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• Anguish about Joe Biden's candidacy is rational, polls suggest
• Strava's next chapter: New CEO talks AI, inclusivity, and why 'dark mode' took so long
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• The historic heart of Addis Ababa is being demolished
• Why Eurovision won't boot out Israel
• How the Mediterranean could become a green-energy powerhouse
• A stealth attack came close to compromising the world's computers
• Gaza is on the brink of a man-made famine
• The tiny republic of San Marino is alarmingly friendly to Russia
• Rishi Sunak's snap election is odd and illogical—much like him
• As seas rise, the relocation of Caribbean islanders has begun
• Britain's general election was its least representative ever
• How countries rank by military spending
• A religious revolution is under way in the Middle East
• Fighting disinformation gets harder, just when it matters most
• China's Rate Cuts Welcomed, But More Still Needs to Be Done
• To see the future of urban warfare, look at Gaza
• Petco Names Joel Anderson as CEO Following Exit From Five Below
• The attempt on Trump's life is shocking, but not surprising
• Human diets are becoming less diverse, a new book warns
• The 6 best Mint alternatives to replace the budgeting app that shut down
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Dealers are selling war trophies to buy weapons for Ukraine
• NASA's PACE satellite will tackle the largest uncertainty in climate science
• What Do Baseball Pitchers Shohei Ohtani, Gerrit Cole and Shane Bieber Have in Common?
• Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 6 review: The king, but for how much longer?
• A new wave of stadium-building is busting budgets in America
• Brazil and Colombia are curbing destruction of Amazon rainforest
• The Trump Shooting Fueled an Online Sticker Battle
• Checks and Balance: Trump's guilty verdict and unprecedented presidenting
• How American politics has infected investing
• World Economic Forum Opens Board Probe of Workplace Culture
• OpenAI Slashes the Cost of Using Its AI With a 'Mini' Model
• Methane's Climate Crisis Needs More than Satellites to Stop Emissions
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• The cautionary tale of Huy Fong's hot sauce
• Prison Phone Call Fees Are Out of Control. The FCC Can Finally Rein Them In
• Places ravaged by opioids are giving Republicans the upper hand
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Protests against a Russian-style law threaten Georgia's government
• Labour is on course for a huge victory in the British election
• If Ray Kurzweil Is Right (Again), You'll Meet His Immortal Soul in the Cloud
• Henry Kissinger and Eric Schmidt take on AI
• Anne Innis Dagg devoted her life to the world's tallest creature
• I never realised how much freedom and comfort softness could bring
• For the perfect cup of tea, start with the right bacteria
• Blighty newsletter: Could the Labour Party fix lawmaking?
• Chinese authorities are now addicted to traffic fines
• Outrage at a strike in Rafah is unlikely to change policy
• Did spies from China, India and Russia meddle in Canada's elections?
• What Indian business expects from Modi 3.0
• Carbon emissions are dropping—fast—in Europe
• The epic bust-up between China and India could be ending
• It is dangerously easy to hack the world's phones
• Democrats rush for new strategy as Kamala Harris emerges as favorite
• Can One Chatbot Catch Another's Lies?
• KAL's cartoon
• A new English version of "The Arabian Nights" is the first by a woman
• Stocks Drop During Tech Outage at End of Volatile Week
• Ranajit Guha revolutionised the study of India's past
• A spectre looms over Hong Kong's property market
• Leesa Legend Mattress Review: An Extra-Supportive Hybrid Bed for Everyone
• Who will lead the LVMH luxury empire?
• What's behind Britain's earthworm cataclysm?
• Robert Badinter persuaded France to abolish the guillotine
• Meta will withhold multimodal AI models from the EU amid regulatory uncertainty
• America's Aging Dams Are a Catastrophe Waiting to Happen
• The science that built the AI revolution
• Apple, EU Settle Long-Running Mobile-Payments Probe
• Eleanor Coppola recorded how a cinematic triumph almost came unstuck
• Cashless talk
• Xander Schauffele seals Open win as USA sweep all four majors for first time in 42 years
• Acknowledgments
• The Trump shooting has made a mockery of the Secret Service
• How XL Bullies became such dangerous dogs
• The 29 Best Movies on Max (aka HBO Max) Right Now (July 2024)
• Will IVF really be the next frontier in America's culture wars?
