Apple Insider Apple is bringing alternative app marketplaces and payment options to iPhone users in Brazil under an agreement with the country's antitrust regulator, extending App Store changes that were previously limited to the European Union.Apple announces...
New York Times - World The teen had fled from the police during a raid at an apartment building that set off a shootout, which left an officer dead and another suspect injured.
Polygon Following the reveal of Grand Theft Auto 6's cover art, we're ranking the covers for the entire series. How does GTA 6 stack up?
Kotaku Bungie is trying to recalibrate the extraction shooter's economy before it's too late
Gizmodo Waititi says 'Klara and the Sun' might be his most dramatic film.
How To Geek Why your aging router is quietly ruining your internet speed
New York Times - World The vice president delivered a rebuke to Israeli critics of the agreement, warning them not to alienate their most important ally, as the administration sought to rebut mounting criticism of the deal.
Daring Fireball Brent Simmons, writing at Inessential: My hope for retirement was to get a lot of work done on NetNewsWire. A year ago it was in sore need of modernization, tech debt pay-off, and bug fixes. People were asking for features, but the foundation...
New York Times - World British archaeologists may have found the remains of a site where people celebrated the solstice thousands of years ago, a few miles from the famed stone circle.
Truthout Title X, which was signed into law in 1970, has prevented almost 20 million unintended pregnancies.
New York Times - World It’s hot in North America in June, but fans are griping that the breaks that have been added to each half are an excuse for the networks to show more ads.
Truthout The memorandum of understanding explicitly includes Lebanon and continued Israeli attacks would violate the deal.
Techcrunch Karamo Brown, famous for his pep talks on Netflix’s “Queer Eye,” has jumped into the wellness and AI space with his new app, Kē. After spending a year and a half focusing on his own journey—from fitness and nutrition to meditation, sobriety,...
Apple Insider Apple TV will stream an entire Formula 1 race weekend free to U.S. viewers for the first time, opening every Austrian Grand Prix session to fans without a subscription.Austrian Grand PrixViewers in the United States will be able to watch all...
The Guardian - US ⚽ Kick-off time: 12pm local/2am AEST/5pm BST/12pm EDT⚽ Player guide | Bracketology | Golden Boot | Mail DanielEmail! “This is a bittersweet game for me,” confesses John Brennan. “When the draw was made in December, this was the most likely game...
New York Times - World The Guardian - US ️ Updates from the opening round at Shinnecock Hills️ Preview | Follow us on Instagram | Mail MattGood news! “Round 1 of the U.S. Open at Shinnecock Hills will resume at 9:05 a.m. ET.” So says the official tweet. That’s just over 15 minutes...
Kotaku A short bit of in-game footage shows the incredible vastness of the upcoming game
The Intercept A complaint by Newark police didn’t mention that ICE led the ambush on a protester and made the initial arrest. The post Undercover Cops Infiltrated Delaney Hall ICE Protest to Spy and Make Arrest appeared first on The Intercept.
Daring Fireball CNBC, two days ago: In November, Cursor said it crossed $1 billion in annualized revenue, according to a release at the time. Cursor was also ranked at No. 37 on the annual CNBC Disruptor 50 list in 2026. The $60 billion in class A common stack...
Den of Geek New York City is often a town of extremes. It can be too hot; it can be too cold. It can be too loud; and it can be painfully quiet on occasion. Yet there are times where it is absolutely perfect, and this June was no exception. With the Tribeca...
Jalopinik When it comes to actual, paying customers and not passionate-but-broke car dudes on the internet, wagons just aren't popular in the U.S.
Polygon The comedy duo delivered a pitch-perfect performance of "Gotta Catch 'Em All" before giving Pikachu a prestigious award.
The Geek Games TECH NEWS – HDMI 2.2 is getting closer to TVs and monitors, and the new standard promises a major leap: up to 96Gbps of bandwidth, uncompressed 4K at 240Hz, and 8K at 60Hz. Still, the technology is unlikely to become standard overnight, and buyers...
The Guardian - US Parents and their kids, new and old fans and a few celebrities gathered to honor the team’s NBA ChampionshipThousands of Knicks fans – decked out in blue and orange jerseys, shorts, hats, necklaces and more – gathered in downtown New York City on...
Polygon Here are all challenges and rewards you find in Forza Horizon 6 series 2 "Horizon Decades," a series focused on cars of specific decades.
Polygon Grand Theft Auto 6 has a confirmed November 2026 release date, but a history of delays means GTA 6's launch day is not set in stone.
Gizmodo Women actively taking a combined contraceptive pill seem more likely to emotionally eat, a new study has found.
The Next Web For years, the scarce resource in AI was chips. Now it is power. Verse Enterprises wants to unblock that bottleneck. The San Francisco startup has raised an oversubscribed $54mn Series B. Bessemer Venture Partners led the round. GV, Nvidia and...
Polygon You may not know her, but Asmoranomardicadaistinaculdacar and her cookbook of underworld delicatessens goes as far back as the game of Magic itself.
Polygon The Evolving World Car Meet is a new location where you can show off your cars and complete challenges in Forza Horizon 6. Here's where to find it.
