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Researchers used AI-assisted code to undetectably tamper with data from computerized scans of physical DNA evidence produced by widely used crime-lab machines (Mariah Timms/Wall Street Journal)

Mariah Timms / Wall Street Journal : Researchers used AI-assisted code to undetectably tamper with data from computerized scans of physical DNA evidence produced by widely used cri…

Chaos of border crossing gives way to limbo for Moroccans on Ceuta’s streets

People among the more than 50,000 who entered Spanish enclave this week describe the journey and their prospects…

Inside M&S’s Oxford Street swanky revamp, blueprint for its £700m growth strategy

As boss Stuart Machin unveils a new-look Pantheon the retailer has fashion and overseas challenges ahead…

A profile of Jacob Tsimerman, who won the Fields Medal last week and is taking a leave from the University of Toronto to join OpenAI and work on AI safety (Ben Cohen/Wall Street Journal)

Malaysia shuts down Network School, Balaji Srinivasan's techno-utopian project, over licensing issues; Srinivasan says he is opening a new campus in Kazakhstan (Wall Street Journal)

‘A symbol of resistance’: the fight to save treehouse built on no man’s land next to Berlin Wall

Supporters fear structure could be torn down as safety hazard and want it to become memorial to postwar foreign labourers in honour of its Turkish creator…

Sources detail how OpenAI fell behind Anthropic in revenue growth and valuation after prioritizing consumer chatbots and flashy side projects over coding tools (Berber Jin/Wall Street Journal)

FBI and EPA say water and wastewater utilities in at least seven states reported cyberattacks this week, with some causing flooding and other operational issues (James Rundle/Wall Street Journal)

A New Financial Sun Rises in Texas, From Wall Street to Y'All Street

There's a new, major stock market exchange starting up. It's not on Wall Street; it's not in New York at all. New York and Wall Street may have been the center of the nation's stoc…

An in-depth account of the past two days inside Situational Awareness, as Aschenbrenner assured investors he would focus on changes to his portfolio management (Wall Street Journal)

OpenAI says its models now have more than 1B active users and are used by more than 2M businesses (Katherine Hamilton/Wall Street Journal)

Microsoft blinked a little in the AI capex race. Wall Street loved it

Wall Street sent Big Tech a new message: AI spending alone isn't enough. Microsoft's restraint sparked a massive stock rally.…

Sources: the Trump admin is weighing a $100K fee for foreign students seeking to work in the US after graduation; a judge blocked Trump's $100K H-1B fee in June (Michelle Hackman/Wall Street Journal)

Letter: Situational Awareness is down ~67% in July, but remains up ~80% in 2026; sources say it planned to sell $3.5B of its Anthropic stake but backed out (Wall Street Journal)

Home Depots Christmas in July collection is already selling out — shop the Grand Duchess tree, Towering Santa, and more

Nothing says July like debating tinsel arrangements.…

Sources: SoftBank gave $50M to Trump's library; Apple, Microsoft, and Amazon gave $25M, $10M, and $5M to his WH ballroom; Meta gave $10M to a pro-Trump group (Wall Street Journal)

Sources: Tesla execs were told to prepare for a separation of its China unit ahead of a potential SpaceX merger; advisers weighed a sale, spinoff, or closure (Wall Street Journal)

Anthropic says the models that breached three companies include Opus 4.7, Mythos 5, and an unnamed research model, and the earliest incidents date back to April (Robert McMillan/Wall Street Journal)

Roblox reports Q2 bookings up 8% YoY to $1.56B, vs. $1.6B est., DAUs up 10% to 123M, forecasts Q3 bookings and revenue below est.; RBLX drops 13%+ after hours (Kelly Cloonan/Wall Street Journal)

Kelly Cloonan / Wall Street Journal : Roblox reports Q2 bookings up 8% YoY to $1.56B, vs. $1.6B est., DAUs up 10% to 123M, forecasts Q3 bookings and revenue below est.; RBLX drops …

Apple hits 1.5 billion subscription milestone, still falls short of Wall Street wants

Wall Street ends sharply higher, lifted by soaring Microsoft - Reuters

Wall Street ends sharply higher, lifted by soaring Microsoft Reuters…

Apple’s Profit Increases 27 Percent, Topping Wall Street Expectations

The company recently raised prices on a number of products because of component supply shortages caused by the artificial intelligence boom.…

Apple blows away Wall Street guess-work again with record-breaking earnings

Apple’s Profit Increases 27 Percent, Topping Wall Street Expectations

Sources: a group of banks is in talks to lend $15B to Nexus to build a Texas data center; Anthropic will lease it and Google has provided financial guarantees (Anissa Gardizy/Wall Street Journal)

Git worktrees are not an isolation boundary for coding agents

Most tools that run AI coding agents in parallel give each one a git worktree. A worktree shares refs, config, stash and hooks with your real repository. Paste-and-run repros showi…

Some Backstreet Boys tickets at Las Vegas Sphere are under $100. Get them now

Here's how to see Nick, Howie, AJ, Kevin and Brian in Sin City on a budget.…

Sources: AI-focused hedge fund Situational Awareness sold the bulk of its stock portfolio to Ken Griffin's Citadel after suffering deep losses (Wall Street Journal)

Intercontinental Exchange agrees to acquire electronic fixed-income trading platform MarketAxess for ~$6B in cash, a 33% premium, set to close in H1 2027 (Katherine Hamilton/Wall Street Journal)

The EU formally launches a bidding process to develop AI Gigafactories, expecting to unlock ~€30B of investment, closing on November 12 with awards in July 2027 (Edith Hancock/Wall Street Journal)

Stripe says thousands of solo operators on its service generate $1M+ in annual revenue, and those making $10M+ nearly tripled between 2023 and 2025, aided by AI (Te-Ping Chen/Wall Street Journal)

Use Your Head While Trimming Trees

[Attoparsec] occasionally rides a bicycle for transportation, but with the major downside of doing this in North America, a place where bicycle infrastructure is generally neglecte…

Protesters blockade Wisconsin street where felon was killed after knifing cop — and the city is helping them

"It is now a lawless zone and homeless encampment barricaded on all four sides," one fed-up resident said.…

Show HN: MindFlock – Parallel AI coding agents, each in its own Git worktree

Run a flock of AI coding agents each in its own git worktree and tmux session supervised from one desktop app - MindFlock/MindFlock…

Can a heatwave cause trees to fall?

