Everything: 27 Jul – 2 Aug
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The week’s editions · 84
The week medicine kept losing its footrace with resistance
The West runs out of water to argue over - and Washington steps in
One flaw, every server that runs the same software - the SharePoint wave that keeps widening
Credit markets start pricing risk again
A strong El Nino is coming for the world's staple crops - and the poorest eat the risk first
Capcom's sales went 93% digital, and its profit jumped 81%
AI turns on the legacy code no one remembers writing
The body's oldest trick for getting almost everything out of a difference
Diminishing marginal utility: why the same $1,000 changes one life and barely touches another
The Space Force's biggest launch order yet goes to the rocket it already trusts
College sports races to fence its athletes in before the money walks out
Trump threatens Iran's oil fields, then backs off as Tehran vows to hit the whole Gulf
The weaker drug passed. The stronger one failed. Same FDA week.
Europe blinks - the EU moves to soften its flagship carbon rule
The breaches this week didn't break in the front door - they came through a supplier
Markets set records as inflation quietly ticks back up
Grain prices whipsawed all July - and a farmer's hardest call is when to sell
Riot's League of Legends card game is minting $300 chase cards
The largest US power grid will start cutting off data centers
You don't see the world, you see its edges - how the eye throws away everything that stays the same
Anchoring: why the first number you see quietly sets what you'll pay
A Moon lander that flew twice on SpaceX will switch to Japan's own rocket
Baseball's labor peace faces its biggest test in 30 years
A US Senate bill would slap 100% tariffs on countries that buy Russian oil
A blood test for colon cancer, and the rush to catch disease sooner
Britain decides whether to open two North Sea oilfields
Your password reset, your MFA prompt - and why attackers walk right past both
Japan and Korea move to prop up their currencies
A grain giant's big profit, and the case for owning your whole supply chain
Xbox is losing the two-sided game its whole console is built on
OpenAI cuts prices to keep companies from switching away
Why you stop smelling your own house - how the nervous system tunes out the constant
Debt snowball vs debt avalanche: the payoff order that gets you out
Boeing's Starliner aims to fly again - the backup ride NASA can't afford to lose
A record-contract summer, and why sport's bill never stops climbing
Thousands rush Spain's Ceuta as Europe hardens its migration line
A drug passed its trial. Its stock still fell 60%.
Australia bets on a refinery the rest of the world is closing
Defenders are drowning in alerts - and the real break-ins are hiding in the flood
The Fed held rates - and the bond market stopped believing it
A lettuce scare shows why fresh food is the riskiest thing a farmer can grow
Record profits at the top of gaming, record job cuts below it
Britain scraps its tech department, and the org chart becomes the problem
The clock in your head runs slightly slow, so daylight resets it every morning
Mental accounting: why we treat identical dollars as if they were different money
A spacecraft borrows its way to Jupiter, and astronomers pick its next target
The richest clubs got richer, and the gap in football stopped pretending to close
Canada calls off its strongest trade weapon before it fires
Fibromyalgia turns out to be written in the genes, and the brain
The grid's new problem isn't how much clean power, but when
One weak account, the whole network - a week of breaches that spread too far
The bank's best quarter, and who got the biggest slice
The cattle border reopens - and the meatpackers cheer, not the ranchers
Both console networks went dark and locked players out of games they paid for
Europe faces a $45 billion bill to rip out a decade-old shortcut
Your body moves before it knows: the hidden anticipation under every step
Dollar-cost averaging: why buying a fixed amount on a schedule quietly lowers what you pay
Amazon files to beam phone service from space, taking on Starlink in a market that tends to crown one winner
FIFA moves to sell a fifth of the World Cup, and Europe threatens to walk
A face-saving formula to reopen the world's biggest oil chokepoint
An FDA panel backed unproven peptides over its own scientists
The climate's slow answer to a fast question
The safest lock is the one whose design you can hand to a thief
The Fed's close call, and the Big Tech week riding on it
The US cattle herd grows for the first time since 2018 - and prices are already falling
The biggest buyout in gaming just cleared Europe, and now EA has to pay for it
Microsoft starts replacing its partners' AI models with its own
How your blood seals a cut - a chain reaction that feeds on its own output
Amortization - why your loan balance barely moves in the early years
NASA's science fleet faces its deepest cut in a generation as the staff drain begins to bite
LeBron takes the minimum, and the NBA's pay machine snaps into view
The world quietly re-arms as one war pauses and another deepens
Most brain cells turn out to be generalists, not specialists
Why a gas shock lifts your power bill even where gas barely runs
AI turned up on both sides of the security fight this week
Nvidia moves to backstop $250bn of OpenAI's buildout - as Wall Street cools on AI bills
The cost of eating is squeezing the poorest - from the grocery aisle to the food-stamp card
Sony is killing PlayStation discs, and the sales data shows why nobody can stop it
Apple sat out the AI spending race - and the market is rewarding it
How your body holds blood sugar steady - a target defended from both sides at once
Present bias - why we keep breaking the plans we sincerely made
SpaceX flies Starship a 13th time - the one rocket built to do many different jobs
The WNBA got rich, and the fight over the money got louder
A two-week war pauses over the Gulf as trade blocs splinter
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