‘Punch to the gut’: Indian football thrown into chaos with Jamshedpur withdrawal from ISL
India | The Guardianby John Duerden·21d ago
“Please don’t let this be the final whistle for Jamshedpur FC,” the defender Pratik Chaudhari said, looking into the camera as teammates looked on disconsolately.
Growth without work: The human cost of the AI revolution
Rest of Worldby Jibu Elias·21d ago
At the turn of the millennium, India became the global hub for medical transcription. With fiber optic cables laid in the 1990s, American hospitals found it cheap and efficient to beam voice files...
Companies once tied to Assad kept winning UN contracts under Syria’s new rulers - ICIJ
ICIJby David Kenner·21d ago
The United Nations paid roughly $10 million last year to companies formerly linked to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s regime, according to an ICIJ analysis of recently released U.N. data.
The global grassroots gatherings trying to humanize the AI boom
Rest of Worldby Rina Chandran·22d ago
On a recent weekend afternoon in San Francisco, about 20 people sat in a loose circle in an empty office.
How Diplomats See the World
Asterisk Magazineby Abi Olvera·22d ago
Inside the boring-by-design U.S. fact-checking machine. A few years into my Foreign Service career, a colleague leaked a falsehood to the press. I couldn’t figure out why they’d done it.
Europe sanctioned crypto exchange HTX. Experts say the firm is deploying tactics that could blunt the impact. - ICIJ
ICIJby Spencer Woodman·26d ago
Recent moves by cryptocurrency exchange HTX could soften the blow of new sanctions on the firm, experts warn, including a European Union ban on transactions.
Book of the month: Ryan Falzon
A year of reading the worldby Ann Morgan·28d ago
As the heatwaves rippled across Europe, one summer novel held me gripped. It comes from Foundry Editions, an indie publisher set up in 2023 to champion literature from around the Mediterranean and...
Podcasting the world
A year of reading the worldby Ann Morgan·22 Jul 2026
It’s been my pleasure to be involved with a number of podcasts focusing on reading and/or translation in recent months in various capacities – as a guest, interviewer and producer.
Canadian intelligence flags crypto-to-cash services as ‘knowingly facilitating money laundering,’ document shows - ICIJ
ICIJby Spencer Woodman·21 Jul 2026
As scammers and terrorists increasingly turn to crypto, a Canadian intelligence office is raising alarms about risks posed by an emerging industry offering discreet means to convert cryptocurrency...
Lessons Learned from CISA’s Recent GitHub Leak
Krebs on Securityby BrianKrebs·13 Jul 2026
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has issued a postmortem on a recent data leak in which a contractor published dozens of internal CISA credentials — including AWS...
Holding the U.S. to account, Tether exits EU & Congo’s conflict coltan - Coda Story
Coda Storyby Oliver Bullough·8 Jul 2026
Holding the U.S. to account, Tether exits EU & Congo’s conflict coltan The United Kingdom has taken over the presidency of the Financial Action Task Force, the global standard-setter on tackling...
The War of the Breton Succession: Edward’s Last Straw | History is Now
History in 28-minutesby History Is Now Magazine·7 Jul 2026
The War of the Breton Succession, or Breton War of Succession (1341–1365), was a war over the succession to the dukes of Brittany, in north-western France, that lasted for over twenty years.
The Two LLM Genders: Sycophants versus Gaslighters
Blog.WorldMaker.netby Max Battcher·7 Jul 2026
I’ve been trying a great many of the LLM-based “chat apps” and “games”. I sort of call it research.
The Pebbles' Votes Still Matter
Blog.WorldMaker.netby Max Battcher·5 Jul 2026
There’s a famous Vorlon saying “The avalanche has already started, it is too late for the pebbles to vote” and it is a fun sounding aphorism, but it is also a falsehood, both in context in its...
No to Any War — #StandWithPeace #Iran | AriaieBOY Blog
AriaieBOY Blogby Author Name·1 Jul 2026
No to Any War — #StandWithPeace #Iran July 1, 2026 • 4 min When I started this blog, my goal was simple: write about technology and share my experience with the tools and technologies I work with.
Book of the month: Jeyamohan
A year of reading the worldby Ann Morgan·30 Jun 2026
If you’ve never heard of Jeyamohan, I wouldn’t be surprised. Until recently, his work wasn’t widely available in English outside India.
Why Did Decolonization in French Algeria Turn So Violent? | History is Now
History in 28-minutesby History Is Now Magazine·26 Jun 2026
In the decades following the Second World War, the European colonial order unraveled across Asia and Africa.
How governments enable kleptocrats by doing nothing - Coda Story
Coda Storyby Teona Tsintsadze·24 Jun 2026
How governments enable kleptocrats by doing nothing I was listening to Ezra Klein interviewing a left-wing Democratic Party strategist the other day about what a post-Trump U.S.
The War of the Breton Succession and the Rise of the English: Could the French Compete with Edward III? | History is Now
History in 28-minutesby History Is Now Magazine·20 Jun 2026
The War of the Breton Succession, or Breton War of Succession (1341–1365), was a war over the succession to the dukes of Brittany, in north-western France, that lasted for over twenty years.
Unimplemented Idea: PFP Auth
Blog.WorldMaker.netby Max Battcher·20 Jun 2026
Several years back I thought about building a silly offline-first, peer- to-peer (P2P) application for a small audience and playing around with alternative authentication schemes and felt I came up...
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