MacRumors Apple today announced that every part of Formula 1's 2026 Austrian Grand Prix (June 26 to June 28) will be streamed live on the Apple TV streaming service for free. U.S. viewers can watch all sessions — including practices, qualifying, and the...
How To Geek The one downside I didn’t expect.
Mashable Tips for shopping on Prime Day 2026: comparing prices, staying updated on new deals, taking advantage of coupons, and more.
The Guardian - US US vice president’s comments would mean the deadline for the final agreement between Iran and US is 17 AugustReaction: Donald Trump’s Iran deal met with anger, relief and incredulityAnalysis: Trump’s Iran deal is result of unrealistic ambitions for...
The Geek Games Warren Spector’s name is no shield against the current crisis in the video game industry: OtherSide Entertainment has announced layoffs shortly after the release of its first game, Thick as Thieves. According to the studio, the decision was not...
Jalopinik While large international hubs are typically the world's busiest airports, the airport in this small city holds that title for about one week each year.
The Next Web Designing a chip is hard. It takes years, hundreds of millions of dollars, and a tiny pool of experts. Most of them sit inside a few large companies. Architect Labs wants to change that with AI. The Palo Alto startup left stealth on Thursday with a...
The Guardian - US ‘Mastermind’ Dawie Groenewald given fine of 2m rand or four-year jail term almost 16 years after arrestTwo traffickers of rhino horns have been sentenced by a South African court in what police said was the world’s largest such case, partly...
How To Geek Your earbuds don't need to cost $250
Polygon Getting titanium ingots in Subnautica 2 requires a processor. Here's where to find the processor and how to get titanium ingots in Subnautica 2
MacRumors Security research firm Paradigm Shift today published details of a new BootROM vulnerability affecting Apple's A12 and A13 chips, along with a working proof-of-concept exploit named "usbliter8." The BootROM, or SecureROM, is the first code an...
New York Times - World The attack, which shut down the capital’s airports for several hours, was part of an escalating campaign to bring the conflict home to Russians.
Gizmodo Logitech's folding mouse may fit in your pocket or backpack, but it won't offer the perfect PC controls we hoped for.
Polygon Bandai has announced Naruto Card Game, a new competitive TCG launching in 2027 with its first public demo at Gen Con 2026.
New York Times - World The Major Oak in the Sherwood Forest was between 800 and 1,200 years old. It succumbed to a combination of over-tourism, climate change and misguided efforts to save it.
Kotaku Hexed is the next movie from Disney Animation Studios
New York Times - World Britain’s data regulator said it had reprimanded a health worker for misusing sensitive information. The hospital said the person no longer worked there.
The Guardian - US With sanctions-relief and a US promise to avoid further meddling, the conflict has been settled on Tehran’s termsDonald Trump is running fast to escape the catastrophic war on Iran that he and Benjamin Netanyahu started four months ago. He is...
New York Times - World Europe and the larger world will be watching carefully to see if talks produce a lasting agreement on Iran’s nuclear program and the Strait of Hormuz.
The Next Web Every software company is racing to bolt an AI agent onto its own product. Gradial is betting the real money is in the gaps between them. The Seattle startup has raised $65mn in Series C funding to build what it calls an operating system for...
Gizmodo It's an aggressive move that'll effectively force operators of critical French infrastructure to move away from traditional cryptographic systems.
The Geek Games MOVIE NEWS – Michael Sarnoski does not want to simply retell the story of the Death Stranding games, but to create his own original narrative inside Hideo Kojima’s world. The director says his goal is to bring to the screen the feeling and message...
New York Times - World A member of Iran’s medical team says the team endured delays, multiple security searches and a rushed exit, frustrating players and officials.
Polygon Michael Sarnoski talks his history with Robin Hood, what Hugh Jackman brought to the role, and more.
Polygon We've played a bunch of Steam Next Fest demos to tally up the best of the lot, and these are the ones you absolutely must play.
Gizmodo The Apple TV horror comedy wrapped up its triumphant first season this week—and, like a certain cursed island, we’re already hungry for more.
How To Geek The hidden network setting that is secretly breaking your internet
The Guardian - US ‘Personality is just your behaviour, thoughts and feelings, and you can change those things’ psychologist Margie Lachman saysFor years, midlife has been associated with one word: crisis. Margie Lachman wants us to see opportunity instead.Lachman, a...
The Guardian - US A prospecting company’s search for gold has the town of Lone Pine and Indigenous leaders on edge, as the Trump administration green lights new projects across the American westLone Pine, population 1,882, lies along a stretch of California highway...
Engadget Your Google Calendar is about to get a lot more colorful.
The Guardian - US Exclusive: Analysis shows men aged 18 to 25 are less likely to vote for rightwing parties than other age groups of menYoung men are not turning to rightwing politics more than any other demographic, according to a study of election data, which...
Truthout In a war of aggression, our people refused to disappear and earned something no diplomatic text can grant or revoke.
The Next Web It takes a particular kind of dysfunction for an employee to hijack a company-wide livestream and demand the hosts pass a message to a senior executive: that he is, in not so many words, garbage. That happened inside Meta this month. According to a...