• Might Wisconsin's redrawn state-legislative districts help Biden win?
• CrowdStrike Made Its Name Fighting Technology Problems. Now It Has Caused One.
• Philanthropy in Asia is becoming more professional
• From Yandex's ashes comes Nebius, a 'startup' with plans to be a European AI compute leader
• How much cash should be removed from the financial system?
• Progress on the science of menstruation—at last
• Sir Keir Starmer meets the public. Sort of
• A new danger for Venezuela's autocrat
• What Javier Milei could learn from Peru's economic successes
• Rumours of the trade deal's death are greatly exaggerated
• Hackers Claim to Have Leaked 1.1 TB of Disney Slack Messages
• The murder that aroused a nation
• Tensions mount between China and the Philippines
• Sources and acknowledgments
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• China's economic model retains a dangerous allure
• China tells bankers to be more patriotic
• The Complete History And Future of Robots
• Your conference-survival handbook
• The FTC is as mad about the Xbox Game Pass price increase as you are
• Microsoft says 8.5M Windows devices were affected by CrowdStrike outage
• The Kamala Harris coconut tree meme, explained as best we can
• Business
• The world's richest countries in 2024
• U.S. Lawmakers Seek Probe of Microsoft's $1.5B Deal With Abu Dhabi AI Firm
• A changing car industry should result in more choice and better motoring
• CrowdStrike outage: How your plane, train and automobile travel may be affected
• Three reasons why oil prices are remarkably stable
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• She Made $10,000 a Month Defrauding Apps like Uber and Instacart. Meet the Queen of the Rideshare Mafia
• The lessons of woke Scrabble
• The narcissism of minor differences, Labour Party edition
• Eight charts illustrate 2023's extreme weather
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• As payments systems go digital, they are changing global finance
• Schim is an inventive, beautiful platformer that's just a little too repetitive
• Lauren Boebert's primary is a window into everyday Trumpism
• Narendra Modi ramps up the Muslim-baiting
• Israel is more popular than social-media posts suggest
• The Global IT Outage Sends Hospitals Reeling
• It's Shockingly Easy to Buy Off-Brand Ozempic Online, Even If You Don't Need It
• Why India should create dozens of new states
• Frozen Russian assets will soon pay for Ukraine's war
• What Defines Artificial Intelligence? The Complete WIRED Guide
• Soaring food-price inflation is hurting Nigeria's poor
• The military dictatorship controls less than 50% of Myanmar
• Personal Data Collection: The Complete WIRED Guide
• It was hard for any viewer to look away from Sidney Poitier
• Iran's attack has left Israel in a difficult position
• The Chinese scientist who sequenced covid is barred from his lab
• How Venus' Quasi-Moon Zoozve Got Its Name
• Exiled pro-democracy Hong Kong activists blocked from accessing pensions
• We're hiring a senior India correspondent
• Americans are fretting over their body odour
• Japan will struggle to rescue its plummeting currency
• Why are cities in Latin America getting more expensive?
• Songs, pandas and praise for Xi: how China courts young Taiwanese
• Google DeepMind's Chatbot-Powered Robot Is Part of a Bigger Revolution
• Can women-only factories help more Indian women into work?
• William Anders took the photo that kicked off the environmental movement
• India has quietly transformed its ports
• After a deadlocked election, can anyone govern France?
• Puerto Rico Files $1-Billion Climate Lawsuit against Oil Companies
• Biden Is Right to Take on the Court
• A new biography explains the genius of John von Neumann
• Arvind Kejriwal's imprisonment is a stain on India's democracy
• Secret Service Director Heads to Congress
• X is working on a way to block links in replies
• What is The Economist's word of the year for 2021?
