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Kimi K3 License is MIT-like, but a $20M Model-as-a-Service clause applies

Moonshot's Kimi K3 License reads like MIT but requires a separate Moonshot deal for Model-as-a-Service operators above $20M and UI attribution above…

Visa Cuts 2,600 Jobs, 7% of Staff, on Tech and Product Teams

Visa will cut about 2,600 jobs, or 7% of its workforce, on its technology and product teams, Bloomberg reported the same day the payments giant…

Fridtjof Nansen: The Polar Explorer Who Invented the Refugee Passport

He deliberately sailed a ship into the Arctic ice to drift toward the pole, reached a record farthest north and then turned back, and spent his last…

Hearst Cut His Paper to a Penny and Stole Pulitzer's Staff. The Advertiser Was Always the Customer.

A newspaper's cover price barely covered the paper and ink; the money was advertising, and advertising paid by the reader. Hearst cut the price,…

Tangshan's 1976 Quake Killed 242,000. One County Lost Nobody.

On July 28, 1976, a magnitude 7.8 earthquake leveled the Chinese coal-mining city of Tangshan in about 15 seconds while a million people slept,…

The first live-action Junji Ito series hits Netflix today

A 10-episode Taiwanese horror series built from Junji Ito's manga leads a Tuesday drop that also brings Mary Beth Barone's first Netflix special and…

Five WNBA Games Tonight as the Season Resumes: Clark and the Fever on ESPN

Five games out of the All-Star break: Caitlin Clark and the East-leading Fever on ESPN in Seattle, Napheesa Collier's Target Center debut for the…

WNBA Tonight · 3h ago
Nakase: The Valkyries' League-Best Defense Can Still Be 'a Lot Better'

The coach says game-plan mistakes are still "carrying over" out of the All-Star break, the Aug. 2 deadline is five days out, and the second half…

Halo Campaign Evolved is live on Game Pass today, PS Plus adds Citizen Sleeper 2

Halo's Unreal Engine 5 remake (Metacritic 82) is now free with Game Pass Ultimate and PC Game Pass, PS Plus Extra lands Citizen Sleeper 2 (OpenCritic…

Ford recalls 80,000 Explorers and Aviators over driver seats that recline on their own

A NHTSA filing Ford submitted on July 21 and that surfaced in coverage Tuesday covers 79,579 new 2026-2027 SUVs whose driver seat can fully recline…

Recalls Today · 5h ago
Anju, Mission: A Japanese-Korean Spot From the Chef Behind Ganji and Nara

One SF/Bay Area opening a day, chosen and checked. Today: the Mission's turn, as the chef who cooked for the Korean army before moving here in 2001…

Birthdays Today: July 28

Sixty-four living people we could verify share today's birthday, from England captain Harry Kane, turning 33, and Garfield creator Jim Davis, turning…

Birthdays Today · 6h ago
Capital One Mobile jumped from #48 to #1 on Apple's US free apps chart

The 15-year-old banking app's overnight vault ended Netflix Game Controller's two-day reign with no product launch, outage, or breach disclosure to…

JFK and LaGuardia's delay programs are cancelled as cancellations gut demand, while DC joins the delay list and the afternoon storm risk shifts south

The noon update: the FAA cancelled JFK and LaGuardia's ground delay programs because nearly 800 New York-area cancellations already cut inbound…

iOS 26.6 Shipped With 87 Security Fixes, Including Kernel and Root Bugs

Apple's final iOS 26 point release landed Monday with a far bigger security payload than its one-line release notes hinted: 78 fixes covering 87…

PG&E's Climate Credit Moves to Summer: $72 Off Your August and September Bills

A flat $36.18 lands on each residential electric account in August and again in September ($72.36 total) after the CPUC's April 30 decision shifted…

A Moroccan Chicken M'qualli Gets Its Deep Gold From Saffron and Turmeric, Not Olive Oil. A 49-Gram-Protein Tagine for Tonight.

A 30-minute Moroccan plate that takes the yellow braise Marrakech medina cooks build in a conical clay tagine and rebuilds it lean: boneless skinless…

Kalshi traded $111 billion in six months. Its regulator has one commissioner.

A House hearing exposed a one-commissioner CFTC stretched across a booming prediction-market business, the same surveillance that would have to catch…

Survivor Weekly · 1d ago
NBA top 100: LeBron James to 76ers on minimum deal, list moves at No. 37

LeBron James ends a three-week wait by signing a two-year, $8 million minimum with Philadelphia. The list moves at No. 37, with no rank change…

NBA Top 100 · 3d ago

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