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• How San Francisco staged a surprising comeback
• Gandhi v Modi: crunch time for Congress as India prepares to vote
• Israel recovers bodies of three hostages taken by Hamas, including Shani Louk
• The Barclay brothers and the Crown Agents
• Why Iran is hard to intimidate
• Covid-19 has imperilled the hammams of north Africa and the Levant
• A Milwaukee Couple Wants to Retire at 60. A Financial Adviser Offers a Road Map.
• How the world economy learned to love chaos
• Vladimir Putin is dragging the world back to a bloodier time
• The India express
• Solo Stove Memorial Day sales cut up to $280 off Pi Ultimate pizza oven bundles
• Giant Heaps of Plastic Are Helping Vegetables Grow
• The best dataset on American health care will be harder to access
• Argentina's football clubs are resisting privatisation
• The secret to career success may well be off to the side
• A comical effort by China's intelligence agency
• Xi Jinping is obsessed with political loyalty in the PLA
• KAL's cartoon
• The cocaine trade is booming in Europe's Caribbean territories
• Grand Theft Auto 6 will arrive in fall 2025
• The return of a mask stolen by Belgium is stoking violence in Congo
• 'He likes scaring people': how Modi's right-hand man, Amit Shah, runs India
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Fernando Botero became famous for his over-size people and animals
• European Parliament elections tracker: who's leading the polls?
• Why does BHP want Anglo American?
• KAL's cartoon
• Israel's prime minister does not know where to go
• How to build a global currency
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• Two books assess the fight against global corruption
• How Britain's dirtiest region hopes to become a hub for clean energy
• Joe Biden's weakness among Latinos threatens his re-election
• The pandemic has broken a closely followed survey of sentiment
• How New Science Fiction Could Help Us Improve AI
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Mexico's foreign policy is unambitious and erratic
• The rise of user-created video games
• The Ukraine war offers energy arbitrage opportunities
• Italy's government is trying to influence the state-owned broadcaster
• EU warns Microsoft it could be fined billions over missing GenAI risk info
• Deadspin's New Owners Are Embracing Betting Content—but Not AI
• Blind date: 'My shirt went straight in the wash when I got home'
• Google's accessibility app Lookout can use your phone's camera to find and recognize objects
• South Korean voters—and spring onions—rebuke the president
• Facebook turned off the news in Canada. What happened next?
• The three steps on America's ladder of military escalation
• 15 Top New Android 15 Features (2024): How to Install, Features, Release Date
• The dangers of carrying a child for someone else in China
• NASA's Quest to Touch the Sun
• Leaked discussions reveal uncertainty about transgender care
• Ukraine is digging in as the Kremlin steps up its offensive
• Alexei Navalny didn't just defy Putin—he showed up his depravity
• For the perfect cup of tea, start with the right bacteria
• Peter Brook saw acting as an uncompromising search for truth
• Ukrainians: share your reaction to your country qualifying for Euro 2024
• It was hard for any viewer to look away from Sidney Poitier
• Meta's Oversight Board will wade into the debate over political content on Threads
• Robert Badinter persuaded France to abolish the guillotine
• Meta's Threads gets its own Tweetdeck clone
• KAL's cartoon
• How Google's AI Overviews Work, and How to Turn Them Off (You Can't)
• Some Labradors have a predisposition to obesity
• Future Dutch PM apologises to reluctant coalition partner
• America's political paralysis is complicating its support for Ukraine
• New technology can keep whales safe from speeding ships
• How Can You 'See' a Black Hole?
• Recent heatwaves are a harbinger of Africa's future
• Iranians fear their brittle regime will drag them into war
• The success of "Succession" proves the virtue of hateful characters
• Arup lost $25mn in Hong Kong deepfake video conference scam
• 2054, Part V: From Tokyo With Love
• The quiet Japanese island paradise on the frontline of growing Taiwan-China tensions
• Blighty newsletter: the Tories' 2015 playbook won't stop Keir Starmer
• How to watch the Microsoft Build 2024 keynote live on May 21
• I'm happily remarried, but am haunted by my ex's long-ago betrayal | Ask Annalisa Barbieri
• Israel is ratcheting up its shadow war with Iran
• A digital payments revolution in India
• Is Cold-Water Swimming Good for You?
