Media figures challenge BBC board role over Gaza coverage
More than 400 signatories, including 111 BBC journalists, called for Robbie Gibb’s removal while the broadcaster defended its commitment to impartial reporting.
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A sober look at who gets labeled the baddies
A new essay uses the phrase “Are we the baddies?” to frame a broader argument about moral self-questioning, public judgment and the stories people tell themselves about power.
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Why local-first software is gaining more believers
An essay on local-first software argues that users should own their data and not have to depend on the cloud for core functionality.
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Ancient City Discovered in Peru Reveals Trade Connections
Archaeologists have unearthed a 3,500-year-old city named Peñico, which researchers believe served as a vital trading hub for early Andean and coastal civilizations.
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Ford recalls more than 200,000 vehicles over backup camera software defect
Ford said a software defect can cause the rearview camera to fail or freeze, prompting a recall of 200,061 vehicles.
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Minor Planet Center records highly hyperbolic object 3I/ATLAS
A July 2, 2025 circular said observations of the newly found object pointed to an eccentricity near six, while tentative signs of a coma and short tail left its nature open to further study.
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A Blogger Says the Fed's Million-Dollar Cube May Be Short by Half a Million
A Calvin Liang post says the Chicago Fed museum cube appears to hold far more than the plaque claims, based on a count of the bill bundles and some rough geometry.
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Proton sues Apple over App Store restrictions it says hurt users and developers
Proton has filed suit against Apple, accusing the company of maintaining an App Store monopoly that it says limits competition and harms privacy-focused services.
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Apple’s F1 wallet ad reignites the privacy-versus-convenience debate
A new critique of a Wallet ad for F1 The Movie argues that Apple’s promotion strategy sits awkwardly with its privacy branding and its push to keep users inside its ecosystem.
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Haaretz reports soldiers were ordered to fire near Gaza aid sites
The report says officers and soldiers described repeated fire at unarmed crowds waiting for humanitarian aid, while Israel's military leadership faces scrutiny and rejects the allegations.
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Pilot’s logbook project turns flight data into a public portrait of an aviation career
An airline pilot has turned a logbook into an interactive data project, mapping years of flying into charts, globes and seat-mile calculations that show how the job changes over time.
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Google launches AlphaGenome, a DNA model for regulatory variant prediction
Google DeepMind has introduced AlphaGenome, a new DNA sequence model available via API that aims to predict how genetic variants affect gene regulation across long stretches of the genome.
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Google puts Gemini CLI into developers’ terminals
Google has launched Gemini CLI, an open-source terminal agent that gives developers access to Gemini 2.5 Pro and a wide usage allowance through a personal Google account.
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Rubin Observatory reveals first images from Chile telescope
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory has released its first images after only 10 hours of observation, showing a telescope built for discovery at enormous scale.
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A Kyoto backyard cafe becomes a case study in tiny businesses
A travel essay about a tucked-away coffee-and-jazz stop argues that Kyoto's small, passion-led shops show how low-barrier local businesses can shape a city.
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US strikes three Iranian nuclear sites as damage remains unclear
Washington said the operation targeted Iran’s enrichment capacity, while Tehran promised a response and international inspectors said key damage could not yet be confirmed.
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Samsung faces pushback over pre-installed AppCloud bloatware on phones in West Asia and North Africa
SMEX says users across West Asia and North Africa have raised concerns about Samsung’s pre-installed AppCloud software on A and M series phones.
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Fly.io pitches Phoenix.new as a remote AI runtime for Elixir
Chris McCord says the project began as a weekend experiment to make coding agents work in Elixir as well as they do in Python and JavaScript.
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Andrej Karpathy argues software is being rewritten for the AI era
The supplied source is a YouTube keynote page, which identifies the talk but does not provide a transcript in the packet.
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Show HN: Workout.cool tries to revive an abandoned fitness platform
The open-source coaching app offers workout plans, progress tracking and an exercise database, while positioning itself as a successor to a discontinued predecessor.
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Honda lands an experimental reusable rocket after a 300-meter test flight
The automaker says its R&D unit flew a 6.3-meter test rocket to nearly 300 meters and brought it back down safely, the first successful landing in the company's programme.
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Why SSL became TLS: the name change that reflected a browser war
A retrospective on the mid-1990s shows the renaming was not just technical housekeeping but part of a much uglier standards fight.
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Jemalloc's active upstream development ends after about 20 years
Jason Evans says the allocator will remain available, but the long-running open-source project has reached the end of active development.
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A receipt printer becomes a productivity system for procrastination
One developer says turning tasks into tiny, physical wins helped him keep moving when motivation alone did not.
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