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    <title><![CDATA['It's a hell of a situation': Spain grapples with devastating wildfires]]></title>
    <link>https://cyber-feed.org/article/48609</link>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 13:03:38 GMT</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[For the past week, firefighters have been tackling a series of wildfires ravaging the Spanish countryside, threatening dozens of communities and forcing more than 70,000 people to evacuate their homes.

Three fires in the Madrid region have caused special concerns, with a new heatwave expected to hit Spain from Wednesday, fuelling fears that firefighting efforts could be hindered.

"It's a hell of a situation," said Madrid regional leader Isabel Díaz Ayuso, as she visited affected areas on Monday alongside Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez.

Sánchez spoke on Tuesday of highly challenging hours and days ahead but of light beginning to appear "at the end of the tunnel".

Temperatures are expected to approach 40C in some regions in the coming days, with the heatwave forecast to last at least until Sunday.

Spain's state meteorological agency Aemet has warned the "fire danger level will continue to rise to extreme levels, hindering firefighting efforts".

Ayuso confirmed that four municipalities remained under lockdown orders while another 12 were evacuated. She had earlier described the wildfires as "the biggest natural catastrophe in the history of Spain" and of flames turning the area into a "war zone".

In the Madrid region alone, more than 56,500 people have been evacuated since the fires broke out last week. A further 27,797 people have been ordered to stay at home.

Further evacuations have taken place in Ávila, Toledo and Valencia.

Ayuso wrote on X that the situation was now "improving little by little" and some residents may soon be allowed to return home.]]></description>
    <category>Mondo</category>
    <source url="https://cyber-feed.org/">BBC World News</source>
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    <title><![CDATA[After Months Of Secrecy, Someone May Have Finally Spoiled Sadie Sink’s Spider-Man: Brand New Day Character]]></title>
    <link>https://cyber-feed.org/article/48452</link>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 13:00:38 GMT</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Sadie Sink is in Spider-Man: Brand New Day, but has been tightlipped on who she’s actually playing. For some reason, Marvel still put her on the press tour where she had to just talk about the vibes of the film with zero specifics. As theories that she might be playing the telepathic mutant Jean Grey from the X-Men have circulated online, some members of the press have tried to get Sink to crack on the interview circuit, but she has not said a word about which character from the Marvel universe she’s playing in the MCU. Well, the movie is out this week, holding its premiere in Los Angeles last night, and in frame one, someone may have spoiled the character.

R&B artist Steve Lacy’s song “oh yeah?” is featured in Brand New Day, so he was naturally one of the folks present for the Los Angeles premiere. When he was chatting with interviewers, he was asked which character he was most excited to see in the movie, and was specifically asked not to spoil anything. Then, he decides to potentially spoil the only thing Marvel’s been trying to keep under wraps.

“Jean,” he says. “I like Jean. She’s the villain, but there’s a reason to her madness.”

BRAND NEW DAY POTENTIAL SPOILERS: steve lacy just spoiled a major character and plot point dawgggggg pic.twitter.com/mHP3mzr1JE

Welp. I assume Lacy’s getting a stern call from Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige any minute now. Unless this is an elaborate misdirect, we now know who Sink is playing in the MCU. With rumors of an X-Men movie reboot following the events of Avengers: Doomsday and Secret Wars, I guess Marvel wanted to at least put one of the actors playing the next iteration of these heroes on the playing field before we see some of the old ones show up in Doomsday’s big crossover event in December.

Whoever Sadie’s playing, early reactions to her performance in Brand New Day have been pretty glowing.

#SpidermanBrandNewDay goes without question that Sadie Sink is easily the newest and greatest star of the MCU. Her character easily has the most thought provoking character work ever put in a Marvel Studios flick well…ever. Can't wait to see what they do next with her. pic.twitter.com/8YO1LegLDM

Took some time for #SpiderManBrandNewDay to win me over, but once it gets going, what felt at first like an uninspired plot really came together. Review in 8 hours, but I will say that Sadie Sink is some of the most inspired MCU casting, maybe since Tom Holland himself.

The rest of us will know for sure if Jean is making her MCU debut when the movie arrives in theaters on July 31.

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    <category>Gaming</category>
    <source url="https://cyber-feed.org/">Kotaku</source>
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    <title><![CDATA[Booker Prize longlist: See the 13 'dynamite' novels up for this year's prestigious award]]></title>
    <link>https://cyber-feed.org/article/48637</link>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 13:00:16 GMT</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Strout is among the authors on the Booker Prize longlist

Elizabeth Strout, Douglas Stuart, Marlon James and Rebecca Perry are among the authors who have been longlisted for this year's Booker Prize.

The 13 chosen books include novels set in Mexico City, a remote Scottish island, an assissted suicide clinic in Zurich, 1980s Jamaica, and Massachussetts before the 2024 US election.

