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Wednesday, 22 July 2026

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La Vanguardia 2026-07-21 22:05 es

La mancha de Zapatero

Lo que hay es un torpedo en la línea de flotación de la credibilidad de Zapatero

The Guardian (World) 2026-07-21 22:39 en

Health worker monitored for Ebola in London hospital after working in DRC

UK resident was evacuated from Democratic Republic of the Congo where there is an outbreak of the disease A humanitarian worker is being monitored at a specialist hospital in London after potential exposure to the Ebola virus. The UK resident was medically evacuated from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) where the worker had been treating patients with the disease, the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) said. Continue reading...

The Guardian (World) 2026-07-21 10:00 en

Healthy diet too expensive for one in three people globally, UN report finds

Global hunger declined for the third year in a row in 2025 but experts call for action to bring down costs of fruit, vegetables and dairy as report shows 2.69bn people can’t afford to eat well One in three people cannot afford to eat a healthy diet, a new report has found, prompting calls for urgent action on food affordability. There are 2.69 billion people unable to afford a diverse diet that meets their energy and nutrient needs, and it will take “immense” amounts of work to achieve the global target of zero hunger by 2030, the annual report from five UN agencies warned. Continue reading...

Le Monde (Une) 2026-07-21 08:00 fr

Face aux Etats-Unis, l’Iran parie sur une guerre d’usure

Alors que les frappes américaines se poursuivent en Iran, le pouvoir iranien évite, pour l’instant, une confrontation totale. Son calcul repose sur la menace de provoquer une perturbation énergétique mondiale pour contraindre Washington à revoir sa stratégie.

Le Monde (Une) 2026-07-21 08:10 fr

Ebola en RDC : posez vos questions à nos journalistes Morgane Le Cam et Philémon Barbier, de retour de reportage dans l’épicentre de l’épidémie

Notre reporter s’est rendue pour « Le Monde Afrique » avec le photographe Philémon Barbier à Mongbwalu, dans l’est de la République démocratique du Congo, où l’épidémie d’Ebola due à la souche Bundibugyo s’est déclarée et progresse rapidement. Posez-leur vos questions à partir de 11 heures.

Le Monde (Une) 2026-07-21 05:03 fr

EN DIRECT, guerre en Ukraine : plus de 5 millions de réfugiés ukrainiens accueillis en Europe depuis le début de la guerre, selon le HCR

Le nombre de réfugiés ukrainiens dans le monde (hors Russie) s’élevait à 5,762 millions de personnes au 30 avril 2026, dont 5,213 millions enregistrés en Europe et 549 000 hors du continent, selon le dernier bulletin mensuel du ministère de l’économie et de l’environnement d’Ukraine, qui cite les données du Haut-Commissariat des Nations unies pour les réfugiés.

Le Monde (International) 2026-07-22 04:23 fr

EN DIRECT, guerre au Moyen-Orient : l’armée américaine a une nouvelle fois lancé une série de frappes nocturnes sur l’Iran

Pour la onzième nuit d’affilée, les Etats-Unis ont dit mener des attaques sur des « cibles militaires ». Des explosions ont été rapportées par l’agence iranienne d’Etat IRNA à Bouchehr, où se trouve la seule centrale nucléaire civile en fonctionnement d’Iran, ainsi que des frappes dans le sud et le nord-ouest du pays.

South China Morning Post 2026-07-22 01:00 en

Can the US and its allies break China’s grip on rare earths and AI technology?

The struggle between the US and China over who will lead in artificial intelligence is one of the defining competitions of our time. In the second part of our exclusive interview with a key player defining Washington’s policy on AI, Jacob Helberg, US undersecretary of state for economic affairs, discusses America’s efforts to rally its allies and cut dependence on China by securing alternative rare earth and critical mineral supply chains. By the time US President Donald Trump signed his...

South China Morning Post 2026-07-21 20:28 en

China security partner Solomon Islands to sign US Coast Guard patrol deal

The Solomon Islands, widely considered China’s closest security partner in the South Pacific, will soon sign a deal allowing the US Coast Guard to patrol its waters with local police aboard, Prime Minister Matthew Wale announced on a trip to Washington to strengthen bilateral ties. While the South Pacific nation has deepened its ties with China over the past few years, particularly following the signing of a secret security pact in 2022, Wale’s visit underscored efforts to strengthen maritime...

