World
2026-02-21 01:43
World
Vehicle rams Boulder City power substation near Hoover Dam network, Las Vegas police call it terrorism-related event, centralized grid turns one-car attack into national-security pretext
2026-02-21 01:43
World
US military burns alleged drug boat in eastern Pacific, Trump cartel war expands into offshore kill list, 148 dead in 43 strikes with little public evidence
2026-02-20 23:52
World
WFP warns Somalia emergency food aid may halt by April, donor funding cliff turns hunger relief into remote budget switch, centralised pipeline creates chokepoints for both patrons and gatekeepers
2026-02-20 22:02
World
Floreana giant tortoises return to Galápagos after 180 years, back-breeding produces hybrids with 40–80% ancestry, conservation becomes genetic engineering by committee
2026-02-20 22:02
World
Cloudflare outage disrupts apps and sites, scheduled maintenance at Portland data center cited, internet decentralization looks contractual
2026-02-20 20:12
World
DHS pushes single search interface for faces and fingerprints, Wired describes cross-agency biometric querying, Efficiency pitch accelerates mission creep and false-match governance
2026-02-20 20:12
World
NASA targets March 6 Artemis II launch, First crewed SLS-Orion lunar flyby after fueling test, Calendar milestone meets unresolved abort and re-entry failure modes
2026-02-20 18:22
World
European military warns F-35 combat power depends on US-controlled software and sustainment, Lockheed ecosystem resembles vendor lock-in, Strategic autonomy meets licensed fighter jet
Sweden
2026-02-21 02:02
Sweden
Munkfors preschool Villa Tallbacken deemed permitless, municipality threatens 102,000 kronor fine, Swedish building-permit regime turns childcare into revocable license
2026-02-21 00:42
Sweden
Explosion hits Malmö again, police cordons and forensic teams follow, investigation ongoing becomes civic background noise
2026-02-21 00:42
Sweden
Malmö FF posts nearly SEK 90m loss, club plans layoffs as administration swells, professionalisation delivers overhead not goals
2026-02-20 23:32
Sweden
SMHI issues yellow warning for heavy snow in western Skåne, 5–10 cm snow turns to rain and ice overnight, minor winter exposes fragile transport resilience
2026-02-20 23:32
Sweden
6000 furries flood Malmö for week-long convention, hotels and nightlife absorb privately organized mass event, city authorities rehearse crowd management without football or politics
2026-02-20 21:53
Sweden
Masked group attacks couple with crowbar to collect debt in Tomelilla, suspected private enforcement ends in arson investigation, state monopoly looks optional at farm gate
2026-02-20 21:52
Sweden
ICA breaks ground on new Hisingen store opening 2027, major capital bet on physical retail and logistics, private investment moves while municipalities offer safety rhetoric
Miscellaneous
2026-02-21 01:52
Miscellaneous
Anna Murdoch-Mann dies at 81, ex-wife who helped build Rupert Murdoch media empire then took $1.7bn exit, Succession-style dynasty outlives marriage
2026-02-20 23:22
Miscellaneous
Butler Ohio mayor Wesley Dingus arrested on voyeurism charges, hidden camera allegedly records him sniffing teen’s underwear, small-town power meets cheap private surveillance
2026-02-20 23:22
Miscellaneous
Scott Adams AI afterlife triggers family backlash, estate disputes deepfake avatar built by venture capitalist John Arrow, death becomes licensing fight between speech rights and property claims
2026-02-20 20:22
Miscellaneous
Freiburg speed camera tickets horse, Smart-city automation enforces rules without understanding objects, Kafka arrives on schedule
2026-02-20 17:42
Miscellaneous
Alex Honnold free-solos Taipei 101 on Netflix, returns to sleepless nights with toddler who escapes crib every 45 minutes, extreme risk looks manageable until family life audits it
2026-02-20 17:42
Miscellaneous
US judge upholds $243m verdict over Tesla Autopilot fatal crash in Florida, jury assigns Tesla 33% blame despite driver searching for dropped phone, product-liability law becomes de facto regulator of autonomy marketing
2026-02-20 15:22
Miscellaneous
Tourist bus breaks through ice on Lake Baikal, Reuters reports lone survivor, Marked ice roads sell certainty until physics invoices
2026-02-20 13:02
Miscellaneous
Osaka receives 21kg gold-bar donation earmarked for water pipes, city faces 260km replacement backlog, private money funds maintenance politicians postpone
2026-02-20 13:02
Miscellaneous
Milan UniCredit vault traps would-be burglar for nine hours, time-delay safe locks keys until morning, old-school physical security embarrasses smart-surveillance era
