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"Hyundai sold 79,543 vehicles in the U.S. last month," reports the EV news site Electrek — Hyundai's best July ever, and 15% higher than last year. "The growth was mainly driven by electrified vehicles, including EVs and hybrids..." Hyundai said that electrified vehicle sales "reached new heights," after climbing 50% compared to July 2024. Electrified vehicles accounted for nearly a third (32%) of Hyundai's retail sales in July 2025, with several popular nameplates setting new all-time monthly sales records, including the new IONIQ 5. Hyundai IONIQ 5 sales surged 71% in July with 5,818 units sold. Through the first seven months of 2025, Hyundai has now sold nearly 25,000 IONIQ 5 models in the US. Hyundai's electric SUV remains one of the top-selling EVs in the US, boasting a long driving range, ultra-fast charging capabilities, advanced technology, and a stylish design. After upgrading it for the 2025 model year, the IONIQ 5 now features a range of up to 318 miles, an upgraded infotainment system, and a built-in NACS port, allowing you to charge at Tesla Superchargers... Hyundai is also offering a complimentary ChargePoint L2 home EV charger with the purchase or lease of a new 2025 IONIQ 5 or 2026 IONIQ 9.

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Every year, one fashion brand manages to grab the attention of the nation and become the summer's must have look. This year, the winner is perhaps a surprise.

A man, aged in his 40s, was fatally injured at around 10.19pm and is thought to have plunged from the upper tier balcony.

The Brit notched his fifth win of the 2025 season and a vital haul as he closed the championship gap to just nine points going into the summer break.

The actress and famed party girl was stabbed 22 times with a butcher knife and attacked with a blunt object. The killer retreated into the shadows that night and has remained there for nearly 50 years.

Ultra-rich people across the world are selling their second homes abroad and buying up luxury properties in this sun-soaked American city.

Started in 1984, it's been described as the internet's longest-running contest. And yesterday 2025's International Obfuscated C Code Contest concluded — with 23 new winners announced in a special four-and-a-half-hour livestreamed ceremony! Programmers submitted their funniest programs showcasing C's unusual/obscure subtleties while having some fun. (And demonstrating the importance of clarity and style by setting some very bad examples...) Among this year's winners were an OpenRISC 32-bit CPU emulator, a virtual machine capable of running Doom, and some kind of salmon recipe that makes clever use of C's U"string" literal prefix... But yes, every entry's source code is ridiculously obfuscated. ("Before you set off on your adventure to decode this program's logic, make sure you have enough food, ammo, clothes, oxen, and programming supplies," read the judge's remarks on the winner of this year's "diabolical logistics" prize. "You'll be driving for 2170 miles through a wild wilderness inspired by Oregon Trail...") And one entrant also struggled mightily in adapting a rough port of their program's old Atari 2600 version, but was never gonna give it up... Thanks to long-time Slashdot reader achowe for bringing the news (who has submitted winning entries in four different decades, starting in 1991 and continuing through 2024)... Including a 2004 award for the best abuse of the contest's guidelines. ("We are not exactly sure how many organisations will be upset with this entry, but we are considering starting an IOCCC standards body just to reign in the likes of Mr Howe....")

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Craig and Lindsay Foreman, both 52, had embarked on a motorbike journey around the world when they were arrested in Kerman, southern Iran, on January 3 and detained on unspecified charges.

When Keir Starmer met Donald Trump for that humiliating press conference in Scotland last week, many political eyes were focused not just on the two leaders.

The 31-year-old Peaches hitmaker appeared to be paying a visit to the headquarters for  his clothing brand, SKYLRK, with several other pals.

The poignant series focused on the lives of the five Salinger children, who were picking up the pieces after tragically losing both of their parents in a drunk driving accident..

Slashdot reader ffkom writes: The air around you mostly consists of nitrogen [78%]. And in that air exist happy little monogamous pairs of two nitrogen atoms per molecule, also known as N2. Researchers from the University of Giessen, Germany, recently managed to synthesize N6 molecules, "the first, to our knowledge, experimentally realized neutral molecular nitrogen allotrope beyond N2 that exhibits unexpected stability." And these appear to be pretty angry little molecules, as they detonate at more than twice the energy density than good old TNT: A kiloton of N6 is 1.19×10**7mol, which can release an energy of 2.20×109kcal (9.21terajoules) based on the enthalpy. Considering that the standard kiloton TNT equivalent is 4.184terajoules, N6 can release 2.2 times the energy of TNT of the same weight. On the basis of the documented TNT equivalent based on weight for HMX (1.15) and RDX (1.15), N6 can release 1.9 times the energy of HMX or RDX with the same weight. In interviews the researchers contemplated the possibility of using N6 as rocket fuel, given its superior energy density and that its reaction product is just N2, so basically air, but no smoke, no CO2 or other potentially harmful substances.

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The theatre actress, 28, took to Instagram on Sunday while she was backstage at the London Coliseum following her latest show.

An Airbus plane has been grounded after suffering massive damage as it was hit by a bird while taking off from a Spanish airport. 

Chris Hughes has reportedly been dropped from a huge sporting gig - this time on the BBC , following his Celebrity Big Brother stint and romance with JoJo Siwa .

A newly released image showed killer Bryan Kohberger just moments after his parents' home was raided and he was arrested for murdering four innocent University of Idaho students.

I recently went on my first family vacation with my in-laws - and let's just say that it did not go as planned.

JONATHAN McEVOY: It was another dismal day for the seven-time world champion at the Hungaroring after his mind-scrambling Saturday, when he qualified 12th

Fans of iconic '70s films were in for a treat this week when one of the era's most beloved stars was spotted out and about in New York.

Two in five Brits secretly suspect a friend is using weight loss treatments - but most are too scared to ask them about it, a new study reveals.