For decades, semiconductor innovation has been constrained not by imagination, but by engineering capacity. While transistor density has continued to advance, the process of building chips has remained fundamentally manual, fragmented across specifications, RTL, verification, debugging, coverage analysis, and signoff.…...
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Full Article- - - - Photo by Mika Baumeister on Unsplash While the American left constantly argues that the right has shifted more and more extreme over the years, it’s kind of funny how they don’t seem to...
An Egyptian relief worker who organised World Cup match screenings for Palestinians in Gaza was killed in an Israeli strike just hours before Egypt's dramatic Round of 16 clash against Argentina, Palestinian media reported late on Tuesday. Mohammed Fawaz...
The Israeli Spy Behind PragerU’s Plan to Rewrite American Education To Indoctrinate Children
Full ArticlePragerU is trying to take over American schools. The right-wing, pseudo-educational group is now an official educational partner in at least ten states, and blitzes children with highly questionable messaging on race, history, and politics. Even more concerning, PragerU is...
DOHA, (PIC) Senior Hamas official Mahmoud Mardawi has called for confronting the escalating demolition campaigns carried out by the Israeli occupation authority (IOA) across the West Bank and Jerusalem. Mardawi stressed on Wednesday that the relentless Israeli demolition of Palestinian homes and...
Israeli and pro-Israeli media outlets on Wednesday announced the upcoming launch of a coalition in New York City aimed at countering the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel, as well as anti-Zionist activism. The media push included...
Israeli settlers now control nearly a fifth of the occupied West Bank , according to a new report that details Israel's accelerating de facto annexation of Palestinian land. In a report titled Annus Mirabilis , released on Sunday, Israeli...
U.S. President Donald Trump has put forward an unexpected proposal to localize the production of missiles for the Patriot air defense system in Ukraine, a move that places major American defense corporations in an extremely difficult position. Trump Announces Patriot Missile...
With Hormuz still squeezed and White House factions at war, who’s really playing whom? Alastair Crooke is a former British diplomat, founder and director of the Beirut-based Conflicts Forum Cross-posted from the Stategic Culture Foundation Plan ‘A’ was to topple the...
RAMALLAH, (PIC) The Palestinian Prisoner Society (PPS) has held the Israeli prison service fully responsible for what happened to Palestinian prisoner Ghassan Zawahra, who sustained injuries after jailers opened fire at him three times in captivity. In a statement on Wednesday, PPS...
Caspia’s advanced tools and agents blend seamlessly with existing design flows to add expert-level security verification capabilities for all design teams. Founded in 2020 and headquartered in Gainesville, Florida, Caspia brings together expertise in chip design, fabrication, test, and verification with...
United Nations Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese shares stories of the immense suffering in Palestine and laments the gutting of international law in her new book, “When the World Sleeps”. Transcript Chris Hedges: Francesca Albanese, the special rapporteur on the...
The West has killed its own soul and is not even aware of it Cross-posted from Aurelien’s substack “Trying to understand the world” Last week, we looked at some of the more practical and structural reasons for the...
How corprations and governments give their lobbying and influence an aura of respectability by using think tanks as a front and how this is supported by corporate and state media Ewald Engelen is Professor of Financial Geography at the University...
Less than a month after a ceasefire was signed between the US and Iran, conflict has returned to the Middle East. The peace agreement Donald Trump signed at the palace of Versailles in France on June 18 – which he...
A Qatari LNG tanker was still stuck off Oman on Wednesday awaiting salvage operations, shipping data showed, a day after it was hit by a projectile, while the US military said two other tankers had been targeted by...
Fresh clashes in Yemen fuel fears of renewed war
Full ArticleMilitary tensions are rising across Yemen after the internationally recognised government, backed by the Saudi-led coalition, and the Houthi group deployed reinforcements to several front lines, raising fears that the country's fragile 2022 truce could unravel. The...
Syria's new constitutional court has been described as "an executive instrument with judicial veneer" after President Ahmed al-Sharaa appointed its judges without oversight from parliament or an independent judicial body. Sharaa appointed six members of the Supreme Constitutional Court on Monday,...
Egypt’s dramatic exit from the World Cup against Argentina on Tuesday night has triggered an outpouring of anger from fans, players and coaching staff, who have raised several grievances, including allegations of referee bias and a "rigging" of the...
President Donald Trump said this morning from the NATO Summit that the U.S. will give Ukraine the licenses to build America’s prestige Patriot Missile systems in Kyiv. "We're going to give a license to you to make Patriots....
In an op-ed for The Guardian , senior research fellow Jon Penney and co-author Bruce Schneier argue that widely deploying AI surveillance could be corrosive to democracy and social progress itself. Citing Penney’s new book, Chilling...
US President Donald Trump on Wednesday said he thought he would remove Syria from the United States' list of designated state sponsors of terrorism. "I think I will," Trump told reporters in response to a question during a meeting...
Revolutionizing Gynecology With Women in Mind
Full ArticleThis piece was co-published with The 19th , a nonprofit newsroom covering gender, politics and policy. Taylor Townsell remembers her OB-GYN reassuring her that her IUD insertion would feel like “just a pinch.” The pain came a split second later....
Ukraine and the Spirit of Red Cloud
Full ArticleImagine a public event 50 years from now in Kyiv. The convener speaks to the assembled crowd. “Before we begin,” she says, “I just want to say that we acknowledge that we are standing on and benefiting from land that has...