South China Morning Post 2026-07-21 20:19 en

Crawfish soup on Mars? US fears over China’s scientific ambitions raised in Senate hearing

A Chinese researcher’s vision of serving spicy crawfish soup to astronauts on Mars became an unlikely symbol of Washington’s growing anxiety over China’s scientific ambitions at a US Senate hearing on Tuesday. Drew Endy, associate professor at Stanford University and director of bio-strategy and leadership at the Hoover Institution, said that last autumn he met a 20-year-old Chinese researcher from Shanghai at a scientific conference in Paris. Dressed in a large red crawfish costume, the young...

South China Morning Post 2026-07-21 17:35 en

Trump softens tone on alleged China election meddling before Rubio-Wang talks

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio will meet Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi in Manila on Wednesday, as President Donald Trump signalled that Washington would confront Beijing over its alleged interference in the 2020 election but played down the prospect of retaliation. “We’re going to talk to them about it,” Trump told reporters on Tuesday, adding that the alleged interference “took place a long time ago” and that China might be “a little bit different today than it was then”. “They do things...

Xataka 2026-07-21 21:47 es

Francia se convierte en el primer país europeo en vetar las redes a menores de 15 años. Septiembre será la prueba de fuego

Durante años, abrir una cuenta en una red social ha sido tan sencillo como escribir un correo, elegir una contraseña y declarar una fecha de nacimiento. En Francia, está previsto que esa rutina cambie el 1 de septiembre para los menores de 15 años. La prohibición ya ha superado el Parlamento , pero convertirla en algo que funcione exigirá responder preguntas mucho más difíciles: cómo comprobar la edad de los usuarios, qué información se les pedirá para demostrarla y qué ocurrirá con servicios que no solo sirven para publicar fotos o vídeos. Ahí empieza la verdadera prueba. Una mayoría…

Xataka 2026-07-21 19:01 es

El submarino nuclear Komsomolets se hundió en aguas europeas hace casi 40 años. El asunto está en lo que aún libera al mar

A casi 1.700 metros bajo el mar de Noruega descansa algo más que un submarino hundido. Dentro del Komsomolets siguen el reactor nuclear que impulsó la nave y dos torpedos armados con ojivas nucleares , encerrados en un pecio sometido desde hace décadas al agua salada, la presión y la corrosión. No llegaron hasta allí por una misión secreta ni por una prueba fallida, sino tras un accidente que convirtió una de las grandes proezas navales de la Unión Soviética en un problema que aún seguimos intentando comprender. La historia del Komsomolets no terminó cuando el casco tocó fondo. El reactor…

TechCrunch 2026-07-21 20:57 en

These are the countries moving to ban social media for children

Australia was the first country to issue a ban in late 2025, aiming to reduce the pressures and risks that young users may face on social media, including cyberbullying, social media addiction, and exposure to predators.

MIT Technology Review 2026-07-21 12:10 en

The Download: Chinese AI divides the White House, and a record copyright payout

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. China’s AI models have Trump’s AI world at war with itself Last weekend, several current and former advisers to President Donald Trump on AI publicly lobbed insults at the country’s leading…

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South China Morning Post 2026-07-21 18:38 en

As US-Chinese AI model gap narrows, what next for Washington?

For years, Washington has fixated on the gap between US and Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) models as AI has increasingly taken centre stage in the strategic competition between the world’s two leading powers. The release of OpenAI’s ChatGPT in late 2022 established a clear early lead for the US, with the first batch of export controls on advanced semiconductor chips introduced in October that year, putting American tech ahead by three years or more, some experts estimated at the time. But...

Xataka 2026-07-21 17:31 es

"Está diezmando el tráfico de búsqueda": así es como la IA de Google está absorbiendo al resto de internet

ChatGPT llevaba menos de un mes en marcha y en Google ya se hablaba de un "código rojo" . La tecnología que muchos daban por hecho que acabaría con el negocio central de Google —sustituir el buscador por un chatbot cualquiera— está haciendo justo lo contrario. Desde que Google metió a Gemini dentro de su buscador con Modo IA (AI Mode), sustituyó las listas de enlaces con respuestas conversaciones. Y les está funcionando , porque la gente pasa más tiempo que nunca dentro del propio Google. El problema es para todos los demás. Nos encanta el Modo IA . Según tres estudios recopilados por The New…

Xataka 2026-07-21 17:15 es

Las diferencias entre Qualcomm y MediaTek en 2026 son cada vez más pequeñas. Son muy buenas noticias para los móviles Android

