Monday (Lundi) August (Août) 31, 2026
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Lundi 31 Août 2026 | Monday, August 31, 2026Written & Curated by Zaki Qayoumi, aka “Zack”
Founder • CEO • COO • CTO • Senior Project Manager • Director • President • VP • Chairman‑of‑the‑Board • Editor‑In‑Chief, ZACK TECHNOLOGY LLC
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Bonjour et bon dernier jour du mois! Today is Major Content Curation Day — a big World Affairs edition covering Technology, Diplomacy, and everything in between.
🇫🇷 Proud to Pursue La French Tech San Francisco
I'm actively working toward joining La French Tech San Francisco, and I'm especially excited about the La French Tech NOVA program, which supports high-potential entrepreneurs from under-represented and minority backgrounds — entrepreneurs like myself — with mentoring, investor connections, and access to the broader French Tech network. Fingers crossed!
Grenoble, Annecy, Chambéry, Valence-Romans, Genevois français — La French Tech Alpes is the local arm of the national French Tech movement, launched by the French State in 2013, connecting startups, talent, and investors across the Alpine corridor. It's exactly the kind of regional ecosystem I hope to be part of as I work toward La French Tech San Francisco.
Read more — La French Tech Alpes, LinkedIn #FrenchTech #FrenchTechAlpes #Innovation #SillonAlpin #Startups #Entrepreneuriat
World Affairs, Technology & Diplomacy
- Intel cuts VP ranks from 450 to 200 under Lip-Bu Tan — Reddit #demotions #layoffs
- Treat me like a human: the prescience of Children of Men — The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists
- Trump's CIA director delivered secret, urgent messages to Moscow — MS NOW
- America is seeing its largest measles crisis in 35 years. RFK Jr. is making it so much worse. — MS NOW
- Why parents should think twice about letting their kids play tackle football — MS NOW
- Judge rules Trump effort to deport pro-Palestinian students unlawful — MS NOW
- Cornered, Vladimir Putin plans to escalate his war — His refusal to back down is rooted in Russia's gangster politics — The Economist
- Inside Colombia's cocaine factories — The $15bn drugs trade has touched every corner of society — 1843 Magazine
- The Weekend Intelligence: Laugh, think, move — The Economist Podcasts
- The cost of Donald Trump's mass-deportation machine — The Insider, The Economist
- AI Transformation Requires Redesigning Work, Not Cutting Roles — Harvard Business Review
- Trump Failed the 3 A.M. Test — The Atlantic
- Nepal intensifying efforts to free hundreds believed trapped in hydropower tunnels — BBC
- This Is the Year We Went Back to the Movies — Bloomberg
- US and Iran resume military attacks for first time in weeks — Reuters
- Ben-Gvir taunts Palestinian women prisoners over prison conditions — Al Jazeera
- Pushed to the Limits: The struggle to survive deepening poverty in Afghanistan — Afghanistan Analysts Network
- Is electricity dimming oil's political power? — POLITICO
- Mark Zuckerberg's Social Reckoning — The New Yorker
- An okay laptop with 16GB of RAM is better than a nice laptop with 8GB, and this $520 HP OmniBook proves it — The Verge
- One of the Supreme Court's worst ideas could save the midterms from Trump — Vox
- Caterpillar is bringing to AI deployment what it learned from automating mining — TechCrunch
- September/October 2026 — The Kids Issue: what does growing up in an age of chatbots and agents mean for kids' future? — MIT Technology Review
- I raised 5 kids and refused to spend thousands on youth sports. I don't regret it. — Business Insider
- Devastated by floods and overwhelmed by bodies, Nepalis weep for what remains of their homes — The Guardian
- Why the United States Can't Quit Its Wars — the country's longest war ended five years ago, and the morass in Afghanistan offers lessons for policymakers seeking to avoid an endless war in Iran — The New York Times
- 1 Dead, 15 Missing Or Unaccounted For After Flash Flood At Grand Canyon — Huffington Post
- The Measles-Stricken Mother Who Lost Her Newborn Son — The Atlantic
- Plan to cut number of polling sites in a major Texas county — ABC News Politics
- Military leaders warn Hegseth against extending Iran war operations — The Washington Post
- Rennes's aquatic cathedral awaits major renovation — Le Monde
- Review: Google Pixel 11 is sleek, but you might be happier with a cheap Pixel 10 — Mashable
