SpaceNews
Outgoing Space Force chief says orbital mechanics doesn't respect neutrality; urges building combat-ready space forces to prevent war, because nothing says peace like being prepared to destroy stuff.
NPR Economy
China's Q2 GDP growth hits 4.3%, the weakest since 2022 lockdowns, as export boom masks weak domestic spending and a property slump.
BBC Business
China's economy grew a measly 4.3% in Q2, missing its target as the Iran war and domestic ennui spoiled the party, but hey, exports are booming.
The Guardian Europe
China's record 12.7 million graduates enter a job market that's pivoting to AI and tech while humanities grads wonder if their degree qualifies them for delivery driving.
NPR Economy
A Monopoly importer tries to make a board game in the U.S. to dodge tariffs, discovers it's like landing on Boardwalk with no hotels.
Four kids turned a $530,000 Ferrari into a slide; parents offered $736 and no apology, making a lawsuit inevitable.
BBC World
Typhoon Bavi, roughly the width of France, is barreling toward Taiwan and China after killing 15 in the Philippines - because apparently one devastating storm this week wasn't enough.
The Guardian
Typhoon Maysak floods China, releases cobras, and spawns tornadoes; Mumbai gets half a month's rain in a day; and a remote island remembers that volcanoes make wind worse.
BBC World
A factory fire in China's shoe capital kills 28, with President Xi promising accountability as the country rethinks its fire safety campaign.
BBC World
China's robotaxis are cruising Beijing traffic with no humans, but exporting them might be harder than selling EVs - especially when they get stuck in the snow or drag pedestrians.
The Guardian
Penny Wong to discuss China's missile test personally; Melbourne man paints giant 'Pam the Bird' on bridge and takes a nap; WA Labor faces tough by-election fight.
The Guardian
Typhoon Maysak kills two, floods cities, and forces 48,000 evacuations in China, while Super Typhoon Bavi looms with 180mph winds. Climate crisis says 'you're welcome.'
The Guardian Europe
Germany is not thrilled China is training Russian soldiers; Russia claims another city; Sumy gets bombed; Ukraine and Poland have a history lesson; Lithuania wants nukes; Russian athletes still banned.
BBC World
Lam Wing-kee, the bookseller who sold banned books and fled to Taiwan, has died at 70 - his life a testament to free expression, a staged TV confession, and why authoritarian regimes really hate bookshops.
The Verge
Godox's C100 camera swaps a color screen for a transparent LCD viewfinder, costs $29, and is only in China - because sometimes less is more, but mostly less is just less.
SpaceNews
Chinese satellite maker Hongqing lands $191 million to build 10,000 satellites, because space is the place for overachievers.
SpaceNews
China forms an alliance to operate satellites at altitudes where the atmosphere is thick enough to be a problem, because advantages like better imagery and lower power are worth the drag.
The Verge
China’s open-weight AI matches Mythos at bug-finding, raising US security concerns and offering bad actors a handy new tool.
The Guardian Europe
Chinese women are doing the government's job for it, quietly rescuing trafficked women from forced marriages while the state looks the other way - or deletes their social media accounts.
The Guardian Europe
Sri Lanka is the new go-to for cybercrime syndicates fleeing crackdowns in southeast Asia, because nothing says 'digital nomad' like running a fake $10bn company from a Colombo apartment.
The Good Times
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