Chair of the judges Mary Beard described the 13 novels as "dynamite", adding: "We are confident that our longlist of books has something for everyone."

The longlist, referred to as the Booker Dozen, will be whittled down to a shortlist on 22 September, before the winner is announced on 9 November.

The annual Booker Prize is the literary world's most prestigious award, recognising long-form fiction by writers of any nationality, written in English and published in the UK or Ireland.

The six shortlisted authors will receive £2,500 each and a specially bound edition of their book, while the eventual winner will receive a trophy and £50,000 in prize money.

High-profile authors who missed this year's longlist include Maggie O'Farrell, Ann Patchett, John Lanchester, Deborah Levy and Julian Barnes, who many predicted would be recognised for his final book Departure(s).

The Booker judges received 163 submissions for this year's prize before settling on the final 13.

Each of the five judges read all the submitted books, with Beard joking she "occasionally felt daunted as a new box of 30 or so gleaming volumes landed on my doorstep".]]></description>
    <category>Moda & Società</category>
    <source url="https://cyber-feed.org/">BBC Entertainment & Arts</source>
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    <title><![CDATA[Granola launches an Apple Watch app]]></title>
    <link>https://cyber-feed.org/article/48389</link>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 13:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[AI note-taking app Granola is launching an app for the Apple Watch in hopes that its users will want to record meetings and take notes without using their smartphones.

Users can set the Granola app as one of the watch faces to start transcribing at any time. The app can also surface reminders about upcoming meetings, and works with the iOS app, which launched last year.

The company’s co-founder, Chris Pedregal, told TechCrunch that the Apple Watch app is meant to be a way to capture in-person meetings without having to take your phone out of your pocket — for example, if someone is having a walking one-on-one meeting.

When Granola tested its app with employees who had Apple Watches, a big chunk of their mobile usage switched from iOS to the Watch, the company said.

In the past year, companies have released auxiliary devices that can be used with smartphones to record and transcribe meetings. Granola said it considered it easier to develop an app for Apple Watches rather than integrate with another hardware product at this point. Dictation app Monlogue earlier this year also added support for meeting note-taking, for both online and offline modalities, along with Apple Watch support.

Granola became a unicorn earlier this year with a $125 million Series C round that was led by Index Ventures.]]></description>
    <category>Mobile & Web</category>
    <source url="https://cyber-feed.org/">TechCrunch</source>
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    <title><![CDATA[Twelve South’s stylish charging tray now delivers more wireless power with a smaller footprint]]></title>
    <link>https://cyber-feed.org/article/48438</link>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 13:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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A new version of the Twelve South Valet can wirelessly charge smartphones or headphones at 25W.

A new version of the Twelve South Valet can wirelessly charge smartphones or headphones at 25W.

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Following the original’s debut at CES earlier this year, Twelve South is introducing a new version of its leather-wrapped Valet charging tray designed for use in places where space is at a premium. While the original Valet was 7.5-inches deep and large enough to serve as a catchall for a couple of items like your wallet and keys, the new Valet nearly halves that to 4.5-inches deep, so it’s better suited for single items, like a pair of glasses.

Despite being smaller, the new Valet brings some welcome upgrades. The original’s wireless charger maxed out at 15W, but the smaller version bumps that to 25W. However, while the original could charge a second device through a USB-C port on the side at 15W, the smaller Valet limits power delivery there to just 10W while its Qi2 charger is in use.]]></description>
    <category>Mobile & Web</category>
    <source url="https://cyber-feed.org/">The Verge</source>
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    <title><![CDATA[You don’t need to splurge on an expensive handheld fan to beat the heat]]></title>
    <link>https://cyber-feed.org/article/48440</link>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 13:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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This cheap and basic fan from JisuLife has helped my family endure the hottest days of summer.

This cheap and basic fan from JisuLife has helped my family endure the hottest days of summer.

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Despite what influencers may say, you don’t need to spend $99.99 on Dyson’s HushJet Mini Cool or $149.99 for the Shark ChillPill to survive the summer whenever you leave the comfort of air-conditioning. My family has found all the comfort it needs to survive humid baseball games, sweltering concerts, and sweaty hikes with a couple of affordable handheld fans from a Chinese company called JisuLife that has spent the past decade honing its hardware.

At the start of the summer, I impulse-purchased a pair of JisuLife Life10 S fans from Costco, which at CDN $25 each (or $32.99 through Amazon), are among the most basic offerings from the company. JisuLife’s extensive lineup includes some fan models costing close to $100 with features like reverse-charging to power your phone and 100 different speed settings. I want all those features, but my goal was to not spend several hundred dollars on personal cooling devices that could easily go missing or get damaged during the chaos of summer activities.]]></description>
    <category>Finanza</category>
    <source url="https://cyber-feed.org/">The Verge</source>
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    <title><![CDATA[ BALLS on the moon: China set to launch Africa's 1st lunar science mission in 2029 ]]></title>
    <link>https://cyber-feed.org/article/48464</link>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 13:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA["If this is successful, it will ignite the reality of space on the African continent."

