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Human Rights Watch: 2026 Taliban Laws Deepen Repression of Women, Minorities in Afghanistan

Human Rights Watch says 2026 Taliban legal changes deepen repression of women, religious minorities and dissent as Afghanistan nears five-year mark since takeover. ...Read more

#afghanistan, #taliban, #humanrights, #women

BOJ Says Inflation Will Be 'Clearly Above 2%' From H2 FY2026, Signals Further Rate Hikes

BOJ says core CPI will be clearly above 2% from H2 fiscal 2026, trims near-term outlook due to temporary relief measures and signals more rate hikes. ...Read more

#japan, #boj, #inflation, #monetarypolicy

Researchers Find Position-Independent KV Cache Reuse Can Let One User Hijack Another’s LLM Output

Researchers show position-independent KV-cache reuse in LLM inference can let attackers' context influence other users' outputs, posing risks for shared serving. ...Read more

#ai, #security, #infrastructure, #ml, #llm

XENONnT's Ionization-Only Search Tightens Limits on Few‑GeV Dark Matter

XENONnT's 7.8 tonne‑year ionization‑only search finds no dark‑matter signal, setting stronger limits on few‑GeV candidates and edging toward the solar‑neutrino floor. ...Read more

#darkmatter, #xenonnt, #particlephysics, #neutrinos

Reanalysis Challenges DESI’s Claimed Signal for Dynamical Dark Energy

A new arXiv reanalysis finds DESI’s apparent hint of evolving dark energy is concentrated in one redshift bin and vanishes under alternate statistical checks. ...Read more

#darkenergy, #desi, #cosmology, #arxiv

MLB.com: Rays, Mets Reportedly Agree to Trade Freddy Peralta to Tampa Bay for Three Prospects

MLB.com reports the Tampa Bay Rays have agreed to acquire two-time All-Star Freddy Peralta from the Mets for three prospects ahead of the Aug. 2 trade deadline. ...Read more

#mlb, #baseball, #rays, #mets, #trade

At least nine killed in overnight Russian missile-and-drone attack on Kyiv

At least nine people were killed and 22 injured after a large overnight Russian missile-and-drone strike on Kyiv; rescue operations continued Saturday. ...Read more

#ukraine, #russia, #kyiv, #missiles, #war

Amazon says custom chips surpass $25 billion annual run rate as Trainium and Graviton power AWS AI

Amazon reports its custom-silicon business topped a $25B annualized run rate, citing Trainium, Graviton and multi-year AI customer commitments. ...Read more

$AMZN, #amazon, #aws, #ai, #chips

Glen Hansard, Oscar-winning singer-songwriter, dies at 56 in motorcycle crash near Dublin

Glen Hansard, Oscar-winning Irish musician and star of Once, has died at 56 after a motorcycle crash near Dublin; Gardaí are investigating. ...Read more

#music, #glenhansard, #irishmusic, #once

Amgen discloses material cybersecurity incident after data exfiltration from third‑party cloud environments

Amgen disclosed a material cybersecurity incident in a July SEC filing, saying unauthorized activity in third‑party cloud environments led to exfiltration of proprietary and patient data. ...Read more

$AMGN, #amgen, #cybersecurity, #biotech, #sec

Sony to Stop Making Physical PlayStation Game Discs for New Releases from January 2028

Sony will discontinue producing physical discs for new PlayStation games released from January 2028, shifting future titles to digital-only sales. ...Read more

$SONY, #sony, #playstation, #video-games, #digitaldistribution

NASA Opens First Major New Wind Tunnel at Langley in Over 40 Years

NASA opened the Flight Dynamics Research Facility at Langley Research Center, a modern wind tunnel to test aircraft, drones and reentry vehicles. ...Read more

#nasa, #windtunnel, #aeronautics, #langley

Warren Accuses IRS CEO of Downplaying Staffing Shortages After 31,000 Departures

Sen. Elizabeth Warren pressed IRS CEO Frank Bisignano to explain his comments that staffing was sufficient, after watchdog reported roughly 31,000 departures. ...Read more

#irs, #elizabethwarren, #oversight, #staffing

EU to Begin Enforcing AI-Transparency Rules on Aug. 2, 2026

From Aug. 2, companies serving the EU must disclose AI interactions and mark synthetic audio, image, video and text under Article 50 — violations face heavy fines. ...Read more

#ai, #eu, #regulation, #transparency

FCA sets 18-month path to create UK equity consolidated tape, launches interim market reporter

The FCA set an 18-month timetable to build a UK equity consolidated tape, launched a free interim market activity reporter and opened consultations. ...Read more

#fca, #uk, #markets, #equities, #consolidatedtape