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Summary: Same story as last week. And the week before that. And the week before that. Path of least resistance for the SPX remains up. But we’ve entered a period of weak seasonality that runs through mid-October. Short-t…

Silicon Valley's technology leaders have long dreamed of making the world a better place. But now more than ever, Americans say they're living in a tech-induced nightmare. The rapid rise of artificial intelligence giants…

A tiny historic island off the coast of Plymouth, England, featuring a Grade-II listed house, a vast underground tunnel network and former military buildings, has gone on the market for offers above £2 million, according…

I spent a major slab of my summer slowly and luxuriantly reading a huge, dense, and astounding book. Meditations on the Tarot: A Journey into Christian Hermeticism was first published in French in 1980 — anonymously in a…

Apparently, African wild dogs enjoy knocking around balls of elephant dung like a football. It’s this playfulness that has endeared them to researchers—but, as Helen Sullivan points out, they have their work cut out for …

Trump and Kennedy’s Health Industry Deals Haven’t Been Enforced and Are at Risk of Vanishing In the thick of his competitive reelection race in Michigan, Republican Rep. Tom Barrett joined Health and Human Services Secre…

Voters in Iceland are taking part in a referendum on whether or not to revive membership talks with the European Union, more than a decade after they were frozen. The coalition government brought forward the referendum f…

AI agents are everywhere right now. You hear terms like tool calling, agent loops, MCP, guardrails thrown around as if its common language… it isn’t! But that is about to change. Agentic AI isn’t nearly as complicated as…

The day I interviewed Daniel York Loh, there was news of anti-immigration protests—some of which turned violent—erupting across Belfast, Northern Ireland. The BBC reported that people had been targeted simply for having …

President Donald Trump has declared a national emergency prohibiting the use of energy transmission technologies produced in a select group of countries on the grounds of national security risk to American infrastructure…

US President Donald Trump’s abrupt directive on August 16, 2026, to drastically scale back the joint “Ulchi Freedom Shield” (UFS) military exercises sent shockwaves across the Asia-Pacific geostrategic landscape. The uni…

American investor Finn Walker is the managing partner of Heron Partners, which invests in companies listed on African stock exchanges. One of the key reasons Walker is bullish on Africa is the continent’s young and fast-…

If you have part of your portfolio in an S&P 500 index fund, you’re probably patting yourself on the back for the 12%-plus performance you’ve already notched this year. But you could have done even better. A less fla…

I recently posted a Substack note about Claude’s new watermarking process and implementation. Since it’s such a popular topic and sparked such a lively discussion, I thought it might be interesting to go into a bit more …

Serbian President Vucic Says UN Court ‘Wanted Mladic to Die Behind Bars’ This post is also available in this language: Bos/Hrv/Srp Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on Friday that “The Hague wanted [Ratko] Mladic t…

Edward Burns Ed Burns is a Principal Software Engineer working to bring Java idiomatic experiences to Microsoft and GitHub technologies. Ed's been working with Java since 1997 in all aspects from client to server to clou…

Why Bangladesh must pivot to renewable energy now There are moments in a nation’s history when a crisis does more than create hardship. It reveals the weakness of an old system and opens the door to a better one. Banglad…

Transcend recently completed a Series B funding round – what does that investment allow the firm to do that it couldn’t do before? We’ve been very fortunate because we’ve grown well and quite aggressively over the last f…

The death toll from the catastrophic floods in Nepal has risen to 547, while 977 people remain missing, as rescue and recovery operations continue across the worst-affected areas. The disaster has also caused extensive d…

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Scientists around the world use the focused beams of light generated by the Advanced Light Source (ALS) synchrotron to study molecules and materials with atomic precision — yielding fundamental insights into fields rangi…

Transgender former Israeli spy detained by ICE in US Blake Fagan / AFP A transgender Israeli woman who served in Israel’s military intelligence directorate is facing deportation from the US after being convicted of impri…