South Korea Crypto Volume Hits a Two-Year Low Amid the KOSDAQ Crash
South Korea's cryptocurrency trading volume fell below 10 trillion won for the first time since September 2023, marking a two-year low. This decline occurred alongside a major crash in the country's stock markets.
Ethereum Price Analysis: ETH Reaches Its Biggest Obstacle on the Road to $2K
Ethereum is approaching a major technical resistance level after recovering from June lows. The asset faces a confluence of long-term resistance barriers that coincide with liquidation levels in the market.
Tadej Pogacar urges radical overhaul of Tour de France amid stifling heatwave
The ninth stage of the Tour de France was shortened due to high temperatures, with Mathieu van der Poel winning and Tom Pidcock finishing third. Tadej Pogacar called for moving professional racing away from July and August in hot locations, stating he would redesign the entire calendar if he had the power to do so.
Japanese Team Finds Frog Bacteria That Wipes Out Cancer Tumors With a Single Dose
A bacterium from Japanese tree frog intestines eliminated cancer tumors in mice with a single dose. Scientists at Japan's Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, led by Professor Eijiro Miyako, isolated the naturally-occurring bacteria called Ewingella americana.
Bonzo Lend, Hedera’s DeFi Lending Platform, Suffers $9 Million Loss from Oracle Manipulation
A DeFi lending platform called Bonzo Lend lost approximately $9.05 million on July 11, 2026, through an oracle manipulation exploit. The vulnerability existed in a third-party oracle service rather than in Bonzo Lend's own smart contracts.
World Cup 2026 power rankings: who leads the pack as semi-finals loom?
France advanced to the World Cup 2026 semifinals with victories powered by forwards Kylian Mbappé and Ousmane Dembélé, who broke through opponent defenses despite lengthy periods of limited play. Against Morocco, France required an hour before Mbappé scored and provided an assist to secure progression.
DeepSeek cut prices 75%. The 100x problem remains
DeepSeek reduced V4-Pro pricing by 75 percent, but agent systems consume tokens at rates faster than prices decline, creating substantial cost pressures despite cheaper models. A single user request in agentic workflows generates multiple billable operations through planning, retrieval, tool use, verification, and summarization loops, multiplying costs by approximately 100 times compared to simple chatbot responses.
Ryu claims second major of season at Evian Championship
Haeran Ryu won the Evian Championship in a playoff against Brooke Henderson, securing her second major title within two weeks. The South Korean golfer defeated Henderson in the sudden-death playoff format at the tournament.
AI has triggered the biggest gas-plant building boom in history, and a quiet fight to stop it
Natural gas power plant construction has reached historic highs due to AI's massive energy demands, with utilities and the government extending aging coal plants past retirement dates to meet electricity needs.
Meta spent a year being punished for its AI spending. Then it told investors how it would get the money back.
Meta's stock rose approximately 15% in one week after the company explained to investors how it would recoup spending on artificial intelligence infrastructure. The company had underperformed the market for a year, with shares flat while the Nasdaq-100 gained 18%.
The AI race has quietly stopped being about who has the biggest model
Companies are selecting AI models based on specific tasks, costs, and control needs rather than pure size or benchmark rankings. The shift reflects practical enterprise requirements where a single largest model no longer serves as the dominant purchasing criterion.
Amazon has cut 57,000 jobs, and the people who kept theirs are not fine either
Amazon eliminated more than 57,000 corporate jobs since 2022, representing approximately 16% of its corporate workforce. The company cut roughly 16,000 employees in late January following layoffs of over 14,000 three months prior.
OpenAI, Meta, SpaceXAI Compete for More Cost-Efficient AI Models
OpenAI, Meta, and SpaceXAI released new AI models focused on cost efficiency rather than pure capability. These models prioritize affordability, charging less to operate while maintaining advanced performance.
These are the application keywords that will bring in top creative talent
Job postings for creative roles use "genius" language over twice as frequently as words emphasizing curiosity and experimentation. University of Toronto researchers analyzing over 9,000 postings found hiring managers favor terms like "visionary" and "unique" rather than "curious," "observant," and "experimental."
