Sunday closed with chip stocks still rewriting the year’s market story, a Gulf truce just wide enough to reopen Hormuz, and rescue crews still pulling names from Venezuela’s rubble—while a heat dome locked much of the U.S. in dangerous July Fourth weather.
The National Weather Service warned that a persistent heat dome will park dangerous temperatures over large swaths of the country straight through the Independence Day weekend, compounding wildfire stress in the West and raising heat-illness risks from the Ohio Valley to the Carolinas.
Guardian analysis of LSEG data shows semiconductor and memory stocks carried the first half of 2026, with Samsung up 183% and SK Hynix 310% year to date while U.S. names like Sandisk posted triple-digit gains on AI datacenter demand.
President Trump said he would nominate Lance Schroyer, an adviser to Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin, to lead Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
With Congress having passed its most comprehensive housing legislation in decades, Penn housing scholar Vincent Reina walks through which provisions might actually lower costs and which could miss renters on the ground.
French and American teams pulled a man and his teenage son from ruins in Caraballeda on Sunday, nearly four days after twin quakes destroyed nearly 200 buildings while the government reported more than 1,450 dead and civilian-led searches continued for thousands still missing.
Thai police charged Australian Simon Peter Carman with murder after investigators found the body of 17-year-old Tunchanok Donhomla in a suitcase.
Tokyo protested Chinese coast guard activity asserting Beijing maritime claims east of Taiwan and near a Japanese island, keeping Northeast Asian tension on simmer.
Australia and Vanuatu signed a security and development pact ending a diplomatic standoff, with Port Vila pledging not to host foreign military bases as Canberra sought to counter China Pacific outreach.
Beijing blacklisted four Japanese government defense research institutes and placed dozens more firms under tightened export controls Monday, escalating the technology fight between Asia two largest economies.
Washington and Tehran agreed to pause fighting and let commercial vessels transit the Strait of Hormuz again after a violent weekend that saw strikes on Gulf neighbors.
Crude prices rose Monday as renewed U.S.-Iran military exchanges revived worries that Middle East supply could be disrupted even while diplomats talked about keeping Hormuz open.
Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix shares slid after reports the memory giants could unveil combined investment plans worth hundreds of billions of dollars.
Jim Cramer argued the AI capex arms race has turned public opinion against hyperscalers and that Big Tech has only started to reckon with the backlash.
Zhipu open-weight GLM-5.2 is drawing researcher attention for matching Anthropic restricted Mythos model on some bug-hunting tasks.
A mystery repo is dumping fresh exploit code without disclosure.
Open-source Command and Conquer engine resurgence.
Essay makes the case for owning physical media.
West Texas public radio bedtime podcast went viral on HN.
Robin Williams clip framed as antidote to AI slop.
EFF warns KIDS Act would force age checks to get online.
Townsquare adds serendipitous presence to personal sites.
Practical public DNS resolver comparison guide.
Dan Luu discontinuities essay back on front page.
IEEE on AI learning RFIC chip design.
Tick density study along Ottawa trails.
Guide to RDMA clusters on AMD Strix Halo for local LLMs.
Interactive GameCube decompilation curriculum.
Codex still lacks sensitive file exclusions.
Raymond Chen on a Windows DLL loader edge case.