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Tongue takes back-to-back wickets but misses out on hat-trick

Josh Tongue removes Salman Ali Agha and Ali Usman in back-to-back balls but falls just short of the hat-trick as Khurram Shahzad hits the third delivery emphatically for four on day one of the opening…

2026-08-19 · 16:31 UTC
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Tech

Coinbase's Base Is Betting Big on AI Agents With $100K Startup Accelerator

2026-08-19 · 16:31

Base is narrowing its accelerator to 10 startups as it looks for teams building AI agents, payments, trading, and…

Science

Lindsay Clancy's trial puts postpartum psychosis on the map

2026-08-19 · 16:30

Postpartum psychosis is a psychiatric emergency that can involve mania, depression, hallucinations and delusions.

Tech

StanChart, HSBC execute first live transaction on Swift blockchain ledger

2026-08-19 · 16:30

The transaction connected the banks’ separate tokenized deposit systems through Swift’s ledger, marking a step toward…

Sports

Questions remain over Vieira deal amid Senegal uncertainty

2026-08-19 · 16:26

Questions remain over the appointment of Patrick Vieira as Senegal's new head coach, with the country's football…

Tech

Extensible Software in the Age of LLMs

2026-08-19 · 16:26

Large language models are enabling a shift toward "extensible software" that allows individual users to customize…

Crypto

CFTC Bans Caroline Ellison From Trading for 5 Years Over FTX

2026-08-19 · 16:25

Caroline Ellison and Gary Wang received multiyear CFTC bans under final orders resolving their FTX-related civil cases.

Tech

How Kubernetes Probes Work

2026-08-19 · 16:25

Kubernetes probes are periodic health checks that come in three types—startup, readiness, and liveness—designed to make…

Tech

Chain-of-Thought Reasoning in the Wild Is Not Always Faithful

2026-08-19 · 16:18

Researchers found that chain-of-thought reasoning in large language models is often unfaithful, meaning the verbalized…

Tech

Google Pixel 11 series review: Is the magic fading?

2026-08-19 · 16:11

Google's new Pixels make some compromises but still manage to be good phones.

Crypto

Bitcoin Surges Toward $70K as $1.14 Billion in Crypto Shorts Get Rekt in an Hour

2026-08-19 · 16:10

A White House sitdown with crypto's biggest names and softer Fed signals lit the fuse.

Tech

Civic Hygiene – avoid building technologies that could be used by a police state

2026-08-19 · 16:07

# Summary Security expert Bruce Schneier's concept of "civic hygiene" warns against building surveillance technologies…

World

Two detained after French influencer's scorched body found in vineyard

2026-08-19 · 16:04

Sonia Bellina's body was "abandoned" after "a murder of rare savagery", the family's lawyer says.

Sports

Reijnders leaves Man City for Al-Qadsiah in £52m deal

2026-08-19 · 16:01

Netherlands midfielder Tijjani Reijnders completes a £52m move to Saudi Arabian side Al-Qadsiah from Manchester City.

Crypto

Coinbase Adds 50x Crypto Perps to Base App Through Hyperliquid

2026-08-19 · 16:00

The Hyperliquid integration gives eligible Base App users access to more than 290 perpetual futures markets.

Crypto

Standard Chartered analyst eyes $100K BTC as US Treasury doubles long-end buybacks

2026-08-19 · 16:00

Bitcoin’s rebound toward $69,000 is gaining momentum as Geoff Kendrick points to improving liquidity conditions and a…

Crypto

Stablecoin Liquidity Falls as Reserves Concentrate on Binance

2026-08-19 · 16:00

Binance now holds 68.5% of centralized exchange stablecoins as overall liquidity contracts during the 2026 crypto bear…

Sports

Delap loses number nine shirt & trains away from first team

2026-08-19 · 15:58

Chelsea have split their players into two training groups at Cobham, involving several players who could move before the…

Science

Scientists find closest star to the Milky Way's central black hole

2026-08-19 · 15:56

Star, moving at 8% the speed of light, may let us measure the black hole's rotation.

Crypto

US commodities regulator imposes 5-year trading ban on ex-Alameda, FTX execs

2026-08-19 · 15:50

The consent orders ended the CFTC’s case against two former crypto executives after FTX and Alameda agreed to $12.7…

Crypto

Bitcoin Rips Toward $70K as $1.3B Short Squeeze Erupts

2026-08-19 · 15:50

Bitcoin raced to $69,749 on Aug.

World

Israel opens up tenders for controversial West Bank settlement project

2026-08-19 · 15:50

Israeli plans to build on the area east of Jerusalem - which would divide the occupied West Bank in two - have long been…

Tech

Meta ran ads for an app promising to nudify female politicians

2026-08-19 · 15:45

One ad featured a pornographic video with deepfake closely resembling a US politician.

Tech

TerraPower’s nuclear reactor has a secret weapon for powering AI data centers

2026-08-19 · 15:44

TerraPower's nuclear power plant possesses a strategic advantage over competitors, especially when chasing after data…