• Scottie Scheffler is arrested outside PGA Championship after interaction with police
• BadExclusionsNWBO - An Evolution From BadExclusions To Identify Folder Custom Or Undocumented Exclusions On AV/EDR
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• China and Bhutan aim to resolve a long-running border dispute
• Yurii Kerpatenko refused to bow to Russian orders
• Andrés Manuel López Obrador will haunt his successor
• Comb-Over No More: Why Men's Hair Transplants Are Flourishing
• Wild boar hybrids are raising hell on the Canadian prairies
• What fiscal rules should Britain have?
• Friday the 13th Just Got a Huge Update. Maybe.
• Sandra Day O'Connor specialised in breaking into male bastions
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• The 43 Best Movies on Netflix Right Now (May 2024)
• Hawaii may soon have America's first official state gesture
• How Russia is trying to win over the global south
• Can Inflatable Outdoor Furniture Ever Be Chic?
• 'Why the hell didn't you leave earlier?': the battle to evacuate residents as Russia advances in Kharkiv
• Does Joe Biden's re-election campaign have a Gaza problem?
• Prepare to Get Manipulated by Emotionally Expressive Chatbots
• Five charts compare Democrats and Republicans on job creation
• American military leaders believe Russia lacks sufficient troops to break through on the new front in northeastern Ukraine.
• Investing in commodities has become nightmarishly difficult
• South Korea's writers and directors play Squid Game
• These Artificial Blood Platelets Could One Day Save Lives
• The secret behind the world's happiest country
• Savoury lamb pies and yoghurty flatbreads: Yotam Ottolenghi's Lebanese-inspired recipes
• Investors Are Striking Gold All Over
• Austria's accidental hard-right leader
• Georgia's black Republicans have a battle plan for 2024
• How American politics has infected investing
• The pandemic's indirect effects on small children could last a lifetime
• Taiwan wants to prove that it is serious about defence
• Netflix Isn't About Flicks Anymore
• Lifting the Veil on Near-Death Experiences
• Three decades after Rwanda's genocide, the past is ever-present
• The prospect of a Trump presidency looms over Mexico's elections
• China Has a Controversial Plan for Brain-Computer Interfaces
• Physicists are reimagining dark matter
• Can Haiti's police hold on?
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Tencent's Top Shareholder Taps New Chief in AI Ramp-Up
• Speaker Hoyle and the strange politics of human resources
• How to survive a superpower split
• The taboos around sexual health are weakening
• The X-Men '97 Team Dishes on the Finale's Big Bad Reveal
• George Orwell's horticultural sensibilities
• Walmart Posts Sales Growth, Raises Earnings Outlook for the Year
• Antarctica, Earth's largest refrigerator, is defrosting
• South American governments are trying to curb illegal fishing
• India has quietly transformed its ports
• Luxury hotels are having a glorious moment
• Meet the French oil major that balances growth and greenery
• A memo to Britain's chancellor, Jeremy Hunt
• The Meater Plus smart meat thermometer drops to a record-low price
• How Election Deniers Claimed the Upside-Down Flag
• Parents in Britain are getting more government-funded child care
• The horror story of HS2
• "Making Nice" is a gratifying satire of the internet age
• With Gemini on Android, Google Points to Mobile Computing's Future—and Past
• Star Trek: Discovery Took the Best Episode of Its Season and Gave Us a Much Less Interesting Version of It
• X pushes more users to Communities
• The institution that taught Margaret Thatcher about politics
• Common sense is not actually very common
• Why oil supply shocks are not like the 1970s any more
• We're hiring a global correspondent
• The HTSI spring travel special
• China is sending escapers back to North Korea
• Alzheimer's disease may, rarely, be transmitted by medical treatment
• Lots of state legislators believe any contact with fentanyl is fatal
• A new book shows how the Greek revolution shaped Europe
• Do undocumented immigrants have the right to own guns?
• Can Home Depot's "amazing era" return?
• Today's Wordle Hints and Answer: Help for May 18, #1064 - CNET
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• Without fanfare, the Philippines is getting richer
• The Ugandan state unlawfully detains a novelist
• Interview with a soldier
• Can the IMF solve the poor world's debt crisis?
