Censorship, Cyberwar, and DIY Disruption

From Reddit age walls and ransomware chaos to grassroots internet and a zoo scandal in Germany — today’s episode covers 30 global headlines, distilled into sharp, structured SNAPs.

🧠 One-liners with impact. One question per story. One clean takeaway.

📌 TOP STORIES
• U.S. views split on WWII atomic bombings
• UN warns of deepening hunger across Africa
• EU trade deal drops the euro to 2-month low
• Beijing clamps down on EV and solar excess
• North Korea demands nuclear recognition
• Dutch blacklist Israeli ministers over Gaza
• Aeroflot grounded by massive cyberattack
• AI age-checks coming to YouTube users
• Malaysia’s vaping controversy intensifies
• DIY broadband beats Comcast in Michigan
• DRC opens oil bids in gorilla forest habitat
• Reddit war content locked behind UK ID wall
• Angola fuel protests kill 4, arrest 500
• Germany sparks outrage by killing zoo baboons
• Apple shutters its first store in China
• FBI tracks new Scattered Spider tactics
• Japanese firms turn food waste into energy
• Citizen Lab warns against digital birth ID overreach
• Trump’s Gaza views shaped by television
• EU eyes diplomatic push in Israel
• Australia’s economy rebounds despite tariff fears
• UK users forced to selfie for Reddit war footage
• PrimeOne offers gigabit fiber in rural Michigan
• China tycoon’s NH water deal faces backlash
• Aeroflot hackers claim massive data wipe
• Teens flood VPN apps to bypass UK filters
• YouTube deploys AI to label teen users
• Taiwan sidelined amid US-China trade thaw
• Chinese Big Tech races to build enterprise agents
• Scattered Spider ransomware hits VMware servers

🗣️ Got a global story we should SNAP? Email ohmbudsman@ohmbudsman.com

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Censorship, Cyberwar, and DIY Disruption
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