As we say goodbye and adios to World Cup 2026, we round up some of the stranger photographs taken during the tournament, featuring animals, cake … and a dancing robot

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In a jaw-dropping return to true-crime form, Netflix’s new documentary delves into the Anaheim Craigslist case – and it’s a horrifying monster indeed

The sound of barrel-scraping during true-crime documentaries is becoming more and more frequent at Netflix these days (the dismal Worst Neighbor Ever being the most recent case in point). Such are the perils of being the pioneer of a form; you run out of material first but must keep trying to recapture past glories while you search desperately for another way to seize the fickle audience’s attention once again.

A Toxic Love Story is a welcome, if doubtless temporary, return to form. It is a rigorous, 88-minute recounting of an astonishing story that became notorious about 10 years ago in the US and was known as “the Anaheim Craigslist case” or “the Anaheim Craigslist rape fantasy case”, depending on just how many local Craigslist-based delinquencies were occurring at the exact time of reference. It has, after all, been the most criminally fertile of lists.

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“Adding the World Cup to his résumé means Rodri has now won the World Cup, the European Championship, the Champions League, and the Ballon d’Or,” writes Owen Bagnall. “Has anyone else ‘completed football’ like this?”

They have but it’s a small, elite list.

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US military completes 11th night of strikes as attacks overshadow diplomatic efforts in Pakistan to salvage interim ceasefire deal

• Houthis threaten attacks on shipping tankers if they use Saudi ports on Red Sea

• What is Pickaxe Mountain, Iran’s underground nuclear facility?

Donald Trump on Tuesday made new threats to attack and destroy Iran’s nuclear site known as Pickaxe Mountain.

Here’s what we know about Pickaxe Mountain, why it has captured Trump’s attention and how the US military could strike at the deeply buried complex.

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Goat Cheese Omelet with summer squash, sungold tomatoes & herbs, potatoes, arugula & toast

Met rustgevend muziekje eronder

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GOEDEMORGEN bij alweer de 11e keer hetzelfde ochtendtopic kunnen wij verder ook niks aan doen. CENTCOM schreef 5 uur geleden: "Op 21 juli om 20.15 uur (Eastern Time) heeft het U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) de elfde opeenvolgende avond met aanvallen op Iran succesvol afgerond. De strijdkrachten van CENTCOM richtten zich op Iraanse militaire commandocentra, maritieme capaciteiten, vliegtuighangars, opslagplaatsen voor drones en militaire logistieke infrastructuur, om zo het vermogen van Iran om de commerciële scheepvaart in de Straat van Hormuz te bedreigen verder te verzwakken."

Notabele afwezige tijdens deze (bijna) 12-daagse 'oorlog': de Hebreeën. Want Israël doet niet mee met de aanvallen tegen Iran, en is bovendien ook geen doelwit van Iraanse (tegen)aanvallen, alleen Amerikaanse doelwitten in de Golfstaten treft dat lot. En de Israëlische lezing daarvan luidt voorlopig: ja eigenlijk wel even lekker zo. Al blijven ze natuurlijk waakzaam, want afgelopen maandag nog vertelde "Israëlische defensiefunctionarissen het kabinet dat er in Teheran een actief debat gaande is over de vraag of Israël in de vuurlinie moet worden gebracht." Teheran debatcultuur!

Hoe is het nu met de benzineprijzen nou slecht. In Amerika tegen de $4 per gallon (3,8 liter). En ook hier gaat het met €2,60 de liter richting recordhoogtes. Afijn, wij maar weer eens live.

Marco "consequences" Rubio aan het woord.

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It's been pretty hot lately. Probably should use a fan to cool off. Mind the trip hazards. Original. --Remy

"It's that time of year again," Robert Rossegger wrote, "you know, when the underpowered air conditioner just can't cope with the non-winter weather? Fortunately, we have a solution for that... and all we need to do is just keep an extra eye on people walking near the (completely ajar) server room door."

 

"For as long as anyone can remember," Mike E wrote, "the fax machine in one particular office was a bit spotty whenever it was wet out. After having the telco test the lines from the DMARC to the office, I replaced the hardware, looked for water leaks all along the run, and found precisely nothing. The telco disavowed all responsibility, so the best solution I could offer was to tell the users affected by this to look out the window and, if raining, go to another fax machine."

"One day, we had the telco out adding a T1 and they had the cap off of the vault where our cables come in to the building. Being curious by nature, I wandered over when nobody was around and wound up taking this picture. After emailing same to the district manager of the telco, suddenly we had the truck out for an extra day (accompanied by one very sullen technician) and the fax machine worked perfectly from then on."

 

"I found this when I came back in to work after some time off," writes Sam Nicholson, "that drive is actually earmarked for 'off-site backup'. Also, this is what passes for a server rack at this particular software company. Yes, it's made of wood."

 

"Some people use 'proper electrical wiring'," writes Mike, "others use 'extension cords'. We, on the other hand, apparently do this."

 

"I was staying at a hotel in Manhattan and somehow took a wrong turn and wound up in the stairwell," wrote Dan, "not only is all their equipment in a public place (without even a door), it's mostly hanging from cables in several places."

 

"I spotted this in China," writes Matt, "This poor switch was bolted to a column in the middle of some metal shop about 4m above ground. There were many more curious things, but I decided to keep a low profile and stop taking pictures."

 

The advent of generative AI spurred an enormous and controversial datacenter building boom that has seen almost anyone who knows how to run a bit barn try to expand their business ASAP. Fujitsu, however, wants out. The Australian outpost of the Japanese giant’s business this week announced the sale of five datacenters down under. The company said selling the bit barns “enables us to further invest in the technology services where customer demand is growing fastest.” In Australia, that apparently means “helping organisations modernise critical systems, strengthen cyber resilience, adopt sovereign AI, and access the high-performance and quantum computing capabilities needed for their next phase of transformation.” Fujitsu said its datacenter business “is a strong platform, and its next phase will benefit from dedicated commercial ownership and investment.” That new owner, private equity outfit Next Capital, may have its work cut out for it because some of the bit barns it bought appeared to be rather modest. Fujitsu’s manifest of its Australian properties lists one facility capable of hosting 92MW worth of kit, another with 28MW capacity, plus a 10MW, 4.8MW, 3MW, and 2MW. Keen-eyed readers will have noticed that the paragraph above mentions six datacenters and that earlier in this story we said Fujitsu is selling five. The Register understands Fujitsu has already disposed of the other one to another buyer. Whatever Next Capital bought, it will surely be aware that a modern rack filled with AI kit can require 500KW or more. Fujitsu Australia’s littlest datacenters therefore won’t help the investment company to catch the AI wave unless it invests in upgrades – a process that might be cheaper than building new AI-ready datacenters from scratch and could also involve fewer regulatory complications than greenfield builds. Next Capital was quiet about its plans, but shared to a local media report suggesting it’s spent AUD$200 million ($139.97/£104 million) to do the deal. The firm promised continuity for tenants. Fujitsu Australia’s services business won plenty of blue-chip and government clients, and The Register understands many are long-term residents of the offloaded datacenters. Next Capital can probably therefore bank on solid cashflow for months or years to come. Fujitsu sold its US datacenter business in 2023 and at the time hinted at divestments elsewhere. The company has also “absorbed” its Japanese public cloud and quit the mainframe business. The Japanese giant plans to return to the big iron business with machines built on the Monaka CPU which it hopes to deliver next year, and perhaps also get into the quantum computing biz. ®