MacRumors Apple today announced that developers in Brazil will be allowed to distribute iPhone apps through alternative app marketplaces on iOS, and accept payments through third-party platforms. In other words, developers in Brazil will be able to...
Daring Fireball Rolfe Winkler, reporting for The Wall Street Journal (gift link): Apple plans to raise prices on its products to offset the surging costs of memory and storage chips, Chief Executive Tim Cook said in an exclusive interview with The Wall Street...
Kotaku Tethergeist is a clever spin on a familiar genre, with a parade of new and interesting ideas giving it a soul all its own
Techcrunch Apple’s grip on iPhone app distribution is loosening in another major market: Brazil.
Techcrunch MapTap is a phone game that will make you feel smarter after you play it.
BBC - Europe A refinery and a shopping centre burned after almost 200 Ukrainian drones struck an area to the south-east of the Russian capital.
The Next Web Life360 and Uber launched an integration that lets parents request and coordinate Uber rides for teens and other family members directly inside the Life360 app. Parents can tap a family member’s real-time location on the Life360 map, and the pickup...
The Guardian - US Cook is at the center of a supreme court case focused on whether Trump’s firing of her from the Fed board was legalThe Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook faced more than $1.3m in legal and security fees after coming under attack from the Trump...
How To Geek The electric Neue Klasse sedan is already a hit.
Digital Tends Pixi Platforms launched an iMessage app that lets users send intelligent AR characters capable of reacting to real world surroundings and facial expressions.
Digital Tends Rockstar has released a free upgrade for GTA 5 owners, bringing enhanced graphics, faster loading times, new vehicles, and next-gen features to PC players ahead of GTA 6.
Truthout Mamdani was the first mayor in several decades to skip the annual Israel Day Parade.
The Geek Games Tim Sweeney believes the current AAA development model is becoming increasingly unsustainable, and Unreal Engine 6 could become the technological foundation that pushes the industry onto a new path. The Epic Games CEO sees the future in...
Hack-A-Day Billions of people use GPS on a daily basis, along with the various other satellite navigation systems available today. But few of us spend much time contemplating the fleet of …read more
How To Geek You don't need to send emails to yourself anymore.
9to5 Mac Alongside all of the early Prime Day deals now live, today’s 9to5Toys Lunch Break is headlined by rare early Prime Day deals on Apple Watch Ultra 3 at nearly $100 off (additional colors and band options are now live), alongside ongoing Series 11...
Lifehacker Buy, renew, or upgrade to a 12-month Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack membership before July 28 and Nintendo will throw in a free extra month of service.
Mashable Walamrt+ membership is on sale for $49 for an annual membership, down from the normal price of $98. That's a 50% discount.
The Next Web Adobe has spent two years bolting AI onto its software. This week it tried to become the AI layer underneath everything creative and marketing, in five announcements stretched across three days. The headline is an agent inside the apps. The rest of...
Techcrunch The startup trains embodied AI and world models using Medal’s dataset of 2 billion videos per year from 10 million monthly active users.
Apple Insider A decades-old family secret threatens to unravel a lifelong friendship in "Brothers," set to premiere on Apple TV in September.Image credit: Apple TVThe series follows fictionalized versions of McConaughey and Harrelson, a pair of lifelong best...
Digital Tends Rockstar Games has confirmed that GTA 6 pre-orders will open on June 25, giving fans another reason to believe the highly anticipated game remains on track for its November 2026 release.
Techcrunch Guardrails positions itself as a populist political movement that runs on small donations from people in the trenches of the AI boom.
The Next Web The European Commission is set to unveil preliminary findings as early as next week stating that Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure appear to meet the requirements to be designated as gatekeepers under the Digital Markets Act, Bloomberg...
9to5 Mac iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max are expected to have largely the same dimensions as their predecessors, except in one key area: the camera plateau. Here’s why iPhone 18 Pro’s camera bump is expected to get even larger this year.
Kotaku Yup, there's a helicopter on the top left corner of the newly revealed Grand Theft Auto 6 cover artwork
Gizmodo The company is also opening a spa in downtown San Francisco, “with pools of golden light which softly scan your body.”
Ars Technica We can't blame the Neolithic Transition for the plague anymore.
Mashable During the early Prime Day period, it's all about Kindle bundles. But if you just want to grab an e-reader on sale, wait for June 23.
How To Geek Your homelab shouldn't require a password manager—Authelia and Caddy fix that.
Gizmodo That amount could pay for climate and biodiversity financing targets with billions still to spare.
Gizmodo Researchers with Singapore-based Nipsea have created a new “ultra-black coating” that absorbs an average of 99.9% of all visible light wavelengths.
9to5 Mac Starting today, app developers will be able to distribute apps through alternative app marketplaces in Brazil, as part of a broader set of changes to the app distribution and payment rules in the country. Here are all the details.
Lifehacker The memory shortage has finally come for Apple.
Mashable How to watch World Cup for free. Live stream the 2026 FIFA World Cup for free from anywhere in the world.
Gizmodo If you're reading this in the United States, though, we have some bad news.