Part the First: They Really Are Serious About Destroying American Science (but that has been clear from the beginning). The Wall Street Journal writes: White House to Direct Billions in Research Funds Toward AI, Away from Colleges (no archive). In a new report and memo released Tuesday, the White House Office of Science and Technology…
A deal meant to see the disarmament of Palestinian group Hamas is a rare piece of good news for the Middle East, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Friday. Referring to nearly six months of US war against Iran — and growing regional spillover — Guterres said the Hamas deal announced late Thursday was an outlier….
Leopold Aschenbrenner Photo: Josh Edelson Two years ago, Leopold Aschenbrenner argued he was one of few people in the world who saw the future clearly. In a sprawling, 165-page essay that became required reading in Silicon Valley, the former OpenAI researcher positioned himself as a kind of prophet for the coming age of artificial super…
Beau Salvado | 12:00am BST 26 July 2026 The Impact Player rule came out as the major debating topic of the recently concluded IPL 2026. Teams were aggressive and changed games with one change, contributing to record scores. That volatility has made IPL predictions difficult, as analysts now have to take into account two possible…
Part the First: They Really Are Serious About Destroying American Science (but that has been clear from the beginning). The Wall Street Journal writes: White House to Direct Billions in Research Funds Toward AI, Away from Colleges (no archive). In a new report and memo released Tuesday, the White House Office of Science and Technology…
A deal meant to see the disarmament of Palestinian group Hamas is a rare piece of good news for the Middle East, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Friday. Referring to nearly six months of US war against Iran — and growing regional spillover — Guterres said the Hamas deal announced late Thursday was an outlier….
Leopold Aschenbrenner Photo: Josh Edelson Two years ago, Leopold Aschenbrenner argued he was one of few people in the world who saw the future clearly. In a sprawling, 165-page essay that became required reading in Silicon Valley, the former OpenAI researcher positioned himself as a kind of prophet for the coming age of artificial super…
Beau Salvado | 12:00am BST 26 July 2026 The Impact Player rule came out as the major debating topic of the recently concluded IPL 2026. Teams were aggressive and changed games with one change, contributing to record scores. That volatility has made IPL predictions difficult, as analysts now have to take into account two possible…
Ghana’s Black Satellites settled for a 1-1 draw against Burkina Faso in their second Group B match at the 2026 WAFU B U-20 Championship in Yamoussoukro, Côte d’Ivoire, on Thursday. Following their opening-day loss against Nigeria, they were looking to bounce back, and the Burkinabe game was the perfect opportunity to make their mark. Joseph…
Major League Baseball’s Aug. 3 trade deadline is mere days away, and teams are busy making plans in advance of that important date on the calendar. That means trade rumors aplenty. Friday is no exception, and you can find the latest dose of trade talk just below. MLB trade deadline landing spots: Predicting new teams…
A few years ago, when the first trailer for the Sonic the Hedgehog film adaptation went viral for all the wrong reasons, there was talk about how the film was going to be given a facelift to improve the look of its hero. I, at the time, wrote an article basically broadcasting the film’s imminent…
Ella Langley’s mournful country ballad “Choosin’ Texas” has broken record after record, sitting atop national and international charts for weeks in a row. The Rolling Stone pick for song of the summer is an easy earworm about love, loss, and the Lone Star State, but some on the right are hearing their own favorite tune:…
Egypt’s men’s fencing team won the bronze medal at the World Fencing Championships after edging Israel 39-38 in a third-place match on Wednesday, 29 July. The Egyptian quartet of Mohamed El-Sayed, Youssef Shamel, Mahmoud Mohsen and Mahmoud El-Sayed finished on the podium after an impressive run through the tournament in Hong Kong, which runs…
A landmark study reading gene activity in 2.2 million individual cells has identified, for the first time, the specific genes and cell types most likely to be driving inflammatory bowel disease. The findings point to two mechanisms that weren’t previously on the IBD radar and suggest new targets for treatment. Inherited Markers of Inflammatory Bowel Disease…