Democrats trying to replace Graham Platner on the November ballot will have to make key decisions on whom to choose as his replacement and how, as pressure builds on the U.S. Senate candidate from Maine to drop out after...
Amidst a succession of financial shocks , the Iran war being only the most recent, developing countries’ debt levels are alarmingly high and continue to rise. These burdens make it even more difficult for governments in the Global...
Iran will immediately close shipping through the Strait of Hormuz and launch retaliatory strikes against U.S. targets if it comes under any attack by the United States. For every Iranian target that is hit, at least two American targets will...
When the Media Turned Away, ICE Got Worse
Full ArticleIf you’re like me , you don’t want to think about anything President Donald Trump is doing that you don’t have to think about. The horrific domestic police called ICE, for example, appears to have quieted down. So...
Assassination of al-Wahidi: Targeting humanitarian work and the remaining aspects of life in Gaza
Full ArticleGAZA, (PIC) The assassination of the director of public relations at the Egyptian Committee in the Gaza Strip, Mohammad Fawaz al-Wahidi, sparked a wide wave of human rights and legal condemnations, after he was targeted in an Israeli raid while moving...
New evidence has emerged suggesting senior US military officials ignored warnings that intelligence used to identify targets in Iran was years out of date before a strike that killed scores of children at a primary school, as calls...
In a country where xenophobia has a legacy, a recent well-funded iteration has emerged that feeds on post-apartheid failures and local insecurities - Don’t already get The Long Wave in your inbox? Sign up here - It’s been a terrifying few...
GAZA, (PIC) At least nine civilians were martyred and others were injured by Israeli gunfire on Wednesday, while another one succumbed to injuries sustained in a previous attack in the Gaza Strip. According to media sources, an Israeli drone bombed a car...
Culture Minister Jihan Zaki resigned on Tuesday after a final court verdict upheld a decision that found her liable for plagiarizing the work of author Sohair Abdel Hamid in her book. The Court of Cassation rejected on Monday two appeals...
Plans are brewing to broaden air travel in Yemen
Full ArticleTransport Minister of the internationally-recognised Yemeni government Mohsen Haidra Al-Amri revealed plans to The New Arab to expand air transport in Yemen and end reliance on the national carrier as the sole operator, particularly...
Damascus, Syria - The sound of explosions rang out through central Damascus again on Tuesday, following twin explosions near the Four Seasons Hotel, which French President Emmanuel Macron had vacated only minutes prior. According to Syria’s Ministry of...
As Israel's genocide in Gaza surpasses 1,000 days , the world still has limited access to the daily realities inside the enclave, with Gazans themselves becoming the primary witnesses documenting its devastation. Journalists from around the world have been barred...
GAZA, (PIC) The death toll from the Israeli genocidal war on the Gaza Strip, which started on October 7, 2023, has surged to 73,110 martyrs, according to the health ministry on Wednesday morning. The ministry added that the total number of the...
Former UK Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has called on Britain to end all military cooperation with Israel, warning that the country's treatment of detained Gaza hospital director Dr Hussam Abu Safiya reflects a broader pattern of abuse...
TEHRAN, (PIC) US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that he believed the memorandum of understanding with Iran was over, after a new round of US strikes on Iranian sites triggered Iranian attacks on US military facilities in the Gulf. Speaking alongside...
Analysis by Arab Center Washington DC: Iran’s Nuclear Leverage Survives the War By Sina Azodi When President Donald Trump, in close partnership with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, attacked Iran on February 28, 2026, he anticipated the total capitulation of the Islamic Republic....
By Javier VILLAMOR Join us on Telegram , X , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su Brussels frames the digital euro, age verification, and Chat Control as separate solutions to real issues, but together they highlight who controls the...
It’s been one year since NPR reported that USAID had shut down and merged its operations into the State Department. Over the last year, the termination of USAID shuttered health programs, collapsed local partnerships, and eliminated thousands of...
Large design enterprises have multiple concurrent activities around IP of various types: software/firmware, blocks defined in RTL or HLS, verification IPs of multiple different types, physical implementations, scripts/files for timing, power management, etc., etc. Each of these continues to evolve...
Egypt head coach Hossam Hassan's decision to make FIFA's anti-racism gesture during his side's dramatic World Cup defeat to Argentina has become one of the most talked-about moments from the Round of 16 clash. Hassan crossed his...
Syria's President Ahmed al-Sharaa arrived in Ankara on Wednesday, where he was due to meet US President Donald Trump on the sidelines of the NATO summit. The summit of the military alliance, which closes on Wednesday, has brought together 36...
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) Israeli occupation forces demolished a residential building in Sur Baher, southeast of occupied Jerusalem, on Wednesday, while carrying out demolition operations west of al-Khalil. The Wadi Hilweh Information Center said Israeli forces, accompanied by bulldozers, stormed Sur Baher and...
This summer, House Democrats did something they’d mostly avoided for two years: they argued about Israel out loud. A doomed Republican amendment to strip aid to Israel forced two closed-door caucus meetings that several members described as intense. Then, leadership...
Let’s leave the Strait of Hormuz alone
Full ArticleBy Ron PAUL Join us on Telegram , X , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su President Trump was reportedly “shocked” to see many thousands of Iranians in the street mourning at the funeral of the country’s late leader,...
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