The Download: threats from space mirrors and credit for AI drugs
This is today's edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of technology.
'He hates Palestine': West Ham urges fans to drop chant about Solomon's pro‑Israel stance
The English football club condemned the chant about the Israeli player and former soldier as having an 'anti-Palestine message'
Photos of the Week: Robot Training, Straw Chickens, Blessed Dogs
Harvest festivals in Germany, a solar-energy base in a Chinese desert, high-diving in Slovenia, hurricane damage in Hawaii, a traveling circus in France, and much more
The Missing Perpetrator and the Missing Victim
On 20 March 2026, the Paris Assize CourtconvictedSabri Essid of genocide and crimes against humanity for atrocities committed against the Yazidi community in Iraq. Essid, a French national who joined ISIL in Syria, was triedin absentiaand is presumed dead.
A dumpling shop becomes a poster child of AI adoption in China
Business owner quotes Deng Xiaoping as motivator: “Science and technology are a primary productive force. ”
Gefährliche Reflexe
Knapp einen Monat nach dem Anschlag auf den Berliner CSD lohnt der nüchterne Blick: Wie Terror zum Treibstoff politischer Lagerkämpfe wird.
Völkermord in Wort und Tat: Ben-Gvir zeigt das wahre Gesicht Israels
Itamar Ben-Gvirs Forderung nach gezielten nächtlichen Tötungen in Gaza sorgt international für Empörung. Dabei sind seine Worte nur Ausdruck der Politik, die längst umgesetzt wird. Deutsche Waffen helfen dabei weiterhin fleißig mit.
A Top Trump Ally Turns to China
Washington has favored bullets over business in its dealings with slow-growing Ecuador.
Abolish the People
Socialist politics in the 2020s is a search for the commons, whose utopian energies are buried in our lost histories and lurking in the ruins of our present.
It’s Prime Time for Socialists. How We Make Our Case Matters.
Democratic socialists have a historic opportunity to make socialism a mass politics that wins over millions. We can’t take full advantage of that opportunity without carefully calibrating our rhetoric and demands.
€ Bundesregierung: Koalition steht vor stürmischem Herbst
Die Sommerpause geht zu Ende, das Vertrauen in die Regierung ist geschwunden. Trotzdem muss sie jetzt ihre großen Reformversprechen im Bundestag durchsetzen. Und dann drohen noch mögliche Wahlerfolge der AfD.
‘Barclay 5’ Palestine activists will not be tried as terrorists
Judge rules that damage caused during protest at bank branch not enough to merit terrorism sentencing
Feuer im Hürtgenwald: „600 Meter nichts als Flammen“
Der größte Waldbrand in Nordrhein-Westfalen ist offiziell vorbei. Die Feuerwehr findet bis zum Schluss Glutnester unter einzelnen Bäumen. Anwohnende sind geschockt.
With ICC sanctions, Trump wants to make the world safe for war criminals
The US is engaged in a lawless quest to protect American and Israeli officials
‘I don’t think beyond tomorrow’
This summer in occupied Crimea has been one of the hardest in decades: Crimean cities are regularly shelled by Ukraine, there are few tourists, prices are rising, and there are regular outages of electricity, water, and gasoline.
Besieged by Israeli settlers and cut off from the outside world, Palestinian families on a West Bank hilltop refuse to leave
For seven months, Israeli settlers have besieged three Palestinian homes on a hilltop near Nablus, but the families refuse to leave. "We will lose ourselves if we lose Ras al-Ain," a village leader told Mondoweiss.
USS Lincoln: ‘The Ships Are Breaking Almost as Fast as the People’
Exhaustion, low morale, 'starvation' rations and broken equipment: Brynn Tannehill examines what the 260-day deployment of the USS Abraham Lincoln says about the limits of US power
Israels Armee: Kritik an eingestellten Untersuchungen zum Gazakrieg
Israels Militär legt drei Angriffe auf Helfer im Gazakrieg zu den Akten. Der Tod von Hind Rajab und ein weiterer Fall werden dagegen weiter untersucht.
Warum sind Sportlerinterviews immer so nichtssagend?
Noch verschwitzt und außer Atem stellen sich Sportler den Fragen von TV-Journalisten. Die sind oft inhaltsleer – genauso wie die Antworten. Wie sinnvoll sind solche Spielfeldinterviews? Und geht es auch anders? Anruf bei Sportjournalist Christian Spiller.
