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GLP-1s are breaking life insurance

GPT/GLP-1 Illustration Hello and happy Sunday! Was this newsletter forwarded to you? Sign up to get it in your inbox. I've just got back from HLTH in Amsterdam, nursing what might be the worst three-day hangover of my adult life. Worth it, though. It's one of the best health tech events in Europe, and I made some genuinely great connections. If you’re ever at a large health conference, here’s a neat little hack I learned: Be brave enough to ask questions during panels. It's terrifying, but su

Bold Mission to Hunt for Aliens on Venus Is Happening

A UK-based mission is aiming to settle, once and for all, whether life exists on Venus. The mission plans to send a probe to the planet in search of microbial life, not on the surface, of course, but in the Venusian clouds. Over the past half-decade, scientists have detected the presence of phosphine and ammonia—two potential signs of biological activity—in Venus’s clouds. On Earth, both gases are produced only by biological activity and industrial processes, and scientists are unsure of their

Why recycling solar panels is harder than you might think

It’s hard work soaking up sunlight to generate clean electricity. After about 25 to 30 years, solar panels wear out. Over the years, heating and cooling cycles stress the materials. Small cracks develop, precipitation corrodes the frame and layers of materials can start to peel apart. In 2023, about 90% of old or faulty solar panels in the U.S. ended up in landfills. Millions of panels have been installed worldwide over the past few decades – and by about 2030, so many will be ready to retire t

Nvidia's Jensen Huang brushes off U.S. fears that China's military will use his firm's chips

Co-founder and chief executive officer of Nvidia Corp., Jensen Huang attends the 9th edition of the VivaTech trade show in Paris on June 11, 2025. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has downplayed U.S. fears that his firm's chips will aid the Chinese military, days ahead of another trip to the country as he attempts to walk a tightrope between Washington and Beijing. In an interview with CNN aired Sunday, Huang said "we don't have to worry about" China's military using U.S.-made technology because "they

OnePlus earbuds could soon make Spotify access seamless (APK teardown)

Aamir Siddiqui / Android Authority TL;DR Code within the HeyMelody app suggests OnePlus and OPPO earbuds could soon get Spotify Tap functionality. Spotify Tap allows instant music playback with a double or triple tap on compatible earbuds. It’s unknown if the feature will be coming to existing earbuds from the companies, or if they will be exclusive to products slated for the near future. OnePlus makes some great earbuds, with recent options like the OnePlus Buds 4 slotting in nicely at $130

I would use Google’s AI tools more if it fixed this glaring problem

Rushil Agrawal / Android Authority Ever since ChatGPT started gaining in popularity, every other tech company has been rushing to keep up with its advancements in generative AI. Although some might argue that OpenAI’s chatbot is still on top, the company that I believe has come closest to surpassing it is Google. After Google CEO Sundar Pichai issued a “code red” in December 2022 to meet the threat OpenAI represented, the company has created a powerful, robust, and wide-reaching set of AI-power

6 easy ways to identify a song using your Android phone

filo/Getty Images You've probably been there before: there's a song stuck in your head and you can't remember the words, or you hear a song that you want to remember but don't know the name. Fortunately, it's never been easier to identify music around you if you have an Android phone. All but one of these features is tied to Google, but each one works differently, and one even works without you having to unlock your phone and works offline. Also: How to clear your Android phone cache (and why

Telefónica DE shifts VMware support to Spinnaker due to cost

The German arm of telecoms biz Telefónica has shifted support for its VMware installed base to Spinnaker after Broadcom quoted it a renewal figure five times the size of what it was previously paying. Telefónica Germany made the switch to Spinnaker at the start of the year when its existing support with VMware, now a subsidiary of silicon-and-software giant Broadcom, expired. VMware must support crucial Dutch govt agency as it migrates off the platform, judge rules READ MORE The telco was run

Concurrent Programming with Harmony

Appendix H. Peterson's Algorithm In 1981, Gary L. Peterson came up with a beautiful solution to the mutual exclusion problem, now known as ``Peterson's Algorithm'' [37]. Figure 5.6 presents the algorithm. Why does it work? We will focus here on how one might go about proving mutual exclusion for an algorithm such as Peterson's. It turns out that doing so is not trivial. You have to understand a little bit about how the Harmony virtual machine (HVM) works. In Chapter 4 we talked about the concep

Dyson Reveals Its Futuristic Farming Vision

Dyson, a company best known for its vacuums and hair dryers, unveiled a new circular farm design featuring rows of strawberry plants that rotate to share sunlight, robots that do everything from harvesting to releasing helpful insects, and sensors to help farmers keep an eye on things. The company is also getting into the renewable energy game. Check out the video in this article to find out how it all connects and what it could mean for the future of food.

