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Space

A satellite mapped GPS jamming from orbit — and the interference is worse than expected →

An experimental spacecraft measured how badly GPS is being scrambled across Europe and the Middle East, revealing that even satellites high above the jammers are losing the signal.

Biotech & Longevity

The week HIV funding shrank while $745m flowed into the drugs that pay →

As the US cut money for HIV research and care, hundreds of millions poured into commercially attractive biotech — a snapshot of how funding, not need, decides which science advances.

Climate & Energy

Regulators move to clear a 438-gigawatt traffic jam of data centers waiting for power →

A flood of speculative AI data center requests has gummed up the power grid; FERC and Texas are now changing the rules to sort real projects from phantom ones.

Mind & Body

How your blood decides to clot — and why it lives on a knife-edge between two ways to die →

Your blood is balanced between clotting too readily and not enough, and the system is tuned toward the threat that kills fastest.

Finance News

Markets turn on the AI spending — and start asking who it's really for →

Tech's biggest names slid as investors questioned the vast sums being poured into AI, with SpaceX falling a third straight day even as it sat on $100 billion in cash.

Information Technology

Five nations' spy agencies warn AI hacking tools are "months away," not years →

A rare joint Five Eyes statement says frontier AI will supercharge cyberattacks within months, as OpenAI and others race to patch the world's software first.

World News

A paramilitary the Sudanese state once built now encircles a city of half a million →

The RSF has surrounded el-Obeid in central Sudan, and governments warn of a massacre if it attacks — the latest turn in a war fought by a force the army created.

Cybersecurity

A Splunk flaw was patched June 10. Within days, attackers were already through the door →

A public patch tells defenders where the wound is — and tells attackers the same thing, at the same moment.

Gaming

An acclaimed game launched, then its whole team was cut three weeks later →

A nine-person studio spent seven years on one game, shipped it to good reviews, and was shut down within a month — a sharp example of how a game's fate is decided long before launch day.

Food & Farming

A big new study links eight common food preservatives to heart trouble — and the dose is the story →

The week's loudest food-science finding wasn't about a single villain ingredient. It was about how much, how often, and what you can't see on the label.

Sports

MLB wants to redraw how players turn pro — and pay them less to do it →

Baseball's owners proposed a sweeping overhaul of the amateur draft, including a first-ever international draft and a $200m-a-year cut to signing bonuses, setting up a likely labor fight.

Personal Money

Why buying the same dollar amount every month quietly beats the average price →

Dollar-cost averaging — putting a fixed sum into the same investment on a regular schedule — does something that surprises most people: it pulls the average price you pay below the average price that actually existed.

Biotech & Longevity

AbbVie bets nearly $11bn on a biotech whose drugs aren't proven yet — and it wasn't alone this week →

A wave of pharma dealmaking, led by AbbVie's roughly $11 billion move for Apogee Therapeutics, shows big drugmakers buying promising science years before it's certain to work.

Space

NASA's next Mars orbiter won't be built by NASA — a private company will own it →

Relativity Space will build and fly the next Mars orbiter in 2028, with NASA contributing instruments and buying the data. It's a different model — and it lands the same week NASA retires MAVEN, its old fully-owned orbiter.

Climate & Energy

Germany pledged to quit coal. A gas-price shock just made it look at coal again →

A jump in global gas prices after the Iran conflict has Germany — and Japan, Italy and India — quietly reconsidering the coal plants they promised to shut. The fallback you keep alive is the one you reach for when the new path gets expensive.

Mind & Body

How your immune system tells you from everything else — and why it learns the friends, not the enemies →

The body's defence doesn't memorise a list of germs. It spends your whole childhood learning what to leave alone — and attacks whatever's left.

Finance News

Wall Street's loudest voices are warning about the one trade everyone is making →

A record wave of money is pouring into AI — and the people closest to it, including Microsoft's own chief, are the ones raising their hands. Plus China's rare-earth squeeze and a market holding its breath for inflation.

Information Technology

AI is making scams look official — and fake customers look real →

A wave of GTA 6 "beta test" scams and undisclosed AI influencers share one engine — the cost of looking authentic has collapsed. Plus a push for higher big-tech taxes and the next AI bottleneck.

World News

A record heatwave shuts down a continent's daily life as Europe and India learn the same hard lesson →

Trains stop, schools close, and festivals empty out as extreme heat strains systems built for a milder world — while China answers US trade curbs with its own, and Britain's prime minister edges toward the exit.

Cybersecurity

The GTA 6 scam preys on a wait that's lasted years →

Criminals are using AI-polished fake "beta test" invitations to steal gamers' logins, personal data, and bank details ahead of Grand Theft Auto VI. Plus a hacker hijacks Brazil's emergency-alert system, and France pushes for shared rules on AI.

