Russian attacks kill 17, exploiting Ukraine’s lack of missile interceptors

Russia has pounded Kyiv and surrounding areas with ballistic missiles and drones, killing at least 17 people, as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy warns lives could have been saved had allies replenished its stocks of missile interceptors.

SpaceX dives 12% after AI spending surge rattles investors

A live feed shows SpaceX CEO Elon Musk on the day of SpaceX's initial public offering (IPO) at the Nasdaq MarketSite, in New York City, U.S., June 12, 2026.

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Trump's deportation agenda raised prices, contracted local economies, immigration group says

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President Donald Trump's mass deportation campaign has caused the costs of groceries, homes and healthcare to rise and local economies to contract, a new report from the pro-immigration advocacy group America's Voice.

Safety Incident Involving President’s Marine One Helicopter Under Investigation

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A potential air safety incident on Tuesday involving the presidential helicopter while President Donald Trump was onboard in Washington, D.C., is being reviewed after a deadly accident last year involving an Army helicopter and a regional jet over the Potomac.

NASA’s new dark energy space telescope can also detect killer asteroids

At the end of August, NASA is set to launch the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Its quest is to help us better understand how the universe works, from the glue-like dark matter that keeps galaxies together to the elusive dark energy that drives the expansion of the cosmos. But Roman could also serve another purpose: defending Earth from killer asteroids. In September, a multi-institutional team of planetary scientists and astronomers will outline how the space telescope is uniquely placed to scan asteroids, and provide information about their trajectories, sizes and compositions.

Inside ‘I Is Another’: The True(ish) Story of the Man Who Massaged a Nazi and Maybe Saved Lives

A few years ago German writer-director Felix Randau (Iceman) got what sounded like an interesting proposal from France: to direct episodes of a miniseries about Felix Kersten, the former massage therapist of Nazi SS leader Heinrich Himmler.

Wispr Flow launches a Granola-styled meeting notetaker

Update August 5, 12.10 am PT: Wispr Flow has officially launched its notetaker for Mac. The notetaker, similar to the one of Granola’s, uses system audio to transcribe a meeting without joining one. It also cleans up transcripts, creates action items, and lets users query across meeting history with the help of AI. Users can see a live transcript and ask AI to catch them up as well.

Human Folly Explains Those Recent AI Sandbox Breakouts More So Than AI Cyber-Hacking Miracles

Looking closely at those recently heralded AI escapes from supposedly secure sandboxes.

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In today’s column, I examine the rising tide of hyped stories about how generative AI and large language models (LLMs) have “miraculously” escaped from a computer-based sandbox and done cyber-hacking, thus spurring blaring headlines and tons of public attention. It is ample fodder for believing that AI is on the verge of grand deviousness and supports worries that existential risk is staring us in the face.

GB Sevens part-time stars' search for their sport

Ellie Kildunne; Helena Rowland, Meg Jones, Jade Shekells, Alex Matthews; Holly Aitchison, Natasha Hunt.

Even with Matthews, more usually in the back row, deployed as an emergency wing, it is a punchy England backline.

Disney Just Quietly Released an 8-Part Sci-Fi Series So Good You'll Finish It in One Day

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The Ninth Jedi embraces the franchise’s best moments and learns from its mistakes

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It is a dark time for Star Wars. The Mandalorian and Grogu was a box office flop, earning less than the low-budget horror films Obsession and Backrooms – a failure that puts the franchise’s cinematic future in jeopardy. Ahsoka season 2 was postponed until 2027 and The Acolyte was canceled. Yet there is a new hope. The Ninth Jedi, an anime first developed by Production I.G. for the Star Wars: Visions anthology series, is exactly the sort of refresh Lucasfilm needed. The stylish, heartfelt series remixes the most iconic elements of Star Wars to create something that feels vital after decades of iterating on the Skywalker Saga.