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US targets Iranian missile launch sites and boats in ‘self-defense’ strikes as talks to end war proceed—AND MORE
CNN: The US military carried out what it called “self-defense strikes” targeting Iranian missile launch sites and boats around the Strait of Hormuz. US and…
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Revealed: Secret suburban life of Britain’s greatest Cold War spy
Telegraph: Former KGB double agent hid in plain sight in Surrey…
Iranian hackers responsible for Los Angeles transit system breach, Israeli researchers say
Reuters: The saboteurs stole at least 700 gigabytes of emails, backups, and other files from the Los Angeles County Metropolitan…
Pentagon spars with SpaceX over Starlink price hike during Iran war
Reuters: Within weeks of the United States launching its bombing campaign, SpaceX executives met Pentagon officials and argued the military…
Pope Leo compares AI threat to biblical ‘Tower of Babel’
Wall Street Journal: Pope Leo XIV warned that artificial intelligence “threatens to normalize an anti-human vision” and said that the…
Israeli ministers call for return to ‘high-intensity’ war on Hizbollah
Financial Times: Ultranationalist members of Benjamin Netanyahu’s government have made calls for a full-scale resumption of Israel’s offensive…
Ferrari launches first EV with Jony Ive’s ‘polarising’ design
Financial Times: “This needs to stand the test of time,” Newson said, noting that not everyone would like the Luce’s futuristic design. Enrico…
Creation of new Murdoch empire
Washington Post: James Murdoch is taking over New York magazine and Vox, building a different media company than his father’s…
Trump’s unofficial Venezuela viceroy shapes U.S. policy, raising oversight concerns
Washington Post: Mauricio Claver-Carone doesn’t work for the U.S. government but has an outsize role in determining the future of Venezuela…
American journalist charged with serving as unregistered agent for China
Politico: Thomas Pauken II allegedly told the FBI he was “80 percent sure” an associate now working for the Trump administration would give…
Lithuania suspects foreign involvement in data leak of over 600,000 national register entries
Associated Press: The Lithuanian general prosecutor’s office on Friday announced the leak was primarily from registers of real estate and…
Netherlands seizes 800 servers, arrests 2 for aiding cyberattacks by Russia
Krebs on Security: Authorities in the Netherlands have arrested the co-owners of two related Internet hosting companies for operating IT…
Putin’s plan for new Austria-Hungary
Profil: A profile of the Kremlin leak outlines a “Central Europe” alliance of Austria, Hungary and Slovakia – as a conservative power bloc…
Millions fewer visitors, billions in lost tourism dollars. Impact of how world perceives US right now
CNN: This time, it wasn’t a pandemic or a collapse of the market — it was human error. Travelers cite presidential rhetoric and policies…
ECB summons banks to urge them to fix flaws exposed by latest AI models
Financial Times: The ECB plans to stress the seriousness of the threat to the financial system revealed by Anthropic’s Claude Mythos Preview…
Short sellers reap more than $2.3bn profit betting against gambling companies
Financial Times: Traders positioned to make money from falls in the share price of betting groups Flutter, DraftKings and Entain have…
US-Iran negotiations ‘still a work in progress,’ says Rubio. But Washington will find ‘another way’ if peace talks fail—AND MORE
CNN: The US and Iran are signaling progress in efforts to end the conflict, but crucial details of a framework agreement are still under…
Silicon Valley takes its AI pitch to pope
Politico: Silicon Valley has spent years trying to convince governments and the public that AI can be developed responsibly. Now, the industry…
Dubious Chinese carbon projects expose depth of European market’s flaws
Bloomberg: Companies in at least nine European countries bought carbon credits from projects that appear not to exist or were verified by an…
I saw up close dark reality of OpenAI’s race to create god
Times: When Karen Hao was embedded with the secretive makers of ChatGPT, she discovered paranoia and religious fervour in their pursuit of…
Israel exerting control over bigger slice of Gaza
Wall Street Journal: Israel now holds around 59% of the enclave, up from 53% at the start of the U.S.-brokered cease-fire in October, people…
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