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The wireless headset that gets hot-swappable batteries right

theverge.com/tech/967153/glorious-infiniteplay-wireless-gaming-headset-hands-on

Glorious made swapping batteries faster and easier (and more fun) in a $230 headset than its $400 competitors.

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The report oil companies are worried about: Climate attribution science

arstechnica.com/science/2026/07/national-academies-climate-attribution-is-maturing-but-still-has-limits/?utm_social-type=owned

New report says our ability to tie weather damages to climate change is improving.

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The Proliferation of Deepfakes Is Profoundly Changing the Way Teenagers Use the Internet

futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/deepfakes-teenagers-internet

AI-generated sexual content, including nonconsensual deepfakes, is rapidly transforming teens' strange new world, a new survey emphasizes.

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‘Everything I know about evil I learned in that small town’: John Carpenter on terrifying the world with Halloween, The Thing and The Fog

theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2026/jul/20/everything-i-know-about-evil-i-learned-in-that-small-town-john-carpenter-on-terrifying-the-world-with-halloween-the-thing-and-the-fog

At 78, the king of horror and sci-fi movies is as much of a rebel as ever. He talks about creativity, compromise (he’s not a fan) and how he became addicted to moviemaking

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DACA renewal costly for single moms who hid from ICE for months

19thnews.org/2026/07/ice-minneapolis-mothers-immigration-daca-renewal/

We’re happy to make this story available to republish for free under an Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives Creative Commons license as long as you follow our republishing guidelines, which require that you credit The 19th and retain our pixel.

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This Is Why Our Fresh Produce Keeps Making Us Sick

nytimes.com/2026/07/20/opinion/cyclospora-outbreak-symptoms-lettuce.html

There’s a gruesome food-borne illness going around this summer that can last for weeks and cause severe cramps, nausea and diarrhea.

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Not enough water for UK’s datacentre plans, trade body says

theguardian.com/environment/2026/jul/21/not-enough-water-for-uks-datacentre-plans-trade-body-says

Industry says government’s failure to address cooling demands means AI growth plans are ‘fatally flawed’

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As the world embraces EVs, the U.S. hits the brakes

restofworld.org/2026/us-ev-sales-drop-global-outlook/

Canada and the EU opened their doors to Chinese electric cars this year while the U.S. watched from behind a tariff wall.

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A Homerist Reacts to Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey”

hyperallergic.com/a-homerist-reacts-to-christopher-nolans-the-odyssey/

“This is a tale of a man affected by trauma, but without any sense that it changed him at all.”

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Faced With Piles of New Paperwork, People Are Losing Food Stamps

nytimes.com/2026/07/20/us/politics/snap-food-stamps-arizona.html

The number of Arizonans getting SNAP benefits has fallen by about half in less than a year, a remarkable drop in nutrition aid that may preview the program’s future nationwide following a landmark law to limit assistance that President Trump championed last year.

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A Conversation With Vajra Chandrasekera, Author of Rakesfall

reactormag.com/author-interviews-vajra-chandrasekera-rakesfall/

"I think writers, like all artists, have a responsibility to act as human cultural workers in an actual society"

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I’m a Screenwriter. Hollywood Is in Trouble.

nytimes.com/2026/07/20/opinion/paramount-warner-bros-merger-hollywood.html

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Whole Foods Got Worse On Purpose

worseonpurpose.com/p/whole-foods-got-worse-on-purpose

How Whole Foods went from local-sourcing pioneer to Amazon-owned chain, squeezing small suppliers and cutting worker benefits along the way. The full sourced story.

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A Device Hidden in Cars Across the US Leaves Them Vulnerable to Hacking and Paralysis. Patch It Now

wired.com/story/a-device-hidden-in-cars-across-the-us-leaves-them-vulnerable-to-hacking-and-paralysis-patch-it-now/

Dealerships installed alarms in millions of vehicles—and left them in even if the buyer didn’t want them. Now researchers warn they can be hacked to unlock, track, and disable cars.

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People are transcribing your conversations without asking. That puts you at risk.

werd.io/people-are-transcribing-your-conversations-without-asking-that-puts-you-at-risk/

Apps like Granola make it easy to transcribe conversations without asking for consent. Those transcripts are a subpoena honeypot.

