Face Scans, Fake Pills, and Fire in the Parliament

Today’s global dispatch decodes 22 urgent stories in SNAP-format clarity:

• AI adoption stalls without hands-on help
• Japan’s rising news avoidance
• BBC begins charging U.S. users
• Mossad’s Iran raid spooks China
• China builds CRISPR-less gene editors
• Ecuador recaptures fugitive gang lord “Fito”
• France shoots down Iranian drones
• UK store uses facial tech on shoppers
• Athens burns in 104°F wildfire
• ICE tests mobile facial ID in the field
• Intel exits auto chips
• INTERPOL seizes $65M in fake meds
• Iran’s enriched uranium survives airstrikes
• No 10 bans unsanctioned civil service talks
• Putin skips BRICS due to ICC warrant
• Slovenia courts remote workers
• France’s Parliament springs a leak—literally
• Synthetic genome project gets greenlit
• Tokyo Gas negotiates U.S. LNG lifeline
• UN says armed conflict hits WWII highs
• U.S. Army recruits tech execs for digital reserve unit

🎧 Hosts: One male, one female

📰 Format: “Disguised‑SNAP” — concise, stylized, and smart

📍 Sources cited in full edition at [buttondown.link/ohmbudsman]

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