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    Valve prices Steam Machine above $1,000 as component shortage persists, opens lottery reservations

    Valve announced its Steam Machine gaming PC starts at $1,049 for the base 512GB model, with a lottery-based reservation system and no controller bundled, citing brutal component costs and an unsubsidized hardware strategy.

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Starmer, Hormuz and 43C

Starmer quits as Iran talks reopen and Europe counts heatwave deaths while schools close

Britain joined the day's list of unstable places, as Keir Starmer resigned and Labour moved quickly toward Andy Burnham. Elsewhere, diplomats in Switzerland tried to cool a Gulf crisis, Europe baked under dangerous heat, and Colombia elected a hard-right outsider by a whisker.

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  • US orders quantum computer by 2028

    Signs executive orders directing federal agencies to deploy a usable quantum computer for scientific research by 2028.

  • World Cup match suspended in Philadelphia

    Resumed play after a two-hour weather delay in Philadelphia. The match between France and Iraq is back underway following the suspension at halftime.

  • Montreal shooting leaves three dead

    Confirmed the death of a police officer among the three victims killed in the Montreal shooting, as authorities investigate the incident in a Jewish neighborhood.

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The US under Trump: second term

The collapse of US-EU metal tariff talks and the renewed NATO spending ultimatum, explicitly linking security guarantees to national outlays, indicate an escalation of transactional pressure on key allies.

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