Tuesday, 30 June 2026

World

The Supreme Court tells Trump he can't fire a Fed governor — and draws one bright line he can't cross

A 5-4 ruling keeps Lisa Cook on the Federal Reserve board, shielding the central bank from a president who has spent a year demanding lower interest rates.

Finance

The yen hits a 40-year low, and Japan is trapped between two things it can't have at once

The Japanese yen sank to its weakest against the dollar since 1986, a slide that exposes the bind every central bank quietly fears — you can keep money cheap or keep your currency strong, but not both.

Tech

South Korea bets $1 trillion on memory chips — but the fix won't arrive for years

Samsung and SK Hynix will spend roughly $585 billion on new memory-chip plants to ease the AI-driven "RAMageddon" shortage, part of a $1 trillion national plan.

Mind & body

How sleep files your memories — and why the brain has to go offline to do it

Sleep isn't downtime.

Climate

China's energy plan builds the most clean power on Earth — and burns near-record coal at the same time

Beijing's new five-year plan targets half its electricity from non-fossil sources by 2030 while holding coal near record levels.

Space

Rocket Lab is paying $8 billion to stop being a rocket company

A launch company is buying a 2.5-million-customer satellite network — a bet that the real money in space is in selling services, not rides to orbit.

Biotech

A big fish-oil trial proves the pills reach the brain — and do nothing for it

Americans spend over $1bn a year on omega-3 supplements for memory.

Money

How insurance works — many people pay a small certain cost so the rare unlucky few aren't ruined

Insurance turns a small chance of a disaster you can't survive into a small bill you can.

Sports

A Wimbledon ticket sold for £293,000 — because it stopped being a ticket

A pair of Centre Court passes changed hands for £586,000 this week, legal where ordinary touting is banned.

Gaming

Microsoft quietly walks back the all-you-can-eat Game Pass — and raises Xbox prices a third time

Xbox has stopped signing new third-party Game Pass deals, pulled day-one Call of Duty, and lifted console prices again — a retreat from the model it spent $69bn building.

Food

A durian glut is crashing prices in Malaysia — because a whole decade decided to plant at once

Trees planted ten years ago to chase Chinese demand all matured together, and the flood of fruit has halved prices.

Cyber

The Supreme Court just decided your phone's location history is yours, not the government's to grab

A 6-3 ruling says police need real Fourth Amendment protection before sweeping up everyone near a crime scene from their phones — the first big update to digital privacy in years, with the line drawn at the most ordinary thing your phone does: knowing where you are.