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Hong Kong national security police arrest 2 bookshop owners over alleged sedition

Hong Kong national security lawHong KongLaw and CrimeHong Kong national security police arrest 2 bookshop owners over alleged seditionHunter Bookstore owners, former district councillor Leticia Wong and local man arrested on suspicion of committing acts with seditious intent1-MIN READ1-MIN14 ListenDanny MokPublished: 1:03am, 25 Jun 2026Updated: 9:59am, 25 Jun 2026Hong Kong national security police have arrested the owners of an independent bookshop for alleged sedition and money laundering.Officers searched Hunter Bookstore in Sham Shui Po on Wednesday and arrested the owners, former district councillor of the now-disbanded Civic Party Leticia Wong Man‑huen, 33, and a 32-year-old local man.They were detained on suspicion of committing acts with seditious intent and laundering money in breach of the Organised and Serious Crimes Ordinance, according to the force.Officers seized a batch of…

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Trump cancels signing of key US housing bill until Save America Act is passed

Donald TrumpWorldUnited States & CanadaTrump cancels signing of key US housing bill until Save America Act is passedThe US president is pushing Republicans to pass a set of controversial voting restrictions, as frustration grows within his own party3-MIN READ3-MIN5 ListenReutersPublished: 11:16pm, 24 Jun 2026Updated: 3:42am, 25 Jun 2026President Donald Trump cancelled his plan to sign a bipartisan affordable housing bill on Wednesday in an effort to pressure his fellow Republicans to pass a long-stalled package of US national voting restrictions that has aggravated party fissures and shown the limits of his power.“Today’s Housing News Conference and Signing is hereby cancelled until such time as we pass the desperately needed SAVE AMERICA ACT, which I consider to be a National Emergency,” Trump wrote in a social media post.Some Republicans indicated it may be a largely symbolic gesture:…

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ENG-W vs WI-W Highlights, Women’s T20 World Cup 2026: Henry fifty in vain as England seals semifinal berth

ENG-W vs WI-W: Catch scores, updates, commentary and highlights from the Women’s T20 World Cup 2026 match between England and West Indies at Lord’s on Wednesday.Updated : Jun 25, 2026 02:37 IST , CHENNAI - 2 MINS READ Team Sportstar Comments Follow UsSHARE Copy link Email Facebook Twitter Telegram LinkedIn WhatsApp Reddit READ LATER SEE ALL Remove England bowled out West Indies for 38 runs in a crucial league fixture at the Lord’s Cricket Ground. | Photo Credit: Getty Images England bowled out West Indies for 38 runs in a crucial league fixture at the Lord’s Cricket Ground.

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AI was supposed to kill engineering jobs, but new data suggests they’re the most resilient

Whether AI is already replacing jobs is the subject of fierce debate. Tech layoffs hit their highest single month total in years in May, and AI was the most-cited reason, according to outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas. Software engineering, in theory, is the professional field most vulnerable to automation, given the rapid adoption of AI-powered coding tools. However, researchers at venture firm SignalFire say the hiring data tells a different story. “The rationale given for lots of layoffs is consistently AI, and specifically they’ll say AI with respect to code; they’ll say one engineer could do the job of however many engineers in the past,” said Asher Bantock, SignalFire’s head of research. “What we’re seeing on the ground is a little inconsistent with that.” SignalFire’s analysis, which tracked the careers of millions of employees across more than 80 million companies, …

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AI researchers continue to leave Google for its rivals

In Brief Posted: 2:42 PM PDT · June 24, 2026 Image Credits:TechCrunch Amanda Silberling Lucas Ropek AI researchers continue to leave Google for its rivals Top AI researchers Jonas Adler and Alexander Pritzel are leaving Google for Anthropic, according to Bloomberg. Per the report, Adler and Pritzel played key roles in the development of Google’s Gemini model.

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The memory chip crunch is paying off for this US company

In Brief Posted: 2:30 PM PDT · June 24, 2026 Image Credits:Jeremy Erickson/Bloomberg / Getty Images Kirsten Korosec The memory chip crunch is paying off for this US company The AI boom has fueled dozens of new startups and minted a new class of billionaires. It has also produced a serious shortage of memory chips — a critical component for compute-hungry AI models — which some predict could persist through 2027.

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New website names and shames companies that still don’t offer passkeys to users

In Brief Posted: 2:04 PM PDT · June 24, 2026 Image Credits:Avishek Das/SOPA Images/LightRocket / Getty Images Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai New website names and shames companies that still don’t offer passkeys to users When it comes to securing accounts against hackers, passkeys are now widely considered the gold standard. And yet they are still not offered by one in four major apps and services on the internet, including Instagram, Netflix, and Spotify.

