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Tucker Carlson's podcast overtakes The Joe Rogan Experience as the most popular podcast in the US on Spotify

World

Ukrainian foreign minister Dmytro Kuleba ends three-day visit to China, says he and Chinas foreign minister Wang Yi discussed matters that it is not yet the time for them to talk about publicly
The European Union expropriates 1.5 billion euros in proceeds from frozen assets belonging to the Central Bank of Russia and is to be used for Ukraine's military capacity and the country's reconstruction, according to the EU's press release, the proceeds do not belong to Russia
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg answers yes to the question of whether allies need to prepare for the conflict in Ukraine to last for more than ten years and says that Donald Trump's criticism of European countries not spending enough on defense was correct and valid but that has now changed
Singapore's former ambassador to Russia, Bilarhari Kausikan, says Ukraine may be divided in two like Korea after World War II and that Donald Trump will likely do something dramatic with the conflict to distinguish himself from the current administration
32-year-old Jewish-American Wall Street Journal journalist Evan Gershkovich is sentenced in Russia to 16 years in prison for espionage, on Monday Russian-American Jew Masha Gessen, who uses the they/them pronouns, was sentenced to prison in absentia for dissenting comments since the outbreak of the war in Ukraine
Some 45 heads of government gather in the English countryside, in Blenheim Palace where Winston Churchill was born, to discuss Ukraine and the way forward if Donald Trump were to be re-elected as president of the United States, Britain's newly elected Prime Minister Keir Starmer (Labour) believes a new storm gathers over our continent
NATO appoints its representative in Ukraine, Briton Patrick Turner, who is expected to take up the role in Kiev in September this year, stationing a civilian official was one of the organization's promises during the summit on the war
Intelligence about Iranian plans to assassinate Donald Trump in recent weeks led the Secret Service to increase security around the former president, according to sources CNN, no known connection to Saturday's assassination attempt
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy thinks Russian representatives should be present at a second peace conference, Russia was not invited to the June conference in Switzerland which meant that China decided not to come
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán visits Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago in Florida, calls it the Peace mission 5.0 and writes on X that they discussed ways to make peace and that the good news is that Trump will solve it

Miscellaneous

The first ever olympic Games in esports will be held in Saudi Arabia in 2025 and will be organized by the International Olympic Committee, the IOC Esports Commission has developed a program that will address the interest of the esports community but at the same time respect what they believe to be the Olympic values ​​such as which games must be included as well as the promotion of gender equality
Former British footballer Joey Barton is being taken to court for criticizing the TV appearance of black female footballer Eni Alukoby by questioning how she even can talk about men's football when she can't even kick a ball properly, calling her the Fred and Rose West of football commentators, two serial killer, and writing that she can be compared to Josef Stalin for murdering the ears of hundreds of thousands of fans, Barton wonders if the police don't have enough on their hands
Adopted 61-year-old John Portmann from the US receives Irish citizenship after DNA test showing 100 percent Irish ancestry as proof that his biological parents came from there
Tadej Pogačar wins a third Tour de France by over six minutes, first rider since Marco Pantani 1998 to bring home Giro d'Italia and the Tour the same year, was also victorious in six stages
47-year-old Clinton associate Huma Abedin and 38-year-old Alexander Soros, son of George Soros, get engaged, source describes the relationship as effortless and that Huma is now relaxed, happy and in love after many tumultuous years
Norwegian cyclist André Drege dies following an accident during the Tour of Austria on Saturday, the 25-year-old Coop–Repsol rider was fatally injured on the descent of the Großglockner, Austria's highest mountain
The moon landings were real according to the CEO of the Russian space agency Roscosmos, Yuri Borisov, on the grounds that Soviet scientists confirmed that lunar soil samples brought by the Americans did indeed come from the moon
The AI-composed techno song Je Partira Pas with a pro-deportation message is going viral in France, the title refers to older clip of immigrant screaming that he won’t leave while being forced to board a plane
The Danish toy company Lego publishes a commercial on the theme of Pride with, among other things, drag queens and furries, has already a product called "Everyone is Awesome" in rainbow colors and a product explicitely inspired by the gay series Queer Eye
Bao Zi becomes the world's fastest cat on a skateboard when the record 12.85 seconds for 10 meters is achieved and his owner Li Jingtao says he began to realize that the cat had talents other than catching mice when he showed an interest in skateboards which he then began to encourage

