1+ hour, 8+ min ago (982+ words) Authored by Roger Bate via The Brownstone Institute, The UK Covid-19 Inquiry has finally released the core political chapters of its long-awaited report. After nearly three years of hearings, millions of documents, and tens of millions of pounds spent on legal fees, the conclusion is now unmistakably clear. They've learned nothing, as I detail in my latest'research.' Worse, they may not'want'to learn. The Inquiry's structure, its analytical frame, even its carefully curated narrative all point in the same direction: away from the possibility that Britain's pandemic response was fundamentally misguided, and toward the politically safer claim that ministers simply "acted too late." On November 20, 2025, Jay Bhattacharya captured this perfectly in a single sentence on X:Fact check; not locking down at all (like Sweden) would have saved lives in UK. Hard to believe how much money the UK spent on its…...

1+ hour, 53+ min ago (134+ words) A dormant volcano in Ethiopia's Afar region, Hayli Gubbi, erupted on Sunday for the first time in thousands of years, blasting ash and smoke up to 9 miles into the atmosphere, disrupting air travel across the Red Sea toward Yemen and Oman. Hayli Gubbi's sudden awakening after roughly 10,000 to 12,000 years may suggest the Afar region and the broader tectonic system beneath East Africa are becoming more geologically active, with new magma moving beneath the crust. On X, the American Geographical Society posted satellite imagery showing a massive ash and sulfur dioxide plume drifting across the Red Sea toward Yemen. Flight-tracking website Flightradar24 showed that commercial aircraft in the region are avoiding the toxic plume. Questions remain over whether nearby dormant volcanoes could also awaken and enter an active cycle....

2+ hour, 38+ min ago (257+ words) AfD co-leader Tino Chrupalla'said'during a recent appearance on public media that "Poland could also become a threat to us'We see that Poland's interests differ from Germany's'We are seeing double standards on the'Nord Stream'issue. Poland'did not extradite'a wanted criminal, a terrorist, to Germany." He's not wrong, but he's also not right for the reasons that people might think, namely the assumption that Poland might one day pose a military threat to Germany. The present piece will clarify the matter. Had the Ukrainian Conflict ended as a result of spring 2022's peace talks, then the opportunity for blowing up that pipeline would have closed, hence the importance of'Poland aiding the UK'in its efforts to convince Zelensky to keep fighting by allowing the unlimited transit of military aid to that end. In the three years since that attack, the German economy'greatly weakened, which…...

3+ hour, 23+ min ago (398+ words) The UK military continues monitoring and shadowing Russian 'research vessels' as well as naval ships off Britain's waters which are widely understood to be Russian Navy intelligence collection ships. In the latest development, British media reported Sunday that the Royal Navy recently intercepted two Russian naval vessels as they passed through the English Channel, according to a statement by the UK Defense Ministry. The ships have been identified as the corvette Stoikiy and the tanker Yelnya, the former which is part of Russia's Black Sea Fleet. The Royal Navy's patrol vessel HMS Severn was dispatched to shadow the Russian vessels as they moved west through the Dover Strait - which is the northwest part of the channel just before entering the North Sea. BBC and CNN have indicated that for part of the shadow mission, monitoring of the Russian ships was…...

4+ hour, 8+ min ago (930+ words) Authored by Greg Collard via Racket.news, That's not to say America is perfect when it comes to free speech, but as Sen. Rand Paul'said in September, "throughout government, the censorship apparatus that Biden had put in place is gone." However, if you look to Germany, the strongest economic power in the European Union, it's easy to see where America was going. It has about 330 organizations working with federal and state levels of government to suppress speech and about 425 grants " mostly from the government " that fund this work, according to'research from liber-net, a free speech group that tracks censorship. The most high-profile cases of German censorship, at least in America, have been raids of people who authorities determined had engaged in "digital violence" for offenses that include insulting someone. These raids were the subject of a high-Zprofile60 Minutes" segment'last February....

