Power, Pressure, and Precipice

Today’s digest takes you from the depths of space to the streets of Jakarta. We explore how climate shocks, authoritarian crackdowns, shifting alliances, and emerging technologies are reshaping lives and liberties across the globe.

What You’ll Hear:

• 🌌 A black hole from the dawn of time challenges cosmology
• ❄️ The world’s biggest iceberg finally breaks apart
• 🔥 FBI arrests a veteran over protest “conspiracy”
• 🏳️‍🌈 Burkina Faso criminalizes same-sex relationships
• 📡 Cloudflare faces both record-breaking DDoS attacks and a data breach
• 💰 France saves at record rates, Spain outsources evictions, Uganda ages fast
• 🛰️ Trump moves U.S. Space Command, vows more National Guard deployments
• 🛢️ Xi and Putin push a mega gas pipeline, but obstacles loom
• 🤖 Switzerland launches an open-source AI model
• 🐑 Thirty years after Dolly, animal cloning becomes big business

Why It Matters:

This week reveals a world negotiating survival in real time: balancing freedoms against security, livelihoods against instability, and human progress against planetary limits.

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