Media

Tucker Carlson's podcast overtakes The Joe Rogan Experience as the most popular podcast in the US on Spotify
Online publication VDare, focusing on demographic change, identity and immigration, shuts down after 25 years citing investigation by New York District Attorney Leticia James, executive editor Peter Brimelow says she didn't charge them with anything but that she battered them to death with an enormous, ongoing, and intrusive investigation
Italian journalist Giulia Cortese is acquitted of posts in which she compared the country's Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni to Benito Mussolini, but is sentenced to pay 5,000 euros in damages for making fun of Meloni's height by writing, among other things, "you don’t scare me, Giorgia Meloni, after all, you’re only 1.2 metres tall" and "I can’t even see you"
In the latest expansion of The Sims 4, Lovestruck, the characters can date several characters at the same time, the game takes place in the city of Ciudad Enamorada where, among other things, there are singles bars and gyms and players can search for love themselves via the in-game dating app
Children up to 16 years old who take part in 30 percent or more of their parents' commercially published material must receive financial compensation according to a new law in Illinois in the USA, the money set aside will be accessed by the children when they turn 18
Wikipedia's editors consider the Anti-Defamation League generally unreliable regarding the conflict between Israel and Palestine as well as regarding anti-Semitism and the Jewish lobby organization is added on the list of banned and partially banned sources
Israel's Ministry of Communications along with police raid the news broadcaster Al Jazeera's office in Nazareth and confiscate equipment following the government's decision to end its operations and Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi writes on X that Israel does not intend to allow Hamas to broadcast from within the country
Georgia's parliament votes through a law requiring NGO:s and media operating in the country that have more than 20 percent of their funding from abroad to register with the state and provide detailed reports on their funding and work, sparking major protests and both the EU and The US condemns police violence against the protesters
Russian-language Wikipedia is shut down in connection with the outbreak of war, and its head Vladimir Medeyko leads the work to create the new version, Ruwiki, by copying all Russian-language articles from Wikipedia and then editing these, for example renaming the article "Russian Invasion of Ukraine" to "Military Actions in Ukraine (in 2022)”
X is ordered by the Federal Court of Australia to remove videos of last week's stabbing of Bishop Mar Mari Emmanueli in a Sydney church by Muslim teenager and is now being criticized by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese for its refusal and the announcement that they will take it to court

