Iran buries Ayatollah Khamenei with a week of mourning — and behind the coffins, a quiet fight over who leads next

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World

Iran buries Ayatollah Khamenei with a week of mourning — and behind the coffins, a quiet fight over who leads next

Iran began mass funeral rites for Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, killed in the first hours of its war with Israel.

Finance

The US unemployment rate fell to 4.2% — because 720,000 people stopped looking for work

June's jobs report looked like good news on one line and bad news on every other.

Tech

The AI can't deploy itself — and the industry just admitted it

Zuckerberg told staff Meta's AI agents haven't arrived as hoped, days after betting 8,000 jobs on them.

Mind & body

How your blood knows when to clot — and the built-in brakes that stop it going too far

Clotting is a controlled emergency.

Climate

A heat wave forces the AI grid reckoning early

A record heat wave pushed the biggest US grid to the edge, and the federal government ordered old fossil plants to run flat out — as regulators scramble to plan for the data-center demand still coming.

Space

Astronomers found a third galaxy with no dark matter — and that absence is the point

A faint dwarf galaxy called DF9 appears to hold no dark matter at all, joining two neighbours that also lack it.

Biotech

The gene-editing drug that doesn't cut the gene — a muscle disease is the first test

A new kind of therapy changes what a gene does without altering the DNA itself.

Money

How inflation quietly shrinks the money you're not spending

Money left sitting still doesn't lose a single pound on paper — but each year it buys a little less.

Sports

An MVP-level player is being valued as "seventh best" — because a number can't see what it can't count

A Boston Celtics forward who finished sixth in MVP voting is being talked down in trade talks by analytics that rate him far lower.

Gaming

A game engine that thousands of studios rely on just banned AI-written code — because volunteers can't keep up with the flood

The open-source Godot engine will no longer accept AI-authored contributions.

Food

The world now farms 95 billion animals — and the land to feed them is where nature loses

A landmark report finds farmed animals up 50% in two decades, with the real pressure falling not on the animals but on the cropland and water it takes to feed them.

Cyber

A researcher published 30 secret flaws before telling anyone who could fix them

A pseudonymous researcher dumped AI-found zero-day exploits for the Linux kernel, PHP, VLC and more onto GitHub — skipping the industry norm of warning the makers first.