Bill Belichick is trending, thanks to his daughter-in-law and an arrest order  AL.com

Is Trending Stock AT&T Inc. (T) a Buy Now?  Yahoo Finance

4 Players Trending Up & Down (2026 Fantasy Football)  FantasyPros

Zara's 'death pants' are trending because people keep tripping on them  CBC

A Call For Xbox To End Cycle Of Layoffs Is Trending On Fan Portal  Kotaku

1. OpenAI’s first hardware device is reportedly a screenless speaker that can move  TechCrunch
2. OpenAI’s First Device Will Be Movable, Screenless Speaker Built as AI Companion  Bloomberg.com
3. OpenAI's First Device Will Be Movable, Screenless Speaker Built as AI Companion  Yahoo Finance
4. OpenAI's first hardware device will be a speaker, Bloomberg News reports  Reuters
5. OpenAI may announce a ChatGPT smart speaker this year  The Verge

1. Microsoft Patches Record 622 Flaws, Including Two Zero-Days Under Active Attack  The Hacker News
2. Microsoft Patches a Record 570 Security Flaws  Krebs on Security
3. Windows 11’s big patch Tuesday allows you to hold off on updates for longer  The Verge
4. Microsoft discloses ‘the mother of all’ vulnerability loads, tripling June’s previous record  CyberScoop
5. Patchpocalypse Now: Microsoft tops last month's record with 622 Patch Tuesday CVEs  The Register

1. Microsoft’s Secure Boot has been broken for a decade and no one noticed until now  Ars Technica
2. Forgotten UEFI shims undermining Secure Boot  WeLiveSecurity
3. 11 Old Microsoft-Signed Linux UEFI Shims Could Let Attackers Bypass Secure Boot  The Hacker News
4. Old Microsoft-signed UEFI applications can bypass Secure Boot  SC Media
5. ESET Research discovers vulnerable UEFI shims undermining devices’ Secure Boot  The Manila Times

1. Chrome may be the default browser on Android, but more people are trying this instead  Android Central
2. Opera gains ground among iPhone users in the US and UK  9to5Mac
3. Opera’s growth shows users will switch browsers when given a choice  Digital Trends
4. Opera's mobile growth accelerates 48% across the UK and the US as more users seek Android and iOS browser alternatives  Morningstar
5. Opera Mobile Usage Surges in the U.S. and UK  Thurrott.com

Do not put phones in the fridge, warns repair shop  BBC

It’s still relatively early in the summer season in the Northern Hemisphere, but several parts of North America were sweltering in mid-July.

The latest purveyor of heat was a strong ridge of high pressure that lingered in the upper atmosphere over the northern Rockies on the weekend of July 11-12, 2026. This pushed hot air toward the surface and trapped it there—a weather phenomenon meteorologists call a heat dome.

Heat domes put the brakes on convection and suppress clouds and precipitation. This allows sunlight to reach Earth’s surface relatively unhindered and further elevate air temperatures. As a result of the July heat dome, sites in Montana, Wyoming, and Utah broke all-time temperature records.

The map above shows air temperatures across the United States on July 12, 2026, at 2 p.m. Mountain Time, modeled at 2 meters (6.5 feet) above the ground. It was produced by combining satellite observations with temperatures predicted by a version of the GEOS (Goddard Earth Observing System) model, which uses mathematical equations to represent physical processes in the atmosphere. The darkest reds indicate areas where temperatures approached or exceeded 45 degrees Celsius (113 degrees Fahrenheit).

A preliminary analysis from the National Weather Service office in Billings found that temperature sensors at airports in Billings and Miles City, Montana (111°F and 115°F, respectively), and Sheridan, Wyoming (109°F), all recorded new all-time record highs on July 12. Each of these stations topped its previous record by at least 2°F, with Miles City breaking its record by a full 4°F. The Montana records date to the 1930s; the Sheridan record begins in 1907.

Multiple locations in Utah broke all-time records as well, according to the National Weather Service office in Salt Lake City, including Deseret (111°F), Salt Lake City (109°F, or 4°F above the previous record), and Randolph (100°F, or 6°F above the previous record). These stations in Utah have records that date back to the 1890s.

Extreme heat doesn’t just make people uncomfortable. It can have serious health consequences, particularly for older people. Extreme heat worsens common age-related health conditions such as heart, lung, and kidney disease. Health tracking data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows that the rate of heat-related emergency department visits in the Mountain states spiked tenfold during the July heat.

Heat waves like this one have become more frequent in the United States in recent decades, according to researchers at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. Using a NASA modeling system called MERRA-2 (Modern-Era Retrospective analysis for Research and Applications-2), one NASA team found that summer heat waves in the U.S. roughly doubled in number between 1980 and 2023, increasing from an average of two to four per month.

Forecasters expect the heat dome to spread east into the Midwest, New England, and the Mid-Atlantic in the coming days, where triple-digit temperatures are likely in some areas. The United States isn’t alone in facing significant heat. Parts of both Western Europe, Central Asia, and East Asia are also facing heat waves.   

NASA Earth Observatory image by Michala Garrison, using GEOS-FP data from the Global Modeling and Assimilation Office at NASA GSFC. Story by Adam Voiland.

