Good morning—there’s some uplifting news today: an artist beat brain cancer and created portraits for hospital staff as heartfelt thanks, a truly inspiring story to start the day. On the international front, reports out of Le Monde, corroborated by Pentagon disclosures, reveal Elon Musk’s AI model Grok was used in strikes in Iran, highlighting how AI and military technology are intersecting in current conflicts.
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On June 17, 1972, five burglars were arrested at the Watergate complex, kicking off the Watergate scandal that ultimately toppled a presidency.
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What do you call a dog that's underground? A sub woofer
Despite mutual praise between the two leaders, there has been a series of setbacks to U.S. relations with India since they last met more than a year ago.
This tale of aliens on Earth and the coverup of their presence, starring Emily Blunt and Josh O’Connor, is a catalogue of the director’s obsessions, and a deeply personal vision.
MetLife Stadium, the site of eight FIFA matches, is surrounded by creeks and canals. Amid exorbitantly priced public transportation and reports of bumper-to-bumper traffic, we tried our luck arriving by boat.
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Britain’s Camping and Caravanning Club started as a cycle camping club 125 years ago. I cycle from its birthplace to one of its oldest campsites to see if its free-wheeling spirit survivesSkylarks call out a cascading trill as I pedal between the pink and white hawthorn blossoms that make my path look like a May Day parade.
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Warm weather has fueled a bloom that National Park Service workers are trying to kill using everything from hydrogen peroxide to nanobubbles ahead of July 4 celebrations.
WIRED surveyed readers on their housing costs. The answers paint a stark portrait of unaffordability, climate adaptation, and the death of the homeowner dream.
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A security researcher said a flaw in FIFA’s online platforms allowed her to access several internal systems, including one that could have allowed her to take control of the TV stream of every World Cup match.
Thousands of Lebanese civilians who had fled the fighting have begun returning to villages south of the Litani River, which were heavily bombarded over the 105 days of war. The Shiite armed group and political party is feeling emboldened, both in relation to the Lebanese state and to Israel, by the memorandum of understanding reached between Washington and Tehran.
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Five men aged 19 to 32 have been arrested. They are suspected of plotting to kill high-ranking officials attending the event organized for the US president's 80th birthday, the Department of Justice announced.
Vincent Serritella was only a little concerned about the flashing bright spots in his lower-left vision field; he wasn’t expecting anything serious. The former Pixar animator and San Francisco Bay area artist was in for a surprise—going from waking up with the bright spots to making a decision to go into open-brain surgery.
Going from a small town to the big city, a police detective went far beyond the call of duty to retrieve a woman’s stolen wedding ring. In LeRoy, New York, an elderly nursing home resident suffering from dementia—unable to care or speak for herself—had a wedding ring stolen from her hand.
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The Singapore dollar consolidated against its U.S. counterpart in the Asian session, but may be supported by recent declines in crude oil prices, analysts said.
Gold edged higher. Improved market confidence, due to easing concerns over energy supply disruptions, higher inflation, and interest rates, is creating a better environment for gold, said The Revacy Fund.
The Arch Linux User Repository "AUR" is facing another issue just days after more than 1,500 packages were found carrying malware. According to Phoronix, over 70 AUR packages have reportedly been modified to insert Russian spam and profane messages into users' shell configuration files.
SpaceX has agreed to acquire Cursor for $60 billion in stock, adding the popular AI coding assistant to Elon Musk's newly public aerospace-and-AI conglomerate. CNBC reports: Cursor built a popular AI coding tool that helps software developers generate, edit and review code, and the company has experienced explosive growth since its founding in 2022.
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: A group made up of dozens of cybersecurity experts, including several well-known veterans of the industry, published an open letter to the U.S. government asking it to lift the export control order on Anthropic's Fable and Mythos models.
TechCrunch's Zack Whittaker argues that the U.S. government's abrupt export-control order forcing Anthropic to pull its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models offline was "never about an AI jailbreak" threat.
Snap is launching its first consumer augmented-reality glasses this fall for $2,195. "You can preorder a pair of Specs now at specs.com with a $200 refundable deposit, and Snap says they're expected to ship 'this fall' in the US, UK, and France," reports The Verge.
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