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China's Chang'e-8 moon lander mission scheduled for 2029 could send Africa's first space exploration mission to the lunar south pole.

Under the Africa2Moon venture, the Bounced African Low Lunar Sphere, or BALLS for short, is a technology demonstrator in which a trio of spherical probes on the lunar surface will form a radio astronomy array at the moon's south pole region. Each of the metal spheres contains low-frequency radio telescope antennas that will search for signals from some of the oldest and most distant parts of the universe.

Astronomers say the lunar far side is the most radio-quiet site in Earth's vicinity, a location perfect for "listening" to the universe without interference. The BALLS array will work together to observe low frequency radio signals from space that are not observable from the surface of the Earth, according to Carla Mitchell, mission director of the Africa2Moon initiative and Africa Program manager at the South African Radio Astronomy Observatory (SARAO). The moon is an ideal place to perform such studies, they said, as the low frequency signals to be measured are unobservable from Earth due to interference created by our planet's atmosphere.

The Africa2Moon project was selected by the Chinese National Space Administration in April 2025 as one of nearly a dozen of Chang'e-8's international payloads.

BALLS will enable observations below 20 megahertz (MHz) that are inaccessible from Earth due to ionospheric distortion and radio interference. Low-frequency radio waves (below about 50 MHz) come from some of the oldest and most distant parts of the universe.

The BALLS array will serve as pathfinder hardware for future lunar technologies and radio astronomy experiments. They will also act as a technology demonstrator for the full Africa2Moon mission, which plans for an array of 55 antennas to be deployed on the far side of the moon.

"As a little girl I thought space was not possible for people in Africa. I never thought I would be here today, presenting our lunar mission at NASA," said Mitchell.

Mitchell detailed years of team work on the BALLS initiative, rolling forward from paperwork to hardware, speaking July 22 at the NASA Exploration Science Forum 2026, held at NASA's Ames Research Center and staged by the NASA Solar System Exploration Research Virtual Institute (SSERVI).]]></description>
    <category>Spazio & Scienza</category>
    <source url="https://cyber-feed.org/">Space.com</source>
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    <title><![CDATA[A GrapheneOS Privacy Feature Just Became the Basis for a Federal Indictment]]></title>
    <link>https://cyber-feed.org/article/48448</link>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 12:56:46 GMT</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[An Atlanta resident, Samuel Tunick, is fighting a federal indictment that treats a privacy feature on his phone as evidence destruction. A grand jury charged him under 18 U.S.C. § 2232(a), a statute that covers destruction of property to block seizure by a government agent.

The root cause of all this was the deletion of a Google Pixel smartphone's contents during a border search, and the case itself sits in the Northern District of Georgia under case number 1:25-CR-499, before District Judge Eleanor L. Ross.

If Tunick is found guilty, the charge carries a fine, up to five years in prison, or both.

On January 24 last year, the CBP placed Tunick into secondary inspection at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport as he returned from a trip to the Dominican Republic, putting him through several rounds of questioning and searches.

The officers started off by searching him, checking what he was carrying, and demanding that he fork over the passcode for his phone. All of this was reportedly done under the pretext of searching for CSAM.

He also asked for a lawyer multiple times, but the officers ignored every request, never read him his Miranda rights, and kept questioning him anyway. When he pushed back, they said it was "a whole different ballgame" at the border and that they didn't need a warrant.

But, the moment it was entered, the screen flickered blank a few times before the device rebooted itself, erasing its contents in front of the same agents who'd demanded access.

The motion filed by Tunick's lawyer stresses that his association with Defend the Atlanta Forest, an AGAAVE-labeled outfit, was the actual reason federal agents moved on him, not any crime.

Earlier, a Homeland Security agent had circulated Tunick's name and photo hours before his flight landed, flagging him for suspected terrorism activity, while FBI and CBP officers coordinated to set up the search.

Despite that, the government has never presented evidence tying Tunick to an actual crime connected to the movement.]]></description>
    <category>Linux & Open Source</category>
    <source url="https://cyber-feed.org/">Its FOSS</source>
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    <title><![CDATA[Mother and boyfriend guilty of girl's murder]]></title>
    <link>https://cyber-feed.org/article/48645</link>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 12:49:20 GMT</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Isabelle Welsh was physically and sexually abused before her death, a jury heard

A mother and her new boyfriend have been found guilty of murdering her two-year-old daughter, with the man also convicted of sexually abusing the girl.

Isabelle Welsh suffered multiple injuries in the weeks before she collapsed with a fractured skull at her home in Thornaby in September 2025, Teesside Crown Court had heard.

