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Sveriges Radio: TikTok and Meta paid by racist account to promote posts<\/a><\/p>\n

A Sveriges Radio P3 News investigation found that openly Nazi and far-right accounts operate freely on TikTok despite violating both EU law and the platform’s own rules. Reporters found the accounts behind them were able to buy paid ads from both TikTok and Meta. TikTok’s Nordic communications manager admits buying political ads is against company policy, but says he doesn’t know how the accounts managed it.<\/p>\n

ABC News: Silicon Valley fascism is waging war on democracy<\/a><\/p>\n

Journalist Gil Dur\u00e1n’s new book The Nerd Reich argues that Silicon Valley has spent decades cultivating an anti-democratic ideology aimed at replacing democracy with corporate rule. The book names figures like Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, Marc Andreessen, Mark Zuckerberg and Sam Altman, who, Dur\u00e1n says, openly aligned themselves with Trump in 2025. He points to growing backlash against data centers and movements like “Purge Palantir” as signs that more people are rejecting this future.<\/p>\n

Wired: Inside the Perimenopause Industrial Complex<\/a><\/p>\n

Since the FDA removed its black-box warning from hormone therapy last fall, demand for this self-directed treatment has surged. Web traffic to telehealth startups like Midi has jumped 490 percent since 2023. Some doctors warn the industry is now attributing an ever-growing list of symptoms to perimenopause and that some companies prioritize profit over patient need, while the demand spike has already caused shortages of estrogen patches.<\/p>\n

LSM: Forest scientist: Why do some forests withstand storms while others don’t?<\/a><\/p>\n

Forest researcher Oskars Kri\u0161\u0101ns explains why some Latvian forest stands fared worse than others in the recent storm. Birch stands were about 2.4 times more likely to be damaged than pine stands, aspen stands up to 5.3 times more likely, and stands that had undergone sanitary selective cutting in the previous five years were up to 24 times more likely to be damaged than those that hadn’t. Kri\u0161\u0101ns concludes that wind resilience has to be built into a forest from its earliest growth stage, through lower initial planting density and moderate, timely thinning, rather than fixed later.<\/p>\n

Axios: The secret history of Trump’s Venezuelan oil baron<\/a><\/p>\n

Trump’s new oil deal with Venezuela centers on Alejandro Betancourt, a controversial oil businessman who, after the US military operation against Nicol\u00e1s Maduro in January, calmed Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodr\u00edguez and persuaded her to negotiate a transition with Secretary of State Marco Rubio. Betancourt has for years served as an unofficial Washington go-between on Venezuela, but remains under a Swiss money-laundering investigation and could only resume travel outside the UK in June. Under the deal, the US puts in no money but gets a 35 percent equity stake and 20 percent of the oil after taxes.<\/p>\n

Vox: Inside a quest to learn about the ocean’s mysterious “deep reefs”<\/a><\/p>\n

A Vox writer visited Palau, where scientists returned a decade later for monitoring devices they’d left out, on which marine life had since naturally settled, in coral reefs’ so-called twilight zone, 30 to 150 meters down, too deep for full light but not fully dark either. Luiz Rocha, a California Academy of Sciences zoologist who has studied these mesophotic reefs for decades, says we still know surprisingly little about this depth.<\/p>\n

404 Media: This ‘Digital Camouflage’ Shirt Confuses AI-Powered Surveillance Cameras<\/a><\/p>\n

Artist Simon Weckert has designed a shirt with an irregular, blurry pattern that confuses the popular YOLO image-recognition algorithm. Held up in front of a camera, it makes the wearer disappear from detection. Weckert built it after Berlin police installed the city’s first police-run object-recognition cameras, capable of spotting things like people lying down, at a busy subway stop, and says the point is not just to evade surveillance but to show people they can push back against it.<\/p>\n

The New York Times: Scientists Hunting Dark Matter Found Something Strange<\/a><\/p>\n

Physicists on the LZ Dark Matter Experiment, deep underground in South Dakota, have recorded a single strange particle signal that doesn’t match any known particle interaction. Researchers stop short of claiming a dark matter detection. Statistically, there’s roughly a 1-in-400 chance the signal is just a fluke, but physics only calls something a confirmed discovery once that chance drops much lower, to below roughly 1 in several million. This result doesn’t clear that far higher bar yet, but the detector has since gathered nearly four times as much data as went into it, so a clearer answer may not be far off.<\/p>\n

