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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Judge rules that damage caused during protest at bank branch not enough to merit terrorism sentencing
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.
Roswitha Scholz' "Geschlecht des Kapitalismus" hier online herunterladen: https://www.exit-online.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Scholz_neu_01-1.pdf
The US is engaged in a lawless quest to protect American and Israeli officials
Knapp einen Monat nach dem Anschlag auf den Berliner CSD lohnt der nüchterne Blick: Wie Terror zum Treibstoff politischer Lagerkämpfe wird.
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
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.
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.
Business owner quotes Deng Xiaoping as motivator: “Science and technology are a primary productive force. ”
Washington has favored bullets over business in its dealings with slow-growing Ecuador.
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
Der größte Waldbrand in Nordrhein-Westfalen ist offiziell vorbei. Die Feuerwehr findet bis zum Schluss Glutnester unter einzelnen Bäumen. Anwohnende sind geschockt.
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.
The English football club condemned the chant about the Israeli player and former soldier as having an 'anti-Palestine message'
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.