Physicists recreate black hole energy extraction in the lab
Physicists created a laboratory device that reproduces the physics of extracting energy from spinning black holes using synthetic ultrafast rotation. The experimental demonstration transforms theoretical concepts into practical application and could advance optics, wireless communications, and quantum science.
Deep-sea life has a secret food source scientists never expected
Extreme deep-sea pressure extracts nutrients from sinking organic particles, creating an unexpected food source for ocean microbes. This mechanism affects how carbon cycles through Earth's deep-ocean ecosystems.
Scientists discover how the brain rewires itself to truly multitask
Extensive training physically reorganizes the brain so learned tasks bypass the prefrontal cortex and run through specialized circuits instead. This frees the brain's thinking center, allowing people to perform another task simultaneously rather than rapidly switching between them.
Bitcoin’s BIP 110 fork deadline nears with miner support at zero
A Bitcoin proposal called BIP 110 would limit arbitrary data storage on the network for one year, but faces a fork deadline with zero miner support. Critics including Michael Saylor and Adam Back argue that turning a spam disagreement into a consensus conflict poses greater risk than the spam problem itself.
Sanchez returns to All-Star form in Phillies' win
Cristopher Sanchez struck out seven batters over seven innings after allowing nine earned runs in just 3⅓ innings four days earlier. The Phillies defeated the Tigers 4-2, ending Detroit's six-game winning streak.
Companies keep talking about the motherhood penalty. They’re missing the motherhood advantage
Mothers who become more selective about work demands often face penalizing evaluations and lower salary recommendations despite unchanged job qualifications. In resume audits, childless women received more than twice as many callbacks as equally qualified mothers.
The new rules of leadership start with emotional intelligence
Leaders increasingly need emotional intelligence,the ability to recognize, understand, and manage emotions in oneself and others,rather than relying solely on technical skills and authority. Employees now seek authentic connections with leaders who respect them as individuals and create safe environments for expressing ideas and questioning established practices.
EDX Markets Closes $76M Series C Led by SBI Holdings
EDX Markets raised $76 million in Series C funding led by SBI Holdings, a Tokyo-listed financial group that becomes a strategic investor in the institutional crypto trading venue. The funding will support EDX Markets' operations as an institutional-only exchange with its own central clearinghouse.
James McCann hits two home runs as Diamondbacks thump Dodgers 9-2
James McCann hit two home runs with four RBIs, including a three-run shot in the sixth inning, as the Diamondbacks defeated the Dodgers 9-2. Brandon Pfaadt earned his third consecutive win, allowing two runs on six hits over 5 1/3 innings with no walks.
Columbia scientists discover surprising link between serotonin and heart valve disease
Serotonin may accelerate degenerative mitral regurgitation progression in patients taking SSRI antidepressants who carry a specific genetic variant. These patients could require heart valve surgery at a younger age than those without the genetic variant.
Yale scientists may have found how Parkinson's disease spreads through the brain
Two neuron surface proteins appear to facilitate the spread of toxic protein associated with Parkinson's disease through the brain. Blocking these proteins in mice significantly reduced disease progression, suggesting a potential therapeutic target.
Vet demonstrates ‘squish the cat’ method of safe cat handling in delightfully helpful video
A veterinarian's video on safely picking up cats by supporting their hindquarters and body has been viewed 23 million times. The method, demonstrated by Dr. Burstyn, involves proper hand placement to prevent injury during handling.
Guy finds long-forgotten album in a thrift shop, reunites the band, and is sharing their music with the world
A man discovered a vinyl record released 58 years ago at a thrift shop and used it to locate and reunite the original band members. He is now sharing their previously obscure music with a wider audience.
Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines Lab Makes The Technical Case For Human-Centered AI Built On Customizable Model Weights
Thinking Machines Lab published an essay proposing human-centered AI through decentralized model ownership and alignment as technical challenges. The framework uses LoRA fine-tuning methods that allow teams to train and retain their own customizable model weights.
A Coding Guide to NVIDIA’s Tile-Based GPU Programming: From cuTile and Triton Kernels to Flash Attention
NVIDIA's tile-based GPU programming uses TileGym to operate on whole data tiles rather than single threads, with implementations falling back from cuTile to Triton kernels depending on available hardware. The tutorial covers vector addition, fused GELU, row-wise softmax, tiled matrix multiplication, and flash attention operations validated against PyTorch.