The company's latest recall of 3,871 vehicles follows incidents of its autonomous cars "prioritizing other hazards" or failing to recognize closed construction zones altogether. Waymo has filed its fourth safety recall since February 2024, after its driverless cars were caught entering closed freeway-construction zones. The recall, filed with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) on June 17, appears to affect Waymo's entire US fleet, covering 3,871 vehicles running Waymo's 5th Generation automated driving system (ADS). NHTSA estimates 100 precent of the affected units carry the defect, which is outlined in the filed safety recall report as "under certain circumstances, the AV may enter and drive at speed in freeway-construction zones due to inappropriately prioritizing the avoidance of other freeway hazards and/or failing to recognize the construction zone." Waymo started offering highway rides in late 2025, and the underlying problem appears to be a failure of priority logic.

For Iran's Athletes, There Is No Separating Sports From Politics From defections and protests to moments of national pride, the 2026 World Cup arrives amid decades of tension between identity and the state. Iran's national soccer team has made its 2026 World Cup debut amid a tumultuous backdrop: an abrupt and tentative ceasefire after months of war, an extraordinary set-up in Mexico after the US prevented the team from residing in-country between matches, and political uncertainty that has now expanded to the international stage. But for many Iranians, professional sports have always sat at an intersection between athleticism, identity, and politics. From sporting defections and political activism to moments of immense national sporting pride, the trajectory of Iranian sports underscores what's at stake this World Cup. The Iranian team, on Tuesday morning, drew 2-2 in their debut against New Zealand and will next face Belgium and Egypt, traveling to and from Mexico in between.

Qobuz Is the Anti-Spotify Music Streamer You've Been Waiting For With its music focus, no-AI content policy, and larger artist royalties, the hi-res streaming service is scooping up all sorts of switchers. When Dan Mackta, Qobuz's New York-based managing director, was looking for musicians to endorse the music streaming service after its US launch in 2019, he tapped up a friend--the manager of the Flaming Lips. It was mid-pandemic levels of tricky. "I flew to Oklahoma to shoot with Wayne Coyne," Mackta says. "He shows up wearing one of those helmets, with the ventilation system to protect you, a metallic puffer jacket and big silver moon boots."

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Donald Trump's White House UFC Event Would Be Embarrassing Anywhere A Monster Energy-sponsored MMA show on the White House's South Lawn was never going to be the height of dignity. But UFC Freedom 250 is failing to clear even the lowest bar. With his history of involvement in pro wrestling and boxing and his zeal for garish excess--the man is a failed casino impresario, after all--it makes perfect sense that Donald Trump would want to celebrate both America's birthday and his own with UFC cage fights on the White House lawn, sponsored by Monster Energy. If there's been any surprise, it's been in how the whole affair has so far failed to clear the lowest bar. The event's promoters are certainly setting expectations high.

Crowding the gates of a major health care conference, protesters called for Palantir to be booted out of the UK's National Health Service over privacy concerns and political grievances. Protesters wearing hospital gowns and wielding signs gathered outside a UK health care conference on Thursday to object to a deal between the country's National Health Service and American software company Palantir . At 8 am local time, the group, around 80 people in total, crowded the entryway to the NHS ConfedExpo in Manchester. They wanted to appeal to NHS leadership to terminate a contract worth up to $440 million over concerns around national security, data privacy, and the company's political affiliations . The contract, which includes access to Palantir's data analytics and artificial intelligence services, is intended to run until 2031 but includes a break clause that permits the government to withdraw the agreement next February.

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Alex Vindman Survived Trump's Retaliation Machine. In 2019, Alex Vindman testified during President Trump's first impeachment trial--a decision that ended his military career. Now he wants to challenge the president from the halls of Congress. Alex Vindman knows a thing or two about pissing off President Donald Trump . In 2019, Vindman rose to national prominence when he served as a witness during Trump's first impeachment trial. If you've lost track of that particular scandal, it's the one involving Trump, Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky, the Biden family and Vindman listening in on a troubling phone call in his capacity as the director for European affairs on the National Security Council. Vindman's congressional testimony describing that pivotal call was widely lauded, even as it ended his storied military career: After being ousted from the NSC, Vindman retired from the Army in 2020. Six years later, he's got his eye on another governmental gig. In January, Vindman announced plans to challenge Republican incumbent Ashley Moody for the Florida seat in the US Senate previously held by Marco Rubio. Vindman, who tells me he moved to Florida in 2023 because his wife wanted to politics, is the latest candidate I'm chatting with ahead of the November midterms. He's particularly interesting to me, and WIRED, for a few reasons: Vindman has lived through--and emerged from--the Trump retaliation machine, and I wanted to hear more about that journey; he's been vocal about his opposition to both the war in Iran and ICE, two topics we cover frequently; and I wanted his view, as a longtime service member, on AI through the lens of national security. Then there's the fact that Vindman, running in what's ostensibly a Republican stronghold, has a decent shot at winning the damn thing: Though Senator Moody still leads in most polls, Vindman is often within spitting distance--no small feat for a first-time candidate whose campaign started around five months ago. KATIE DRUMMOND: Welcome to the Big Interview, Alex. Good to be here with you, Katie. So glad to have you here. You are maybe best known on a national level as a whistleblower, but you were also an Army veteran of more than 20 years. You were honored with a Purple Heart after being wounded in Iraq, and you were on the National Security Council.

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