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World · Al Jazeera

Sudan’s al-Burhan pledges immunity for dialogue, rules out Hemedti return

Al-Burhan pledged temporary immunity and legal protections for participants in a Sudanese national dialogue.

Society · The Guardian Society

Royal estates rent out homes that fail to meet legal energy efficiency standards

Exclusive: More than 100 homes on King Charles and Prince William’s inherited estates have EPC ratings of F or G • ‘It’s archaic’: the struggle to heat poorly insulated homes let by royal estates More than 100 homes on the inherited royal estates of King Charles and Prince William fail to meet the legal minimum energy standards for landlords, the Guardian can reveal. An analysis of a large sample of domestic lets on the duchies of Lancaster and Cornwall and the Sandringham estate found that one in five have Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) ratings of F or G. Continue reading...

Society · The Guardian Society

‘It’s archaic’: the struggle to heat poorly insulated homes let by royal estates

A number of idyllic-looking homes in estates owned by King Charles and Prince William do not meet energy standards for rentals • Royal estates rent out homes that fail to meet legal energy efficiency standards This summer, the duchy of Cornwall got a new-look website with a bold statement of intent at the top: “We’re on a mission to become a world-leading impact organisation.” Updating the website will have been the easiest part of that mission. Upgrading hundreds of ageing, mostly rural, rented cottages, farmhouses and country houses will be one of the hardest. Continue reading...

Startups & Funding · Hacker News Best

Semaglutide linked to lower predicted dementia risk

Article URL: https://alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/dad2.70432 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49311651 Points: 366 # Comments: 256

World · Deutsche Welle

Lebanon says 11 killed in Israeli airstrikes

Lebanon's prime minister denounced the attacks on villages in southern Lebanon for targeting civilians in their homes. Israel said it was firing on Hezbollah infrastructure.

World · Al Jazeera

Ukraine hits Russian Starlink-style network, Moscow tracks arms package

Ukraine used domestically produced Flamingo missiles to hit targets in Russia's southwestern Samara region.

World · Al Jazeera

Israeli settlers besiege Palestinian families in occupied West Bank

Three Palestinian families say they have been trapped inside their homes in the occupied West Bank for nearly a week.

Products & Consumer Tech · Ars Technica

Ukraine strikes major Russian rocket factory with cruise missiles

"Flamingo missiles were used. A good achievement."

AI · The Decoder

Investor pressure forces Nvidia to shrink its OpenAI bet just as Anthropic's numbers defy bubble warnings

Nvidia has cut its guarantee for OpenAI's planned data center in Ohio nearly in half, from $250 billion to just under $120 billion, after investors pushed back on the risk. Meanwhile, Anthropic is complicating the AI bubble debate with revenue that jumped from $4.7 billion to $11.5 billion in a single quarter. The article Investor pressure forces Nvidia to shrink its OpenAI bet just as Anthropic's numbers defy bubble warnings appeared first on The Decoder .

World · Al Jazeera

How blind football is helping women overcome barriers in Mexico

Mexico is sending its first blind women's football team to compete in an international tournament. Players cannot wait.

Products & Consumer Tech · The Verge

Switched on Pop’s Nate Sloan and Charlie Harding love fresh vegetables and guitar pedals

As if you needed more reason to love Carly Rae Jepsen's "Call Me Maybe" beyond its pop perfection, it is also, according to lore, the genesis for Switched on Pop, one of the best music podcasts out there. Cohosts Nate Sloan and Charlie Harding obsessively dissect pop songs, from the theory behind their musical choices […]

Products & Consumer Tech · The Verge

Star Wars: Ahsoka season 2 and Starfighter get teased at D23

Season two of Star Wars: Ahsoka is still months away, but Lucasfilm still took the opportunity to tease it a bit at D23. The company dropped the first trailer for the new season ahead of its January 20th, 2027 debut. The clip shows a darker, witchcraft-filled take on the Star Wars universe, with Grand Admiral […]

Notable Blogs · Simon Willison

CORS Chat

Tool: CORS Chat I built this today ( with GPT-5.6-Sol xhigh ) to help test Qwen 3.8 27B running in LM Studio on both my M5 MacBook Pro and an NVIDIA DGX Spark. It provides a web UI for exercising an OpenAI-Responses-compatible chat endpoint. I've tried it against LM Studio with the --cors option and OpenRouter, and both work fine. Conversations are persisted in the browser and can be exported as copy-pasted JSON. One fun detail is that it notices SVG images that are being generated and progressively renders them in the chat while the tokens are still streaming in. Tags: svg , ai , generative-ai , llms , cors , openrouter , lm-studio

Business · CNBC Technology

Anthropic revenue reportedly jumps to more than $11.5 billion in second quarter

The jump in revenue underscores the rapid growth of the Claude chatbot maker as it prepares for a potential blockbuster initial public offering.

World · Al Jazeera

The next Yemen war might be different

Drones are no longer the advantage for only one side.

Business · CNBC Technology

Inflation moderated as Intel and Nvidia fueled the AI trade in last week's market

No surprises on inflation and new financing developments in the artificial intelligence trade drove the record-breaking action on Wall Street last week.

Products & Consumer Tech · The Verge

Disney D23 2026: Everything announced for Star Wars, Marvel, and more

The annual Disney fan event showed off the cast of Marvel’s X-Men movie, plus a new trailer for Avengers: Doomsday, and our first look at the VisionQuest TV show for Disney Plus. For Star Wars fans, there was a teaser trailer for season two of Ahsoka, plus a special look at Star Wars: Starfighter with […]

Products & Consumer Tech · The Verge

I finally found a magnetic phone grip I never want to remove

I told myself I wouldn't buy an OhSnap accessory for my phone. Every one I'd tested was nice, but felt overpriced and slightly flawed. After I weighed in on the $40 Snap Grip 5 last year, I wound up sticking with my $25 Syncwire instead. But OhSnap's $50 Snap Grip Stand finally got me. To […]

Products & Consumer Tech · The Verge

Marvel reveals the new X-Men cast, including Inde Navarrette and Adam Driver

With Spider-Man: Brand New Day behind us, and its reveal of Sadie Sink as Jean Grey, Marvel is finally ready to officially welcome the X-Men into the MCU. At the D23 event in Anaheim yesterday, the company revealed the cast for its upcoming, untitled X-Men film, which is scheduled to hit theaters on May 5th […]

Cloud & Infrastructure · The New Stack

Per-developer environments were the goal. Agents moved the goalposts.

Multi-tenancy has moved in one direction for 60 years: the tenant keeps getting smaller. Mainframe time-sharing carved a single machine The post Per-developer environments were the goal. Agents moved the goalposts. appeared first on The New Stack .

World · BBC Middle East

Eleven killed in Israeli strikes on southern Lebanon, authorities say

Israel's military said it had struck "Hezbollah terror infrastructure" in response to what it described as earlier action against its soldiers.

Startups & Funding · TechCrunch Startups

Every fusion startup that has raised over $100M

Fusion startups have raised $7.1 billion to date, with the majority of it going to a handful of companies.

World · Al Jazeera

Afghans mark five years of Taliban rule

Afghans have gathered in Kabul to mark five years since the Taliban returned to power.

World · Al Jazeera

Black professor at centre of Cambridge plagiarism row found dead

Dr Jason Arday has been found dead days after resigning from Cambridge University due to plagiarism allegations.