Alexandra Walker, 25, and her partner Harrison Simpson, 22, were both found guilty of murder and child cruelty, with Simpson also convicted of sexual abuse of a child.

They will be sentenced on Thursday. Isabelle's family said she had her "whole life ahead of her" but it was "taken in the most heartbreaking way".

Prosecutors previously said the couple, who began a relationship in June 2025, were both responsible for a "wicked" campaign of sexual abuse and violence against Isabelle.

Walker and Simpson blamed each other for the girl's injuries and suffering.

Footage of Isabelle from June 2025 showed she was a "happy and healthy" child before Harrison Simpson came into her life, prosecutors said

Isabelle suffered her fatal injuries on the morning of 13 September while alone with Simpson, when Walker was upstairs in bed following a drink and drugs binge, the court heard.

Walker called 999 later that afternoon to say her daughter had collapsed at their home, with the two-year-old dying in hospital the following day.]]></description>
    <category>Cronaca</category>
    <source url="https://cyber-feed.org/">BBC UK News</source>
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    <title><![CDATA[Richard Hammond fined £999 for  speeding offences]]></title>
    <link>https://cyber-feed.org/article/48640</link>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 12:43:07 GMT</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[The TV presenter was first captured speeding on 2 December last year

Former Top Gear presenter Richard Hammond has been fined £999 after being caught speeding twice in three weeks while driving luxury cars.

The 56-year-old was captured driving his Porsche Taycan Cross Turismo at 68mph in a 50mph limit on the A40 in Pencraig, Herefordshire on 2 December.

He was later clocked driving his Bentley Continental GT at 82mph in a 70mph limit on the A50 Rudhall Overbridge, also in Herefordshire, on 22 December.

Hammond pleaded guilty to two speeding charges through his solicitor. Two further charges that he had ignored the police letters and failed to identify himself as the guilty driver were withdrawn by police.

He was also given seven penalty points for his licence at the hearing last week.

Magistrate Ann Minton ordered him to pay a total of £1,771, comprising two fines of £333 and £666, £240 in costs and victim surcharges totalling £532.

Jeremy Clarkson, James May and Richard Hammond filming the final The Grand Tour series on Amazon.

Documents from the case case show Hammond was first caught speeding by a police officer with a handheld speed camera at just before 13:00 BST on 2 December and again at about 11:45 BST on 22 December.

West Mercia Police sent speeding tickets to a Grade II listed Herefordshire castle bought by Hammond in 2012 and a £1m farm estate near Hereford, but the letters were returned marked as "addressee gone away".]]></description>
    <category>Moda & Società</category>
    <source url="https://cyber-feed.org/">BBC Entertainment & Arts</source>
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    <title><![CDATA[Logitech’s handheld plans are on ice — don’t expect a G Cloud 2 soon]]></title>
    <link>https://cyber-feed.org/article/48442</link>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 12:31:51 GMT</pubDate>
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‘80 percent bought it, tried it, and then it ended up in a drawer.’

‘80 percent bought it, tried it, and then it ended up in a drawer.’

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Logitech’s new gaming boss, Robin Piispanen, tells me he likes the idea of gaming handhelds. “It’s such a charming value proposition,” he says, as we sip iced vanilla lattes at my local cafe. But he’s not building one right now. He’s not sure when or if Logitech should try again, after its underwhelming experiment with the Logitech G Cloud streaming handheld.

“Right now, in this moment in time, there’s bigger things for us to focus on than doing a second G Cloud,” he tells me.

Personally, I feel like the G Cloud would have a better chance today. At its 2022 debut, the $350 Logitech handheld was almost completely overshadowed by the far more capable $400 Steam Deck, whose PC chip could keep on playing games without needing reliable internet. But today, the price of a Steam Deck has risen to $789. The golden age of handhelds is over, and “the new normal” can be prohibitively pricey.]]></description>
    <category>Hardware & Gadget</category>
    <source url="https://cyber-feed.org/">The Verge</source>
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    <title><![CDATA[Perplexity’s Personal Computer turns Windows PCs into AI agents]]></title>
    <link>https://cyber-feed.org/article/48444</link>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 12:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
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‘Now Microsoft users can ask Computer to work across their local files, Microsoft Office 365, and the web in one place.’

‘Now Microsoft users can ask Computer to work across their local files, Microsoft Office 365, and the web in one place.’

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Perplexity has expanded its agentic Personal Computer tool to Windows, allowing computers running the world’s most popular OS to be used as a locally run AI system. Like the Mac version that Perplexity launched in April, Personal Computer for Windows operates like a “general-purpose digital worker” that can access local files and apps to perform actions on your behalf, such as creating documents and updating spreadsheets.

