AI was a hot topic at DAC this year. If you attended the event, you’ve already heard about many new tools and systems that aim to improve time to market and quality for advanced semiconductors and systems. I had the...
Lithium has become a hot-button geopolitical issue as the critical mineral has become omnipresent and all-important in the tech and energy sectors. Chances are very good that you have more than one device powered by a lithium-ion battery within arm’s...
The American Petroleum Institute (API) estimated that crude oil inventories in the United States rose by 2.69 million barrels in the week ending July 30, despite analyst expectations for a 2 million barrel draw. In the week prior, US crude...
The conventional view of the Hormuz crisis is that China has been caught in an energy trap. It is the world’s largest crude importer, the Gulf remains one of its most important sources of supply, and an estimated 45–50% of...
Two things happened in Myanmar over the past week that belong side by side. On July 28, two Mandalay courts sentenced nine peaceful protesters to prison terms of up to 37 years under the junta’s “election protection” law and a...
Pakistan has played a key role as a mediator in the U.S./Israel war on Iran. Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Field Marshal Asim Munir, Chief of Army Staff and Chief of Defence Forces, have raised Pakistan’s profile so much that...
Wildfires have brought the issue of climate action back into the public debate, just as politicians had thought they were safe to dump it for good. Bill McKibben is the Schumann Distinguished Scholar at Middlebury College and co-founder of 350.org and...
Israel’s ‘spyware diplomacy’ should have every country in the world worrying about election interference by the zionist state. Antony Loewenstein is an independent journalist, best–selling author, filmmaker and co–founder of Declassified Australia. He’s written for the Guardian, the New York Times,...
The crisis of American politics is much deeper than Donald Trump. Cross-posted from Micha el Hudson’s blog Radhika Desai: Hello and welcome to another Geopolitical Economy Hour, the socialist and anti-imperialist conversation that illuminates the fast-changing political economy and geopolitical economy of our...
Senior research fellow Jon Penney spoke with Tech Policy Press about his new book, Chilling Effects , and how rising surveillance is causing people to self-censor. Penney notes that the fear of having a digital persona or profile that follows us...
Oil prices tumbled Tuesday as traders once again priced in a U.S.-Iran agreement before anyone had actually signed one. West Texas Intermediate was trading at $75.64 per barrel shortly before 2 p.m. ET, down $4.70, or 5.85%, while Brent had...
Russia is introducing new technology into the Ukraine war. Will it help the Russians win in the conflict? Even more tantalizing, both were developed by private sector companies in Russia! Russia and Ukraine often tout new products sold to the...
The leaders of the five Central Asian states and Azerbaijan, meeting on the shores of Lake Issyk Kul in Kyrgyzstan on July 31, signaled an intent to deepen trans-Caspian connections. The meeting’s final document, known as the Cholpon-Ata Declaration, was perhaps more symbolic than...
For modern SoC teams, “shift left” no longer means finding a few more RTL bugs before tape-out. It means moving meaningful system validation earlier—far enough left that firmware, operating systems, drivers, applications, and external interfaces can be exercised before first...
The emergence of bloodthirsty right-wing paramilitary death squads in Colombia is often attributed to the rise of powerful vertically integrated cocaine cartels during the early 1980s. That interpretation, however, overlooks the deeper forces behind their emergence in a country shaped...
India’s Oil and Natural Gas Corporation more than doubled its quarterly profit as higher crude and natural gas prices—and a weaker rupee—more than made up for another drop in production. ONGC reported net income of 170.34 billion rupees, or about...
Thousands of Palestinians gathered in Gaza City on Tuesday to bury 112 people, including 40 children, from the Abu Sharia and Hassaineh families. Their bodies were recovered over the past weeks from beneath the ruins of their homes in the Sabra...
The interest of Chinese intelligence, military, political, and strategic circles in the current state of increasing American interest in the cities of Ceuta and Melilla and the exploitation by the American legislature of the current international controversy over them after...
On July 23, Donald Trump announced that U.S. civilian nuclear cooperation with Saudi Arabia would proceed only if Riyadh joins the Abraham Accords and normalizes relations with Israel. More than a technical dispute, the condition raises a fundamental question about...
Iron ore futures in Singapore fell to their lowest intraday level in one year as deteriorating fundamentals continued to weigh on the market. Steel demand in China remains soft amid an ongoing construction slump and weakening mill margins, while supply...
A new link-up between natural gas fields in Cyprus and processing facilities in Egypt was greenlit last week, with European energy giants TotalEnergies and Eni taking their final investment decision to fund the project. The deal will allow for natural gas...
Following the largest nurses strike in New York City history, Marilyn Shuler and 11 of her co-workers returned to their jobs at Montefiore Hospitals in the Bronx in February, only to find that their work environment had changed in a...
Brent crude fell back to around $80 per barrel after renewed optimism over a potential US-Iran draft agreement eased geopolitical fears, even as President Trump criticized US refiners for high fuel profits. Trump Takes Aim at Big Oil’s War Profits...
The following story is co-published with Luke Savage’s Substack . By the time you’re reading this, voting will be well underway in Michigan’s Democratic Senate primary. At time of writing, I can’t say for certain what the result will be, but...
