Flipboard's editors bring you the day's leading stories from trusted journalists. In today's Daily Edition: - U.S. troop deaths mount in the Iran conflict. - Google is censoring ICE detention center reviews. - SpaceX's $1 trillion stock wipeout, explained. flipboard.com/@news/the-da...

Up to five million homes could be powered by the electricity needed for Meta's data center. Silicon Valley's AI boom is now being followed by a data-center age, one that demands enormous amounts of energy and other resources. The Atlantic's Matteo Wong looks into how the "business of tech […]

"Odyssey" director Christopher Nolan gives his two-cents on AI technology and how it relates to a scene from his latest film. https://flip.it/HjgJ._ #odyssey #ai #christophernolan

Madison Square Garden is suing @WIRED over stories relating to surveillance at the venue. Wired stands by its reporting and has lifted the paywall on two of the stories so you can read them for yourself. Here they are: https://flip.it/CmOGtT https://flip.it/2n8E4_ #technology […]

A dry, bureaucratic proposal would give political appointees unprecedented control over grant funding, the method through which scientists receive federal money to perform groundbreaking space research.

👂What does it take to build a newsroom by listening first? On July 30 at 3 p.m. ET, six tiny newsrooms — from rural Alabama to DC to Southern Arizona — will share what listening taught them before they ever reported a story. Register: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Oscar-winning Irish actor Brenda Fricker has died at age 81. She won the best supporting actress Academy Award in 1989 for "My Left Foot," and also appeared in "So I Married an Axe Murderer" and played the Pigeon Lady in "Home Alone 2." Here's @CBSNews with more. https://flip.it/HsZZOR […]

The U.S. has been hit by an explosive diarrhea bug! Help is at hand from @McSweeneysFlip's archival story, "Purify Your System With the Seven-Day Chili Dog Cleanse." The advice is as good today as it was when the article was published 11 years ago — which is to say, not very […]

What in the what now? A White House teleprompter operator made more than $100K betting on Trump's speeches, and is now under investigation. Search Surf to try and make sense of it all.

Artificial intelligence company Thinking Machines Lab is taking on Chinese-made open-weight AI models and could become a real contender alongside OpenAI and Anthropic. Learn about its new open AI model Inkling. https://flip.it/D5psGM #ai #inkling #thinkingmachineslab

After 6 years, Trump brings his 2020 election obsession to primetime at the White House. @AssociatedPress reports on tonight's speech: https://flip.it/H._34C #trump #uspolitics #news

The World Health Organization says 80% of new Ebola cases in eastern Congo are emerging from unknown chains of transmission, worrying health officials that the disease is spreading faster than they can track. Read more from @npr https://flip.it/_G66Xd #who #ebola #congo

Flipboard's Immigration Rights Watch brings together trusted journalism, like this story from @texastribune.org, and conversations from the @bsky.app community in one custom feed. 📌 Pin it to check in on the day's news: bsky.app/profile/flipboard.com/feed/us-immigration #ICE #Trump #Immigration

This year's World Cup has been the most commercial ever, and FIFA's found yet another way of making money. After the final on Sunday, fans will be able to buy the pitch, starting at $450 for a tiny section of turf encased in a 2.5-inch acrylic cube. If every edition sells out, revenue will […]

The land beneath most solar farms is mostly left as gravel or turf. But the teams at two sites in Minnesota decided to do things differently, seeding the ground with native grasses and flowering plants. Five years later, that land is home to many types of insect, with a 20-fold increase in bees […]

OpenAI's first device will likely be a portable speaker, according to a new report which thinks it could "play media, answer questions" and "respond to messages." Erm...that sounds a lot like Amazon's Alexa. @cultofmac explains just what might be in store: https://flip.it/JbQkEW #openai #ai

President Trump says ICE should continue traffic stops despite new policy to halt them. @AssociatedPress reports on the fallout from the latest ICE shootings: https://flip.it/KWqRup #ice #trump #news

For Emmanuel Macron’s last Bastille Day as president of France, he invited 30 other leaders to the festivities, seemingly to show Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Trump that Europe is united. Read more from @AssociatedPress. https://flip.it/I4oeND #ukraine #france #europe

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In a sweet discovery, astronomers find sugar lurking in the space between stars. @AssociatedPress reports: "Astronomers have detected a type of sugar in space that’s also found in raspberries and self-tanners." https://flip.it/hLobDB #space #astronomy #science

Is AI coming for our jobs? 200 economists and AI leaders have warned that AI may bring forth "an unprecedented transformation of our economy, larger than the Industrial Revolution." Founder and editor of Platformer @caseynewton goes through the facts and provides context to help us better […]

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A man shot dead by U.S. immigration authorities in Maine was authorized to work in the country, according to an advocacy group. Sen. Angus King says the 26-year-old Colombian was not the target of immigration action, and that Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin told him the man […]

Fútbol is life! Cristo Fernández, who played Dani Rojas in "Ted Lasso," has made his professional soccer debut in the U.S., playing for El Paso Locomotive FC against New Mexico United on Saturday. Here's Good Morning America with the details. https://flip.it/EjrFOi #tedlasso #soccer #football