Food & Farming

Bird flu has now reached every continent. Australia spent years getting ready to lose →

H5N1 landed on the one continent that had stayed clear, after a strain killed more than three-quarters of the seal pups on a remote Australian island. The country didn't try to build a wall. It built a plan for the day the wall failed.

Sports

Marseille gets a one-year European ban — but only if it slips again →

UEFA's financial monitor handed Marseille a suspended ban and an $11.5m fine, the latest case of sport governing money through deferred threats rather than bright lines. Plus a €60m defender, stadiums used as leverage, and a $22bn streaming deal built on live sport.

Gaming

Microsoft moves to close the award-winning studios it bought — and the rest of the industry shows why →

Xbox is negotiating spin-off-or-shutdown deals for Compulsion, Double Fine, and Ninja Theory; Sega writes down its Angry Birds buy; a nine-person team is laid off a month after a praised launch. A $200bn industry is contracting at the top.

Space

A working space telescope is falling out of the sky — so NASA is sending a robot to catch it →

A $30 million rescue craft launches June 27 to grab a $500 million observatory that was never built to save itself. Plus a record European launch, a beloved Mars orbiter laid to rest, and a planet where it rains rubies.

Biotech & Longevity

A one-time gene edit cut a rare disease's attacks by 87% — the first phase 3 proof that CRISPR works inside the body →

Intellia's in-vivo CRISPR treatment for hereditary angioedema posted the first late-stage results for editing genes inside a living person. Plus the FDA's softer line on rare-disease gene therapy, a new antifungal as resistance climbs, and an $11bn deal.

Personal Money

Why your money can be worth a lot and still not be there when you need it →

The price of something and what you can actually get for it right now are two different numbers — and the gap between them, called liquidity, decides whether your wealth shows up in an emergency.

Climate & Energy

Europe's carmakers are finally building EVs small again — and it matters more than it looks →

A wave of small, cheap electric cars is arriving in Europe just as a record heatwave bakes the continent. The two stories share a root: for years, the easy money pulled the energy transition toward bigger, heavier, more wasteful — and that bias has a cost.

Mind & Body

How a wound actually heals — and why your skin trades the real thing for speed →

A cut doesn't rebuild your skin. It runs a four-stage emergency program that seals the breach fast and patches it with scar — weaker, plainer tissue the body accepts because, for most of human history, a fast seal was the difference between living and dying of infection.

Finance News

Iran's oil starts flowing again — but the world it left behind doesn't snap back →

After a six-week blockade, Iran resumed loading crude from Kharg Island and tankers are clearing Hormuz. The barrels are returning. The high-cost economy the disruption built — fuel subsidies, dead budget airlines, pricier everything — is proving far slower to reverse.

Information Technology

A Nobel winner walks out of DeepMind — and shows where AI's real value sits →

Two of Google DeepMind's most senior researchers left for rivals in a single week. Plus Signal's warning about AI assistants, and AI-made "people" creeping into your feed.

World News

Colombia votes on whether to fight its endless war or keep talking to it →

A presidential runoff Sunday pits a hard-line crackdown against a decade-old peace strategy — as Bolivia sends in the army, Congo's Ebola toll climbs, and a rare climate pattern unsettles global markets.

Food & Farming

A $140 billion chocolate industry still can't pay its farmers a living wage →

Lindt sourced all its cocoa from certified farms this week, even as its own program admits low farmer income is a structural problem. The same gap shows up across the food system — a grocer cuts shelf prices while keeping its margin, dairy and grain growers take the hit. Who sits in the middle decides who keeps the money.

Gaming

Sony quietly slams the door on PC, betting your PlayStation library is the wall you won't climb →

Sony deleted PC from its strategy filing and told staff its big single-player games will be console-only — a deliberate return to lock-in. Plus an Xbox studio bloodbath, a team laid off a month after a praised launch, and a game you bought with one week left to play it.

Cybersecurity

86,000 firewalls fell because nobody changed the factory password →

A global campaign called FortiBleed broke into 86,644 Fortinet firewalls — the guards at the edge of company networks. The attackers didn't crack anything. They logged in with default and reused passwords that were never changed.

Sports

One game in, the World Cup makes no sense — and the data says wait →

Twenty-four matches into a 48-team World Cup, the results defy the form book: favourites stumbling, minnows holding draws, a coach fired off a single loss. The numbers underneath say most of it is noise that will fade.

Personal Money

When insurance is worth it — and when you're just paying for peace of mind →

Insurance is a maths problem, not a comfort purchase. The trick is knowing which risks to pay someone else to carry — and most of us get it backwards.