Politics

Elon Musk donates to the political group America PAC, which supports Donald Trump in the 2024 presidential election of the United States, according to sources to Bloomberg who says the amount was sizable, story breaks four months after the entrepreneur wrote that he does not donate money to either candidates
The share of young people in Slovenia who self-identify as rights more than doubled since 2018 to 24 percent and those who consider themselves to be far-right increased from 7 percent to 11 according to study with 600 participants by the German Friedrich Ebert Foundation and Maribor Faculty of Arts in Slovenia, the right-wing youth are also more likely to show an interest in politics
Afro-Swedish EU parliamentarian Alice Bah Kuhnke (MP) tells The Guardian she has learned to keep her ID close at hand as she frequently is stopped in and around the European Parliament and that other black parliamentarians have the same experience, the article author writes that the over-representation of white men in parliament have far-reaching consequences
Argentine President Javier Milei attends a convention of European patriots organized by the right-wing party Vox with Marine Le Pen among others present and has no plans to meet the king or Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez during a visit to Spain, calls socialism satanic and a cancer in a speech on the first day of the visit
Dutch Geert Wilders presents an agreement between four parties that will introduce the country's strictest immigration policy ever by, among other things, getting exemptions from the EU's immigration policy similar to Denmark, takes place after his party the Freedom Party became the largest party in the 2023 election and since then negotiated the formation of a government, still unclear who will be prime minister
The Flemish nationalist party Vlaams Belang is leading the polls ahead of the Belgian election at June 9 with 28 percent support and the party's Barbara Pas says the desire to have children generally remains the same, but cannot be fulfilled by the people due to practical and financial obstacles which the party seeks to eliminate
France's National Assembly party, with 28-year-old Jordan Bardella as front runner and party leader, leads Emmanuel Macron's party by a wide margin ahead of European Parliament elections, Bardella has 1.2 million followers on Tiktok and Macron's appointment of 34-year-old Gabriel Attal as prime minister may have been made as response to the popularity of the young nationalist
Protest movements generate attention online but have limited effects on political attitudes, researchers who studied protests in US from 2017 to 2022 say all had zero effect, except BLM protests after death of George Floyd which shifted views on race and benefited Democrats
The documentary Flynn about General Michael Flynn reaches number one on Amazon's bestseller list, follows Flynn's life through the ranks of the US military, the twists and turns following his tenure as national security adviser to Donald Trump and is said to provide an insight into the workings of the deep state
Sinn Féin's Michelle O'Neill becomes Northern Ireland first minister after two years of deadlock due to the Democratic Unionist Party's terms on renegotiating the 2021 Brexit deal to support the government, O'Neill says she believes there will be a referendum on Irish unity within 10 years

Opinion

Niall Ferguson: We are in Cold War 2.0 with China in which the US plays the role of the Soviet Union as despite some differences the similarities are many, geriatric leaders, shorter lifespans, deaths from addiction, large, expensive and inefficient military, low trust in public institutions and an elite that doubles down on its bizarre ideology that no one really believes in
Borepatch: Donald Trump is the modern day Tiberius Gracchus who, despite his family's great wealth, chose to run for public office to benefit the Roman working class and failed because the political establishment buried their traditional political differences and had him killed
Douglas Mackinnon: To those trying to save the people and infrastructure of Ukraine I am truly sad to report that you have failed and those who, from comfortable offices thousands of miles away, encourage Ukraine to fight to the last citizen need to come up with a more convincing rationale, for a number of defense contractors in the US and Europe, Ukraine has become the gift that keeps on giving but when but when does a never-ending supply of taxpayer money begin to resemble fraud, waste and abuse?
David P. Goldman: The Jews founded the first nation on the basis of language and religion, while the pagan kingdoms were multi-ethnic and Christian Europe was built on dual loyalty to both the church and one's own nation, the God of Israel was the first to offer eternal life to mankind while Christianity extended the promise of Israel to all, the remaining paganism in the Christian nations has expressed itself in an idolatrous desire to be a chosen people in the flesh, and Christian anti-Semitism is rather pagan resentment against Israel
Communism was ideology of Antichrist during 20th century, unholy alliance of anti-communism was kathechon which after its triumph morphed into neoliberal attempt to create new world order and a global state, says Peter Thie in interview by Tyler Cowen about political theology
Andrew Beck: Ten years ago, Javascript's creator, Brendan Eich, was forced out as CEO of Mozilla, which he co-founded, as a result of donations he made to lobby groups opposed to the legalization of same-sex marriage, which I felt at the time was a major escalation of the culture war and made me realize that the ideological conformity to the top-down, programmatic transformation of the country was all that mattered
Robin Hanson: Global monoculture is a dangerous mistake which is on track to repeat historical patterns of population collapse, centuries of minimal development and increasing illiberalism, no cultural counterforce has realistic chance of reversing the trends but high tech could prevent some of the problems ahead
Curtis Yarvin and Christopher Rufo debate whether the American Revolution was a left-wing project and whether returning to the original American republic is a worthy goal for the right
George Carter: The circle around Bronze Age Pervert understands, through Nietzsche, that nature uplifts the strong, healthy and beautiful and downgrades the weak, deformed and diseased, that the point of life is not procreation but the pursuit of eternal glory, which Bronze Age Pervert terms the Faustian spirit, and because the right has always sided with natural hierarchy, conservatives should not fear this energy despite its clear paganism
David Sacks: A Chinese invasion of Taiwan would be the most complex military operation in modern times, the island's coastline is either shallow or has high cliffs, the weather allows for an amphibious operation only a few months a year, the country has mountainous geography, has a long time to react on China's mobilization and China has not participated in a major war in 70 years

