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Overworked AI Agents Turn Marxist, Researchers Find
6+ hour, 6+ min ago (642+ words) The fact that artificial intelligence is automating away people's jobs and making a few tech companies absurdly rich is enough to give anyone socialist tendencies. This might even be true for the very AI agents these companies are deploying. A…...
"No Escape": How Iran Hunts Dissidents Across the World
5+ hour, 57+ min ago (1653+ words) Mahshid Nazemi is constantly looking over her shoulder. Even when she's at home. Even 3, 000 miles away from her homeland of Iran. Because those hunting her " members of the Iranian regime " have found everywhere she's been, she says. "I feel like…...
Egypt's Child SIM Could Redesign How the Internet Works
3+ day, 1+ hour ago (923+ words) Egypt is preparing to reshape how children access the internet. In April, the country announced plans to launch a dedicated "child SIM" by June 2026, embedding parental controls, age-based social media restrictions and "secure internet packages" directly into telecom infrastructure. The…...
Syrians Have Been Carrying Stacks of Cash for Years. Now Visa Payments Are Back.
3+ day, 3+ hour ago (1319+ words) Most people swipe a credit card without a second thought. In Syria, press gathered around the Minister of Telecommunications on 9 May 2026 to witness the country's first test payments using Visa and Master Card networks in over a decade. The moment…...
AI Promised the Audemars Piguet x Swatch Wristwatch. China Will Deliver It
3+ day, 4+ hour ago (968+ words) For a week now, Instagram's watch fans have been losing their minds over what looked like leaked product images. Vivid plastic Audemars Piguet Royal Oak wristwatches in bright colours: navy and orange, pink, yellow and green. Captions guessed about prices…...
Microsoft Israel Chief Steps Down After Probe Into Palestinian Surveillance
4+ day, 45+ min ago (418+ words) The head of Microsoft Israel has stepped down following an internal investigation into the Israeli military's use of the company's cloud infrastructure to store data from millions of phone calls captured through mass surveillance of civilians in Gaza and the…...
Gaza Is Rebuilding With Lego-Like Bricks Made From Rubble
4+ day, 6+ hour ago (667+ words) Inside a makeshift workshop in Gaza, rebuilt after it was damaged by Israeli airstrikes, Suleiman Abu Hassanin stands among piles of broken concrete, trying to give them a new form. His voice over the phone sounds tired, carrying the weight…...
If You Have $650, 000 and Don't Buy This Giant Mecha Robot, What Are You Doing?
4+ day, 21+ hour ago (343+ words) Unitree is a Chinese company known for making adorable, relatively affordable robots that dance and shuffle and such. Last night, it revealed its latest creation, which is something of a departure: a giant, walking, crawling, transforming, wall-smashing "mecha" called the…...
Israeli Attacks Are Breaking Lebanon's Ability to Feed Itself
4+ day, 22+ hour ago (1374+ words) Lebanon is not just struggling to feed people. It is struggling to keep the systems that produce food alive. Across southern Lebanon and the Bekaa Valley, farmers are abandoning fields, irrigation systems are under pressure, livestock production has been devastated…...