Friday closed with Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce married at Madison Square Garden, Tehran opening a dayslong funeral for Khamenei, NASA's robot rescuer finally chasing down a falling telescope, and chess banning the man who hounded Daniel Naroditsky — all under a record heat dome that canceled Washington's parade on the eve of America's 250th.
After weeks of speculation, the couple wed Friday at MSG with Adam Sandler officiating, Austin Swift as 'man of Honor' and Jason Kelce as best man; both wore Dior couture by Jonathan Anderson. Screens outside the arena flashed 'JUST MARRIED!' around 7:20pm as Ed Sheeran, Bradley Cooper, Gigi Hadid and half the NFL filed in.
FIDE suspended former world champion Vladimir Kramnik for at least a year over his campaign of unproven cheating allegations against fellow players, including American grandmaster Daniel Naroditsky, who died last year at 29 after months of public accusations. Kramnik called the verdict 'unlawful' and says he'll appeal 'to the very end.'
Trump signed 11 pardons Friday, including Jack Abramoff's former business partner and nine people the White House says helped defeat emissions controls — people he described on Truth Social as 'persecuted' for 'fixing their car.' The batch extends a second-term pattern of clemency for allies and the politically aligned.
The centerpiece of the 250th anniversary celebrations on the National Mall drew shrugs and sunstroke Friday, with temperatures past 100F turning state pavilions into shade shelters and one traveling 'friggin' patriot' declaring the offerings 'sucked.' DC separately canceled its July 4 parade over the heat.
Tehran emptied of traffic as mourners in black streamed toward the Grand Mosalla, where Khamenei's body lies in state months after the Israeli airstrike that killed him and members of his family on Feb. 28. Crowds carried red banners and chanted 'revenge' — a signal the war's aftermath remains combustible.
After weather and technical delays, a Pegasus rocket dropped from an aircraft over the Marshall Islands sent Katalyst's Link spacecraft chasing the Swift Observatory, which solar storms are dragging toward reentry. The unprecedented $30M rescue of the $250M gamma-ray telescope takes about a month to reach its target — and could pioneer second lives for other satellites.
The reigning champions needed an extra-time own goal to beat debutants Cape Verde 3-2 in Miami, after the Blue Sharks twice came from behind in front of 64,478. Messi's seventh goal of the tournament set up a last-16 date with Egypt in Atlanta on Tuesday.
Putin used a staged battlefield visit to pledge further territorial gains in Ukraine.
With the megacap AI trade looking fully priced after Q2's record chip rally, the week's action rotated toward second-tier beneficiaries — power, networking, and smaller compute plays — as investors hunted the next leg of the boom before earnings season.
Disclosure filings show Reps. Dan Meuser and Gil Cisneros were among the first members of Congress to buy SpaceX shares in the weeks after its record IPO — lawmakers taking positions in a company whose biggest customer is the federal government they oversee.
The ECB president declined to rule out leaving Frankfurt before her term ends in 2027 as speculation builds about a role in French politics — an exit that would hand markets a succession question at an awkward moment for euro-zone rates.
Bullion snapped a three-week losing streak as this week's soft June jobs print led traders to unwind bets on further Fed tightening, easing the dollar and real yields that had been pressuring the metal.
The premium-card arms race is escaping the terminal: Amex and Chase are building city lounges, restaurants and event venues to justify $800 annual fees, betting that exclusive physical spaces retain high spenders better than points do.
Between Widow's Bay, a Cape Fear remake, and returning seasons of Silo, Sugar and Slow Horses, Apple's streamer has quietly assembled the deepest lineup of its life — the payoff of years of patient, expensive catalog-building.
An essay arguing Costco's scarcity-and-trust retail model is the structural opposite of Amazon's infinite-shelf surveillance commerce.
A Bitcoin Core dev's soup-to-nuts playbook for serious local inference, from hardware picks to serving stacks.
Citizen Lab found Pegasus on the phone of an MEP sitting on the committee investigating spyware — the watchdog got watched.
Marijn Haverbeke ships a new editor, and the ProseMirror faithful immediately start planning migrations.
Matt Webb on how demystifying manufacturing — it's just rooms with machines — changes what you believe you're allowed to build.
Formal methods earn their keep: TLA+ modeling pins down a WAL edge case that survived 16 years of production SQLite.
The self-hosted metasearch engine gets a front-page moment as search enshittification pushes people to run their own.
FIDE's ethics commission finally acts on Kramnik's accusation campaign; HN's verdict is that it came a year too late for Naroditsky.
Benchmark claims AMD's MI355X serves GLM5.2 at half Blackwell's cost — the inference-market duopoly question gets sharper.
New measurements upend the textbook assumption that hydraulic limits cap how tall trees can grow.
Where state telecoms failed for decades, satellite internet is quietly becoming Africa's default infrastructure.
Mistral's Lean theorem-proving model pushes formal math toward commodity tooling.
A debugging tale that ends where they all do: unused RAM is wasted RAM, and the OS knows better than you.
Computer vision pilots a Steam Controller onto its own charging puck — gloriously over-engineered weekend hacking.