Europe

For the third summer in a row German left-wing punks set up protest camp against the economic elite on the German island of Sylt where the viral clip of young adults singing that Germany belongs to Germans was recorded, the group Aktion Sylt says it aims to make safe retreats for fascist subsidy collectors, tax-evading Nazi heirs and backward world destroyers things of the past
67-year-old teacher seriously stabbed in the face and neck in Wedel near Hamburg, Germany on Friday and the suspects, four brothers from Syria, were arrested but released from custody since the suspicion is currently not sufficient to issue an arrest warrant against them according to the police
60-year-old Iryna Farion, Ukrainian nationalist politician and professor of linguistics, is shot dead on the street in Lviv, her party blames Russia but no arrests has been made, she suggested in 2023 that true patriots should not speak Russian under any circumstances, which caused major reactions in the country
French athletes banned from wearing hijab during their participation in the upcoming Olympic Games in Paris, also banned from using other accessories or garments that express religious affiliation
A police officer is stabbed in central Paris on Thursday and the 27-year-old perpetrator from Senegal, who is believed to have committed a murder of a 16-year-old earlier in the day and was previously known to the police previously, is shot dead
Foreigners start a riot in the suburbs of Leeds in England with a British population of 9.3 percent and a majority from Pakistan and Bangladesh, cars and double-deckers are set on fire, a police car is overturned and according to reports, a gypsy family is at the center of the conflict and that Muslims joined later
Pjeter Shala, a member of the ethnic Albanian Kosovo Liberation Army, is sentenced in the International Criminal Court in The Hague to 18 years in prison for war crimes committed in 1999 when 18 people were held captive, tortured and one died in the Kukes factory in Albania
40-year-old Congolese stabs French soldier in Paris on Monday night, claims revenge for France's military operations in his homeland, was arrested in 2018 in connection with stabbing of young man and declared irresponsible because of the state of his mental health
Zambian-born First Minister of Wales Vaughan Gething, Europe's first black head of government, resigns after four months at the post, four ministers resigned on Tuesday in criticism of Gething and last month he lost an non-binding vote of no confidence
The Conservative Party in the UK, the Tories, campaigned on reducing immigration ahead of the 2010, 2015, 2017 and 2019 elections but the population increase in England and Wales of 610,000 between mid-2022 and mid-2023 is the highest since statistics began in 1949 and net migration was 622 000