This launch builds on Personal Computer integrations that Perplexity launched for Microsoft’s 365 workspace apps and Teams virtual meeting software in May. Personal Computer for Windows aims to bridge the remaining gap by operating directly inside the Windows environment, Perplexity said in its press release, noting that enterprise work the agentic tool is designed for typically occurs locally on Windows devices “out of AI’s reach.”

“Now Microsoft users can ask Computer to work across their local files, Microsoft Office 365, and the web in one place,” Perplexity said. “It’s built for the often messy way enterprise work gets done on local machines.”]]></description>
    <category>Intelligenza Artificiale</category>
    <source url="https://cyber-feed.org/">The Verge</source>
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    <title><![CDATA[Xbox Swings Into Damage Control Mode And Calls Extended Outage That Locked Players Out Of Their Games ‘Unacceptable’]]></title>
    <link>https://cyber-feed.org/article/48454</link>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 12:29:22 GMT</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[An extended Xbox outage yesterday hit every part of the service, preventing players from accessing their digital games. It was the latest bleak reminder of how little control you have over the gaming ecosystem you invest hundreds of dollars in. Microsoft has now swung into damage control mode to try to explain what happened and how it plans to improve things ahead of the full launch of Halo: Campaign Evolved today.

“Earlier today, many players began experiencing issues with sign in, enumerating their game libraries and playing games,” Xbox chief technology officer Scott Van Vliet wrote on X last night. “The team has worked hard throughout the day to fix the issue, and we’ve restored service as of 2:30 PM PDT. Nonetheless, this is an unacceptable situation, and we must do better to support you.”

Van Vliet previously worked in the cloud AI part of Microsoft and was named CTO earlier this year as part of Xbox CEO Asha Sharma’s shakeup of the gaming division’s leadership team. His unusual level of transparency about the situation on social media is part of Xbox’s new strategy to communicate more frequently and directly with fans, whether that’s about 3,200 layoffs or a gap in Xbox service.

It's an internal service at Microsoft that is shared across multiple products, not some random system. Sorry that wasn't clear, will be better about future updates.

So what exactly was the cause of the latest network outage? Van Vliet blamed a licensing service that Xbox relies on to authenticate game permissions which belongs to a different part of Microsoft. “This caused some sign-in scenarios to fail, and it caused many scenarios that require an entitlement check to also fail, such as listing out your Full Library and launching games that you own,” he explained. “It also affected several of our publishing and store partners who depend on those same systems which is why some of you saw issues in specific games and not others.”

The CTO said that his team caught signs of the issue right away and immediately started diverting traffic to parts of the system that were still working, which resulted in some players getting full service back before others. Xbox is now doing a “full post-incident review” to figure out how to avoid system failures like this in the future.

“I care less about the one-line root cause and more about the real questions: why a failure in one service was able to take down this much, why recovery took as long as it did, and what we change so a single point of failure can’t ruin your night again,” Van Vliet wrote. “That means hardening the dependencies underneath sign in and game launch, improving how we detect and contain this class of failure, and being faster and clearer with you when something breaks.”

Xbox wasn’t the only console maker to face network issues this month. Last week, a PSN outage led to similar issues on PlayStation 5. It became a fresh data point for the pitfalls of all-digital gaming among the many fans criticizing Sony over its upcoming move away from discs. The message in both instances has been pretty straightforward: you are not in control of your digital gaming ecosystem. So far, neither company has offered a plan to fix that.

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The outage prevented players from accessing their libraries or launch games]]></description>
    <category>Gaming</category>
    <source url="https://cyber-feed.org/">Kotaku</source>
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    <title><![CDATA[Apple launches ‘Upgrade’ program to lease new devices]]></title>
    <link>https://cyber-feed.org/article/48446</link>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 12:23:50 GMT</pubDate>
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After increasing hardware prices, Apple is trying to make its iPhone, Mac, iPad, and Apple Watch models easier to buy.

After increasing hardware prices, Apple is trying to make its iPhone, Mac, iPad, and Apple Watch models easier to buy.

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Apple has officially introduced “Apple Upgrade,” a new leasing program that aims to make it easier to get your hands on the latest iPhone, Mac, iPad, and Apple Watch models. The service is launching today in the US, and works like a car lease — allowing users to keep a device at the end of their subscription period, pay off the device early, or upgrade early to a new model.

This leasing program is rolling out just weeks after Apple hiked the prices of its MacBooks, iPads, and other devices in response to the ongoing memory and storage shortages. While iPhones were spared, current Apple CEO Tim Cook warned last month that “the situation has become unsustainable,” meaning the iPhone 18 series could be pricier than expected when it launches later this year.