Don't sit under a tree during a heatwave - here's why.…

Wall Street Picks AI Winners and Losers as Credit Swaps Surge

Brookfield and NextEra partner to develop a $100B, 1.2GW+ AI data center campus at a former DOE uranium-enrichment site in Kentucky, set to open in 2032 (Robb M. Stewart/Wall Street Journal)

Aipac’s brand has become toxic. Can its ‘pro-Israel, pro-peace’ rival J Street move in?

J Street’s liberal Zionist politics are landing with the Democratic establishment but the electorate may have moved on…

Oil prices jump following fighting with Iran, while sinking AI stocks drag Wall Street lower - AP News

Oil prices jump following fighting with Iran, while sinking AI stocks drag Wall Street lower AP News…

Cognita Reply Named an OpenAI Advanced Partner to Accelerate Enterprise Adoption of Frontier AI - StreetInsider

Comprehensive up-to-date news coverage, aggregated from sources all over the world by Google News.…

Anthropic faces backlash from Silicon Valley partners, founders, and researchers for competitive tactics, guardrails, and lack of support for open-weight models (Wall Street Journal)

Wall Street Journal : Anthropic faces backlash from Silicon Valley partners, founders, and researchers for competitive tactics, guardrails, and lack of support for open-weight mode…

Ex-Wall Street bigwig gets 30 years for drugging, raping women — after blaming his ‘autism’

Former Citigroup executive Edward Gene Smith was sentenced to 30 years in prison for drugging and raping women after trying to blame his autism.…

Siege of Brookfield Historic Markers in New Braintree, Massachusetts

Located between Worcester and Springfield, much of Central Massachusetts is marked by rolling hills, river valleys, and deep wilderness. Filled with farmland and small scenic towns…

Linda Perhacs’ friend fears missing singer was ‘dropped off on the street’ as concern grows

The singer-songwriter's music co-producer, Fernando Perdomo, exclusively spoke with Page Six Tuesday after news surfaced that she has been missing for months.…

AI’s finally expensive enough to make Wall Street nervous

Spending more than you make isn’t an ideal business practice.…

Mark Zuckerberg argues that superintelligence should be widely distributed as a tool that empowers everyone, rather than centralized in a few institutions (Mark Zuckerberg/Wall Street Journal)

Setup Script Should Support Git Worktrees

A worktree-aware setup script can diagnose missing tools, share one Docker stack, and isolate ports, databases, and state for safe parallel development.…

Corning's shares fall 16%+ after weak Q3 guidance, as its growth is squeezed by production limits on its AI connectivity products; Q2 sales rose 17% to $4.74B (Adriano Marchese/Wall Street Journal)

PayPal reports Q2 revenue up 5% YoY to $8.68B, above $8.47B est., transaction margin dollars up 1% YoY to $3.9B, and a $1.1B profit, down from $1.26B in Q2 2025 (Elias Schisgall/Wall Street Journal)

A tree has been floating upright in this lake since 1896

Crater Lake’s Old Man is a 30-foot trunk floating upright since 1896. In 1938 it drifted 62 miles in three months.…

WATCH: E-bike teen takeover swarms downtown city streets blocking traffic, leading to charges

Video shows hundreds of teens on e-bikes swarming cars, blocking an ambulance, and running red lights in downtown Orlando, leading to charges.…

Wall Street’s flip from AI to less-loved stocks accelerates, while oil prices keep easing - AP News

Wall Street’s flip from AI to less-loved stocks accelerates, while oil prices keep easing AP News…

Stocks drift on Wall Street and crude oil prices drop as Mideast tensions cool

Stocks drifted to a mixed close on Wall Street and oil prices fell after the U.S. and Iran paused their attacks while work resumed on restarting negotiations to end their war…

'Allah commanded me': Knife-wielding man attacks 3 women on Paris street - video

Panic gripped a busy Paris street on Monday after a man armed with two kitchen knives attacked three women in broad daylight before being overpowered by bystanders and an off-duty …

Mundane trade fuelled large Wall Street windfall as indices rebalanced

The Iran War Is Making Asia’s Street Food More Expensive

Microsoft CEO on Wall Street being upset on Chinese open source AI models

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has pushed back against Wall Street’s anxieties over low-cost Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) models, arguing that global trust in American infrast…

Dark truth about Gavin Newsom’s $2.6B flagship housing splurge — turning LA’s quiet streets into slums

Some of Los Angeles' most expensive taxpayer-funded homeless housing developments have generated hundreds, and in some cases more than 1,200, police calls, an exclusive California …

Singapore-based investors now the top non-local buyers of Hong Kong office assets

Investors from the Lion City unseated mainland Chinese in the second quarter, seizing distressed asset opportunities amid price corrections.…

A tale of two markets: Wall Street cheers record highs while Beijing deflates bubbles

Analysts say China’s risk-averse financial policy is diverting capital to Wall Street, advising the building of ‘good bubbles’ to promote growth.…