From Outer Space to Your Router: Here's How Satellite Internet Gets You Online

The satellite internet space has only gotten more competitive in recent years, thanks to the rise of Starlink. Now that Amazon's Project Kuiper has successfully launched LEO satellites to kick off its own service, we only expect the conversation to grow from here. Despite the popularity of Starlink and the growing power of its 7,000 satellites, satellite internet is generally considered a last resort for home internet, due to slower-than-average speeds and the steep costs of equipment. However,

The Structure of Ice in Space Is Neither Order nor Chaos—It’s Both

Ice is a key component in the universe. There are frozen water molecules on comets, moons, exoplanets, and in your drink as you cool off from the summer heat. However, under the microscope, not all ice is the same, even though it is made of the same components. The internal structure of Earth’s ice is a cosmological oddity. Its molecules are arranged in geometric structures, usually hexagons that repeat each other. Ice on Earth forms this way due to the temperature and pressure of the our plane

Nvidia CEO downplays U.S. fears that China's military will use his firm's chips

Co-founder and chief executive officer of Nvidia Corp., Jensen Huang attends the 9th edition of the VivaTech trade show in Paris on June 11, 2025. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has downplayed U.S. fears that his firm's chips will aid the Chinese military, days ahead of another trip to the country as he attempts to walk a tightrope between Washington and Beijing. In an interview with CNN aired Sunday, Huang said "we don't have to worry about" China's military using U.S.-made technology because "they

These are the closest-ever images of the sun from Parker Solar Probe's historic flyby

NASA's Parker Solar Probe made history with the closest-ever approach to the sun last December, and we're finally getting a look at some of the images it captured. The space agency released a timelapse of observations made using Parker's Wide-Field Imager for Solar Probe (WISPR) while it passed through the sun's corona (the outer atmosphere) on December 25, 2024, revealing up close how solar wind acts soon after it's released. The probe captured these images at just 3.8 million miles from the so

Show HN: ArchGW – An intelligent edge and service proxy for agents

Arch is a proxy server designed as a modular edge and AI gateway for agentic apps Arch handles the pesky low-level work in building agentic apps — like applying guardrails, clarifying vague user input, routing prompts to the right agent, and unifying access to any LLM. It’s a language and framework friendly infrastructure layer designed to help you build and ship agentic apps faster. Quickstart • Demos • Build agentic apps with Arch • Route LLMs • Documentation • Contact Overview AI demos a

GLP-1s Are Breaking Life Insurance

GPT/GLP-1 Illustration Hello and happy Sunday! Was this newsletter forwarded to you? Sign up to get it in your inbox. I've just got back from HLTH in Amsterdam, nursing what might be the worst three-day hangover of my adult life. Worth it, though. It's one of the best health tech events in Europe, and I made some genuinely great connections. If you’re ever at a large health conference, here’s a neat little hack I learned: Be brave enough to ask questions during panels. It's terrifying, but su

The Scourge of Arial (2001)

Arial is everywhere. If you don’t know what it is, you don’t use a modern personal computer. Arial is a font that is familiar to anyone who uses Microsoft products, whether on a PC or a Mac. It has spread like a virus through the typographic landscape and illustrates the pervasiveness of Microsoft’s influence in the world. Arial’s ubiquity is not due to its beauty. It’s actually rather homely. Not that homeliness is necessarily a bad thing for a typeface. With typefaces, character and history a

Dyson Reveals Futuristic Farming Vision

Dyson, a company best known for its vacuums and hair dryers, unveiled a new circular farm design featuring rows of strawberry plants that rotate to share sunlight, robots that do everything from harvesting to releasing helpful insects, and sensors to help farmers keep an eye on things. The company is also getting into the renewable energy game. Check out the video in this article to find out how it all connects and what it could mean for the future of food.

Scientists Gene Hack Mice So Their Livers Produce Their Own Ozempic-Like Drug

Image by Remi Benali/Getty Images Rx/Medicines Scientists have gene-hacked mice to produce their own Ozempic-like drugs — possibly, and provocatively, perhaps paving a path for humans to do so themselves one day. In a new study published in the journal Communications Medicine, researchers from Japan's University of Osaka successfully gene-edited mice livers to produce exenatide, a first-generation diabetes drug and predecessor to now-trendy jabs like Ozempic and Mounjaro. Using lab mice that

The human harbor: Navigating identity and meaning in the AI age

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now Image generated by ChatGPT. We are living through a time when AI is reshaping how we work but also how we think, perceive and assign meaning. This phase is not just about smarter tools or faster work. AI is beginning to reshape how we define value, purpose and identity itself. The future is not just unpredictable in terms of unknowable eve

