The impact of DOGE’s funding cuts on biomedical research, from the point of view of former NIH director Monica Bertagnolli [Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists]
Giri Wins 2025 Sharjah Masters, Assaubayeva Earns GM Title [Chess.com]
Russia is raining hellfire on Ukraine [The Economist]
How Graham Hancock became conspiracy theorists’ favourite historian [1843 Mag]
Handling a crisis: Keep calm and clarion — What can jazz teach managers about improvising through disaster? [The Economist Podcasts]
Climate change is threatening even the strongest business environments. Singapore, Denmark and the Netherlands perform highly in EIU’s business environment rankings, but are low-lying, storm-prone and vulnerable to climate impacts. Learn more: http://econgrp.co/Ug [TheEIU]
How Gen AI Is Transforming Market Research [HBR]
Everyone is emotional, says Kremlin, after Trump calls Putin 'absolutely crazy' [BBC]
Germany’s Merz Says US Tech Perks Could Be Target in Trade War [Bloomberg]
France, Vietnam sign deals worth $10 billion as Macron visits Hanoi [Reuters]
US and Hamas reach draft Gaza ceasefire deal [AL-Jazeera News]
A Mother’s Hunger Strike Challenges Two Nations [The New Yorker]
Afghan Delegates At Antalya Process Criticise UN’s Mosaic Plan For Excluding Civil Society [Afghanistan International]
The pool’s open. Trump’s laid off the team that helps protect swimmers. [POLITICO]
The Newark airport crisis is about to become everyone’s problem [The Verge]
The case against summer: Your summer won’t be as good as you think it will be. It never is. [Vox]
Why Intempus thinks robots should have a human physiological state [TechCrunch]
Anthropic’s new hybrid AI model can work on tasks autonomously for hours at a time [MIT Technology Review]
What will Jony Ive's ChatGPT device be? We rounded up the best guesses on what he's cooking up for OpenAI. [Business Insider]
𝗜𝗟𝗦 𝗟'𝗢𝗡𝗧 𝗙𝗔𝗜𝗧 🏆
Les Rouge et Noir décrochent la 𝑪𝒐𝒖𝒑𝒆 𝑮𝒂𝒎𝒃𝒂𝒓𝒅𝒆𝒍𝒍𝒂 en s'imposant face à Dijon par 3 buts à 2. Le trophée est Rennais pour la 4e fois ! Bravo à ce groupe qui fait la fierté du SRFC. 🔥
#GambardSRFC #DFCOSRFC 2-3 [LinkedIn]
Dozens injured as car ploughs into crowd at Liverpool FC victory parade [The Guardian]
The Upcoming ‘Office’ Spinoff [The New York Times]
'60 Minutes' Legend Lashes Trump: Spreading 'Insidious Fear' [Huffington Post]
The Coming Democratic Civil War — A seemingly wonky debate about the “abundance agenda” is really about power. [The Atlantic]
Trump threatens tech companies with tariffs if they don’t manufacture in US [FiveThirtyEight]
Deadly strikes hit Gaza as new aid group says it has begun distributing food [The Washington Post]
NASA restarts one of Voyager 1's thrusters after 21 years of inactivity [Le Monde]
5 new iOS 18.5 features I recommend trying ASAP (plus 3 bonus features you may have missed) [Mashable]
This Week Behind the Paywall [VICE]
In Gaza, Famine Is the Weapon — and So Is Aid: Amid Israel’s blockade on Gaza, death can come from the lack of food — or from trying to find food. [The Intercept_]
What is Memorial Day? The history behind why we celebrate the holiday [National Geographic]
Taylor Swift: Tiny Desk Concert [NPR]
Local in-home support workers at risk due to proposed state budget cuts [Cap Radio News]
Derrière les « boucliers humains » [Le Monde diplomatique]
Turkish Guns Are Taking Over the U.S. Market [Foreign Policy]
Is a Good Iran Deal Possible? — What Washington Needs From Nuclear Negotiations With Tehran [Foreign Affairs]
Crisis Without Closure: India-Pakistan Confrontation in an Era of Fragile Deterrence — The current tense phase of relations reflects a breakdown of the old deterrence logic. [The Diplomat]
The President’s Daily Brief: No Assembly Required? — New questions about the production - and consumption - of the President's Daily Brief [The Cipher Brief]
Cambodge, Chine, France, Myanmar — L'histoire secrète des mercenaires français pris dans l'enfer birman [Intelligence Online FR]
For Algorithms, a Little Memory Outweighs a Lot of Time [Quanta Magazine]
Voici l'installation HEARTS au CERN.
Le projet HEARTS (High-Energy Accelerators for Radiation Testing and Shielding) est financé par l'UE et vise à fournir deux nouvelles installations de test de rayonnement pour les applications spatiales, l'une au #CERN et l'autre à GSI.
Leur but est d'accroître l'autonomie de l'Europe en matière d'infrastructures critiques de test de rayonnement et de faire progresser l'exploration spatiale. En savoir plus : [CERN_FR]
Percolating Clues: NASA Models New Way to Build Planetary Cores [NASA]
What’s up, everybody! It’s Monday, May 26th, 2025. It’s the long Memorial Day Weekend! Very difficult WKND as we celebrate the veterans who have lost their lives. Be sure to check in with your loved ones who are Military/Veterans to make sure they’re okay mentally. As for those of you are who are simply “partyin’ it up” for #MDW2025, whether in Las Vegas or elsewhere, please be sure to select a Designated Driver, if you’re the DD, drink a 0.0% Alcoholic Beer. As always, we pray for Peace in Gaza, and for Peace in Ukraine. We hope the world does not forget about Afghanistan, Syria, Sudan, Tibet, the rest of Africa/Asia, and Undocumented Immigrants from Latin America.
