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Romania's Land Registry Was Wiped. A Country Lost Its Property Memory for a Week.
A single broker walked into Romania's cadastre with stolen credentials, wiped the backups, and froze the country's real estate market for a week.
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07 / 75Romania's Land Registry Was Wiped. A Country Lost Its Property Memory for a Week.
A single broker walked into Romania's cadastre with stolen credentials, wiped the backups, and froze the country's real estate market for a week.
Book Soup Takes On Water After a 1916 Sunset Strip Main Ruptures
A 110-year-old steel main under Sunset Boulevard failed at 2:30 a.m., and the water reached a bookstore where David Bowie used to shop.
Airlines Say Permanent Daylight Saving Time Would Take Two Years to Absorb
Airlines for America says a permanent switch to daylight saving time could take up to 24 months to absorb after the House passed H.R. 139.
Microsoft open-sources Comic Chat, the 1996 IRC client that spread Comic Sans
Thirty years after it shipped with Internet Explorer 3, Microsoft has put the full Comic Chat source code on GitHub under an MIT license.
Canadian Wildfire Smoke Returns to New York as AQI Hits 155
New York's air quality index climbed to 155 on July 15 as Canadian wildfire smoke returned to the Tri-State under a compounding heat advisory.
Bonsai 27B: A 27-Billion-Parameter Model That Fits on an iPhone
PrismML released Bonsai 27B on July 14, 2026, a 27-billion-parameter model quantized to 3.9 gigabytes that runs on an iPhone.
Apple's SpeechAnalyzer, Measured Against Whisper on One Mac
An independent on-device benchmark puts Apple's new iOS 26 speech API against Whisper and the decade-old predecessor it replaces.