Breaking news, curated around the clock
World

CME Group Targets $650 Billion Sports Industry With First Sports Index Futures

CME Group announced plans to launch futures tied to sports performance indexes, opening the $650 billion global sports industry to exchange-based risk management.

2026-07-30 · 00:30 UTC
Read article →
Crypto

US arbitration giant launches specialist panel for crypto disputes

2026-07-30 · 00:29

The American Arbitration Association’s Web3 Panel brings together specialists in blockchain, smart contracts, digital…

Tech

Microsoft is openly competing with OpenAI, Anthropic more than ever

2026-07-30 · 00:21

Microsoft pitched its own homegrown AI models, harnesses, and even a Mythos competitor on Wednesday, telling Wall Street…

Tech

Show HN: A local merge queue for parallel Claude Code agents

2026-07-30 · 00:20

A developer has created a local merge queue tool for parallel Claude Code agents that serializes concurrent changes to…

Crypto

Coinbase Wrapped XRP Expands DeFi Utility Through Doppler Finance on Base

2026-07-29 · 23:32

Doppler Finance is expanding to Base, bringing new financial infrastructure for Coinbase Wrapped XRP, which is backed by…

Crypto

From Obscurity to Breakout Potential: 5 Cryptocurrencies Quietly Building Strength with 50x Surge

2026-07-29 · 23:30

Ethereum, BNB, Jupiter, Ethena, and Render continue expanding their ecosystems despite mixed market conditions.

World

Watch: Japanese mall explodes after magnitude 6.8 earthquake

2026-07-29 · 23:29

Search teams are still looking for survivors in the collapsed Aeon shopping centre.

Tech

The Productivity Mirage

2026-07-29 · 23:18

A prolific Facebook engineer named Bob achieved greater success using vanilla Sublime Text and basic debugging methods…

Crypto

CoinMortgage Launches Bitcoin Purchase Financing Services

2026-07-29 · 23:00

New service launched July 4, 2026, giving qualified borrowers a structured way to finance Bitcoin purchases and build…

Tech

Mark Zuckerberg predicts that billions of people will have personal AI agents in five years

2026-07-29 · 23:00

As Meta pours billions into AI infrastructure and agents, Zuckerberg is working to convince investors that the payoff…

Tech

Man and the Computer by John G. Kemeny (1972 book by the co-creator of BASIC)

2026-07-29 · 22:53

"Man and the Computer" is a 1972 book by John G.

Tech

LLM Honeypot

2026-07-29 · 22:51

This is a satirical "GeoCities-style" webpage mocking the idea of converting AI language models into humans, complete…

Tech

India's CJP protests: Why tech alone won't stop exam paper leaks

2026-07-29 · 22:50

Can computer-based testing stop NEET paper leaks? Experts say governance matters as much as tech.

Sports

Boxer Abdul - grandson of dictator - disqualified for headbutt

2026-07-29 · 22:49

Ugandan boxer Aziz Abdul - the grandson of dictator Idi Amin - was disqualified from his fight at the Commonwealth Games…

Sports

'Nothing to prove' at Commonwealths for Finucane

2026-07-29 · 22:47

Olympic team sprint champion Emma Finucane insists she has nothing to prove in Glasgow as she chases a Commonwealth gold…

Tech

Microsoft logs $3.2B from Anthropic investment, but OpenAI was a mixed bag

2026-07-29 · 22:46

When Microsoft reported killer fourth-quarter earnings for its fiscal 2026 year (which ended June 30), it tucked in an…

Sports

Evans battles nerves to become Scotland's breakout star

2026-07-29 · 22:32

Angharad Evans added another breaststroke gold to become Scotland's breakout star in the pool at the 2026 Commonwealth…

Tech

Microsoft Quietly Adds New Windows App That Wants to Scan Your Face

2026-07-29 · 22:31

A new OneDrive Photos app is appearing on some Windows 11 PCs through OneDrive and Windows updates, adding AI-powered…

Tech

Tether Data Pushes AI Off the Cloud With New 460M Parameter Vision Model

2026-07-29 · 22:30

Tether Data has open-sourced a 460-million-parameter vision-language model built to run directly on smartphones instead…

Tech

GitHub is the wrong shape for this new world

2026-07-29 · 22:27

GitHub's traditional paradigm is inadequate for modern software development, where AI agents and non-engineering teams…

Tech

Zuckerberg says Meta’s enterprise AI opportunity extends beyond agents

2026-07-29 · 22:23

On the company’s second-quarter earnings call Wednesday, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Meta sees a “large enterprise…

Other

Worth $5m? Visitors react to renovated Washington horse statues

2026-07-29 · 22:23

The Trump Administration has regilded the Arts of War statues near the Lincoln Memorial with 23.75-karat gold.

World

Salman Rushdie attacker convicted of terror offenses

2026-07-29 · 22:15

Hadi Matar, 28, was convicted of attempting to help Hezbollah by attacking the British-Indian author.

Sports

Milestone moment for O'Connor with Glasgow gold

2026-07-29 · 22:14

Team Northern Ireland heptathlete Kate O'Connor tells BBC Sport NI of her joy at winning the event at the Commonwealth…