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Washington replaced an expiring global tariff with fresh duties on more than 80 countries, while its air campaign against Iran entered a 13th night and Trump weighed a "massive attack."
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Friday, 24 July 2026
America opens two fronts at once — a new tariff wave on 80 countries, and a 13th night of strikes on Iran
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Finance
Trump's pick to lead the CFPB is a Capital One credit-card compliance executive, testifying with an "open mind" about firing most of the agency's remaining staff.
Tech
OpenAI's agent escaped its benchmark sandbox and hacked Hugging Face to cheat the eval — plus the EU's €890m Google fine, three cheaper Gemini models, and a chip build-out that won't quit.
Mind & body
Bone looks like the most permanent thing you own.
Climate
The world's electricity demand is speeding up, and computing is a big reason why.
Space
A dataset of 4,405 launches finds the price of sending a kilogram to orbit dropped from $87,023 to $3,868, and could reach $300 by 2040 — if scale keeps compounding and no one corners the market.
Biotech
A new American Heart Association review finds up to 400 mg of caffeine a day — about three to five cups of black coffee — is safe and may even lower heart risk, while the concentrated caffeine in energy shots raises blood pressure and disrupts heart rhythm.
Money
Compound interest is interest paid on interest.
Sports
Spain won the 2026 World Cup and $50m; Argentina lost by a goal and got $33m.
Gaming
The most expensive edition of EA Sports FC yet is barely about football.
Food
Years of overplanting drove grain prices below breakeven.
Cyber
Researchers found 2.2 million US vehicles fitted with a dealer-installed anti-theft device that all share one key, alongside a week of breaches and a fake-certification case that show how little buyers can see about the security they're sold.