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• The Maldives is cosying up to China
• Climate talks at last lead to a deal on cutting fossil-fuel use
• Today's NYT Connections Hint for Aug. 8, #424 Is to Make a Splash
• The economics of the tennis v pickleball contest
• Can Big Oil run in reverse?
• G42, an Emirati AI hopeful, has big plans
• The science that built the AI revolution
• Phil Wizard, Champion Breaker and Olympic Contender, Isn't Convinced 'Breakdancing' Is a Sport
• A new archive preserves the creative legacy of the East Village
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• Loretta Lynn gave all struggling women a voice
• A Marriage That Changed Literary History
• Which countries would be most affected by a second Trump term?
• David Bowie delved into his own past on "Toy"
• UK opens antitrust investigation into Amazon over its ties to AI startup Anthropic
• Best TV Sales: Save More Than $1,000 on Top OLED and 4K TVs
• The 2023 crony-capitalism index
• Was the Bank of England right to start lowering interest rates?
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Lessons in risk-taking from buccaneering BBVA
• Israel's use of AI in Gaza is coming under closer scrutiny
• Step inside The Economist's summer issue
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• How Post Malone Went Country (Carefully, With a Beer in His Hand)
• OpenAI Warns Users Could Become Emotionally Hooked on Its Voice Mode
• UFOs are going mainstream
• Alexei Navalny didn't just defy Putin—he showed up his depravity
• The National Basketball Association is making a big bet on Africa
• The Disney+ password-sharing crackdown starts 'in earnest' in September
• The Philippines bans some genetically modified foods
• Can Alibaba get the magic back?
• Personal Data Collection: The Complete WIRED Guide
• New York's flood warning drones screamed at residents in 'incomprehensible' Spanish
• YIMBY cities show how to build homes and contain rents
• McDonald's v Burger King: what a price war means for inflation
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• How Taiwan still hangs on to property in bits of China
• Will artificial intelligence transform school?
• LVMH is splurging on the Olympics
• Arturia AudioFuse 16Rig Audio Interface Review: So Many Inputs
• What I Learned at the Police Academy
• How to harvest moisture from the atmosphere
• Cool Down With a Hint for Today's NYT Strands Puzzle for Aug. 8, #158
• India's financial system has improved dramatically in the past decade
• Iran's new hope: a cardiologist president
• Gary Gensler is the most controversial man in American finance
• As payments systems go digital, they are changing global finance
• Xi Jinping's paranoia is making China isolated and insular
• Why Japanese stocks are on a rollercoaster ride
• The army-backed establishment in Thailand goes after its enemies
• Can GPT-4o Be Trusted With Your Private Data?
• OpenAI Warns Users Could Become Emotionally Hooked on Its Voice Mode
• BMO Alto: 2024 Banking Review
• Arcane second season has leaked online, so watch out for spoilers
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• The demise of an iconic American highway
• A shock election result in France puts the left in the lead
• Elon Musk's X Is Leaving San Francisco
• 'Cash is king': Why Glencore kept faith with coal
• The clues in Kamala Harris's championing of reproductive rights
• South Korean voters—and spring onions—rebuke the president
• New Orleans Catholic priest accused of raping teen in 1975 gets trial date
• Britain's general election was its least representative ever
• ROPDump - A Command-Line Tool Designed To Analyze Binary Executables For Potential Return-Oriented Programming (ROP) Gadgets, Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities, And Memory Leaks
• Mary Quant launched the clothes that made the Sixties swing
• Why do penguins struggle with modernist architecture?
• Why is Thai health care so good?
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• How men with guns aggravate global hunger
• Google wants a piece of Microsoft's cyber-security business
• The death of Pope Benedict removes a problem for liberal Catholics
• Vienna's social housing, lauded by progressives, pushes out the poor
• Unexpectedly, the cost of big cyber-attacks is falling
• Singapore has achieved astounding economic success
• A battle rages for a key city in Sudan's ravaged western region
• The Olympics are teaching the French to cheer again
• 'Sprinkled with stardust': Stoke-on-Trent's mythic UFO landing comes to the stage
• Somaliland's camel herders are milking it
• Footballer, broadcaster, podcast mogul: the career of Gary Lineker
• China is talking to Taiwan's next leader, just not directly
• Is artificial intelligence making big tech too big?
• The 40 Best Shows on Max (aka HBO Max) Right Now (August 2024)
• Stop X's Grok AI From Training on Your Tweets
• Nvidia is now the world's most valuable company
• Why are Arab armed forces so ineffective?
• What unites a Spice Girl, an opera star and champagne?