People projected all sorts of emotions onto the face of a Black woman surrounded by Patriot Front members, captured in a viral photo recently. Resistance. Stoicism. Fear. @NOTUSReports tells the real story of Bernita Bowlding. https://flip.it/2uhXou #photography #culture #uspolitics

Mathematicians put AI to work on Fermat’s last theorem. From @NewScientist (registration may be required): https://flip.it/_V6E9W #mathematics #math #ai

"It's starting to look a lot like a meme stock." @BBCNews talked to experts about how SpaceX and its investors are faring, a month after its IPO. https://flip.it/RcRqBx #spacex #technology #business

Seniors know they're watching AI slop but they still like it anyway. Viola Zhou writes for @restofworld and explores how AI-generated content is providing comfort and companionship for older adults. https://flip.it/DIs8PO #ai #slop #entertainment

🎶 Everybody needs good neighbours🎶 #Spain eliminated #Belgium today to go through to the #WorldCup semifinal, where they'll meet #France. Read more about it, plus tomorrow's matchup between #Norway and #England, in @surfsports.bsky.social's feed. surf.social/feed/surf%2F...

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Last year, the U.S. CDC made tracking the cyclospora parasite optional. Now, nearly 3,000 people are sick with a bug called cyclosporiasis, which is caused by cyclospora and leads to intense diarrhea. Here's NBC with more. https://flip.it/mOXpi7 #health #usnews #cyclosporiasis

Instagram and Facebook will likely require a redesign after EU rules they’re "addictive." @theverge reports: https://flip.it/YyLaHu #meta #eu #socialmedia

It’s hot out there this summer. So make sure you stay hydrated. But a lot of get hydration wrong, from not knowing how much water to drink to whether we should add electrolytes or even table salt (blech!) to our water. Fear not, @sciencefocus helps us out with these six hydration guidelines […]

One great thing about smartphones is you’re always connected. And a negative thing? You’re always connected. Enter Dumb Co, the flip phone company run by a small team in their 20s and 30s that grew up with iPads but now crave something simpler: like a flip phone that syncs to your smartphone […]

RE: https://flipboard.social/@NewsDesk/116896514648311369 Update: A 26-year-old man, who is a white British national, has been arrested on suspicion of the murder of U.K. politician Ann Widdecombe. Police say this is not being treated as a terrorist incident. Here's @Independent with more […]

Police have launched a murder investigation into the death of right-wing British politician Ann Widdecombe. The 78-year-old former Conservative minister and Reform UK spokesperson was found dead at her home with serious injuries on Thursday. Here's more from @BBCNews. https://flip.it/RLRG_l […]

CEOs are baffled at the high cost of moving to AI. Shockingly enough, sacking human workers isn't resulting in huge savings. @TechRadar reports: https://flip.it/YHvH6L #ai #artificialintelligence #technology

Ebola death toll in Congo reaches 600, as new cases suspected in previously unaffected provinces. @AssociatedPress reports: https://flip.it/phFx_y #ebola #congo #science

France vs. Morocco is underway! Follow @surfsports.bsky.social #WorldCup feed on @bsky.app for all the #FraMar action: bsky.app/profile/surf...

Wally Funk has died at age 87. The aviation pioneer completed the program to become an astronaut in the early 1960s but was not allowed to go to space because she was a woman. She then became a groundbreaking flight instructor, training more than 3,000 pilots, and eventually went to space at age […]

How do AI companies make money? @McSweeneysFlip break it down. "All you really need to know is that everything is totally working and everyone is making a lot of money, and you should just stop asking questions, luddite." It's satire but... is it? https://flip.it/8inekL #ai #economics #satire

Church, state, and Texas. The @texasobserver.org is asking the hard questions. Plus: calls for investigation into another ICE killing reported by @texaspublicradio.bsky.social. It's all in Flipboard's Texas Politics topic. flipboard.com/topic/texasp... #Texas #ICE

Here are some gems from our How-to Magazine: How to stop people using your face on Instagram, escape being tracked via your TV and reclaim ownership of your digital media. Instagram: https://flip.it/E4dlzt TV tracking: https://flip.it/YHvZzG Digital ownership: https://flip.it/Ci6IVZ Follow […]

Artemis II astronauts reunite with their moonship 3 months after record-breaking flight. From @AssociatedPress: https://flip.it/.1TiD5 #nasa #space #science

Does this headline sound familiar? New attacks raise questions about what comes next in the Iran war. @AssociatedPress has the latest on President Trump's on-again-off-again conflict: https://flip.it/l.HJDg #iran #news #trump

Graham Platner, the Maine Democratic Senate candidate, is out of the race. He withdrew his candidacy while continuing to deny allegations of sexual assault. Here's more from @abc. https://flip.it/4RnXm- #grahamplatner #uspolitics #maine

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It looks like it's only a matter of time before Maine Democrat Graham Platner drops his Senate bid, after multiple accusations of sexual assault and other abuse as well as the fact that he had a Nazi tattoo. @RollingStone takes a look at who he is and what happened. https://flip.it/nrVAJC […]

United States President Trump says the U.S. will grant Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s request to allow Ukraine to produce its Patriot missile interceptors for defense, a technology that has been vital to thwarting Russian attacks. Read more from @CBSNews https://flip.it/e5SDAF […]