References & Resources

• AccuWeather (2026, July 13) ‘Steam-cooker’ pattern grips the Central, East as heat and humidity peak. Accessed July 14, 2026.
• NASA (2025, May 8) Rising Heat Waves in North America in the Past 40 Years. Accessed July 14, 2026.
• NASA Earth Observatory (2010, June 9) GEOS-5: A High Resolution Global Atmospheric Model. Accessed July 14, 2026.
• National Weather Service (2026, July 14) Short Range Forecast. Accessed July 14, 2026.
• NOAA (2026, July 12) Record Heat Southern Montana July 12, 2026. Accessed July 14, 2026.
• Royal Meteorological Society (2021, August 11) What is a heat dome? Accessed July 14, 2026.
• U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2026) Daily Heat-Related Illness. Accessed July 14, 2026.
• U.S. National Weather Service, via Facebook (2026, July 13) Yesterday was quite historic in terms of heat. Accessed July 14, 2026.
• The Washington Post (2026, July 14) One of the planet’s strongest heat domes will soon scorch the East Coast. Accessed July 14, 2026.

The Republic of Serbia will sign the Artemis Accords at 5 p.m. EDT Thursday, July 16, during a ceremony at NASA Headquarters in Washington.

NASA Deputy Administrator Matt Anderson will host Serbia’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Marko Đurić and U.S. State Department Assistant Secretary for Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs Wesley Brooks for the ceremony.

This event is in person only. Media interested in attending must RSVP no later than 3 p.m. on July 16, to: hq-media@mail.nasa.gov. NASA’s media accreditation policy is online.

In 2020, during the first Trump Administration, the United States, led by NASA and the State Department, joined with seven other founding nations to establish the Artemis Accords, responding to the growing interest in lunar activities by both governments and private companies.

The accords introduced the first set of practical principles aimed at enhancing the safety, transparency, and coordination of civil space exploration on the Moon, Mars, and beyond. Serbia will be the 69th country to sign the Artemis Accords.

https://www.nasa.gov/artemis-accords

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Headquarters, Washington 
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NASA astronaut Anil Menon, along with Roscosmos cosmonauts Pyotr Dubrov and Anna Kikina, arrived safely at the International Space Station Tuesday, bringing the orbiting laboratory’s crew to 10 for about the next two weeks.

The trio launched aboard the Soyuz MS-29 spacecraft at 10:47 a.m. EDT (7:47 p.m. local time) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. After a three-hour, two-orbit journey, the spacecraft docked at 1:52 p.m. with the station’s Prichal module.

Following hatch opening, expected about 4 p.m., the new arrivals will be welcomed by the space station Expedition 74 crew: NASA astronauts Jessica Meir, Jack Hathaway, and Chris Williams; ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Sophie Adenot; and Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Kud-Sverchkov, Sergei Mikaev, and Andrey Fedyaev.

NASA’s live coverage of hatch opening begins at 3:30 p.m. on NASA+, Amazon Prime, and YouTube. Learn how to watch NASA content through a variety of online platforms, including social media.

During his stay aboard the station, Menon will conduct scientific research and technology demonstrations aimed at advancing human space exploration and benefiting life on Earth. He will continue research to refine in-space production of semiconductor crystals to enable the large-scale manufacturing of components needed for high-performance computers, artificial intelligence, and improved medical devices. Menon also will perform ultrasound using augmented reality and artificial intelligence methods that could eliminate the need for medical support from Earth on future space missions. He will be a test subject helping researchers understand how blood flow is affected in space to protect future astronauts. He also will test bioprinting vascular constructs in microgravity to improve understanding of the aging process to advance therapeutic developments.

Expedition 75 is scheduled to begin on Sunday, July 26, following the departure of Williams, Kud-Sverchkov, and Mikaev, as they conclude an eight-month science mission aboard the orbital outpost.

Watch the change of command ceremony at 9:40 a.m. on Saturday, July 25, as station command transfers from Kud-Sverchkov to Meir, live on NASA+.

Learn more about International Space Station, crews, research, and operations at:

https://www.nasa.gov/station

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Joshua Finch / Jimi Russell
Headquarters, Washington
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Sandra Jones
Johnson Space Center, Houston
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sandra.p.jones@nasa.gov

Blue and white stars shine brilliantly against a crimson background of glowing gas in this July 3, 2026, image of stellar nursery LH 95 from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. LH 95 is a region in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy that orbits the Milky Way. Low-mass infant stars live alongside massive blue giant stars in what is known as a stellar association, one of many in the Large Magellanic Cloud.

Learn more about LH 95.

Image credit: NASA, ESA, and N. Da Rio (The University of Virginia), G. De Marchi (European Space Agency – ESTEC), and D. Gouliermis (Universitat Heidelberg); Processing: Gladys Kober (NASA/Catholic University of America)

In honor of America’s 250th birthday, two of NASA’s most iconic aircraft got a fresh coat of red, white, and blue paint ahead of a flyover in Washington on July 4, 2026, with other NASA aircraft.  

An F-15 and an F/A-18 from NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, recently were repainted in patriotic colors as a tribute to the past and a salute to the future.

The red, white, and blue commemorative paint and Freedom 250 logo will remain on these aircraft for at least the next year, so be sure to catch these at local air shows and events.

Follow along on social media and at https://www.nasa.gov/freedom250/ to learn more about where to spot the aircraft (dependent upon availability and flying schedules):

• July 23-24: EAA AirVenture, Oshkosh, Wisconsin
• Oct. 3-4: Pacific Airshow, Huntington Beach, California
• And more…

Check out more images here: https://www.nasa.gov/gallery/freedom-250/

The funding discussions point to investor interest in applying AI to make breakthroughs in life sciences.

"Increasingly in our world, it gets harder and harder to know what is real," Lorde said onstage.

The device is weirdly described as involving "mechanical elements that can move on their own" and the Bloomberg report includes the detail that the device is designed to "feel like a companion and become a physical manifestation of OpenAI’s ChatGPT."

OpenAI has issued another statement on the lawsuit, this time suggesting it lacks merit.

A number of social media posts claim that GPT-5.6 Sol deleted files and data without warning. OpenAI had basically disclosed the problem in June.