- VICE Album Reviews, August 28: Turnstile, Tom Hardy, Prince and More — VICE
- Palestinians Asked for Help Against Settlers. Israelis Detained Palestinian Workers Instead. — The Intercept_
- Why Hurricane Katrina Was One of the Worst Storms in U.S. History — National Geographic
- How a comic book store got swept into the tariff storm — NPR
- Mai Vang and Doris Matsui meet in ‘contentious’ candidate forum — Cap Radio News
- Tabasser les pompiers — Le Monde diplomatique
- Yes, We're in an AI Bubble. Just Look to 1980s Japan. — Foreign Policy
- The Price of Russian Paranoia — Spy Hunting Shores Up Putin's Power, but Paralyzes the State — Foreign Affairs
- The Iran War at Six Months: A Region — and Its Relationship With the U.S. — Transformed — CFR.org
- Air Force ‘immediately’ stops use of Minuteman III communications testers after chemical exposure — Task & Purpose
- Navy has lost 15,000 operational days because of idle submarines, GAO reports — Stars & Stripes
- Trump Signs Order to Create US Space Academy, New Pipeline for Space Force and NASA — Military.com
- The Tibet-Nepal Flood Is a Himalayan Climate Security Warning — The Diplomat
- U.S. intelligence indicates Putin sees U.S. as weakened by Iran war — The Cipher Brief
- L'Événement | Allemagne — À Berlin, une chancellerie ouverte à l'autocritique sur le renseignement — Intelligence Online FR
- Does Computer Science Need Computers? — Quanta Magazine
- François Englert (1932–2026) — in memoriam — CERN
- NASA's Roman Telescope Launches — the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope lifted off Aug. 30 from Kennedy Space Center — NASA
- MTG-I2 completes Europe's latest weather trio — ESA
- INTERPOL to expand Lyon General Secretariat headquarters following agreement with France — INTERPOL
- Rebuilding the U.S. Air Force for Multi-Theater Conflict — Air & Space Forces Magazine
Auto & Motoring
- The Mercedes-AMG GT 53 EV Trades Power For Over 500 Miles Of Range — Inside EVs #MercedesAMG
- Long Live Long Roofs: The Best Audi RS 6 Avants For Sale — duPont Registry #AudiRS
- This Is The Porsche Panamera You Actually Want: Review — Motor1.com #PorscheGTS
- BMW Shouldn't Just Worry About China. Genesis Is Also A Threat — BMW Blog #BMWM
- Job Fair at the Nürburgring: More than 30 employers present career opportunities — Nürburgring #Nürburgring
- New “BEHIND THE GRID” DTM documentary launches on Joyn and ProSieben — DTM #DTM
- Strong race at Suzuka sees all three Nissan Z NISMO GT500s score points — Nissan News #NISMO
- Toyota Is Building A Sports Car Empire For 2026 And Beyond — CarBuzz
- Is the 2026 Honda Civic Type R a Good Performance Sedan? 5 Pros, 2 Cons — Cars.com
- Our Mazdaspeed 6 Revival Ditches The Turbo Four For 536 HP Of Electric Power — CarScoops.com
- LE MANS is coming to JAPAN — Mount Fuji Speedway
- Next BMW M3 EV Will Have Gears, Sort Of — MotorTrend
Coffee with Zack ☕ — Lundi 31 Août 2026
What's up, everybody! It's Monday (Lundi) August (Août) 31st. It's the last day of the month, and it's also Monday, so it's Major Content Curation Day. There's a lot of news to go over today — enjoy all the stories I've curated myself. I appreciate y'all taking the time to read my content, and as always, if you'd like to support my work, please consider a Venmo donation or a purchase through my Razer affiliate link. It means a lot.
I'm genuinely excited because we're a little more than two weeks out from the grand opening of Barnes & Noble in Elk Grove, California. I'm grateful for this location since it'll save me on gas, and I'm hoping there are some good fast food options nearby too. I can't wait to sit in that bookstore and work on ZACK TECHNOLOGY LLC, on JETLAG RADIO podcasts, on my next book, and in my journal — and who knows, maybe even meet someone special along the way. It's not impossible — shout-out to Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan for the inspiration.
On a more serious note: I remain genuinely concerned about the President's fitness for the role, and I think there's real embarrassment across the military and among our NATO allies about the state of American leadership right now. There's a lot of work still to be done — the Iran/Israel conflict needs to end, and gas prices need to come back down to earth. And honestly, I could really use some financial breathing room too — even just enough for a decent meal some days. Thank you very much for reading.
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