Skip to Content

MONDAY, 13 JULY 2026, 05:37

Top Stories

Bangkok pub fire kills 27 people and 22 critically injured, officials say

Today at 04:34 AM, via Daily Maverick

BANGKOK, July 13 (Reuters) – An explosive fire at a popular pub in Thailand’s capital Bangkok has killed 27 people, with another 22 injured in critical condition, officials said on Monday, in one of the deadliest such incidents in the tourism hub in recent years.

Sport

How Sinner slid his way to Wimbledon glory

Yesterday at 22:03 PM, via BBC News

BBC Sport’s Jamie Murray, Tim Henman and Todd Woodbridge analyse Jannik Sinner’s Wimbledon final victory against Alexander Zverev.

Education

At last, a proper excuse for monoglots to learn another language: it helps keep your brain young | Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

Yesterday at 07:00 AM, via The Guardian

I love busting out a French subjunctive in pursuit of better restaurant service, so it’s a joy to discover there’s a neuroscientific upside to being multilingual

It’s hard to pick a favourite PG Wodehouse line, but the one I’m perhaps most fond of is this: “Into the face of the young man who sat on the terrace of the Hotel Magnifique at Cannes there had crept a look of furtive shame, the...

Education

Safe from AI: which jobs will help you thrive in the future?

Saturday at 13:00 PM, via The Guardian

Experts say there will still be opportunities ahead in everything from teaching to hotels and the law

Entering the world of work often brings some uncertainty, but now there is another question: how can I AI-proof my career?

We asked people from across various industries what they think the impact of AI will be on careers, and which jobs may be less affected. While it is still early days for...

Education

‘Children were calling for their mummies’: UK pupils struggle in 40C-plus classrooms

Saturday at 08:00 AM, via The Guardian

Teachers call for schools to be urgently adapted for hot weather amid reports of nausea, fainting and heatstroke

The extreme heat that has hit the UK twice in the past few weeks has left teachers struggling to cope as temperatures in some classrooms climb above 40C, with pupils and staff suffering from heatstroke, nausea and headaches.

Teachers say they have been desperately trying to keep...

Science/Tech

Semi-Trailer Trucks Test Converting Into Plug-In Hybrids

Today at 03:54 AM, via Slashdot

Long-time Slashdot reader necro81 writes: There are several companies, such as Tesla, trying to make semi trucks fully electric. The capital cost for such a truck, and the MW-scale infrastructure to recharge it, may be a hard sell for some operators. [IEEE Spectrum notes that’s a charging infrastructure “that most freight corridors do not yet reliably provide.”] But some companies are instead...

Science/Tech

‘Billionaire Exodus? California Drew 10x More Venture Capital Than Any Other State This Year’

Today at 01:34 AM, via Slashdot

California drew more than $335 billion in venture capital funding this year, reports the Los Angeles Times, citing data released Thursday by PitchBook on private market funding:Its next biggest competitor, New York, raised less than a tenth of California’s total. Texas raised 1/40th of the amount… Although a campaign for a new tax on billionaires has convinced some ultra-rich residents to shift...

Science/Tech

‘Forget Coders. the Real AI Threat Is In the Back Office’

Today at 00:29 AM, via Slashdot

Which jobs are most threatened by AI? “Programmers, software engineers and other tech industry employees,” goes one common answer. “But many economists are more concerned about a different, larger group of white-collar workers,” reports the New York Times: customer service reps, bookkeepers, payroll clerks and HR specialists, “who fly under the radar but collectively account for tens of...

Science/Tech

Linus Torvalds on AI, Junk Patches, Humans, and Godzilla

Yesterday at 22:55 PM, via Slashdot

Linus Torvalds once said LLMs might bring a 10X increase to programmer productivity. But speaking at Open Source Summit India 2026, he now says that number was “not scientific,”reports ZDNet. “That was pulled out of my ass number, obviously.”Today, he continued, “we’re at the point where hopefully it creates more productivity than it takes away,” but “we certainly saw more junk being generated...

Health

What Is an Aortic Dissection?

Today at 01:35 AM, via New York Times

The condition that killed Senator Lindsey Graham is deadly, sudden and difficult to treat — “like a knife to the back,” one expert said.