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]
Stay sharp.