• What Kamala Harris has said about AI, tech regulation, and more
• Why a drone war in Asia would look different from the one in Ukraine
• Software is now as important as hardware in cars
• UK watchdog accuses Apple of failing to report sexual images of children
• Bayer wants legislative help to fight its cancer lawsuits
• How did pollsters do in predicting the British election?
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• This week's covers
• China Miéville Writes a Secret Novel With the Internet's Boyfriend (It's Keanu Reeves)
• CMF Phone 1 Review: A Phenomenal Budget Smartphone
• The president of Somaliland is bargaining for recognition
• The Supreme Court's term ends with a rash of divisive rulings
• Life and death in a Christmas tree
• The three steps on America's ladder of military escalation
• Sources and acknowledgments
• American politicians are the oldest in the rich world
• This week's covers
• Huge Microsoft Outage Linked to CrowdStrike Takes Down Computers Around the World
• The seats where Labour is concentrating its campaign firepower
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Politics overshadows a conference to raise money for Ukraine
• The Economist's glass-ceiling index
• Carmen Callil changed British reading habits for ever
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• How India's imports of Russian oil have lubricated global markets
• Mangosuthu Buthelezi had his own vision for a democratic South Africa
• Kaja Kallas, the plain-talking Estonian tipped to be the EU's top diplomat
• Jordan's Islamists have been boosted by the war in Gaza
• Hunter Biden's criminal conviction is good for nobody politically
• Gold Likely to Consolidate in Short Term
• G42, an Emirati AI hopeful, has big plans
• Unknown soldiers
• For its next phase of growth, India needs a new reform agenda
• What Camden reveals about Keir Starmer's mission for government
• Thief Raccoon - Login Phishing Tool
• Sources and acknowledgments
• Even Xi Jinping is struggling to fix regional inequality
• Checks and Balance newsletter: virtue and vice in public private life
• Lessons in capitalism from Whole Foods and Trader Joe's
• European banks are making heady profits in Russia
• Spies, trade and tech: China's relationship with Britain
• Why Joe Biden won't go
• Recent heatwaves are a harbinger of Africa's future
• Myanmar's junta is losing ever more ground
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• France is being thrown into uncharted territory
• We Asked AI to Take Us On a Tour of Our Cities. It Was Chaos
• Moog Labyrinth Review: A New Way to Sequence
• Elinor Otto did not realise what giant strides she was making for women
• .45 PARABELLUM BLOODHOUND is a cyberpunk RPG by the developer of VA-11 HALL-A
• Sergei Shoigu's sacking points to yet more attrition in Ukraine
• 'I Guess This Is Normal Politics Now'
• China's ruling party sets out its vision of economic reform
• Half of Kew tree species at risk of death owing to climate crisis, study finds
• Chinese green technologies are pouring into Latin America
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Politics
• In English local elections Labour won where it needed to
• Pressure Grows in Congress to Treat Crypto Investigator Tigran Gambaryan, Jailed in Nigeria, as a Hostage
• Why online marketplaces have not killed the estate sale
• Xi Jinping looks abroad for confidence
• Plenty of circumstantial evidence at Donald Trump's trial
• This week's cover
• Young Women With Eating Disorders Feel the Pull of Energy Drinks
• Palmer Luckey and Anduril want to shake up armsmaking
• This week's cover
• European millionaires seek a safe harbour from populism
• J.D. Vance, an honorary Frenchman, sends Europe into panic mode
• Pressure Grows in Congress to Treat Crypto Investigator Tigran Gambaryan, Jailed in Nigeria, as a Hostage
• Boom times are back for container shipping
• Long covid is not the only chronic condition triggered by infection
• Politics
• The Paris Olympics Will Show Us the Future of Sports on TV
• The Asus ROG Ally X turns PC gaming into a portable console
• What is Crispr Gene Editing? The Complete WIRED Guide
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Why are Arab armed forces so ineffective?
