BIS warns stablecoins risk fragmenting global financial system
The Basel-based institution said that private digital tokens fall short of the requirements for sound money and urged policymakers to accelerate work on tokenized forms of central bank and commercial…
Relief for Russell as he returns to winning ways
After winning the Austrian Grand Prix, George Russell has another victory to his name in 2026, and the relief in him was…
England heading for series defeat against NZ after chaotic day
England's cricketers are heading for a series defeat after a chaotic fourth day at Trent Bridge in the third Test…
Why did this journal retract two 1940s papers by Max Planck?
Clicking on the links now reveals blank pages and empty PDFs. "Intellectually, it’s not acceptable.”
Tech
GitHub – librepods-org/librepods: AirPods liberated from Apple's ecosystem
LibrePods is an open-source project that enables AirPods to work with their full feature set on non-Apple devices like…
Crypto
Grok, Meta AI and Claude Predict Bitcoin’s $100K Comeback as BTC Battles $60K
With bitcoin languishing around the psychologically important $60,000 mark, the race to six figures has once again…
Absolutely brilliant!' - Hunter Bell wins 1500m
Great Britain's Georgia Hunter Bell ran a season's best of 3:55:63 to win the 1500m at Diamond League Paris.
Is amount of pre-Wimbledon injuries a worry?
Jack Draper says the amount of injured leading players is "pretty worrying" as he prepares to make his Grand Slam…
'I think he's had enough' - Is it the right time for Stokes to step away?
Former England captains Michael Vaughan and Sir Alastair Cook discuss the potential reasons why Ben Stokes has chosen to…
Historical memory prices 1960-2026
This resource provides interactive historical data on memory and storage prices from 1960 to 2026, tracking the cost per…
The Cost Yagni Was Never About – By Kent Beck
Kent Beck clarifies that YAGNI (You Aren't Gonna Need It) is not about saving effort on coding, but rather about the…
Bitcoin Demand Slides as BTC Faces Supply Pressure
Bitcoin apparent demand stayed negative for 208 days and recently reached a cycle low near minus 273,000 BTC.
Retirement the best thing for me - Stokes
Ben Stokes describes the reasons for his international retirement as he says he became 'burnt out' in the build-up to…
Sports
Russell impresses and Verstappen bounces back - driver ratings
BBC Radio 5 Live F1 commentator Harry Benjamin rates how the drivers performed during the Austrian Grand Prix.
England men miss title, women escape Pro League drop
England's men finish their FIH Pro League campaign in second place despite a penalty shootout defeat by India in their…
Crypto
Bitwise double down on the crypto HYPE bet with a massive investment
Bitwise brutally strengthens its crypto bet on Hyperliquid.
Nothing off table in picking Clarke successor - SFA
The Scottish FA's chief executive says "nothing's off the table" in replacing Steve Clarke as national head coach, a…
Tech
Ornith-1.0: Self-scaffolding LLMs for agentic coding
Ornith-1.0 is a new family of open-source models ranging from 9B to 397B parameters designed for agentic coding tasks,…
Hants extend lead, Blaze go second in T20 Blast
Hampshire beat Durham to move two points clear at the top of the Women's T20 table, while The Blaze go second with…
Tech
Semgrep: GLM 5.2 beats Claude in our Cyber Benchmarks
Zhipu AI's GLM 5.2, an open-weight model, achieved a 39% F1 score on Semgrep's IDOR vulnerability detection benchmark,…
Who are the fire-tamers?
# Summary In Brittany, France, thousands of traditional healers known as "fire-tamers" practice an unregulated,…
'Absolutely pathetic!' - Vaughan furious by Brook dismissal
Harry Brook is caught for 21 in England's second innings against New Zealand - a dismissal which former England captain…
England set for series defeat in Stokes' last Test
England face a mountainous task to send Ben Stokes into retirement with victory over New Zealand after captain drops…