Charity Commission to investigate donations to illegal Israeli settlements

An official investigation has been launched into charities in England and Wales donating funds to illegal Israeli settlements in Palestine.

The Charity Commission will aim to establish the amount of charitable funds going to illegal settlements, whether the spending was in furtherance of their purposes and any regulatory action that may be necessary.

The Pentagon's counter-drone force has rolled out a new online marketplace for buying defensive tech

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How does social vulnerability evolve after a tropical cyclone?

After tropical cyclones, communities are often left in upheaval. Those that had few resources to begin with tend to be especially vulnerable to external stresses, and people often experience homelessness, health problems and other forms of insecurity as a result. But once the disaster response gets underway, communities recover and tend to become less socially vulnerable than they were before the disaster, new research by Jiang and team suggests. The findings are published in the journal GeoHealth.

SpaceX beats revenue expectations in first earnings report after IPO crash

For the first time since SpaceX went public, the world is getting a first-hand look into the trillion-dollar corporation’s financials. The Elon Musk-run business reported its second-quarter earnings on Tuesday, saying that its revenue jumped 92% since June.

Sometimes you have to take a break from work to pay respects to the PC flight stick that ruled the '90s

Growing up in the '90s, good joysticks were strangely hard to come by. The stiff sticks on my local arcade cabinets, already inferior to their Japanese counterparts, always seemed to be so worn down that I'd have to smash them from edge-to-edge just to register an input. And yet the sticks attached to my friend's dusty Atari 2600, discovered in a box of his parents' old junk, still managed to make the arcade cabinet sticks look good. Those things were so atrocious it's a wonder videogames ever took off to begin with.

Telegram says Apple suspension followed content norms violation by one user

The incident follows a similar suspension in 2018, when Apple temporarily pulled Telegram.

Messaging app Telegram has said it was briefly removed from Apple’s App Store globally after the iPhone maker reported one user had shared “child sexual abuse material”.

China’s Luxury Market Is Stabilizing—But Changing Consumer Psychology Will Shape Its Future

BEIJING, CHINA - 2026/07/17: People stroll in front of the striking, futuristic - looking Louis Vuitton and adjacent Dior flagship stores in Sanlitun, Beijing, under a clear blue sky. (Photo by Sheldon Cooper/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

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Why some people are mosquito magnets while others get away unbitten

Some mosquitoes really are picky eaters. They will not just stick their proboscis into any old human. We know this anecdotally, with some people claiming they are always bitten while others are completely ignored, though we don't really know why.

Devastating LA wildfire sparked by utility company tower, long-awaited report finds

The deadly 2025 Eaton fire in the Los Angeles area was caused by equipment belonging to the utility company Southern California Edison, fire officials said in a report released on Tuesday.

Microsoft is retiring its peer-feedback tool as it overhauls employee reviews, an internal message shows

Microsoft is retiring a peer-feedback tool as it overhauls employee reviews, according to an internal message viewed by Business Insider.