• Populism has plenty of false promises to solve Britain's problems. Labour will need to expose them | John Harris
• Massive farmers' protests are a headache for Narendra Modi
• YIMBY cities show how to build homes and contain rents
• Mauritania is a beacon of stability in the coup-prone Sahel
• Imperial borders still shape politics in Poland
• France is desperately searching for a government
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Justin Trudeau is beset by a divided party and an angry electorate
• The four women who shook up philosophy
• China's leaders are less popular than they might think
• Barry Humphries, creator and manager of Dame Edna Everage, died on April 22nd, aged 89
• America may soon be spending more on debt service than defence
• Heirs Finally Get an Answer From IRS About Money in Inherited Retirement Accounts
• National days offer a study into the inner psyche of Europeans
• Climate change is slowing Earth's rotation
• Could there be a US-Mexico trade war?
• 'He was a beautiful man': one man's long journey to justice for the killing of his brother
• The unsteady comeback of the California condor
• KAL's cartoon
• A peace conference over Ukraine is unlikely to silence the guns
• The world's most violent region needs a new approach to crime
• Why so many Chinese graduates cannot find work
• Attempts to make supply chains "resilient" are likely to fail
• Politics
• Is the American-built pier in Gaza useful or a fiasco?
• Draft Israeli law to limit academic speech labelled 'McCarthyite'
• KAL's cartoon
• The AI-Powered Future of Coding Is Near
• Kung fu gives Africans their kicks
• Biden's Greatest Strengths Proved His Undoing
• China is distorting its stockmarket by trying to prop it up
• China and America trade blame for a world on fire
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Robots are suddenly getting cleverer. What's changed?
• Best Internet Providers in Pueblo, Colorado
• Volodymyr Zelensky's five-year term ends on May 20th
• Joe Biden, My Friend and an American Hero
• Lab-Grown Meat Is Getting Closer to Tasting Like Real Beef
• Antidepressant use is surging in Britain
• Asian "nepo babies" are dominating its politics
• Google DeepMind's Chatbot-Powered Robot Is Part of a Bigger Revolution
• Rose Dugdale went from debutante to IRA bombmaker
• The return of the Farage ratchet
• Why many young Asians are no longer studying history
• Politics
• Carl Bernstein's memoir traces his path to Watergate
• Will Americans be bowled over by cricket—again?
• Stocks Retreat in Broad Decline
• Silicon Valley's Soulless Plutocrats Flip for Donald Trump—to Save Their Billions
• America's political paralysis is complicating its support for Ukraine
• Alleged 'Maniac Murder Cult' Leader Indicted Over Plot to Kill Jews
• How many books will you read before you die?
• The Secret to Living Past 120 Years Old? Nanobots
• Worldwide Tech Outage Started with Defective Crowdstrike Update to Microsoft Windows
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• A price war breaks out among China's AI-model builders
• Timeline: Inside the Weekend When Biden Decided to Withdraw
• Games Rule the World—And Always Have
• Peter Schickele and P.D.Q. Bach were sides of the same coin
• Today's NYT Mini Crossword Answers and Puzzle Help for July 22
• No wonder Macron's gambling: Europe is home to the high-roller
• Meta in Talks to Buy Stake in Eyewear Giant EssilorLuxottica
• KAL's cartoon
• KAL's cartoon
• Justin Schmidt made a lifetime study of insects that attack us
• The 'brat' summer takeover – podcast
• Business
• Tanzania's opposition, once flat on its back, is now on its knees
• Productivity gurus through time: a match-up
• Romania's hard right looks strong in a year of four elections
• The new front line of British politics is just lovely
• The Economist's cost-of-loving index
• Is South Africa ready for a change in government?
