Britain unveils its biggest defence build-up since the Cold War — and its own generals call it half enough

World

Starmer's £15bn defence plan lands to a strange chorus: not "too much" but "not nearly enough."

Finance

The first half of 2026 set a record for company takeovers — Kroger, FedEx's logistics arm, and Australia's South32 all changed hands this week.

Tech

The company that sits in front of a fifth of the web is changing the internet's unwritten deal: scrape freely, or pay the publisher.

Mind & body

Two fist-sized organs filter your entire blood supply dozens of times a day, running on a huge spare capacity that keeps you feeling fine long after the failure has started.

Climate

A new report finds 74 gas plants planned to power US data centers directly could emit as much as a whole country, skipping the years of permits and hearings that grid plants face.

Space

The Vera C.

Biotech

A finished drug application sits in a longer queue, as the agency that reviews it runs shorter on people.

Money

Being solvent means your assets outweigh your debts.

Sports

Prediction markets hit $24 billion a month and FIFA signed one as a World Cup partner, while NBA players were charged with rigging bets and a quarterback was banned from two leagues.

Gaming

The Protect Our Games Act had more yes votes than no votes in committee.

Food

A new California law that took effect July 1 bans consumer-facing 'sell by' dates on packaged food, standardises the rest, and targets a simple, costly confusion: shoppers throwing out good food because they misread a manufacturer's freshness guess as a safety rule.

Cyber

An automated campaign made 81 million login guesses against Microsoft cloud accounts and broke into 78 of them, many protected by policies that a forgotten legacy login path simply ignored.