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Companies are scrambling to stop employees from maxing out AI budgets with small tasks

In Brief Posted: 1:09 PM PDT · June 24, 2026 Image Credits:Kenneth Cheung (opens in a new window) / Getty Images Lucas Ropek Companies are scrambling to stop employees from maxing out AI budgets with small tasks The era of tokenmaxxing is over. After the AI industry encouraged companies to max out their AI budgets earlier this year, and some companies even built employee leaderboards to encourage internal AI usage — they are now realizing just how easy it is to spend huge sums of money on AI and get little in return.

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Here’s why Slate changed the battery in its cheap EV truck

Slate, maker of the stripped-down EV pickup truck, found another way to simplify its product: the battery. When the startup revealed its starting price on Wednesday — $24,950 before destination, taxes, and other fees — it also said it had changed its battery strategy, eliminating the optional 240-mile pack but bumping the standard pack from 150 miles to 205. How Slate pulled that off illustrates just how significantly the battery market in the U.S. has changed in the past four years. Initially, the startup planned to use nickel-manganese-cobalt (NMC) cells. The chemistry is widely used in the automotive industry and favored for its energy density, which translates into longer range. But NMC is also expensive, mostly due to high nickel and cobalt prices. More recently, automakers have begun to use another chemistry, lithium-iron-phosphate (LFP). Battery packs that use LFP are less energy…

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Facebook rolls out an AI companion app for creators

Facebook announced on Wednesday that it’s reimagining its Creator Studio tool as a stand-alone AI companion app designed to help creators grow their audiences on the social network. By giving creators access to this AI companion app, Meta is looking to keep creators active on Facebook as it competes for their attention against rivals like TikTok and YouTube. The company also likely hopes that the app will eliminate the need for creators to turn to third-party tools like ChatGPT when brainstorming content ideas and analyzing performance. The new app, which is currently being tested with select creators, will have Facebook’s recently launched AI creator assistant built into it. The assistant provides creators with personalized recommendations based on their content style, performance, audience engagement, and goals.

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Deezer says its new feature lets fans remix songs with artist consent

Global music streaming service Deezer announced on Wednesday the launch of its new feature, “Remix Lab,” which allows fans to creatively remix songs with the consent of the original artists and rights holders. Plus, the company says artists actually get paid for every stream of these remixed tracks.

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Agility Robotics plans to go public via SPAC in a $2.5B deal

In Brief Posted: 9:48 AM PDT · June 24, 2026 Image Credits:Agility Robotics Kirsten Korosec Agility Robotics plans to go public via SPAC in a $2.5B deal Agility Robotics, the humanoid robotics startup that spun out of Oregon State University in 2015, plans to go public through a merger with special purpose acquisition company Churchill Capital Corp XI in a deal that values the company at roughly $2.5 billion. The transaction is expected to generate more than $620 million in proceeds, including about $200 million from a group of new and existing institutional investors, the company said.

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NTSB launches probe into fatal Texas Tesla crash

In Brief Posted: 9:39 AM PDT · June 24, 2026 Image Credits:CFOTO/Future Publishing / Getty Images Sean O'Kane NTSB launches probe into fatal Texas Tesla crash The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has opened an investigation into a crash that happened over the weekend in Texas, in which a driver slammed into a home in Katy, Texas, killing a resident. The family of that victim, 76-year-old Martha Avila, has also filed a lawsuit against the driver, Michael Butler, and Tesla, alleging negligence.

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Figma adds code layers, support for animations, more AI features in new update

Figma on Wednesday showed off an update that adds a new code layer, support for motion and shaders, and the ability to create custom plug-ins for various tasks using AI. The design platform has been working on bringing code integration into its tool for a while. Last year, it unveiled an AI prompt-based prototyping tool, Figma Make, and has since launched integrations with Claude Code and Codex to improve the hand-off between coding and design.

