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Lionel Messi returns to Inter Miami after Argentina’s World Cup final defeat by Spain, which led to retirement rumours.Published On 30 Jul 202630 Jul 2026Football superstar Lionel Messi ‌has returned to practice for Inter Miami, 10 ⁠days after Argentina’s World Cup run ended with a 1-0 extra-time loss to Spain in ⁠the final earlier this month.The two-time defending MLS MVP missed Miami’s first two matches after ⁠the World Cup break against Chicago and Montreal, both of which the team still won, extending its winning streak to six matches.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of listThe 39-year-old also chose not to…

According to the French insurance lobby France Assureurs, home insurance premiums already increased by 7.8 percent in 2025, while the climate disaster premium — which doesn’t cover wildfires — rose by 66 percent.    For now, most French residents can still easily obtain home insurance anywhere in mainland France, according to the public reinsurer. But it is seeing early signs of strain in a few cities, where insurance is becoming harder to obtain, or increasingly unaffordable. Bit by bit, such trends push the cost of insurance beyond what businesses or households can afford, leading to an ever-wider ‘protection gap’. Around half of global economic losses from natural disasters were uninsured last year, according to insurance giant…

In his final hours in the Oval Office, former President Joseph R. Biden Jr. issued Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, then the country’s top infectious disease expert, a pre-emptive pardon to shield him from what he expected would be retribution from President Trump and his allies.But the pardon only covers what transpired before it was issued on Jan. 20, 2025. And as Senate Republicans grilled Dr. Fauci on Wednesday about his management of the Covid-19 pandemic response, the risk that Republicans accusing him of making a misrepresentation to Congress could drag the retired 85-year-old immunologist into fresh legal battles appeared too…

Voting has begun in the biggest byelection in British political history, with more than 2 million people eligible to choose Andy Burnham’s successor as Greater Manchester mayor.In normal times, such a large and politically significant byelection would have dominated the headlines for weeks, particularly as senior Labour figures only weeks ago feared losing the prize mayoralty to Nigel Farage’s Reform UK.But now Labour’s Bev Craig is expected to win comfortably in a contest that has been largely overshadowed by Burnham’s rapid ascent to prime minister.Labour has benefited from a Burnham bounce in the polls and Reform UK’s focus has shifted…

Over the last few years, CD Projekt Red put a ton of work into fixing Cyberpunk 2077, squashing bugs, polishing content, and even launching new DLC in 2023, Phantom Liberty. As a result, this game has gone from a source for funny, glitch-fueled videos to a world I’ve returned to a number of times to live out my futuristic fantasies. A big discount happening across almost all platforms makes it a lot more accessible.Usually $59.99 for the standard edition, the game is priced at $17.99 at Steam. Its Ultimate Edition, which includes the Phantom Liberty DLC (usually $29.99 on its…

Moonshot AI has open-sourced MoonEP, an Expert Parallelism (EP) communication library for distributed Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) workloads. The team announced the release as a library built to make expert-parallel communication more efficient at scale. It ships under an MIT license. MoonEP arrived as part of Kimi K3 Open Day. Alongside the K3 model weights and technical report, Moonshot released three infrastructure codebases: MoonEP, FlashKDA, and AgentEnv. FlashKDA had already been open-sourced; MoonEP and AgentEnv were published with this release. MoonEP is one of the innovations behind a claimed 2.5× improvement in scaling efficiency for Kimi K3, a 2.8-trillion-parameter MoE model with…

Watch an agent work through a task, and you’ll see the future of enterprise security. Watch Claude work through a long task some time. It can spend 4 minutes trying to read a CSV that turned out to be a folder, give up, write a script to list its contents, and then get there. It works. Just never the way you sketched it in your head. That is guessing at scale, and it is not a flaw. It’s how LLMs work and why they’re so effective. Agents reason probabilistically, choosing the next best action, observing the result, and adapting. That…

Crypto investment firm Digital Currency Group is the latest big name to throw its weight behind the Clarity Act.  In a statement posted Wednesday, the conglomerate said that the current draft of the long-awaited bill “offers exactly the kind of certainty our industry needs to grow and thrive responsibly.” A number of lawmakers are hoping the Clarity Act — which would set in stone crypto regulation in the U.S. — gets passed before Congress departs for August recess. While the bill has been drafted bipartisanly, some Democrats are unhappy with the current version.  “The bill is the product of serious…

Earth’s hidden “gold kitchen” may be operating far beneath the ocean floor. Island arcs, chains of volcanoes that develop above subduction zones where one oceanic plate descends beneath another, are often unusually rich in gold. Scientists have debated for years why these regions become so enriched. New research led by Dr. Christian Timm, a marine geologist at GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, offers a deeper explanation. “Our research shows that hydrous mantle melting beneath island arcs is a key driver of gold enrichment,” says Timm. “In these settings, the mantle behaves like a multi-stage melting system that progressively…

As artificial intelligence increasingly becomes a part of ecological monitoring, a growing body of research suggests integrating Indigenous ecological knowledge (IEK) into ethical frameworks for AI governance to prioritize environmental reports contributor Shradha Triveni for Mongabay. Researchers in a recent study published in the journal AI and Ethics examined how the Navajo philosophy of Hózhó, meaning balance and harmony, and the Māori concept of Kaitiakitanga or guardianship, could reshape AI development. They argue that these Indigenous values emphasize collective responsibility and reciprocity, offering a basis for questioning the environmental costs of large-scale AI models. AI tools are already…