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July 11, 2026: Patriot missile deal and Trump’s praise for Zelensky put pressure on Russia; Trump says U.S. and Iran will keep talking but declares...

Global headlines: Patriot missile deal and Trump’s praise for Zelensky put pressure on Russia (The Kremlin downplayed President Donald Trump’s reversal but said it could cause the war to go on longer); Trump says U.S. and Iran will keep talking but declares ceasefire ‘OVER!’ (The president suggested talks could continue amid military strikes, but analysts say a deeply flawed preliminary truce deal poses obstacles for negotiators); and At least 11 people killed as wildfires sweep southern Spain (The deaths in Andalusia included foreign nationals, and high temperatures raised fears of more fires across Europe). Markets leaned lower, with 4 of 7 tracked indexes down; Nikkei 225 up 1.20% was the largest move. Benchmarks tracked: S&P 500, NASDAQ Composite, Euronext 100 Index, and Public Joint-Stock Company Moscow Exchange MICEX-RTS plus 3 more indexes. Hacker News: Einstein's relativity rules chemical bonds in heavy elements, new research shows (Researchers have shown the first direct experimental evidence that the textbook triple bond structure breaks down in heavy elements, where...); QuadRF can spot drones and see WiFi through my wall (The QuadRF (pictured above) a phased-array radio built around a Raspberry Pi 5 and an FPGA board with picosecond-level timing. It does...); and Apple sues OpenAI, accuses ex-employees of stealing trade secrets (Apple has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI today, accusing the company of trade secret theft. Specifically, Apple alleges that its...). Product Hunt features Scarlett. (Your AI Co-Worker in Slack & iMessage), Muse Spark 1.1 by Meta AI (Multimodal reasoning model built for agentic tasks), and Ship OS by Notion (The agent-native way to ship software).