Special Olympics Southern California's Summer Games at Long Beach drew hundreds of athletes to seven sports and free health screenings in seven disciplines.
Author: Mason Miller
Gabby Thomas Runs a World-Leading 21.70 in Her ‘Fun’ Year
Gabby Thomas ran 21.70 at the Lone Star Grand Prix in Texas, the fastest women's 200m in the world this year, faster than her Olympic gold-winning run from Paris 2024.
Bots Now Outnumber Humans Online, and Ads Have No Answer for It
Bot traffic passed human traffic online in June 2026, per Cloudflare data. The web's ad model depends on human clicks, and machines don't deliver them.
China Lets Banks Pay More for Dollars to Curb the Yuan’s Rise
China let banks offer higher dollar deposit rates to slow yuan appreciation, a quiet PBOC tool signaling Beijing's currency ceiling to global FX traders.
Michael Jackson Biopic Eyes Bohemian Rhapsody’s All-Time Record
With $860.7M worldwide and Japan opening July 12, Michael is $50M from Bohemian Rhapsody's all-time music biopic record. Available on PVOD from June 9.
VerdantBamboo Spent 18 Months Inside Microsoft 365 Undetected
A Chinese espionage group hid in Microsoft 365 for 18 months by routing through appliances with no EDR coverage, evading Conditional Access entirely.
PC Makers Are Betting Nvidia’s RTX Spark Can Beat Apple’s Mac
Nvidia RTX Spark gives Windows makers their best MacBook challenge yet with CUDA, 128GB memory, and eight OEMs. Here's the bet and the gaps.
Fourteen Iranian Officials Denied US Visas as World Cup Team Departs
Iran's players cleared US visas and left Turkey on June 6, but 14 federation officials including the secretary-general were denied US entry due to IRGC ties.
The Basel Rule Senators Say Locks US Banks Out of Bitcoin
Six US senators pressed the Fed, FDIC, and OCC to fix Basel's 1,250% Bitcoin risk weight, which they argue makes bank holdings unviable regardless of what Congress authorizes.
Microsoft’s Vibe Coding Push Runs on a Stack It Owns End-to-End
Microsoft Copilot's vibe coding push at Build 2026 is real, but every amateur app it creates locks the creator into GitHub, Azure, and Windows subscriptions Microsoft controls.