North America

Barack Obama does not believe that Kamala Harris can win over Donald Trump according to a source to the New York Post, the former president is one of the few prominent Democrats who did not support Harris as a presidential candidate
Kimberly Cheatle, the head of the Secret Service who was in charge of Donald Trump's security during the assassination attempt, resigns a day after being questioned by Congress, President Joe Biden writes in a statement that Jill and he are grateful for her decades of public service
All 23 Democratic governors publicly support Kamala Harris as the Democratic Party's presidential candidate, her campaign receives USD 81 million in donations in the first day, which is said to be the highest ever for a single day
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, wearing a blue long-sleeved sweatshirt and gold necklace, says that Donald Trump's reaction immediately after the assassination attempt was one of the most badass things he has seen in his entire life, also says he will not support either candidate
Barack Obama believes Joe Biden has little choice but to bail out and save face according to report by the Washington Post and top Democrats say it could happen as early as this weekend according to report by Axios and Associated Press
California Gov. Gavin Newsom signs law banning schools from informing parents if their child starts identifying as a different gender, prompts Elon Musk to announce that headquarters of SpaceX and X will move from the state to Austin, Texas
Ohio Senator J.D. Vance is nominated by Donald Trump as the vice presidential candidate, known for his memoir Hillbilly Elegy, said in a 2016 interview that he found Donald Trump reprehensible but has since apologized and for his 2022 senatorial campaign he received USD 10 million from his former boss Peter Thiel
Judge Aileen M. Cannon dismisses the case against Donald Trump regarding his handling of classified documents on the grounds that the appointment of Jack Smith to lead the prosecution violates the Constitution, the ruling can be appealed
Donald Trump survives assassination attempt at rally in Butler, PA, gets shot in the ear but rises with a closed fist before being led off stage, rally attendee and shooter killed, the shooting is being investigated as attempted assassination of the ex-president
Barron Trump, Donald Trump's 18-year-old son, receives a standing ovation and turns to wave to the crowd after his father during a Florida campaign rally asks him to stand, welcomes him to the scene and says it's the first time he’s ever done this

Latin America

Thirteen sharpnose sharks in Brazil test positive for cocaine, the concentration is said to be more than 100 times greater than what has ever been found in aquatic animals
New images show what is believed to be the world's largest uncontacted tribe, the Mashco Piro people of the Peruvian Amazon, and the organization Survival International is now calling for logging companies in the area to have their licenses revoked
El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele threatens companies that raise food prices with the same means he used against gang criminals, alleging wholesalers and importers engage in tax evasion, bribery and smuggling, and urging them to either end the price increases or don't complain about what happens afterward
Argentina's Economy Minister Luis Caputo expresses his desire to lower the voting age from 16 to 14 years as a result of the government's bill to lower the age of criminal responsibility to 13 and President Javier Milei states the 2025 mid-term elections will be a hugh triumph for his party La Libertad Avanza
The month-on-month price increase in Argentina according to the consumer price index decreases to 4.2 percent in May compared to last month's figure of 8.8 percent, inflation for the first five months of 2024 was measured at 71.9 percent
Argentine President Javier Milei gets reform bill passed in the Senate by 37-36 vote after 11 hours of debate, bill is expected to pass required vote on each individual article and would be Milei's first successful legislative change since taking office six months ago
Honduras outlines emergency measures against gang crime, plans on designating serious gang criminals as terrorists and builds a 20,000-capacity prison where it currently has 21,000 prison inmates in 30 detention facilities, measures resemble those implemented in neighboring El Salvador by Nayib Bukele which reduced murder rates and raised the president's popularity but also drew criticism from rights groups
Florida court orders Chiquita Brands International to pay USD 38 million to the families of eight Colombian men murdered by paramilitary squad United Self-Defence Forces of Colombia which were supported with USD 1.7 million between 1997 and 2004, the company has argued that it was extorted and that the payments were necessary to protect its employees from armed Marxists such as the FARC guerilla
Argentine President Javier Milei on 36-hour trip in Silicon Valley and meets with Apple CEO Tim Cook, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Google CEO Sundar Pichai and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg
Javier Milei has not once publicly thanked his 81-year-old father Norberto, who Javier says beat him as a child and became a successful businessman in the bus industry, lawyer Eduardo Vacirca, who worked with the father for four years, says he believed that you got ahead in life by beating and putting people down

