Month: July 2026

Patreon announced on Thursday that it’s partnering with Cloudflare to block crawlers from stealing creators’ work to train AI models. “I HAVE A KICKASS PRODUCT UPDATE FOR YOU ALL!” Jack Conte, the founder and CEO of Patreon, wrote in a post on Instagram with the superimposed text, “POV: you’re CEO ...

⚽️ World Cup kick-off: 4pm EDT/9pm BST/6am AEST⚽️ Player guide | Bracketology | Golden Boot | Mail Scott France have long demonstrated the benefits of diversity at the World Cup. Now Morocco are reaping similar rewards, with six members of Morocco’s squad – Ayyoub Bouaddi, Issa Diop, Neil El Aynaoui, ...

Not everyone experiences heat the same way, and studies show aggression, violence and road rage increase on hotter days Recently, my husband and I embarked on what should have been a pleasant spring errand: a stroll to the local farmer’s market. But a passing heatwave had made it unseasonably hot ...

On the back of our editors’ choices of the year’s finest, we asked you to share your magical movie moments from the first half of 2026 The film that had me gripped right from its ridiculous and bizarre first scene at a Brazilian country road petrol station was The Secret ...

I tested Magnifique’s nontoxic, multitasking device in my apartment for three weeks. Here are my thoughts The 10 best toaster ovens in the US – tested and reviewed Sign up for the Filter US newsletter, your weekly guide to buying fewer, better things The combo kitchen appliance is not new. ...

The former mayor of Greater Manchester is unopposed in the race to replace Sir Keir Starmer. ...

An SDNY judge dealt a blow to Kalshi and Polymarket this week, ruling that New York’s gambling regulations do apply to Kalshi’s sports-event contracts, and making it all but inevitable that the states will be squaring off against prediction markets operators at the Supreme Court in the future. The decision ...

Blue Origin, Jeff Bezos’ space startup, is seeking to raise $10 billion at a $130 billion valuation, Semafor confirms, hoping to play catch-up with Elon Musk in the space race. Given SpaceX’s head start, record of smooth launches (something Blue Origin has struggled with lately), and huge funding advantage, here ...

One of the biggest things going for Salesforce, Workday, and the other SaaS companies threatened by AI has simply been inertia. Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi told us in May that the market was overreacting, at least in the short term, to the SaaSpocalypse. “It’s easy for me to vibe code ...

A chart this week from Bank of America ricocheted around Wall Street and Silicon Valley, capturing the “generational transfer” of profits in the AI ecosystem. Huge capital expenditures are collapsing big tech companies’ free cash flow, a metric prized by shareholders. Meanwhile, the less sexy companies that make the processing ...