2026-02-20 10:12
Miscellaneous
Wired tests coffee grinders with particle-size analysis, home barista culture keeps importing lab metrology into the kitchen
Media
2026-02-21 00:12
Media
Live Nation deletes DOJ move on post, monopoly-era PR slips into public record then gets scrubbed, platform gatekeepers still assume regulators negotiate not enforce
2026-02-20 21:32
Media
Judge weighs return of Washington Post reporter devices seized in Pentagon leak probe, FBI grab includes laptops phone recorder smartwatch, source protection becomes evidence custody fight
2026-02-20 19:02
Media
TIME sells filler-word coaching as lifestyle content, Legacy media pivots from reporting to status-anxiety self-optimization, Um becomes a subscription strategy
2026-02-20 19:02
Media
NBCU Peacock plans third-party add-on subscriptions, Streaming wars drift back to cable-style bundling and billing, Platform that couldn’t win on content tries to win on gatekeeping
2026-02-20 16:03
Media
EU states push under-16 social media bans, age verification becomes de facto internet ID layer, Child-protection rhetoric builds KYC market and normalizes traceability
2026-02-20 16:03
Media
AWS outages reportedly triggered by internal AI agents, Amazon calls it user error as automation speeds failure, Cloud centralization turns prompt-level mistakes into internet-wide risk
2026-02-20 13:42
Media
UK finfluencers plead guilty to illegal Instagram FX promotions as FCA brings landmark prosecution, influencer ads blur into regulated investment inducements
Politics
2026-02-21 01:02
Politics
Starmer government weighs removing Prince Andrew from line of succession, police search Royal Lodge after misconduct-in-public-office arrest, constitutional monarchy turns succession law into reputational risk control
2026-02-20 23:16
Politics
FCC chair Brendan Carr urges broadcasters air pro-America content, Pledge America Campaign ties patriot programming to license-era public interest doctrine, Voluntary until renewal time
2026-02-20 21:13
Politics
US plans to reopen embassy in Syria after 14 years, Diplomatic normalization doubles as operational footprint for visas aid intelligence, Washington returns with paperwork after war reshaped reality
2026-02-20 21:13
Politics
Trump administration moves to restrict asylum-seeker work permits, Deterrence policy builds illegal labor market by design, State blocks lawful work then laments shadow economy
2026-02-20 19:22
Politics
White House pressures universities to cut ties with minority-student nonprofit, Federal funding threats replace court orders, First Amendment survives on paper while budgets do the policing
2026-02-20 17:12
Politics
Johnson, Truss lobby Trump to block Starmer Chagos deal, Ex-leaders act as parallel foreign office, Diego Garcia basing politics turns democracy into backchannel sport
2026-02-20 17:12
Politics
Trump floats limited strike on Iran as nuclear draft deal lingers, Military buildup used as negotiating chip, Markets pay risk premium before Congress votes
2026-02-20 15:32
Politics
US Supreme Court strikes down Trump IEEPA tariffs, Court says emergency economic powers do not include taxation, Executive trade state hits a constitutional speed bump
Opinion
2026-02-20 22:23
Opinion
Eduardo Porter: US Supreme Court blocks Trump IEEPA tariff regime, Separation-of-powers win collides with policy whiplash, Rule of law becomes another volatility input
2026-02-20 22:23
Opinion
Shirsho Dasgupta: Epstein war room turns PR into parallel governance, Influence market buys silence and credibility, Bipartisan fragility becomes product feature
2026-02-20 12:23
Opinion
Sweden administrative state adds 37% more staff since 2008, Timbro estimates SEK 50bn annual cost, Budget squeeze meets bureaucracy growth habit
2026-02-20 02:47
Opinion
Miami Herald warns Florida property-tax cuts leave renters behind, Tax incidence and capitalization decide who actually pays, Politicians promise relief while zoning keeps housing scarce
2026-02-20 02:43
Opinion
Robert Reich attacks AI four-day-week hype, Guardian argues productivity gains flow to owners without bargaining power, Keynes leisure utopia meets modern wage stagnation
2026-02-20 02:41
Opinion
Walker Larson says Washington Post layoffs mark legacy-media self-immolation, Alternative media gains power but inherits incentives to grift, Skepticism must apply to rebels too
2026-02-20 02:32
Opinion
Bard College hires WilmerHale to probe Leon Botstein ties to Jeffrey Epstein, DOJ files show post-conviction access to Pentagon-linked real estate pitches, Institutions outsource accountability to reputational management
