August 1, 2026
Stories from this day
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Sports · 2 min readSon takes All-Star MVP in 35 minutes
Son scored in the 20th and 23rd minutes of his first MLS All-Star Game and took MVP
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Tech · 3 min readHBM4 vs HBM3E: what doubles, and why it matters
HBM4 doubles I/O pins from 1,024 to 2,048 and channels from 16 to 32, taking per-stack bandwidth past 2TB/s
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Economy · 2 min readDeleveraging: why selling ends in a rally
Deleveraging means cutting debt by selling assets or raising equity to lower risk
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Life & Health · 2 min readKorea's heat alerts: the three tiers
Korea rebuilt its heat alert system into three tiers on 1 June, the first change in 18 years
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Issues · 2 min readKorea orders a 190,000-building fire audit
A cross-ministry factory fire safety package was announced on 31 July
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World · 2 min readSenate blocks Iran war powers, 49-50
The chamber voted 49-50 against discharging S.J.Res.181, Gillibrand's war powers resolution
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Tech · 2 min readHBM4 ramp: the race turns to supply
SK hynix started HBM4 mass-production shipments in Q2 and signed long-term deals
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Economy · 2 min readKorea's KOSPI jumps 17.91% in one day
The KOSPI rose 1,001.89 points to 6,595.45, setting records for both percentage and point gain
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Life & Health · 2 min readKorea sets an all-time heat record
Yangsan reached 40.3C on 29 July, the first 40C reading ever logged in Korea during July
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Tech · 2 min readHBM: the AI memory bottleneck
HBM stacks 4 to 16 DRAM dies connected by through-silicon vias to maximise bandwidth