Russia Could Use Cryptocurrency to Blunt the Force of U.S. Sanctions

Russian companies have many cryptocurrency tools at their disposal to evade sanctions, including a so-called digital ruble and ransomware.
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Magpies Just Wanna Have Fun - Richard and Pip Playing

This will make you smile.
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How China's Fiction Writers Have Learned to Survive Its Politics

With Chinese fiction booming, it's vital to consider the ways its writers have found to tell stories in the face of its reality crisis
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Why the Dutch embrace floating homes

Faced with worsening floods and a shortage of housing, the Netherlands is seeing growing interest in floating homes.
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America’s real adversaries are its European and other allies: The U.S. aim is to keep them from trading with China and Russia

This neoliberalism has been a path to becoming a failed economy and indeed, a failed state, obliged to suffer debt deflation
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How a Virus Exposed the Myth of Rugged Individualism

Humans evolved to be interdependent, not self-sufficient
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World-first research confirms Australia's forests became catastrophic fire risk after British invasion

Indigenous fire management holds the key to a safer, more sustainable future on our flammable continent.
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Mysterious 'Russian Flu' 130 Years Ago May Have Been a Coronavirus, Scientists Say

In 1889, a mysterious respiratory illness emerged in Russia and then spread across the globe, triggering at least three waves of infection over the course of several years.
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74% of ransomware revenue goes to Russia-linked hackers

Crypto-currency researchers say more than $400m of cyber-crime funds go to Russian gangs.
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Megacity Mumbai - From slums to skyscrapers

Mumbai is a city of contrasts. Here, the super-rich and slum dwellers live side by side. As more and more luxury skyscrapers go up, slums are forced to make way for them. Conflicts ensue. So what is life like, in a megacity with 20 million inhabitants?
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Empty ‘ghost flights’ may be burning as much fuel as 1.4 million cars

As the summer season approaches, airlines could be forced to make thousands more of these empty flights at a high cost to the planet.
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Meta's threat to close down Facebook and Instagram in Europe backfires as EU leaders embrace shutdown: 'Life would be very good without'

European leaders have responded to Meta's indirect warning to shut down its Facebook and Instagram operations across Europe if the social media giant is no longer able to process Europeans' data on US servers.
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‘Bionic’ pacemaker reverses heart failure - The University of Auckland

A revolutionary pacemaker that re-establishes the heart’s naturally irregular beat is set to be trialled in New Zealand heart patients this year.
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Australia Pays $20 Million To Buy The Copyright Of Aboriginal Flag, But It's Still Not Public Domain

Over a decade ago, we wrote about how Google had to edit out the Australian Aboriginal flag from a logo because of copyright concerns. An 11-year-old girl had won a contest to design a Google logo for Australia Day, and her logo included a simple...
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North Korea Hacked Him. So He Took Down Its Internet

Disappointed with the lack of US response to the Hermit Kingdom's attacks against US security researchers, one hacker took matters into his own hands.
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