Europe
2026-02-21 00:02
Europe
Russia strips Gulag Museum of Gulag, Stalin-era repression memory curated into safe patriotism, West intelligence bureaucracy quietly “retracts” inconvenient analysis too
2026-02-20 21:22
Europe
Austrian Alps snowstorm knocks out power to 30,000 homes, avalanches kill three, resilience plans meet real winter
2026-02-20 18:42
Europe
NATO deploys Turkish drone carrier TCG Anadolu to Baltic, Eastern Sentry answers Russian airspace violations, Cheap ISR scales faster than brigades
2026-02-20 15:42
Europe
France hits record 102 million tourists in 2025, €77.5bn revenue collides with local capacity and housing constraints, Overtourism panic often means prices still too low
2026-02-20 15:42
Europe
UK tightens entry rules for dual nationals, British woman told to buy £589 entitlement certificate while passport renewal pending, Border control as paperwork cruelty
2026-02-20 15:42
Europe
Dutch border police seize €250,000 cash at Eindhoven Airport, EU AML regime treats banknotes as probable cause, Confiscation first explanations later
2026-02-20 13:23
Europe
Portuguese navy shadows Russian-flagged SPARTA IV off Nazaré, ship sails outside traffic corridors over 3,000m depths, Europe signals cable anxiety with monitoring rituals
2026-02-20 13:23
Europe
Unsafe radon levels found at 16 UK prisons, MoJ probes 33 sites as legal action grows, state monopoly on incarceration meets basic ventilation failure
North America
2026-02-21 01:14
North America
New York Times reports undisclosed ICE shooting kills US citizen Ruben Ray Martinez in Texas, Immigration enforcement blurs into paramilitary policing, Transparency arrives last if at all
2026-02-21 01:14
North America
Car rams Boulder City power substation near Las Vegas, Critical infrastructure proves softer target than rhetoric admits, Resilience debate again drifts toward policing over decentralization
2026-02-20 22:52
North America
US documents detail Tesla, Waymo robotaxi human babysitters, remote intervention and liability hide behind autonomy branding, self-driving arrives as call-center driving
2026-02-20 19:54
North America
Trump pivots to new tariff statutes after IEEPA loss, Section 122 global 10% plus 232 and 301 threats, Executive branch plays whack-a-mole with Congress
2026-02-20 19:54
North America
Supreme Court strikes down Trump IEEPA tariffs, $133bn refund fight shifts to Court of International Trade, Government collects fast and repays slow
2026-02-20 17:02
North America
DeepMind CEO warns memory shortage is AI choke point, HBM supply and packaging capacity concentrate leverage in Samsung SK Hynix Micron, model builders become procurement takers
2026-02-20 14:42
North America
FBI warns ATM jackpotting surges, Windows XFS stack lets malware command cash dispensers, banks externalize security failures via fees and surveillance
2026-02-20 12:12
North America
Used Tesla prices rise after $7,500 EV credit ends, iSeeCars data shows demand shifts from subsidized new to secondhand, Green policy distortion simply moves markets
Latin America
2026-02-20 20:52
Latin America
White House pressures Colombia, Venezuela over Serbian trafficker Antun Mrdeza, Extradition logistics turn sovereignty into a bargaining chip
2026-02-20 20:52
Latin America
US Jensen trial maps Pemex crude theft pipeline into Texas, Shell firms and customs fraud turn fuel taxes into cartel arbitrage
2026-02-20 10:43
Latin America
Venezuela passes amnesty bill for political detainees, exclusions and procedural hooks keep freedom as state-issued credit
2026-02-20 10:43
Latin America
Cuban government owes Spanish firms at least $320 million, trapped dividends and blocked transfers turn commerce into hostage-taking
2026-02-19 23:00
Latin America
Argentina general strike targets Milei labor reforms, CGT claims 90% adherence while transport and ports take hit, Corporatist veto power marketed as worker protection
2026-02-19 22:57
Latin America
US retargets Haiti gang manhunt from Vitel’homme to Izo as TPS for 300,000 Haitians faces appeals court, Bureaucracy exports both repression and illegality
2026-02-19 22:53
Latin America
Brazil launches first Tamandaré-class frigate, naval modernization contrasts with extradition hunt for Bolsonaro ex-spy chief in Florida, state buys systems but not trust
2026-02-19 22:53
Latin America
Leaked videos show Cuban prisoners protesting hunger, information-control state springs leaks, Mexico aid and US pressure both route power through ration system
2026-02-19 22:17
Latin America