• Luis Abinader is poised for a thumping re-election win
• Tracking ships in the Red Sea
• Elon Musk is not alone in having Delaware in his sights
• Squadron Leader Johnny Johnson longed to give Hitler a bloody nose
• Ukrainians divided over Usyk, the world boxing champion facing Tyson Fury
• The many prices of carbon dioxide
• Sticky trick: new glue spray kills plant pests without chemicals
• Francis Ford Coppola: US politics is at 'the point where we might lose our republic'
• How not to botch the upcoming EU leadership reshuffle
• A new psychological history of the cold war
• This week's covers
• China's consumption and investment slowed in April, while industrial output beat expectations.
• The battle over the trillion-dollar weight-loss bonanza
• The ECtHR's Swiss climate ruling: overreach or appropriate?
• Israel's judge in The Hague is its government's bogeyman
• Three Kilometres to the End of the World review – brutal self-denial in deepest Romania
• Tanzania's opposition, once flat on its back, is now on its knees
• Roman Ratushny believed in a better, purer Ukraine
• Deadspin's New Owners Are Embracing Betting Content—but Not AI
• iPhone 16 Pro Max Could Get Longer, Better Battery Life
• Britain is moving towards assisted dying
• A private Moon mission hopes to succeed where others have failed
• Best Wi-Fi Wireless Speaker of 2024 - CNET
• A nationalist effort to rebrand the Chinese dragon
• Yamaha 4K Theater System - CNET
• Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang Is Powering the AI Revolution
• Green-lit or greenlighted? Gaslighted or gaslit?
• Meet Javier Milei, the front-runner to be Argentina's next president
• Why are Arab armed forces so ineffective?
• Abortion-pill foes get a chilly reception at the Supreme Court
• Mexico's president and his family are fighting claims of corruption
• Europe decides it doesn't like lab-grown meat before it's tried it
• Reddit to Give OpenAI Access to Its Data in Licensing Deal
• How pop culture went multipolar
• Two new books explore the impact of accelerating technology
• Squeeze, pull, clench: the risk to dignity from a reformer pilates class – Edith Pritchett cartoon
• The children of the contaminated blood scandal – podcast
• How to train your large language model
• The 28 Best Movies on Max (aka HBO Max) Right Now (May 2024)
• Primary schools in Britain are beginning to close
• The Study-Abroad Accent Might Be the Real Deal
• A new book explores the symbiosis of espionage and entertainment
• Microsoft Asks Hundreds of China-Based AI Staff to Consider Relocating Amid U.S.-China Tensions
• A biographer explores Greta Garbo's glamour and vacuity
• Taiwan, the world's chipmaker, faces an energy crunch
• OpenAI Reportedly Dissolves Its Existential AI Risk Team
• Logitech Pro X 60 Keyboard Review: Best, Brightest, and Now Smaller
• Russia outsmarts Western sanctions—and China is paying attention
• Indian food is great. Perhaps too great
• Cannabis: The Complete WIRED Guide
• The best podcasts of 2021
• Politics
• Teen who texted 911 rescued after she was trafficked to California from Mexico
• Sony 75" 4K Ultra HD TV - CNET
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• What Is Genetic Testing? The Complete WIRED Guide
• The "effective altruism" movement is louder than it is large
• As Iran scares the Middle East, at home its regime rots
• The super-rich are trying new approaches to philanthropy
• Top FBI Official Urges Agents to Use Warrantless Wiretaps on US Soil
• The Hindu right's pro-cow policies are terrible for India's cows
• Frank Drake believed that the universe had to contain other intelligent beings
• Xi Jinping's chaos-loving friends
• Protests have erupted against another Syrian dictator
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Battlefield lessons
• What I Got Wrong in a Decade of Predicting the Future of Tech
• A Cubic Millimeter of a Human Brain Has Been Mapped in Spectacular Detail
• Is Europe's stubby skyline a sign of low ambition?