• Will El Mayo's arrest slow the spread of fentanyl?
• Chile's crisis is not over yet
• Cannabis Needs Rethinking As a Strategy in the Overdose Crisis
• NATO's boss wants to free Ukraine to strike hard inside Russia
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• GPT, Claude, Llama? How to tell which AI model is best
• Google's Antitrust Loss Set to Reshape Search and Mobile Industries
• Manchester United injuries leave Ten Hag with Community Shield dilemma
• What to make of China's massive cyber-espionage campaign
• Donors are already mulling a Marshall Plan for Ukraine
• Snag This Sleek Minimalist Groove Life Wallet for a Record Low Price of $63
• American politicians are the oldest in the rich world
• US defence tech start-up Anduril raises $1.5bn at $14bn valuation
• The unsteady comeback of the California condor
• Ridley Scott Helped Shape Alien: Romulus—But at a Careful Distance
• Why Kamala Harris picked Tim Walz as her running-mate
• Iranians fear their brittle regime will drag them into war
• The irrelevance of Mercosur
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• AI Startup Glean Nears Fundraise Valuing it at $4.5 Billion
• America recreates a warfighting command in Japan
• Terry Anderson was held by Islamic militants for 2,454 days
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• Meet a leading Trump vice-presidential contender
• What would get China's consumers spending?
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Fujifilm X-T50 review: A big improvement (for a lot more money)
• Zoom Is Going After Google and Microsoft With AI-Driven Docs
• The Republicans who still haven't endorsed Donald Trump
• Why America is a "flawed democracy"
• The race to become leader of Britain's Conservatives
• How many Russian soldiers have been killed in Ukraine?
• Keir Starmer wants to reset relations between Britain and Europe
• Two of our favorite Ooni pizza ovens are deeply discounted right now
• In a Surprise, Ukraine Advances on Russian Region of Kursk
• What China means when it says "peace"
• Elon Musk's Plan for Monster Rocket Rattles Florida's Space Coast
• What do Joe Biden and the boss of Starbucks have in common?
• Alaska capital takes stock after worst flooding yet caused by retreating glacier
• The Tech World's Greatest Living Novelist, Robin Sloan, Goes Meta
• Xi Jinping's surprising new source of economic advice
• Why 2024 could become the hottest year on record
• Scientists can help fetuses by growing tiny replicas of their organs
• The Dutch are getting a half-populist, half-pragmatist government
• The biggest obstacle to saving rainforests is lawlessness
• A New Plan to Break the Cycle of Destructive Critical Infrastructure Hacks
• Meet Gabriel Attal, France's young prime minister
• The obesity capitals of the world
• China is trying to boost domestic tourism
• Elon Musk is feuding with Brazil's powerful Supreme Court
• The meaning of Donald Trump's Supreme Court victory
• Spotify and Epic Games call Apple's revised DMA compliance plan 'confusing,' 'illegal' and 'unacceptable'
• How a tide of tech money is transforming charity
• The Israeli army is caught in a doom loop in Gaza
• Ángeles Flórez Peón, "Maricuela", made sure Spain did not forget its history
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• Climate change is slowing Earth's rotation
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• European millionaires seek a safe harbour from populism
• Highlights of a year when art mattered as much as ever
• Argentina's football clubs are resisting privatisation
• Is America approaching peak tip?
• Archer to set up air taxi network in LA by 2026 ahead of World Cup
• 'Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles': How to Watch Every Episode of the New Animated Series From Anywhere
• Six charts help to explain 2024's freakish temperatures
• Lai Ching-te aims to strengthen Taiwan but maintain the status quo
• Covid-19 has imperilled the hammams of north Africa and the Levant
• Bird Deaths From Window Strikes Are Way Higher Than We Ever Imagined
• Rohingya are being forced to fight in Myanmar's civil war
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Nicolás Maduro's sham election: the sequel
• Bindeshwar Pathak realised that India's future depended on toilets
• Sung Tieu unpacks "Havana syndrome" in her latest work
• The cost of the global arms race
• Tech bros love J.D. Vance. Many CEOs are scared stiff
• How 'World of Warcraft' Devs Launched One of the Biggest Unions in Video Games
• Why recorded music will never feel as good as the real thing
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• Rumours of the trade deal's death are greatly exaggerated
• Trump and other populists will haunt NATO's 75th birthday party
• 'It shouldn't be a bucket list place': these people went to Antarctica. They hope you don't
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• The Atlantic publica una traducción al español del número especial "Si Trump gana"
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• Why fear is sweeping markets everywhere
• How Saudi Aramco plans to win the oil endgame
• Amid the bombs, Ukrainians rediscover the beach
• Proton Pass now supports Touch ID and Windows Hello biometric logins
• Trumponomics would not be as bad as most expect
• Thunderstorms Have Caused $45 Billion in Damages in the U.S. in Just Six Months
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• What separates Tony Blair's Labour from the party today?
