The Iran war’s mental toll on US sailors

This story appeared in The Logoff, a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without letting political news take over your life. Subscribe here. Welcome to The Logoff: The cracks are starting to show in President Donald Tr…

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Trump takes aim at childhood vaccines

This story appeared in The Logoff, a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without letting political news take over your life. Subscribe here. Welcome to The Logoff: President Donald Trump is trying to revise the childho…

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How to rebuild your broken attention span

Ever find yourself hunched over your laptop, eyes glazed, slack jawed, and stunned by the quantity of information modern life is throwing at you? You might take a break to stare at your phone. Or you could try switching from one browser tab to the next while …

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How money actually works in American elections

The 2026 midterm cycle is projected to be the most expensive election cycle in US history, with candidates across the board raising money at a record pace. And voters are taking notice: Big-donor groups tied to issues like Israel policy, AI, and crypto have b…

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Francesca Hong lost. Here’s what it means for progressives.

It turns out there is a limit to how far left Democrats are willing to go with a crucial swing state on the line.  Francesca Hong ran up against that wall on Tuesday, falling short in her race against Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley for the Democrati…

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Want to improve your sex life? Look to religion.

“Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth!” No, that isn’t the latest Heated Rivalry fanfiction — it’s the opening line of a 2,000-year-old erotic poem. Yes, in the middle of the Hebrew Bible, a text that has so often been weaponized to shame sexual desir…

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BOOM: Iger and Kushner Buying LAKERS in Record $12.5 Billion Deal...

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Another OpenAI executive takes off

Brad Lightcap, OpenAI's special projects lead and the company's former COO, announced his departure after an eight-year stint at the AI lab. In an internal memo he later posted to X, Lightcap told colleagues he'd be starting "something new." "Over the last fe…

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Saber denies replacing Rideshare Stimulator’s writers with ChatGPT

After a former lead writer claimed Saber "replaced me with ChatGPT," CEO Matthew Karch now claims, "Neither Saber nor Unigine have replaced any writers with AI," for the Rideshare "Stimulator" game announced last month, developed by Unigine. The writer, Stell…

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GuliKit’s new Switch controller features next-generation anti-drift thumbsticks

GuliKit announced its first wireless controller to use an improved version of the anti-drift tunneling magnetoresistance (TMR) thumbsticks featured in its budget-friendly ES Pro that debuted nearly a year ago. Available now for $49.99, the new GuliKit ES Max …

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Zubair Rehman: bridging music, creativity and digital entrepreneurship

Karachi-born artist builds a career across music, digital marketing and entrepreneurship

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Pakistanis to celebrate Independence Day tomorrow with national zeal

A grand Independence Day programme will be held at Yaadgar-e-Fatah in Islamabad tonight

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Iran says Strait of Hormuz is under its control, Fars news reports

The remarks came a day after US President Donald Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform that the US had “total control” of the strategic waterway

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Joby flexes military muscle with $500 million defense acquisition

Joby Aviation announced it was acquiring Dayton, Ohio-based defense firm Resonant Sciences in a $500 million deal, in a bid by the electric aircraft company to expand further into the military industrial complex. Joby says it expects to finance the deal with …

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Apple could help you prove your iPhone photos aren’t deepfakes

Apple is seemingly developing an iOS feature that can verify when a photograph was taken using an iPhone camera. 9to5Mac reports that the iOS 27 beta 5 includes code references for an "Apple Reference Image" system that can embed provenance metadata into iPho…

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