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Cipher & Glacier: 27 Rapid-Fire Flashes – June 26 2025
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Episode: Cipher & Glacier: 27 Rapid-Fire Flashes – 26 June 2025
What’s Inside
A whirlwind tour of five continents in 27 SNAP-formatted briefs:
- Africa’s 30× cybercrime surge
- Chatbots siphoning a third of news clicks
- Billionaires’ ten-year $6.5 trillion windfall
- China’s vision for a planet-spanning green grid
- Swiss glaciers turning to “Swiss cheese”
- Co-op’s rights-based import ban on 16 nations
- Five-fold boom in surveillance patents
- Creative Commons’ new “CC Signals” for AI
- Iranian tech in Russia’s revamped Shahed drones
- Eurostar paralyzed by 600 m cable theft
- And 17 more fast-hitting stories on climate, security, privacy, and tech
Article Links
- Africa cybercrime spike – https://www.darkreading.com/cyber-risk/africa-surge-cybercrime-law-enforcement-struggles
- AI drains news traffic – https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/06/generative-ai-pirated-articles-books/683009
- Oxfam billionaire wealth report – https://www.theguardian.com/news/2025/jun/26/billionaires-wealth-oxfam-report
- Global green-energy grid study – https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3315587/china-led-study-proposes-global-green-energy-network-solve-power-crisis
- Alpine glacier melt – https://www.euronews.com/green/2025/06/25/climate-change-turns-alpine-glaciers-into-swiss-cheese-raising-water-and-power-concerns
- Co-op import embargo – https://middleeasteye.net/news/co-op-supermarket-chain-stop-sourcing-goods-israel-and-16-other-countries
- Computer-vision patents – https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/25/computer_vision_research_surveillance/
- Creative Commons “CC Signals” – https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/25/creative-commons-debuts-cc-signals-a-framework-for-an-open-ai-ecosystem/
- Iranian tech in Russian drones – https://www.euronews.com/next/2025/06/25/drone-debris-found-in-ukraine-indicates-russia-is-using-new-technology-from-iran
- Eurostar cable theft – https://www.theguardian.com/business/live/2025/jun/25/teslas-eu-sales-slump-china-premier-global-trade-tensions-oil-stock-markets-business-live-news-updates
- U.S. GBU-57 combat debut – https://www.scmp.com/news/china/military/article/3315754/us-bunker-busting-gbu-57-iran-experts-china-assess-combat-debut
- How to opt-out of airport face scans – https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2025/06/facial-recognition-where-and-how-you-can-opt-out
- FBI refocuses on counter-terror – https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx28x187rmko
- Flock limits plate-lookups – https://404media.co/flock-removes-states-from-national-lookup-tool-after-ice-and-abortion-searches-revealed
- Germany hate-speech raids – https://dw.com/en/germany-updates-police-launch-crackdown-on-online-hate-speech/live-73028923
- UK heat-pump & EV progress – https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-58874518
- Hong Kong’s “zombie oil” rename – https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/health-environment/article/3315900/hong-kong-considers-changing-name-narcotic-space-oil-zombie-oil
- IoT spill-over privacy – https://theconversation.com/how-internet-of-things-devices-affect-your-privacy-even-when-theyre-not-yours-225169
- Iran eases war-time net curbs – https://middleeasteye.net/news/iran-eases-internet-curbs-ceasefire-israel
- Unpatchable Brother-printer bug – https://www.darkreading.com/cyber-risk/millions-of-brother-printers-hit-by-critical-unpatchable-bug
- Okinawa SDF buildup – https://japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/06/25/japan/sdf-war-okinawa/
- Shell–BP £60 bn merger talks – https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/jun/25/shell-bp-merger-talks
- Serbian student ultimatum – https://dw.com/en/students-prepare-for-major-rally-after-issuing-ultimatum/a-73038449
- AT&T photo/video-to-911 – https://zdnet.com/article/this-carrier-will-soon-let-you-send-photos-and-videos-to-911-heres-how
- UK buys nuclear-capable F-35As – https://euronews.com/2025/06/25/uk-to-buy-12-fighter-jets-capable-of-carrying-nuclear-weapons
- UN peacekeeper killed in CAR – https://africanews.com/2025/06/25/un-peacekeeper-killed-in-car-in-attack-by-armed-group-near-border-with-sudan
- World Bank $1 bn Levant projects – https://euronews.com/2025/06/25/world-bank-approves-1bn-for-development-projects-in-iraq-syria-and-lebanon
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