+972 Magazine: How Israel manufactured a fuel shortage in the West Bank<\/a><\/p>\n

Israel has kept for itself customs revenues owed to the Palestinian Authority, pushing the PA into a fiscal crisis that has, in turn, driven a fuel shortage in the West Bank. Trying to recoup lost revenue, the PA has cracked down on fuel smuggling, which economists estimate accounts for up to a third of market consumption. The shortage is compounded by structural dependence on Israeli-controlled supply channels, plus a buildup of physical shekel cash inside Palestinian banks that they can’t fully transfer to Israeli banks, making electronic payments to suppliers difficult. A deadly July clash between colonizers and Palestinians near Nablus then led the Israeli military to impose sweeping road closures and movement restrictions that squeezed fuel access further.<\/p>\n

Al Jazeera: Duolingo D-Day: Iranians question latest US sanctions targeting education<\/a><\/p>\n

New US sanctions on Iran are also hitting education. The Treasury Department has suspended a license that allowed cooperation with Iranian students, and the nonprofit testing body ETS has stopped administering the TOEFL and GRE in Iran. Duolingo went further still: as of September 1 it bars anyone holding Iranian government ID from its English test, including Iranians living abroad, and many Iranians online are complaining they, not their government, are the ones being punished.<\/p>\n

NPR: AI wealth is creating a ‘mansion shortage’ and upending San Francisco’s housing market<\/a><\/p>\n

The AI boom, plus looming IPOs from Anthropic and OpenAI, is fueling unprecedented housing demand in San Francisco that real estate agents call a “mansion shortage.” In June, 44 home sales closed at least a million dollars over asking, and even $25 million all-cash offers have lost bidding wars. The rental market is seeing the same squeeze, with young, well-paid AI workers able to pay $10,000 a month, pricing out people in other fields, and economists warn the effect will ripple to other US regions as people priced out of California move elsewhere and drive up prices there too.<\/p>\n

Meduza: ‘Thanks from the guys at the front.’ Meduza checked whether Ozon and Wildberries, despite Ukrainian strikes, continue selling goods for the Russian army (yes, they do)<\/a><\/p>\n

Meduza checked whether Russian online retailers Ozon and Wildberries still sell goods for the Russian military, even as Ukrainian drones have been regularly hitting the companies’ warehouses since late August. Turns out they do. Of 1,025 product listings volunteers had previously used to crowdfund gear for the front, Ozon still sells 604, including a combat exoskeleton, drone FPV video receivers and cargo-drop systems, while Wildberries still carries nearly every “military” category, including body armor and satellite internet kits that buyers’ own reviews explicitly describe using in combat.<\/p>\n

Al Jazeera: Luxembourg drops approval for Israel Bonds issue: What that means<\/a><\/p>\n

To sell its bonds in EU markets, Israel needs an EU regulator to approve its prospectus each year, the official disclosure document that gives investors information about the bonds and their issuer. That role was filled first by Ireland, then Luxembourg, but Luxembourg’s approval expired on Monday and wasn’t renewed. Luxembourg’s financial regulator says renewing it year after year would circumvent EU rules, though the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) says otherwise, and Israel must now find another EU country willing to take it on. If none does, Israel is left with markets outside the EU, notably the US, where it has sold bonds continuously since 1951 and already raises roughly the same amount, about $2.5 billion a year, independent of the EU market.<\/p>\n

RFE\/RL: Pageantry And Politics As World Nomad Games Open In Kyrgyzstan<\/a><\/p>\n

The sixth World Nomad Games opened with a lavish ceremony in a still-unfinished stadium in Bishkek, timed alongside a Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit that has drawn more than a dozen heads of state to the Kyrgyz capital. Russia’s Putin attended alongside Tajikistan’s Rahmon and Azerbaijan’s Aliyev, and Armenia’s Pashinyan, who met with Putin the same day despite increasingly cool relations between their countries. Notably absent was China’s Xi Jinping, even though he was in Bishkek for the summit; more than a hundred national teams are competing, including the US, Ukraine and Belarus.
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