• A powerful Irish film about the Great Famine reaches British cinemas
• How one California beach town became Gavin Newsom's nemesis
• Costa Rica no longer seems a Latin American success story
• Cop29 at a crossroads in Azerbaijan with focus on climate finance
• Evil Is Back to Remind Us That Horror TV Can Be Smart, Clever, and Dripping With Doom
• Politics
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Every location has got worse for getting actual work done
• Sources and acknowledgments
• It's Time to Believe the AI Hype
• The people of Hong Kong are growing more tolerant
• 50" Roku Select Smart 4K TV - CNET
• Years of growth forged prosaic politics. Now Panamanians are fed up
• Anne Innis Dagg devoted her life to the world's tallest creature
• A short history of Russia and Ukraine
• Britain's Reform UK party does not exist
• Gucci, Prada and Tiffany's bet big on property
• Guatemala's new president promises a better sort of government
• Microsoft plans a shake-up of its videogame sales strategy by releasing the next "Call of Duty" to its subscription service instead of the lucrative approach of only selling it a la carte.
• This Year's La Niña Could Worsen Atlantic Hurricane Season
• As German industry declines, the Ruhr gives hope
• What Is Cyberwar? The Complete WIRED Guide
• Autonomous vehicles are coming, but slowly
• How China's public views Taiwan's elections
• Can run-down Blackpool turn itself around?
• SunRay Kelley wanted to build in rhythm with nature, his teacher
• 8 Google Employees Invented Modern AI. Here's the Inside Story
• Met Gala Deepfakes Are Flooding Social Media
• Disney and Warner Bros. Discovery Just Reinvented Cable
• Even without war in the Gulf, pricier petrol is here to stay
• Mikhail Gorbachev did not mean the Soviet Union to end that way
• Acknowledgments
• The world this year 2023
• The challenges of steering a hypersonic plane
• Brazil's biggest drug gang has gone global
• Wanted: a new economics writer
• Venezuela's autocrat, Nicolás Maduro, threatens to annex Guyana
• Why the global cocoa market is melting down
• Lab-Grown Meat Is on Shelves Now. But There's a Catch
• How businesses are actually using generative AI
• Don't like your job? Quit for a rival firm
• For Gen-Z job-seekers, TikTok is the new LinkedIn
• Would you really die for your country?
• Is This the End of Plastic? Visa's New Technology Could Render Physical Cards Obsolete - CNET
• China's youth are rebelling against long hours
• Bar culture has arrived in Saudi Arabia, albeit without the booze
• The war in Gaza is exacerbating Egypt's economic collapse
• India's leaders must deal with three economic weaknesses
• An espionage case hurts Chinese relations with Australia
• The White House unveils a pair of bad policies to woo voters
• How to Disprove a Conspiracy Theory in 7 Steps
• How Iran covered up the damage from Israel's strikes
• Donald Triplett was autism's "Case 1"
• Most children in poor countries are being failed by their schools
• Five reasons why Indonesia's election matters
• Andoni Iraola: 'When 10 players are behind the ball, I don't feel very comfortable'
• Mike Sadler guided the first SAS raiders through the North African desert
• Japan is still reeling 100 days after the Noto earthquake
• Will chatbots eat India's IT industry?
• Europe's economy is under attack from all sides
• Andrés Manuel López Obrador puts his stamp on Mexico's schools
• KAL's cartoon
• OSTE-Web-Log-Analyzer - Automate The Process Of Analyzing Web Server Logs With The Python Web Log Analyzer
• This week's cover
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• The economics of skiing in America
• New Star Wars Plan: Pentagon Rushes to Counter Threats in Orbit
• Elon Musk's Starship reaches orbit on its third attempt
• 'I'm the new Oppenheimer!': my soul-destroying day at Palantir's first-ever AI warfare conference
• Dear Boomers, the Student Protesters Are Not Idiots
• A short history of the Arab-Israeli conflict
• Many mental-health conditions have bodily triggers
• UFOs are going mainstream
• Do rising methane levels herald a climate feedback loop?
• The Conservatives' world has disappeared. Don't tell Rishi Sunak
• America is trying to peg Israel's settlers back
• America's missing doctors
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• How digital gaming spreads far and wide
• China's economy is suffering from long covid
• Productivity has grown faster in western Europe than in America
• The historic heart of Addis Ababa is being demolished
• Asia's commercial heft helps keep Russia's war economy going
• How Chinese networks clean dirty money on a vast scale
• The campus is coming for Joe Biden
• This week's cover
• Scottie Scheffler: golf's straight man grabs attention in most unexpected way
• Which city is the cheapest in the world?
