Walls, Warnings, and Weather
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From a dust storm halting Burning Man to Venezuela’s nationwide militia registration, today’s digest covers 25 global stories in under 25 minutes. We scan crises, crackdowns, and curious claims across five continents — fences rising on NATO’s frontier, soaring UK food prices, spyware flaws, climate-driven ageing, and the symbolic outreach from Beijing to Kyiv.
What You’ll Hear Today:
- A desert storm disrupts Burning Man again 🌪️
- Spyware bug exposes thousands of victims 🔓
- Cambodia passes treason law stripping citizenship ⚖️
- CBP taps 80,000+ local surveillance cameras 👁️
- Chikungunya vaccine suspended over safety fears 💉
- Xi Jinping greets Ukraine on Independence Day 🇨🇳🇺🇦
- UK food inflation hits 18-month high 🍫🧈
- Docker patches critical container flaw 🐳
- AI divides Global North and South 🤖
- Farmers Insurance breach impacts 1.1 million 📂
- Finland builds fence on Russian border 🧱
- EU postal services suspend US parcels 📦
- French public rejects austerity budget 💶
- FTC warns against encryption backdoors 🔑
- Heatwaves shown to accelerate ageing ☀️
- “Kingdom of Kubala” claims Scottish woodland 🌲
- Polish veto threatens Ukraine’s Starlink access 📡
- Texas bans lab-grown meat despite one restaurant 🍣
- NVIDIA launches new Jetson ‘robot brain’ 🤖
- Mississippi law forces Bluesky blackout 📴
- Tor privacy tool shelters pedophile networks ⚠️
- Pro-Palestine protests sweep African capitals ✊
- Students clash with police in Jakarta 🧑🎓🔥
- Chinese hackers target diplomats with PlugX 🕵️
- Venezuela mobilizes militias amid US tensions 🇻🇪
Takeaway:
Twenty-five stories. Twenty-five minutes. One shifting world.
Links & Sources:
For full citations, visit ohmbudsman.com or check the written digest edition.
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