Hace un tiempo, comprarse un móvil con procesador MediaTek era sinónimo de conformarse. Si querías potencia bruta, actualizaciones rápidas y buena eficiencia , había que buscar el sello de Qualcomm Snapdragon en la caja del móvil. Pero es verdad que esto es algo que en pleno 2026 ha cambiado completamente. Hoy, la brecha entre las dos firmas de procesadores es más estrecha. Y, aunque los puristas sigan debatiendo sobre cifras en los benchmarks , la realidad es que la gran similitud (hoy en día) entre estos chips, es la mejor noticia que le ha podido pasar al ecosistema Android en la última…

Big Think 2026-07-21 15:00 en

A cosmic first: separated sibling stars reunited by supernovae

Out there in the Universe, a similar cosmic story plays out time and time again: the stellar life cycles. A massive, cold cloud of gaseous material, under the power of its own self-gravitation, begins to contract. As clumps within that gas get denser, the cloud fragments, with each fragment collapsing on its way to become a protostar. The most massive and dense clumps, initially, attract surrounding matter the fastest, growing into the most massive of these new stars, where around 50% of all such stars wind up developing in multi-star (binary, trinary, or higher multiplicity) systems. When a…

Big Think 2026-07-21 13:00 en

The universe isn’t random – it’s something stranger

Stephen Wolfram — physicist and creator of Wolfram Alpha — has spent decades trying to understand why the universe produces so much complexity from such simple beginnings. His answer? The same principle that drives biological evolution, shapes living tissue, and determines how organisms grow turns out to be a fundamental property of computation itself. Nature isn’t random and it isn’t engineered. It’s something stranger and more elegant than either. This video The universe isn’t random – it’s something stranger is featured on Big Think .

Hipertextual 2026-07-21 19:10 es

Adiós a comprar el iPhone de contado: Apple quiere que lo pagues como un coche con este nuevo programa

Apple está preparando uno de los cambios más importantes en la forma de vender el iPhone y otros dispositivos. La compañía anunciará Apple Upgrade, un programa de arrendamiento que promete pagos más accesibles frente a los planes de financiamiento actuales. El programa se lanzaría a finales de este mes y ayudaría a sortear el aumento […] Seguir leyendo: Adiós a comprar el iPhone de contado: Apple quiere que lo pagues como un coche con este nuevo programa

Hipertextual 2026-07-21 17:03 es

Google presenta Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber, su respuesta a Claude Mythos y GPT-5.5 para detectar y resolver vulnerabilidades

Google acaba de sumarse al juego de los modelos de inteligencia artificial especializados en ciberseguridad. La compañía acaba de anunciar Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber, su respuesta a Claude Mythos y GPT-5.5 Cyber, que es capaz de detectar y resolver vulnerabilidades de forma automática. La estrategia de Google DeepMind es muy interesante, pues ha desarrollado la […] Seguir leyendo: Google presenta Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber, su respuesta a Claude Mythos y GPT-5.5 para detectar y resolver vulnerabilidades

The Next Web 2026-07-21 20:58 en

OpenAI Confirms Its AI Broke Out of a Sandbox and Breached Hugging Face

OpenAI said on Tuesday that two of its AI models, including the flagship Sol, broke out of a secure test environment, gained internet access by exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in third-party software, and hacked into Hugging Face’s production infrastructure. The company called the incident “unprecedented” and said it was sharing preliminary findings to help defenders […] This story continues at The Next Web

The Next Web 2026-07-21 20:20 en

Intel confirms more layoffs in its data center unit as stock rallies on turnaround momentum

Intel confirmed on Tuesday that it will cut an unspecified number of jobs in its data center group, the division responsible for Xeon server processors and AI-related hardware, as part of a broader restructuring under CEO Lip-Bu Tan. Shares rose as much as 8 percent in early trading, extending a rally that has seen the […] This story continues at The Next Web

The Next Web 2026-07-21 19:49 en

Poolside releases Laguna S 2.1, the open-weight coding model pitched as the West’s answer to DeepSeek and Qwen

Poolside has released Laguna S 2.1, a 118-billion-parameter open-weight model built for agentic coding that the San Francisco startup says matches or exceeds models several times its size. The model uses a mixture-of-experts architecture with eight billion active parameters per token, is compact enough to run on a single Nvidia DGX Spark desktop system, and […] This story continues at The Next Web

