Monday (Lundi) October (Octobre) 26, 2026
Monday (Lundi) · October (Octobre) 26, 2026
Major Content Curation Monday
Lundi, grande sélection de lectures : affaires mondiales, technologie, élections et plus encore.
Today’s Curated Reading and Watching
- Israel heads to polls for pivotal election defined by security and democracyBBC
- Israel election 2026 live: Polls open as Netanyahu faces tough testAl Jazeera News
- Israel election: polls open in most consequential vote in country’s historyThe Guardian
- Israel Votes in Election Seen as Referendum on NetanyahuThe New York Times
- Israel’s voter turnout soars as Netanyahu faces a tight electionNPR
- ‘It’s worth making the trip’: Israelis living abroad spend thousands to return to voteMS NOW
- ‘The stakes are existential!’: Thousands of Israelis living abroad return home to vote in October 27 electionsLe Monde
- Russia and Ukraine begin Oleshky ceasefire but keep up strikes elsewhereReuters
- Putin’s Strategy Is Working: Trump Could Salvage the Kremlin’s Objectives in UkraineForeign Affairs
- L’Événement | Libye, Russie, Ukraine — Kiev prêt à intervenir contre le convoi maritime en cours de l’Africa CorpsIntelligence Online FR
- From this day, fourth: Lula’s surprise winThe Intelligence | Global news · The Economist
- The far-right just lost. Twice.In Serbia and Brazil, huge numbers of voters turned out on Sunday to repudiate right-wing populists.Vox
- The rivalry wrecking a regionThe Insider · The Economist
- Sudan | A genocidal militia was coming for his city. He was one of the last doctors left1843 Magazine · The Economist
- Waiting to Be Picked: The daily struggle to find work in KabulAfghanistan Analysts Network
- OrientationsLe Monde diplomatique
- China Is Learning to Sell Japanese Culture Better Than JapanThe Diplomat
- Betting on Democracy: The Promise and Perils of Election MarketsCFR.org
- Space Junk Is a Problem We Know How to SolveForeign Policy
- The US government’s dangerous rush to produce new plutonium pitsThe Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
- Nate Silver: 75% chance Dems take SenateHuffPost
- Record early voting in key states as Trump, Obama appeal to voters on campaign trailABC News Politics
- What do early ballot returns, political ad spending trends look like in California?CapRadio News
- Catholic leaders distance themselves from Trump after Oval Office prayer videoPOLITICO
- Yes, We Have No Bananas — But please don’t blame the Jews.The Atlantic
- Pentagon Records Missed Almost Half of Troops’ Domestic Abuse KillingsThe Intercept
- Five weird details from Anthropic’s IPO filingFrom conscious AI and ‘catastrophic’ risk to unusual corporate structures and executive perks.The Verge
- Our Claude is an awesome ClaudeBusiness Insider
- Microsoft to Offer Buyouts to 60,000 Workers in New Cost CutBloomberg
- Watch out, YouTube — Instagram goes from short-form to 90-minute videosTechCrunch
- The Impossible issue · November/December 2026Is it fun to dream about living on the moon or uploading our brains? For sure. But questing after the impossible is about way more than pipe dreams. This issue explores what we can do when we have the audacity to push for our most daring goals, from synthesizing blood to building AI with real guardrails. Plus: A bionic eye, the AI companies training models with dead startups’ data, and more.MIT Technology Review
- The New Standard: engineers on the architectural decisions that worked, the ones that didn’t, and what we’re building toward in 2027Thursday, October 29, in Paris with Raycast and Linear. On stage: Thomas Paul Mann (Raycast), Tuomas Artman (Linear), Théo Carrive (Mistral), moderated by Tanguy Le Stradic (Evy). Galerie Au Roi, 73-75 Rue de la Fontaine au Roi, Paris. Doors open at 6pm, conversation starts at 6:30pm sharp.LinkedIn
- When There’s Nowhere to Promote a Star EmployeeHarvard Business Review
- Treatments for age-related infertility are being developed at lastStartups hope to improve IVF by revealing the biology of infertility.The Economist
- The FDA rarely inspects much of the produce Americans eatThe Washington Post
- A Glimpse Into the World of the Hittites—in Their Own WordsNational Geographic
- The U.S. Military Has Much to Learn From UkraineThe Cipher Brief
- F-16 Jets to Add Startup Castelion’s Hypersonic ‘Blackbeard’ MissileAir & Space Forces
- Air Force bans Chinese-made electric vehicles from base on OkinawaStars & Stripes
- Soldiers are using the Army’s new dining halls ‘exponentially’ more, official says“They can get their meals, and they can enjoy their weekends better than having to report to an old legacy facility,” one Army food program official said.Task & Purpose
- A 300,000-Square-Foot Military Experience Is Coming to 2 US Cities in 2027Military.com
- Cybercrime crackdown in Africa nets 1,462 arrests, recovers over USD 105 millionINTERPOL
- Shaken and Stirred by the Search for the Next James BondThe New Yorker
- ‘Dune: Part Three’ final trailer: Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya, and Florence Pugh return to ArrakisMashable
- ‘Mass Effect’ Voice Actors Show Support for Fans and Developers After BioWare ShutdownVICE
- Honda’s Race-Bred HRC Parts Are Finally Here for Civic Type R, Integra, Passport, and PilotMotorTrend
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That wraps up this week’s Monday Major Content Curation! Mondays often get a bad reputation, but there is nothing quite like a fresh start to the week with some great reading material to get the gears turning. I hope you all enjoyed diving into today’s content.
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