The new Apple Upgrade program will be available both online and in physical retail stores, with Klarna serving as Apple’s financial backer. Users will need to be approved for the program via a soft credit check. 24 month-leases are available for iPhones and Apple Watches under the new program, while Mac and iPad plans will run for 36 months.]]></description>
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    <source url="https://cyber-feed.org/">The Verge</source>
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    <title><![CDATA[Best Gifts for Mom (2026): E-Readers, Digital Wall Calendar, Smart Bird Feeders]]></title>
    <link>https://cyber-feed.org/article/48391</link>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 12:04:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Moms give the best gifts, so it stands to reason that you should get the best gifts for Mom when you're shopping for her in any scenario. That includes Mother's Day, her birthday, Christmas, Hanukkah, or any other holiday in your family's life that includes gift-giving. I've made some additions for summer that are great for moms who have an upcoming birthday, or a mom you just want to treat with something nice for the warmest time of year.

If you're worried you're going to give her a disappointing gift or something she already has, fear not: I've gathered the coolest things we recommend here at WIRED that just about any mom will love. From wellness gadgets that can improve her skin, a beach bag I can't stop using, or even a device that puts her digital calendar in an IRL device, moms everywhere can get a ton out of these gifts. Many of these items I've given to my mother, or other WIRED staffers have given to theirs, or it's at the top of my list as a mother of a 4-year-old.

Updated July 2026: I've added a beach bag, sun hat, and linen-blend sheets as new gifts to this guide.

I've had this bag for a few summers now, and it's held up great. It's my go-to bag for the beach or pool, and the mesh sides make it breathable for sand and water alike. The slim straps have a ton of room to sling this bag over your shoulder or onto a wagon handle, and I haven't had any breakage even with all the towels, swimsuits, and more I stuff into it. The bottom is waterproof so it's perfect for sitting poolside, and the stylish colors make it a bag she'll love bringing. I prefer its look by a long mile to the bulky Bogg bags I spot at the pool, and it's better priced.

The must-have gadget for women of almost any age is an LED mask. These masks promise to use red light to erase wrinkles, brighten your skin, and keep acne at bay. I haven't seen much change in my wrinkles in my year-plus of regularly using a red light mask, but I can confirm it makes my skin brighter and calms down acne and scars much faster when I'm regularly treating my skin. HigherDose is a favorite mask of mine because the three-strap design lets it hang on my head rather than squeeze it, making it one of the most comfortable masks I've worn.

My other favorite LED tool actually sits on my head and also comes from HigherDose. The brand's Red Light Hat treats your head with red light to rejuvenate your scalp and hair follicles for better hair growth, and as someone with a sensitive scalp and a hair-pulling problem, using this cap regularly genuinely improved my scalp and hair. It's the healthiest it's ever been, and my scalp is the least itchy, too. I love that this hat also has a battery pack, so I can comfortably wear it anywhere while I treat my head.

I have managed to get two different scalp burns this summer, and I am seriously over it. My 4-year-old has me going everywhere from the beach to the pool to the county fair already this summer, and even sunscreen made for spraying into the crevices of my hair hasn't kept me safe. Enter: this Solbari wide-brim hat. It's soft and flexible, so it's easy to fold up and store in a beach bag or stroller, and the cotton-linen design keeps it pretty breathable, though you'll want to reverse it onto the white side for hotter days. It promises UPF 50+​ to protect your head, and the 4-inch brim helps keep my neck safe, too. It's cute while still giving plenty of coverage, and a great pick for any mom who is going to be dragged into the sun all summer long.

My latest favorite family planning gadget is a digital wall calendar. These handy devices take the Google Calendar I live by (and just about any other digital calendar, if your mom isn't a Google girl) and put it on a physical device I can quickly tap into without needing to grab my phone or bark at Alexa. The Skylight Calendar 2 is my favorite, because it not only includes to-do lists, meal planning, and a recipe book but also doubles as a digital photo frame. That means it displays ]]></description>
    <category>Moda & Società</category>
    <source url="https://cyber-feed.org/">Wired US/UK</source>
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    <title><![CDATA[Smart rings are looking like my kind of AI gadget]]></title>
    <link>https://cyber-feed.org/article/48447</link>
    <guid>https://cyber-feed.org/article/48447</guid>
    <pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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While everyone tries to make smart glasses, pins, and everything else happen, the most subtle device might be the best device.

While everyone tries to make smart glasses, pins, and everything else happen, the most subtle device might be the best device.

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Over the last few months, I’ve spent a lot of time talking to my computer. One underrated feature of the LLM revolution has been a remarkable leap in all kinds of dictation technology — even the fastest, cheapest models are getting very good at understanding and processing speech. I’ve tested lots of these apps, from WisprFlow to Monologue to Spokenly to Handy to so many others, and have found them all to be useful ways to quickly write emails, Slack messages, and more. They sometimes default to giving everything a too-formal style of formatting and love ending a text message with a period (like a sociopath), but they’re getting better at that too.