• The world's next food superpower
• How Kristi Noem missed her shot to be vice-president
• Peak Europe turns 25: why June 1999 marked the continent's zenith
• Latin America's most powerful new gang built a human-trafficking empire
• Why Latin America is the world's trade pipsqueak
• The 48 hours that consigned Joe Biden's 2024 candidacy to history
• New fronts are opening in the war against malaria
• Business
• Killer whales deploy brutal, co-ordinated attacks when hunting
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• "Trading Places" and the challenge of troubling art of the past
• Biden Made a Courageous Choice in Dropping Out
• Writer-director Rapman on creating Netflix's global smash hit Supacell - podcast
• How Elon Musk Went Red Against California Blue
• We're hiring a global correspondent
• Against expectations, European banks are thriving
• Pakistan's generals look increasingly desperate
• From trash to treasure: emerald hunters in Colombia – in pictures
• Does America have enough weapons to support its allies?
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Has private credit's golden age already ended?
• Apple, Nvidia, Anthropic Used Thousands of Swiped YouTube Videos to Train AI
• EvilSlackbot - A Slack Bot Phishing Framework For Red Teaming Exercises
• Blighty newsletter: the Tories' 2015 playbook won't stop Keir Starmer
• Twitch restores former President Trump's Twitch account
• Humans have altered other species as well as the environment
• Elon Musk's X Hit by EU Charges Over Blue Checkmarks
• Elon Musk is feuding with Brazil's powerful Supreme Court
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Xi Jinping's paranoia is making China isolated and insular
• Could robot weedkillers replace the need for pesticides?
• Here Are the Best Times to Upgrade Your Phone
• A climber's story evokes classic mountaineering literature
• Brainy Indians are piling into Western universities
• States are becoming more brazen about killing foes abroad
• Maya Widmaier-Picasso helped to revive her father's creativity
• Sir Paul McCartney's memoir aims to affirm his status as a writer
• Worlds apart
• They Experimented on Themselves in Secret. What They Discovered Helped Win a War
• Airbnb bookings for the solar eclipse reach astronomical levels
• Are America's leading presidential candidates up to it?
• A reformer wanting a nuclear deal with America wins Iran's election
• Inside a Lebanese village where war with Israel has already arrived
• FiiO reboots the old-school portable CD player, minus the AA batteries
• CrowdStrike's update fail causes global outages and travel chaos
• The 39 Best Shows on Max (aka HBO Max) Right Now (July 2024)
• Which countries have the best, and worst, living standards?
• After Nayib Bukele's crushing, unconstitutional victory, what next?
• Australia joins the industrial arms race
• Narendra Modi cuddles up to Vladimir Putin in Moscow
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• The best free tools and services for college students
• The Metaverse Was Supposed to Be Your New Office. You're Still on Zoom
• Signs of Life Could Be Found Close to the Surface of Two Nearby Moons
• Trump Versus the Coconut-Pilled
• Abdulrazak Gurnah wins the Nobel prize in literature for 2021
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• Business
• China has become a scientific superpower
• The 52 Best Shows on Netflix Right Now (July 2024)
• Two new books shed light on the plight of the Uyghurs
• How much do Palestinians pay to get out of Gaza?
• Baby-boomers are loaded. Why are they so stingy?
• EVs Are Cheaper Than Ever. Can Car Buyers Be Won Over?
• Brazil reckons with the life and legacy of an abolitionist
• Business
• The drug-overdose capitals of Europe
• Trump Shooter Searched for Porn and Political Rallies Ahead of the Attack
• Is Britain levelling up?
• How many Russian soldiers have been killed in Ukraine?
• Pema Tseden was the founder and builder of Tibetan cinema
• Europe can't decide how to unplug from China
• Half Ukraine's power is knocked out; winter is coming
• Pesa unlocks new markets to keep remittances flowing to emerging economies
• Green dreams: Joy Labinjo's paintings celebrating park life – in pictures
• How Apple Intelligence's Privacy Stacks Up Against Android's 'Hybrid AI'
• The WIRED Guide to Commercial Human Space Flight
• Eric Freeman hoped to save the Gloucestershire of old
• Google Near $23 Billion Deal for Cybersecurity Startup Wiz
• 'Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess' review: Demonic delights
• Far-right ideas are gaining a renewed respectability in France
• Inside the world of crazy rich Indians
• How Taiwan still hangs on to property in bits of China
• Today's NYT Strands Hints, Answers and Help for July 21, #140
• The 22 best Amazon Prime Day 2024 tech deals still available to shop today
• Tracking the EV battery factory construction boom across North America
• The best albums of 2021
• China will struggle to meet its new growth target
• Has China reached peak emissions?
