UN News
A UN-EU report puts a $71.4 billion price tag on undoing 77 years of developmental backslide in Gaza, cataloguing devastation so complete it reads like a dystopian inventory.
NASA
NASA's experimental X-59 aircraft has achieved the critical milestone of flying with its wheels retracted, because that's how flying usually works.
Elon Musk declines a voluntary chat with French prosecutors investigating X, a move he and the U.S. Justice Department seem to view as politically motivated.
The Verge
Prego releases a limited-edition recording device to capture your dinner conversations, because apparently your smart speaker wasn't already doing that.
ZDNet
You can attempt the tedious, state-by-state battle to scrub your data from brokers for free, but it's like playing whack-a-mole with your own identity.
ScienceDaily
Northwestern scientists create a fuel cell that runs on dirt microbes, offering a potentially eternal power source for sensors, because replacing batteries is apparently too much work.
The Atlantic
An author attends Jeff Bezos's exclusive retreat, learns that extreme wealth isn't about buying things, but about exiting the universe where actions have consequences.
The Verge
Huawei's Pura X Max is the first wide foldable phone you can actually buy, leaving Apple and Samsung's rumored 2026 devices in the dust, for now.
MIT Technology Review
Colossal Biosciences cloned red wolves without telling the conservation community, adding a new layer of confusion to the already messy debate over whether the 'species' even exists.
ScienceDaily
Geologists finally figure out how to grow a stubborn mineral, proving that sometimes the solution to a 200-year-old problem is just to wash away your mistakes.
The Guardian
Myanmar's military expands a ban on period products, citing a baffling belief that rebels use them as battlefield medical supplies, while women are forced into unsafe alternatives.
The Verge
The FCC's old rule limiting broadcast reach to 39% of households is getting the deregulatory treatment, because who needs guardrails?
SpaceNews
A startup gets $6 million to teach spacecraft to navigate by taking pictures of space stuff, because apparently GPS isn't always an option out there.
ScienceDaily
Scientists have directly measured the power of black hole jets for the first time, finding they channel the energy of 10,000 suns, which is exactly the kind of excessive output you'd expect from a…
BBC World
India has spent $26bn to build over 1,000km of metro lines, only to discover that most passengers apparently missed the memo about showing up.
Ars Technica
A former lead scientist describes the hours of meticulous, silent work required to fire a petawatt laser for 10 seconds, creating a star-like condition under a university campus.
TechCrunch
Fusion startups are cashing in on public markets before achieving the key milestone of scientific breakeven, sparking fears they might ruin the party for everyone.
ScienceDaily
Research confirms humanity's profound planetary impact, suggesting the same cultural tools that got us into this mess might be the only way out.
BBC World
A BBC analysis finds traders keep making millions by betting just before Trump's major announcements, in a pattern some call insider trading and others call being really, really good guessers.
The Verge
Vercel's security incident, blamed on a mysterious third-party AI tool, has hackers selling employee data, proving once again that the cloud isn't always so fluffy.
The Good Times
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