Twin earthquakes flatten Caracas, and a hollowed-out Venezuela struggles to dig itself out

World

Two of the strongest quakes in a century hit Venezuela seconds apart, killing at least 188 and trapping hundreds — in a country whose state capacity was gutted long before the ground moved.

Finance

Micron's customers prepaid $22 billion to lock in memory chips, sending the stock up 18% and past Meta and Tesla in value — while Apple raised laptop prices 20% and inflation ran hotter.

Tech

The White House told OpenAI to drip-feed GPT-5.6 to a handful of customers it approves one by one — the same week Anthropic accused Alibaba of cloning Claude through 25,000 fake accounts.

Mind & body

Standing still is one of the hardest things your body does.

Climate

California is suing over $2.5 billion in federal deals to cancel offshore wind leases — money that also pushes the same developers toward oil and gas.

Space

Rocket Lab launched a US Space Force satellite less than 17 hours after getting the go-ahead, a new record for "responsive" space.

Biotech

Sangamo Therapeutics, which coined the term "genome editing" 20 years ago, filed for Chapter 11 — the same week a CRISPR rival posted a landmark trial and a man was cured of sickle cell.

Money

Most people think jumping into a higher tax bracket taxes their whole income at the new rate.

Sports

Mandatory hydration breaks at the World Cup were sold as player welfare.

Gaming

Sony laid off a large part of Bungie weeks after Destiny 2's final update, exposing the hidden cost of a game promised to run forever: a permanent crew that only makes sense while the promise holds.

Food

A 7-2 ruling says a federal pesticide label overrides state failure-to-warn lawsuits — clearing tens of thousands of cases against Monsanto.

Cyber

A bug that sat untouched in curl since 2001 was finally found this month, part of a wave of old flaws surfacing now that AI tools are reading code no human had re-examined in years.