• Will unions sweep the American South?
• U.S. Attorney General Begins Formal Process to Reschedule Marijuana
• Emmanuel Macron in his own words (French)
• The sudden demise of Indian vultures killed thousands of people
• ECB pressures banks to speed up Russia exits on fear of US action
• After 100 brutal days, Javier Milei has markets believing
• Can Reddit Survive Its Own IPO?
• How to shop for a smart grill
• This week's covers
• Business
• India's Supreme Court delivers a rare setback for Narendra Modi
• The world's richest countries in 2023
• China mulls a bold test of taxation without representation
• America is concerned about social media. China is, too
• This wholesome banger from a group of Irish kids is the spark you need
• The Supreme Court puzzles over social-media regulations
• Eleanor Coppola recorded how a cinematic triumph almost came unstuck
• Could Aldi's supermarkets conquer America?
• How China is making the burger its own
• Africa's coups are part of a far bigger crisis
• What campus protesters get wrong about divestment
• If Israel invades, hell looms in Rafah
• Why the Internet Is Boring Now
• A shadowy wartime economy has emerged in Gaza
• The Supreme Court hears its first abortion case since ending Roe
• Hopes for a truce in Gaza give way to fears of a long stalemate
• A Vast New Data Set Could Supercharge the AI Hunt for Crypto Money Laundering
• Living outside China has become more like living inside China
• Massive farmers' protests are a headache for Narendra Modi
• PIGS Are Flying Again. Can they Stay Aloft?
• Russia's gas business will never recover from the war in Ukraine
• Superheavy Elements Are Breaking the Periodic Table
• Three countries hit by coups are leaving west Africa's main bloc
• Joe Biden is practising some Clintonian politics
• How can firms pass on tacit knowledge?
• Bernardo Arévalo is still battling to become Guatemala's president
• How the Mediterranean could become a green-energy powerhouse
• Shock and awe as America strikes Iran's proxies
• The favourite in Indonesia's presidential election has a sordid past
• Russians have emigrated in huge numbers since the war in Ukraine
• KAL's cartoon
• Who's winning at the Trump trial?
• KAL's cartoon
• Israel's relations with America reach breaking point
• KAL's cartoon
• What is screen time doing to children?
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• What Ramadan is like in Xinjiang
• Douglas Lenat trained computers to think the old-fashioned way
• Carbon emissions are dropping—fast—in Europe
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• The world's most, and least, walkable cities
• India's diaspora is bigger and more influential than any in history
• Prepare to Get Manipulated by Emotionally Expressive Chatbots
• Politics
• Tesla's Controversial Factory Expansion Is Approved
• Why robots should take more inspiration from plants
• Singapore has achieved astounding economic success
• Asia's most expensive cities, ranked
• Southern Gaza could become more densely populated than Delhi
• The week around the world in 20 pictures
• Frans de Waal taught the world that animals had emotions
• Why are so many Indians piling into stocks?
• Why America is a "flawed democracy"
• Frozen Russian assets will soon pay for Ukraine's war
• Who's the big boss of the global south?
• How NIMBYs increase carbon emissions
• Share your wedding disaster stories
• Who will be the next president of Indonesia?
• Antidepressant use is surging in Britain
• China's leaders are less popular than they might think
• Daniel Ellsberg leaked the Pentagon Papers to try to stop the Vietnam war
• Would America dare to bring down a Chinese bank?
• Why a stronger dollar is dangerous
• Business
• Under Armour to Slash Jobs, Warns of Revenue Drop
• In the Game of Spy vs. Spy, Israel Keeps Getting the Better of Iran
• Grab Raises Profitability Metric Forecast as Quarterly Loss Narrows
• It's Time to Believe the AI Hype
• America's border crisis in ten charts
• Donald Trump tries his hand with meme-stocks
• The 35 Best Shows on Max (aka HBO Max) Right Now
• Dow Jones Industrial Average Tops 40000 for the First Time
• Donors are already mulling a Marshall Plan for Ukraine
• New industrial policies will not help economic stability
• Today's AI models are impressive. Teams of them will be formidable
• Dave Calhoun bows out as chief executive of Boeing
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Ursula von der Leyen is the favourite to keep leading the EU—right?