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The dawn of the designer baby – podcast

Today in FocusGene editingThe dawn of the designer baby – podcastMore ways to listenApple podcastsSpotifyRSS FeedDownloadPresented by Helen Pidd with Jenny Kleeman; produced by Casey Magloire, Tom Glasser and Ross Burns; executive producer Eli BlockThu 25 Jun 2026 03.00 BSTShare00:00:0000:00:00Jenny Kleeman investigates ‘Biotech Barbie’ Cathy Tie, the controversial entrepreneur hoping to revolutionise human reproduction by letting parents edit their embryosMeet Cathy Tie: serial entrepreneur, self-described “Biotech Barbie”, and the woman aiming to revolutionise reproduction by using Crispr to edit human embryos.Beneath the tech-startup polish lies a provocative mission: to take the biological lottery out of the hands of nature and place it into the hands of parents.But as Jenny Kleeman tells Helen Pidd, all is not quite as it seems with Cathy Tie. Photograph: Caroll Taveras/The Guardia…

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Supergirl review – sprightly and sparkling superhero yarn without the usual baffling DC backstory

… Milly Alcock as Supergirl and Matthias Schoenaerts as Krem. Photograph: Warner Bros/PAView image in fullscreenWhere’s my dog? … Milly Alcock as Supergirl and Matthias Schoenaerts as Krem. Photograph: Warner Bros/PAFilmReviewSupergirl review – sprightly and sparkling superhero yarn without the usual baffling DC backstoryMilly Alcock’s Supergirl joins with Eve Ridley’s Ruthye to fight an evil intergalactic human traffickerPeter BradshawWed 24 Jun 2026 17.00 BSTSharePrefer the Guardian on GoogleThe sexual politics of perceived female maturity has always been a problem in this particular set of superhero films.

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Dyson HushJet Mini Cool fan review: I’ve never tested a handheld fan this powerful – or this loud

Chill out: ‘The design is simple, comfortable to hold for extended periods and minimalist.’ Photograph: Alan Martin/The GuardianView image in fullscreenChill out: ‘The design is simple, comfortable to hold for extended periods and minimalist.’ Photograph: Alan Martin/The GuardianThe FilterGadgetsReviewDyson HushJet Mini Cool fan review: I’ve never tested a handheld fan this powerful – or this loudThe first portable fan from Dyson is stylish, easy to use and powerful. Did someone mention a 55mph top speed?

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Job-dropping: why employees are turning down high-paying promotions

Yeah, thanks but no thanks.’ Photograph: Oscar Wong/Getty ImagesView image in fullscreen‘Six figures, you say? Yeah, thanks but no thanks.’ Photograph: Oscar Wong/Getty ImagesPass notesWork & careersJob-dropping: why employees are turning down high-paying promotionsClimbing the career ladder may soon be a thing of the past, as workers prioritise their mental health and lifestyle.

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UK records its hottest June day and France its hottest day ever as heatwave sweeps Europe

The Met Office issued a rare red extreme heat warning for 9am on Wednesday until 9pm on Thursday. Photograph: Andy Hall/The GuardianView image in fullscreenThe Met Office issued a rare red extreme heat warning for 9am on Wednesday until 9pm on Thursday. Photograph: Andy Hall/The GuardianExtreme heatUK records its hottest June day and France its hottest day ever as heatwave sweeps EuropeTemperature of 36.1C (97F) recorded in Hampshire, while two-thirds of Europe’s population experience temperatures above 30CAjit Niranjan and Ashifa KassamWed 24 Jun 2026 19.03 BSTFirst published on Wed 24 Jun 2026 16.12 BSTSharePrefer the Guardian on GoogleThe UK has broken its all-time temperature record for June and France has recorded its hottest day ever for the second day running, as a heatwave affecting more than 90 million people sweeps across swathes of Europe.As the UK and France registered recor…

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Burnham’s pick for chief of staff led firm that advised BP, Apple and Amazon

It is understood Purnell has given up his shares, will no longer have a connection to the firm, and has no access to Flint emails or systems with immediate effect. Photograph: Martin Godwin/The GuardianView image in fullscreenIt is understood Purnell has given up his shares, will no longer have a connection to the firm, and has no access to Flint emails or systems with immediate effect.

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Scotland’s World Cup dream hanging by a thread after Vinícius sparks Brazil victory

Vinícius Júnior and Rayan celebrate as Scott McKennaholds his head in his hands. Photograph: Marta Lavandier/APView image in fullscreenVinícius Júnior and Rayan celebrate as Scott McKennaholds his head in his hands. Photograph: Marta Lavandier/APWorld Cup 2026Scotland’s World Cup dream hanging by a thread after Vinícius sparks Brazil victoryEwan Murray at Miami StadiumThu 25 Jun 2026 01.22 BSTLast modified on Thu 25 Jun 2026 04.02 BSTSharePrefer the Guardian on GoogleScotland will now play the waiting game.

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