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Climate & Energy

Japan looks to Greenland for rare earths — the clean transition's scramble for hard ground →

A Japanese delegation heads to Greenland this summer to scout rare-earth mining. It's a small trip with a big tell: the magnets that run wind turbines and electric cars are buried in a few remote, contested places, and the race to control them is reshaping the map.

Biotech & Longevity

The week the weight-loss drugs admitted what "weight" leaves out →

A new trial, a wearable study, and a string of conference data all circled the same blind spot in the obesity-jab boom — the scale can't tell muscle from fat, and a third of the loss is the wrong kind.

Space

SpaceX plans to fill orbit with AI data centers — and astronomers say the night sky is the bill →

SpaceX confirmed it will launch the first orbital AI computing satellites in 2027, part of a filing for up to a million spacecraft. Astronomers warn the swarm could brighten the night sky to half-moon glare — a cost they never agreed to pay.

Mind & Body

How thirst actually works — and why your body is better at it than the apps →

Thirst is one of the most precise instruments the body has, holding the salt concentration of your blood inside a 1–2% band. The whole "drink eight glasses" industry runs on getting you to distrust it.

Finance News

A "sure thing" on Polymarket lost a student $35,000 — after the bet was already won →

A 20-year-old's near-guaranteed wager went to zero when the betting platform rewrote what the contract meant. Plus gold's quiet record run, and the regulators arriving just as AI's biggest names line up to go public.

World News

Switzerland votes on whether to cap its own population at 10 million →

A Swiss referendum to legally limit the population could unravel the country's labour deal with the EU. Plus EU accession talks open for Ukraine and Moldova, Congo's Ebola toll passes 710, and China builds a payment rail to rival the dollar.

Information Technology

KPMG pulls an AI-written report about AI after the companies it named said the claims were false →

A Big Four firm published a report on how big organisations use AI, used AI to help write it, and named companies whose AI use it had invented. It's the second major consultancy to retract an AI-tainted report in a month.

Cybersecurity

Hundreds of trusted software packages were quietly hijacked — the name stayed the same, the recipe didn't →

Attackers took over 400-plus abandoned packages in Arch Linux's community repository and rewrote their build scripts to steal developer secrets. Days earlier, GitHub announced npm would flip its defaults to stop exactly this. Both are about the same weak spot: a package you trust today can change hands tomorrow, and you may never notice.

Gaming

An investor wants the studio behind Elden Ring to "maximise earnings" — and the dev says that's the threat →

An activist fund is fighting to reshape FromSoftware's owner around monetisation and hard targets, while Xbox weighs a spinoff and Ubisoft shuts two more studios. One week, three versions of the same question: who gets to decide what a studio is for.

Sports

The Chiefs gave Mahomes a half-billion dollars — and locked themselves in →

Patrick Mahomes became the NFL's first $500m player this week. The deal's real story isn't the number — it's how the guarantees make him almost impossible for Kansas City to ever release.

Food & Farming

The fertilizer price spike from the Iran war is quietly unwinding — and dragging crops down with it →

Urea, the world's most common nitrogen fertilizer, has fallen 36% from its April peak, erasing the war's risk premium even though the Strait of Hormuz is still shut.

Space

The space industry is booming — and the insurers who cover it are watching their best business disappear →

Operators are cancelling the giant satellites that bankroll space insurance and pivoting to cheap swarms that mostly aren't insured at all. The week's $75 billion SpaceX IPO is the same shift, seen from the winning side.

Biotech & Longevity

A cancer therapy just put five lupus patients into remission — and it points at a dozen more diseases →

A one-time treatment built to kill blood cancer reset the immune systems of patients with severe lupus. The same tool is now being aimed at MS and rheumatoid arthritis.

Climate & Energy

The U.S. wind industry hit a wall — not a ban, but a pause that won't end →

The Pentagon quietly stopped reviewing onshore wind farms in April. No law changed, no project was rejected — the reviews just stopped, and 106 projects across 21 states are frozen. On the same day, two courts ordered the Energy Department to restore clean-energy grants it cancelled in states that voted Democratic.

Personal Money

The small annual fee that quietly takes a third of your retirement →

A fund fee looks tiny — under 1% a year. But it's charged on your whole pot every year for decades, so it compounds against you the same way your returns compound for you. The gap it opens is far bigger than the number suggests.

Mind & Body

How your immune system fights infection — and why most of what you feel is your own body →

The runny nose, the aches, the fever — those aren't the germ attacking you. They're your defense working. Here's the machinery underneath a cold, what the evidence says about "boosting" immunity, and where the response itself becomes the problem.

Finance News

SpaceX goes public — and the first-day pop reveals who really got paid →

SpaceX's stock jumped 19% on its trading debut, a "successful" IPO that quietly handed billions to the few investors who got shares at the offer price. The market rose too, as oil sank toward a three-month low on US-Iran deal hopes.

Information Technology

The US ordered Anthropic to kill its two most powerful AI models — overnight →

A Commerce Department directive forced Anthropic to shut off Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for every user worldwide, days after launch. The trigger: the company's own warnings about how dangerous the models were.