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• Today's AI models are impressive. Teams of them will be formidable
• The Trump Trade Is Back. But Did It Ever Work?
• In Crimea, Ukraine is beating Russia
• Africa Inc is ready to roar
• China Puts Power of State Behind AI---and Risks Strangling It
• Politics
• A cautionary tale from the streets of San Francisco
• Europe faces a new age of shrunken French influence
• Emmanuel Macron on how to rescue Europe
• KAL's cartoon
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Ugandan judges uphold a draconian anti-gay law
• The BRICS bloc is riven with tensions
• AI and other tricks are bringing power lines into the 21st century
• How ransomware could cripple countries, not just companies
• Sinéad O'Connor hated the very idea of being a pop star
• Jeremy Corbyn wants more nice things, fewer nasty ones
• TSMC Raises Outlook as Profit Beats Estimates on Surging Chip Demand
• Ukraine has a month to avoid default
• Crypto cowboys have found paradise in Paraguay
• The forgotten importance of the War of Jenkins' Ear
• Dyson Has New Headphones That Don't Cover Your Mouth This Time
• Hebe de Bonafini lived through the lives of her sons
• For a glimpse at Japan's future, look at its convenience stores
• The Hidden Ties Between Google and Amazon's Project Nimbus and Israel's Military
• Eva Longoria: 'People are still discovering Desperate Housewives. Thematically, it's timeless'
• Everyone Is Trying to Make This TikTok Go Viral—and It Never Will
• South American vineyards brace for tricky summers ahead
• Joe Biden quits the race, at last. What's next?
• Joe Biden is failing to silence calls that he step aside
• America hits Chinese biotech—and its own drugmakers
• Three charts assess England's chances of winning the Euros 2024
• USA Swimming Has a Secret Weapon: Linear Algebra
• Pride marches, Stormzy and a kite festival: photos of the weekend
• What is 5G? The Complete Guide to When, Why, and How
• Why France's president called a snap election
• Venezuela's autocrat, Nicolás Maduro, threatens to annex Guyana
• Hong Kong gets a second draconian security law
• CIA AI director Lakshmi Raman claims the agency is taking a 'thoughtful approach' to AI
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• A 40-year-old nuclear-fusion experiment bows out in style
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Gandhi v Modi: crunch time for Congress as India prepares to vote
• Artificial Intelligence Will Let Humanity Talk to Alien Civilizations
• Coups, crackdowns and chaos: art inspired by democracy – and the despots who overthrew it
• Delta Flight Cancellations Continue As It Struggles To Recover From Tech Outage
• These are the world's most expensive cities
• What are America's Libertarians for?
• Large language models are getting bigger and better
• Meet the maharajas of the world's biggest democracy
• Harris, who is Biden's voice on abortion rights, is likely to raise the volume
• 10 Ancient Games That Are Still Fun to Play
• Issey Miyake saw clothes in a completely new way
• The Ukrainian army commits new forces in a big southward push
• 'Greatest Bubble' Nearing Its Peak, Says Black Swan Manager
• The disorganisation of the Democratic rebels against Joe Biden
• Vivienne Westwood sowed never-ending revolution all through the fashion world
• Rural Colombia welcomes gangs that mete out vigilante justice
• Central-bank digital currencies are talked about more than coming to fruition
• App stores are hugely lucrative—and under attack
• Why avocados are driving another sort of green economy in Kenya
• Now that Biden has stepped aside, what happens next?