Asia

Philippines and China reach agreement on Philippines-controlled reef Second Thomas Shoal which is also claimed by China, Taiwan and Vietnam, the US has repeatedly warned that attacks on Philippine ships in the South China Sea might lead to intervention as the US and the Philippines have a joint military agreement
Curfew imposed and military deployed after at least 115 have died in student protests in recent days in Bangladesh's capital Dhaka, the unrest comes amid controversy over quotas for certain groups in government jobs
General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam since 2011 and the country's president from 2018 to 2021, Nguyen Phu Trong, dies at the age of 80, the news comes the day after he was awarded the country's highest honour, the Gold Star, and the government announced that he would step aside to focus on his health
52-year-old North Korean diplomat Ri Il-gyu who worked at the country's embassy in Cuba defected to South Korea, says he has been drinking tea with Kim Jong-Un and that the leader's blood pressure must be extremely high as he is always red like a Native American in the face, believes that the people of North Korea desire reunification even more than the people of South Korea do
20-year-old Indian Mujahid says his genitals were surgically removed without his consent at the behest of a man named Omprakash who allegedly assaulted and harassed him for the past two years and who upon awakening said that now that he is a woman they can get married and threatened Mujahid's father with life in case of resistance, the hospital says the sex change surgery was done with consent
North Korea's military erects walls and constructs roads inside the Demilitarized Zone separating the Koreas, 20 North Korean soldiers briefly crossed the land border earlier this week resulting in warning shots from South Korea amid heightened tensions caused by North Korea sending trash-filled balloons over the border
Singapore lifts the ban on having cats in publicly owned housing which came into force in 1989 with the justification that it is generally difficult to keep them indoors, that they tend to shed fur, that they can defecate in public spaces and make noise, however, more than two are not allowed and the owners need to follow certain rules
Warning shots were fired at the border between North and South Korea on Tuesday after North Korean soldiers reportedly briefly crossed the border in connection with a recent escalation in which balloons of garbage and excrement were sent from the North side that prompted South Korea for the first time since 2018 to turn on loudspeakers aimed at north with propaganda such as Korean pop
Pakistani man who applied to set up the nation's first gay club thrown into a mental hospital, widespread dislike for the application among local citizens and politicians alike in conservative Abbottabad, local MP says he would have doused the club with gasoline and set it alight
South Korea resumes loudspeaker propaganda campaigns against North Korea in response to hundreds of trash-filled balloons being sent across the border, says responsibility for the escalation of tension is entirely up to Pyongyang

MIDDLE EAST

Africa

Burkina Faso's military government, which seized power in a military coup two years ago, has announced that military rule will be extended for another five years after first promising civil rule from July 1 this year, arguing that elections are not a priority as long as jihadists still control territory
Mahamat Idriss Deby is sworn in as president of Chad after winning elections with 61 percent of the vote after three years as a leader under military rule following the assassination of his father who ruled the country since a military coup in the early 90s, present at the installation was, among others, the minister of foreign trade of France and the international cooperation organization for French-speaking countries and areas, Francophonie
Congo-Kinshasa's army says the stopped failed coup attempt in capital Kinshasa following a shootout with three dead and says several foreigners among those arrested
Liberia's president Joseph Boakai decides to set up the country's first war crimes court more than 20 years after end of civil war that killed 250,000 people for which no one has been brought to justice in the country but former president Charles Taylor is serving a 50-year prison sentence in Britain for war crimes but that for his role in the conflict in neighboring Sierra Leone
South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa says during speech in Cape Town, in regards to apartheid, that they still need to address high unemployment and to remove the barriers that kept black South Africans from full participation in the economy, that they must undo the effects of Bantu education, transform our schools completely, end illiteracy, and help people find decent work
Botswana President Mokgweetsi Masisi says in response to German authorities' proposal to limit the import of hunting trophies that they would like to offer 20,000 elephants to Germany and will not take no for an answer, says the number of elephants has increased explosively as a result of conservation efforts and that the country had to pay the price
Niger suspends, with immediate effect, its military cooperation with the United States which allowed US military and personnel to operate and maintain an airbase in the country, comes after US officials visited Niger to discuss so-called democratic transition
UN peacekeeping forces withdraw from Mali after ten years, operation Minusma was the UN's second deadliest operation with 310 dead soldiers, in September Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso created a defense pact called the Alliance of Sahel States
The muslim militia Boko Haram killed 20 people with a roadside bomb on their way back from the burial of former victims in Yobe state in Nigeria on Tuesday and on Monday the shot dead 17 people in the village of Gurokayeya who, according to the police, refused to pay a special tax
Egypt bans girls from wearing the niqab in school following Education Minister Reda Hegazy's statement that covering the hair is optional but not the face

