Monday opens on a split Supreme Court finale—more presidential firing power, but Lisa Cook stays at the Fed for now—while Comcast unwinds its media empire, Rocket Lab buys Iridium, and Europe’s heat dome rolls east.
The Supreme Court held that warrants sweeping smartphone location data are Fourth Amendment searches; Justice Elena Kagan wrote that people retain a reasonable expectation of privacy even in public areas when carriers hand over precise geofence hauls.
In a final burst of term-end opinions, justices expanded presidential power to remove regulators at independent agencies yet ruled Trump's firing of Fed Governor Lisa Cook unconstitutional and declined to wipe out Carroll's civil verdict against Trump.
Comcast is splitting its eighty-five billion dollar empire, spinning NBCUniversal and Sky away from broadband so connectivity and content can be valued separately after decades of owning both the shows and the wires that deliver them.
Investors piled into semiconductor and memory manufacturers in the year's first half, lifting Samsung about one hundred sixty-nine percent and driving South Korea's Kospi to its strongest start since at least nineteen ninety while some large software names lost favor.
The UN mission in Afghanistan said Sunday's Pakistani air strikes and ground operations in Paktia, Paktika and Kunar killed at least twenty-eight civilians and wounded forty-nine, mostly women and children, as a ceasefire agreed last fall frays.
The heat dome that scorched western Europe is sliding east, putting Budapest on track to exceed forty degrees Celsius Tuesday while Belgrade and Bucharest already neared the high thirties on Monday.
Police said a gunman killed five people inside a youth welfare facility in Stade, northern Germany, and a sixth victim died in hospital; authorities arrested a suspect and are investigating two others.
A four point six magnitude aftershock near Caracas shook already fragile buildings as rescuers pulled another survivor from quake rubble and the confirmed death toll remained above fourteen hundred with more missing.
Rocket Lab will acquire Iridium's seventy-five-satellite L-band constellation for eight billion dollars, pairing its Electron launches and spacecraft factories with a global communications network aimed squarely at SpaceX's dominance.
Insurers and operators say hurricanes, heat and flood risk are now the leading loss drivers for U.S. data centers, pushing designers to harden cooling, backup power and site selection as AI buildouts accelerate.
Crude futures jumped after Washington and Tehran agreed to stop attacking each other, lifting U.S. benchmark oil back above seventy dollars with follow-on talks scheduled in Qatar even as tanker traffic through Hormuz remains fragile.
Early June indicators suggest China's economy is stabilizing after a soft spring, helped by stronger shipments to the United States even as tariffs, weak consumption and Gulf energy shocks linger in the background.
High-protein drinks, snacks and functional beverages are booming faster than U.S. dairies can expand output, squeezing supply chains and pushing brands toward alternative proteins and imports.
NASA's X-59 demonstrator is flying missions meant to replace window-rattling sonic booms with a soft thump, a step toward commercial supersonic routes over land for the first time since the Concorde era ended.
Argues age-gate laws are really about tying online speech to verified identity.
Open-sourcing HackerRank’s ATS exposed how wildly the same resume gets rescored.
Pragmatic Engineer says Pollen tried to delist his reporting and Google helped.
Tidal published a detailed policy on how AI may and may not touch music on the service.
Cloudflare traced a subtle hyper HTTP bug that could break clients in production.
US antitrust suit hits Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron over alleged DRAM price fixing.
Instagram is folding users’ own photos into ads for Meta’s smart glasses.
Deep dive into Apple’s Sparse Image Format used in modern system images.
Herdr multiplexes multiple coding agents inside one terminal session.
Apollo research note flags Mag 7 starting to lag the broader market.
Halvar Flake’s long guide on what entrepreneurship actually costs in practice.
Retro computing write-up on Sandia’s SA3000 8085 CPU CPU artifact.
PlayStation Store is pulling StudioCanal purchases without refunds, angering buyers.
NUMA explainer on why core-to-memory distance still shapes performance.
Rocket Lab’s Iridium deal is HN’s space-industry headline alongside the official announcement.