offered a “prominent position” to the defence minister he sacked last week in a move that sparked nationwide protests.In a late-night TV address, Zelenskyy said he was appointing Mykhailo Drapatyi, a popular and innovative general, as the new head of Ukraine’s armed forces. Drapatyi would...

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Andy Burnham urges cabinet to examine ‘all possible ways’ to tackle cost of living crisis
The Guardian Jul 21, 2026 · 19:53

Andy Burnham urges cabinet to examine ‘all possible ways’ to tackle cost of living crisis

As new prime minister briefs cabinet on ‘cost of living government’, critics ask where money will come fromAndy Burnham is under mounting pressure to explain how he will pay for his policy pledges as he implored his new cabinet to examine “all possible ways” to tackle the cost of living crisis.On his first full day in power, the prime minister faced questions about how he would fund the removal of VAT from electricity bills and an expected uplift in defence spending – an issue that led his...

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TechCrunch Jul 21, 2026 · 19:39

AI and the rise of the universal entertainment app

Over the past decade, streaming platforms competed by dominating individual formats like music, video, podcasts, or audiobooks. Now, as AI makes it easier to create, organize, and recommend content, those distinctions are fading, pushing companies like Spotify, Netflix, YouTube, and TikTok to become all-purpose entertainment destinations instead.

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The Verge Jul 21, 2026 · 19:22

Substack adds an AI detector to help spot blogs written by no one

Substack will now help users determine whether what they're reading may have been written by AI. A new tool coming to the platform can scan posts, notes, replies, and comments to provide an estimate of how much text could be AI-generated or written with AI assistance, according to a blog post published on Tuesday. The […]

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Could the World Cup be back in the US as soon as 2038? Absolutely
The Guardian Jul 21, 2026 · 19:00

Could the World Cup be back in the US as soon as 2038? Absolutely

Explosion in ticketing and hospitality revenue goes along with a Fifa desire to recoup lost TV income in future dealsAs is often the case, it has been left to Donald Trump to say the quiet bit out loud. “We have to do this again and we have to do it while I’m around, you hear that Gianni?” the US president told Fox News in an interview broadcast in the buildup to the World Cup final.An American bid for the 2038 World Cup has been the talk of the hotel lobbies populated by administrators from...

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‘The explosion is what I remember’: man nearly sucked out of Ryanair plane recounts ordeal
The Guardian Jul 21, 2026 · 18:26

‘The explosion is what I remember’: man nearly sucked out of Ryanair plane recounts ordeal

Exclusive: Ljubisa Karović tells Guardian the fact that he lived to tell the tale is nothing short of a miracleIt is the explosion just before he was nearly sucked out of the aircraft that Ljubisa Karović remembers. The thunderous noise of the window shattering that roused him from slumber in 11F, his window seat on the early morning Ryanair flight from Greece to Germany.Eleven days and 11 nights later, it remains the prelude “to the chaos, the catastrophe” that keeps him awake at night....

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The Verge Jul 21, 2026 · 17:13

Nearly every Kindle is steeply discounted at Best Buy

If you’ve been thinking about picking up a Kindle before school starts, or for your next vacation, now’s a good time to do it. As part of its Black Friday in July sale, Best Buy has brought the Kindle Paperwhite back down to its all-time low of $124.99 ($35 off). It’s the Kindle we recommend […]

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The Verge Jul 21, 2026 · 17:00

Twitch will let parents stop their teens going live

Twitch is giving parents more control over how their children are using the streaming platform, including the ability to block them from broadcasting entirely. Parental controls are now available that allow guardians to link Twitch accounts with their 13- to 17-year-old children, providing account management features and a weekly email summarizing their teen's activity, including […]

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The Verge Jul 21, 2026 · 16:53

Anthropic’s $1.5 billion book piracy settlement approved by judge

A federal judge has signed off on Anthropic's $1.5 billion class action settlement with authors who accused the company of training its AI models on copyrighted books, as reported earlier by Reuters. In an order on Monday, Judge Araceli Martínez-Olguín writes that the settlement will provide "meaningful relief," offering authors around $3,000 for each book […]

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The Verge Jul 21, 2026 · 16:15

Instagram will let users endlessly swap the audio on old posts

There's a symbiotic - and sometimes frustrating - relationship between social media sites and the creators that depend on them. Platforms need influencers' and creators' content to keep consumers on their apps; the creators, in turn, need to be able to reach those audiences to justify creating their content in the first place. Creators want […]

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The Verge Jul 21, 2026 · 16:11

Tesla Robotaxis go to Florida

It must be earnings day, because Tesla is making a Robotaxi announcement. The company said in a post on X that it was launching its Robotaxi service in Orlando and Tampa, attaching a pair of maps that show each city's service area. No word on fleet size or whether interested customers would be able to […]

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Tick bites are on the rise in the US and UK. Here’s how to protect yourself
The Guardian Jul 21, 2026 · 16:00

Tick bites are on the rise in the US and UK. Here’s how to protect yourself

Experts share tips to avoid the blood-sucking pests that can transmit Lyme disease and other illnesses on to humansI won’t go into gory detail about the tick I found latched behind my ear approximately 35 hours after a hike in early June. Suffice it to say, the parasite was well fed, and I was horrified.I am far from alone in making such a disgusting discovery. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), emergency room visits for tick bites have been unusually high in...

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Big, brave Nige shows face in public again with aimless speech to a few mega-fans | John Crace
The Guardian Jul 21, 2026 · 15:36

Big, brave Nige shows face in public again with aimless speech to a few mega-fans | John Crace

Reform leader’s recycled moanathon included digs at Kemi, the media, immigrants and new PM. But no questions, of courseIs it safe? Is it safe? For the past couple of months, Nigel Farage has been like Laurence Olivier in Marathon Man, wondering if he can come out of hiding. Tucked away in one of his five homes, living on handouts from benefactors and hoping the coast is clear. Free from troublesome reporters who insist on asking awkward questions about where his money comes from and what...

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‘The Kardashian era is over’: TikTok’s ‘povvo king’ takes on the billionaires
The Guardian Jul 21, 2026 · 13:26

‘The Kardashian era is over’: TikTok’s ‘povvo king’ takes on the billionaires

Shabaz Ali stormed to TikTok fame mocking the designer ice cubes of the privileged. Now he’s on the BBC stoking revolt against the superrichIt was ice cubes that tipped Shabaz Ali over the edge. “A woman online spent her entire day making content about ‘designer ice cubes’,” he recalls. “She’d freeze flavoured waters or fruit juices and show the whole process in tedious detail. I was like, ‘There’s no way she’s got a proper job or has ever struggled for money. Only someone wealthy would have...

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Football, golf … behold the future of world sport: Donald Trump as referee-in-chief | Marina Hyde
The Guardian Jul 21, 2026 · 12:15

Football, golf … behold the future of world sport: Donald Trump as referee-in-chief | Marina Hyde

After his dubious intervention at the World Cup, the president is now an arbiter of high-level fairway disputes. There’s one word for that: SAD! For so many of us around the world, the final scenes of the World Cup were a chance to switch off the TV with an eye-roll and observe mildly: “Well, I think that’s quite enough America for us all for a while now.” And yet: there can and must always be more. It is simply the way of things. If you thought the World Cup being carried on to the pitch...

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