Economy

Nvidia becomes the world's most valuable company with a market capitalization of more than 3.3 trillion dollars when it surpasses Microsoft earlier this week, the company has around 80 percent market share of the chips used for the development of artificial intelligence
EU imposes additional tariffs of up to 38.1% on Chinese electric vehicles from July, the move follows a nine-month investigation finding that unfair Chinese battery electric vehicles subsidies threaten EU industry, the EU braces for trade war with Beijing but argues that Chinese manufacturers can easily absorb the increased levies
Saudi Arabia decides not to extend its 50-year agreement with the US on economic and military cooperation which means that the Arab nation can now sell oil in a currency other than the dollar
European Central Bank announces 0.25% main interest rate cut to 3.75%, first rate cut in five years, measured eurozone HICP inflation rose from 2.4% to 2.6% in May
The world's largest federation of worker-owned cooperatives, Mondragon Corporation, in the Basque Country of Spain, sees itself not as an alternative to capitalism but as an alternative approach, one of the 70,000 members, Mr. Montalvo, says no one is rich there but no one is poor either and Hugo Montalvo thinks he could earn more from a regular multinational company but doesn't want to trade away his middle-class status or the small village where he is raising his children
TikTok's owner ByteDance prefers to shut down the app rather than sell it unless the legal route succeeds in opposing the US attempt to ban it, as it considers the algorithms used to be part of ByteDance's entire core business, according to four sources to Reuters
Central bank of Zimbabwe launches the new currency Zimbabwean Gold, ZiG, said to be backed by USD 100 million in foreign currency reserves as well as 2,522 tonnes of gold, according to the head of the central bank the currency is being launched because of the instability of the Zimbabwean dollar exchange rate and the inflation and he says there is a need to restore trust
Donald Trump's media company Trump Media & Technology Group, which owns the social media platform TRUTH Social and went public on March 26 this year, reports a 2023 loss of USD 58 million and its stock is down as much as 26 percent on Monday, the IPO added nearly USD 4 billion to the former president's fortune
US production of oil in 2023 highest ever for a country for the sixth year in a row, according to a report by The Energy Information Administration, despite the fact that Joe Biden, as part of trying to accomplish his campaign promise to eliminate fossil fuels has signed 200 executive orders in regards to that
Sam Bankman-Fried is sentenced to 25 years in prison for his role in the fall of the crypto exchange FTX and the company Alameda Research in which clients lost deposits of 8 to 11 billion USD, lawyer Mark Mukasey said, among other things, that his client does not make decisions with malice in his heart but that he makes them with math in his head