But nothing has convinced me of the future of talking to my computer quite like a demo I got recently from Mina Fahmi. Fahmi is the CEO of Sandbar, which is making a smart ring called the Stream that is scheduled to ship later this year. As I sat in a conference room in Sandbar’s New York City offices, Fahmi gave me a rundown of the device’s features, including the latest one: dictation to all your devices. He opened up a new note in Apple Notes, held the ring up to his mouth, pressed the device’s touchpad with his thumb, and chatted quietly to himself for a few seconds. A moment after he finished, two complete — and correctly transcribed — sentences appeared in the note.

The Stream itself is basically just a microphone, a battery, and a Bluetooth connection to your phone. You could describe a lot of AI gadgets the same way, now that seemingly everyone wants to sell you a way to record your conversations and meetings to extract summaries and action items. Companies like Plaud and Pocket and FoCase and Mobvoi and so many others are all happy to sell you these portable recorders — bonus points if it sticks to your phone to record phone calls.]]></description>
    <category>Intelligenza Artificiale</category>
    <source url="https://cyber-feed.org/">The Verge</source>
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    <title><![CDATA[ Betelgeuse, Betelgeuse! Astronomers capture clearest image yet of famous star's elusive companion ]]></title>
    <link>https://cyber-feed.org/article/48467</link>
    <guid>https://cyber-feed.org/article/48467</guid>
    <pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA["These are among the best moments in science: seeing something new, unexpected."

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Astronomers have used the Very Large Telescope (VLT) in the Atacama Desert region of Northern Chile to discover the strongest evidence yet that the famous star Betelgeuse has a companion star. That means after a century of investigation, scientists are closer than ever before to conclusively identifying Betelgeuse as a binary system composed of two stars, Betelgeuse A and Betelgeuse B.

Betelgeuse is a red colored star visible with the naked eye in the constellation of Orion and located around 650 light-years from Earth. Astronomers initially proposed the existence of another star orbiting Betelgeuse around 100 years ago in an attempt to explain the familiar star's strange dimming, which has been observed for over 1,000 years. While other teams have gathered evidence of the existence of Betelgeuse B, this new image is the clearest ever direct observation of the star. The scientists behind the discovery are thrilled.

"This is the conclusion of a century-long quest," team leader Miguel Montargès of the Observatoire de Paris, France, said in a statement. "We have shown that Betelgeuse is not single; it is accompanied by a faint stellar companion. I jumped from my chair when I saw the processed images."

The discovery of this new evidence of Betelgeuse B follows two papers published in 2024 that suggested this elusive stellar companion would be at its furthest from Betelgeuse A in December of that year. With that clue in hand, Montargès and colleagues set about hunting it.

"Honestly, I thought we did not have the sensitivity to detect Betelgeuse B as it was predicted," Montargès said. "Because it is more massive than predicted, we see it!"

Betelgeuse B had previously been theorized to be around the same mass as the sun, but these new observations reveal that this elusive star has instead around two to three times the mass of our star.

"The fact that we can still discover a nearby companion, more massive and brighter than the sun, around such a well-studied star is remarkable," Montargès added. "These are among the best moments in science: seeing something new, unexpected."

Capturing Betelegeuse B was only possible thanks to the VLT's SPHERE instrument, which features a coronagraph that blocks out the light of a planetary system's star. Combined with the advanced optics on the instrument, this allows scientists to measure the wavelength and polarity of light both coming directly from the star and being reflected off of any nearby planets. But that's not all SPHERE can do. "It is remarkable to see how SPHERE and advanced post-processing techniques, originally developed to find exoplanets, also excel at detecting a companion around a massive, evolved star like Betelgeuse," team member Anthony Boccaletti, also an astronomer at the Observatoire de Paris, said.]]></description>
    <category>Spazio & Scienza</category>
    <source url="https://cyber-feed.org/">Space.com</source>
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    <title><![CDATA[GP walk-in clinics see low attendance leading to accusations of failure]]></title>
    <link>https://cyber-feed.org/article/48647</link>
    <guid>https://cyber-feed.org/article/48647</guid>
    <pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 11:52:45 GMT</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Walk-in centres were introduced in Scotland to ease pressures on the existing GP service

A series of walk-in GP clinics which the Scottish government said would end the "8am rush" for appointments have seen low attendance rates, first figures show.

Public Health Scotland data, external records that just over 2,000 patients were seen across six centres last month.

GP leaders in Scotland, who previously argued that money would be better spent on core services, urged ministers to accept the scheme was failing.

Health Secretary Angela Constance said she was encouraged by the "developments we have made thus far", stressing that the pilot programme was still "in the early stages".

The Scottish government plans  to establish 30 walk-in clinics to ease pressures on GP surgeries.

Announcing the plans at the SNP conference last October, First Minister John Swinney said they would eventually deliver "over one million additional GP and nurse appointments" per year.