• What next for Amazon as it turns 30?
• 'Dream come true': study suggests drug could extend women's fertility by five years
• Astronauts Would Need an Unusual Pot to Boil Food in Space
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• After Biden, is there still a Trump trade?
• China's leaders face miserable economic-growth figures
• Israel bombs the Hamas military mastermind behind the October 7th attack
• Sex and Gender Map onto Different Brain Networks in Children
• On the 50th anniversary of "Ways of Seeing" and "G."
• Why sex bias in labs means women are the losers in research into ageing
• Ukraine is ignoring US warnings to end drone operations inside Russia
• KAL's cartoon
• Cleaning up the Poop-Polluted Seine for the Paris Olympics
• The death of Iran's president will spark a high-stakes power struggle
• How Kamala Harris Views Policy
• The next terrifying war: Israel v Hizbullah
• "Our Europe can die": Macron's dire message to the continent
• This week's covers
• American Borrowers Are on Shakier Ground
• "Making Nice" is a gratifying satire of the internet age
• Who could replace Narendra Modi?
• The race to prevent satellite Armageddon
• China doesn't want people flaunting their wealth
• Kamala Harris thrust into 2024 spotlight as Biden bows out
• China's better economic growth hides reasons to worry
• What is the world's loveliest language?
• Think Tesla is in trouble? Pity even more its wannabe EV rivals
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• AT&T Paid a Hacker $370,000 to Delete Stolen Phone Records
• The rise of the hard right alarms German business leaders
• Brandon Johnson, Chicago's leftist mayor, is struggling
• The world is not quite ready for 'digital workers'
• Asteroid Apophis Is Target of Europe's New Ramses Mission
• J.D. Vance Left His Venmo Public. Here's What It Shows
• Elizabeth II never laid down the heavy weight of the crown
• Vast Olympic security operation descends on central Paris
• The Blurred Reality of AI's 'Human-Washing'
• Watching "The Shawshank Redemption" on stage in China
• Politics
• The trouble with reality in fiction
• How the Rosetta Stone was deciphered
• Can Britain's economy grow as fast as it needs to?
• How Games Run Everything from Online Dating to Social Media to Stock Markets
• America's federal district courts may soon be harder to manipulate
• Israel has seen arms embargoes before
• Our new "mega-poll" gives Labour an expected majority of 280 seats
• Abortion Isn't About Feminism
• Iran's supreme leader is terrified of people power
• Vodafone sells further €1.3bn stake in European phone masts business
• Bernard Ingham and Betty Boothroyd ensured democracy worked as it should
• China's state is eating the private property market
• Elon Musk Says He's Moving X and SpaceX Headquarters to Texas
• China is using archaeology as a weapon
• Godzilla's Gonna Ultimate Showdown His Way Through Literature in New Comic
• Think Nvidia looks dear? American shares could get pricier still
• The taboos around sexual health are weakening
• The Score: Goldman Sachs, Trump Media, CrowdStrike and More Stocks That Defined the Week
• Which will grow faster: India or Indonesia?
