Switzerland's highest temperature of 2026 was recorded in Basel on July 30, matching the northern Alpine record, as drought alerts reached Level 5 and August 1 fireworks were cancelled.
Commodore is using the first anniversary of its reboot to launch Made For U(ltimate), an initiative to fund and label new games built specifically for the FPGA-based C64 Ultimate's modern capabilities.
Egyptian archaeologists uncovered a funerary complex at Tell Quesna necropolis containing 560 faience ushabti figurines and imported pottery from Rhodes, dating to the Late and Greco-Roman periods.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman met with senior Trump administration officials, lawmakers, and economists on Capitol Hill on July 29, previewing new AI models amid a cyber breach fallout and urging Congress to act before the Aug. 1 voluntary security framework deadline.
A federal judge approved Anthropic's $1.5 billion settlement with authors who alleged the company used pirated books to train Claude, creating a landmark AI-copyright payout.
The Swiss National Bank posted a CHF 25.2 billion profit in the first half of 2026, powered by equity gains on foreign currency holdings, with a falling gold price providing the only real drag.
At least 67 migrants died after an estimated 60,000 people crossed from Morocco into Ceuta over two days, overwhelming border controls; Spain installed a containment barrier, virtually all migrants returned, and 22 EU governments demanded an emergency meeting.
Arch Linux ships kernel 7.1 by default for the first time in its August 2026 monthly ISO, bundling fresh system libraries, updated desktop profiles, and a refreshed installer to validate upstream changes before they hit the rolling channels.
Emergency services reported a peaceable night as all 26 cantons banned private fireworks and several prohibited pyrotechnic sales, though official exemptions in Bern, Lake Zurich, and Zug sparked political backlash.
A $57 million vertical wind tunnel replaces two aging facilities and will test aircraft, rockets, and spacecraft for missions to the Moon, Mars, Venus, and Titan.
UN High Commissioner Volker Türk denounces a systematic crackdown on dissent in Uganda, with dozens of opposition figures, journalists, and activists facing enforced disappearances, torture, and arbitrary detention.
A new C64C hardware run is officially entering production using originally recovered 1986 injection molds, bringing decades-old manufacturing tolerances back to a modern factory floor.
Three Swiss Super Puma helicopters will continue supporting French emergency forces against wildfires on the Mediterranean island for four more days.
On July 24, the European Physical Society announced three researchers receive the 2026 Europhysics Prize for discovering altermagnetism, a third fundamental class of magnetic order that combines zero net magnetization with spin-polarized electronic properties.
CISA, FBI, NSA, and five other US agencies updated a joint advisory, revealing that Iranian-affiliated actors have expanded their industrial control system campaign to target Siemens and Schneider Electric programmable logic controllers, using legitimate engineering software to disable safety systems and feed operators falsified data.
Curiosity photographed the largest field of honeycomb-shaped polygonal fractures ever seen on Mars during June observations in Valle Grande, a valley where the features spread in every direction — leaving scientists unable to say how they formed.
A new DHS rule caps F and J student visas at four years, eliminates the open-ended duration of status policy, and reduces the post-graduation grace period to 30 days effective September 15, 2026.
Germany’s Bundestag passed a landmark Infrastructure Future Act redirecting €169 billion toward transport, establishing rail as the country's top priority for the first time while overhauling approval procedures.
An 11-month rescue dig at Vindonissa traced the complete boundary of the first Roman military camp, built under Tiberius, resolving a 90-year-old mystery about the site's earliest fortifications.
The Alabama Department of Transportation announced construction on the long-planned $3.2 billion Mobile River Bridge and Bayway Project is expected to begin before the end of 2026.
Santa Clara Valley Water District awards a $1.88 billion contract to rebuild Anderson Dam for seismic safety, one of the largest dam reconstruction projects in US history with a seven-year construction window starting early 2027.
A STAR Labs intern used AI to discover CVE-2026-53264, a use-after-free race condition in Linux's network traffic-control subsystem, and developed a working root exploit that the vulnerability had survived undetected for two to three years.