Walls, Warnings, and Weather

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.