World News

Students fill Jakarta's streets warning Indonesia is "heading to bankrupt →

Hundreds marched in Indonesia's capital against fuel price rises and a costly free-meals programme dogged by poisonings and corruption — plus the EU restarts Ukraine and Moldova's membership bids, Ebola reaches a Congo camp, and an aid-cuts warning on HIV.

World News

China tests the line around Taiwan, ship by ship →

Chinese coast guard vessels questioned foreign merchant ships east of Taiwan for the first time, and Beijing banned the Philippine defense chief — small, deniable steps that each nudge a contested line a little further.

Cybersecurity

Security teams are drowning in alerts — and the warning that matters keeps slipping through →

A growing share of breaches now start not with a missed clue but with a clue that was buried under thousands of others. Alert fatigue is becoming its own threat, and defenders, regulators, and ordinary users are all feeling the same overload.

Food & Farming

Wild bees are vanishing — and a Nature study just put a number on what that costs your plate →

A first-of-its-kind study in Nepal measures the human-health bill of disappearing pollinators. Plus: the world's meat habit keeps climbing, fertilizer prices fall back to earth, India tidies the cooking-oil shelf, and AI's thirst lands on drought-hit land.

Gaming

Destiny 2's fans crashed the servers to say goodbye — and to prove a point →

Bungie shipped Destiny 2's last content update and the players flooded back in droves, hitting a two-year high and burying Bungie's new game in the process. Plus Valve dates its living-room PC, and another studio gets caught using AI.

Sports

The favorite who had to beat the pressure first →

Mirra Andreeva won her first Grand Slam at Roland Garros not by out-hitting a 500-1 qualifier, but by handling the weight of being expected to win — the load that grows heavier the more talent you carry. Plus Serena's one-match comeback and a wave of managers sacked.

Space

A regulator just moved a deadline it set for Amazon — and the cost lands on whoever's in line →

The FCC waived Amazon's July deadline to launch half its broadband satellites after it managed only 331 of 1,616. The reprieve isn't free: Amazon temporarily loses its place in the orbital queue. A British rival is asking for the same mercy, while China's rival constellation just blew past 200 satellites.

Climate & Energy

El Niño is officially back — and forecasters think it could be one of the strongest on record →

NOAA declared El Niño on Thursday, with a 63% chance it grows into a "super" event that pours extra heat onto an already-warmed planet — likely making next year the hottest ever measured. Plus: solar out-generates coal in the US for the first time, and a new study reads an ancient warning in the Gulf Stream.

Biotech & Longevity

The week antibiotic resistance got the AI treatment — and a warning that even the leftovers train the bugs →

Researchers turned a suite of AI tools loose on the search for new antibiotics, while a separate study found that the breakdown products of old ones drive resistance nearly as hard as the drugs themselves. Plus a world-first cell-rejuvenation trial, a 1920s vaccine helping diabetes, and a drug to save muscle on weight-loss jabs.

Personal Money

Why a raise so rarely makes you feel richer →

Lifestyle creep is the quiet process where spending rises to match every pay rise, so a bigger income leaves the same gap between what you earn and what you keep.

Information Technology

South Korea fines Coupang $400M for a breach that exposed two-thirds of the country →

Seoul issued its largest-ever data-breach penalty against the US-based retail giant after a former employee walked off with 34 million people's records. The same day, an unpatched Oracle flaw was used to break into 100+ organisations — most of them universities.

Finance News

Europe raises rates into a war — to fight a fire it can't reach →

The ECB hiked for the first time since 2023, not to cool a hot economy but to stop a war-driven oil shock from becoming a lasting belief that prices keep rising. Japan is about to follow. The cost of money is climbing worldwide.

Mind & Body

How blood sugar actually works — and why the \"sugar crash\" isn't the sugar →

Your body runs glucose on a feedback loop that sometimes corrects too hard. The dip people blame on sugar is usually the correction overshooting — and most healthy bodies fix it on their own.

Cybersecurity

Quiet malware copied passwords off 11 million machines — and the thefts left no gap to notice →

Cheap infostealer malware harvested passwords and login sessions from 11.1 million devices in 2025, and one stolen credential now spreads into several crimes at once.

Gaming

Ubisoft and Xbox both reach for the same lever: cut people to cover a revenue gap →

Ubisoft is closing two studios and cutting up to 380 jobs while Xbox warns of 'major' July layoffs and a '100-day reset' — two companies bridging a gap between steady spending and income that hasn't arrived.

Sports

Everton must pay a relegated rival £35m — for a rule it broke four years ago →

A tribunal ruled Everton's overspending in 2021/22 helped relegate Burnley, and ordered Everton to pay the harmed club directly. Plus Real Madrid's record bid and the World Cup's automated offside.

Food & Farming

US wheat is failing while the corn right next to it thrives — same country, same week →

The US winter wheat crop is in its worst shape since 2006, with 46% rated poor or very poor. In the same fields' neighborhood, corn and soybeans are mostly thriving. One number for 'US crops' would hide the split entirely.

Biotech & Longevity

Scientists precisely edited human embryos for the first time — and the edit didn't stay put →

A US-led team used base editing to correct disease mutations in human embryos with a precision standard CRISPR can't match. The same week showed how far the tool still is from a baby — and how fast the rest of the field is moving.