• Immigration is surging, with big economic consequences
• Splitgate 2 is coming to PC and consoles in 2025
• Le Pen's hard right looks set to dominate the French parliament
• OpenAI Touts New AI Safety Research. Critics Say It's a Good Step, but Not Enough
• Israel's ground assault hits Gaza's communication network
• Emma Hayes in at the deep end for USWNT's latest Olympic odyssey
• The EU Is Coming for X's Paid Blue Checks
• Business
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• The AI-Powered Future of Coding Is Near
• Even disillusioned young Indian voters favour Narendra Modi
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• Paris Olympics Will Be a Training Ground for AI-Powered Mass Surveillance
• From hypersonic missiles to undersea drones, the PLA is making leaps
• A palatial museum of Edvard Munch's art opens in Oslo
• Russia's latest crime in Mariupol: stealing property
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• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Joe Biden leaked Israel's first plan to end the war in Gaza
• Frank Drake believed that the universe had to contain other intelligent beings
• Business
• A short history of the Arab-Israeli conflict
• The inheritance awaiting Britain's next government
• Chinese weapons are taking over in Africa
• Julian Assange's plea deal: a suitable end to a grubby saga
• How to provoke the fury of Xi Jinping
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• KAL's cartoon
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• Economic data, commodities and markets
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• Democrats Weigh the Pros and Cons of Kamala Harris's Candidacy
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• Terry Anderson was held by Islamic militants for 2,454 days
• Guatemala's new president promises a better sort of government
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• Russia sentences Evan Gershkovich to 16 years on bogus spying charges
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• Homeland Security Announces Panel on Trump Assassination Attempt
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• KAL's cartoon
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• Places claiming to be centenarian hotspots may just have bad data
• Israeli Strike on Yemeni Port Will Harm Civilians, Not Houthis, Experts Say
• LDAPWordlistHarvester - A Tool To Generate A Wordlist From The Information Present In LDAP, In Order To Crack Passwords Of Domain Accounts
• European airlines are on a shopping spree
• Inside Narendra Modi's battle to win over the south
• After a season of Gaza protests, America's university graduates are polarised but resilient
• Google just confirmed the Pixel 9 Pro's outrageous camera bump
• War and climate change are overwhelming Somalia
• Silvio Berlusconi duped Italians for years
• Can Elon Musk's xAI take on OpenAI?
• Schools in rich countries are making poor progress
• The Metaverse Was Supposed to Be Your New Office. You're Still on Zoom
• A museum in Rotterdam opens up its collection
• This week's covers
• Oil's endgame will be in the Gulf
• The movement of capital globally is in decline
• Wall Street Takes a Back Seat With Trump's Elevation of Vance
• Many mental-health conditions have bodily triggers
• GiveDirectly does what it says on the tin
• Cobra Kai Creators Talk Season 6 Spoilers and Future Teases
• Wines That Entertain as Well as Impress
• The EU hits China's carmakers with hefty new tariffs
• Xfinity is showing the Olympics with Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos on its Stream app
• New industrial policies will not help economic stability
• Two new books explore the impact of accelerating technology
• Vodafone Offloads Further Stake in Vantage Towers
• How do you solve a problem like Joe Biden?
• Why southern Europeans will soon be the longest-lived people in the world
• Paraguay and Taiwan strengthen their embrace, for now
• There are risks but also big potential benefits from digital payments
• The WIRED Guide to Digital Security
• Why New York scrapped congestion charging
• Luxury Brands Need to Win Back Middle Class Shoppers
• Why Iranian dissidents love Cyrus, an ancient Persian king
• National payment systems are proliferating
• Asus ROG Ally X Review: More Battery and Storage, Same Windows Problems
• Indian state capitalism looks to be in trouble
• Israel's northern border is ablaze
• Stingrays Move Thousands of Tons of Sand on the Seafloor per Year
• The woes of Hargreaves Lansdown, Britain's DIY-investing titan
• The Mexican president's latest boondoggle officially opens
• India's election could be the world's most expensive
• Business
• Who are the main contenders to be Iran's next president?
• Five months out, Donald Trump has a clear lead
• China wants to export education, too
• Meet the victors in Africa's coup belt
• Moviemaking and gamemaking are converging
• Has the spectre of terrorism finally been excised from Spain?
• How cheap drones are transforming warfare in Ukraine
• Paul Watson, Sea Shepherd founder and anti-whaling activist arrested in Greenland
• The dominant model of the universe is creaking
• True-crime fans are banding together online to try to solve cases
• Hordes of cicadas are emerging simultaneously in America
• JA4+ - Suite Of Network Fingerprinting Standards
• Mexico has become a testing ground for psychedelic therapies
• The Best Places to Put Indoor Houseplants
• The Kremlin is rewriting Wikipedia
• Don't like your job? Quit for a rival firm
• Economic data, commodities and markets