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Germany's Chancellor Friedrich Merz arrived in Kyiv on Sunday, accompanied by CEOs from German defence companies, in a show of support for President Volodymyr Zelenskiy ​amid escalating Russian attack...

Why do most people misunderstand the reality of our global energy grid? It’s not an accident. What the data shows is a technological and economic revolution moving at an exponential pace. But public…

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Europe is falling behind. Its share of the global economy has been shrinking for decades, and it’s projected to grow more slowly than rivals like the US and China.But one of Europe’s biggest economic…

On 5 September 2026, Germany's Isar Aerospace flew its 28-metre Spectrum rocket to orbit from Andoya in Arctic Norway, the first privately built vehicle to reach orbit from Western European soil. It…

Cloudflare cut the memory used by every entry in 1.1.1.1's DNS cache by 56%, freeing around 100 terabytes of RAM across its fleet and making lookups faster at the same time. We walk through the five…

US officials reportedly raided envoy’s London home and took him to American airbase without warning Met police

Anthropic's new threat report accuses seven Chinese AI labs, including DeepSeek, Moonshot and Alibaba, of distillation attacks on Claude. 🔗 Relevant Links Report:…

The three 28-year-old founders behind energy startup Furo moved from Silicon Valley and back to Germany, and yet secured $4 million in funding from mostly U.S. backers.

Expansionist desires, aggressive military actions, and the consolidation of power in its internal affairs used to attack political enemies, Keir Giles explains how, while writing his new book, he…

Peter Thiel, Alexander Dugin, and the theology of illiberal power

In Lithuania, a significant milestone has been reached on the nearly 9 km double-track section of the future European standard gauge railway: the completion of continuous rail welding using flash…

OpenAI released 10 AI-generated results over the weekend. Some mathematicians are unhappy with their approach

From the very beginning of this recent obsession with identifying everyone online (yes, they like to call it "age" verification, but it always ends up as identity verification), we've been pointing out that it was a huge privacy nightmare waiting to happen. Or maybe it wasn't waiting. Maybe it was already happening. This week a...

Stochastic Flocks & Cybersecurity 'Pandemonium' 💡This essay was drafted from my appearance on Mél Hogan's podcast, The Data Fix, discussing the OpenAI / Hugging Face hack. Embedded below or find it o...

There’s a growing backlash to the surveillance systems that have quietly wired themselves into American neighborhoods, with concern growing among people who have never felt watched this way before. Ge...

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This week Bellingcat's Michael Colborne and Pooja Chaudhuri joined us to share their experience of using network analysis techniques to study transnational hate groups. We spent the hour discussing…

Alice AI, Russia’s ChatGPT alternative, has been giving its 40 million users the final results for the 2026 Russian Election. The only problem? The election hasn’t happened yet. Follow…

Finally i've found the original german studio version (which i find much better than the english one). All rights go to Kraftwerk. Written by Ralf Hütter and Florian Schneider (1977)

AfD’s Markus Frohnmaier and the Transnational Far-Right Convergence

European-standard railway is taking shape across central Lithuania. Routes connecting Lithuania with Latvia and Poland are being developed and modernized. Nearly 9 km of track has already been…

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Previously unpublished government data reveals the scale of Taiwan’s crackdown on Chinese companies accused of hiding their ties while recruiting chip talent and pursuing sensitive technology.

Moving on as if it didn’t happen is not an option.

China’s property boom created enormous wealth. Its collapse braked economic expansion. Now Beijing is betting on EVs, tech and manufacturing instead — flooding global markets with Chinese goods and…

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Alt: a guy sits on a branch hanging over a fast flowing river with steep embankments, hacking at said tree until he falls down

Ukraine's General Staff has updated data on Russian losses: Russia lost 1,450 soldiers killed and wounded over the past day.