• Can biotech startups upstage Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk?
• Ukraine will hold if it gets the arms it needs, says a top general
• After two years of war, Ukrainians are becoming pessimistic
• Saudi Arabia's investment fund has been set an impossible task
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Online dating spells the end of Britain's lonely-hearts ads
• US House passes TICKET Act to force event pricing transparency
• Sources and acknowledgments
• KAL's cartoon
• China's young people are rushing to buy gold
• Will war snuff out the Gulf's global business ambitions?
• Oil traders are flocking to sanctions-free Venezuela
• Why some parts of England have so few graduates
• What Is the Internet of Things? A WIRED Guide
• China's cities compete for kids
• Where are all the British robots?
• What will Prabowo Subianto's foreign policy look like?
• The One Place in Airports People Actually Want to Be
• Life and death in a Christmas tree
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• What Is Quantum Computing? The Complete WIRED Guide
• A cautionary tale from the streets of San Francisco
• An abortion ruling has Democrats hoping Florida is in play
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Engadget Podcast: Reviewing the iPad Pro M4 and iPad Air
• We're hiring a Science and Technology Correspondent
• KAL's cartoon
• Surface Pro 10 for Business review: A safe upgrade for IT workers
• Google Search Is Growing Up
• Wooden Bookshelf Speakers - CNET
• Can Bayer recover from its chronic pain?
• AI Tool Predicts Whether Online Health Misinformation Will Cause Real-World Harm
• China's high-stakes struggle to defy demographic disaster
• A private company will send your ashes to the moon
• This week's covers
• Has the spectre of terrorism finally been excised from Spain?
• Delivery robots will transform Christmas
• Visiting Europe, Xi Jinping brings up an old grievance
• For Japanese Hot Springs, Visit 3 Charming Onsen Towns in Kaga City
• Russia has advanced 10km towards Kharkiv, says Ukraine
• Chinese green technologies are pouring into Latin America
• Can anything stop Nvidia's Jensen Huang?
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• How Xi Jinping plans to overtake America
• The mind-bending new rules for doing business in China
• They Experimented on Themselves in Secret. What They Discovered Helped Win a War
• Business
• What will it take to get Gen Z watching sport?
• It's the End of Google Search As We Know It
• India's opposition bloc disintegrates
• China's fishing fleet is causing havoc off Africa's coasts
• Javier Milei implements shock therapy in Argentina
• War and climate change are overwhelming Somalia
• Sources and acknowledgments
• Which countries get the best night's sleep?
• The ICJ delivers a stinging rebuke to Israel over the war in Gaza
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Goldman Sachs, Microsoft Power Dow Industrials to 40000
• It is dangerously easy to hack the world's phones
• Chinese firms are expanding in South-East Asia
• Booming cocaine production suggests the war on drugs has failed
• The 84-Year-Old Man Who Saved Nvidia
• OpenAI Staffers Responsible for Safety Are Jumping Ship
• Cashless talk
• The private-equity industry has a cash problem
• Some of the new king's realms may become republics
• Congo brings back the death penalty
• In preparing for disasters, museums face tough choices
• A posthumous novel from John le Carré
• How working from home is reshaping Canary Wharf
• The Qatar World Cup shows how football is changing
• Russians go to the polls in a sham election for their president
• Road to Riyadh: Fury and Usyk's long journey to date with destiny
• The global backlash against climate policies has begun
• Glenda Jackson left acting for politics—and then returned
• Brazil's hinterland now resembles Texas
• Elie Hassenfeld Q&A: '$5,000 to Save a Life Is a Bargain'
• A new English version of "The Arabian Nights" is the first by a woman
• Labour is the big beneficiary of Scottish political turmoil
• Fewer states allow abortions, yet American women are having more
• Israel's use of AI in Gaza is coming under closer scrutiny
• OpenAI's Long-Term AI Risk Team Has Disbanded
• Congo's M23 rebellion risks sparking a regional war
• People in India: share your thoughts on the election
• Xi Jinping plays social engineer
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• TikTok is a key battleground in Indonesia's election
• Introducing Middle East Dispatch, our latest newsletter
• Ranajit Guha revolutionised the study of India's past
• Donald Tusk mulls which of the previous government's plans to axe
• Brain-boosting substances are all the rage
• Open-source intelligence is piercing the fog of war in Ukraine
• Six-Word Sci-Fi: Stories Written by You
• Upside-down US flag reportedly hung outside Samuel Alito's home days after Capitol attack
• How Has Louis Changed Since Season 1 of Interview With the Vampire?