Gunmen shoot up park in Guanajuato, 8 minors among 10 injured, Mexican state capacity fails both street security and cross-border coordination
2026-02-19 22:14
Latin America
Cuba health system nears collapse as Havana courts Moscow, US sanctions and controls keep scarcity profitable for insiders
Asia
2026-02-20 21:02
Asia
China parades humanoid robot fighters on Spring Festival Gala, state TV spectacle doubles as industrial-policy subsidy funnel, choreography replaces transparency on costs and capability
2026-02-20 21:02
Asia
72 captive tigers die in northern Thailand, officials dispute cause between canine distemper and feline panleukopenia, tiger selfie industry discovers biology ignores branding
2026-02-20 15:53
Asia
G42 and Cerebras bring 8 exaflops to India, Gulf capital and US chips underpin sovereign AI pitch, New Delhi adds governance layer and gatekeepers
2026-02-20 15:53
Asia
China amplifies Japan travel scares, state-linked narratives push earthquake and safety fears, humanoid robot spectacles sell domestic modernity
2026-02-20 06:12
Asia
India showcases homegrown AI models at Modi summit, government seeks DeepSeek-style breakthrough, industrial policy risks becoming subsidy-and-committee capitalism
2026-02-20 06:12
Asia
Chinese drone exports reach Russia via Thailand re-exports, trade data show front companies and serviced offices route dual-use tech, export controls turn into compliance theater
Middle East
2026-02-20 23:02
Middle East
US ambassador Mike Huckabee says Israel taking all Middle East land would be fine, Biblical borders replace policy language, Washington exports theology with its weapons
2026-02-20 23:02
Middle East
Palestinian-American teen killed in West Bank settler attack, Israel denies troops fired as arrests unclear, dual legal systems turn accountability into permission
2026-02-20 17:23
Middle East
Iran arrests 50,000 after protests, Euronews cites torture confessions and online mass death sentences, asset seizures turn dissent into revenue stream
2026-02-20 17:23
Middle East
Hormuz risk sends oil tanker rates higher, Bloomberg tracks war-risk premiums and charter markets, free trade priced like state-induced toll
2026-02-20 12:33
Middle East
Israel caps Ramadan access to Al-Aqsa, age thresholds and 10,000-entry quota enforced via checkpoints, security language turns worship into a state-licensed flow problem
2026-02-20 12:33
Middle East
US accelerates military posture near Iran, Trump sets 10–15 day deadline while carriers and ISR shift, shipping and oil markets price Strait of Hormuz risk on taxpayers tab
2026-02-20 07:52
Middle East
Report alleges abuse of Palestinian journalists in Israeli detention, CPJ claims beatings starvation and sexual violence across facilities, information war acquires a prison economy
2026-02-20 07:52
Middle East
Danish navy detains Iran-flagged ship under US sanctions, Washington exports enforcement to allies in Hormuz-adjacent lanes, commercial shipping learns geopolitics is now a boarding party
Africa
2026-02-20 19:32
Africa
Gabon orders social media blackout, HAC cites national security while NetBlocks sees YouTube TikTok Facebook WhatsApp disrupted, VPN demand explodes as regime uses telecom licenses as censorship switch
2026-02-20 08:32
Africa
Sudan RSF drone strike in Kordofan kills aid workers, Cheap UAVs turn humanitarian logistics into targetable infrastructure
2026-02-19 22:29
Africa
Morocco sentences 19 AFCON final fans to up to 1 year in prison, pitch-storming and damage charges weaponize collective deterrence, crowd control doctrine travels well beyond football
2026-02-19 22:29
Africa
Florida zoo team trains Zimbabwe rhino to accept eye drops without sedation, behavior protocol replaces immobilisation, small accountable operators out-innovate conservation bureaucracy
2026-02-19 22:26
Africa
UN mission finds RSF siege of El Fasher shows hallmarks of genocide, Sudan war escalates with drone strikes in Kordofan, documentation outpaces enforcement
2026-02-19 22:20
Africa
Kenyan intelligence says 1,000+ men recruited to fight for Russia in Ukraine, agencies allegedly collude on visas and airport passage, global labor market now includes trenches
2026-02-19 22:20
Africa
US quietly deports asylum seekers to Cameroon, third-country transfers turn asylum into jurisdictional arbitrage, rights disappear once paperwork becomes logistics
Economy
2026-02-21 02:12
Economy
Basel 1,250% risk weight makes bitcoin toxic for banks, Strategy CEO Michael Saylor lobbies to rewrite capital rules, regulators price assets by decree while crypto tries the back door
2026-02-21 00:24
Economy