• These charts show how Britain's Tory party lost its way
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• 'We don't want to live in a prison': grief and anger in a West Bank refugee camp
• Clues to a possible cure for AIDS
• Joe Biden leaked Israel's first plan to end the war in Gaza
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• Akebono was the first foreign-born grand champion of sumo
• Can Lula fix Brazil's fiscal mess?
• Will IVF really be the next frontier in America's culture wars?
• Death and destruction in a Russian city
• At least 10% of research may already be co-authored by AI
• Earthquake strikes off Japan's coast and triggers tsunami warning
• Meet the victors in Africa's coup belt
• Chinese EV-makers are leaving Western rivals in the dust
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• Hunter Biden and the Romanian Deal
• What Defines Artificial Intelligence? The Complete WIRED Guide
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Western armies are learning a lot from the war in Ukraine
• How the Chinese state aims to calm the property market
• Ukraine justifies Kursk attack in first acknowledgment of incursion into Russia
• Stocks Claw Back Losses After Global Selloff
• A reformer wanting a nuclear deal with America wins Iran's election
• The woes of Hargreaves Lansdown, Britain's DIY-investing titan
• What Is Net Neutrality? The Complete WIRED Guide
• Introducing El Boletín, our new weekly newsletter on Latin America
• The Economist's agony uncle returns
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• The EV trade war between China and the West heats up
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• India must make much deeper changes if it is to sustain its growth
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• KAL's cartoon
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• A reform that could turbocharge the Chinese economy
• How much do Palestinians pay to get out of Gaza?
• Global firms are tapping India's workers like never before
• Astronomers have found a cave on the moon
• Antarctica, Earth's largest refrigerator, is defrosting
• Taiwan wants to prove that it is serious about defence
• Visiting Europe, Xi Jinping brings up an old grievance
• A Flaw in Windows Update Opens the Door to Zombie Exploits
• Labour's growth ambitions demand more radicalism on planning
• Lula's gaffes are dulling Brazil's G20 shine
• The deal that freed Evan Gershkovich was more than a prisoner swap
• A peace conference over Ukraine is unlikely to silence the guns
• Blighty newsletter: Keir Starmer wants to fill the Boris Johnson-shaped void
• Boom times are back for container shipping
• Why most battery-makers struggle to make money
• A posthumous novel from John le Carré
• Gordon Moore's law was the spur that drove the digital revolution
• Nicaragua's dictator goes after Miss Universe
• Songs, pandas and praise for Xi: how China courts young Taiwanese
• A new biography explains the genius of John von Neumann
• America's banks are more exposed to a downturn than they appear
• The 49 Best Movies on Netflix Right Now (August 2024)
• What Javier Milei could learn from Peru's economic successes
• Ukraine's desperate draft-dodgers drown in the river of death
• Do children in England talk too little?
• Kamala Harris: Mystery Commander in Chief
• J.D. Vance, an honorary Frenchman, sends Europe into panic mode
• Two new books assess the geopolitical lessons of covid-19
• Home Security Giant ADT Admits It Has Been Hacked
• The number of American students in China is going up again
• The best television shows of 2021
• This week's covers
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• A Hot New Bombshell Is Taking Over Reality TV
• Can Home Depot's "amazing era" return?
• When party propaganda falls flat
• The economic recklessness of both France's hard left and hard right
• Science is Solving Iceland's Dangerous Volcanic Mystery
• Plunging fertility rates are creating problems for Latin America
• Why caste still matters in Indian politics
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• The military dictatorship controls less than 50% of Myanmar
• Kamala Harris leads Donald Trump in our nationwide poll tracker
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• The Purple Track at the 2024 Summer Olympic Games Has a Secret Ingredient
• Why Central Americans migrate to the United States when they do
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• After a deadlocked election, can anyone govern France?
• Momentum against Joe Biden is mounting again
• How Chinese networks clean dirty money on a vast scale
• Russian exiles are making a mark in the Caucasus and Central Asia
• Trump Suggests that President Should Have a 'Say' in Interest Rates
• One of the Middle East's oldest conflicts has entered a new era
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• How Infostealers Pillaged the World's Passwords
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• Thousands of American pensioners are retiring on college campuses
• Finland's shrinking high schools are importing pupils from abroad
• The ACLU Fights for Your Constitutional Right to Make Deepfakes
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• KAL's cartoon
• Jack Black says Tenacious D will return after Trump joke controversy
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• India cannot fix its problems if it pretends they do not exist
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• Are Ukraine's tactics working?
