- Ariane 6 first launch with four boosters
- Ring Search Party, a way to normalise mass surveillance via ML/biometrics…
- Rice Theory: why Eastern cultures are more cooperative than the Western ones
- After Greenland, is French Guiana USA next territorial theft?
- Indonesia prepares to send up to 8,000 troops to Gaza as part of Trump plan
- Apparently in Nepal there is a diabetes big rise, due to imported industrial junk food (and no proteins due to poverty and local orography)
- Uzbekistan bets on digital schools, to be seen the meaning of "digital"…
- Ukraine want to export weapons to make money, western slaves pay nazi factories to sell weapons to Ukraine nazi, they sell weapons back to the west…
- Do People Trust The Media Or Government More?
- nazis in EU keep pushing for war…
- JPMorgan says bitcoin could reach $266,000 'long term' as it looks more attractive than gold
- 'Weakest bitcoin bear case in history': Bernstein reiterates $150,000 price target for 2026 two curious bullish predictions which could indicate a split between the "small fry" retail investors using stablecoins programmable money the issuer can freeze at will and the giants using BTC, as they don't trust each other and want a neutral instrument
- EU breakup with Visa/Mastercard/Amex, I'm skeptical because the EU wants control and in recent years has proven to be far more authoritarian than the US, while technology offers freedom. So, a new service that offers more of a cage than the old one won't get very far.
- Amazon Ring, a surveillance dragnet, payed by those under surveillance…
- Archeologist Dougald O'Reilly speaks about his work on Laos' Plain of Jars, tracing the region's pre-historical societies.
- Children in England 'bombarded' with online ads for harmful products…
- As AI enters the operating room, reports arise of botched surgeries and misidentified body parts
- Iceland is planning for the possibility that its climate could become uninhabitable, a more serious problem than most people think, especially those who live in cities and only see nature while on vacation, so they don't see the changes or what it takes to produce energy and food. Energy will be, and already largely is, one of the primary reasons certain places become uninhabitable. In areas where heating is necessary and there aren't plenty of geysers or enough mountains and water for massive hydro power, and where solar panels with small-scale storage simply won't cut it, well, you just won't be able to live there.
- Luna 9, long lost soviet moon lander may have been found.
- Communities Are Not Fungible, an interesting but debatable piece on sociology
- FDA refuses to review Moderna's mRNA flu vaccine a good step to limit experiments to lab Guinea pigs, not ordinary citizens, who might even be paying customers.
- The BRICS suffer bureaucracy and slow decision-making, money and "muscle" diplomacy causes long-term problems, as we well know, but it's faster than structured diplomacy and for now seems to be prevailing.
- Willow protocols presented at FOSDEM
You might also be interested in today's press review in French or Italian.