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Weekly Update by Mark Armstrong – August 30, 2024
Print 🖨 PDF 📄Greetings from Tyler, Israel continues on its mission, clearing tunnels and finding hideouts. So many hostages have been declared dead that we’re wary about getting our hopes up. But some, against all hope, are still alive. One has just been liberated, and there are how many more? Over 100? And the Arabs have the audacity to be…
Russia’s anti-satellite threat tests laws of war in space
Print 🖨 PDF 📄WASHINGTON, Oct 28 (Reuters) – A Russian official’s threat this week to “strike” Western satellites aiding Ukraine highlights an untested area of international law, raising concerns among space lawyers and industry executives about the safety of objects in orbit. “Quasi-civilian infrastructure may be a legitimate target for a retaliatory strike,” senior foreign…
Europe News ‘Another red line crossed’: Fierce debate on Hungary’s Pride ban at the European Parliament
Print 🖨 PDF 📄Centrist and leftist MEPs called on the EU to act against Hungary over the LGBTQ+ Pride ban, while the far right defended the move of Viktor Orbán’s government. Around 70 MEPs will travel to Budapest next weekend to support LGBTQ+ rights. European lawmakers engaged in a fierce debate on Wednesday, sparked by…
Final group of freed Nigerian schoolchildren to reunite with their families in time for Christmas.
Print 🖨 PDF 📄Last group of freed Nigerian schoolchildren are due to be taken to Minna later on Monday to meet their relatives in time for Christmas celebrations, President Bola Tinubu’s spokesperson said. A final group of 130 kidnapped Nigerian schoolchildren freed by the government on Sunday are expected to be reunited with their families…
Vatican Excommunicates Major Pope Critic For ‘Schism’
Print 🖨 PDF 📄The Vatican has excommunicated Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, one of Pope Francis’s most virulent critics, after judging him guilty of splitting the Church, the dicastery in charge of doctrine said Friday. The 83-year-old ultra conservative, who has called in the past for Francis to resign as pope, has been on trial since…
ChatGPT parent OpenAI faces a blockchain rival as a new NFT project creates 3D avatars from text
Print 🖨 PDF 📄OpenAI, the creator of the language tool ChatGPT and image generator Dall-E, could be facing some new, three-dimensional competition on the blockchain. Polygon is working with Alethea AI to launch CharacterGPT, an artificial-intelligence-powered non-fungible token (NFT) project that describes itself as “the world’s first multimodal AI system.” In an introductory video, the…
