Russia bars its last anti-war party from the ballot, leaving critics one door out

World

A Moscow court struck the only anti-war party from September's vote.

Finance

Rolls-Royce hit a record high as profits jumped far faster than sales, while a US gas exporter fell 7% on a small price dip - the tell of a business built on heavy fixed costs.

Tech

AMD, Cerebras, and Together AI are all pouring money into one thing - making an AI reply faster - and the real enemy is the rare slow moment, not the average one.

Mind & body

A master clock in your brain sets a roughly 24-hour rhythm for sleep, hormones, and metabolism.

Climate

US electricity demand is set to break records again as AI data centres multiply, and utilities from Texas to Kenya are colliding with the gap between a power source's nameplate rating and what it actually delivers.

Space

The Roman Space Telescope is packed and bound for a late-August launch to Sun-Earth L2, a balance point in space where it will hold station beside JWST and map billions of galaxies.

Biotech

US regulators will review Grail's Galleri, a single-draw blood test for more than 50 cancers, on September 23.

Money

In theory a dollar is a dollar.

Sports

Facing near-certain relegation again, Ipswich abandoned the recruitment model that failed and spent 106.6m pounds on a bolder, riskier global squad.

Gaming

Overwatch is unvaulting old battle passes, admitting the "miss it and it's gone" pressure went too far.

Food

A July USDA count shows the US cattle herd stopped shrinking after a multi-decade fall, as record prices coax ranchers to rebuild.

Cyber

Giant traffic floods against news sites surged fivefold, powered by botnets of hijacked devices that cost the attacker almost nothing.