UK Ofgem price cap set to cut household energy bills by £120, government shifts costs by scrapping efficiency programme, political risk reappears as higher capital costs and 2029 cliff edge
2026-02-21 00:24
Economy
California lends BART $590 million to avert service cuts, post-Covid farebox collapse turns transit agencies into rolling budget liabilities, bridge loan becomes business model
2026-02-20 22:33
Economy
Airbus unit Aalto expands Zephyr HAPS operations in Australia, stratospheric platforms compete with LEO and fiber on cost curve, regulation and insurance decide investability
2026-02-20 20:42
Economy
Blue Owl fails to line up third-party funding for $4bn data-center project, AI infrastructure hype meets credit committee, Capital finally says no
2026-02-20 18:53
Economy
US retailers lift prices after Supreme Court kills Trump IEEPA tariffs, importers line up refund claims, state discovers taxes can become debt overnight
2026-02-20 16:42
Economy
Anglo American writes down De Beers another $2.3bn, lab-grown diamonds erode cartel-era scarcity, spinoff plans meet market pricing
2026-02-20 16:42
Economy
US Supreme Court strikes down Trump IEEPA tariffs, markets rally on refund hopes, trade policy migrates from prices to lawsuits
Technology
2026-02-21 01:23
Technology
Phil Spencer retires as Microsoft gaming chief, CoreAI executive Asha Sharma takes over while Xbox president exits, games shift from consoles to managed data pipeline
2026-02-21 01:23
Technology
Discord ends UK age-check pilot with Persona, biometric KYC-for-chat triggers backlash, compliance-by-API turns child safety into identity perimeter
2026-02-20 23:42
Technology
OpenAI flags and bans shooter-linked ChatGPT account months before Canada massacre, Platform safety heuristics collide with due process and surveillance incentives, Moral policing becomes product feature without guarantees
2026-02-20 23:42
Technology
Monotype-owned Fontworks hikes game font licenses up to 5,200%, Japanese indie studios scramble to replace embedded typography, Creative tooling becomes metered infrastructure and private taxation
2026-02-20 21:42
Technology
Las Vegas-area substation ramming probed as possible terrorism, Boulder City incident targets LADWP equipment near Hoover Dam, Grid security remains low-tech and local
2026-02-20 21:42
Technology
OpenAI rehires from Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines Lab, $12B startup bleeds founders and security talent, Frontier AI still runs on control of compute and data
2026-02-20 20:02
Technology
Apple releases iOS 26.4 public beta, Apple Intelligence adds AI-generated Apple Music playlists and video podcasts via HLS, Platform turns AI and ad delivery into system-level toll roads
2026-02-20 20:02
Technology
Cloudflare outage disrupts websites worldwide, Edge DNS WAF Workers centralization turns fault into global event, Security as a service becomes single point of failure
Science
2026-02-21 00:33
Science
EPA moves to loosen coal-plant mercury controls, Methylmercury neurotoxicity depends on emissions-to-fish exposure chain not slogans, Regulators promise savings while outsourcing uncertainty to the public
2026-02-21 00:33
Science
Dark-matter-dominated dwarf galaxy confirmed, Stellar velocity dispersion and distance systematics drive mass-to-light inference, ΛCDM and MOND both inherit a nuisance datapoint
2026-02-20 22:12
Science
Legionnaires’ disease lawsuit targets Las Vegas resorts, case underscores how building water systems amplify Legionella via biofilms and aerosols, liability follows incubation-time uncertainty
2026-02-20 22:12
Science
UK puberty-blocker Pathways trial paused, MHRA flags unquantified long-term biological harms and demands minimum age 14, evidence gap widens as even the RCT hits the precautionary wall
2026-02-20 19:42
Science
Grail multi-cancer blood test flops in major UK study, MCED hype collides with screening math, false positives still billable even when benefits are not
2026-02-20 16:52
Science
Las Vegas Legionnaires lawsuit targets South Point, Grandview after tourist death, health district allegedly found Legionella and control failures, water-system engineering becomes courtroom evidence
2026-02-20 16:52
Science
London measles outbreak exposes school veto over NHS vaccination teams, LSHTM finds dozens of schools block access and data sharing, herd immunity turns into logistics and incentives
2026-02-20 14:22
Science
Epstein–Barr virus infects >95% for life, Latent B-cell reservoir links to cancers and multiple sclerosis, Near-universality makes biomarkers and co-factors the real battleground