The Next Web 2026-07-21 19:07 en

Gritt raises $32M for AI robots that bolt onto existing construction equipment to build solar farms faster

San Francisco-based Gritt has exited stealth with just over $32 million in combined pre-seed and Series A funding to deploy AI-powered robotic systems on large-scale construction sites, starting with solar farms. The $26 million Series A was led by Obvious Ventures, with Union Square Ventures and Active Impact Investments also participating, following an earlier pre-seed […] This story continues at The Next Web

The Next Web 2026-07-21 18:15 en

Sila raises $300M to fast-track gigascale anode production and shore up US battery supply chains

Sila, the battery materials company formerly known as Sila Nanotechnologies, has raised $300 million in a private equity round led by Atreides Management and Sutter Hill Ventures to expand its silicon anode manufacturing plant in Moses Lake, Washington. 8VC, Bessemer Venture Partners, Matrix Partners, and T Rowe Price also participated, alongside existing investors including In-Q-Tel, […] This story continues at The Next Web

The Verge 2026-07-21 21:48 en

OpenAI says it accidentally hacked Hugging Face with a new AI system

OpenAI says its AI models mistakenly breached open-source AI platform Hugging Face during internal testing. In a blog post on Tuesday, OpenAI writes that GPT-5.6 Sol and "an even more capable pre-release model" discovered vulnerabilities within their sandboxed testing environment, allowing them to gain access to the internet and target Hugging Face. On July 16th, […]

The Verge 2026-07-21 19:22 en

Substack adds an AI detector to help spot blogs written by no one

Substack will now help users determine whether what they're reading may have been written by AI. A new tool coming to the platform can scan posts, notes, replies, and comments to provide an estimate of how much text could be AI-generated or written with AI assistance, according to a blog post published on Tuesday. The […]

MIT Technology Review 2026-07-21 10:37 en

Advancing next-gen AI with materials science innovation

The conversation about AI often centers on algorithms, computing power, or huge investments in new semiconductor fabrication plants and hyperscale data centers. But beneath each of these advances is another layer of innovation that makes them possible: advanced materials. Every new generation of AI technology demands more processing power, more memory, greater energy efficiency, and…

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ScienceDaily (Health & Medicine) 2026-07-21 05:10 en

Scientists found mystery bacteria inside one of the ocean’s most elusive whales

Scientists studying decades of pygmy sperm whale strandings have uncovered three previously unknown types of Helicobacter bacteria hiding in the animals’ stomachs. All four infected whales showed serious digestive damage, including inflammation, ulcers, scarring, and parasite infestations, although the bacteria were not confirmed as the cause of death.

ScienceDaily (Health & Medicine) 2026-07-21 13:29 en

Watching too much TV in midlife may shrink the brain

Watching television very often in midlife may be linked to troubling brain changes decades later. In a study of about 1,700 adults, frequent TV viewers later showed smaller brain regions involved in memory, decision-making, and visual processing, along with more signs of damage in the brain’s white matter. Surprisingly, sitting itself did not appear to be the main issue, since people who spent long hours seated at mentally engaging jobs often showed healthier brain patterns.

ScienceDaily (Health & Medicine) 2026-07-22 01:30 en

Coffee may protect your heart but energy drinks could harm it

For most adults, a daily caffeine habit may be safer for the heart than many people assume. A new American Heart Association review found that up to 400 milligrams of caffeine a day, roughly three to five cups of regular black coffee, is generally safe and may even be linked to lower risks of heart disease, stroke, heart failure, and Type 2 diabetes. But the source matters: highly concentrated energy drinks and shots can sharply raise blood pressure and trigger irregular heart rhythms.

ScienceDaily (Health & Medicine) 2026-07-22 04:12 en

Magic mushrooms may reshape the brain long after the trip ends

A single dose of psilocybin produced measurable changes in brain activity and possible changes in brain structure that lasted for up to a month. Participants who experienced the greatest increase in flexible, varied brain activity also reported more personal insight and later improvements in well-being. The findings suggest that the psychedelic experience itself may help people break free from entrenched patterns of thinking.

Lifespan.io 2026-07-21 15:54 en

Regular Training Erases Parts of Muscle Aging Signature

A new study suggests that regular planned exercise, not just being generally active, protects against certain aspects of muscle aging [1]. Are trained muscles younger? With age, skeletal muscles lose strength, metabolic flexibility, and mitochondrial capacity. While regular […]

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