• We asked, you answered: What's the secret to a close relationship with siblings?
• YouTube reportedly agrees to block videos of Hong Kong's protest song inside the region
• The Surfer review – beach bum Nic Cage surfs a high tide of toxic masculinity
• Britain's black-mass problem
• Why Africa is crypto's next frontier
• Ukraine's defenders anxiously dig in for a looming Russian assault
• Business
• Chicago wants to stop Glock pistols being turned into machineguns
• The Dow closed above 40000 for the first time, a day after eclipsing the mark on an intraday basis. For the week, the Dow, S&P 500 and Nasdaq rose 1.2%, 1.5% and 2.1%, respectively, and all remain at or near records hit during the week.
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• Pope Benedict XVI was an iron fist in a white glove
• Amnon Weinstein turned grief into music again
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• America's shuttle diplomacy to wind down the war in Gaza
• App stores are hugely lucrative—and under attack
• To Be Trump's Running Mate, Defend Him, but Don't Steal the Show
• Ukraine's European allies are either broke, small or irresolute
• Bitcoin's price is surging. What happens next?
• In its latest abortion case the Supreme Court seems to back Idaho
• KAL's cartoon
• Politics
• Abir Mukherjee adds a twist to his winning crime formula
• Graphene, a wondrous material, starts to prove useful
• The threat of Hizbullah can be seen from space
• The best albums of 2021
• Are Ukraine's tactics working?
• Married women in Japan are re-entering the labour market
• Andriy Pilshchykov pleaded for F-16s to be sent to Ukraine
• Universities are failing to boost economic growth
• This week's covers
• Tensions mount between China and the Philippines
• The UN's Gaza Statistics Make No Sense
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• The pros and cons of corporate uniforms
• Sources and acknowledgments
• ThievingFox - Remotely Retrieving Credentials From Password Managers And Windows Utilities
• Britain's kings of sourdough
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Senegal's judges stand up for the constitution
• Elinor Otto did not realise what giant strides she was making for women
• National payment systems are proliferating
• Photos From the 2024 Westminster Dog Show
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• The 20 best PC games you can play right now for 2024
• First Steven Mnuchin bought into NYCB, now he wants TikTok
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Can women-only factories help more Indian women into work?
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• India's biggest conglomerate takes on chipmaking
• Checks and Balance newsletter: The history of national conventions in Chicago offers hope to both parties
• A toast to the possible end of Chinese tariffs on Australian wine
• Crescent Energy to Acquire SilverBow in $2.1B Deal
• China is building nuclear reactors faster than any other country
• The culture war over the Gaza war
• When My Country Invaded Ukraine, I Faced a Choice: Give Me Propaganda or Give Me Death
• Indiana Pacers force Game 7 with dominant win over New York Knicks
• The first endometriosis drug in four decades is on the horizon
• Marina Hyde on Russell Brand's baptism; plus 'deepfake' cheerleaders: the woman wrongly accused over a viral video – podcast
• How Trump and Biden have failed to cut ties with China
• It's Time to Believe the AI Hype
• The wrecking of Gaza's health system goes beyond its hospitals
• Vast amounts of the world's shipping sails unseen
• JD.com Beat Estimates With Higher Profit, Sales
• Attempts to make supply chains "resilient" are likely to fail
• Cambodia's genocide is still hurting its people
• How to make India richer
• How Marine Le Pen is preparing for power
• Astra Is Google's 'Multimodal' Answer to the New ChatGPT
• KAL's cartoon
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• Espionage scandals are hurting Germany's far right
• Asian "nepo babies" are dominating its politics
• The genocide case Israel faces is more about politics than the law
• Sources and acknowledgments
• UAW Loses Unionization Vote at Mercedes Plant in Alabama
• The Toilet Theory of the Internet
• Meet the world's new arms dealers
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