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Lionel Messi’s Final World Cup—and the Death of Early Retirement

Argentina’s Lionel Messi was supposed to be done years ago. Now, sports science is helping soccer’s biggest stars rewrite the rules of aging.

Chaotic July Patch Tuesday threatens to overwhelm defenders

Computing

Another mammoth Patch Tuesday update, likely topping 600 flaws in total, sends defenders into the weeds.

An Inventor of Apple’s FaceID Wants to Analyze Your Brain’s Health With AI

Science

Gidi Littwin’s new AI startup, Hemispheric, makes diagnostic brain scans for conditions like depression, PTSD, and Parkinson’s. He wants the technology to be as cheap and easy as for a blood test.

Prime minister-in-waiting Andy Burnham takes aim at outsourcing

Computing

Soon-to-be-appointed prime minister adds weight to government’s existing plan to ‘end era of outsourcing’

Home Office proposes AI tooling to accelerate digital disclosure

Computing

PoliceAI will be used to pilot artificial intelligence tools that are capable of automatically generating summaries of digital material, saving ‘countless’ admin hours

Reeves speaks up about UK sovereign AI

Computing

The UK government has ambitions to build out its own AI capabilities, but its plans are stumped by high datacentre power costs

My Ebike Delivery Went Missing. When I Tried to Recover It, I Ended Up in Chatbot Hell

Technology

Companies’ increasing reliance on AI chatbots isn’t making the customer service experience smarter. It’s just making it more infuriating.

The Explosive Diarrhea Outbreak Is About to Get Much Bigger

Science

Official case counts likely capture only a fraction of US cyclosporiasis infections, and the outbreak is likely to get worse before it gets better.

OpenAI Staffers Are Funding a Rival Super PAC to Take on Their Boss

Business

OpenAI employees have donated more than $215,000 to a political effort opposing Leading the Future, a group backed by the company’s president, Greg Brockman.

ICO ‘less effective as a regulator’ due to toxic culture

Computing

Staff of the UK’s data protection watchdog say it was ‘less effective’ due to a toxic workplace culture upheld by senior leadership team

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