Imagination Technologies
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The rapid growth of AI at the edge is forcing SoC architects to rethink traditional processor designs. Dedicated NPUs deliver impressive performance for today’s models, but evolving AI workloads, increasing system…
Existential Threats or Economic Realities? The Fatal Flaw in Europe’s China Strategy The global economy in 2026 is increasingly defined by divergence. Developing Asia is driving global growth while the major Western…
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Paragon Solutions vowed not to sell its mobile spyware to governments with poor human rights records and to cut off customers who misuse its products. However, in 2025 researchers at the Citizen Lab confirmed that the…
War & Peace
Volodymyr Zelensky announced it in five short lines: “FP-7. First combat use. Thank you for the result. Next up: production. Glory to Ukraine!” On October 1, Ukraine fired its first homemade ballistic missile in combat…
Corporations
For 13 years, British tankers have filled up on Angolan crude oil and left behind a trail of what residents describe as systematic, routine destruction. One small patch of BP co-owned Angolan seabed – known as Kizomba A…
Middle East & Africa
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A drone strike on a Madinah power station did little physical damage. It confirmed something more consequential: the Houthi threat is no longer a feature of Yemen’s internal conflict but a projection of force against a…
RAMALLAH, occupied West Bank / PNN / Israeli forces detained or subjected about 95 Palestinians to field interrogation overnight across the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society said Thursday, describing…
BETHLEHEM, West Bank / PNN / The Popular Committee of Aida Refugee Camp participated in the annual Humanity Festival in France from Sept. 10-13, 2026, at the invitation of L’Humanité, the French newspaper affiliated with…
Military
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A flurry of landmark arms deals is reshaping Central Asia’s strategic landscape, as regional states leverage alternative defense suppliers to assert their sovereignty amid Russia’s waning dominance and an intensifying…
Global development
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With cancer cases rising fastest in poorer countries, Zainab Shinkafi-Bagudu, president-elect of the Union for International Cancer Control, says Africa needs investment in research, diagnosis and prevention When Dr…
Kenya
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Refugee gig workers for tech companies don’t know how much they’ll be paid – if AI hasn’t already taken their jobs In a portable building in Kakuma, a refugee camp near Kenya ’s northern border with South Sudan , Grace…
South Sudan
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Renewed fighting is bringing a flow of wounded to Juba’s military hospital, where medics never know what the next day will bring By 11am on a recent Thursday, Dr Slobodan Mirosavljev had already seen two critically…
Arsenal of Innovation
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For America’s 250th anniversary, Cogs of War ran ten essays on innovations forged in wartime that subsequently diffused throughout the civilian economy, or had a lasting impact on society, governance, and Americans’…
Armed Conflicts
Ore containing copper, cobalt, and nickel, critical minerals that power the use of emerging technologies. Credit: Unsplash/Paul-Alain Hunt By Oritro Karim UNITED NATIONS, Oct 8 2026 (IPS) The demand for critical minerals…
Civil Society
By Thalif Deen UNITED NATIONS, Oct 8 2026 (IPS) The seven candidates, still in the running for the post of UN Secretary-General (SG), have so far faced a barrage of questions, mostly from delegates and the news media…
Opinion
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Every year, the Indonesian government forgoes taxes it could collect. Through tax holidays, rate cuts and exemptions, it courts investment while easing the burden on households and small businesses. Economists call this…
Dayton-accords
Nationalists came out on top in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH)’s October 4 election. Allies of Milorad Dodik, the de facto leader of the country’s Bosnian Serb entity, won decisively in Republika Srpska despite Dodik…
Iran-war
In September, as the media focused its attention on the conflict in the Strait of Hormuz and the debates at the U.N. General Assembly, some internal developments in Iran went all but unnoticed. On September 28, 32…
Always-at-war
Last week, after nearly two decades of fighting, the U.S. finally pulled the plug on its seemingly endless war in Iraq. Like our exit from Afghanistan just a few years ago, the end of fighting in Iraq was met with an…
Opinion
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We are fortunate to live at an incredible moment in history. As more and more AI applications have become available, people have turned to them to seek advice, build businesses, express ideas, learn, and improve their…
Uncategorized
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Benjamin Netanyahu likes to translate Israel’s grief into American. At the United Nations last month, he took the dead of October 7 and multiplied them by the ratio of America’s population to Israel’s. The 1,200 Israelis…
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Three years into Israel’s genocide in Gaza, the consequences of a decision driven by siege, settlement expansion and assaults on Al-Aqsa are still unfolding Sami Al-Arian is the Director of the Center for Islam and…
Austerity
France might be leading the world into the end of neoliberalism. Richard Murphy is an economic justice campaigner. Professor of Accounting at Sheffield University Management School., and Chartered Accountant, and…
