Friday, 10 July 2026

World

Ukrainians turn on their own draft as the war enters its fifth year

A crowd in Lviv overturned a conscription officer's car and tore off his uniform — the sharpest sign yet that Ukraine's deepest shortage is not weapons but willing soldiers.

Finance

US home prices hit a record high — while fewer people can actually buy one

June home sales fell instead of rising, yet prices set an all-time record.

Tech

OpenAI's most powerful model went public — but nobody can say how the government decided it was safe

GPT-5.6 cleared a US government review and shipped to everyone on Thursday.

Mind & body

How pain actually works — and why it's a warning the brain issues, not a straight reading of the damage

Pain feels like a direct measure of injury.

Climate

A federal regulator calls the largest U.S. power grid "untenable" — and the problem isn't the wires

PJM keeps 65 million people supplied across 13 states, but a FERC commissioner says its consensus-run stakeholder process has "ground into gridlock" — while a $100-billion grid buildout waits on decisions it can't make.

Space

NASA sent a robot to catch a falling telescope before it burns up

The Swift observatory has been quietly sinking out of orbit for 20 years.

Biotech

Three big drug programs died this week — and the one that hurts most did everything it was designed to do

GSK, Roche and AstraZeneca all pulled the plug on programs for the hardest diseases.

Money

Diversification — why spreading your money can cut risk without cutting returns

The one idea in investing that lets you lower risk for free — how it works, how far it goes, and where it quietly stops working.

Sports

A player earning $950,000 just became hockey's highest-paid — because one rival team finally bid

The NHL's Leo Carlsson was locked to the Ducks on an entry-level deal worth under a million a year.

Gaming

A game the world wrote off in 2020 just became one of the 23 best-selling ever

Cyberpunk 2077 passed 40 million copies this week — five years after a launch so broken Sony pulled it from its own store.

Food

A stomach parasite has hit 1,000 people in 18 states — and the food that carried it may never be found

A fast-growing cyclospora outbreak shows how the way fresh produce is grown, pooled, and eaten can erase the trail back to its source before investigators can follow it.

Cyber

The "are you sure?" that couldn't show you what you were saying yes to

A flaw in six major AI coding tools let a booby-trapped project turn their safety prompt into a rubber stamp — plus Microsoft's messy Defender fix, and Interpol's 5,800-arrest scam bust.