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Israel launches new strikes on Lebanon despite Trump rebuke. Trump confident yet again about imminent deal. But who really calls the shots?—AND MORE
CNN: Israel’s military launched fresh attacks on Tyre this morning and issued a rare evacuation order for the historic southern Lebanese city’s Christian quarter. Both…
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Hundreds of UK civil servants ‘working from beach’ abroad
Telegraph: More than a third of the civil servants accused of “taxpayer-funded globetrotting” are from Ed Miliband’s net zero team, accounting…
US at UN: Invasion of Ukraine has become strategic failure for Russia
Ukrainska Pravda: ‘Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has been a strategic disaster. Its oil refineries are ablaze […]. Moscow cannot achieve its…
Inside Hegseth’s Pentagon, where distrust and suspicions of loyalty are rampant
CNN: The firings and restricted access have been a cornerstone of Hegseth’s tenure, though sources told CNN it is not limited to the…
Democratic group kicks off $50 million midterm blitz in Conservative strongholds
New York Times: American Bridge is hoping that Republicans are vulnerable in parts of the country that had been exceedingly tough terrain for…
A mayor, her boyfriend and China’s mysterious propaganda machine
New York Times: Eileen Wang pleaded guilty to acting as a foreign agent. But what could Beijing want from the mayor of a small California city…
Parsing Trumps’ crypto profits, investors’ losses
Reuters: The conclusion: the Trump family has made $2.3 billion from crypto with little-to-no downside risk, while other investors have lost…
SpaceX’s $1.78tn IPO asks investors to buy Musk’s moonshots
Financial Times: As much as $1tn of the value of SpaceX’s initial public offering is based on a series of ambitious “moonshot” goals that…
ASML chief warns EU against directing chip supplies
Financial Times: Fouquet said Europe needs to build as “many champions as possible” across the semiconductor supply chain and increase…
‘Rent now, pay later’ loans target US consumers squeezed by housing costs
Financial Times: Rent-split lenders cover a tenant’s monthly payment to their landlord and receive the money back in instalments spread over…
Will Trump abandon Taiwan?
Financial Times: The threat across the Strait is rising. But the US president appears to have adopted Chinese talking points, raising…
Germany drops jet project with France in setback for European defense sovereignty
Wall Street Journal: Berlin will no longer pursue building and ordering the aircraft after failing to resolve a spat between Airbus and…
Meta deletes face-recognition system from its smart glasses app after WIRED report
Wired: The code WIRED identified is gone from the latest version of Meta AI, the companion app for the company’s smart glasses. Meta won’t say…
UK spying fears after secret camera found in Whitehall ceiling panel
iPaper: The discovery sparked alarm because officials in the building had been involved in the controversial planning application for China’s…
Meta launches ‘workforce academy’ to train workers to build data centers
Wall Street Journal: The company is starting a “workforce academy” to train Americans to build its data centers as skilled trade workers…
White House, Hill relaunch effort to block state AI laws
Axios: The White House is negotiating a federal preemption of state AI laws in exchange for its support of key tech policy priorities from the…
Fight to break China’s rare-earth dominance moves to new front in Brazil
Wall Street Journal: Brazil holds the world’s second-largest reserves and wants to become a processor of critical minerals, but it refuses to…
Alibaba, Baidu accused by Pentagon of aiding Chinese military
Bloomberg: The companies were added to the Pentagon’s 1260H list, which also includes Tencent Holdings Ltd. and targets China’s top…
Meta furious over bombshell smart glasses revelation
Futurism: “Despite the billions of reasons not to, Meta seems to have created the capacity to turn their customers into a distributed…
Apple renames Siri as ‘Siri AI’ with new push into artificial intelligence
NBC: The overhaul puts Siri into more direct competition with modern AI assistants such as ChatGPT… Apple unveils long-awaited AI Siri after…
Andrew Tate’s empire of abuse
New Yorker: How the defining figure of the manosphere built a fortune—and became a political force—by systematically exploiting women…
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