The PRC gets back to work Thursday after the long vacation for National Day. For those of you who got the week off, I hope you had a nice holiday. Today’s newsletter is a bit of a catch-up ahead of the return to the…
Climate Crisis
Today in the West reform is a slogan, not an activity Cross-posted from Aurelien’s substack “Trying to understand the world” By Guallendra – Own work, CC0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=200809764 Last…
Belief & Religion
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth thinks God is the U.S. military’s secret weapon. To better utilize this heavenly ally, he’s launching an office designed to provide “first-class religious support” to members of the…
War & Peace
The Iran War has claimed thousands of lives, most of them in Iran itself. The war has cost Iran as much as $300 billion in economic damage. For its part, the Pentagon spent nearly $44 billion through mid-September to…
Libya
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Steven Kay says Britain should act independently and in a role consistent with its status as a member of the UN security council Patrick Wintour’s report ( Libyan unity talks upended as warlord’s son linked to drone…
AI
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Semiconductor designers today face a critical hurdle: how to smoothly transition from an open-source hardware blueprint to a commercially hardened, production-ready silicon implementation. As semiconductors play an…
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For this edition of The Atlantic Brief, the Royal United Services Institute and War on the Rocks present a dialogue on U.S. and European Perspectives on Nuclear Deterrence. Participating experts from the United Kingdom…
AMMAN, Jordan / JERUSALEM — Médecins Sans Frontières, or Doctors Without Borders, warned Wednesday that Israel is progressively restricting the space available to Palestinians in the Gaza Strip while conditions needed…
Today’s post is going to be a little different. I’m not feeling well at all, and so I’m doing what I have the energy for. With everything going on, it’s tough to deal with being sick on top of it all, but you guys…
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Three years after the Oct. 7 attack, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is presenting Israel’s response as a story of resilience and overwhelming military success. Speaking at the United Nations last month…
EU-China trade talks + Academic espionage + Gender gap H.Seidl Wed, 10/07/2026 - 17:12 picture alliance / Xinhua News Agency | Joan Gosa Download (pdf - 537.91 KB) MERICS Briefs MERICS China Essentials Oct 08, 2026 10…
Chiplet
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Access to advanced semiconductor technology involves much more than choosing a process node. Design teams also need computing capacity, compatible tools, secure technology access, and experienced support. IC-Link by…
Life and style
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Black communities across the globe have large and complex vocabularies to describe race, shaped by their specific cultures and histories - Don’t get The Long Wave delivered to your inbox? Sign up here One thing you might…
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Britain launched a “world wide lobbying exercise” to overturn a landmark United Nations (UN) resolution which recognised Zionism as racism, declassified files reveal. The information is in a private exchange between John…
NABLUS/TULKARM, West Bank / PNN — For Ali al-Bazari’s family, the olive harvest ended in grief. They bid farewell to the 44-year-old Palestinian father through tears, while his son was left asking a question no child…
Armed Conflicts
The effects of torture and ill-treatment seen on Oleksandr Savov, a Ukrainian marine who took part in the defence of Mariupol after his release from Russian captivity. Credit: Anastasiia Savova By Ed Holt BRATISLAVA, Oct…
BETHLEHEM, West Bank / PNN / The idea for Um Eyad’s small business grew out of the difficult economic circumstances facing her family and her and her husband’s desire to create an additional source of income to help meet…
JENIN, West Bank / PNN — In an effort to prevent traditional Palestinian games from being forgotten, Samahear Al-Roumi, director of the “Bayt Al-Dammah” centre for reviving Palestinian folk games in the town of Zababdeh…
Bethlehem / PNN — A new episode of *Aalamakshouf* examined the impact of the war on animals, livestock and the environment in the Gaza Strip, amid widespread destruction of farms and beekeeping facilities, shortages of…
Africa
Credit: Tosin Olowoleni By Saheed Babajide Owonikoko YOLA, Nigeria, Oct 7 2026 (IPS) Following the mass abduction of 46 pupils and teachers in Oyo State, south-west Nigeria in 2026, the authorities attributed the attack…
Asia Narratives prepares periodic briefings. One of my clients suggested I share it. China Systems Weekly covers political, economic, and social developments through the lens of individual and societal needs, alongside…
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Anthropic recently disclosed five cases in which users hid their countries while asking Claude for help enhancing pathogens or toxins. This added fuel to the ongoing debate over whether progress in AI should be slowed…
Economy
Cotton has long been one of Africa’s most important agricultural commodities, supporting millions of rural jobs and generating vital export revenues. Yet the continent captures only a fraction of the wealth generated by…
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How can Africa compete in the global cotton-based market currently dominated by Asia, Europe and America? Can textiles made in Africa with distinctive continental flavouring find their own niche in the billion-dollar…
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The Ethiopian photographer Sosina Mengistu’s self-portraits draw on personal experience to reflect young people’s anxiety and frustration This self-portrait is part of my project So I See Me, which I began in 2020 during…