Boston Dynamics’ bipedal robot Atlas is now tossing tool bags around a (fake) construction site

The Cuban government said on Wednesday that its coast guard killed four people who opened fire from a US-registered speedboat that entered Cuba’s territorial waters, an incident that comes amid a ramped-up US oil embargo on the country that’s meant to bring about regime change. The Cuban Interior Ministry said in a statement that the […]

US and Israeli attacks on Iran that began on Saturday have killed at least 787 people, the Iranian Red Crescent Society (IRCS) said on Tuesday, as strikes continue to pound targets across the country. US Central Command said on Monday that it struck over 1,250 targets inside Iran, including Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) […]

Gulf Energy Shock Spreads To Global Plastics As War Sparks Force Majeure Wave Building on our earlier "Global Demand Destruction" note, which mapped how the Gulf energy shock is spreading globally and the immediate effects of rationing, price controls, and fuel shortages, another second-order disruption is quickly emerging: supply chain disruptions in critical plastic feedstocks. Plastics are core to the modern economy, and a troubling new Bloomberg report indicates that several producers of monoethylene glycol (MEG) and purified terephthalic acid (PTA) have declared force majeure, as tanker flows through the Strait...