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• The Germany-shaped void at Europe's heart
• Israel bombs the Hamas military mastermind behind the October 7th attack
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• Israel's allies condemn far-right minister's Gaza starvation remarks
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• Shirley Conran wrote a bonkbuster to teach schoolgirls about sex
• Apple makes further App Store changes in bid to avoid EU fines
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• The WIRED Guide to Commercial Human Space Flight
• Vladimir Putin is dragging the world back to a bloodier time
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• Imperial borders still shape politics in Poland
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• Female employee's appeal against Christian Horner verdict dismissed
• China and America trade blame for a world on fire
• The forgotten importance of the War of Jenkins' Ear
• How should Britain handle £200bn in quantitative-easing losses?
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• Nasdaq to Tighten Listing Rules for Penny Stocks
• Elon Musk's X Sues Advertisers Over Alleged Boycott
• Physicists are reimagining dark matter
• US Hands Over Russian Cybercriminals in WSJ Reporter Prisoner Swap
• Today's AI models are impressive. Teams of them will be formidable
• It is getting easier for new entrants to make cars
• The Economist's final prediction points to a Tory wipeout in Britain
• The cautionary tale of Huy Fong's hot sauce
• What German business makes of France's leftward turn
• X Is Boosting the Far Right's UK Riots as Telegram Scrambles for Control
• What happened to the artificial-intelligence revolution?
• Business
• Changes to China's gaokao exam are about politics, not fairness
• Why robots should take more inspiration from plants
• The division of Cyprus looks indefinite
• Wild boar hybrids are raising hell on the Canadian prairies
• The People's Liberation Army is not yet as formidable as the West fears
• Acknowledgments
• Two books assess the fight against global corruption
• Can Ecuador free itself from the grasp of the drug lords?
• A powerful Irish film about the Great Famine reaches British cinemas
• Hamas's pick of Yahya Sinwar as leader makes a ceasefire less likely
• Israel and the Houthis trade bombs and bluster
• Inside Out 2 Is Ready to Come Home After Its Record-Breaking Box Office
• Should rich countries pay for climate damage in poor ones?
• The Chinese scientist who sequenced covid is barred from his lab
• The president of Somaliland is bargaining for recognition
• How Soon Might the Atlantic Ocean Break? Two Sibling Scientists Found an Answer—and Shook the World
• Is America's economy heading for a consumer crunch?
• Zillow Promotes Operating Chief Jeremy Wacksman to Chief Executive Role
• The end of cricket's Indian monopoly
• 3 Columbia University Deans Who Sent Insulting Texts Have Resigned
• 'The Conversation' at 50: Eavesdropping on Conspiracy
• Working from home and the US-Europe divide
• Americana icon Gillian Welch: 'Bob Dylan walking on to our version of Billy put a smile on my face'
• The world's next food superpower
• India's electronics industry is surging
• Tina Turner turned a tough life into splendour
• This week's covers
• A short history of Hollywood's poison-pen letters to itself
• Anti-racism protesters gather across England - in pictures
• Former Hurricane Debby Stalls, Causing Heavy Rains and Flooding along East Coast
• Cybertruck crash and fire reportedly causes first fatality
• KAL's cartoon
• Stranger Things will make its Broadway debut in March 2025
• Can Burberry put its chequered past behind it?
• Some Australians are increasingly sceptical of AUKUS
• Taylor Swift concerts in Austria cancelled after terror plot uncovered
• Crisis-hardened Lebanese stockpile food as war looms
• Elon Musk's X Sues Advertisers Over Alleged Boycott
• How hotels became targets for British rioters
• Politics
• Demand for uranium is booming. Who is benefiting?
• This week's cover
• June Mendoza captured both the famous and the unknown
• Team GB's Ellie Aldridge wins first ever Olympic kitesurfing gold medal
• Israel and Hamas are not that far from a ceasefire agreement
• China is going crazy for durians
• Peru's president survives because she's not in charge
• Human diets are becoming less diverse, a new book warns
• Iris Apfel became a fashion icon in her ninth decade
• The dangerous rise of pension nationalism
• India throws another opposition leader in jail as elections loom
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Labour's landslide victory will turn politics on its head
• Europe faces a new age of shrunken French influence
• He Was an FBI Informant—and Inspired a Generation of Violent Extremists
• Some Germans think the hostage exchange with Russia was a dirty deal

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