Windows 10 KB5062554 update breaks emoji panel search feature

The search feature for the Windows 10 emoji panel is broken after installing the KB5062554 cumulative update released Tuesday, making it not possible to look up emojis by name or keyword. Windows includes an emoji panel that allows you to select emojis to insert into text or search for an emoji using keywords. On Tuesday, Microsoft released Windows updates to fix bugs and security vulnerabilities as part of the July 2025 Patch Tuesday. Since installing the Windows 10 KB5062554 update, numerou

Hungary's oldest library fighting to save 100k books from a beetle infestation

PANNONHALMA, Hungary — Tens of thousands of centuries-old books are being pulled from the shelves of a medieval abbey in Hungary in an effort to save them from a beetle infestation that could wipe out centuries of history. The 1,000-year-old Pannonhalma Archabbey is a sprawling Benedictine monastery that is one of Hungary's oldest centers of learning and a UNESCO World Heritage site. Restoration workers are removing about 100,000 handbound books from their shelves and carefully placing them in

Fine dining restaurants researching guests to make their dinner unforgettable

In the Emmy-winning FX show “The Bear,” which returned for a fourth season on June 25, there’s a pivotal Season 2 episode when Richie, aka Cousin, learns what it takes to work at a fine dining restaurant — and just how much intimate research goes into preparing for guests. Before his first night on the floor of the fictional three-Michelin-star restaurant, the front of house team goes over the evening’s PNOs — persons of note. Guests for the night include the district attorney for Chicago as we

The Gottorf Globe and its reconstruction

The Gottorf Globe was known as an astronomic marvel some 350 years ago. The first planetarium in history is a synonym for Friedrich III’s cosmopolitanism, under whose sovereignty Gottorf became one of North Europe’s most significant royal courts and a cultural centre. The virtually authentic replication, now located close to the Museum Island, still doesn’t cease to impress visitors. Casually expressed, Friedrich III wanted to understand the connection between the earth and the sky. Thus, the s

A technical look at Iran's internet shutdowns

A Technical Look at Iran’s Internet Shutdowns Every time mass protests erupt in Iran, a familiar pattern follows: the flow of information stops. The internet slows to a crawl or disappears entirely. But how does a modern country survive cutting itself off from the internet? Wouldn’t that break everything? Not quite, because the Islamic Republic has spent the last decade building an internet within the internet. The National Information Network (NIN): Isolation by Design Iran’s National Info

Species at 30 makes for a great guilty pleasure

Earlier this month, Hollywood mourned the passing of Michael Madsen, a gifted actor best known for his critically acclaimed roles in Reservoir Dogs, Kill Bill, and Donnie Brasco, among others. Few obituaries have mentioned one of his lesser-known roles: a black ops mercenary hired to help hunt down an escaped human/alien hybrid in 1995's Species. The sci-fi thriller turns 30 this year and while it garnered decidedly mixed reviews upon release, the film holds up quite well as a not-quite-campy B

Gasp! Researchers Say There’s an Inaccuracy in Popular Teen Movies

Image by Peacock / NBC Studies According to a new study, teen films have a dirty little secret — and it's harming the real-life adolescents who watch them. After analyzing dozens of teen films, communications researchers at the University of Ohio found, per a new study published in the Journal of Children and Media, that the experiences depicted in them was so different from the lives and experiences of actual teens that they may as well have been speculative fiction. Looking at 53 teen films

James Webb Space Telescope Spots Stellar Death Shrouds

In brilliant new images, the James Webb Space Telescope has captured a rare glimpse at the gaseous "shrouds" that surround dying stars before they go supernova. Known as Wolf-Rayet stars, which were discovered nearly 160 years ago by astronomers Charles Wolf and Georges Rayet at the Paris Observatory and named in their honor, these ancient stars are, as Space.com notes, surrounded by a "shroud" of cosmic dust that will eventually explode outward and lay the foundations for new stars. These age

The Amount of Electricity Generated From Solar Is Suddenly Unbelievable

If it feels like the world is being deluged with bad news lately, here's an actual bright spot: the Sun has become the go-to source of energy for tens of millions across the globe. A recent story by The New Yorker dove into the astonishing growth of solar energy over the past few years. Among other extensive data, the magazine notes that renewables made up 96 percent of demand for new energy throughout the globe in 2024; In the United States, 93 percent of new energy capacity came from solar an

The Garmin Forerunner 570 is a powerful running watch but the price is all wrong

Garmin Forerunner 570 The Garmin Forerunner 570 is a sleek, high-performing running watch that nails the essentials and then some, but its price puts it in a strange no man’s land between its better-value siblings. With advanced training tools, added smart tools, and highly accurate sensors, it’s easy to love while wearing it, but unless you find it discounted, it's tricky to justify buying in the first place. I’ve spent the past few weeks testing the Garmin Forerunner 570, Garmin’s latest addi