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Opaque, Interoperable Passkey Records (and a Go API)

words.filippo.io/passkey-record/

Passkey records are an interoperable format for WebAuthn credentials, similar to password hash strings. I propose a potential crypto/passkey Go API based on them.

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urlref but i wrote my own version of it

bubblegum.girlonthemoon.xyz/articles/urlref-but-i-wrote-my-own-version-of-it

a while ago, i found...

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‘This is terrifying’: The Colorado River, a lifeline for seven states, is drying up at its source

latimes.com/environment/story/2026-06-25/drying-colorado-river

The source of the Colorado River in the Rocky Mountains is drying up, threatening a critical water lifeline for about 35 million people and 5 million acres of farmland across the Southwest.

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If His Shitty AI Movie Is What Finally Taught You Neill Blomkamp Is A Hack, Then So Be It

aftermath.site/neill-blomkamp-ai-movie/

It's 13 minutes of nothing

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AI advice made people three times less accurate but twice as confident, researchers found

thenextweb.com/news/ai-advice-suppresses-critical-thinking-wrong-answers-study

A study found that access to AI advice collapsed people's willingness to say "I don't know" from 44% to 3%, while accuracy dropped from 27% to 9%.

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Man Who Died Running From ICE Was Tourist With a Ticket Home

newrepublic.com/post/213277/man-died-running-from-ice-tourist-visa

The man has been identified as Juan Jairo Coronilla Duran, who was in the U.S. on a tourist visa and already had a plane ticket to go back to Mexico.

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'Just stop burning fossil fuels.' Scientists stress that our smoky skies have only one true fix

cbc.ca/news/science/wildfire-climate-emissions-smoke-9.7274862

Smoky skies in Toronto have led to new scrutiny of government efforts to fight fires and manage forests. But scientists say the realistic way to tackle the smoke is fighting climate change itself.

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How Biden Enabled Israel’s Aggression Toward Gaza—and Iran | The New Yorker

newyorker.com/magazine/2026/07/27/how-biden-emboldened-israels-aggression-toward-gaza-and-iran

Top officials from the previous Administration now express regret over their failure to rein in Netanyahu.

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The Game Narrative Reader, Zeroth Edition

azhdarchid.com/the-game-narrative-reader-zeroth-edition/

Announcing a curated, thematic link page of important essays and articles about video game narrative.

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Fires, floods and record heat: This is the summer of compounding disasters

cnn.com/2026/07/20/climate/climate-compounding-disasters-summer

This summer has proven we don’t have to wait for climate change to smack us in the face. The signs of global warming are all around us, right now.

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Judge orders Paramount to temporarily pause Warner Bros acquisition

reuters.com/world/judge-orders-paramount-temporarily-pause-warner-bros-acquisition-2026-07-20/?link_source=ta_bluesky_link&taid=6a5e56771fe70a000174f6a3

A coalition of ​states led by California won a pause of Paramount's $110 billion ‌acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery on Monday, after the states argued letting the merger close would irreparably harm competition.

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U.S. Sought Phone Records of Times Journalists and Their Relatives

nytimes.com/2026/07/20/business/media/new-york-times-subpoenas-phone-records.html?smtyp=cur&smid=bsky-nytimes

The Trump administration sought the phone records of several New York Times journalists and their relatives — including one reporter’s mother — in its effort to unmask the confidential sources who had provided information for articles about the security capabilities of President Trump’s new Air Force One jet.

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Hey Look, We Redesigned Our Website

defector.com/hey-look-we-redesigned-our-website

Well, well, well, would you look at that. We have a fancy new website. This redesign is the result of a lot of hard work by our esteemed partners at Lede, and they have provided us with a homepage that is much more customizable. We now have the ability to highlight specific stories, coverage areas,…

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Legionnaires’ Outbreak: Health Workers Say They’re Burnt Out, Understaffed

thecityreporter.nyc/2026/07/20/legionnaires-disease-staff-shortages-nyc-health-department/

The union representing Department of Health scientists says low wages and overwork make it hard to recruit and retain staff amid a summer of public health emergencies.

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Google Is Censoring Reviews of ICE Detention Centers

theintercept.com/2026/07/20/google-maps-reviews-ice-detention-centers/

In the past year, Google Maps was deleting all the reviews for dozens of ICE jails, a new study found.