Used under a Creative Commons license, original by Tony Webster Do you have a reasonable expectation of privacy while you’re out and about? The general understanding most people have is that no, you don’t. Not in public, anyway. That’s based on numerous...
The U.S. Department of Defense has canceled a tender to buy up to $300 million worth of lithium carbonate for the national strategic stockpile in another blow to the Administration looking to secure critical minerals for the defense and other...
The US’s multibillion-dollar push to expand interceptor missile production could begin rebuilding depleted stocks, but long manufacturing lead times, industrial bottlenecks and cost imbalances mean the benefits will depend on how quickly new capacity translates into deployable missiles. The US...
Fujimorismo is back. Following three consecutive runoff losses (2011, 2016 and 2021) and a combined 34.5 million votes stacked against her across four election cycles — a phenomenon that made “anti-Fujimorismo” the central axis of recent electoral politics in Peru — Keiko Fujimori...
The Flame Within That Calls Us Home “The kingdom of God is within you.” — Luke 17:21, KJV I. The Faith That Became a Mask Christianity remains the West’s dominant religious inheritance and, across much of it, its largest professed faith. Churches still command...
Indian state-owned refiner Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited (HPCL) has bought 2 million barrels of crude from Nigeria, trading sources told Reuters on Tuesday, as India looks to offset the loss of supply from the Middle East with deliveries from producers...
On 6 July, the Dutch government summoned the mayors of ten municipalities that had simply refused to open the asylum shelters the law requires them to open — one entry in a queue of roughly 100 Dutch municipalities missing their...
BP has announced that it will offload its US biogas business just days after confirming its exit from the North Sea, as the firm looks to shift its focus back to core oil and gas products. The London-listed oil giant...
Reuters reported this morning that the U.S. has used “virtually all” its long-range precision strike missiles during its war on Iran. Reuters’ sources would not say exactly how many of these surface to surface weapons, known as Army Tactical Missile Systems...
Traffic at the Strait of Hormuz remains at the lowest in more than two months as security concerns have intensified with recent attacks on ships and persistent threats to shipping in the region. After a brief respite between the middle...
Iraq faces mounting pressure to rein in the militias while balancing tensions with neighboring countries, the US, and Iran. The Kurdistan Region of northern Iraq has come under nearly 1,000 drone and missile attacks by Iran and its proxies since...
As artificial intelligence systems become larger and more demanding, memory is becoming one of the most important constraints in server design. Modern AI workloads do not only require powerful GPUs and accelerators; they also require enormous amounts of data to...
Pakistan's national Oil and Gas Development Company Limited (OGDC) has signed an agreement with a Canadian firm to deploy advanced technology to boost production from heavy crude oilfields, the largest Pakistani exploration and production firm has said. Under the agreement...
When roughly 60,000 migrants surged into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta in North Africa, much of the American right-wing reacted with predictable horror. President Donald Trump has likened the scenes to an invasion. He suggested that the Spanish government “doesn’t...
Trump’s repeated threats followed by last-minute retreats risk turning American deterrence into a paper tiger, encouraging adversaries to test Washington’s resolve. Pulling back from the brink may avert war today, but inconsistency could prove costlier tomorrow. If not exaggerated, it’s...
India’s state-owned Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC), the top explorer in the country, will build a new storage site at Mangaluru to hold about 13 million barrels of oil as the world’s third-largest crude oil importer looks to boost...
Fresh uncertainty has emerged over prospects for diplomacy between the United States and Iran after conflicting claims over negotiations coincided with a maritime attack near the Strait of Hormuz. The incident pushed oil prices higher and reinforced concerns that the...
BP more than doubled its profit for the second quarter from a year earlier on the back of higher oil and gas prices and stronger refining margins driven by the shock supply disruption in the Middle East. BP on Tuesday...
U.S. President Donald Trump returned to office pledging to restore free speech and end what he described as years of government censorship. Yet a growing body of federal court rulings has found that his administration has repeatedly violated First Amendment...
By: Ainur Rohmah Photo from Bank Indonesia Perry Warjiyo’s resignation as governor of Bank Indonesia has become more than an unexpected leadership change. Announced on July 27, nearly two years before his second term was due to end in 2028, the decision...
The United States has depleted a significant portion of its stockpile of long range precision missiles during its five month military campaign against Iran, raising concerns over its preparedness for future conflicts with major powers such as China and Russia....
A new railway, a sixteen-year coal supply arrangement and a renewed yuan swap line do not suggest that China is preparing to annex Mongolia. They do, however, increase the economic cost of foreign-policy disagreement with Beijing. June 2026: sovereignty and...
An upper-class Englishwoman falls in love with a worker on her uncle’s sugar plantation in this insipid adaptation of Romesh Gunesekera’s novel Here is a tale of love across the divide, based on a novel by Booker nominee Romesh Gunesekera ....
Saudi Aramco saw its adjusted net income jump by 33% for the second quarter from a year earlier as high oil prices and the oil giant’s ability to re-route most crude exports more than offset the constrained flows at the...
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