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Seven rounds of US-brokered talks and six Israel-Lebanon deals later, President Trump maintains that the ceasefire is “working.” What exactly that means and who exactly it’s meant to be working for is unclear, but the residents of southern Lebanon are telling a very different story. Some 24 villages within southern Lebanon have been totally destroyed, […]

Domesticating AI - It's Not Coming, It's Already Here Authored by Howard Armitage via New Atlas, When my neighbor wanted a vision of what his fence could look like, I didn't hesitate to ask ChatGPT to create a mock-up. I took a photo of the fence and asked it to overlay a potted Jasmin espaliered to it, after a couple of tweaks, and all of about one minute later, it gave me this: AI-generated mock-up created from the author’s original fence photograph Howard Armitage During a recent conversation with a diving buddy, he pulled...

"De-Risk As Fast As Possible": EU Eyes Vietnam For Critical Materials To Cut Alarming China Dependence Brussels appears increasingly aligned with the Trump administration's view that securing reliable, conflict-free supplies of critical materials is important for the incoming rearmament supercycle. Continued reliance on China exposes Western defense manufacturers to export restrictions that have already disrupted supply chains and could delay deliveries.  Reuters cites internal EU documents dated June 2026 that identified Vietnam as a potential source of critical materials outside China. "Considering Europe's need to rearm and de-risk as fast as possible, the...