Face Scans, Fake Pills, and Fire in the Parliament

Today’s global dispatch decodes 22 urgent stories in SNAP-format clarity:

  • AI adoption stalls without hands-on help
  • Japan’s rising news avoidance
  • BBC begins charging U.S. users
  • Mossad’s Iran raid spooks China
  • China builds CRISPR-less gene editors
  • Ecuador recaptures fugitive gang lord “Fito”
  • France shoots down Iranian drones
  • UK store uses facial tech on shoppers
  • Athens burns in 104°F wildfire
  • ICE tests mobile facial ID in the field
  • Intel exits auto chips
  • INTERPOL seizes $65M in fake meds
  • Iran’s enriched uranium survives airstrikes
  • No 10 bans unsanctioned civil service talks
  • Putin skips BRICS due to ICC warrant
  • Slovenia courts remote workers
  • France’s Parliament springs a leak—literally
  • Synthetic genome project gets greenlit
  • Tokyo Gas negotiates U.S. LNG lifeline
  • UN says armed conflict hits WWII highs
  • U.S. Army recruits tech execs for digital reserve unit

🎧 Hosts: One male, one female
📰 Format: “Disguised‑SNAP” — concise, stylized, and smart
📍 Sources cited in full edition at [buttondown.link/ohmbudsman]

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Face Scans, Fake Pills, and Fire in the Parliament
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