At the end of June nine centres were open, of which six had been operational for the full month of June and able to provide data on attendance levels.

In total just under 7,000 patients had been seen between the opening of the first centre on 10 February 2026 and the end of June 2026.

The figures show the Edinburgh walk-in clinic in Wester Hailes was the busiest in June seeing almost 850 patients - around 28 patients each day, followed by Stranraer with just over 730, and Lerwick with just over 220.]]></description>
    <category>Cronaca</category>
    <source url="https://cyber-feed.org/">BBC UK News</source>
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    <title><![CDATA[ Consumer electronics companies were already worried about securing memory next year—now, supply is predicted to plummet by 70% ]]></title>
    <link>https://cyber-feed.org/article/48451</link>
    <guid>https://cyber-feed.org/article/48451</guid>
    <pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 11:51:26 GMT</pubDate>
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If you've been keeping up to date with news of the raging memory supply crisis, then I don't need to tell you how the AI industry's seemingly bottomless hunger for both system storage and RAM has significantly raised prices. Well, it turns out it can get worse than runaway costs, as manufacturers are even more concerned about securing supply, period.

Apacer CEO C.K. Chang recently warned that memory shortages are expected to remain severe throughout 2026. He recently explained that securing supply is a bigger operational risk to Apacer now than paying high costs, as he expects memory manufacturers will release about 30% of their 2026 supply volume in 2027 (via DigiTimes).

Chang clarified that next year's limited supply won't be due to a fundamental shift in the market's structure. Still, in order to guard against such a shortfall, Apacer will attempt to secure as much inventory as it possibly can now. At the end of the 2026's first half, Apacer already held about $383 million worth of inventory.

Many other consumer electronics companies are already thinking along similar lines, securing multi-year supply contracts and further ensuring the memory shortage won't ease in the near term. In such a challenging supply landscape, the Phison CEO's prediction that many consumer electronics manufacturers 'will go bankrupt or exit product lines' by the end of this year seems increasingly likely to come to pass.

We already knew DRAM was especially hard hit by the supply crisis, but according to DigiTimes, it's estimated that about 60% of all DRAM capacity is now geared towards server-related applications, IE data centres. Chang observes that DDR5 RDIMM server modules in particular have seen the most significant price increases—and will likely continue to spike.

A potential silver lining is that the rate of price increases from memory suppliers is predicted to slow as actual supply dwindles. I say 'potential' because it may look a little silver if you tilt your head and squint. But anyway, what does that mean for us PC gamers?

Uh, not good news, I'm afraid. RAM and system storage won't just continue to be pricey; it may also become tougher to find. Some regular folks may be willing to pay higher prices for consumer memory (you can take a peek for yourself at some of the best SSD deals right here), but demand from the sector overall is considered 'weak' right now. Unfortunately, the AI industry and other enterprise customers seem only too happy to pick up the slack.

Keep up to date with the most important stories and the best deals, as picked by the PC Gamer team.

4. Best gaming keyboard: Asus ROG Strix Scope II 96 Wireless]]></description>
    <category>Gaming</category>
    <source url="https://cyber-feed.org/">PC Gamer</source>
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    <title><![CDATA['A lover of life' - Seattle pays tribute to food festival shooting victims ]]></title>
    <link>https://cyber-feed.org/article/48604</link>
    <guid>https://cyber-feed.org/article/48604</guid>
    <pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 11:50:59 GMT</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Ashley Whitehead (left) and Carlos Israel Sanchez Villalba (right)

Much of the city of Seattle was in mourning on Monday as residents paid tribute to the three lives that were lost during a deadly street gunfight that had erupted the day before.

The city's mayor and police chief were among dozens gathered at a local fountain for a candlelight vigil, while online fundraisers for two of the victims received tens-of-thousands of dollars in donations.

The three people who died on Sunday at the annual Bite of Seattle food festival were Junior Cee Niko Semo, 19, Carlos Israel Sanchez Villalba, 44, and Ashley Whitehead, 56.

A GoFundMe for Villalba described him as "a devoted husband, loving father of three, and a loyal friend who would do anything for anyone".

"His kindness and generosity touched countless lives, and everyone who knew him remembers his gentle spirit and willingness to help others," the write-up said.

"His sudden passing has left his family heartbroken and facing an uncertain future."

The family has said the funds will go towards funeral expenses and help fill the void in his absence. He leaves behind a wife and three children.

Family members of Ashley Whitehead said she was standing in line with her daughter, waiting for cotton candy, as gunshots rang out and ended her life.

She died in hospital during surgery, after exchanging "heartfelt 'I love you's with her eldest daughter", her family said in the GoFundMe page launched after her death.]]></description>
    <category>Mondo</category>
    <source url="https://cyber-feed.org/">BBC World News</source>
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