6+ hour, 43+ min ago (610+ words) Authored by Wolfgang Munchau via UnHerd.com, The 28-point plan the White House negotiated with the Kremlin is not a done deal. It's not even close. It is a blueprint, no more, no less. In any case, Trump is an unpredictable player " he could back out at any moment. But this time, I don't think he will. The plan, first circulated on a'Telegram channel, is clearly not a great one for Ukraine. But, equally, it isn't a "capitulation" and those who have described it as such don't really want a deal. Ukraine will be able to improve on it. But, admittedly, not by much. "You don't have the cards," Trump once told Zelensky. Unfortunately, after the recent corruption scandal, his hand is weaker than ever. Unfortunately, America tired first. And Europe had no Plan B. And so Trump's 28-point plan was…...

7+ hour, 8+ min ago (1802+ words) As I find the topic of Google TPUs extremely important, I am publishing a comprehensive deep dive, not just a technical overview, but also strategic and financial coverage of the Google TPU. Let's dive into it. The history of the TPU and why it all even started? At the time, Google was relying on standard CPUs and GPUs for these tasks. While powerful, these general-purpose chips were inefficient for the specific heavy lifting required by Deep Learning: massive matrix multiplications. Scaling up with existing hardware would have been a financial and logistical nightmare. 2013-2014: The project moved really fast as Google both hired a very capable team and, to be honest, had some luck in their first steps. The team went from design concept to deploying silicon in data centers in just 15 months'a very short cycle for hardware engineering. 2016: Google officially…...

7+ hour, 33+ min ago (488+ words) Authored by Sonia Elijah via The Brownstone Institute, "Big Brother is watching you." These chilling words from George Orwell's dystopian masterpiece,1984, no longer read as fiction but are becoming a bleak reality in the UK and Canada'where digital dystopian measures are unravelling the fabric of freedom in two of the West's oldest democracies. Under the guise of safety and innovation, the UK and Canada are deploying invasive tools that undermine privacy, stifle free expression, and foster a culture of self-censorship. Both nations are exporting their digital control frameworks through theFive Eyesalliance, a covert intelligence-sharing network uniting the UK, Canada, US, Australia, and New Zealand, established during the Cold War. Elon Musk's platform X has warned that the act risks "seriously infringing" on free speech, with the threat of fines up to "18 million or 10% of global annual turnover for non-compliance, encouraging…...

7+ hour, 58+ min ago (263+ words) JPMorgan Chase abruptly closed Strike CEO Jack Mallers" personal accounts last month, giving him no warning and offering only a cryptic explanation, according to Yahoo Finance. Yahoo writes that he even framed the closure letter, which accused him of unspecified "concerning activity" and warned the bank "may not be able to open new accounts for you in the future." The incident reignited concerns that the alleged Biden-era "Operation Chokepoint 2.0" is still lurking in the background, despite Trump"s new executive order aimed at penalizing firms that debank crypto businesses. Critics online immediately connected the dots, suggesting regulators and banks are still quietly squeezing crypto-aligned companies and founders. Recall just days ago we wrote that'the bank is now under fire'from Florida officials over its cooperation with the Biden DOJ's anti-Trump investigation known as "Arctic Frost,- providing'sensitive banking information'to Biden prosecutor Jack…...

8+ hour, 23+ min ago (410+ words) Google is denying viral claims that private Gmail emails are being used to train its AI models. The announcement follows multiple reports this past week that the company has rolled out such features. In a post issued on Nov. 21, Gmail said that it wanted to "set the record straight on recent misleading reports." It listed several points, saying, "We have not changed anyone's settings," Gmail's "smart features" have existed for years, and, "We do not use your Gmail content to train our Gemini AI model." "We are always transparent and clear if we make changes to our terms [and] policies," Google said. The claims about Google included a post from cybersecurity company MalwareBytes, about which the company later issued a correction. Separately, a post on X from a YouTube content creator received around 150,000 likes. It contained similar claims that users…...