Technology

Faulty CrowdStrike update of cloud-based security service Falcon Sensor causes major global IT outage for Windows computers, taking out banks, airlines and businesses globally, CrowdStrike confirms it is not a cyberattack
Nasa announces that there have been no discussions about taking the help from SpaceX to bring home the two astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore who are stranded on the Boeing Starliner spacecraft docked at the International Space Station due to technical problems during the maiden flight
In early 2023, OpenAI was exposed to hacker who accessed the company's internal communications system and the AI ​​company decided not to disclose anything publicly as no information about customers or partners had been compromised, the underlying security issue has reportedly been identified and fixed
French Army Chief of Staff Pierre Schill says the advantage of drones on the battlefield is but a snapshot in time and will diminish over time as countermeasures evolve, giving the example of the Bayraktar drone, which he says was the king of war at the outbreak of the conflict in Ukraine but is no longer used as it is too easily scrambled
The head of the US National Security Agency until February this year, Paul M. Nakasone, takes a seat on the board of OpenAI and its security committee
Microsoft delays rollout of feature called Recall where snapshots are periodically taken of the computer screen to give AI assistant Copilot a photographic memory after concerns regarding privacy and cybersecurity, the function that CEO Satya Nadella calls a step toward artificial intelligence machines that instantly see us and reason about our intent will now instead first be rolled out to a smaller set of testers
OpenAI's voice assistant Sky sounds very similar to the voice of the actress Scarlett Johansson, who in September declined to license her voice at the request of Sam Altman, who denies the connection even though he previously said that her film "Her" is his favorite film and that he wrote "Her" on X in connection with the launch
OpenAI launches ChatGPT 4o, co-founder Ilya Sutskever resigns and according to journalist Kelsey Piper, the termination agreement prohibits former employees from forever criticizing the company and even claiming such an agreement exists, with the threat of losing their vested equity
The German state of Schleswig-Holstein replaces the Microsoft Windows operating system with Linux and the Microsoft Office software package with LibreOffice on its 30,000 computers, the Minister-President writes that they have no influence on such solutions and a possible outflow of data to third countries and that they have a great responsibility towards citizens and businesses to ensure that their data is kept safe and that they must ensure that they are always in control of the IT solutions
Data containing US telecom company AT&T's information on an estimated 7.6 million current and 65.4 million former customers is posted on cybercrime forum, the data includes name, address, phone number, birthday and social security number

Science

The European Space Agency is creating Lego pieces of space dust from a meteorite in northwest Africa using 3D printers, the phenomenon of so-called in situ resource utilization (ISRU) is the main focus of the organization's office in Cologne, Germany and teamleader Aidan Cowley says we have to figure out how to build structures on the moon since we can't bring any materials there
Why males do not breastfeed despite biological possibility may be an evolutionary strategy to curb the spread of harmful microbes in mammals, according to a study using mathematical models by the University of York published in Nature Communications
Left-wingers have smaller and lower faces, with lips and noses oriented further down towards the chin compared to those with right-leaning views, according to research with 591 participants at Stanford University that shows that political beliefs and facial characteristics correlate
Chinese Academy of Sciences publishes map of moon in the scale of 1:2,500,000 which took 100 scientists more than a decade to compile
Researcher Nathan Cofnas is fired from Emmanuel College, part of the University of Cambridge, for violating its diversity and inclusion policies ​​when he argued that the number of black professors at Harvard would approach zero in a meritocracy and that they would not hold any high-profile positions outside of sports and entertainment
Nobel laureate in physics 2013, Peter Higgs who predicted the existence of the Higgs boson in particle physics in 1964 which was later confirmed at CERN in 2012, dies at the age of 94, was born in Newcastle in 1929 and worked at the University of Edinburgh for almost all of his career
Lyrics have become simpler and more repetitive, according to an Austrian study of 353,320 English-language songs from five decades and five genres published in Nature, including multiple aspects such as vocabulary richness, readability, complexity and the number of repeated lines
Attitudes related to critical social justice correlated with depression, anxiety and lack of happiness but not more so than being on the political left in general, according to two studies in Finland with a total of 5,878 participants, women twice as likely to agree with statements positive to the so-called critical social justice
The Swedish professor of epidemiology Martin Kulldorff was fired from his position at Harvard University for opposing vaccination mandate, writes that ignoring Sweden's actions during the lockdowns is like ignoring a placebo control group, that he could not publish his support for the Swedish solution in the American media, that the state helped Twitter to censor anti-vaccine posts and that science cannot survive in a society that does not value truth and strive to discover it
Statistically significant negative correlation found between penile length in the flaccid state and IQ according to study by Cuntong Wang and Yihe Wangding with data from 115,387 men aged 18 to 65 years from 139 countries, also notable differences between ethnicities were found