Switzerland votes on whether to cap its own population at 10 million

World

A Swiss referendum to legally limit the population could unravel the country's labour deal with the EU.

Finance

A 20-year-old's near-guaranteed wager went to zero when the betting platform rewrote what the contract meant.

Tech

A Big Four firm published a report on how big organisations use AI, used AI to help write it, and named companies whose AI use it had invented.

Mind & body

Thirst is one of the most precise instruments the body has, holding the salt concentration of your blood inside a 1–2% band.

Climate

A Japanese delegation heads to Greenland this summer to scout rare-earth mining.

Space

SpaceX confirmed it will launch the first orbital AI computing satellites in 2027, part of a filing for up to a million spacecraft.

Biotech

A new trial, a wearable study, and a string of conference data all circled the same blind spot in the obesity-jab boom — the scale can't tell muscle from fat, and a third of the loss is the wrong kind.

Money

Your balance can grow on paper and shrink in real life at the same time.

Sports

Utah became the first US athletic department to sell a stake in its commercial future to private equity.

Gaming

Sega, Crystal Dynamics, and the Assassin's Creed co-creator's studio all disclosed generative-AI assets within days of each other.

Food

A nutrient paste called Plumpy'Nut can pull a malnourished toddler back from the edge in weeks.

Cyber

A 9.8-severity hole in Splunk Enterprise let an unauthenticated user reach a built-in database helper and run code — because the helper trusted that only the main app would ever call it.